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[4:52] matching color of the tie and shirt so

[4:56] now I could go back now I could go back

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[5:01] all right so I can yell at

[5:05] Steve I don't get enough I'll tell you

[5:08] what I was signing paper the other day I

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[5:56] how many people the department have the

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[9:59] all ready everybody ready

[10:06] go okay welcome to the Coco city council

[10:10] meeting tonight uh we are going

[10:18] to I'm going to ask Mr

[10:20] Blake invitation for sir absolutely when

[10:23] everyone please stand U ma'am sir secure

[10:26] your cell

[10:28] phone

[10:35] um as you know we've have a fallen

[10:37] comrade as you can see we're

[10:38] acknowledging councilman Tyler Furbish

[10:42] this is his seat is vacant right now but

[10:45] the thing I would like for you to do is

[10:46] recognize him not only as a great person

[10:49] that served our nation in the military

[10:51] and the United States Army as a ranger

[10:54] but also a concerned citizen of coko a

[10:56] leader of this community and and was

[10:59] loved by many and he loved everyone

[11:02] because all

[11:04] lives matter just like everyone in this

[11:07] room your life matters so we just going

[11:11] to take a quick brief moment of

[11:14] acknowledgement for our comrade our

[11:16] cohort Co excuse me cohort but more so

[11:20] than anything else a brother of the

[11:23] United States military who loved his

[11:25] country dealer and fought because he

[11:28] surrendered his hard work so we all can

[11:30] stand so I ask that we stand in

[11:33] recognition of him and all military

[11:36] personnel

[11:37] amen amen come on say it like youen

[11:41] that's right thank you um we just take a

[11:43] 30 second brief moment of

[11:45] silence

[11:52] please dear heavenly father we come to

[11:54] you once again as humble servants that

[11:56] serve you in order for us to be a great

[11:58] leader we must be a humble servant and

[12:01] we thank you so much for protecting our

[12:03] great nation and providing us with

[12:05] courage and hope and determination we

[12:09] thank you for the police officers and

[12:11] firefighters firsttime responders for

[12:13] protecting this so innocent child that

[12:15] we are here today to acknowledge their

[12:17] positive accomplishment because

[12:20] sometimes these simple two words thank

[12:22] you does not go far enough so we just

[12:25] want to say thank you Lord for all the

[12:27] great men and women of this great Nation

[12:29] locally State countywide we just want to

[12:33] say thank you can everyone just say

[12:35] thank you thank you thank you oh Lord

[12:37] and we ask that we be humble and we ask

[12:39] that you protect us and guide us and we

[12:41] can disagree to agree but we serve the

[12:44] same God and I'm so glad of that because

[12:47] we are all God's children we may come

[12:51] from different tribes but we belong to

[12:53] One race that's the human race and once

[12:56] again we are all God's children amen

[13:01] let's face Glory flag I

[13:05] pledge flag of the United States of

[13:08] America and to the for it stands one

[13:13] nation

[13:14] indivisible andice for

[13:17] all amen thank

[13:27] you

[13:29] mayor Parish here Deputy Mayor B here

[13:32] councilman Blake pres councilwoman

[13:34] Warner here City attorney gargan here

[13:37] city manager tanich and assistant city

[13:39] manager fer here thank

[13:46] you okay we'll move to the

[13:49] agenda make a motion to approve the

[13:52] agenda for the regular meeting of August

[13:54] 23rd as presented approved the minutes

[13:57] of this fiscal yeah Workshop held on

[14:00] June

[14:01] 29th approved the minutes of the regular

[14:03] meeting on junly 12th and approv the

[14:07] amend to the regular meeting in July

[14:09] 26 second all in favor I I any

[14:27] opposed

[14:40] okay okay

[14:50] good okay

[14:53] um I added

[14:57] uh this uh quick presentation from the

[15:00] uh Coco police department and fire any

[15:04] the safety um Mr delor could you come

[15:14] up

[15:16] yeah this is uh about last

[15:27] y

[15:33] [Applause]

[15:36] as you uh may know on Friday night

[15:39] around 10:30 at night the Coco Police

[15:41] Department received a 911 call of a um

[15:44] from a mother who had been in a boat in

[15:46] the Indian River and they were coming

[15:47] back from grills the boat had struck a

[15:49] guywire and ejected the partial family

[15:51] out of out of the boat um they had

[15:54] called mom had called 911 and her phone

[15:57] actually worked in the water um our

[15:59] Dispatch Center received a call and they

[16:02] were able to dispatch the officers the

[16:04] officers um responded to the area Matt

[16:06] Rush was one of the first officers there

[16:08] he responded to the Coco side because

[16:10] we're the Coco police department and

[16:12] realized that the boat was on the other

[16:14] side of the river he immediately

[16:15] responded over to the Meritt Island side

[16:18] and um observed the boat in the water he

[16:21] then stripped down out of his clothes

[16:23] only thing was wearing with his pants

[16:25] and his T-shirt he jumped in the water

[16:26] and started swimming out to the boat

[16:28] Corporal worthy hearing the call on the

[16:30] radio was Uptown and on another call uh

[16:33] in the North End of the city and um

[16:35] immediately started heading this way we

[16:37] talked with his supervisor and

[16:38] immediately called me I'm the primary

[16:40] boat operator for the department at that

[16:42] time pretty much um it was a joint

[16:44] effort from um the uh coko police

[16:47] department Bard County Sheriff's Office

[16:49] um United States Coast Guard um and

[16:51] Florida Wildlife Commission Florida wild

[16:53] commission was out they were um in route

[16:55] also they were working a voting accident

[16:57] in um in Melbourne so they weren't far

[16:59] away my wife and I were out on a date

[17:01] and Corp worthy said where you at and I

[17:03] said well we're uh we're on date night

[17:06] and he goes um he goes well we've had a

[17:08] voting accident we've got people in the

[17:10] water and we've got a mom and they've

[17:13] lost a child and they can't find the

[17:14] child in the water I said I'll be there

[17:16] in a few minutes for most of you know me

[17:18] my wife is a nurse and she's at a local

[17:20] hospital she works at N I said she says

[17:22] well when I start to get to the scene

[17:23] she says well I'll just take the car and

[17:25] go home I said oh no no no and we you

[17:27] have a special skill set with we

[17:28] hopefully don't need to use but if we do

[17:30] you're going with me so she jumps in the

[17:32] boat Corporal worthy met me there with

[17:34] the keys we immediately took our police

[17:37] boat which is stationed right at um um

[17:39] in or the um CA Village Marina it's on a

[17:42] slip within 5 minutes we were in the

[17:44] water and around the corner where the

[17:45] boat had had um struck a guy wire and

[17:48] had capsized we immediately arrived on

[17:50] scene a passer by had picked up the

[17:52] family and officer Rush who were out

[17:55] there looking for the child mother

[17:56] advised us that the child um they didn't

[17:58] where the child was they heard the child

[17:59] crying in the water and they didn't know

[18:01] where she was um officer Rush stayed on

[18:04] the civilian boat with the family un

[18:06] coordinated efforts with them and kept

[18:08] them calm and then myself um Corporal

[18:11] worthy and U my wife continued to look

[18:13] in the area vard County Sheriff's

[18:15] helicopter arrived on scene they have an

[18:17] infrared looking device that um takes a

[18:19] few minutes to cool down before they can

[18:21] start looking for heat signatures well

[18:23] um while we're doing that they're using

[18:24] their Spotlight we're using our police

[18:26] boat with the spotlights for looking um

[18:28] we looked all over there's a debris

[18:29] field so we're looking for quite a while

[18:31] and the boat continued to drift so as we

[18:35] uh continued to search the area finally

[18:37] the helicopter comes up on the radio and

[18:38] says hey the flare has cooled down now

[18:40] we're looking in the water we can't see

[18:42] her well immediately right then and

[18:44] there qu myself and the corpor looked at

[18:46] each other and said she's probably back

[18:47] in the boat we need to go get the boat

[18:49] we need to go check the boat out so we

[18:50] immediately responded back to the boat

[18:52] his mom said that she had heard her

[18:53] crying and they couldn't see her cuz it

[18:55] was dark out we went back to the boat we

[18:57] got back to the boat boat we had the

[18:59] helicopter lift off it was quite noisy

[19:00] and CH chaotic corpal wory reached down

[19:03] and tapped on the boat and he goes I

[19:05] hear her inside and that's when

[19:07] everything really got excited um he

[19:10] immediately took all his clothes off not

[19:12] all of them he had his T-shirt on thank

[19:14] God he had his T-shirt just panted on

[19:16] and then officer Rush came over in the

[19:17] other boat and they immediately dived in

[19:19] the water they started going under the

[19:21] water and um we're looking for the child

[19:23] under the boat and we knew she was alive

[19:24] we could hear her crying um they

[19:27] continuously went around the boat trying

[19:29] to find her where she was at you know

[19:30] the Indian River especially with the um

[19:33] with the big algae blooms for having

[19:34] can't see your hand in front of your

[19:36] face so it's it's almost impossible to

[19:37] see the helicopter came down with their

[19:39] big SP Spotlight put it right on the

[19:41] boat was trying to help them give them

[19:42] some additional light they had

[19:43] flashlights they're looking underneath

[19:45] they can't find her it's very hard to

[19:47] get underneath me being the supervisor

[19:49] watching them do this and come up out of

[19:50] breath I'm getting really scared I don't

[19:52] want one of my officers getting stuck up

[19:53] under there so I'm I'm getting scared

[19:55] now and I'm like okay guys you know we we got to find her soon so sure

[20:00] enough um Corporal worthy went under I

[20:02] believe he felt he thought he may have

[20:04] felt her and then he was kind of out of

[20:05] breath and officer Rush goes I'm going

[20:08] under and he went under once he came

[20:09] back up he goes I think I found her he

[20:11] came out he went under a second time and

[20:13] next thing I know this purple life

[20:15] jacket pops out of the water with this

[20:17] little beautiful face looking straight

[20:18] up with her eyes wide open and she

[20:19] started to cry

[20:27] so

[20:35] Mike Mike how long did it take you to

[20:38] respond from the your call to to the on onsite you know um I was in mbour I

[20:44] got there in about five minutes well I

[20:47] didn't want to hear that but I mean

[20:48] don't tell the chief took by the time

[20:50] the boat by the time we got to the boat

[20:52] um it was about probably about by the

[20:54] time he called me it was about 10

[20:55] minutes boat was in the water so that

[20:57] was a fast that was rapid right we're

[20:58] the only we're the only emergency

[21:00] service boat in central bouvard that's

[21:02] on the water so unfortunately the Coast

[21:05] Guard they have to trailer their boat

[21:06] it's because of the locks they can't get

[21:07] through the locks takes them about an

[21:08] hour takes everybody about an hour FWC

[21:10] was there quickly they were there

[21:11] probably about 30 minutes 20 30 minutes

[21:14] but the only reason he was there was

[21:15] because he was on his way home going to

[21:17] tville from a traffic crash or a boat

[21:19] crash that had happened in Lake

[21:20] Washington so we were able to respond we

[21:22] got the child out of the water um the

[21:24] picture you see of my wife grabbing her

[21:26] and trying to put her inside her jacket

[21:28] we were concerned that um hypothermia

[21:29] her being in the water for a while um

[21:31] and some other things you know her

[21:32] possibly drink um swallowing some water

[21:34] and stuff so we immediately got her over

[21:36] to the Fire Department fire department

[21:37] was staged waiting at the dock they

[21:39] immediately took custody of her and

[21:41] started treating her and they

[21:42] immediately triaged her got her all

[21:44] packed up and immediately took her to

[21:45] the hospital and then she was flown to

[21:46] Arnold Palmer where she was uh treated

[21:48] for a couple days and released and we

[21:50] all got to meet her and her family

[21:52] yesterday and um it was it was quite

[21:54] moving it was absolutely quite moving so

[21:58] it was quite event quite quite an event

[22:00] we were in the right place at the right

[22:01] time with the right officers everything

[22:03] happened right these things normally do

[22:06] not do not turn out this way they don't

[22:08] yeah normally we usually these are one in the million so God was definitely

[22:12] Watching Over Us he put the right

[22:13] officers in the right place at the right

[22:15] time and everything uh you know really

[22:17] happened to to work out very well for us

[22:19] um I know that

[22:21] [Applause]

[22:26] uh these two young men put their lives

[22:29] at Great risk to go under and this old

[22:32] sergeant was getting really nervous

[22:33] watching go under and every time they

[22:35] went under my heart would stop um I was

[22:37] really scared for them but they put

[22:38] themselves at Great risk and U it paid

[22:41] off so you had people jumping off the

[22:43] bridge swimming in I did have a civilian

[22:44] gentleman um he jumped off the bridge um

[22:47] with a little short fishing pier for the

[22:48] Meritt Island side and he was swimming

[22:50] out when we first when I first Allan and

[22:52] I first arrived on scene we we thought

[22:54] he was somebody from the boat crash and

[22:56] he was a good Samaritan who was fishing

[22:58] saw the boat crash put on a life jacket

[23:00] jumped in the water and started swimming

[23:01] out to help them so it was it was a

[23:04] combined effort by a lot of people to uh

[23:06] to enact this rescue so between the

[23:08] Sheriff's Office the US Coast Guard came

[23:10] out they were actually there they were

[23:12] on scene we had called the Sheriff's

[23:14] Office for a dive team they were in

[23:15] route the helicopter was there it was

[23:17] just a a multitude of agencies and bcfr

[23:19] and Coco fire and everybody staging and

[23:22] coming together and working as a team

[23:24] you know it's a Well oiled machine so it

[23:26] actually worked out really well you know

[23:28] we were able to do what we needed to do

[23:29] to to save that little girl's life and

[23:31] that family too

[23:33] so

[23:35] um what's

[23:40] that Mr Mary can I say something yes sir

[23:43] uh two things first of all are the the police officers are their family

[23:48] members here

[23:49] tonight um yeah officer Russ's um father

[23:53] can they bring them up to as well yeah

[23:55] we're going to bring everybody up for a

[23:56] picture the second thing is mayor um

[23:58] with the blessings of you and Council

[24:00] and staff um if we could bring that

[24:02] family in that at our next council

[24:04] meeting to acknowledge them as well uh

[24:07] for our sincere care and respect for

[24:11] them if we can do that so that they are

[24:14] recogniz because it takes it takes that

[24:17] whole village every lot out and

[24:18] everybody to make it happen and and and

[24:21] Mike and all the First

[24:23] Responders um the city obviously the

[24:26] council city um Community we we we

[24:30] appreciate you that was unbelievable it

[24:33] was and you weren't on Good Morning

[24:35] America once you were on it twice not

[24:37] being it's all about them they did a

[24:38] great job you know it was weird they didn't say Coco but it didn't

[24:41] matter to me I mean that was a

[24:43] very yeah yeah but you know what it's okay um what you guys do is you

[24:50] can't pay for it I mean you don't make

[24:52] enough money but thank you very much and

[24:55] I want to get a picture with everybody I

[24:57] want to mark this this time if we can so

[24:59] everybody uh all the First Responders

[25:01] anybody had something to do with this

[25:03] call please come up right councilor you

[25:06] want to come up families right Mr Man if they sure bring the families up let's

[25:11] do it come on

[25:13] [Applause]

[25:26] up

[25:29] I'm coming

[25:30] down let

[25:35] everybody

[25:43] a I know short

[25:56] people

[26:01] good

[26:14] cheese thank you very much thank you parents thank you family

[26:17] members awesome

[26:26] job

[26:41] [Applause]

[26:56] sir

[27:07] yeah yeah okay yeah okay yeah we're

[27:11] going to wait just a

[27:26] minute

[27:33] Samantha can you just if if the media is

[27:36] going to leave could you get them to get

[27:37] their stuff and before we go on with the

[27:39] meeting I know a lot of them took their

[27:41] cameras out could they so otherwise

[27:43] they're going to be disturbing the

[27:44] meeting after

[27:46] this we're g to give him just a minute

[27:56] here

[28:06] [Music]

[28:20] okay okay we'll move forward

[28:23] um get an update from the sister city

[28:26] program um

[28:28] who's here for that

[28:30] okay hey how you doing cath good how you

[28:34] doing how you

[28:38] doing

[28:56] sir

[29:03] good evening mayor good evening council

[29:06] members good evening what an honor to

[29:08] follow such a presentation yeah um that

[29:11] family is from right around my

[29:13] neighborhood so wow um I do want to

[29:17] start um as you know I'm Kathy Mar roian

[29:20] and I'm the representative from the

[29:22] sister city program and I'm going to be

[29:24] introducing this man standing next to me

[29:26] in just a moment

[29:28] but on behalf of the sister city program

[29:29] I do want to offer our condolences to

[29:32] the family of councilman Furbish and to

[29:35] his family and loved ones and to all of

[29:37] those that youve have worked with them

[29:39] um obviously they will all be in our

[29:42] prayers um sister city program you

[29:46] you've seen me here before let me I just

[29:48] want to give you a little bit of an

[29:49] update um about this uh Ambassador tour

[29:53] that we are doing in

[29:56] December as you know and for those of

[29:58] you in the audience who who may not know

[30:01] coko does have a a sister city in be

[30:03] sheemish Israel and I've each time I've

[30:07] come forward I've tried just to give you

[30:08] a little fun fact or some little

[30:10] information about our sister city it is

[30:13] located in between Jerusalem and Tel

[30:15] Aviv almost halfway in between it has

[30:18] over 100,000 residents 20% of those have

[30:21] arrived in the last six years with more

[30:23] pouring in every single day 60% of the

[30:26] population B sheemish is under 21 so you

[30:29] can imagine what kind of challenges that

[30:32] poses for um our sister

[30:36] city as you know we are doing an amb a

[30:39] peace Ambassador tour in December we

[30:42] have about 33 of us going from the Coco

[30:45] area to our sister city and I've told

[30:48] you before that we are featuring as one

[30:50] component of this tour um our Shalom

[30:53] dancers these five young uh women will

[30:56] be dancing all over Israel on behalf of

[30:59] the city um as ambassadors including an

[31:02] invitation to dance at Mada this herod's

[31:07] Fortress um and I when I found that out

[31:10] I looked at that stage and I said you do

[31:12] know there's only five of us right

[31:14] dancing is a huge stage and they

[31:18] actually do an amazing light show during

[31:20] the summer they are setting up a special

[31:22] presentation of the light show just for

[31:25] us and inviting people from all the

[31:27] neighboring cities uh and our dancers

[31:30] will be dancing and then they'll pres do

[31:33] a special presentation of the light show

[31:35] so they expect about 500 people or so to

[31:38] that so that's exciting I'd like to

[31:40] introduce now uh because we to briefly

[31:43] talk about another component of this

[31:45] trip uh Mr Robert debella who's also on

[31:49] our Council I mean on our on our board

[31:52] and he was instrumental in securing

[31:54] another component of this trip that is

[31:56] very exciting exciting so I want him to

[31:58] tell you a little bit about

[31:59] it thank you Kathy Mr Mayor as a matter

[32:03] of fact it's because of the mayor that

[32:05] we're able to uh do what we're doing

[32:07] next in uh between Koko and Israel uh we

[32:10] met up in in the fall of last year and

[32:12] talked about uh how we can uh raise the

[32:15] level of the sister city program from

[32:17] being mostly between the children and

[32:19] the schools and which has been very very successful to bringing in business

[32:23] to business or profession to profession

[32:25] so I after meeting with um mayor Parish

[32:27] I had a chance to meet with the sheriff Ivy and uh talking with Sheriff

[32:31] Ivy and by the way this is of November

[32:33] December of last year we know what's

[32:35] happened in the in the uh country even

[32:37] in Orlando with terrorism and issues

[32:39] like that so it was very timely we

[32:41] talked with the sheriff about the

[32:43] importance of uh our County and our

[32:45] County uh even though it's Coco is the

[32:48] sister city but our County we have an

[32:50] international airport we have a port a

[32:52] SE Port that brings in more cargo and

[32:54] passengers than most uh the top two or

[32:57] three in the country we have NASA as far

[33:00] as a space center and we also have

[33:02] several colleges and universities that

[33:04] have a large population of uh kids and

[33:06] uh students from from the Middle East in

[33:08] light of that uh Sheriff Ivy uh we asked

[33:11] him if he would be willing to come to

[33:12] Israel and he said that he's too busy

[33:14] here but that he would be more than

[33:15] happy to see if there was one of his

[33:17] staff that would want to go and um Chief

[33:20] Lewis and chief Lewis's responsibility

[33:23] is he oversees the county jail the

[33:24] sheriff's of the county jail he also

[33:26] overse sees the county courthouse in

[33:28] that facility and he was also our SWAT

[33:30] Commander for the past 18 years he and

[33:33] his wife agreed to come uh to Israel to

[33:36] bemish his wife is also a first

[33:38] responder and she works for the bavard

[33:40] County Fire Department uh responsible

[33:42] for the 911 system in bemish just

[33:45] coincidentally is Israel's Police

[33:47] Department training school they

[33:50] Consolidated over the past several years

[33:52] they bought the brought different um uh uh parts of the of the training

[33:56] program that was in different locations

[33:57] in Israel to B Shem so it's 57 acres and

[34:01] uh Chief Lewis and his wife will spend

[34:03] um a day to a day and a half at the

[34:05] police academy and the goal really is to

[34:08] you know to prepare our County and our town coko you know to be able to

[34:13] address some of the issues that we're

[34:14] facing issues that we know are very

[34:16] important issues we know could in in one

[34:19] night change our whole culture in Coco

[34:22] or or Bard County again referring back

[34:24] to what happened in Orlando and Israel

[34:27] you know uh if you've ever traveled

[34:28] there or if you've ever seen the the

[34:30] reports about L their Airline they've

[34:32] never had a problem on their Airline

[34:33] because their people are trained to you

[34:35] know watch and and observe and learn and

[34:39] we're hoping that uh May uh Chief Lewis

[34:41] will be able to see how does Israel

[34:44] prepare for terrorism how do they um uh

[34:47] what do they do post POS issue what do

[34:49] they do pre-issue how do they um you

[34:51] know plan for the uh medical issues and know first respon is like we heard

[34:55] just now for this child that was in the

[34:57] boat what do they do when there's a mall

[34:58] attack what do they and and they this

[35:00] facility if as you see they have on this

[35:03] facility they have a mock uh shopping

[35:05] center they have uh other places for the

[35:07] train to to be taking place and again

[35:09] we're hoping that Mike Lewis with his

[35:11] years of experience and is rank in the

[35:13] sheriff's department will be able to

[35:15] bring back to the Koko police department

[35:16] and the Melbourne Police Department and

[35:18] you know to keep our County alert and

[35:20] aware so the the the exciting thing is

[35:23] that a a program called the sister city

[35:25] of coko where over the past several

[35:27] years just through our our golf

[35:29] tournaments we've raised over $35,000 to

[35:31] The Bard Sharing Center which is located

[35:33] in coko to now we're able to you know

[35:35] take it to a level that could you know

[35:37] could really save lives and also give a

[35:39] bond between the police departments of

[35:41] Israel and and the police department of

[35:44] Bard County they're also going to be

[35:45] going to the police department in

[35:47] Jerusalem we're arranging for them to

[35:48] visit the one of the jails in Israel

[35:50] again to see how they do what they do so

[35:53] it's going to be a a really a great

[35:55] event and Mr Mayor thank you for for um

[35:57] initiating the the kind that was that

[35:59] was our idea I know I know Wayne I know

[36:02] Wayne liked that yes yes so anyway

[36:03] that's uh that's what we're doing and

[36:05] it's going to be like she said December

[36:06] 14th to the 24th and uh keep us in your

[36:09] prayers and that we come back with uh

[36:11] good training to help us do the job the

[36:13] right way so thank you very much thank

[36:15] you thank you thank you Kathy thank you I'm try to close this so you

[36:19] don't have to see

[36:21] this

[36:25] um appreciate

[36:28] it we look forward to hearing about your

[36:31] trip oh yeah also uh I failed to mention that

[36:36] the agenda we passed earlier was a

[36:38] revised agenda that was with a added

[36:40] consent and a uh the presentation that

[36:44] we had from the police

[36:46] department um want to make that clear

[36:49] also um in the audience we have a county

[36:52] commissioner Jim

[36:54] Barfield hey Jim we raise your hand yeah

[36:58] he's our County

[36:59] Commissioner thanks for

[37:02] coming for him to sit 10 minutes

[37:04] somewhere is pretty rare So Good Mr mer

[37:08] wasn't instrumental and covering up the

[37:10] portion the remaining portion of Jackson

[37:13] Street uh right there the ditch yep it

[37:17] was instrumental in that so I think we

[37:18] should recognize him for that as well we

[37:21] all work well all of us worked on the city side but on the the county side

[37:26] uh remember Jim we had a meeting our

[37:27] first one of our first meetings my 12

[37:29] asks was that and Jim jumped on the

[37:31] county side of uh Jackson Street and had

[37:33] it done less than a year so and Stockton

[37:37] Whitten did a great job too thank you um

[37:41] all right now we're GNA move on to

[37:43] delegations delegations tonight and the

[37:46] uh we're going to go three minutes we

[37:48] have a lot of

[37:49] cards okay question Mr Mayor yes sir

[37:52] help me understand now just correct me

[37:54] if I'm wrong um delegation is supposed

[37:56] to last has 30 30 minutes correct so if

[37:59] it supersedes 30 we would need a motion

[38:01] to extend it correct that's correct

[38:03] that's uh per Charter I believe is that

[38:05] right piso yes sir thank you sir super

[38:08] attorney thank you all right so we

[38:09] probably based on your cards there Mr

[38:11] Mayor so somebody um who can take time I

[38:15] can take time let us know the 30 minute

[38:17] Mark and then we'll keep extending if

[38:19] you know we need to all right let's move

[38:21] right into that I'm going to start with

[38:24] uh Janie Bryant

[38:29] delegations Janie Bryant okay

[38:38] yeah good evening good evening how you

[38:43] doing all right this is uh concerning

[38:46] this bar station and Stone Street hello

[38:48] I'm Janie Bryant a property owner at 365

[38:51] Stone Street in coko Florida the fire

[38:54] station at 113 South South fist

[38:57] Boulevard serves the diamond Square

[38:59] Community Virginia Park and surrounding

[39:02] areas I ask the city council to keep a

[39:05] fire truck at this station to continue

[39:08] serving these communities allowing a

[39:10] fire station in Rock Ledge and one in

[39:13] West Coco to respond to fire calls in

[39:16] dond square and Virginia Park creates

[39:19] longer fire response time a fire or

[39:23] smoke inhalation can travel quickly to

[39:26] destroy a person's life keeping a fire

[39:29] station at this

[39:31] location is in the best interest of

[39:33] these

[39:35] communities also for Stone Street good

[39:38] evening as well I am Janny Bryant a

[39:41] property owner at 365 Stone Street in

[39:45] Coco the city council plans to sell off

[39:47] the portion of stone street from the

[39:50] railroad to US1 should

[39:53] stop I strongly oppose the permanent

[39:56] closure of Stone Street at

[39:58] US1 building a Cumberland Farms will

[40:02] totally prevent residents from accessing

[40:06] US1 during natural disaster it also will

[40:10] prevent residents from Crossing US1 to

[40:13] downtown Coco to attend church pay bills

[40:18] and visit

[40:19] relatives as a solution the city of coko

[40:22] should find business owners that are

[40:25] willing to build business is on either

[40:27] side of Stone Street and keep the road

[40:30] open and connected to US1 this option

[40:34] would ensure future opportunities to

[40:37] reopen the Stone Street railroad

[40:40] crossing and totally reopen the street

[40:44] thank you so

[40:46] much M Bryant thank

[40:50] you okay um

[40:53] Wanda

[40:55] p

[41:05] M how you doing good evening good

[41:08] evening uh name uh name and address for

[41:09] the record yeah should have done that

[41:11] before yeah my name is Wanda B and I

[41:15] live at 229 Smith plane Coco

[41:17] Florida I was here last month at the

[41:21] city council meeting and you you all

[41:26] approved a reduction in my lean

[41:29] forgiveness um I received a letter from

[41:33] the code enforcement people uh by email

[41:37] and by

[41:38] letter uh requesting that I pay the

[41:41] $1,000 in 30 days or make payment

[41:46] arrangements and um so I went down to I

[41:51] came down here to the city council and sent a good

[41:57] faith uh payment in the amount of

[42:00] $250 and I was

[42:03] denied and uh so I talked

[42:07] to um Mr counselor and I've talked to

[42:11] Mrs dresser about the

[42:14] issue and so I'm back here to request um

[42:20] since no one else could give me the

[42:23] approval to do the payment arrangements

[42:25] I mean here to request from you guys to

[42:29] prevent let me do payment

[42:32] arrangements okay Mr city manager what's

[42:35] our

[42:36] um policy on that current code the

[42:40] current code provides that an applicant

[42:43] that's requesting lean forgiveness has

[42:46] 30 days to make payment based upon the

[42:50] um once Council approves that request

[42:54] and it's my understanding and Steve krek

[42:56] I'm wrong I think Miss uh I don't want

[42:59] Bard uh came to City Hall after the 30

[43:02] days and that's why

[43:06] they it would be staff creating policy

[43:09] that and you have an ordinance that says

[43:11] you have and an applicant for for Gan

[43:13] forgiveness has 30 days is that correct

[43:16] Steve I believe I believe she came

[43:17] within the 30 days that it was within

[43:19] the 30 days but the I think the

[43:21] confusion was in the language and the

[43:22] letter I believe is is a

[43:23] misunderstanding and the the payment

[43:25] arrangements must be made within that 30

[43:27] days and that's what it's referring to

[43:29] it's not that the that that the payment

[43:31] arrangements can be made beyond the 30

[43:33] days uh which is what the request

[43:36] was the ordinance requires payment of

[43:39] the lean forgiveness within 30 days

[43:41] whether it be all at once over a

[43:43] four-week period but it needs to be

[43:45] within 30 days so the only way it could

[43:47] be extended at this point is a Beyond

[43:51] based on the the strict interpretation

[43:53] of the code is the actually after 30

[43:56] days the lean forgiveness goes away and

[43:59] Miss Bard would have to reapply for the

[44:01] lean forgiveness coming back to through

[44:03] code board back to city council unless

[44:06] the City attorney can offer up a a

[44:09] different you know uh super attorne what

[44:13] you got excuse me a minute I need to go

[44:15] and get yes ma'am that's

[44:25] fine

[44:31] can I ask you a question Mr Mayor um if

[44:35] you get your lean forgiveness reinstated

[44:38] would you be able to pay it off in four

[44:40] within 30 days or four weeks Mrs yes I

[44:45] would so I

[44:47] see I don't see a problem with that as

[44:49] long as she pays it that's my I mean I

[44:53] I've fallen short too as well and I'm

[44:56] understanding and I would hate and I

[44:57] know you're not trying to establish a

[44:59] precedent uh and that I would be in

[45:03] favor extending it if it goes through

[45:04] the proper channels etc etc I don't have

[45:06] a problem with having her rights

[45:09] reinstated or that conditions of those

[45:12] uh the written language reinstate

[45:14] Anthony can we do that he's looking hold

[45:17] on one second okay okay and I have to

[45:19] agree with Mike I think you know the

[45:20] whole purpose is to bring properties

[45:23] into compliance to recover the cost

[45:26] for the staff and for the filings and

[45:28] stuff and I realize that

[45:31] the the city rule say within 30 days but

[45:36] you know I mean pretty short really okay

[45:39] this is I didn't make that this is what

[45:41] the letter said if payment is not

[45:44] delivered to the Community Development

[45:46] Department or payment arrangements have

[45:49] not been made within 30 days of the date

[45:52] of this letter this matter will be

[45:54] forwarded to the City attorney

[45:55] attorney's office for further action see

[45:58] I would have thought that that meant I

[45:59] can make payment arrangements within the

[46:01] 30 days yeah I would have thought that

[46:03] too yeah so did I yeah so it's a game of

[46:06] I w't call it game of semantics but it's

[46:08] wording that's how you want to yeah read

[46:11] it and interpret

[46:14] it the way the code actually reads and

[46:18] um is that once the council approves a

[46:21] reduction um you know typically the

[46:24] condition the conditions have to be

[46:25] complied with within 30 days and my

[46:28] recollection of of that hearing there

[46:30] weren't any conditions placed on the

[46:33] repayment so the council has the

[46:35] authority to impose conditions and if

[46:39] the conditions are a payment plan you

[46:42] know the council um council could do

[46:45] that as part of a lean reduction subject

[46:48] to you know a payment plan condition but

[46:51] that was not that was not the original um decision of the Council

[46:56] so that would have to be

[46:57] Revisited so can't do it here would that

[47:00] be something we could do now or are we

[47:01] going to need to put it on an agenda I

[47:02] mean can we just make a

[47:04] motion I mean this is being thrown at

[47:06] the council you know I would recommend

[47:09] putting it on as an agenda yes item on

[47:12] the condition so we can sew this up a

[47:15] little bit and present it to you as a

[47:17] complete package rather than uh

[47:19] spontaneously doesn't need to go back

[47:21] code though does it no just the council

[47:25] would just

[47:26] re reconsider the uh the prior action

[47:30] um let me ask a question in addition to

[47:33] what and I support that wholeheartedly

[47:36] in addition to that can she come in good

[47:39] faith say here's

[47:40] $250 is that what we're saying yes yes

[47:43] and just to say hey I am sincere I'm in

[47:45] a better condition than previously 30

[47:48] days or four weeks ago here I am as a

[47:51] good samarit as citizen etc etc yeah I

[47:55] still have the $250 check okay I mean

[47:57] out to the city is that permissible the

[48:00] well assuming that the council you know

[48:01] ultimately changed their their prior

[48:03] vote um if the city could accept that as

[48:05] a good faith deposit in in preparation

[48:08] for the reconsideration of the item at

[48:10] the next meeting okay I'm for it let's do it I'm in favor so do we need a

[48:15] vote or just a consensus motion mean I

[48:18] have just yeah the cons at this point

[48:20] because this is on delegation we'll see

[48:22] the meeting W okay come back we'll fix

[48:25] it okay the next issue that I have and

[48:28] it's the last one um when I first I used

[48:32] to live in Virginia and when I first

[48:33] came down here I was told that uh if I

[48:38] moved into my house uh before I could

[48:41] rent it out I would have to live in the

[48:44] house for a

[48:45] year my neighbor next door has did not

[48:49] do that uh he has rented his house out

[48:53] to um somebody body and in the last

[48:57] couple of days the police has been there

[49:00] twice uh and U there's uh drug activity

[49:05] and possibly prostitution going on so

[49:09] what do I need to do what can what can

[49:11] be done there's no requirement that you

[49:14] have to live in your property we have

[49:16] people that own property in the city or

[49:17] rent it from the day that they buy it right there's no

[49:22] Mr don't we have some program if you did

[49:25] building permits as a owner builder then

[49:28] you have a requirement by state law to

[49:31] occupy that property because the state

[49:33] building commission has deemed it would

[49:34] be inappropriate for somebody else to

[49:37] under the guise of doing an owner

[49:39] Builder building permit because I know

[49:40] you had to make some repairs that it

[49:42] would not be appropriate to then

[49:44] subsequently rent it out because you're

[49:45] using a specific provision in the in the

[49:48] uh the building code to do repairs

[49:52] otherwise you would have to get a you

[49:54] would have to get a contractor to do

[49:56] those repairs and then you be able to

[49:58] rent it out immediately and I don't

[49:59] think it's one year I think it's three

[50:01] years if I recall maybe commercial is

[50:02] three years and then residential one I

[50:05] forget but I know that's that might be

[50:07] the issue if you CU I know your the

[50:09] former action was related to maintenance

[50:11] to a structure and there was probably

[50:12] some repairs that were required you

[50:14] needed to get a building permit and if

[50:16] you did them on your own that's why you

[50:17] had to maintain occupancy or residency

[50:19] in the property and you couldn't rent it

[50:21] out

[50:22] immediately okay my owner the next door

[50:25] own I had to do the same thing he he

[50:27] lives out of state and he owns about 30

[50:30] properties around here and so the ne my

[50:34] neighbors my current neighbors has not

[50:35] been there 21 days and it's been a

[50:39] nightmare right and I'm at a point where

[50:42] I feel that I need to put up Wanda more

[50:44] security Mr Austin who filling in for

[50:47] the chief behind you make sure you give

[50:50] them your number and um tell them

[50:52] exactly what it is cuz we don't put with

[50:54] any Shenanigans okay and if we got to

[50:55] send a the police there 24/7 they're

[50:58] obviously up to no good yeah and uh okay

[51:02] so give him your number all right we'll do the same and um and we'll see

[51:06] you probably in a couple weeks okay next

[51:08] meeting all right thanks guys thank you

[51:10] for having the courage to come forward

[51:12] yeah thank you for coming

[51:13] [Applause]

[51:13] [Music]

[51:16] thank's growling over here oh yeah man

[51:19] okay uh gravel in his

[51:24] throat guess I should make sure she's

[51:26] done right oh you

[51:38] are hey Wanda you're done right yes

[51:41] thank you very much yes ma'am okay no no

[51:43] problem no problem uh next up uh Nate

[51:52] hooks forgot to do how you doing

[51:56] is name an address if you can name an

[51:59] address if you can for the my name is

[52:01] Nate hooks 723 carus Avenue coko I'm a

[52:07] property owner and business owner in the

[52:10] city of Coco 36 years as a business

[52:15] owner my purpose here this evening is to

[52:19] talk on two

[52:21] issues One deals with the fire truck

[52:27] proposer that is slated to be moved out

[52:32] of the community in which I live and

[52:35] that's station number two which is

[52:38] located on South fist Boulevard the

[52:41] other issue is to comment on Stone

[52:46] Street but prior to that as fellow

[52:50] Christians to you the staff and official

[52:54] of our great City

[52:57] here the scripture

[53:00] says under the good rule

[53:04] treat people the way that you wish to be

[53:10] treated and I live by that I serve this

[53:14] community 26 years as a law enforcement

[53:18] officer living that

[53:21] cold and I say that because here we are

[53:26] phas

[53:28] with relocating fire trucks from a

[53:33] community

[53:35] that need fire

[53:41] services and I have to think that just

[53:46] because there may not be an abundance of

[53:49] fire calls in that

[53:53] area then the truck is taken away and

[53:57] placed in another

[54:00] Community which

[54:02] penalized the community that have done

[54:05] the Good by not having

[54:08] fires now that seemed odd to

[54:12] me I feel

[54:15] that that Golden

[54:18] Rule that we all should try to live by

[54:23] in pleasing our God should apply in

[54:27] everything that you as elected officials

[54:33] do and I don't think it would be

[54:36] applying if you

[54:40] harm one

[54:43] Community to satisfy and to put services

[54:47] in another Community amen I

[54:51] am

[54:54] reminded

[54:56] of many nights risk in my life for this

[55:01] community and for this

[55:03] city arresting murderers

[55:07] rapists going in dog

[55:10] buildings going in

[55:12] fights and I would never take that home

[55:16] I never took it home to my family

[55:19] because I didn't want them to be

[55:21] burdened with the stress of oration

[55:26] Mr hooks thank you appreciate it

[55:30] [Applause]

[55:32] thank and if I could just in closeing I

[55:35] know apologize for going over I'm

[55:38] against moving to fire station I'm I'm

[55:41] against the commin Farms coming to Stone

[55:45] street blocking our

[55:48] community

[55:51] okay thank

[55:54] you

[55:59] lurine

[56:20] Smith

[56:22] 37:00 how are you doing name is address

[56:25] for the record good evening and good

[56:29] evening everybody my name is Laurene

[56:31] Smith Laur and I'm ministering at the

[56:33] Miracle Center Church 440 Barbara

[56:36] Jenkins Street Coco

[56:38] Florida my reason for being here is to

[56:43] say again what's your address ma'am say

[56:46] that again your

[56:47] address um where you live I live at

[56:51] 10:34 revilla Lane Rock Les Florida okay

[56:56] but I'm referencing 440 Barbara Jenkins

[56:58] Street okay Coco Florida okay so we had

[57:03] a water baptism for Sunday and when we

[57:06] start filling the pool the water start

[57:09] coming out and a few minutes kind of

[57:12] reddish looking and so we would dump the

[57:16] pool and we did it again and we let the

[57:19] water run a long time on the lawn and

[57:23] then it looked kind of clear

[57:25] and then we started filling the pool

[57:27] again and eventually when the pool got

[57:30] about half full the water began to turn

[57:33] yellowish

[57:34] again and so we put a little bleach in

[57:37] it to purify it and then we had the

[57:41] baptism but when we drained the pool and

[57:46] the the drags were left in the bottom

[57:49] and it looked like red

[57:51] sand so one of the deacons said said it

[57:55] may be rust in the pipe and I needed to

[57:58] know whether or not the rust is in pipe

[58:01] well we're responsible and what could we

[58:04] do about it or is it because it's an old

[58:07] building and need new pipes I don't know

[58:10] that but maybe you could tell me what it

[58:14] is could you send your team out there

[58:17] Jack Jack sorry yes sir yeah we did we

[58:20] sent out a crew after we had got notied

[58:23] I think it came through Matt on that day

[58:25] uh we sent out a water field operations

[58:27] crew they went out uh they uh pulled the

[58:30] meter uh they did take a sample the

[58:33] water it did have a color tint to it so

[58:35] they let it run for five or so or 10

[58:36] minutes until it ran clear uh we tested

[58:39] the water uh had good residual so uh a

[58:43] lot of times um ma'am it's most likely

[58:46] it's coming from the transmission Lane

[58:48] like I said you said possibly could come

[58:50] from interior buildings but typically

[58:52] the buildings are made out of copper

[58:54] could be G up ized inside the building

[58:55] which could contribute um but certainly

[58:58] uh the water line that that's a dead end

[59:00] Street uh right there where we serve you

[59:02] and is a long service line there that

[59:03] could contribute to the issue um the

[59:06] material of the pipe obviously uh it

[59:08] shows as galvanized right now it's a

[59:10] 2-in galvanized uh uh main that runs

[59:13] down the street to the end uh and

[59:15] there's about 100 foot or so service

[59:17] that goes to the very end to where where the building is where she's

[59:20] talking about uh but we did test the

[59:22] water to make sure that it was still

[59:23] safe to drink it's not

[59:25] uh you know the most appeasing thing

[59:27] because it has a color tint to it that

[59:28] is from the inside of the pipes uh while

[59:30] the crew was there the meter box was low

[59:33] so they went ahead and reset the meter

[59:34] and adjusted the box to the correct

[59:36] height so that's what we've done at this

[59:38] point uh we also did go back uh uh I did

[59:42] check with u um with uh the lab um just

[59:46] to check and see if we had any other

[59:47] complaints from the street there are a

[59:49] couple of empty lots there on the

[59:50] streets we don't have a lot of use there

[59:52] are several other houses we haven't had

[59:54] any other complaints from from the

[59:56] citizens on the street so that could

[59:57] also be another clue as to whether it's

[59:59] coming from a pipe or whether it's

[1:00:01] coming from inside from from the service

[1:00:03] line itself to the building right

[1:00:08] okay D

[1:00:10] penny Okay thank you we appreciate you

[1:00:12] coming though okay God bless you again

[1:00:15] thank

[1:00:16] you so I got a question Mr Mayor sir

[1:00:19] Jack if this reoccurs again what

[1:00:21] recommendations do you yeah yeah that's

[1:00:24] like we we were see if there's if there

[1:00:26] were other complaints from that same

[1:00:27] street and I'm not talking about from

[1:00:28] this week if there was other ones you

[1:00:30] know recent you know anything on

[1:00:31] recorded uh then that could be an

[1:00:33] indication that there's there's a

[1:00:34] problem and we would want to go ahead

[1:00:36] and and look at replacing that line in

[1:00:37] the street assuming that that is the

[1:00:39] culprit so yes sir that would be the

[1:00:41] next action if we had if we had

[1:00:42] additional complaints thank you okay

[1:00:45] thank you thank you for coming um next

[1:00:47] is H pervette

[1:00:53] Bryant

[1:00:56] okay pervette name and address good

[1:00:58] evening I'm pervette Bryant a property

[1:01:01] owner at 373 Stone Street and 365 Stone

[1:01:05] Street in Coco I strongly oppose the

[1:01:08] city's plans to build a Cumberland Farm

[1:01:10] across the historic Stone Street at from

[1:01:13] the railroad to US1 building a

[1:01:15] Cumberland Farms across Stone Street

[1:01:17] does nothing for the diamond Square

[1:01:19] Community because the residents and

[1:01:21] business owners cannot access the store

[1:01:23] due to a barricade

[1:01:25] at the Stone Street railroad crossing

[1:01:27] this store would literally turn its back

[1:01:29] on this community with no opportunity to

[1:01:32] access it walking and driving to this

[1:01:34] store is a hardship and impossible for

[1:01:37] the residents building a Cumberland

[1:01:39] Farms across Stone Street would

[1:01:41] permanently block residents from access

[1:01:43] to US1 during a hurricane or natural

[1:01:46] disaster crowded bumper-to-bumper

[1:01:48] traffic on State Road 520 US1 and fist

[1:01:51] Boulevard already make it hard for

[1:01:53] residents to leave leave Diamond Square

[1:01:56] when I stand at my property on Stone

[1:01:58] Street many times I will see cars

[1:02:00] driveing into the street realize there's

[1:02:02] a barricade and circle around out and

[1:02:05] try to get back out into heavy traffic

[1:02:07] in order to access

[1:02:08] US1 railroad crossings are reopening

[1:02:11] across the United States you can Google

[1:02:14] it it depends on how strong and

[1:02:17] aggressive the city wants to reopen the

[1:02:19] street or use another entity to do so

[1:02:24] also tearing down three to four

[1:02:26] businesses to accommodate a cumland

[1:02:28] Farms plus a car lot to include this

[1:02:31] facility does not produce a large number

[1:02:33] of jobs in Coco maybe five or six to

[1:02:36] operate a full-time store in comparison

[1:02:39] you'd have much more economic Vitality

[1:02:41] with several businesses on either side

[1:02:44] of the Stone Street area with numerous

[1:02:46] employment opportunities and a larger

[1:02:49] opportunity for Community friendly

[1:02:51] growth I ask the city of coko to build

[1:02:54] businesses on either side of the stone

[1:02:56] street from the railroad to the US one

[1:02:59] and keep the street open for residents

[1:03:00] to exit during a natural

[1:03:03] disaster we need this street open to

[1:03:06] allow children and youth on the east

[1:03:08] side of town to access Jolie Smith

[1:03:10] recreation center allow families and

[1:03:12] people to attend church visit relatives

[1:03:14] pay bills downtown and access downtown

[1:03:18] properties once again I asking the city

[1:03:20] to develop a plan that includes the

[1:03:23] people in Diamond square and the

[1:03:25] surrounding areas and the city's growth

[1:03:28] and do not alienate them from the path

[1:03:30] of progress I also oppose the city

[1:03:33] council's efforts to remove the fire

[1:03:35] truck from

[1:03:36] 1113 uh 113 southfit Boulevard removing

[1:03:40] the fire truck would put the people's

[1:03:42] lives in danger a fire truck is like

[1:03:45] Insurance you use it when you need it if

[1:03:48] there's a risk of fire smoke inhalation

[1:03:51] or com carbon monoxide poisoning there

[1:03:54] would not be immediate attention for

[1:03:56] this community and please understand

[1:03:59] that one person's life is worth more

[1:04:01] than all the data you can present as

[1:04:04] justification to remove this fire truck

[1:04:07] thank

[1:04:08] you thank

[1:04:12] you

[1:04:15] okay lorine

[1:04:17] C I'll pass okay time give your time

[1:04:23] thank you

[1:04:25] uh Lawrence

[1:04:31] Sinclair I've been missing for three

[1:04:34] months three minutes three minutes

[1:04:37] Lawrence Sinclair 1052 Metro Street and

[1:04:39] 1054 Metro Street Coco Florida first of

[1:04:43] all my condolences to you and the loss

[1:04:44] of Tyler Furbish he was your friend and

[1:04:47] he was your

[1:04:48] co-worker uh and he was a bit

[1:04:52] cantankerous but some some of his

[1:04:54] district uh constituents are in the

[1:04:57] audience and I think they have the

[1:04:58] utmost respect for him uh I was going to

[1:05:01] actually limit this to several issues

[1:05:03] but I'm going to limit it to one I was

[1:05:06] going to address I think every one of

[1:05:08] you sitting up there understand my

[1:05:10] position on lean reductions especially

[1:05:12] when they involve investors who don't

[1:05:15] pull permits and who don't pay property

[1:05:17] taxes and then want lean reduced and

[1:05:19] I've just heard a couple of issues come

[1:05:21] up about lean reductions that's the

[1:05:24] reason I said the city's got to address

[1:05:26] this ordinance it's not just this lady

[1:05:28] here with having 30 days or 60 days it's

[1:05:32] about having a clear process you've got

[1:05:36] a gentleman who spent hasn't paid his

[1:05:39] taxes hasn't paid his uh fire assessment

[1:05:42] fees to the city of Coco which you're

[1:05:44] fixing to increase again I'm surprised

[1:05:47] at the number of people that are

[1:05:48] actually applying for lean reductions

[1:05:50] that have delinquent taxes haven't paid

[1:05:52] fire assessment fees

[1:05:55] and we are paying them this ordinance as

[1:05:58] far as lean reductions has got to be

[1:06:00] redone it's got to be clear property

[1:06:02] owners who are living in their property

[1:06:04] who have a right you know who've done

[1:06:06] what you've asked them to do that's one

[1:06:08] thing a guy who buys a property for $100

[1:06:11] on a quick claim deed spends a year and

[1:06:12] a half redoing it without a single

[1:06:14] permit to the city and not paying his

[1:06:17] property taxes and fire assessment fees

[1:06:19] for two years and comes to you A year

[1:06:21] later because he wants to sell it that's

[1:06:23] different these things need to be

[1:06:25] addressed they've got to be addressed to

[1:06:27] where they are addressed clear and

[1:06:29] concise because you've got two different

[1:06:32] issues this young lady here is a

[1:06:34] completely different issue than what

[1:06:36] you've got but yet you turn around and

[1:06:39] you say okay we can revisit

[1:06:42] it if this gentleman doesn't pay his

[1:06:45] reduced leans in 4 days he's going to

[1:06:49] come back after looking at this and say

[1:06:52] well I can pay over over time he's got

[1:06:55] 30 days he ain't paid I'm on top of this

[1:06:57] one because this is just wrong this lady

[1:06:59] is something different so that's why I

[1:07:01] wanted to address the lean issue that's

[1:07:03] something that the city's really got to

[1:07:05] look at this

[1:07:06] ordinance all right uh real quick 30

[1:07:10] seconds um 22 dusted on security lights

[1:07:14] up in the Bradmore Acres Community uh

[1:07:16] property values just so you know I got

[1:07:18] my trim notices yesterday even with

[1:07:20] homestead I'm paying property tax on

[1:07:21] both of them um that's

[1:07:24] actually all of the houses in the

[1:07:26] neighborhood have come up according to

[1:07:28] the Property Appraiser's office anywhere

[1:07:29] from 25 to

[1:07:31] $35,000 and I'll regret that

[1:07:34] afterwards Larry thank you for coming

[1:07:36] thanks Larry very

[1:07:38] good he's

[1:07:41] right okay next up is uh Reverend Earl

[1:07:44] Robbins mayor Parish we're at 30 minutes

[1:07:46] yes sir okay mayor I'd like to make a

[1:07:48] motion to extend delegations about 15 30

[1:07:51] minutes let's do 30 second

[1:07:54] okay all in

[1:07:56] favor any opposed

[1:08:09] okay good evening re Rob good

[1:08:12] evening I'm not here to talk

[1:08:15] about the semi TR speeding down my

[1:08:18] street Washington

[1:08:19] Avenue we have a more serious problem

[1:08:22] than Mr truck speeding through my

[1:08:27] neighborhood for over eight years we've

[1:08:29] talked about the truck speeding I've

[1:08:31] given up on that you're not going to do

[1:08:33] anything about it so I'm giving up on

[1:08:35] that but there's another

[1:08:38] problem the

[1:08:40] intersection at Washington and

[1:08:44] 520 their period of time during the day

[1:08:48] that you can't get

[1:08:50] out the people coming down on Washington

[1:08:54] they can't get in over to 520 that's

[1:08:58] true I was told that it was going to put

[1:09:00] signs that say Do not block the

[1:09:04] intersection but it's been my experience

[1:09:06] with the city of coko you put signs up

[1:09:08] but there's no law

[1:09:11] enforcement signs won't stop them from

[1:09:14] blocking the

[1:09:15] street only law enforcement can stop

[1:09:18] them from blocking the

[1:09:20] street and that's what we've been

[1:09:22] lacking in this city

[1:09:26] we have laws but nobody's enforcing

[1:09:31] them fire trucks ambulance can't get to

[1:09:34] Washington because

[1:09:36] every car in city of Coco seem to stop

[1:09:39] right there in

[1:09:43] section tonight I'm asking that the city

[1:09:45] of Coco do something about these

[1:09:51] problems I don't make it a career

[1:09:53] talking about problems on

[1:09:56] Washington eight years I've been talking

[1:09:59] about it and now we have another problem

[1:10:01] at the end of Washington in

[1:10:03] 520 we're asking that you look at this

[1:10:05] problem and after look and do something

[1:10:08] about it this

[1:10:10] time bless you Mr Robins thank you for

[1:10:14] coming John you know the problem

[1:10:17] right it's the back of a car is holding

[1:10:20] back okay good

[1:10:22] okay

[1:10:25] uh next is Cindy

[1:10:38] Smith good evening hello my name is

[1:10:41] Cindy Smith I live at 1206 Purdue way

[1:10:43] and Coco I sent a email on February the

[1:10:48] 9th to every email address I could find

[1:10:51] desperate for help to get reclaimed

[1:10:53] water in my yard this has been an

[1:10:56] ongoing

[1:10:57] problem uh when it was put in I was

[1:11:00] promised unlimited use at $5 I was

[1:11:03] brought up at a city council meeting as

[1:11:05] the lady on Purdue that expects it for

[1:11:07] the rest of her life that's what I was

[1:11:09] promised when my yard was tore up for

[1:11:11] two months we still do not have constant

[1:11:14] pressure now you want to raise our

[1:11:17] rates uh I've got emails um that I sent

[1:11:22] Tyler Matt had promised me a uh a credit

[1:11:27] on my water bill because the two that

[1:11:30] you have now reclaimed coordinators come

[1:11:32] out and stood in my yard and told me

[1:11:34] that the reason I didn't have any water

[1:11:35] is cuz we had too much and they had to

[1:11:38] pump it to rockage Meanwhile all my

[1:11:40] grass is

[1:11:44] dead I don't know is that

[1:11:50] true Miss Smith had uh initially reached

[1:11:54] out to our uh Water Reclamation team and

[1:11:58] they responded they uh did numerous

[1:12:01] tests at her location they did find the pressure

[1:12:06] was was low it wasn't that it was not

[1:12:09] functioning it was low it wasn't

[1:12:11] reaching certain portions of her yard it

[1:12:13] wasn't functioning at all then they knew

[1:12:15] they stood in my yard and told me they

[1:12:17] knew for three and a half four months

[1:12:18] that Pine Ridge as a whole had a problem

[1:12:20] and they didn't know what it was and

[1:12:22] they suggested that I shut my water off

[1:12:24] till they could figure it out when the

[1:12:26] whole time it was because they never

[1:12:27] told the street crew to turn the valve

[1:12:29] back on now my yard is dead I've never

[1:12:33] received the credit

[1:12:35] out I'm not cutting them off can he

[1:12:37] finish then because because I think he

[1:12:39] was still wanting to say something

[1:12:40] there's no disrespect to you ma'am we

[1:12:42] listen to you can I get a comment from

[1:12:44] him please ma'am I think she'll

[1:12:47] acknowledge your time ma'am yeah yeah I

[1:12:48] she'll extend it thank you Mr Mayor yeah

[1:12:51] and uh through multiple interactions

[1:12:53] with with uh Miss Smith and we also had

[1:12:55] our our uh reuse team back on site uh

[1:12:59] Jack's team with engineering research

[1:13:01] the issue uh they were able to make some

[1:13:04] adjustments to the system and uh

[1:13:07] increase the pressure at her

[1:13:09] location

[1:13:11] um at that time it was deemed a city

[1:13:15] council policy decision whether they

[1:13:18] were to provide a reduction in her reuse

[1:13:24] uh based on the the loss of service uh

[1:13:28] the policy currently maintains that uh

[1:13:31] we do not guarantee uh 100% service of

[1:13:35] our reuse system uh you'll find that

[1:13:37] agenda item uh it's uh the first item

[1:13:42] under the

[1:13:43] consent agenda and that does reflect uh

[1:13:47] our current policy as well as uh those

[1:13:50] neighboring uh systems uh we are

[1:13:53] consistent with them uh it is for your

[1:13:57] consideration tonight uh it also uh went

[1:14:00] to the UAB board uh in July I believe

[1:14:05] and they they heard the issue researched

[1:14:07] it and uh they are moving it uh to your

[1:14:11] uh agenda with a

[1:14:14] recommendation and uh Jack can maybe

[1:14:17] provide some more context if you'd like

[1:14:19] recommendation to what Mr F uh the

[1:14:22] recommendation I believe is to uh

[1:14:24] continue with the existing

[1:14:28] policy you mean you mean

[1:14:31] rates no with the with the existing

[1:14:33] policy in that we do not guarantee 100%

[1:14:37] service of our reuse system I know a lot

[1:14:39] of communities have the same I was going

[1:14:42] to say that that policy is consistent in

[1:14:44] jacking comment on it but that policy of

[1:14:47] not guaranteeing 100% of reuse is

[1:14:50] consistent with all the other

[1:14:51] municipalities in the in the county

[1:14:53] that's right that's right and um so so

[1:14:56] okay so number one's reliability there

[1:14:58] is none yeah there is none right so sat

[1:15:01] Saturday the my sprinklers came on and

[1:15:03] wet my windows clean to the top Sunday

[1:15:05] wouldn't even reach the back of my uh my

[1:15:08] flly beds I went on vacation for 12 days

[1:15:11] all of my plants that I had just put out

[1:15:13] in pots died because we had no reclaimed

[1:15:16] water whatsoever for four days I was

[1:15:18] told when I got back wow it's totally

[1:15:21] inconsistent and it'll work one day out

[1:15:24] of seven and it's become a full-time job

[1:15:27] trying to get reclaimed water and all my

[1:15:29] grass is dead now you know I've been

[1:15:31] here 23 years we've never had this

[1:15:34] problem you were one of the first

[1:15:35] hookups and it was a oh yeah I had my I

[1:15:37] didn't have a driveway nothing for over

[1:15:40] two months you know we were promised $5

[1:15:43] a month unlimited use they said well it

[1:15:45] doesn't say forever I said it doesn't

[1:15:47] say not forever that's what we were told

[1:15:48] when it sold to us I don't think anybody

[1:15:51] take it take you know interpretation we

[1:15:54] were told that they were trying amount

[1:15:56] of people to hook up and it was going to

[1:15:59] be that and then later the next batch of

[1:16:01] people it was different but every year

[1:16:03] the rates go up go up go up and you'all

[1:16:05] want to raise them again and I can't

[1:16:06] even get a lawn I can't even keep potted

[1:16:09] plants

[1:16:10] alive Matt that was EXC I just want to

[1:16:13] know uh in the original resolution

[1:16:16] adopted in 1991 it never provided that

[1:16:20] the rates would remain the same in fact

[1:16:22] that res resolution provides that the

[1:16:24] they would be adjusted and include spe

[1:16:26] language that specifically provided city

[1:16:28] council May establish or amend from Time

[1:16:31] toy the connection charges and rates for

[1:16:33] the alternative water supply so there's

[1:16:36] no we we've gone back and forth and

[1:16:38] there's no record that we have that

[1:16:41] that's that's a concern for the first

[1:16:43] people to hooked up I remember that way

[1:16:45] back cuz I got hook up that I was told

[1:16:47] the same

[1:16:48] thing we all told that it' be $5 and I

[1:16:52] was told by him that we would be getting

[1:16:54] a credit because I've got an email that

[1:16:55] I sent Mr Mr Furbish on February the

[1:16:59] 24th saying I did finally hear from Matt

[1:17:01] yesterday and they are going to issue

[1:17:03] our neighbors credit right and now and

[1:17:06] he told me he would let me know when it

[1:17:07] was coming up I haven't heard from you s

[1:17:09] we John I have reclaimed John I just

[1:17:12] want to say this we have to and I've

[1:17:13] experienced that before we have to be

[1:17:14] reliable on our system I mean I I know

[1:17:16] it's going to break down from time to

[1:17:17] time but we have to work on this and get

[1:17:19] it fixed I mean that's and I think Jack

[1:17:21] can come on but we took this whole issue

[1:17:24] and we presented it to the utilities

[1:17:26] Advisory Board which is comprised of

[1:17:28] citizens and others recommend and they

[1:17:31] unanimously uh voted to stay with our

[1:17:35] current policies which are again fairly

[1:17:37] consistent with what other

[1:17:38] municipalities are doing because I mean

[1:17:40] while we we certainly Endeavor to always

[1:17:42] uh provide reclaimed water there are

[1:17:45] instances and I think Jack cantic let's

[1:17:47] figure this thing out and get it

[1:17:48] reliable because I mean I used to get

[1:17:51] calls from other communities think it

[1:17:52] was our water that their their gray

[1:17:54] water or you know reuse was ours but

[1:17:57] wasn't but I don't want to be the one

[1:17:59] that breaks down all the time let's get comment on it PGE and all that

[1:18:04] I don't understand how you can say you

[1:18:06] don't you're not going to guarantee

[1:18:08] service that's like Florida p and light

[1:18:10] send you a $100 bill when you ain't got

[1:18:12] no electricity for a month I don't know

[1:18:15] why they do that but I can tell you this

[1:18:16] the system is a lot simpler it's like a

[1:18:18] series of pumps it's a whole different

[1:18:19] system do any of the people that's on

[1:18:21] this board living Pine Ridge can we let

[1:18:23] the utilities director explain why some

[1:18:25] of the Jackie Jackie how's work how do

[1:18:29] that system work at P that area yeah

[1:18:31] that or how old is it this is the system

[1:18:33] where uh and she's correct there was a

[1:18:35] there's a uh there's a a blowoff valve

[1:18:38] that's probably a quarter of a mile away

[1:18:40] and when we do have excess reclaim

[1:18:42] because we have to we we have to the

[1:18:44] reclaim system we have to balance the

[1:18:47] influent coming to the plant with what's

[1:18:49] going out so if not enough is coming in

[1:18:52] we have have to supplement using braco

[1:18:54] Pond and other and other ways to do that

[1:18:56] when it's dry and hot like it is right

[1:18:57] now we don't have enough to keep up we

[1:18:59] we're struggling and we're pulling stuff

[1:19:01] from the ponds to supplement that right

[1:19:02] now right when there's too much

[1:19:05] typically this time of the year it's

[1:19:06] usually a too much issue but this has

[1:19:08] been ex extremely dry you know August or

[1:19:10] July and August but when we have too

[1:19:13] much uh we have to we have to get rid of

[1:19:15] it we don't have so much storage so you

[1:19:17] know we try to encourage folks obviously

[1:19:19] to use that at that time we have other

[1:19:21] areas in other ways we can get rid of

[1:19:23] the reclaim so we but we It's A Real

[1:19:25] Fine Line whereas you know if you think

[1:19:28] about a I'm just going to use it as an

[1:19:29] example the general water system we

[1:19:32] balance the demands uh for for for

[1:19:34] portable water based on the need when

[1:19:37] people call for water we sense that in a

[1:19:39] pressure drop they make adjustments and we deliver water but I don't have

[1:19:43] necessarily the same uh flexibility

[1:19:46] because my source of reclaim comes from

[1:19:49] the effluent from from the waste side

[1:19:52] and so some days it's high some days

[1:19:54] it's low sometimes the call for demand

[1:19:56] is high sometimes the call for demand is

[1:19:58] really low and so those make really

[1:20:01] extra challenges in trying to keep

[1:20:02] steady state operations now since since

[1:20:05] this incident occurred we did install uh

[1:20:08] at our own you know at the expense of

[1:20:10] the utility we installed a sensor down

[1:20:11] there on that valve to make sure that we

[1:20:13] maintain pressure in that neighborhood

[1:20:15] so we have corrected that issue so we

[1:20:17] shouldn't have low pressures like we had

[1:20:20] like what she's describing what occurred

[1:20:22] uh back in I guess whenever that was

[1:20:24] when that occurred a month or two ago

[1:20:25] when this when this incident

[1:20:27] occurred okay but again I can't you know

[1:20:31] I can't I can't pre I can't promise

[1:20:33] pressure in the reclaim system as much

[1:20:34] as I can't necessarily you know promise

[1:20:37] pressure in the water system we do our

[1:20:38] best to try to balance those systems

[1:20:40] with the demands necessary for the for

[1:20:42] the portable water as well as for the

[1:20:43] reclaim uh and you know that that's the

[1:20:46] best we can do uh we we really do try

[1:20:48] hard and we do we do listen to the

[1:20:50] customers and when there's low pressure

[1:20:51] complaints or what complaint we send

[1:20:53] people out there to investigate and try

[1:20:54] to figure out what's going on and like

[1:20:56] in this case we thought that the blowing

[1:20:58] off of the water was creating the low pressure in that area right um

[1:21:03] Brenda Carrie do we have some openings

[1:21:06] on the utilities Advisory Board there

[1:21:08] are two regular and two alternate okay

[1:21:12] are they appointed from different

[1:21:14] districts or just Citywide Mrs Smith

[1:21:18] yeah I would really like you to consider

[1:21:21] joining our utilities Advisory Board and seeing if if maybe some of the

[1:21:25] issues you're having will help our

[1:21:27] utilities Advisory Board in some of

[1:21:29] their decisions they meet once a month

[1:21:31] uh we're always short I'm sorry they

[1:21:33] meet one every three months once every

[1:21:35] three months they're always we always

[1:21:37] need

[1:21:39] people please consider it you get to put

[1:21:42] your input in and your experiences may

[1:21:45] help our water department make better

[1:21:47] decisions well I just don't understand

[1:21:50] I'm not saying I'm not talking about

[1:21:52] from back in February I'm talking about

[1:21:54] today is Tuesday Saturday Sunday 2 three

[1:21:58] days ago still no water to my plants up

[1:22:01] by the house you know and you keep

[1:22:03] wanting to raise the rates no other

[1:22:05] nobody else is raising rates water in

[1:22:08] and Coco beach is cheaper than it is

[1:22:10] here that's not they have no they have

[1:22:14] no meter readings there I've got a I've

[1:22:15] got a water bill right here from a

[1:22:17] friend of mine that lives in Coco

[1:22:21] Beach we we appre apprciate coming out

[1:22:23] can you stay in contact with the city

[1:22:25] manager's

[1:22:26] office or Matt I do contact but he he

[1:22:30] told me he let me know about this

[1:22:31] meeting and nothing I contacted him when

[1:22:34] the garbage truck threw the Recycled in

[1:22:36] the regular garbage truck and dumped it

[1:22:37] with the rest of them he told me I'd

[1:22:39] hear back from him if that did indeed

[1:22:41] happen I wouldn't have emailed him if it

[1:22:43] hadn't indeed happened right you know

[1:22:45] he's basically questioning my character

[1:22:47] and I never heard nothing back from him

[1:22:49] on that either so I I I keep contacting

[1:22:52] on is getting where it's a full-time job

[1:22:54] here so let's make sure okay and yeah we

[1:22:57] can uh we can send a crew out and check

[1:22:59] the pressures that are house again to to

[1:23:01] ensure that you know you're receiving

[1:23:03] the proper pressure consistent with the

[1:23:05] rest of your neighbors um you know that

[1:23:08] the crew can determine if there's

[1:23:10] anything leading up to uh your meter um

[1:23:13] they can't they can't test within your

[1:23:16] system but uh they they can they can go

[1:23:18] on site again and determine if you're

[1:23:21] receiving the proper pressure

[1:23:23] one day out of seven doesn't keep my my

[1:23:25] grass or my plants

[1:23:28] alive I'm just saying consideration of

[1:23:31] raising the rates again we're not

[1:23:33] getting what we were promised for the

[1:23:34] rates we're paying thank you yep thank

[1:23:37] you thank you for

[1:23:39] coming thank you for being patient

[1:23:43] y uh Andrea

[1:23:51] Graham

[1:23:58] good evening hello my name is Andrea

[1:24:01] Graham I live at 520 Adobe Avenue in

[1:24:05] Coco

[1:24:06] Florida um I'm a resident and also I am

[1:24:09] a um business owner for 18 years and um

[1:24:13] I was coming here um on the behalf of

[1:24:16] the liquor store that they want to uh

[1:24:18] open up on

[1:24:20] Fisk and um

[1:24:23] the Bible says without a vision the

[1:24:25] people perish and if that's the vision

[1:24:28] that is going to be given unto us we are

[1:24:30] headed for Doom as a

[1:24:33] people um when you open up um liquor

[1:24:37] stores it tends to increase crime

[1:24:40] vandalism vehicle theft burglaries

[1:24:44] violence and

[1:24:46] drugs

[1:24:48] um there's a lot of stores already there

[1:24:51] on fist

[1:24:53] that are uh that sell

[1:24:55] alcohol there is the crazy horse that is

[1:24:58] on Lake Drive the ABC

[1:25:01] Liquor

[1:25:03] pinkies the

[1:25:05] 7-Eleven there's two convenience stores

[1:25:08] that's right there on um right next to

[1:25:11] the liquor store that wants to be built

[1:25:13] there they sell alcohol also that's six

[1:25:16] and there's also one on Peach Tree um

[1:25:21] that's right next to um the veteran

[1:25:23] Center and the living quarters that that is already there and also the

[1:25:29] battered women shelter um so that's

[1:25:32] seven liquor stores within that

[1:25:36] Community um I would like to see

[1:25:39] something that could be used for our

[1:25:41] community like a Learning Center a

[1:25:43] computer station uh with free Wi-Fi for

[1:25:48] people to be able to look for jobs for

[1:25:50] children to be able to have access to uh

[1:25:53] the computers that don't have them in

[1:25:55] their

[1:25:56] homes um for uh people can look up how

[1:26:00] to live better people can look up um how

[1:26:04] to raise their children and make a

[1:26:05] better community that would be something

[1:26:08] that we could use in our community

[1:26:10] besides another liquor

[1:26:13] store um where proposing that liquor

[1:26:16] store I'm sorry where are they proposing

[1:26:18] that liqu um they're trying to build it

[1:26:20] right on Fisk across from

[1:26:23] 800s um AC street right across the

[1:26:27] street

[1:26:28] right right right thought there was a

[1:26:30] church in that Plaza they made the

[1:26:32] church

[1:26:33] leave they evicted the church that had

[1:26:35] been there for 15

[1:26:38] years

[1:26:40] may may Mr Mayor

[1:26:51] May

[1:26:52] right I got a question Mr Man yes

[1:26:55] sir okay um what do Steve what's the

[1:26:58] rule with Steve belon I thought there

[1:27:00] has to be so many feet from a church

[1:27:02] door before you open up a liquor store

[1:27:04] that's what we thought too still a

[1:27:06] church can can can can can we may we

[1:27:09] please hear from Mr Beldon I mean I I

[1:27:13] feel your pain Steve it's still a church

[1:27:15] even it's vacated well if it's if it's

[1:27:17] not an active church it's vacated then wouldn't apply but this this came

[1:27:20] up before this came up last year this

[1:27:23] applicant to would go to the board of

[1:27:25] adjustment for a special exception

[1:27:27] approval at that time the board denied

[1:27:29] the

[1:27:30] application um and as a result of that

[1:27:32] denial the the property owner was

[1:27:35] required to wait another year before he

[1:27:37] could reapply so that is what he is

[1:27:39] doing again is he's

[1:27:40] reapplying uh that the year has now

[1:27:42] lapsed uh so that will again go to the

[1:27:45] board of adjustment I believe it's going

[1:27:46] to go next month um for them to hear the

[1:27:49] item for a special exception approval

[1:27:52] and the property owners will be notified

[1:27:54] again as they were last year of the uh

[1:27:56] proposed action Steve is that the

[1:27:59] property owners within 500 ft

[1:28:02] yes okay okay now let me ask a Qui go

[1:28:06] ahead Mr go ahead can I ask him a

[1:28:08] question sure yes sir all

[1:28:11] right Esquire gagan give me the ruling

[1:28:14] please sir if the board of adjustment

[1:28:16] makes one ruling can we supersede their

[1:28:19] ruling as a

[1:28:21] council

[1:28:22] because I know the quas judicial blah blah yeah I believe now that's

[1:28:28] right decision of the board of

[1:28:30] adjustment is subject to appeal to the

[1:28:32] city council so there is there is a

[1:28:35] procedure but the the board of

[1:28:36] adjustment will hear the matter uh first

[1:28:40] make a decision and then it'll be

[1:28:42] subject to appeal pursuant of the rules

[1:28:44] and procedure in the city code but who

[1:28:46] appeals well you know an interest

[1:28:49] interested party withstanding the

[1:28:50] applicant and um if an appeals filed you

[1:28:53] know we examine that issue it's and it's

[1:28:55] presented to the city council um you

[1:28:57] know for a

[1:28:59] hearing but what if the applicant is

[1:29:01] okay with the decision and it's the

[1:29:03] neighbors that aren't do they have

[1:29:04] standing to appeal to us on interested

[1:29:06] part it could be adversely affected okay

[1:29:09] by a decision assuming they you know can

[1:29:11] demonstrate standing would have the

[1:29:12] ability to appeal of the decision

[1:29:18] okay okay ma' I feel you're paying that

[1:29:20] then the audience but

[1:29:22] I think we want to make sure we hear

[1:29:23] from her I hear you yes ma'am and and

[1:29:25] there's no disrespect you so we can we

[1:29:27] can make a decision one voice please no

[1:29:29] we can over write it on appeal assuming

[1:29:33] there is appeal if there is no appeal

[1:29:35] then the decision of the board of

[1:29:36] adjustment is is deemed

[1:29:39] final okay okay and that's you that's

[1:29:42] the procedure okay so tonight is not the Forum in which you know for

[1:29:47] the council to consider any you know

[1:29:50] application uh for the particular

[1:29:53] project but we can listen certainly you

[1:29:56] can listen other the delegations but

[1:29:57] this again this is just not the form

[1:30:00] for decision we're for improving no I

[1:30:03] have a Fisk not making it like more of a

[1:30:07] patter EG you know what I mean we want I

[1:30:09] didn't I'm sorry said we want to improve

[1:30:11] Fisk correct

[1:30:13] okay that's all you need to know tonight

[1:30:15] okay okay and

[1:30:17] uh that's unfortunate thank you y thank

[1:30:21] you thank you ma'am Mr thank you Mr

[1:30:24] Mayor yes before we move on I have a

[1:30:26] question for Steve

[1:30:28] sure when the board of adjustment denied

[1:30:32] that application last time Steve do you

[1:30:34] remember what the the grounds for the

[1:30:36] denial were uh based on uh testimony

[1:30:39] from residents in the community and and

[1:30:41] some of what you're hearing tonight

[1:30:42] there was they felt that the impact of

[1:30:43] the community would have been negative

[1:30:46] and given the fact that there were there

[1:30:47] were similar uses in the neighborhood

[1:30:49] they they they kind of agreed with with

[1:30:51] the resents were saying that they felt

[1:30:53] uh that it would negatively impact the

[1:30:55] community so it wasn't based solely on

[1:30:58] the fact that there was a church that is

[1:31:00] correct and actually and I'm trying to

[1:31:02] pull up the code now but I believe the

[1:31:03] code states that regarding uh that

[1:31:06] distance requirement it does not apply

[1:31:08] to uh an establishment selling for

[1:31:10] off-site consumption only for on-site

[1:31:13] consumption so the neighbors need to

[1:31:16] make sure that they're at the board of

[1:31:17] adjustment meeting to oppose this again

[1:31:19] okay that is correct good okay all right thank you um alzer

[1:31:28] Morrison minute slow that's all right

[1:31:31] take your

[1:31:36] time I'm here my name is Al Morrison I

[1:31:39] live at 312 edin Drive I don't need the

[1:31:41] microphone I talk loud enough everybody

[1:31:43] know be and I'm here for the same reason

[1:31:46] that um Miss grah was just here about

[1:31:48] the liquor store that we don't want we

[1:31:52] will not have in this community okay um

[1:31:56] you can have your board of adjustments

[1:31:58] you can have this that we just don't

[1:31:59] want it like she said there plenty of

[1:32:01] places to sell beer and everything you

[1:32:04] you're moving the the I don't y'all got

[1:32:06] a grand plan that you're not tell us

[1:32:08] about obviously because you're moving

[1:32:11] the the fire station you're um letting

[1:32:13] these big um super uh gas stations come

[1:32:17] in here you've already blocked off you

[1:32:19] know um Magnolia Street and stuff I'm

[1:32:21] old school I I don't know what the new

[1:32:23] names is um magia Street you know what

[1:32:26] I'm talking about all uh the black

[1:32:28] community and everything it took y'all

[1:32:30] forever to bust them people at um provos

[1:32:34] that you can still go out there now no

[1:32:36] disrespect to y'all y'all can still go

[1:32:38] out there now and smell beer and

[1:32:40] marijuana if those people can get up

[1:32:42] that early in the morning and sit in the

[1:32:43] park they can get up and go to a job

[1:32:46] that's right so if I would love to see

[1:32:48] so I can bring my grandchildren to the

[1:32:49] park cuz I don't go IID love to see

[1:32:51] y'all you know ride up in there park

[1:32:54] your car get out and walk y'all know

[1:32:57] what they doing up there everybody knows

[1:32:59] what they're doing up there and that and

[1:33:01] instead of moving the fire station um it

[1:33:05] need it's been there since I was a kid

[1:33:07] and I'm 59 years old okay so it needs to

[1:33:10] be refurbished not

[1:33:11] moved okay you've built this big

[1:33:14] Plantation looking um City Hall y'all

[1:33:16] can do the fire station is going to do

[1:33:18] us a lot more good okay

[1:33:22] so no if there will not be any um liquor

[1:33:26] story you already talking about you

[1:33:28] blocked things off and talking about how

[1:33:30] bad things in in in that area they've

[1:33:32] had murders rapes robberies police chase

[1:33:35] going down F Boulevard doing 90 miles an

[1:33:38] hour chasing after people then you want

[1:33:39] to put a liquor store down what's next a

[1:33:41] Bell's bomber a gun

[1:33:44] shop you you turn it into the ghetto and

[1:33:46] then y'all gonna turn around and

[1:33:48] complain about the the um the crime in

[1:33:50] the area

[1:33:54] okay you can go down there any time of

[1:33:55] day and night and see them little boys

[1:33:57] with the pants halfway down there behind

[1:33:59] not doing nothing hey have a cop on foot

[1:34:02] walk around and talk to them I

[1:34:04] understand they have the right to stand

[1:34:06] on the street and everything but you

[1:34:08] know they ain't up to no good you cannot

[1:34:11] stand if they can stand out there they

[1:34:12] can go do a job somewhere like she said

[1:34:14] get a computer store or something of

[1:34:16] there anything but a liquor store really

[1:34:19] right next to a store that sells beer

[1:34:22] it's got it's got to be different oh I

[1:34:25] got 26

[1:34:28] seconds we it's got to be something else

[1:34:30] that y'all can do somebody had to

[1:34:32] approve it somebody can disapprove it

[1:34:34] okay all this parliamentary procedure

[1:34:36] you do what you want to do when you want

[1:34:38] to do

[1:34:39] it okay you do what you want to do when

[1:34:42] you want to do it so we're telling you

[1:34:44] as um taxpayers as um um voters and

[1:34:48] everything we don't want it there don't

[1:34:50] put it there okay I'm beat oh I'm

[1:34:53] beat can I say May thank you thank you

[1:34:57] very much Mr Mayor yes for she make

[1:35:01] accusations she doesn't know how I feel

[1:35:03] about that and I'm against the liquor

[1:35:06] store for the Record Man and I'm sure

[1:35:07] many of my cohorts here as well but

[1:35:09] we're here to talk to one another and

[1:35:11] not at each other please ma'am you can

[1:35:14] say however you want to put it but

[1:35:15] that's the way I express myself thank

[1:35:17] you yes ma'am and you're entitled to

[1:35:19] that but for the record I got you hold

[1:35:20] on thanks M Mor

[1:35:22] I am anti liquor store just for the

[1:35:24] record so now you can talk a little

[1:35:26] calmer please yeah I

[1:35:29] know okay good yeah we like that that's

[1:35:33] good John I just just so we're clear uh

[1:35:39] city council or the board of adjustment

[1:35:41] has not approved a liquor store a person

[1:35:44] that owns a piece of property has made

[1:35:47] an application to put a liquor store in

[1:35:49] there and the process as it was

[1:35:51] previously done and as already

[1:35:53] articulated by Steve it was denied last

[1:35:56] year every year they got a right to come

[1:35:58] before Place their application pay their

[1:36:00] pain pay their fee and go before the

[1:36:02] board of adjustment uh again it goes

[1:36:05] before the board of adjustment encourage

[1:36:07] all the neighbors to show up and express

[1:36:09] your concerns I think your concerns if

[1:36:11] you've attended either any the the

[1:36:14] community meetings the May's crime

[1:36:15] Summit uh the various workshops that

[1:36:17] we've had those are the exact same

[1:36:20] things that we've been sharing ing And

[1:36:22] discussing so I encourage you to show up

[1:36:24] at that board of adjustment meeting and

[1:36:26] let the members know your opinion on

[1:36:28] what you believe it will do and how it

[1:36:30] will adversely impact your

[1:36:32] community uh and then again as was

[1:36:35] articulated earlier is if for some

[1:36:38] reason the board of adjustment was to

[1:36:40] for whatever reasons uh determine that

[1:36:43] and approve that use any person like

[1:36:46] specifically the people that are have

[1:36:47] come up tonight would have the right to

[1:36:50] appeal to city council

[1:36:52] to overturn that decision in other words

[1:36:53] you to disagree with that decision so I

[1:36:56] just want to encourage you if you go to

[1:36:57] the board of adjustment and if for some

[1:36:59] reason they revers the opinion that they

[1:37:01] had previously because maybe different

[1:37:03] circumstances or facts are presented you

[1:37:05] still have the right to appeal and come

[1:37:08] back before this city council right here

[1:37:09] these five members uh to four uh to to

[1:37:15] address the issue or to address the

[1:37:17] decision of the board of adjustment

[1:37:19] nobody has approved the council has not

[1:37:20] approved Council was not even aware of

[1:37:22] to be quite honest I only found out

[1:37:24] about it earlier when I spoke to the uh our community services director

[1:37:31] so uh please I want attend the board of

[1:37:34] adjustment

[1:37:35] meeting because then that's when you can

[1:37:38] prevent everything right out the gate

[1:37:40] articulate Advocate your

[1:37:44] position okay y I'm not for it not for

[1:37:48] it all against it last time too y

[1:37:53] yeah coming later we're at 30 minutes

[1:37:55] again H you're at 30 minutes again Mr

[1:37:57] Mar Mr make a request we extend

[1:38:00] delegation how many cards do you have in

[1:38:01] your hand roughly Mr

[1:38:03] Mayor okay 10 minutes well if you got

[1:38:06] one we only have about one card yeah cuz

[1:38:08] all those are completed correct just one

[1:38:10] card yeah we got more cards here oh for

[1:38:12] how many more for agenda items all right

[1:38:14] those are for agenda item right one

[1:38:16] delegation three minutes it's about

[1:38:18] um I'm making four minutes just in case

[1:38:21] we have a little dialogue I make a

[1:38:23] motion we extend delegation for 4

[1:38:24] minutes please ma'am please sir time now

[1:38:27] is 7:30 so we saying 7:34 second all in

[1:38:30] favor I I any thank you all for coming

[1:38:34] okay next up is Kathy Hamilton

[1:38:42] Brown good evening good evening good

[1:38:44] evening um I'm here for the same thing

[1:38:48] but I'm not going to make a scene or

[1:38:50] anything thing the reason I'm here um I

[1:38:54] went to the hair store to buy some weed

[1:38:58] for my hair and I seen the guy that owns

[1:39:01] the store having kids to sign a petition

[1:39:04] to open up the liquor store that's the

[1:39:06] concern that I have when you trying to

[1:39:09] do mischievous things to get a liquor

[1:39:12] store in a place now I took some data

[1:39:15] and I just want to read it to you I'm

[1:39:17] not here

[1:39:18] to do anything but get some information

[1:39:22] um liquor Source are more likely to open

[1:39:24] in declining or low soci economic

[1:39:26] neighborhoods crime increases and Urban

[1:39:29] Decay um it causes uh Congregation of

[1:39:33] gains leading

[1:39:35] to uh uh violent crimes offenders such

[1:39:38] as drunken and drug addicts and more

[1:39:41] than likely alcohol stores

[1:39:45] were um attract kids so if a kid wants

[1:39:50] alcohol more than than likely they can

[1:39:51] get it whether they get it from adult or

[1:39:54] whether they get it from themselves cuz

[1:39:56] you know more than likely a lot of these

[1:39:58] stores do not ask for ID and that is my

[1:40:01] concern because I have children that

[1:40:04] stay in that neighborhood oh I'm sorry I

[1:40:06] forgot to get my address 306 Edinburg

[1:40:08] drive and I stay behind National Guard

[1:40:11] Army and um every day I pass F I see

[1:40:15] little kids on the street walking

[1:40:17] whether they hanging out walking to the

[1:40:19] store walking to a friend house and my

[1:40:22] concern is I do not want this drug well

[1:40:25] it is a drug stored in my neighborhood

[1:40:29] the children's neighborhood the

[1:40:30] community neighborhood and I want it to

[1:40:33] be something that can help not only

[1:40:36] adults but children we have a community

[1:40:38] school our Endeavor so we need to have

[1:40:41] something that can correlate with

[1:40:43] Endeavor to keep our community

[1:40:45] increasing and being better not only for

[1:40:49] us but for generations to come

[1:40:51] thank you thank you thank you for

[1:40:54] coming very

[1:40:57] nice okay that's it for the delegation

[1:41:00] portion we're going to go to consent

[1:41:02] motion to approve all in favor I I any

[1:41:08] opposed

[1:41:10] okay public

[1:41:16] hearing

[1:41:19] all yes this item is asking Council to

[1:41:22] approve a resolution to adopt Burton

[1:41:24] Associates FY 2017 utility rate study

[1:41:28] validating the implementation of a 5%

[1:41:31] increase to the water fir lines hydrant

[1:41:33] waste water and reclaimed water fixed

[1:41:35] monthly charges and utility rates

[1:41:37] effective October 1 2016 with an annual

[1:41:40] increase of 5% thereafter on October 1st

[1:41:43] for each fiscal year beginning October 1

[1:41:46] 2017 and provide for the update of the

[1:41:48] utilities handbook and the city code um

[1:41:51] and it's open we have uh Jack and myself

[1:41:54] here for any

[1:42:02] questions okay we're going to close this

[1:42:04] to the council and go to the public

[1:42:06] anybody like to speak on this public

[1:42:18] hearing okay I'm going close it to

[1:42:20] audience and bring it back to council

[1:42:22] how you want to handle this motion to

[1:42:25] approve second okay all in favor I I any

[1:42:30] opposed

[1:42:34] okay good to um Steve uh yes mayor this

[1:42:38] is a request to approve the following

[1:42:40] street closures uh this we have the walk

[1:42:42] to n Alzheimer's and the CH Central

[1:42:45] Church block party fundraiser in

[1:42:47] accordance with ordinance

[1:42:49] 2-2016 there are a maximum 24 street

[1:42:52] closure days permitted in the central

[1:42:54] business district per calendar year

[1:42:56] approval of the walk to and Alzheimer's

[1:42:58] is a one-day event that would bring the

[1:43:00] total to 20 days approved street

[1:43:03] closures the street closure request for

[1:43:05] the central Christ Church block party

[1:43:07] will not count towards the maximum 24 as

[1:43:10] this event is not located in

[1:43:12] CBD uh the 2016 Space Coast walk to went

[1:43:16] Alzheimer's is Friday September 16th

[1:43:19] 2016 from 12:00 p.m. to uh Saturday to

[1:43:23] September 17th at 2: p.m. for the for

[1:43:26] the actual walk uh the Harrison Street

[1:43:29] will be closed from 6:00 a.m. on

[1:43:31] September 17th to 2 p.m. and the uh

[1:43:35] Christ Church uh closure is October 29th

[1:43:39] 1: p.m. to 8:00 p.m. they will be

[1:43:41] closing Cina Drive between Michigan a uh

[1:43:44] to the edge of the of the church

[1:43:46] property for the requested special event

[1:43:49] would would that be Happ any question

[1:43:51] questions motion to approve second over here all in favor I any

[1:43:58] oppos okay very good

[1:44:02] Dave okay move to city um chair yep uh

[1:44:07] this item is uh asking Council to

[1:44:09] approve a resolution adjusting the FY

[1:44:11] 2016 budget to transfer funds from uh

[1:44:14] general fund contingency to hydrants for

[1:44:16] the unbudgeted fees of 125 additional

[1:44:19] hydrants uh that were Loc within the

[1:44:21] city of Coco this was due to updated GIS

[1:44:24] technology and it's not just in our city

[1:44:26] it's systemwide right so move okay

[1:44:30] second all in favor I I any opposed okay

[1:44:34] very

[1:44:35] good that's

[1:44:38] important okay

[1:44:42] [Music]

[1:44:43] Steve I think it's Terry again Terry

[1:44:46] again item number two yeah linary fire

[1:44:50] preliminary sorry yeah that's okay went

[1:44:52] down one more all right this item is

[1:44:54] asking Council to approve the

[1:44:55] preliminary assessment resolution for

[1:44:57] fire protest protection assessment for

[1:45:00] FY 2017 and we available for

[1:45:05] [Music]

[1:45:08] questions no questions yes questions

[1:45:11] motion approve second all in favor I any

[1:45:17] opposed all right Terry thank you m

[1:45:22] I pick on Steve okay Steve we picking on

[1:45:24] you yes sir uh this is a request to

[1:45:26] approve a resolution to vate vacate that

[1:45:29] portion of Stone Street rway located

[1:45:31] between US1 and the FEC Railroad on June

[1:45:35] 6 2016 C received a RightWay vacation

[1:45:39] application from biscaya Coco Holdings

[1:45:43] LLC uh located in Miami Florida

[1:45:45] requesting the city vacate that portion

[1:45:47] of stone stone Street as mentioned uh

[1:45:49] the application was deemed complete no

[1:45:52] objections were received by any City

[1:45:54] Department this includes police and fire

[1:45:57] uh and also no objections from any any

[1:45:59] public or commercial utility in the area

[1:46:02] the city's utility department did

[1:46:04] provide comment indicating that there is

[1:46:07] an existing water line on the north side

[1:46:09] of the rideway and sanitary sewer line

[1:46:11] on the south side of ride of way uh that

[1:46:13] would have to be relocated with an

[1:46:14] easement dedicated to the city uh the

[1:46:17] applicant has indicated that there is a

[1:46:19] potential cumber Farm convenience store

[1:46:21] considering locating at the property

[1:46:23] adjacent to ston Street RightWay and the

[1:46:25] applicant has provided a preliminary

[1:46:27] sketch of the uh potential site plan uh

[1:46:31] with the application which is in your

[1:46:32] packet as well and I do want to mention

[1:46:34] uh include for the record uh regarding

[1:46:37] the uh the closure there were going back

[1:46:40] to 2008 a couple of correspondences that

[1:46:43] I think are are important to mention uh

[1:46:45] regarding the closure um back in March

[1:46:48] 28th 2008 there was a

[1:46:52] correspondence uh from uh Florida uh

[1:46:55] East Coast rail to the uh Florida

[1:46:57] Department of Transportation and in that

[1:46:59] letter they indicated that and I'm going

[1:47:01] to just read it that this letter will

[1:47:02] confirm Florida East Coast Railways

[1:47:06] opposition to the reopening of the

[1:47:07] closed Stone Street grade crossing in

[1:47:09] coko the crossing is redundant and

[1:47:12] unnecessary additionally because of the

[1:47:14] proximity to State Road 520 the

[1:47:17] existence of another Crossing creates

[1:47:19] significant maintenance problem for FEC

[1:47:22] uh moreover fec's long-term capacity

[1:47:24] plans contemplate additional

[1:47:25] infrastructure in this area which is

[1:47:27] incompatible with the

[1:47:29] crossing and additionally from the

[1:47:31] Florida Department of

[1:47:33] Transportation uh to at the time mayor

[1:47:36] uh Michael Blake on November 7 2008 uh

[1:47:40] Florida Department of Transportation

[1:47:42] indicated at that time i' I would like

[1:47:45] to confirm the Florida Department of

[1:47:47] transportation's position regarding uh

[1:47:50] regarding to Stone Street rail uh cross

[1:47:53] enclosure uh after the workshop held on

[1:47:56] March 18 2008 FEC sent me a letter

[1:47:59] confirming their opposition to reopening

[1:48:01] the Stone Street crossing in coko in

[1:48:03] order for f to reopen The Crossing it

[1:48:06] would require approval from both the

[1:48:07] city of Coco and the FC until both

[1:48:11] parties agree to open the crossing the

[1:48:13] crossing will be remain closed uh noran

[1:48:16] Downs District 5

[1:48:18] secretary with the that back turn it

[1:48:20] back to May Council for

[1:48:22] questions Miss

[1:48:25] Warner who Steve who closed the crossing

[1:48:28] at Stone Street and do you remember when

[1:48:31] it was closed I know it's been many many

[1:48:33] years joh John yeah um back in let say

[1:48:39] 2004 right well actually in 2002

[1:48:42] representatives of the

[1:48:44] FC or uh actually yeah 2002 Florida East

[1:48:47] Coast rail Florida e East Coast rail

[1:48:50] they were going up and down the line and

[1:48:52] they were looking and I believe it was

[1:48:54] related to the F uh the Federal Railroad

[1:48:56] closure act for and they were going up

[1:48:58] and down the line to look at which

[1:49:00] stations no longer met the criteria for

[1:49:02] being opened and they indicated at that

[1:49:05] time it was a multi-purpose meeting I

[1:49:07] happened to

[1:49:08] attend

[1:49:10] um and they had there's a couple issues

[1:49:14] that were presented but as it relates to

[1:49:16] Stone Street is because of the proximity

[1:49:18] there were some accidents and fat ities

[1:49:20] and for like this was in 2002 so it was

[1:49:23] around 95 to 98 I think their data was

[1:49:27] and so then in 2000 in March of 2003 we

[1:49:32] received uh they have filed an

[1:49:35] application with fdot to close the

[1:49:39] crossing um and so from that point in

[1:49:43] 2003 going all the way up to beginning

[1:49:47] probably I'm looking here in January on

[1:49:49] January 27th 44 city council the then

[1:49:53] city council discussed the matter and

[1:49:55] there was a series of meetings held

[1:49:57] between uh FD the Florida Department of

[1:50:00] Transportation

[1:50:01] FC uh the former public works director

[1:50:05] uh then councilwoman Deputy Mayor

[1:50:07] Collins uh Alberta W Wilson representing

[1:50:10] the Cent

[1:50:12] pacp and and they what would had come

[1:50:14] out of that is because they closed the

[1:50:16] thing is they negotiated a stipulated

[1:50:18] settlement agreement because the The

[1:50:20] Crossing had been closed and they had

[1:50:24] negotiated a settlement just say we

[1:50:26] didn't close the crossing no we did not

[1:50:28] close the crossing the clossing crossing

[1:50:30] was closed by FEC when they filed for FD

[1:50:33] and they met the criteria for the

[1:50:35] closing okay so it was negotiated to

[1:50:38] reopen it at the city's expense I think

[1:50:40] it was

[1:50:42] $63,000 and a and that would only be

[1:50:45] open for four

[1:50:46] years uh or three years 3 months because

[1:50:50] it was signed the stipulated settlement

[1:50:52] agreement was signed on September 3rd of

[1:50:56] 2004 well fast forward their three the

[1:50:59] three-year grace period to give the

[1:51:01] community time to adjust to Turning if

[1:51:04] you want to access US1 turning left on

[1:51:07] Washington then right on State Road 520

[1:51:09] or going you know South on Washington to

[1:51:12] Rosel Jones and then out to US1 they did it on and then October 2007 I

[1:51:19] know

[1:51:20] my next door neighbor here in the Das

[1:51:22] remembers this they just upand closed it

[1:51:24] in the middle of the night for lack of a

[1:51:26] better term they just up and closed it

[1:51:28] because they'd met their agreement they kept it open for three years uh the

[1:51:33] council the mayor and council at the

[1:51:34] time requested uh we sent a letter both

[1:51:37] to fdot the the actual secretary uh

[1:51:41] who's the current Secretary no no

[1:51:43] different one sorry the fdot secretary

[1:51:46] and also at FEC and requesting a

[1:51:49] community meeting at which uh FD showed

[1:51:52] up but

[1:51:53] FEC uh through an email or actually

[1:51:56] through a voice message refused to

[1:51:58] attend because the last time they they

[1:52:01] just didn't like the way you

[1:52:04] know concerns or opinions were being

[1:52:07] voiced and they felt they were attacked

[1:52:09] so they said they they refused to attend

[1:52:11] any further meetings they have a

[1:52:13] stipulated settlement agreement I spoke

[1:52:15] personally with Jan borderline with the

[1:52:17] rail safety coordinator and she spoke to

[1:52:19] fd's general counsel and they're of the

[1:52:22] opinion this city has a legal agreement

[1:52:25] between FD and FEC that a prior Council

[1:52:29] adopted and absent FEC agreeing to

[1:52:34] opening the crossing their fdot is not

[1:52:37] going to even process the application if

[1:52:39] you look at their flowchart it won't

[1:52:41] even make it past the viability you know

[1:52:43] decision point so uh and FEC has not you

[1:52:46] know uh not to be confused with all

[1:52:48] board florid and right Lin L but FBC has

[1:52:51] indicated it's not willing to uh uh open

[1:52:55] it they won't even again they wouldn't

[1:52:57] even show up at the meeting there was a

[1:52:58] subsequent meeting held in after that

[1:53:00] October meeting I think Steve referred

[1:53:03] to it in March of '08 John I think I

[1:53:05] think they going to need us if they if

[1:53:07] they pick a station you know what I'm

[1:53:09] saying well they want to if they want to

[1:53:12] run the uh the rail through

[1:53:14] here no actually they don't sir to be

[1:53:17] quite honest they have the right away

[1:53:19] right they've got the right away yeah

[1:53:21] their railroad doesn't cross our roads cross their that's right

[1:53:25] railroad track so it just uh that's the

[1:53:29] and I know we we can't take a fresh look

[1:53:31] atoun Blake what about a fresh

[1:53:33] negotiation with them they're I'm just

[1:53:35] going to tell you so there is no

[1:53:37] negotiation with them FC is older than

[1:53:39] the State of Florida FC was here before

[1:53:41] the State of Florida when Florida was a

[1:53:43] territory FBC was was

[1:53:47] 1880 don't allow this right they um hold

[1:53:51] on hold on one second they were here

[1:53:52] first is that yeah and that's is that's

[1:53:55] their attitude they were here first well

[1:53:57] it just I mean their job is to run rail

[1:54:00] efficiently efficiently move transport

[1:54:03] Goods C you know products without

[1:54:06] interference and the ability to get that

[1:54:08] done in the most efficient and safe

[1:54:09] manner how do they pick that road the

[1:54:11] reason why they picked Stone Street

[1:54:12] because it was located three I mean in their application it was less than

[1:54:16] 300 ft from a major crossing State Road

[1:54:19] 5 20 and there had been accidents and

[1:54:22] fatalities there uh and based on their

[1:54:26] application uh and then if you look at

[1:54:29] the criteria that set forth in the uh

[1:54:32] the basis that the state looks at in

[1:54:34] terms of safety necessity for Rail and

[1:54:37] vehicle traffic uh alternate routes uh

[1:54:40] design of grade crossing road approaches

[1:54:42] and then presence of multiple tracks uh

[1:54:44] and their effect upon Rail and Highway

[1:54:46] operations so those are the criteria by

[1:54:49] which they evaluate it and they met that

[1:54:51] criteria with fdot so if they met the

[1:54:54] criteria and we've had this discussion

[1:54:55] before actually back when councilman

[1:54:57] Blake was mayor we working with one of

[1:54:59] our Consultants had them preliminarily

[1:55:02] look at you know is there an opportunity

[1:55:04] for us to file file our own application

[1:55:08] the one Fe fdot said unless you get

[1:55:10] fec's you know agreement to open the

[1:55:13] crossing of which they have are they

[1:55:15] have communicated as early as late as

[1:55:18] 2010 back when the Amtrak station was

[1:55:20] considering in coming here they've

[1:55:23] communicated So within the last six

[1:55:25] years I mean the Crossing's been closed

[1:55:27] nine years so they have communicated

[1:55:29] they are not interested and then the

[1:55:31] other thing is we would still have the

[1:55:32] burden of proof of trying to overcome

[1:55:34] the data the FBC has already

[1:55:37] demonstrated the necessity for the

[1:55:39] closing that's the

[1:55:40] challenge all right public

[1:55:43] participant we're we're going to do it

[1:55:45] right now um Mr

[1:55:48] Mohammad he's got a card too he's got a

[1:55:51] card come on up you're up I have a card

[1:55:53] too you're coming to everybody L under

[1:55:57] agenda

[1:55:58] yeah you're

[1:56:01] covered this is just one

[1:56:05] frustrating uh I believe it was was it

[1:56:08] Mr Warner that asked who closed

[1:56:10] to well the way name name an address oh

[1:56:13] Oliver muhammd

[1:56:15] 2640 um I got a new address I forgot my

[1:56:18] address Mercury Mercury Drive

[1:56:22] um the way Mr Tanish described it was

[1:56:26] close but not the

[1:56:28] way we see it we saw it as far as far as

[1:56:34] the city of Coco's

[1:56:36] participation in this whole Affair you

[1:56:39] see first of all the city of Coco closed

[1:56:43] that Crossing down ever so often for

[1:56:48] maintenance this time time when they

[1:56:49] closed it for maintenance when the time

[1:56:52] for maintenance was up it stayed

[1:56:56] closed and we found out later

[1:57:00] by uh researching the communications

[1:57:04] back and forth that the reason why they

[1:57:07] didn't uh they they were not on time

[1:57:10] with with with opening opening it back

[1:57:13] up after the maintenance period is

[1:57:15] because they didn't want to open it

[1:57:19] up

[1:57:21] again so when he said that when when Mr

[1:57:25] Tan says that the city of Coco didn't

[1:57:27] have anything to do with it based on the

[1:57:31] communications that we read that went on

[1:57:33] between the city of Coco under uh Mr

[1:57:38] Tan's leadership at that

[1:57:40] time they actually

[1:57:43] invited the railroad to come and look at

[1:57:46] this station the rail he it is true that

[1:57:49] during that time FEC was actively

[1:57:53] aggressively looking for stations that

[1:57:56] they could close because they wanted to

[1:57:58] reduce some expenses like other

[1:58:02] businesses but they

[1:58:03] didn't they didn't come to this spot

[1:58:06] until they were invited to this spot and

[1:58:09] I guess after being in invited here it

[1:58:12] probably looked attractive to them and

[1:58:15] then the process what for closure uh

[1:58:18] began

[1:58:21] but see our point is that the

[1:58:24] citizens in that Community wanted that

[1:58:28] street to stay

[1:58:29] open and and we felt that the city

[1:58:34] betrayed

[1:58:35] us because they wanted that Street

[1:58:38] closed

[1:58:40] then for the same reason they are being

[1:58:44] opportunistic now at the closure and

[1:58:48] that is they wanted that

[1:58:52] Frontage because at that time it was it

[1:58:54] was not a convenience store it was a

[1:58:58] drugstore that they wanted to put out

[1:59:00] there and it all tied nicely together

[1:59:05] but somehow the business the the deal

[1:59:07] with the drugstore fell through but the

[1:59:11] point the point is it was initiated by

[1:59:14] the city of

[1:59:16] Coco and they betrayed our community

[1:59:19] this street is a good Street there was

[1:59:22] no legitimate reason to close that

[1:59:24] street and even after closure the next

[1:59:29] Council promised us they was going to do

[1:59:32] everything that they could to get it

[1:59:34] open again because opening it was

[1:59:37] possible but they didn't follow through

[1:59:39] on their promise like they never follow

[1:59:42] through on their promise M mam thank you

[1:59:43] I'm sorry at time we I hear you loud and

[1:59:47] clear um pervette your

[1:59:52] next yeah I did I just what happened

[1:59:56] yeah I just I just want to I mean I

[2:00:00] think

[2:00:01] it's this and I'll pass this down this

[2:00:04] is a letter from FBC April 23rd 2002 it

[2:00:08] is addressed to me I would like to thank

[2:00:10] you and the other departments with the

[2:00:11] city for giving your time to meet with

[2:00:13] Mr shander and me on April 15 2002 as I

[2:00:16] stated in our telephone conversation in

[2:00:17] the meeting my goal is to visit all

[2:00:19] local municipalities the railway goes

[2:00:21] through within the year uh and they they

[2:00:24] and they go in talking about how their plans and it dis does go on to

[2:00:28] discuss Stone Street the city did not

[2:00:29] initiate any communication with FC Mr

[2:00:32] stone with FC came to the city and then

[2:00:35] in October 2007 it

[2:00:38] was uh in October 2007 it was Council

[2:00:43] that directed staff and Council

[2:00:45] contacted you know with the mayor's

[2:00:47] leadership the then mayor leadership

[2:00:49] ship to seek to reopen it and then in

[2:00:52] here's the letter in 2003 where FD

[2:00:55] saying that they were contacted by FC so

[2:00:57] it just I think the record needs to be

[2:00:59] accurately reflected and the city did

[2:01:01] not initiate application or any activity

[2:01:05] to close Stone Street it's just not the

[2:01:08] record does not reflect that okay I'm

[2:01:12] pervet Bryant a property owner at 365

[2:01:14] 373 Stone Street for the record I oppose

[2:01:19] uh the closing of stone street from the

[2:01:21] railroad to the US one and um the

[2:01:25] placing of a Cumberland Farms across

[2:01:27] that area or any other uh store to seal

[2:01:30] off that community and I agree

[2:01:32] wholeheartedly with everything Mr

[2:01:34] Muhammad said because it's true uh many

[2:01:37] of you were in the fdot meeting that we

[2:01:40] had and an fdot official stood publicly

[2:01:44] and stated that the city of coko asked

[2:01:47] them to close that Crossing and if we

[2:01:51] had a court reporter in that meeting we

[2:01:53] would have that verbage for the record

[2:01:55] he stood himself Florida Department of

[2:01:58] Transportation official and stated that

[2:02:00] the city of coko asked them to close

[2:02:02] that Crossing so now we're asking you to

[2:02:06] do everything you can to reopen it do

[2:02:08] everything you can to keep that street

[2:02:11] open and viable for our community do not

[2:02:14] close it off to someone who turns their

[2:02:16] back to us will not allow access for the

[2:02:19] people to even access a store but keep

[2:02:22] it open so families and communities can

[2:02:25] have freeway through our a diamond

[2:02:27] Square on to downtown we need you to do

[2:02:30] whatever is possible I just read an

[2:02:32] article where a city after a Crossing

[2:02:35] was closed for 15 years a railroad

[2:02:38] crossing was closed for 15 years and a

[2:02:41] city just got it reopened with the

[2:02:43] Pacific Railroad you can Google it Ozark

[2:02:47] versus Pacific Railroad all it takes is

[2:02:50] persistence all it takes is a heart for

[2:02:53] your community and a love for the people

[2:02:55] to do what is right and I ask you

[2:02:57] tonight to do what is right and keep

[2:02:59] Stone Street open if you need outside

[2:03:02] help to uh uh talk to the FC or whoever

[2:03:06] we're here to help you we know folks to

[2:03:08] help you but do like the Ozark Pacific

[2:03:12] case that city did everything it could

[2:03:14] for 15 years and finally a judge ruled

[2:03:18] that that Crossing was to be reopened

[2:03:20] for the benefit of that Community thank

[2:03:22] you pette thank

[2:03:25] you very good all right um Janie

[2:03:31] Bryant Janie Mrs Janie Bryant yeah Miss

[2:03:34] Janie

[2:03:39] Bryant she covered them both under deleg

[2:03:41] oh you did both okay yes ma'am thank you

[2:03:45] uh Max

[2:03:47] Kaiser

[2:03:52] okay I come forward with next guys I'm

[2:03:53] attorney Christopher broom my law practi

[2:03:56] is uh primary address is 915 South

[2:03:58] Washington Avenue this is Mr Max Kaiser

[2:04:01] to my left he is the manager and

[2:04:03] authorized representative of biscaya

[2:04:05] Coco Holdings limited liability company

[2:04:07] an active Florida limited liab liability

[2:04:09] company his other member of the company

[2:04:12] Mr Pablo campasano is also in the off

[2:04:15] audience as

[2:04:16] well we've uh filed this RightWay

[2:04:19] application uh vacation application to

[2:04:22] vacate this approximately 70 by 150 160

[2:04:25] stretch of Stone Street so that my

[2:04:27] clients can develop the property I think

[2:04:30] there's some issue that there's a

[2:04:31] Cumberland Farms that's going there

[2:04:33] that's not what this is about tonight

[2:04:36] we're simply requesting that the part of

[2:04:38] Stone Street that is being vacated would

[2:04:41] be vacated my clients haven't entered

[2:04:44] into an agreement that there's a

[2:04:45] Cumberland Farms or anything

[2:04:47] else unfortunately Ely both as an

[2:04:50] attorney a former council member for the

[2:04:52] city of Titusville and a retired Marine

[2:04:54] Corps Lieutenant Colonel I understand

[2:04:57] that there are situations where

[2:04:59] decisions are made and the public

[2:05:01] doesn't like it there is an expression

[2:05:03] called done is done and done is done in

[2:05:06] the sense that Florida e Coast railroad

[2:05:08] has spoken and they've said to this

[2:05:11] Council and to the citizens of the city

[2:05:14] they're not reopening that access not

[2:05:16] going to happen and a council you have

[2:05:19] to weigh your fiduciary responsibility

[2:05:23] to your citizens do we kick against the

[2:05:26] gos and wound ourselves by spending more

[2:05:29] money and more time fighting with

[2:05:30] Florida East Coast railroad or do we

[2:05:33] assist the current situation and the

[2:05:36] current business owners and citizens on

[2:05:38] the ground and that's your duty is an

[2:05:42] obligation is to those citizens those

[2:05:44] business owners those land owners who

[2:05:46] are taxpayers who are participant ANS in

[2:05:49] the city who are saying we would like to

[2:05:51] vacate this road so that we can develop

[2:05:54] this property in the audience tonight is

[2:05:56] also uh the other property owner Miss

[2:05:58] Crum and her attorney Mr Tim pickles who

[2:06:01] have also consented to the vacation of

[2:06:03] this Stone Street right away my clients

[2:06:06] had nothing to do with Florida East

[2:06:08] Coast railroad uh they can't influence

[2:06:11] them this has nothing to do with them

[2:06:13] this has everything to do with them

[2:06:15] developing this piece of property and

[2:06:17] unfortunately they can't develop it

[2:06:19] unless that portion of Stone Street

[2:06:21] right away is vacated my clients are

[2:06:24] concerned that there are do not trespass

[2:06:27] signs all around that Florida East Coast

[2:06:30] railroad crossing and it appears that

[2:06:33] people may be

[2:06:34] encouraging citizens of this city to

[2:06:37] violate the law by saying let's just

[2:06:39] cross over it you can't do that we all

[2:06:42] are bound by the law we all are bound to

[2:06:46] uh to abide by the law and my clients

[2:06:48] are doing that they've had no objections

[2:06:50] from any of the agencies that they've

[2:06:52] been required to obtain consent from and

[2:06:55] they want to be good citizens of the

[2:06:57] city they want to develop a good project

[2:06:59] that's going to benefit the council and

[2:07:01] the citizens of the Coco so if you had

[2:07:04] any questions they're available well

[2:07:06] that's the time okay time's up I

[2:07:08] appreciate you coming thank you I have a

[2:07:10] question Mr Mayor yes sir in the event

[2:07:12] that Mr Kaiser M croman I'm sorry sorry

[2:07:15] I didn't get your last name sir compano

[2:07:17] yes sir Mr compano yes if you all if

[2:07:20] things happen in your behalf are you

[2:07:22] willing to be good hospitable neighbors

[2:07:24] are you willing to invest in that

[2:07:26] Community are you willing to invest not

[2:07:28] only um Jolie Smith Park but Emma

[2:07:32] Jewel um I'm not sure where that is Sir

[2:07:35] but yes we' be that immediate area and

[2:07:37] the business in that immediate area sure

[2:07:41] yes we have your word on that yes you do

[2:07:43] okay well my uh client also informed me

[2:07:46] Mr Kaiser his uncle is in your sister

[2:07:48] city is that right yeah coincidentally

[2:07:51] yeah I have an uncle that lives in B

[2:07:53] sheemish Israel which is funny of

[2:07:55] coincidence that's pretty fun yeah okay

[2:07:57] well thank you shalom shalom thank

[2:08:02] you all right George

[2:08:12] Brown good evening Council uh I've been

[2:08:16] very patient tonight I missed out on the

[2:08:18] allegation somehow I had stuff to say on

[2:08:21] that didn't see in there excuse me I

[2:08:25] didn't see your card your C you got the

[2:08:27] card in front of you right now don't you

[2:08:29] yeah it says uh this this item not

[2:08:32] delegation now it's delegations too

[2:08:35] there was something on parking parking I

[2:08:37] had uh questions on down on Oak Street

[2:08:41] and all you can bring it up okay I'll

[2:08:45] bring up the parking first then okay on

[2:08:48] Oak Street and uh Derby Street and all

[2:08:52] those streets they put all no parking

[2:08:54] down there now there's a lot of places

[2:08:57] down there hard to put a car in there to

[2:09:00] let somebody off or put somebody on or

[2:09:03] put um groceries in the house and then

[2:09:06] out again with all those no parking

[2:09:09] signs is it

[2:09:12] legal to park there say five minutes to

[2:09:16] load and unload and go again

[2:09:21] uh who we have that major Austin yeah

[2:09:25] what what does he mean by get recycle

[2:09:27] come back around no I'm talking about if

[2:09:30] you let let somebody off and then you

[2:09:32] pick you wait maybe putting out

[2:09:35] groceries into the home and then back

[2:09:37] again within five minutes in other words

[2:09:40] instead of changing the signs to saying

[2:09:42] 5 minute load unload just leave the

[2:09:45] signs but have a deal there that the

[2:09:47] police came by by and Senor there more

[2:09:49] than 5 minutes they ticket

[2:09:52] you the main the main unload area for

[2:09:55] shipping is near Bank of America oh no

[2:09:58] we're talking talking Oak residential

[2:10:01] area and Riverside this has been an on and off

[2:10:06] topic quite a while uh there have been

[2:10:10] no parking signs there they were removed

[2:10:12] at one point they were added and I'm

[2:10:14] sure Ed could probably speak to that

[2:10:15] yeah he just wants to know if if you're

[2:10:17] going to give him a ticket if he just

[2:10:18] that's all I want if there are no if

[2:10:20] there's no parking signs you park with

[2:10:21] the traffic and the streets are wide

[2:10:24] enough for cars to go around they were

[2:10:26] designed for that he's just talking

[2:10:28] about like stopping letting somebody off

[2:10:30] unloading groceries you know not leaving

[2:10:33] your vehicle and I don't foresee us

[2:10:36] issuing any kind of citations for that

[2:10:38] okay thank you okay second

[2:10:42] thing the blocking of the

[2:10:46] 520 where Washington comes out is a real

[2:10:49] problem these people when they get in

[2:10:52] these vehicles turn into monsters I

[2:10:55] don't know what's wrong with them you

[2:10:56] meet them in a store and they're nice

[2:10:57] folks they get in a car and they're

[2:10:59] terrible and I see what they want to do

[2:11:02] with each other cuz I can watch them

[2:11:04] sitting there or working in my car and I

[2:11:06] think it's terrible now I did get the

[2:11:08] signs up there I'm the one that

[2:11:10] petitioned took me two years to get

[2:11:12] those signs up there that says do not

[2:11:15] block uh intersection right now I tell

[2:11:18] you what also I asked for put the

[2:11:21] statute below it that says Define

[2:11:25] that'll maybe get them thinking a little

[2:11:27] more and then the white line on the road

[2:11:30] that says hey this is probably where you

[2:11:32] should stop you know you don't have to

[2:11:34] put stop or just a white line and

[2:11:38] they'll look at it and I guarantee you

[2:11:41] more of them will think about it now the

[2:11:44] other thing I want to say is please close this street because you got

[2:11:52] all these little pieces of property

[2:11:54] there that could be utilized it's a mess

[2:11:57] there they don't pick up they don't cut

[2:11:59] the grass the trees are overgrown it's a

[2:12:02] mess great in our beautiful new street

[2:12:05] that comes on through us one is all

[2:12:07] gorgeous now now I know a lot of the

[2:12:10] folks say we trying to get the community

[2:12:13] to walk the church and go this way and

[2:12:16] you got to go over the railroad track

[2:12:18] there and that is no trespassing it's no

[2:12:22] trespassing you're not supposed to walk

[2:12:24] over those tracks unless you're at an

[2:12:26] area now you got 520 which is got all

[2:12:29] sidewalks you can go to it's only like

[2:12:32] 200 ft away runs parallel with with

[2:12:35] stone you got a beautiful Street I know

[2:12:37] it I live

[2:12:39] there and they could close that street

[2:12:42] and get something in that corner cuz the

[2:12:44] corner is terrible looking terrible

[2:12:49] and we get something nice in there that utilizes all that property right

[2:12:53] down to the Mighty Muffler Shop the

[2:12:55] whole Corner wipe it all out put

[2:12:57] something nice clean new and it would be

[2:13:01] functional it would be a little I'm sure

[2:13:04] some sort of corner store or something

[2:13:06] that has to do with the community but we

[2:13:08] should close it now get it

[2:13:11] done and uh the other thing is when

[2:13:15] people walk across that track and then

[2:13:18] walk across us one there's no crosswalk

[2:13:21] there they they're going by the uh going

[2:13:24] over the medium and all and when you're

[2:13:27] driving down us one you don't see

[2:13:29] somebody standing behind those little

[2:13:30] bushes of trees you can run right over

[2:13:33] them I've already had that many of times

[2:13:35] especially in the evening so people

[2:13:37] should not be walking this way they

[2:13:39] should be walking in the intersection

[2:13:42] and Crossing with the light thank you

[2:13:44] very much thank you okay

[2:13:50] um Chris broom hey Chris you're up again

[2:13:54] you want me back up well I got one for

[2:13:56] Pablo and

[2:13:59] you

[2:14:01] did okay Pablo's up okay Chris you're

[2:14:05] going to relinquish your time right yes

[2:14:08] okay hi how are you hello thank you for

[2:14:11] being here um I just wanted to reach out

[2:14:13] to the community uh introduce myself uh

[2:14:17] we really had nothing to do with the

[2:14:20] issue like our attorney said you know

[2:14:22] about when this street was closed uh on

[2:14:24] the other hand you know we've we've

[2:14:26] expressed that the reason why we want to

[2:14:28] do this development is because we

[2:14:30] believe in Coco you know we believe in

[2:14:32] Coco when when when I drive up and down

[2:14:35] us one I see some some businesses

[2:14:37] closing some you know some you know the

[2:14:39] city needs needs money we want to we we want to bring you know additional tax

[2:14:44] revenues we want to beautify the the

[2:14:47] corner like like like like he was saying

[2:14:49] um you know we we definitely I heard

[2:14:52] someone opposing a bail bonds and a in a

[2:14:54] smoke shop that's what's there to that's

[2:14:56] what what's there now we we you know we

[2:14:58] want to take that out bring something

[2:15:00] beautiful um if it is Cumberland Farms

[2:15:03] cuz it's not it's not it's not certain

[2:15:05] yet uh we still have to you know work on

[2:15:08] that it'll it'll be something beautiful

[2:15:10] it you know that that intersection is

[2:15:11] one of the major intersections in the in in in the city and we believe that

[2:15:15] you know it has to be beautiful and

[2:15:17] that's what we that's what we uh you

[2:15:19] know expect to do so that's really what

[2:15:22] I wanted to tell you thank you so much

[2:15:24] okay thank

[2:15:28] you okay Timothy

[2:15:36] pickles of course name and address of

[2:15:38] course tent pickles um actually new

[2:15:40] business owner in Coco 353 Bard Avenue

[2:15:43] go um I represent Miss Crum as uh Chris

[2:15:47] broom said

[2:15:48] um again reiterating a bit what

[2:15:51] everybody was saying we weren't around

[2:15:52] for this for the closure or the the

[2:15:54] blocking of the Road by FEC having I'm a

[2:15:58] board certified real estate lawyer I've

[2:15:59] been practicing in this County for 21

[2:16:01] years have dealt with FEC quite a bit

[2:16:03] and when FEC digs their heels in there's no change in their mind it's

[2:16:07] just not going to happen so the question

[2:16:08] for the city is are we going to provide

[2:16:10] you know continue with the status quo um

[2:16:13] property as is are we going to try to go

[2:16:15] through and beat our heads against the

[2:16:17] wall and try to get them to reopen it um

[2:16:19] that's certainly your prerogative um I

[2:16:21] think it would be a waste of time and

[2:16:22] money um and in addition um just to put

[2:16:25] a local ownership on Miss Crum has been

[2:16:27] a resident and business owner in this city for many many years lost her

[2:16:32] husband last year um and she's ready to

[2:16:35] um quit being a landlord and so she has

[2:16:38] agreed to sell the property to the the

[2:16:40] applicants um and she's in full

[2:16:43] agreement that the the the Stone Street

[2:16:44] be closed the biggest reason or the

[2:16:47] biggest legal reason reason why I think

[2:16:48] you ought to approve this Mr kid canich

[2:16:51] mentioned it um when he was talking

[2:16:52] about the

[2:16:53] agreement regardless of what the

[2:16:55] agreement was in the stipulated three

[2:16:57] years um which is long since passed um

[2:17:00] FEC in 2002 apparently met Do's criteria

[2:17:03] for closure and and if you look at it

[2:17:05] from a grand scheme of things that that road is way too close to 520 to

[2:17:11] ever be reopened even if well I guess if

[2:17:14] FBC asked for it it's possible but the

[2:17:16] way that they're structuring it's almost

[2:17:18] it's really the way D is operating as

[2:17:20] well with limited access highways it's

[2:17:22] almost the same same thought process so

[2:17:25] holding on to hope that there may

[2:17:27] sometime in the future be a reopening I

[2:17:29] think is shortsighted um I think it

[2:17:31] would be a again a waste of the city's

[2:17:33] uh assets and a waste of time um this

[2:17:36] development is going to have to meet all

[2:17:38] City standards with regard to uh

[2:17:41] drainage access everything um it would

[2:17:44] freshen up that corner which my

[2:17:46] understanding 520 in US1 is if it's not

[2:17:48] the busiest it's the two top two or

[2:17:50] three busiest in the county as far as

[2:17:52] traffic so as far as entrance into the

[2:17:54] city as far as a view of the city um it

[2:17:57] would really create a a much a much more

[2:18:00] aesthetically pleasing area um with

[2:18:02] regard to the the residents again

[2:18:04] they're they're not technically

[2:18:05] permitted to cross that as it is now um

[2:18:08] and they wouldn't be in lesson until FEC

[2:18:10] comes around and I the likelihood again

[2:18:12] of that happening Visa the city being

[2:18:15] able to obtain additional tax revenue um

[2:18:18] we just ask for your support in thank

[2:18:19] you closing thank you very

[2:18:22] much Jane

[2:18:26] Stone Jane Stone Jan Jan Jan I'm sorry

[2:18:32] Jan Jane

[2:18:33] Jan M Jan stone

[2:18:37] m your name and address please Jan Stone

[2:18:41] 516 King Street coko Florida I'm a

[2:18:45] resident and owner of Stone Funeral home

[2:18:48] my business is 93 years old and I'm here

[2:18:52] to discuss the closing of Stone Street

[2:18:56] back in

[2:18:58] 2002 when Rudy Stone was a council

[2:19:01] person the Fe met with my husband and a

[2:19:06] concerned group regarding the closing of

[2:19:09] Stone Street he was in uh the FEC

[2:19:12] representative said the city council and

[2:19:16] the City of Coco

[2:19:18] were responsible for the closing of the

[2:19:20] street you have not listened to your

[2:19:23] residents to your taxpayers and to the

[2:19:26] people of the diamond

[2:19:27] Square Miss Bryant indicated that there

[2:19:30] was

[2:19:32] a group that got a street open and I

[2:19:36] believe it would be in the best interest

[2:19:38] of the city of coko to check this out

[2:19:44] review the situation and make sure

[2:19:48] that Stone Street is

[2:19:50] reopened we need your support you need

[2:19:54] us as Citizens and taxpayers and the

[2:19:57] time is

[2:19:59] now we the issue was that Stone Street

[2:20:03] was closed because of the traffic

[2:20:05] situation but if the Cumberland Farms

[2:20:07] are placed there then how would that

[2:20:10] improve the

[2:20:12] traffic so you are compounding the

[2:20:15] situation you're not listening to your

[2:20:18] citizens and your voters and I am asking

[2:20:21] that you change your position but the

[2:20:24] FEC infatic

[2:20:26] stated that it was the city of coko and

[2:20:30] the city council who wanted that Street

[2:20:32] closed there was the NAACP

[2:20:35] representatives and the concerned

[2:20:37] citizens and if that's not so we need

[2:20:41] you to prove

[2:20:43] otherwise the other thing that I'd like

[2:20:45] to address is the moving of of the fire

[2:20:49] trck from Fisk Boulevard to another

[2:20:54] community and again we believe that's a

[2:20:58] mistake we need our own fire station in

[2:21:01] our community to take care of us thank

[2:21:04] you Jen thank

[2:21:09] you Mike

[2:21:16] Shaw

[2:21:31] Mike how you doing good how are you good

[2:21:34] how are you all yeah Mike sha I'm a

[2:21:39] businessman in coko for 36 years I

[2:21:43] started my business in

[2:21:46] 1980 and hey Mike what's your address

[2:21:49] just what's your address is uh five

[2:21:53] north cocard yeah that's good okay and

[2:21:56] uh I would like to say this I mean I'm

[2:21:59] hearing the lot of residents here and

[2:22:02] they all are interested in opening

[2:22:06] up the street Stone Street yes right now

[2:22:11] it is

[2:22:13] closed if everybody tries I think one

[2:22:16] day this Street can be

[2:22:18] open but if you are going to go ahead

[2:22:21] and V at it this street can never be

[2:22:24] open so why not we try to keep this

[2:22:29] street right now as it is but try to

[2:22:32] keep it open sometime down the road if

[2:22:35] everybody tries it can happen my

[2:22:37] concerns are I mean right

[2:22:41] now this US1 and 520 is a very busy

[2:22:46] Junction

[2:22:48] and we are going to have a business

[2:22:51] there and from us one from looking at

[2:22:55] the side plan looks like a 60 to 70 ft

[2:23:00] down there's a entrance in the lot I

[2:23:03] mean how is it going to work busy

[2:23:05] traffic moving on us one it is a

[2:23:07] definitely a safety haard I do not see I

[2:23:11] have not seen that somebody from the

[2:23:13] busy Junction like this will have a

[2:23:16] entrance 60 to 70 ft away from that

[2:23:19] Junction how is it possible and again

[2:23:22] there would be a entrance also from 520

[2:23:27] busy road like that this thing is not

[2:23:30] possible I would like to see that the it

[2:23:33] is denied and I would request that it

[2:23:36] should be denied thank

[2:23:38] you thank you

[2:23:42] Mike uh last card is uh Pam

[2:23:45] hooks you don't

[2:23:53] hello Pam hello name your address Pamela

[2:23:56] shell hooks 723 Carissa Avenue Coco

[2:23:59] Florida I sat back and listened as long

[2:24:03] as I could I'm an educator with Bard

[2:24:06] Public Schools I've been an educator

[2:24:08] here for more than 25 years and I could

[2:24:12] only just sit back and think at how much

[2:24:15] the school board made makes decisions

[2:24:18] for the schools but none of them are

[2:24:20] teachers or have been teachers they

[2:24:23] don't sit in the classrooms they don't

[2:24:25] know what we need am I correct Mr yes

[2:24:29] you are M so tonight I feel like the

[2:24:33] council is backing and making decisions

[2:24:37] for the diamond Square Community the

[2:24:41] black community and none of you live

[2:24:45] there most of you don't drive through so

[2:24:49] you really don't know what we need Mr

[2:24:52] Blake asked the two perspective uh

[2:24:55] business owners if they were going to

[2:24:57] support different things in the black

[2:25:00] community I could see the gentleman's

[2:25:02] face when he walked off because he

[2:25:04] doesn't know what you're talking about

[2:25:06] when you speak of Emma Jewel and Julie

[2:25:08] Smith Park so he's not familiar with the

[2:25:11] area another concern that I have is we

[2:25:15] stand here we start our meetings

[2:25:19] reciting the

[2:25:20] pledge one nation under God our money

[2:25:24] says In God We Trust we start our

[2:25:27] meetings off with prayer but where is

[2:25:30] your faith we have people standing here

[2:25:33] saying um no matter how much you

[2:25:35] petition Department of Transportation

[2:25:38] the road will not be open I think you're

[2:25:40] wasting your time I wouldn't go down

[2:25:43] that lane where's your faith City

[2:25:46] Council you do your work and allow God

[2:25:49] to do the

[2:25:51] rest very

[2:25:53] good Fam thank

[2:25:57] you okay that was the last card um

[2:26:00] Brenda's here let you laugh yeah okay we're going to move into this

[2:26:06] anybody like to say anything Mr BL uh

[2:26:08] yes sir Mr Mayor um first of all I'm an

[2:26:11] approval of the recommendation stated by

[2:26:13] count um excuse me staff to approve the

[2:26:16] request to vacate the portion of Stone

[2:26:18] Street right away located between US1

[2:26:21] and the FEC because I'm looking at the

[2:26:23] future and the future means that we're

[2:26:25] covering this area that's going to

[2:26:26] enhance our tax base but not only that

[2:26:29] provide a way of revenue for our local

[2:26:32] businesses located in that area yes I

[2:26:35] know people do not like change yes I've

[2:26:38] had uh constituents talk to me about

[2:26:41] this I have even had Squad Moore talk to

[2:26:44] me about this in reference of the

[2:26:46] independent petroleum owners and their

[2:26:48] concerns but what I'm looking at is at

[2:26:50] the grand scheme of things I think it

[2:26:53] this will enhance that area it will

[2:26:55] enhance that intersection so on that

[2:26:57] note sir and ma'ams I would like to move

[2:27:00] to approve the request to vacate that

[2:27:02] portion of Stone Street right away I've

[2:27:05] collaborated with Mr uh Steve Belding in

[2:27:08] conjunction with the partners of of this

[2:27:11] company out of Miami I've talked to

[2:27:13] Esquire broom too as well and I think in

[2:27:17] the end in the long run that this area

[2:27:20] will be developed and enhance that

[2:27:23] location and aesthetically please the

[2:27:25] eyes of the downtown Coco area which is

[2:27:29] heavily traveled which is also populated

[2:27:32] there as you alluded to earlier there's

[2:27:36] no crossing right there at Stone Street

[2:27:39] there they cut it off if you walk across

[2:27:41] the railroad tracks you be issued a

[2:27:45] citation so so clearly FEC has not has

[2:27:49] no plan and no desire we fought that

[2:27:51] battle and I can guarantee you they're

[2:27:54] not going to open it so on that I base

[2:27:56] my faith if they're not going to open it

[2:27:59] then I think we should move forward and

[2:28:00] I've made my motion and I'll second that

[2:28:06] motion okay um all in favor

[2:28:11] I any against no but it fails 3 to one

[2:28:16] okay

[2:28:18] uh Mr Kaiser Mr Crome and Mr Pablo

[2:28:22] passes right right it passes 31 it

[2:28:24] passes I expect you gentlemen and I know

[2:28:28] it's tough but I expect you to come with

[2:28:30] an olive

[2:28:31] branch to collaborate with that area of

[2:28:36] the businesses and the community it's

[2:28:38] also a pivotal part in the diamond

[2:28:41] Square community so I have your word and

[2:28:44] oath serves yes you do thank you sir

[2:28:49] thank

[2:28:52] you he okay we move the next we move on

[2:28:56] here you might want let leave yeah

[2:29:01] May hey I H your KN

[2:29:04] sorry I'm not going to do

[2:29:08] that

[2:29:15] leh oh

[2:29:21] 8:30 my

[2:29:26] bad okay chair

[2:29:29] ready uh this item is uh item number

[2:29:31] four and it's asking Council to approve

[2:29:34] the cost allocation study provided by

[2:29:36] Burton and Associates by which the cost

[2:29:38] of services provided by the general fund

[2:29:40] is calculated and charged annually to

[2:29:43] both the water sewer fund and the storm

[2:29:44] water fund I'm avable I'm sorry Mrs but

[2:29:48] forgive me forgive me second all in

[2:29:50] favor sorry I

[2:29:53] anyos

[2:29:55] okay here thank

[2:29:57] [Music]

[2:30:01] you okay

[2:30:04] so Ed yes sir uh this is item five uh

[2:30:10] we're requesting approval to enter into

[2:30:12] a Cooperative agreement with goods and

[2:30:14] Paving DBA w WG utilizing Bard County

[2:30:18] bid b14 b41 15-2 in the amount of

[2:30:25] $2,348 80 for repair and reconstruction

[2:30:28] of sidewalks curb ada8 ramps and

[2:30:31] sidewalks as it relates to

[2:30:32] reconstruction of FIS Boulevard uh

[2:30:35] project number PW pave uh this would be

[2:30:38] a transfer from uh uh general fund

[2:30:42] reserves to allow us to do that uh

[2:30:45] project on fist Boulevard

[2:30:47] so move second all in favor I I any

[2:30:51] opposed okay good and thank you thank

[2:30:54] you got six it's

[2:30:57] um fire chief Mr Mayor item six 16- 354

[2:31:03] approve a resolution amending the fy16

[2:31:06] budget using general fund contingency to

[2:31:08] cover overages due to firefighter Le

[2:31:11] vacancies come Mo second all in favor I

[2:31:17] he opposed

[2:31:19] okay thanks

[2:31:21] Chief all right Jim thanks for hanging

[2:31:24] out

[2:31:26] um Mr Barfield want to come up and speak

[2:31:29] on this

[2:31:34] one do you want staff to present it

[2:31:36] makes you makes you feel any better this

[2:31:37] is nothing try a n and a half hour me

[2:31:39] just say

[2:31:40] it it's not like I'm sorry man how we

[2:31:44] roll around it's good it's good Mr Mayor

[2:31:46] councilman councilwoman uh city

[2:31:49] manager the staff thanks for having me

[2:31:52] here I really appreciate everything the

[2:31:54] city of Coco does in our district I'm

[2:31:56] the Jim Barfield County Commissioner for

[2:31:59] district 2 and currently the chairman of

[2:32:01] County Commission first and foremost

[2:32:04] though my condolences and my prayers go

[2:32:06] to Y all and to your community an

[2:32:09] amazing leader that that we lost

[2:32:11] Saturday yeah and uh Tyler was he's done

[2:32:15] a lot he's done a lot for this County a

[2:32:17] lot as y all know a lot of things for

[2:32:19] the Veterans Memorial center and it's

[2:32:22] just it's just a major loss for this

[2:32:24] area it's a loss and uh but our prayers

[2:32:27] go with you and go with the whole

[2:32:28] Community too the reason I'm here today

[2:32:31] though is uh to speak about the IND

[2:32:34] River Lagoon as you know we have an

[2:32:36] interlocal agreement that we put

[2:32:38] together as in March we had the major

[2:32:41] fish kill indicating again our in River

[2:32:44] Lagoon is very sick

[2:32:46] and it's going to take a lot of money to

[2:32:48] fix it and the fact is we're not getting

[2:32:52] it a sustainable amount of Revenue

[2:32:54] coming in from the state we do get some

[2:32:55] money and it's well used and well

[2:32:58] appreciated but we need a long-term plan

[2:33:01] so in April I uh spoke with our County

[2:33:04] attorneys and came up I want to know

[2:33:06] what a funding source we could do a

[2:33:08] sustainable source as a

[2:33:10] county and it came back and it could be

[2:33:12] either a uh a property tax or at the

[2:33:15] time and half cent sales tax was

[2:33:18] probably not going to be able to work

[2:33:19] because of some infrastructure uh

[2:33:23] definitions anyway going further we did

[2:33:26] decide we could do the half cent sales

[2:33:27] tax because of there's a precedent set

[2:33:29] between our comprehensive plan and a

[2:33:31] whole lot of other things that came in

[2:33:32] place we have an opinion on

[2:33:34] that so I I pushed it forward to bring

[2:33:36] it to the County Commission to put this

[2:33:39] on a ballot and let the voters decide

[2:33:42] and uh in order to do that we had to

[2:33:45] have a comprehensive plan we had to have

[2:33:46] an oversight committee established and a

[2:33:49] whole lot of other procedures in place

[2:33:50] and we have all that so two weeks ago it

[2:33:54] passed passed the County Commission to

[2:33:56] put it on but we have to get R

[2:33:58] ratification from the

[2:34:00] cities and now it's um that's why I'm

[2:34:04] here see if y'all will support the

[2:34:06] county in this endeavor it is a major change and the way we do things

[2:34:11] the most important thing is this is

[2:34:14] going to be about $34 million a year

[2:34:16] over 10 years $340 million that's a lot

[2:34:20] of money but what's important about this

[2:34:22] is this money can be used as matching

[2:34:24] funds with state and federal

[2:34:26] dollars and that shows this passes if

[2:34:31] this passes which I if it does it's

[2:34:32] going to pass probably say 75% of the

[2:34:35] voters it put makes a message to to

[2:34:37] Tallahassee that hey the people in this

[2:34:39] community care about our Indian River

[2:34:42] and you guys aren't helping us enough so

[2:34:44] we're going to do this on our own and

[2:34:45] week expect you to come and help us and

[2:34:48] that's the statement to be made and uh

[2:34:50] so with that I just want to ask that

[2:34:52] yall you know approve this it shows a

[2:34:55] lot to the I know the federal side for

[2:34:58] Absolut grants if you got skin the game

[2:35:01] it is and that's the whole point skin in

[2:35:02] the game a plan a solid plan and you

[2:35:05] have skin in a game we can go for this

[2:35:07] and that's what we're doing and this is

[2:35:09] going you know if we pass this this is

[2:35:10] going to the the voters I that's all it

[2:35:13] says this is go to the voters because

[2:35:15] something like this is something voters

[2:35:16] need to decide that's very personal and

[2:35:18] that's something that the voters need to

[2:35:19] decide Mr Mar can I say something sure uh thank you Mr commissioner for

[2:35:23] leading this B I was ecstatic about the

[2:35:26] see was a 50 vote even one of your

[2:35:29] members I'm not going to identify that

[2:35:31] person supported this even a blind Acorn

[2:35:34] can find a squir hole every now and then

[2:35:36] I'm not going toou that sir maybe it

[2:35:38] should be the other way but the point

[2:35:40] that I'm saying to you is that everyone

[2:35:43] pays into this even individuals that

[2:35:45] come and visit our community our cities

[2:35:47] were buy to this and they were PID

[2:35:50] through a tax the thing that I'm saying

[2:35:52] the river did not get this way by itself

[2:35:56] it needs to be healed it needs

[2:35:58] revitalization the RS reuse recycle and

[2:36:01] there's a number of ways we can

[2:36:04] improve this and it's just like you all

[2:36:06] just stated May and yourself we have

[2:36:08] skin in this game because my

[2:36:10] grandparents used to go out here and

[2:36:11] fish our councilman Dr Jolie Smith

[2:36:14] mothers uh come out there with my

[2:36:17] grandmother and fish and and and and

[2:36:19] scrape the side for the oysters oh yeah

[2:36:21] so now we're going to put our money

[2:36:24] where our mouth is at we're putting what

[2:36:26] we believe in more so than anything else

[2:36:29] revitalization of our River and I

[2:36:31] support and my kids are ecstatic cuz I

[2:36:34] was there with my blue shirt love our

[2:36:36] Lagoon representing our city uh there

[2:36:39] and it was a great time and I had a

[2:36:40] wonderful time educationally speaking

[2:36:42] and we've all been to seminars and

[2:36:44] symposiums where we talked about the

[2:36:46] Lagoon so I I salute you Jim just

[2:36:49] remember at the end of the day when they

[2:36:51] blame it on everything you know it's

[2:36:55] when they poured all the when they

[2:36:56] poured all the causeways in and put the

[2:36:58] bridges in the federal government right

[2:37:01] that that stopped a lot of the flow and

[2:37:02] the old-timers and most of them just

[2:37:04] about gone Henry I'll tell you this I've

[2:37:07] been in office a little over a year a

[2:37:09] little over a year year and a half and

[2:37:10] fish kill happened it's all my fault I

[2:37:12] figure that out hey you know what this

[2:37:15] is

[2:37:16] has one and it's a catastrophe and they

[2:37:18] had another one but we had one last

[2:37:20] weekend out here yeah I know oh yeah and

[2:37:22] even even the uh uh the Rays you skates

[2:37:26] or whatever it's bad when they when

[2:37:28] they're dying well the point is that we

[2:37:30] can't wait any longer if we we could

[2:37:32] sting we could wait longer and hope to

[2:37:34] get Amendment $1 but we haven't yet so

[2:37:36] what makes us think we're going to get

[2:37:38] that so the only way for us to do is

[2:37:39] control our own destiny and that's it

[2:37:41] and we we all know one thing government

[2:37:43] will let you down unless you unless you

[2:37:45] bear down on them exactly especially the

[2:37:47] top end any questions great job no and

[2:37:51] we're gonna no thank you very much for

[2:37:53] coming hold on first for a second Steve

[2:37:55] you want to say

[2:37:56] anything Matt or Matt Matt you're doing

[2:37:59] I'd like to read the item sure uh item

[2:38:02] number seven uh for your consideration

[2:38:04] two and half hours I can wait more I'm

[2:38:06] used to it okay is to consider an

[2:38:07] interlocal agreement with Bard County

[2:38:09] Florida to determine the distribution of

[2:38:12] the revenues derived from the half-cent

[2:38:13] discretionary infrastructure sales act

[2:38:16] consistent with the Savar Lagoon

[2:38:19] plan within within that plan there are a

[2:38:22] number of uh items that uh would impact

[2:38:26] the city of Coco uh to include uh the

[2:38:29] fertilizer management plan increased uh

[2:38:33] public notice uh for that and and

[2:38:35] support uh oyster Reef lining the

[2:38:38] shorelines uh septic system uh

[2:38:42] conversions uh specifically along Indian

[2:38:45] and River Drive uh storm water projects

[2:38:49] uh mck

[2:38:50] removal and then

[2:38:52] uh out outside of the city of Coco also

[2:38:56] uh looking at the wastewater treatment

[2:38:58] facilities and uh septic system

[2:39:01] upgrades okay so move second all in

[2:39:05] favor I I any opposed thank you good

[2:39:09] thank you again get it done Jim get it

[2:39:12] done thank

[2:39:14] you

[2:39:16] all

[2:39:18] right can't lose going to the voters I

[2:39:21] mean that's just it's good you

[2:39:23] know all right so going to

[2:39:28] Ed yes sir uh multi-year contract item

[2:39:32] is uh we're requesting approval uh for

[2:39:35] the city manager to execute documents

[2:39:37] necessary to uh uh execute our St John's

[2:39:41] River Water Management District cost

[2:39:43] share funding we have uh

[2:39:46] two projects so we were awarded funding

[2:39:50] for factory street and for a baffle box

[2:39:54] at Church Street so move okay God bless

[2:39:58] you so second second you got me car all

[2:40:02] in favor I I any oppos thanks thank you

[2:40:08] good job all right anybody in the in the

[2:40:11] audience from an Advisory board or

[2:40:13] committee that would like to speak

[2:40:16] yeah can miss C come

[2:40:19] up yeah this is what you wanted to speak

[2:40:22] about earlier that's

[2:40:25] fine uh but on the the storm water

[2:40:28] drains uh we have this infrastructure

[2:40:31] and there's Orlando has been painting

[2:40:35] these so I was thinking about the great

[2:40:38] program we put together with the uh Coco

[2:40:41] Village artworks and wondering if there

[2:40:44] was some sort of

[2:40:46] partnership that could be put together

[2:40:48] between the two I know you have storm

[2:40:50] water probably do some storm water

[2:40:52] education and ignite the community

[2:40:55] behind that so that when you're actually

[2:40:57] looking at with somewhat mundane

[2:40:59] infrastructure you start to think about

[2:41:02] where the water's

[2:41:04] going we can look at that yeah so yeah

[2:41:08] let me thank you thanks Lor than thank

[2:41:13] you thank you you

[2:41:16] okay and Cat Med's gone right yeah's

[2:41:20] gone okay B time all right that's good C

[2:41:24] Adra Ed will go with you

[2:41:27] again us one's done can I tell you that

[2:41:29] us one's on I told you an all this

[2:41:33] man that's you called it there's over

[2:41:35] 20,000 new plants out there wow U

[2:41:39] believe it or not there's a lot of thank

[2:41:41] Sam out there lot a lot of compliments

[2:41:43] it's three and a half years a heck y lot

[2:41:48] of yeah it I didn't do that no doot did

[2:41:53] we didn't need but it it it turned out

[2:41:55] and uh we will be maintaining the

[2:41:57] medians and uh getting to reclaim water

[2:42:00] and it's uh it's quite a project it sure

[2:42:03] is thank you we have another project

[2:42:05] starting up FIS Boulevard that you all

[2:42:08] approved we will be uh rebuilding the

[2:42:11] road the road is

[2:42:13] basically uh built over oil

[2:42:16] dirt not typical Lime Rock so we'll be

[2:42:19] going and grinding it up they should

[2:42:22] start that uh as early as next week wow

[2:42:25] so uh there'll be some dust and some

[2:42:29] concrete they'll be replacing and we'll

[2:42:32] end up with the new road a new striping

[2:42:34] and uh our idea is to stripe it with the

[2:42:37] bicycle Lanes to tie into the other part

[2:42:40] of

[2:42:41] bouard

[2:42:43] okay that's it well I'm EX excited I

[2:42:45] like to see just the what you guys you

[2:42:49] know drawn up you know as far as the re

[2:42:52] the redo you got sidewalks right the the

[2:42:55] sidewalks are there the sidewalks will

[2:42:57] be repaired uh the ramps will be

[2:43:00] upgraded adaa good some of those

[2:43:02] drainage basins will be closed up and

[2:43:05] made more like a curb inlet yeah and U

[2:43:08] to look good we're also piping the ditch

[2:43:11] in front of uh the apartment building

[2:43:14] just south the crust view okay trying to

[2:43:17] think of what it's called Clear Pond

[2:43:19] yeah it's Clear Pond now Clear Pond

[2:43:22] we're going to pipe that little piece of

[2:43:23] dit yeah okay that it that's it I say

[2:43:28] they're still work on the bridge they're

[2:43:29] still doing that okay Terry no report

[2:43:34] okay thank you Eric no report okay no

[2:43:39] report man okay good thank you no

[2:43:42] report Jack yes sir I have one item uh

[2:43:45] we have a uh a new employee I'd like to

[2:43:48] introduce who's here tonight uh it's the

[2:43:50] new deputy director of the utilities

[2:43:51] department her name is Katie Anis and

[2:43:53] she's here with us tonight welcome K

[2:43:56] welcome welcome to Coco

[2:43:59] hey where where you from um I formerly

[2:44:03] uh worked at the city of Palm Bay for

[2:44:04] about eight years I left there as their

[2:44:06] assistant director for utilities and

[2:44:08] then I was up in Pennsylvania for a year

[2:44:10] and a half working on a bridge

[2:44:11] replacement project with the state and

[2:44:13] uh my husband and I found some opport

[2:44:15] back in Florida Miss missar County and

[2:44:18] great welcome back and um to to the best

[2:44:21] city how about that that's right tell

[2:44:25] again mayor welcome yeah the best city

[2:44:27] right thank you that's all I had sir hey

[2:44:31] ja great Tammy um no report I just

[2:44:36] wanted to remind all of y'all if you

[2:44:37] want to make any changes to your benefit

[2:44:39] elections our open enrollment period is

[2:44:41] closing for this year so these are

[2:44:43] changes for the next fiscal year

[2:44:45] starting October 1 so if any of you are

[2:44:47] interested make contact with human

[2:44:49] resources or

[2:44:50] myself okay thank

[2:44:53] you no report okay um here we

[2:44:58] go oh super attorney just one

[2:45:02] item this switch just one item pleased

[2:45:05] to report that on Thursday judge Maxwell

[2:45:08] um issued in order validating the fire

[2:45:10] assessment bonds so that gives us the

[2:45:12] green light to proceed with um with the

[2:45:15] loan to fund the uh three fire

[2:45:18] stations okay Mr Tan gave excellent

[2:45:21] testimony in that hearing did you have a

[2:45:24] shovel with you

[2:45:28] sir okay I know one good job that's my

[2:45:31] report okay thank you esire um assistant

[2:45:35] city manager I do have a question just

[2:45:38] before you get going yeah go ahead do we

[2:45:40] have any luck with the lowering the

[2:45:41] flags um actually provide you update on

[2:45:45] that but I'll I'll jump right to it uh

[2:45:46] we did submit an application to the

[2:45:49] state uh it it's to the governor but

[2:45:52] it's routed through the office of the

[2:45:53] general counsel uh they reviewed the

[2:45:56] request um and uh per their policy uh

[2:46:03] Municipal council members do not fall

[2:46:06] within and so they are going to send us

[2:46:09] a a letter uh where they've declined but

[2:46:13] at the same time they did inform me that

[2:46:16] uh if we were to go out and do it they

[2:46:18] weren't necessarily going to come and

[2:46:20] thank you investigate and so right the

[2:46:24] plan is revenue yeah right and this man

[2:46:29] served our country God right here so uh

[2:46:35] we are we are looking at doing it uh

[2:46:36] Friday to Wednesday that'll get us

[2:46:39] through the weekend and through the

[2:46:40] internment uh next Wednesday and uh we

[2:46:44] encourage all residents uh do the same

[2:46:47] to do the same and uh uh we can also uh

[2:46:50] send the information uh to the county

[2:46:54] and if they're willing County Manager

[2:46:56] try to call me I'm going to ask I'm

[2:46:57] going to lean on a little bit at least

[2:46:58] do the

[2:46:59] county yeah okay let's do it okay and uh

[2:47:05] also uh tomorrow night I'll be attending

[2:47:08] uh an event at the Florida solar energy

[2:47:10] center right uh it's being hosted by FL

[2:47:14] sun or uh Florida solar United

[2:47:16] neighborhoods and they're going to have

[2:47:18] a panel of experts that are going to

[2:47:19] discuss uh Pace financing and other ways

[2:47:24] uh you know the community can form a

[2:47:27] Consortium to bring buying power for

[2:47:31] solar panels within the city uh both for

[2:47:33] residential and Commercial uh so I'll be

[2:47:35] attending that Line's gone you like that

[2:47:38] yeah that should and then also uh Sunday

[2:47:43] at 2 p.m. at CoCo High Stadium uh the

[2:47:46] coko high Tigers I believe they are

[2:47:48] taking on a team from Jacksonville and

[2:47:52] uh this is one you can stay at home and

[2:47:55] watch because it's going to be on ESPN 2

[2:47:58] uh they would like uh attendance in the

[2:48:00] stands so if you can make it to the game

[2:48:03] please show your support I'm

[2:48:05] going that's all I have okay thank you

[2:48:08] real quick Jim hey on the flag can you

[2:48:11] uh say something to Stockton would you

[2:48:13] ask him I did already today what' he

[2:48:17] say working

[2:48:20] okay

[2:48:21] God we're doing it so

[2:48:25] okay ask for forgiveness later that's

[2:48:27] right for forgiveness that's right I

[2:48:30] just don't think that's right I

[2:48:32] think when Carl passed away and um uh

[2:48:36] what's the South the South

[2:48:40] um oh my gosh car Bey car Bey yeah car

[2:48:44] we lower them then can we all lower them

[2:48:46] we didn't we didn't they didn't ask

[2:48:49] usow for

[2:48:52] that hey ask man if they say no we I

[2:48:55] know what we're doing okay

[2:48:57] soate bab you welcome to

[2:49:01] our Mr city

[2:49:03] manager uh you all were distributed a

[2:49:07] resolution and I think you're discussing

[2:49:09] it

[2:49:10] oops you were distributed a

[2:49:13] resolution uh related to our United Way

[2:49:16] uh fundraisers that we have and um in

[2:49:20] speaking with the city attorney if we

[2:49:23] just get consensus from you all that would provide us sufficient enough

[2:49:29] authority to V any want well they

[2:49:33] actually the resolution can they still

[2:49:34] can they they they they could ort as

[2:49:37] long they can vote on the resolution I

[2:49:39] know it's we usually don't do that on

[2:49:40] the reports but we were able to get the

[2:49:42] resolution okay unfortunately I olizee

[2:49:45] it's last minute um but if if the

[2:49:47] council were to proceed with voting on the resolution we of course got to

[2:49:51] open it up to public input because it

[2:49:53] wasn't on the

[2:49:54] agenda so the the essence of the

[2:49:56] resolution is as you know the the city

[2:49:58] annually participates with United Way

[2:50:01] who impacts you know many businesses and

[2:50:04] residents in our

[2:50:06] community uh and uh through our United

[2:50:09] Way annual United weight campaign the

[2:50:11] employees get together many times like

[2:50:13] finances holding B Sales to raise funny

[2:50:16] to raise money on Fridays funny raise

[2:50:19] fun to raise money on you know on

[2:50:21] various Fridays and there's a couple

[2:50:22] other events we have like you know a mac

[2:50:25] and cheese and bacon and dessert cook

[2:50:29] off or Cookoff coming up but also at

[2:50:31] that meeting or at that that day that

[2:50:33] they're going to have the Cook Off is

[2:50:35] we've received about 20 to 25 donated

[2:50:37] items uh from local businesses who want

[2:50:40] to support our campaign in supporting

[2:50:43] United Way and and we are desirous of

[2:50:46] holding a silent auction so the

[2:50:48] resolution

[2:50:50] 2695 is simply where you're making a

[2:50:53] legislative finding that the fundraising

[2:50:54] for the United Way Bard by holding a

[2:50:56] side auction serves a public Municipal

[2:50:59] purpose so that's that's the purpose of

[2:51:01] that and if you would be so kind to

[2:51:04] provide your consideration and and open

[2:51:06] it up for the public we'd appreciate

[2:51:10] it make

[2:51:12] it Mr Mayor yeah you open up the public

[2:51:16] comment oh for this yeah because it's an

[2:51:22] addition all right anybody in the

[2:51:24] audience like to talk about this

[2:51:26] resolution which is

[2:51:29] u s auction

[2:51:35] right I'm not thinking I'm not thinking

[2:51:37] it's going to happen

[2:51:38] so we'll wait for a second no okay we're

[2:51:41] going to close it back come back motion

[2:51:43] to approve than second second here all

[2:51:47] in favor I I any oppose thank you

[2:51:50] Council okay uh just moving on just want

[2:51:53] to remind everybody um Friday on um

[2:51:57] August 26 you know from 6: to 8 there's

[2:52:00] the Friday family fund Fest at Juni Rios

[2:52:03] Martinez

[2:52:05] Park um there's also on Saturday the

[2:52:07] 27th txas and tals Galla the Civic

[2:52:10] Center put on by the U uh the central

[2:52:13] barar humane societ

[2:52:15] uh remember council's invited if if you

[2:52:17] haven't and you are intending to go

[2:52:19] please make sure you let the clerk know

[2:52:21] so she can get your tickets uh that also

[2:52:23] applies to the ker High School football

[2:52:25] game again as Matt indicat it's going to

[2:52:27] be on ESPN 2 and those tickets are

[2:52:31] available um on Thursday uh actually

[2:52:36] excuse me on no on September 6 remind

[2:52:41] council is the first uh public he

[2:52:44] hearing for the budget at 6: p.m. here

[2:52:46] in council chambers and then the next

[2:52:49] item on Thursday September 8th is the

[2:52:51] mayor's 2016 Community Summit engaging

[2:52:54] the citizens creating a safer Community

[2:52:56] is the theme I we look forward to that

[2:53:00] uh I know Council has expressed some

[2:53:01] concerns in the past and and it's

[2:53:04] unfortunate Chief calop is not here uh

[2:53:07] but I Know Chief calop has increased his

[2:53:09] interactions and his uh his

[2:53:11] conversations with Crosswinds and I

[2:53:13] think if you actually recently myself

[2:53:16] Chief calou assistant city manager fur

[2:53:20] and um representatives of uh Crosswinds

[2:53:23] met to discuss you know some of the

[2:53:26] concerns that councils have raised in

[2:53:27] the past but if you looked at this

[2:53:29] month's uh report you'll notice that the

[2:53:33] calls for services are substantially

[2:53:35] down and we discussed having continuing

[2:53:37] to have an ongoing conversation

[2:53:40] certainly would like to thank um Miss

[2:53:42] Loki you know for for her uh willingness

[2:53:45] to meet and discuss the issue and um you

[2:53:48] know address you know they've put some

[2:53:50] they've actually Lieutenant uh former

[2:53:52] Lieutenant Mike scul Mike Scully with

[2:53:55] the sheriff's office now works for them

[2:53:58] so that's so we're that's that's huge

[2:54:00] yeah if we can continue that TR so so I

[2:54:03] just wanted to you know follow up on

[2:54:05] that let get to the next one okay um two

[2:54:10] final thing I already mentioned that one final thing then um

[2:54:15] uh two final things first uh we got our

[2:54:19] preliminary population estimate in from

[2:54:21] um from Bieber and the estimated

[2:54:25] population which would be effective

[2:54:26] October 17th of this year

[2:54:29] 18,83 3 wow which is a growth of 520

[2:54:33] over last year new residents over last

[2:54:35] year wow so that's on my

[2:54:38] neighborhood and the last thing uh t ncy

[2:54:43] uh and the the res presidents of

[2:54:44] District 4 and all Council on behalf of

[2:54:47] Staff we certainly extend our

[2:54:49] condolences um the leadership that

[2:54:51] councilman Furbish provided the wisdom

[2:54:54] the guidance will be missed uh he was

[2:54:56] very tenacious very

[2:54:58] passionate um and he it just uh it's it's a loss you know I know in the

[2:55:05] Special Forces Community it's a loss you

[2:55:07] know but it's also it's a huge loss

[2:55:09] obviously for our family but also for

[2:55:10] our community and um just want to let

[2:55:13] you know you'll be Miss

[2:55:16] sir that's for sure thank you John Mr

[2:55:19] blade thank you Mr Mayor tough act to

[2:55:22] follow behind there uh Mr city manager

[2:55:26] um if we quit excuse me if and I up and

[2:55:30] cominging events um one of our council

[2:55:32] members I know the members from the drug

[2:55:35] treatment center right on the corner of

[2:55:36] US1 adjacent to Ty Kingdom um we having

[2:55:39] an issue pertaining to mental illness

[2:55:42] and that was something we talked aled

[2:55:44] about at the conference to as well and

[2:55:46] they are willing to do a presentation

[2:55:48] they're collecting data for us and

[2:55:51] that's a very sensitive subject and

[2:55:53] while we're at attendance at the Space

[2:55:55] Coast League of Ci's 90 90th annual

[2:55:58] conference they had an event there're

[2:56:00] talking about mental illness and I

[2:56:03] thought about a couple individuals here

[2:56:05] and that's something that it is ongoing

[2:56:07] here in our community that we

[2:56:09] desperately need to address um I had the

[2:56:12] opportunity we had opportunity to give

[2:56:15] the invocation at the past president's

[2:56:19] luncheon um our CFO had the opportunity

[2:56:22] to sit next to myself I didn't sit with

[2:56:25] him he sat with me and uh um former

[2:56:29] deputy mayor Brenda Warner was there as

[2:56:31] well as the mayor was there temporarily

[2:56:33] I know because you come down with the

[2:56:35] calm and cold and everything and I know

[2:56:37] health is first and foremost but we had

[2:56:39] a great time we had the invocation

[2:56:41] brought the word set it on fire but more

[2:56:43] so than anything else I think it's

[2:56:45] something that we desperately need to

[2:56:48] continue to collaborate with our uh

[2:56:50] surrounding communities all 414 plus

[2:56:54] just like with this Lagoon all cities

[2:56:56] all

[2:56:57] municipalities and towns have skin in

[2:57:00] the game with the Indian River Lagoon so

[2:57:05] hey man I'm in favor of of protecting

[2:57:07] our own that's the Indian River Lagoon

[2:57:11] congrats to Brenda Warner and Don Bo for

[2:57:14] coming in unopposed want to give you

[2:57:17] guys a round of applause that's awesome

[2:57:20] job well done that speaks volume uh

[2:57:23] volume because what you're doing

[2:57:24] something right you're doing the wishes

[2:57:26] of the people they may not always agree

[2:57:28] with you but I think you're moving for

[2:57:30] it so I say congrats to you both I know

[2:57:33] the mayor has competition but I believe

[2:57:35] in you Mr Mayor and I think in no for

[2:57:38] fact you will do the right thing um also

[2:57:41] Koko High School is doing a fundraiser

[2:57:43] um I graduated from Coco High School way

[2:57:46] back when I had hair it's pertaining to

[2:57:49] um providing lockers at the new stadium

[2:57:52] they need lockers there so we're asking

[2:57:55] all cocoa

[2:57:57] alumni alumnist to come forward and join

[2:58:01] this fundraiser it's $200 you get your

[2:58:04] name on the plaque and a locker will be

[2:58:06] dedicated to you and your behalf so

[2:58:10] we're asking all individuals you can

[2:58:12] contact UM the front office athletic

[2:58:15] director uh Johnny Wilkinson who left

[2:58:18] merid Island high school and got it

[2:58:20] right and came to hot chocolate cocoa

[2:58:22] for the right reason and for the right

[2:58:24] cause and last but not least this one is

[2:58:27] for you my buddy my brother Tyler Buy

[2:58:31] Local spin local keep it local we love

[2:58:36] you Tyler thank you very much that's it

[2:58:38] Mr Mayor thank you very good Miss

[2:58:42] Warner um

[2:58:44] just real quick

[2:58:46] um I remember the microphones

[2:58:50] um like uh councilman Blake I went down

[2:58:53] to the um the league of cities um had

[2:58:56] some great um information and sessions

[2:58:59] this time around um got some great ideas

[2:59:02] that uh hopefully we'll be able to

[2:59:04] implement in the city and um Mr Blake uh

[2:59:08] J is very proud in his invocation at the

[2:59:12] uh Luncheon of the past presidents of uh

[2:59:15] the league of cities and um his

[2:59:19] invocation was actually so good that our

[2:59:23] CFO um referred back to it when he got

[2:59:26] up to speak so um he was impressed um

[2:59:31] the um our friend and uh neighbor to the

[2:59:35] south of us um Miss Carol

[2:59:38] McCormack um is now after uh 10 years of

[2:59:42] serving uh heading up up the um League

[2:59:45] of Mayors and I know she'll do a

[2:59:47] fantastic job congratulations to

[2:59:50] her and

[2:59:52] um the uh committee appointments um have

[2:59:57] evidently been made uh so check your

[2:59:59] email if you applied for a committee

[3:00:01] appointment with the

[3:00:03] um um League to see if you uh receive

[3:00:08] that appointment I will be serving on

[3:00:10] the uh growth management committee again

[3:00:14] and

[3:00:15] um I think maybe we might have a another

[3:00:19] city person serving on that committee

[3:00:22] this coming year um a lot of issues

[3:00:24] coming up with the league of cities this coming year we got um a lot of

[3:00:28] meetings we're scheduling more meetings

[3:00:30] to discuss issues than we normally have

[3:00:32] it's not just the two times a year so um

[3:00:35] we're going to work hard this year and

[3:00:36] be ready for the legislature and not let

[3:00:38] them um push any unfunded mandates and

[3:00:41] take away any of our home rule this year

[3:00:45] and um I also wanted to um say that I am

[3:00:50] back from vacation you guys are stuck

[3:00:52] with me I'm not missing any more

[3:00:53] meetings I had a wonderful time in

[3:00:56] Georgia I learned a lot and um I visited

[3:01:00] seven small cities with old

[3:01:03] downtowns uh some of which were built

[3:01:06] long before the Civil

[3:01:07] War and not one of them had parallel

[3:01:10] parking not one I took pictures

[3:01:14] everybody has diagonal

[3:01:17] parking everybody and why because it

[3:01:20] provides more

[3:01:22] parking and nobody knows how to parallel

[3:01:24] park I sat through two light changes at

[3:01:27] 5:20 today watching some poor lady try

[3:01:29] and parallel park in front of Cafe

[3:01:31] Margo and people were not happy because

[3:01:34] we were all stuck out on 520 not able to

[3:01:37] get across onto Bard Avenue because she

[3:01:41] couldn't parallel park so let's not

[3:01:43] embarrass our residents anymore by

[3:01:45] requiring them to parallel park and

[3:01:47] let's do something about our parking

[3:01:48] issue that's it for

[3:01:52] me Don yeah well you know this is tough

[3:01:56] you know losing a good friend Tyler

[3:01:58] being good friends in like 14

[3:02:03] years you're going to be missed a lot

[3:02:06] you know we been agree all the

[3:02:09] time Amen to that brother but we sure

[3:02:13] good friends and that's right it's going

[3:02:16] to be hard to

[3:02:20] uh now I can't I'm just thinking forget

[3:02:23] it I can't talk congratulations man on

[3:02:27] being onos how you're going to be

[3:02:29] missing hey I I got to stop there let's

[3:02:33] go ahead Mr Mayor you take it

[3:02:36] congratulations

[3:02:37] Don

[3:02:39] peppy

[3:02:41] congrats yeah doesn't seem very good

[3:02:44] today does it no the uh well I

[3:02:48] regretted coming to this meeting tonight

[3:02:51] but I wouldn't have missed it for the

[3:02:53] world you wouldn't want you to and uh

[3:02:56] exactly I mean um my condolences out to

[3:03:01] Nancy

[3:03:02] uh and it that

[3:03:05] was heck of a ride she went on with

[3:03:08] Tyler

[3:03:10] um

[3:03:12] Tyler fath his

[3:03:14] uh his in uh like a man and he uh

[3:03:19] basically talked to all of us oneon-one

[3:03:21] oh yeah and

[3:03:23] uh he very tough

[3:03:26] individual

[3:03:28] um and I want to thank Don for hanging

[3:03:30] out and going there every day when

[3:03:33] things got not so good and you didn't

[3:03:36] have to do that I mean you were there

[3:03:37] for 8 12 hours a day and I appreciate

[3:03:41] that um but

[3:03:44] um you know my my view on him was he was

[3:03:47] I was in a Christmas parade before I was

[3:03:49] running from air and and he was in a

[3:03:51] City truck looking across from me and I

[3:03:52] have my black truck or I have my red

[3:03:53] truck with a pulling my orange and he

[3:03:56] walks over and he goes hey he says he

[3:03:57] introduced himself to me and and we hit

[3:04:00] it off and we have a lot of similar

[3:04:01] experiences on um working in the working

[3:04:04] life um to's a straight talking straight

[3:04:09] shooter solid

[3:04:11] contributor uh

[3:04:14] he I don't think the city or the

[3:04:16] citizens I know the citizens don't know

[3:04:18] until

[3:04:19] now he he contributed a lot of things

[3:04:22] that you never knew about he was he had

[3:04:24] a little more time than the rest of us

[3:04:25] and he was a

[3:04:27] stickler and uh but he would um I guess

[3:04:31] the city government probably couldn't

[3:04:33] pay him back for all the improvements

[3:04:34] that he's pushed and

[3:04:36] made uh there won't be another one like

[3:04:39] him uh you know at the end of this whole

[3:04:42] thing uh he's my friend

[3:04:50] so that's my report and uh I guess his

[3:04:53] service is going to be August

[3:04:56] 31st at the cape canaval National

[3:04:59] Cemetery and Mims the new

[3:05:01] one uh like I said August 31st at 10:00

[3:05:05] a.m. and U if anybody can come and pay

[3:05:09] their respects that's what his wishes

[3:05:12] were Mr mayor I think we should also

[3:05:15] probably acknowledge the um beautiful

[3:05:18] floral arrangement that Terry black of

[3:05:20] met um Dove did um for Tyler it was very

[3:05:25] nice of him to provide that and it's absolutely beautiful it's beautiful

[3:05:29] Y and this is a you know this is not a

[3:05:32] normal meeting so I don't know if you

[3:05:33] know you realize this I think this

[3:05:35] should be put in the hallway with his

[3:05:36] picture yeah for at least for a few days

[3:05:40] put the the front

[3:05:42] there

[3:05:44] I I don't really have anything else to

[3:05:46] say other than I'm you know let's give

[3:05:49] the family respect and he's going to

[3:05:51] beon him later going to be yeah bottom

[3:05:55] line Tyler was loved by everyone man I

[3:05:57] mean if you understood Tyler he jerky

[3:06:00] calling now oh yeah he getting on baby

[3:06:02] now trust me but he he was actually a p

[3:06:06] in the butt he was okay no that's not

[3:06:08] coming out of your mouth

[3:06:12] Don you're right but he's a jokester man

[3:06:15] I mean he had great day he had great the

[3:06:18] last day of his life yeah man okay well

[3:06:22] that's it for us and I appreciate you

[3:06:23] guys hanging out and uh by local yep by

[3:06:28] local keep local yep motion Jour second

[3:06:33] all favor all congrats you two

[3:06:37] Unos welcome back welcome back welcome back

[3:06:46] you all right

[3:06:48] brother all right I know I'm here

[3:06:54] so right here top remember the times

[3:06:58] that har

[3:07:00] oh for the Alzheimer's yeah I got that

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