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>> mayor: I want to call to order the city council workshop for december the 4th. Would everybody please stand for

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the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it

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stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> mayor: would somebody like to

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lead us in a prayer or just have a moment of silence? [moment of silence] >> mayor: thank you.

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okay. Mandy do you want to call roll. [roll called] the agenda for this meeting was

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posted on the city's website on monday november 27th. 2023. The agenda was amended on

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november 28th to add back-up to item 6b and on november 29th add 4d, 6c and back-up to 7a. >> mayor: there's an exit behind

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you. The way we came in and also to your right if there's an emergency, those are the two

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exits you try to take out. The next thing we will have public comments. Please limit them to three

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minutes and address them to the chair. Anybody sign up, mandy. >> david porter.

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>> good afternoon. Dave porter. I think that one of the most paramount issues of the council

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or staff of dunnellon is [inaudible]. >> and all of the businesses that require their own

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comprehensive plan. >> mayor: right. >> I would request that some time during this meeting that

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maybe [technical difficulties] three problems with doing a resurface at the police department.

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the first the weight of the fire trucks. 250s, 350s, 450s, 550s. Second problem is at the back of

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the building it's already below grade. So you're going to add an inch and quarter and inch 23456 of

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black top on top of it all of the water is going to go in the back door of the police department.

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and they only cover it for three years. And to do where the water can drain out to the front of the

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building and they can make it lower than the back door where the water won't go in the back door of the police department.

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the third thing that the handicapped that the pd has now. It has a 2 percent slope per handicapped ada compliance.

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it has to be completely flat. And to the handicapped parking spot be level and you won't have to do anything to that parking

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lot for 20 years. >> if I might add if you only resurface that changes where you can take the funds from.

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you -- it would either -- which I didn't highlight line 31 is your 6 cent gas tax reserve which is repair and maintenance

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of or it would come from general fund unrestricted on line 37. >> mayor: okay. Is there any any engineering if

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we do the same thing. >> no because they know what the drainage when they looked at it they already know where the

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water has to flow. Right now everything is flowing to the fire department. That's why we're having a lot of

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parking lot problems when it should be going from the back of the police department into the storm drain.

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do we have any existing water or sewer lines under there that would be of concern? >> not that we're aware of.

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everything is on williams street and pennsylvania. The water manager and all of the utility -- you've got overhead

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utilities from williams street back to the pd but the water meter is right at the front door.

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but we're in dunnellon. >> well, I remember when it was an alleyway when I was a kid, and when it was whenever we four

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laned 41. I just wondered if there was anything in there with our fau friends.

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>> I can double check. >> if we did have something in there it would be nice to take care of.

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we did park avenue and wall net. And modernize the street from one end to the other. >> okay.

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that's just a question. As far as I'm concerned I like the idea of doing it like it should be done and look to the

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future. A 20-year existence of it, and the disabled parking I was not aware that was deficient.

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also drainage if you don't drain asphalt pavement and you leave standing water you set up a problem.

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>> every time it rains it goes to the back of the police department, and right at the fire truck.

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the police department is higher than williams street. >> okay. I'm pleased with your analysis

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and like I said the might have a concern about if there is possible there is something we could check on.

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>> I can call until to locate -- >> some of the council members. >> mayor: I think that's what I'm worried about that exactly

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stuff like that. Finding out what we don't do after we start spending money on the project.

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I'm all for it. Don't get me wrong. I want to make sure we have our ducks in a row here.

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>> okay. >> mayor: you have any questions. >> no.

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>> mayor: I think we're all for it. To me if I'm going to spend $25,000 and it's going to last

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five years, and $35,000 and it's going to last 20 to 30. >> the thing if I'd personally >> whatever your downside.

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>> we'll be bringing back a contract once something is in place. Chad there are lines underneath.

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water or sewer. >> we'll call and locate. Just to verify but. >> mayor: good deal.

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>> I guess I'm a little confused. I agree with what's gone on. What's the next step.

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we're going to get a contract value. >> I can do that tomorrow and they should have it within a

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week. >> I'm not looking to rush. What would be our next step up here.

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>> come back with the contracts. >> okay. Got you. And I guess mandy would that go

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on the consent agenda or even need to be on the consent agenda. >> I would say that the contract

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would need to be reviewed by the attorney before it comes to workshop. >> mayor: so you're going to do

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all of the legwork on this, matt and we'll let andrew look at it. >> that sounds reasonable. >> mayor: if we can fix this

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drainage problem we need to fix it. >> it's way past. >> council, I'll try to do a

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budget amendment at the same time that the contract is presented to you. That way you approve the

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contract. The budget is approved to use that reserve you would like me to use, and then it's a done

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deal. >> cool. >> mayor: okay. All right.

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next item is the florida department emergency management recovery obligation calculation program.

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I'm not sure who put that on there. Who put that on there? >> that was ron.

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yeah. There you go. Now I remember. >> a few meetings after we you

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guys all had signed off on the statewide mutual aid contract for emergency management of. Then we came back and started to

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work on a comprehensive operation plan for emergency management. Of a plan what this is what

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we'll do in the case of emergencies. A lot of this has to do with the way that the fema reimburses.

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you hire contractors et cetera et cetera. At times natural disasters. Over the decades with the

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emergency management they've had problems with the way they reimbursed. So where we're at for the city

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of dunnellon is we have to do a self-assessment. That self-assessment is about 132 questions ranging from the

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alignment authority, to council to staff to our purchasing policies, how they're compliant with both federal, state and

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local compliance and it's an evaluation if you will. Staff is currently working on that as they team to get that

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answer because it has to be submitted by december 31st. Once that's submitted it will be reviewed by the florida

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department of emergency management. Then they will come back and say hey we have questions we want

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additional questions. Or we may ask you to change something or ask for further clarification.

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that's what they call the abatement period. Right now where we're at is in the assessment.

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we're finishing up that point and as of right now this is just to share you where we're at in that process when we come back

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during the abatement process, we may be coming back to council asking for some changes in policies, and we have from jan 1

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to march 31st to do that. Why is that important to the city of dunnellon? This process obviously -- what

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the state of florida is looking for listen if you're compliant with all of the purchasing policies and we're going to give

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you a numeric rating and that means when you say that you're submitted a bill to fema then they're going to pay it in a

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much more timely fashion. In decades past sometimes fema reimbursed might take three, four, five years to recover that

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money. We're talking about three, four, five weeks now. Their goal is to get it paid

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within 30 days. That would be a huge benefit for the city. So that's where we're at.

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any questions you might have. >> mayor: have you got all of the help you need to document all of this stuff?

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>> yes. Jan and shelby have been helping me get this together. It's going really smooth.

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now, when we get to the abatement process that may be different. It's going to break down where

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we have to talk to some of the contractors and public works, and it may involve city council for different lines of

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authority, et cetera. It may be we have some unofficial processes we have to document and maybe formalize.

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>> mayor: okay. >> it's moving along very well. >> mayor: good. You all good.

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>> I would add that you that's an excellent effort. The better we're aligned with our state requirements

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especially during emergency situations because the funding as you said could stretch out for a great deal of time.

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we would be depleting reserves in order to cover a major disaster. So I commend the effort many.

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I think it's excellent idea. >> thank you. >> mayor: absolutely. All right.

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you you good. >> yes. >> all right. Thank you, ron.

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okay. Next item is police chief six-month evaluation. I know I did one.

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did everybody else did one. >> yes, sir. I have that in the back-up folder.

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I got that compiled this amp. I received evaluations from mayor dunnellon dunnellon, vice mayor inskeep, and wheeler.

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and I've listed the compiled rating. If you all want to take a chance to review that we will publish

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it with the city council meeting on monday, I'm sorry I can't get away. Out of a possible 50 points he

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scored 47.92. This is a six-month evaluation so it's not linked to any type of merit increase.

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but that would be linked to an annual evaluation. Per our policy he was due a six-month to assess his

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performance which appears to be great. >> mayor: that's good. >> so you can sounds we're all

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about on the same page too. >> all of the comments are similar. If you don't have any changes,

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we can put that on the consent agenda for approval next week. >> mandy it might be because I got it in 38 but I don't see my

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goals on there >> mayor: no you don't. I saw where you had some comments above.

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here it is. >> got you. Cool. Thank you.

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>> mayor: all right. Good deal. So you all good with putting that on the consent agenda.

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that's good, mandy. All right. The next item is council agenda items we've added.

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the next one was blue run park. We had all had some questions that we were looking at. And we wanted to submit to

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marion county to get their input on those questions. Somehow I've just lost mine. And I believe this is a

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summation of what we all put together. Right mandy. >> yes, sir.

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>> mayor: things like how many people are put into the kp hole. How many tubes, how many kayaks, how many canoes, who pays the

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can the p hole on a monthly basis. Lists all of the vendors that are using the equipment.

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and properly identified with the marion county during. What is the total revenue of kp hole.

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and if not why not. Why does marion county invest. What does marion county invest in blue run park on an annual

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basis. How does it compare with the city and any commercial vendors using the kp hole.

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would the county and handle percent of the expenses of blue run park. This is just a list of questions

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we on the council decided to ask. I don't think any of us know how many tubes go into the river

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every summer and what their total revenue is. And how it's spent. I say we need to get to this

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couillard, and then discuss with them on these matters. >> I reviewed that list, and one item that might be important to

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add is the security situation for the blue run park. The city of course we're at the end.

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we're not at the beginning. So we had the people once they come out of the rivera and some of them are not quite the same

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person when they went in the river. >> mayor: that's a good way to put that

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>> and their attitudes are a little bit different. And we have to be concerned about the security for our

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community. You mentioned that a lot of the information that's mentioned on the request is public

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information. Public information. There is a way that we could work this so that its staff to

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staff making the request. As far as the figures on the entrance of the park, who is entering the park, how many, the

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variety as we said the kayakers with the tubers. This information is available and it's public record.

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it can be requested as a public record and that way everything -- in my opinion the best way to approach something

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like this everything we can achieve through a public record request from staff to staff is the way I would recommend we

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approach that. And any items that would come before a judgment situation between the city council and the

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county commissioners would be another step. In other words, as the mayor state we're trying to get

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answers to these concerns. But I'd like to see to work through the staff and achieve the answers through a public

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access of this information. So therefore when it actually works up through our staff levels and eventually hopefully

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it will come into administration, and then go into a county commissioner city council situation, we both have

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material to work with and we're not bringing it to the county commissioners before we have our groundwork laid.

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that's something I would suggest we move forward. >> mayor: that sounds good. We can turn these questions into

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a public information request. That's all we're going to do. >> that's the way I can submit. >> mayor: that's a good thing.

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that way we know where that information exactly came from. We know all right -- I do know because I went up before I got

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on the council and met with the kp hole lady that runs that. She actually provided it was two or three years ago a summary the

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total tubes, and total kayaks. And so it's available. Public record would be the easiest way for that.

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>> well it would be an item that would be best addressed through our police chief and through our county sheriff.

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and I don't know whether we probably -- may want to get the freshwater marine patrol. That would be something that the

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chief would noelle how to approach. Security is the key to everything we do in our

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community and that is an issue we certainly want to provide for. I just thought but I would

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recommend that mandy as you automatically let it go through the chief to assess the situation.

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where it is now and where he thinks it will be in five years, and 10 years. That's just a suggestion.

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I'm not trying to do the chief's job. >> mayor: that's a good point, walter.

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it's also outlined in the blue run plan. It talks about the county is going to provide two people at

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least every day during the busy season. >> last year or the year I first moved up here I understand they

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instituted some new fee structure from kp hole. >> mayor: they did because of covid.

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>> could we also find what their revenue once they started doing that. If they had an increase.

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>> mayor: that was 2021. >> is the county making more money off of that. Are the roads deteriorating

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because of the higher volumes of traffic. >> kp hole is not in the city. >> mayor: kp hole is in marion

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county. It does impact our roads here in dunnellon 484. No luckily what they destroy is

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marion county. When I went up there it was before covid. We reduced the tubes during

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covid. Don't know if they've increased the number of tubes or change the rate they charge.

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what we may want to do is ask for three years worth of information. That would take care of 2023,

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'22 and '21. >> well, if council lehman wants to know what the revenue prior to the pandemic we'd need to ask

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for 2019. >> just for information. >> significantly in 2020 and picked back up in 2021.

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>> mayor: I think it went significantly way down. >> so you want '19 through '22 -- '19 through '23.

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>> mayor: yeah. By the time they get it to us it will be 2024. >> they're all going to be over

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there. If we can have a stable base maybe not this year but hey next year traffic is up.

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>> mayor: all right. Got all of that mandy. >> got it. >> mayor: the next thing was the

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east pennsylvania multi-modal project. I know tim you were working with everybody to figure this out.

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and the tpo rob bombs to go speak with tracy straub. And she is at one point in her career he was the county

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engineer, and now she's the boss over the county engineer. She's the assistant clerk. And she is extremely

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intelligent. I mean everything good you could possibly deal with a person she was it.

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mandy and I had a phone meeting with her last thursday. Day before I sent her seven of the major topics major issues of

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we're seeing with this project. I won't read them all. Fgua concern about the eight-inch main on the south

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side of the street. And fgu56789 has repeatedly high risk of that water main breaking once it's under heavy traffic.

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that's the first one. The second one is a safety issue. With the way fgua and our city

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staff that will have to maintain the right-of-ways. There's no refuge zone for them. They're going to be somewhat in

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the way of traffic just to maintain them the way they're on there. The third one there's no

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reasonable space for them to pull off the road. Probably a more important it's a very narrow residential area.

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and then the last one I put down I believe it's going to create more congestion in an already congested area.

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I sent those to tracy so she could review them before our talking. She's a bit frustrated with us.

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we want the project. We want the project goes on hold for two years. It wasn't because dunnellon

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wanted to put it on hold. Now there's been a resolution we're putting up concrete barriers for bikers.

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and then after that dunnellon we want it, we want it. They put it on the list. And but there's $300,000 some

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dollars invested into the engineering of this project. Naturally when we have hey we have these issues.

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so that's how we started the conversation. Explained to her apologized but we're at the point where we see

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what the issues are. And they're important enough that I understand the frustrating.

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but the issues are important enough at least in my mind it doesn't make sense to go ahead with the project.

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is all of the issues that just mentioned. So with that she said if there is a redesign if we have to

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redesign then the city would have to pay for the redesign. Now she mentioned. When we're not looking to

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redesign the whole thing. Actually with construction -- let me back up a little bit. If we do a redesign.

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the city is going to have to come up with the money for the redesign. We need to communicate our cun

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essential opportunities to fdot and tpo and naturally to her. We should also speak to our representative kathy bryant

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first would be council consent. Speak with kathy bryant on that. Then based on that communicate in writing to fdot, tpo and

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tracy. The way I understand the options we're looking at four options. Option 1 is proceed as planned.

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option 2 scrap the entire project. Option 3 would be do the barrier portion on the rainbow river

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bridge. Put the pedestrian and bike traffic. Continue doing the take off-ramp

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into blue run park and re-stripe the south parking spots into a bike lane. The issue with that tracy had

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with that, just re-striping this -- this whole thing is based on being a multi-modal trail.

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she's not just by re-striping the parking spots into a bike lane that will meet the description of multi-modal.

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basically we're just creating a bike path but not multi-modal path. With that option if we re-stripe

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the lanes that would be the bicycle lanes, and walking pedestrians will have that sidewalk.

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so with that that's when I said that the design for all of that for the re-striping is already complete.

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so redesign would be a lot of significant dollars. >> did she give you an idea how much?

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>> no. She's not a contractor. >> no. Kimley horne is the one that

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designs this project. The only redesign is re-striping rather than doing all of the islands and the extend deck.

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the fourth option if the multi-modal project. So we can't go to the state and make this happen because they

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have all the criteria all of the licensing to work with the state. This may not meet the grant

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criteria by just re-striping and creating a bike lane. Option 4 would be the same as option 3 but instead of

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re-striping the bike lane it would be on don't do the islands. Don't do anything to the north

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side. Take the south side parking spots, raise that area. Wring that construction over to

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the existing sidewalk and turn all of that into a multi-modal path. So those are the four options

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I'm seeing. Any redesign that needs to be done, there should be significant funds left over with

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the amount of construction by putting in the islands, all of the other repaving and all of that.

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that's where we're at. >> mayor: I forget 2 is. >> scrap the whole project. As planned scrap the whole

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project and then a modification of the project as planned that that would not include any islands.

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>> mayor: it still baffles me how we can get this far and not realize all of the problems with the water, sewer.

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>> what they're saying -- >> they're not offering anything. >> it's just going working

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totally on the parking spaces and the stop. >> plus putting the barriers on the bridge and takeoff down

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to -- >> I was talking to people and that the only council was for the minimal project and then a

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couple of councils they came back and said we wanted to do the biggest grandest project we can.

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>> I'm not sure. >> mayor: all right. >> so if you want to digest we probably get rid of this.

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>> then you turn right around and you start -- I think my biggest problem is taking up parking on there.

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to me we don't have parking in this town. I hate to say it and I ride a bike and I ride a bike on blue

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run trail. Why once you cross that bridge why do you want to go to the railroad track.

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>> yes. >> mayor: then go to chamber of commerce. And nothing against julie.

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now can definitely make that option 5. And I will. But just puts us at-risk of when

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I say option 5 let me make sure I understand. Option 5 would be do -- put the barriers up on the bridge.

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put the takeoff on blue run park. >> mayor: that hill is where the pedestrians are going from

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swampy's. >> the issue may be like tracy none of that may happen because of the multi-modal definition

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grant. But I'll put that out there. >> mayor: okay. >> I'll get this typed up.

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I'll get it to mandy so she can get it to everybody. They're at 90%. And they're looking to put this

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out to bid. And >> mayor: okay. Thank you.

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>> yes, sir. >> mayor: for running this down. >> mr. Mayor, tim, when you spoke to them did they offer

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anything besides they were completed 90% on engineering. Did she have a ballpark they would be moving on their end if

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we had not presented an objection? In other words, what timeline were we facing with the project

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before we got to this point with our council action? >> no they put out a schedule. Fdot was supposed to be august

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23rd. Take august 23rd and fast forward to now that's how many months the planning is behind.

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final plan submit -- final submitting to fdot was 9/23 and the bid specifications were supposed to go on 9/13.

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that's what's running behind right now. >> so the whole process is where we are right now about four or

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five months behind. >> yes, sir. >> so we're well within the span of creating this concern as far

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as the project. >> I mean, is the project is delayed now this will simply add to the delay if that makes

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sense. I'm not saying that's not acceptable for the county and state.

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I don't know. >> okay. >> mayor: okay. If you could have that typed up

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and sent out to us, and we can study it. Thank you tim forgetting that to us.

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that's all I had. Mr. Inskeep you're up. >> I thought I just was. Mandy do you have the

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spreadsheet for the christmas parade expense. All right. This is along the lines of the

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two river music festivals. I was going to present this at the last council meeting. As we all know the christmas

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parade has happened. And this is the deal we worked out with the chamber of commerce.

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what the city's expenses are we supplied the public works barricades. The public works personnel.

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set up the barricades, picked up the barricades, and matt did we have to buy road closure signs so we didn't incur that expense.

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I tried to capture all of the city costs. So you're looking at the city will have invested $505.

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but only $160 of that is budget money. The rest of it is in kind type of contribution.

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actually with the update with matt we don't have the $160 now. The chamber expenses were going to be 845 with police department

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and permit they paid. Then we worked out a partnering with the investment at 505. The investment difference 340.

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split that in half. That's $140. Did the math and made it each would have $675 invested in it.

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and so out of that $675, $363 minus $160 now would take a budget hit. >> mayor: 202.

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>> the rest of was $312 to help out with the parade. So the to have this having this parade.

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I'm not saying good, bad or indifferent. 675, 675. That's what it cost to have a

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parade. >> so the police officers are paid for by the chamber. >> right.

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>> that's out of the permit fees and things like that. >> correct. So apologize it's already the

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fact. I totally blew it when I didn't bring it last meeting. If anybody has an issue with

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that. Seemed like -- what my reasoning and I hate running around like a loose cannon.

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this event is different than other commercial. This is truly the people of dunnellon that come to see this

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parade and all of that. For $300 that could come out of council contingency to make up for santa in the park.

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>> mr. Mayor. >> mayor: yes. >> I think it's commendable. I think it's commendable.

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I can't think of a better time for our youth and families watching a parade in their own hometown.

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I commend the effort to cooperate with the chamber of commerce and all of the kids and including our one and only high

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school band and I saw many children that felt the same way. The budget item would be a blessing to approve if I had in

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my pocket. Thank you. >> mayor: I agree. I think it was well attended and

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there was an awful lot of people there which was great. >> okay. Personnel manual tuition policy.

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where the personnel manual tuition paul is a and we experienced a little over a year ago.

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my recommendation is that we need to change the verbiage because it wasn't clear in the personnel manual if an employee

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goes for further education, and it gets paid for that upon receipt of their diploma or certificate, that they have to

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commit to working with the city for two years. And the other thing I'd like to do is go back to the original

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policy that got changed about a year ago, and not -- and a remove paying for mileage that we did there.

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>> mayor: I totally agree. We had a policy very similar to where I've always worked. We'd pay for something that was

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going to benefit you and us. But you had to commit to stay a certain amount of time. Because you were going to take

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that to your new employer. And I totally agree with the mileage. That's just part of going.

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I don't have a problem with that. >> consensus. We have can that go to a consent

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agenda >> so we have to bring a resolution. Have to go on the regular

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agenda. >> mayor: all right. Good deal. >> review project checklist.

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mandy finally got it done. >> mayor: I think I got the original copy. >> she got the big stick out.

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what's driving this is prior to sitting up I watched many meetings go on and I'm not picking on any one project.

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changing all the lights. Dunnellon taking over the property lights in downtown, and changing all those out for solar

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lights, and dunnellon would be responsible for maintenance, for anything not only the initial project but the cost going

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forward. Pretty much what was presented at the time out of a brochure that gave showed a price of the

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lights and showed a picture of the lights and a lot of speculation what it was going to cost.

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and and pretty much the only amount was the cost of the lights. Because the assumption that

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public works would do the insulation and all of that. When troy when the public works manager found out that in this

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meeting that he was going to be responsible for putting in the lights, he was quite surprised, and then he was like okay wait a

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minute I need information. And rightfully so. So again we only had a very tiny portion of this project.

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not near enough to make a decision on. Not near enough to understand the project costs and the future

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costs. The another problem how about electricians. Well you do need electricians

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because you've got to determining the existing lights and abandon the electrical. When that number came in.

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and then it grew maybe we can get how many residents and businesses to pay for it. It turned into a huge mess.

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I I've seen a few of them go like this. Again with my background I was a bit surprised.

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so when I was coming on I wanted to create something that was similar when we created projects and ran projects.

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a very simplified what I used to do. What you have in front of is exactly that.

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the objective the project objective has to be listed, the budget information has to be put in.

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the scope of the project has to be put in. The schedule of the project has to be put in.

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the required personnel and it is city departments, it is county departments, and state departments, contractors.

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what equipment and what material is everybody upon for. And then the same thing for permits.

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who's getting what and doing what. Mandy, I don't see the second sheet the budget sheet.

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>> are you talking -- >> mayor: here's the budget. >> attachment a. >> okay.

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I didn't print attachment a. There's an attachment a that goes with this. >> it's up on the screen now.

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>> attachment a would be part of this. It outlines -- we want to capture what our employee costs

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are when we do a project. We have the city costs, and then the contractor cost and then we get down to the total cost.

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when a project is presented to us this is filled out so that we have something to look at, and when the project is approved by

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a council we fill out a final version of this and then I'm also looking to make somehow officially through resolution or

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whatever, I spoke with mandy briefly on this, so that it has to be done. So in the future no matter who's

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sitting up here or who's coming and going this document has to be filled out so that there's -- two things if people has to fill

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out a piece of paper and sign it they're going to have ownership. It would be good for record what was it at that point in time.

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we can take out this document and see what the basis was for a project. So I was looking to make this so

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that it's required when presenting a project and then a final version is also required and then documented on record.

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when the council makes a decision on a project. Kind of what you alluded to with your question rex.

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I thought son wanted the most expensive version type of thing. It makes it more businesslike than what we've done in the

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past. >> okay. >> so with that said mandy I don't know where to go with

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this. >> one of things we did discuss was adopting this form policy resolution to make it formal.

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you could adopt a resolution creating a policy that it has to be used. That's really the only way I see

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going forward two, three, four years from now you have staff changes, and council changes and it doesn't get lost.

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and you can refer to it that way. >> so does that mean you'll have to write up a resolution.

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can't see when she's rolling her eyes at me. >> she wasn't rolling her eyes she was pulling out a knife.

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>> it should be a very simple resolution. >> andrew do you have any input there.

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simple resolution. Staff can handle that. >> we can take a look at the next workshop.

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>> next month is fine. >> mayor: I agree with this. It seemed like we found the lights.

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we found way signs. We started well it's going to cost this and by the time what it was going to really cost the

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number had grown three or four time. Because nobody had filled out something like this.

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I think it's great man. Glad you did this. Now your unimproved roads. >> we've got a bit of surprise

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out in the dunnellon heights with a road that -- I mean not even on the gis. But when we go back and look in

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records it is shown that at some point there's going to be a road there. Now we've got a homebuilder that

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got permitted to build a house but he gives us a call my concrete truck got stuck. And this particular area is all

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just sugar sand. There's never been an existing road there. So got ahold of andrew to see

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what we're required to do, and at some point we do have to create something because people have access to their properties.

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the issue we don't have anything in the budget. Future budgets are certainly not looking good.

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and chad reached out. But reached out to kimley-horn and kimley-horn sent back a couple of documents from the

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county and the state on how to do a basic type gravel road. And that's all of the further that we're at with this thing.

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>> mayor: which means you've got to dig out the sand and put in a base, and do something on that. >> then we've got to maintain.

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so right now let every body know the most expensive roads is in the dunnellon heights. This year I think last year it

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was $22,000. We don't spend on any road within the city. So the whole dunnellon heights

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thing I'm not sure what happened there. But we've got people complaining about living on a gravel road

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and things that come with a gravel road. The last you can't throw pavement down.

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you have to have storm assessments and all of this engineering et cetera et cetera. It's pushing over fast numbers

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went over $10 million very fast. >> mayor: of course that didn't include a road that we don't normally do like this one.

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>> correct. >> mayor: because this road wasn't on there. >> andrew, if you could help out

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a little bit what our obligation is. >> I'd be happy to. When a city and the original

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plat from 1950s made a public dedication for dunnellon heights was in the county. But whenever there's an

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acceptance upon the entity making the acceptance and any of the successors to make right-of-ways.

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and make sufficient maintenance. But to the extent they have been accepted they do need to be improved so that they are

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useful. >> right now one of the major issues is emergency vehicles. I don't know how an emergency

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vehicling going to get back to any of these week. >> I was thinking that their construction was on stop because

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they can't get access to it. They've come quite a ways. Talking with keel's they've got their slab if inspection.

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what my understanding is -- this is a san angelo road south, north. It would be north that's right.

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we need to get a cost estimate for what it's going to take to do anything. That's going to be some

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engineering in there. Usually my first question where is the money coming from. What time frame does the city

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have to react to this? And will I touched real quick on future budgets are not looking better.

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they're looking worse. This upcoming fiscal budget coming up in may with $279,198 less with this one% sales tax

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for the 24/25 budget. The only reason we're getting anything right now we have -- right now our revenue is

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$372,000. That's going to be $279,000 less next year. The only reason we're not losing

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the 372 we have one quarter in 2024. That expires at the end of december in 2024.

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so for future years so next year we're going to be planning with $279,000 less. We can't create a budget.

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I'm hoping it gets through. It's going to be $372,000 less revenue for roads. I'll leave it at that.

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>> mayor: yep. No, the research that andrew's firm did I read very carefully. And it's very clear once you

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assume a platted subdivision, you've got to make it at least operational for whatever is there, and I guess it hasn't

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been a problem until somebody builds a house down there. >> to add to this problem do you have a map for the rest of the

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unimproved roads, mandy. I believe kelly you supplied this. >> I did.

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>> so if I'm incorrect somewhere just tell me. I believe that the red markings where we have the rest of the un

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improved roads in the city. >> correct. Minus a couple that are not showing but they're short

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sections. >> mayor: that's out 40. >> 40 going west. >> mayor: right.

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and then over in the box springs area. Wow. >> that's really the 9 island

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cove area which is conservation but there are properties. >> mayor: I know there's more than one road -- I think there's

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two in dunnellon heights. They're over here and they run underneath those power lines. >> this is the duke energy

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easement and this is north san angelo, and this is north san angelo and both of these roads are unimproved.

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in addition to those two kelly identified sections of 3rd avenue and second avenue that are on the map as platted

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streets but they're vegetation. >> mayor: right. >> so the immediate issue we have a house going up in

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dunnellon heights. Emergency vehicles can access their property. >> mayor: we need to address

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that first. What you're showing us there's more to be addressed. >> mr. Mayor the lines up there

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the second avenue line, that actually would go through and would come out on the loop that comes out by the library.

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that property was an old muck mine. And the residue from that that muck mine is in there.

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it would be a major major effort to be able to build anything in there including a road. >> because of e.p.a. Stuff.

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>> mayor: where the road makes a circle and comes down. >> that's frankie emeritus. I lived on second avenue.

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I didn't know what street I lived on until they put that sign up when I was a kid. >> mayor: yeah

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>> it would go through that old muck mine. That's why it was never considered in the past to build

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on it. >> mayor: this one that you're talking about has got a house. >> the problem is there's other

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lots. Four or five people come up >> exactly. >> doing a special bond for that

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area to pay for the roads. >> I'm saying yeah yeah that is a question. Where is the money come from.

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can we do -- go ahead jan. Thank you for helping. >> right now at this point in time the only funds you have to

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be able to pledge for a bond issue is your ad valorem. Not recommended. >> correct.

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>> because of the green light debt. All of your excess taxes are pledged to satisfy that debt

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>> got you. >> if the one cent sales tax money is renewed that you could pledge.

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right now you don't have the option to bond. To go out for ad valorem. That is dangerous territory

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there. >> okay. >> so that's where you're at. >> before it slips my mind, so

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that's what we have in front of us now. When I look out to the future, we need something so that this

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never happens again. So somebody can't buy a chunk of land and carve it up. People buy property at a reduced

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price because they're on a gravel road or no road, and then expects other property owners to pay for them.

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are lining their pockets, and then expect everybody else to build a road instead of everything I just said.

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so somehow, there's got to be a way so that this can never happen again. Where somebody buys it up, and

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be carves it. >> non-platted are lands that are replanted. In the case new development you

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have the plot. And you have the ability to require certain dedications. Maybe future roads.

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where the city is going to get the money it needs for the infrastructure. Or in the case there are private

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roads. So you know, historical issues are more of a concern than going forward.

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>> let me ask this andrew. >> is that a law that that can't happen or if there's three of us up here for whatever reason

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agree to let this thing scenario happen. Is that a possibility? >> well you'd be talking about a

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subdivision. Whenever you had impact fees and everything in place. To make sure you have the making

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payments for anything that the city would construct. If impact fees aren't updated it's much more useful.

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and if and they're not covering the cost of the infrastructure coming in there there could be some problems.

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any increase in impact fees is supported by a study. So council decisions can create or be a factor in creating some

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gaps and provision of infrastructure. That is a possibility. But of course that again we're

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talking about new infrastructure as opposed to extremely old infrastructure. Almost to a point that the

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infrastructure doesn't exist anywhere. >> okay. I've got to digest that answer.

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thank you. >> andrew I read your review of the circumstances, from what I read the opinions indicate we

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are responsible for providing access to that property. Reasonable access. >> correct.

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>> so that's the bottom line. We don't have the leeway other than complying with. >> that's my question also.

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correct me if I'm wrong. We don't know there's a time frame. Right now we don't have anything

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in the budget. So do we budget this for next year. Is that acceptable.

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now, that's the business side of me speaking. The human side of if there's an emergency and an emergency

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vehicle can't get out there that's bothersome for me. If we can put this off for a budget year.

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>> at what point does business not matter. >> yes and no. We could get in a situation

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where he wants to enforce our responsibilities upon us, and that could very well happen because as andrew has indicated

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through his recommendation and his assessment that we are responsible, so our legal council has advised us of such,

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first of all ladies and gentlemen I do live in dunnellon heights and this is about a block from my home.

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it has no interest to my family or whatever. I can't anticipate I'd need to use this street.

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I don't think it's a conflict. To provide access to that individual property would be the key.

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is that not true andrew. We're not obligated to connect it to that road. Is it in fact, we can provide

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access which is I think it's two or three lots deep into that street. >> you know.

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there of course is a legal approach that a practical approach. Per law when we look at plats

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and if there's acceptance of any improvements of the plat it's an acceptance of the structure entirely.

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the city is under a legal obligation to provide access throughout the entire plat. From a practical standpoint

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obviously there are limited resources available. I think that's a discussion to have, what provides reasonable

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access, and reasonable maintenance and there's a little bit of leeway and in consultation with emergency

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services that there is access for that property. But understanding constraints and so forth what becomes

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reasonable and what becomes liable. That becomes a sliding scale. Again I think that's a

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conversation I think with emergency and any type of city resource or other service resource that needs access to

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the property to satisfy that reasonable access requirement because there's not a clear definition of that.

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>> with that said if there is a situation out there and it requires an emergency vehicle doesn't happen, and something

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catastrophic happens, and we're holding off because it's not in this year's budget. As jan just showed the different

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reserves we have a 1 million this, a million that. I don't think it's going to work out very well.

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I'd rather prevent that the catastrophe. So with that said looks like what we need to do is like

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kimley-horn or something to do some engineering, et cetera et cetera. Start going down this path

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unless somebody -- I mean I'm coming up with this on the fly. Can you help me mandy. >> anybody that has a path to go

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I'm all ears. >> we do have council contingency funds. Depending how much it would cost

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you could use those money to at least get this started. And it's budgeted, no budget amendment would be necessary.

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I would just transfer money to the department where the engineering is actually occurring like roads and

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streets. Depending on how much it costs a way to get started. You could still do budget

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amendment from other sources. Because this is going to be I believe a capital project. I don't know if if that's the

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way you may go. >> keep reach out to kimley-horn. Have a meeting with kimley-horn

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and figure out what the next steps are. >> mayor: we've got to figure out from them -- sit down and we

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need a fwuge we did the whole road, did part of the road. You guys look at this and tell us how much it's going to cost

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in the engineering, and how much it's going to cost. First off when somebody moves into that house, we've got to

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have an answer or the city is going to be opening themselves up to liability. I think we've got to come up

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with a solution and we need to start working on that now. But that tells me within a year they're going to be there and

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we've got to figure this out quickly. >> could we put something now to -- if somebody comes down the

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road and says hey I better move now I better start buying land so the city is obligated. They made the people pay $12,000

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to run the power in. We could put those assessment what it's going to be. Tell them up front when they

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apply for a permit. They're going to have to pay for $20,000. >> when it comes to assessments

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you've got -- I mean like -- >> looking at a develop you are you say you have an impact fee. >> you have to have a study done

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for an impact fee. >> homeowner would be responsible for an impact fee. But yew got to have the study

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done. But I don't know how long that would take. And then that study would

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provide you with a dollar amount that you would assess that property. Just like the fire assessment

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years ago. But it's got to be defensible in a court of law. >> I understand that.

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I'm trying to figure out if two or three come up. >> I don't think you can arbitrarily give us a $10,000

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deposit because you're going to build. >> mandy, you're not going to like this --

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>> I'm the one that took -- sorry. So public works will work with kimley-horn to start moving the

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physical project forward and see what it looks like. Can you work with jan and whomever to see what we can and

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can't do as far as assessments. >> uh-huh. >> do we need to talk about maybe at the next meeting taking

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some money and moving it into the budget. To see when it comes up hey the money is there.

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>> so we have a better idea what we're really talking about. One of the ideas just throw some lime rock so they can get to it.

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if there's a problem we're liable. >> same thing with the parking lot.

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>> mayor: okay. You're going to create a problem there. Now

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>> let's go ahead and do 6. >> mayor: we're going to go to 6a which is the parking agreements.

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>> excuse me, mayor. >> mayor: uh-huh. >> the vice mayor had moved the council vacancies to after

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agenda 6. >> you want to get through number 6. >> yes, ma'am.

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>> mayor: all right. So we need to look at ord2023-02. Which is a parking agreement.

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I read through it. I didn't see any problems with it. Did anybody have a problem with

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it? >> I read through it but I'm not understanding what issue the changes fix.

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>> there are only a couple. It corrects some codification when the land development regulations were rewritten.

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I can show you -- >> mayor: is that what the underline stuff is. >> yes.

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>> so it's just to fix conflicting language. >> mayor: to comply with the changes in the law

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>> what happened in 2018 the city had hired a planner to draft a resolution. To make changes and that was

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voted on by council, and those changes were not incorporated into the final ordinance that was signed.

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coming through this staff was made aware of that. And supposed to be codified. So these changes while they

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really are part of the code and were instructed by council to be included were never included. So these corrections fix the

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code so it's the way it should be. I do anticipate once the city has its community development

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running a little bit smoother there are a lot of errors that kelly and staff have identified. This is one of many glitch to

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fix the code to the way it should be. The >> mayor: I read through it.

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I thought we were just correcting something. It looked fine to me. >> anybody have a problem with

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it. >> I do not. >> this did go before the planning commission last month

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and they did recommend approval and so you'll have your first meeting on the 13th. And your final public hearing

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and final reading will be in january. >> mayor: okay. Good and deal.

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want to go to the next one. Ord2024-01 which is the mobile vending or basically food trucks.

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I only had one comment. On line 30 we talk about highway 41 corridor and county road 484 coreler.

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then when we flip over to -- it comes up again. Here it is. It's on line 85.

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it says u.s. Highway 41 which is the same but then it's say 44 it says east pennsylvania. To me those ought to be the

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same. It needs to say east pennsylvania or it needs to say 44.

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>> does this mean they can't have a food truck. >> mayor: what has changed the original was we were only going

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to put food trucks on 41. And then we went back and on 41 it has to be 300 feet setback. On 484 or east penn it has to be

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a hundred setback. >> it's not a setback of and it needs to be to the center line. But in the body of your

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ordinance you're only allowing it on east penn, not west penn. There's nowhere for a food truck appropriate to be on the west

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penn. That's why we're providing for both of the corridors, and andrew may have some suggestions

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how to better identify that. >> mayor: the west end is in the historic district >> on east penn outside of a

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special event. As being part of a special event. >> how about we had a month we

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had somebody wanting to put a food truck up on west penn on one of the lots they purchased out there.

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>> it wasn't on the west penn. It was on the corner of illinois and 41. It's a vacant undeveloped

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commercial property. That's also outlined in this ordinance. >> just so I'm clear it just

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says that if somebody opens a piece of land over in the historic district and they're right by the road would they be

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able to get the affidavit. >> not if it a vacant property. >> no. But wait one of the store

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owners. Crazy chicks they wanted to have their usual thing. >> it does not extend that

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direction. So the ordinance does not allow the food trucks to go. So when you have a food truck

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there the food truck there has to be adequate parking for the business and for the food truck. >> mayor: right.

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if you read all this it's going to have a certain amount of parking. You can't put up tables.

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okay. I get what you're saying mandy because when I read this, I know what this means.

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you don't want it on the west penn and that's how you codified. >> mayor: well that was the only

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thing I had with it. 9 rest was fine with me. >> do you have anything. >> no I'm good.

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>> it will go to planning in january, back to you in february. >> mayor: the only thing I

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mentioned to you I saw a food truck on east penn all weekend long. Since we don't have an ordinance

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I guess that's fine. The last one is ord2024-02. This was the animal. Got it.

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and we made some changes. We made it so that it's got to be in the b zone. Kelly.

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>> that's correct. It's commercial -- well animal rescue organizations allowed in b3 and b4.

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as well as setting the limitations to residential -- residents not allowing more than 4 dogs and more than 4 cats more

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than the age of 4 months. >> mayor: they had was that added. >> that is under the definition

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of the animal rescue organization on bottom of page 2. >> mayor: all right.

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I'm good with that. >> this is all goes to planning in january. You won't see it again until

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organization, as well as setting the residences not allowing more than four dogs and four cats over 6 months of age within the

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city limits. >> mayor: did we add anything about -- because I had mentioned it proven they were a qualified

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501(c)(3) and qualified. >> that is on page 2. >> mayor: all right. I'm good with that.

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are you good with it? >> yes, sir, I'm good with it. You won't see this again until february.

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>> mayor: thank you, folks for bearing with us. We got through the agenda, now we're going to go back to the

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vacancies on the council. Sorry for that, but I think like tim said, I think it's good you all hear some of the things

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we're dealing with. So you can understand where you're going or what you're fixing to jump into.

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all right. You all want to start them in any particular order? Does it matter to you?

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>> I'm good with anything. I kind of put them in the order in which we had the people apply, and adam, since you were

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the first one that applied, do you want to stand up and reeducate us on your background and what you bring to the city?

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>> mr. Mayor, mr. Vice mayor, city councilmembers. I'm a retired -- in my 20 years of service in the federal

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government, where we've had employees up around 7,000 people businesses and policies, that would impact budget, safety,

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moral. So as I read some of the papers talking about the decision of the council last time, I want to

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put out there, I do have experience in the federal government, working with people, employees, and people we

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represent. I once served korea, where we covered the whole peninsula, from the board border of north

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korea. I was responsible for the equipment -- if I could get on to the council -- organizational

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planning. As I said, I listened to the council meetings, I'm excited to hear what you all have to say.

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I have spent a lot of time thinking of the decisions that were made. The roadway.

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a lot of great concerns. Traffic distance. But you know, it was a plan -- the same with a one time --

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[ inaudible ] if I was on the council, I would like to bring forward ideas >> mayor: okay.

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you all have any questions? >> maybe just a comment. The reason we're looking in the past is because the past

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decisions are raising their ugly head in our laps. We want nothing better to do than to move into the future

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stuff. But when we have the budget things that come up, when we have the road problems come up,

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when we have the police department issue that happened, when public works, that whole scenario that happened, between

542
02:03:51,491 --> 02:04:01,491
public works in the past. We got a lot of stuff dropped in our laps that are the result of, in my mind lack of oversight.

543
02:04:04,671 --> 02:04:13,746
lack of oversight and pushing people -- people wanting to push through pet projects that do not, that are not in the best

544
02:04:13,746 --> 02:04:23,746
interest of the majority of the taxpayers, and if I can read this real quick, this is not just to you, adam, this is what

545
02:04:27,260 --> 02:04:35,468
I was going to start out with. Everyone who applies needs to understand this city's financial and staff constraints.

546
02:04:35,468 --> 02:04:43,276
too many people have grandiose ideas with no concept of what our constraints are. First thing everybody must ask

547
02:04:43,276 --> 02:04:53,276
themselves is, how is it going to be get paid for. You just heard how we're going to have less revenue in the

548
02:04:53,753 --> 02:05:01,327
future. And so -- we must ask themselves, how is it going to get paid for, and who's going to

549
02:05:01,327 --> 02:05:08,368
do it. Those are the two basic things for anything, money and people. And then I'm going to lead on,

550
02:05:08,368 --> 02:05:18,770
that is going to kind of explain what I started out with, we're presently cleaning up one mess after another, from years of

551
02:05:18,770 --> 02:05:27,286
council's pet projects and ideas that were not vetted enough, while there was very little oversight on our departments.

552
02:05:27,286 --> 02:05:36,529
so we don't have a choice -- when there's no oversight at the police department, we find out it was operating noncompliant

553
02:05:36,529 --> 02:05:46,272
after everybody left, but to take that on, and I'm not going to get into the details of all that --

554
02:05:46,272 --> 02:05:54,514
>> mr. Vice mayor, that decision has already been made. I'd like to move past that our police chief and lieutenant --

555
02:05:54,514 --> 02:06:00,453
we've moved forward on that, as you sit here -- [ inaudible ] I get it, I understand it,

556
02:06:00,453 --> 02:06:09,950
that's part of any organization, part of any business. The last thing you just told me, I appreciate you trying to

557
02:06:09,950 --> 02:06:15,695
educate me. That's business 101, you have finance constraints in every organization.

558
02:06:15,768 --> 02:06:25,768
you have ideas that were good. I understand why you say that. As a constituent, quit kicking the can what you did 10 years

559
02:06:30,820 --> 02:06:33,853
ago. >> the can -- >> when did the root thing come up?

560
02:06:33,853 --> 02:06:39,792
when did that come up? >> the road thing, it came up weeks ago. >> when was it put into effect,

561
02:06:39,792 --> 02:06:43,992
2018? >> oh, the things that said the plats. >> 1950.

562
02:06:50,603 --> 02:06:55,403
>> no, the mobile road. >> yes. >> 2018. And we're in 2023.

563
02:07:00,279 --> 02:07:09,922
we're at 90% -- you've already said we spent money toward it. >> I'm not following your point. >> my point being, you're

564
02:07:09,922 --> 02:07:14,827
spending more money toward the idea. Your idea is good. Where is your data.

565
02:07:14,827 --> 02:07:21,234
I'm hearing your concern, your concerns are good. You presented them to this council a couple times, where is

566
02:07:21,234 --> 02:07:28,400
the data being presented. >> what data. >> the data of the concern, the study, the congestion --

567
02:07:28,400 --> 02:07:37,640
>> I put that out, the congestion is, 12,000 cars, vehicles per day, okay, from a traffic study.

568
02:07:38,840 --> 02:07:45,910
and after ua came into this meeting, last meeting, expressed their concern about the water mains.

569
02:07:45,910 --> 02:07:54,166
I sat in the meetings when fgua expressed their issues and other ones, now we have gotten to the point where there are enough

570
02:07:54,166 --> 02:08:00,740
issues that have been discovered through the planning process, that we need to take eye look at this project.

571
02:08:00,740 --> 02:08:06,245
nowhere am I saying we're spending more money, you're putting words out there that were not done.

572
02:08:06,245 --> 02:08:14,420
here's -- I can tell you, I can wrap this up with you. >> the plan, do we not have to invest more city funds into that

573
02:08:14,420 --> 02:08:18,591
1234. >> we have -- >> probably invest less funds. >> yeah.

574
02:08:18,591 --> 02:08:23,162
>> because we're note going to do all that destruction. >> we have to draft the plans, right?

575
02:08:23,162 --> 02:08:29,835
>> modify. >> modify, and we don't. We don't know what that looks like yet, we're going to be much

576
02:08:29,835 --> 02:08:35,708
less construction with the modified version, so there's going to be out of this $5 million, there's going to be a

577
02:08:35,708 --> 02:08:41,447
lot of that money left over, that could pay most of the plans are already done. The only thing we're talking

578
02:08:41,447 --> 02:08:49,855
about here is, that would be different outside of the plans would be restriping the parking spots, I'm going to cut to the

579
02:08:49,855 --> 02:08:58,998
chase -- and I wasn't going to do this, but here's my problem, this seat is a three-year seat, except at -- I had a

580
02:08:58,998 --> 02:09:08,808
conversation with mandy, because I was confused on all these seats up here. My -- I thought that -- whoever

581
02:09:08,808 --> 02:09:16,315
gets in this seat, is here for three years. >> no. >> I got corrected on that.

582
02:09:16,315 --> 02:09:21,120
>> that seat comes up for election in november of next year. >> that's what that paper is,

583
02:09:21,120 --> 02:09:25,291
it's very important. I thought the same thing you did. >> right, and I even thought

584
02:09:25,291 --> 02:09:32,298
that your seat was good for three more years, but in november of next year it comes up.

585
02:09:32,298 --> 02:09:37,470
>> every seat up here, except yours comes up in move. >> that's my understanding as of today.

586
02:09:37,470 --> 02:09:45,811
now, I'm going to tell you, adam, the deal is up here, there are four of us that are going to vote to put somebody in a

587
02:09:45,811 --> 02:09:54,286
council seat, rather than however many people are being elected that would typically vote, so my opinion is, we can't

588
02:09:54,286 --> 02:10:04,286
make a mistake, because we've sat here for years, and seen a lot of good things on council, and we've seen a lot of horrible

589
02:10:04,630 --> 02:10:11,170
things. We just lost $11,000 last year to a shade shelter, this, that and the other thing.

590
02:10:11,170 --> 02:10:21,170
I wasn't going to go in this space, but for me, you are a no, and you're a no because of your response at the council meeting,

591
02:10:24,216 --> 02:10:30,256
looking for candidates, is exactly the opposite of what I would expect from a leadership position.

592
02:10:30,256 --> 02:10:35,628
instead of explaining where you could help. You chose to give us a lecture on our word.

593
02:10:35,628 --> 02:10:43,235
this is the exact behavior I'm not looking for. We've had enough drama in this city for years and years and

594
02:10:43,235 --> 02:10:48,541
years, I want people that are going to come up here and they're going to tell me, they're going to roll up their

595
02:10:48,541 --> 02:10:55,748
sleeves, take on a road project, they're going toe figure out how we can get grants and all the stuff that the city needs much I

596
02:10:55,748 --> 02:11:05,748
haven't heard that, the only thing heard was I my integrity is getting scorched. And again that's where I'm at.

597
02:11:13,733 --> 02:11:19,133
any questions? >> mayor: thank you. All right. Art jones?

598
02:11:26,979 --> 02:11:36,979
>> hello, everybody. You all know me, I love the rainbow river. I see nothing better than the

599
02:11:39,291 --> 02:11:47,910
rainbow river being protected. It's been in decline for a long time [ inaudible ]

600
02:11:53,720 --> 02:12:01,514
people could water ski down it, it was all beautiful. There was no algae. I hear those concerns, and the

601
02:12:01,514 --> 02:12:09,722
nice thing I bring to the table, I saw what happened down in crystal river. Crystal river, they had those

602
02:12:09,722 --> 02:12:16,495
concerns too, but nobody did anything until it got so bad, it was nothing but algae down there.

603
02:12:16,495 --> 02:12:26,495
so bad, they're getting ready to close down hunter's creek park. Danger if you swim in this water, you will get a rash on

604
02:12:26,972 --> 02:12:31,944
your skin. When I got there, it was like, wow! Is anybody doing anything?

605
02:12:31,944 --> 02:12:38,250
the answer was no, but somebody should. I got in there with my rake and started cleaning it up.

606
02:12:38,250 --> 02:12:48,250
and I got rotary to help me. It started to snowball. If you're able to clean up the area -- we were able to save

607
02:12:52,310 --> 02:13:02,310
three sister's springs. I want to see the same thing happen here, this is a beautiful river I like it when people come

608
02:13:02,341 --> 02:13:10,883
out and clean up the beach. I was able to get a grant, let's do a pilot project. Let's see if we can improve the

609
02:13:10,883 --> 02:13:17,223
lorain bow river a little better than it is. My goal is to get the river to the point where we've restored

610
02:13:17,223 --> 02:13:27,223
it, planted the grass and plants other there, so we don't have to spray herbicides in it. I know people told me I

611
02:13:28,968 --> 02:13:38,968
shouldn't call herbicides poison, but it is, it poisons the plants. We don't have an alternative to

612
02:13:41,914 --> 02:13:49,355
maintain the river and keep it open. We proved we have an alternative, expensive.

613
02:13:49,355 --> 02:13:59,355
it's an expensive alternative. We've done it down in crystal river, proven successful. We're getting the money out from

614
02:14:02,301 --> 02:14:08,707
tallahassee, which we should. Tallahassee is stepping up to the plate and joining us. I'd like to see the same thing

615
02:14:08,707 --> 02:14:17,316
happen here. Go up to tallahassee, asked them for help, we got that $1.8 million grant for the project

616
02:14:17,316 --> 02:14:23,188
going. We're in the process of getting it going. Me being on the council, that's

617
02:14:23,188 --> 02:14:29,795
going to be my big focus. I am glad someone is in charge of roads. I don't know if we have a

618
02:14:29,795 --> 02:14:38,704
liaison nor the river, that's going to be my focus, but we have to look at whatever issue I can, what's fair, what's going

619
02:14:38,704 --> 02:14:48,647
to be beneficial to everybody. For the aquatic manager. They'd like to take some pressure off the upper head

620
02:14:48,647 --> 02:14:57,556
strength, maybe we can look at blue run park and how we can get a little better access through grants and stuff, we take some

621
02:14:57,556 --> 02:15:05,640
of the pressure off the upper river. Some ideas to explore. >> mayor: I want to ask you a

622
02:15:05,640 --> 02:15:13,672
question. I know all about the rake, one rake at a time, I think. You're all over that.

623
02:15:13,672 --> 02:15:23,672
one question I have about the river, because I live on the river, is in your mind, do you think the number of tubes,

624
02:15:23,782 --> 02:15:33,782
kayaks and boats on the river is high, low or about right? >> I hadn't really thought about that.

625
02:15:35,361 --> 02:15:44,737
at times it seems like there's too many tubes at one time, and that's -- >> mayor: I should have said

626
02:15:44,737 --> 02:15:48,273
during the summer. Right now, there's nobody on the river. >> right.

627
02:15:48,273 --> 02:15:56,582
and the important thing is that -- maybe the city could do is -- I don't know if it's possible, but if you stop the

628
02:15:56,582 --> 02:16:03,822
motorboats from going up river, when all the tubers are coming down, that would make sense. So I any if we work with the

629
02:16:03,822 --> 02:16:12,364
state -- so I think if we work with the state department and fix some of that, okay, no -- that's probably scattered -- and

630
02:16:12,364 --> 02:16:19,805
also maybe providing extra access or an exit point at the state park >> mayor: all right.

631
02:16:19,805 --> 02:16:27,980
okay. >> I just want to say, I have -- I understand and totally respect everything you do at the river,

632
02:16:27,980 --> 02:16:36,655
we've talked many times about the multimodal project. How do you feel about the other problem we've got tonight with

633
02:16:36,655 --> 02:16:43,529
how we're going to finance the roads or what we're going to do with the roads, because a lot of this job is more than just the

634
02:16:43,529 --> 02:16:52,400
river. You begin to see it's a lot of things moving together. So how do you feel about the

635
02:16:52,400 --> 02:16:57,476
expenditure we may have to make with the roads in order to provide service. The people that were obligated

636
02:16:57,476 --> 02:17:04,116
to that we hadn't planned for. >> I think we can look at getting some help from tallahassee for that.

637
02:17:04,116 --> 02:17:13,250
with grants, part of the -- one of the beautiful things we have, small municipality, a city, is, when we go up there, we are a

638
02:17:13,250 --> 02:17:19,231
city. And tallahassee loves small towns. They'll help us, we just have to

639
02:17:19,231 --> 02:17:27,973
make some good contacts up there, put in some legislative appropriations. Talk to senator perry, ralph

640
02:17:27,973 --> 02:17:37,973
massulo, see if we can get legislation appropriation to help us, they don't want to see us die.

641
02:17:42,988 --> 02:17:52,988
>> with what rex just mentioned, the river -- both rivers, I should say, you know, they are jewels, they are jewels, and

642
02:17:56,235 --> 02:18:06,235
they have to be protected. Wally's not here now, but when his mom and dad had their place here, he spent a lot of time on

643
02:18:15,120 --> 02:18:20,726
that river when he was a kid, I did too. >> as you mentioned, we could water ski, do this, do that.

644
02:18:20,726 --> 02:18:27,650
all those things of gone. They're all gone, they're note coming back. So we're not going to look back

645
02:18:27,650 --> 02:18:35,274
and talk about too much of the old days, but it is a reference in my mind what that river looked like when I was a kid.

646
02:18:35,274 --> 02:18:45,274
so I don't lose the perspective of what I do when I was a kid, when I see it now. I have a comparison of --

647
02:18:46,618 --> 02:18:52,457
wally, I just mentioned when you were a kid, spending time at your mom and dad's place on the river.

648
02:18:52,457 --> 02:19:00,299
>> mayor: right. >> you experienced a sight that you can't even describe now. >> mayor: no.

649
02:19:00,299 --> 02:19:10,299
>> what I was getting at is, as rex mentioned, we were a multifaceted with the decisions we have to make for our city.

650
02:19:11,843 --> 02:19:17,843
it's transportation, it's relationships with our community. Our civic organizations,

651
02:19:18,250 --> 02:19:25,791
everything that ties our community together. >> right. >> what I would hope is your

652
02:19:25,791 --> 02:19:31,960
advocacy on the river is commendable. And a wonderful asset for this community.

653
02:19:31,960 --> 02:19:41,960
it's an as its to me to hear your opinions and your approach of our river. But I would hope as you

654
02:19:43,308 --> 02:19:50,916
mentioned -- you want to venture into other operations in the city. I think that would be key to

655
02:19:50,916 --> 02:19:57,256
service in the city. >> I was very concerned about -- [ inaudible ] it's not because I live on

656
02:19:57,256 --> 02:20:07,256
pennsylvania avenue or have a business there, I'm also a member of the chamber, and what's this going to do -- right

657
02:20:08,100 --> 02:20:16,842
now, dunnellon is parking lot rich, we'll go from parking lot rich to parking lot poor, we heard people come in here, they

658
02:20:16,842 --> 02:20:23,749
promised us, up know, think weren't going to take away those parking spots, if they were, that was a nonstarter.

659
02:20:23,749 --> 02:20:32,624
it's good that you get the people in here, you know, I want to get involved, for sure. >> that would be the main

660
02:20:32,624 --> 02:20:40,832
interest that you -- and I see you share that, it's important to me, and it's important to this council.

661
02:20:40,832 --> 02:20:50,832
>> I was in rotary for years. Rotary is all about what's fair. >> that's what we want, we want to bind our community.

662
02:20:51,543 --> 02:20:59,217
>> right. >> that's our goal. >> make this river shine. Pass it on better than we find

663
02:20:59,217 --> 02:21:05,817
it. >> you answered my concerns. >> mayor: have you asked any? >> no.

664
02:21:06,758 --> 02:21:16,335
my issue is, I think you have too much special interest with one rake at a time. I'm against special interest.

665
02:21:16,335 --> 02:21:24,509
everything needs to be looked at. We've spoken a few times, I'm not in agreement with your plan

666
02:21:24,509 --> 02:21:33,919
for the river. When I speak to the fwc biologists, they are not in agreement either.

667
02:21:33,919 --> 02:21:41,693
I speak to them many times -- >> who is that? >> the last one we spoke with was the young man at the

668
02:21:41,693 --> 02:21:49,670
cleanup, at the -- I spoke with bruce all the time before bruce retired. I don't remember their names,

669
02:21:49,670 --> 02:21:56,441
but the young lady and young man that was at -- >> I don't remember his name. >> when we did the last cleanup.

670
02:21:56,441 --> 02:22:06,441
they stated there that one of the worst things we can do is rake up the hydrilla, it's going to come back way more prolific,

671
02:22:10,989 --> 02:22:18,597
and the level bits that go down stream are going to plant themselves and make the situation worse in other areas.

672
02:22:18,597 --> 02:22:28,597
that could be he said/she said stuff, and I've been around since 1996 on that river, all right?

673
02:22:29,875 --> 02:22:37,682
so I've seen since then -- and when I hear things like the boat traffic. Right now, the boat traffic is

674
02:22:37,682 --> 02:22:46,958
the only thing -- where the boat areas are, are pretty much the areas -- I live at the south end of the river, that's what keeps

675
02:22:46,958 --> 02:22:56,958
everything consistently at the level it's at right now. They gave you the pilot project to do the one rake at a time in

676
02:23:01,373 --> 02:23:09,815
your canal. That canal used to be full of wild shiners and other stuff, now that the one rake at a time

677
02:23:09,815 --> 02:23:19,815
happened, the hydrilla has grown back so full and you called the fwc to put more poison in that area.

678
02:23:22,160 --> 02:23:32,160
I have a problem with the hypocrisy is too strong of a word, but I think you get my gist here.

679
02:23:33,472 --> 02:23:40,412
>> we've had this conversation before. You go against what the fwc biologists recommend, what they

680
02:23:40,412 --> 02:23:50,412
said would happen is absolutely what did happen. To me, the first pilot project in your canal failed, you asked

681
02:23:50,722 --> 02:23:59,122
for herbicides. Let's talk about crystal river in homosassa. That's a whole different animal.

682
02:24:08,507 --> 02:24:18,507
the areas taken down to white sand, I understand they weren't habitable because of the -- whatever was in there, but once

683
02:24:23,622 --> 02:24:32,697
they got took down to white sand, those areas are now party coves, you drive by those areas and you can't put another boat

684
02:24:32,697 --> 02:24:39,604
in there, the wildlife has been displaced with people. I heard many of your lectures coming in here, and you started

685
02:24:39,604 --> 02:24:49,604
out with, for the manatee, we're going to clean all this up -- >> mayor: can I make a point of order?

686
02:24:50,882 --> 02:24:57,789
we're assessing what they say, and it's turned into an opinion thing about the river. I understand what you're saying,

687
02:24:57,789 --> 02:25:03,895
but you understand what I'm saying? >> no, because he is pitching the rainbow river, he is

688
02:25:03,895 --> 02:25:09,901
pitching his one rake at a time, he got the opportunity toe pitch that, and I'm going to counter it.

689
02:25:09,901 --> 02:25:18,243
it's important because it says many things about character, et cetera, et cetera, to me. I'm not the one that chose to go

690
02:25:18,243 --> 02:25:27,243
this route. So you did everything, you vacuumed it up, turned it into party cove.

691
02:25:29,721 --> 02:25:39,721
the manatees ate the old grass, the solution was to put cages over the grass, I went down with and looked at the area, nothing

692
02:25:49,975 --> 02:25:59,851
is growing in those cages. No photo synthesis is occurring. The storm surge wiped out most of the eel grass.

693
02:25:59,851 --> 02:26:09,851
you're speculating it will come back, but I'm not comfortable is with that speculation. >> your idea that we're going to

694
02:26:12,564 --> 02:26:20,972
remove pressure at the north end of the river, we're going to create a swimming hole, probably outside blue run park and the

695
02:26:20,972 --> 02:26:26,111
bridge, and we're going to put more people in that area? That makes no sense to me at all.

696
02:26:26,111 --> 02:26:36,111
now we're going to start a war with the motorboats. The kayakers hate the boats, the boats hate the kayakers.

697
02:26:37,922 --> 02:26:44,262
the motorboat thing, I'm stunned to hear. I know there are people that live on the south end or the

698
02:26:44,262 --> 02:26:50,468
north end of the river are pushing for that. They're pushing for that because they don't want people in front.

699
02:26:50,468 --> 02:26:59,100
most people that are for vacuuming out the river, are the property owners that want the white sand and air bnb's and

700
02:26:59,100 --> 02:27:08,753
such, they would love to have a white beach in front of their properties. You start on the rainbow river,

701
02:27:08,753 --> 02:27:17,295
it's all about the otters. I questioned you, we take it down to home sand, we're going to have one party place after

702
02:27:17,295 --> 02:27:26,905
another where there's white sand and displace the critters. Your comment back was, I am for people over animals, that

703
02:27:26,905 --> 02:27:36,905
doesn't connect with me. And -- so I just -- >> it's all right, it's okay. >> I see it's too much special

704
02:27:38,783 --> 02:27:45,357
interest for me, with all these other issues we have, and I think you're going to -- I think that you're going to be more so

705
02:27:45,357 --> 02:27:53,865
pushing your project, that I adamantly disagree with, I think it's going to ruin the wildlife, it's not going to help it, it's

706
02:27:53,865 --> 02:28:01,239
going to increase the congestion and safety issues we have on the river now. That's where your focus is

707
02:28:01,239 --> 02:28:06,411
growing to be. >> I understand your skins, I appreciate you -- >> I'm a no vote.

708
02:28:06,411 --> 02:28:14,519
I don't -- we've had enough conversations, and heated ones, I don't dislike you, I think you believe you're doing the right

709
02:28:14,519 --> 02:28:23,610
thing, I don't. That's neither here nor there. But I think the city has a lot of problems, and I think the

710
02:28:23,610 --> 02:28:32,670
organizations that are in place, the fwc that has all the data on the river and all that you've convinced people that you're a

711
02:28:32,670 --> 02:28:42,670
scientist, they think you are, not that you've convinced them. I want too go with the biologists, the scientists and

712
02:28:42,781 --> 02:28:48,720
the data, and again, I'm done, rex, too much special interest for me. >> can I respond?

713
02:28:48,720 --> 02:28:55,320
>> absolutely. Don't sell your project, though, but -- >> I'm sorry, what?

714
02:28:56,327 --> 02:29:04,727
>> don't go back to selling your project. >> we've heard it all. >> correct inconsistencies, when

715
02:29:06,700 --> 02:29:16,700
you say that by raking up the hydrilla you spread it more, the hydrilla is already super saturated in rainbow river, it's

716
02:29:17,649 --> 02:29:25,456
everywhere. By removing hydrilla, you're taking it out in shifts, there's pieces floating out.

717
02:29:25,456 --> 02:29:35,456
there's already hydrilla down there, super saturated. I'm not sure if you went meant the one rake at a time failed,

718
02:29:36,501 --> 02:29:46,501
we tried raking it out, we got quite a bit of it out. We couldn't rake it out -- we started, it was already super

719
02:29:47,110 --> 02:29:56,110
saturated, the hydrilla. It was already full. Fwc has been treating the hydrilla for 35 years.

720
02:29:59,390 --> 02:30:06,965
we don't like it, but if you don't treat it, it takes over, you can't get a boat through there.

721
02:30:06,965 --> 02:30:16,965
it's not that I'm a hypocrite, I told this to fwc, I asked if they not use super k when I saw those palmer jelly's, they said

722
02:30:18,543 --> 02:30:22,881
it's an important part of our toolbox, and we really need to use it. Okay.

723
02:30:22,881 --> 02:30:30,588
I'm not going to be out there with signs or this or that, I want to work with the state agencies, and what happened in

724
02:30:30,588 --> 02:30:39,197
kings bay, give us a reason that we don't have to use herbicides. We did, we put our backs into it, we cleaned it out.

725
02:30:39,197 --> 02:30:49,197
yes, we started cleaning the swimming area for the kids, and it helped the aquatic life also. Yeah, I'm about doing it for the

726
02:30:50,141 --> 02:30:56,247
people and the aquatic life benefits. Don't get me wrong, I care about the animals and I care about the

727
02:30:56,247 --> 02:31:03,821
people, the otters, and otters main source of food are okay fish, which grow down in eel grass.

728
02:31:03,821 --> 02:31:13,821
you don't see many of them down in the high drill la, the other problem we really have in this river, is because they have bee

729
02:31:17,368 --> 02:31:27,368
strangled for 35 years, it's the muck. When you get the muck out, you'll get back to the natural

730
02:31:28,179 --> 02:31:36,588
bottom, get ready to plant the eel grass, bring back the aquatic life. It's a lot of work, it's why we

731
02:31:36,588 --> 02:31:46,588
need the state to help us unite. Out. People like to accuse me of being an environmentalist, I'm

732
02:31:49,200 --> 02:31:57,375
actually a rotarian, doing the best for all concerned. We want dunnellon to be a shining city on the river, just

733
02:31:57,375 --> 02:32:06,500
like -- there is a shine willing city on the bay, that used to be a nasty disgusting bay, and that's why there's so many

734
02:32:06,500 --> 02:32:15,500
people there. It's cleaned up. And you go down there later, it's quiet, peaceful, aquatic

735
02:32:15,326 --> 02:32:23,568
life has come down. We have about 75% survival, it will come back. But nothing's ever perfect.

736
02:32:23,568 --> 02:32:30,975
>> I understand that. >> can I stop you all? >> yes, I'm done. >> mayor: I heard this back and

737
02:32:30,975 --> 02:32:37,448
forth, and that's great, that really doesn't talk about the city. I hate to say it that way.

738
02:32:37,448 --> 02:32:47,448
I brought in thighs -- these books, they've been sitting here the whole meeting. These books are everything the

739
02:32:48,126 --> 02:32:57,726
city has given me in the last 11 months to read. Okay? Every one of these binders,

740
02:32:58,136 --> 02:33:06,577
every time I come to a meeting, I put them in a binder, when I get through the meeting, I put them in one of these binders.

741
02:33:06,577 --> 02:33:13,851
none of this has to do with rainbow river, I can tell you that. >> yeah, it's too bad.

742
02:33:13,851 --> 02:33:22,994
>> that's about everything else we do here in the city. Personally, I'm looking for someone that can help us solve

743
02:33:22,994 --> 02:33:30,668
these problems, okay? Now, for example. I don't know if you were involved with this, we had a

744
02:33:30,668 --> 02:33:39,844
little discussion here about short term rentals. This binder is the information in dunnellon on short term

745
02:33:39,844 --> 02:33:45,516
rentals. That's all that's in this binder. What I'm trying to hit on is,

746
02:33:45,516 --> 02:33:55,516
the river's important, clearly. But what we do on this council, has everything else to do -- but doesn't have anything to do with

747
02:33:55,827 --> 02:34:00,832
the river. >> yeah, you've been ignoring the river. >> it's not our river, it's the

748
02:34:00,832 --> 02:34:07,371
state's river. >> mayor: the state owns the river. >> we own the river.

749
02:34:07,371 --> 02:34:16,380
>> we don't even the river, it's the state's river. >> mayor: let's not do that. The things and problems we deal

750
02:34:16,380 --> 02:34:22,286
with, are a lot of problems that have nothing to do with the river. The short term rentals did,

751
02:34:22,286 --> 02:34:30,261
because they're on the river. So they're different things, and believe it or not, this isn't all I got from the city, there's

752
02:34:30,261 --> 02:34:37,268
only one copy of jan's 12,000 copy of the budget. Okay? I only kept one.

753
02:34:37,268 --> 02:34:46,310
it's over there. Because I can see it. But what I'm saying is, we spend a lot of time having to study

754
02:34:46,310 --> 02:34:56,310
and read, whether it's the bridge projects, parking, leases, whether it's short term rentals, whether it's the police

755
02:34:57,922 --> 02:35:04,195
department, we're dealing with a lot of issues that don't have anything to do with the river. What I'm personally looking for

756
02:35:04,195 --> 02:35:11,502
is someone to sit in that seat that can help us solve all the problems. >> like I said, I'm a rotarian,

757
02:35:11,502 --> 02:35:16,730
what's beneficial to all concerned. And what's fair. >> I appreciate you coming in.

758
02:35:16,730 --> 02:35:24,815
and putting your name in the hat, and we'll go from there. >> okay. >> mayor: thank you.

759
02:35:24,815 --> 02:35:28,786
>> thanks, art. >> mayor: everybody good with that? Okay.

760
02:35:28,786 --> 02:35:38,386
the next one I had was valerie hanchar. >> valerie hanchar. Thank you all for considering me

761
02:35:52,143 --> 02:36:02,143
for this position. I saw that it was vacated, and I appreciate all the hard work that has been turn.

762
02:36:04,488 --> 02:36:14,488
I appreciate it -- it's a thoughtless job at times, and, you know, nobody comes up here on purpose to start off -- they

763
02:36:16,567 --> 02:36:26,567
all have good ideas and no one intentionally tries to harm the city. I think you start off asking us

764
02:36:31,148 --> 02:36:41,148
to listen to the meeting. As far as 4-b. Just a parking lot for the -- I would recommend the gas tax, I

765
02:36:53,137 --> 02:36:58,709
believe that is -- [ inaudible ] it's been there for so long, unless you have reason to tell

766
02:36:58,709 --> 02:37:08,709
me otherwise -- that would be my recommendation to do that. I wanted to make one question. Is that the entire parking lot

767
02:37:12,657 --> 02:37:22,657
that goes to the offices? That needs to be repaired, someone's going to trip and fall, it's already down to the

768
02:37:28,390 --> 02:37:35,513
dirt. We've seen bands aids put on a time too many. Thank you for that.

769
02:37:35,513 --> 02:37:45,513
the multimodal just to clarify that, started back in 2012, not 2018, but like you, and I'm not as organized as you, I had

770
02:37:49,894 --> 02:37:58,736
paperwork regarding the multimodal from back in february of 2018. There were a lot of different

771
02:37:58,736 --> 02:38:08,736
meetings that I attended on and off the council suggesting -- the city council fire department paperwork still from 2018.

772
02:38:10,548 --> 02:38:20,548
so just wanted to clarify that. The 5-b was the project checklist. I think that's a great idea.

773
02:38:23,761 --> 02:38:32,103
I'm not sure if jan had a chance to look at it, and the other city department heads, to make sure that's something that is --

774
02:38:32,103 --> 02:38:42,103
can be produced before the project is approved, like the time of -- how much time would be managed by the city staff.

775
02:38:42,747 --> 02:38:49,820
that may be something that's not a known factor until they got into it a little bit. >> no, that was a request when

776
02:38:49,820 --> 02:38:56,360
this thing was put out. The answer should be yes. Department heads, it was done. >> it went out to everybody.

777
02:38:56,360 --> 02:39:02,366
>> yeah, it was done with mandy, jan, public works. >> that was just a question of mine.

778
02:39:02,366 --> 02:39:12,366
>> sure, no, I'm just answering it, right. >> can we abate second street. I know where it's abated, that's

779
02:39:14,545 --> 02:39:22,945
not being used. [ inaudible ] and then the unapproved road out there, in dunnellon heights,

780
02:39:30,694 --> 02:39:40,694
we've all been on dunnellon heights, we've driven back and forth for baseball teams. As a realtor, I drive on a lot

781
02:39:41,939 --> 02:39:51,939
of roads like that, the one closest to the city limits of dunnellon, that has had new homes built by albania, would be

782
02:39:53,617 --> 02:40:00,691
dunnellon oaks. Those roads are being maintained, it's a subdivision that has a lot of dirt roads as

783
02:40:00,691 --> 02:40:10,167
well, and I have almost been stuck on those roads as well. So my thought process is, not that I think it's the right

784
02:40:10,167 --> 02:40:18,876
thing, don't get me wrong on that, but was the county also doing regarding those types of issues.

785
02:40:18,876 --> 02:40:28,876
you look at ocala, rolling oaks or rolling hills, the exact same scenario that we're talking about, you all are talking

786
02:40:30,121 --> 02:40:40,121
about -- even silver springs had roads, it's now dirt. Some of them -- maybe we could reach out to our county road

787
02:40:43,167 --> 02:40:48,720
departments to see how they're addressing that issue. That just may be one way for us to --

788
02:40:48,720 --> 02:40:54,411
>> I can answer that one real quick. >> if you go to dunnellon oaks right now, you better take a

789
02:40:54,411 --> 02:41:02,820
four wheel drive, those roads are in atrocious condition, and the county does not maintain those roads, they -- the people

790
02:41:02,820 --> 02:41:12,820
that live in have to maintain those roads. >> yes, but all those areas are more county -- there are

791
02:41:16,433 --> 02:41:24,942
resources we could reach out to our partners in the county, and find out how we could get something set up.

792
02:41:24,942 --> 02:41:33,184
>> that's what mandy was asked to do, different ways to find funding and stuff like that. >> those are solutions I would

793
02:41:33,184 --> 02:41:41,250
come up with, or questions I would come up with, what I've been doing since not being on city council, driving my husband

794
02:41:41,250 --> 02:41:51,250
insane at home, I have had problem solving -- I see something on facebook, one instance at gua in hot springs,

795
02:41:55,372 --> 02:42:02,446
there was a chlorine issue going on. Nothing was being done about it, I reached out to some of my

796
02:42:02,446 --> 02:42:12,460
contacts. I still have at fgua. It was taken care of and rectified within a week.

797
02:42:15,993 --> 02:42:25,993
they stepped on it, once I made a phone call to them, they got on top of it, and I appreciated the effort, and the phone call

798
02:42:27,171 --> 02:42:37,171
that they were now receiving from fgua. So I have been active doing those things where I still have

799
02:42:42,319 --> 02:42:52,319
contacts. I have been still volunteering with my city, I've been -- I was a judge for the parade.

800
02:42:58,268 --> 02:43:06,577
I've been with the boys and girls club, done other things, I am still an active member of my city, even though I am not on

801
02:43:06,577 --> 02:43:15,786
the city council, I still -- this is my home, and this is where I will always be. And help wherever I am needed or

802
02:43:15,786 --> 02:43:22,993
asked. As far add working with the individuals on city council, it's always been an honor,

803
02:43:22,993 --> 02:43:29,867
sometimes we all get along, sometimes we all want to look at each other like omg, how do you say that?

804
02:43:29,867 --> 02:43:38,809
but the goal is to be able to leave here at the end of the evening and go out for a proverbial beer, even though we

805
02:43:38,809 --> 02:43:48,809
can't do that, because of the sunshine laws. I love talking to rex at my mailbox, if we're both on city

806
02:43:53,824 --> 02:44:01,565
council, we can say hi, how are you doing, your dog's cute. After that, it would be the end of our conversation.

807
02:44:01,565 --> 02:44:11,565
we know the good, bad and ugly, and some of the things I voted for in the past, I've proud of, some of the things I voted for

808
02:44:12,276 --> 02:44:21,985
in the past, I wish I hadn't. But I know there are only good intentions with whatever I do on the city council.

809
02:44:21,985 --> 02:44:31,985
I'm not perfect, nor do I pretend to be perfect. That's me in a nutshell. I will be able to take over

810
02:44:39,336 --> 02:44:46,760
immediately. I have my business cards that say valerie hanchar city council.

811
02:44:46,760 --> 02:44:52,349
and I'm already saving you money. I have to be a smart alec every once in a while.

812
02:44:52,349 --> 02:45:02,349
I get nervous sitting and speaking in front of people. Any questions? >> okay, valerie, I'm going to

813
02:45:08,465 --> 02:45:18,465
start out with, once the election was over, the way you treated this council was like a personal vendetta, had nothing

814
02:45:23,213 --> 02:45:29,586
to do with issues or anything. You came to that podium, chastised us over the police department.

815
02:45:29,586 --> 02:45:38,262
and hope -- two of you guys ran to save money on the budget, I hope you're happy now. That whole police department

816
02:45:38,262 --> 02:45:46,360
thing happened on your and other council people's watch. There was no oversight on that police department, which allowed

817
02:45:46,360 --> 02:45:56,360
that police department to operate noncompliant in many, many areas to the point that after the mass exodus and the

818
02:45:57,748 --> 02:46:06,560
present chief and lieutenant ron were wise enough to bring in outside auditors and see what we had, we were stunned by the

819
02:46:06,560 --> 02:46:13,964
findings. Not only were we stunned by the findings, there were a few instances where -- and these

820
02:46:13,964 --> 02:46:23,964
findings were findings that we have had during other audits for a number of years. Then there were a couple cases

821
02:46:24,775 --> 02:46:32,115
where we literally had four days to make this happen or that happen, whether we were going to shut down our police department.

822
02:46:32,115 --> 02:46:39,756
I didn't see -- there was no oversight whatsoever with our police department. Yet you come in here, cast

823
02:46:39,756 --> 02:46:46,763
stones at us, about the whole police department thing. And that was something that got dropped in our lap.

824
02:46:46,763 --> 02:46:56,763
we had nothing to do with that, during a lame duck session, the council you participated on bought a church, begin, during a

825
02:46:59,543 --> 02:47:08,552
lame duck session. Brought a church that many people spoke out against, that the money that was going to have

826
02:47:08,552 --> 02:47:14,525
to be put in, et cetera, et cetera. But you all decided you voted for it, to go ahead and buy this

827
02:47:14,525 --> 02:47:23,500
church anyway, oath to find out nobody did their due diligence and this church building could never be a police station.

828
02:47:23,500 --> 02:47:33,500
so all the time and money and drama that was wasted on that, you brought up fought springs, for two years, maybe three

829
02:47:35,379 --> 02:47:45,122
years, there was a flooding issue, in the springs. We campaigned through the area, that was everybody's issue in

830
02:47:45,122 --> 02:47:49,226
that area. We've been flooding down here for years. But the first time I got on

831
02:47:49,226 --> 02:47:56,433
here, the first time, okay, that we got a heavy rain, public works brought us out there, look at what we got, people can't

832
02:47:56,433 --> 02:48:05,142
even pull into their drive ways, it is knee deep in water, if somebody did walk-through there, when we're in there pumping it

833
02:48:05,142 --> 02:48:11,515
out. What did we discover? We're standing there, and matt looks over, look right next to

834
02:48:11,515 --> 02:48:17,788
us, there's an alligator in this drain at the end of these people's drive way. They've been living with this

835
02:48:17,788 --> 02:48:27,788
stuff for years. Nothing was done about it. The budget got raised, you know, I wasn't on council then, I will

836
02:48:31,401 --> 02:48:38,608
be through the budget. This is my third year. Jan was kind enough to put up with me even before I was up

837
02:48:38,608 --> 02:48:45,480
there. Explain how this worked, that worked, last year I knew the taxes did not have to be raised.

838
02:48:45,480 --> 02:48:52,389
I knew where the emergency needed to go and not go, because of my experience of running multimillion dollar projects,

839
02:48:52,389 --> 02:49:00,970
budgets are normal business for me. Yet, when I brought it up, I got a three minute, yeah, yeah,

840
02:49:00,970 --> 02:49:08,839
yeah, thank you. And I'm listening to everyone up here clap, we did it as a team. The only thing you did was raise

841
02:49:08,839 --> 02:49:16,480
taxes and raise them needlessly. The proof is in the pudding, the own am thing I did is take my information from last year,

842
02:49:16,480 --> 02:49:25,956
applied it to this year, and we didn't have to raise taxes and the revenue is no different. I'll leave it at that.

843
02:49:25,956 --> 02:49:35,956
I can't find -- bring something up, I can't find anywhere, anything that was fixed during your tenure, however, I did

844
02:49:37,340 --> 02:49:44,274
witness plenty of drama between you and the old mayor, wasted time and expense of everybody. I'm not laying all that on you,

845
02:49:44,274 --> 02:49:52,649
but you participated. And that's not what we -- that's not what I want to go back to, okay?

846
02:49:52,649 --> 02:50:02,192
again, I'm up here voting rather than all the voters out there voting, and I'm going to be responsible for my vote.

847
02:50:02,192 --> 02:50:11,468
I don't want to continue with that -- I don't want to go back to that kind of behavior, I want to see issues fixed, I want to

848
02:50:11,468 --> 02:50:20,310
see people roll up their sleeves. I don't want to see this meeting turned into the glee club or the

849
02:50:20,310 --> 02:50:28,585
grammy awards. I want people to roll their sleeves up, get in the issues that wally has mentioned.

850
02:50:28,585 --> 02:50:37,194
not just come up here and talk about it, but actually help the staff, work with the staff, give them -- not tell the staff go do

851
02:50:37,194 --> 02:50:44,401
this, but offer them a project. Here, I see this is not -- we can do better than this on this, and give them a product.

852
02:50:44,401 --> 02:50:53,401
not just -- lip service. So unfortunately, I'm a no with you, valerie. I'm done.

853
02:50:58,548 --> 02:51:07,257
>> mayor: rex or walter, do you have any questions? >> well, first of all, I've known valerie a long time, I

854
02:51:07,257 --> 02:51:17,257
know her family, I know her commitment to our community, and I'm proud to say that. The issues about the subject she

855
02:51:18,268 --> 02:51:28,268
brought up, the police department and everything. It happened in the last five years, I wasn't involved in that

856
02:51:29,146 --> 02:51:37,521
period of time. And it was disturbing to me to see some of the actions that took place.

857
02:51:37,521 --> 02:51:47,521
but I've always had a lot of faith in valerie's judgment. I've always enjoyed listening to her viewpoints.

858
02:51:48,899 --> 02:51:55,906
I know where her heart is because she's an old friend of mine. The community needs people who

859
02:51:55,906 --> 02:52:03,747
have a heart for their hometown. You certainly have that. I'm not a party to any criticisms or comments for the

860
02:52:03,747 --> 02:52:12,689
last five years, the only thing I spoke of in this city council was I requested hip for our dunnellon little league to get

861
02:52:12,689 --> 02:52:20,897
our lights fixed. The city agreed to do that, I was grateful for that effort. I came in and spoke concerning

862
02:52:20,897 --> 02:52:26,703
millions of dollars worth of grants that I worked on while I was in office. Those are the only two items

863
02:52:26,703 --> 02:52:36,703
that I remember ever speaking to on the council. I always found when I did speak, I was respected and had no

864
02:52:36,713 --> 02:52:45,113
reasons not to appreciate valerie's performance. >> mayor: we're good? >> may I just respond very

865
02:52:51,761 --> 02:52:57,801
quickly? >> mayor: sure. >> as far as the lame duck session, I don't believe in lame

866
02:52:57,801 --> 02:53:07,801
ducks. If I were sitting up there, I would work every single day until the day I leave office.

867
02:53:08,545 --> 02:53:15,218
I don't believe in lame duck session. I believe you work until the day you walk out the door.

868
02:53:15,218 --> 02:53:25,218
just to let you know that, as far as not having any due diligence on the property. I took two separate contractors,

869
02:53:27,597 --> 02:53:37,597
one was from naples, didn't know a thing about dunnellon, he knew dunnellon, he didn't know any of the politics about dunnellon.

870
02:53:40,510 --> 02:53:50,510
I did do my due diligence. Engineer, I am not. I didn't know until someone told me that.

871
02:53:52,589 --> 02:54:02,589
I did do my due diligence to the best of my ability that I was able to do. As far as the flooding issues,

872
02:54:05,936 --> 02:54:14,244
those subjects had been brought to the attention of public works in the past, I've never been told about knee deep water from

873
02:54:14,244 --> 02:54:24,244
a resident. I don't go driving around after rainstorms to look at everybody's drive ways, but if

874
02:54:25,188 --> 02:54:32,829
I'd ever been told there had been an issue of that sort. My first phone call would have been to anyone in public works,

875
02:54:32,829 --> 02:54:42,605
to try to get those situations rectified. And yes, I will say there was drama up there, with our former

876
02:54:42,605 --> 02:54:52,605
mayor. It was disturbing, I am human. It is not my preference to have had that happen to me, but there

877
02:54:55,510 --> 02:55:05,510
were a lot of personal -- [ inaudible ] it is regrettable. It's not what I look forward to

878
02:55:07,430 --> 02:55:16,430
do. I have worked on many city councils, back to when I was 28 years old.

879
02:55:19,876 --> 02:55:29,876
I can tell you that we would have our differences, and like I just said, we would go out and have a proverbial beer, which we

880
02:55:32,489 --> 02:55:42,489
could never do. We worked on city councils, we never agreed on things, but we would be civil to one another.

881
02:55:46,202 --> 02:55:55,110
the attitude of the council that was brought to us the last time, I did not appreciate it. I'm sorry if I was a partner to

882
02:55:55,110 --> 02:56:00,383
it. When you take so much, you sometimes have to come out and can't be that lame duck sitting

883
02:56:00,383 --> 02:56:10,383
up there doing nothing. So my apologies -- it was offensive to me as well. Just ask my husband.

884
02:56:17,534 --> 02:56:27,534
and as far as not offering the employees of the city -- that one probably hurts the worst I've always gone to the city

885
02:56:32,715 --> 02:56:42,425
aids and asked, what can I do to help. When there have been shortages on this staff, give me a phone,

886
02:56:42,425 --> 02:56:51,434
how can I help. I have seen grants come up, I will call any of the appropriate departments and give them that

887
02:56:51,434 --> 02:57:01,434
information. When I have seen different -- I don't want to say the word services, you have that one in

888
02:57:01,711 --> 02:57:08,418
my mind now, products to help streamline things, I have gone to them and said, hey, have you heard about this?

889
02:57:08,418 --> 02:57:16,459
I can't give you a list of what it was, we have had city councilmembers sit up there on occasion, and say.

890
02:57:16,459 --> 02:57:25,401
I'm up here, because I want to make a legacy, I want to make sure people knew I was up here. That has never been what I've

891
02:57:25,401 --> 02:57:34,344
ever wanted. For me to tell you -- let me say this one, tim. When I was on the city council

892
02:57:34,344 --> 02:57:44,344
in my younger days, we had walmart coming in, I fought for walmart to have to have somebody in that old walmart, I did not

893
02:57:47,891 --> 02:57:55,640
want blight. That attorney would come in every meeting, she had to be here, and say, madam, vice mayor

894
02:57:55,640 --> 02:58:04,774
or madam councilwoman, whatever I was at this point, these are the poem I've contacted, these are the companies that we're

895
02:58:04,774 --> 02:58:10,947
trying to get them into there. I went to the postal service too try to get them to take that over.

896
02:58:10,947 --> 02:58:20,947
I made sure the little side road that's there between our old walmart and new walmart -- I insisted upon that road being

897
02:58:24,494 --> 02:58:32,368
there, I did not want city blight. I'm embarrassed to sit up here and tell you that, but I do

898
02:58:32,368 --> 02:58:42,368
things that sometimes I don't want it to be -- it's not about me, it's what's for the betterment of the city of

899
02:58:43,120 --> 02:58:53,120
dunnellon. So I just want to let you know, that yes, sir, I have made nice additions to this city that

900
02:58:56,659 --> 02:59:04,767
people probably don't know about. But future again races will still be -- generations will

901
02:59:04,767 --> 02:59:12,108
still be profiting from. And I'd be happy to still sit beside you. >> mayor: okay.

902
02:59:12,108 --> 02:59:19,148
I have a couple questions. One. I know you've served on the council for quite a while, how

903
02:59:19,148 --> 02:59:25,748
many years have you served on the council. Can you remember? >> 10?

904
02:59:39,680 --> 02:59:44,907
don't hold me to that. >> mayor: I knew it was 8 and then a lot before that. I have a couple comments.

905
02:59:44,907 --> 02:59:54,907
I don't -- want to dwell on this church bag too much, but one thing I thought was odd, the city was going to sell the

906
02:59:57,453 --> 03:00:03,526
church building, I don't know, the next month, you wanted it brought up again and voted on again.

907
03:00:03,526 --> 03:00:11,501
and the vote was 3 to 2 the first time, and 3 to 2 the second time. That seems to me to be a waste

908
03:00:11,501 --> 03:00:20,501
of time. I didn't understand why you thought the votes would change. Because they weren't.

909
03:00:20,510 --> 03:00:30,510
the next thing I'm going to say is when it got to running for you is positions. I'm not a politician, I've said

910
03:00:30,620 --> 03:00:40,620
that from day one. Sitting out there and watching the way this council worked and you don't deserve all the blame,

911
03:00:41,698 --> 03:00:48,371
I will give you that. There were a lot of problems up here. We could all see it, okay, so

912
03:00:48,371 --> 03:00:58,371
don't feel like this is all on you. And that's probably the aren't mayor left one month after the

913
03:00:59,649 --> 03:01:07,156
new council got on here. He realized he wasn't going to change us, we were going to complaining him.

914
03:01:07,156 --> 03:01:17,156
the one thing I notice is why I ran. I'm hearing you talk about all this but every meeting it seemed

915
03:01:19,569 --> 03:01:27,777
to me, sitting out there, you were not prepared. You had not studied like I study, you had not read the

916
03:01:27,777 --> 03:01:35,351
material, you asked a lot of questions, when you start talking, you start talking and it's like a runaway train.

917
03:01:35,351 --> 03:01:45,351
and you just talk and talk and talk and talk and talk, until it finally comes back around. Until it's finally stopped.

918
03:01:47,764 --> 03:01:56,764
I know you're passionate, I'm the same way, nothing gets accomplished with all that talking.

919
03:01:57,673 --> 03:02:06,282
sitting out here, I watched you come in here and not be prepared. >> can I comment on that?

920
03:02:06,282 --> 03:02:12,488
>> okay. Sorry. >> the other thing -- I'm going to say something -- every time I

921
03:02:12,488 --> 03:02:21,631
got on that podium and talked to the council, I would look at you, you'd be scribbling, you would roll your eyes, look down,

922
03:02:21,631 --> 03:02:31,631
look at me, roll your eyes, like I'm wasting your time. And I felt like that was an insult to me to stand up there.

923
03:02:37,380 --> 03:02:46,722
you stand up at the second meeting we're in, and you jump on me and I roll my eyes at you, just to see what you'd do, and

924
03:02:46,722 --> 03:02:54,764
you went nuts. But did I ever go nuts standing out there? I didn't say a word to you about

925
03:02:54,764 --> 03:03:03,372
rolling my eyes at you, but you did. And I'm like, tim, what we inherited in that will police

926
03:03:03,372 --> 03:03:12,415
department, we're lucky we have a police department. And that police chief was there for six years, and did nothing.

927
03:03:12,415 --> 03:03:20,815
nothing. And everybody on this council for six years had to have known it.

928
03:03:22,758 --> 03:03:32,758
I'm the only one that wrote the man up and gave him a horrible review so he quote. Nobody but me, I'm an sob.

929
03:03:33,269 --> 03:03:41,344
at the time, everybody in this town jumped on me, how I could fire our police chief who was so wonderful.

930
03:03:41,344 --> 03:03:49,385
I'd like you to go over and sit down with ron and our new chief, and get a debrief of what they found.

931
03:03:49,385 --> 03:03:59,385
it was unbelievable. That's all I'm going to say. And for you and everybody else to attack this council when he

932
03:04:01,831 --> 03:04:11,407
left, I was furious. Because I knew things you all didn't know. I think it was totally uncalled

933
03:04:11,407 --> 03:04:21,407
for, you and our former mayor, who got up and criticized me personally for what I did. And I can tell you this, I

934
03:04:23,850 --> 03:04:29,792
jumped all over billy woods that night. And I regretted it, and I apologized to everyone in this

935
03:04:29,792 --> 03:04:39,792
audience, I went over and apologized to him. We worked very hard for the next month and saved this department.

936
03:04:42,204 --> 03:04:52,204
billy woods and I are good friends now. He and I -- that was a coup that was worked out with billy and

937
03:05:00,589 --> 03:05:04,760
mcquaid. None of them are to be hired back in this department. That's how bad they were.

938
03:05:04,760 --> 03:05:14,437
you all don't know how bad it was. But for you y'all to stand up, we've been here 30 days and jump

939
03:05:14,437 --> 03:05:20,142
on me and all of us, that was wrong, valerie. I'm sorry. Now you can speak.

940
03:05:20,142 --> 03:05:30,142
>> and I have never seen an audit. That's a good thing you brought up, that you want a -- the

941
03:05:33,723 --> 03:05:43,432
audits that are due from the different departments. That was not something we knew there was an audit.

942
03:05:43,432 --> 03:05:50,640
I never knew there was an audit needed for the police department. Did not know that, had not --

943
03:05:50,640 --> 03:05:58,800
did you ever know we had to have audits of the police department wild you were on city council? I don't remember any of them

944
03:05:58,800 --> 03:06:07,289
being brought up to us, unless there was an issue being raised. My apologize, I didn't know. >> we're here to provide

945
03:06:07,289 --> 03:06:17,289
oversight, oversight is the major function of this council. >> miss hanchar asked me a question, let me answer it.

946
03:06:17,967 --> 03:06:26,776
>> yes, sir. >> valerie, had I realized in the meantime, there was a problem, as you said, if you

947
03:06:26,776 --> 03:06:33,983
realized there was a problem, you would have spoken up. I did not see a problem, we had gone through a transition, when

948
03:06:33,983 --> 03:06:43,983
I was in office, we had a lieutenant from the sheriff's department, operating our police department in that time.

949
03:06:44,493 --> 03:06:52,101
I'm going balk a little bit, it worked out well, to get us into a transition period to hire a police chief.

950
03:06:52,101 --> 03:06:59,742
we went through a search process, and we made a determination, and we hired a veteran police officer with the

951
03:06:59,742 --> 03:07:09,742
county, and that was mike mcquaid, we hired him on his references and his ability that were relayed by his record.

952
03:07:11,821 --> 03:07:19,962
and that's what we went by. And then as we went on it, it didn't overlap that much, because I've been gone five

953
03:07:19,962 --> 03:07:28,370
years, I never saw an instance or heard of an instance of concern, at that point in time. I can't -- as I said, I had not

954
03:07:28,370 --> 03:07:37,370
done any public comments, criticisms or anything, concerning city policies for the last five years.

955
03:07:37,880 --> 03:07:47,880
as far as at the beginning, valerie, I did know the circumstances where he was hired, and he I did review his

956
03:07:49,492 --> 03:07:55,731
resume and recommendations. That's when he was hired at that point in time. >> you probably didn't know that

957
03:07:55,731 --> 03:08:04,106
he negotiated to where he didn't have to adjust salaries for any of our policemen the whole time he was here with the union.

958
03:08:04,106 --> 03:08:11,647
the first time it was renegotiated was the year we took over. We found out he hadn't done it,

959
03:08:11,647 --> 03:08:20,890
or allowed the union to adjust salaries in five years. >> we did adjust salaries -- >> mayor: no, you adjusted

960
03:08:20,890 --> 03:08:28,430
salaries. But the union was never allowed to come in here and adjust salaries, that's why when the

961
03:08:28,430 --> 03:08:33,869
union came through. Nobody on the police department understood they had a raise. That was the other thing that

962
03:08:33,869 --> 03:08:39,809
was amazing. They were getting raises and they didn't even know it. >> I fought for that --

963
03:08:39,809 --> 03:08:49,351
>> when the union came in, you had the honor of sitting down with them and negotiating this, and all of their salaries were

964
03:08:49,351 --> 03:08:53,589
drastically raised, that's how bad it was. >> okay. That's good.

965
03:08:53,589 --> 03:09:01,497
>> mayor: no, no, you all gave them raises up here, they weren't being supported by their union, because mcquaid had

966
03:09:01,497 --> 03:09:08,637
worked out a deal that the union wouldn't come in. >> I would have never known that until you told me that.

967
03:09:08,637 --> 03:09:18,280
but thank you for that. And about me not being prepared for my work, I'm going to take issue with that one, yes, sir, I

968
03:09:18,280 --> 03:09:28,280
answered all my emails, I did my homework, and if I asked a lot of questions up there, it was sometimes -- a lot of times to

969
03:09:32,828 --> 03:09:42,828
correct misinformation that was being presented by citizens in the audience, even that they heard it from us, think still

970
03:09:44,440 --> 03:09:54,440
are saying the same wrong information, that's when I would give it to jan, is that coming out of the xyz placement or is

971
03:09:54,617 --> 03:10:04,617
that coming from -- I was trying to do it in a manner and for some of my councilmembers where I was trying not to insult them

972
03:10:06,295 --> 03:10:13,200
by their lack of not knowing the correct answers or not hearing it. Sometimes you have to hear it

973
03:10:13,200 --> 03:10:23,200
three times before you actually understand it -- >> mayor: I'm still going to say what I said.

974
03:10:26,515 --> 03:10:35,925
I don't think you were prepared. You're not as prepared as the three or four of us are. I talked to staff about this,

975
03:10:35,925 --> 03:10:41,897
they said the same thing. This council has been more prepared than any council that's ever sat here.

976
03:10:41,897 --> 03:10:49,938
we ask more questions and we get more answers. >> that is great. I'm sorry you were insulted

977
03:10:49,938 --> 03:10:58,113
about the police department. We were going off the information that we were given and that we were to understand

978
03:10:58,113 --> 03:11:07,713
>> mayor: given by who? By the chief? >> by the chief, by staff, I'll give you that.

979
03:11:07,823 --> 03:11:17,823
I'll let you know that, my first priority will always be our citizens and our staff >> mayor: that's very clear, I

980
03:11:20,869 --> 03:11:27,643
heard that six years in a row. That all you're interested in is staff. No.

981
03:11:27,643 --> 03:11:33,515
>> no. >> mayor: I get that, but if we have a police department that is not run correct, that affects

982
03:11:33,515 --> 03:11:40,389
the citizens valerie, I'm sorry. I was sitting there in the real world watching our police department do nothing.

983
03:11:40,389 --> 03:11:49,665
I kept telling them there's drug problems downtown, speeding in downtown. Mcquaid would look at me like,

984
03:11:49,665 --> 03:11:57,873
drop dead. The council until me what to do, you don't. I got up here and told him what

985
03:11:57,873 --> 03:12:06,150
to do. >> he had probably one of the best safety records in the state.

986
03:12:06,150 --> 03:12:11,553
>> we have a better police department now -- >> I'm not saying. I've been through different

987
03:12:11,553 --> 03:12:21,553
police departments. I appreciate all your concerns. And I would consider it an honor to be on the city council.

988
03:12:23,732 --> 03:12:30,332
>> mayor: all right. Golly. Chuck dillon. >> chuck dillon, I live at 20320

989
03:12:36,178 --> 03:12:46,178
palmetto lane. What I would like to do is let you know some solutions for the problems I see.

990
03:12:57,566 --> 03:13:04,766
I've been on the council 13 years? Mayor two. Been intimately involved in

991
03:13:04,807 --> 03:13:14,407
dunnellon heights from the get go. There is an andrew, jan can look into it, there's $120,000

992
03:13:19,488 --> 03:13:27,696
sitting in an escrow account somewhere. It's in city minutes, because bill white came up and tried to

993
03:13:27,696 --> 03:13:37,673
get us to put water and sewer in there. He was willing to put in the $120,000 to put water in.

994
03:13:37,673 --> 03:13:45,447
somewhere, I don't know where, but somewhere there was -- $120,000. The problem with dunnellon

995
03:13:45,447 --> 03:13:55,447
heights is, I think the council needs to just -- I'm not going to say that ah, I promised myself I'm not criticizing, I've

996
03:13:59,361 --> 03:14:09,361
not come for it. There is a provision that allows you to pave the roads in there, at a cost of one third of the

997
03:14:10,806 --> 03:14:18,800
cost of the roads. That provision is, each person pays a third, a third, a third. I have property in there, I'm

998
03:14:18,800 --> 03:14:28,800
willing to pay it. We've had people coming up saying we don't want to pay it, but we want to city to do

999
03:14:30,325 --> 03:14:35,970
something. I think if it gets to the point where we wouldn't to do something about that.

1000
03:14:35,970 --> 03:14:45,970
that is an alternative. A third, a third, a third. I think that's realistic. The last grant we got, the

1001
03:14:46,708 --> 03:14:56,708
planning commission wanted to put the $825,000 into putting roads into dunnellon heights. The public works director came

1002
03:14:58,687 --> 03:15:08,687
in, and told those people it could be done for 3 million. I told them it would be closer to 10 million, by the time you

1003
03:15:10,320 --> 03:15:20,320
got in there and. That's one option. The other option is, if you do the third, third, third -- and I

1004
03:15:20,375 --> 03:15:30,375
may be wrong on this, what's happened is. I can tell you, I paid $750 when I first came here.

1005
03:15:30,919 --> 03:15:39,494
you got a problem with the builder going in there. Do that. We're going to go ahead and fix

1006
03:15:39,494 --> 03:15:47,903
that. But you're going to pay a third I we're going to pay a third and the city's going to pay a third.

1007
03:15:47,903 --> 03:15:56,903
valerie was talking about how the county handles things. The county has authority we don't.

1008
03:15:57,746 --> 03:16:07,346
they have taxing interests. The homeowners. We can't do that. Another option I wasn't on the

1009
03:16:17,466 --> 03:16:27,466
board, when we did the cra. When we did the cra. We knew we had a problem in dunnellon heights, we included

1010
03:16:29,578 --> 03:16:39,578
dunnellon heights in the cra. There should be cra money in there to make improvements in dunnellon heights.

1011
03:16:41,156 --> 03:16:51,156
the other thing, and I just have to make a comment -- I was going to email mr. Dunn but I doesn't. I thought I'd keep my nose out

1012
03:16:51,533 --> 03:17:01,533
of it. The best thing you did for the police department, was make a statement saying the people in

1013
03:17:03,712 --> 03:17:13,555
rainbow springs don't run this city. The people of rainbow springs have been running this city for

1014
03:17:13,555 --> 03:17:23,555
the last 25 to 30 years. The drinkers used the manatees coming up into the rainbow river to get boat speeds limited.

1015
03:17:30,172 --> 03:17:37,972
these conservationists use anything they can to make their points. Those are solutions.

1016
03:17:42,840 --> 03:17:49,524
the other solution I talked to mandy about. We have a lot of roads in dunnellon that are not used.

1017
03:17:49,524 --> 03:17:57,924
they're on pits. Second straight, you couldn't drive down there with a monster truck.

1018
03:18:02,704 --> 03:18:12,704
he's coming for the council to say -- if those streets aren't needed for access than aggregate them.

1019
03:18:15,450 --> 03:18:25,450
the property owner wins, they get 25 feet of property and the other property owners win. That's another solution you

1020
03:18:26,528 --> 03:18:36,528
could use. I made a lot of mistakes -- I argue with everybody. When we did the comp plan the

1021
03:18:41,476 --> 03:18:51,476
rainbow river conservation club wanted to write the comp plan. And they initiated this river corridor and said, you have

1022
03:18:51,887 --> 03:19:01,887
to -- from planning -- you have to compute the amount of frontage on the river to decide how much you can -- it was all

1023
03:19:03,640 --> 03:19:11,173
crazy. I stand behind the comp plan the other thing the council did prior to us.

1024
03:19:11,173 --> 03:19:21,173
they made every lot in blue cove too. We have council people that decided they didn't want people

1025
03:19:25,887 --> 03:19:35,887
to develop the property. They made it low density. There won't be a lot in blue cove two you can built on.

1026
03:19:40,335 --> 03:19:50,335
we grandfathered in all the lots of record prior to 2008 which made all those lots -- I'd like to solve problems.

1027
03:19:56,852 --> 03:20:06,852
I looked at the applicants, decided I had as much chance as they do, maybe I don't, but any questions you have, criticisms,

1028
03:20:09,264 --> 03:20:16,905
whatever. I know how hard it is to sit up there. It's hard to hold your tongue.

1029
03:20:16,905 --> 03:20:26,505
>> you got that right. >> that's all I have to say. >> have you discussed this with janie?

1030
03:20:28,830 --> 03:20:35,560
>> yes, I have. >> and what was her reply? >> no. >> were you listening?

1031
03:20:35,560 --> 03:20:42,664
>> no. >> there's a case right there, chuck, where I think your judgment is out of whack.

1032
03:20:42,664 --> 03:20:51,973
janie knows a lot more about what you need to be doing. >> there's got to be a woman out there to keep the rest of the

1033
03:20:51,973 --> 03:21:01,973
men straight. >> I would -- >> when it comes to this city, and what I can do for this city,

1034
03:21:06,821 --> 03:21:16,698
that's fine. If you decide you don't want me, that's fine too. She is totally against it.

1035
03:21:16,698 --> 03:21:26,608
>> I don't have a janie in my life, you are fortunate to have one in your life. Everyone knows that.

1036
03:21:26,608 --> 03:21:36,608
it takes a lot of your time to serve this city. Other than janie not going along with you, I already know you,

1037
03:21:40,288 --> 03:21:49,230
chuck. I know the pluses and minuses. The one thing I didn't address that I needed to address.

1038
03:21:49,230 --> 03:21:59,230
the multimodal -- when we first roughed that up, it was all we were going to do. We were going to put stripes in

1039
03:22:05,800 --> 03:22:15,800
there, you see it everywhere. I'm up at flag letter beach -- >> 240, all the same -- then the people of rainbow springs got

1040
03:22:19,227 --> 03:22:27,502
involved. What they wanted. They wanted a bridge across the river, so people could come from

1041
03:22:27,502 --> 03:22:37,502
blue run park across the river and not have to -- the other thing is -- just because I work with them a lot --

1042
03:22:40,810 --> 03:22:50,810
>> sure, right. >> so what happened was, there was one 18 hadn't $8 million in the original funding budget for

1043
03:22:54,562 --> 03:23:04,562
them to move all their lines. When push came to shove that money was taken -- the waterlines or sewer lines under

1044
03:23:11,279 --> 03:23:21,279
the road, that's down -- all fuga has to do is sleeve them, they sleeve them with steal, and then they run it, you're not

1045
03:23:23,858 --> 03:23:33,858
going to have -- as a contractor -- >> just to help with that part of the conversation, the water

1046
03:23:35,804 --> 03:23:43,878
main -- it's not the sewer lines, the gravity lines. It's on the north side of the road.

1047
03:23:43,878 --> 03:23:51,119
they're not going down that deep. They're going to remove an inch and a half of blacktop and

1048
03:23:51,119 --> 03:24:01,119
resurface that area. They will not be used to do any sleeving or anything with them. >> I did not know that.

1049
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>> that -- so two other things -- andrew, does your firm still represent -- [ inaudible ]

1050
03:24:14,309 --> 03:24:22,817
>> yes. >> to your point about the short term rentals, I have one right in front of my house.

1051
03:24:22,817 --> 03:24:32,817
I know it's every week. Flag letter beach has got an excellent solution. What they do, they hand out.

1052
03:24:35,430 --> 03:24:45,430
they determine how many licenses they want to give out, they gave out those licenses and then they go with the property someone

1053
03:24:46,641 --> 03:24:56,641
comes in there, that guy can rent out the property -- if we don't do something about that. The most around the rainbow

1054
03:25:01,156 --> 03:25:11,156
river are going to be short term rentals, they don't care. They hoot and holler all night long.

1055
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they don't care. I'm sorry, I didn't want to -- >> no, you're good. We want to hear from you, that's

1056
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why we put this at the end, so we didn't have to rush through this and hold everybody else up. >> I think here's where walter

1057
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and I disagree vehemently is on the bicycle path. I love it to death, but I disagree with everything he says

1058
03:25:41,563 --> 03:25:51,563
about it, I think the medians will slow the traffic down -- I have breakfast every morning at the purple stage and every

1059
03:25:56,878 --> 03:26:04,852
afternoon, it's a drag strip. By putting those islands in, it's going to slow the traffic down.

1060
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>> that's what they do. >> that will do that. The other thing is, they're putting crosswalks in which we

1061
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don't have now. We have the apartment complex -- the people go over to the doughnut shop -- they have to

1062
03:26:33,181 --> 03:26:41,823
stop the traffic, let the people in the wheelchair go across, if someone will look at where those apartments are and make sure

1063
03:26:41,823 --> 03:26:51,823
there's a pedestrians crossing there, that's going to be a big plus. I'm sorry, like I said, I'm here

1064
03:26:55,637 --> 03:27:05,637
to get criticized for my decisions or ask questions about anything you'd like to ask me about.

1065
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>> I know you got questions. >> this doesn't just pertain to you, typically, we have these conversations in our living

1066
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rooms with our friends, spouses, whomever. Unfortunately, we're expressing our opinions in a public format.

1067
03:27:28,670 --> 03:27:35,944
some opinions are harsh and hard to listen to, I do wish the circumstances were different for everybody.

1068
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>> don't worry, I can take it. You brought up some interesting things here, your one third one third one third, you just

1069
03:27:51,826 --> 03:28:01,502
listened to the budget woes, and I understand the one third concept, but we know we're talking about at least 10

1070
03:28:01,502 --> 03:28:11,502
million. And that number is probably a couple years old, so I'm sure that number's gone up.

1071
03:28:12,547 --> 03:28:21,547
you do that math, 12 million, that's $4 million, the city doesn't have that for paving opinion.

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>> right. I'm not advocating. >> it's just a comment. Blue cove too.

1073
03:28:44,946 --> 03:28:54,946
my understanding of blue cove is, there was a zoning scandal I'm going to use my words and interpretation, kind of a zoning

1074
03:28:57,191 --> 03:29:07,191
scandal that happened around that well one of the previous planning department folks. That will had to get relooked

1075
03:29:10,972 --> 03:29:20,972
at, it was done under the table and this is my understanding, blue cove zoning had to go back to where it was again.

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low density to medium density, unbeknownst to many people. I'm skeptical of the whole blue cove thing, knowing that little

1077
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bit of information. My question for you would be what are you looking to accomplish in a one year sitting

1078
03:29:47,875 --> 03:29:54,549
up here about. >> I guess what I'm trying to accomplish is provide information and background that

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I have and that's it. I'm not going to run again. The next year between the bike path and everything else we're

1080
03:30:07,962 --> 03:30:17,962
doing -- I'm 74 years old. >> I'm not quite there. >> that's all, I think I'm a wealth of knowledge.

1081
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and provide it, you all do what you want to do. I'm not going to be on the council to be very forward.

1082
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that's it. That's all I can offer. >> here's where it's going to get harsh.

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>> that's all right. >> there's skepticism you maybe wan at to get on for some of your development projects.

1084
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and push the zoning changes, I don't know what needs to happen. But I keep hearing -- I've never heard it called blue cove 2

1085
03:31:01,449 --> 03:31:07,755
before, but I know where you're talking about. There's a thought process that you want to get on here to push

1086
03:31:07,755 --> 03:31:16,664
something through, so you can develop that area. >> I can tell you right now, anyone who's worked with me.

1087
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I have never put my interest before this city. Never I put money into the coffers to save the city council

1088
03:31:30,411 --> 03:31:40,411
from goaling ethics complaints. I put the city first, I always have I got the piece of property you're talking about, okay?

1089
03:31:40,955 --> 03:31:50,955
that was to me was vindictive the way they rezoned it. There's a commercial next to that, and they make it low

1090
03:31:53,901 --> 03:32:03,901
density. That's neither here nor there. I could put six houses on that, according to the new comp plan,

1091
03:32:04,450 --> 03:32:13,354
I may do it, I may not do it, I will assure you that I have no projects. That's the only piece, and I own

1092
03:32:13,354 --> 03:32:20,461
the property in front of the mobile home park. I've recused myself every time, and you can ask anyone -- even

1093
03:32:20,461 --> 03:32:30,338
when I didn't have to recuse myself because I don't want there to be any conflict. You can believe what's on the

1094
03:32:30,338 --> 03:32:39,513
screen or. >> no, I'm with you. I understand what you're saying, I purposely do not read the

1095
03:32:39,513 --> 03:32:48,656
newspapers I don't have social media other than email. I don't get into facebook or anything like that, it's too

1096
03:32:48,656 --> 03:32:58,656
distracting for me. I'm not in tune with to the word on the street unless someone's bringing it to me.

1097
03:33:04,372 --> 03:33:13,781
here's something I experienced not personally with you, but was part of the shade shelter, the whole shelter thing at public

1098
03:33:13,781 --> 03:33:23,781
beach I'm going to fast forward, we're looking to put in a shade shelter. I'll save the horror story for

1099
03:33:27,695 --> 03:33:37,695
how we lost $11,000, we got exam -- scammed out of $11,000. That shouldn't have happened. If someone wasn't pushing that

1100
03:33:39,106 --> 03:33:49,106
project so hard, we would have done step a, b, c in order but we did not. That's neither here nor there

1101
03:33:51,886 --> 03:34:01,886
for this conversation with you. After that ah, somehow you and the past mayor, mr. White got together and you offered the

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03:34:02,997 --> 03:34:12,597
city buy the material, you would construct the shade shelter [ inaudible ] >> right, the city would supply

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03:34:12,673 --> 03:34:19,413
material and you would take care of everything else. But -- the issue we had with that, I'll use me -- the issue I

1104
03:34:19,413 --> 03:34:29,413
had with that is -- it goes against a lot of things. As you know, the liability being a contractor that comes with

1105
03:34:36,497 --> 03:34:46,497
doing business that way it was a noble thing, but we got burned by getting out of process, and now we're going to step back in

1106
03:34:51,445 --> 03:34:59,530
the same pile and get out of process again, all right? Part of my mind was, the liabilities and such, if

1107
03:34:59,530 --> 03:35:09,530
something goes wrong -- my other issue with it was, again, word on the street, chuck dillon has a fit over something, and I can

1108
03:35:11,866 --> 03:35:20,908
relate to that. Myself. And the next thing you know, you walk off, and we're sitting with

1109
03:35:20,908 --> 03:35:27,882
$11,000 worth of material on the ground rotting. >> if you'll let me clarify something, okay?

1110
03:35:27,882 --> 03:35:37,882
the materials were $5,000 or something less. The first you got ripped off on, I went out there, and there was

1111
03:35:40,728 --> 03:35:49,336
a dip in the roof, because the contractor didn't put ties in. >> I'm aware of everything about the old one.

1112
03:35:49,336 --> 03:35:58,936
I went over there and I thought, that's ridiculous. >> here's what I've done in the past.

1113
03:36:04,919 --> 03:36:11,792
I built the city beach bath house. I did the extension on the old library that way.

1114
03:36:11,792 --> 03:36:20,835
I did the extension on -- >> absolutely. >> all I'm staying is, I was going back to --

1115
03:36:20,835 --> 03:36:26,730
>> absolutely, and my career was the same thing, we used to be able to do things like this, no problem.

1116
03:36:26,730 --> 03:36:36,730
as the years went on, all that stuff came to a screeching halt. What my real issue was -- when it all took place.

1117
03:36:41,489 --> 03:36:51,489
I was party -- record requests were made, et cetera, et cetera. So I read the texts that were sent to the public works manager

1118
03:36:55,135 --> 03:37:05,135
from you and they were -- you can tell you were upset. >> incendiary. That's a good one, that's

1119
03:37:08,282 --> 03:37:16,682
perfect. Exactly. And what I'm worried about is -- we wanted to just keep

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03:37:17,725 --> 03:37:26,200
everything in process and stay safe, especially since we just got ripped off for $11,000, now we're going to do something on a

1121
03:37:26,200 --> 03:37:36,200
good ole boy method, it's like, we didn't learn a lesson from a week ago. And the past public works leader

1122
03:37:39,790 --> 03:37:46,820
gets humiliated. The only thing he was wanting to do was, follow what we wanted. Stay in process.

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03:37:46,820 --> 03:37:56,820
do not get out of process. I was taken aback. Don't get me wrong, I've scorched the earth --

1124
03:37:59,633 --> 03:38:09,633
>> I have no regrets, I'll tell you why, when someone stands up and says things that are not true, things that I didn't say,

1125
03:38:10,377 --> 03:38:17,584
I met with mandy and I met with troy. Things were said in that meeting, that when he got up

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03:38:17,584 --> 03:38:25,384
here changed. I'd do it again today. >> okay. >> if I'm not selected because

1127
03:38:28,620 --> 03:38:38,620
of that ah, that's fine. >> my issue is not the incendiary attacks, my worry is, staying in process.

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I cannot cast a stone at you, I've scorched too many earths much. >> I guess all you have to do is

1129
03:38:50,884 --> 03:39:00,600
you have to ask the staff, talk to andrew, I stay in the process, we're doing something that's my goal.

1130
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I want to get there. >> I don't stop any process, that's the problem with dunnellon, the problem with

1131
03:39:09,837 --> 03:39:19,713
dunnellon, they have never stood up and said, this is the right thing to do, and we're going to do it, we're not waiting ten

1132
03:39:19,713 --> 03:39:27,621
years, we're not waiting five years, we're going to give it -- >> we're not having others spend our money.

1133
03:39:27,621 --> 03:39:34,128
and we're in agreement there. Okay. I'm all good. Thank you.

1134
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sorry, wally. >> mayor: I just have two questions. One, and you've mentioned it, I

1135
03:39:46,306 --> 03:39:52,980
think you have a home here in dunnellon, and you have one somewhere around jacksonville, st. Augustine?

1136
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>> flagler beach. >> mayor: how much time do you spend in each one of these? >> when I was on the council, it

1137
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was here. I didn't go to the beach I would go to the beach on the weekend. I'll guarantee you --

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>> I mar you have a house up there -- if you get on the council, you need to focus on the town.