6 o'clock. Everybody has a seat. We will
bring the West Mel City of West
Melbourne March 3rd, 2006 meeting to
order. Please stand for the pledge in a
moment of silent meditation.
>> I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic
for it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.
» You may be seated.
» Thank you very much. Uh, welcome to
tonight's meeting of the city council.
Members of the public are welcome to
speak on any topic, whether it is on
tonight's agenda or on any issue that is
important to you. Each person that
wishes to speak should complete a
speaker's card which are located by the
glass doors and submit them ahead of
time to the city clerk who sits at the
end of the dis. After you have been
recognized to speak, please use the
microphone at the podium to clearly
state your name and address for the
record. Please address all comments to
your to the city council rather than to
individual members. Direct all questions
to the chair. Speakers will be given up
to three minutes to speak. Thank you.
All right. Our first item is uh Irish
Heritage Month. May would Brian McCann
please come forward and meet you at the
podium.
requual
apology
that are being built now. We're under
construction now and then this won't
happen. All right. So, here we go. I
have to have eyeballs on won't be able
to read this [clears throat] at all.
right. uh whereas by 1776 nearly
300,000 Irish nationals had immigrated
to the American colonies and played a
crucial role in America's war for
independence and whereas five signers of
the Declaration of Independence were
Irish descent and three signers were
born Irish were I'm sorry Irish born and
whereas 22 presidents have proudly
proclaimed their Irish American heritage
and whereas the Irish first came to the
Spanish La Florida in the 1500s, first
as missionaries and mercenaries,
soldiers, and then as planters, traders,
businessmen, doctors, and
administrators. And whereas three of the
Spanish governors of La Florida were
actually Irish military officers. And
whereas Irish Flityians can look back
with pride on the legacy of their Irish
forebears who have contributed
significantly to the American education,
business, sports, literature, science,
engineering, medicine, science, and the
arts. And whereas Irish Americans
continue to provide leadership in this
nation's political, business, and
religious establishments. Now therefore
be it proclaimed that the mayor and city
council of the city of West Melbourne,
Bvard County, Florida, hereby proclaim
the month of March 2026 as Irish
American Heritage Month and call upon
our citizens to celebrate their heritage
and the contributions of Irish Americans
to the success of this great nation.
Witness this by hand in the seal of the
city on the third day of March, 2026.
Thank you very much. Would you like to
say a few words?
>> Thank you, Madam Mayor. We just like to
say a thank you for proclaiming March
2026 Irish Heritage Month. The Irish
Americans uh Ancient Order of
Fiburnians, our division, Bvard County
Division 2. Thank you very much for the
proclamation and celebrating us. Thank
you.
>> Thank you.
Thank you very much. Thank
you very much. We do appreciate
>> this till next year.
>> Hopefully we'll see you all at the
parade March 14th 10 a.m.
>> Thank you.
>> What time is the parade?
» That's a fair point.
All right. Our next item would be
introduction of new employees. We're
going to be doing one and two. Number
three will be has been postponed till
our next meeting. Um, finance director
Keith Smith. Thank you.
» All right. Good evening, Mayor, uh,
Deputy Mayor, and members of the
council. Uh it is my pleasure to
introduce the three newest members of
our finance team. Um probably a long
overdue introduction so because they've
been here for a couple of months. But um
you know nonetheless we're very happy to
have these three individuals as part of
our team. Uh quite often these are the
first faces that our residents encounter
whenever they walk into city hall to pay
their water sewer bills. Uh, and these
young women do an amazing job of giving
our residents the customer service that
they deserve. Um, they represented the
city with the utmost professionalism and
patience and it is my pleasure to
welcome them aboard our team. So, right
now I'll go ahead introduce Ela
Baragano, Florence Ren Marine, and Kim
Perak. Um, I'll let
>> Welcome. [laughter]
>> They were tough. I actually tried to get
you reassure myself on the
pronunciation. So, Uh, I'll give them an
opportunity to introduce themselves.
>> Hello everyone. I'm Ela Baragano and I
just want to thank the council and Mr.
Roadie for giving me the opportunity to
serve this wonderful, wonderful city of
West Melbourne. Thank you.
>> Well, thank you.
>> Good evening, council mayor, Mr. Roadie.
Thank you for this opportunity. I am
excited to work in this great city. I
love living here. So, I just want to
thank you for the opportunity.
>> Thank you, Florence.
>> Good evening, Mayor, Mr. Council
members, thank you guys for the
opportunity for being here. It's been a
great few months working for the city.
So, thank you.
>> Thank you, Kim. Thank you. All right.
Thank you very much.
» Thank you. Next up is Aaron Murphy.
Irish American month.
Good evening, mayor, deputy mayor,
council. I am very, very excited to
introduce Isabella Kadan.
I said it so many times today. Katalano.
Um, she has been with the city about a
month and, um, she is in school right
now studying business and real estate.
Um, and she will be at the skate park.
She is our new recreation worker.
All right. Thank you.
>> I'm Isabella. I've Yes. I've been
working for over a month now and um I've
really enjoyed working for the city and
everyone is very nice and welcoming and
so I've just really liked working here
and yeah. Thank you.
>> Thank you.
» Did you have a question? And I didn't
see your light.
[laughter]
>> No. Next time.
All right, we have no modifications to
the agenda and we have no public
hearings and I have no cards for public
forum. Go right to the consent agenda,
Miss Adams.
>> I'll make a motion to approve the
consent agenda.
>> All right, thank you.
>> Mr. Frampus.
>> Second.
>> All right, we have a motion on the floor
from Miss Adams and a second from Mr.
Frampus. All those in favor, please
signify by saying I. I. Those opposed
say nay. Motion carries 70. Thank you.
Next item is uh um the purchase of the
vacant land on Henry Avenue,
>> Mr. Petroni. Thank you.
>> Good evening, mayor, deputy mayor,
council members. Um yes, we're here to
talk about purchasing a piece of vacant
land on Henry Avenue. Um, as you know,
we are systematically purchasing
property along Park Hill. Um, with the
most recent one being 431 and Park Hill
that was approved at the last meeting.
Um, I was approached by this group,
explained to them the process. They
authorized me to do an appraisal which
is attached to my report. Um, it came in
at uh 139,000.
Uh, we proceeded to negotiate and
accepted that purchase price of the 139.
The contract is also attached. Uh it is
subject to a phase one environmental and
any clear title. Uh we did come in in
front of you now just to get this
formality out of the way. If it does not
approve then we will not move forward
with it. But I wanted to make sure we
were at the point that we could move
forward it. It's approximately uh just
about an acre. It's on the north side of
the the plant uh to adjacent to it and
it does front on Henry Avenue.
owner's amicable to everything that I'm
telling you here tonight. Um, so from
that standpoint, uh, on the fiscal side,
there's really no negative impact as you
can see with our the cash balance in our
utility enterprise fund. This is also
part of the overall budget for the water
plant as well. So based on all the
positivenesses on this, um I'm here to
recommend that you authorize the city
manager to execute the contract for the
purchase of the two parcels. Their tax
IDs are noted um that's adjacent to the
water plant and pending the satisfactory
results of the title and the phase one.
And I'm here to answer any questions.
>> Thank you, Miss Adams.
>> Thank you, mayor. In terms of the
property itself, the plan is to use it
for our utilities for for that
expansion. In terms of doing that U in
and out of the property, correct?
>> Well, this opens up a whole new
possibility of creating a loop coming in
from Park Hill. Oop, excuse me, from
Park Hill and going back out. Um, so
yeah, we're going to probably go back to
the drawing board to see how it's going
to play into it. But that's the goal.
And our last property that we purchased
adjacent to the land that we already
own, we know we have to take down a
house and do some clearing. In this
land, we don't have to do that
additional clearing with that cost.
Correct.
>> There's no house, right?
>> There is some trees.
>> Are we are we taking out the trees and
doing landscape changes to it?
>> Haven't gotten that far yet. I would
imagine eventually somewhere down
shortly down the road. That would
probably be the goal. Yeah, we'll
ultimately follow the process and do a
tree survey and take a look at what can
stay and what can go. But ultimately,
um, we originally tried to get this
years ago with the idea of of kind of a,
you know, one way one way in or a a
predominant way in and a predominant way
out um, for the plant and for public
works. And we're never able to acquire
it until um, when it rains a pores. We now have several residents in that
area that um have appreciated our our
constant contact by our project uh
project manager, Mr. Petroni, and and um
have I'll say a renewed interest in
possibly selling to the city of West
Melbourne. And so this property uh
really yields itself to a possibility of
a of some kind of roadway
in and out to the project site.
>> How many parcels are left that we're
still considering if they were for sale?
>> There's about four more along
>> four key. Yeah.
>> And there's um maybe five. And then if
you look at the attachment, there's a
property directly to the west adjacent
to this and then another one
maybe six roughly approximately.
>> Okay. Thank you. U I'll make a motion to
authorize the city manager to execute
the contract for the purchase of the two
parcels. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you. We have a motion
from Miss Adams.
>> Miss Magguire.
>> Thank you, mayor. I will second.
>> All right. Thank you. A motion from Miss
Adams and a second from Miss Magcguire.
All those in favor, please signify by
saying I. I. Those opposed say nay.
Motion carries 70.
>> Good evening.
>> Thank you, Mr. Patron.
Um, all right. Next item. Um,
land clearing, rough grading, and
seating of approximately 4.85 acres.
Tom Bradford. Thank you.
>> Good evening, mayor, deputy mayor,
members of council. Uh so as you know uh
the city acquired a 24 acre parcel um in
about mid December uh just south of the
community park on Mitten Flanigan the
corner and uh with the intention of um
including that in the park system um
recreation space park space uh and so
this is really kind of the next step in
that process of uh clearing out uh a
portion of the uh the wooded area that
would be along flinging in Minton. Uh at
that northeast corner, uh there are a
number of trees that we are going to uh
try to save. We've got the planning
department has a tree survey that they
had taken a look at. Um as part of this,
we will go in and flag those trees that
we'd like to to save. Uh but we did
acquire three proposals for the
clearing. um rough grading and seating
for this uh portion of the property. And
the lowest bid um is 89,971
and that is from AllPro Land Clearing
who we've worked with in the past.
They've done work for us uh after
hurricanes uh cleaning up debris. Uh
they've done a number of uh jobs for us
that we've worked with them and so we're
very comfortable with uh that company.
Uh we've also worked with Superior Tree.
Uh we've not worked that I'm aware of
with UTI site work, but um the one we're
recommending this evening is Alpro. Uh
so happy to answer answer any questions.
Uh but we're looking for your
authorization for the city manager to uh
enter to an agreement with Alpro uh to
clear rough grade and seed uh somewhere
between four and five acres of that uh
corner.
>> All right. Thank you, Miss Boltz.
Well, I will make an motion that we um
move forward um with that and approve
it. Um but
I had um
>> Hold on. Let me get a second. Mr.
Frampus.
>> Second with questions.
>> All right. Thank you, Miss Voltz. Your
question. Um
we're not paving it. Correct.
>> No, this is just the first phase. This
isn't going to even be uh final grade.
This is just to get some trees cleared
out of that corner and kind of set it up
for the next phase. Uh but looking to
clear that off, do some uh seating to
get some stabilization in there. But at
some point in the future, we would come
forward to the council with some
proposed concept plans and and some
architectural renderings to look at. And
so that those are down the road. This is
really just kind of the next step and
clearing it out to kind of make way for
those next steps.
>> Thank you. All right, Mr. Francis, your
questions.
>> It appears you're just uh clearing out
the corner area. Why not do the the
planned trail? Cuz it seems like it
would make sense to do it all at one
time, the the front part and what's
cutting through like the center. Why?
not?
>> Yeah. So, with any development like
that, there's probably going to have to
be Phil brought in and bring it to true
grade. And we don't know where that is
right this minute. And so whether how
much of that we would have to bring in
to do the trail and that's kind of the
next step. This is really clearing out
the the wooded area and getting it sort
of set up for the next phase. So we we
don't have included the proposed trail
because we had looked at a couple of
concepts but never settled on official
you know we we never brought to a vote
what that future site is going to look
like. But one thing that we had um
discussed was the potential community
center being on that that corner that's
mo that's closest to the community park
and the rest was going to come in
multiple phases kind of down the road.
And so we were just kind of starting
with the first part. Um but at some
point down the road I think you know
that there is desire to have additional
trails and bike and walk path. We just
haven't gotten to that point with
development of the site.
>> Thank you. Our public works crews also
has the equipment to do the trails, but
big open spaces like this, you know, you
need that you need the big boy toys to to clear efficiently on large sites.
>> Somebody else to have the liability
also.
>> Well, that that headache, too. But, you
know, we have we have midsize to small
equipment. We don't have any of the
>> I don't want to break our stuff,
>> the the big the big guns.
>> Okay, Miss Adams.
>> Thank you. As a followup on that, I know
council had talked about during the
workshop uh trying to remove the
invasive pepper trees from that
property. This wouldn't necessarily be
that. This is just looking at the
specific acreage and then we'll look at
the trails and removing the invasive at
another time.
>> Yeah, I think the vision is that we'll
bring forward a more complete overall
sort of master plan if you will. But in
each of those plan concepts, the
community recreation center is kind of
in this spot. So, this seemed like an
easy first step to kind of get moving on
it and then continue to work on those
renderings and those um sort of option
A, option B, you know, how do we want to
develop this moving forward and sort of
that master plan piece. Um so, we we
aren't quite at that point with the
master plan, but yeah, there there would
certainly be more phases to come. This
is just sort of the first step.
>> Understood. And Mr. Rodie, it's my
understanding we're moving this forward
at this time even though we don't have a
final concept plan because it'll save us
money since we've got some other
construction going on so that we can
move the dirt from one site to the other
without paying additional for it.
Correct.
>> Yeah. Our capital projects uh manager
continues to continues to do more and
more projects which supplies us with a
healthy amount of dirt. And so, uh,
being able to utilize this site to help
get it to final grade and have a place
to take it so we only have to truck it
once. Uh,
>> dirt's not cheap.
>> Well, I, as I like to tell people, when
you need dirt, it's expensive. When you
have dirt, it's hard to get rid of. And
that always seems to be the case. And
right now, with our uh with our
multitude of projects, we have dirt. And
so if we can start putting it on this
site and get a good level base to to
start this project from, uh, it
certainly cost is a big cost savings to
the city.
>> I like cost savings for the city.
Although Mark, we're we're two for two
for big projects being on time and under
budget. So the expectation is high now
>> that it is. Thank you,
>> Mr. Bentley.
>> Thank you, Mayor. [clears throat]
I guess I have a couple of questions.
One is on the first quote on 8B-4.
It says well bill for actuals. Is that
just an estimate for cost that they put
in there or is there not a cost but they estimated 4.85 acres. We had
estimated slightly less on the
rendering. Um so it may vary just a
little bit but I I don't know that it's
going to go over that. Um so I'm not too
concerned about that. Yeah.
>> Okay. So the 6971 is their estimate.
I'm looking at the uh sod install
on the allp pro land
>> all pro sod install the 211,000.
>> Yeah. And it says we'll bill for actual.
So that they just estimated and they'll
give you an actual bill when they get
it.
>> Is that what that is?
>> If it takes more, but again I don't
know.
>> It's not that much, right?
>> Uh
and the second contractor says they
include debris removal. Is that included
in the first one? It's just not shown.
>> Uh it it does re it does include um land
clearing. So at the at the top um just
under the land clearing section.
>> Okay. Debris says removal of trees.
Right. Yeah.
>> Thank you sir.
>> Mr. Frampus.
>> I forgot to ask uh in the rendering you
show in the yellow section that large uh
area of trees. That's definitely staying
correct. The square section of trees in
the rendering.
Yeah, we're going to try to save as many
as possible. As with all of these types
of things, when you start bringing fill
in, it's hard. You know, there's no
guarantee that they'll survive, but um
the planning department obviously very
adamant about saving trees and as are
>> just the red dots. I'm talking about the large green section within the
yellow square. Correct.
>> The large green section. Um
it'll all be dirt to start with. This is
just a con. This is part of one of the
concepts that shows that as being grassy
area.
>> This looks like trees to me.
>> Um that's grassy area. The dots are the
larger trees that they were intending to
save
>> because this picture looks like the rest
of the green area on here.
>> Yeah, that that's a concept. It's just a rendering concept that you
know we intend to kind of leave a buffer
at the back edge. um that whole section
in that in that
>> I was just wondering
>> square would be
>> I'm wondering why we're not leaving
those trees because it's not a area
that's going to be utilized for parking
or recreation or any of that kind of
stuff. So why take it out?
>> Well, they've identified the larger
trees there. You see two 18 in trees
down toward the bottom. And so there
must not have been in that area trees
that they felt were of a size and
quality to save because you can see even
through the community center area
they've have dots through there.
>> Right. Right. And so we're going to try
to save those, but at some point they
may have to come down. If the the
concept that's ultimately agreed to or selected by council shows a building
there, then obviously those are going to
have to be removed. Um but yeah, it's it
this is just part of the concept. That's
not a tree area. That's just kind of a
grass area.
>> Pretty much everything in the yellow
block is coming out except for the red
dots.
>> Correct.
>> And most of it is scrub brush.
>> Yes. We walked the site and we for sure
>> it's it's not as if it's pristine in any
>> doesn't look that bad from the road. So
>> it it doesn't but when you get inside
it's I assure you it's a lot of
invasives and a lot of scrub brush.
>> I didn't see a lot of big beautiful oak
trees or anything like that. It was
Yeah.
» All right. Thank you. Any more No more
questions. All right. We have a motion
on the floor from Miss Adams and a
second from Mr. Frampus. Um, all those
in favor, please signify by saying I.
>> I. Those opposed say nay. Motion
carries. 70.
>> Thank you. 8 C. Uh, the approval of the
2026 land development standards manual.
C. Uh, CAM. There we go. Cam Stabbus. I
don't see a Cam Stabbath. Oh, there we
are. Now I do.
Good evening, mayor, deputy mayor,
council members. I'm Cam Stabis. I'm the
city engineer and I'm here before you
tonight to recommend that you adopt the
revisions to the 2024, now the 2026 land
development standards manual. It was
previously called the engineering
standards manual. It was changed, I
believe, in 2020 now the land
development standards manual. It guides
contractors and developers when they
come and do residential and commercial
development in the city. U had about
this last revision is about 25 or so
revisions made. Nothing super big, just
more stuff to kind of give us a little
more control over the contractors. For
instance, we want pipe to be beded 57
stone. Originally, we kind of gave them
an option of a few different things.
They'd want to cheap out or do stuff we
didn't really like. And so, we kind of
wanted to nail them down with a couple
things there. So, that's an example.
Another one was we didn't specify that
concrete pre-cast manholes for storm
water should be bedded on 57 stone,
whereas we did for sanitary and water.
So, just tightening up things like that.
couple values were changed but nothing
really as far as uh huge huge u
consequences to the contractors or
developers. So uh we did introduce the
fat oils and grease program that's in
the sanitary so that that was there's no
language in there up to that point. So
we introduced that and again we have
about 25 or so different revisions
ranging from small grammatical things or
changing a title of someone that's
mentioned in there to
uh quantitative uh amount we did use or
reduce was uh density testing every 250
ft along the center line of roadways and
it was 500 before that but other than
that not too much quantitative change
and illustrative details have not
changed and then our approved
manufacturers we were looking into maybe
doing that in the future but that take a
little more uh extensive kind of review
so those those have stayed the same for
right now
>> right thank you u Mr. Francis,
[cough]
>> excuse [clears throat] me.
>> So, it it did appear that most of the
changes were technical in nature. Is was
all this based on what we wanted or was
it some like state upgrades or where did
we come up with all the ideas to change?
>> These are recommendations that were made
in our divisions, our utilities
division. So, water, sewer, capital
projects also had some input. So, I I
sent the document out. Me and my
construction inspector already been kind
of talking about some things that we had
in mind to change. Sent those out to
different divisions, received comments
back. I I put them in a register to kind
of make sure that they're not nothing's
contradicting. And we didn't
>> So, it wasn't standards. It was just
preference on our part.
>> Well, yeah. And I I think maybe some of
the stuff you're looking at now, I'm not
sure what's in front of you, but some of
the changes that I was shown this
morning may not be last round from 26.
or some paint changes and what type of
pipe you use and yeah so
>> that may have been a previous change I
don't know if paint has been changed
this last revision
>> okay it was on it was highlighted as one
of the changes so
>> okay
>> yeah some some of what the utility you
know our our water and sewer department
and and our construction department
you know you you give these standards
and then they try not not every
contractor contractor per se, but they try to find where they can
>> well it did say
>> cut the cost a little
>> we recommend or something other approved
by the city so compatible. So
>> and and then they say well show show me
where it says I have to do that.
>> Some of the changes just seemed you know
less important. I didn't know if it was
a standard change by like a national
standard change or something like that.
And I was just curious. Yeah, we, you
know, all all of these standards uh
reflect items that developers are
putting in that we are going to own and
have to maintain. And so every time the
crew comes back and says, "Boy, you
know, I wish I wish they would have done
it this way." We don't have a problem
when they do it this way and they did it
that way.
>> We make a note. Yeah. We we make a note.
It's not pressing. We don't come to the
council every other month and say, "This
is, you know, we want this line
changed." We we note we note all those
items and and uh planning um Cam has
done a great job um you know helping put
all those items together with the team
and then we try to do this every couple
of years. We try to bring it just try to
keep it updated.
>> Didn't seem like much about 12 or 15
things in a whole document. So it was
good.
>> It's not huge but there there are some
important items in there for us.
>> Mayor I make a motion we approve the
resolution 2026-05
as written.
>> All right. Thank you, Miss Adams.
>> I'll second.
>> All right, we have a motion on the floor
from Mr. Frampus and a second from Miss
Adams. All those in favor, please
signify by saying I.
>> I. Those oppos say nay. Motion carries
70.
>> Thank you. Good job. Thank you.
» Okay. All right. Well, that was easy.
Council reports, Mr. Bentley.
>> Well, that was quick.
[laughter]
A few items. Um, I did attend I think it
was Boy Scouts things that Alexis put on
with uh a group of young people. Really
young people. Of course, anybody's young
to me, but and also um their parents and
you know been to a lot of events over
the last 10 years and this was really
fun and really nice and the kids had a
great time and Lieutenant did a bangup
job. They loved the tour. Um, I'm not
sure that could have gone any better.
You did really good on that. So,
congratulations. That was just really a
nice event for the I think it's a boy or
scouts. I won't say boy scouts, but
scouts. And uh I don't think that could
have gone any better. So, um then like
most everybody else attended the dirt
toss at the new building department.
[snorts]
>> That's what we did. And uh so that was
okay. Huh.
uh it's not open yet. And then uh do you
plan on attending so that everybody
knows if it's probably already too late
to sign up, but we have the Palm Bay
Chamber tomorrow for those that are
going to go. And I did attend the I
guess it's an annual event for the WNBA,
West Melbourne Business Association.
And you know, that went really well and
you know, I'd like to see it better
attended. This is one of the fewer ones
that I've seen attendance wise. So, I'd
like to get back to where we were, but
I'm I'm sure everybody will work on
that. Thank you, Mayor.
>> All right. Thank you, Mr. Gaylord.
>> Well, I had a report, but Mr. Bentley
stole all of my items, so nothing to
report.
>> All right. Thank you, Miss Magguire.
um to give more information on that. So,
I had uh Cub Scout Pack 374, who is one
of our West Melbourne um scout groups,
who asked they had a I think I mentioned
it last meeting, but they needed to have
to speak with an elected official about
pretty much how the elections work from
the day you decide that you want to run
up until the day you actually get
elected. And so, they met with us over
at the PD. We kind of talked to them.
They asked questions and then afterwards
uh Lieutenant Aaron St gave them a what
they called the best tour ever from some
of them of our um our PD. Um and then
they got to see like the Pterodine. So
they they all had a blast. Um I have
been hearing about it for now over a
week from how from parents that are just
so their kids keep bringing it up and
they just really enjoyed it. So it was a good event and thank you to the
uh council members that did come out and
support as well. We we have applications
available. It's never too early. Never
too early to start.
>> Mr. Francis.
>> Uh thanks, Mayor. I did attend the the
groundbreaking for the thing and I think
uh Mr. Rodie and Megan, you guys did a
great job putting that on and uh
appreciate it. Thank you. Nothing else.
>> All right. Thank you, Miss Bolt.
Um, yes, I attended um Joe Robinson's
funeral from Titusville. Um, I was up
there. That was that was very nice. Um,
I also
um poked my head in for the um citizens
academy last on Wednesday, last
Wednesday, when Mr. Smith gave an
awesome um report on budgeting and the
city finances and all that stuff. So,
that was that was very nice. Um, and of
course I did attend the the dirt
throwing the dirt throwing. Um, and that
was good. And y'all did an awesome job
um putting that on for us. So, can't
wait for it to be done.
>> Miss Adams,
>> a couple additional things to note. Uh,
the Florida League of Cities held their
first virtual ethics training. That's
the statemandated training that happens
every year. So, got that done. But just
a reminder that they do offer it at
least two more times virtually
throughout the year and then they will
do it again at the conference. So, just
putting that on your radar if you're
someone like me that likes to plan
ahead. Uh the Citizens Leadership
Academy, I popped in while uh Mr. Roadie
and Mr. Kerry were giving their
presentations. U very great group of of
residents. They asked some good
questions which is great. Uh the scouts
presentation, Alexis, you did a great
job. I think the kids asked great
questions. Their parents asked some
great questions and everybody was really
hands-on. Uh they asked some very
specific elections questions and you you
handled it like a pro. So great job on
that. Uh the state of the city went well
with the business association and our
board. Although I agree with Mr.
Bentley. I don't know if there were
other events happening that night or it
is the season for people to get sick.
So, we just had a lower attendance than
normal, but staff did a great job with
setting that up and making it a really
nice event for the volunteers and
business association members that could
show up. Uh, the groundbreaking went
very well and I did want to note two
additional things. Um, I wore I wore
green in honor of two things. Um, it is
Irish Heritage Month. It's also cerebral
palsy awareness month. Um, so just a
reminder if you're someone that wants to
join me wearing green, I did it today
and I'll do it in two weeks on a
Tuesday. So you have your advanced
notice. Mr. RD's already checking in his
closet if he's got some green. Um, and
then for your planning purposes, I
wanted to invite council if you would
like to attend on either April 9th or
10th. U, I know that I've spoken about
New Life Mission in the past and the
work that they do to address
homelessness uh, for single moms with
kids in our community. Uh my husband and
I are co-chairing their community care
and share fundraiser event this year on
those dates and so I'm happy to have you
at our tables. [clears throat] U the
event is free itself although since it's
a fundraiser that covers a significant
portion of their budget so that their
mission can continue. I encourage you to
bring your checkbook. So just let me
know probably in the next two weeks if
you'd like to attend and I will pencil
you in. But wanted to make you aware of
those two things. Thank you, Mayor.
>> All right. Thank you, Miss Adams. Okay.
Anyone else have any comments? Oh, yes,
Miss Holtz.
>> Yes. Something that Paul brought to my
attention um that uh June is faith and
family month. And he has a proclamation
here that he was hoping that um the city
of Clearwater has done it and he was
hoping that the city of West Melbourne
would do it. Um and he's got copies, I
think, for everybody. if um if you would
just all like to take a look at it and
we'll talk about it uh at the next
meeting.
Okay. You've got one too.
>> I do. That's what I was going to talk
about.
>> Oh, okay.
>> But that's okay. You
>> thought you said you were I thought you
said it was all done. Okay.
>> No, I just hadn't gotten here yet. But
>> Okay.
>> On that note, everyone has has mentioned
everything that that has gone on and and
this and this as well. So, we'll go
right over to management reports. Mr.
Roie.
>> All right. real brief and then I'll let
uh Chief Vesta put a plug in for Cops on
the Coupe. But um uh really appreciate
the groundbreaking. I think it's uh
going to be an amazing project for the
city and and can't wait to have a a a
better council chambers that represents
the the community that that one will be.
Um Citizens Academy is Wednesday again,
six o'clock. Feel free to stop in uh
just either just say hi or attend the
class. uh open invitation to the
council. Um really good group with lots
of good questions.
Not not as many questions as past
groups, but but good questions. Um next
council meeting is going to be very
parktheavy.
Um we are we have posted notice uh
following the city code in in order to
change the name of the park. And so
we've put that notice out. Uh the park
name will be on there. the park signs
will be on there and several different
elements of parks will be involved. So
bear with us. It might might be a little
bit of a a longer session as we look at
that stuff, but you know there's a lot
of park things happening and we thought
by putting them all together like that
it gave good continuity and so we're uh
that's coming on the next meeting in
March and then I will turn it over to
Chief Vesta to plug the amazing event.
>> Oh yeah, you're all I know a couple of
you are participating. We are hosting
the Cops on the Coupe event. uh this
Friday from 6:00 to 8 at uh the
Chick-fil-A and Walmart parking lot on
Palm Bay Road. Uh as you know, 100% of
the proceeds go towards Special Olympics
Florida. We're usually able to raise
between the torch run and shirt sales on
this several thousand dollars to uh
benefit our our Special Olympics. So, uh
we we invite you and the public to come
out and looking forward to a great
event. So, Friday 6:00 to 8:00 PM.
>> Yes. Normally, I would get a QR code so
that I could raise funds, but I never
got a QR code. And so, when I had it for
Friday, I thought, well, maybe I don't
have it on the right date.
>> Those have been developed, so I'll I'll
make sure to uh take care of that. I'll
get in touch.
>> Yeah, send it to me. Maybe somehow or
another I deleted it. Uh, whatever. But
I I need to get that. Okay.
>> Thank you.
Mr. Kerry.
Thank you. And I just wanted to let
everybody know that a week from Friday
is the last day of the legislative
session. Today is the last day of Senate
committee meetings. Um and if you all if
any of you uh went to or watched the
webinar for the League of Cities about
the legislature, they kind of gave their
strongest verbal indication yet that
they don't think that the property tax
issue is going anywhere. Now, you know,
that that's obviously, you know, things
can happen in the last 10 days of
session and and so, um, nothing's final
until the hanky drops, but um, it kind
of seems like the Senate doesn't really
want to move that ball. Uh, that
obviously doesn't foreclose the governor
from calling a special session, but
again, he can call a session, he can't
make him do anything, right? So, they
can open the session, close it, and not
do anything. So, we'll see what happens
um, as far as getting a referendum on
the ballot. But um I was kind of
surprised that the league uh gave an
indication verbally that they thought it
wasn't going to go anywhere. Um and also
the 10th or excuse me the 13th being the
final day of session depends on them
getting the budget published on Tuesday.
Uh because there's a law that they have
to have a published budget for uh 72
hours before they can vote on it. So, if
the budget drops on Tuesday, then the
session will probably be over Friday. If
it drops on Wednesday, then they'll go
into Saturday. So on and so forth. Um,
so just uh some things to keep an eye
on. So at the uh next meeting, we'll
obviously have a uh post session wrap-up
that um it it's not going to be the the
full wrap-up where we go over the report
of the league. Just kind of more a
highlevel, you know, these things uh
pass that concerned us, these don't. and
we'll do the full wrap up uh in a couple
months after the league's report is done
as usual. Thank you.
>> All right. Thank you. Any other
comments?
>> All right. This meeting is adjourned at
uh let me see what time is it really?
6:40.
That's all.