[4:01] good evening what a good crowd I love it so many people show up you almost have

[4:08] no commissioner boys other than the audience and you don't want to come see

[4:11] him right anyway welcome all of you and and we do welcome Commissioner Boyles he

[4:18] stayed over from another meeting just couldn't stay away and we always had the

[4:23] media in the back of the room crispy news both in CCTV we welcome them

[4:26] and of course most of all you the citizens here you need to know we had a

[4:31] meeting this afternoon at 4 o'clock and then we had one at 5 o'clock then we had

[4:36] one at 6 o'clock and kickoff is at 7 o'clock so we're gonna be moving anyway

[4:42] at this time I asked you silence any electronic devices you may have and if

[4:49] you want to speak to the City Council anytime this evening we have some cards

[4:54] in the back of the room that you can fill out and get to madam clerk and

[4:57] she'll get them to me and then I'll call you in the appropriate time also I'm

[5:04] going to ask a little indulgence this evening we're transitioning to the 21st

[5:08] century and we have some technology we haven't been using before so with new

[5:15] technology there's potential glitch and so if we have that I'm sure you can all

[5:20] get through it with us all right that's number one okay this evening I'm

[5:32] going to call on dr. Naomi Barnes - latest invocation and the Pledge of

[5:38] Allegiance if for some reason you choose to leave the room during the invocation

[5:43] feel free to do that and you'll see when we're done and you

[5:46] can come back in so this time I ask you to stand and dr. Barnes if you smoke

[5:50] please

[5:53] oh don't want to use the podium oh that man good evening we're gonna pray first

[6:05] and then we're please dear Lord and dear God we come to you right now in the name

[6:10] of Jesus first of all we want to thank you for this day

[6:13] we want to thank you for our life health and strength but I ask you to bless

[6:16] tonight but god bless the council and bless the city manager bless everybody

[6:20] in a leading role and let them know that you're with them always even to the end

[6:25] of the world and father don't guess forget about this don't let Crespi be on

[6:30] the run but let's go to a state of Florida Lord look at those people in

[6:33] position get up working with our people let's go to a white house north car and

[6:37] all over the United States that these government bodies you do the right thing

[6:41] in the name of Jesus and we'd be so careful to give you the praise the glory

[6:44] honor in Jesus name

[6:49] [Music]

[7:00] [Music] maybe see Thank You duck

[7:18] okay and the new procedures were already signed in so you don't actually see it

[7:23] up there but we're really here and we would just announced that one of our

[7:26] council members councilman LaBeouf is not with us this evening

[7:30] other than that so we do have a quorum and we will move on to right

[7:50] this time does any councilmembers have any objection to tonight's agenda seeing

[7:56] none the agendas proved by unanimous consent

[8:08] and now I get to do something really neat and that is I get to read a

[8:15] proclamation so if I could have all the ladies here from Zeta Phi Beta Sorority

[8:45] County celebrated 100 years in existence and then 2016 we followed them as a city

[8:55] 100 years in existence so this is pretty pretty unique that have a sorority it's

[9:02] been around for 100 years and I know you all know that a hundred years ago it

[9:11] wasn't easy to start a sorority for minorities okay

[9:15] so beyond how many years owns a significant achievements where is Zeta

[9:22] Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded in 1920 and where is this this

[9:29] sorority was founded by five co-ed students students and Howard University

[9:34] and where is these sorority members envisioned a sisterhood that would

[9:40] promote the highest standard of scholarship achievement and what is the

[9:45] sorority sister hood Woodfox my greatest sense of unity among its members and

[9:51] whereas the sorority has more than 120,000 college-educated women

[9:58] within its incorporation and whether it is there are more than 800 chapters in

[10:04] North America Europe Asia the Caribbean Africa and the Middle East and wherever

[10:13] it is since its founding this sorority has historically focused on social

[10:18] causes therefore my JD went in by virtue of the

[10:22] authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Christy Florida do hereby

[10:28] proclaim Monday January 13 2020 and a day of celebration and acknowledgement

[10:34] of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated and is devoted members on its 100th year

[10:41] anniversary like all the elected officials to stand behind this kind of

[11:08] in between is we don't block it out

[11:17] [Music]

[11:27] okay and make sure you can get everybody in behind and the other thing we're

[11:32] going to do a fancy ceremony to make sure we have everybody in the photo is

[11:36] we have a sheet of paper and if you all want a digital coffee sense you give us

[11:43] a name and the email address and we'll send it to you make sure you get that

[11:47] okay and then after that if anybody else in the audience wants to take pictures

[11:51] we'll do that so what we'll do is we'll close with this between you and me

[12:53] welcome to stay but if you're bored or you want to go you may leave if you want

[13:00] to okay it looks to me at this point we should have a presentation by Miss Baron

[13:21] miss Barrett hey how you doing let me see you sneak

[13:25] in

[13:30] yeah we'd like you to do you're gonna bring up the PowerPoint okay yeah you

[13:37] can speak from the podium I just let us know who you are where you from

[13:41] although I know you not everybody does

[13:45] mr. Barry your regional your local regional partnership specialist Nisha

[13:51] would you bring your mic down just a little bit so everybody oh here we go

[13:55] there you go yeah let's start over yeah rewind good evening ladies and

[14:00] gentlemen I am Nisha Baron your elite regional partnership specialist for the

[14:03] 2020 census coming up I am a citizen of Okaloosa County which is a requirement

[14:09] for this position you have to be familiar with your your communities the

[14:13] people is in it and how we work how we talked and how we live because it's

[14:17] really about us I'm a retired Air Force veteran of 24

[14:20] years services in Air Force as a communication Officer I work with BAE

[14:25] Systems for about eight years and MT is first and then I retired from there and

[14:29] became a shelter and a gardener but I took on this position because I just

[14:36] have to serve I was a Girl Scout at eight I just have to serve I took the

[14:40] positions I think this is important it's important to our community is important

[14:43] to our country we have this it's our civic duty to participate in the census

[14:47] we've heard a lot of things about the census it's in the news real heavy right

[14:51] now but the bottom line is it is mandated by the Constitution of the

[14:54] United States it says we will be counted every 10 years from the year ending in

[14:59] zero they started for a lot of reasons but we have to count the people so that

[15:03] the federal government knows how many people it needs to take care of online

[15:06] the census do we get it I can just keep going you know keep going yes count the

[15:17] residents it says count the residents the money follows the numbers and not

[15:22] the needs it is about power it's the law it's about power it's about money but

[15:28] ultimately it's about people the census count how many people we have in our

[15:33] communities determine how many congressional seats we have here's the

[15:37] power last decennial we count Florida gained two more seats we're not allowed

[15:42] to say how many we might have is that somebody

[15:44] study it's not fact also it draws our congressional lines it draws our

[15:49] district lines if I schools are too crowd it's probably because we do not

[15:52] have the right count the money follows the numbers and

[15:57] not the needs it's also about people how many people if you have things like

[16:03] federal grants federal subsidies but if the first thing they want to ask is how

[16:07] many people the Sacred Heart wants to do a study on heart disease amongst women

[16:11] and this our Sacred Heart to go about how many women in Crestview how many

[16:15] women under 35 since this is the largest data warehouse collection in the world

[16:19] and everybody uses census data as you know businesses before they open up to a

[16:24] business plan should I open up a Dave & Buster's and Crespi how many people is

[16:29] there what's their income can they afford my ticket will they like to play

[16:32] games since this data is very important today Florida is the third largest

[16:39] populated state in America ahead of New York it did that in 20,000 14 he's been

[16:46] doing it every year since then the federal budget is trying to divide six

[16:50] hundred and seventy five billion dollars amongst 50 states and it is based on how

[16:54] many people we have now that we've done this and they expect us to have

[16:57] additional six million people about 2030 we want to get our money folks we got to

[17:02] be counted this is important what we do with the money

[17:05] we follow refinances roads education transportation Medicare is funded by

[17:10] census anything that says federally funded federally subsidized even college

[17:14] grants if your community wants to add a new playground and the county's budget

[17:20] is a little limited you might want to do a federal grant but guess what's going

[17:22] to happen how many people live there how many children are there is it worth the

[17:27] value do you meet the criterias to get this grant since this data is important

[17:31] our fire departments wildlife even before we cannot wait till FEMA has to

[17:36] come god forbid and visit us again when they decide how much money Crestview

[17:41] needs they're going to say how many people times this amount of money to

[17:44] give us the help we're going to need an emergency and we can't wait till that

[17:48] day these numbers last for 10 years

[17:53] census data people like to go oh we're going to go look up our ancestry it's

[17:57] nice to have how many men how many women in Crestview about even men and women

[18:01] how many veterans for veteran services how many children for children services

[18:05] it's not unique stuff like that to do but it also helps with problem-solving

[18:09] when we have traffic and we want to change the roads and that's when it

[18:13] comes very important if Nike wants to open up the store how many colors are

[18:16] Air Jordans how many young men do you have how many under 25 it's just that

[18:21] simple it's just that complicated since this

[18:23] data is everywhere you look last time we missed 2 million children

[18:28] under 5 that's a lot of children that's a lot of money almost 15 million dollars

[18:34] easy that's 10 years of disservice to those children the census believes it's

[18:39] because fortunately unfortunately some homes are fragmented so did mom count

[18:44] the baby or did daddy count the baby sometimes he spends half this time there

[18:48] have this time there a phone we have young mothers and maybe don't understand

[18:52] the importance of census data or participating in the census

[18:55] unfortunately we got a lot of grandmas that became moms is she supposed to

[18:59] count she doesn't know we have to count the

[19:02] children to that end we employ schools we're enlisting school to help because

[19:06] there's nothing more exciting to a kid and he learned something new and he's

[19:10] gonna wear her mom out with his new dad or mom have you taken the census have

[19:14] you had done the census so we're going through the school with a lot of

[19:16] programs over here when we turn to the Census Bureau we're garnishing partners

[19:23] and I hope I'm looking at my new set of partners to help get the word out to our

[19:29] community that is so important this year the census is not only the largest

[19:33] mobile Asian mobile Asian mobilization the mobilization of people besides war

[19:38] the census and we have to do that to take these numbers so we decided to

[19:43] target the low response group but this year it is different the low response

[19:48] group normally are immigrants and minorities but this year like everybody

[19:52] else the census has to do more with less and we want to be more efficient and we

[19:56] want to save money so we're going to fully digital we're going to ask the

[20:00] American public to dollar 1-800 number and answer just ten questions or get

[20:05] online and answer just 10 questions or if

[20:09] you're old-school like some people they like if it's not on paper it didn't

[20:12] happen you have the option to get the paper so we're gonna do that and I think

[20:18] that's more important of the information we didn't know so that with that being

[20:21] said it affects everyone this is important to everyone and I'm more

[20:25] concerned about our senior citizens a lot of them with tech savvy but to get

[20:28] online to fix this number and I met him and he's a Vietnam vet and he's just not

[20:33] trusting nobody how do I know us to being how do they know it's me how do I

[20:35] know it's them but we got a team of people that's going to help you out with

[20:39] that and we want you to know that your data is secure since this data is

[20:43] secured it's encrypted it's locked for 72 years in a day it's about data it's

[20:50] not about names and addresses you might go to census ancestry.com and look like

[20:54] look up great-grandma great-great grandpa but it stops at 1940 why because

[21:00] 1950 is not gonna be released till 2022 it is encrypted and is bolted 72 years

[21:09] and a day why because in 1790 on the first census to average lifespan was 72

[21:13] years so 72 years in a day if we release it we may not matter to Mary and Bob

[21:18] lived at 1313 Mockingbird Lane also the census data is secure it is not shared

[21:25] with any other agency it is against the law to share it our president on

[21:30] December 31st is gonna get a list of numbers not addresses not phone numbers

[21:34] he's gonna get data since the data cannot be shared with the FBI the CIA or

[21:40] any other late agency it cannot be use against you it's for the purpose of what

[21:44] it's intended for and that alone so your information will be confidential it will

[21:50] not be shared and incidentally when they come to your door should you not respond

[21:55] self-respond but the only one 800-number and answering questions getting online

[22:00] an instant in question we're going to invite you four times to do that after

[22:04] four times we're coming and knocking four times we gonna start March the

[22:08] middle of March and sending out the lights a little letter explaining

[22:11] everything and with your code you're gonna get a cold two dollar one number

[22:14] into the code and answer the ten questions or you go online into the code

[22:18] and then then we're gonna say okay Mary didn't respond less than a little

[22:22] postcard mary did you forget and then we're gonna send up there when after

[22:25] four times we're gonna send the team out and hopefully just like we did address

[22:29] canvasing it'd only be thirty percent which is way lower in the cost of

[22:33] sending everybody to every last address so we're gonna start mid-march it's

[22:37] gonna go over to April 27th and then we're gonna have the no response guru

[22:40] next very next operation in their eight to ten week operations are as group

[22:45] homes we're gonna go to group homes like

[22:47] senior citizens that baricza's hospitals uh non-traditional homes like

[22:52] campgrounds and do in person count well how did this organizations like

[22:57] baricza's a probably have the numbers already there we're going to collector

[23:00] there's a few stragglers will help me get it done anybody shows up to your

[23:03] door should have a census badge he should have a census badge they should

[23:08] have a bag that says it if they do not if for any reason you do not feel that

[23:12] person is not official you have every right to turn away and call your Sheriff

[23:16] Department Sheriff's Department is one of our finest partners and they're gonna

[23:21] notify people that they're out there and they probably already had a couple of

[23:25] incidences minor miss Suzie decided she was gonna sell her old since its bags

[23:30] from twenty two thousand see thought they'd be nice little keepsakes and he

[23:34] was at the third shot did my girlfriend who knew I was this hey there's some

[23:37] bags like what we don't want the bad guys to get the bags and like I told

[23:41] them my supervisor who's way up there and II say this is not about miss I'm

[23:45] sure she's a client late and people like thrift shop want to protect her because

[23:47] she's a favorite she just thought of something they did buy time they got

[23:50] there they knew where she worked that she had them online already and

[23:53] everything they're not playing with taking care of security the same thing

[23:57] with their data and this is reached a lot of people are concerned about the

[24:00] breach of that digital data and so they're working every day to counter

[24:05] that to every day to monitor every day to improve it because we're going to

[24:08] protect the data that we have until he gets to this encryption state so the

[24:13] census is about the people it's about law it's about money but it's for

[24:17] everyone to change the census process questions you have to change the

[24:24] Constitution we had to change the Constitution allow women to vote we had

[24:29] to change the Constitution for other people to participate so you can't wake

[24:33] up and request it has a process it says when it's gonna

[24:36] be done how it's gonna be done the date that it would be done by 2018 needs to

[24:41] be done there was this year a test question to make sure because there was

[24:46] a request but the question has to go out and be vetted and give back the

[24:49] information it was intended and it didn't pass the test so it's not there

[24:54] that question we're not gonna talk about it's not there the Constitution says

[24:58] count residents not citizens because if you're here you're driving our roads we

[25:03] need to take care of our roads if you hear the Hippocratic oath says we will

[25:07] take care anybody shows up they have to be funded if the federal government

[25:10] doesn't fund a who's gonna fund it so we're gonna count every person that

[25:14] lives in United States once and only once and in the right place and to that

[25:18] end I need help I can talk about this thing and believe me I do I think it's

[25:22] important and even though my days off I'm at the beach like hey have you heard

[25:25] about the census is this that important but I can't talk to everyone your

[25:31] community doesn't know me specifically but they do know you and we have

[25:35] businesses that talk to people in their constituents every day we're asking for

[25:39] help to put it on your Facebook page to put

[25:41] it on your email blasts to be a partner I've spoken to churches from here to I'm

[25:46] representing actually standing here representing six counties Okaloosa

[25:49] Walton Escambia Santa Rosa homes Washington and I'll give away Jack's and

[25:55] that's just too far so and so we want to need help I'll be happy to go anywhere

[26:00] and everywhere to talk to anyone and everybody and I've matter of fact I was

[26:04] like hey those Zetas got away because I'm trying to get the Zetas they helped

[26:07] me out I'll get them though I'm gonna get him so any kind of festival you had

[26:13] will make a table it help you get it done to help explain how important it is

[26:17] to give out information and oh by the way the bottom line is we're hiring we

[26:21] still need some people worried about actually you are coming on he's doing

[26:23] great Rock County's doing great and matter of

[26:26] fact I'm sorry Merrick congratulations for inviting the census to come Florida

[26:30] is the last state to come on board and fund the census now well we're the one

[26:35] of seven states that did and I think is four left

[26:37] we just came on board this month so we had to go bottom up the League of Cities

[26:41] happenin all the mirrors went to Orlando's and Mayor started calling me

[26:44] they said this is important congratulations

[26:47] mayor sore foot and this really sofa ticket we need to get this done now

[26:50] ahead of the things this a lot of people to educate a lot of people still do not

[26:54] know we're not coming to the door and I think people are a lot better receptive

[26:59] to do something the more they're informed the better they're likely to do

[27:02] in this important so since this is coming

[27:06] I hope I'm looking at my next complete Cal committee or partnership in the city

[27:11] of Crestview and if you like me to come speak at your organization your church

[27:15] your business if you'd like to help me out

[27:17] I have business cards and a web page and any questions fortunately unfortunately

[27:52] for Panama City Mexico City Beach is a lot of destruction because of Hurricane

[27:56] Michael a lot of the people have been displaced yes their count obviously is

[28:02] gonna be a little bit low which means their funding for schools roads

[28:06] transportation can be affected because you have to count the people so if

[28:11] you're not sure where you're gonna be counted mom's house dad's house it's

[28:14] where you're living at April 1st 2020 official City day since this day the

[28:19] other thing that happens let's say all your stuff is destroyed now you need a

[28:22] ID card or something you can form file a BB form 16 B 16 through the census and

[28:28] get your data back your birth right back so you can get a passport so you can get

[28:32] your birth certificate because there's a hold and so that that's a lovely thing

[28:36] data has never really been shared we shared it one time with the Japanese

[28:40] internment and after that we a form title 13 it says it will not be shared

[28:44] only one president tried to use it that was eisenhower he wanted to find out who

[28:48] was new neighborhood it didn't work so your data is secured the census is

[28:54] simple we trying to make it easy it's safe and it's important thank you very

[28:58] much thank you

[29:07] and now we're gonna have the presentation core values

[29:11] I'll leave city men do you do that we'll try to make this as brief as possible

[29:18] but as you know one of the questions that I got repeatedly during the

[29:21] interview process was you know what are we going to do to build a good strong

[29:25] team what we're gonna do with recruitment how we're going to keep

[29:28] people that kind of stuff immediately after being hired which did they

[29:32] strategically planning and established our mission statement and our vision

[29:36] statement and our goals and objectives for the city and so the next step in

[29:40] that process was was for us as the employees of the city to develop core

[29:45] values that we couldn't be evaluated on and we can use for training and other

[29:49] purposes and so earlier this year we hired Jessica Levin's as our human

[29:54] resources we call her a specialist but she's really a generalist she does

[29:58] actually everything Human Resources related and so she has head of a team of

[30:03] employees to develop our core values so they're going to share this menu tonight

[30:08] and we'll make it brief as possible but it's it's sometimes running toward us it

[30:14] helps to shape who we are and where we're going

[30:21] [Music] we discussed our core values and the

[30:25] purposes and the uses of these with our employees we gathered at committee three

[30:30] representatives from each of the department so it would be completely

[30:33] representative of all the employees in the city and we have some of them here

[30:36] with us tonight that are going to talk a little bit more about the values and why

[30:40] we chose them we have a great graphic that goes along with it which I don't

[30:44] think is going to come up tonight but one of our employees actually

[30:48] contributed the acronym himself royally in the community development services

[30:52] division came up a track for us and it's going to be used in all sorts of stuff

[30:57] and it's really great and these guys are going to talk about what track stands

[31:01] for what it means to us building on the that word track T started it out in this

[31:13] case for teamwork which is defined as working together to accomplish the

[31:17] city's mission through enhanced communication and fostering positive

[31:21] relationships both public and private the team was chosen because no one

[31:27] person can do as much as a good team and continue with the mayor's motto for the

[31:31] year of a community come together means we must come together first

[31:45] the next one is respect it's defined as treating people and property with regard

[31:51] to their inherit values simply put you can't have any of the other acronyms

[31:56] which I want to give away just yet the meanings without respect simply so

[32:01] respect is the second one the third is a and it's adaptability adaptability is

[32:12] defined as identify and act upon opportunities for change to increase

[32:18] effectiveness in a fluid environment an analogy person so the best way I can

[32:24] explain adaptability is tonight larvas going home and watching a sports game

[32:29] some special games gonna be on TV tonight both teams are going very

[32:34] prepared for that game they've been training they've been practicing they've

[32:38] done everything they can to prepare for what might happen

[32:41] I predict the team that will win is a team that can adapt to the changes that

[32:46] are going to come before them that they were not expecting that's adaptability

[32:49] is you can be planning you can be prepared all you want which you have to

[32:53] adapt as change come forward and I think that's what we need to do as a team so

[33:02] the siient Rack is communication sharing information in an approachable attentive

[33:09] and transparent manner to achieve our mission we chose this core value because

[33:14] we feel that communication is integral and tying all of them together last but

[33:23] not least was knowledge knowledge defined as mastery of skills and

[33:28] continued learning we chose that as a core value because not only do we want

[33:32] to convey that we're competent at what we do but we want to be the best at what

[33:37] we do

[33:44] if you couldn't spell track you know that we're out of letters just on behalf

[33:52] of the senior management team I'd just like to say a word about how well and

[33:57] how hard everybody worked on this we had several meetings with all cross sections

[34:03] of the city municipal team to put this together it was a much bigger list and

[34:10] we narrowed it down and what we're able to go ahead and pick the the main ones

[34:14] but but what's key to know is is that in addition to having the actual core

[34:20] values and the acronym and the definition for the core values this is

[34:25] that the second part of this that we aren't sharing today is each one of

[34:29] those have action statements and so as a team we went ahead and formulated what

[34:34] action statements define it and and are shown by that this is going to help us

[34:39] and our leadership and being more focused for training purposes because it

[34:45] is going to allow us to formulate a better evaluation system so so that

[34:50] we're able to go ahead and communicate with our employees exactly what they are

[34:54] doing doing right and what they're doing great hey any comments or questions from

[35:00] the council great no I like make one comment before you wrap it up to him and

[35:05] that is thank you for the hard work I think it was a really really good core

[35:10] value especially like the association with the community coming together

[35:13] that's that's a great concept but anyway yeah thank you for the hard work

[35:19] appreciate that one thing that one thing they didn't mention that

[35:22] want to mention is another we have our mission statement but out of this

[35:27] meeting came a statement that I absolutely love if we didn't already

[35:31] have a mission statement we may have used it for that but it's one city one

[35:34] mission and it's and it's the just like week last year was an idiot for

[35:39] Crestview this year is a community coming together as the employees of the

[35:43] city we are one city one mission which is important it was separate entities

[35:49] that have now come under this new form of government and everybody has really

[35:53] bought into the idea that we are one city and we have one mission and that is

[35:56] to serve the public so I'm very very proud of this team I'm proud of all of

[36:00] those that are not here today typically are a lot of times when you do this

[36:04] stuff you send it off you have no idea what you're going to get back but we as

[36:07] a department that team did not we went with exactly what they had selected the

[36:12] acronym the whole everything they did

[36:17] they kill appreciate I'm gonna move on to approval of Menace anybody have any

[36:29] objections in minutes seeing none the minutes are approved by Unanimous

[36:33] Consent

[36:43] nothing there okay anybody from the public you know like to address the City

[36:53] Council on it any items on tonight's agenda

[36:57] anybody the public like to speak to us on any agenda items seeing none we will

[37:03] move along to the next category which

[37:09] will be the consent agenda anybody have any objections to our consent agenda

[37:17] seeing on the consent agenda is approved by unanimous consent

[37:29] and looks like we're on public hearings ordinates 1727 being the first one

[37:37] [Music]

[37:56] any of you major council let me get set up here tonight we're going to discuss

[38:02] and as we discuss a little bit of a different format from previous trying to

[38:07] speed things up so everybody can watch their game tonight first up we're going

[38:13] to discuss items twelve point one through twelve point three some

[38:20] housekeeping first is we asked if there's anyone that wants to speak for

[38:23] or against from the public on any of these three items point one three point

[38:29] three Thunder Bay and then are there any ex parte discussions or conflicts of

[38:41] interest on any of these these three items

[38:48] so moving forward this is going to be four ordinances twelve 17 27 28 and 29

[38:57] is for alley Avenue there will be an annexation a comp plan and a rezoning it

[39:04] was approximately a half acre in area the resident came to us for as part of

[39:11] that annexation moratorium to bring their property into the city as we said

[39:16] this is a second reading so you guys have seen this before so do we have any

[39:24] questions from the council or audience on this property

[39:32] shake nut all right Madame clerk would you please read by title unit 17 2007

[39:38] ordinance number 26 17:27 reads by tyler an ordnance annex into the city of

[39:43] Crespi florida 0.51 acres of contiguous land located in section 21 township 3

[39:49] north range 23 west and mean described as set forth herein providing for

[39:54] authority providing from land description providing for boundary

[39:57] providing for land use and zoning designation providing for amendment to

[40:01] the base land use and zoning maps providing for a comprehensive plan

[40:05] amendment providing for filing with the clerk of the circuit court of Okaloosa

[40:08] County the chief administrative officer of Okaloosa County and the Florida

[40:12] Department of State providing for several ability providing for scriveners

[40:15] errors providing for liberal interpretation providing for repeal of

[40:19] completing ordinances and providing for an effective date this is a second

[40:23] reading of ordinance 1727 Thank You Madame clerk can I have action please

[40:29] mr. president yes I know all promotion that we accept ordinates 1727 on the

[40:37] second reading move over to the President and code for signatures second

[40:42] I vote for second to approve ordinance 17 27 and second reading move on for

[40:47] signatures any discussion

[40:55] bring it up the boat here right

[41:12] you just popped up that's good that's good thing

[41:15] okay the the ordinance passed four to zero with one absence all right moving

[41:23] on and that same property will be ordinance 1728 clerk we please read them

[41:28] by title or December 17 28 reads by tile on orders of the city of Crestview

[41:32] Florida and meaning its adopted comprehensive plan providing for

[41:36] authority providing for findings of fact providing for purpose providing for

[41:39] changes with future land use designation from Okaloosa County low density

[41:44] residential ldr future land use category to medium density residential MDR future

[41:50] land use category on approximately 0.51 acres more or less in section 321

[41:56] Township 3 north range 23 West providing for future land use map amendment

[42:01] providing for severability for fighting for scriveners areas providing for

[42:05] liberal interpretation or providing for the repeal of conflicted clothes and

[42:09] providing for an effective date this is the second reading of one at 17 20 extra

[42:29] please mr. Chairman I move staffs recommendation I have motion and a

[42:35] second to approve the staffs recommendation any discussion please go

[42:40] to voting

[43:00] and that motion carries four to zero with one absence Thank You mr. mayor

[43:09] ordinate 1729 bottom clerk ordinance number 17 29 reads by title an ordinance

[43:15] of the city of Crestview Florida providing for the rezoning of 0.51 acres

[43:19] more or less a broke property look at in section 21 Township 3 north range 23

[43:24] west from the Okaloosa County residential 1 r1 zoning district the

[43:29] single or multi-family dwelling district are to providing for authority providing

[43:33] for updating of the Crestview zoning map providing for several ability providing

[43:37] for scriveners errors providing for local interpretation providing for

[43:41] reveal of completing repeal of conflicting toads and providing for an

[43:45] effective date this is the second reading of one at 1729 think about a

[43:49] clerk in action please let's journey it's good move staffs recommendation

[43:56] motion second to approve staffs recommendation any discussion please go

[44:03] to voting

[44:13] and that motion carries 4001 absence

[44:20] Thank You mr. mayor that concludes 12 items and under excuse me items 12 1.1

[44:28] our Paul 13.3 that was in the second reading now we'll move to items thirteen

[44:34] point one two thirteen point six in the same thing do we have anybody to speak

[44:41] for or against you any of those items from the public and seeing no mr. mayor

[44:50] move on the same question do we have any ex parte discussions or complex

[44:56] adventures from anyone that we know of early council right thank you all right

[45:03] so the first one will be ordered 1748 in this case it is a annexation of property

[45:08] owned by mr. Tom young it is an annexation only in this case he is not

[45:13] yet ready to define a property future land-use or zoning designation for that

[45:19] property it is approximately two point seven seven acres on the north side of

[45:25] Garrett pit road West at that point center problem proper notice has been

[45:32] sent by mail property posting and ads ran in the newspaper as per state law

[45:41] the property is currently in the county on the north side is property owned by

[45:51] the city these exams recommendation is to annex this property into the city so

[46:01] do we have any questions from the council on that property questions

[46:06] okay and as I said this is only an annexation so in this case madam clerk

[46:12] we please read horn in 1748 ordinance number 17 48 reads by title

[46:17] an ordinance a Knights came to the city of Crestview Florida 2.70 acres

[46:21] contiguous land located in section 36 Township 3 north range 23 and west and

[46:26] being described as set forth here and providing for Authority providing for

[46:30] land description providing for boundary providing for land use and zoning

[46:34] designation providing for an amendment to the base land used in zoning maps

[46:38] providing for a comprehensive plan amendment providing from filing with the

[46:41] clerk of Circuit Court of Okaloosa County the chief administrative officer

[46:45] of Okaloosa County and the Florida Department of State providing for

[46:48] several ability providing for scribblers areas providing her liberal

[46:52] interpretation providing for Appeal collecting codes and ordinances and

[46:56] providing an effective date this is the first reading of ordinance 1748 Thank

[47:00] You Madame political action by the council voice mr. president yes go ahead

[47:05] I like to make a motion that we accept staffs recommendation for adoption of

[47:11] ordinance 1748 it moved to second reading motion second to accept the

[47:17] staffs recommendation and you for a discussion go to voting please

[47:34] and that motion carries for 2:01 absence Thank You mr. mayor

[47:40] go ahead all right moving to items thirteen point two point three and point

[47:46] four this is an annexation and the comp plan amendment and the rezoning of a

[47:55] property let me get to my page on highway 85 on the north side of Airport

[48:04] Road that property is approximately two point one eight acres again in this case

[48:11] the note notice two projects and property owners has been sent property

[48:15] was posted and the ads have been run LPA heard this project and approved it or

[48:21] recommended it for approval On January 7th tonight's the first reading for the

[48:27] annexation of that property it will be request for property future land use and

[48:33] resigned to commercial they intend on doing a commercial development on that

[48:40] property anything to do with the site will be reviewed during the site

[48:46] development process so tonight's will be the annexation comp plan amendment and

[48:51] rezoning so madam clerk we please read them sorry do we have any questions from

[48:57] the council's audience on this one

[49:01] thank the move informed by McCleary please read coordinates 1733 by title

[49:07] ordinance number 17 33 reads by title an annex and an ordinance annexing to the

[49:13] city of Crestview Florida 2.18 acres of contiguous lands located in section 33

[49:18] Township for north range 23 west and being described as set forth herein

[49:23] providing for authority providing for land descriptions providing for boundary

[49:27] providing for land use and zoning designation providing for amendment to

[49:31] the base land use and zoning maps providing for a comprehensive plan

[49:34] amendment providing for filing with the clerk of Circuit Court of Okaloosa

[49:37] County the chief administrative officer of Okaloosa County in the florida

[49:41] department state providing for severability providing for scriveners

[49:45] error is providing for liberal interpretation providing for repeal of

[49:48] conflicting codes and ordinances and providing for an effective date this is

[49:52] a first reading of ordinance 1733 thank you madam clerk can I have action by the

[49:57] council please yes great council morning breath I move that we accept the

[50:01] adoption of ordinance 1733 as soon as the second reading second motion in a

[50:07] second to accept the staffs recommendation to move the second

[50:11] reading any further discussion please go to voting

[50:29] and that motion carries for 2:01 absence Thank You mr. mayor

[50:33] yeah the next one minor read ordinate 1734 please for this another 17 34 reads

[50:41] by title an ordinance of the city of Crestview Florida a meaning its adopted

[50:45] comprehensive plan providing for Authority providing for findings of fact

[50:48] providing for purpose for fighting for changing the future land use designation

[50:52] from Okaloosa County mixed use mu future land-use category to commercial C future

[50:58] land-use category and approximately two point one eight acres more or less in

[51:02] section 33 Township for North Branch 23 West providing for future land use map

[51:09] amendment providing for severability providing for scriveners errors

[51:13] providing for liberal interpretation providing for repeal conflicting codes

[51:17] and ordinances and providing for an effective date this is a first reading

[51:20] worn at 1734 think about a clerk could I have action by the telescope please miss

[51:26] German go ahead I move ordinance 17 34 on first reading to second reading thank

[51:32] you the motion second to move ordinance 1734 to second reading and E for a

[51:37] discussion I do have one question on that on this whole thing it said that

[51:44] they might be the fire department might need to put they might need to put in a

[51:48] fire hydrant I know this is kind of crazy bit do we pay for that or will

[51:53] they pay for that that will be part of the developers apartment okay all right

[51:58] I just kind of wondered that okay thank you for a discussion go to voting please

[52:17] and that motion carries four to zero with one absence moving in law Thank You

[52:23] mr. mayor my own clerk please ordinate 1735 for

[52:28] the rezoning ordinance number 1735 reads by title on orders of the city of

[52:32] Crestview Florida providing for the rezoning of 2.18 acres more or less of

[52:37] real property located in section 33 Township for north range 23 west from

[52:42] the Okaloosa County mixed use in museum district to the commercial c1 providing

[52:47] for authority providing for the updating of the Crestview zoning map providing

[52:52] food severability providing for scribblers errors providing for liberal

[52:55] interpretation providing for repeal of conflicting codes and ordinances and

[52:59] providing for an effective date this is the first reading of warning 1735

[53:04] thank you madam clerk I have action by the council please mr. chairman yes go

[53:10] ahead Michael make a motion that we adopt one

[53:14] s 1735 on the first reading and moved to the second reading second

[53:18] I've motion second to accept ordinance 17:35 moved second reading any further

[53:23] discussion go to voting please

[53:37] and that motion carries 40 zero was one absence continue please Thank You mr.

[53:45] mayor moving on to the last two thirteen point

[53:50] five and thirteen point six these are both for one property it is a comp plan

[53:56] amendment and a rezoning this parcel is currently in the city it is at the north

[54:02] end of arena Road just under two acres at arena road in Edney Avenue West in

[54:10] this case the proper notice has been sent to property owners surrounding

[54:14] within 300 feet property was posted and and ads were run as per state law we

[54:20] have as notice we have not heard any thing from the public from those notices

[54:25] it did get hurt and discussed at LP a meeting on January 7th and was

[54:31] recommended for approval at that time the applicant has requested a complan

[54:38] amendment to industrial with a zoning to be m1 do we have any questions from the

[54:46] council

[54:52] that

[54:56] hearing none then Madame clerk would you please read order at 1736 organist umber

[55:03] 1736 reads by title the normans of the city of Crestview Florida amending its

[55:07] adopted comprehensive plan providing for Authority providing for findings of fact

[55:11] providing for purpose providing for changing the future land use designation

[55:15] from low density residential early our future land use category to industrial I

[55:20] and future land use category on approximately one point nine seven acres

[55:24] more or less in Section nineteen Township three north range twenty-three

[55:28] West providing for future man land use map amendment providing for severability

[55:33] providing for Scribner errors providing for liberal interpretation providing for

[55:37] repeal of conflicting codes and ordinances and providing for an

[55:40] effective date this is a first reading of one at 1736 Thank You Madame clerk

[55:45] and I have action by the council please mr. Chairman I move staffs

[55:49] recommendation thank you motion second to approve the staffs

[55:53] recommendation any discussion please go to voting

[56:01] [Music] and that motion carries four to zero

[56:09] word one absence thank you Miss fair amount of Hartman please read orbit 1737

[56:17] for the rezoning when is number 30 17:37 reads by title an ordinance of the city

[56:22] of Crestview Florida providing for the rezoning of 1.97

[56:25] acres more or less of real property located in section 19 Township 3 north

[56:30] ranch 23 west from the single-family dwelling district r1 zoning district 2

[56:36] the industrial m1 providing for thority providing their updating of the

[56:40] Crestview zoning map providing for severability providing prescriptions

[56:44] errors providing for interpretation providing for a repeal of conflicting

[56:48] codes and ordinances and providing for an effective date this is the first

[56:52] reading of ordinance number 17 37 Thank You Madame clerk can I have action

[56:58] by the council place its president if I didn't assume that we approve or the

[57:04] 1737 on the first reading move the second reading we have second to move

[57:11] ordinates 1737 first reading and second reading any discussion please go to

[57:16] voting

[57:26] and that motion carries four to zero with one absence maybe we have one more

[57:35] don't wish it certainly mr. mayor this one is ordinate 1740 this was they

[57:44] two to do again the six-month more term on annexation fees this was successful

[57:52] for the last six months where we did that and this even tonight we're still

[57:57] doing some of those annexations bringing property into the city the whole goal

[58:01] was to try to clean up the rather messy city limits that we've got is where it

[58:07] up and also allow people to join our great city as a community coming

[58:11] together staff would like to request the six-month moratorium on annexation fees

[58:17] for properties 10 acres or or less any questions from the council or public

[58:23] yeah go ahead go into this plucker approximate how many people have we had

[58:28] at annexed in in their six-month period

[58:36] it's we've had quite a few I person didn't work on hollowfy okay any other

[58:44] comments questions just comment I think it's a great idea we need to keep it out

[58:48] there if anything the first six months we kind of got everybody knowing about

[58:52] it maybe this next six months will will help those come on more than spoken to

[59:02] [Music] I'd like to make a comment on and that

[59:06] is you know one of the issues very confusing to people around here is when

[59:10] you say well that's County property this city property it's on me it's so

[59:14] confusing mixed in together so this really encourages people to become part

[59:18] of the city and take some of the ambiguity out of there so this is a

[59:24] great encouragement to people and I'm glad to see that it's up for renewal and

[59:29] I would encourage everybody to do that so seeing no more questions

[59:36] get your last madam clerk or no 1740 reads my title on orders of the city of

[59:46] Crestview Florida providing for six-month waiver period for the

[59:48] collection of annexation application fees the properties of 10 acres or less

[59:52] in area providing for severability providing for peal of all ordinance elf

[59:57] parts of ordnance and convict pier with and providing for an effective date this

[1:00:01] is a first reading of ordinance 1740 thank you madam clerk could I have

[1:00:06] action by the council please staff recommendation okay I have motion

[1:00:13] second to approve staffs recommendation any discussion please go to voting

[1:00:33] and that motion carries four to zero with one absent individual and we are

[1:00:41] done with you Trey moving on action items number fourteen point two LP a

[1:00:54] board and I'm assuming that he managing to handle that at least one or two of

[1:01:15] the next meetings and then we've had somewhat of a quorum issue over the last

[1:01:22] couple of weeks since our last couple of meetings and we actually had to call a

[1:01:25] special meeting one time so what we're doing right now we're in the process of

[1:01:32] completely rewriting the Administrative Code for the city of kresteva our staff

[1:01:36] is working on that right now so that's going to totally change how many

[1:01:40] meetings are required how those meetings have to be done right now we have

[1:01:44] there's you know the statute requires this and pressu requires this and so

[1:01:49] we're working through weeding through all that so these guys over here really

[1:01:52] will appreciate some of them I'm just the way we handle our meetings and and

[1:01:56] the number of boards that we have the number of different boards and so we

[1:02:00] expect an ordinance to be ready in the next two or three meetings yes okay so

[1:02:05] we expect to be able to come before you with with an ordinance in the next

[1:02:09] couple of meetings to make some significant changes some of those

[1:02:13] changes will include taking all of the boards we're going to recommend to you

[1:02:17] that we take the different boards that we have and kind of combine them into

[1:02:22] one and try to exit the way the process

[1:02:24] works for example right now we have a separate boa board from LP a board and

[1:02:32] then we have code board we have all these other boards and so when we when

[1:02:36] we come back we're going to be recommending that the LP a and the and

[1:02:40] the boa are combined it it's an effective way to do it because you have

[1:02:45] the people who are writing the code also or evaluating whether a variation is

[1:02:49] necessary from the code or whether it's also our appeal process long story short

[1:02:54] or long story long we are where the process of changing in between now and

[1:02:59] then when we get that done we do need to appoint someone we've reached out to

[1:03:04] several of the people who have applied in the past and to see if we if they

[1:03:09] were interested one of them being Miss Winkler she was not she declined because

[1:03:13] her schedules picked up some so she declined so I reached out to my croix to

[1:03:20] ask that you would fill in just for a couple of meetings we need probably two

[1:03:25] meetings until we get ready to change it then we'll be able to take all of our

[1:03:28] board members and figure out combine them more video will go through it and

[1:03:33] place people to create a super board for lack of a better term and so at this

[1:03:39] point that's what we're asking for normally I would just say let's hold off

[1:03:43] but I'm having form problems as it is so we would like to that one suggestion we

[1:03:47] have if you have another somebody who is a resident of the city of Crestview that

[1:03:53] wouldn't would be willing to show up I mean sit

[1:03:55] on our board and show up as well so but because it's such a it's probably going

[1:04:04] to be two or three meetings go for it and then it's all going to be changed

[1:04:07] again you know we we knew but again it's up to you you all point select an

[1:04:12] appointed member so it has done by the council not by one council member that's

[1:04:18] right this will get my nomination is made well we have the openings for this

[1:04:27] one in a couple week we put it on social media send out the applications the

[1:04:31] applications are online and all right the balls in your court what y'all gonna

[1:04:40] do this kid Karen yeah how I do it with staff recommendation a tan

[1:04:46] denominator to my groin to the LPA board second at motions second to appoint Mike

[1:04:54] Roy to the LPO LP a board any discussion and this is disappointment is until we

[1:05:02] come back with a change to the trade so this is just a temporary order okay then

[1:05:07] please vote

[1:05:17] and that motion carries four to zero with all one absentee okay Ridgeway

[1:05:37] landing subdivision Memorandum of Understanding this is for Ridgeway

[1:05:48] landing subdivision mr. mayor and council elqui a number 1907 it is a

[1:05:54] proposed 146 lot single-family residential subdivision and with this

[1:06:00] set a vision is an MOU that I'll discuss here briefly this is a little bit

[1:06:06] background about this property it is a parcel of land it's on the corner of old

[1:06:11] Bethel Road and Jones Road on the east side of Jones Road is a about thirty two

[1:06:17] point six five acres of land they have been through the TRC and LPA with quite

[1:06:24] a bit of back and forth and work through this development to make it work as a

[1:06:29] result of Jones Road and old Bethel being what they are and trying to look

[1:06:34] forward towards the future on planning for a better traffic this the developer

[1:06:39] the county and us our engineering they're playing apartments to have

[1:06:43] worked together to work out an MoU which is a member of understanding the

[1:06:48] developer and this they're all parties involved have worked together to do some

[1:06:54] improvements to Jones Road with a nod towards future needs in that area as a

[1:07:00] part of this development they have also as far as their

[1:07:04] development gave given some of their land towards a ride away on that

[1:07:08] property as well in other aspects of this project they have call sufficiently

[1:07:16] met all technical requirements for all infrastructure all concurrency

[1:07:21] and willing to answer any other questions we do have the developer and

[1:07:25] engineer in the audience if you have questions any comments questions yeah I

[1:07:33] think I'd like to ask one of the developers that come up if you would

[1:07:36] please my my only question would be the big elephant in the room and that is the

[1:07:50] transportation what what are the plans with Jones Road Matt Zinke Jenkins

[1:07:56] engineering 121 Hart Street nice old Florida

[1:07:59] thank you I'm the civil engineer on behalf of a regular land development we

[1:08:04] met basically with the Oakland County right off the bat on this project

[1:08:06] because Jones Road and old Bethel Road are both roads maintained by Okaloosa

[1:08:10] County many of this properties in the city and anyone familiar with the pj

[1:08:15] adams project knows that acquiring the right away is probably more difficult

[1:08:20] almost in the construction and it's costing as time-consuming so one of the

[1:08:25] things the county asked of our developers was we're basically giving 25

[1:08:29] feet of ride away along the entire 11 hundred foot frontage along old Bethel

[1:08:33] in case the county ever wants to four-way or excuse me put four lanes in

[1:08:37] on old Ethel well now I have that right away to do that they're also dedicating

[1:08:41] 17 feet of ride away along Jones Road to make sure it has the proper right away

[1:08:44] and then they're paving about 660 feet of Jones Road and having a second

[1:08:49] interest in say the vision that way if that roadway ever gets widened the

[1:08:54] entrance off of Bethel could become a ride in right out and then you know you

[1:08:58] have a full access there at that juncture out so those improvements were

[1:09:02] all coordinated with the county engineer and city staff okay thank you mr. block

[1:09:08] has a question a question for you listen I've been answered meaning you

[1:09:12] thought only putting the electric one on the ground the electrical is planned to

[1:09:16] be underground for this subdivision all right on the ground

[1:09:18] yes mr. Payne sir thank you

[1:09:29] I think those are all the questions what staff is asking is for approval of this

[1:09:35] subdivision together with that MOU that will require that's part of that it's

[1:09:41] require them to do that work work on Jones Road as part of their development

[1:09:47] okay hey questions or comments then okay could I have action please mr. Graham I

[1:09:55] move to approve the construction plans 146 lot family dwelling residential

[1:10:00] subdivision plans and the associated MOU what he says he's recommending that we

[1:10:09] approve with the staff recommended to us and have a motion of the second any

[1:10:13] further discussion please vote

[1:10:22] [Music]

[1:10:28] and that motion carries four to zero over with one absence thanks miss Mayer

[1:10:33] thank you there anybody in the audience that would like to speak to the City

[1:10:39] Council anybody in the audience let speaking

[1:10:42] thank you gentlemen anybody I don't see anybody to the

[1:10:46] audience so page here and I'll start off with any comment starting out with calls

[1:10:58] my rights which of course I know everybody's hitching to get out of here

[1:11:02] for the game so I'll keep it real short since we're already eight minutes over

[1:11:06] but I hope everybody had a great holiday and I look forward to 2020 I think it's

[1:11:11] gonna be really busy action-packed especially with all the new view vision

[1:11:15] and everything that's moving forward with that being said I have to announce

[1:11:20] that I will not be here for the February 10th meeting I will be out of town okay

[1:11:28] but other than that you know everything he said but I will be here for the I

[1:11:45] have a question a person went to the police department asked the question

[1:11:50] they couldn't answer it came to me asked the question I couldn't answer my text

[1:11:55] lane and he hadn't asked me back has there ever been any thought of placing a

[1:12:02] cup of soaked crosswalks on Main Street mr. blocker address right to you

[1:12:13] you know the question was you know are we going to put crosswalks on Main

[1:12:17] Street there are four crosswalks on every intersection of Main Street so I'm

[1:12:22] not sure there's four crosses that you know they go each way at desease they go

[1:12:28] each way at the courthouse we have an additional crosswalk down that

[1:12:33] courthouse Suites so I'm not sure I would I'd be happy to talk to whoever it

[1:12:39] is and it was good but there's crosswalks are they labeled they got to

[1:12:54] be newly approved then we got someone I'm not positive but I'll get an A for

[1:13:01] Monday night mayor pro tip Hays what you get for it just a few things through

[1:13:13] process then we'll Council like to remind you that every Monday 8 o'clock

[1:13:20] you can phone in and hear legislative briefing from Tallahassee on what's

[1:13:25] happening on the bills they had one this morning I listened on that this next

[1:13:30] coming week to do the holiday will not be on money will be it to a Tuesday but

[1:13:35] the days after that on mondays you can dial in enormous about 30 minutes then

[1:13:40] they'll brief you on all the bills that are going through and what actions are

[1:13:44] on where they stand and whether we me really need to talk to Tallahassee or go

[1:13:50] down there for the public car real more historical society will be having

[1:13:56] monitor junior program on January 18th at 7:00 p.m.

[1:14:01] revenant Alban Smith will be the speaker net will be at the Carver Hills Center

[1:14:06] on February 11th and the 12th will have legislative day in Tallahassee this is

[1:14:12] where elected officials will go to Tallahassee in massive numbers and they

[1:14:17] will address or visit our representatives are

[1:14:22] and our senators there and just basically we they're aware of a lot of

[1:14:27] things that we are concerned about but this gives us a so show a unity force

[1:14:31] last shot was there and there was over four or five hundred elected officials

[1:14:35] at this event so I'm looking forward to going down 11 to 12 February with the

[1:14:43] Council's approval what what approval you're looking forward to a cost

[1:14:50] associated that's what they need to know yeah because the cost associated with it

[1:14:54] there's a fifty dollar registration fee which have are repaid the other expense

[1:14:59] would be the hotel and the hotel is 239 I'm not asking for money for food or

[1:15:09] money for gas that'd be a my own expenses how many days you stay both

[1:15:15] nights are you staying - I'm upstanding one night I'll be there two days but I

[1:15:19] plan on getting there early that morning at 11th which is where we'll be meeting

[1:15:23] with elected officials I'm in our represents be coming over to the

[1:15:28] Doubletree and they'll be talking with us and we get to really let them know

[1:15:33] how we feel about certain things that the ones that are brave enough to come

[1:15:36] and face about four or five hundred people before is the next day there's

[1:15:43] another meeting - as you know I say on the board of directors for League of

[1:15:48] Cities and there's a meeting there - but I plan on being home that evening so I'm

[1:15:54] only after requesting one night State it's like if I could comment on that at

[1:16:00] one point I was interested in going there with a city manager but with

[1:16:06] having a city manager and a representative from the city

[1:16:08] I would rather y'all allow him to go and pay and and I not go because he'll

[1:16:15] represent us well and it'll be two of us I don't think we really need three so if

[1:16:20] you all want to prove that I I have no problem

[1:16:22] wouldn't have to do so yes okay got a motion mr. blocker made a motion to

[1:16:28] approve that I don't have it in front of me on another cost of the hotel room is

[1:16:38] $239 we have it in the budget yeah okay motion in a second to approve

[1:16:46] Mayor Pro temp Hays to go to that conference any discussion please vote

[1:16:58] and that motion carries four to zero with one effort okay

[1:17:05] I'll wrap things up I'm sorry you want to know one other thing I don't know the

[1:17:09] mirror is gonna mention it but from the people that I've been speaking to and

[1:17:12] running into from this past Sonny year B began they were thoroughly thrilled with

[1:17:20] the new year's event that the mayor has a part of and so I just like to say the

[1:17:25] citizens that I've talked with are looking forward to the next year time

[1:17:30] okay thank you that that's a good segue into what I was going to say because the

[1:17:34] NY the New Year's Eve celebration blew us away we had no idea that many people

[1:17:40] would show up we were thinking maybe I don't get 2500 people and build on it

[1:17:44] estimates were and I didn't make the estimate the restaurant owners did over

[1:17:48] 3,000 people showed up everybody had a good time it was a well-organized event

[1:17:53] and it was done because of the efforts of the city manager the City Council

[1:17:58] city clerk all the departments Main Street it we just it was really a team

[1:18:03] effort and we ended that event by saying goodbye to 2019

[1:18:08] a new view and saying goodbye brought a little tear to my eye

[1:18:12] but we said goodbye to it and then we said welcome 2020 the community coming

[1:18:17] together and that's gonna be your theme for this coming year and that was it if

[1:18:22] you stop thinking about it that event was a community coming

[1:18:24] together speaking of that on Saturday on the 18th

[1:18:28] at 9 o'clock in the morning yes I know it's I know it's a holiday I know it's

[1:18:32] early I know it may be cold but there is going to be a march in

[1:18:36] order of dr. Martin Luther King jr. it's going to be on Main Street and we're

[1:18:42] really looking for massive participation this has been done by a group a very

[1:18:48] dedicated group concerned citizen press you've been doing it for many years and

[1:18:52] so the city's helping them out try to get the advertising out there get the

[1:18:57] people out there it'll be no more than one hour we'll be done by 10:00 there's

[1:19:02] a guest speaker well-known Reverend from Fort Walton Beach Reverend Cecil

[1:19:06] Williams will be the guest speaker and so I encourage everybody to show up and

[1:19:12] join us in that March yes I can't take anything from the audience right now

[1:19:16] thank you and that's all I have and see Clerk everything for us

[1:19:30] now I'll just remind the feet but those of you who signed up for the dinner for

[1:19:34] Thursday night in single bio to do you have me on that I want to show up and

[1:19:44] have no food no I got everybody and send it in today so everybody that had

[1:19:50] responded to it and city manager yes sir just a couple of things briefly again I

[1:19:59] appreciate everyone's patience with the new software as we work through it it'll

[1:20:03] be better it'll get smoother some things we'll do a follow-up from

[1:20:08] the tonight's meeting with Mary another clerk some things I identified that I

[1:20:14] want to change is we're going to get to where we get the mass back up there

[1:20:17] I work with Caesar so that when we're talking about these we do so many

[1:20:21] annexations and reasonings for a while we're able to put them on the screen

[1:20:25] we're going to do that again so that you know what you're looking at

[1:20:28] the public knows what they're looking at the software doesn't accommodate it so

[1:20:32] we'll make some some changes to get that done but again I know it's difficult

[1:20:37] whenever we make changes so I appreciate everyone's patience if you can imagine

[1:20:41] how long it takes us to go through here there's there's five to seven people

[1:20:45] that have to review every single item so having this software allows us to do

[1:20:49] that as efficient as possible so if you guys sit you all an email about the five

[1:20:54] things I listened I mentioned to the news bulletin that we were going to be

[1:20:59] focusing on in next year and one of those things is efficiency and so we

[1:21:04] just continue to work to increase our efficiency you'll also see some changes

[1:21:08] in here between anything in the next meeting we'll be moving some stuff

[1:21:12] around we're not we originally had talked about remodeling this this room

[1:21:16] we're not going to do that at this time we're going to we've got so many other

[1:21:20] projects going on we're just going to make some changes to accommodate it a

[1:21:25] little bit better get myself mixed in this floor so we can work through the

[1:21:28] meetings better and also I'll get you guys a TV over here so that that end of

[1:21:33] the table can see it better mr. LaBeouf's not here because he's been

[1:21:38] on my case about it bring get that done mr. block right toward the Environmental

[1:21:43] Center today that's when I got a chance to speak with mr. steel about it and

[1:21:47] actually I I invite you to set up a time to go walk it with him but will we have

[1:21:51] a ribbon-cutting sing we're waiting on I believe it's the historical the board

[1:21:58] historical sites board I was able to help us with the set up inside there but

[1:22:04] everything is completely done other than the demo of the building it looks like

[1:22:07] that's something we're going to put next year's budget because it's over

[1:22:11] twenty thousand to tear the building down and do it because there's asbestos

[1:22:17] so what we're going to go ahead and get it open so we'll be doing a

[1:22:21] ribbon-cutting on that shortly also The Dispatch Center is is pretty

[1:22:26] much done we'll have the ribbon-cutting probably before the next council meeting

[1:22:31] not in two weeks but maybe in four weeks so the first council meeting in February

[1:22:37] will be having a ribbon cutting for the dispatch center it is beautiful back

[1:22:41] there and it is state-of-the-art very very nice facility also we have we're

[1:22:49] gonna see a little bit of changes in the way that we produce these meetings one

[1:22:53] of the things mr. block brings up to me all the time is to make sure that we're

[1:22:57] transparent and so over the last couple of weeks we've been working together

[1:23:01] with Pendleton from CCTV on a contract agreement for him to produce

[1:23:05] professional produce our our council meetings and so he will be doing that

[1:23:10] over the next couple of weeks you're going to see that it will run so they

[1:23:13] will be it's guaranteed to run live on the CCTV and also we'll have good

[1:23:18] quality both sound and and picture being produced we have the public assignments

[1:23:26] that stuff making some changes but other than that we're busy busy so I

[1:23:30] appreciate each of you and it's almost been a year all right let me go back to

[1:23:44] my page here I think I know where we are want to be sure yeah well thank you all

[1:23:54] for coming and go home now and watch the ball game this meeting is adjourned

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