all right good evening everybody today is April 8th the time is 6:01 and the city of Williston city council meeting has come to [Music] order miss Wright would you please call
the role mayor Goodman I am here president Cox here vice President Hines she's not here council member Jones here council member Martin here
council member Ricko she's going to be absent for today city Manager Sue Bo Bodet here attorney Kirsten Belaloo here city Clerk Latricia Wright I am here and all other staff
thank you quick reminder to use your mics please yes sir all right open in prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flag mr mayor Charles Goodman he's way down there
join me if you choose lord we come to you today a city trying to work it best overcome this difficult time lord I thank for each one of these council members that have taken the
difficult time to show up this meeting i ask you to bless them give them the wisdom they need for a good decision for our city lord I ask you today be with our police officers every
day they risk their lives for us we don't realize it we do things and we just assume the police are there but I want to just lift them up before you and ask you for the head of
protection around them and to help them to be properly trained and wise in their I ask you to bless this meeting and I ask all this in Jesus name amen
i pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much
mr president yes ma'am i just received a text from Council Member Hines she's running late okay thank you item one additions deletion changes and approval of the agenda can I get a an approval of the
agenda are there no changes are you okay i'll move approval of the agenda as presented i second i think we're it tonight at least for a while all right got a vote
yep all right i entertain a motion i will entertain a motion which you did all right seeing none will we move to vote all in favor i I I All right those
opposed oh all right it's 3 to one three to zero all right all right that's good item two mayor student of the month mr mayor if I get it wrong after you told me I'm going to ask for
forgiveness leila okay miss Leila Parker goes to Williston Middle High School she is in the sixth grade and she has been nominated by Miss McG
McGawan C davis and K ernest whoever they are you know those people okay are they your teachers so your teachers not it's pretty good
ila is the sweetest girl and will help anyone when I ask her to leila is great in my room leila is great in my room completes
work and helps others i'm going to cry and make my eyes all blurry and helps others said C davis i seconded the nomination said K ernest she is always prepared for class does
her work and helps anyone that really needs help she is always focused and stays out of the drama all right serves a hand i don't even want to know what that means
well Ila these people up here our city council myself as the mayor would like to today give you this outstanding student award
is presented by Charles Goodman mayor city of Willist Florida and this is to certify that Leila Parker is awarded this certificate for academic excellence leadership
citizenship and attendance at Williston Middle High School given this eighth day of April 2025 Charles Goodman Mayor could you hold this for me don't go nowhere you're
not going to leave me are you okay you ever been to Shogun's their onion soup is great it's next to Domino's everybody knows where that Mayor Charles Goodman would like to congratulate the student of the month for their outstanding achievements with
this certificate good for one kids meal and ice cream from Shogun's give you this put it behind that give her a stand here with me i won't touch you anybody want pictures now's
your time i'll clap for her thank you for all you do this city and for yourself okay [Applause] and if you all would like to just wait
for a few minutes um generally we say you can leave but uh they'll be serving some cake over there in the room across the hall so if you just hang on for a couple of minutes it may be 8:00 by the time we do that no we're good laura's
got a plan okay all right item three presentation to Dr kenneth Sweet here city Planner Laura Jones doc's on here oh there he is he's not here uh Laura told me to take it
that's why I'm pretty honored to take it u Steve McMillan i'm the chair of the CRA and I thought I'd been in Willist a long time this guy actually I wrote some stuff down so I'm gonna You want to get it right i'm
going to bore you a little bit all right we're gathering today to celebrate a remarkable individual who has touched our lives in countless ways and he's touched parts of my teeth I've never seen [Laughter] before doc who I've met 30 years ago
which I called him Doc right away i'm a surveyor i can't spell Sweebert so Doc just works great he's fixed my teeth and many others and he's carried on conversations with all of us here me myself people that aren't here carrying
on conversations with uh his fingers in our mouth you know we're all numbed up and who knows what we were saying wait doc he knows what I'm talking about um but I reflect on the profound impact he's had on me um I was just a
26-year-old punk when I came to town and opened up business 30 years ago and he was one of the first mentors that I met um to me he's embodied mentor friend and peer so today we're going to honor Doc
not just for the mentor but the friend and peer he's become and express our gratitude for the countless ways he's enriched our lives i've seen him carry hot dogs through the Fourth of July celebration deborah was there
uh for the Chamber of Commerce um I don't have time to list all the volunteering he's done in this town um but 26 years on the CRA board since its inception in 1999 is what brings us here today
uh Doc thank you for your unwavering support your infectious enthusiasm and your belief in Willist you inspire us to be better to strive for greatness and to lift each other up so here's to you Doc
a true mentor a friend and a peer and I don't know what I'm supposed to hand you so oh there it is so for those of you who can't read it it says presented to Dr h thank you for your inval don't get me
started um I've been proud to be on the CRA board it's been a long journey it started because of the whole widening of 27 and taken away the parking it's taken 25 years in
that parking lot in back the square but we're almost there i'd hoped to stay on the board till the sunset but um my retirement and different things that didn't work out so I'm going to still serve as a volunteer and help in
any way I can i think I carry a little knowledge with me about that so I just want to thank everybody for their support and let's keep Willist going great [Applause]
all right we generally ask for the students and their parents if you would like to stay you're more than welcome it's going to be a late one tonight if not you're welcome to leave but please go across the hall miss Laura will take and um get you some cake over
there the rest of us we get it later okay all right item four 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 where's the clock where's the clock good morning ma'am or evening good afternoon please state your name and where you
Hackley good evening everyone um I was just coming back to do an update on uh I came a couple of months ago an update on the park which I received information from Laura and a few others as well as softball we're getting ready to start our softball program at the Canise
Reading Park and I just happen to have my coach here with me because there's times where I won't be able to come and get information or anything um Leon Brown would be one along with a couple other people that would come we're in the process of getting the fields cleared so getting into the park and and
getting equipment and all of those things that they would probably end up coming and asking for assistance on that where we've started like I said there's lots of action happening out there in the afternoon for the kids and the adults that try to go out there and play softball so I just thank you all for
allowing us to continue to do events at the park and come out at any time it's a great park out there walking just pretty much everything's out there but we started on Wednesdays and some Sundays just practicing softball but um Leon
Brown and a few others Lorenza Law will work with Jonathan and others to make sure that we can get into the field and follow the steps that they've given us to get it cleared without changing anything but just utilizing it until the next step of the park happens so that's
why I'm here tonight and I thank you all and I miss coming so but we have a lot going on at VA right now so I want to make sure that I stay on top of everything and I will also work with Mike Rose i thank him for having the um flashing light i mentioned about the speed and into Willist so I have seen
the flashing cautious light and the patrol car which makes it different it slows people down coming into Willist on 27 um very fast in the morning around 6:00 in the evening so if you want to know speeders stop speeding out but it's just a lot of people just come in and
they're right in the time before they know it so those things that Mike and others have done has helped uh with limiting that speed a little bit so I say thank you to you all you have anything you want to say okay he's shy he's really not that shy all right but thank you all very much all right thank
you please state your name and where you're from quinton Mitchell um Wilson Florida founder of the Willist Raiders and we're also in the process of starting to gather and have conditionings out there
at Canadian Park with our um with our youth giving them kids something to do um get them in shape for the upcoming season and um cuz we were we were in front of the the high school but um they didn't have any um running water or
bathrooms for the kids and plus like Neil's Williams Park is actually like in walking distance for a lot of them whose parents get home and um they can actually just either walk to the park and their parents pick them back in the afternoon but I'm in the process of
trying to get Gainesville um ice put um a ice cooler out there before we can have ice for participants that come out to the park we can have cold water to drink because it's getting hot for the summer i would like to thank the city
for the upkeep of the park we also had my son celebration and the keys to the city with all these wonderful people that helped out so it's just just glad to be a part of a great city who stand behind the organizations and the people
appreciate y'all diligently for your hard work and your effort that's all put into the city thank you sir thank you [Applause] please state your name i'm Elisha Brown live right here in Willist i think I
brought up once about the condition of going I mean the the uh side road on 318 we need to do something about the condition of the road going in you know we have bumps and lumps and we need to
uh kind of grade it out and you know better interest rate and then we uh last time we said something about I know you say you're working on a sign waiting on a grant to put some signs out to let people know where the park is
at because a lot of people don't come into town they don't know they don't know where the park they pass right on by 318 you know look for it well we need a sign where he can look for it on 318 and 27
and when we have the events out there I just want to I just want to ask a question uh when we rent the park everybody know that they supposed to have insurance
and if we if if you rent the park to me I don't supposed to make a profit out there on the park you know charging to come in the ball game or something like that we know that's
not right but we can ask for donations you know for something like that i just want to I answer uh if we rent the park can we charge to go in i know we not supposed to but some
of the members think that you can you know some of the people you know think you can but it's wrong but they it ought to be something written most something about it have to put it on the agenda yeah it's now you know cuz
everybody need to be on the right track on the same I same track about that park and and and we don't actually we everybody is not on the same track about the park but we need to be the same everybody in this community need to be
together on the park so what we can do is to have it put on the agenda so it's an item and then we can take it from there okay no that's that's answer my question okay thank you yes sir
okay please state your name where you're from uh I'm Joel Penny i live right here in Willist uh probably a couple weeks ago I uh hurt my foot over at Spar Building Supply and uh I just want to know is
there something the city can do about when you go into the gate to spar building supply where they park to the left the lime rock pick right there is there a way they can level that or do something because I broke my ankle over
there and and I want to know is there something the city can address to fix all that and I want to know why the spa building supplies fences 15 foot over onto city property and they're using it as
their purpose i mean using as whatever they want to and I just want to know why that is kirsten would you like to address I would um I would advise that no one make any commentary regarding this we've been sent a a notice from Mr joby uh attorney
Joby Penny's attorneys okay all right can't discuss it okay thank you okay anybody else all right item five consent agenda these are the council minutes for March 4th and 18th
can I get a motion i move approval of the consent agenda which consists of the two sets of penets i second all right we have a first second we got any kind of discussion nothing all right
seeing none we'll move to vote all in favor say I i i it's 4 Z all right item six updates uh staff and board and council updates city manager Sue Bidette
all right just a few updates for the council um I know it's been a while since we last met so Wednesday March 19th Donald and I attended rural counties day um Wednesday was the legislative networking reception uh Mayor Goodman and his wife were in attendance as well and then the
following day on Thursday March 20th uh Donald and I met with Mitch Holmes from FD regarding grant opportunities then we met with Representative Chad Johnson regarding a few of the House bills and Senate bills that are coming up um regarding utility services and then of course uh before we left we attended the
actual rural rural counties day where we visited some of the booths of various counties throughout the state and tried their um what county again is it that had the strawberry shortcake yes the best anyway that was the best part um Friday March 28th I had an
interview with Nick Anne Schultz of the Levy Citizen regarding my first month in Willist um he advised that that article is due to be published this week so you can look for that wednesday April 2nd uh Donald Dur and I met with Rebecca Manning of the USDA to discuss funding
sources um through them uh just to let you guys know this is the second year that they're no longer funding the community facilities grants um so for like fire and police um vehicles however there are water and sewer loans available for various projects and we've got Right Pierce looking into some
options for the city um per per Rebecca the USDA's agenda right now is to promote small businesses so that's kind of their focus right now uh last Thursday April 3rd Laura and I met with four staff members from the city of Denellan um they came in to kind of ask us all kinds of questions about code
enforcement and economic development and um we had a good meeting with them saturday April 5th this last Saturday Chief WS and I were judges at the Min Bacon Fest um where we judged five appetizers seven main dishes and three desserts it was the most amount of bacon
I've ever eaten in my life um but it was it was fun there was a lot of people in attendance so it was definitely fun and then today Donald and I attended the Levy County um CDBG public hearing uh most exciting thing that came out of that is that I learned that municipalities are now able to have
multiple CDBG grants in play previously you can only have one at a time now we can actually do multiple that just changed in uh February so that's really exciting um and then we attended the uh monthly Levy County municipals meet municipalities meeting where we discussed the possibility of working
with the county on meeting the BMAP requirements that are coming down the pike um because that's obviously a concern for us we were notified last week that the city did not get the um grants that we had applied for for the septic to sewer and these uh upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant so we
have to find other ways to meet the BMAP requirements and uh most importantly we're in the process of interviewing candidates for the HR director and the administrative assistant positions and we hope to have a decision on both of those candidates within the next week or
so very exciting stuff thank you staff mr president I have a brief update um we just received the certificate of title for the building across the street so we now own that now vacant lot across the
street so congratulations you are the proud owner of a vacant lot i got Thank you ma'am thank you for And that's the one that we bulldozed the building all right it fell down yes well we bulldozed it afterwards but
Yes went tumbling down didn't we uh yes sir i I need to let everybody know that we have to reschedu the firework shop we had a uh glitch in getting it advertised in time and we're trying to reschedule for the 16th
okay at 6 p.m works for me i will not be available that night but All right and I would do my best to be there okay anybody else staff well what Miss Meredith if you would like I can sit
down with the program with you and go over it and show you where we're at there yeah that'd be great okay thank you thank you sir any other staff mr barber uh water department's had probably in the last uh 3 weeks uh an
enormous amount of water main breaks um it's kind of just typically this time a year after the winter months start to calm down we we start to experience a lot of those um so far I believe there's only been one boil water notice and that actually wasn't because of a water main
break there was a boil water notice put out today in case the council's questioned on it for two streets in Country Lane Estates one is uh Northwest Fourth Street and the other one is Northwest Fourth A that was due to a repair that West to West Armstrong Homes
had to make for three valves that two had to be removed and one had to be repaired um so just if you get questioned on that we're billing them for that we're billing them for the sampling we're billing them for all that stuff but that wasn't something that was anything to do with the city that had
primarily to do with repairs that they needed to schedule so just wanted to make sure you all were aware of that okay next time will you send us a notice because I've already had people ask me about it i didn't know a thing about it we They just started it today they just scheduled it today and so we we put
everything online as soon as we got it we posted everything on Facebook when they contacted me i got online and I found it that's the only reason I knew about it in the past just text message everybody yeah in the past that's what Terry has done he would always keep us
up to date with what's going on and where it's at so because I'm I'm like her I didn't know until they call us home and and I would ask I have gotten a Never mind they they found it i had a question from somebody online about
whether the YouTube was working but they tell me now they they are on so thank Never mind okay any other staff yes sir mr mr steagle yes sir just
wanted to report that we had the U NATA formation flying clinic u couple weekends back and um even though Sunday was pretty terrible weather we still had a really good showing for the clinic uh we had 30 airplanes um and in the four three or four days that they were
actually operating we sold about 7,000 gallons worth of gas wow um a normal month for us in ABGAS is 10 to 12,000 um so for us to sell that that amount um in four days it's you know it it shows to the uh the level of servitude and you
know dedication of our team um so we have a a really great team you know the Saturday for the event my supervisor actually kicked me out told me to go home um she had enough people to take care of it herself and you know handled the whole situation didn't call me the rest of the day so you know it was that
was nice um but um outside of that um we also had March being or March was one of the best months that we've had in fuel sales for the airport um it was the the second time in a in you know as far as
I'm aware in the recent history of the airport that we've hit above 50,000 gallons pumped um and sold so I mean that's that that normal number is somewhere around 36,000 um so 50,000 is a pretty significant number for us um so I mean
our team just keeps knocking it out and I'm uh very thankful for that good great job yeah we saw a lot of planes flying over our neighborhood heard some today yeah so very good must be on their way
back home so is this something they're going to do on a yearly basis uh yes sir i actually talked to uh this is their third year doing it here at Williston um and I talked to a couple of guys that are in charge of planning it for the past you know past few weeks after they
got done with everything at Sun and Fun um and they said that they they love Willist they're going to they plan to continue coming back uh their biggest hurdle is um rental cars um they don't care about the drive to and from Gainesville or Ocala it's kind of a nice
30 minute decompress you know drive for them but the uh the rental cars is their their biggest hurdle um so I mean we're going to continue working that but I I can't do a whole lot if if Hertz or Rental Car or Hertz or Enterprise doesn't call us back okay all right
thank you council i just want to say that I had a friend uh bring her son up from Orlando and uh they're a plane enthusiast family forgive me for all the wrong terminology
here but her father is an amateur flyer and travels around the world um and they were beyond impressed with the Williston airport and it was really neat experience and they requested maybe a meet and greet with some staff or pilots next year yeah send them my way yeah
cool if we have questions about things do you want them here or at the end you know what if you want to do them now do them now yeah i mean it's something that's not on the agenda so I figure it's either one of those two places
let's go to the What's that yep just go ahead do it now and and maybe some direction uh because I I need direction from Laura and possibly the attorney possibly code enforcement i see Miss Marsha has walked in the door i had
it on my calendar on my agenda to do anyway uh during the festival that happened this weekend um we had someone who set up food trailers and I know Don probably knows about this who set up food trailers in a
residential neighborhood they actually had signs up in town saying that the festival was at the Northwest 1st Avenue location there were cars parked everywhere in the past I I found out a
festival prior to that they had multiple food trucks in that area the lady who owns the house is charging them to put food trucks there um and I took pictures i know Miss Marsha took pictures and videos uh it's right across from the Meyer residence
which is uh one block over one block in so it's like first and first I believe maybe first and second first and second so First Avenue First Street Second Avenue it is for those who know where the Her Herman Mundon House was that's
been remodeled that's the location I'm talking about you may be here for that reason too i'm not really sure okay there's a couple other people i knew that Ronnie may be i wasn't sure whether you were um it is a big issue i know code enforcement was not available on
the weekend but I think they ended up with Dawn on Monday maybe you talked to him on Saturday cuz you were in the park um and they also called the police department they had a big boom box going also on the front porch of that residence i have since found out
their Airbnb Airbnb that house as well i couldn't find it on Airbnb i couldn't find it on Verbbo but I have since found a location by looking at Miss Marsha's Facebook site she found it i don't know how i tried uh where they are renting
that house and I'm told it's party central when there's somebody renting it cuz there's a pool in the backyard there's a couple of new houses in that area as well there are older people in that area way older than we are that are not real happy with it being there as well i don't know what we
could do about that but I want to put it on somebody's radar so Miss Jones we don't have anything in our code about Airbnbs or food trucks um we don't regulate them and the state really will not allow us if it's a noise issue then that can go to the police
department but Airbnbs and food trucks are not regulated by the city then I think we ought to do something about it we We can't We can tell them where they can be and where they can't be i if it's private property they can be there they can sell a spot in a residential
neighborhood to put a commercial food truck that just makes no sense to me i mean Kirstson can look into the Florida statutes again but I know that we can't regulate Airbnbs and I know we can't regulate Airbnbs other than the fact that they shouldn't be in residential
neighborhoods in your backyard in a mobile home in a travel trailer Florida statutes well then we need to do something about that too and also um cuz people are doing that as well well that if if somebody's living in an RV I can do something about that
they're not living in it they're renting out their RV in their backyard as an Airbnb so a short-term rental in the backyard is allowed that's ridiculous well there was a couple years ago in our neighborhood where I live at somebody was renting their trailer and
they had to quit doing it they were in the front yard i will also say but okay we have five RV spots at our church and people came to our church and told us that they had to leave because they had been there longer than 14 days so that makes no sense what
makes no sense short-term rental that we that we let them be in one area but not the other and this was a commercial area it the short-term rental doesn't have anything to do with the zoning short-term rentals are regulated by the
state they told us if we didn't have um code already written before who was it 2015 or something long time ago before we were here um you can't write code oh these aren't rentals they're just there they're not paying the Airbnb
nope what are you talking about the other one that happened at the church was I around cuz I don't remember this yeah so there were RVs renting from the church for we have five RV hookups at our church okay because we have nomads
who come every single year okay to do work at the church it's a group that travels around the country totally different issue but um yeah yeah that's a totally code enforcement came and told them that they needed to leave after 14 days after 14 days that's what the code
says i said "Send me a notice and they'll be gone because they're staying for 21." Ex it's the same as the lady who was across the street from you remember they had the air the RV 14 days they was there for 8 months before I told somebody they were there and they were
living there and the food trucks we don't regulate them if private property says because private property is also tractor supplies so if they say they can be there they can be there so there's no way we could ask for a health certificate i think I think we ought to register them and they ought to show us their
health certificate not not any money or try to regulate but that they ought to there are people everywhere we have no idea if they've got health certificates or not i I can look into there is very limited what we can do under state statute but I will see if
there is any more that we can do in compliance with state statute to regulate food that would be wonderful i can look into that absolutely i would I would appreciate that Mr president yes sir mr mayor speak yes you may i just want to remind everybody that
Willist has lost their only motel and has no hotels so there's no place for people to stay and you're now trying to come down on a Airbnb no which I That's not what I'm Would you please let me
continue i did not interrupt you Councilman thank you i will thank you say anything about it go ahead Mr mayor the uh Airbnb industry is a major source of a place for people to find a place to
stay in our town because we have no other amenities so any attempt to try to circumvent the state law and to restrict Airbnbs I think is
questionably good i think it should be questioned the Airbnbs were we were we were begging for a place for people to stay the air their airmen that come to here and and the
various other places you know they they can't they don't want to go to Ocala and my other thing is the airport itself if I'm as long as I'm here uh we need to advertise our airport more it is it is
amazing to me how many people are shocked to find out that Williston has an airport they don't know it and yet it's one of our great things to good management uh it's one of our great
assets there for a city the size of us to have a airport as large as we do is almost unheard of so I just am speaking up for the Airbnbs because I think it's
justified thank you okay and I'm not trying to circumvent the state law so don't don't get under your impression that I am i'm just saying that in in residential areas the other places that we've had them in the past have all been either in the um what am I trying to say
residential business area or in a commercial area or outside the city limits but a party house that's weekly in a residential neighborhood if it was next to you you would not be happy with it either i wouldn't either i watched it
going up i saw I know the person that did that Airbnb and they spent a bloody fortune yes they did putting that thing together to improve the look of the city but I'm not sure i thought they were doing it for themselves it was so much
money yeah i'm not sure that they they didn't and I would like actually for us to check that that may be a way to go at it i'm not sure that they didn't call it you can shake your head if it was next to you you wouldn't be happy either and we've got and we've got three and we've got three people here that it's next to
them it's the noise excuse me can you have come to the mic state your name i am Ronnie Kerr i live on First Street two houses down from the AR&B i spoke to this lady several times
when she was replacing the house and yes she did spend a ton of money but she also led us to believe that it was either going to be a rental or they were going to live in it themselves i don't have a problem even with an AR&B if it's an overnight couple days a week at a
time i've seen that the thing that we are having an issue with is when they do the events there it is a nightmare my house sounded like the boom box that you run into at the stoplight yeah and I am two houses down
miss Marsha lives across directly across the road miss Elizabeth is 90s something years old is in their backyard y Tim's mother's blood pressure was so high like I said our houses were booming and that's why I brought it up and it was only till that afternoon previous one
was till 10:00 at night i mean I don't have a problem with AR&B if they want to rent it fine but keep the events out of our neighborhood you have a nursing home there i can only imagine what the nursing home people were going through with the booming
and the traffic they can't even get out in their in you know where they walk the neighborhood and that kind of traffic the food trucks the noise i mean it's almost a daily thing anymore and still it's a neighborhood house she spent a lot of money in it but the events do not
belong in our neighborhood you have this here you rent rent it and honestly that's what she told them I believe when the police showed up was that they had a special event application well the park did but the people that were down there did not they were a block deep and had
nothing to do they were circumventing renting a space at the Heritage Park at the event to the promoter they paid this lady instead like I said we were led to believe that it was going to be a rental or they were going to live in it themselves and we
had no clue about events and the events are nightmares for the neighbors and I just I bring it up because I just want to know what we can do if anything because this is Yeah so as far as the noise that's a police matter um but as
far as having an event at your house a party it's allowed so we would have to change maybe our noise ordinance to reduce it um or the police could but I think they only the police probably only
uphold it between certain hours right yeah it is 10:00 so we may change the ordinance that you can't have um noise during the day that's that loud it was like I said I would hate to see what the patients at the nursing home were going through if my house was lit there were
even people in the northeast section who were chiming in on Miss Marsh's Facebook page miss Waloo I I don't mean to derail us but I I just don't want us to make any promises that we can't keep i promise you I will look into this issue and I will come back to you at the next meeting all righty thank you ma'am mr
president yes sir i apologize i was told that it was to be an Airbnb for rental this is the very first time I've heard anything about large parties uh
and the description I'm getting here is one of a large party not not 10 or 15 people but 50 or 60 or 100 or 200 that's that is a large party can't be that many
and and you should be able to find a way to control large parties in the city limits that's why we have I agree with you that's why we have parks and that's why we have facilities for those large
parties right and if they are circumventing your rules then it needs to be stopped my my concern is for the survival of the Airbnb not for the parking okay okay thank you all right so Miss Blue you'll come back next month
and see what's next meeting scouts on it not Not this not now not unless it's about that subject it's about subject oh there's another subject too all right my name is Tim i live on uh 225 Northwest
Second Street and uh Saturday after I got in from work I was so tired from doing some metal roofing figure I come home and just take me a nice shower and sit home and uh sit on the couch maybe watch the ball game and relax no impossible i pull up the food trucks
right there on the corner this lady lied to us miss Cur all of us around there said it was just going to be for her to stay in for a year then her daughter gets out of UF and come stay and maybe Airbnb she didn't say noventing this eventing is so loud you cannot imagine
so I went down here first I went around the corner to talk to the to the sergeant she wasn't there then I went down here and I made a complaint so they come around there within 2 minutes police officer was really nice and done what he could do but u of course they
shut it down whenever they are there but soon as they leave they turn it up even louder and I can put you this way if your first member right we all have one but you don't have a right to overdo this the lady on the far side of my grandma and grandpa's old house there she's in her late 90s i feel so sorry
for her it is unreal and I can tell you if it comes down to a noise ordinance there's other ways alternatives to make everybody go crazy and I'm telling you you there's ways of fighting back if if like if I cut my exhaust off then I can
get a ticket does it make no sense if you can hear it over a block that's when they get a ticket that's when they can make them stop this has to stop it has to stop i don't care what nothing that nobody says it has to stop because if I got a I I have a boom box that I can
link to my radio believe me I bring in here when I if I crank it up y'all can't hear nothing okay if I put five of them together and link them I can make them louder than that y'all don't want to start something our attorney is going to look into it yes sir and at the next meeting she'll bring some stuff back this ain't right we'll see what we can
fully understand listen boss man and I'm not against Airbnb i got I got friends got them and you know what but like Marian County you know what they do to for Airbnb they have to pay tax a monthly tax rental f tax because it's called recreational like Disney World pay a a
tax for that property she's not paying no tax on it she's not paying nothing okay well like I said we have a good attorney she's also supposed to be paying bed tax but she's not registered she's not paying anything i already found out i went online and found out yeah she's not registered as an Airbnb
okay this is just a story Mr yes ma'am it's about the same subject okay she's our attorney i live directly across the street from it excuse me this is not the first time could you please state your name and residence marcia
Meyer 103 Northwest 2nd Avenue i asked you if you want me to read that later sorry so this is not the first time they have signs out that are for an a wedding
event okay this so they have memorials weddings whatever across the street i'm not against the Airbnb i don't have to be nice to the people across the street from me because they're going to be gone in two or three
days i don't have to get to know them people but when they got all this boom box and all that crap you can't live in your house the poor little lady over across the street she had to leave
because it was so loud right and our and our attorney like I said she's going to look into it she's going to come back next month it's It's a problem yes ma'am we're aware of it and we'll see what we can do thank you
thank you for coming all of you mr mayor you have anything it's your turn yeah now his turn that I think I'll just be quiet sorry it's not his turn anyway cuz I have something to say sorry oh your turn you just get Go ahead De sorry um so first question is can I get an update
on Northeast Northeast 11th Avenue um related to the property and code enforcement yeah so I had to look into it because I knew that we had a lean against them in the past city council did reduce the lean and they sold the property they cleaned it up i have
pictures of it cleaned up um so the leans were were paid and now they're all new owners so I have to start the process all over again okay um what process for violations code
enforcement for overgrowth which means you have to talk to them first and give them an opportunity to Well I don't have to talk to them i want to send them letters because I don't know them there none of them live here it appears so if it was a resident that we knew we would go talk to them and see what was going on but for this we'll just go ahead and start sending letters
to them is that going to be on both sides i'm going to do it to everybody who's overgrown on those two blocks okay and also do you have an update related to the Queen Mitchell signs i do um I I don't know if anybody saw this the
picture that I posted on Facebook that had the three pictures of him in it uh it was one that was added to the city website and nobody knew who made it aaron didn't make it latricia didn't make it nobody knew who made it it actually has the city seal at the very top really and it's a picture of him uh
on the night he got drafted so he's in a very nice suit uh and it's a fullface picture on this side he's in uniform for Toledo and on this side he's in a picture of um the Eagles and all across the bottom is actually Booster Stadium
you can actually see the Red Devils playing oh wow um I posted please tell me if anybody knows who created this because we want to use it because it's the what we kind of decide we want to tweak a little to use on the sign and that I we finally
figured out who the owner was and it's somebody in Virginia believe it or not who evidently does it routinely for athletes and they just chose Quinion for some reason to do it and they chose they got our city seal and put it right in the middle of it and posted it on our
web page um or on our Facebook page excuse me and they have given us permission to use it if we want to i've asked him to send me the original file instead of the one I stole off Facebook yeah we have pictures if you want to
look it's a wonderful picture just beautiful um and I think if we blow it up like 2 by3 or 3x4 it'll be really nice so that's what we're going to go with once I get a a template of it I'm going I'll bring it back to y'all and show it to you that's what I'm trying to
get a a you know a a proof okay so that I can bring it and then we're going to start raising some money because I don't expect the city to pay for it i have people that have contacted me don't ask me why they contacted me but they contacted me and
told me they're willing to donate money um as you know with the the little Wilson Elementary School thing that we did in the Mock City Council meeting that they did that was the question we gave them do we need to put up signs for Quinnon Mitchell and if we
do where would you put them if yes where would you put them they came up with every place you can imagine that they wanted to put one pretty much none of the places that we would want to put one but we we would like to put one on all four entryways coming into Williston and because of what they said we'd like to
put one at the school also if we can come up with that much money so they the other qu they told me they knew exactly what it would cost the sign itself is metal it's really thin metal and and the picture will the photograph will print beautifully on it we believe that it
will go best on a metal frame that it bolts right to um the other other option is a styrofoam frame which would not last very long uh so once we get that mockup what he needed to do was get the price for
the metal frame that had to be welded essentially uh and it would bolt right to it on both sides and places that you could see from both sides so you have somebody in mind already that's going to do the signs or you be looking around for people well I have somebody that was
trying to mock it up for me to give me a estimate on the price if it's too much obviously we'll go somewhere else okay do you have anybody in mind that you want me to ask no just asking i was just asking a local sign man so Oh okay
i don't know who that is either okay so I'm still there um fin and it was last it was last weekend not this past weekend but the one before I was on vacation and that's when I was contacting this guy trying to get permission i think it was that Sunday night that he gave me permission to use
it okay thank you so I just need to get to the sign shop and get them to do a mockup so I can bring it to you and the last thing excuse me I want to thank staff for going and fixing the sign for Miss Sebrooks appreciate it
you good all right i usually talk so I know I'm shocked all right item seven new business a discussion with possible action fire assessment tax williston resident Timothy Ecker
yes I'm America um talked to Lamar about this a few weeks back and uh I understand we need a we we we need a fire department and not a volunteer and the days of the volunteer is over and I understand that and we had a very uh we
had a very good discussion about this um and stuff like that and um but but right now along with the fire I mean I mean the assessment has come I mean we've had our water rates doubled
um seems like our taxes keep going up and we get less and less services and uh and it just seems no end in sight about when is enough going to be enough uh
when it comes to this but that being said um like the fire assessment I don't I don't believe it should be attached to the property at the end of the year it should be on a gas tax it should be on a
2 cent 3 cent whatever y'all come up with make everybody pay for it that comes through town i think the same thing with the police department and the other issue too is was will the road in disrepair how y'all going to come up with uh uh money for repair roads it
shouldn't just get being let's get money from the government just put it on gas like everybody else that Marian County does it i mean lo county does it i mean it shouldn't just be all on the people that live here in town and it's on our taxes to pay the bill for everybody else going up down the road that don't even
live here and and and I I mean I see I and I see Willist is in disrepair and I'm telling you I'm worried about Wilson i've been here my whole life i'm 55 and Wilson to me used to be a really great place it's an okay place now but I can
tell you it's not pro business uh when you if I was a business person and I'm riding through town this way and I'm looking first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to keep right on going then when you hit Boston you sure off going to keep right on go because it's not per business if if it's
about permitting and things there's got to be a different way of streamlining permitting to make jobs in Wilson u like like Wind Dixie they just sold out they just laid off 11 people now what we going to do in Willist in this little old town i mean it should be pro
business it should be made or if somebody wants to come here to to if you tell them they can be taxfree for three years as long as they use people here in town or in Levy County it should be it should be game on and help them get
started not maybe not money but help them to come on look at Waw Walla they're still waiting i don't I don't understand the issue there i mean and but it's just there now it used to be a motel there that tore down and it stayed a vacant lot forever we grass this tall
and then you got the hospital around the corner they finally mowed it and had the was trees down for a year i mean you go through Wilston it just looks doesn't look very appealing i mean it's not pro business i mean
uh but something's got to be done but I agree I've agree with Lamar we we do need this we need certain things but there's certain things we don't need if there's something that Willist does not have to have essential in here that lay people
off pay freeze something's got to be done because my pay don't go up i don't work for the city what my the big question I This should be the like the the the the elephant in the room question what would happen if
tomorrow the Santos does away with all property tax how y'all going to run how's the whole city and county going to run we get very little property tax i'm just saying how's it going to run yeah it has nothing to do with us i mean it it won't hurt us a whole lot i can tell
you it hurt us a little bit well I miss I miss asking i mean I don't think we get $200,000 worth of property taxes so that's a far cry got to be done what our budget is our roads are disappeared a lot of the things that you've talked about and I'm sorry for chiming in but a lot of things you've talked about don't
have anything to do with the city we the roads don't the the road the main roads that you're talking about that's not city roads that's the state the northwest second street the road I live on don't that definitely is our road but but what about in front of police department you said the main drag people go up and down those are not ours I was
making reference okay yes the city streets are obviously ours federal and state highways are not I mean I don't want I don't want to get in in a little in a little and we have nothing to do with windixie selling and laying people off but I'm just telling you look at the roads disappear over by the by the
police department we got a manhole cover this high and they put a Bob barricade there i agree i mean and then and we've talked to them about it five times at least it's still there i mean we can't make them do it nothing gets done about anything around here but then you want to raise our
taxes and then you see 10 people sitting in a in a car down here that don't do nothing but collect a check for the city we drive by and see it all the time but if we say something what are you going to do or whatever i mean it's got to be something has to be done be more
accountability i mean then just take our tax money i mean I get up i work every day for a living i I I don't I don't pin on going to government i used to work at Duke believe me I know what I know what waste and fraud
is and I see a lot of it around Willist i really do i I've been here my whole life willist used to be a really great place but it's not it's not yeah but I I really getting be to hate this place because I just spent $1,100 on my front
end getting fixed and then you got to ride down the road all you got to do is go right in front of the nursing home right here where that big oak tree is go across there real fast watch what happens i go across it every day yeah at 30 mph no not even that it should be fixed though that's what I'm saying not
even that i mean it should be fixed you have to kill I mean it's a route yeah you'd have to kill the tree well whatever that you killed six trees right up the road here what's another one and then you plant the trees and then half of them
die i mean I mean I didn't understand why they got killed we did what the arborist told us to okay they they look just fine but the ones they planted half of them are dead at taxpayers expense ones we took up were dead too you just didn't know it looks like wasting money
okay it ain't okay thank you Miss Beloo do we have to do anything okay thank you just a minute item B resolution 2025-47 a resolution of the city council
of the city of Willist Florida amending the planning department's fee schedule attached as exhibit A and providing an effective date city planner Laura Jones
sorry I heard my name out in the hallway so I thought somebody might need me we're at B it's the mayor it's resolution 20 25-47
so back in 26 2006 we had our planning fees updated we talked about it for the past few years um we decided not to do it until we were completely ready oh Matt will take care of him there you
go now Kirsten's taking care of it too there oh she's asking him to go outside and Matt's taking him outside so we didn't want to do until we were completely ready we We did a lot of
research um we had Ray Pierce do some research for us so Walt's going to come up and talk to you real quick about some of the ins and outs that he discovered in other towns but it's time um if you look at our budget every year the planning department is losing a lot of
money we have a lot of developments that come in and ask us questions a lot of times these are things that engineers need to answer and we're paying every remember I keep coming to you asking for $25,000 more $25,000 more and I do that like two or three times a year now these
are the kinds of reasons so instead of the citizens paying for it we just want the developers to pay for it so we've updated this um there's I put on your desk the 2006 ones cuz somehow I didn't get them into that agenda and this has all been reviewed
by our our engineers and your planning and zoning board well if you if you guys have any questions Walt's here to answer them for you thank you for uh getting us up to par we shouldn't be paying yester year's
prices you know let let the developers do them yeah definitely are you saying that we're when people come and ask you questions you have to pay for to answer the question sometimes I have to pay our engineers sometimes I have to pay our attorneys um sometimes I have to do a
record search at Levy County oftentimes we have when we do get to the process where we're going to make a change we have to send out letters and back when these were written the um certified letters were like 33 cents and now they're almost a dollar so all these
things are adding up and the citizens are continuing to pay for them an application fee is not covering um everything that we need to do back in the day publishing was fairly inexpensive maybe $75 and now we can our publishing can go up to $600
we we currently don't have an application fee right if so I can't find it on here i think that's from 2006 uhhuh the whole thing was $350 for an annexation well that's just
an annexation but we don't now we're char Now you want an an application fee on just about everything yes so it used to be so we kind of just tried to make it easy for them to read so the annexation application fee is $350 that's your flat fee and then you're
going to pay actual costs for advertising and attorneys before it was just $350 yeah most of it looks like you've just added the advertising the bailing and that and the attorney charges some of them have gone up yes um I that's what I
wanted to see and I appreciate you giving us this yeah and we we pretty much went up with the rest of the towns and that's what Walt could speak to because he did that research for us okay mr walt okay walt Nickel with Ray Pierce yeah a lot of other communities do this
you're this way you're not subsidizing a private developer for-profit developer um a good example we had one just a couple weeks ago developer came in and and we had Laura Nikki myself Jonathan
Donald and I think uh a city manager was also in and these people had no idea how to develop land they're asking the city for advice on how to do it they're asking engineering questions totally unprepared and had you had this and they
have to come in and put some money on the table to have this discussion to pay for the information you'd weed out some of those things i mean they were totally not somebody you'd want in your devel in your city to develop you know but we did pay Walt for his time so
actually I was here on another matter and I didn't I didn't bill you for that so thank you Walt but another way to think about that though you had five of us there for 45 minutes being unproductive and so you take that 45 minutes unproductive it's actually an hour and a
half times five yeah so this will prevent that from happening plus I mean they're they're good meetings to have when you do have a legitimate developer in there but there is a cost to that developer they're here they're going to make money by coming in here whether it's a commercial development or a housing development and so they they pay
the costs um same thing with reviews we do multiple reviews over and over again we'll have the review comments issue a letter to the city they pass it on to the developer and you know sometimes the same comments come back three four times well if they're paying for that that's
going to stop that also and and again our fees or attorney fees then go back and they're paid by for by that developer but this what we're presenting here is very similar to we see in other communities they're in line with the same prices and and it's a pass through
for your when you need an expert if you need an engineer an attorney or even you know an environmental type an analysis there could be a variety of things that then it would be a pass through so it's really highly advised that you do do this okay thank you sir
mr president I'll just note that of course under our um current retainer contract with you all the first 10 hours on any project is covered under your regular monthly retainer so our fees would only be special matter fees be passed on to um the developer in the
event that it's more than 10 hours so it's not just our sort of initial review okay thank you ma'am okay d got anything no anybody else i would just say the only real thing that I see I was
looking for ones that affect a residential property owner um you know like somebody who wanted to come and build a house a single house uh and I only the one I I did happen to see is the review of the
plans um let me find that again i think it's on the back yeah site plan review for a residential home um over here it's 360 so we're already doing that for
360 i'm trying to find it over here they didn't change same thing yeah 360 and 125 still 360 so that's that's really my main concern somebody who's coming to build a commercial property not that I'm trying to run them off or be anti-
business as we've been told um I I just know that they're going to make money on the property as somebody who owns a business even though it's a small business I know that I'm making money i don't I I don't necessarily mind paying that commercial
utility bill that's as high as it is because I'm making money and I have a revenue source to pay that bill but a residential client does not somebody building a house it's coming out of their pocket so that's the person I actually look for to make sure that
we're not hurting them a whole lot and like I said not that I'm not pro business either because I am um but I really look at those others for the residences first miss Jones if I could answer that real quick um I I completely
understand where you're coming from and I get that they're not making a profit but you also have to look at whether or not other residents are subsidizing that build so I agree with you that it should be at the cost and that's why a lot of the stuff on these fees talk about at
cost if an engineer needs to review it if attorney needs to review it it's just at cost the city's not making anything on that but to say that it's any different for a person building the house for themselves versus someone making a profit you still don't want to put that cost on the residents and the
rest of the community and that's who would absorb it don't want to make it so they can't build a house understandable mayor Miss Jones um so we get when we get a a single house we get a permit and a lot of times there's a pretty basic
site plan in there for basic site plan review for us to make sure the setbacks are good and the and the zoning's okay i don't charge them that when we do have to charge that is when um the site plan is very intense and somebody has to really look at it or I have to call him
in or I have to call these guys in an engineer or a building inspector right we honestly very rarely need to spend more than 15 20 minutes on a site plan and I will not ch add that to the cost of Thank you okay all right if nothing else I'll entertain
a motion i make a motion that we approve resolution 2025-47 i'll second all right we got a first got a second any other discussion all right hear none we'll move to vote all in favor say I i i those opposed
it's 4 Z d you were second right all right letter C resolution 2025-48 a resolution of the city council of the city of Willis Florida amending
the building department fee schedule attached as exhibit A and providing an effective date to the city planner laura Jones thank you so we did this last year and they are asking their for their 3.7
CPI again this year they can exercise this right it says so in our contract so what you have attached is the notification letter of the CPI which is from safe built which is going to be an increase of well this is
2.8% this says 3.7 so that must have been from last year so let me double check make sure that um Nikki did 2.8 and not 3.7 but um so this is just going to start coming every year safe build told me that they're going to be doing it they they gave us a few years
reprieve but they're going to be doing it every year now okay i like to just It's just for information how are they doing for us are they doing good for us um when they do their inspections and stuff
i mean I it's just an overall assessment of how they're doing when they go do their inspections the um the inspections as well as you know just coming back and saying "Oh now you got to do this this and this."
I have to be honest I don't get many complaints from from Safe Build uh BJ would probably be better to ask but yeah say BJ um cuz I'm sort of in the back and she's in the front but we don't get many complaints we do have a little bit more people who are asking for more days
so we were just doing two days a week and and we've gotten more and more and they have to pay an extra fee for those extra days but they want them because they don't have to hold up their projects right so that's the only thing that they really have like heartburn about is that they have to pay for those extra days okay just curious just a
progress report have something Mr yes I do thank you he had his hand up uh right very near me literally across the field there was a gentleman building a house and I have asked him that same
question about the inspectors and what has come and nobody is perfect what we would like as our inspectors to be reasonable and this gentleman had engineered
plans done by an engineer and sealed he built he is building his house according to those engineered plans and the first inspector tried to tell him "No you've got to do it this way." and he had to go to the head of the building
inspectors who turned out to be very understanding and knowledgeable and he said no he's fine so my point is that even inspectors depending on how long they've been on the job how competent they are
at the job will make mistakes the main thing is if an inspector tells you something you should be able to say "Where in the code is this thing that you're telling me to do?" And he should be able to tell you where in the code it
is if they're not doing that then they're not doing a good job thank you okay thank you sir so I run a couple departments that people hate code enforcement and building inspections um they're never going to be happy with their building inspectors it's always somebody that's telling you to do something differently than what you've
done right so as long as I don't you know I have had some building inspectors where we did have a lot of complaints for attitude and also for people coming in telling them one thing and then some telling them something different um but right now we're doing okay that's all it was just a progress report
okay m you got anything no all right if nobody has anything else I'll take a motion entertain a motion i move approval of resolution 2025-48
i second and ask that Laura check the percentage of the CPI to make sure it's correct in the original that's signed okay well we got a first got a second any other discussion all right hear none then
we'll move to vote all in favor say I i i those opposed it's 4 Z all right all right resolution 2025-49 resolution of the city council of the city of Willist Florida adopting a
supplemental amendment of the original agreement between the developer of Country Lane Estates parenthesis Armstrong Land LLC a Florida limited liability company and the city of
Williston city planner Laura Jones a few months ago the city requested a supplemental addendum for extended warranty for a period of 5 years from the date of final acceptance of Country Lane estates from LAR homes um on the
water the sewer and the lift station um the original agreement warrantied the infrastructure for one year they agreed to this verbally for some reason it never came to city council so I wanted to make sure it came through i do not have their signatures on their part yet but what I can do is um this will be
recorded with the developers agreement at the at the clerk so we'll make sure that when it's signed for by both parties that everybody has access to both this and the developers agreement okay Mr barber um so I want to clarify
uh the verbal agreement that Terry and staff worked out with them was we already had a year we had negotiated five additional years so I would like to see this be changed to six because that
is what was agreed upon um it wasn't five total it was five additional from the one that we had already been given in the original developers agreement and reminding everyone the purpose of that was that the geotech information uh that they gave us was
incorrect we had to go out dig up multiple spots and we determined that before they built one house they technically would have been forced to rip up every bit of the water and sewer infrastructure and completely redo it
because we let them proceed and not have to do that that's why they agreed to the additional 5 years so I just want to make sure that we clarify that one point i believe Kirsten was part of those discussions as well uh after a while with them and so I just I I think that
we need to make sure that that says six if we're going to add it or recognize the one that we already had and clarify these as five additional so okay so I probably have to bring this back right Kirsten
if you approve sorry if you approve um of what Donald just said there have been probably 80 and that is maybe a conservative estimate of back and forth with this particular addendum um if we
can get them to sign one that says five additional years in addition to the um one year that already existed um I think that you can approve it based on that um a and that's fine we can we can absolutely send that over to them and I'll see what their feedback is on that
yeah and and I would like it to be stated that way rather than say six okay i would like it to say five additional we'll do five in addition to the one so the terminology the terminology they kept using as funny as it sounds was always five plus one that's how we can remember it so so seriously because they
wouldn't say six or one plus five or whatever no they always said five plus one and when you said six they always corrected you and said five plus one so for so I can make that change if you all approve of that then it doesn't need to come back uh yes sir i am
surprised bordering on shock what reason would a developer have for amending an agreement that is going to cost him a lot of money well it was either that or dig it all up and re and redo it the warranty is is millions
cheaper than digging it up and doing it all over because they didn't do it to our to not our specifications but like anybody anybody's specifications not even their own they they did not do the sewer and water according to the
specification on this when they when they did it they back fill the rocks and whatever they so choose to they did not back bed it did not do the right angles they didn't do a lot of things and so we physically went out there manually dug dug it up ourselves to prove it and got in all those nice fun conversations and
at the end of the day Russ agreed to 5+ one and when I said six he laughed he said no 5+ 1 so it's 5 plus one I suppose it's unreasonable to assume that the inspectors would be looking at this product as they're making it that's
how we so so that's that's how we got to the the town homes developers agreement was to put in clauses dealing with inspection But you have to understand none of the staff was here when CL was originally negotiated we none of us had anything to do with that developers agreement that's
something that we inherited so when we've done the next ones through Kristen's advice through Wright Pierce's advice we have learned lessons from this development and that's how we're addressing it um Terry had talked I believe multiple times about you know
what road do we have to go down if they were ready lenar was it turned over to Lenar from the site builder Armstrong and they were ready to start constructing houses this was after many delays for different reasons and the the conversation came up about we're going to have to litigate this we're going to
end up in court if we have them pull up this infrastructure and re redo it we're going to be in court and if by chance somehow we lost we didn't know how we could but let's say we did then we would be responsible to take you know to consider having to to cover their losses in the delays of the construction and
the sale of those homes so what everybody was happy with was understanding that we know in the first so many years the problems are going to present themselves we consulted with Wright Pierce they're the ones that gave us the timeline and that's how those conversations happened so to to confirm
what Jonathan said the reason why they're okay to do this is because the alternative is is that they basically have to rip everything up and re redo it which is far more expense than covering a potential warranty issue for this time period and they've already done warranty work out there already they were out
there today that was one of the issues that they were covering today was warranty work yeah I saw them out there so thank you question so the infrastructure that they put down is not correct and if that is the case why are
we allowing them to put homes on that type of infrastructure if it's going to cause issues and we know it's going to cause issues again because the fear was that if we went down that road it could end up costing the city millions of dollars that's something that they would
a billion dollar developer would have taken to court so even though we were in the right even though we had the documentation even though we we knew things were not right when when we say it's not right explain let me explain we're talking about when a pipe is put
in uh you you dig out a trench okay and you place the pipe down at the level that it's supposed to be whether it's a sewer mane or a water mane and what happens is is that you don't want to take what you pulled out of that hole which is raw earth which in Willist is famous for being filled with lime rock
and dump it right back on top of that pipe what's going to happen is that that pipe is going to have fractures cracks and premature uh uh destruction over time because of it not having a safe compacted fill so what you do is you 6
in underneath of it uh 6 in on either side of it and at least a foot above it you typically bring in a soft regular like yellow sand for a couple of reasons one in the construction industry is when you redig up that line you actually can see the soil change and you know you're
getting to something that's critical for for infrastructure and the second reason is is because as the moon cycles happen the ground uh contracts and then it expands basically like your tides and what happens is it puts pressure and so if you have those rocks and you have
that debris filling that cavity over time it causes some stress fractures those stress fractures we know will happen within the next couple of years it's not something that's going to be 20 years from now if they're going to cause a problem they're going to happen within the next 5 or 6 years so that's why the
suggestion was get them to understand they cover the cost what was also negotiated is we're not going to sit around and wait for uh one of their uh con construction firms to come in and make the repair if we have a break or
have an emergency the agreement also allows for reimbursement so anything that happens an emergency the city crews can go out address the issue fix the issue and then everything from manpower to materials to water loss and all of that plus 25% I believe the developers
agreement states can be back build to them for in lie of them having to come out and do that repair so that was the conversation that was had and that was the leadership at the time that was there that that they negotiated uh in in regards to that so okay thanks Meredith
and sorry I hope we have an emails and the um person who purchases the house that and this happens that infrastructure is not on their own there's no li Okay that no so you're talking about sewer mans in the middle of the streets that are adopted and you're talking about water manes that are in the the right of ways and the
easements that are adopted okay so none of that would have to do with any kind of foundational issue of the home it wouldn't have to do with any kind of plumbing from the resident side this is pre-metered services for those types of um of services oh okay
donald answered my question okay all right anybody else i was concerned about that all right yeah i will entertain a motion for resolution 2025-49 i make a motion we approve resolution
2025-49 i'll second with the amended verbiage with the with the amended verbage viage with the amended verbiage i second with the amended all righty we have a first we have a
second any other discussion all right seeing none we're going to move to vote all in favor say I i i those opposed it's 4 Z all right resolution 2025-51 a resolution of the city council
of the city of Willist Florida approving the memorandum of agreement between the state of Florida Department of Commerce and the city of Willist regarding the implementation of an RAO authorizing appropriate parties to
sign any documents required to execute such MOA on behalf of the city of Willist and provide an effective date city Attorney Kirsten Belaloo
so someone else might have more information about this from this uh from my office's perspective this resolution allows um you to um approve the memorandum of agreement between um the Florida Department of Commerce obviously
as it says but this is for you to get a special certification which other people know more about RAO certification um on your grants so I'm happy to turn over the floor to someone who's a little bit more knowledgeable to than me on this uh
item okay anybody laura would that be you yes ma'am in theory but I I have not read this i have read it and I'll make a motion if you want me to okay all right i mean it doesn't do anything but but good for the city of It just provides you the eligibility for those specific
eligibility for that for for the ready and for the the waiver that we might need uh I would move approval of resolution 2025-51 i'll second all righty we have a first we got a second any other
discussion all right seeing none then we're going to move to vote all in favor say I i i those opposed it's 4 Z all right m blue i'll turn it over to you all right this is resolution 202552 resolution of the city council of the
city of Williston Florida approving the scope of services letters with purpose gray for audits of the city of Williston as well as the city of Williston community redevelopment agency authorizing appropriate parties to sign any documents required to execute same and providing an effective date um you've seen these last year the year
before etc um this council approves both letters even though one is for the CRA because obviously for budgetary reasons you you all are very entwined cra um pays for their portion and you all pay for um your portion of the audits but these are just authorization for purpose
gray to do their annual audit okay which is coming up soon that correct should be okay all right any questions council motion then i make a motion that we approve resolution
2025-52 it's read i second we have a first we got a second any other discussion all right seeing none we're going to move to vote all in favor say I i those opposed 4
all right this is resolution 2025-53 resolution of the city council of the city of Williston Florida approving the amendment to the state of Florida Department of Transportation traffic signal maintenance and compensation agreement for fiscal year 2025 authorizing appropriate parties to sign any documents required to execute
such amendment on behalf of the city of Williston and providing an effective date this is very much the same traffic maintenance agreement that you all see just with different numbers um as outlined um in the agenda item uh city of Williston will be compensated $18,000
for the maintenance of the traffic signals at issue i move approval of resolution 2025-53 a second all right we have a first and a second any other discussion no seeing none we'll move to
vote all in favor say I i those opposed 4 all right Mr president this is resolution 2025-54 resolution of the city council of the city of Willist Florida approving the memorandum of agreement between United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE and the city of
Williston Police Department authorizing appropriate parties to sign any documents required to execute such MOA on behalf of the city of Willist and providing an effective date um we've talked about this a little bit before um there have been mandates handed down um
from the federal government to the state governments now being handed down to the local governments um the memorandum of understanding that you have in front of you in essence uh indicates that your police department is going to be cooperative in
certain ways with ICE um regarding immigration issues um and the enforcement of immigration laws i will tell you that it is a polarizing issue amongst cities what I can tell you is there have been some cities that have
refused um to execute this MOA those cities have come under scrutiny um from the state um with the backing of the federal government that's not to say so you don't have to gun to your head sign this agreement um but I would certainly
um encourage you to to look at the um the other cities who have chosen not to um when making that consideration as politically correct as I can say that so council
I would just say it also provides training and puts all the liability on us and puts all the cost on us yes I will not make the motion i obviously will agree under protest so somebody else will have to make the motion president Cox can I ask a question yes
ma'am um a very strange uh thing that's happened is that and of course nobody saw this happening was that a lot of our deportes have dogs and now we have had three dogs already that have been their
owners have been deported and I did read this um and it it's kind of general about the kind of expenses that you can ask for but I was just wondering if Kirsten knew if we could ask for help with animals left behind
i do not It's only been in effect for 3 months and so we're probably going to get one a month that's what I'm averaging so that's 12 a year we can always ask what I read I don't think you can get anything back they pay for the training what I read you pay for the train they
pay for the training all the liability goes on the city they're not responsible for anything that happens with them or with you uh the liability is all ours and we have to do what they tell us to do i didn't see anything about reimbursement for anything well just for
the record I wanted you guys to know that was some that was something that was happening and it's extra expense on your citizens that's a lot already it's a lot raised a lot already miss Blue what other cities near us have kind of said "We're not going to do this." You
know the chief is a little bit more versed on um that than I am maybe his captain is i do not know he is online if I'm want to ask him any questions all right one second mike
is he talking in your ear yep yeah I bet he jumped i bet he's in his ear all right Mike you got the floor yeah um in reference to this MOA uh my understanding and and we all know is
that we're not going to be out uh chasing uh illegal immigrants basically what it boils down to is uh if we were to come in contact with someone uh of that status is that we would
transport them to the jail uh and the and most of the work as far as getting them to ICE and getting them deportated it falls on the the agency that takes them into custody which would be the jail um as far as cities that are that
have refused to sign um in our region 17 uh chief association meeting uh I was not aware of any city near us that have refused to sign just as well as I'm not sure how many have uh
signed because most of them are doing the same thing that we're doing we're presenting this to our legal council for review and then giving it to our city council to make a a decision whether the city wants to uh sign the MOA or not uh Kirsten is
right there has been some cities that have refused to sign it and has come under uh for lack of better words attacked by the attorney general as well as the governor of our state of Florida so those are some things we have to
consider but the MOA doesn't doesn't obligate us to go out and kick in people's doors to uh arrest them on immigration violations you can correct me if I'm wrong uh Kirst no that's that's accurate i think it is
but if they have a warrant don't you have to go get them we as the city police we don't execute warrants because we're not sworn law enforcement uh we as city police uh not being a sworn deputy uh under the
sheriff we can't even we cannot even arrest individuals in our city that has warrants we can make contact with them and then call the sheriff office to come pick them up and then they actually serve the warrant cool i did not know that that's interesting
yes yes ma'am because we're not uh I've spoken to the sheriff several times about trying to get uh the men and women of the police department deputized and uh I don't think at this time he's wanting to do that so whenever we come
in contact with somebody with a warrant we hold them until Levy County Sheriff's Office comes and take them away from us and then they serve the warrant yes interesting right very much chief this is Meredith um I have a question
hey Meredith if um as I'm reading this you are responsible for transporting these people um if they if these people somebody who terrible thing to say I'm sorry transporting anybody that you find
that does not meet the requirements to be in the United States legally um and I my question to you is how much time do you think that's going to take and is it going to pull officers away from the city who need to be here in the city
because I know they're not but so many of you on duty at a given time yes ma'am uh true statement uh but every arrest we make uh draws us away from the city because we have to transport them
to Ley County Sheriff we have land into uh individuals for lack of better words that are not legally here and most of the time it's uh doing a traffic stop and they have no driver's license so we
ended up we end up taking them to the jail anyway okay at that point the liability of uh completing that process of getting them uh deported is now the responsibility of the sheriff
thank you there yes ma'am this is Deborah again under there's one section that says the power to serve and execute warrants for arrest of immigration violations that's what I was reading so you're and you would defer that to the
sheriff is what you're saying yes ma'am cuz we we we we don't anything out we don't have authority to serve warrants well this right here says you will it goes there's a whole section that says the power to the power at
authority to the power to the power and authority to it it's subject to the the other limitations in the MOA which include things like to the extent that under certain statutory provisions you don't have the authority to do so then you'll designate some
that's good i mean I just assume we This is This is a very uh I mean this is We're not the only city that struggle with this uh of course uh I think all the sheriffs have already signed it i'm not not sure
i'll do some more research to find out how many uh cities haven't i know the last one I read was the city of [Applause] um I can't think of the name of the city now uh that refused this item and they came they came under scrutiny from the
governor and attorney general uh as far as threatening to remove the council members the um the city of uh Fort Meyers um chose elected not to participate in the MOA uh the state government without
commenting on whether I agree with this legal analysis believes that a refusal to enter into the MOA is a refusal to comply with Florida statute regarding sanctuary cities um and accordingly uh
has has brought scrutiny upon Fort Meyers for its um what they allege is a failure to comply with that statute this is actually that statute now is actually uh state law am I right Kirsten
yes yes florida lawm yeah yeah and that that was that was a big part of uh part of the scrutiny on those councilmen was that they they felt like they were failing to uh obey the law
okay m Mr barber yeah i had a question for the chief and for Kristen um I'm looking at uh section uh 17 i think it's on page 83 of the document and it says modification of
this MOA and I thought maybe we could exercise that it says that modifications of this MOA must be pro uh proposed in writing and approved by the signatory so that if council decided that they did want to do this that it does allow for a proposal in writing on some of the
things like if we talk about the ICE dogs as Laura calls them for animal control for some of the you know we could propose some of those things and ask for some of those changes obviously they have to approve them but that might be an avenue and then also that if it's
something that you guys discovered that you didn't weren't happy with the next one underneath 18 basically allows you the ability to suspend by notice so I just wanted to point those two out because if you did go down this road my
only concern for for some of the city functions is grants so you have scrutiny by the same divisions and departments who are going to look at the grant applications that we send and they're going to possibly I won't assert that they
would but they could possibly prevent us from getting funding on things that we really really need to get funding on cdbgs springs grants I mean all kinds of stuff so I just want to point that out because if you guys
move forward with this you have a modification clause and a suspension and termination clause that was going to be a question of mine was what kind of push back would we get you know go against us if we went
against this you know us not get grants the um the response from the legislature has been that they are considering civil and criminal penalties um against the cities who fail to comply with the
sanctuary city statute which they believe this is an integral part of so I it certainly while again to Donald's point I won't say that it will affect other areas it certainly um would not be helpful I think would be a fair analysis
so they're they're just making it a no-win situation you're pretty much right Mr cox and uh I've read the line that uh Donna spoke about uh but I don't think anybody has taken that option yet because of the
amount of scrutiny they're getting and possibly the uh you know the consequences of not doing it but that's it's a council's decision decision uh as to whether we sign it or
not can we put this off table this for another is there a timeline we have to have this done by can we push it back for another week or a council i don't know how we can say no you would
can say you don't want to sign it at all you could continue it forever and never sign it um there's lots of things that you can do the question is obviously um what are what are you willing to give
up for that and it sounds like sounds like we're already doing it without the training and without theou i mean I enjoy the the chief coming in and buying stuff enjoy Matt i don't want to see him come in and go come on hands
behind your back it's up to the will of the council well council what do you think b Mr mayor I try to talk about those few things that I know something about i look at this very similar to the
way as a builder I look at the building inspector they have the power you can fight them but then you got to keep fighting and fighting and fighting and fighting and whereas if you give in and do the things
that they are requiring you to do you end up with a much better relationship with the people that have the power so I would suggest that you seriously consider the consequences of trying to buck this particular system
i don't see any reason that Laura can't ask for money for the animals right that seems very reasonable just don't get your hopes up right okay council anybody else
mr mayor mr mayor mayor Goodman i'm sorry you're bleeding i'm bleeding your hand thank you it's probably from my blood pressure okay well if there's no more discussion
Mr stinkle so I just want to you know make sure I understood it correctly we're we're talking about not complying with grant assurances no we're just we were that was just conversation we're not really talking about it yeah i
mean yeah I'm I'm concerned about that because it affects me greatly yeah i'm not sure that we're talking about not complying with grant asurances i think we're talking about future grant potential is limited so I do want to make sure that just those two
differentiations like yes and no right and I mean a lot of what we do out at the airport comes with grant funding from the federal and the state level i mean we wouldn't have the terminal the nice new terminal building that we have if it wasn't for state funding i I mean I I get where you're coming from i understand it um there's a lot of
funding that has been poured into that airport over the past 20 years from the state to help develop it into what it is today right um and I mean the same thing can be said for the city so I just we
need to tread cautiously okay well count has nothing else i'll take a motion entertain it based upon all of everything that was said as much as it pains me I make a resolution a motion to approve
resolution 2025-54 do I get a second [Laughter] do I have to pass this off to D if I get a second you ready i second the motion motion motion
just for additional discussion very quickly under item 10 it says cost and expenditures it says participating law enforcement agency personnel will carry out designated functions at the law enforcement agency's expense including
salaries benefits local transportation official issue material whether or not the law enforcement agency receives financial reimbursement for such costs through federal grants or other funding mechanisms so hopefully there will be some funding mechanism that we can get
to help us do this uh it actually hints at the fact that there might be in the future uh so we'll have to watch for that that's the only recourse this is the only thing it says about cost and expenditures well as many grants we're responsible unless we can get
some federal grant or other funding mechanism not material to the the MOA yeah that's exactly in section 10 as many grants as they're starting to cancel and not fund hopefully they'll dump some money into police and fire that's the only thing that we can hope any other
discussion seeing none um we're going to move to vote all in favor say I i all oppose say no no so we have three to one three I's and one i was an eye under
protest but I see the reason reasonleness of it so I'm going to transfer the gavvel back to the president all right okay Mr president 22 we be here all night since it's
7:55 can we go ahead and take our break now and return at 8 no ma'am just a quick just just a quick question if we go one more we can get Yeah we can get we can
if we do one more he's next then he can eat with us in the park i'm hoping the next one will be fast okay okay thank you that's okay Jeff as long as it's you item I Yep all
right item I resolution 2025-55 a resolution of the city council of the city of Willist Florida approving the services agreement with Novo Global for School Zone cameras authorizing the
appropriate appropriate parties to sign any documents required to execute amend it on behalf of the city of Williston and provide an effective date city Attorney Kristen Belaloo and Police Chief Mike
Rolls mr president um this is the and I apologize um the president and I have a an understanding that because I insist on being verbose in my resolution titles that I should be required to read them so I apologize for leaving you hanging
on that one um the the resolution in front of you is adopting the contract um with NOVA Global um regarding the school zone cameras so you'll remember that we passed the ordinance that allows us to enter into this contract this is the contract um in front of you um the only
change is that I added in that uh notices under the contract will also go in addition to going to your police chief will go to your city manager um and Jeeoff I apologize did um just correct the address of the city in one other place um in the contract which I failed to mention in our earlier
conversation so those are the only edits that we made everything else is um pretty standard i'm happy to answer any questions i have just one question but it's not for you is it okay if I ask you a question sure
i'm sorry what's your name again jeff Ayuzi with Novoa Global how you doing ma'am hi Jeff um so my question for you is if someone gets a ticket or is speeding within the school zone but yet you can't see who is actually driving and you
issue a ticket and the person who may own the vehicle was not the one driving what happens in that case so if the person it goes to the the state statute requires that it goes to the register owner of the vehicle okay all right so the restaurant on the vehicle then has an ability to basically fill out an
affidavit we have that declaration as part of the website that we provide them to either pay or look at the violations or whatever so they can the state of Florida does require us to print require the violator to print that vi that that
amendment or that change of driver status and have it signed it's it's a sworn affidavit basically saying that this is the person that was actually operating the vehicle it does transfer over to that person at that point we do everything else and start the process over from that point including mailings
and everything else that goes into it um some may choose to do this some may choose not to unlike a regular UTC there are no points on your driver's license this won't affect insurance and things along those lines so it's a little bit different there there's some concerns with businesses they may they have the
option of transferring it or just taking out of their paycheck and paying it directly through the business themselves too so there are options there if they do want to transfer it over if it's a parent and their 16-year-old driver they may just go ahead and pay the violation they may transfer it over they may take
it out of their allowance you know whatever it may be but there are options for the violator um or I'm sorry the registered owner to transfer it to the correct violator oh okay okay thank you yes thank you you're welcome
okay council any other questions no so we're going to entertain a motion then i'll make this one i move approval of resolution 2025-55 i'll second all right we have a first we got a second any other
discussions hearing none we'll move to vote all in favor say I i all oppose 4 the time is now 7:59 and 20 minutes we have dinner in the
other room for everybody and we will be back here at 8:20