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I'M GOING TO CALL THIS REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING.
TWENTY ONE DASH 20 FOUR TO ORDER THE INVOCATION WILL WILL BE LED BY PASTOR CALEB PHELPS
[CALL TO ORDER]
FROM FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH AND.COMMISSIONER COUNCILMAN FELIX WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
SO PASTOR PHELPS? LET'S PRAY TOGETHER, LORD, WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THE PRIVILEGE IT IS TO GATHER IN A PLACE OF GOVERNMENT. WE KNOW FROM YOUR SCRIPTURES THAT GOVERNMENT ARE ONE OF THOSE INSTITUTIONS THAT WAS ORDAINED BY YOU.
OR WE PRAY TONIGHT FOR THOSE THAT REPRESENT OUR CITY.
WELL, YOU WOULD GIVE THEM WISDOM TO STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND THE WISDOM TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS. OR WE THANKFUL FOR YOUR WORD THAT GOVERNS OUR OUR PROCEEDINGS.
WE'RE THANKFUL FOR A MAYOR WHO LOVES THIS CITY WELL AND IS DULY ELECTED BECAUSE OF IT.
LORD, AS WE GATHER THIS EVENING, MAY WE GATHER UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL THAT IS DONE IN YOUR PLACES ARE DONE WITH YOUR STRENGTH AND ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL? AND MAY WE GOVERN OUR THOUGHTS ACCORDING TO THAT IN YOUR NAME.
AMEN. IT WAS GREAT FOR AMERICA TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
MADAM LEFLER. ARE MEDINA PRESIDENT, DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON HERE, COUNCILMAN FOSTER, THEIR COUNCILMAN FELIX HERE, MS. SHERMAN, MS. SMITH HERE.
DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, THANK YOU, MAYOR, WE HAVE ONE VACANCY ON THE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
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DISTRICT BOARD REPRESENTS AT-LARGE MEMBER WHO OWNS A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY OR OPERATES A BUSINESS WITHIN THE DISTRICT.ONE VACANCY ON THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD REPRESENTS RESIDENTIAL HOMEBUILDER ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN HOMEBUILDING, FOR PROFIT PROVIDER OR A NONPROFIT PROVIDER.
TWO VACANCIES ON THE YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD REPRESENTS AT LARGE STUDENT MEMBER POSITIONS, AND ONE VACANCY ON THE YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD REPRESENTS THE ADULT MEMBER 30 YEARS OR OLDER POSITION. ANYONE WISHING TO SERVE ON THESE BOARDS CAN DO SO ONLINE AT PALM BAY FLORIDA DOT ORG OR CONTACT THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AT THREE TWO ONE NINE FIVE TWO THREE FOUR ONE FOUR. SO WE'RE ON TO AGENDA REVISIONS.
MADAM SHERMAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR.
[AGENDA REVISIONS]
PLEASE NOTE ON ITEM TWO UNDER CONSENT AGENDA RELATING TO THE AWARD OF PROPOSAL FOR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE BROKERAGE SERVICES THAT THE COMPANY NAME IS CHANGED FROM NATIONAL REALTY OF BOVARD INC TO ONE SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY DUE TO A MERGER.HOWEVER, THE SAME EMPLOYEES WILL BE WORKING WITH THE CITY AND THAT THIS DOES NOT AFFECT THE RECOMMENDATION FOR AWARD OF PROPOSAL.
I BELIEVE SO, BUT IF MR HOWARD IS HERE, HE CAN CORRECT ME.
THANK YOU, MA'AM. MADAM SMITH, ANY AGENDA REVISIONS? NO, SIR. DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON.
ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? YES. CONSENT ITEMS NUMBER THREE, SEVEN, 12 AND 15, THREE, SEVEN, 12 AND 15.
[CONSENT AGENDA]
ALSO, ANY ANY OTHER ITEMS ON CONSENT? YES, MAYOR. NUMBER 10.AND THE OTHER COUNCIL IS THE SECOND.
THE OTHER OK, SO I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THE REST.
I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH THE REMOVAL OF ITEMS THREE, SEVEN, 10, 12 AND 15 AND THE GENDER REVISIONS OF NATIONAL ROYALTY TO REFLECT ONE SOTHEBY'S INTERNATIONAL REALTY.
I CAN ADD A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? CNN, I'M CALLING THE QUESTIONS ALL IN FAVOR.
[3. Contract: South Regional Water Reclamation Facility construction, Change Order 3 (IFB-39- 0-2020) – Utilities Department (RJ Sullivan - $350,466).]
BILL BATTEN. BILL BURTON 586 OCEAN SPRAY STREET, SOUTHWEST, I HAVE TWO ITEMS ON THIS ONE, BUT I'M KIND OF IN TURMOIL ABOUT IT.THE FIRST ONE IS I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE'RE SAVING $20000 FOR THE CITY, THAT'S THAT'S GREAT. BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE FACT THAT WE WANT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE PAYING FOR A LOT OF THE INCOME IN THE
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CITY. SO IF THE CITY IS USING THEIR TAX CREDIT PURCHASED ABILITY TO BUY STUFF FROM FOR A PRIVATE COMPANY, THAT IS THAT TAX REVENUE THAT'S WOULD HAVE BEEN COMING INTO THE CITY OF PALM BAY. SO I SEE IT AS A PLUS AND A MINUS.IT SAVES THE CITY, BUT IT DOESN'T BRING IN IN THE TAX REVENUE THAT WE WERE SUPPOSEDLY COUNTING ON TO PAY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY.
SO BRAVO ZOU FOR SAVING ME MONEY ON A NEGATIVE ON THE.
NOT COLLECTING THE TAX WITH THE OTHER THING WITH THAT ONE IS I'M WATCHING OVER THE SEVERAL YEARS OF THE CHANGE ORDERS.
WHAT STARTED OUT AS $24 MILLION IS NOW $25 MILLION FOR THIS TOTAL PROJECT.
SO THAT'S AS I'M WATCHING IT BUILD UP.
WE HAVE WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS.
THAT WAS A BID THAT WAS PUT OUT FOR 24 AND WE'RE IN THE PROCESS, BUT WE'RE ALREADY A MILLION DOLLARS OVER WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROJECTED.
WITH THAT? THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME MONEY.
BUT. PRIVATE INDUSTRIES SHOULD BE PAYING INTO THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
ANY ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS ON THIS MADAM SHERMAN YOU WANT TO ADDRESS? I CAN CERTAINLY HAVE OUR UTILITIES DIRECTOR COME UP AND TALK ABOUT THE COSTS OF THE PROJECTS IF YOU'D LIKE TO HEAR A LITTLE MORE OF THE CHANGEOVER.
CHRISTOPHER LYTTLE, UTILITIES DIRECTOR SO AS FAR AS THE TAX SAVINGS I WAS SALES TAX, STATE SALES TAX, SO THAT'S WHAT THAT IS IN TERMS OF THE CHANGE ORDER ITSELF.
THE INCREASE PROPOSED AND CHANGE ORDER NUMBER THREE IS FOR THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND NOT A MILLION.
THANK YOU. COUNCIL MOTION APPROVED CHANGE ORDER NUMBER THREE FOR THE RW W RF CONSTRUCTION AMOUNT THREE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY FIVE DOLLARS AND EIGHTY TWO CENTS TO R.J. SULLIVAN CORP.
SECOND, A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? IN NONE, ALL IN FAVOR, I ANY OPPOSE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[7. Consideration of terminating the grant agreements with the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity for the Voluntary Home Buyout Program due to lack of eligible households to participate in the program.]
MR. BILL BACK. YOUR BATON, 586 OCEAN SPRAY STREET, SOUTHWEST.TWO ITEMS TO ADDRESS ON THIS ONE IN TWENTY EIGHTEEN.
WHEN I ADDRESSED THE CITY COUNCIL REGARDING WHAT THEIR PLAN WAS ON THIS PROJECT, I ASKED AT THAT TIME WHAT IF THE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IF THE INDIVIDUALS DO NOT QUALIFY? WHAT IS THE PLAN? AND I WAS AND WE RESPONDED BACK TO MEETING MR. BATON. WE HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN IF, IF, IF THIS DOES NOT GO THROUGH.
THEY DIDN'T TELL ME WHAT THAT ALTERNATIVE PLAN WAS, BUT NOW WE'RE IN 2021 AND I'M SEEING THE FACT THAT IT FAILED.
BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T MEET THE CRITERIA.
SO I'M JUST CURIOUS, ARE THOSE HOMES ARE NOW GOING TO BE FLOODED OUT THAT THE WHOLE THING THEY SAID WE WERE GOING TO PROTECT THEM IS NOW FLOODED? OR SHOULD WE HAVE INVESTED INTO LAND MANAGEMENT UNDER CONSERVATION PROCESS OF LAND MANAGEMENT INSTEAD OF LETTING PEOPLE BUILD IN FLOOD PLAINS, PREVENTING THEM FROM BUILDING IN FLOOD PLAINS, ESPECIALLY SINCE THAT WAS ONE OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF WATER AND SEWER WERE BROUGHT INTO.
THE SECOND ITEM AT THAT SAME 2018 MEETING UNDER THE SAME AGENDA TOPICS, IT WAS BROUGHT UP FOR THE BRIDGE ON FERGUSON ROAD, WHICH IS A $1 MILLION BRIDGE, ONE MILLION PLUS.
WELL, I HAPPEN TO BE THE TYPE OF PERSON RAN OVER TO FERGUSON, AND IT'S STILL AN OPEN CANAL. THE ROADS ARE STILL NOT OPEN AND THERE'S STILL NO BRIDGE.
SO WHEN THIS PORTION OF THAT REQUEST FAILED, THAT THAT ALSO TAKE OUT THE FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE FERGUSON BRIDGE.
THAT'S WHAT I'M CURIOUS, AND IF IT'S THE FUNDING SOURCE FOR FERGUSON IS STILL IN THERE, IF WE'RE GOING TO GET THE BRIDGE IN THERE SO THE RESIDENTS HAVE MORE THAN ONE WAY OUT OF THEIR PROPERTY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THANK YOU. THAT'S THE CHIEF MADAM SHERMAN.
I THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH ANY ALTERNATIVE PLAN THAT PAST FOLKS MIGHT HAVE TALKED ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW IF STAFF HAS SEEN ANYTHING IN THE RECORDS ABOUT THAT.
APOLOGIES, BUT I DO KNOW THAT WE'VE BEEN ACTIVELY WORKING ON WAS CHECKING MY EMAILS.
I DON'T HAVE A CURRENT UPDATE, BUT WE'VE BEEN ACTIVELY WORKING ON THE FERGUSON PROJECT, SO THAT'S STILL IN THE WORKS.
SEPARATE FROM THIS PARTICULAR ITEM THAT'S STILL ON ON THE BOOKS.
DID YOU WANT TO TOUCH A LITTLE BIT ON THE FACT THAT THIS CAN'T GO ON BECAUSE OF, YOU
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KNOW, THE THE MEDIUM INCOME AND HOW PEOPLE DIDN'T QUALIFY? AND AND WE CAN'T, EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A WELL-INTENDED PROPOSAL, IT JUST DIDN'T WORK OUT THAT WAY. YES, CERTAINLY I CAN HAVE NANCY, BUT OUR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR COME UP AND SHARE WITH YOU SOME OF THAT INFORMATION JUST TO MAKE IT PUBLIC. YES, SIR. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THANK YOU. UNFORTUNATELY, AS A CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, THERE WAS 13 HOMEOWNERS THAT AT THE TIME WERE INTERESTED IN THIS PROGRAM, AND SO THE CITY REACHED OUT WITH SOME GRANT FUNDS AND RECEIVED OVER $2 MILLION.BECAUSE THERE IS THAT MATCH REQUIREMENT, THEY HAVE TO BE 70 PERCENT LOW MODERATE INCOME AND THERE WAS NO OTHER FUNDING SOURCE FOR THAT MATCH AT THAT AT THE TIME.
ONE DROPPED OUT, ONE WAS FORECLOSED ON AND THAT LEFT FIVE THAT WERE INTERESTED.
THE OTHERS JUST DID NOT HAVE ANY INTEREST.
THE HOUSING ADMINISTRATOR ACTUALLY WENT DOOR TO DOOR AND SPOKE WITH SOME OF THEM.
THEY HAD A WORKSHOP FOR SIX OF THE HOUSEHOLDS CAME AND THEN AT THE END, ONLY FIVE PROVIDED THE DOCUMENTATION NEEDED.
THE HOUSING ADMINISTRATOR ALSO TRYING TO REACH OUT AND SEE IF WE COULD GO WITH LAMOTT AREA INSTEAD OF LAMOND CLIENTELE OF THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE THE GRANT SAID NO, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT. SO WE TRIED VARIOUS SOURCES.
WE TRIED DIFFERENT WAYS TO MATCH THE FUNDS AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO ASSIST ANY OF THE HOUSEHOLDS BECAUSE THEY'RE OVER INCOME.
AND SO ANY QUESTIONS FROM STAFF AT THIS POINT, COUNCILMAN FOSTER, MS. BRUNT, I'M SORRY, MA'AM, I RELEASED YOU TOO SOON.
COUNCILWOMAN FOSTER. CAN YOU PUT A FOR THE PUBLIC, DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? CAN YOU GIVE US JUST A QUICK BRIEF SUMMARY? THIS IS A FLOOD ZONE THAT PEOPLE BUILT IN AND IT FLOODS WHEN THERE IS A HEAVY WHITE RAIN, RIGHT? YOU GO INTO THAT AND WHY? THE GRANT IS STILL AVAILABLE FOR THOSE WHO QUALIFY.
TO PURCHASE THEIR HOME TO RELOCATE.
YOU GO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT.
ABSOLUTELY. I BELIEVE BACK IN THE SEVENTIES, THEY I'M NOT SURE IF IT WAS ALWAYS FLOOD ZONE. AND IT CONTINUALLY FLOODED AND HOW IT WAS BUILT.
TODAY, WE WOULDN'T ALLOW ANYONE TO BUILD IN THAT FLOOD ZONE.
SO AS TIME WENT ON, IT CONTINUED TO RAIN AND THE AREA GOT FLOODED AND THE HOUSES HAVE REPETITIVE LOSSES.
THEY CONTINUALLY GET FLOODED AND THEY'VE GONE IN AND MADE SOME REPAIRS.
BUT IT REALLY NEEDS TO WITH THE HOMES JUST REALLY NEED TO BE DEMOLISHED.
AND THEN THE THE AREA JUST NEEDS TO BE AS LIKE A FLOOD AREA WHERE STORMWATER AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO THE CITY REACHED OUT AND TRIED TO FIND DIFFERENT GRANTS.
THERE WAS THIS GRANT THAT CAME AFTER HURRICANE IRMA IN 2017.
WE APPLIED FOR THERE AND HAD A TWENTY FIVE PERCENT MATCH.
SO WE LOOKED AT DIFFERENT AVENUES OF HOW WE COULD MATCH THOSE, THOSE GRANT FUNDS IN ORDER TO HELP THESE RESIDENTS.
I KNOW OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR HAS GONE OUT AND HE'S WORKING ON SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD HELP THE DRAINAGE HERE, THERE AS WELL.
SINCE THIS IS NOW TWENTY TWENTY ONE, WE DIDN'T WANT TO CONTINUE TO ENCUMBER THESE FUNDS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THERE ARE OTHER RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF FLORIDA THAT COULD POTENTIALLY USE IT.
SINCE WE WE HAD NO ELIGIBLE CLIENTS THAT WE COULD ASSIST.
SO NOW WE'RE WORKING WITH OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO SEE IF THERE'S AN ALTERNATIVES THAT HE COULD HELP WITH.
THE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS COUNCILMAN.
ALSO, WHAT IS YOUR PLEASURE? MOST AN APPROVED TERMINATION OF THE GRANT AGREEMENTS WITH BOTH THE FLORIDA DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE VOLUNTARY HOME BUYOUT PROGRAM.
AND MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON.
I WAS TAKING IT FOR DISCUSSION AND ITS SECOND BY COUNCILMAN FOSTER COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
UM. IF WE TERMINATE THIS GRANT, DOES THE FIVE.
PEOPLE ARE ELIGIBLE, DO THEY STILL PARTICIPATE AND GET QUALIFIED TO MOVE TO BE RELOCATED?
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WE TERMINATE, WE PASS THIS AND I CAN ANSWER THAT, SIR.I MEAN, IF WE TERMINATE THE GRANT, NO ONE WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR ACCESS TO THE FUNDS.
WE WOULD JUST CANCEL THE ENTIRE PROGRAM.
SO WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TWO? THE FIVE PEOPLE DID QUALIFY.
WELL, TO CLARIFY, THEY DIDN'T QUALIFY.
SO THERE WERE AT THE END IT WAS BASICALLY LIKE FIVE PROPERTIES THAT WERE INTERESTED IN MOVING FORWARD. BUT WHAT WE RAN ALL THEIR FINANCIAL INFORMATION, THEY DID NOT MEET THE THE QUALIFICATIONS TO EVEN BE ELIGIBLE TO BE A PART OF THE PROGRAM.
SO WE ENDED UP WITH NO HOMES, NO PROPERTIES, NO PROPERTY OWNERS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO BE PART OF THE PROGRAM BASED ON THE GRANT GUIDELINES.
OK, THANK YOU. I'VE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND, AND I HEAR WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THAT.
COUNCILMAN FOSTER BECAUSE WE'RE RETURNING THEIR FEMA FUNDS, THE FEMA FUNDS, BUT WE'RE IN A POSITION THAT NO ONE QUALIFIED.
BUT OUR HANDS ARE TIED ON THAT.
I'VE GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
ALL IN FAVOR HIGH AND HE OPPOSE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[10. Consideration of a purchase offer for City-owned surplus real estate (Tax ID 2839297, in the vicinity of 320 Chaska Street NE) to buyers Randy and Tammy Holliday ($26,000).]
COUNCILMAN FELIX, THANK YOU, DEPUTY MAYOR.REASON WHY I PULLED THIS ITEM LOOKING AT THIS PROPERTY.
I KNOW THE THE PROPERTY HAVE SOME CHALLENGES.
THE WAY IT'S THE LOCATION OF IT, IT'S LANDLOCKED.
THERE'S NO, YOU KNOW, NO ENTRANCE.
REALLY, IT'S SURROUNDED ALL SIDE, PRETTY MUCH ALL SIDES BY HOUSES AND THE BACK.
I BELIEVE IT'S A SWELL OR CANAL CANAL.
THE TWENTY SIX THOUSAND OFFER, ALTHOUGH I.
WELCOME IT, BUT I THINK IT'S WAY TOO LOW CONSIDERING THE PRICE OF OF LAND CURRENTLY IN THE CITY ON A NORMAL CASE, AN ACRE OF LAND WOULD WOULD ON AVERAGE WOULD PROBABLY GO FOR ABOUT $80000.
NO CITY. UM, SO FOR US TO JUST ME GIVE IT AWAY FOR TWENTY SIX, I.
I'M OPPOSED TO THAT, SO WE NEED TO MAKE CLEAR AND FOR THE RECORD, MAKE IT CLEAR, AND THAT'S FOR THIS REASON.
I DON'T THINK IT'S FAIR MARKET PRICE.
I WOULD BE WILLING TO TO GO AND CONSIDERING THE SITUATION, THE LOCATION.
I WOULD PROBABLY DO 50 CENTS ON A DOLLAR, BUT TO GIVE IT AWAY FOR 26000 COMPLETELY OPPOSED. AND COUNCILMAN FELIX, I GOT TO TELL YOU, I THINK YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD.
HOWEVER, IN THIS MARKET, IN TODAY'S MARKET, WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY IS I'D RATHER HOLD IT FOR THE FUTURE.
IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT? YES. THANK YOU, DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, DID YOU WANT TO IF IF SOMEBODY ELSE ON COUNCIL DIDN'T PULL THIS ITEM, I WAS GOING TO PULL IT BECAUSE I FELT THE SAME WAY AND I WAS LOOKING AT EITHER GOING BACK TO THEM AND TRYING TO NEGOTIATE HIGHER OR JUST WE JUST PULL IT LIKE YOU'RE SAYING. SO I'M FINE.
EITHER WAY, WHATEVER WAY COUNCIL IS LEANING, BUT FOR IT, FOR THE SUGGESTED LIST PRICE TO BE SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND AND WE ACCEPT TWENTY SIX THOUSAND.
THAT'S A DISSERVICE RIGHT THERE.
SO I CONCUR THAT BEING MAYOR JOHNSON COUNCILWOMAN FOSTER.
I HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT VIEW.
WHAT WAS THE PRAISE WAS THIS LAND OF PRAISE? CITY MANAGER. LOOK AT STUFF, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE WE DID AN APPRAISAL ON THIS ONE.
DO YOU KNOW, JOHN? IT WAS A COMPARATIVE MARKET ANALYSIS PREPARED.
THEY'LL REQUIRE APPRAISALS FOR RESIDENTIAL UNDER 10 ACRES THAT ARE THAT CANNOT BE DEVELOPED AS COMMERCIAL. IF YOU SEE THIS PROPERTY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ON A MAP, YOU'VE GOT A HOUSE. IN FRONT OF IT, RIGHT, YOU GOT A CANAL TO THE, I BELIEVE, THE NORTH.
AND. SOUTH, YOU GOT SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROPERTY, IT'S LANDLOCKED, IT'S OWNED BY THREE DIFFERENT PEOPLE, AM I CORRECT? UM. YOU WOULDN'T EVEN NOTICE IS THERE IF YOU DROVE BY.
YOU CAN'T EVEN SEE IF YOU DROVE BY GOING TO SEE THIS PROPERTY PROBABLY GOT TO GO DOWN THROUGH THE CANAL TO SEE IT.
THIS IS THE REASON WHY I'M HESITANT BECAUSE THE ONLY PERSON COULD BE THE PERSON LIVING RIGHT NEXT TO IT. DO WE HAVE AN ADJACENT TO IT, RIGHT? DO WE HAVE AN OFFER FOR TWENTY SIX? YOU HAVE OFFERED TO BUY THIS PROPERTY.
YES, AND FOR ANY DETAILED INFORMATION, I'LL DEFER TO NANCY, BUT SHE'S BEEN WORKING ON THIS. BUT YES, WE DO HAVE AN OFFER FROM THE ADJACENT ONE OF THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS THAN IT IS FOR TWENTY SIX THOUSAND.
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MS. MS. FRONT TO STEP FORWARD.YES. THE THE THE OFFER CAME FROM THE HOLIDAYS, WHO ARE ONE OF THE FOUR.
THERE WAS ACTUALLY FOUR THAT ARE ATTACHED TO THAT PROPERTY THAT COULD ACTUALLY JOIN THEIR PROPERTY WITH IT SINCE IT IS LANDLOCKED.
SO THEY HAD PROVIDED AN OFFER PREVIOUSLY.
WE DECLINED IT AND NOW THEY'VE SENT THIS SECOND OFFER.
OF COURSE, THE COUNCIL CAN COUNTEROFFER OR THEY CAN JUST HOLD ON TO IT UNTIL POSSIBLY ONE OF THE OTHER THREE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN IT.
AS IT STANDS NOW IN THE CITY CAN'T HAVE ANY USE OF THAT PROPERTY.
IF WE. REJECT THIS ITEM, AND IT'S JUST GOING TO SIT THERE HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN SITTING THERE, UNUSED OR UP FOR SALE, DO YOU KNOW? IT'S A LITTLE OVER A YEAR OR NO? IT'S ONLY BEEN LISTED FOR SALE SINCE WE'VE HAD OUR RESIDENTIAL BROKER, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS MAY OR APRIL STARTED.
SO IT HASN'T BEEN ON SALE FOR THAT LONG.
OK, SO I WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND EX COUNCILMAN FELIX.
HOWEVER, WANTED TO SEE WHAT? WHAT COUNTEROFFER WOULD YOU ENTERTAIN? IT'S A COUPLE OF THINGS.
MAYOR, THANK YOU. WHAT I WOULD SAY IS, I THINK A FAIR I WOULD ACCEPT 50 50 THOUSAND OR I WOULD ENCOURAGE COUNSEL, I MEAN A STAFF TO SOLICIT THE THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOR.
THE OTHER FOUR SEE WHAT THEY WOULD OFFER.
THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW THIS PROPERTY BELONGS TO A CITY.
THEY MAY NOT. THEY MAY NOT HAVE AN INTEREST SHOULD THEY HAVE AN INTEREST.
I'D LIKE TO SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO OFFER, BUT AT A MINIMUM, I SWEAR.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WOULD ASK.
AND THE FUNDS AND THE FUNDS WITH THIS WOULD GO TO OUR ROLE.
CORRECT. YOU KNOW, I'M COMFORTABLE WITH THAT COUNSEL.
I REALLY AM. I KIND OF LIKE THE COUNTEROFFER ASPECT OF IT.
COUNCILMAN FELIX. I'LL I'LL JOIN YOU IN THAT REQUEST AND PERHAPS LET OTHERS KNOW THAT THAT THAT'S OUR COUNTEROFFER.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THAT'S THE LEGAL WAY OF DOING BUSINESS IN THE REAL ESTATE MARKET, BUT CERTAINLY A COUNTEROFFER IN TODAY'S MARKET.
I'LL JOIN YOU WITH THAT COUNCILMAN FELIX.
HERE, JUST ONE QUESTION, WHAT WAS THE FIRST OFFER THAT THEY GAVE US TEN THOUSAND? I'M GOOD WITH THE COUNTER OFFER.
SO DO YOU NEED THAT NEW MOTION FOR THE.
YES, PLEASE. OK, I'LL I'LL I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO THAT REGARD ON THIS COUNCIL WANTS TO MOVE ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM THE WAY IT IS.
WAIT, NO, I DIDN'T MAKE. NO, WE DIDN'T.
WE DIDN'T. I DIDN'T ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO THIS.
THE MOTION TO APPROVE OF A PURCHASE OFFER FOR CITY ON SURPLUS REAL ESTATE TAX ID TWENTY EIGHT POINT THIRTY NINE TO NINETY SEVEN IN THE VICINITY OF 320.
PRESCOTT STREET, NORTHEAST, UP TO BUYER RANDY AND TAMMY HOLIDAY INSTEAD OF 26 FOR $50000 COUNTER OFFER. SECOND.
I'M A THANK YOU, MADAM ATTORNEY, SO I GOT A MOTION BY EXCUSE ME.
I'VE GOT A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN FELIX, SECONDED BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, TO ALLOW A COUNTEROFFER OF $50000.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION COUNCIL SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR.
[12. Consideration of adopting the Sustainability Action Plan.]
ABOUT FIVE EIGHTY SIX OCEAN SPRAY STREET SOUTHWEST UNDER CONSIDERATION OF ADOPTING THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN.THESE INDIVIDUALS BEHIND ME DID A GREAT JOB ON PRESENTING THAT TO THE CITY.
I'VE WATCHED A LOT OF COMMITTEES WORK AND I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THEIR WITH THEIR OUTCOME. BUT AS I WAS LOOKING AT THAT, I'VE SEEN SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT GET TO ADDRESS WHILE I WAS ATTENDING SOME OF THEIR MEETINGS, AND I THOUGHT IT'D BE PERTINENT THAT I BROUGHT IT TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS IS THE FACT THAT PEWDS GOING TO HAVE A HIGHER DENSITY POPULATION, THEY GOING TO BE REAL CLOSE
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TOGETHER. IN FACT, THEIR HOMES ARE ONLY FIVE FEET APART, AND THE ABILITY TO HAVE THAT HIGH DENSITY POPULATION IS BECAUSE THEY'RE MANDATED TO BE ON CITY WATER AND CITY SEWER TO MEET THAT CRITERIA.BUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN IN THE PEWDS THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED IN THE CITY OF PALM BAY AS I'M DRIVING AROUND LOOKING AND WATCHING IS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE HOMES.
LET'S JUST SAY A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF THE HOMES THEY ARE ALL PUTTING IN WELLS SO THEY CAN DRAW FROM THE WATER TABLE THAT THE SURROUNDING RESIDENTS THAT CAN'T POPULATE BECAUSE THEY'RE ON WELL.
AND THAT'S HOW THEY HAVE TO HAVE THAT LOWER DENSITY.
WHILE THIS HIGH DENSITY POPULATION AREA, THEY'RE ALL PUTTING IN WELLS AND DRAWING FROM THE WATER TABLE THAT THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS ARE HAVE TO RELY ON.
YOU SAY, OK, WELL, IF YOU'RE ON CITY WATER AND SEWER, YOU CAN HAVE A HIGH DENSITY POPULATION. BUT THEN WHEN THEY GO AND SINK A WELL IN, IT'S HURTING THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE CITY, WATER AND SEWER.
THAT'S THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO PROVIDE.
WELL, WHEN YOU'RE ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN, THERE'S A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE RESIDENTS OF THEIR SURROUNDING, THE PWDS.
SO A LOT I'M TALKING WITH A LOT OF THEIR NEIGHBORS AROUND ME.
THEIR WELLS ARE STARTING TO DRAW BLACKS, SO THAT MEANS THEIR SURFACE WATERS ARE STARTING TO SINK IN THAT AREA, JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
I'M NOT FAULTING THE SUSTAINABILITY PLAN.
I JUST WANT THE CITY TO LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONES WHO DETERMINED WHAT THE POPULATION DENSITY WOULD BE UNDER YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ORGANIZATION.
THANK YOU, MR. CHIEF MADAM SHERMAN, YOU WANT TO ADDRESS THAT.
THE ISSUE WITH THE IN THE WELL WATER, CERTAINLY.
I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT AT THIS POINT.
BUT MR. BATON WAS KIND ENOUGH TO TELL ME ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT EARLIER IN THE WEEK.
SO IT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION, NOT ONE THAT I HAVE A QUICK AND EASY ANSWER FOR, BUT CERTAINLY SOMETHING I PLAN TO EXPLORE WITH STAFF.
YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY, AS I UNDERSTOOD IT, THE QUESTION IS IF YOU HAVE A PUDDY DEVELOPING AND LOTS OF SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT ARE ALL RUNNING IRRIGATION OFF OF INDIVIDUAL WELLS, HOW DOES THAT AFFECTS THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS WHO MAY NOT HAVE AND THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN PRIVATE WELLS? SO IT'S AN INTERESTING THING WE'LL HAVE TO TALK TO YOU, AND THIS SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN IS IS A PLAN THAT WOULD COME BEFORE COUNCIL.
THIS IS JUST WELL FOR THIS PARTICULAR AGENDA ITEM SEPARATE FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRE, RIGHT? I THINK WHAT YOU'RE ADOPTING TONIGHT IS THE CURRENT, AS IT STANDS, THE CURRENT DRAFT OF THE SUSTAINABILITY BOARD'S RECOMMENDED ACTION PLAN.
IT WILL COME BACK TO YOU OVER TIME WITH DIFFERENT CHANGES.
I'M SURE ONCE THEY ARE ONE OF THEIR THINGS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON, I BELIEVE, IS A PRIORITIZATION OF DIFFERENT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES AND THINGS.
SO THIS WILL COME BACK TO YOU AGAIN, I'M SURE, AND I BELIEVE THEY HAVE AN ANNUAL REPORT REQUIREMENT TO COME BACK TO YOU ANYWAY.
HEY, THANK YOU, MA'AM. ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION MOTION TO APPROVE THE TWENTY TWENTY ONE CITY OF PALM BAY SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN.
I COULD ADD A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON SINGING ABOUT COUNCILMAN, FELIX OR FOSTER.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN, JUST REAL QUICK, WE SAID IT BEFORE, BUT THEY DID A GREAT JOB WITH THE PRESENTATION.
CHAIRMAN, MADAM CHAIR, BERT AND EVERYBODY.
SO THEY DID A GREAT JOB AND I APPRECIATE IT AND I KNOW THEY WENT BACK AND HAD ANOTHER MEETING TO FOLLOW UP ON SOME REVISIONS IN REGARDS TO THE PRIORITIES WE HAD AS A COUNCIL.
THE ONLY OTHER THING BECAUSE I'VE HEARD.
MAYOR, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT IT TOO LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
IT'S TALKED ABOUT THE SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN, BUT THAT'S ALSO A DISCUSSION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS WELL.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE WE'RE WORKING COHESIVELY ON BOTH ITEMS. SO IN OTHER STUFF AS WELL, THAT'S ALL YOU KNOW.
AND I AGREE WITH YOU, DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON.
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS FOR A VERY LONG TIME, THEY DIDN'T EVEN HAVE A QUORUM, RIGHT? AND SO THEY GOT THE JOB DONE.
YOU KNOW, LIKE ALL HANDS ON DECK AND AND IN A REALLY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME COUNCILMAN FOSTER. YEAH, I JUST WANT TO ECHO WHAT BILL BRATTON SAID.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I PURCHASED MY HOME, I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD IT WELL AND I'M ON CITY WATER AND CITY SEWER. SO WHEN MY SPRINKLER SYSTEM COME UP, I ASKED THE GUY I'M PAYING, THIS IS ON MY CITY WATER.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A WELL AND IT'S SPRINKLER IN MY YARD.
BILL BRATTON, THANK YOU FOR HITTING MY CONSCIENCE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, BUT I DIDN'T BUILD THAT WELL.
I DIDN'T ASK FOR THAT. WELL, D.R.
HORTON DID IT. SO WE NEED TO LOOK INTO THAT BECAUSE.
IF I HAVE IT, I KNOW ALL MY NEIGHBORS HAVE IT AND WE WATERING OUR GRASS OFF THE AQUIFER.
AND AND I'M VERY CONSCIOUS AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THE SUSTAINABILITY BOARD FOR DOING A
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GREAT JOB. THANK YOU.THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN FOSTER, COUNCILMAN FELIX, YOU AND YOUR MAYOR DO JUST ECHO WHAT EVERYBODY SAID IN REGARDS OF THE JOB THE BOARD PUT FORTH.
EXACTLY JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO, THEY WERE HAVING A HARD TIME MEETING, BUT WE GOT SOME GOOD PEOPLE. WE APPOINTED SOME GOOD PEOPLE.
I'M PARTICULARLY PARTICULARLY THANKFUL FOR MY APPOINTEES HERE.
THANK YOU. WE HAVE A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
ALL IN FAVOR, I PASSED THIS UNANIMOUSLY ITEM 15.
[15. Consideration of appropriating funds from the Undesignated Fund Balance to the Solid Waste Fund to cover the September 2021 invoice balance for Republic Services ($230,000).]
RANDOLPH. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR COUNCIL RANDALL OLSZEWSKI THREE FORTY EIGHT, BIRKHEAD'S STREET, NORTHEAST.I'D LIKE TO START WITH A BIT OF POSITIVITY.
WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND BUDGET DEFICIT TOWARDS OUR SOLID WASTE FUND, I.E. TOWARDS PAYING REPUBLIC FOR THE SERVICE THAT THEY RENDER TO US.
BUT I SAY POSITIVITY BECAUSE IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL.
WE HAVE AN UNDESIGNATED FUND BALANCE FOR A REASON.
WE KEEP A LITTLE BIT EXTRA MONEY IN OUR PIGGY BANK.
THE CITY STAFF WORKS VERY HARD TO NOT TAP INTO THAT WHEN THEY DON'T HAVE TO, AND THAT'S WHY IT IS THE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT IT IS SOMETHING TO THE TUNE OF 20 PLUS.
AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, SO TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND, NOT THAT BIG A DEAL.
SO THE NEXT TIME SOMETHING COMES UP, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ABOUT A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS AND, YOU KNOW, IS UNEXPECTED AND, YOU KNOW, IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITIZENS.
MAYBE WE JUST SEND IT THROUGH AND WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT TOO MUCH.
DON'T GET THE WHOLE CITY AND HALF OF BREVARD COUNTY OUT HERE TO TELL US ABOUT IT.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'D LIKE TO TAKE YOU.
I WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS OCCURRED, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT A BIG DEAL, WE'RE ABLE TO COVER IT.
I'M HAVING SOME TROUBLE WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THE FACT THAT WE MADE THE BUDGET, ASSUMING THAT WE WOULD HAVE A 100 PERCENT COLLECTION AS I READ THE MEMO, BUT WE DIDN'T GET THE HUNDRED PERCENT COLLECTION. SO WHERE'S THE DEFICIT? WHY DID THIS HAPPEN? WITH THAT BEING SAID, KIND OF STICK A PIN IN THAT POINT.
I WANT TO TAKE YOU ON THE JOURNEY OF A CITIZEN.
SO AS YOU'RE AWARE, CITIZEN OF PALM BAY RECENTLY MOVED INTO A NEW HOME.
NEEDED GARBAGE CANS NEED TO RECYCLE BINS ORDERED.
BOTH DID MY THING AFTER 15 DAYS OF HAVING NO BINS AND THEREFORE NO USAGE OF THE SYSTEM.
THE BINS THAT DID ARRIVE WERE NOT THE BINS I ORDERED, MOST SPECIFICALLY MY RECYCLE BIN.
NOW I ACTUALLY HAPPEN TO SIT ON THAT SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD AND I HELPED PEN THAT SUSTAINABILITY ACTION PLAN.
AND IN THAT PLAN, WE WANT TO LEVERAGE OUR CURRENT RECYCLING PROGRAM.
WE WANT TO OPTIMIZE OUR CURRENT RECYCLING PROGRAM, AND WE ACTUALLY WANT TO MOVE INTO COMPOSTING ONE DAY IF IF WE'RE ABLE TO, WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON THAT.
SO AS A MEMBER OF SUSTAINABILITY ADVISORY BOARD, OBVIOUSLY I'M VERY CONSCIOUS OF HOW MUCH I RECYCLE. I WANTED THE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT, NINETY SIX, EXCUSE ME, THE NINETY SIX GALLON CAPACITY RECYCLE BIN.
BUT I WAS TOLD BY REPUBLIC AFTER MY 15 DAYS OF WAITING FOR ANY BIN THAT THE BEST THEY COULD OFFER ME WAS SIXTY FOUR TO SIXTY FOUR GALLON BINS THAT ESSENTIALLY WERE LIGHTLY USED PRE-OWNED, AS WE'LL CALL THEM THE CAR BUSINESS, WHICH IS FAIR ENOUGH.
I DON'T NEED ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY EIGHT BUY TWO.
I NEED TO WHEEL ONE BIN OUT A WEEK.
SO EVERY WEEK SINCE I'VE WHEELED BOTH BINS OUT, THEY'RE OVERSTUFFED.
WHAT HAVE YOU? I'VE BEEN MULTIPLE CALLS TO A PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE AND SCALE OF THE SITUATION AND I'M GOING SOMEWHERE HERE.
I PROMISE. WHAT THEY EXPLAIN TO ME IS THAT THEY BID THE JOB AS THEY WERE GOING TO BUY TEN THOUSAND OF THOSE PARTICULAR UNITS, A NINETY SIX GALLON RECYCLE BIN.
WELL, THE WHOLE CITY TOOK TO HIM SO WELL THAT THEY ENDED UP HAVING TO BUY 11000, AND WHEN THEY GOT TO ELEVEN THOUSAND, THEY CUT IT OFF.
AND THEY DO NOT INTEND TO BUY ANY MORE THAN NINETY SIX GALLON BINS IN THE LIFE OF THEIR CONTRACT, WHICH IS ANOTHER NINE YEARS AND ONE MONTH.
SO IN MY OPINION, WE SHOULD TELL THEM THAT WE DIDN'T BUDGET RIGHT AND WE MESSED UP, AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS SHORT AND WE SHOULDN'T GIVE THAT TO THEM. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, RANDALL. MADAME SHERMAN, LET LET'S TALK OVER EARLY.
I'LL START WITH THE LAST ITEM FIRST USED TO ME, SO WE'LL CERTAINLY CHECK INTO THAT.
I SEE MY TEAM IS ALREADY JOTTING IT DOWN.
CERTAINLY, THAT IS NOT OUR EXPECTATION THAT THEY NO LONGER ORDER IN THE NINETY SIX GALLON RECYCLED CARTS. AND I DO APOLOGIZE FOR THE DELAYS AND THE ISSUE THAT YOU EXPERIENCED REGARDING THE BUDGET ISSUE.
IN TERMS OF HOW WE GOT HERE, I'M NOT SURE WHICH STAFF MEMBERS OFFICIALLY MADE THE DECISION TO BUDGET THE WAY THEY DID, BUT ESSENTIALLY THE ISSUE CAME TO OUR AWARENESS TOWARD THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR, UNFORTUNATELY, WHICH WE HAD LOOKED AT IT SOONER AND REALIZED THIS, BUT WE NORMALLY DO FOR REVENUE COLLECTION.
IN THIS CASE, THE REVENUE LINE ITEM THAT'S HERE IS REFLECTIVE OF THE REVENUE WE RECEIVE WHEN PEOPLE PAY THEIR BILLS.
AND NORMALLY WE PROJECT THOSE REVENUE COLLECTION NUMBERS AT NOT 100 PERCENT BECAUSE YOU DON'T NORMALLY GET 100 PERCENT COLLECTIONS.
UNFORTUNATELY, THE WAY THIS NUMBER WAS BUDGETED WAS AS ASSUMING THAT WE WOULD GET EVERYONE PAYING THEIR BILL EVERY MONTH ON TIME.
SO ESSENTIALLY, THAT'S WHY THIS IS A BUDGET TRANSFER TO MAKE THAT NUMBER RIGHT SO THAT WE CAN PAY THE FINAL BILL.
YOU'RE RIGHT, WE DO HAVE A FAIRLY HEALTHY FUND BALANCE IN SOLID WASTE.
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THE LAST TIME I CHECKED, I THINK IT WAS MAYBE AROUND A MILLION DOLLARS.I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE, BUT ANYWAY, I'M CERTAINLY HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
BUT THAT'S ESSENTIALLY IT WAS A IT WAS A STAFF MISTAKE.
WE DID NOT BUDGET THE WAY WE SHOULD HAVE BASED ON THE ASSUMPTION OF HOW YOU REALLY COLLECT REVENUE. SO THAT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU'LL SEE IN THE FUTURE AS AN AGENDA ITEM BECAUSE WE SHOULD BE, YOU KNOW, MAKING THOSE CORRECTIONS GOING FORWARD.
ENTERTAIN A MOTION MOTION TO APPROVE THE TRANSFER AND APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS ON THE NEXT SCHEDULED BUDGET AMENDMENT TOTALING TWO HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND TO COVER THE SEPTEMBER INVOICE BALANCE FOR PUBLIC SERVICES.
SECOND, ON A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? YES, MAYOR. I'LL BE BRIEF BECAUSE TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, IN BUDGET WORKSHOPS AND BUDGET HEARINGS, WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR BUDGET, WE'RE DOING IT BASED OFF, I BELIEVE, 95 PERCENT 96.
IT'S USUALLY EITHER NINETY FOUR POINT NINETY SIX PERCENT, TYPICALLY DEPENDING ON THE FUND. YEAH, SO SO THAT'S THE COMMON PRACTICE.
BUT HERE IT WASN'T. SO I'M GLAD WE'RE ADDRESSING IT NOW.
OTHER THAN THAT, I KNOW PERSONALLY, I GET CALLS AND EMAILS FROM PEOPLE IN THE SOME PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE. DRISCOLL HEIGHTS OTHER PEOPLE IN REGARDS TO A PUBLIC REACH OUT TO US.
SHOOT US THE EMAIL. LET US KNOW BECAUSE THE SOONER WE KNOW, THE SOONER WE CAN ADDRESS IT.
SO ALL THESE THINGS, THEY HELP US AND WE'RE IN THIS TOGETHER.
SO I APPRECIATE YOU, MR. OLSZEWSKI. LET US KNOW ASAP SO WE CAN JUMP ON IT ASAP, BECAUSE THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE.
I AGREE WITH YOU. IT'S UNACCEPTABLE AND FOR ANYBODY ELSE AS WELL.
SO THANK YOU. AND TO THAT END, I GET MANY, MANY OF THOSE EMAILS.
AND BUT I MUST ADMIT, MR. COMRADE JUMPS RIGHT ON IT, AND HE DOES SATISFY THE OUR RESIDENTS AND AND I'M QUITE PLEASED WITH THE QUICK RESPONSE THAT THEY'VE THEY'VE HAD IN THE PAST.
SO THANK YOU FOR HIGHLIGHTING THAT DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON.
SO I GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? CNN I'M CALLING TO QUESTION.
ALL IN FAVOR. I PASSED THIS UNANIMOUSLY.
WE'RE ON RECOGNITIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS, AND WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE MAYOR LISA IF WE CAN BEFORE WE GET TO RECOGNITIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS, IF I CAN READ THE CAPTIONS OF THE TWO RESOLUTIONS THAT WE JUST PASSED.
YES, MA'AM. YOU WERE RESOLUTION 2020 ONE THAT'S 40 FOR A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING RESOLUTION.
TWENTY TWENTY ONE. THAT'S FORTY NINE AMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS.
TWENTY TWENTY ONE. THAT'S ZERO FIVE TWENTY TWENTY ONE POINT SIXTEEN AND TWENTY TWENTY ONE. JUST THIRTY FIVE ADOPTED THE CLASSIFICATION, PAID PLANS AND THE POSITION CONTROL PLAN FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY FOR FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY THROUGH TWENTY TWENTY ONE RESCINDED RESOLUTIONS OR PASSING RESOLUTIONS AND CONFLICT HERE WITH PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE RESOLUTION.
TWENTY TWENTY ONE POINT FORTY FIVE A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA A MAIN RESOLUTION.
TWENTY TWENTY DOES 50 AS ADOPTED AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTIONS.
TWENTY TWENTY ONE ZERO SIX, TWENTY TWENTY ONE SEVENTEEN AND TWENTY TWENTY ONE DEATH.
THIRTY SIX ADOPTING THE FIVE YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM FOR FISCAL YEAR.
TWENTY TWENTY THREE TWENTY TWENTY ONE THROUGH TWENTY TWENTY FOUR THROUGH TWENTY TWENTY FIVE FOR THE CITY OF PALM BAY, FLORIDA.
RESCINDING RESOLUTIONS OR PARTS OF RESOLUTIONS AND CONFLICT HERE WITH PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU.
SO WE'RE ON RECOGNITIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS.
[RECOGNITIONS AND PROCLAMATION]
WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE SOME FOLKS FOR FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE BEING BOARD MEMBERS, AND I'M GOING TO BE CALLING THESE INDIVIDUALS UP.BUT LEADER JORDAN KAMARAJ AND RAINIER WARNER WILL BE THE FIRST INDIVIDUALS THAT I ACKNOWLEDGE TO MAKE YOUR WAY FORWARD.
SO THE FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO SAY, WE HAVE OUTSTANDING CITIZENS THAT ARE REALLY, TRULY CARE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY, AND THESE INDIVIDUALS HERE HAVE DONATED THEIR TIME GIVEN OF THEIR HEARTS, GIVEN OF THEIR TIME FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OTHERS.
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY CONSIDER US MORE THAN WHAT THEY CONSIDER THEMSELVES, AND IT IS TRULY AN HONOR AND BLESSING FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO PIN THESE INDIVIDUALS.
MOREOVER, THAN THAT, I THINK I WANT TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT TODAY BECAUSE I'M GOING TO ASK DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON TO COME JOIN ME.
WOULD YOU COME JOIN ME? BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A DIRECT REPRESENTATION OF OUR ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL TO COME AND PIN THESE INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE OF THE LOVE AND RESPECT THAT WE HAVE FOR THEM.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, THIS IS IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR FIVE YEARS OF SERVICE AND
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GRATEFUL APPRECIATION FOR YOUR CONTINUING OUTSTANDING, DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS YOU OFFER FOR THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS.AS A VOLUNTEER, YOU HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE WELL-BEING OF FELLOW RESIDENTS AND THE WELFARE OF ALL OUR CITIZENS BY GIVING TIRELESSLY OF YOUR TIME OF YOUR ENERGY WITHOUT DESIRE FOR RECOGNITION. RENUMERATION OR PERSONAL GAIN.
BUT TODAY YOU'RE GETTING RECOGNIZED AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL BEING HERE.
I'M ABOUT TO PIN ON YOU AND I'M GOING TO ASK PASS OR AS YOU WERE, I'M GOING TO ASK DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON TO JOIN ME IN THE PENNING OF THEM.
THE REASON I WANT THEM PINNED IS BECAUSE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THAT GOES WHEN YOU HONOR PEOPLE AND YOU PLACE A PIN ON THEM JUST LIKE PRESENTING A MEDAL OVER THEM.
SO THIS VOLUNTEER PIN IS BUT A SMALL TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION FOR YOUR CONTINUED LOYAL AND DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVICE FAITHFULLY RENDERED TO THE CITY OF PALM BAY BURAK.
THANK YOU. IN THE MILITARY, WE PIN CEREMONIOUSLY, AND WE HOPE PEOPLE WHEN WE DO IT, WE SEE BLOOD.
HAVE AND USUALLY WE JUST SLAM IT IN THERE.
WOULD YOU WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS, PLEASE, EACH AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL, PLEASE? YES, SIR. YEAH. YOU'RE WELCOME.
GO AHEAD WHEN YOU GO AHEAD AND THEN.
WHAT A WAY TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, HUH? WELL, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
I APPRECIATE. I REALLY DO LOVE MY CITY AND I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE.
GOODNIGHT, EVERYONE. YOU KNOW, JUST DEFINITELY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THIS ACKNOWLEDGMENT, AND I REALLY DO LOVE THE CITY, THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY THAT I CONTINUE TO SERVE AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU OUT THERE.
THIS IS A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY IF YOU WANT TO SERVE, IF YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
COME OUT AND SERVE YOUR CITY BECAUSE WE LOVE DOING IT RIGHT.
AND THANKS TO OUR CHAIRMAN AS WELL.
I TOO ENJOY BEING ON THE BOARD, AND KAY JUST SAID WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.
AND ALSO THAT IF YOU DON'T COME AND CONTRIBUTE, THEN YOU DON'T GET TO BITCH.
I'M TO HOLD ON, HE WANTS TO TAKE HIS MASK.
YOU'RE WELCOME TO. LET'S SEE YOU SMILE.
THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME, DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, YOU CAN STAY UP HERE.
SO WE HAVE RICHARD SCOTT, DEXTER, THAT SITS ON THE UTILITIES ADVISORY BOARD.
RICHARD, ARE YOU HERE? AS YOU WERE, I GUESS RICHARD'S NOT HERE.
AND WHO'S THE OTHER INDIVIDUAL NUTTY? OK. WELL, RICHARD, GOD BLESS YOU.
THANK YOU FOR CONSIDERING OTHERS MORE THAN YOURSELF.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING.
IF IF YOU SEE THIS, YOU'LL BE GETTING A PIN.
AND YOU'RE VERY FORTUNATE BECAUSE I'M NOT DRAWING ANY BLOOD.
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NEXT ON OUR AGENDA.COUNCILWOMAN FOSTER WILL BE PRESENTING A PROCLAMATION.
THE S.F. THEOLOGICAL CEMETERY, AS YOU WERE SEMINARY, AS YOU WERE SEMINARY, PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN THE CEMETERY AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, I'M GLAD YOU MADE THAT MISTAKE.
MAYOR MEDINA, BECAUSE I USUALLY DO IT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP BISHOP DR.
INSTRUCTOR AZADEH OKU AND MINISTER ALICE GONZALEZ.
AS YOU CAN SEE, AS THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS IN THE HOUSE.
LET ME GET THROUGH THIS PROCLAMATION.
PROCLAMATION OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, FLORIDA NOTICE IN PROCLAMATION OF ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FIRST PALM BAY CAMPUS INAUGURATION, SEPTEMBER 20 21.
IT IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, THAT WHERE HE IS, ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY WAS FOUNDED IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN BY DR.
TODAY, STUDENTS CAN TAKE COURSES ON CAMPUS AND OR ONLINE ACROSS THE UNITED STATES AND AROUND THE WORLD AND HAS.
WHEREAS ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY PALM BAY CAMPUS WAS OPEN IN TWENTY SEVENTEEN BY BISHOP DR.
PAULINE BALDWIN AND HER DAUGHTER MONIQUE BALDWIN, AND HAS TOUCHED HUNDREDS OF LIVES IN PALM BAY AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREAS ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS SEEN AS SEEKING A NATIONAL ACCREDITATION THAT OFFER AFFORDABLE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND PROGRAMS FROM CERT ASSOCIATE DEGREES BACHELOR'S DEGREES. AND WHEREAS ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS A MEMBER OF THE GREATER PALM BAY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND PROVIDED PROVIDE THE COMMUNITY OF PALM BAY WITH AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND PLAYS A PART IN EDUCATING SPIRITUAL LEADERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF FLORIDA STATE OF FLORIDA IN THE UNITED STATES, AND WHERE HAS ESTEEMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS THE FIRST SEMINARY IN THE CITY OF PALM BAY AND OFFERS A WIDE VARIETY OF LOW COST TUITION OPTIONS FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD A HIGHER PRICED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION. ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IS A 501 C THREE ORGANIZATION, AND THROUGH DONATIONS, THE SEMINARIES HAS BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH.
TO OFFER A WAY TO EVERYONE WHO HAS A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD OF GOD.
NOW THERE, THEREFORE, I RA MEDINA, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BY VIRTUE OF THE AUTHORITY OF SAID OFFICE.
DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THAT THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER 20, FIRST AS ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, FIRST PALM BAY CAMPUS INAUGURATION, SO.
IS OUR HOPE THAT YOU JOIN IN CONGRATULATING ESTHER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND PARTICIPATE IN A CAMPUS VISIT SEPTEMBER 17 20 TWENTY ONE TOMORROW BETWEEN SIX 30 AND 8:30 AT HIS CAMPUS. ONE 50 ONE FIVE ZERO ONE.
ROBERT J. COLLINS BOULEVARD AND PALM BAY.
IT IS WITNESSED, WHEREAS OF I HAVE HERE THEREFORE SET MY HAND AND CAUSE THE SEAL OF THE
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CITY OF PALM BAY TO AFFIX THE 16TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER.YOU KNOW, EDUCATION IS VERY IMPORTANT, AND WE HAVE EASTERN FLORIDA AND WE HAVE LIFE CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY RIGHT THERE AND WE HAVE OTHER COLLEGES.
WE NOW WE HAVE A SEMINARY IN PALM BAY THAT'S GOING TO FURTHER THE WORD OF GOD, AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
AND THIS SEMINARY IS GOING TO DO SOME GREAT THINGS IN THE FUTURE.
SO I STRONGLY RECOMMEND COME OUT TOMORROW AND VISIT THEM ONE FIVE ZERO ONE.
ROBERT J. COLLINS, AND I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO DR.
WELL, GOOD EVENING, I GIVE GOD THANKS AND PRAISE FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE TODAY.
HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR HIM, WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN HERE.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND MY THANK YOU TO THE MAYOR.
BUT AROUND THE FOSTER COUNCIL MEMBER BY THE TIME.
COUNCILMAN. AND TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND ALSO TO THE STUDENTS OF HESTER, THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, WHO CAME OUT TO SUPPORT TONIGHT, I WANT TO GIVE THANKS FOR MY HUSBAND BEING HERE.
BISHOP ADAMS, WHO COME TO SUPPORT AND ALL OF YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE.
THE SEMINARY SERVED TO PROVIDE A GODLY EDUCATION, SO PEOPLE WILL HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING MORE OF THE WORD OF GOD.
WE ARE A THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND WE ALSO TEACH HIS LEADERSHIP AS WELL.
SO WE HAVE A BROAD SPECTRUM OF THINGS THAT WE TEACH AS TO THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
I'VE BEEN IN THIS WORK FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
I'M ALSO A STUDENT OF NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY AND JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, SO WE OFFERED A WIDE VARIETY OF SERVICE THERE.
WE HAVE IN THE HOUSE ALSO OUR MANAGER.
WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND DOWN, BRENDA? QUICK, QUICK, QUICK, QUICK, QUICK, QUICK.
I'M SURPRISED TO SEE HER HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE SHE WAS OUT SICK FOR A WHILE.
BUT AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND DO NOT WANT TO TAKE UP ANY MORE.
COME. WE'RE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENTS.
[PUBLIC COMMENTS/RESPONSES]
DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON RANDALL OLSZEWSKI, ALIBI MR. BILL BURTON. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR COUNCIL RANDALL OLSZEWSKI THREE, FOUR EIGHT, BROOK STREET, NORTHEAST.NOW, AS MRS. JORDAN KNOWS, I DO COME OUT AND I DO GET INVOLVED, SO I EARN MY MINUTES, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO COMPLAIN ANYMORE.
I ACTUALLY WANT TO BRING A SOLUTION.
SO, YOU KNOW, I WAS TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TROUBLE THAT I PERSONALLY AS A CITIZEN HAVE HAD WITH PUBLIC SERVICES.
BUT WHAT I'M MUCH MORE CONCERNED ABOUT, HONESTLY, COUNCIL IS THE ISSUES MY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN HAVING WITH PUBLIC SERVICES.
THEIR WIDE RANGING AND IT'S REALLY SOMETHING THAT AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN WE REFLECT
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UPON JUST ABOUT A YEAR'S WORTH OF SERVICE, IT REALLY MAKES ME SCRATCH MY HEAD AND WONDER IN THE 10 YEARS OF SERVICE UNDER OUR PREVIOUS SANITATION PROVIDER.DID DID WE HAVE THIS MUCH TO TALK ABOUT? YOU KNOW, IF YOU CALL THE PALM BAY UTILITIES CUSTOMER SERVICE LINE BEFORE YOU GET THROUGH TO A CITY EMPLOYEE, BEFORE YOU GET THROUGH TO ANYBODY, YOU'RE PROMPTED TO PRESS ONE IF YOU WANT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT GARBAGE AND THEN YOU GET SENT THROUGH A PUBLIX NATIONAL CALL CENTER BECAUSE THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT PEOPLE ARE CALLING CUSTOMER SERVICE ABOUT IS SANITATION. IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT THE CITY ACTUALLY PROVIDES, WHICH IS WATER AND SEWER.
IT'S ABOUT SANITATION, AND THAT'S AN ISSUE.
SO I WANT TO READ AN EXCERPT FROM THE CITY CHARTER.
IT'S SECTION NINE 02 AND IT'S ABOUT BOARDS, COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS.
AND WHAT IT DOES IS, AND I'LL READ IT EXACTLY.
THE COUNCIL SHALL ESTABLISH SUCH BOARDS, COMMITTEES OR COMMISSIONS AND APPOINT MEMBERS AS IT DEEMS ADVISABLE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE GENERAL WELFARE OF PALM BAY RESIDENTS AND TO ENSURE PROPER, EXCUSE ME, PLANNED ORDERLY GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE LAW.
SO WHAT I'M GETTING AT HERE COUNCIL IS I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE YOU ALL UTILIZE THE COMMITTEE AND COMMISSION PORTION OF THAT.
I THINK THAT BOARDS PERHAPS ARE TOO STRUCTURED FOR EVERYONE TO GET INVOLVED.
BUT WHEN WE HAVE CERTAIN SITUATIONS COME UP, WHETHER IT'S LONG TERM CONTRACTS OR HIGH DOLLAR CONTRACTS, WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IF WE COULD PUT TOGETHER A CITIZEN COMMITTEE OR COMMISSION MIXED IN WITH CITY STAFF THAT CAN THAT CAN FOCUS THE SCOPE AND SCALE OF THEIR BUSINESS STRICTLY ON A PARTICULAR TASK? WHERE I'M GOING HERE IS ON THE PUBLIC SERVICES CONTRACT, BUT I'D LIKE TO DO THAT AS AN INITIAL AND THEN I'D REALLY LIKE TO USE THAT AS A PRECEDENT FOR FOR FUTURE INITIATIVES THAT WE TAKE ON. YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TAKING ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT I.T.
WE NEED A NEW FINANCE SOFTWARE SYSTEM AND WE HAVE CITIZENS IN OUR GREAT CITY THAT THAT WORK FOR SPACE X, THAT WORK FOR EMBRY AIR, THEY WORK FOR GE.
YOU KNOW, I IN PARTICULAR WORK IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY FOR A FANTASTIC DOMESTIC AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURER.
BUT THE DIVERSITY OF MINDS THAT ARE WITHIN OUR CITY, WE REALLY DON'T GET TO SEE THIS SUBJECT MATTER AND SINK OUR TEETH INTO IT UNTIL YOU GUYS SEE IT.
AND WHAT I'M PROPOSING HERE IS SETTING UP THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WOULD ALLOW CITIZENS TO SEE IT A LITTLE EARLIER IN THE PROCESS, GET A LITTLE MORE INTIMATE WITH IT AND ADVISE YOU COUNSEL AHEAD OF SUCH LONG TERM COMMITMENTS.
AND IN THAT REGARD, IN MID STRIDE OF LONG TERM COMMITMENTS.
WE'RE COMING UP ON A YEAR ON THE REPUBLIC CONTRACT AND WE HAVE TO LOOK AT IT WITH A CRITICAL EYE AND WE MAY NEED TO MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS OR AT LEAST ASK IF WE CAN.
WE'RE GOING TO NEED THE CITY ATTORNEY'S HELP AT THAT PART, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU FOR ENTERTAINING ME, COUNSEL. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. MR. BILL BRATTON, FOLLOWED BY MAYOR PAUL ALFRED.
WE'LL BATTEN 586 OCEAN SPRAY STREET, SOUTHWEST.
WHEN WE HAVE MEETINGS LIKE THE BCRA THAT ARE PRIOR TO THE REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE ME, I'M A PERSON THAT TRIES TO FOLLOW THE RULES AND REGULATIONS BY WHICH I'M SUPPOSED TO BE GOVERNED UNDER, AND I'M SUPPOSED TO HAVE MY PAPERWORK SUBMITTED PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
WHEN YOU HAVE A MEETING, THE BCRA MEETING THAT GOES TWO MINUTES INTO THE START OF THE NEXT MEETING, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO GET YOUR PAPERWORK IN ON TIME.
I KNOW THAT'S NOT A BIG THING BECAUSE THIS COUNCIL, I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF IT.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T FOLLOW REGIMENT QUITE RIGHT IS STILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
I'M JUST TRYING TO LET YOU BE AWARE THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A MEETING THAT RUNS INTO THE NEXT TIME FRAME, BUT THERE'S A PAPERWORK RESTRAINT AT THE BEGINNING AND YOU CAN ONLY GET THAT PAPERWORK FROM HERE IN THE CHAMBER.
IT MAKES IT SOMEWHAT OF A BOTTLENECK, I'LL PUT IT THAT WAY, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE CAN STILL ADDRESS THE COUNCIL AND WHEN THERE'S FOR SOME REASON, I KNOW THAT IF I WASN'T ABLE TO SUBMIT MY PAPERWORK, THE COUNCIL IS STILL WILLING TO HEAR THE RESIDENT.
I'M JUST TRYING TO SAY, LISTEN, IF WE CAN MAYBE FIND A WAY TO SOLVE THAT.
OK, I KNOW THAT'S NOT A BIG PROBLEM, AND IT DOESN'T COST US A NICKEL.
THANK YOU. DULY NOTED, MR. CHIEF PAUL ALLFREY, FOLLOWED BY JEFF NEWS.
GOOD EVENING. HEY, GOOD EVENING, YOU KNOW, STEVE HARVEY JUST CALLED ME AND SAID HE WANTS THAT MISTAKE BACK, BUT THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
SO ANYWAY, REAL QUICK, I'M THERE, HUH? YOU WANT STEVE, WHO STEVE HARVEY WONDERED WHAT HE DOESN'T KNOW.
STEVE HARVEY IS, OF COURSE, A CEMETERY.
YOU KNOW, I THINK I THOUGHT, I MAKE MISTAKES, MAYOR.
BUT THAT'S ALL GOOD. DEPUTY DEPUTY JOHNSON UNDERSTAND.
SO YOU WANT TO WANT TO COME AND AND AND, YOU KNOW, JUST HIGHLIGHT MY MISTAKE.
NO, YOU KNOW. WELL, LISTEN, MR. MAYOR. YES, SIR.
THERE'S NO THERE'S NO HARBORING OF ILL WILL TOWARDS YOUR COMMENTS, AND I WILL SHARE WITH YOU THAT I KNOW THAT I AM NOT PERFECT, BUT IN MY IMPERFECTION, IT MAKES YOU A.
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MAKES ME PERFECT. AMEN.AMEN. AND I APPRECIATE YOU NOT START MY TIME ALREADY, SO.
PULL OUT THE CITY OF MELBOURNE.
I JUST WANTED TO COME QUICKLY AND ADDRESSED THE PALM BAY COUNCIL.
BEFORE YOU READ REALLY WHAT I CALL A MONUMENTAL NIGHT LAST NIGHT FROM OUR COUNCIL IN THE PAPER WHERE I TALK ABOUT PARTNERING WITH THE CITY OF PALM BAY ON ON ADDRESSING ISSUES OF HOMELESSNESS, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION.
REALLY THE MOST VULNERABLE CITIZENS IN OUR SOCIETY AND REALLY CITY OF MELBOURNE AND CITY OF PALM BAY, WHERE YOU ARE THE LARGEST CITY, WE'RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU, REALLY.
BUT THE STOP BOMBARD KIND OF LEADS THE COUNTY BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU WERE.
MOST OF THE RESIDENTS ARE, BUT LAST NIGHT FOR ME WAS A MONUMENTAL NIGHT BECAUSE AS WE ALL KNOW, WE GOT CARES ACT FUNDING THAT WAS GIFTED US BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND I WAS VERY FORTUNATE WITH WITH A PLAN TO PROVIDE SOME KIND OF SUPPORT SYSTEM A LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, GRACE SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN GAINESVILLE, SOMETHING THAT WILL HELP OUR OUR RESIDENTS ON ON KIND OF HOMELESSNESS.
AND AND I KNOW THIS COUNCIL HAS TALKED ABOUT, EXCUSE ME, ADDRESS IN THAT ISSUE.
LAST NIGHT, I GOT A UNANIMOUS VOTE SEVEN SEVEN ZERO VOTE TO MOVE OVER TWO POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS OF OUR CARES ACT MONEY TO PROVIDE A CENTER FOR OUTREACH FOR HOMELESSNESS AND SUCH. NOW I'VE KIND OF DEVISED A PLAN.
A JEP NURSE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WITH A DAILY BREAD IS HERE.
HE CAN SPEAK AFTER WHAT I'M ASKING TONIGHT.
I'M NOT ASKING FOR MONEY, I'M NOT ASKING FOR THEM, BUT I WANT TO MASK.
WHAT I'M ASKING IS TO LET OUR STAFF WORK WITH YOUR STAFF AND MAYBE COME UP WITH THE SOLUTION THAT WE CAN TACKLE THIS TOGETHER.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR OUR RESIDENT.
IT WOULD BE KIND OF A PLAN WHERE THE DAILY BREAD WOULD TURN INTO A 24 HOUR FACILITY AND SERVE MELBOURNE AND PALM BAY AND AGAIN TO MOST VULNERABLE RESIDENTS.
THE $2.5 MILLION THAT I GOT APPROVED FROM OUR COUNCIL TO MOVE OVER ONLY REPRESENTS 17 PERCENT OF THE MONEY FROM THE CARES ACT.
WHAT ALSO, THERE IS AN OPIOID MONEY COMING DOWN THE PIKE WHEN IT COMES TO THE THE LAWSUIT, WHICH THAT THE STATE OF FLORIDA HANDLED.
WE DIDN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING, BUT I WILL TELL YOU NOW WORKING WITH MY CITY ATTORNEY, IT IS A SUBSTANTIAL DOLLARS ON A REGIONAL SCALE THAT IF WE WORK TOGETHER, WE CAN PULL FROM MONEY THAT WE CAN'T GET AND YOU CAN'T GET.
BUT WE CAN USE THOSE MONEY TO HELP COMBAT THE ADDICTION ISSUES, THE HOMELESSNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS PROVIDE JOB TRAINING AND REALLY HELP THE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.
DO MULTIPLE THINGS THAT WILL HELP YOUR WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ANSWERING ALL THE CALLS THE PARKS. AGAIN, THIS IS A WIN WIN FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT AGAIN, ALL I'M ASKING TONIGHT IS ALLOW YOUR STAFF TO WORK WITH OUR STAFF AND COME UP WITH MAYBE A GOOD SOLUTION TO COMBAT AND WORK TOGETHER AND REALLY USE THIS A SMALL PORTION OF THIS CARES ACT MONEY TO GO A LONG WAY.
SO THAT'S ALL I ASK TONIGHT, AND I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
AGAIN, IT'S EASIER IF I COME AND TALK TO YOU INSTEAD OF YOU READ SOMETHING IN THE NEWSPAPER. SO, MR. MAYOR, I CAN JUST ASSURE YOU THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS DISCUSSED THE VERY SAME TOPIC THAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO WHEN IT COMES TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN DOLLARS AND AUTHORIZING OUR CITY MANAGEMENT TEAM TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH NOT ONLY THE CITY OF MELBOURNE, BUT THE CITY OF WEST MELBOURNE AND BREVARD COUNTY AS A WHOLE AS ALL OF THEM ARE RECIPIENTS, RIGHT? SO I THINK YOU'RE ASKING IS ALREADY IN MOTION.
OF COURSE, THIS COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO GET SOMETHING ON ON THE AGENDA REGARDING THAT BEFORE WE HANDLE OUR NEXT SPEAKER.
I'M GOING TO SEE IF DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON WOULD LIKE TO WEIGH IN AND AND THE REST OF COUNCIL. DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, I WAS GOING TO WANT TO HEAR FROM BAILEY BURAK.
YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SO WE HAVE THE WHOLE WHOLE PICTURE.
OK. YEAH. THANK YOU, MAYOR MEDINA COUNCIL MEMBERS, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE CHANCE TO ADDRESS YOU THIS EVENING.
I'M JUST NOT MY FIRST TIME TALKING TO YOU AND A NUMBER OF YOU.
I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS IN YOUR OFFICES.
I'VE PRESENTED AS PART OF HOMELESSNESS WORKSHOPS, SO SO YOU KNOW THAT DAILY BREAD HAS BECOME MORE THAN THE LOCAL SOUP KITCHEN UP IN MELBOURNE OVER THE YEARS.
WE'VE TRANSFORMED INTO BECOMING A PERSON CENTERED, HOUSING FOCUSED HOMELESS OUTREACH CENTER. TWO YEARS AGO, WE HELPED ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE GET INTO HOUSING.
WERE HOPING TO DO EVEN MORE THIS YEAR, REALLY ROLLING UP OUR SLEEVES AND HELPING PEOPLE GET OFF THE STREETS.
SO PERSON CENTERED HOUSING FOCUS, THERE'S ANOTHER PHRASE THAT YOU DON'T ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT AN ORGANIZATION LIKE OURS IS THAT SPIRIT LEAD.
AND THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE TIMING RIGHT NOW THAT SEEMS ORDAINED.
I THINK THAT'S A TIME WHERE YOU CAN SEE GOD'S HAND SO OFTEN IS IN THE TIMING THAT IT
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SEEMS LIKE WE ARE RIPE TO DO SOMETHING TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY.DAILY BREAD NEEDS TO MOVE AND EXPAND.
THERE'S A GREATER NEED AND WE CAN DO MORE TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF HOMELESSNESS IN OUR COMMUNITY IN MELBOURNE.
AND WE KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP IN THE HOMELESS ISSUE BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND PALM BAY THROUGHOUT SOUTH BREVARD.
THAT'S WHY I'VE BEEN ACTIVE IN THE TASK FORCE HERE AND IN THE WORKSHOPS HERE AT THE COUNCIL. WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO CREATE SOMETHING OUT OF OUT OF WHOLE CLOTH.
WE HAVE GREAT ORGANIZATIONS TO LEARN FROM.
MAYOR ALFRED MENTIONED GRACE MARKETPLACE UP IN GAINESVILLE.
ANOTHER MODEL, YOU KNOW, EVEN MORE, WHICH IS THE SOURCE FROM DOWN IN VERO BEACH.
I'VE HAD GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH TONY FROM THE SOURCE.
WE'RE ALREADY IMPLEMENTING SOME OF WHAT HE'S DOING THERE IN TERMS OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE KITCHEN. IT'S ALREADY MAKING A DIFFERENCE TO US.
IT'S ADDRESSING A NEED IN THE WIDER COMMUNITY.
IT'S HELPING INSTILL A GROUNDSWELL OF OF ENERGY AND EMPOWERMENT AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DRAWN TO TO GIVE BACK AND TO AND TO PROVIDE WHAT THEY HAVE TO OFFER.
I'VE BEGUN CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR BOARD ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD MEAN FOR US TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE BUSSES IN OUR COMMUNITY AND TALKING WITH TONY, IT'S VERY, VERY POSSIBLE FOR THAT TO HAPPEN SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.
IN ORDER TO EXPAND, TO MEET THE NEED.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT MIGHT MAKE MORE SENSE FOR US TO BE IN PALM BAY TO ADDRESS THE WIDER NEED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.
WE ARE CERTAINLY OPEN TO THAT.
MY BOARD HAS GIVEN UNANIMOUS CONSENT FOR US TO TO TO REACH OUT AND SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE IN OUR WIDER COMMUNITY.
IF WE DO EXPAND AND IF WE DO MOVE AND GROW, WE WILL NEED YOUR SUPPORT.
THAT'S WHERE I SEE THIS TIMING.
DAILY BREAD COULDN'T DO THIS A YEAR AGO.
WE CAN DO IT NOW, RIGHT WHEN THIS FUNDING SOURCES ARE BECOMING AVAILABLE.
I HOPE THAT YOU'LL WORK WITH MAYOR ALLFREY AND WE'LL TOGETHER MAKE SOMETHING POWERFUL HAPPEN WITH GOD'S HELP.
DO YOU HAVE A SITE IN MIND WHEN YOU MENTIONED THAT? WE DO NOT HAVE A SITE IN MIND SPECIFICALLY, WE'VE BEGUN INITIAL CONVERSATIONS WITH REALTORS. WE'VE WE'VE LOOKED AT SOME POSSIBILITIES.
I CAN SEE PLUSES AND MINUSES IN A LOT OF LOCATIONS.
MAYBE IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO BE CLOSE TO THE LINE BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND PALM BAY.
MAYBE IT'D BE MAKE SENSE TO BE KIND OF OUT OF THE WAY.
WE HAVE A GOOD PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT CAN MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS.
WE'RE OPEN TO TO SEE WHAT'S WHAT'S POSSIBLE, WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T NOTICED YET THAT YOU ALL MIGHT BE AWARE OF IN GAINESVILLE.
WHAT BECAME POSSIBLE WAS THERE WAS A COUNTY OWNED DETENTION CENTER THAT NEEDED TO BE REPURPOSED, AND SO THEN IT BECAME POSSIBLE TO REPURPOSE IT.
MAYBE THERE'S A SCHOOL SOMEWHERE THAT IS OUT OF DATE AND NEEDS TO BE REPURPOSED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WE'RE OPEN TO LOTS OF DIFFERENT CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES.
THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, YOU WANT TO WEIGH IN NOW AND AS WE GO THROUGH. YEAH.
I GUESS YOU BOTH COULD STAND UP.
YEAH, THAT'LL WORK. BUT NO, I THANK YOU BOTH FOR COMING.
HAS HAS OUR STAFF TALKED TO YOUR STAFF YET OR WEST MELBOURNE? HAVE WE STARTED DIALOG OR? I KNOW BECAUSE WE BROUGHT THEM THE EXACT SAME THING WITH TWO MONTHS AGO A MONTH AGO.
IF ONE OF OUR WORKSHOPS, THE AMERICAN BUDGET FIRST BUDGET, WELL, IT'S ONE OF OUR WORKSHOPS FOR THE RESCUE PLAN.
YEAH. SO WE CERTAINLY HAVE WITH COUNCIL'S DISCUSSION AT THAT MEETING A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, WE CERTAINLY DID HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS AT A STAFF LEVEL WITH THE CITY MANAGER OF MELBOURNE, SHANNON LEWIS, AND REALLY JUST KIND OF OPENED SOME INITIAL DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU IF WE WANTED TO PARTNER ON SOMETHING, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? NEITHER OF US HAD ANY PARTICULAR CONCRETE DETAILS OR A PARTICULAR PARTICULAR PLAN THAT HAD BEEN PRESENTED. WE SIMPLY TALKED ABOUT COULD WE PARTNER TO SOLVE SOME OF THE BIGGER ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITIES? SO WE TALK VERY LIKE GLOBALLY ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW? SO THEN IT WOULD JUST TAKE FURTHER DISCUSSION DOWN THE LINE.
YES, SIR. IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SPECIFIC ASK TONIGHT, YOU KNOW, IF COUNCIL GIVES DIRECTION THAT YOU WANT US TO EXPLORE THAT AT A STAFF LEVEL AND SEE IF THERE'S A PROPOSAL THAT COULD COME BACK. WE CERTAINLY CAN DO THAT, BUT I'D NEED SOME DIRECTION FROM COUNCIL ON PARTICULARS.
OK. AND SO PART OF THAT DISCUSSION WE HAD WAS AND THE WAY I RECALLED THAT DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN, YOU COULD CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG WITH DEPUTY MAYOR.
JOHNSON MENTIONED THE OPIOID FINANCES AND HAVING THAT AS A LONG TERM SOLUTION BECAUSE
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THESE FUNDINGS WERE, I BELIEVE IF THE CITY ATTORNEY CAN CORRECT ME, I THINK THERE ARE 15 YEARS OF PAYMENTS.IS THAT IS THAT ACCURATE OR DID I JUST COME UP WITH THAT? I AM. NOT GREAT WITH NUMBERS THAT SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT, BUT IT IS AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME. OK.
BUT IT'S SOME IT'S THESE FINANCES THAT THAT LONG RANGE.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND AND POOLING ALL THOSE RESOURCES, NOT ONLY THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BUT PULLING THOSE RESOURCES FROM THE CITY OF MELBOURNE AND IN PARTICULAR, BREVARD COUNTY AS A WHOLE.
THEY'RE STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS AS WELL.
IF I MAY SAY THIS IS JUST ONE STOP FOR ME, BUT THIS IS A BIG STOP BECAUSE PALM BAY IS THE LARGEST CITY. YOU HAVE THE MOST PEOPLE AND I'M GOING TO WEST MELBOURNE BECAUSE THIS IS ABOUT THE STAKEHOLDERS, ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S ABOUT THE COUNTY TAKING PART.
SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, OUT OF RESPECT, I WANTED TO COME BEFORE YOU READ SOMETHING IN THE PAPER BECAUSE SPEAKING OF JOHN PAUL IS THE FLORIDA TODAY.
THE OTHER DAY, THEY RAN A STORY ABOUT A SIXTY ONE YEAR OLD WOMAN, MELBOURNE RESIDENT LIVING IN HER CAR FOR TWO YEARS BEHIND THE POLLO DINER.
AND HE SAID THAT OUT OF ALL THE STORIES HE'D EVER WRITTEN, THAT HAD THE MOST PEOPLE THAT CONTACTED HIM THAT CALLED HIM, IT REALLY CREATED A BUZZ.
WELL, THERE WAS ONE NONPROFIT THAT GOT OUT THERE AND GOT GOT HER OUT OF THE CAR, GOT HER TEMPORARY HOUSING, IS WORKING WITH LAURIE AND AT THE DAILY BREAD BECAUSE THEY ARE, THEY'RE OUR COMMUNITY PARTNER.
THE STORY, OF COURSE, WRITTEN A WROTE ABOUT THAT.
THEY WROTE ABOUT THAT, BUT LIKELY THEY'LL WRITE ANOTHER STORY ABOUT OUR ACTION TO MOVE IN TWO POINT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS OVER ON THIS KIND OF FACILITY AND PARTNER WITH PALM BAY.
THE LAST THING I WANT IS THE PALM BAY COUNCIL MEMBER THAT I RESPECT, AND I KNOW EACH ONE OF YOU GOING, WELL, I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THAT.
SO OUT OF RESPECT, I WANTED TO COME AND SAY, LOOK, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
THIS IS THE STEPS ARE GOING AND IN REGARD TO THE OPIOID, AND I'VE DONE A LOT OF HOMEWORK WITH MY STAFF ON THIS.
YOU ARE CORRECT. I THINK THE YEARS ARE LIKE 18 OR 19.
IT ALL DEPENDS. THIS IS FILTERING DOWN, BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY UP TO EVEN ON THE REGIONAL POT THAT YOU DON'T QUALIFY, THAT WE DON'T QUALIFY.
BUT IF WE WORK TOGETHER AND HAVE OVER 50 PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY, WE'RE TALKING TO, LIKE 20 UP TO TWENTY EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS OVER THAT OVER 17, 18 YEARS, IT'S THAT SUBSTANTIAL, WHICH I LOOKED AT IT AND THOUGHT, THERE'S NO WAY THAT CAN BE CORRECT.
NOW IT'S DIFFERENT THAN A CITY, THE CITY OF MOUNT YOU'LL GET, BUT THE REGIONAL AND THE STATE. SO I LOOK AT IT NOW WITH WITH ALL THIS MONEY, AND I WILL TELL YOU NOW, I DON'T THINK WE'LL EVER SEE THIS TYPE OF MONEY ANYMORE.
THE CARES ACT, I DON'T THINK WE'LL EVER SEE ANY OF THIS KIND OF MONEY COME TO OUR COMMUNITY AND REALLY SEEING SOME OF THE CITY POSITION WHILE WE'RE GOING TO GET ON OUR OWN WATER, WE'RE GOING TO DO IT.
WE REALLY OUGHT TO USE THAT MONEY AT LEAST A SMALL PORTION OF THAT AND COMBAT SOME OF THE MAJOR ISSUES AND HELP THE MOST VULNERABLE AND OUR SOCIETY.
I HAVE FAMILY THAT LIVE ON THE EAST ON THE WEST SIDE OF PALM BAY GREW UP HERE IN THIS AREA AND AGAIN, I THOUGHT IT WAS RIGHT FOR ME TO COME AND SPEAK TO YOU BEFORE YOU READ ANOTHER THING IN THE PAPER WHAT MELBOURNE IS DOING BECAUSE WE KNOW HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS AND WE'RE WAITING ON THE NEXT MEETING ON AN AGENDA ITEM OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO COME.
JEFF ONE INTRODUCED HIMSELF AND AGAIN, WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.
AGAIN, OUR OUR I NOTICED I DIDN'T EXPECT HER TO BE HERE, BUT WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER MINUS THAT. THAT CAME AND THAT WASN'T A PLAN.
BUT BUT, YOU KNOW, SHE'S NOT IN THIS CONVERSATION.
BUT AGAIN, I HAVE A GREAT COUNCIL AND AGAIN, WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE.
WE MAY NOT ALWAYS AGREE, BUT WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE.
WE'RE HERE TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY.
WELL, MAY I OFFER YOU? I GOT TO TELL YOU, I GOT TO SHARE THIS, THIS PASSION, THIS PASSION THAT YOU'RE SHARING THIS COUNCIL SHARES.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER THAT SITS ON THIS DIES THAT WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT BRINGING AND INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY IN THIS CAPACITY.
AND THAT WAS COUNCILMAN FELIX THAT WANTED TO SEE SOMETHING OCCUR.
AND SO I WANT COUNCILMAN FELIX TO SHARE HIS THOUGHTS AND WEIGH IN BECAUSE THIS IS A THIS IS A HARD ISSUE, RIGHT? THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO TO REALLY COLLABORATE TOGETHER AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BUILD THE LEGACY AND AND HELP PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE IN THEIR MOST DIRE NEED.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING, YOU KNOW, TAKE THE LEAD ON THAT AND BRUCE, RIGHT? YEAH. JEFF NEWS. JEFF, I APOLOGIZE.
SO, YEAH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS BECAUSE AS MAYOR MENTIONED THAT WHEN WE HAD THAT CONVERSATION IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO UTILIZE THAT MONEY, TALKING ABOUT
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APPROPRIATION, HOW WE'RE GOING TO DICE AND SLICE THAT MONEY.AND WHEN I'VE, I BELIEVE ONE MILLION FOR THAT PARTICULAR CATEGORY WAS APPROPRIATE, APPROPRIATED AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS THE FIRST TO RAISE MY HAND.
ODDLY ENOUGH, WE HAVE A NOBLE, GREAT OPPORTUNITY HERE, AS YOU JUST WELL SAID, MONEY LIKE THIS, WE WE MAY NEVER SEE IT AGAIN IN POSSIBLY ALL LIFETIME.
AT LEAST OUR POLITICAL CAREER, RIGHT? SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING GREAT.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WAIT KIND OF BEFORE YOU KNOW, YOU WENT PUBLIC WITH YOUR INITIATIVE.
I SIT HERE AND I ADVOCATE HARDLY FOR IT AND COUNSEL JOINED ME IN AGREEMENT.
AS FAR AS LET'S DO SOMETHING, NOT ONLY PALM BAY, LET'S JOIN TO OUR NEIGHBORING CITY, MELBOURNE AND WEST MELBOURNE, TO GO AHEAD AND DO SOMETHING GREAT AND ONCE AND FOR ALL TO TAKE CARE OF THAT, THAT YOU KNOW, THAT COMMUNITY HOMELESS COMMUNITY THAT FOR A LONG TIME AT THE COUNTY LEVEL, I THINK WE FAILED THEM.
SO WE'VE SEEN GREAT NONPROFIT SUCH AS TRUE FREEVILLE TRYING TO REALLY TAKE A SMALL BITE OF THE PROBLEM, BUT IN REALITY, ALL FIRST DUTIES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE AS A GOVERNMENT BODY AND TO ENHANCE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.
OUR FIRST DUTY, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN'T TAKE CARE OF THAT, WE FELT, YEAH, AS A BODY.
AS FAR AS WE DO BETTER, WE DO MUCH MORE.
SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU KNOW, A FEW WEEKS LATER, YOU KNOW, STARTED TO TALK ABOUT THAT INITIATIVE.
ONE THING I WOULD SAY, MAYOR OFRI, IS THAT I FEEL AS IF WE WE PUTTING THE CART.
AM I SAYING THAT BEFORE THE HORSE? I WISH IT WOULD WORK THE OTHER WAY WHERE WE HAD THAT CONVERSATION WITH ALL STAFF.
WE STARTED THE CONVERSATION FIRST BEFORE WE WENT.
AND AS YOU SAID, SOMETIMES GOVERNMENT CAN, CAN THINK SLOWS DOWN AND NOTHING WILL FAST WITH GOVERNMENT WOULD AGREE.
BUT IN TERMS OF, I THINK, THE CONVERSATION YOUR THOUGHT AND IDEA SHOULD HAVE BEEN SHARED FIRST AND THAT MUCH, I WOULD SAY NOT, NOT NECESSARILY NEGATIVE.
THAT'S WHERE I'M AT, BUT WE'RE IN FULL SUPPORT.
I WOULD, YOU KNOW, HOPE IT WAS DONE A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER WAY AROUND WHERE WE'RE ALL STAFF FULLY ENGAGE.
LET'S GET ALL STAFF ENGAGE, LET'S HAVE THAT CONVERSATION, AND LET'S MOVE FORWARD IN UNISON INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, TAKING TAKING IT SO FAR.
THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WOULD SAY, BUT DON'T TAKE IT AS A NEGATIVE.
I APPLAUD YOU FOR YOUR EFFORT.
WELL, AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU SOMETIMES.
YOU KNOW, WE YOU KNOW, THE RIGHT HAND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT THE LEFT HAND IS DOING, AND IT'S A LOT EASIER WHEN WHEN YOU CAN JUST HAVE THAT OPEN CONVERSATION AND BE TRANSPARENT.
AND AND I WILL TELL YOU, THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING BEHIND THE SCENES.
THIS IS A VERY UNIQUE ISSUE, BUT IT'S ALSO VERY COMPLEX.
AND AGAIN, WHEN I WHEN I PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND I'M AND I'M THINKING THE MONEY THERE, DIFFERENT FUNDING, WHETHER IT'S THE OPIOID, THE CARES ACT, I MEAN, WE HAVE A GREAT ORGANIZATION. HOW MANY HOW MANY PEOPLE DO YOU HAVE NOW? THE CASE MANAGERS WORK.
I MEAN, WE'VE GONE FROM HAVING ONE SOCIAL WORKER TO AN EIGHT SOCIAL WORK TEAM HELPING PEOPLE OVERCOME THEIR HOMELESSNESS.
AND WE UNDERSTAND THIS PASSION, AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT COUNCILMAN FELIX IS SAYING.
AT THE SAME TIME, I DO UNDERSTAND HOW THINGS HAPPEN BEHIND THE SCENES, SO THERE'S NO NEED. I THINK WE'VE GOT A CONSENSUS HERE, BUT I DON'T WANT TO DIVERT FROM THAT.
I WANT TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBER FOSTER TO WEIGH IN AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, SIR.
WHAT COMES TO MY MIND? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU.
MAY I OFFER YOU FOR BRINGING THIS AND THE DAILY BREAD? I APPRECIATE YOUR COMPASSION.
UM, WELL, COME TO MY MIND IS, AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER? MY MY BROTHER'S KEEPER.
THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.
AND. YOU KNOW, BEFORE MY TERM IS UP, I LOVE TO DO BIG THINGS, I BELIEVE.
YOU KNOW, YOU SHOOT FOR THE STARS, YOU HIT THE MOON.
YOU GO BACK. A COUPLE OF YEARS, WE TALKED A LOT.
AND YOU KNOW, WE GOT KIND OF THE SAME MINDSET AND DOING THINGS AND GETTING IT DONE, GETTING THINGS DONE WHILE YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY.
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AND LIKE YOU SAID, THIS OPPORTUNITY MIGHT NOT COME AROUND AGAIN, ESPECIALLY DURING MY TERM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE.OF SOMETHING DONE FOR THE LEAST OF THESE, THE HOMELESS PEOPLE, THE MOST VULNERABLE WE GOT, SO I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS WHEN I RAN FOR THE COUNTY COMMISSION HOMELESS, YOU KNOW THAT? YEP. AND NOW I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING AND I'M NOT GOING TO MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY.
BUT WE NEED TO HAVE EVERYBODY ON BOARD.
MAYOR, WE NEED TO HAVE WEST MELBOURNE.
AND IN MELBOURNE AND PALM BAY, WE ALL.
IT'S A HAND WE GOT TO, WE'VE GOT TO WORK TOGETHER.
WE GOT TO WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BECAUSE IT'S NOT.
HOMELESSNESS IS NOT MELBOURNE PROBLEM, IT'S NOT PALM BAY PROBLEM IS OUR PROBLEM.
CAN'T GET TO A STOP AT A STOP AT A STOPLIGHT AND SOMEBODY.
ACTS FOR FOOD THEY EAT MONEY TO OR OR A PLACE TO STAY.
TWO NIGHTS AGO, I GOT A PHONE CALL.
I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHO CALLED ME, BUT IT WAS A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AND THEY WANTED I WAS IN PALM BAY, I WAS UP.
IT'S 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. THEY WANTED ME TO MEET A WOMAN WHO WAS RUNNING FROM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION.
AND SHE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY TO STAY IN THE CONFERENCE SHE NEEDED TO GET AWAY FROM HER.
YOU KNOW, SHE BASICALLY SHE WAS HOMELESS AND SHE NEEDED BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T STAY AT HOME. SHE NEEDED TO GET AWAY AND SHE NEEDED TO STAY A NIGHT IN THE COMFORT END.
AND IT WAS GOING TO CASH APP SOME MONEY, I TOOK MONEY OUT OF MY POCKET AND PAID FOR IT.
BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT SOMEBODY TO BE KILLED OR BEAT UP DOMESTICALLY AND NO SHELTER FOR THIS LADY TO GO TO.
NOTHING. WHAT DO YOU DO? YOU LEAVE A PERSON OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, CAN'T GO TO THE TO THE SPOUSE BECAUSE THEY GOT TO GET BEAT UP.
SO WE YOU KNOW THIS, THIS IS A PROBLEM.
AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT THIS IS A PROBLEM BECAUSE THIS HAPPENED LAST WEEK FOR ME.
IT HAPPENED ON SATURDAY NIGHT, SO.
I'M FOR DOING SOMETHING BIG TAKING THE MONEY.
AND THE RESOURCES AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S STRETCHED IS NOT WASTED, IT'S NOT STOLEN, IS NOT ABUSE.
WE GOT TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS WORKS BECAUSE WE ONLY GOT ONE SHOT.
MARY ALFRED, WE GOT ONE SHOT AND WE GOT TO WE GOT TO HIT THAT HOME RUN.
WE GOT TO THROW THAT TOUCHDOWN PASS.
WE'VE GOT TO RUN IT IN THE END ZONE AND AND THAT'S WHERE I'M AT.
THANK YOU. SO THERE'S A FEW THINGS, RIGHT? THERE'S, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH STAFF, CREATING THOSE CRITERIA, OUTCOME MEASURES, BEST PRACTICES AND MASSAGING THAT.
BUT I THINK THIS COUNCIL IS READY BECAUSE WE EVEN DISCUSSED THIS BEFORE.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A LEGACY.
AND I THINK I WANT TO COMMEND YOU FOR ALL THE ACTIONS THAT YOU AND THE CITY COUNCIL OF MELBOURNE HAVE DONE IN PASSING THAT BATON.
BUT I BELIEVE COUNCIL DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON WANTS TO JUST SHED A LITTLE BIT.
I JUST DON'T WANT TO ALIENATE THE IDEA TO JUST A BUILDING, BECAUSE WHEN YOU CONSIDER WHAT'S MELBOURNE AND PALM BAY, YES, WE TOUCH, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT AREAS.
THEY MIGHT NOT WANT A BUILDING.
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE JUST BROADEN JUST FROM THAT IDEA AS WELL.
SO YES, THE BUILDING, BUT OTHER IDEAS AS WELL.
LET'S NOT CLOSE THE DOOR ON JUST THAT.
AND THE ONLY OTHER THING BECAUSE I KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE RFPS AND APPLICATION PROCESSES, I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STICK TO THAT AND DON'T ALIENATE ONE OVER OVER ANOTHER BECAUSE YOU ALREADY KNOW.
YEAH, YOUR CHARTER IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN OURS, AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT.
I MEAN, I'M NOT GOING TO GO THERE, BUT OUR CHARTERS ARE DIFFERENT.
AND AND SPEAKING TO MY CITY MANAGER, THIS IS SOMETHING AGAIN.
I'M NOT ASKING FOR SOMETHING TONIGHT WHEN I'M LETTING, YOU KNOW, IS COMING OUT OUT OF RESPECT FOR EACH ONE OF YOU.
SO YOU DON'T READ SOMETHING IN THE PAPER AND GO, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON? AND WE HAVE TO BE IN THE SUNSHINE.
I MEAN, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
YOU CALL HIM. WE DON'T DO THAT.
WE COME TO AN OPEN MEETING AND WE'RE ALL TRANSPARENT.
AND YOU KNOW, FRANKLY, I'M IN A GREAT DRIVER'S POSITION BECAUSE NOW TO ME, THE CITY OF PALM BAY HAS TRANSPARENCY.
NOW THEY'VE GOT GOOD GOVERNMENT AND AGAIN, NOW I GET TO WORK WITH THE CITY OF PALM BAY AND OTHER CITIES AGAIN TO TO BUILT.
AND THIS IS THIS IS GOING TO BE SO TRANSPARENT BECAUSE ALL OUR EYES ARE ON IT.
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EVERYBODY BEHIND ME, THEIR EYES ARE ON IT.MATTER OF FACT, WE'RE SEEKING INPUT.
I MEAN, THIS IS SOMETHING WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO TOMORROW, BUT IN THE FUTURE, BECAUSE I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE. THERE'S TOUGH TIMES COMING, UNFORTUNATELY IN THE ECONOMY, BECAUSE WE GO UP, WE GO DOWN, WE GO UP AND DOWN AND AGAIN WE HAVE TO PREPARE OURSELVES BECAUSE LIKE, LIKE YOU SAID, COUNCILMAN AND FOSTER, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
THERE WAS NOWHERE FOR HER TO GO.
AND IN A WAY, YOU FEEL LIKE A FAILURE BECAUSE I MEAN, THIS IS YOUR JOB AND I AGREE WITH YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO DO GREAT THINGS BEFORE YOU'RE OUT OF HERE.
BUT AGAIN, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME.
I WANT TO THANK EACH ONE OF YOU.
AND AGAIN, OUR STAFF CAN WORK WITH YOUR STAFF AND I'LL GET WITH WITH MALWARE.
BUT I WANTED TO COME TO YOU FIRST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I HATE THE MINUTE YOU'RE THE BIGGER CITY, YOU KNOW? SO I HATE TO SAY THAT, BUT IT'S TRUE.
OH, WELCOME TO PALM BAY GREATEST CITY ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
MR. MR. REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR YOUR PASSION.
REALLY APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THIS FORWARD, LETTING COUNCIL KNOW WHAT THE SENTIMENT IS.
JIM, YOU AND I, WE GO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SPIRITUALLY CONNECTED.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THERE'S A SPIRITUAL COMPONENT TO THIS MADAM SHERMAN.
YOU HAVE ENOUGH FROM THIS COUNCIL TO WORK OR DO YOU WANT TO DEFINE THAT A LITTLE MORE? APOLOGIES, I THINK YES, IT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT I'M HEARING FROM COUNSEL IS THAT YOU ALL WANT US TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS AT A STAFF LEVEL.
CERTAINLY, WE WILL HAVE SOME FURTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH MELBOURNE CITY MANAGER AT SOME POINT IN THE VERY SHORT TERM.
I WILL HAVE TO BRING SOMETHING BACK TO YOU ALL BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE TO TALK A LITTLE MORE DEFINITIVELY ABOUT, FIRST OF ALL, THE USE OF ARPA FUNDS.
WHAT DOES THAT ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE? AND THEN REALLY TO DEFINE THE SCOPE OF WHAT YOU ALL AS A COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO SEE US VENTURE INTO? THERE'S A LOT OF LAYERS OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE.
SO I'LL DEFINITELY NEED SOME MORE DIRECTION FROM YOU ALL.
AND TO THAT END, MA'AM, I THINK THAT'S A THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN BRING FORTH AS AN AGENDA ITEM BETWEEN US.
I THINK THAT'S A WORKSHOP ITEM.
I THINK WE ALL NEED TO COLLABORATE WITH THIS IDEA AND AND MOVE FORWARD.
LET'S MASSAGE THIS AND LET'S DO THE BEST, THE BEST WE CAN SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO COMMUNICATE WITH NOT ONLY THE CITY OF MELBOURNE, BUT BREVARD COUNTY AND WEST MELBOURNE AS WELL. THANK YOU AGAIN.
THANK YOU. AND I DID LEARN ONE ONE THING ABOUT CITY OF PALM BAY BECAUSE I HAD TALKED ABOUT MAYBE HAVING A BIG MEETING.
YOU'RE NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE CHARTER, YOU CAN'T BE OUTSIDE THE CITY.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PARTS HERE.
BUT AGAIN, WE'LL GET IT RIGHT AND AGAIN, AND I KNOW YOUR CITY MANAGER.
I GO BACK AWAY WITH A GREAT, GREAT PICK.
AND AGAIN, YOU GUYS ARE SET UP WHERE YOU NEED TO BE AND I'LL TALK TO YOU SOON.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING. I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS AND THANK YOU FOR THE POSITIVE REMARKS REGARDING THIS COUNCIL.
MAYOR, MADAM ATTORNEY, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU I KNOW YOU HAD ASKED ABOUT THE OPIATE PAYMENT TIMEFRAME.
YES, MA'AM. AND I PULLED IT UP QUICKLY AND I JUST WANTED TO TRY THAT TO YOU.
THAT'D BE GREAT. IF THREE LARGEST PHARMACEUTICAL DISTRIBUTORS WILL PAY A MAXIMUM OF 21 BILLION OVER 18 YEARS, AND THEN JOHNSON AND JOHNSON WILL PAY A MAXIMUM OF FIVE BILLION OVER NO MORE THAN NINE YEARS, WITH APPROXIMATELY TWENTY TWO POINT EIGHT BILLION GOING TO STATE AND LOCAL SUBDIVISIONS.
SO THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT TIMEFRAMES.
I APPRECIATE THE BREAKDOWN, AND I'M EXCITED THAT MAYOR ALFRED WAS ABLE TO HEAR THAT AS WELL. THANK YOU.
THAT WAS IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, BUT I KNOW WE HAD THE I KNOW IT WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS, SO WE HAD MR. OLSZEWSKI AND MR. BATTON COMMENTS.
YES. SO FIRST OF ALL, I BELIEVE MR OLSAVSKY HAD SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE THE COMPLAINTS THAT THAT WE RECEIVE RELATED TO REPUBLIC SERVICES.
I WILL TELL YOU, JUST IN TERMS OF THE FIRST OPTION ON CUSTOMER SERVICE BEING REPUBLIC, GO TO REPUBLIC CUSTOMER SERVICE, THAT WAS REALLY JUST TO MAKE IT SIMPLER FOR PEOPLE TO FIND THAT PARTICULAR PIECE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE WENT THROUGH THAT WHOLE TRANSITION THIS PAST YEAR. BUT BUT YES, I THINK THAT I HEAR WHAT HE'S ASKING FOR AND I'D BE HAPPY TO DO SOME ANALYSIS AND BRING A REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL TO KIND OF SHARE WHERE WE'RE AT.
WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE AN UPCOMING MEETING WITH REPUBLIC TO TALK THROUGH SOME CONTRACT CHANGES, SOME OF WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT AT THE LAST MEETING, AS WELL AS TO JUST KIND OF DO AN OVERVIEW OF HOW THEY PERFORMED IN THEIR FIRST YEAR.
SO CERTAINLY, I'LL BE HAPPY TO BRING SOME OF THAT BACK TO COUNCIL AS A REPORT REGARDING THE BOARD COMMITTEE CREATION.
THAT WOULD BE A COUNCIL ITEM. I DEFER TO YOU ALL.
AND MR. BARTON'S COMMENTS ABOUT THE TRANSITION BETWEEN MEETINGS HAVE NOTED, AND WE'LL TALK THROUGH THAT A LITTLE BIT IN TERMS OF PROCEDURE.
YES. YES, MA'AM. I DID TELL THEM THAT WAS DULY NOTED.
SO NOW WE'RE ON PUBLIC HEARINGS AND WE'RE ON ITEM NUMBER ONE.
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WITNESS, TWENTY TWENTY ONE, THAT'S FORTY FIVE.[01:30:01]
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES TITLE 17 LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, CHAPTER ONE EIGHTY FIVE ZONING CODE SUBCHAPTER DISTRICT REGULATIONS BY MODIFYING PROVISIONS OF THE DMU BAYFRONT MIXED USE DISTRICT, PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES AND CONFLICT HERE WITH PROVIDING FOR INCLUSION IN THE CITY OF PALM BAY.CODE OF ORDINANCES PROVIDING FOR A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
I'M GOING TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING, MADAME SHERMAN OR MADAM SMITH, MADAM SHERMAN.
I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN. THIS IS A FINAL READING ON THIS ORDINANCE CHANGE TO ADD THE ADDITIONAL TWEAKS TO THE LANGUAGE THAT PROVIDE MORE CLARITY AND OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COMMERCIAL COMPONENTS IN THE BAYFRONT MIXED USE ZONING.
SO HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF ON THIS FINAL READING.
YOU KNOW, AND I'M GOING TO ASK ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM. NO ONE UNDER PUBLIC HEARINGS.
CNN, I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK COUNSEL OR MOTION APPROVE ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE POINT FORTY FIVE FINAL READING.
THANK YOU. GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
ITEM TWO. WITNESS, TWENTY TWENTY ONE DASH, FIFTY ONE.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, ADMITTING ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY SEVENTEEN, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE EVIDENCE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT CD BY SPANNING THE DESIGNATED LAND AREA, WHICH THE CITY WOULD EXERCISE SPECIAL POWERS RELATED THERETO, PROVIDING FOR THE REPEAL OF ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES AND CONFLICT HERE WITH PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
I'M GOING TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK THE APPLICANT TO STEP FORWARD.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. GOOD EVENING, VICE MAYOR, COORDINATING COUNCIL.
GOOD EVENING TO CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY AND THE CITY CLERK, GINGER WALD, BILL AND COCHRAN FIVE ONE FIVE EAST LOS OLAS BOULEVARD, FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA.
THIS IS THE SECOND READING FINAL READING.
WE FILED THE PETITION TO EXPAND THE BOUNDARIES OF EVERLANE'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT. THIS IS EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DISTRICT THAT'S ALREADY IN EXISTENCE FOR THE LAST YEAR. THE EXPANSION IS APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE ACRES WILL PROVIDE FOR RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY TO BE EXPANDED ALREADY THERE FROM THE 50 ACRES THAT WE HAVE. THE EXPANSION WILL PROVIDE FOR THE SAME SERVICES THAT WERE ALREADY ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF PROVIDING BECAUSE IT HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED, WHICH IS A STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ORDER AND SEWER AND ROADWAYS.
AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO THAT.
IT'S ALREADY BEEN APPROVED PREVIOUSLY AS TO THE POD AND THE SITE PLAN.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT? OK? SEEING NONE? THANK YOU. ANY STAFF COMMENTS, MADAM SHERMAN NOTHING FURTHER, MAYOR.
I'M GOING TO ASK. I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME.
WELL. OH, AS YOU ARE ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM, I'M USED TO GETTING PUBLIC SPEAKER CARDS RATHER.
SO ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHES TO SPEAK OR AGAINST THIS ITEM.
YOU KNOW, I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR A MOTION MOTION APPROVE ORDINANCE. TWENTY TWENTY ONE DASH.
FIFTY ONE FINAL READING SECOND.
GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON.
SECONDED MIKE COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY, ITEM NUMBER THREE.
ADAM SMITH AUDIENCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE.
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR TWENTY TWENTY ONE BUDGET BY APPROPRIATE AND ALLOCATING FUNDS AS IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT A.
CONSISTING OF FIVE PAGES AND INC.
IN ITS ENTIRETY HEREIN, RECOGNIZING THAT SUCH APPROPRIATIONS MUST BE MADE PURSUANT TO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
ADOPTING RATIFY AND AFFIRMING AND VALIDATING THE ALLOCATIONS PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU, MA'AM.
I'M GOING TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
MADAME SHERMAN. YOU WISH TO PRESENT THIS.
UH, CERTAINLY, MAYOR, THIS IS SECOND READING.
FINAL READING, EXCUSE ME, ON THE FOURTH BUDGET AMENDMENT, THERE WILL BE A FINAL FIFTH AND FINAL BUDGET AMENDMENT TO CLOSE OUT THE YEAR WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. COUNCIL MAY HAVE COUNCILMAN ANY QUESTIONS OF MADAME SHERMAN.
SEEING NONE, ANYONE WISHES TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR A MOTION MOTION APPROVED
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ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE DASH.THE SECOND I GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY A COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? TO YOU, NONE, I'M CALLING IT ALL IN FAVOR.
I MANY POLLS PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR MADAM SMITH ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE DIES FIFTY SIX AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATE AND ABANDONED A PORTION OF THE REAR 10 FOOT INSIDE SIX FOOT PUBLIC UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENTS LOCATED WITHIN LOT 16 AND 18, BLOCK EIGHT, BLOCK NINETEEN EIGHTY THREE OR MALABAR UNIT 40 AND VACATE AN ABANDONED A PORTION OF THE REAR 10 FOOT PUBLIC UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT LOCATED WITHIN LOT 17 LOT NINETEEN. EIGHTY THREE WHAT MALABAR UNIT FORTY, ACCORDING TO THE PLOT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN FLIGHT BOOK TWENTY ONE PAGE 30 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
THANK YOU, MA'AM. I'M AN OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK THE APPLICANT TO STEP FORWARD AND PRESENT THEIR CASE.
TINY CARS IS AN MVP IN THE CLIENT.
TYNECASTLE OR REPRESENTING HMV AND THE CLIENT ENGINEERING AND ENGINEER.
VACATING OF THE DRAINAGE EASEMENTS ON THE BACK ON THE SIZE UTILITY EASEMENT.
HEY, COUNSEL, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT? OK. THANK YOU, MA'AM.
MADAM SHERMAN, ANY STAFF COMMENTS? NO, MAYOR, THANK YOU.
OK. ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISH TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM.
YOU NOT I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR A MOTION MOTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE TO FIFTY SIX FINAL READING SECOND AND A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR, I PASS AS UNANIMOUSLY BEFORE WE WE GO ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE.
MADAM JOAN, THERE WAS A PIECE THAT CAME OFF THAT MICROPHONE.
IS THERE ANY WAY WE COULD TRY TO ADJUST THAT? THANK YOU, MA'AM. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE MADAM SMITH ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE THOUSAND FIFTY SEVEN WARDENS OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATE AN ABANDONED PORTION OF THE SITE 10 FOOT PUBLIC UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT LOCATED WITHIN TRACT DE PORT MALABAR UNIT FORTY TWO, ACCORDING TO THE PLOT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN POLITE BOOK.
TWENTY ONE PAGE 112 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
I'M GOING TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME AND ASK THE APPLICANT TO PRESENT THEIR CASE. APPLICANT NUMBER FIVE.
THE APPLICANT HERE. REMARKS DELHI.
WELL, STAFF HAD NO OBJECTIONS TO THIS ONE.
ANY QUESTIONS? THEY ALSO HAVE STAFF.
ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM? STEP FORWARD. MR. CHIEF, BILL BRATTON.
YOUR BATON, 586 OCEAN SPRAY STREET, SOUTHWEST.
FIRST OFF, I WISH THE PERSON THAT OWNED THIS PROPERTY WAS HERE BECAUSE THIS IS, I THINK IT'S A FANTASTIC SETUP THE WAY THEY HAVE IT SET UP.
I ONLY HAD ONE QUESTION WITH THAT.
THE FACT OF WHAT THE EASEMENT COMING IN IS GOING TO BE A 10 FOOT DRIVEWAY THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO RUN THAT ALL THE WAY IN.
AND WILL THAT ALLOW ACCESS JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY FOR THE CITY TO STILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO REACH THEIR HOUSE IF THERE'S A FIRE OR SOMETHING, SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A LONG DRIVE.
IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE 10 FOOT WIDE OR THAT ALLOW FOR AN ACCESS.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I HOPE THESE PEOPLE ENJOY THEIR HOME.
IT LOOKS GORGEOUS BY MY STANDARDS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MADAME SHERMAN.
I'M GOING TO LOOK AND SEE IF STAFF HAS ANY COMMENT ON THAT.
PATRICK, ARE YOU LOOKING AT THAT? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE AN ANSWER OFF HAND TO THAT.
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THE QUESTION, DID YOU HEAR THE QUESTION, PATRICK? SO ESSENTIALLY, MR BATTEN WAS ASKING A QUESTION RELATED TO THE, I GUESS, THE WIDTH OF THE DRIVEWAY BEING ABOUT 10 FEET.AND AND I DON'T I DON'T HAVE THE MAP IN FRONT OF ME, BUT THE ACCESS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY VEHICLES TO GET TO THE HOME, I HAVEN'T SEEN A MAP OFFHAND, SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNEW OF. I HAVEN'T SEEN A MAP VIEW OF THIS APPLICATION WAS IN PROCESS IN MY DEPARTMENT.
THE MINIMUM WIDTH OF THE DRIVEWAY THAT WE HAVE WAS AT THE RIGHT AWAY LINE.
AND THEN ONCE YOU GET ON SITE, IT CAN BE NARROWED DOWN.
TYPICALLY, EMERGENCY SERVICES WOULD BE AT THE PROPERTY LINE ITSELF AND NOT COME ALL THE WAY ONTO THE PROPERTY. THEY WOULD ACCESS IT BY FOOT.
IF THEY NEED TO BE, THEY CAN DRIVE PARTLY ON THE DRIVEWAY AND PARTLY ON THE GRASS.
THEY'RE GOING TO GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GET.
BUT TYPICALLY THEY STAY BACK ON TO RIGHT AROUND WHERE THE PROPERTY LINE AND RIGHT AWAY LINE MATCH. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM? SO, YOU KNOW, AND I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR A MOTION MOTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE. TWENTY TWENTY ONE TO FIFTY SEVEN FINAL READING.
SECOND. AND A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN SEEING NONE ALL IN FAVOR, I PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
ITEM NUMBER SIX MADAM SMITH WITNESS TWENTY TWENTY ONE POINT FIFTY EIGHT AN AUDIENCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATED AND ABANDONED A PORTION OF THE REAR, 20 FOOT PUBLIC UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT LOCATED WITHIN LOTT FOR BLOCK TWENTY FIVE OH SEVEN PORT MALABAR UNIT FORTY EIGHT, ACCORDING TO A PLOT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLOT BOOK TWENTY TWO PAGE NINETY THREE.
THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED HERE IN PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
I OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK THE APPLICANT TO PRESENT THEIR CASE.
IS THE COUNCIL IS THE APPLICANT HERE, MADAME SHERMAN STAFF? A NO STAFF CONCERNS.
THANK YOU. HE QUESTIONS COUNCIL IS STAFF.
YOU KNOW, ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISH TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM.
OK, CNN, I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR EMOTION MOST OF IMPROVED WARNINGS.
TWENTY TWENTY ONE DASH. FIFTY EIGHT FINAL READING.
SECOND, A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON IS TAKEN BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? IN NONE, ALL IN FAVOR, I PASSED AS UNANIMOUSLY ITEM NUMBER SEVEN.
WITNESS, TWENTY TWENTY ONE, FIFTY NINE.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATED AND ABANDONED A PORTION OF THE RARE 20 FOOT PUBLIC UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT LOCATED WITHIN LOTT.
TWENTY SEVEN LOTT TWENTY SIX SIXTY EIGHT WHAT MALABAR UNIT FIFTY, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN THAT BOOK TWENTY THREE PAGE SEVENTEEN, THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
I'M OPENING UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME.
IS THE APPLICANT HERE? PLEASE STEP FORWARD.
GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL, WE ARE BRIAN AND MICHELLE MALLON.
WE RECENTLY MOVED TO THE AREA WE RESIDE AT ONE POINT THIRTY SEVEN ABELLA ROAD.
WE'RE REQUESTING 10 FOOT EASEMENT.
WE WANT TO BUILD A POOL AND CURRENTLY, AS IT STANDS, WE WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO BUILD A FIVE FOOT. THANK YOU, MA'AM.
MANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT.
ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ITEM? SO, YOU KNOW, NOT I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING THE COUNCIL FOR A MOTION MOTION APPROVED ORDINANCE. TWENTY TWENTY ONE FIFTY NINE FINAL READING.
SECOND MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ALL IN FAVOR. I PASSED THIS UNANIMOUSLY.
WE'RE ON ITEM NUMBER EIGHT MADAM SMITH ORDINANCE.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY OF OUR COUNTY, FLORIDA, VACATE AN ABANDONED PORTION.
THE REAR 20 FOOT PUBLIC UTILITY AND DRAINAGE EASEMENT LOCATED WITHIN LOT 11 BLOCK 190 THREE FORT MALABAR UNIT SEVEN, ACCORDING TO THE PLOT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 14 PAGE 130 OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED HEREIN PROVIDED FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
THANK YOU, MA'AM. I'M GOING TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THE APPLICANT HERE? PLEASE STEP FORWARD AND STATE YOUR CASE.
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GOOD EVENING. WE'RE HERE REPRESENTING NATIVE HOMES OF BOVARD, AND OUR CLIENT IS JOSE SANTANA. AND WE'D LIKE TO BUILD A POOL FOR HIM AND IT REQUIRES THE VACATE OF EASEMENT.THANK YOU, MA'AM. COUNCILMAN, ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT, SEE YOU NONE.
THANK YOU, MA'AM. APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE.
MADAM SHERMAN, ANY STAFF COMMENTS ON NOTHING FURTHER? THANK YOU, MAYOR. HEY, COUNCIL.
ANY QUESTIONS OF STAFF REGARDING MS.? AND YOU WILL IN THE AUDIENCE WISH TO SPEAK FOR AGAINST THIS ITEM.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR A MOTION MOTION APPROVED APPROVE IS TWENTY TWENTY ONE TO SIXTY FINAL READING.
SECOND, I GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ALL IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
YES. NUMBER NINE, THE FOLLOWING ITEM IS QUASI JUDICIAL IN NATURE.
PUBLIC HEARINGS AGENDA ITEM NUMBER NINE.
ANY PERSON WHO WISHES TO TESTIFY ON SUCH A MATTER MUST SIGN A SPEAKER CARD, WHICH CONTAINS A SWORN OATH TO TELL THE TRUTH.
ANY INDIVIDUAL ADDRESS IN THE COUNCIL MUST STATE HIS OR HER NAME AND CONFIRM THAT A SPEAKER CARD HAS BEEN SIGNED.
ATTORNEYS WHO ARE APPEARING ON BEHALF OF A PARTY AND NOT PROVIDING TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE ARE NOT CONSIDERED WITNESSES AND NEED NOT BE SWORN COUNSEL TO DISCLOSE ANY EX PARTE COMMUNICATION BY DISCLOSING THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THE COMMUNICATION AND THE IDENTITY OF THE PERSON, GROUP OR ENTITY WITH WHOM THE COMMUNICATION TOOK PLACE.
ORDER, THIS PROCEEDING WILL BE AS FOLLOWS FIRST, THE APPLICANT WILL MAKE HIS PRESENTATION FOLLOWED BY STAFF COMMENTS, FOLLOWED BY ANY AGREED OR ADVERSELY AFFECTED PARTY THAT HAS COMPLIED WITH SECTION FIFTY NINE POINT ZERO THREE.
PALM BAY CODE OF ORDINANCES EACH WILL HAVE A MAXIMUM OF 30 MINUTES.
ANY SPEAKER MAY BE SUBJECT TO CROSS-EXAMINATION BY THE COUNCIL OR ANY OTHER INTERESTED PARTY FOR A MAXIMUM OF 15 MINUTES PER WITNESS.
ANY OTHER PERSON MAY SPEAK FOR A MAXIMUM OF THREE MINUTES.
THE APPLICANT WILL THEN BE ALLOWED CONCLUDING REMARKS FOR A MAXIMUM OF 10 MINUTES.
THE QUASI JUDICIAL BODY MAY MODIFY THE TIME LIMITS ON ITS OWN MOTION OR UPON REQUEST OF A PARTY TO THE PROCEEDING.
THE HEARING WILL THEN BE CLOSED AND NO ADDITIONAL TESTIMONY OR ARGUMENT WILL BE ALLOWED.
THE COUNCIL WILL THEN DELIBERATE IN PUBLIC AT THE END OF DELIBERATION.
THE COUNCIL MEMBER WILL MAKE A MOTION ON THE APPLICATION TO BRING THE MATTER TO A VOTE.
EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER IS THEN FREE TO VOTE IN FAVOR OR AGAINST THE MOTION.
ORDINANCE TWENTY TWENTY ONE SIXTY FIVE, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY, BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA, APPROVING A FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO BE KNOWN AS CYPRESS BAY, WIS., PHASE TWO, AND PUDI PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ZONING, WHICH PROPERTY IS LOCATED WEST OF AND ADJACENT TO BABCOCK STREET IN THE VICINITY SOUTH OF MAR ALOMA BOULEVARD AND NORTH OF DAVIS LANE, AND LEGALLY SUBSCRIBE HERE IN PROVIDING FOR A COMMENCEMENT PERIOD PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASK THE APPLICANT TO STATE THEIR CASE.
GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL, CHRIS TERESE, DIVISION PRESIDENT OF FOSTER DEVELOPMENT, HAVE SIGNED A WITNESS CARD, EVEN MADAM SHERMAN.
ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE HERE TO PRESENT OUR FUND DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR PHASE TWO OF CYBERSPACE WEST. WE ARE THE PURCHASER OF THIS PROPERTY.
WE CURRENTLY CONTROL CYBERSPACE, WHICH IS ACROSS FROM BABCOCK ROAD AND ALSO A PORTION OF PHASE ONE OF CYPRUS BAILEY WEST AS WELL.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO BRINGING OUR QUALITY OF DEVELOPMENT WITH THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
WE WORK WITH STAFF ON THIS RATHER HARD LAST 30 DAYS AND ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH STAFF BEYOND TO DO A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND SOME ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS ON BABCOCK ROAD AND AGREE WITH TRAFFIC STAFF COMMENTS AND CONDITIONS.
AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE APPLICANT COUNCIL? THANK YOU. ANYONE WISH TO SPEAK OR ANY SPEAKERS, BILL THAT.
BILL BURTON, FIVE EIGHTY SIX, OCEAN SPRAY STREET, SOUTHWEST, I HAVE TWO ITEMS WITH THIS ONE. I THE FIRST ONE.
IS THESE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE COMING INTO THIS AREA SOME MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT? THEY'RE DOING THEIR PLANNING, THEY'RE DOING, THEY'RE BUILDING AND THEY'RE DOING WHAT THEY'RE WE'RE EXPECTING THEM TO DO.
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I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION WITH THIS UNDER.WHEN ARE WE GOING TO START SEEING SOME OF THE COMMERCIAL COMING IN? DO WE HAVE TO WAIT TILL WE BUILD OUT EVERY SINGLE HOUSE BEFORE THEY DECIDE THAT? WELL, WE CAN NOW NOW PROVIDE SOME COMMERCIAL BUSINESS IN THAT AREA.
I UNDERSTAND THE DEVELOPERS, NOT THE ONE ASKING FOR THE DEVELOPER FOR THE COMMERCIAL, BUT THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE THE MOVERS AND SHAKERS OF THIS AREA.
SO LET'S SEE IF THEY THEY MIGHT KNOW SOMEBODY WHO'S TRYING TO GET IN THERE BECAUSE WE HAVE A POPULATION OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THOUSAND PEOPLE IN PALM BAY.
WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THIS ONE SOUTHWEST CORNER TO GET FINISHED BEFORE WE PUT IN A SHOPPING CENTER FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE COMING IN THERE.
WE'RE ALREADY LOOKING AT THOUSAND HOMES IN THAT AREA.
I KNOW IT'S NOT ON THEM TO DO IT, BUT THEY ARE THE ONES PROVIDING THE AREA, THE INFRASTRUCTURE. SO THIS IF WE CAN SEE IF WE CAN MAYBE HELP THEM ALONG SOMEHOW.
THE SECOND ITEM IS I BROUGHT THIS UP AT THE LAST TIME WHEN THEY WERE LOOKING AT ANOTHER AREA IN THE SAME SAME DEVELOPMENT SITE, AND THAT WAS LOWRY ROAD CONNECTION.
THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY FOR ALL OF THESE HOMES TO GET OUT, AND THAT'S ON TO BABCOCK ROAD.
THAT IS THE ONLY EXIT THEY HAVE.
AND I SAW I SUGGESTED WHERE WOULD THEY GOING TO HAVING THE ABILITY TO START GOING NORTH OR NORTH OUT OF THE PROPERTY? AND THEY SAID, WELL, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE ST.
ST. JOHN'S HERITAGE PARKWAY MAY NEVER COME TO COMPLETION WITHIN THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
I HATE TO SAY THAT, BUT THAT IS A POSSIBILITY.
IT MAY NEVER HAPPEN, BUT THAT WOULD MEAN THIS MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT ONLY HAS ONE WAY OUT.
THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE SAYING WHILE THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, WE DON'T KNOW.
SO THE SUGGESTION IS LOOK AT LOWRY ROAD.
IT'S THAT IT GIVES THEM THE OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE IN THEIR SAME DEVELOPMENT AREA, LOWRY ROAD WOULD GIVE AN ACCESS TO THE NORTH IF IT HAD TO HAPPEN THAT WAY.
THERE'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
LET'S PUT IT IN OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ON HOW WE HAVE BIG DEVELOPMENTS LIKE THIS THAT ARE NOT MANDATED OUT ONTO JUST ONE ROAD.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. CHIEF. I'M GOING TO ASK THE APPLICANT YOU WISH TO APPROACH.
OH, THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION FOR MR. BILL OR TWO QUESTIONS, I SHOULD SAY.
WE'RE NOT A COMMERCIAL DEVELOPER, WE'RE A RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPER, BUT I HAVE BEEN PART OF MANY MASTER PLANNING COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT CENTRAL FLORIDA.
THIS IS JUST ONE OF CURRENT SIX THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING THROUGHOUT CENTRAL FLORIDA BETWEEN ORLANDO AND BREVARD COUNTY.
I DO KNOW FROM COMMERCIAL PLANNING AND SOME OF THE STUFF THAT WE DO, DO THEY THEY ASK US HOW MANY LOTS WE SELL, HOW MANY HOMES WE BUILD, HOW MANY STARTS WE'RE PULLING.
THEY LOOK AT THAT DATA PRETTY, PRETTY INTENSELY, AND I'LL USE PUBLIX AS AN EXAMPLE.
WE'VE BEEN A PART OF MANY MASTER PLANNING COMMUNITIES, AND WE'VE CURRENTLY SOLD A PIECE TO PUBLIX RECENTLY OVER IN ORLANDO.
THE FIRST THING THEY ASK IS HOW MANY ROOFTOPS DO YOU HAVE TO SUPPORT OUR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT? SO WITH THE BRINGING WITH US BRINGING ON THIS, THIS CURRENT PHASE AND THE PHASE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE FUNNEL DEVELOPMENT PLAN ON AND THE PDP THAT WILL BE COMING LATER THIS MONTH WILL HELP SUPPORT AND BRING THAT COMMERCIAL GROWTH THAT MR. BILL IS REFERENCING, ALONG WITH THE HOMES THAT WE'RE BUILDING ACROSS THE STREET AS WELL.
I HOPE THAT ANSWERS THIS QUESTION.
YEAH, AND THE LOWRY STREET, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH LOWRY STREET.
I AM FAMILIAR WITH OUR PROJECT, THOUGH OUR PROJECT WILL HAVE A DIRECT CONNECTION TO ST.
JOHN'S HERITAGE PARKWAY THROUGH JOURNEY DRIVE.
WE ARE ALSO HAVE INTERNAL ROADWAYS AND BOULEVARDS FROM MARUYAMA THAT CONNECT JOURNEY DRIVE ST. JOHN'S HERITAGE PARKWAY, THE INTERCONNECTION WITH THE STOPLIGHTS AT UP THROUGH NORTH END OF BABCOCK.
MAJORITY OF OUR TRAFFIC WILL COME OUT OUT DURING DRIVE AS WE DEVELOP THE PROJECT ONTO ST.
JOHN'S HERITAGE PARKWAY AND AS A COMMERCIAL CENTER, IT GROWS AS WELL.
IT'LL PROBABLY ALLEVIATE A LOT OF THE GROWTH OR A LOT OF THE TRAFFIC THAT IS GOING NORTH ON BABCOCK. HOPEFULLY, THE ANSWERS HIS SECOND QUESTION I DO NOT KNOW ABOUT LOWERY DIRECTLY. THANK YOU.
ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT? DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, NOT FOR THE APPLICANT, BUT I THINK WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL? MAYBE I SHOULD BE BRINGING THIS UP IN COUNCIL REPORTS.
BUT IF WE PROVIDE AN UPDATE OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THE CONTINUATION OF THE ST.
JOHN'S HERITAGE PARKWAY, I THINK THAT WILL BE HELPFUL FOR THE PUBLIC AND FOR ALL OF US.
SO BUT THAT'S A SEPARATE TOPIC FROM THIS.
THANK YOU FOR DOING EVERYTHING STRAIGHTFORWARD AND STAFF'S COMMENTS.
YOU AGREE TO ALL TO ALL OF IT.
NOW, SO ANY QUESTIONS OF THE APPLICANT OR STAFF AT THIS POINT? HEY, SPEAKERS, ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS.
OK, SO I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING OR WANT TO SEE IF STAFF COULD ADDRESS THE LOWRY
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ROAD. OK, SO THIS.THANK YOU. THEN I RESCIND THAT COMMENT.
GOOD EVENING, COUNSEL. YOU'VE SEEN THIS PROJECT BEFORE THROUGH A PRELIMINARY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, IT'S BEEN APPROVED.
THIS IS ACTUALLY PHASE TWO OF A THREE PHASED PROJECT CALLED CYPRESS BAY WEST, LOCATED ON BABCOCK STREET, RIGHT WHERE THE PARKWAY CONNECTS DIRECTLY WEST OF THAT TO SPEAK TO LOWRY BOULEVARD. LOWRY BOULEVARD IS ACTUALLY LOCATED WITHIN PORT MELBOURNE UNIT TWENTY FOUR.
IT CONNECTS UP TO SANFILIPPO DRIVE IN A DEAD ENDS AT MELBOURNE TILLMANN CANAL NUMBER THIRTY SEVEN. IT DOESN'T CROSS OVER THE CANAL.
IT DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THIS PROPERTY.
IT ACTUALLY, IF IT CROSSED, THE CANAL WOULD BE LOCATED IN A PROPERTY THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY CALLED ROLLING MEADOW LAKES.
THAT PROPERTY USED TO BE IN THE CITY.
IT WAS ANNEXED BY FLORIDA'S LEGISLATURE.
IT'S NO LONGER IN PALM BAY, IT'S IN UNINCORPORATED BREVARD COUNTY, SO THAT ROAD DOES NOT CONNECT INTO THIS PROPERTY.
AS YOU HEARD BEFORE, THERE IS AN ACE STUDY OUT THERE, AN ALTERNATIVE CORRIDOR ANALYSIS LOOKING AT THE ALIGNMENT WHERE THE PARKWAY WOULD CONNECT TO THE WEST OF BABCOCK STREET.
IT HAS COMING THROUGH THE SOUTH END OF THIS PROPERTY AND THEN IT GOES IN LIKE THREE DIFFERENT WAYS. THEY'RE STILL LOOKING AT WHAT THE BEST ALIGNMENT IS.
WE'RE NOT SOLD ON WHERE THAT'S GOING TO GO.
THERE'S NOT BEEN THE COMPLETE PANINI STUDY THAT'S STILL IN THE PLANNING STAGES.
THAT'S A LONG TERM PROJECT, JUST LIKE THE PARKWAYS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT.
THAT WAS 20 30 YEARS IN THE MAKING.
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S GOING TO TAKE THAT LONG, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S ACHIEVED IN A NIGHT AND WOULDN'T BE ACHIEVED BY THIS PROJECT, AS MR. TERESE SAID. AND HE'S DEAD ON COMMERCIAL COMES WHEN THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER OF ROOFTOPS THAT ARE IN PLACE THAT ARE ACTUALLY OCCUPIED BY STRUCTURES THEY DON'T BUILD BEFORE THEY HAVE ENOUGH RESIDENTS AROUND TO SUPPORT THAT COMMERCIAL NEED.
WE HAVE BEEN IN PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS WITH COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IMMEDIATELY ACROSS THE STREET FROM THIS PROJECT.
VERY OPTIMISTIC THAT THAT'S GOING TO TAKE PLACE SOON, HOPEFULLY TO GETTING AN APPLICATION IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS.
BEING OPTIMISTIC, OF COURSE, BUT EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD FOR THAT PROPERTY.
THERE ARE TWO ACCESS POINTS OUT TO BABCOCK AS MR. TERESE ST. MARILYN BOULEVARD, WHICH WAS IN EXISTENCE.
NOW THAT IS ONE WAY THEY COME OUT AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO EXTEND MAYOR LOMA BOULEVARD TO THE SOUTH AND EAST AS PART OF THIS PROJECT TO CONNECT INTO A NEW ROAD CALLED JOURNEY DRIVE, WHICH EXTENDS TO THE WEST FROM THE PARKWAY, WHICH GIVES THEM A SECOND FLUSH POINT OF VIEW OUT OF THE SUBDIVISION NOT TO STEAL ANY OF THEIR THUNDER, BUT THIS IS A 570 UNIT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT. ONE POINT FORTY SIX SINGLE-FAMILY 124 TOWNHOMES.
I'M GOING TO BRING A LOT OF TAX SPACE TO THE AREA, STAFFS IN FULL SUPPORT OF IT.
WE RECOMMEND AN APPROVAL WITH SEVERAL CONDITIONS AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
CERTAINLY. OH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, DESPITE THE COMMENTS FROM THE MAYOR TO THE NORTH, I REALLY LIKE YOUR SUIT. I THINK YOU LOOK SHARP AND YOU KNOW YOU REPRESENT PALM BAY.
THANK YOU, SIR. THIS SUCKS STATE.
I'M JUST SAYING, IF YOU MAY, IF I MAY INTERJECT REAL QUICK, I LIKE TO CHALLENGE YOUR SOUP TO OUR SOUP KITCHEN IN OUR CHURCH, UP IN UMATILLA.
I DO A LOT FOR OUR CHURCH AND I'M ACTUALLY HEAD OF THE BUILDING COMMITTEE AND WE DO A LOT OF STUFF FOR OUR CRISIS IN OUR STUFF TOO.
SO I THINK WHAT YOU GUYS DID HERE AT CNN WAS NEAT STUFF AND WE DO IT UP AND WHERE I'M FROM A VERY SMALL TOWN.
SO IT DOES MAKE IT A LOT OF IMPACTS AND LIVES.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? QUESTIONS. OK.
I'M CLOSING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ASKING FOR A MOTION MOTION APPROVED CASE.
EFD DASH 30 DASH 20 TWENTY ONE, SUBJECT TO THE STAFF COMMENTS CONTAINED IN THE STAFF REPORT BEING ADDRESSED UPON SUBMISSION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTRUCTION PLANS.
SECOND, GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? SEEING NONE, I'M CALLING THE QUESTION ALL IN FAVOR HIGH PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
WE ARE NOW ON UNFINISHED AND OLD BUSINESS.
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DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE PHILIP WEINBERG TO THE MELBOURNE AND WATER CONTROL DISTRICT.I CAN. I GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON SINGING IT BY COUNCILMAN FOSTER.
ANY DISCUSSION? IN NONE, ALL IN FAVOR, I PASSED AS UNANIMOUSLY.
WE'RE ON A COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL REPORTS.
GENTLEMEN, I'LL START WITH MR.
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FELIX. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR ON HAVE A WHOLE LOT.I THINK WE HAD A GREAT MEETING.
PART OF BEING PART OF THE TEPO WAS A GREAT MEETING, SO SOME OF OUR PROJECTS STILL ON TOP, TOP OF MIND ON THE PRIORITY LIST.
TOP FIVE THAT I'M VERY, VERY PLEASED WITH THAT.
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AND SECONDLY, WE AS A GENTLEMAN IN THE COMMUNITY THAT.LIVES IN THE COMMUNITY, ACTUALLY AFTER SEVERAL CIVIL DECADES IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY.
IT MEANS A LOT FOR THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY.
HE PASSED AWAY, UNFORTUNATELY, DUE TO SOME MEDICAL COMPLICATION HERE AT PALM BAY HOSPITAL. HEALTH FIRST HE CONTRIBUTED OVER 60 YEARS, IS REALLY AN ICON SUPERSTAR FOR THE HAITIAN MUSIC.
FOR WHAT? FOR THE CULTURE AS A WHOLE.
JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT HE PASSED AWAY LAST THURSDAY TO THE FAMILY MEMBER THAT MAY BE WATCHING, SO OUR HEARTS GOES OUT TO TO TO THE FAMILY.
SO HIS THE SERVICE WILL TAKE PLACE.
OUR LADY OF GRACE THIS THIS COMING SATURDAY, THE 24TH DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY, I SHOULD SAY THE 24 OF OUR LADY OF GRACE AT ONE O'CLOCK.
SO ALL, YOU KNOW, SYMPATHY TO THE FAMILY.
COUNCILWOMAN FELIX. YOU MAY WANT TO SHARE THAT WITH ROSEMARY AND TA TA TA.
PERHAPS. PLACE THAT ON OUR CALENDARS.
AND IF WE COULD MAKE IT TO SHOW SUPPORT FROM OR CORRECT.
AND MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THE TIME THIS WILL DRIVE MULTIPLE MULTIPLE SUPERSTAR PEOPLE FROM NEW YORK.
I JUST FIND OUT FROM THE THE WIFE.
JUST RECENTLY, THEY CHARTER ABOUT FOUR BUSSES TO COME DOWN HERE.
THIS GENTLEMAN STARTED IN THE 60S AND LIKE I SAID, HE RETIRED HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
MANY FAMILY MEMBER LEAVES HERE IN PALM BAY JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE PUT SOME SOME EMPHASIS ON THAT. RECOGNIZING THIS IS FOLKS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAY NOT CONTRIBUTE MEANS A LOT TO TO TO A PART OF THAT, THIS COMMUNITY HERE.
IF THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT ALSO POTENTIALLY PRESENT A PROCLAMATION AT THE SERVICE FOR, YOU KNOW, DOING THE SERVICE.
THANK YOU, MAYOR. I SEE COUNCILWOMAN EVI MINUS IS STILL HERE.
WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO REALLY LISTEN TO THIS.
EAST COAST TRANSPORTATION PLANNING ORGANIZATION, I WAS THE MAYOR AND MR. FELIX, COUNCILMAN FELIX, WE WAS AT THAT MEETING WAS THIS WEEK OR YEAH, I THINK IT WAS LAST WEEK, LAST WEEK AND AT THE END.
AND IT TALKED ABOUT BABCOCK STREET.
AND WHAT THEY TALKED ABOUT WAS.
AND IT GOT TO THE ROUNDABOUT THAT THAT'S JUST MY BLOOD PRESSURE GOT UP BECAUSE WE DON'T DO WELL WHEN IT COMES TO ROUNDABOUTS.
AND THE REASON WHY THEY WANTED TO PUT ROUNDABOUTS ON BABCOCK STREET FROM PALM BAY ROAD GOING NORTH.
UP TO 192 TO SLOW THE TRAFFIC DOWN, AND I SAID, HAVE YOU EVER DROVE FROM PALM BAY ROAD TO 190 TO EIGHT O'CLOCK OR SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING? IT IS A TRAFFIC JAM.
AND. AND THE SPEAKER WAS SHOCKED THAT I SAID THAT AND ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBER.
CHIMED IN ON THAT. BUT WE CANNOT IF THEY PUT ROUNDABOUTS ON BABCOCK STREET.
I SAID THAT WILL AFFECT PALM BAY BECAUSE PALM BAY ROAD AND B'AV CARS, THE BUSY INTERSECTION IN THE COUNTY.
AND IF IF IT GETS BACKED UP ON BETWEEN PALM BAY ROAD AND 192 IS GOING TO BACK UP INTO PALM BAY, IT'S GOING TO BACK UP TO AN PALM BAY ROAD.
AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MAJOR TRAFFIC ISSUES.
SO BUT TO DO THAT, IT'S GOT TO GET APPROVED BY.
I THINK HE SAID HE GOT TO GO BEFORE MELBOURNE COUNCIL TO GET APPROVED.
I SAID THEY NEED TO ALSO CONSIDER COMING TO PALM BAY, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT IN OUR CITY LIMITS, IS GOING TO AFFECT OUR CITY TRAFFIC AND OUR RESIDENTS.
SO THAT WAS A 45 MINUTE DISCUSSION ON THAT ITEM.
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I JUST WANTED THE COUNCIL TO BE AWARE OF THAT.SO COUNCILMAN FOSTER, I WANTED TO JUST TO SAY TO STAFF, I THINK IF COUNCILS IN, YOU KNOW, AN AGREEMENT, MAYBE WE SEND THE LETTER.
SO WE'RE NOT IN AGREEMENT TO THE TPO, A JOINT EFFORT TO SHARE.
WE'RE ADAMANTLY OPPOSED TO ANY ROUNDABOUTS IN THAT IN THAT CORRIDOR.
BOTTOM SHERMAN. WELL, CERTAINLY IF I COULD JUST ASK FOR CLARIFICATION, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PORTION OF BABCOCK SOUNDS LIKE NORTH OF PALM BAY ROAD.
I DO KNOW THAT THE PRELIMINARY STUDY THAT WAS DONE FOR THE SOUTH PART OF BABCOCK'S SO ESSENTIALLY SOUTH OF MALABAR ROAD ALSO INCLUDED PROPOSALS FOR SOME ROUNDABOUTS.
YES. IF YOU'D ALL WOULD LIKE US TO WRITE A LETTER REQUESTING THAT THE ENTIRE DISTANCE OF BABCOCK DOESN'T HAVE ROUNDABOUTS, WE CAN DO THAT.
YES, MA'AM. GOT IT. I THINK WE'VE GOT COUNCILMAN FELIX.
DO YOU WANT TO WEIGH IN? I I WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
SO WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT A UNANIMOUS CONSENSUS HERE TO SEND THAT.
THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN FOSTER CARRY ON.
OTHER ITEM IS THE SPACE CALLED LEAGUE OF CITIES.
THANK YOU, MAYOR, FOR INTRODUCING ME TO THE GENERAL.
AND IT TALKED ABOUT THE THE BASE ON MALABAR, THE ANNEX ON MALABAR, EXCUSE ME, MINTON ROAD IN PALM BAY. SO IT SEEMED LIKE THEY GOT SOME GOOD IDEAS COMING.
THE NATIONAL, HE SAID THE NATIONAL GUARD MIGHT BE LOOKING TO COME TO PALM BAY AND DO SOME TRAINING ON THAT BASE.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. I SPEND A LOT OF YEARS IN THE NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE AIR FORCE THERE, LIKE AIR FORCE, DON'T LIKE TO STAY IN TENTS.
OK, IF WE HAD A TENT, WE GOT AN AIR CONDITIONER.
OK, NOT LIKE THE MARINE CORPS OR THE ARMY.
SOME OF YOUR MILITARY PEOPLE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
SO. UM, THE AIR FORCE AKA SPACE FORCE LIKES HOTELS, AND SO IF WE HAVE THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD COME HERE IN THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, WE'RE GOING TO FEEL A LOT OF HOTEL BEDS AND PALM BAY AND MELBOURNE AND WEST MELBOURNE, AND THAT'S A GOOD THING FOR THIS AREA.
SO I'M HOPING THAT THE GENERAL WAS OPEN TO THAT IDEAL, AND HE WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO PUSH THAT IDEA TO GET THE NATIONAL GUARD.
THE SPACE FORCE IS GOING TO DO SOME TRAINING ON THAT BASE.
HE SAID IN THE AIR FORCE IS GOING TO DO SOME TRAINING ON THAT BASE.
SO THAT'S WHAT I GOT OUT OF THAT CONVERSATION.
AND HE WAS VERY, VERY SUPPORTIVE OF OPEN THAT BASE BACK UP.
TO THAT END, I THINK THEY EVEN MOVED UP THE TIME FRAME OF GETTING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE OUT THERE AT THE MALABAR ANNEX, WHICH IS EXCITING NEWS FOR FOR OUR ECONOMY LOCALLY AND EVEN SO. JUST THE COLLABORATION OF GETTING THAT BASE TOGETHER AND GETTING EXERCISES OUT THERE, AS WE ALL KNOW, THE TRAINING IS CRITICAL WHEN IT COMES TO MILITARY AND THAT IS OUR HIGH GROUND, SO TO SPEAK.
SO YEAH, I'M EXCITED ABOUT WHAT MAY BE HAPPENING AT THE MALABAR ANNEX ON MINTON ROAD.
DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND ALSO THANK YOU FOR INTRODUCING US TO BRIGADIER GENERAL PURDY.
I'M GOING TO START OFF WITH SPACE COAST LEAGUE OF CITIES AS WELL.
WE ARE. I'M THE CHAIR OF THE SPACE COAST LEAGUE OF CITY SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE AND THE PURPOSE OF THE SCHOLARSHIP IS TO ASSIST OR AID THOSE WHO ARE LOOKING AT EMPLOYMENT OR, YOU KNOW, INCREASING THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR LEVEL OF CAPABILITY WITH MUNICIPALITIES.
AND WITH THAT, WE HAD TWENTY TWO APPLICANTS.
ALL OF THEM WERE GREAT AND WE WE WERE ABLE TO NARROW IT DOWN TO FIVE TO BEING FROM THE CITY OF PALM BAY. SO PALM BAY PROUD.
SO BUT THAT WAS THAT WAS AWESOME.
IT WAS GREAT. ONE WAS A POLICE OFFICER, ANOTHER ONE WORKED IN CITY CLERK'S OFFICE AND ONE'S LOOKING TO BE A POLICE OFFICER WITH PALM BAY.
SO THAT WAS AWESOME. HE'S WITH THE PALM BAY EXPLORERS CURRENTLY.
SO. SO THAT WAS IT WAS VERY ENCOURAGING.
GREAT NIGHT. MOVING ON THIS PAST WEDNESDAY, I WENT ON A TOUR ON AN AIRBOAT OF THE MELBOURNE TILLMANN AREA LOCATED.
TO THE RIGHT OF AMERICANA, THEY TOOK US OUT ON AN AIRBOAT.
AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, IT WAS HOT.
I HAD TO PUT SOME SUNSCREEN ON.
AND I'M TELLING YOU, I'M ALMOST HAD A TAN ON ME.
THEY LIKE WHEN WE LAST BUDGET HEARING THE FIRST BUDGET HEARING, WE BROKE IT DOWN.
WE SHOWED WHAT WE GIVE TO THE SCHOOL BOARD, WHAT WE GIVE TO THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
AND THEN YOU SAW THAT SMALL LITTLE PORTION FOR THE MELBOURNE TILLMANN AND YOU GOT TO SEE
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I PERSONALLY GOT TO SEE WHAT THEY DID TO UTILIZE IT, AND THEY SHOWED ME THE DAM.AND ALL OF THIS IS TO PREVENT, YOU KNOW, CONTAMINATION TO TURKEY CREEK, WHICH IS ALSO CONTAMINATION TO THE INDIAN RIVER LAGOON.
SO I DEFINITELY WANT TO ENCOURAGE.
I'M GONNA GIVE ROSEMARY THE CONTACT.
DEBBIE MS., DEBBIE, BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU ALL BRING SUNSCREEN, A HAT, SOME SUNGLASSES BECAUSE I DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, AND DEFINITELY TAKE THE TOUR SAW A 12 FOOT GATOR OURSELVES.
AWESOME AS WELL, BUT IT WAS EYE OPENER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AT THE PORTION OUT.
I WAS ASKING THE QUESTION I HEARD WAS THIS.
AND I GOT THE ANSWERS I NEEDED.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR ANYBODY TO LOOK INTO.
LASTLY, MR. ROBINSON HIT IT. AS HE'S PULLING IT UP OVER OVER THE PREVIOUS YEARS. I TOOK IT UPON MYSELF TO TRY TO HELP AS MUCH AS I COULD DURING HURRICANE SEASON.
HOPE I'M NOT JINXING IT BY BRINGING THIS UP.
THAT WAS THE RIGHT ONE RIGHT THERE.
I HOPE I'M NOT JINXING IT BY BRINGING IT UP BECAUSE WE'RE ALMOST THROUGH IT.
BUT I WOULD TRY TO HELP AND JUST RALLY UP, YOU KNOW, YOUTH AND OTHERS TO HELP ASSIST THOSE WHO ARE DISABLED OR ELDERLY AND PUTTING UP SHUTTERS.
SO WITH THE YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD ABOUT ABOUT A YEAR OVER A YEAR AGO BEFORE COVID, THEY WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, PARTNER WITH, YOU KNOW, A NONPROFIT IN REGARDS TO, YOU KNOW, JUST FUNNELING ALL THOSE CALLS AND SURVEY ALMOST LIKE A SERVICE CENTER FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE WITH HURRICANE SHUTTERS.
SO THIS ISN'T FOR PLYWOOD OR ANYTHING ELSE.
THIS IS SPECIFICALLY YOU ALREADY HAVE THE SHUTTERS THERE.
YOU CAN CALL THIS NUMBER OR EMAIL AND WE'LL PUT YOU ON A LIST AND THEN WE'LL GET TO YOU.
AND THIS THIS IS FOR THE PALM BAY MELBOURNE AREA.
SO I'M EXCITED THAT WE GOT OUR COUNTY VOTE A PART OF THIS.
I'LL BE OUT THERE. WORKING YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD WILL BE OUT THERE WORKING, AND EVEN IF YOU JUST WANT TO VOLUNTEER, YOU CAN CALL THAT NUMBER OR EMAIL THEM AS WELL.
BUT I'M HAPPY BECAUSE I WAS A I WAS DYING, I WAS DYING.
THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO NEEDED HELP.
BUT THIS THIS HELPS US WORK TOGETHER TO KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
SO LORD, I'M TELLING YOU PLEASE, NO MORE HURRICANES.
WE'RE GOOD THIS YEAR. BUT JUST IN CASE WE GOT THIS RIGHT HERE, SO THANK YOU.
DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, I HAVE TWO ITEMS AND GENTLEMEN, I JUST WANT YOU TO HEAR MY HEART IN WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY.
THE FIRST THING I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU IS BACK IN THE 90S, RIGHT? YOU PROBABLY WERE.
WELL, I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO. BUT BACK IN THE 90S IN THIS CITY, WE WE HAD WE HAD WHAT WAS CONSIDERED A VISION BOARDS RIGHT BY THE CONSTITUENCY, BY OUR OUR RESIDENTS AND SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN PASSIONATE ABOUT.
AND ACTUALLY, RANDALL BOARDED UP AND REINVIGORATED ME.
AND THIS IS THE CITIZENS HAD A FIVE TO 10 YEAR PLAN ON WHAT AND HOW THEY ENVISIONED THE CITY IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS, WHETHER IT WAS PUBLIC WORKS, WHETHER IT WAS PORT PARKS AND REC. AND I KNOW FRED MIGHT REMEMBER THIS OR FIRST RESPONDERS, AND I WANTED TO SEE IF IF WE WE WIN ALONG, THAT IT SEEMED TO WORK BACK IN THOSE DAYS.
AS I REMEMBER, CHIEF ROSS ACTUALLY WAS THE ONE THAT GOT THAT TOGETHER TO GET THE TOWERS.
IF YOU REMEMBER THE NEW RADIO TOWERS THAT THAT WE NEEDED.
SO PART OF THAT DISCUSSION IS I'D LIKE TO SEE HOW WE CAN COLLABORATE WITH A BOARDS OF THAT NATURE WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY.
OUR RESPONSE TIMES WHAT'S THE NATIONAL AVERAGE, WHETHER IT'S A POLICE OR FIRE? AND AS THIS COMMUNITY CONTINUES TO GROW, AND WHAT I'M SEEING, GENTLEMEN, IS WE'RE GROWING AND THE POTENTIAL GROWTH FOR THE WEST AND THE SOUTHEAST IS LIKE SPREADING OUT THOSE RESOURCES, RIGHT? AND SO I WANTED TO SEE IF HOW YOU FELT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET A BOARD WITH THAT VISION, A VISION BOARD, WHETHER IT'S PUBLIC SAFETY, WHETHER IT'S PUBLIC WORKS AND GETTING OUR CITIZENS TO KIND OF LIKE IDENTIFY THOSE ISSUES WITH STAFF ON ON HOW WE SEE OUR COMMUNITY GROW IN THOSE ASPECTS, HONING IN ON THOSE THINGS.
SO JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW I'D LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I DON'T NEED A CONSENSUS TODAY, BUT I DEFINITELY WANT US TO START LOOKING AT HOW WE GROW AND HAVE THE CITIZENS START LOOKING AT THESE SOLUTIONS.
LIKE RANDALL SAID, WE'VE GOT ENGINEERS, WHICH WE JUST HAD INSPIRED FOR.
WE LITERALLY THIS IS SPACE TOURISM IN OUR COUNTY.
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I THIS ISN'T A PLANE FLOATING FOR A FEW MINUTES AND GET INTO SPACE.THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW IN ORBIT.
CIVILIAN ASTRONAUTS, AND I THINK THAT'S EXCITING IN OUR LIFETIME.
I WISH I COULD AFFORD A RIDE INTO SPACE PERSONALLY, BUT I KNOW THAT THAT MAY TAKE A FEW MORE YEARS BEFORE BEFORE THAT OCCURS.
BUT DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL OF BEING A CIVILIAN ASTRONAUT.
SO IN YOUR LIFETIME, IN YOUR LIFETIME, THEN I'D LIKE TO ALSO SHARE MY MY HEART OR IT'S THE MAYOR'S BALL SINCE IT CAME UP LAST TIME.
I DON'T WANT TO SHARE WHERE THE GOAL IS THAT I'M TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THE FUNDRAISING ASPECT OF THAT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'RE READY YET.
I'M WORKING WITH STAFF ON THAT.
I'M TRYING TO GET THOSE THOSE PIECES IN THE QUEUES AND AND ALL, YOU KNOW, THE I'S DOTTED AND THE T'S CROSSED.
BUT SOMETHING THAT I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT IS ATTEMPTING TO GET.
UH, THIS MAYOR'S BALL TO BE HELD IN THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
AND I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU WHAT WHAT THE GOAL IS, I WANT TO SEND THE LETTER.
TO ALL THREE, HAVE SHARING WITH THEM WHAT THE VISION IS THERE, THE NUMBER ONE EMPLOYER IN OUR CITY? AND I WANT TO HAVE THAT BALL AT THEIR FACILITY.
IN KEEPING IT IN PALM BAY AND IT BEING SUBSTANTIAL, SO I WANT TO SEND A LETTER TO ALL THREE HOUSES EXPLAINING TO THEM THEY'RE THE NUMBER ONE.
TWO. WE WOULD LOVE FOR THEM TO HOST THE MAYOR'S BALL.
NUMBER THREE, WE WOULD EVEN CONSIDER SAYING, YOU KNOW, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH L THREE HARRIS CITY OF PALM BAY, THE MAYOR'S BALL IS HOSTED AT L THREE HOUSE AND ALL OF THAT JUST TO HAVE THE MAYOR'S BALL IN PALM BAY.
NOW, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'LL HAPPEN.
BUT I WANT TO TRY TO KEEP IT IN PALM BAY.
AT A REALLY NICE FACILITY, AND I JUST WANT TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT THAT IS MY INTENT TO SEND THAT LETTER TO THEM DIRECTLY.
AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL THEY'LL SEE HOW WE'RE GOING WITH THAT AND THAT THAT'S ALL UNDER MY REPORT. DID YOU GUYS WANT TO COMMENT ON ANYTHING? DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, I'LL START WITH THE LETTER AND I SEE, LIKE WE SAID, COUNCILWOMAN MINUS AT THE TIME, SHE WAS PRESIDENT, MINUS THE SPACE COAST LEAGUE OF CITIES AND WE WERE TRYING TO HOST EVERY JANUARY IS USUALLY HOSTED AT L3 HARRIS, BUT THIS PAST YEAR THEY DIDN'T LET US DO THE COVERT.
SO HOPEFULLY THEY'RE MORE THEY'RE OPEN TO IT NOW BEING THAT IT'S DOWN THE LINE.
I'M FOR IT, I'M FOR IT BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN WANTING TO HAVE THIS AND THIS AND MANY OTHER EVENTS IN THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
SO I'M FOR IT. BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY THEY MIGHT NOT BE OPEN JUST YET IN REGARDS TO THE THE FIRST ITEM.
THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT I WAS LEADING WITH HAVING PRESENTATIONS FROM HOME FROM LIKE POLICE AND FIRE.
YUP, SAME. WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE.
WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T KNOW, THEN HOW CAN YOU MAKE MORE INFORMED DECISIONS? AND YES, WE KNOW, BUT WE WANT THEM TO KNOW AS WELL.
SO EVERYTHING IS OUT IN THE OPEN LIKE, OK, THIS IS WHY THEY'RE LOOKING TO DO THIS OR THAT, AND BACK TO THE ROUNDABOUTS THAT'S GOING TO SLOW, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GOING TO SLOW RESPONSE TIME IF WE HAVE ROUNDABOUTS ALL THROUGHOUT ON BABCOCK'S.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER POINT TAKEN RIGHT THERE.
DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON COUNCILMAN FELIX YOU ARE FOSTER.
YEAH, I WANTED TO SAY, I THINK EVERY TIME WE HAVE A MAYOR BALL, IT SHOULD BE IN PALM BAY AND I'M 100 PERCENT IN SUPPORT OF THAT.
YOUR LETTER TO L3 HARRIS, I LIKE THE IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, EMPLOYING CITIZENS, GETTING THEIR SKILLS TO HELP MOVE THE CITY FORWARD.
I HAVE IDEAL THAT I DON'T WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU NOW, BUT IT'S SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT THAT COULD BE INCORPORATED WITH THAT AND WHY I HAVE THE MIC.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE A QUICK ANNOUNCEMENT.
MAYOR. I'M POINTING OUT KRISTEN HAMILTON TO THE YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD.
THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN FELIX, YOU WANTED TO WEIGH IN HERE.
I'M AGREEING WITH WITH WITH WITH EVERYTHING YOU GUYS MENTIONED IN TERMS OF BRINGING THE MAYOR'S BALL TO THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
I'LL BE AWESOME IF WE CAN GET THAT FACILITY.
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BUT IF NOT, PLAN B, I KNOW A PLACE THAT YOU KNOW IN MY STANDARD AS BILL BATON WOULD SAY, MY STANDARD.I THINK IT'S A PRETTY DECENT PLACE.
YOU KNOW, THE SENIOR CENTER, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE PLAN B.
SO I BELIEVE THAT LET'S UTILIZE THIS, THIS FACILITY, IT'S A GREAT FACILITY.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE PUBLIC IS FULLY AWARE OF IT.
SO JUST I JUST WANTED TO ADD IN THE EVENT WE DON'T GET ALL THREE AREAS THAT COULD BE A FACILITY WE SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF.
THANK YOU. WELL, IN ALL TRANSPARENCY, WE'VE BEEN CONSIDERING THAT AND WE JUST HAVE TO LOOK AT SOMETHING THAT.
YOU KNOW, MAY, MAY IT MAY NOT FIT THE.
IT MAY NOT FIT THE THE OBJECTIVE, YOU KNOW, SO THAT BUT THAT'S BEEN HIGHLY CONSIDERED L3 HARRIS, IF YOU'RE LISTENING, THE CITY OF PALM BAY WANTS TO PALM BAY WANTS TO PARTNER WITH YOU. LET'S HOST THE MAYOR'S BALL THERE AND AND LET'S LET'S PARTNER WITH THE CITY.
THAT ENDS MY REPORTS AND WE'RE ON NEW BUSINESS.
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MADAM SHERMAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR.ITEM NUMBER ONE IS CONSIDERATION OF A CO-SPONSORSHIP AND WAIVER OF THE FEE FOR THE MOBILE STAGE FOR PUSH-BACK 20 20'S COMMUNITY IMMUNITY EVENT TO BE HELD ON SEPTEMBER 18TH.
TWENTY TWENTY ONE, VALUED AT NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR DOLLARS AND SEVENTY EIGHT CENTS. THIS IS THE ITEM THAT WAS BROUGHT BEFORE YOU AT OUR MEETING TWO WEEKS AGO.
A REQUEST UNDER PUBLIC COMMENTS.
SO STAFF HAS REVIEWED THE REQUEST.
THE VALUE OF BOTH THE MOBILE STAGE AT THE NONPROFIT RATE AND THE STAFFING IS AT NINE HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR DOLLARS AND CHANGE.
THE ONE THING I WILL SHARE WITH COUNCIL, AND THIS IS PART OF OUR DISCUSSION TONIGHT IS DISCUSSION OF THE APPLICATION OF THE CO-SPONSORSHIP POLICY.
SO THE NEW CO-SPONSORSHIP POLICY, WHICH CAME OUT OF THE JHALAK AUDIT AND THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS TO HAVE DEFINITIVE CRITERIA FOR, YOU KNOW, DETERMINING CO-SPONSORSHIP LED US TO CREATE A POLICY THAT COUNCIL APPROVED ON JUNE 3RD.
STAFF HAS BEEN GEARING UP TO IMPLEMENT THAT POLICY AS OF THE NEW FISCAL YEAR, OCTOBER ONE. SO THIS WAS A LITTLE BIT OF AN OUT OF THE NORM FOR US, BUT WE WENT AHEAD AND LOOKED AT THE POLICY AND HOW IT COMPARED TO WHAT THIS EVENT WAS REQUESTING.
WE FOUND A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WANTED TO BRING TO COUNCIL'S ATTENTION FOR OUR DISCUSSION. SO ITEM NUMBER ONE, AND I'LL JUST READ IT OUT SO THAT EVERYONE IS AWARE OF OF WHY WE'RE TALKING THROUGH THIS.
OUR CO-SPONSORSHIP POLICY HAD THREE CRITERIA THAT MADE AN ORGANIZATION ELIGIBLE TO APPLY CRITERIA. NUMBER ONE WAS IT MUST BE FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, WHICH THIS EVENT IS. ITEM NUMBER TWO IS THAT IT MUST BE PLANNED AND CONDUCTED BY A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, WHICH THIS EVENT IS.
BUT THE THIRD ONE IS THAT WE HAD A CRITERIA THAT IT MUST BE HELD ON A CITY OWNED AND CONTROLLED PROPERTY, WHICH THIS ONE IS, YOU KNOW, AT A CHURCH, NOT A CITY PROPERTY.
THAT'S ONE THING I WANT TO BRING TO COUNCIL IS ATTENTION FOR DISCUSSION.
THE OTHER THING IS WE PUT CRITERIA IN HERE THAT SAID THAT APPLICATIONS NEEDED TO BE RECEIVED 90 DAYS IN ADVANCE OF AN EVENT, AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY CRITERIA IN THERE TO GIVE US EITHER A SHORTER SCHEDULE OR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING ITEMS TO YOU.
THAT MIGHT BE IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY, BUT MAYBE CAN'T MEET THAT TIMELINE.
SO CERTAINLY WE WANTED TO GET DISCUSSION WITH COUNCIL, SOME DIRECTION ON WHETHER YOU'D LIKE US TO LOOK AT THOSE TWO ITEMS WITH RESPECT TO THE CO-SPONSORSHIP POLICY, BUT ALSO THOSE ARE ITEMS WE'D HAVE TO DISCUSS WITH REGARD TO THIS REQUEST TO.
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, MADAME SHERMAN.
BEFORE WE GET TO THE PUBLIC SPEAKER, I I THINK MAYBE WE COULD POLICE THIS RIGHT.
I REALLY BELIEVE THAT TO TO PUT HANDCUFFS ON ON STAFF FOR 90 DAYS IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, WE COULD HAVE SOMEONE COME UP AND LIKE WHAT WE'RE FACING TODAY.
I REALLY BELIEVE WE SHOULD GIVE THE DISCRETION TO STAFF WITH THAT TIME FRAME, AND I'M ALSO IN AGREEMENT THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ON CITY PROPERTY.
SO THOSE ARE MY TWO COMMENTS ON THAT COUNCIL.
I WAS GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING, MAYOR, BECAUSE WE HAVE EVENTS LIKE CENTERPOINT CHURCH AND IN SEVERAL OTHERS.
AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, WITH THE TIME STAMP OF 90 DAYS, SAY A HURRICANE DOES HAPPEN OR SOMETHING AND SOMEBODY WANTS TO HOLD A FREE EVENT, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY GOT TO GIVE 90 DAYS BY THAT TIME. WE'RE OUT OF HURRICANE SEASON.
SO, YOU KNOW, I'M ALL FOR GIVING STAFF THE DISCRETION, WHATEVER TIME THEY STAMP, THEY THINK THEY NEED AND REMOVING ITEM THREE AND STICKING WITH THE FIRST TWO COUNCILMAN FELIX.
YOUR MAYOR, THIS IS ONE ITEM THAT YOU GUYS RECALL WHEN THIS CAME UP LAST TIME, ONE THING
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I HIGHLIGHT IS THE FACT THAT THERE'S SOMETHING IN PLACE.SO WE GOT OUT TO TAKE THAT IN CONSIDERATION, SURE ENOUGH, AND WE KNEW I KIND OF FORESEEING US COMING TO THIS.
BUT BUT AS I STATED TO ALL CITY MANAGER IN PREVIOUS CONVERSATION, SO SO WE LOOKED AT AN ITEM LIKE THAT. SO THE REASON WE PUT THIS THING IN PLACE TO BEGIN WITH IS TO REALLY LEASE, TO HAVE SOME SOME SORT OF STRUCTURE IN PLACE WHERE THERE'S OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. HOW DO WE GO ABOUT DOING THAT? BUT THE THREE ELEMENTS IS THE PEOPLE ASPECT, THE HUMAN ASPECT, HOW WE TOUCH ARE WE, YOU KNOW, ENHANCE OUR COMMUNITY, RIGHT? WE GIVE VALUE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
THE SECOND IS THE IS THE THE ASPECT OF BEING FREE OR FREE ITEM, A FREE, YOU KNOW, A PROGRAM. AND THE THIRD IS THE LOCATION LOCATION TO ME, AS FAR AS IF WE'RE GOING BY IN AN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE.
AS LONG AS ONE THING I COST YOUR STAFF, THOUGH, IS IS WE WE OUGHT TO.
IF THE CITY'S NAME NEVER GOING TO TIE TO IT, LET'S JUST MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S NO LIABILITY TO THE CITY.
WHAT I WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS IF WE'RE GOING TO TIE OUR NAME TO AN EVENT, WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE LOCATION MEANS CERTAIN CRITERIA IN TERMS OF LIABILITY WHERE THE CITY DON'T, IT DOESN'T REPRESENT SOME SORT OF LIABILITY.
SO OTHER THAN THAT, I'M GREAT WITH A LIMITED THE LOCATION.
THE TIMELINE, AS WELL AS THE CITY DO NEED TIME TO PLAN AND ORGANIZE AND WORK WITH DIFFERENT EVENTS AND STUFF.
BUT YEAH, LET IT LET IT BE TO THEIR DISCRETION.
LOOKED AT THE WHAT'S IN FRONT OF THEM AND WORK WITH THAT.
COUNCILMAN FELIX COUNCILWOMAN FOSTER OH, THANK YOU, MAYOR.
YEAH, I THINK THE 90 DAYS SHOULD THE STAFF SHOULD BE ABLE TO WAIVER THAT 90 DAYS.
REQUIREMENT. AND AS FAR AS CITY PROPERTY.
WE SHOULD GET RID OF THAT, IT SHOULD BE IN THE CITY LIMITS OF PALM BAY, AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. WELL, IT MAY BE I'M NOT SURE I DON'T WANT TO HANDCUFF STAFF, I LIKE IT'S AN EVENT CITY OWN EVENT OR A 501 C THREE THAT'S PART OF THE CITY, RIGHT? WE DON'T EVEN KNOW, LET'S SAY, THE FOLKS THAT ARE DOING THE HOMELESS ISSUE, RIGHT? AND THEY THEY'RE JUST RIGHT ABOVE THE BORDER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I WOULDN'T WANT TO HANDCUFF THEM, SO I WANT TO GIVE THEM THAT LUXURY.
OF DISCRETION TO BE APPLIED, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT BECAUSE THIS STILL COMES BEFORE US, RIGHT? SO IF SO, IF IT IS IF IT DOES SEEM LIKE IT'S TOO FAR OUT IN WEST MELBOURNE OR MELBOURNE, THEN WE CAN INTERVENE.
IF THAT MAKES IT, MARY, IF I MAY, I'M GOING TO TRY AND SPEAK FOR FOUR COUNCILMAN FOSTER, BUT I THINK WHAT WHAT COUNCILWOMAN FOSTER WE IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT MEANT TO SAY NOT CITY, CITY, CITY PROPERTY.
SO AS LONG AS IT'S WITHIN THE CITY.
BUT YEAH, BECAUSE THE THE ITEM, THE LANGUAGE, CURRENT LANGUAGE HAS TO BE A CITY PROPERTY, CITY MANAGED PROPERTY OR CITY OWNED PROPERTY.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO GET RID OF FOR THE SAKE OF CLARITY.
IS THAT IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH. SO GET RID OF THAT AND GET RID OF THE 90 DAYS YOU SHOULD GET AN EMOTION, MADAM SHERMAN OR YOUR THOUGHTS.
ARE YOU GOING TO BRING THIS BACK? I WAS PLANNING TO BRING IT BACK, SINCE WE NEED TO ACTUALLY TECHNICALLY ADVERTISE IT AS A CHANGE. BUT THE THE 90 DAYS.
SO BECAUSE IT HAS TO COME TO COUNCIL, WE NEED SOME TIME FRAME IN THERE TO PROVIDE FOR THE FULL APPLICATION PROCESS.
SO IF WE COMPLETELY STRIP AWAY THE TIMELINE, THAT WON'T WORK FOR US EITHER.
BUT YOU KNOW, SOME SOME PARAMETERS WILL KIND OF TALK THROUGH THE TIMING ON WHEN WE NEED TO GET AGENDA ITEMS READY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THIS THIS ITEM CAME TO YOU AT A AT A COUNCIL MEETING.
IT'S NOT A LOT OF TIME TO DO THE FULL PROCESS OF A CO-SPONSORSHIP VETTING BECAUSE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE TO HAPPEN.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING COUNCILS SHOULD CONSIDER TO.
IF YOU DON'T WANT US TO GO THROUGH THAT MORE EXHAUSTIVE PROCESS AND YOU WANT US TO BE A LITTLE HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT STRUCTURE AND WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE POLICY IN GREATER DETAIL, ACTUALLY.
OK. MAYOR, SORRY, DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, YEAH, SO LIKE I SAID, IT'S GOING TO BE Y'ALL DOING IT. I'M LOOKING AT ANYWHERE, YOU KNOW, 30 DAYS OR 45 DAYS ANYWHERE IN BETWEEN THAT.
WELL, WHAT WOULD BE MORE FEASIBLE, I GUESS, FOR STAFF OR I WAS THINKING IN THE 45 DAY RANGE, BUT WE CAN TALK THROUGH WHAT'S THE TIGHTEST TIMEFRAME WE COULD ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT 30 DAYS MIGHT BE DOABLE, BUT WE'LL JUST RUN THROUGH THAT AND BRING BACK A RECOMMENDATION
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TO COUNCIL ON IT AND AT THE SAME TIME, JUST GIVING YOU THAT DISCRETION IF IT MEETS ALL THE CRITERIA.WE DON'T HAVE TO WITNESS ALL OF THESE LIKE WE HAVE ESTABLISHED FIVE A ONE C TERESE THAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING, YOU KNOW, EVENTS FOR FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
SO YOU HAVE CONSENSUS, MA'AM, I THINK AND AND SO WE'LL YOU'LL BE BRINGING THAT UP.
THANK YOU, MA'AM. SO WE IDENTIFIED THAT.
NOW LET'S HEAR FROM OUR RESIDENT MR. BILL BATON. GILBERT IN 586 OCEAN SPRAY STREET, SOUTHWEST, THREE MINUTES IS NOT ENOUGH TIME ON THIS ONE.
ON AACM, TWENTY TWENTY ONE OF MAY OF THIS YEAR THAT I BROUGHT UP THE SAME QUESTION THAT WE'RE FACING NOW, WE DIDN'T HAVE A POLICY SETUP THAT WAS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO BE JUDGED ON AND WHO GETS WHAT.
I BRING THIS UP YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, BUT HERE WE ARE STILL WITH THIS UNDER THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT FINDING NUMBER 16.
THE CITY HAS NOT ESTABLISHED CONTROLS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SPECIAL EVENTS AND DID NOT DOCUMENT PUBLIC PURPOSE FOR SUCH EVENTS INCLUDED.
AND THAT WAS RIGHT OFF THE BAT WAS THE FACT OF THE MOBILE MOBILE STAGE THAT WAS IN THE AUDITOR GENERAL'S REPORT.
OK, ALONG WITH THAT, YOU'RE MAKING SOME MODIFICATIONS.
I'M NOT AGAINST PEOPLE GETTING THIS.
I JUST WANTED TO HAVE A POLICY THAT WAS STRAIGHT AND UP FRONT AND EVERYBODY KNEW WAS WHAT? WHAT SHEET OF PAPER, WHAT SHEET OF MUSIC THEY WERE PLAYING FROM.
THAT'S GREAT. I UNDERSTAND THAT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS, THOSE ARE ALSO GOVERNMENT IDENTITY, PUBLIC GOVERNMENT IDENTITIES.
BUT UNDER OUR OWN GUIDELINES, IT SAYS GOVERNMENT IDENTITIES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE THE STAGE BECAUSE THAT'S PRO THAT IS, YOU CAN USE THAT IN YOUR CAMPAIGNING MECHANISM.
SO THAT WOULD SHOW SPONSORSHIP OF AS ONE CANDIDATE OVER ANOTHER RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
OK. I DO AGREE IT NEEDS TO BE IN THE CITY LIMITS.
I DO PREFER THAT IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD GO TOWARDS BENEFITING OUR PARKS AND REC, SO IT'D BE PUBLIC CITY PROPERTY.
THAT'S HOW WE CAN ADVERTISE IT AND GET IT AND GET IT OUT THERE.
WHAT I'VE BEEN ADDRESSING WITH THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME IS IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE GUIDELINES AND YOU DON'T FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES THAT SETS YOU UP FOR PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND DISCRIMINATORY COMPLAINT IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW YOUR OWN GUIDELINE, WE HAPPENED.
SO THAT'S WHERE I'M AT WITH THIS ONE.
I'M NOT SAYING DON'T ALLOW SOMEBODY TO USE SOMETHING FREE.
I'M JUST SAYING, MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT BEING DISCRIMINATORY ON WHO GETS TO BORROW IT AND WHO DOESN'T.
BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE USING YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS TO SAY, WELL, THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE, THEIR IDEALS MEET MINE SO THEY CAN HAVE IT FOR FREE YOUR IDEALS, EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE FOR WHATEVER REASON, DON'T MEET MY IDEAS, BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET YOU HAVE IT.
SO IT SETS THEM UP, SETS YOU UP FOR A CHANCE FOR A DISCRIMINATORY COMPLAINT.
THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING. FOLLOW THE RULES, SET THE RULES AND FOLLOW THEM.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MASTER CHIEF.
OK, I'LL HAVE A MOTION MOTION APPROVED CO-SPONSORSHIP AND WAVING OF THE STAGE FEE AND STAFF TIME COSTS VALUED AT NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FOUR DOLLARS AND SEVENTY EIGHT CENTS SECOND. I GOT A MOTION MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? I APPRECIATE MR. BATTENS COMMENTS.
YOU KNOW I DO. BUT THE CO-SPONSORSHIP POLICY IS EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1ST.
SO IN THE MEANTIME, WE STILL HAVE TO DO THIS IN THE PUBLIC, AND THAT GOES WITH THE MOBILE MOBILE STAGE. PREVIOUSLY, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, THE MOBILE STAGE COULD HAVE BEEN HERE OR THERE, BUT IT DIDN'T COME BEFORE COUNCIL.
SO NOW WE'RE MAKING SURE EVERYTHING'S IN THE PUBLIC.
BUT THIS POLICY IS IN EFFECT OCTOBER 1ST, BUT WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A FEW MINOR CHANGE.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT, MAYOR.
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION? THE NARNAUL A FAVOR, I MEAN, HE OPPOSED PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
ITEM NUMBER TWO MAN ADAM SMITH.
YES, SIR, THIS IS THE CONSIDERATION OF THE REMUNERATION FOR ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY, AND I WANTED TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BACKGROUND BECAUSE OF COURSE, THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT AS FAR AS WHY THIS IS EVEN BEING BROUGHT FOR COUNCIL.
AND IT'S BECAUSE AND OUR CHARTER SPECIFICALLY SECTION THREE POINT ONE ONE FOUR, IT PROVIDES THAT COUNCIL SHOULD DETERMINE THE REMUNERATION TO BE PAID TO THE CITY ATTORNEY
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AND OR ASSISTANT ATTORNEYS.SO THIS IS WHY THIS ITEM IS BEING BROUGHT TO COUNCIL.
OF COURSE, REMUNERATION INCLUDES NOT ONLY SALARY, BUT SALARY AND BENEFITS.
AND ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE.
GIVE YOU SOME HISTORY ON THE POSITION.
AS FAR AS THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY POSITION, THE POSITION INITIALLY WASN'T AN ATTORNEY POSITION. IT WAS FOR OUR.
IT WAS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL POSITION ONCE THE PARALEGAL LEFT.
ANDREW LAND, WHO SUZANNE CITY ATTORNEY, HIRED A NEWER ATTORNEY, SO HE RECLASSIFIED THE LITIGATION PARALEGAL POSITION TO A JUNIOR STAFF ATTORNEY POSITION IS AT THE SAME PAY PLAN IS JUST A NAME CHANGE ONCE THE JUNIOR STAFF ATTORNEY LEFT.
HE THEN HIRED MR. EDWARDS AS THIS AND CHANGED THE TITLE TO THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY.
HE PAID THEM AT THE TOP OF THE PAY SCALE, BUT IT WAS STILL THE SAME PAY SCALE AS THE PARALEGAL POSITION BECAUSE IT'S NEVER CHANGED THE ACTUALLY THE I DO HAVE A PARALEGAL, THE PARALEGAL AND THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY.
BOTH ARE UNDER THE SAME PAY SCALE.
SO THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM, HE'S WITH HIM STARTING AT THE TOP OF THE BOOK, BEING IN THE WRONG PAY PLAN BECAUSE THE PAY PLAN ACTUALLY SHOULD HAVE CHANGED, BUT IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARDER TO MAKE CHANGES BECAUSE ALL THE CHANGES HAVE TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL.
SO IT WAS A LITTLE EASIER JUST TO, YOU KNOW, CHANGE THE NAME BECAUSE CHANGING THE NAME, IT DOESN'T COME TO COUNCIL, BUT YOU CREATE THIS PROBLEM WHERE YOU GOT SOMEONE THAT'S NOT IN THE CORRECT PAY PLAN.
B ATTORNEY SHOULDN'T BE IN THE SAME PAY PLAN AS THE PARALEGAL, SO THAT'S WHY I BROUGHT THIS FOR AVENATTI'S AT THE TOP OF THE PAY PLAN AND CREATES ANOTHER ISSUE WHENEVER YOU GET THE COST OF LIVING INCREASES, HIS SALARY CAN INCREASE.
SO HE'S BEEN AT THE EXACT SAME SALARY SINCE HE STARTED.
SO. THE WHICH WAS JANUARY 9TH, 2017, SO I BROUGHT THE ISSUE THE I AM FOR ACTUALLY TWO OTHER ATTORNEYS ARE IN THE SAME SITUATION AND AS I WAS GOING THROUGH THE BRIEFINGS WITH COUNSEL, ONE OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS ASKED ME, OK, SO IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? AND I TOLD COUNCIL MEMBER, NOT EXACTLY WHAT I WANT.
I MEAN, AS FAR AS I'M TRYING TO HELP, YOU KNOW, THREE OF MY MEMBERS, BUT I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH HOW THIS IS SET UP, AND I EXPLAINED TO HIM WHAT MY VISION WAS BECAUSE EVEN WHEN WE TAKE CARE OF THIS, MR. EDWARDS, IF YOU ALL DECIDE TO MOVE HIM TO THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY POSITION, START THEM AT THE BASE PAY.
IT CERTAINLY ADDRESSES HIS PAY, GETS HIM IN THE RIGHT PAY PLAN.
BUT YOU HAVE THE CITY ATTORNEY AND EVERYBODY ELSE IS THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY.
AND I THINK ABOUT THAT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IF WE HAD THE CITY MANAGER AND WE HAD JOHN BROWN, THE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, AND THEN SHE MADE EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD A DEPUTY CITY MANAGER. IT IS NOT AN IDEAL SITUATION.
SO WHAT I'M ASKING YOU ALL, AND I EXPLAINED TO HIM WHAT MY VISION WAS.
AND AS I READ WHAT THE CHARTER SAID, ALTHOUGH SOME PEOPLE SAY, HEY, WE'RE BREAKING IT, WE'RE NOT VIOLATING A CHARTER BY HAVING A DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY, BUT I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH JUST HAVING A CITY ATTORNEY AND ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEYS AND HAVING THEM GRADUATED.
THERE'S MOVEMENT WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION AND YOU ALSO HAVE A CLEAR YOU HAVE THE CITY ATTORNEY. EVERYBODY KNOWS WHO NO ONE.
BUT I'M NOT HERE OTHER THAN ME SENDING OUT AN EMAIL OR OR A TEXT.
SOMEBODY CAN LOOK AT THE ORGANIZATION CHART AND SEE WHO'S NUMBER TWO.
SO I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH THE H.R.
DIRECTOR. THERE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE SOME CHANGES AS FAR AS SOME OTHER PAY PLANS AND CREATION OF ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.
SO WHAT I'M ASKING COUNSEL, BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE A FEW THINGS ON HERE IS JUST TO DEAL WITH ONE ITEM. THE ONLY ITEM THAT I WANT COUNCIL TO ADDRESS AT TODAY IS MR. EDWARDS SALARY.
I AM THEN GOING TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL WITH MY COMPLETE REORGANIZATION PLAN SO THAT WE HAVE THE LEVELS BROKEN OUT AND IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO THE LOOK AT THE SURVEY THAT I DID PROVIDE. AND YOU LOOK AT OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, THE ONLY HAVING TWO POSITIONS IS NOT TYPICAL. AND IT'S ALSO IT'S JUST NOT SOME WAY THAT ACTUALLY IT CREATES THIS ISSUE.
WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S OUT OF PAY PLAN AND YOU DON'T HAVE MANY OPTIONS WHERE YOU HAVE, DO YOU WANT TO REWARD THEM FOR DOING THINGS WELL AND FOR LONGEVITY? BUT IT RESULTS IN A LARGE INCREASE AT ONE TIME BECAUSE IT'S NOT PROPERLY STRUCTURED IN
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THE PAY PLAN WAS WRONG.SO WHAT I WANT TO DO IS ADDRESS THOSE PROBLEMS GOING FORTH.
GET GET MR. EDWARDS TO WHERE HE COUNCIL BELIEVES THAT HE SHOULD BE, BUT ALSO CREATE THE PROBLEMS GOING FORWARD. SO NO OTHER COUNCIL HAS TO KIND OF MAKE UP THIS MUCH.
AS PART OF THE RESEARCH THAT I DID, I DID LOOK AT A FEW CITIES AND.
WE LOOKED AT GAINESVILLE, TALLAHASSEE, PORT ST.
LUCIE, WHICH IS VERY MUCH SIMILAR TO US, AND I DID PICK ONE CITY THAT IS IN COUNTY MELBOURNE, ALTHOUGH SMALLER THAN US AND DOESN'T DO THEIR LITIGATION IN HOUSE LIKE US.
BUT EVEN IN MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE DOESN'T HAVE ANY ATTORNEY IN THEIR OFFICE THAT CURRENTLY IS PAY SEVENTY ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY DOLLARS THERE.
SO RIGHT NOW, OF ALL THE ATTORNEYS THAT ARE SURVEYED, MR EDWARDS IS THE LOWEST PAID ATTORNEY, SO THAT'S WHY I'VE REALLY BROUGHT THIS FORTH TO COUNCIL.
SO INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF TRYING TO PUT A BANDAGE ON IT BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF BEEN BANDAGE AND AVOID IT FOR A FEW YEARS NOW IS TO TAKE IT, HIT HEAD ON AND TO MAKE THINGS RIGHT. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU, MADAM SMITH, AND THANK YOU FOR THE SALARY COMPARISON HERE, LOCALLY AND THROUGHOUT THE REGION.
I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU DOING YOUR DUE DILIGENCE ON BEHALF OF YOUR STAFF.
ANY PUBLIC SPEAKER CARDS? DR. DOROTHY FIELDS.
EVENING, MAYOR MEDINA, DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON AND OF COURSE, COUNCIL MEMBER, FOSTER AND FELIX. I AM SO PROUD OF THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
I STAND HERE AS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE VISION 2000 OR THE CITY OF PALM BAY.
YOU ALL HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB.
IN ADDITION TO THIS, I STAND AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY FOR A GREAT AMERICAN CITY, STOOD THERE AND TALKED ABOUT PALM BAY.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? AT THE RISK OF DATING MYSELF.
I'M ALSO COMING AS THE FIRST EMPLOYEE EMPLOYER OF RODNEY EDWARDS.
I REMEMBER HOW THIS YOUNG MAN HAS ACTUALLY PROVIDED SUCH A STELLAR PERFORMANCE TO OUR CITY AND TO THE INDUSTRY.
WELL, I REMEMBER HIM AT 16 YEARS OLD WHEN HE CAME TO WORK FOR ME AT THE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT AT HOME TO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER.
AND I'M JUST GOING TO GO AHEAD AND JUST PUT HIM ON BLAST.
AND WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT THIS GENTLEMAN WHOM YOU'RE GOING TO CONSIDER REMUNERATION FOR TONIGHT ACTUALLY HAD GRADUATED, HE WENT INTO THE MILITARY SERVED AND IS NOW A VETERAN AND HE HAS HIS OWN BUSINESS.
AND THE FACT THAT HE IS THE LOWEST PAID ATTORNEY IN ALL OF THE MUNICIPALITIES, I KIND OF STILL WANT TO BE PROUD OF YOU.
AND SO I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PRESENTING THAT INFORMATION THAT YOU DID, BUT I'M JUST ENGAGING YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR THE REMUNERATION FOR ALL OF THEM, BUT PARTICULARLY MR. RODNEY EDWARDS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW OF HIS WORK, YOU KNOW, HE'S DONE A FANTASTIC JOB.
AND CERTAINLY, HE IS DESERVING.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE CITY OF PALM BAY HAS DONE SUCH A GREAT JOB AND YOUR HUMAN CAPITAL IS SO IMPORTANT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT MR. RODNEY EDWARDS IS ONE OF THE MOST FANTASTIC EXAMPLES OF YOUR ABILITY TO CHOOSE THE BEST, AS WELL AS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOUR HUMAN CAPITAL IS WELL TAKEN CARE OF.
AND SO I CERTAINLY DO APPRECIATE IT, AND I CALL UPON YOU WITH ALL OF OUR HELP AND ALL OF MY EXPERIENCE WITH HIM, AS WELL AS MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CITY.
AND I THANK YOU AS I'M HERE FOR FORMER ADMINISTRATION TO ALSO THE PROCLAMATION FOR NAMING TERESA FIELDS AVENUE.
I PUT MY REPUTATION ON THE LINE FOR THIS GENTLEMAN, AND I SAY TO YOU HIS CHARACTER IS MUCH DESERVING AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AS WELL.
TAKE CARE OF AND THANK YOU SO MUCH.
THANK YOU, MA'AM, AND PLEASE KNOW THAT RODNEY EDWARDS IS A UNITED STATES MARINE.
OVERALL, I AM NOT GOING TO TOUCH THAT WITH A TEN FOOT POLE.
ANY OTHER SPEAKER CARDS COUNSEL?
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MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO PROMOTE MR. EDWARDS FROM ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY G.G DASH V TO DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY DJ DASH AP AT THE BASE SALARY.
I GOT A MOTION BY DEPUTY JOHNSON ABOUT COUNCILMAN FELIX.
ANY ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION, GENTLEMEN? YES. SUMMIT. YES. MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MS. OWN MRS. SMITH FOR ELABORATING BECAUSE IT WAS ME.
I WAS THE ONE. I WAS TALKING TO HER EXTENSIVELY ON THIS BECAUSE I ALSO THERE ARE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WEREN'T EVEN ON HERE THAT HAD SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT LIKE IN IN INSTANCE, BECAUSE THERE'S BEEN TIMES WITH THIS COUNCIL IN PREVIOUS COUNCIL WHERE IF MRS. SMITH IS OUT OF TOWN, YOU KNOW WHO'S TECHNICALLY NEXT IN CHARGE LIKE WE KNOW FOR SURE.
IF MS. SUZANNE SHERMAN IS OUT AND IT'S MRS. JONES OR IF MS. TERESE IS OUT, THEN IT'S TERESE.
SO I WAS ASKING FOR CLARIFICATION WITH THAT IN THE FUTURE AS WELL.
BUT SO THAT'S WHY I WAS LIKE LOOKING LIKE, COULD WE SEPARATE THESE TWO OR WHATNOT? SO I'M FINE WITH THIS, AND I ASKED HER AND I'M GOING TO ASK HER AGAIN JUST SO PUBLICLY HER PUBLICLY HURT BECAUSE MOVING FROM ONE TITLE TO ANOTHER ALSO CALLS FOR MORE.
SO I ASKED HER, DID SHE HAVE CONFIDENCE? AND SHE SAID, YES, SO STILL SAY YES.
SO THAT'S ALSO DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON.
I DID CONTACT OUR CITY ATTORNEY.
I BELIEVE THAT RODNEY EDWARDS MERIT STAND ALONE, AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRESENTED. I'M GLAD THAT THAT'S HOW WE'RE WE'RE DOING THIS.
AND YOU'RE RIGHT. MY MY ENCOUNTERS AND MY MY DEALINGS WITH MR. EDWARDS HAVE BEEN ABOVE PAR.
AND AND MOREOVER, I REALLY LOVED THE FACT THAT HE'S A UNITED STATES MARINE COUNCILMAN COUNCILMAN FOSTER. I LIKE THE FACT THAT HE'S A VETERAN, I'M NOT GOING TO SAY BECAUSE I'M AN AIR FORCE.
AMEN. BUT BESIDES THAT, YOU KNOW, MR. EDWARDS AND HIS I MIGHT DIFFER WITH YOU, DEPUTY MAYOR.
JANUARY 20, 17 AT THE SAME SALARY HE IS RIGHT NOW.
THAT'S CRAZY. COST OF LIVING WENT UP.
HE DEFINITELY SAVED THE CITY MONEY SINCE I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL.
I'VE SEEN THEM SETTLE SOME SUITS.
AND HE'S HE'S HE'S BEEN HE'S DONE YEOMAN WORK.
SO I THINK HE SHOULD BECOME A DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY.
BUT AT THE SAME SALARY AS HIS COUNTERPART, WHO'S NOT BOARD CERTIFIED.
SO I THINK HE SHOULDN'T START AT THE BASE SALARY BECAUSE HE'S BEEN HERE.
WHAT? WELL, NO, FOUR YEARS, FOUR YEARS.
AND HE AND HE HE HE HE GOT HIRED.
UNDER A PARALEGAL SALARY, AS AN ATTORNEY, THIS GUY HAS A, YOU KNOW, COLLEGE DEGREE PROFESSIONAL LICENSE BOARD CERTIFIED BY THE FLORIDA BAR, OR HE WOULDN'T BE ATTORNEY, AND HE HANDLES A LOT OF CASES FOR US.
SO STARTING SOMEONE OFF AT THE BARE MINIMUM AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT SALARY RANGE, I THINK HE SHOULD BE EQUAL TO HIS COUNTERPARTS.
BUT SHE SAVED US THREE YEARS OF ATTORNEY SALARY.
SO THAT'S WHERE I'M THAT'S WHERE I'M AT WITH THAT.
THANK YOU, MAYOR. I THINK I WOULD ECHO ALL THE VERY NICE COMMENTS IN REGARDS OF MR. EDWARDS. AGAIN, YOU KNOW, A GOOD POINT OF COUNCILMAN FOSTER, BECAUSE, YEAH, SO MOST OF US, YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN EXPECTATION YOU HIRED IN A POSITION, YOU PERFORM YOUR DUTY, YOU EXPECT SOME SORT OF, YOU KNOW, RECOGNITION IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, COMPENSATION ACCORDINGLY. I WOULD CERTAINLY SUPPORT AND YOU KNOW, HONESTLY, I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED.
IT TAKES IT TAKES THAT LONG, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S IT'S WELL-DESERVED.
I WOULD CERTAINLY SUPPORT THAT.
WE WE LOOKED AT IT TO COUNCILWOMAN FOSTER POINT THE.
THE. I'M OK WITH THE THE LOOK AND LOOKING AT THE SALARY AND WILL THEY PAY THEM
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ACCORDINGLY BASED ON ON, YOU KNOW, DUE TO CERTIFICATION, WHICH THE DETAILS WILL, WE'LL LEAVE THAT UP TO TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY TO PALM BAY, YOU KNOW, FILL US IN IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, BUT I WOULD AGREE THAT WE PAY THEM ACCORDINGLY TO TO HIS COUNTERPART. SAME JOB, CLASS.FELIX COUNCILMAN FOSTER, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WHAT WHAT I UNDERSTAND WHAT COUNCILMAN FELIX SAID. I JUST WANT TO MAKE THIS VERY CLEAR.
WE HIRED MR. EDWARDS IN A PARALEGAL POSITION.
THIS WASN'T A CURRENT CITY ATTORNEY FAULT.
THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH US.
SHE WASN'T CITY ATTORNEY AT THE TIME.
WE HIRED HIM AS WE HIRE AN ATTORNEY ATTORNEY.
LICENSE BY A FLORIDA BAR AND A PARALEGAL POSITION, AND WE PAY THEM AT THE TOP OF THE PARALEGAL. LADDER.
AND HE DID ATTORNEY WORK FOR THREE YEARS, SO ALL THE WORDS WE GOT WORK OUT OF MR. EDWARDS. WE GOT ATTORNEY WORK OUT OF MR. EDWARDS FOR PARALEGAL PAY.
AND THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PARALEGAL AND AN ATTORNEY.
NOW WE WANT TO CORRECT THE WRONG.
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HIRED AS ATTORNEY.
I THINK ALL OF US AGREED HE'D DONE GREAT WORK.
ARE WE GOING TO MAKE THEM? WE'RE GOING TO PAY THEM AT ATTORNEY PAY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCALE. WE GOT FOUR YEARS OF ATTORNEY WORK.
TRY TO GET THAT OUT IN THE CIVILIAN WORLD.
WON'T HAPPEN. SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE SHOULD PAY THEM AS A DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY EQUAL TO HIS COUNTERPART, WHATEVER THAT SALARY IS.
THAT'S WHERE HE SHOULD START OFF AT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE HE WOULD BE, IF ROOTED, START THEM OFF. BACK IN 2017, WHEN HE WAS AN ATTORNEY LICENSED BY THE FLOOR, HE WOULD HAVE STARTED OFF AT THE BOTTOM OF THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY.
NOW ARE WE GOING TO START HIM OFF AT THE BOTTOM? HE'D BEEN HERE THREE YEARS.
I'M GLAD HE'S WILLING TO WORK FROM PALM BAY AFTER HE'D BEEN THROUGH ALL OF THAT.
I WANTED TO GIVE OUR CITY ATTORNEY AN OPPORTUNITY TO TO SHARE HER THOUGHTS ON THIS.
YES, I DO WANT TO CLARIFY WHEN MR. EDWARDS STARTED.
HE DIDN'T START OFF DOING THE SAME TYPE OF WORK AS THE DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY WHEN HE FIRST STARTED. WE STILL HAD, OF COURSE, I WAS HERE AND WE HAD MR. SWEENEY. AND SO WHAT HE DID, HE DIDN'T HAVE.
HE HELPED WITH THE WORK, HE DID THE FORECLOSURES AND CERTAINLY HE WAS DOING OTHER MATTERS. BUT HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY TAKE ON A CASELOAD BY HIMSELF AS FAR AS HIM BEING LEAD UNTIL AFTER MR. SWEENEY LEFT, WHEREAS MR. MESSENGER WAS HERE AT THE TIME OF MR. SWEENEY AND IMMEDIATELY TOOK UPON A.
HIS OWN INDEPENDENT CASELOAD, SO AS FAR AS MANAGING A CASELOAD, MR MESSENGER HAS BEEN DOING THAT INDEPENDENTLY LONGER.
AND HE ALSO STARTED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAY GRADE, SO THERE MAY BE SOME.
ISSUES THERE COULD CERTAINLY BE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE WHOLE POINT OF THE RESTRUCTURING AND MAKING SURE THAT THESE THINGS ARE FAIR IS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS EQUITABLE AND THAT THERE ACTUALLY CAN BE JUSTIFICATION WHY SOMEBODY IS BEING PAID A CERTAIN AMOUNT, WHY CERTAIN BODIES BEING CERTAIN PAY CLASS.
CERTAINLY, I'M BRINGING THIS FORTH BECAUSE IT IS CERTAINLY COUNCIL'S DECISION AS FAR AS HOW COUNSEL DECIDES TO SET SALARIES.
BUT AS I TOLD YOU PRIVATELY, AND I'VE CERTAINLY GOING TO STATE PUBLICLY, IT IS NOT MY RECOMMENDATION, WHICH IS CERTAINLY A RECOMMENDATION COUNSEL WILL DO WITH IT AS IT PLEASES THAT WE MAKE A CHANGE.
ANOTHER PERSON PERSON AND SAYING THAT THEY ARE EQUAL WHEN THEY'RE ACTUALLY DIFFERENCES IN
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WHAT THEY'RE BEEN DOING AND HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN DOING IT.MR. EDWARDS HAS CERTAINLY ROSE TO THE OCCASION AND TOOK OVER MORE TOWARDS.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AS FAR AS THE DEPARTMENTS THAT YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE ANY OF THE MAJOR DEPARTMENTS THAT YOU NAME YOU TALK ABOUT POLICE THAT MR MESSENGER HAS, YOU TALK ABOUT PARTS MR MESSENGER HAS.
YOU'RE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GROWTH OR OF.
US UTILITIES ARE PUBLIC WORKS MR., MS. COPHURA HAS, SO WE WANT TO.
BE FAIR, AND CERTAINLY IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, CERTAINLY PAY SCALE SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE, BUT BE RAISED AT WHICH HE WILL BE GETTING IS NOT INSIGNIFICANT.
AND AS FAR AS GOING TO EVEN THE BOTTOM, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO COST, ESPECIALLY WITH THE CAR ALLOWANCE ABOUT $20000.
SO IT'S NOT AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT.
ALWAYS BE. CONSIDERATE OF HOW INCREASE IN ONE PERSON AFFECTS OTHERS AND WHETHER THERE IS AN ADEQUATE JUSTIFICATION TO DEFEND THAT.
BUT AS I SAID, AND CERTAINLY THE CHARTER IS ULTIMATELY UP THE COUNCIL.
SO RIGHT NOW, COUNSEL, WE HAVE A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON AND A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN FELIX, I'M READY TO CALL THE QUESTION.
THERE'S JUST ONE MORE QUESTION.
AND GOING FORWARD, DO YOU HAVE TO COME BACK BEFORE COUNCIL TO GIVE HIM LIKE, SAY, TO MATCH HIM TO ERIC MESSENGER BECAUSE HE SHOWS THAT HE'S, YOU KNOW, EXCEEDING IN HIS DUTIES AS A DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY AND.
I CAN'T CHANGE PAY OR BENEFITS OF ANY ATTORNEY UNILATERALLY.
CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, I HAVE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, YOU KNOW, RISK MANAGEMENT IS UNDER THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
I CAN CHANGE ANY NON ATTORNEY BASED UPON THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE AND WE HAVE A PROCESS, BUT I CAN DO ANYTHING WITH ANY OF THE ATTORNEYS SALARIES OR BENEFITS.
SO ANY CHANGE WOULD HAVE TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL.
LIKE I SAID, I MEAN, THE CITY HIRED HIM AS AN ATTORNEY, ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY, THAT WAS HIS TITLE. IF YOU DIDN'T GET ATTORNEY, WORK OUT OF HIM DURING THAT TIME, THAT'S THE CITY FAULT. THAT'S NOT MR. EDWARDS FAULT.
SO I WISH TRYING TO MAKE THIS RIGHT FOR MR..
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, FROM A MILITARY STANDPOINT, YOU DON'T PUT THE RANK, THE THREE STRIPES OF SERGEANT RANK ON A PERSON AND DON'T EXPECT HIM TO ACT AND PERFORM SERGEANT DUTIES.
YOU DON'T PUT THEM IN AN A NONSENSICAL POSITION OR A PRIVATE POSITION TO DO PRIVATE WORK.
YOU MAKE YOUR SERGEANT'S LEAVE, SO.
THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT, I WISH I ENCOURAGED MY.
DEPUTY MAYOR TO REVISE HIS MOTION TO INCLUDE THAT.
TO PROMOTE. RODNEY EDWARDS AS DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, EXCUSE ME, DEPUTY CITY ATTORNEY.
AT THE SAME SALARY OF MR. MESSENGER. YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO WEIGH IN AT THIS POINT AND SAY, I'M PREPARED TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION THE WAY IT STANDS.
I REALLY AM, AND I HAVE TO CONSIDER WHAT OUR CITY ATTORNEY IS SAYING.
AND YOU KNOW, IN THE MILITARY, WE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY, WHICH THE MARINE CORPS HAS ORDERED THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY.
BUT I WON'T SAY WHICH DEPARTMENT AT THIS PRESENT TIME.
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S CALLED FRACKING.
YOU FRACK SOMEONE AND YOU PERFORM AT A AT A, AT A DIFFERENT LEVEL.
I'M PREPARED TO SUPPORT THIS MOTION THE WAY IT STANDS TODAY WITH THE CLEAR UNDERSTANDING THAT OUR CITY ATTORNEY IS GOING TO COME BEFORE US IN THE FUTURE OR ALL ALL THE ATTORNEYS, RIGHT? WHEN RODNEY CONTINUES TO PERFORM, THEN I'M I'M ALL ABOUT THAT.
BUT TO TO GO AGAINST OR SUPERSEDE WHAT OUR CITY ATTORNEY IS COUNSELING US TO DO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I'M NOT READY TO.
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I'M NOT PREPARED TO GO BEYOND WHAT SHE'S ASKING FOR, SO I STAND IN SUPPORT OF THIS.I STAND IN SUPPORT OF MR. EDWARDS. HE IS A CLASS ACT.
THE CITY OF PALM BAY IS IS BLESSED TO HAVE SOMEONE OF THAT CALIBER, SOMEONE THAT WORKS AS DILIGENTLY AS HE DOES.
HE HAS, BASED ON HIS PERFORMANCE, SAVED THE CITY SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS.
I'M PREPARED TO SUPPORT THE MOTION THE WAY IT STANDS.
SO I'VE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN FELIX, A MOTION BY DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON, SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN FELIX.
I'M READY TO CALL THE QUESTION ALL IN FAVOR.
ANY OPPOSE PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
MAYOR, THIS THIS ITEM IS REQUESTING COUNCIL CONSENSUS FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THE INSTITUTE FOR ELECTED MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AND THAT WILL BE HELD IN KISSIMMEE FROM OCTOBER 8TH THROUGH 10TH.
OK, SO WE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE TERI, WE HAVE THREE OF THE FOUR.
I I CAN'T COMMIT TO THIS TODAY, BUT I WOULD RESERVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN LATER IF IF THAT'S OK WITH COUNCILS AND YOURSELF, THAT WORKS WELL, THAT'D BE ENOUGH.
YES, THAT WORKS. JUST COUNCIL CONSENSUS IS FINE.
YES. COUNCIL, DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID? I CAN'T COMMIT TO THIS.
I, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF YOU GUYS ATTENDING, BUT I CAN'T COMMIT TO THIS TODAY.
AND AND IF I COULD DEFER TO THAT TERESE, LET ME KNOW WHAT THE.
DROP-DEAD DEADLINE FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM IS AND I'LL SEE IF IF I COULD SCHEDULE IT, YES, I WILL INFORM ROSEMARY AND SHE WILL GET WITH YOU ON THOSE DATES AGAIN.
I WILL. I WILL CONFER WITH ROSEMARY.
IF IT'S TOMORROW OR THE NEXT, THE NEXT WEEK, I MAY STILL NEED ADDITIONAL TIME.
AND SOMETHING THAT I NOTICE AT THE LAST TIME WHEN WE LEFT OR WHEN WE WENT TO SPACE COAST LEAGUE OF CITIES, I DIDN'T NOTICE THAT THAT DEADLINE IS LIKE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT, SO I WISH THEY WOULD GIVE US SOME TYPE OF GRACE PERIOD.
AND I THINK THEY DID TO OTHER OTHER MUNICIPALITIES.
SO ITEM NUMBER FOUR? IT I MEAN, LET ME I'M SORRY, LET ME CORRECT, I'VE MISSPOKE.
NUMBER THREE, I MEAN, I GO, YEAH, I'M NOT GOING TO GO BECAUSE I WENT IN TAMPA, SO I DON'T NEED TO GO TO. YEAH.
MY MISTAKE? SO YOU HAVE THREE OR YOU HAVE TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THEN THE OTHER TWO.
ONE OF THEM IS NOT GOING AND I JUST CAN'T CLEAR MY CALENDAR RIGHT NOW.
THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN FOSTER ITEM FOUR.
YES. THAT YOU COULD COUNT ME IN FOR THIS ITEM IS REQUESTING COUNCIL CONSENSUS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS INTERESTED IN ATTENDING FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE, WHICH ALSO IS IN KISSIMMEE FROM NOVEMBER 3RD TO THE 5TH.
BUT JUST WANTED TO MENTION THE FIRST REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH, IS TO BE HELD ON THE SAME DATE AS A CONFERENCE.
SO IF COUNCIL WISHES TO RESCHEDULE, THE COUNCIL MEETING STAFF IS SUGGESTING THE DATE OF TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ND AND A MOTION WOULD BE REQUESTED FOR THE DATE CHANGE.
I'M FINE WITH. I'M ATTENDING, I'M FINE WITH EITHER, BUT I WAS JUST GOING TO DRIVE BACK SINCE IT'S IN KISSIMMEE, SO WHATEVER COUNCIL WANTS TO DO IS GOING TO DRIVE BACK AND THEN GO BACK FOR THE NEXT MORNING.
I KIND OF LIKE THAT SO THAT WE DON'T.
I DIDN'T WANT TO. YEAH, I WAS FINE WITH KEEPING IT ON THURSDAY.
I WAS GOING TO. CHANGE MY SCHEDULE SO I CAN DO IT, NOT CHANGE THE WHOLE.
COPY THAT. SO WE GOT DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON IS A YES AND NOT NICE, AND HE'LL DRIVE BACK COUNCILMAN FELIX AS WELL.
SO IF THE MAJORITY IS DRIVING BACK, I WILL DRIVE BACK AS WELL AND I WILL ATTEND IF DEPUTY MAYOR JOHNSON DRIVE ME BACK OR PUT ME DOWN.
BUT ON AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER THING, LET'S MAKE SURE I'M JUST SAYING IT.
LET'S MAKE SURE WE HAVE AT LEAST THREE HERE AT SEVEN O'CLOCK, BECAUSE THAT'S THAT'S WE HAVE TO HAVE THREE FISCAL, THREE FISCAL BODIES FOR A QUORUM.
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COPY THAT, SIR. IS THAT UNDERSTOOD, GENTLEMEN? YES. OK, SO WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED AGAIN.I DON'T HAVE THAT TIME OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE, SO I'LL LET YOU KNOW IF COUNSEL IS OK.
I CAN'T COMMIT ON THESE DATES LIKE MY MY COLLEAGUES CAN, BUT I WOULD CERTAINLY WANT TO CONSIDER IT. ALL RIGHT, MA'AM.
IT'S GOOD. OK, SO THAT HANDLES ITEM NUMBER FOUR.
WE'RE ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REPORTS.
MADAME SHERMAN YES, THANK YOU.
[ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REPORTS]
HERE I HAVE THREE QUICK THINGS FOR YOU.VERSUS ACTUALLY IN THE CONVERSATION UNDER YOUR REPORTS, THERE WAS A MENTION OF THE STRATEGIC OR, EXCUSE ME, THE VISION BOARDS.
I WANTED TO MENTION THE COUNCIL OR AND OR REMIND THAT IN THIS YEAR'S UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR BUDGET, WE ACTUALLY BUILT IN STRATEGIC PLANNING FUNDING TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH THE FULL STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS FOR OUR CITY, WHICH HAS NOT BEEN DONE IN MANY YEARS.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE BASED ON WHAT YOU WERE DESCRIBING, ALTHOUGH I WASN'T HERE FOR THAT EVENT BEFORE THAT, THAT MIGHT MEET SOME OF WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
SO I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, AND THAT COULD BE A LAUNCHING POINT FOR OTHER THINGS THAT WE DO IN THE FUTURE.
SO JUST ONE PIECE OF INFORMATION THERE.
SECONDLY, I JUST WANTED TO STATE, YOU KNOW, OFFICIALLY FOR THE RECORD, THAT WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS PREVIOUSLY BY HAVING A WORKSHOP.
LAST MEETING, COUNCILMAN FELIX ASKED US ABOUT SCHEDULING A WORKSHOP RELATED TO DISCUSSING THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IN THE CITY.
YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH THE THE BUILDERS, THE BUSINESSES, THAT TYPE OF THING.
SO WE HAVE TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED THE DATE OF OCTOBER 26.
BUT FOR IN TERMS OF LOCATION, IT'S GOING TO BE HELD AT THE TONY ROSA COMMUNITY CENTER BASED ON THE LOGISTICS OF THE ROOM.
IT WILL BE LIVE STREAMED ON FACEBOOK AND RECORDED BY THE PRODUCTION COMPANY THAT HELPED US WHEN WE WERE FLOODED OUT IN CHAMBERS AND HAD TO GO TO TONY ROSA PREVIOUSLY.
SO JUST WANT TO STATE THAT FOR THE RECORD, I BELIEVE WE'RE ALL WE'VE ALL CHECKED SCHEDULES AND THAT'S THE DATE WE'RE TARGETING.
UM, THE GUYS WHO WERE CARRY ON AND I COULD I COULD DOUBLE CHECK.
I DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT TUESDAY.
THANK YOU. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, I WANTED TO LET COUNSEL KNOW BE LOOKING TO WORK WITH YOUR SCHEDULES TO ESTABLISH A DATE AND TIME FOR AN EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE IN THE POLICE AND FIRE UNION NEGOTIATIONS.
SO THAT WILL BE SOMETHING. I'LL WORK WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE TO GET ON YOUR SCHEDULES SOMETIME IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, HOPEFULLY.
THANK YOU, MA'AM. SOONER RATHER THAN LATER, CORRECTING HIM FOR THAT EXECUTIVE.
YES, BUT ALSO CONTINGENT ON SOME FINAL MEETINGS WITH THE UNIONS.
SO KIND OF PLAYING THAT OUT? I MEAN, ONE WITH THAT.
YES, SIR. WE'RE IN WE'RE IN A VERY CLOSE MOMENT OF BEING ABLE TO DO THAT.
SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE TIMING AND GET WITH YOU ON YOUR SCHEDULES.
UNDERSTOOD, MA'AM. I THOUGHT YOU WERE AT A POINT WHERE VERY CLOSE.
YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MA'AM.
MADAM SMITH, ANY ADDITIONAL REPORTS? NO, SIR. OK, WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
SPEAKERS. THE SPEAKER, COULD ANYONE WISH TO COME AND SPEAK BEFORE WE ADJOURN? BILL BURTON. HMM.
OK. SEEING NONE, THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.