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Brandon, is that better?

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Yeah, that's good. Thank you. Okay, thank you. All right. Good evening, everybody. Would you please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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Councilmembers, councilmembers, so? Here. Councilmembers, Landry. Here. Councilmembers. Here. Vice Mayor Stride. Here. Mayor Dalgezo. Here. All right. Approval to the agenda. And do we have any add-ons?

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Nope. All right. Okay, great. Thank you. All right.

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Okay. First on the

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Agenda is Mel with Firm, you're going to come up and speak with us, tell us a little bit about Firm that we gave you a grant as well.

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So this was something new in the last couple of years that we've been giving you a grant and I just want you to explain what that grant from us, how it helps Firm and us as well.

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Thank you.

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Good evening Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor Deborah Strife, members of the Marathon City Council, staff and guests.

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My name is Mel Montagny, pardon my voice.

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For more than 25 years I've called Monroe County home, served as a local insurance agent.

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For the past two decades I've served as the president of firm, fair insurance rates in Monroe.

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as you're passionate advocate for fair and affordable property insurance across our islands.

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Since 2006, firm has been on the front lines, fighting excessive discriminatory and

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unaffordable insurance rates that threaten our homes, businesses, workforce housing,

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and the overall economic health of the keys.

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As a grassroots organization, we serve as the watchdog voice for marathon and all of Monroe County.

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We work with legislators, regulators, citizens' property insurance, and FEMA to deliver the

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fair, equitable, and sustainable coverage for a unique island environment demands.

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Many of you know this battle first hand, skyrocketing premiums that put home ownership

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at risk, the realities of storm surge in hurricanes, and the constant challenge of keeping our

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Our teachers, first responders and service workers house or our communities can thrive.

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That's why the opportunity to speak to you means so much.

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Thanks to strong community and legislative support, Firm has delivered real, measurable results, more than $750 million in avoided premium increases from Monroe County property owners for the last 20 years.

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That's 750 million that has helped families stay in their homes, businesses remain open and

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our eyes remain strong and resilient.

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So what are some of the recent things that we've seen and we've accomplished?

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We've seen some citizens' rate changes.

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So with the legislative session now behind us, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation

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as approved citizens, 2026, rate changes that went into effect July 1st.

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So Forum in Roe County, what does this mean?

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A 5.7% decrease on wind only homeowner's policies, and

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a 6.3% decrease on wind only condo unit owner's policies.

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In our high risk environment, these reductions are real progress, and

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and put meaningful money back into the pockets of marathon homeowners,

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condo associations, and business owners.

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These wins are the direct result of persistent advocacy, strong data on Monroe County's unique challenges,

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and the improving statewide market we've helped shape.

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We are especially encouraged that marathon now has a strong local voice on the citizens' board of governors, with Brian Schmidt.

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Having a marathon resident serving on the board is a significant step forward

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for ensuring that the unique needs and realities of the middle keys are better understood

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and represented at the highest level.

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There is a specific local issue that I'd like to raise tonight.

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So I want to bring your attention to a practical challenge that many marathon property owners

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and condo associations are facing with citizens' property insurance.

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citizens frequently non-renews policy when it determines a roof's age or condition is unacceptable.

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And it will only rescind that non-renewal upon proof of a full covering replacement, not a coding.

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So, acceptable documentation is either assigned roofing contract with paid-in-full receipts or a finalized building permit that clearly states a complete roof covering replacement has occurred along with photos.

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In practice, the wording on some city of Marathon permits is not always aligned with the precise

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language citizens with unnecessary obstacles for associations trying to keep their coverage

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as well as homeowners.

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My request is simply that the city continue working to a clearer, more consistent permit language

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and documentation practices that accurately reflect the scope of the roofing work performed.

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doing so would help marathon property owners more easily, satisfy citizens underwriting standards and avoidable non-renewals.

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This is a general issue affecting multiple properties across the city, other municipalities in the county as a whole.

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Not any one single association or homeowner.

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That is why I strongly urge all municipalities and the county to attend our citizens town hall on August 25th, 2026 right here in Marathon.

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So we can hear directly from citizens leadership exactly what documentation and permit language they require for full roof covering replacements.

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Now, I don't think any of us here are stupid.

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We realize what citizens is trying to achieve.

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They have orders to depopulate citizens, and I believe that order means that any and all costs.

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And that is why we are facing this issue as well with the non-renoles.

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So looking ahead, what are some of our key priorities?

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So we're already engaged on several fronts.

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We're working on depopulation language to get away

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from the up to 20% search arge that we're seeing on some

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of these carriers that are depopulating policies

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from citizens.

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So we want to do away with that.

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I don't believe that that is fair to anyone

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that is already paying an exorbitant rate with citizens

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for some new company to come along and say,

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Oh, by the way, I'm slapping you with a 20% search

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arch on top of that.

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We're working with the Office of Insurance Regulation

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and Citizens on a new mitigation form.

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So, marathon and keys properties, especially those

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as strong proven features, receive every credit and discount

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they deserve, which they are not getting today.

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We're collaborating with Citizens Board of Governors

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to better recognize the superior performance of citizens

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of concrete roofs, which are common in the keys

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and have demonstrated excellent wind resistance.

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We're also partnering with Habitat for Humanity Affiliates

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across the Keys.

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These code compliant well-mitigated homes

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for our essential workers still face very high insurance costs.

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We're gathering data to demonstrate their lower risk

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and advocate for targeted credits

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because protecting workforce housing

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is critical to sustaining our local economy

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and quality of life.

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citizen state-wide policy count continues to decline dramatically from a peak of

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over 1.41 million policies down to approximately 278,000 policies as of June

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30th. That's an approximate 80% reduction from its peak. If current depopulation

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efforts continue, the policy counts rejected to stabilize in the low 200,000s.

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Returning citizens to its fully intended role is a true ensure of last resort.

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Now, that's a great thing to say, however we know very well here in Marathon and in Monroe County that citizens has been our only resort for quite a few years here, the reason why we have citizens is because of Monroe County created more than 50 years ago.

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We attend every citizen's Board of Governors meeting pushing for unending necessary flood mandates, thoughtful depopulation, keeping citizens focused on wind-only coverage, and refining catastrophe models to reflect our actual claims history and mitigation efforts.

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And closing thank you Madam Mayor, Vice Mayor Strife, members of the City Council for

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your leadership, and for allowing me to speak this evening.

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Your commitment to practical solutions that protect Marathon's residents, residents

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and businesses align perfectly with our mission.

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Together we are preserving homes, sustaining businesses, and building a stronger, more resilient,

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and more affordable Florida keys for generations to come.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you, Mel.

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Do you have any questions from me?

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Thanks again.

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Thank you, Mel.

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All right, next on the agenda is the city manager discussion.

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Councilman Landry?

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When I added this to the agenda, I thought we were going to have a far different discussion tonight, then maybe what we're going to have.

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But I was looking mainly for an update from Evie on what we were going to do, but since then a lot of things have changed.

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I said when I put this on the agenda I had a far different thought process of having

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a discussion tonight about where we're going and everything changed last week so I put

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it on the agenda for a discussion and I was just wanting to, it's kind of all change

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so see where we're going.

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have anything to discuss?

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Yes.

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I'm pretty firm with what I brought to the table last meeting and I stand by the candidate

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that I suggested because for four and a half months we have been trying to find somebody

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and the last minute we've had two people pull out. We have a lot of things to fix in this

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community starting with our building department and our planning department and a few other

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department. So I'm getting phone calls every single day about getting some of these things

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in line. And the more we continue to put this off, the longer it's going to take to fix it.

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So I'll see us go forward with this and that's where I stand on it. Thank you.

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Any other discussion?

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We all know my candidate dropped out, but Steve has impressed me since he's been doing the job

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And you know everybody wants to throw stones and there's no perfect candidate. There's no perfect employee

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It's Steve perfect no none of us are perfect nobody in this room perfect, but I'm comfortable with Steve

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I give him a hard time all the time about what I think his weaknesses are we'll leave that out

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But I think if they're all manageable. I think he does a good job. I think he's got a great plan moving forward with staff

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I think he's the right choice and I know, you know, no matter who we choose is going to

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be controversial.

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You're not going to make everybody happy.

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It's not going to happen.

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So I would agree with Debbie.

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I wasn't pushing to get this done fast, but I do think it's time for staff too.

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I mean, all of staff is in limbo.

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Who are we going to get?

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Am I going to like him?

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And in a lot of cases, a lot of staff is going, oh, I might quit if we get the wrong guy.

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And I have not heard any grumbling about Steve being the city manager.

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I've seems like staff is very comfortable with that.

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So I would second Debbie's and I would say let's get it going and if we agreed tonight,

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we could get it all the next agenda to accept Steve and have a contract by then.

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Do we have any more discussion in this session?

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I just, since we've started, I think we're going to try to solve one problem and create

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another because constitution does not allow us to have an officer hold adult position.

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Well he might be able to do both jobs for a small amount of time but there's already

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a conflict when you do both.

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That's why our constitution is written the way it is.

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So it's not that I don't want Steve a city manager, I just don't want to take a good attorney

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out of a job he thrives at into a city manager position and we're going to have to figure out what to do about an attorney so we're going to solve one problem to create another.

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Maybe I'm out of line with this but I would only suggest and we should ask Steve about this but we do have an assistant city attorney

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who is extremely qualified and capable and I don't think anyone is putting forth that this will be a dual position.

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He's been working as both positions and being paid for one, so I'm sure that we talk

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to Allie and we talk as a group and to the rest of the people who have to be involved

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in this, that we can come to a conclusion.

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Right now we need a city manager more than we need Steve as a city attorney.

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Close to the mic. I just want to add, and this is really for all of you out there that I appreciate all of you in how passionate you are about our community. You've reached out to me, and I'm sure other councilmen on what you think is right, what direction we should go and what we should do. What you haven't been, as you haven't been up here, like we have been working with the city. We did let go of a manager.

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we've been working with an interim manager and a few months ago, four or five

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months ago, definitely Steve was not the guy. Steve just didn't want it, he was

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very open to us finding someone and we were all very open to finding somebody.

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What happened now when you work with somebody and go to Tallahassee and go to

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DC, go to meetings, go to chamber functions and every other thing that I've actually asked

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Steve to accompany me in because sometimes I needed his legal advice and he all of a sudden

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was you know he didn't want to do it really I mean the legal stuff yes but some of the other

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events he did not want to go to he's like no Lenny I'm like a cat I just want to hide and

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and you're at a little puppy and you can go out there.

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Okay, so I have been working with him diligently

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and it just fell this way.

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Here we are open reading resumes,

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I'm looking at applications

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and we have some great people who worked here

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that also applied and they would bring a lot to the table

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but they're still here and working with us

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and I'm hoping it all worked together

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but Steve grew into the position, he was not looking,

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he was interviewing without knowing it

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And for me, you know, a few weeks ago, almost two months, I mentioned it.

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He was a no. I mentioned it again. He was no, you know, on and on.

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So I just want to put it out there that Steve has shown growth in this position.

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He has shown management. He's been managing the staff.

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I've had staff reach out to me and tell me what a great job.

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I've had people in the community who were no about Steve.

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But then they changed their mind and said, you know what?

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You know, a lot of you don't want us to hire from without out of the county or out of the city.

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So I just want to put that out there.

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So I hear and read things that you put out there thinking that this was pre-planned or whatever, it was not.

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Sometimes, you know, my history is in the hospitality business.

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I have weight staff, all of a sudden I'm looking for a manager or a host.

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And all of a sudden, this great weight person, you know, it turns out to be the best manager I ever had.

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So sometimes it's staring you right in the face, you don't know it, and that's what happened with Steve, and I appreciate it.

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And I was thrilled that he said he would step up to the plate and do this against how a lot of you felt differently, so thank you.

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Regardless, we need to make a decision.

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The city needs to move forward, and right now there's a lot of division, and we need to make a decision.

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I think we need to decide to not what direction we're going to go, whether we're going to

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bring it back to the next meeting as far as Steve doing dual role.

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I don't think that was ever the intention, like the vice mayor said, we would be charged

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with finding a new city attorney, whether that be Ali or somebody else.

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But we absolutely need to move forward.

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We can't keep being indecisive about things to make our city move forward and to keep projects

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going we have to make a decision. Obviously the person that I had selected and that I had

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liked she pulled out and that's just the way it is. I trust Steve. I know he's competent. He's

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done a great job. He wasn't my first choice either for the interim city manager but he has stepped up

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and he has despite saying numerous times he didn't want the job. He's willing to accept that and I

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just think we need to come together as a council and we need to make a decision and we don't need to

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keep putting this decision off.

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Assuming I get the votes.

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Do we need a motion to put that on the next agenda?

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Do you guys want to vote it?

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We shouldn't really vote now.

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Can I get head nods to put that on the next agenda to?

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Before you go there, I do believe you got some public speakers.

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Oh, sorry.

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Before you take any official actions,

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let's hear from public speakers what they have to say.

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And then as drafted on your agenda tonight,

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just to be clear about it, it's on there as discussion.

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So we should take no formal action tonight

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Because it does only say a discussion if you guys give direction to either HR or Miss Claudia to bring you a contract back next month

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Then we'll work on that for next month, but there's no official action taken tonight because it just says discussion

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Thank you.

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Speakers

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Wendy Bonilla followed by arm and Messina

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Hi mayor and council

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I'm Wendy Bonilla. I live here since 92

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My first question I guess would be on March 10th

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You guys had a meeting and you guys decided you were going to bring Stephen as a temporary person.

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I believe Kenny was one of the ones who was very adamant about that he was going to be temporary

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because you didn't want somebody to be slid into a position.

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And I understand that you learned and he's not a bad guy as far as that's concerned is even more important

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to the city as an attorney or as the city manager is one of the questions.

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My other question is he, I don't know details because I wasn't given the information

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that I reached out for, but I know the starting salary for city manager was 200,000 according

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to the application that was supposed to remain open that wasn't, did you guys know that,

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that the application that you guys said was going to be open, you guys are going to continue

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to take applications, the entire time was closed.

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So no, we could all keep applying until the position was filled because it was closed down, but it said 200,000.

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I believe he makes a bit more than that, is he going to take a pay cut because he's only had four and a half months of experience in this position, or how does that work?

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That's all I got to say tonight.

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Thank you, Wendy.

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Armour, Messina?

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Good evening, everybody.

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Thank you for having us up here today.

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And then full disclosure, Steve was on a tiny of mine for years back in the county, so I've

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known him quite well.

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I believe that's a good thing.

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I advise you not to say anything more about that.

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Like everybody to remember one thing, especially in a new city manager, whoever we may be.

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All charter from the Florida Keys contractors association, well in the present, does not allow

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me to endorse anybody. So I'm going to try to keep this as vague as possible. But whoever

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the city manager is, I like to keep in mind one thing. The reason we became a city was

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to clean up the building department and the trouble we were having with the building department

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in the county. That was the number one reason. And that you understand that the construction

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industry is the lifeblood of this city.

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Nothing happens without us.

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And the government recently passed a law, and put it in the law, that they're going

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to start streamlining building departments.

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And first thing that I get up this morning, my phone is ringing off the hook, as somebody

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had added another layer of garbage on top of us.

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I mean, this has got to change.

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We are trying our hardest to keep things put together and we are getting killed.

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which has run over with documentation and stuff.

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I understand the need for permits, believe me.

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I don't understand for just stupid stuff, all right?

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Hopefully, we can maintain the relationship I have with the previous city manager

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where we get together every, what, every two weeks in the morning?

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Discussed a week's events and anything that comes up with my members

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of which we got almost 150 contractors on the contractors board now.

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contract association, I should say, that we can discuss it and come to a reasonable discussion

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in some common sense agreements. And that would bring up the one thing about it having

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an attorney as a city manager. How's it going?

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Yes, you got it.

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Okay, is attorney seem to have a thing of looking at things in black and white, which is good.

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But we do need some people in new with some common sense. I'm not saying you don't, but

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But it can get a little hairy there, just keep that in mind.

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All right, thank you for your time.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Tom.

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Do we have any more speakers?

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No.

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That's OK.

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Betty Chaplin.

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I can hear my husband now.

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Betty, please don't say anything when you go to those meetings.

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I'm listening to Firm.

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I'm listening to wonderful people speak and their concerns.

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I've heard the term city manager only lasts five years so and so forth and the common denominator is usually the council.

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There have been lots of councils in 25 years, 26 years since we've incorporated.

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There are a lot of reasons we incorporated. One of the reasons is the county literally kept us from having a hospital.

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We had a county attorney who fought for Barry Mankowitz and his group that now the building

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is leveled to build a surgical center.

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We would have had one and it would have saved Fisherman's Hospital.

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They voted five to one, but five to nothing to for it.

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They came back three months later and Jim Hendrick, the attorney, decided under direction I'm

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sure to vote five against it.

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and the rest is history.

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We have a hospital, it's nice,

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but it's not what it could have been.

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So there are a lot of reasons we incorporated.

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We incorporated because of nonsense.

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75% of all our signs would have been illegal

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because they put a sign law up.

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Randy Mernst came and spoke and said,

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you can make me a multi-millionaire.

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If I have to replace all these signs,

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he says it's not fair.

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People are going by 45 miles an hour.

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And we need to have something so that they'll slow down.

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I'm looking at firm, one of the reasons I really would like to see Steve be

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manager is because we need somebody to fight for us. One of the reasons our

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councils haven't lasted and our managers haven't lasted is because they

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number one they either didn't know enough or they were doing things for themselves

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and not us, but nobody was really fighting for us like some of them should have

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been. I think Steve will fight for us. I think he's really glued in to the county

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There are some good people in the county and believe me, they're singing like birds.

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We have whistleblowers that love us, love marathon, love what we're trying to do.

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Love the fact that we have a third and fourth generations on our council, and I thank you for doing that.

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When you look at firm, my husband and I are very fortunate, we have our home, it's 47 years.

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Our insurance, which we have not had for two years, $36,000.

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dollars. That is absurd. And it doesn't cover anything downstairs. I look at a young couple

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who wants to buy a house maybe if they can afford something around $400,000, they can't

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afford it either. And people who have a mortgage are really under it. And it hurts ownership

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and it owns it hurts community. Most of the people started firm. They didn't just move

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way they're dead. That's how long we've been fighting for recent decent insurance and we can

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have it. It's called competition. There are a lot of companies out there but nobody will go and

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fight for us and you're perfectly capable of doing that, all of you own property. So I didn't

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need to take so long but we are on the right track. We really are fair rules, fair deal, energy,

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looking out for each other and having a city council like you. We're very proud of

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you. We really are. As a matter of fact, I'm thinking about running in two years.

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I thought I was too old. I thought maybe I was too old. My hair is going to be gray now.

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But I said to my husband at least it'll keep me home. It'll keep me home. But

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anyway, thank you for giving me the extra time. I mean, I've been here a long time

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and I'm with you 100% and I was very, very leery of an attorney being in charge of us,

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but he's not just an attorney.

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He's somebody that has shown some great stripes and I think you'll fight for us and that's

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the only thing we have had missing for us.

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We need somebody to really look out for this whole community and do the things that are right

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and tell us the truth and give us good advice.

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Thanks.

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Thank you, Betty.

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Okay.

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Any more speakers?

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I know you and I talked about this earlier, I know you told me you couldn't do it today.

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As far as approaching Allie, do you need official requests from us to see if that's an option?

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Not knowing where tonight was going to go or what exactly what is going to happen.

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So if I am reading the room correctly, it appears that there's at least three, four, five

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I had nods for me to bring forward a contract to you as a city council.

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That's not happening tonight.

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I think what you ought to do is have someone review whatever I come up with this contract.

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You've got a couple of different options to answer your question.

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One is we always have an outside law firm on retainer to assist in such situations where we would have a conflict where I would be on vacation.

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We had a period of time between Cody and Allie where I had no assistant or paralegal if I would go on vacation.

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So they're on retainer with us. We've used them before as a law firm.

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Now, after tonight, given what I believe to be your direction,

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I can approach all of you to see if she has any interest in taking the position I formally held.

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And that's the first time where that would be appropriate, it would be tomorrow.

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Approach her. I don't know what her will be. I cannot begin to tell you how competent, able, and wonderful I think she would be. But that's a her decision. I mean, there are all kinds of people make all kinds of decisions in life. So if she wants to, I think you would be in great hands. And then we can get a contract there too for that matter. So we can get all that taken care of in a fell swoop. If she says, why would I ever want to do that, then we can go do other things. But that's really that.

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That conversation has always been premature before tonight.

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And as of a week or two ago, I didn't even think the conversation was ever going to be held to start with.

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So there we go.

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So yes, we can approach it.

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If she is not comfortable, we can use the former burdensome bowling that we have a contract with to look at it and protect your interest.

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So I don't put sneaky things in the contract where no one would ever like in the future.

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And you would complain about it in a few years, Mr. Matt Locke.

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So we will make sure you like this one.

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They can explain it to you so we'll get a nice fair one, but it's in your best interest to have it reviewed understood

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Then we'll get that to you next month and get that taken care of so yeah, the time for that's tomorrow not tonight

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So and no time before tonight, so if she's interested we're in great hands if she's not then we will take other actions

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She and just just to clarify for everyone a

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Contract that would be for you for city manager

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We would have an outside firm review that negotiate that contract based on any changes

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we as a council might want, and then it would not be a blanket acceptance.

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So there would be negotiation, and we would have discussions about it, correct?

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Well, it depends on how mean the first version is.

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You can have them review it certainly, yes, but the point is, yes, it is available to you or

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granted, you would have the option of either having Allory review it on your behalf, or you can

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You can have an outside firm go do it to complete your choice in your call, but it's too early to make that decision or that call at this point.

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So those are the two options available, and I don't know where that will go, we'll have the answer relatively shortly.

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Perfect, I just wanted to clarify that it would not be a blanket acceptance of a contract that you would write for your own employment.

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That we would have the option to have that reviewed to make sure that it was in the city's best interest as well.

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Correct, thank you.

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We all on the same page, go in the same direction.

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I'll continue to be the interim for the next month and then we'll do anything so no official action changes anything here tonight so we'll go down as an official agenda item.

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It'll have my name on it, it'll have the contract on it, it'll be searchable for all future council members to come so.

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Okay, that's where we are. Now that we got that taken care of can we go back to item 4 please and actually do it.

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Oh, the approval of the agenda, I thought that was your job.

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Yes, do we have an approval of the agenda and or want to add to the agenda?

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Make a motion to approve the agenda.

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Second.

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That's work.

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Next is item 6L, deep injection well update.

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And we have the people from APEX here with us.

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Steve wants to wherever you or wherever Brandon tells you to.

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So before I dive into this, I understand as long I'm going to go through it quickly.

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Secondly, the purpose, two purposes, one, to give you the update that you asked for.

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Second purpose, which is why it's long.

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We have to do an amendment to your facilities plan.

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It's part of SRF funding.

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It's what's required to allow us to basically get the SRF loan.

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So there's a couple things, some items that they're being sticklers about.

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So we have to step through that process, and that's why you see a lot of stuff that you probably

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have seen before, or that you're familiar with.

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But I'm happy to answer any questions that you have on it.

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I'll do it, just tell me for next slide.

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Next slide.

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Next slide.

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It froze up, give me one second.

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All right,

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let's see, is it going to work now?

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Yeah, there we go.

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Sorry about that.

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All right, so here's just a quick agenda.

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We're going to go over project overview just for reminder and refresh on how we got where we are active construction update and then the facilities plan amendment.

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So basically everything from item three and four is what's required for SRF.

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So, project overview.

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So for those of you that aren't too versed in how this all came about,

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the City Marathon has five waste water treatment plants.

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They are all less than a million gallons a day of treated capacity.

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They discharge a treated effluent down into shallow injection wells, which are about 100 feet deep below the surface.

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That is allowed by Florida law and up until 2020, when the Maui decision came out, which was a case with the county of Maui versus some environmental group went all the way to the US Supreme Court,

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The Supreme Court made a ruling about their specific situation and then kind of left some broad framework that left the Clean Water Act open to interpretation.

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That interpretation is that some in some instances a shallow well can be the functional equivalent of a direct discharge which in their view is no different than having a pipe dumping into the ocean.

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And so in those cases, you'd be required to have an NPDES permit which don't get issued in the keys because we don't, they don't, we're not allowed to dump water directly into the ocean.

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So fast word there.

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City Marathon got challenged in federal court for our disposal mechanisms.

435
00:37:03,720 --> 00:37:10,720
It started with a rework of area three to basically move their existing shallow well.

436
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:17,540
It got challenged, City went through a lawsuit with that and there was a settlement agreement

437
00:37:17,540 --> 00:37:24,420
that was reached that said that we would do a plan to look at some different options

438
00:37:25,180 --> 00:37:28,420
and come up with a solution for a new disposal system.

439
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:35,360
That plan was done and the City Council selected option 1A which is basically a regional facility

440
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:44,060
that allows you to dump or not dump, it allows you to inject the water down a single deep injection while with shallow wells as backups at each of the facilities.

441
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:52,400
That is treated effluent, that is basically relatively clean water and it would get injected 30, 600 feet below the surface.

442
00:37:53,140 --> 00:37:59,500
So here's what's kind of an overview of the process.

443
00:37:59,500 --> 00:38:06,060
So raw sewage goes from the houses, goes through the collection system to your wastewater treatment plants.

444
00:38:06,420 --> 00:38:09,820
That's what you have right now, that's how it currently is, that's not changing.

445
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:11,740
The water then gets treated.

446
00:38:12,140 --> 00:38:14,240
When it comes out, it's relatively clean.

447
00:38:14,580 --> 00:38:18,580
You honestly can't tell the difference between it and a swimming pool.

448
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:25,340
The city staff does a great job at operating these facilities and they really do take pride in what they do with it.

449
00:38:25,340 --> 00:38:29,400
So it's relatively clean from there, that's when we go to our disposal.

450
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,220
And currently, we go down the shallow wells.

451
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:37,500
So when we were looking at the economics of a deep well, a single deep well is very expensive.

452
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:42,040
So it was better, it was cheaper to pump them all to a single location inject them.

453
00:38:42,420 --> 00:38:46,500
And that is being pumped to Area 6, and

454
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:51,260
then the Area 6 has the deep injection well, or we'll have the deep injection wells installed into it.

455
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:58,940
The facility or the overall plan, and I know that there's kind of been some probably

456
00:38:58,940 --> 00:39:02,100
confusion about this, but the project split into five phases.

457
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:09,660
Phase one is the pipeline section from Area 3, 4, and 5, and the two bridge crossings

458
00:39:09,660 --> 00:39:11,600
of Bakukat and the one over at Area 6.

459
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:16,800
Phase two is from Bakukat Bridge out to Area 7.

460
00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:25,540
Phase 3 is from Cocoa Plum Drive down to Area 6. Phase 4 is the pumping facilities themselves

461
00:39:25,540 --> 00:39:30,480
which happen at each of the wastewater plants, and Phase 4B is the facility at Area 6.

462
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:37,320
Phase 5 is actually digging the hole itself, which takes about a year to do with the equipment.

463
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:45,320
So, active construction update. The thing you asked for. So, right now, what we currently

464
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:50,740
have going in phase one. Phase one is the one out here in front of the airport, the one that's

465
00:39:50,740 --> 00:39:57,480
been messing up traffic. That is from Area 3 to Vaca Cut. They're currently headed to the East

466
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:02,780
and they're slowly working their way. I'm sure you're all familiar with where they are at this

467
00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:09,100
point, but they're over there. Getting past the airport, they have pulled approximately 5,000 feet

468
00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:16,140
to pipe. They have 20,000 feet in that section total to pull. It's about 5,000 in 10

469
00:40:16,140 --> 00:40:22,720
inch and then the rest is 16. They are planning to mobilize a second drill rig and go both

470
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:28,040
directions to speed it up. The intent and what they currently are tracking is that they

471
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:33,840
will be done by October with the work that involves pulling the pipe. There will still be

472
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:38,740
some isolated work inside the street but the majority of that work will be done by

473
00:40:38,740 --> 00:40:44,760
October. They have asked and requested to work weekends to accelerate the schedule, so

474
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,980
that's being looked at on a case by case basis.

475
00:40:49,970 --> 00:40:52,430
Phase one, MOT, and this is the area that

476
00:40:52,430 --> 00:40:56,950
you're, you know, you're familiar with right now, from 107 to 115th, that's kind of

477
00:40:56,950 --> 00:41:03,270
our early August MOT, and then from 83rd to 72nd Street when they get that second rig

478
00:41:03,270 --> 00:41:08,230
up is going to be about mid-August going that direction. And then once they get past those,

479
00:41:08,230 --> 00:41:14,590
then we'll be moving our way down towards a community park in the area 3 facility. Phase

480
00:41:14,590 --> 00:41:22,710
2 and 3 B. So phase 2 and 3 B because of how permitting worked and things kind of got

481
00:41:22,710 --> 00:41:27,490
shuffled. Phase 2 and 3 B got shoved together so that's a part of phase 3 and part of phase

482
00:41:27,490 --> 00:41:36,010
2. Engineers we like our phases and our letters but they got shoved together and this in essence

483
00:41:36,010 --> 00:41:44,710
is the run from VacaCut to Area 7 and up to the bridge at, I think it's the Hobbes bridge,

484
00:41:45,010 --> 00:41:48,030
the little bridge at Area 6, that little bridge that you forget exists.

485
00:41:50,050 --> 00:41:55,130
This is currently, it's been awarded, came in under estimate, which is great.

486
00:41:56,050 --> 00:41:57,870
Contractor is doing the submittal process.

487
00:41:57,870 --> 00:42:05,530
because we are waiting on our DOT approvals for the MOT, the Management and Traffic Plan.

488
00:42:06,250 --> 00:42:11,770
It is tentatively planned for pre-construction meeting with DOT on August 13th, and we

489
00:42:11,770 --> 00:42:15,910
anticipate that they will mobilize by the end of August, and they'll start working.

490
00:42:16,430 --> 00:42:22,590
That being said, DOT does have required shutdown dates, they're not allowed to work during

491
00:42:22,590 --> 00:42:29,090
The fantasy vests, they're not allowed to work from November at Thanksgiving all the way

492
00:42:29,090 --> 00:42:30,010
through the first of the year.

493
00:42:30,530 --> 00:42:34,570
So if you see them split out of there, it's required that they shut down.

494
00:42:35,370 --> 00:42:41,330
They can't work in the areas that are not DOT areas, which is basically off of U.S.1.

495
00:42:41,410 --> 00:42:45,830
Anything on U.S.1 has some stricter time clocks and weekends.

496
00:42:46,630 --> 00:42:51,790
If you noticed on phase one, we kind of, the area out here, there wasn't much action from

497
00:42:51,790 --> 00:42:58,670
Fourth of July all the way through many season. That's because Fourth of July is a shutdown and many season was also a shutdown.

498
00:42:59,770 --> 00:43:09,750
And they had some issues internally with some turnover staff that required them to not be able to get back right after the Fourth of July,

499
00:43:09,750 --> 00:43:12,590
which basically ended up pushing them to have only a week.

500
00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:17,890
They got here, they had a power pull, if you guys remember the power all going down.

501
00:43:18,510 --> 00:43:23,490
We're fortunate that that wasn't worse, that was, you know, something that was a little

502
00:43:23,490 --> 00:43:29,250
careless, but overall, I think, lessons were learned from that one and the contractors

503
00:43:29,250 --> 00:43:31,010
being a lot safer now.

504
00:43:31,990 --> 00:43:35,410
Just to add briefly, Steve, Labor Day is also off for the long weekend.

505
00:43:35,690 --> 00:43:35,850
Correct.

506
00:43:36,090 --> 00:43:36,810
Yes, that's correct.

507
00:43:38,390 --> 00:43:47,450
So phase 3a, or yes, phase 3a, this is the section from the bridge over to area 6.

508
00:43:47,910 --> 00:43:49,710
This section is pretty much done.

509
00:43:50,210 --> 00:43:52,370
This was choral construction had this section.

510
00:43:52,970 --> 00:43:55,510
The pipe is in the ground, the restoration has been done.

511
00:43:55,670 --> 00:44:02,130
We are doing punch list check off, that section, the project will be formally closed probably

512
00:44:02,130 --> 00:44:03,890
in the next two weeks, two, three weeks.

513
00:44:05,030 --> 00:44:06,790
and overall went pretty well.

514
00:44:07,390 --> 00:44:11,430
So not a whole lot to say there is about 5,000 feet of pipe.

515
00:44:11,590 --> 00:44:14,170
So it was the smallest section, but it went pretty well.

516
00:44:16,530 --> 00:44:18,950
So any questions about active construction

517
00:44:18,950 --> 00:44:21,550
before I do our facility plan amendment?

518
00:44:24,370 --> 00:44:25,150
I'll call you.

519
00:44:25,730 --> 00:44:29,510
I was just going to say because we're coming

520
00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:32,230
into the holiday season, it almost seems like yeah,

521
00:44:32,230 --> 00:44:38,310
more off days than on days and we're really going to come in on time on this because you

522
00:44:38,310 --> 00:44:43,870
know we have penalties if we're not so yeah so we're on schedule for the pipeline pipeline

523
00:44:43,870 --> 00:44:51,430
will be well in before the December 20 28 deadline not too concerned about the pipeline section

524
00:44:51,430 --> 00:44:56,250
it's the rest of it that's going to take some time all the vertical construction there's

525
00:44:56,250 --> 00:44:58,170
long lead times on some equipment right now.

526
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,660
They'll have to be done to make sure that the rest of it goes, gets in and time, but right now I'm not concerned about the pipeline. The pipeline should be well in before the deadline. One of they starting to actually dig the deepwell drill it. We are waiting on our permit for the actual whole permit applications been submitted. We are waiting for any REIs back from the deepwell people in Tallahassee. We're hoping to have it by

527
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:33,280
in October, November, we did look at a couple options.

528
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:37,460
We have reached out to Youngquest, which is a drilling company.

529
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,840
There's only two contractors in the state that can drill this, unfortunately.

530
00:45:42,140 --> 00:45:43,800
That's the nature of the deep wells.

531
00:45:44,500 --> 00:45:45,440
Youngquest is one of them.

532
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:47,600
We did look at a potential piggyback opportunity,

533
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:49,580
which is where you would basically use unit pricing

534
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:52,780
from a previous project that they did for a different municipality,

535
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,320
and just to see where we're kind of coming in.

536
00:45:56,780 --> 00:45:58,480
But those are still preliminary.

537
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:08,420
So, hoping we have it by October, November, and then you'll get cut loose right away as soon as, well, it'll come to you guys, but it'll go out to bid as soon as we get the permit.

538
00:46:09,020 --> 00:46:09,420
Okay.

539
00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:17,180
So, our facilities plan, I lost my screen.

540
00:46:17,740 --> 00:46:23,520
Yeah. All right. Facilities plan update. So, facilities plan, what is it? What is it for? What is it doing?

541
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:30,380
Silly's plan basically just says this is the plan for how we are going to approach our projects.

542
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:37,400
They're required for SRF funding, which is the state revolving fund, the low interest loan,

543
00:46:37,620 --> 00:46:39,560
which is what's typically used to fund these.

544
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:44,500
As part of that, they require a lot of this stuff, which is why we're going to go over it.

545
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:50,340
But the facilities plan is, it's what was brought to you guys before,

546
00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:54,020
or basically with these were your options, the ways you could approach the project.

547
00:46:54,980 --> 00:46:56,400
And these are the different selections.

548
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,920
And so this is an amendment to that.

549
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:06,460
So how the plan has been refined and why I'm bringing an amendment before you.

550
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:12,840
As the original plan was very kind of shot against the wall, it was very broad.

551
00:47:13,140 --> 00:47:15,760
It was estimates of how to approach it.

552
00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,540
Now that we're into the engineering design of it,

553
00:47:18,540 --> 00:47:21,860
There's some very specific things that need to be addressed.

554
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:25,500
And that's kind of changed a couple of the scope items a little bit.

555
00:47:26,060 --> 00:47:27,900
It has not changed the overall option.

556
00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:29,200
It would not change the option.

557
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,760
These would be required no matter which direction you went in.

558
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:39,280
It's just that SRF is requiring us to do an amendment to include it in the facilities plan because they weren't the first time.

559
00:47:43,140 --> 00:47:46,780
What's in the actual amendment, it's the Phase 4A effluent holding tanks.

560
00:47:46,780 --> 00:47:53,580
So all the water after it gets treated gets put inside of a holding tank at the waste water plant and then it gets pumped out to Area 6.

561
00:47:54,060 --> 00:48:03,020
We need the holding tanks because of the hydraulic modeling show that it's basically we need a buffer capacity during a heavy event to ensure that we don't end up overflowing,

562
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:10,820
that we have some storage time and that we can ship it out to the Area 6 facility, you know, with a little bit of time between that.

563
00:48:10,820 --> 00:48:18,660
So in that really looking at King Tide areas and then rain events, that's really when that comes into place.

564
00:48:19,420 --> 00:48:23,340
The other part of that is the phase 4b, which is the facility at Area 6.

565
00:48:23,340 --> 00:48:28,480
That's the actual facility when we got into the Area 6 looking at what needs to be done.

566
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:33,680
It needs a new electrical system, it needs a control building,

567
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:37,820
and it just kind of starts to snowball a little bit

568
00:48:37,820 --> 00:48:39,860
in what they had in the original facility's plan

569
00:48:39,860 --> 00:48:42,660
that Jeterna did to what you actually need

570
00:48:42,660 --> 00:48:44,840
to be able to build and operate it.

571
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:47,240
So that's where the disconnect is.

572
00:48:47,540 --> 00:48:50,880
And then the phase five is the actual deep well itself

573
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,960
and the monitoring well, which is changed,

574
00:48:54,340 --> 00:48:58,960
design-wise has changed slightly based off of geotech conditions

575
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:02,400
and what we're actually seeing in the design phase.

576
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:08,840
I'm not going to go too far into this one, but this basically lists at each facility,

577
00:49:09,140 --> 00:49:15,820
each area what the additional are, or what is additional, I should say, to the facility's

578
00:49:15,820 --> 00:49:15,980
plan.

579
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,160
It's not actually an additional.

580
00:49:17,620 --> 00:49:19,760
It's just what they perceived as additional.

581
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,340
So, Steve, we learned our lesson with steel tanks, right?

582
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:24,220
We're doing concrete.

583
00:49:24,580 --> 00:49:25,080
Absolutely.

584
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:25,800
I got pictures for you.

585
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:26,120
Okay.

586
00:49:26,420 --> 00:49:26,480
Yeah.

587
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:27,320
I got pictures for you.

588
00:49:27,940 --> 00:49:29,680
So here's our first concrete tank.

589
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,180
This is area three.

590
00:49:32,180 --> 00:49:42,560
We actually, as part of that, and this is part of that, the chlorine contact chambers, which is where they put the sodium hypochloride and it tends to be one of your worst rusting areas.

591
00:49:42,980 --> 00:49:48,020
We are shifting those tanks into the concrete tanks because we have to do a holding tank anyway.

592
00:49:48,460 --> 00:49:49,800
It made a lot of sense to do this.

593
00:49:49,940 --> 00:49:58,580
This will eliminate a maintenance problem, but a maintenance upkeep thing that the city had to do with the existing CCCs.

594
00:49:58,580 --> 00:50:05,680
So that is part of what we're doing here and if and you'll see there's square

595
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:09,700
tanks around tanks it largely dependent on how much area we have at the site

596
00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:15,580
because there's these sites are getting pretty tight. Area 4, kind of same thing

597
00:50:15,580 --> 00:50:20,880
square tank holding tank. This is kind of right where the parking is there where

598
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:26,060
if you've ever been to the area 4 facility. Area 5, we have an existing

599
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:36,940
It's a steel plate tank. It's got holes in it. It's been not used for a while. We're taking that tank down. I'm putting a concrete tank up in its place.

600
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:55,620
And then area 7 is same thing. It's a concrete tank up in the corner that holds it. All the tanks are 60,000 gallons with the exception of holding capacity with the exception of area 7, which is 25,000 gallons because area 7 is a small plant in comparison.

601
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,440
So where does this fit into your overall facility?

602
00:51:02,260 --> 00:51:08,700
So your phase 4a is actually what you're pumping out from.

603
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:10,660
So that's technically the first part of the system.

604
00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:17,160
And then phase 1, 2, and 3 slide in after that for the pipeline phase 4b is the effluent

605
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:17,520
holding.

606
00:51:17,740 --> 00:51:21,780
And then phase 5 is the actual deep injection well, putting it down the ground.

607
00:51:21,780 --> 00:51:28,940
Um, um, these just kind of go into, uh, a little bit more detail about what the operations

608
00:51:28,940 --> 00:51:34,280
controls, reliability, uh, and improvement, uh, and then the treatment and disinfection,

609
00:51:34,420 --> 00:51:39,900
um, the things that are part of the amendment, um, I won't go down and read them, but you get

610
00:51:39,900 --> 00:51:40,380
the idea.

611
00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:47,740
Uh, area six, proposed site plan, so this is area six, uh, the existing area six is in the

612
00:51:47,740 --> 00:51:53,780
right hand side, you can see that little tank over there, that round tank, that's the existing

613
00:51:53,780 --> 00:52:02,380
and then the new tank is the new holding tank and the residuals processing with a deep

614
00:52:02,380 --> 00:52:08,700
injection wall pump system. As part of that, we have a couple other improvements to do

615
00:52:08,700 --> 00:52:15,460
with how they do their sledge handling there and then also where we have the dump trucks

616
00:52:15,460 --> 00:52:26,440
that currently go at the facility, so we're making that a little bit more user-friendly and accessible for the staff to ensure that they can manage the residuals better.

617
00:52:28,910 --> 00:52:34,870
This is the office laboratory building that we're looking at, it looks very similar to Area 5,

618
00:52:37,150 --> 00:52:40,950
but the main reason we need a building is to run the new facility and

619
00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:48,050
And then also for the electrical, which is the primary driver electrical of the size requires air conditioning.

620
00:52:48,450 --> 00:52:54,070
And for that it's cheapest to build a building instead of trying to fit it inside of a conax or

621
00:52:54,070 --> 00:52:56,970
something and then you end up having maintenance issues down the road.

622
00:52:57,630 --> 00:53:02,590
So, and then if you're familiar with the area six facility, there's the building,

623
00:53:03,010 --> 00:53:04,350
Erma damage the building quite a bit.

624
00:53:04,510 --> 00:53:10,690
So we're moving some of the critical systems from that building up into this new building to avoid any potential damage

625
00:53:10,690 --> 00:53:18,010
from future storms. This is a diagram of the deepwell. Technically, when you build the deepwell,

626
00:53:18,130 --> 00:53:22,690
you have two wells that you build. You build a deepwell and then a monitoring well. The deepwell

627
00:53:22,690 --> 00:53:28,030
is going to be plus or minus 3600 feet and it will inject into the boulder zone. And then the monitoring

628
00:53:28,030 --> 00:53:34,590
well will be about 1250. It's usually around half the distance. And that basically tells you if

629
00:53:34,590 --> 00:53:40,450
you're casing those vertical lines going down the side, if that casing has a leak for some

630
00:53:40,450 --> 00:53:48,210
reason. We're putting these in as FRP, so there is no anything corrosive below. One of the

631
00:53:48,210 --> 00:53:52,950
common issues that you get with deep injection wells, especially up on the mainland, is

632
00:53:52,950 --> 00:53:57,730
they'll do steel casing because it's cheaper and you end up getting swish cheese after, you

633
00:53:57,730 --> 00:54:02,610
know, 10 years or so. We are not proposing, so that was one of the changes in the facilities

634
00:54:02,610 --> 00:54:08,310
plan as we're proposing to put this in as FRP composite material rather than dealing

635
00:54:08,310 --> 00:54:09,750
with the potential steel issues.

636
00:54:12,110 --> 00:54:17,890
Design alternatives that were looked at, this basically you have your existing strategy,

637
00:54:18,290 --> 00:54:22,350
and then you have your other items, I'm not going to go too far into it,

638
00:54:22,470 --> 00:54:25,230
but we looked at a couple different options of how can you get the same result,

639
00:54:25,710 --> 00:54:31,150
and then try to land on what's going to be the most economic and most operable for the city staff.

640
00:54:31,750 --> 00:54:34,750
At the end of the day, I can put anything on paper, but they have to live with it.

641
00:54:34,750 --> 00:54:39,270
So I want to make sure that they're getting a facility that's going to be easy to operate

642
00:54:39,270 --> 00:54:40,370
and maintain in the future.

643
00:54:42,590 --> 00:54:48,730
Environmental and resiliency considerations, this, you know, just basically, we're not

644
00:54:48,730 --> 00:54:52,270
affecting anything that we weren't already affecting as far as the environment is concerned.

645
00:54:52,990 --> 00:54:57,690
Everything is still within the impact zones of the project, there's no changes to that.

646
00:54:57,690 --> 00:55:04,290
And then, coastal resiliency, everything is designed for the FEMA flood requirements,

647
00:55:04,670 --> 00:55:06,570
uplift, loadings, that kind of stuff.

648
00:55:08,290 --> 00:55:14,930
Cost update, and this is not too dissimilar from what you've already seen, that does not

649
00:55:14,930 --> 00:55:20,410
include the pipeline, that is the pump facilities, and the actual deep well itself.

650
00:55:21,190 --> 00:55:26,310
So that portion of the project is the lion's share of the project, the pipeline is actually

651
00:55:26,310 --> 00:55:27,210
the cheaper portion.

652
00:55:28,930 --> 00:55:33,110
Design permitting status, just to give you guys an update, so phase 4A, we're actively

653
00:55:33,110 --> 00:55:33,610
in design.

654
00:55:33,850 --> 00:55:37,970
We have permits on quite a few of the wastewater plants already with modifications.

655
00:55:38,910 --> 00:55:46,810
We are plus or minus 60% there, I would say as far as designs going, and the plan is to

656
00:55:46,810 --> 00:55:51,670
try to accelerate that through the end of the year, go out to bid, beginning next year,

657
00:55:51,670 --> 00:55:56,170
and get things under construction, which will give two years for

658
00:55:56,170 --> 00:55:58,610
the project to be built, which should be plenty.

659
00:56:01,190 --> 00:56:06,630
For B status, that one's a little bit more behind because of the nature of it and

660
00:56:07,350 --> 00:56:08,330
how big it is.

661
00:56:09,510 --> 00:56:13,730
That one, we're still about probably like 30% there.

662
00:56:14,070 --> 00:56:16,970
There's a lot of components to it, so we're going through that.

663
00:56:17,170 --> 00:56:19,110
The permitting process has started there.

664
00:56:19,110 --> 00:56:23,950
we anticipate that the permits will be in hand before the end of the year for that facility.

665
00:56:25,350 --> 00:56:29,870
And then phase five, which we talked about briefly, was the actual deep injection.

666
00:56:29,870 --> 00:56:32,850
Well, permits have been submitted. It's in DEP's hands.

667
00:56:33,110 --> 00:56:36,810
We keep poking them every week and try to see if they had a chance to review it.

668
00:56:37,150 --> 00:56:40,770
It's being done by Tallahassee's injection-injection well division.

669
00:56:42,030 --> 00:56:45,170
So anything to do with deep wells has to go through them and it takes time.

670
00:56:47,250 --> 00:56:54,030
funding and financial planning the fun stuff. So overall project estimate it's not too

671
00:56:54,030 --> 00:56:57,070
dissimilar from what you've been seeing but you've seen before you know we're looking

672
00:56:57,070 --> 00:57:03,890
plus or minus 70 is 70 million is where we're at as far as everything associated with that.

673
00:57:04,070 --> 00:57:10,070
I have your project broken out into different buckets and SRF versus grant funding. We've

674
00:57:10,070 --> 00:57:13,990
been pretty successful with grant funding and we anticipate that that's going to continue.

675
00:57:13,990 --> 00:57:20,230
So we believe that we'll be able to get at least 50% of the project funded through grant funding or appropriation.

676
00:57:21,150 --> 00:57:25,810
So we've been doing pretty well there, Marie has been great at helping with that.

677
00:57:26,330 --> 00:57:34,190
And I feel pretty confident, which I'll go over kind of where we've gotten money in the last year,

678
00:57:34,310 --> 00:57:39,150
because we had a couple things come through that was really beneficial and helpful.

679
00:57:39,930 --> 00:57:43,230
How the project's being funded, we have our state appropriation.

680
00:57:43,230 --> 00:57:45,490
So this is one of those things that came through.

681
00:57:45,830 --> 00:57:49,010
We basically asked the state government, can you give us money?

682
00:57:49,490 --> 00:57:52,330
And they said, sure, and they gave us two and a half million.

683
00:57:52,690 --> 00:57:55,710
We asked for five, we're gonna ask them again next year, same thing.

684
00:57:56,090 --> 00:57:58,950
You know, hey, can you give us some money to help pay for this project?

685
00:57:59,750 --> 00:58:07,590
Then we have grant funding and the grants that you guys typically are dealing with is four to keys area critical concern,

686
00:58:08,450 --> 00:58:11,310
which is sometimes known as stewardship money.

687
00:58:11,310 --> 00:58:17,130
That money is coming in, I think the city is getting two and a half plus or minus two and a half million this year.

688
00:58:17,570 --> 00:58:22,110
That one spreads throughout a lot of the municipalities down here.

689
00:58:22,290 --> 00:58:26,070
So like Key Largo gets some, Key West is getting some, the county is getting some.

690
00:58:28,130 --> 00:58:33,630
The next one, and this is kind of the big one that we're relying on is resiliency.

691
00:58:34,530 --> 00:58:40,590
So resiliency money is basically money that's used to fund improvements.

692
00:58:40,590 --> 00:58:44,630
It's to make them more resistant to flooding and see lower rise.

693
00:58:45,190 --> 00:58:54,370
And if you can show that your project has that which by the nature of these projects and where we are, we are doing that, you can get up to 50% funded.

694
00:58:54,870 --> 00:59:04,710
We got $5 million on the project, so some things don't qualify like the depot, the whole on the ground, that doesn't qualify for that money.

695
00:59:04,710 --> 00:59:11,750
But the facility that, you know, the pump systems, the tanks, all that stuff, designing those for flood loading and for future

696
00:59:12,410 --> 00:59:20,510
Hurricane hardness and mitigation does qualify. So we submitted a project last year or submitted the project for for A and for B last year.

697
00:59:20,990 --> 00:59:22,370
We asked for

698
00:59:23,130 --> 00:59:25,870
50% of whatever it was, I think like

699
00:59:26,690 --> 00:59:34,510
14 million or something. It gave us five and they gave it and what's interesting about that one is we actually didn't make the cut the first time.

700
00:59:34,710 --> 00:59:38,990
But we found out later that some people shifted off, so we're in the system now.

701
00:59:39,270 --> 00:59:44,550
Which means now, when we ask for money, we'll get priority over projects that haven't started yet.

702
00:59:44,930 --> 00:59:47,450
So we anticipate we're going to get another 10 million from that.

703
00:59:47,950 --> 00:59:51,950
That's the hope, that's the goal, no promises, but that's what we're trying.

704
00:59:53,570 --> 00:59:57,110
So then beyond that, you have your SRF funding, which is your low interest loan.

705
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,480
Which is basically funding you use that once you keep the project moving and then you pay it off with SRF so that you end up with like a 1% interest loan at the end. And none of that has changed from what you've seen before. The goal is still the same. I think the SRF loan we're looking at is like 30 million is what it was before that hasn't changed. That's still the goal. Of this, where we stand today, there's about 13 million that's kind of floating out there that hasn't been

706
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:34,260
plugged in yet, but like I said we're hoping that 10 million of that will come from

707
01:00:34,260 --> 01:00:39,380
resilient Florida. We're pretty confident that that's gonna happen because we're

708
01:00:39,380 --> 01:00:44,040
already in the system. We also have the additional two and a half million from

709
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:49,260
stewardship or from Florida Keys area critical concern that we add and

710
01:00:49,260 --> 01:00:53,600
account it for when I put this together as well. So there's some money out there and

711
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:57,200
we're getting closer to keep chipping away at it and keep chipping away and any

712
01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:02,140
grant opportunities that come up, you know, Maria. And as we talk about it, try to chip away at it,

713
01:01:02,140 --> 01:01:04,560
see if we can get money from wherever we can get it from.

714
01:01:06,640 --> 01:01:09,960
Next steps. Main thing, these are by

715
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:15,960
area. I won't go through them, but, you know, for phase two, start construction, phase one,

716
01:01:16,300 --> 01:01:23,560
continue construction, phase three. It's, you know, start construction on 3B, phase three A is done,

717
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:33,020
Phase 4, continue design permitting plans, Phase 4B, same thing, and then Phase 5 is go to put it out to bid as soon as our permit comes through.

718
01:01:33,340 --> 01:01:36,800
The design of that's pretty much done through the hole in the ground.

719
01:01:39,390 --> 01:01:46,470
And then here's just kind of a quick next steps, and our deadline being end of December 20, 28.

720
01:01:47,450 --> 01:01:50,630
It was always a tight deadline. I'm not going to lie to you and say that it's not.

721
01:01:50,630 --> 01:01:54,550
it was always you know when they when they we had four years I think when they

722
01:01:54,550 --> 01:02:01,650
did the agreement we're like really need six but we're on track right now we'll

723
01:02:01,650 --> 01:02:05,490
see how that keeps going but pipelines on track and then really it's going to

724
01:02:05,490 --> 01:02:09,150
be the facilities as they start to build on what we can do there and there's a

725
01:02:09,150 --> 01:02:16,670
couple ideas on how we can accelerate that so questions yeah I have one or two so

726
01:02:16,670 --> 01:02:18,770
So we're going to go 3,600 feet down.

727
01:02:22,290 --> 01:02:26,030
Have we done anything in the keys 3,600 feet down?

728
01:02:26,570 --> 01:02:27,890
Yeah, so great question.

729
01:02:28,750 --> 01:02:32,390
You are actually just falling in line with where the City of Key West is,

730
01:02:32,750 --> 01:02:35,550
Code Geo Regional and Key Largo Waste Water Treatment District.

731
01:02:36,170 --> 01:02:38,870
They're all of their disposal systems, or the exception of City of Key West,

732
01:02:39,070 --> 01:02:42,330
have a primary deep all disposal, and shallow all backups.

733
01:02:42,910 --> 01:02:47,390
So Key Largo is about, I think, 3,400 feet, and I say 3,600,

734
01:02:47,390 --> 01:02:52,750
it's a plus or minus because you actually figure it out when you're drilling it. Believe it or not.

735
01:02:53,250 --> 01:02:59,150
So it could go deeper. It could be shallower but we're approximating 3600. So you're not the

736
01:02:59,150 --> 01:03:03,530
first one. There's others out there and they currently do this. And you said there's only a couple

737
01:03:03,530 --> 01:03:08,870
people who can drill that hole in this state of Florida or in the United States. State of Florida.

738
01:03:08,870 --> 01:03:14,950
So, are we on the list to drill, or is we, I mean, how?

739
01:03:15,010 --> 01:03:20,210
So, we've started the discussions with those companies, the ones that typically bid within

740
01:03:20,210 --> 01:03:24,710
the state of Florida to let them know this project exists and to put it on their calendar

741
01:03:24,710 --> 01:03:29,410
to ensure that we, you know, when we do put it out that they have the crew and its potential

742
01:03:29,410 --> 01:03:35,270
to get in, which is why we had explored a potential PE back agreement, which is where you jump

743
01:03:35,270 --> 01:03:40,450
on to a other municipalities agreement and you use their unit cost.

744
01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:50,640
Steve, is the lines going in to Cocoa Plum if we ever like say 20 years down the road

745
01:03:51,300 --> 01:03:53,360
and you know the maintenance issues with so many plants?

746
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:56,700
One centralized plant would be drastically cheaper to operate.

747
01:03:57,100 --> 01:03:58,480
Are those lines big enough?

748
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:01,760
I understand there's a challenge with a second or a backup deep oil.

749
01:04:02,100 --> 01:04:02,520
They are.

750
01:04:02,520 --> 01:04:09,960
they are. So the plan, looking at it, that was something that the previous City Manager had

751
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:12,420
asked us to look at when we were putting this together.

752
01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:16,580
Yes, the possibilities are

753
01:04:16,580 --> 01:04:21,460
so likely what would happen if you were to do a conversion and go to one central plant,

754
01:04:21,700 --> 01:04:26,420
the plant that's there will have to get bigger at Area 6, obviously to make up for the initial flow.

755
01:04:27,020 --> 01:04:32,440
But you would, all these holding tanks were making would basically turn into raw sewage holding

756
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:37,380
tanks, and you would screen them before the sewage goes in to pull any big things out,

757
01:04:37,500 --> 01:04:38,820
like your floatables.

758
01:04:39,360 --> 01:04:45,760
I won't be any more descriptive, but you'll pull those out and then you pump the water

759
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:46,840
to the facility.

760
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:51,060
So it is fully there, the capability will be there.

761
01:04:51,460 --> 01:04:56,040
The only thing that you're sacrificing when you look at doing that, and this is kind of

762
01:04:56,040 --> 01:05:01,440
the main thing you have to consider, is that right now you're treating water decentralized,

763
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:08,360
And so you're treating them at local areas, each of those plants is allowed to dump in a shallow well as an emergency backup.

764
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:20,140
So the way we're designing it is if the treated water, for whatever reason, you know, active water, whatever we cannot ship it to area six, the treated water will go down your existing shallow wells that you currently have.

765
01:05:20,720 --> 01:05:25,720
And that's, you know, that's not raw, that's not sewage, that's treated, that's basically pool water.

766
01:05:26,380 --> 01:05:34,300
If you take that away, then we're not allowed to do that anymore, which means you have one option, one option alone, and that's to get it to area six.

767
01:05:34,840 --> 01:05:37,620
And if you can't get it there, it overflows on the ground.

768
01:05:38,740 --> 01:05:40,860
So that's what we've had happen before.

769
01:05:41,260 --> 01:05:41,660
It happens.

770
01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:44,080
So it's an option in the future.

771
01:05:44,180 --> 01:05:45,380
It is an option that leaves that way.

772
01:05:45,460 --> 01:05:46,640
Yeah, that was my main question.

773
01:05:46,700 --> 01:05:48,640
Yeah, and it's set up for that.

774
01:05:48,700 --> 01:05:54,840
So if that's the desire in the future, we also have it set up that if in the future, you know, one of the things we looked at was potentially

775
01:05:54,840 --> 01:06:01,180
Potentially shipping the water to the aqueducts facility the our facility if they wanted to do indirect reuse or something

776
01:06:02,500 --> 01:06:08,320
That's a capability to that was I think when you guys were looking at this originally there was option 1a and 1b and

777
01:06:09,780 --> 01:06:13,880
1a was the ultimate one that was chosen because 1b involved aqueduct

778
01:06:14,780 --> 01:06:19,940
Wanting to play ball with that and at the time they hadn't and we didn't own the property and we yeah need on the property

779
01:06:19,940 --> 01:06:24,780
Yeah, so that possibility though if say they wanted it

780
01:06:24,840 --> 01:06:28,800
You could turn it around and ship another possibility to just thrown it out there

781
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:31,000
It's possibility, but it's not something that

782
01:06:31,780 --> 01:06:37,780
Was advertised too much is that if in the future you ever wanted to send water like if they're if we had a user that said

783
01:06:37,780 --> 01:06:40,900
Hey, I want the water we're shipping it across marathon

784
01:06:40,900 --> 01:06:46,900
You can always tap in the line and pull that treated water out and use it for water and grass or whatever

785
01:06:46,900 --> 01:06:48,720
So that is a possibility

786
01:06:49,340 --> 01:06:51,800
So it's not a primary, but it is a possibility

787
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:53,440
Steve also

788
01:06:53,440 --> 01:07:10,200
So we have more properties that have been approved to be built, and even maybe Valhalla, will this be enough for the added properties?

789
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:10,440
Yes.

790
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,360
Those have all been accounted for in our hydraulic model.

791
01:07:13,900 --> 01:07:18,820
We even looked at potentially, and this was something that a previous city manager had asked

792
01:07:18,820 --> 01:07:19,320
for as well.

793
01:07:20,140 --> 01:07:25,320
If Duckke ended up not being allowed to dispose down their shallow wells, they could also run

794
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:29,120
a line and tie it into the system and take it to Area 6 as a possibility.

795
01:07:29,300 --> 01:07:33,180
We're not running any lines out there, but that is a possibility if it came up.

796
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:34,520
And what about K-Colony?

797
01:07:35,080 --> 01:07:35,880
K-Colony.

798
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:37,660
We did look at K-Colony to tie it in.

799
01:07:37,660 --> 01:07:40,400
or currently, it is not set up to take key colony.

800
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:46,080
It would have made the pipeline go from the 16-inch to an 18-inch.

801
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:48,480
It would have added a couple million dollars to the cost.

802
01:07:49,160 --> 01:07:54,240
So the direction from staff at the time was to not plan for key colony.

803
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:59,160
But if that's the change, let us know before we build it.

804
01:08:01,420 --> 01:08:03,180
If they got the money, we get the time.

805
01:08:06,270 --> 01:08:07,190
Any other questions?

806
01:08:08,310 --> 01:08:09,290
Thank you, Steve.

807
01:08:09,710 --> 01:08:09,810
All right.

808
01:08:10,030 --> 01:08:10,270
Thank you.

809
01:08:17,100 --> 01:08:21,420
We miss the 630 speakers.

810
01:08:21,920 --> 01:08:22,840
We want to do that now.

811
01:08:23,220 --> 01:08:24,460
Diego Cordova.

812
01:08:33,780 --> 01:08:34,860
A little councilman.

813
01:08:35,040 --> 01:08:35,840
Thank you for having me.

814
01:08:36,500 --> 01:08:40,340
I'm concerned about the boat ramp at Harbor.

815
01:08:42,300 --> 01:08:48,020
And I would like to state that that is a boat ramp that I use quite often.

816
01:08:48,020 --> 01:08:58,220
and it would be nice to be able to park there for the owners or the people that live in

817
01:08:58,220 --> 01:09:05,940
the neighborhood of aviation. A few of us guides use that vote ramp quite a bit, and

818
01:09:05,940 --> 01:09:14,780
it would be pretty helpful for us if we're able to park there. I think that they should

819
01:09:14,780 --> 01:09:23,200
have a line on the street where a vehicle, a long vehicle, or a long trailer cannot exceed

820
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:29,160
that line. And if there's a possibility for us to have some kind of special permit

821
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:33,760
because we're in that neighborhood to be able to utilize that parking space that would

822
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:41,280
be greatly appreciated by us guides and local people around the neighborhood. And that's

823
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:42,620
That's pretty much all I have to say about that.

824
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:44,460
Thank you very much for listening to me.

825
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:45,200
Thanks, Diego.

826
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:46,460
Thank you, Diego.

827
01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:49,940
John Callian, followed by Diane Scott.

828
01:09:58,930 --> 01:10:01,990
But if you cancel, I'd like to say hello.

829
01:10:02,250 --> 01:10:04,890
And thank you for taking the time to hear what I got to say.

830
01:10:05,850 --> 01:10:08,430
I'm basically here for the same reason that Diego is,

831
01:10:08,670 --> 01:10:11,050
is to restore the traditional parking

832
01:10:11,050 --> 01:10:12,910
that we always used to have behind the airport.

833
01:10:13,450 --> 01:10:17,110
I mean, I've owned at home behind the airport since 1981.

834
01:10:17,110 --> 01:10:23,410
one and I've launched my boat there when there was no boat right there it was just dirt and

835
01:10:23,870 --> 01:10:29,910
to be able to park there would greatly help me as well as you know several others because it's

836
01:10:29,910 --> 01:10:34,370
a two-man thing to launch your boat there. You could have someone to drive the boat away and you could

837
01:10:34,370 --> 01:10:42,190
have somebody drive the truck away and I'm a one-man show and so that would greatly help and thank you

838
01:10:42,190 --> 01:10:45,590
for taking the time to hear what I got to say.

839
01:10:49,310 --> 01:10:50,230
Diane Scott.

840
01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:09,060
Council, Diane Scott.

841
01:11:09,620 --> 01:11:10,640
Y'all know why I'm here.

842
01:11:11,700 --> 01:11:13,640
This is Sheriff of Police Department.

843
01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:14,520
You know what?

844
01:11:15,580 --> 01:11:19,020
I'm glad to all lawyers and all that.

845
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,560
But y'all need y'all on Police Department.

846
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:23,000
You really do.

847
01:11:23,200 --> 01:11:25,640
You need y'all on Police Department around here.

848
01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:28,620
If Key Collins can have theirs and Key West can have theirs,

849
01:11:28,820 --> 01:11:30,480
American Thung and have theirs too.

850
01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:31,840
But you know what?

851
01:11:33,910 --> 01:11:39,190
Don't stop the city. The Sheriff Office is corrupt. And I'm gonna tell you something.

852
01:11:40,290 --> 01:11:46,010
If you all don't want your own police department, you are condoning their corruptances.

853
01:11:46,850 --> 01:11:53,470
Really, seriously. And you know what? I pray. I pray soon that somebody come in and tear that

854
01:11:54,050 --> 01:11:58,910
Sheriff also support. And then y'all will be looking crazy. I'm like, I told you. You know?

855
01:11:58,910 --> 01:12:04,910
they are corrupt and you know what when they said they ignore police wrong

856
01:12:04,910 --> 01:12:08,870
doing and in turn affairs don't do nothing and then they said somebody accredited

857
01:12:08,870 --> 01:12:14,910
nation people and you talk to them nobody cares nobody cares and I know for

858
01:12:14,910 --> 01:12:20,310
fact that they ignore reports because they ignore minds and they let two of my

859
01:12:20,310 --> 01:12:25,990
cases took two years and to the statute of limitations went out and then it was

860
01:12:25,990 --> 01:12:27,290
like we can't do nothing.

861
01:12:27,530 --> 01:12:29,150
You had two years to do something.

862
01:12:29,610 --> 01:12:30,470
I showed you pictures.

863
01:12:31,270 --> 01:12:32,830
I showed you doctor reports.

864
01:12:33,270 --> 01:12:34,630
And you still didn't do your job.

865
01:12:35,050 --> 01:12:35,790
That's corruption.

866
01:12:36,670 --> 01:12:39,770
And so you all need your own police department

867
01:12:40,390 --> 01:12:41,850
because you have accountability.

868
01:12:42,150 --> 01:12:45,650
And don't say that we can't afford it, yes you can.

869
01:12:45,790 --> 01:12:47,710
Because you know what, you get grant money for everything.

870
01:12:47,910 --> 01:12:48,930
You can get grant money.

871
01:12:49,350 --> 01:12:51,530
Well, we already have a police department

872
01:12:51,530 --> 01:12:54,010
because this marathon paid a share

873
01:12:54,010 --> 01:13:00,990
also sort of marathon people here that works at the substation, but you all need to be holding

874
01:13:00,990 --> 01:13:07,970
officers accountable for their wrongdoing. These officers can't go around just thinking they above

875
01:13:07,970 --> 01:13:12,610
the law and lie and report and get away with it. And the sheriff don't care because you know what,

876
01:13:13,050 --> 01:13:19,070
they do the stuff, they're reflection of him because they wouldn't be doing wrong if he wasn't

877
01:13:19,070 --> 01:13:24,850
condone it. So I'm telling y'all I'm going to preach to you all and and guess what? How long you

878
01:13:24,850 --> 01:13:29,210
know how long I've been saying this? That y'all need your own police department about over 10 years.

879
01:13:30,010 --> 01:13:36,790
You need your own police department. You really do. I know you pay for the sheriff office, but it's

880
01:13:36,790 --> 01:13:43,750
no accountability there. They don't do nothing. In a report it says, let me say this right quick. Y'all

881
01:13:43,750 --> 01:13:48,830
have with the sheriff office is that if the citizen here have a complaint, they

882
01:13:48,830 --> 01:13:53,710
supposed to look into the complaint and give you all full report. None of my

883
01:13:53,710 --> 01:13:59,310
complaints have never had a full report. They don't care. They're corrupt. Thank

884
01:13:59,310 --> 01:14:01,470
you. Thank you. Betty Chaplin.

885
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,740
Just real quick. One of the things I like about this

886
01:14:12,740 --> 01:14:17,080
council is you ask a lot of questions every day and you talk to us old

887
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:20,460
timers all the time and there are a lot of things that catch people up. A lot

888
01:14:20,460 --> 01:14:25,700
things that we were told a long time ago we find out but not absolutely true so just keep

889
01:14:25,700 --> 01:14:30,860
asking questions. The other thing is that marathon the city of marathon is 16 miles long.

890
01:14:31,660 --> 01:14:36,140
We started the 7 mile bridge and we go all the way to Tom's Harbor Bridge. If you count both

891
01:14:36,140 --> 01:14:45,540
sides the road that's what 32 miles and we used to say all we have to do to be successful is to be

892
01:14:45,540 --> 01:14:50,840
prettier and nicer and we'll be better and have more business than Key West and we

893
01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:55,080
already do. We already do. We have to keep doing that. We have to keep being

894
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:56,340
attractive we have.

895
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,960
We have to be nice, we have to work hard, we have to keep things looking good. The other thing

896
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:12,360
is, and last thing is that that road is just about the most important thing to water

897
01:15:12,360 --> 01:15:21,120
electricity. Every pill, every piece of wood, all our groceries, our gasoline, the greyhound

898
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:26,760
bus, everything comes across that road. We also need to understand that if we don't take

899
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:30,160
care of things and we don't pay attention and we don't ask a lot of questions we could

900
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:35,560
lose it all tomorrow. All of our water comes from the Everglades. All of our electricity

901
01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:41,640
comes from turkey point. All of our garbage and our of our junk goes up this highway to

902
01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:46,380
someplace else where they dump it and keep us looking good and smelling good. That didn't

903
01:15:46,380 --> 01:15:52,280
just happen. A lot of people that came before us worked really hard to make this work and

904
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:53,820
That road is really important.

905
01:15:54,660 --> 01:15:57,420
There's a situation on Veccacut Bridge going north

906
01:15:57,420 --> 01:16:00,580
that is going to be a catastrophe if we don't stop it.

907
01:16:01,400 --> 01:16:03,880
And I've just found out that DOT has approved it

908
01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:06,200
and that's the diesel lane to the property

909
01:16:06,200 --> 01:16:07,540
behind the Catholic Church.

910
01:16:08,500 --> 01:16:10,780
The plan is not gonna work.

911
01:16:11,020 --> 01:16:12,660
It's a catastrophe waiting to happen.

912
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:15,300
I hate to do this, but I'm gonna go to the governor about it.

913
01:16:15,860 --> 01:16:19,000
If we don't protect our road, if we don't protect our sides,

914
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:21,420
if we don't protect our easements,

915
01:16:21,420 --> 01:16:27,080
There are a lot of easements on some burrow beach road that really need to be looked at people put their rocks right out on the road

916
01:16:27,080 --> 01:16:31,200
If an ambulance had to pull aside or a fire truck had to pull aside

917
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:38,860
They would be no place for them to go if somebody died or somebody got injured beyond what had to be we would be sued worse than that

918
01:16:38,860 --> 01:16:42,600
We our hearts would be broken. So keep asking questions

919
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:46,800
I'm going to report on the next meeting that we have about that because

920
01:16:46,800 --> 01:16:50,540
is going north on the tobacco cut bridge should be easy peasy.

921
01:16:50,820 --> 01:16:54,020
There will be a lot of turns because that's the way our town is.

922
01:16:54,500 --> 01:16:59,140
But that is a catastrophe waiting to happen if that turn is so quick right after that bridge.

923
01:16:59,140 --> 01:16:59,920
You can't see it.

924
01:16:59,980 --> 01:17:01,980
Somebody's going to hit that and hurt somebody.

925
01:17:02,820 --> 01:17:03,900
Anyway, keep up the good work.

926
01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:04,360
Thank you.

927
01:17:05,580 --> 01:17:06,060
Thanks, buddy.

928
01:17:07,180 --> 01:17:08,060
20 more speakers?

929
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:08,420
No?

930
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:08,980
Okay.

931
01:17:12,060 --> 01:17:19,720
Ordnance 2026-23, Modifying Section 32-2 of the City Code of Ordnances, Regulation of

932
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:24,320
Record Operators who provide towing and storage services at the request of law enforcement

933
01:17:24,320 --> 01:17:29,100
officers, providing for incorporation into the Code of Ordnances and providing for an effective

934
01:17:29,100 --> 01:17:29,500
date.

935
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:32,140
Good evening, Council.

936
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:34,680
We're going to do some good old fashioned government deregulation.

937
01:17:36,180 --> 01:17:40,780
So we looked at this ordinance and according to the Florida statute, we can be stricter than

938
01:17:40,780 --> 01:17:45,780
what is in the statutes. Currently, Arden's has a few sections that are stricter. For example,

939
01:17:46,060 --> 01:17:50,960
a jurisdiction of our size and population. We can allow towing up to 15 miles from location,

940
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:55,900
but within our current ordinance it says 13. We're going to keep that regulation in place,

941
01:17:56,360 --> 01:18:01,560
but we are looking at where we are inconsistent with the rest of the Florida statutes. So if you turn

942
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:07,940
to page 64 of your agenda, you'll see the first change. And that is that the statute says the

943
01:18:07,940 --> 01:18:13,960
hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Our ordinance is 5 p.m. So we're mending that. And it also

944
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:17,980
currently says Monday to Friday, but the statute says any day that towing is occurring from that

945
01:18:17,980 --> 01:18:23,500
business. If you flip to the next page, you'll see that that is repeated again in section 12.

946
01:18:25,700 --> 01:18:30,940
Then as we get to section 13, it talks about notification and signage. So we're adding that language

947
01:18:30,940 --> 01:18:38,360
cut and paste from the statute. We are going to make the city clerk's life easier by removing the

948
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:42,980
annual fee, and since we only have two currently registered, it's just easy to

949
01:18:42,980 --> 01:18:47,680
document which to exist. So any new ones, they would just pay a one-time only

950
01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:52,960
$100 fee. So we're removing the clerk from that process as an annual renewal

951
01:18:52,960 --> 01:18:57,740
and just doing a one-time fee. Under the current ordinance, they are supposed to

952
01:18:57,740 --> 01:19:02,180
notify the clerk within 15 days of a tow. Under the current statute, it's within 30

953
01:19:02,180 --> 01:19:05,620
minutes to the sheriff's office. So we are just copying, pasting from the statute,

954
01:19:05,620 --> 01:19:08,600
all that notification criteria in the next few pages.

955
01:19:11,450 --> 01:19:16,750
We are then getting into the penalties on the last page of your agenda.

956
01:19:17,590 --> 01:19:19,350
I'm 69 of that section.

957
01:19:21,730 --> 01:19:25,630
Again, we just took the same penalties from the statute and pasted them into our ordinance.

958
01:19:26,070 --> 01:19:27,790
So we're no longer over complicating things.

959
01:19:28,490 --> 01:19:29,190
Any questions?

960
01:19:38,220 --> 01:19:40,140
No, really. I thought you did pretty good, Brian.

961
01:19:40,260 --> 01:19:41,340
Usually I like to pick at you.

962
01:19:41,340 --> 01:19:47,280
I'll make a motion to accept ordinance 2026-23 as is second council

963
01:19:51,060 --> 01:20:02,180
member Matt lock. Yes council member still. Yes council member Landry. Yes, please know vice mayor strife has abstained mayor and Delgezo. Yes, motion carries.

964
01:20:06,750 --> 01:20:17,450
Ordnance, 2026, 24, amending chapter 15 fire prevention article one in general amending section 15-6 entitled chickies and

965
01:20:17,450 --> 01:20:27,930
teakies amending section 15-7 entitled penalty amending sections 15-8 through 15-26 entitled reserve of the city of

966
01:20:27,930 --> 01:20:34,210
marathon code of ordinances providing for several ability providing for the repeal of conflicting provisions and

967
01:20:34,210 --> 01:20:35,490
and providing for an effective date.

968
01:20:36,690 --> 01:20:38,550
If this ordinance looks familiar to you,

969
01:20:38,610 --> 01:20:39,850
that is because it is.

970
01:20:40,090 --> 01:20:41,670
We had a similar ordinance last year.

971
01:20:42,490 --> 01:20:44,030
And then as of July one,

972
01:20:44,050 --> 01:20:45,550
the state changed the definitions

973
01:20:45,550 --> 01:20:47,930
on what could be allowed as a cheeky and teaky.

974
01:20:48,970 --> 01:20:51,530
So our ordinance that was under review with the states

975
01:20:51,970 --> 01:20:53,870
was withdrawn and we are starting fresh

976
01:20:53,870 --> 01:20:55,550
with those new definitions from the states.

977
01:20:56,250 --> 01:20:58,550
So previously we had language in there saying

978
01:20:58,550 --> 01:21:00,590
the teaky's could be five future money structure.

979
01:21:01,310 --> 01:21:03,170
With the new state law, they went with 10 feet.

980
01:21:03,630 --> 01:21:06,010
So we're basically copying and pasting the state law.

981
01:21:06,490 --> 01:21:09,610
You will see additional ordinances in the next few months.

982
01:21:09,990 --> 01:21:12,330
Those are going to be in the LDRs, so

983
01:21:12,330 --> 01:21:14,630
those have to go to planning commission first before it will come to you.

984
01:21:15,190 --> 01:21:19,870
And those are pulling in the criteria where the state said they can't be 10 feet closer than any property line.

985
01:21:22,310 --> 01:21:24,690
Which is a greater setback than our current setbacks.

986
01:21:24,690 --> 01:21:27,010
So we need to add that into our setback code section.

987
01:21:30,680 --> 01:21:36,020
So because we're going to get angry phone calls about this, for layman's terms they overrode our decision and we have to adopt.

988
01:21:36,020 --> 01:21:38,940
And one stricter that's yeah, so it's not our fault

989
01:21:38,940 --> 01:21:46,020
I didn't read much room in this when I read it so I make a motion to accept the ordinance 2026 that's 24

990
01:21:47,100 --> 01:21:47,620
We

991
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:53,360
do not have anyone signed up to speak councilmember Matlock

992
01:21:54,420 --> 01:22:01,060
Yes, councilmember still yes councilmember Landry. Yes vice mayor strife. Yes mayor Delgado. Yes, motion carries

993
01:22:03,810 --> 01:22:09,530
Resolution 2026 72 impose and provide for collection of wastewater special assessments for air

994
01:22:09,610 --> 01:22:16,650
service areas 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, including the supplemental assessment program for fiscal year,

995
01:22:16,770 --> 01:22:21,690
commencing in October 1st, 2026, approving the assessment role, providing for collection

996
01:22:22,090 --> 01:22:24,530
of the assessments and providing for an effective date.

997
01:22:28,670 --> 01:22:32,650
Libby says she really loves to speak in public and would like to talk to you guys for a long

998
01:22:32,650 --> 01:22:36,950
time tonight about this and no, she's going to kill me.

999
01:22:37,470 --> 01:22:40,210
No, it's one we've got to do if there's no other way to put it.

1000
01:22:40,210 --> 01:22:46,660
So I'm going to add to that, Steve, just because I know stuff.

1001
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:52,140
I don't know you guys do, too, but I made a jab at the other Steve about steel tanks.

1002
01:22:52,580 --> 01:22:59,460
There is just maintenance and stuff coming up that we just, if you want to flush your toilets, this is, I don't like it either.

1003
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:00,120
I got to pay it.

1004
01:23:01,020 --> 01:23:06,200
So it kind of what Steve said, we have to do it because of aging facilities and everything we're dealing with.

1005
01:23:06,460 --> 01:23:09,360
So unless you guys have something.

1006
01:23:15,110 --> 01:23:16,310
We have no speakers.

1007
01:23:17,790 --> 01:23:18,950
Any speakers on this?

1008
01:23:19,090 --> 01:23:19,150
No.

1009
01:23:19,390 --> 01:23:19,610
Okay.

1010
01:23:20,230 --> 01:23:20,970
Make a motion.

1011
01:23:21,090 --> 01:23:23,190
We approve resolution 2026-S72.

1012
01:23:24,530 --> 01:23:25,030
No second.

1013
01:23:28,830 --> 01:23:29,570
Council member still?

1014
01:23:29,830 --> 01:23:29,990
Yes.

1015
01:23:30,250 --> 01:23:31,090
Council member Landry?

1016
01:23:31,230 --> 01:23:31,450
Yes.

1017
01:23:31,690 --> 01:23:32,810
Council member Matt Locke?

1018
01:23:32,850 --> 01:23:33,070
Yes.

1019
01:23:33,410 --> 01:23:34,250
Vice Mayor Strife?

1020
01:23:34,410 --> 01:23:34,610
Yes.

1021
01:23:35,210 --> 01:23:36,050
Mayor Donald Gato?

1022
01:23:36,290 --> 01:23:36,550
Yes.

1023
01:23:36,990 --> 01:23:37,550
Motion carries.

1024
01:23:38,870 --> 01:23:40,570
Resolution 2026-73.

1025
01:23:40,790 --> 01:23:45,470
Imposing the annual stormwater utility special assessments for a fiscal year commencing in October

1026
01:23:45,470 --> 01:23:52,970
We're first, 2026 approving the assessment role, providing for a collection of the assessments and providing for an effective date.

1027
01:23:56,380 --> 01:24:02,420
Same concept, you got to do it, you got to have the perquival of the year you rate, so here we are.

1028
01:24:05,610 --> 01:24:06,450
We have no speakers.

1029
01:24:19,550 --> 01:24:21,750
Make a motion, we approve 2026-73.

1030
01:24:22,630 --> 01:24:22,930
Second.

1031
01:24:26,690 --> 01:24:27,370
Council Member Still?

1032
01:24:27,630 --> 01:24:27,770
Yes.

1033
01:24:28,250 --> 01:24:28,950
Vice Mayor Strife?

1034
01:24:29,370 --> 01:24:29,530
Yes.

1035
01:24:29,790 --> 01:24:30,610
Council Member Landry?

1036
01:24:30,910 --> 01:24:31,150
Yes.

1037
01:24:31,550 --> 01:24:32,410
Council Member Matlock?

1038
01:24:32,770 --> 01:24:33,090
Yes.

1039
01:24:33,530 --> 01:24:34,350
Mayor Delgazzo?

1040
01:24:34,490 --> 01:24:34,650
Yes.

1041
01:24:34,930 --> 01:24:35,430
Motion carries.

1042
01:24:35,430 --> 01:24:36,130
I

1043
01:24:39,750 --> 01:24:40,410
think that's it.

1044
01:24:41,270 --> 01:24:43,990
All right, I want to thank everyone in comment

1045
01:24:43,990 --> 01:24:47,450
and do we have any comments, Councilman Landry?

1046
01:24:49,390 --> 01:24:51,490
First of all, I think Mel has left

1047
01:24:51,490 --> 01:24:53,610
but I just wanted to give a shout out the firm again.

1048
01:24:53,910 --> 01:24:56,630
They have done such great work for our community

1049
01:24:56,630 --> 01:24:59,090
and all of the county over the years.

1050
01:25:00,290 --> 01:25:02,110
Happy to hear that we might be getting up

1051
01:25:02,110 --> 01:25:03,890
to 35 million for the deep wild, which will help,

1052
01:25:04,170 --> 01:25:05,870
but it's still going to be a big cost to us.

1053
01:25:06,690 --> 01:25:15,310
And pay attention, now we get into the real nitty-gritty budget season starting in September, so Jennifer, thank you and looking forward to it.

1054
01:25:18,850 --> 01:25:21,410
First of all, thank you everybody for being here tonight.

1055
01:25:21,730 --> 01:25:22,450
School starts.

1056
01:25:22,910 --> 01:25:24,370
I see some teachers in the audience.

1057
01:25:24,590 --> 01:25:25,550
Thank you all very much.

1058
01:25:25,690 --> 01:25:26,570
Tag, you are it.

1059
01:25:27,110 --> 01:25:29,750
Thankfully all my kids are out of school, so I'm not sending them off.

1060
01:25:29,810 --> 01:25:32,210
But I remember those days, and I have friends that are very happy.

1061
01:25:32,630 --> 01:25:33,770
Let's watch out for our school buses.

1062
01:25:34,590 --> 01:25:41,570
We've had a summer where we haven't had to do that, haven't had to watch for the kids who are riding bikes, riding scooters on the way to school.

1063
01:25:41,950 --> 01:25:46,670
So please pay attention tomorrow, we're not really used to that because we've had all summer long.

1064
01:25:47,070 --> 01:25:50,970
Good luck to the teachers, good luck to the students, let's have a great school year.

1065
01:25:51,450 --> 01:25:53,870
Council is a pleasure as always to serve with you.

1066
01:25:54,130 --> 01:25:57,870
I know that we will work hard together to find good solutions for our city.

1067
01:25:58,470 --> 01:25:59,750
Steve, thank you very much.

1068
01:25:59,750 --> 01:26:08,410
We appreciate you being willing to accept the task and come along and be our hopefully maybe city manager.

1069
01:26:08,610 --> 01:26:10,730
It looks like we might be heading that direction, we still have to vote on it.

1070
01:26:11,230 --> 01:26:13,250
But thank you all, everybody, have a great evening,

1071
01:26:15,900 --> 01:26:16,140
Kenny.

1072
01:26:17,420 --> 01:26:19,300
Kenny's good, Deb.

1073
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:25,500
I really want to thank staff because I know, again, I've been driving you crazy.

1074
01:26:25,860 --> 01:26:30,260
Spook especially, Brian Shay, don't want to leave you out, Brian.

1075
01:26:31,380 --> 01:26:48,580
But Steve, I really appreciate you stepping up and taking this because I really feel like we're off to a good direction and I know that with your leadership, we will be heading an even better direction and I appreciate the way you think about this community and I think that's a very, very important asset.

1076
01:26:48,980 --> 01:26:50,840
So thank you. Thank you guys for coming out.

1077
01:26:52,000 --> 01:27:18,980
Yes, thank you everyone, I like to see our residents that live here, you guys are all passionate about this community as I said earlier, and we love that, we really do, but if you have a question, please reach out to us, I know some of you do, but we are all open, and we will listen, and we are fair-minded.

1078
01:27:18,980 --> 01:27:25,320
So, you know, don't hesitate to reach out email and we want to hear from you.

1079
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:30,260
We want to see you, we love that you participate, we participate in this community, we love

1080
01:27:30,260 --> 01:27:35,440
our community, we've had some changes this year, it's been a lot, it really has.

1081
01:27:35,860 --> 01:27:41,980
But we're coming out into the light and I know it's going to be super great and when Steve

1082
01:27:41,980 --> 01:27:45,180
decides and gets in, we're going to hit the ground running.

1083
01:27:45,180 --> 01:27:46,660
So I'm looking forward to that.

1084
01:27:47,140 --> 01:27:54,140
This is a business and we're going to get some projects done, and we're going to be back to above normal.

1085
01:27:54,420 --> 01:27:54,940
Thank you.

1086
01:27:56,200 --> 01:27:57,160
Thank you.

1087
01:27:58,420 --> 01:28:05,060
I voted weeks ago, but get out and vote, and let's get this over with as well.

1088
01:28:05,460 --> 01:28:06,960
Thank you, have a good night, everybody.

1089
01:28:08,940 --> 01:28:09,420
adjourn.