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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
[5:58] metal of Fowler yeah
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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