[0:24] hey it's two minutes until
[0:31] how else would you do it because
how you pay that rent no but i never see
[0:35] anybody there except those parties
[0:46] emily he's drunk with power i know
yes he is there are some nights and is
[0:52] the way i value my life
[1:03] so
[1:19] good evening everyone welcome to eustis
city hall this is a regular city
[1:23] commission meeting of the eustis city
commission it is 6 p.m thursday
[1:27] september the 8th 2022
at this time if you'd like to join us
[1:32] for a moment of silence and the pledge
of allegiance please stand
[1:47] amen
please join me in the pledge of
[1:50] allegiance i pledge
allegiance the flag of the united states
[1:55] of america and to the republic for which
it stands one nation under god
[2:01] indivisible with liberty and justice for
all
[2:05] thank you
[2:11] go ahead and call our meeting to order
christina sarah foreign president proper
[2:15] note has been given yes thank you so
much tom agenda updates yes uh two
[2:20] things uh one the presentation
on the budget and the millage scheduled
[2:26] under 3.1 uh it makes more sense to do
that at the time of the item and so we'd
[2:30] like to do that just prior to 6.1 if
that's okay absolutely
[2:35] and then the other item i would like to
take an opportunity to introduce the
[2:40] artists who are exhibiting at city hall
currently so i'd like to invite up wanda
[2:45] pedrosa and vidal torres
please come on up introduce yourselves
[2:51] right here to the microphone in the
center there folks
[2:54] okay thank you
hi good evening my name is juan de
[2:59] pedosa
i'm nated from puerto rico
[3:03] but i'm a resident of eustis uh it's
gonna be our fifth year
[3:09] fifth year
and we are artists and hand crafters and
[3:14] we will we love to
share all our knowledge with the
[3:19] community in eustace that's why we came
and offered
[3:24] to display our art
um also in celebration of the hispanic
[3:29] heritage month that is from september to
october
[3:33] so i hope you enjoy our
art and i don't know
[3:38] you want to say something else
[Laughter]
[3:43] your artwork is absolutely your artwork
is absolutely beautiful we thank you for
[3:48] sharing it with us and we look forward
to hopefully showcasing you all some
[3:52] more throughout the year yes and we're
looking forward to keep working with you
[3:56] uh and the theory of justice thank
[4:02] [Applause]
[4:10] we do
appreciate
[4:14] that you give us the
opportunity to be here
[4:18] and to share with
the city of eustis
[4:24] our art
in appreciation
[4:29] we
we like to give you
[4:32] the poster
of the
[4:34] exhibit we are one
all right thank you so much
[4:39] we appreciate that
[4:47] thank you so much
it's really nice
[4:52] very nice
[5:08] george there okay do we all give george
a quarter
[5:13] this is like a cruise ship you at the
end you can come up and pick them up and
[5:17] buy them
three two one three
[5:21] two
one thank you thank you george thank you
[5:24] all so much
[5:31] all right moving on down next we have
approval of minutes we have on our
[5:36] agenda tonight the june 28 2022 city
commission budget workshop the june 30th
[5:42] 2022 city commission budget workshop and
the august 18 2022 city commission
[5:48] cemetery workshop
looking for approval for the approval of
[5:53] the june 28 june 30th august 18th
minutes thank you ma'am
[5:59] thank you sir any further discussion
not hearing any roll call please vice
[6:03] mayor lee aye commissioner lahoop smith
aye commissioner cobb aye commissioner
[6:07] hawkins aye mayor holland aye next we
have presentations which we have moved
[6:12] over to the uh
further down in the agenda so now we
[6:16] come down to audience to be heard if
you'd like to speak to the commission
[6:18] about something that's not on the agenda
this is your opportunity you get three
[6:22] minutes please give us your name when
you come forward
[6:25] tom anybody yes i have a card from cindy
newton all right hi cindy
[6:36] good evening cindy newton i'm in
unincorporated
[6:40] lake county district four
and i just wanted to thank mayor holland
[6:44] for sitting in on the panel for the
recent double acp part 3
[6:48] citizens town hall meeting on lake
county's population explosion
[6:53] it was an excellent meeting
it went so well the
[6:59] sitting there listening and having input
and just observing
[7:05] various leaders
from not only the county but
[7:10] several
municipalities
[7:12] and they had such a unity
in
[7:17] thoughts
and
[7:20] direction
for the area and it was
[7:26] uplifting it was encouraging and greatly
appreciate it i just want to thank you
[7:31] thank you i appreciate that
[7:45] okay
uh gail isaac thomas
[7:50] scale
good evening
[7:53] hi sasha hello how are you
i just want to stand before you this
[7:58] evening
and say how much i appreciate it
[8:03] being the volunteer for the cr east
town
[8:08] east used to cra
rep for
[8:14] three
almost three and a half years but anyway
[8:17] i just want to tell you all thank you
i appreciate everything that
[8:22] was done during my
time as a representative
[8:29] and pray and hope that things continue
to improve
[8:32] in east town
and i also want to say congratulations
[8:38] commissioner thank you to another year
thank you thank you thank you gail thank
[8:43] you for your service
anybody else tom so um we received a
[8:50] card uh
from gessner harris but she is not here
[8:54] yet and she is on her way so i don't
know what the will of the commission is
[8:59] um
[9:01] let's see where we are when guest new
gets here i have a card from yolanda
[9:05] taylor miss yolanda come on to the
microphone how are you
[9:10] good thank you for allowing me to still
submit
[9:14] yolanda taylor
good evening commission board i'm
[9:17] actually here as a regular
resident in east town 806 liberty street
[9:24] actually stood before the board and we
talked about bears
[9:30] we talked about bears and i know we
discussed a few things as far as signs
[9:34] and trash cans and things of that nature
and i'm aware that some of the
[9:39] commissioning board also is aware of a
safety issue as far as bears are
[9:43] concerned with chasing individuals in
the community
[9:47] i am
know
[9:49] for sure that the individual that got
chased by the bear
[9:54] actually lives next door to a relative
of mine that has two little babies
[9:59] and also next to a very close relative
of mine who has
[10:03] seven babies in that home so now are we
not dealing with trash but we're also
[10:08] dealing with safety
okay
[10:11] i understand that the residents had the
opportunity to contact animal control
[10:16] and wildlife and they were given keys or
excuse me locks for their trash can
[10:22] currently we have approximately two
individuals in the neighborhood who have
[10:27] these locks so my next question is
whether or not is that the
[10:31] possible direction that we should take
if we should just be contacting wildlife
[10:35] to make sure that
we not only have the locks for the can
[10:39] but we're looking at a safety issue and
usually when we're dealing with safety
[10:42] with animals they come out with
capture to capture
[10:47] so i don't know exactly where we are or
where to go with that
[10:51] yeah and again we understand animals are
going to be here right they're
[10:55] everywhere i don't like lizards
if i could call somebody to get every
[11:00] lizard i would
please just take them away
[11:04] i don't like lizards but i mean there's
nothing i can do about it okay um
[11:08] however when we are now dealing with
safety and especially when the bears
[11:12] come out when it's still daylight
okay and we have little babies
[11:17] and the little babies are starting to
chase humans
[11:20] okay all right
um
[11:23] yeah so i just wanted to revisit that
again for sure
[11:27] um i know and i have faith that we will
be able to get some level of assistance
[11:31] i do believe
and am aware that we may be receiving
[11:35] assistance just wanted to bring that to
the board again in attention okay all
[11:39] right thank
you i can maybe give a little update on
[11:43] that
um and so the commission had said
[11:46] contact waste management
waste management
[11:50] does have a program
they said the only municipality that's
[11:54] participating right now is mount dora
waste management will go out and buy the
[12:00] bear proof cans
[12:03] they
[Music]
[12:04] well i'm sorry waste management will buy
them on behalf of the city the city will
[12:09] pay for those cans
the city can then determine how to
[12:13] distribute those cans
mount dora chooses to pass that cost
[12:18] along to the customer
so mount dora pays for a bear proof can
[12:22] if a customer requests it mount dora
charges the customer for the cost of
[12:26] that cam
in talking to jose at waste management
[12:30] the cost of the can right now is about
250 dollars for a bear proof can
[12:35] now commissioner hawkins recently was in
touch with some folks from
[12:40] fish and wildlife
they have
[12:44] kind of like a strap or buckle solution
they i contacted waste management and
[12:51] said do you have any experience with
these straps or buckles does it make it
[12:55] difficult for you to pick up trash and
waste management said we have no
[12:59] experience with what fish and wildlife
is talking about
[13:02] and so where commissioner hawkins and i
left it was maybe we need to get
[13:07] waste management operations folks with
fish and wildlife
[13:11] to see if this is a viable solution
and it's something that's workable and
[13:16] allows waste management to continue to
pick up the trash
[13:20] and so we can do that
i think waste management would be i'm
[13:24] sorry i think fish and wildlife would be
asking us
[13:27] to bear the cost
of those those straps and buckles and i
[13:32] think it's a reasonable cost
and it's whether we pass that on to the
[13:37] customer is something that we would have
to talk about
[13:40] so
i think it's it would be cost effective
[13:43] we just don't quite know yet if it's
something that waste management can work
[13:47] with if waste management can't you pick
up the trash they're not going to allow
[13:52] that to be used
um and so
[13:55] at this point i think we just have to do
a little bit more work on it yeah i
[13:59] think that um
that that is
[14:04] something that uh
fish and wildlife said they would they
[14:08] would make for us if we wanted it
but that being said if it was something
[14:14] that we we could do
we would have to get the word out to
[14:18] every resident there
that
[14:21] they would have to make sure on the day
of trash pickup that they unbuckle
[14:28] their their trash cans because if not it
may not get picked up and then
[14:33] you know
there'll be complaints about them so we
[14:36] just need to
we got to take the steps to get
[14:39] everything done and then when the time
comes you and i will go out and we'll
[14:43] walk the neighborhood and we'll tell
everybody what they need to do
[14:47] okay all right
thank you willy thank you tom
[14:50] so uh yolanda submitted another card on
another issue i don't know what the will
[14:55] of the commission is go ahead real quick
come on
[15:04] thank you again
yolanda taylor
[15:07] this time i'm actually here for
the east town community redevelopment
[15:11] incorporated
i'm actually here to briefly discuss
[15:17] code enforcement
at the last meeting there were a few
[15:22] concerns as far as code enforcement is
concerned i had the opportunity to speak
[15:27] with mr eric martin to just to educate
myself because that's what we want to do
[15:33] we want to be able to educate and have a
better understanding
[15:37] and some of the findings that i found
out were eyebrow raising so i need you
[15:42] guys's help
and direction on that and see how is it
[15:46] that we can proceed from here
just to give an example some of the
[15:49] questions as far as how is it that we
decide the sliding scale of
[15:53] between the two
25 dollars to the 250 dollars of fees
[15:58] that is that are applied based on
infraction there isn't necessarily a
[16:01] standard scale
this is just something based on from
[16:05] what i was told
what we may decide
[16:08] that particular fee is
so my eyebrow razor is shouldn't we
[16:12] possibly have something in place
that is a
[16:16] sliding scale based on the infraction if
it's something that's um
[16:20] you know detrimental if it's safety then
of course it gets a higher end if it's
[16:24] something that's level is grass it may
fall within a certain bracket where it
[16:27] may be on the level end that's not
necessarily something that's in place
[16:31] now my next concern was about finding
out the information as far as code
[16:35] enforcement liens and issues that we
have in the community
[16:39] right now currently the only way that we
can find it out is just by going and
[16:43] looking on the board not everyone is
posted nor is it anywhere else
[16:47] researchable for the community to find
out so my position here is to see
[16:53] how is it that we can come up with a
better way to one educate
[16:57] our residents whether that's through the
organization so we can learn a little
[17:01] bit more as far as the processes and
coming up with a better way as far as
[17:05] how is it that we are notified of the
infractions and how the fees are applied
[17:10] and how we determine
how much is applied per
[17:14] infraction versus it just being
based off emotion today you know i feel
[17:19] like it's going to be 75 a day tomorrow
it might be 250 today there's not
[17:24] anything that's concrete
as far as a guide
[17:30] so that's an issue especially in the in
the area
[17:33] where can somebody please get that from
me
[17:36] um in the area where we are losing land
we're losing property
[17:40] and it's our job to make sure that
we make sure our residents know what's
[17:45] going on and i'm in that position to
help to do so okay
[17:49] i'm going to ask you to schedule a
meeting with tom and with mike okay and
[17:54] sit down and talk to them when i was on
the code enforcement board we had some
[17:59] set fees
and i believe that code enforcement
[18:02] board does have set fees of what when
they when somebody comes in front of
[18:06] them and willie you were on it
prior to coming on the commission there
[18:11] there is uh that document that shows
them a sliding scale so
[18:16] if you will get with those gentlemen let
them sit down with you and meet with you
[18:20] because i have i have concerns with code
enforcement as well yeah and we want to
[18:24] be able to help to make sure that we all
know what's going on correct okay if
[18:29] you'll just schedule a meeting with tom
and with mike they can sit down with you
[18:32] and go over that and
get you an answer all right thank you
[18:36] okay thank you so much ms gessner i saw
you walk in and i know you've got a card
[18:40] in already you want to come up ma'am
[18:48] how are you tonight fine good
later vice mayor commissioners
[18:54] i just came up i
would like to make a maybe suggestion
[19:01] recently we rented
the building out at carver park the
[19:05] garden room
and in renting the building they were
[19:10] having a football game and for the
football game we gave to the
[19:15] cheerleaders we bought uniforms and all
that
[19:18] but
when you're renting the building
[19:21] it is my suggestion if they would rope
off
[19:26] the parking lot for the people that are
renting the building
[19:30] if the building is not being rented
it's open for free parking
[19:36] but if you have paid
50 an hour to rent a building and you
[19:40] get there and there's no parking it's
kind of embarrassing
[19:44] we had people from far as the bahamas
and they came in here elderly people
[19:49] could not even drop the food off we were
trying to park side the streets going in
[19:54] a ditch to bring the food in
and it's just a suggestion in the future
[19:59] that if you're renting the building i
understand why they didn't want to rent
[20:03] it now because that's probably why but
if we're bringing revenue in by renting
[20:08] the building i could not see not
letting us rent the building which we
[20:13] really did appreciate yes ma'am and
that's a lot of us yes yes you have our
[20:18] condolences for the loss in your family
and we're sorry if it embarrassed you in
[20:23] any way all right thank you ma'am we'll
take it under advisement thank you
[20:29] anybody else tom
um
[20:31] dorothy stevenson miss dorothy
[20:41] i forgot to say there's an overflow
parking which we were told that's down
[20:45] there if they would take a sign maybe
and put overflow parking
[20:50] they
told us to use that but i think they can
[20:53] use that gotcha thank you ma'am hello
miss dorothy good evening board members
[20:59] i'm dorothy stevenson
liberty street
[21:03] first of all i would like to thank my
mayor for taking
[21:06] making sure i was okay doing my surgery
thank you so much you're welcome and uh
[21:12] grand opening was awesome thank you for
that also and
[21:16] i just want to address again i want gail
to know
[21:19] how much
we appreciate the service that you did
[21:23] for us
while you was on the board
[21:27] you know
you did all that you could and knew how
[21:30] to do and i want to thank you publicly
for doing what you did
[21:35] and
you know we are community
[21:39] and if
love is supposed to be a community and
[21:44] if we show each other love and respect
that's all we can do and i just want to
[21:49] say thank you all thank you
and
[21:53] the issues about the bear and pardon
bears too so i'm a part of all the
[21:58] issues that's going on so everything
that you're here listening to
[22:03] is a part of me also
and i want to thank and hope we all have
[22:07] listeners thank you thank you
[22:13] anybody else tom that's all i have as
far as cards thank you anybody else like
[22:16] to address the commission on anything
that's not on the agenda this evening
[22:21] not seen anything we're going to go
ahead down to the consent agenda there
[22:25] are three items on the consent agenda
this evening is there anything anybody
[22:30] would like pooled for discussion
[22:33] not hearing i'm looking for a motion to
accept the consent agenda
[22:37] thank you ma'am
thank you ma'am any further discussion
[22:41] not hearing any roll call please vice
mayor lee aye commissioner hope smith
[22:45] aye commissioner cobb aye commissioner
hawkins aye mayor holland aye madam
[22:50] attorney thank you mr mayor um mr
shepard will now present on the
[22:55] tentative millage levy of the ad valorem
taxes and the tentative budget for the
[22:59] city of eustis thank you ma'am
mayor
[23:02] members of commission mike shepard
finance director
[23:05] i'd like to first
thank you all for your participation in
[23:09] this whole process
and i have
[23:12] nellie harnish
and joy mackenzie who have done a lot of
[23:16] work in getting this thing put together
so
[23:19] it's
been a pleasure
[23:24] how does this work
[23:33] we're getting close to the end of it we
have this meeting
[23:37] and one more meeting to to meet for
reading the budget and the tentative
[23:41] millage
and we'll be doing that and then we will
[23:44] advertise we have to advertise that
on the 19th which is a sunday paper
[23:49] it'll be in the daily commercial
and uh that's required by law
[23:54] uh
after the
[23:57] next thursday or two thursdays from now
we will be
[24:01] certifying by the 27th we have to
certify to the property appraiser what
[24:05] the millage will be
and
[24:09] the adoptive
budget will be distributed in october 1
[24:13] will have a new budget
[24:16] these are a list of the major funds uh
that we have the biggest two are uh have
[24:21] to do with general fund water and sewer
water and sewers made up of three or
[24:25] four
different
[24:27] separate funds but combined
uh the methodology it
[24:33] will be this is how all of it will be
presented you'll have two years of
[24:37] history
uh you'll have the adopted budget from
[24:40] last year you'll have the projected
budget for this year and then the
[24:44] proposed
this gives you a list of
[24:49] where we started from and the different
uh
[24:53] things that we discussed and and
changes that we made to the budget to
[24:57] get to where the bottom line where we're
at right now
[25:02] and each of the funds that had a
anything changing is listed there
[25:11] these are some of the
big items that we
[25:15] had going through
the
[25:18] life and health insurance we got a
20 or two percent decrease
[25:23] which is unheard of
[25:26] the cola we were able to do a four
percent
[25:29] and then uh we also did a longevity
which goes a half a percent per year up
[25:34] to four years two percent max
this will get us help get us closer to
[25:41] what the other cities are doing so we're
competitive and we're going to be in a
[25:45] position maybe next year to be over the
fifteen dollars an hour which
[25:49] goes into effects on uh thinking 26 25.
the other items uh
[25:57] you know we we look at the
the state revenues they make projections
[26:02] we use what we are
gathering now
[26:05] combine the two to get get the estimates
for revenues
[26:10] uh
these are some of the things that uh
[26:13] general liability insurance 10
was budgeted uh
[26:18] the fire pension decreased a little bit
uh from four one nine eight to four two
[26:23] nine four
it's i'm sorry i just skipped a line
[26:28] three nine two three eight three
uh
[26:32] small decrease and the police pension
increased a little
[26:36] uh a total of uh 4198-4294
for a slight increase of 10 000
[26:43] we have a we're going to get three new
officers resource officers so uh
[26:48] but in order to do that the school board
is paying uh 246 000 or no 226 thousand
[26:55] 246 is going to be our approximate cost
but we get we through that we'll get
[27:02] more information on the
students that are in there
[27:06] and
i already said that
[27:08] this is just a summary of all the budget
changes and
[27:13] start with a beginning balance
revenues expenditures less reserves that
[27:18] are required
and we get to unbalance
[27:21] for the end of 9 30
23.
[27:26] this is just a representation pie chart
for
[27:29] the revenues that we're going to be
receiving from all those funds
[27:34] this will be the
budgeted expenditures that we're going
[27:37] to have from there
[27:42] this is for the general fund it just
shows the revenues that we have where it
[27:45] came from expenditures and where they
can where they're going
[27:53] we
were proposing 7581
[27:57] for the millage rate
the taxable value
[28:01] that we have is
[28:07] anyway
that
[28:10] we're proposing 7581
the
[28:14] and it did go up a little bit from that
time that this was made
[28:19] then the
the rollback rate 7.0064
[28:26] and the maximum that we could do is 8.8
and again we're proposing 7581 would be
[28:34] i think the ninth year that we've done
that
[28:39] this one here
i've highlighted the ones that i'm going
[28:43] to show you in the next screen
this shows us
[28:47] as far as the millage rate we're
dead last
[28:51] but uh so out of the 14 we're 14.
however if you look at the functional
[28:56] millage rate we're number two out of
the
[29:00] the four other ones that we're comparing
ourselves to
[29:03] they have the
pretty much the same uh taxable
[29:06] valuations
and uh these are the other things they
[29:10] have that show the village rate the
transfers to the general fund we over
[29:15] here we show what the uh
millage rate would be needed to to cover
[29:19] that and then if they have a fire
sentence assessment fee
[29:24] that millage rate is include so they're
all added together
[29:27] and we're we're number two uh
right behind lady lake
[29:36] this one here shows the per capita
uh and as far as that goes uh the the
[29:42] the number of citizens we have compared
to the expenditure we have for the
[29:45] general fund
we're still number one and uh
[29:49] goes to various leesburg and mount dora
after that
[29:54] the uh
this is a description of how the
[29:58] it's the millage rate would be applied
to a home
[30:01] if it's 150 000 you subtract 50 000 for
homestead exemption
[30:06] then you divide that amount 100 000 by
1000 whatever it comes out to be
[30:11] divided by a thousand
and then you multiply that by our
[30:15] 7.581 that gives you the taxable value
[30:20] the uh
hours of seven five seven hundred fifty
[30:24] eight dollars and ten cents for every
hundred thousand dollars
[30:28] annual taxes and the rollback would be
700.64
[30:32] which gives you a savings it would give
the individual would get a savings of 57
[30:38] dollars and 46 cents
and that divided by 12
[30:43] is about a cup of coffee
the
[30:47] the millage reduction while it may be
it's a little bit for
[30:52] money into the customer prop
pockets
[30:56] but it means a lot to the city on the
services we we provide because we have
[31:00] police fire
uh public works
[31:04] uh development services
legal and what have you
[31:09] so all the administration so i think
it's a good value
[31:13] if you if you look at it
uh these this is uh one mill would equal
[31:18] one million three hundred twenty
thousand
[31:21] uh
this this is a breakdown of the uh
[31:24] percentage for each of the uh
the budget items that we're looking at
[31:30] and uh
[31:34] okay
this uh gives you the taxable values
[31:37] over the last 10 years
so you see the values have started
[31:41] really going up uh
and an oh i think it was 08 they they've
[31:46] held
to the bottom of the barrel
[31:49] so we're just we're getting above that
and
[31:52] hopefully it'll continue
i'm sorry there was supposed to been one
[31:57] more in there
um
[32:01] but
that's
[32:07] okay
austin
[32:11] okay well
no i'm sorry there was a there was a per
[32:15] capita i put that in there that was
earlier
[32:17] so if there's uh if there's any
questions
[32:21] uh i'll be happy to answer them
um
[32:25] most of you all of you have been
involved with the whole process so
[32:29] if anyone wants a copy of this a hard
copy of this so i'll get it to you in a
[32:33] pdf
or if anyone in the audience would like
[32:37] one we'll give it to them
and again
[32:41] i want to thank all of you
tom has been
[32:45] instrumental in it
and uh
[32:48] so is natalie harness and again joy
mackenzie
[32:52] thank you any questions of life from the
commission
[32:56] i'm not hearing anything
mike thank you madam attorney back to
[33:00] you ma'am thank you mr mayor we'll start
with resolution number 22-61
[33:04] a resolution by the city commission of
the city of eustis lake county florida
[33:08] adopting the tentative millage levy of
ad valorem taxes for the city of eustis
[33:12] lake county for the fiscal year of 2022
2023 providing for an effective date
[33:19] yes are there any additional questions
from the commission from mr shepherd
[33:23] okay is there anyone in the the only
thing i want to mention for the millage
[33:27] rate
is the uh rollback rate this the millage
[33:31] rate that we're adopting is going to be
8.2 percent higher than the rollback
[33:36] rate
to make that clear
[33:39] other than that the
[33:43] first we're staying at this will cover
us and we'll have a little bit left over
[33:47] hopefully at the end of the year
anything further commission is there
[33:52] anyone in the audience i would like to
speak on resolution number 22-61
[33:57] okay seeing none public comment is
closed
[34:00] commissioners before us we have
resolution number 22-61 what's the will
[34:04] of our commission
[34:07] mr mayor i moved for approval of
resolution number 22-61 thank you ma'am
[34:12] i said thank you sir any further
discussion
[34:16] not hearing any roll call please vice
mayor lee aye commissioner lahoop smith
[34:21] aye commissioner cobb aye commissioner
hawkins aye mayor holland hi
[34:26] next we have resolution number 22-62 a
resolution by the city commission of the
[34:31] city of eustis lake county florida
adopting the tentative budget for the
[34:34] fiscal year 2021 through 2022 and
providing for an effective date does the
[34:39] commission have any questions for mr
shepard on this i just 23. it's 22 23
[34:44] sorry yeah i'm sorry all right well
we'll correct that yeah i thought so
[34:47] 22-2021
2020. sorry 2022 2023. we'll correct
[34:54] that on the resolution
okay
[34:57] no additional questions or comments is
there anyone in the audience that would
[35:01] like to speak to this
[35:04] saying none public comment is closed
measures before us we have resolution
[35:08] number 22-63
or 62 what's the will of our commission
[35:14] mr mayor i mean for approval of
resolution number 22-62
[35:19] thank you ma'am hi second thank you sir
any further discussion
[35:23] not hearing any roll call please vice
mayor lee
[35:26] hi
commissioner the hope smith aye
[35:29] commissioner cobb hi commissioner
hawkins
[35:32] mayor holland aye thank you thank you
mike thank you and please tell your team
[35:37] upstairs thank you so much for all their
hard work i'll see you in two weeks
[35:40] thank you sir
madam attorney thank you so much if i
[35:44] i'm sorry if i could point out each of
you has a binder of the tentative budget
[35:48] that was just approved on uh with the
resolution
[35:51] this is tentative as of the approval on
the 22nd you will then get an adopted
[35:58] budget
and so
[36:00] it should look uh practically exactly
the same but you will get a second
[36:04] version of that once you approve it
thank you
[36:08] now we're coming down to other business
first one is discussion of downtown and
[36:12] east town redevelopment agency board
representative positions tom you want to
[36:18] lead us with that one sure i don't have
a formal presentation
[36:22] this is
something that we had instituted a few
[36:26] years ago
periodically we review
[36:30] the um
the need for the position
[36:33] i think with the resignation of gail
isaac thomas the thought was maybe it's
[36:37] time to review this
and so you have the staff report giving
[36:42] some background
and i will
[36:45] turn it over to commission to see what
your thoughts are on this thank you vice
[36:49] mayor
[36:52] i i'm in my opinion i think that we
should eliminate the positions there's
[36:57] no voting um anybody can come up and
speak to us at any time
[37:02] um
i don't see the value in it and i would
[37:07] like to propose that we just eliminate
those positions and if anybody has
[37:11] something to do they come up to say they
come up as usual as they usually do and
[37:16] present it okay because if they they
have no voting power if we're not going
[37:20] to do that then i think that there's no
point in us having two people assigned
[37:25] and giving up time
and have no clout so okay
[37:30] karen
um
[37:34] well i liked having the position
i
[37:37] i agreed that it didn't need to have
voting power but i liked having
[37:42] community
[37:44] members
up with us
[37:47] and it gave
people another
[37:51] source of someone to go to with their
concerns
[37:55] so
i'd like to see it stay on
[37:59] i agree it doesn't need to be a voting
position
[38:02] but i like to have them up here with
input
[38:07] really
um
[38:10] i um
i agree with karen i i think it's
[38:14] important
for the community to have uh
[38:19] uh us say so uh to be involved
uh i think in the last couple of months
[38:25] there have been
been positions available to come up and
[38:32] we haven't had people that wanted to
fill them
[38:35] i think it's a stepping stone just like
the code enforcement board
[38:40] was a stepping stone for you and i
i think it's a stepping stone to
[38:46] you know to something bigger
[38:50] although i don't agree
that they should have voting power
[38:54] because i think that only belongs to
people that were voted on by the
[38:57] majority of the uh
people in the city
[39:01] but i think it's important that
[39:05] that the community has to say so and the
community has the opportunity to be
[39:09] involved
uh
[39:12] you know as much as possible so i think
we should keep it
[39:16] man
well i see both sides i mean you know i
[39:20] again i agree with you guys as well that
i don't think it should be a voting
[39:24] position because that's an elected
position
[39:27] by the
residents of eustis so i i see that but
[39:33] i see the same side of it as emily does
that everybody always has an opinion no
[39:39] one's ever not allowed
to come before us
[39:43] and you're also allowed to
approach us at any time you know you're
[39:48] allowed to approach us at any time and
yes it is hard enough to get volunteers
[39:52] it's very hard you know not everybody
wants to take time out
[39:57] you know
everyone's got a busy schedule
[40:01] but i also see if you want to use this
for a stepping stone as well i see that
[40:06] too
so it's never been a case of not having
[40:09] a voice because everyone's always always
has a voice again
[40:14] but there is no voting power to it so
you know what i'm saying you can come to
[40:18] us at any time
always
[40:21] but
you can't vote so it's going to really
[40:24] determine
you know whether you want to
[40:29] i guess i hate i hate to use the word
waste of time because that's not it it's
[40:32] just taking time out of your busy
schedule
[40:34] you know so
um
[40:38] yeah it it it it's it's a difficult call
and it's a tough call
[40:43] but um
again i i'm a firm believer and again
[40:46] like everybody else you know that that
voting situation needs to be an elected
[40:51] official
so um
[40:55] you know i i think it's
it's important you know gail was on it
[41:00] for
two or three years and
[41:05] and there were people that
went to her and they talked to her about
[41:10] things in the community and then
before they came to us and and i i just
[41:15] think that this is it's important
to have that connection with the with
[41:22] the community
and you know and we'd like to think that
[41:25] they they everyone would come up and
talk to us
[41:28] but a lot of people would probably go
talk to a community member before they
[41:33] would come and talk to us
[41:37] i agree but we are part of the community
yeah i am used as i am one we are one
[41:42] so i understand that too so i you know i
never really understood the separation i
[41:48] really never understood it
we are one use this i never understood
[41:53] the separation the east and west i never
but that was part of the original cra
[41:58] set up so but that was done god two
thousand
[42:03] uh no it was um
i can't i can't remember because you
[42:07] know much that stuff i've read yeah it
was um
[42:11] 2018
is when we created the two community
[42:15] positions
the cra was created that's what i'm
[42:18] saying yeah i mean technically it's
always been one cra okay when we created
[42:22] the two community positions
that's when we
[42:26] center street and center street extended
was kind of the line to make sure that
[42:30] we had representation
we did i mean again technically it's
[42:35] always been one cra at one point
we did the plan for downtown separate
[42:40] from the plan for east town
but it was always one cra
[42:45] so
so
[42:47] the cra committee the the newly formed
committee commission a committee
[42:53] um or the little advisory situation to
me
[42:57] that's where that's another opportunity
for the community to
[43:01] to to speak to i didn't see
in my recollection a lot of um
[43:09] a lot of people going to it also to me
means that it's less likely maybe we
[43:14] need to be able to be able to speak to
the community but it puts like another
[43:19] person there
and i would rather them come to me and
[43:22] talk as a commissioner elected
commissioner they would come
[43:26] and voice and let me know what their
concerns are they always can come up
[43:30] here and talk but also i want to have
that kind of interaction
[43:35] rather than a person in the middle
but
[43:39] you know i'm that's just a suggestion on
my part but that does concern me and i
[43:44] don't like um
the idea that we're not approachable
[43:49] that's what it sounds like to me i think
sometimes we're not approachable uh but
[43:55] i i don't think that please don't do
that yeah i mean that that was
[44:00] yeah i i don't think that having um
[44:06] having uh
you know members from the community
[44:11] hurts us in any way
uh he doesn't hurt us no no he doesn't
[44:15] have
us so
[44:17] uh i think that you know uh input from
every source uh you know every avenue
[44:24] that we have only helps us so
again i think we should
[44:30] i'm torn too because i can see both
sides
[44:33] my recommendation would be to
because it's what what's these four year
[44:38] terms they're four year terms and
they're staggered
[44:41] maybe bring them back to one year and
rotate it constantly
[44:46] holy moly that's
making staff look for somebody every
[44:49] year
people apply for it well people apply
[44:53] for it yeah
they apply
[44:56] i
i would rather see somebody stay on
[45:00] for
four years because that gives them a
[45:02] feel of
of how it works and
[45:08] you know i know all of us are new up
here at one time and you just don't know
[45:12] you don't know until you know
and
[45:16] it's a learning process i think if you
put someone up here for just a year now
[45:21] they can apply again i'm sure
but um you put someone up here for
[45:26] a year they're just gonna
figure it out and it'll be time to go
[45:30] well if they're going to be here then
they should have
[45:33] i think more input than what
what they've had in the past i mean
[45:37] we're saying you can't vote so what are
they here for they
[45:41] they come up they say what they what has
to be said or people come up and they
[45:45] talk to us about it present their
side of it sometimes
[45:50] i think it's more taking it back to the
community where they are
[45:54] so i guess to me
it just seems like
[45:58] there's nothing no clout in it nothing
no meat to it at all and they're just a
[46:04] representative they're sitting here and
that's it and they have no
[46:08] real input or
are
[46:13] how to do anything or be affecting
anything we do it we do it no matter
[46:18] what i think you said that you know that
the most important word was represented
[46:24] uh
they represent the people
[46:26] and so do we really yeah but
[46:31] i think it gives the community that feel
that one of us
[46:36] is actually up there and we
we have a
[46:42] we have input
[46:45] i just think that that is important that
we not
[46:50] close down
another avenue to connect with the
[46:54] community
and if we do that i still say that they
[47:00] should have more
input and more
[47:04] um
buy into it than they have well i agree
[47:09] there should be there should be more
input but i don't think that should be
[47:12] uh voting input i i think that should be
that should be delegated to people that
[47:17] are elected
but uh but i agree i think there should
[47:20] be
a little bit more say so
[47:23] do we do two years mate you know kind of
halfway
[47:26] i'm just if keep in mind you know
the way the process is done
[47:32] they apply
but we as a we as a commission get final
[47:36] say so who sits on that cra board i mean
i think it's in the questioning that we
[47:41] would do
of the candidates that come forward
[47:44] and hope we get more than one
i mean when when evan died
[47:49] we had to beg
to get somebody from the west side
[47:53] um you know and i think several of us
went to laurie at genie's and begged her
[47:59] if she would come on this floor
so um do they have a job description
[48:07] [Music]
[48:12] there are some requirements that so the
state statute has some requirements for
[48:18] people sitting on a cra board the city
also has some requirements
[48:23] we when we advertise it it goes out like
a job description so it includes those
[48:29] state requirements and if you
um
[48:32] if you refer to the um the staff report
there's kind of some bullet points
[48:38] and so there there is
again i don't know if i would call it a
[48:41] job description but there is a
description of what we're looking for in
[48:45] those representatives yes there was and
when i did read now that you said i did
[48:48] read the staff report and what they
had said in here was um
[48:54] they talked about
[48:57] background if you will or knowledgeable
in
[49:00] finance
what else was it tom
[49:04] it's development architecture
redevelopment planning land planning
[49:08] finance experience
experience in um
[49:13] affordably priced housing
[49:16] those types of things which is probably
something that
[49:20] the majority of us don't have
[49:27] oh i beg to differ with that brother i
said the majority
[49:32] that i say
i'd like to think that we've learned a
[49:36] lot
[49:43] well let's say this so
now that if we're going to talk about
[49:46] the we have the other one that that for
the
[49:51] the other one that the volunteer yeah
the other volunteer
[49:55] so
keep one or the other
[49:58] well we we were just we just had the
committee just for the three acres
[50:03] correct the three blocks
well and we need to decide well that was
[50:07] another decision we haven't come to a
decision whether we want to keep that
[50:10] group together or not exactly and that
was another decision that we needed to
[50:14] make as well i don't think it's it's
we can't really discuss it tonight no no
[50:19] but it was just but
i think the whole thing needs to come
[50:22] back to us and us decide which direction
because that committee i think is
[50:26] important too yeah i agree because it
gives us a broad range of the of our
[50:31] whole community
um you know so
[50:35] and and if we're going to do this i
think that we need to
[50:39] come
up with
[50:41] what is what are they supposed to be
doing about technically like a job
[50:46] description description of what it is
that they are supposed to be doing but
[50:50] as it is
there's nothing and i and if and if
[50:53] we're going to do this i think that we
need to know what we know that we know
[50:56] that we know we need to know
yes and maybe if that's statutorily what
[51:00] you had discussed about the statutory
that has to be in there but then we can
[51:05] come up with a because that's tough what
what he does what you just it is
[51:09] that statutory we have to get in there
so maybe
[51:12] you know
yeah
[51:15] i think it's worth a a further
conversation because i i think we need
[51:20] to find out from staff is through the
need for that full board that or that
[51:23] full group that we had that was meeting
um and then uh really we need to
[51:29] redefine
that list of priorities because
[51:34] willie's right oh no but i don't know
did you say that was statutorily done
[51:39] the um
so the statues don't want to get in
[51:42] trouble
no you know the statute
[51:47] talks about new members have to reside
in or be engaged in business
[51:52] in the cra
uh and then i i believe it's more
[51:57] um not not a requirement but it is
suggested
[52:01] that they have experience in
architecture finance construction land
[52:06] use sustainability
and or redevelopment alternatively new
[52:10] members will also qualify who have
professional and or residential
[52:15] experience within affordable housing
[52:21] and if we have to do that there should
be some definite training that's not
[52:25] there
[52:31] there are
so annually
[52:34] at the florida redevelopment association
conference they have training sessions
[52:40] um
related to cra and that's something that
[52:45] we can certainly
uh have the um
[52:49] community reps engage in some of that
professional development
[52:52] that's a great idea
as an in-person or zoom or just a class
[52:57] or they are back to in-person though for
example this year fra is in daytona and
[53:03] it's coming up in october
and they are in person
[53:07] that makes more sense i've always felt a
sense of yeah nobody not really knowing
[53:11] what you why you're here or that there
are times
[53:14] it's just so
nothing to it and to me if we're going
[53:18] to have them that they should be more
valued than they valuable than they are
[53:22] and maybe they would have a better
understanding of what
[53:26] we know and what we've learned in you at
least you and i 18 months you know what
[53:30] i'm saying
so um it might be
[53:33] i think we could also get lynn up here
with the league of cities i mean coming
[53:37] from orlando and she could do a course
and i think it would be good for this
[53:41] commission to actually sit in the same
course
[53:44] um so um i think what i would like to
suggest to to us as a commission is
[53:49] let's put this off to our next meeting
bring it back re-advertise it so we can
[53:53] talk more in public with it and also
let's go ahead and and talk about that
[53:58] other committee that we have
and see if we want to sunset that
[54:03] committee um and to make this stronger
or what we want to do or keep both of
[54:08] them even and i on my list for reports
later in the meeting was to look at
[54:13] calendars to to schedule the next
meeting because it's been some time
[54:17] so we do need to take a look at that and
schedule the next meeting nana are you
[54:21] okay with that plan
absolutely are you okay
[54:24] yeah
karen are you okay
[54:27] okay
we'll we'll we'll go ahead and let you
[54:30] reschedule that
continue okay
[54:34] yeah
then we come down to oh gosh the next
[54:37] one's a hard one city commission
compensation
[54:43] bill howe director of human resources
at the last commission meeting
[54:47] commission discussed the possibility of
increasing compensation for the city
[54:51] commission staff was directed to gather
information from the other jurisdictions
[54:55] in lake county i provided you that
information for each of the 13
[54:59] jurisdictions
in summary the compensation for city
[55:03] commissioners
ranges from a low of twenty four hundred
[55:06] dollars annually to twelve thousand
dollars annually and as a reminder city
[55:11] commissioners and used to earn fifty
four hundred dollars annually
[55:15] mayor's compensations vary throughout
the county from six thousand dollars to
[55:20] fifteen thousand eight hundred and
eighty eight dollars
[55:23] um our eustace mayor earns
sixty four hundred dollars annually with
[55:27] regard to paid health
benefits two jurisdictions in lake
[55:32] county provide paid health benefits we
do not in the city of eustis
[55:37] the last increase in compensation to the
eustace commission
[55:41] occurred in
1989 33 years ago
[55:51] it's recommending the commission advise
staff if there should be any increases
[55:57] or what
[56:02] am i okay now mike to go forward
[Laughter]
[56:06] he was fixing to become a ranger again
[56:11] staff is looking for a direction if
there's any changes in compensation for
[56:14] the commission staff would also
recommend you consider tying future
[56:17] increases
to some
[56:21] term that you don't bring back every 33
years for consideration
[56:25] but whether that be the compensation
granted i'll be dancing whether that
[56:29] compensation be granted to other city
employees consumer price index or
[56:32] population that's done in a couple of
the other cities so be happy to answer
[56:37] any questions
anybody got any questions of bill
[56:41] so is this is something like this
usually determined by the commission
[56:45] itself yes
[56:48] at school board level and county
commission level it is done by the state
[56:53] legislature by the size of your county
we're the only ones that get stuck with
[56:59] deciding our own pay
it's embarrassing it is
[57:04] lovely well you haven't done it in 33
years
[57:07] there's reasons
[Laughter]
[57:09] hence the reason to consider timing to
employee compensation that's addressed
[57:13] every year but that's your calling yeah
i uh
[57:17] i'm sure i'm not alone up here
but but i look at the pay
[57:23] and there's
only two
[57:28] commissioners two two localities
uh
[57:33] that make
more than what i pay out
[57:38] as a city commissioner
yeah
[57:42] so
we already started out in the hope
[57:46] it's kind of like the cemetery i would
at least like to break even yeah and i
[57:50] haven't broken even since i've sat in
this jail
[57:53] and you know at the at the last meeting
i was like
[57:56] whatever but that was until i saw it in
paper and i'm like yeah
[58:01] yeah when you emailed it
i couldn't believe it it was what but it
[58:06] wasn't whatever i'm like what the
but
[58:13] well
i mean we i'll just give you a good
[58:16] example so and i'm not picking on
anybody we look at fruitland park and
[58:19] their population is just a little over
nine thousand and they're making twelve
[58:23] thousand dollars
and we're at twenty three
[58:27] six basically
and we're at fifty four hundred you know
[58:30] how far out of whack that is
[58:35] and by no stretch am i suggesting 12 000
please understand me clearly
[58:39] but i just look at that and then you
look at somebody like
[58:43] montverd
montford yes 1700 they're this big
[58:49] and there's 1700 people
and they're at six thousand dollars look
[58:54] at the mayors mm-hmm
leesburg's not that much bigger than us
[58:59] their commissioners are making 11 364.
they're mayors making almost 16 000. and
[59:05] they have all the benefits
every benefit medical eye dental
[59:11] and retire frs
they also have frs
[59:15] so
i'm sure there will be
[59:19] there will be
some that would say uh
[59:22] you know they're voting on enriching
themselves
[59:26] i see facebook tomorrow
but i think i continue as a commissioner
[59:32] sitting right here
tonight i don't care what you say this
[59:36] ain't right
fix it i tell you
[59:40] this ain't right
[59:48] [Laughter]
[59:57] we're gonna have to give direction to
staff so i did look at the four percent
[1:00:01] i think it was 216 dollars
for the whole year
[1:00:05] so
see i i don't know how we give
[1:00:09] direction to staff to i i don't know
how we do it let your conscience be your
[1:00:14] guide bill
you're going to leave this to me
[1:00:17] absolutely no problem i'll take care of
it
[1:00:20] no i mean you know i don't i don't just
teasing with you i don't know well when
[1:00:23] you look at leesburg and with groveland
somehow we should be in the middle
[1:00:32] you see that groveland is and that's
just shut up thousands they just shot up
[1:00:35] in that population that just shot up
that's that's true that population that
[1:00:39] just happened
with the annexations they've been at 9
[1:00:42] 000 a year there for a long time
and do you know if
[1:00:47] these have been incremental
no i do not know on all of them
[1:00:52] i know
claremont for example
[1:00:55] they pass the doorness that your
commission wages are tied to consumer
[1:00:59] price index
that's they've got that by ordinance
[1:01:03] personally i tell you the heartburn with
that is i know we've been a position
[1:01:06] where we haven't been able to give staff
consumer price index increases
[1:01:11] so
[1:01:13] you know for me
to various ties there's to population
[1:01:19] changes
[1:01:23] i'm willing to leave it in the hands of
bill to be honest with you
[1:01:27] i suggest the city attorney weigh in on
it
[1:01:32] i don't want to lose the non-full-time
employee that reports to you through the
[1:01:36] city manager if you two want to work on
it i'm perfectly fine with it
[1:01:42] if you're comfortable we'll
we'll look at the numbers we'll come up
[1:01:46] with something reasonable
i would recommend
[1:01:50] moving although it's not much
moving into the future i think rather
[1:01:54] than coming back
and looking like the percentage
[1:01:58] increases are very big
periodically i think we sh we should tie
[1:02:03] it
uh in the future to um the what the
[1:02:07] other employees are getting again i know
annually it doesn't come to a lot dollar
[1:02:11] wise
um but it puts you in a position where
[1:02:15] you don't have to you don't have to look
at significant increases periodically
[1:02:20] you just do the incremental increases
annually if that makes sense
[1:02:24] um so i would recommend that moving into
the future
[1:02:28] and
we i will work with bill we'll come up
[1:02:31] with something reasonable and it will
need to come back to you
[1:02:35] potentially in the form of a budget
approval meaning you you might not have
[1:02:39] to approve this
specifically you would approve it as
[1:02:42] part of a budget
or a budget amendment uh depending on
[1:02:47] how the timing
i don't
[1:02:51] might do can we include it
can we
[1:02:55] we approved a tentative budget tonight
but we have to approve a final budget on
[1:02:59] the 22nd
we approved the final budget in two
[1:03:04] weeks on thursday what i would recommend
is once it's decided we amend the budget
[1:03:09] via resolution after 10-1
oh with the resolution
[1:03:14] anytime you change the
resolution you're putting into a budget
[1:03:18] you have to have another resolution to
do that
[1:03:22] it would only require one reading
not two
[1:03:28] okay so under that scenario we would
leave the final adopted budget the same
[1:03:33] as what you approved tonight and then we
would bring back to you an amendment
[1:03:37] after the fact after october first okay
yeah
[1:03:40] the only other alternative would be to
do it
[1:03:48] no thank you okay we will bring
something back to you all right and
[1:03:52] you're okay with john and bill working
on it
[1:03:56] emily karen absolutely
don't care do you
[1:04:01] no pressure
[1:04:07] all right thank you both yes
all right then come down to life 15.
[1:04:14] yeah so this is really just a
technicality um
[1:04:17] we have to place the order because of
lead time and it's it's a significant
[1:04:21] expense it is budgeted in the budget the
tentative budget that you just approved
[1:04:26] but we can't place the order because the
money isn't there yet and it isn't there
[1:04:31] until october 1st
and so basically we're just asking for
[1:04:35] consensus are you okay with us placing
the order and then the actual purchase
[1:04:40] documentation will have to come back to
you once the budget is approved um so
[1:04:45] are you okay with us placing the order
is basically what we're asking these are
[1:04:48] so important uh to us that we have to go
ahead and get any cheaper
[1:04:57] part of the issue is there's a
significant price increase coming up so
[1:05:01] if we waited to october 1 it would cost
more
[1:05:03] mike how long is it going to take to get
these once we place an order
[1:05:09] okay
yeah get the get him ordered
[1:05:15] wow
all right
[1:05:18] thank y'all
i think that's what we needed okay thank
[1:05:21] you
all right coming down to future agenda
[1:05:24] item and reports karen anything to
report any future agenda items i am
[1:05:31] done i mean i'm good
you're not done yeah you got a few
[1:05:35] months left okay
[Laughter]
[1:05:40] any future agenda items or anything to
report i don't have any future agenda
[1:05:44] items but i do have i just have one
question for
[1:05:48] is he still here rick pappas pop smurf
you're here no he left it never mind i
[1:05:53] just that's okay i'm just going to ask
him for an island update that's all okay
[1:05:57] okay but um
uh uh
[1:06:00] i would like to say that i will be
attending
[1:06:08] on tuesday next week on tuesday
september 13th at noon at the lake
[1:06:13] county historical museum
they will be the unveiling of the mary
[1:06:18] mcleod bethune
smaller statue just like the one that we
[1:06:23] went to daytona and looked at and just
for those of you who don't know her i
[1:06:27] would just feel just i'd like to read a
little something
[1:06:30] um
uh dr mary mcleod bethune was an
[1:06:32] american educator philanthropist
humanitarian womanist and a civil rights
[1:06:37] activist dr bethune founded the national
council of negro women in 1935 with
[1:06:43] florida's headquarters located in lake
county's city of claremont
[1:06:48] she also established the journal
afro-american women's journal she
[1:06:53] presided as president for a myriad of
african-american women's organizations
[1:06:58] including the national association for
colored women and the national youth
[1:07:01] administration's negro division
dr bethune was also appointed as a
[1:07:06] national advisor to president franklin d
roosevelt who she worked with to create
[1:07:11] the federal council on colored affairs
also known as the black cabinet so just
[1:07:16] in case you didn't know there's a little
little education about mary mcleod
[1:07:19] bethune so
at noon on the 13th if you'd like to
[1:07:22] join us um that original big statue that
they unveiled in daytona was the most
[1:07:27] stunning thing i've ever seen in my
entire life i i it was the most
[1:07:31] beautiful thing ever and we i enjoyed
going so um i will be there for that
[1:07:35] also too um well i'll let you you want
to talk about the 911 one yeah okay i'll
[1:07:40] let you discuss that and then um i'm in
the process of looking at something for
[1:07:44] the city of eustis um just looking some
information on america in bloom
[1:07:48] and the city of tavares currently has it
now and you have like little chapters
[1:07:52] and lake county has a chapter and so
it's just another way to beautify our
[1:07:55] city and um there are some things
through waste management we can guess to
[1:08:00] some beautify
uh different islands and different
[1:08:03] things around the city so i'm going to
be working on that as well so beautiful
[1:08:07] i'm a little busy thank you
really
[1:08:10] okay you want to follow that
go ahead i'll follow all that
[1:08:16] absolutely not
you know the the the last week and a
[1:08:20] half i've spent
at the high school painting the
[1:08:25] bathrooms in the concession stands
um
[1:08:29] so we read i redid those
uh
[1:08:33] but uh in the next probably month or so
we're actually going to
[1:08:38] do the concession stand itself
uh the interior yep so
[1:08:44] if anyone wants to come out and help
paint i'll pick a weekend
[1:08:47] perfect funding is a real problem
with our high school sports as you know
[1:08:52] lake county and school system does not
do much anymore to support that willie
[1:08:58] and i have talked a little bit man about
maybe trying to do something like
[1:09:02] bulldog night like they're doing
umatilla it's hearing
[1:09:09] 30 000
instantly into the sports programs that
[1:09:12] used to size minimum um so i would like
to see us as a commission maybe work
[1:09:17] with um
the um athletic director and the high
[1:09:21] school to try to put together something
like that that became an annual event
[1:09:25] for us
uh here in the city of eustis i think
[1:09:27] we'd have to hold it at the fairgrounds
um but i think it's something that would
[1:09:31] be kind of cool yeah the uh the umatilla
boosters holds it at the um
[1:09:37] and it is an adult event
there are adult things that happen there
[1:09:42] and so um children are not involved
because there's raising of a lot of
[1:09:46] money right and there's adult things
there so um it's a huge event it's a
[1:09:50] wonderful event all the community
matilla comes out for it
[1:09:54] everybody you've come with me before
it's amazing
[1:09:58] and um so yes i'll i'll be more than
happy to assist in that okay let's do it
[1:10:03] sounds good i also the new announcer for
the high school football games that does
[1:10:07] the announcing he is um with a radio
station out of orlando and he is willing
[1:10:12] to help us with that as well
okay so we'll get working on that
[1:10:17] anything else willie nope that's it vice
mayor
[1:10:20] well i
was very happy to participate and to
[1:10:25] watch the events of the misuse this
contest we were on there it was really
[1:10:30] awesome
and um
[1:10:32] and fun to watch especially the little
ones little tiny ones and their
[1:10:36] attention span so it was it was a nice
event i didn't get to stay as long as i
[1:10:41] would have liked to yesterday but it was
very interesting at advent hospital with
[1:10:45] their new robotics
uh program and and the equipment that
[1:10:48] they bought i i was very impressed with
that
[1:10:51] and um
other than that i'm looking forward to
[1:10:54] the 13th and the
9 11 event that's it beautiful thank you
[1:11:00] tom
yeah a few items um we're going to have
[1:11:04] a presentation for you
um
[1:11:11] gunster
uh who has done some legal work for us
[1:11:14] related to um
some growth items
[1:11:19] they're going to be doing a presentation
uh at an upcoming commission meeting i
[1:11:23] believe we've got them scheduled for
september 22nd
[1:11:27] also i had emailed the commission about
a
[1:11:30] community development district
discussion uh we we're tentatively going
[1:11:35] to try to do a
presentation on october 6th for that
[1:11:41] that is your
first commission meeting in october
[1:11:46] lake uh
lake community action agency
[1:11:50] has been working on our uh housing rehab
program
[1:11:54] uh commissioner hawkins and i uh toured
uh i think three homes
[1:11:59] and uh were satisfied there was one home
that had some unfinished items that they
[1:12:04] got right on
and so uh i want to ask uh is there
[1:12:09] consensus
uh to move forward um not reopening the
[1:12:13] application process but there are still
homes
[1:12:16] in the queue that have applied and that
we had put on hold is it okay to move to
[1:12:20] the next say three or four homes
because we've been kind of taking them
[1:12:24] in blocks of three or four
does anybody have an issue moving
[1:12:28] forward with the next three or four
homes
[1:12:30] we saw funds left we do have
it's like 111
[1:12:35] eight something like that
yeah i think that i think that assumed
[1:12:39] that all the homes on the list were
going to move through the program
[1:12:44] yeah yeah i i have to say
you know that
[1:12:49] uh
tim has done a pretty good job of
[1:12:53] cleaning things up so yeah
okay
[1:12:58] man you're okay with moving forward
how many moving
[1:13:03] of our forward
let's do it we're going to do increments
[1:13:06] of four i think that's what we discussed
can they
[1:13:08] karen you okay
[1:13:11] okay
um
[1:13:13] there was um i one of the commissioners
uh it may have been commissioner cobb
[1:13:18] had asked about
taking a look at
[1:13:21] residential densities and potentially a
new future land use category
[1:13:27] and i want to know if the commission
would like to try to schedule a workshop
[1:13:31] on that
this i would envision this would not be
[1:13:35] a
five o'clock before a six o'clock
[1:13:38] commission type workshop
this would probably be a standalone
[1:13:42] potentially even a saturday
workshop what is the commission's
[1:13:47] interest in scheduling something like
that
[1:13:50] we have some cleanup work that needs to
be done
[1:13:53] so we need to get on that willie are you
okay with it oh yeah
[1:14:01] is it maybe i'll start looking at
calendars and and try to email and see
[1:14:06] if we could come up with a viable date
okay
[1:14:09] um just a couple more fdot uh we have a
meeting tomorrow 9 30 a.m we have
[1:14:15] advertised it as a city commission
meeting so that you can all attend and
[1:14:18] participate
um
[1:14:21] that is uh with the secretary of
district 5 to talk about projects and
[1:14:26] maintenance in the area
i do want to mention that
[1:14:32] there may be a need to go out into the
field at some point
[1:14:37] we will need to adjourn the meeting and
then have just one commissioner go out
[1:14:41] into the field
because the logistics of carrying on a
[1:14:45] commission meeting out in the field is
going to be very difficult
[1:14:50] and so if if we do need to adjourn and
do some field work i just wanted to
[1:14:55] throw out that it will have to adjourn
the meeting and have one commissioner do
[1:14:58] that
and so that's tomorrow at 9 30 a.m
[1:15:02] and then the cra review committee we
have a couple of outstanding items i
[1:15:07] know we need to talk more about mode own
program
[1:15:11] we need to talk a little bit more about
some of the priorities that were
[1:15:15] established during public input
and so we do need to schedule that
[1:15:19] i think in the past we had done tuesday
evening meetings for that group
[1:15:26] or we could look at an off thursday a
non-commission thursday
[1:15:31] but i just want to make sure that the
commission is interested in scheduling
[1:15:34] the next meeting
again i'll take a look at calendars and
[1:15:38] i'll get that scheduled but i'll
probably be looking at either a tuesday
[1:15:42] or an off thursday
okay and i think that's everything i
[1:15:46] have wow all right thank you madam
attorney i have no report smith thank
[1:15:51] you so much i appreciate it um a couple
of things that i have um
[1:15:57] for the commission itself um is tom's
contract calls for a six-month review
[1:16:03] and believe it or not it's time for that
review
[1:16:06] what i would like to do is ask bill
howell to reach out and set up a meeting
[1:16:11] with each commissioner
along with bill and with tom
[1:16:15] let you all sit and talk with tom about
what your expectations are and what
[1:16:21] we've seen so far with his performance
bill will combine that and bring it back
[1:16:25] to us as a full commission um and we'll
go from that and then we're going to
[1:16:30] have to take a look at the way we
further review tom a little bit later on
[1:16:34] down the road if that's okay the annual
review because i will say um i've looked
[1:16:38] at the review paperwork in the past and
i had even talked to bill about it you
[1:16:43] know and it it needs some work yeah it
needs some work it needs to be updated
[1:16:47] so um when you get a call from bill or
an email from bill that's what he is
[1:16:51] scheduling with you um so um
please go in be honest and it'll keep us
[1:16:57] moving forward in a good way manner i
hope so all right
[1:17:01] this coming sunday is the 21st
anniversary of 9 11.
[1:17:05] lake county is having a service at 8
o'clock in the morning
[1:17:11] at
the historic courthouse in downtown
[1:17:14] tavares
it is open to the public we would love
[1:17:17] to have everyone there
then there are a couple more events
[1:17:20] going around so please check the uh
facebook and check the newspapers there
[1:17:25] are many things that are advertised
nan myself and tom were able to attend
[1:17:32] first baptist life point uh last sunday
they celebrated their 103rd anniversary
[1:17:38] or birthday and they celebrated being
debt-free which is tremendous they paid
[1:17:44] off a debt of 1.8 million dollars in a
matter of five years
[1:17:49] and that is from them relocating from
orange avenue out further
[1:17:53] so it's paid off every bit of their debt
so they're looking forward to partnering
[1:17:58] with our community and doing some really
great things in the community as we move
[1:18:02] forward
also just wanted to say
[1:18:06] thank you
to our events and tourism staff they
[1:18:11] went to a conference and they won five
awards at that conference they're doing
[1:18:16] i'm very proud of them they've done a
tremendous job
[1:18:20] with representing eustis and first
fridays and our events have really
[1:18:25] changed
over the last couple months i'm very
[1:18:28] proud of that
that's about all i've got please come
[1:18:33] out and support the events as they go on
craig's got some great events coming up
[1:18:38] with parks and recreation
for toddlers
[1:18:42] so come out and be a part of those
events i want to thank our staff for all
[1:18:46] that they do y'all work tirelessly for
us y'all are truthfully the face of the
[1:18:50] city so thank you for all your hard work
thank you for being with us tonight and
[1:18:55] we are i just had one quick thing i
meant to say go ahead hit that camera
[1:18:59] i just i i just really wanted to say
thanks
[1:19:03] to
the finance staff
[1:19:06] going through this the when we went
through our workshops and i think we
[1:19:11] must have had three or four
i will tell you that helps us
[1:19:14] tremendously i know it's a lot of work
but when we go line item by light on him
[1:19:19] it really helps us know what we're
spending our money on
[1:19:23] and you'd be surprised the people out in
the community that come to us and say
[1:19:27] where's the money going where's this
where's that and we have
[1:19:32] we have a good indication no we don't
know how many pencils we're buying but
[1:19:35] at least we know what we're spending on
office supplies and different
[1:19:38] departments and so it's a lot of work
and
[1:19:42] i'm a numbers person so i will tell you
i really enjoy that process i know it's
[1:19:46] daunting but i just want to say thank
you
[1:19:49] one quick reminder too tomorrow is the
league of cities luncheon and uh sheriff
[1:19:53] grinnell is doing that presentation at
lunch tomorrow so if anybody can make it
[1:19:57] on the city commission we'd appreciate
you being here that is all we have for
[1:20:00] this evening we're
adjourned were you gonna come here