[0:44] Good evening. How you doing?

[0:51] » You all right? We going to give you a key to the city of the neck. You keep

[0:54] coming.

[0:59] How you doing with both right

[1:05] in the club then?

[2:12] So,

[2:16] Oh, what is

[2:30] » this page right there? >> Oh, that's a page.

[2:33] [laughter]

[2:37] » Oh, okay.

[2:57] I'm down.

[3:02] » This is the same.

[3:31] presentation.

[3:36] Thank you.

[3:40] This is the first.

[3:54] [snorts]

[3:57] [clears throat]

[4:16] I call this meeting of the Poki City Commission, Tuesday, August 11, 2026 to

[4:24] order at 6:05 p.m. May we please stand for the

[4:29] invocation provided by Commissioner Kyas Williams followed by the pledge of

[4:35] allegiance. Gracious heavenly father, we thank you

[4:38] for us being able to come here together tonight as a commission. We thank you

[4:44] for our city and you continue to bless our city and its residents and all the

[4:48] supporters in our resident in our city. And we thank you for each and everyone

[4:53] that continue to keep us in their prayers as we continue to grow and as

[4:56] our city continue to progress. And we thank you for how you can continue to

[5:00] watch over this commission as we continue to make the right decisions for

[5:03] the city and its residents. And we thank you for all these blessings in Jesus

[5:07] name. Amen. >> Amen.

[5:11] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it

[5:16] stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[5:22] for all.

[5:28] » Roll call. Melon clerk. >> Mayor Bab

[5:31] » present. >> Vice Mayor McDonald

[5:34] » present. >> Commissioner Cowan Williams

[5:36] » present. >> Commissioner McFersonson

[5:38] » present. Commissioner Scott >> present.

[5:40] » City manager >> present.

[5:41] » City attorney >> city clerk is present.

[5:45] » Thank you. City [snorts] clerk, city commissioners, staff, our

[5:51] residents, and most importantly our guests uh from the school board is here.

[5:57] We thank you for coming at this time.

[6:04] City Manager, do we have any additions on emergency basis from the city

[6:10] manager? >> No. No additions, mayor, but we would

[6:14] like to move item four under presentation um placed under item number

[6:19] one.

[6:27] City commission hearing. There are no deletions or additions. Just one item

[6:34] being moved from number four. A proclamation being moved from number

[6:38] four to number one >> to number two

[6:42] » to number two. >> To number two

[6:50] the following. What is your pleasure? >> Mayor Bab, I move that we um accept

[6:55] moving item number four to number two. >> Second.

[7:02] It has been moved and second by Commissioner

[7:07] Williams and second by Commissioner McFerson.

[7:12] » Call for questions hearing none. Are you ready for a vote? Roll call. Madam

[7:17] clerk. >> Commissioner Cowan Williams.

[7:18] » Yes. Commissioner [clears throat] McFersonson.

[7:20] » Yes. >> Commissioner Scott?

[7:22] » Yes. >> Vice Mayor McDonald?

[7:23] » Yes. >> Mayor Bab?

[7:25] » Yes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you, Commissioners. Motion passed by

[7:28] unanimous vote. Now we're moving to our presentation,

[7:33] proclamation, public service announcement, public comments, agenda

[7:38] items only at this time. City clerk, are there any public service

[7:46] comments card completed at this time? >> Yes, sir. We only have one and it's a

[7:49] PSA from Miss Lwanda Harper.

[8:05] Good evening. >> Good evening.

[8:08] » My name is Lwanda Harper. I currently serve um the school district in many

[8:13] different capacities, but I'm here tonight on behalf of a group of 26 young

[8:17] ladies that I work with on a daily basis in the afternoon that are our volleyball

[8:22] team at Pokei Middle Senior High School. For the last four years, the program has

[8:27] grown. Um, we have invested not only in how we look, how we show up, how we

[8:34] perform academically, but the program has continued to grow to the fact that

[8:38] in the last 20 years, we won three games last year varsity and had not won three

[8:43] games in the last since 2000 in this century. So, I come tonight asking your

[8:49] support as a product of this community and as someone who is contin to still

[8:54] give back. Although I don't reside in the community, I still reside in the

[8:59] community because I continue to work with our kids on a daily basis for my

[9:02] professional job and then I leave my professional job and go work with our

[9:06] kids after school to show that there is still a commitment to girls sports here

[9:11] in this community. We no longer have the banket and the greens trucking to

[9:16] sponsor different things in our community, but each one of us can

[9:19] continue to give back in any way that we see set forth. The program is not coming

[9:24] to just ask you for financial support, but we ask you to physically support us

[9:29] by attending our games to show our girls that our community leaders support what

[9:34] we have going on and they are in support of the progress that we want to make as

[9:39] a city because they are our future. We have done many fundraisers. Those of you

[9:44] who are know me personally know that we've sold donuts, we've sold popcorn,

[9:50] and our most um successful fundraiser this summer, we raised over $2,500 with

[9:55] the Domino's gift cards. And that came from not only support within this

[9:58] community, but support all across this United States because we had to reach

[10:02] our social platform. Where our program is right now as we grow, because I want

[10:07] you to think about those discretionary funds for volleyball and we may be back

[10:11] to support girls sports. We know that money has been cut all across this

[10:15] nation um throughout anything, but every little bit counts. Whether it be $20,

[10:21] $200, $2,000. We are in need of some additional equipment to see our girls

[10:26] performance grow. We have invested in them with camps, clinics, you name it.

[10:31] Personally, I've invested in them to ensure that they get what they need. And

[10:35] the school is given everything that they can to ensure that we meet the needs of

[10:39] our kids. So, I come tonight. I'm going to leave this letter with you. We

[10:42] already opened our donation fundraiser um so that if you want to give a

[10:48] donation, you may stop by the school anytime between 7:30 and 3:00. Miss Anna

[10:53] will collely receive your money someone in the front office or if you'd like for

[10:58] me to email you the link to school cash online, you may do so that way. Thank

[11:03] you so much. >> Thank you.

[11:19] Okay, at this time we have three presentations [clears throat] and one

[11:24] proclamation. The proclamation has been moved to number two. I have our city

[11:29] manager at this time introduce the presenters

[11:33] uh as they are called. >> M

[11:38] Mr. Mayor, we have our school school district from Palm Beach from I'm sorry,

[11:44] from Pahokei, um the city of Pahokei that will be here today to present to

[11:48] you. It is so vital that we understand what the school does and that we help

[11:54] them to better prepare our students for the future. So, we thought it best that

[12:00] they come and present um to share what they do. And we will have um Miss Angela

[12:08] Avery Moore,

[12:12] Dr. Dr. Marsha Andrews, and Dr. Timmy. Come

[12:18] on. >> Well, good evening everyone. First of

[12:23] all, um honorable mayor Fab, uh Vice Mayor, Miss McDonald, the entire DAS, we

[12:29] bring you greetings on behalf of our superintendent, Mr. Michael J. Burke,

[12:33] our six board member, Mrs. Marshia Andy's,

[12:36] who's here tonight and who will speak at the end of this presentation and also

[12:40] our instructional superintendent, Dr. [clears throat]

[12:44] as well as the entire Blaze region, [snorts] but specifically our Cahoki

[12:47] area and Glaze region team is here tonight. And so we do have a slide deck.

[12:51] You should also have a copy of the presentation. It will be brief. Um, but

[12:55] we want to make sure that everyone understands that our mission as a

[12:59] district is to educate, affirm, and inspire all of our students um

[13:04] throughout Palm Beach County, but more specifically for us in in the entire W

[13:08] region. And so we are doing that and you will see evidence of that as we move

[13:12] through our slide deck tonight. Um, we are proud of the success that has taken

[13:17] place in our region. More specifically, we're proud of the uh administrators and

[13:22] teachers who have been awarded the celebrate the great award for the entire

[13:27] district of Palm Beach County. And so we have over the last five years and

[13:32] we're proud to say that for five years, we've had someone represent our district

[13:37] or our region um as either the principal of the year or teacher of the year. So

[13:41] in 2022, Miss River Walker, who was the principal of Belgate Elementary, was the

[13:46] principal of the year. And this is a huge deal because this is not just for

[13:50] principles in the Glaze region. [snorts] This is for all of the principles in the

[13:53] entire school district of Palm Beach County. Also in 2023, our very own Mr.

[13:58] Dwayne Dennard, who is the principal of Okin Middle Senior High School, was the

[14:02] principal of the year. And Miss Joselyn Leon, who was a teacher at Belgade

[14:06] Elementary School, was the teacher of the year. Then we followed that up in

[14:10] 2024 with Miss Jamie Evans, who's now the principal at Belglade Elementary.

[14:15] She was the assistant principal of the year.

[14:17] Elementary that year and then in 2025 which was another backtoback we had Mr.

[14:23] Tabato who is the assistant principal at Pok Senior High School who was the

[14:27] assistant principal of the year and then our very own Miss Senthia Balden

[14:34] [applause]

[14:36] and that's there we go she got her own slide. [laughter]

[14:41] So, we had backto backto back assistant principles of the year uh for the school

[14:47] district of Palm Beach County and that was our very own Senthia Sinthia Balden

[14:51] who you will hear from tonight. And so, let's give all of them a round of

[14:53] applotes [applause]

[15:00] on this and they see the work that we're doing in the Glaze region. And this is

[15:04] how these individuals were named the principles, assistant principles, and

[15:07] teachers of the year. So, again, let's give them a round of applause.

[15:11] And [applause] so as a school district, we have maintained our a rating. And so

[15:16] I do want to say that as a Glaze region, we believe that we are adding to that.

[15:21] And so the next slide will show you that we've had several schools um to earn A's

[15:26] and B's. And so Glaze View, um which is a part of the Glaze region, moved their

[15:30] school grade from a C to an A. And then the schools that are listed on the right

[15:35] maintain their B or A status. And so this again is not something that's easy

[15:39] to do. And so we have Blaze Central Lakes Shore, Foke Middle Senior High

[15:43] School, Pine Park, and Rosen Wall. We do want to also acknowledge the work that

[15:47] Foke Elementary School is doing. They were just a few points away of earning

[15:52] their double A status. They dropped to a B, but again, to earn an A or a B in the

[15:59] state of Florida is a huge task. And we just commend all of the schools that are

[16:03] listed on here. So let's give them [applause]

[16:07] And so what we want you to know is that that task is getting a little bit

[16:11] harder. Um and so there is an escalator clause that says when you have 75% of

[16:16] your schools that earn a school grade of an A or B, then the threshold for the

[16:21] school grade changes. And so as you see this um for next year, so in FY26, in

[16:27] order for schools to earn a school grade of of an A, they needed 62%. um middle

[16:32] schools needed 64% and high schools needed 65% and as you can see um that

[16:37] number has increased by three points for elementary schools for this year um one

[16:41] point for middle schools and then five points for high schools or combo schools

[16:46] which includes middle senior high school and so we know uh that the task is

[16:51] greater um but we are also determined and committed to do the work that's

[16:56] necessary to ensure that we have continued success in the glaze region

[16:59] and so we are shooting for all of our schools for this year as

[17:03] well. Um, we also also want to provide an update on our strategic plan and so

[17:09] 10 of the 14 initiatives that were started I think five years ago um are

[17:14] now part of our operational norms but we're continuing to work on our pre preK

[17:19] through K literacy as well as the P pathways to possibilities and so we do

[17:24] have Mr. Dell who is the new principal of West Tech. He's going to be talking

[17:28] about the career dual enrollment programs [snorts] that offer that are

[17:31] offered at Westech as well as uh the other programs that they're currently

[17:35] offer offering. Um also um you know we hear a lot about AI and so we're

[17:40] definitely focusing on that and we're using AI to improve teaching learning

[17:44] and also efficiency throughout our department in our schools. And then

[17:48] lastly, customer service is very big for us in in our district. And so we want

[17:52] everybody to catch the wave. Whether it's our front office staff, whether

[17:56] it's our administrators, whether it's our teachers, we want to make sure that

[17:59] we are um have welcoming environments for our parents and our community when

[18:04] they come into our schools. And if that's not the case, please reach out to

[18:08] our office, myself, Dr. Nier, so that we can work with our schools to make sure

[18:12] that we're providing the best customer service.

[18:16] Um lastly, I think this is my last slide. Um student IDs. There's one more,

[18:20] but the student IDs and so you may have seen something posted on our social

[18:24] media pages and it was also tagged on all of our school pages regarding our

[18:28] student IDs. And so one of the reasons why this is important that students have

[18:32] their IDs, they're wearing their IDs, not having them in their book bags. It

[18:37] is it is it is an added safety measure for all of our schools. In addition to

[18:41] that, um students can use or must use their IDs to ride the buses as well as

[18:47] when they're receiving their school meals. Um, in addition to to that, I

[18:50] know we don't have many students students riding or using transportation

[18:54] in the Hoki area. Um, but it is a way of them identifying and keeping an accurate

[18:58] account of where the students are. And so parents are able to use the portal to

[19:02] see where the students are, where that bus is, and when that that bus is

[19:05] scheduled to drop students off. And so if we can get your assistance in helping

[19:08] us ma ensure that students are going to school with their IDs, we would really

[19:13] appreciate that and wearing the IDs, not just having them on their person. They

[19:17] need to actually wear the IDs. And the last uh slide that I have is we want to

[19:22] thank um you know the citizens of Pokei and the surrounding areas for their

[19:27] support of this referendum. This is a continuation of that from 2019. And what

[19:33] that does is it supports our teachers with increase in pay. We also have 25%

[19:38] of that going to our choice and our career programs as well as supporting

[19:42] our students um with mental health and also safety uh initiatives. And so this

[19:47] is how it will look on the ballot for the November 3rd election. And so we

[19:51] wanted to make sure that we're sharing that information with you and to also

[19:54] say once again, thank you for the support that you've provided to all of

[19:58] all of our schools. And with that, I'm going to have Mr. Dell who is the new

[20:02] principal of West Tech to come up and give you a quick update on West Tech

[20:06] followed by Mr. Do Mr. Dinard principal of OKA High School who's going to

[20:11] provide an update on u the programs that they have there. Um followed by Mr.

[20:16] Dinard, you will have Dr. Mir who's going to come up and introduce the

[20:19] elementary schools and they're going to share their updates. And then lastly,

[20:23] she's going to close us out. Mrs. Andrews, our district 6 board member.

[20:28] This is her last year um serving for us in this capacity, but we know that she's

[20:32] going to continue to be around supporting all of us and all of our

[20:35] schools um as she goes into retirement. And we're going to hold her to that

[20:40] husband in the back. She's listening. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over

[20:44] to Mr.

[20:50] » Good evening. >> Good evening.

[20:52] » And thank you for having me out tonight. Um, I look forward to working both with

[20:56] the city and with my fellow principles and with the parents and the community.

[21:01] Um, at West Tech, uh, we like to say that we, uh, teach student, we're the

[21:04] place where students come to learn, to earn. Um, I've already started working

[21:08] with Miss Bryant to kind of get some programs online for not just for our

[21:12] students, but for our adults and for the for the uh, for the city administration.

[21:16] Also, um, at West Tech, uh, we have had a bustling couple of days. Uh we're

[21:21] nearly bursting at the scene with the number of students and we've getting so

[21:23] many more requests from students who want to take programs at West. Uh Miss

[21:27] uh Moore alluded to our career dual enrollment programs. For career dual

[21:31] enrollment, we're offering phabbotomy, welding, and electronic systems

[21:35] technicians. Um and our students are really getting the opportunity with that

[21:39] because once they've done those programs, they're ready to move right

[21:42] over right over into college and or into their careers. Um along with the other

[21:47] programs, our newest program this year is the culinary artistry program where

[21:51] we're teaching students to not only uh work in the kitchens but to run

[21:54] restaurants also. Uh so that program is is brand new this year. We're we're

[21:59] we're working very hard to get that program fully staffed, fully populated

[22:03] with students. Um like I said, I've been working with the uh manager in order to

[22:07] get some uh training programs for some of the staff at the city and definitely

[22:12] for some of the citizens also. So I've been in conversations with both the city

[22:15] of Gway and the city of Hokki. I mean the city of South Bay also to hear what

[22:19] it is that the city needs and we're trying to be very reactive to the needs

[22:22] of the citizens of the city. So we're trying to put forth programs that reach

[22:27] the citizens where the need is. So as soon as I hear about what the need is

[22:32] and and where that is that's when we start moving to uh meet those needs. Um

[22:36] and again I'm very thankful for this post and I look forward to continuing to

[22:41] bring great things to the Glaze region. Thank you.

[22:45] [applause]

[22:52] » Good evening, commission. >> Good evening.

[22:55] » What I like to bring to you guys is what we're doing new at the school. A lot of

[22:57] stuff you guys already know about robotics and everything else, but we

[23:01] have really expanded the school into different programs to really have our

[23:04] kids ready for the next century and as years to come to change the way the

[23:09] workforce is out. Uh we do have a new drone program that we'll be starting up.

[23:14] Thanks to the Bento Foundation and the Ed Foundation, they're giving us almost

[23:18] 200 drones so our kids can learn how to fly the drones because it's a big thing

[23:22] now going toward their generation. We also have when we first start out about

[23:28] a couple years ago, we had a guy named Matthew Thompson that graduated and had

[23:32] a pilot's license when he graduated. Matthew sent me an email um about a

[23:37] couple weeks ago. Matthew at age 22 is now a pilot for Delta.

[23:41] » So, >> [applause]

[23:44] » was the beginning and now as Miss Andrews can tell you if you ever get a

[23:48] chance come out of school you can learn how to fly and land a plane through our

[23:52] simulator. So we have built simulators for our kids. We also have a mock

[23:56] cockpit so they can learn that but we are going to push more toward uh air

[24:01] traffic controllers since there's a shortage in our country for that. So

[24:04] we're pushing our kids toward that. Uh we also got EA Sports. I know sometimes

[24:09] you tell your kids you get tired of them being on that video game all day, but if

[24:13] you don't know now, they have become a multi-million dollar business. Kids can

[24:18] compete and make the money now. They got teams and everything else. So, we're

[24:21] starting our EA sports program this year. So, we'll have kids to learn how

[24:25] to do that. They will also go off and do competition against other schools and

[24:29] then if they want to make a career out of it, they can because it's a lot of

[24:32] money into that. So, that's what we're doing uh today. And we also revamped

[24:36] with the work of uh Miss Moore that we're trying to make sure we get that

[24:40] 70%. They say it's trying to make it difficult, but we know we can get it

[24:44] because our kids are very very focused. And in November and December, every kid

[24:49] that made a level four or level five anywhere on their test is going to Bush

[24:52] guard. So, we already got the money for that and make sure that they

[24:58] [applause]

[25:03] » Good evening, Mayor Baboki Commission. It is truly a delight um to be here

[25:09] today. My task is to recognize our Pokei and KC principles. First, I would like

[25:16] to bring up Dr. Pyram.

[25:23] » [applause] >> And then I'd like to bring up Miss

[25:25] Atoria Henley from Canel Point. But before I release it to them, I want to

[25:31] say um you know, you hear about school grades, you hear about those things all

[25:36] the time, but it is extremely difficult to make all those pieces add up. to give

[25:42] you a short synopsis. I think it's important to know that there are seven

[25:47] eight sales that you must compete in to get your school grade. And I want you to

[25:54] know that even though Pokei missed their aid by 3%.

[26:00] They led the way in for sales in all of the region schools and in a lot of the

[26:08] coast schools. And so I think it really us an opportunity how we need to

[26:14] monitor, keep our eyes on all children, all children. And she'll tell you a

[26:20] little bit more about the sale that we decreased in um a little bit, but it's

[26:25] important to monitor everyone's children. And she'll give you an update

[26:29] about the things that they're going to do for next school year to improve. I

[26:34] would also like to talk about um Canel Point. Um last year was Miss Henley's

[26:39] first year. She was excited. She had to come in and kind of build a new team.

[26:45] Um, some teachers before she got the job, um, some teachers had

[26:50] make the opportunity to go other places. So, she was building a whole new school.

[26:56] But the unique thing is is that the region team has committed to spend their

[27:01] full days, four days a week at KDC to ensure because really it's not about her

[27:07] being a new principal. It's about the teacher capacity. Our students in the

[27:12] Glazes region can do anything you require of them.

[27:16] » But we have to support the teachers and building their capacity to give it to

[27:21] them. So, because she has a lot of new teachers, um we're going to be there at

[27:26] her school four days a week and we're going to be at Belgy Elementary four

[27:30] days a week just helping to build that capacity. And so, without further ado, I

[27:34] would like to turn it over to

[27:41] [applause]

[27:45] » I would like to say I mean >> I would like to say good evening to the

[27:51] and everyone like thank you for inviting us here. Before I start, I want to

[27:55] introduce my leadership team that's also here as well. We have my assistant

[27:59] principal, Miss

[28:04] [applause]

[28:07] Claudia Sanchez who's new to our school as well.

[28:12] And we also have our support staff here, Miss

[28:22] She did such an amazing job together. So that's going to be an important part of

[28:26] our our new leadership team and our journey that we're having. As Dr. Mat

[28:31] spoke, um we were very close to A, but we didn't make it. I think we made saves

[28:36] this year when we came out with those shirts with the A on the front even

[28:38] though we didn't make it. And we had that arrow says rewind because we're

[28:42] going back to the A. So we know that that's going to happen. We put a B in

[28:46] the back because that's where is behind us. So, we're going to

[28:49] continue to move forward to make sure that we grow. One of the things that

[28:53] we're going to be working on um this year is um not only did we um lose a

[28:59] couple of points in certain sales, but it was in our lowest 25% and in math.

[29:04] So, we and one of the things that attributed to that was that we're trying

[29:07] to make sure that our kids are getting to school. That's one of the things we

[29:10] need our parents to have to help us out, but we're trying to make sure that our

[29:13] attendance is improving with our students as well as with staff because

[29:18] whoever is out, our kids are missing. If the kids are not there, they're not

[29:22] learning. If our teachers are not there, they're not able to teach our students.

[29:25] So, we're working on trying to improve our capacity as making sure that the

[29:29] students are coming to school as well as making sure our teachers are coming in

[29:33] and providing that quality education. We're also working on uh focusing on our

[29:38] lowest 25% and our gains because like she said we we gain um points in every

[29:44] sale for proficiency reading, math, third grade, we science some of them

[29:49] went up 10 points plus. So we g made some tremendous gains when we're working

[29:54] with our students. However, we did fall short a little when we were start

[29:57] working with our lowest 25%. So, we're going to balance it out where we work

[30:00] with our high achievers and um our struggling readers and math as well. One

[30:06] of the things that we are very proud of is that we're now moving in a in a in a

[30:10] direction where most of our kids are proficient. We have um

[30:19] » when we first got there, we kind of bleeding. We had a lot of everything was

[30:23] in the low level ones, level ones, level ones. Now we have level threes in math.

[30:28] They're in our lowest 25% and that's a major accomplishment. We didn't think

[30:31] that would happen. So we're very proud [applause] very very

[30:35] proud of the work that we're doing with our students as well as our teachers.

[30:39] You know, we're working, we're growing, we're going to continue to work in that

[30:42] way and we're going to continue to focus on making sure we provide value to every

[30:45] student at that school. And if we can do that, when y'all see us next year, we'll

[30:49] be right back at that. [applause]

[30:57] Good evening. >> Good evening

[30:59] » to everyone on the dis and everyone in the audience. Um, good evening and I

[31:04] would like to say thank you for having me today. I am the proud principal of K

[31:09] Cunningham Canail Point Elementary School.

[31:15] » [applause] >> As far as where we are, we're sitting at

[31:19] a seat to have both a new principal, assistant principal and a mass massive

[31:27] new teachers. Um I'm not a C type of girl, but um we have a C. We didn't um

[31:34] decline, right? So um we have a lot of things in place with us being in place

[31:39] before the year the new year actually started. we've had an opportunity to

[31:44] start the end of the year and improve on in some areas. Um, our students

[31:50] definitely can learn and they are eager to learn and we're going to give them

[31:53] exactly what they need. We have set our expectations and they are clear and

[31:58] concise. Um, less is more. We don't want to do a whole lot of nothing. We want to

[32:03] be clear and concise so that we can maximize on the progress that we we have

[32:08] made. We also want to um keep kids involved. We're trying to build an

[32:12] afterchool program so they stay interested in academics and in

[32:17] extracurricular activities. We have started a leadership club. We also um

[32:22] continuing our robotics so that they can transition to the high school. We also

[32:27] have the drones that we have. We have a teacher that's going to um help with

[32:32] that. We also have a resilience club where students um we we have some

[32:38] students that have a little some challenges and we want to award them for

[32:42] their resilience for finishing strong. They may not have met all of their goals

[32:47] but they did work extremely hard and we want to continue the progress that they

[32:51] have made. We also have an amazing um chorus. We have we're starting our band.

[32:57] We're rekindling our band. And I want to say we're increasing our drama club as

[33:04] well. So we're trying to make sure that we have a balance and that's what we're

[33:10] doing as a leadership team trying to balance building positive relationship

[33:15] but also having high expectations so that we can excel and level up beyond

[33:20] that seat and that is our goal. >> All right. [applause]

[33:35] and to Mayor B, Vice Mayor McDonald, all of the commissioners and staff. I'm

[33:42] Marcia Andrews, your school board member, and it's my pleasure to bring

[33:45] greetings from our superintendent, Superintendent Michael Burke, and all

[33:49] seven school board members. But I'm truly thrilled to be your school board

[33:54] member right here in district 6, standing right here in the city of Hoki.

[33:59] When I look out and I see our schools, I am just thrilled. I'm so proud of all of

[34:06] the leaders, the principles, the assistant principles, the teachers,

[34:11] everyone that makes a difference in Hoki and as well as the whole glaze region. I

[34:19] can tell you with 51 years in public education right here in Palm Beach

[34:23] County, a graduate from Palm Beach County School District and just 16 years

[34:29] as your board member. We are doing fantastic work right here in Pokei. And

[34:34] I want you all to give that a big hand because I [applause]

[34:42] work and I don't want to repeat everything, but please give me the

[34:46] opportunity to some of my history of 16 years servicing as your school board

[34:52] member working with the leaders of when I think about Katherine Cunningham

[34:59] Elementary you've made in the past you've never had

[35:06] you've done it you have made the difference

[35:12] your programs have been great and every year that I'm working with you you're

[35:16] doing great You are a new principal, assistant principal and teachers

[35:22] Cunningham has always been a cut of making it happen within their school.

[35:28] Thanks to the wonderful community at your families are great and they only

[35:35] accept greatness and this is what I've seen over the years at K.

[35:41] You all said to the superintendent and to Mrs. Andrews and More and all of us,

[35:46] I need my pavilion. We got that children. It had been years before we

[35:52] had done a a pavilion for K Cunningham, but that was something you said you

[35:58] wanted and we made it happen. But I've seen great progress at Katie Cunningham

[36:03] over the years and I know we're [clears throat] going to do it. It's not

[36:06] a big deal. I want to say to all of you on the commission, the mayor, vice

[36:11] mayor, we are head of many of the schools to the cold staff. I have 41

[36:15] schools in district 6 and I know about all the schools in West Palm Beach,

[36:20] Delray, Boca Raton, Wellington and all over our schools up top. When I look at

[36:29] you all, Dr. Abs and your team, you all have

[36:34] always superstars. I mean, you know, you've been an A before you got a B.

[36:39] You've just always done it. Your teachers are superstars. come to your

[36:43] school. You always treat people with dignity and respect. Customer service is

[36:48] number one at Kham as well as elementary and you've always been great. The

[36:55] schools to the east had not been a you set the tone back in the day your school

[37:02] was an A. I can go back and go through the list. You just did a little short.

[37:07] I know when you all first made your A's and B's way when everybody else was

[37:12] trying to do it. It's a little popular now. It was popular with you all way

[37:16] back in the day. So whatever you all need to do with those few points, you're

[37:22] going to get it done. No big deal because you have always done it. And I

[37:26] am always proud elementary school because of the leadership, because of

[37:31] the teachers, because of the parents in the community and the pride that you

[37:36] have. You have never let anybody tell you that you could not be great. You've

[37:42] been great since I've been your school board member. So, I'm so proud of you

[37:45] all. So, let's give them another hand.

[37:50] [applause] Two people in the community talking

[37:53] about our schools. They haven't kept up I did say just recently we need to do a

[37:58] town hall so we can talk about the history of Pokei Elementary School,

[38:02] Canel Elementary School, all the great things you've been doing over the years

[38:07] so the community can know this didn't just start yesterday. Miss Moore just

[38:11] gave you a snapshot. I've been with you for 16 years. We have had no

[38:17] we have not had them. We've always been reaching high for high expectations. And

[38:23] then when I look back I I tell you this is a superstar right

[38:28] here. Please don't let him leave the Glazes region. Please don't let him

[38:32] leave for Hokei. >> I've been with Hokei for 16 years as the

[38:38] school board member. I was here when a lot of things was just materializing

[38:44] when we promoted Mr. Lar right from the community. Look what he has done. You

[38:51] heard tonight one of his students is a pilot at Delta Airlines. I remember when

[38:57] you started that program with that student. Look at you. I've been in your

[39:02] school flying my own airplane. [laughter] You need to get over there

[39:08] and get behind the wheel and see if you can glide it on up. Don't wreck the

[39:14] plane now. You got to hold on to the wheel and to get it off the ground. I've

[39:19] done that several times. But when I think about the over there, the

[39:24] superintendent was so amazed every time he comes and the students can show him

[39:29] new things that he has never seen before. When I'm there looking at all

[39:34] the students at at Middle Sior High School and the robotics program, it's

[39:39] the next step up. Students from Pokei Middle Senior High School have been to

[39:45] Washington State where they have has specialized training. They have

[39:51] scholarships that take them to college right from Pokei Middle Senior High

[39:56] School. When I'm out giving scholarships with all these different entities, guess

[40:00] who I see? I see Middle Senior High School students. And then you have an IV

[40:06] program that's truly magnificent. When I first started, we were looking at the IB

[40:12] program and we said we got to get those members up so that they can graduate

[40:15] with their IB diploma. Guess who has done that? It has been Mr. Dinard and

[40:21] his team. So, I just want you to know you have greatness sitting in here

[40:26] tonight. And we've got to start promoting that to the community. We may

[40:30] have to go out to all of the neighborhoods. Parents know their

[40:34] children are getting the scholarships. They're graduating. Graduation rates are

[40:39] absolutely fabulous at Pokei Middle Senior High School. 100% graduation rate

[40:45] almost 99% every year. Am I correct, Mr. Bard? Let's clap on that.

[40:52] [applause]

[41:01] And I just see kids going to college. And when I look out and I see our new

[41:06] principal, Mr. Dell, who is now tech, you don't always have to go to college

[41:12] to make a lot of money to be happy, to be successful. You can either be college

[41:17] or career ready. And that's when I first was elected by you. You said, "Open West

[41:23] Tech, Miss Andrews. It's been closed for 11 years." We opened it right up. And

[41:28] we've been working hard over there. the mayor and all of the team here. You've

[41:32] been at Tallahassee to help us get the money from year to year with all of the

[41:37] programs that we have at West Tech. The state has given us the money to say,

[41:41] "Get it done." We want our children to be college and career ready. We want our

[41:46] families and our adults to be able to go back and get a skill set. So when I

[41:52] think about our CDL program, our electrical, you know, our construction,

[41:59] our HBAC programs, and you've been to the graduations, Mayor Bab, and the rest

[42:04] of you, you see the students getting all of the credentials necessary to fix your

[42:11] air conditioning when it's hot. And you know how hot it's been this summer,

[42:15] [laughter] have to worry about it. You got people right in the neighborhood

[42:19] that's getting trained. they can come right over and fix your air condition if

[42:24] it breaks down. That's what you do over at West Technical Education Center. And

[42:29] when we talk about CDL, that's a big highpaying job. All of the

[42:35] trucks that's over there. How many trucks, Mr.

[42:38] » Six trucks >> for CDL, the big time, the rigs that you

[42:44] see on the road on I 95 in the Turner Pack passing you, our are driving those

[42:50] trucks. We have data to show you of all of the graduates who have actually

[42:56] earned their CDL license. They may not be sitting right here in Pokei. They may

[43:01] be, but once they got their new jobs, they could be driving all over the

[43:05] country, but they started right there at West Tech. And West Tech is a place

[43:12] where you can get trained in all of your processes. So yeah, you get trained in

[43:18] your CDL, but we're a training site to get what Mr.

[43:23] » People who take their their training someplace else come to take the test.

[43:27] » Take the test. All of that's happening here. Remember, you could get trained,

[43:32] but you had to go maybe to Miami or to Orlando to take the test. People don't

[43:37] know you in Miami or Orlando, but if you've been trained right here at West

[43:41] Technical Education Center, you want that instructor and the people that know

[43:46] you to make sure that you get the best training so that you can pass the test.

[43:51] And so when we talk about K through adulthood, starting with our preK

[43:57] students all the way to 12th grade, graduation, as well as career and

[44:02] college, you've got a lot. And I really more to be able to put a packet together

[44:08] to show you all of those students who are going to college that just graduated

[44:13] from Pokei last year. I'm over all of Palm Beach County giving out those

[44:18] scholarships and I send the pictures. I know the mayor is sick of me sending

[44:22] pictures. >> I love those pictures and I need to get

[44:26] everybody's email. You all probably get tired of me, but you see me sending you

[44:30] those pictures of your Pokei students getting $20,000 scholarships from FPNL.

[44:37] Three or four students from your school got it last time. I see your students

[44:42] everywhere. They remember me because they remember they got the scholarships,

[44:47] but they always are so thankful and your team West all those

[44:53] who are getting all that training now so we can pick them up in Pokei. I

[44:59] don't want anybody to say I can't make it over to West. I want that bus to pick

[45:04] up at a site over here over in South Bay and bring them right to West. That's my

[45:12] next thing. We just got our bus, right, Mr. Daniel?

[45:16] » That's all right. And we're getting a driver so that we can pick you up. We

[45:20] don't want anybody to say, "Oh, I can't get there because I don't have a car."

[45:23] and that could be legitimate, but we want to make sure that bus can pick up

[45:27] in South Bay and Belgade to pick up our adults to get them there because we need

[45:32] to make sure that there's no barriers for anyone in being successful. And

[45:37] sometimes, you know, people go to Palm Beach County School District or they

[45:41] have a bad time. We want them to know even if you didn't graduate, we have

[45:46] programs at West Tech so that you can get your diploma. The adult program you

[45:53] can get your diploma. Miss Laura can tell you that if you need to get your

[45:56] ESOL certification so that you can be ready to take the next level. All of

[46:01] that's happening at West Tech. So when people say, "Well, what's going on in

[46:06] Pokei?" We need to let them know it all happens in your great schools. No D or F

[46:13] schools, A's, B's, C's, very few C's, a few C's, but guess what? They don't last

[46:18] long [snorts] because you move right up. A's and B's for years. I can sit here

[46:23] and say I'm so proud of and then when we get middle senior high school top

[46:29] graduation rate all these programs you have Mr. Please promise me even though

[46:35] I'm setting aside you cannot leave people are trying to take Mr.

[46:40] away from you all. You better know that. Get over to his school and just love on

[46:45] him and tell him he can't go anywhere. The programs, his teachers, and

[46:50] everything that's happening there needs to stay there. We don't need to give our

[46:54] talent away to anybody else that's keeping at home. And there more, you

[46:59] come on up here, Dr. here. It takes leadership. [snorts]

[47:02] And this is why they can tell you they know what's happening in all these other

[47:07] schools. And I do because I been with the school district for 51 years, hiring

[47:13] personnel, your board member for 16. I know what all these schools do. But I'm

[47:18] just thrilled to tell you, Pokei, you're on the move. You're on the money, and

[47:24] you have the support team here, right here, sitting. But when you walk into

[47:28] your schools, it's it's there. It's absolutely there. And I really do want

[47:34] before I leave here because I'm here until November for us to walk the

[47:38] community and let's kind of tell the people that

[47:42] can't come to this meeting. They may hear us on television, but I would like

[47:46] to go to the projects to the neighborhoods and with the data sheet

[47:50] just like you have and start just introducing ourselves before I leave

[47:54] here to say you got a great place. And I think parents know that because their

[47:58] kids are getting promoted. They're going to college. They're doing great things.

[48:02] But some people may not know that because they may not have kids within

[48:06] the school district. So we need to make sure that they know the education system

[48:10] right here in Palm Beach County, strictly right here in Pokei is a level

[48:15] one, nothing but the best and your leaders are great. Your teachers are

[48:21] great. Your children are awesome. And we are so proud. And as your board member,

[48:27] I'm just thrilled to death. And we will always be on the front line here at

[48:32] Pokei to make sure that all of our children are successful. And I have to

[48:36] personally thank you all for everything you do every day. Thank you, Miss Moore,

[48:41] Dr. the team here. It takes the village and we understood that. So, whoever sits

[48:47] in this seat, I want you to hold them accountable because we're not going back

[48:52] to none of that stuff that happened 16 years ago or more. We are in a new place

[48:59] and we only expect the best. We are the best. And whatever it takes for us to

[49:04] work together in this village with the school district of Palm Beach County, we

[49:08] will continue to make it great. But the greatness comes from inside the school.

[49:13] Starts in the classroom. starts with the teachers, the custodians, the bus

[49:19] drivers, all of them. Put the package together, the leaders. Thank you so

[49:24] much. They've had a long day today. They started early this morning. Everybody

[49:29] might not live right here in Pokei, but guess what? They have roots in Pokei and

[49:34] they don't want to be anywhere else but for Hokei to do the leadership that they

[49:39] do. And so I have to tell him I'm so thankful to be your board member and I'm

[49:45] never going to leave. This has put me on duty after I retire Mr. Andrew

[49:53] to be out here is not going to let me get away. He's my baby. I hear all these

[49:59] programs I saw him put them in place and look at them. Now if you have not been

[50:05] over there I'm demanding that you get over there and just with the robotics

[50:11] and let the children show you what we really don't know. We're the older

[50:15] people. Let them show you how to fly an airplane. Your cadet program travels all

[50:21] over Palm Beach County bringing service to all of the different entities with

[50:26] the pledge of allegiance, showing students they can be everything that

[50:30] they want to be. I don't think we have any other cadet programs in Palm Beach

[50:34] County. Do we not? We lost a lot of the >> RTC,

[50:38] » but only

[50:42] » I mean I think we're the only one. >> You're the only one in the state that

[50:46] » All right. Did you hear that? >> The only one. Have you all seen the

[50:50] Civil Air Patrol? I'm sure you've seen them.

[50:52] » If you haven't, bring them here to this meeting and let them start your meeting

[50:57] out. I see them everywhere. To the east, to the north, to the south, not just out

[51:02] here. and they have to drive all the way back home because they perform a service

[51:06] for everybody everywhere. So, it's a whole list of stuff going on right here

[51:11] in Pokei. How you help others too to grow and develop and thank you team.

[51:16] Keep up the great work. There's more. I know I have to

[51:21] love you all so much and I'm not going to let anybody say that we don't have it

[51:25] going on in Paul Canal Point, the Glaze region. We're superstars and you've been

[51:32] A's and B's all along. C's now A's and B's before. We know you're coming back.

[51:39] We will never go back to anything less than

[51:42] » Amen. [applause]

[51:48] » Uh, one more thing I would like to add. Um, as a member of Leadership Florida

[51:53] and the chair of class 10 for leadership Florida, I was really surprised this

[51:58] summer when at our annual meeting they said, "M'onique, we have a surprise for

[52:02] you." You have a surprise for me. And each year they award a full scholarship

[52:08] from Prepton and this year they recognize someone from Pokei High

[52:13] School. They said they were so amazed that they they typically stay in that

[52:17] northern Florida region. But this year they picked someone from South Florida

[52:23] right here at in Pokei, Florida and they um offered them a full ride scholarship

[52:29] because of the unique things that were taking place right here in Pokei. So I

[52:34] have to give you kudos again. [applause]

[52:41] It ends at West But it starts in these elementary

[52:46] schools. So we have to continue to do the work to send to the middle schools,

[52:51] the high schools and then to West Tech if needed. So I thought that was

[52:55] wonderful that they were able to recognize someone right here from Poke,

[52:59] a little small town that a lot of people don't know, but there is greater coming

[53:05] than what you ever even imagine. [applause]

[53:16] Can I say something? I just want to say as an educator uh who

[53:22] has not taught in some years, uh my hat goes off to all of you because I know

[53:29] the challenge that you have. Um well, let me change that word. I'm going to

[53:33] say the opportunities that you have every day to uh pour into our children.

[53:39] Um, all of my kids are grown up and finished school now, but I have

[53:42] grandkids that are in school. So, thank you all so much. And if I could ever be

[53:46] of assistance to you, please just don't hesitate to call.

[53:50] » Thank you,

[53:55] » Mr. Mayor. Next, we have a proclamation to be honored um recognizing Pokei

[54:01] Middle Senior High School Robotics Program. Mr. Dod, please come forward.

[54:20] At this time, we'll have the city attorney read the proclamation into

[54:25] records.

[54:33] » Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Commission proclamation. Whereas the Pahokei Middle

[54:38] Senior High School robotics program has established a legacy of excellence in

[54:42] STEM education by empowering students through the first Lego League and First

[54:49] Tech Challenge programs fostering innovation, engineering, coding,

[54:53] teamwork, leadership, and problem solving skills. And whereas since 2016,

[54:59] the program has consist consistently earned local, regional, state, and

[55:04] national recognition, including multiple tournament championships, innovation,

[55:09] robot design, and performance awards, four consecutive first Lego League

[55:16] Florida State Championship appearances, invitations to national competition, and

[55:21] numerous First Tech Challenge State Championship qualifications.

[55:25] And whereas through the stepping up STEM and PHOKI initiative and the support of

[55:30] dedicated mentors, educators, volunteers, and community partners,

[55:35] students have gained access to advanced technology, industry experiences,

[55:40] scholarships, internships, and college and career pathways that continue to

[55:45] expand opportunities for the youth of POI. And whereas during the 2025 2026

[55:53] season, the program continued its tradition of excellence with team 20

[55:59] 21922 Dynamics earning the first Tech

[56:03] Challenge Fun League Inspire Award. Third place and a bid to the Florida

[56:09] First Tech Challenge State Championship. Team 16333

[56:15] Mechatrons qualifying for the state championships as a member of the Fun

[56:19] League winning alliance. Team 16724 Bender BS or bots receiving the Fun

[56:28] League think award. Team 213 23812 Rising Phoenix earning the Fund League

[56:35] Control Award. Team 31423 Mecha Motion receiving the Fun Lee

[56:43] Connect Award second place and team 40688

[56:48] earning the first Lego League robot design award. hand. Whereas the Pokei

[56:54] Middle Senior High robotics program continues to inspire future engineers,

[57:00] innovators, and leaders while serving as a source of pride for the city of POI

[57:05] and demonstrating the extraordinary talent and potential of its students.

[57:10] Now, therefore, I, Keith Bab Jr., the mayor [clears throat] of the city of

[57:14] Pokei, Florida. On behalf of the city commission and residents of the city of

[57:19] POI do hereby recognize and commend the POI middle senior high school robotics

[57:25] program, its students, coaches, mentors, volunteers, and community partners for

[57:32] their outstanding achievements, unwavering commitment to excellence, and

[57:37] leading contributions to education, innovation, and opportunity within our

[57:42] community. and official recognition whereof, I here

[57:46] unto set my hand and cause the seal of Pokei to be affixed this 11th day of

[57:51] August, 2026. [applause]

[58:00] » Commission, if you would join me on the floor, we will present this

[58:03] proclamation. Then we'll allow the principal to say a few words, and then

[58:08] we'll take a group picture uh for the record.

[58:14] So,

[58:35] I know we have one educator on our commission,

[58:40] Commissioner Kas Williams. I didn't know we had a second one of our vice mayor.

[58:46] So at this time on behalf of the focus city commissioner I will have our vice

[58:52] mayor officially present the proclamation to focus high school

[59:02] kind of being a dead horse but I want again on behalf of the city of

[59:07] commission and our city manager and all of our staff want to um thank you for

[59:13] the work that you're doing and we do and we encourage and just to keep up

[59:19] the good work and to keep empowering our kids to progress and become the

[59:25] professional that we know they can as they reach their goal. So, thank you

[59:31] all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[59:36] [applause]

[1:00:12] Good evening everyone. >> Good evening.

[1:00:16] » [clears throat] >> First and foremost, city of Pahokei

[1:00:20] commissioners, mayor, vice mayor, Miss Marshia Andrews,

[1:00:25] and all the team uh from the Glades region. I I I am really grateful, right,

[1:00:32] for uh the proclamation that you guys have presented us today. And I know that

[1:00:36] Mr. Dinard is very proud of what he brought here to Pokei High School. And I

[1:00:44] I have served only as a beacon to help propel the teams forward, to help propel

[1:00:50] the the students forward. And I know that um I I'm very grateful to have uh

[1:00:57] the team that I have at the school. We've had the opportunity to get the

[1:01:04] students to innovate beyond

[1:01:08] uh what they had uh expected uh previously and nowadays um they

[1:01:15] actually look forward to to serving the younger students. Uh we have initiatives

[1:01:22] where um we're we're working with the sheriff's office uh to go out to the

[1:01:28] different elementary schools to show them what we're doing. And not only

[1:01:32] that, but we have students that are at um districtwide

[1:01:38] competitions, Florida statewide competitions, and they have won awards

[1:01:43] um for technology innovation. Uh we actually had one student uh Giovanni

[1:01:49] Mendes who uh won the Alifat Technology uh scholarship and uh that was a

[1:01:56] scholarship where he competed against students from Boon Beach High School,

[1:01:59] Wellington High School, uh all the top schools in the district and we came out

[1:02:04] on top.

[1:02:07] » [applause]

[1:02:09] » And that is just one of many examples of of the the kind of student that we are

[1:02:16] raising up at Pokei Middle Senior High School. And again, I want to thank the

[1:02:21] city of Pokei for all the support and we actually have a competition on December

[1:02:26] 5th that will be hosted at Pokei High School. And we invite you guys to come

[1:02:30] by so that you can meet our students and you can see what they are doing. and

[1:02:36] thank you for everything.

[1:02:41] [applause] >> Only thing I want to add is that he

[1:02:43] didn't mention that he also a PO graduate.

[1:02:46] » So,

[1:02:49] » but I thank you guys for all the support and I do I thank the parents but most of

[1:02:53] all like I said it for the a tree to grow it start with the seed and the seed

[1:02:57] start in our elementary schools and I really thank you guys for working with

[1:03:00] us and sending the kids over. They tell them who be the bad ones, who the good

[1:03:03] ones and who can grow. So, I really thank you guys for that. Um, we gonna

[1:03:07] continue to do the best we can and like you said about Jiovani, one thing about

[1:03:11] Jiovani, he started with just a hand robot and now he got a full torso that

[1:03:16] does the the movements and everything else. That's the young man that went to

[1:03:19] Google as a sophomore. He'll be a senior this year. So, we have a lot of kids are

[1:03:23] doing some great things that you're going to be proud of. As we get older,

[1:03:27] they can always say back they come from B. I thank you guys.

[1:03:32] » [applause]

[1:03:37] » WE'LL take the pitch photo after all the presentations from the school system.

[1:03:48] » So the next presentation that we have is from affordable lavish,

[1:03:56] Miss Anthony.

[1:04:05] All right, good evening. Um, first of all, thank you guys so much. That was

[1:04:08] breathtaking. It's amazing to and an honor uh to have been able to present

[1:04:12] tonight and get to see the educators here in POI. So, thank you guys all for

[1:04:16] coming out and and speaking on behalf of all the good things that POI is doing.

[1:04:20] » Uh, good evening to uh mayor, vice mayor, commission, staff, city manager.

[1:04:25] I appreciate the opportunity to be here. My name is Christina Anthony. with

[1:04:28] Affordably Lavish Foundation. We're a nonprofit housing developer. Um we are

[1:04:34] located in the West Palm Beach area. Um we have done uh building single family

[1:04:39] homes, villas, small town homes for families uh whether it's in Palm Beach,

[1:04:45] Broward, um Lee County, Central Florida, Jacksonville, Tallahassee. Um recently

[1:04:50] we connected with USDA. they uh agree to invest in some operational money for us

[1:04:56] to start entering into rural communities. Uh we're excited that the

[1:05:00] Glazes is actually in our backyard and and the Glaze is one of our first

[1:05:04] targets um in implementing rural housing development. So, we met with the city

[1:05:09] manager and wanted to speak with the commission to help um talk about

[1:05:13] bringing housing workforce and affordable for uh for sale to the

[1:05:17] community. We're also in uh talks with the uh county as well in contributing

[1:05:22] and providing assistance. And the way that our program works is we um USDA

[1:05:28] would provide operation operational funds. So that would provide jobs here

[1:05:32] in Pahooki. Um we've also connected with um our folks here at West and providing

[1:05:38] some students to um provide assistance and in workforce development. Uh the way

[1:05:44] that our program would work is uh subsidizing the housing where the

[1:05:48] families and other community um folks like students from West to contribute

[1:05:54] building the construction of the home. So that would significantly offset the

[1:05:58] construction cost for the project. Um we are um we've successfully done, you

[1:06:04] know, projects like that with volunteer help in other parts of the state and so

[1:06:09] we're really excited to start um looking at that with uh POI. So our ask is um to

[1:06:16] connect with the the the the city of Pokei, look at pro uh potential infill

[1:06:21] lots that the city has and look at developing those lots for affordable

[1:06:25] housing and workforce housing. Um and then again adding that workforce

[1:06:30] development component where not only will the families themselves uh be

[1:06:34] learning a new skill in developing construction of their own home but that

[1:06:38] we would also um provide those uh opportunities for the students to um get

[1:06:43] that experience put it on their resume open up the doors for jobs etc. And it's

[1:06:48] our commitment to keep um like as mentioned before keep jobs in here in

[1:06:52] the city of Pokei. So uh we want to make sure that we're hiring within the

[1:06:56] community. Um and uh the last thing I just want to

[1:07:00] mention is USDA. Um the way [clears throat] that they play a big

[1:07:04] part of this is not only uh investing in operations, but they provide the zero

[1:07:08] down mortgages um at a lower than uh market interest rate. And so when we

[1:07:14] looked at the feasibility of uh renting and the the market here in the city of

[1:07:19] Pokei, what families are spending on rent and the analysis of us doing our

[1:07:25] project where uh the city would contribute land, the families would

[1:07:29] contribute a portion of their uh sweat equity and labor into the projects and

[1:07:33] then the rest subsidized with the um lower income or or or subsidized

[1:07:39] mortgages I should say. that whole uh total um cost would actually come out at

[1:07:45] a monthly lower than what they would spend uh in rental income. And so that's

[1:07:51] our goal is to, you know, bring home ownership into the community that would

[1:07:54] provide uh better economic status here for the community, keep residents here

[1:07:59] in the city of Pokei, provide the jobs in the city, and um just expand on all

[1:08:04] the great things that the city's already doing. And so, um, that's that's what

[1:08:09] we're here today to to explain. >> Thank you.

[1:08:16] [applause]

[1:08:18] » Just for sake of time, I'm going allow the

[1:08:24] region to take their photo up and then we'll move to the completion of the

[1:08:30] other presentation. Okay. If y'all would just stand up front

[1:08:36] of the podium.

[1:08:50] Congratulations.

[1:09:04] [laughter]

[1:09:36] One, two, three. One, two, three.

[1:09:54] » [applause]

[1:10:10] » I'm gonna tell you what.

[1:10:28] Let's go back up here.

[1:10:36] All

[1:10:41] » righty.

[1:11:04] Okay. Just before moving to the last presentation, I wanted to give the

[1:11:09] present an opportunity if the commission had any questions about the affordable

[1:11:14] housing project. If you want >> Okay.

[1:11:20] in a question from the commission.

[1:11:27] » So you you said that um you are looking for

[1:11:35] the city to donate um properties for these houses to be constructed on.

[1:11:41] » Yes. So, uh, we're looking for the city to contribute, um, the land, uh, towards

[1:11:46] the affordability of the project. Um, that has been a successful, um,

[1:11:51] partnership that's worked with, uh, our part us partnering with other

[1:11:54] municipalities. Um, and we know with, uh, the city and specifically land

[1:12:00] development cost being um, a concern that that would significantly help.

[1:12:06] » Is this like hood type thing? same different houses or what?

[1:12:12] » I'm sorry. >> Houses Hood is it something like this?

[1:12:15] » Um well, USDA is also federally backed and HUD kind of still oversees a lot of

[1:12:19] the parameters. Um so to pretty similar. Yeah.

[1:12:23] » Mhm. >> Um okay. You said I know you said the

[1:12:28] small um homes or >> No.

[1:12:32] » Are you doing single family? >> Single family. Um we we will have three

[1:12:36] different models fit for smaller families. the average middlesized

[1:12:39] families and then the larger families. >> Okay. But they're all single family.

[1:12:43] » Yeah. Single family. We look at um we've done single family, we've done villas,

[1:12:48] and we've done town homes. >> Um so we look at the the um parcel and

[1:12:52] the opportunity for it. Our biggest um push is obviously um the density. We,

[1:12:58] you know, as much homes as we can build to for our efforts, we want to do that.

[1:13:02] And so, um, one of the things with the USDA program is for it to be success

[1:13:06] because the families are going to be putting in some sweat equity is, um, we

[1:13:10] like to start with five lots at a time. So, the five families can work together

[1:13:15] and they will be trained on site to do parts of the construction,

[1:13:19] » um, and get see the construction through to the finish line.

[1:13:22] » Okay. >> What's the ability?

[1:13:26] Um, so us uh the the Glades is unique because

[1:13:31] you guys are part of Palm Beach County, right? And so you roll under there. So

[1:13:34] your workforce um would still qualify as low income and get some of those

[1:13:38] benefits as well as um you know even in your higher incomes would kind of cap

[1:13:44] into that workforce. So we're looking to just capture families that are in need

[1:13:48] of housing um and revitalizing the communities with newer homes. Um,

[1:13:53] biggest thing for us, Affordably Lavish, um, is that we're not just building only

[1:13:57] affordable homes, but we are providing, uh, modern and contemporary designs. So,

[1:14:01] we're really excited about that. We're, um, an in-house architectural firm as

[1:14:05] well as a a GC. Um, our GC side has been around for 25 years, and on the uh, real

[1:14:11] estate development side, we've been around for 15 years. So, we've been

[1:14:14] making a big push in the nonprofit space for the last four years as capital um,

[1:14:19] has been available. For example, the county has $100,000 that they contribute

[1:14:23] to families for housing and um we're talking with them about, you know, them

[1:14:27] also making sure to contribute that to these families as well so that we get

[1:14:30] that lower monthly payment down as as um much as possible. and ultimately um

[1:14:37] transition these families from not only uh right right out the gate um spending

[1:14:44] less than they would with their rental income but ultimately owning the home as

[1:14:48] quickly as possible so that they don't have to worry about that as an

[1:14:51] additional expense. >> Do you have a website that we can see

[1:14:54] some of the models the houses? >> Yes. I uh I don't know if we had our

[1:14:57] presentation but nope >> you did not.

[1:15:00] » Okay. Okay. Okay. So, uh yeah, we have a website www.alfl.org

[1:15:08] and we have some of the work that we've done both the um modeling renderings

[1:15:11] that can be um added as well as completed work that we've done.

[1:15:16] » How soon are you planning to get started on one of these projects and how long

[1:15:20] does the project take from beginning to end uh for a home to be constructed? So

[1:15:25] when we do the construction uh directly with the USDA program for some of the

[1:15:29] workforce um parcels, uh construction is about four to six months after the

[1:15:34] permit is received. Um for the uh self-help program is what it's called

[1:15:38] from USDA where the families are contributing some of the labor. We're

[1:15:41] looking at a 12-mon span. >> And can you say the website again?

[1:15:47] » Yes. www. A is in apple. L is in Larry. F is in

[1:15:51] Frank. F is in Frank. Ellis Ellis and Larry.org.

[1:15:57] » Do you have any business cards with you? >> Yes, you provide that.

[1:16:00] » I have a question. How do you all go about if we have um when residents

[1:16:05] apply? How do you guys determine um who you know who who you're going to choose?

[1:16:12] Like say you have five lots and who and you have so many um residents that

[1:16:16] apply. How do you decide which ones um who gets the you know who comes first in

[1:16:22] the >> Sure. Yeah. Um some cities have

[1:16:26] initiatives for example that they're passionate about seniors or um workforce

[1:16:31] maybe you know uh police officers, teachers etc. So if that is a request

[1:16:36] from the city we we look at that as a part of it. Um typically it's first come

[1:16:40] first serve. Uh we put them through our intake process. Um it looks at where

[1:16:45] they are, what their approvals are. um if they don't qualify just yet, it's not

[1:16:51] uh it's something that we put them through a process to get them ready for

[1:16:54] the next round. >> Um and so it's it's a first come first

[1:16:58] serve unless the commission or the or staff has any um initiatives that the

[1:17:03] city has for your strategic plan that we want to push.

[1:17:06] » Okay. So we can do that and so that'll come before the commission like wants to

[1:17:10] get ready to get started to determine whether we want to implement something

[1:17:14] in it or not. >> Yep.

[1:17:16] » Okay. that can be a part of um when we how it's happened before. For example,

[1:17:22] in Lee County, um we did >> uh nine homes and of those nine, three

[1:17:28] of them uh needed to be special needs, >> families that had uh uh persons with

[1:17:34] special needs. >> Um and then four of them had to have be

[1:17:38] at very low income. >> Okay.

[1:17:40] » Um and they provided subsidies for the very low-income families, but um and we

[1:17:44] did those with the villas, but that was successful. So that's usually a part of

[1:17:47] the contract process. No problem. >> I just have one more question. Have you

[1:17:51] all met with Pokei Housing Authority? >> So it's great that you asked that. So um

[1:17:55] one of the biggest things that we're going to be looking to do is um we we

[1:17:59] did stop by at the housing authority. We're looking to find the right person

[1:18:01] to speak with. Um our biggest goal in terms of finding the folks and families

[1:18:07] that are interested in this program is um starting with the housing authority

[1:18:12] as a one part of a referral system. Um, one of the biggest opportunities there

[1:18:17] is that is a way for those families who may be on um, uh, the uh, monthly stipen

[1:18:25] to transition. They can use that stipen towards their mortgage.

[1:18:29] » I was talking about as far as landwise. Oh,

[1:18:31] » with Pokei partnering with Pokei Housing Authority as far as landwise as well

[1:18:36] since they do have property, you know, as well. So, I was just wondering if

[1:18:40] Okay. Sorry about thinking about um partnering with them towards that.

[1:18:44] That's what I was saying. >> Yeah, no worries.

[1:18:46] » Okay. >> No, we haven't spoke with them about the

[1:18:48] land particularly, but um our goal is to speak with them about transitioning some

[1:18:52] of their residents into uh um home ownership

[1:18:56] » where they can transition completely off of that assistance over time and free up

[1:19:02] that opportunity for other folks that need that assistance.

[1:19:05] » Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you.

[1:19:08] We >> One last question.

[1:19:11] Um would you all be interested in partnering with um individuals that are

[1:19:17] private um land owners? >> Absolutely.

[1:19:21] » Okay. >> Absolutely.

[1:19:23] » So I have a question with that. So if you're interested Oh, excuse me.

[1:19:27] [clears throat] You're interested in the land being donated, right? Are you

[1:19:30] interested in >> for affordability purposes? Um donation

[1:19:35] is what's going to help uh just because of the cost of the land development in

[1:19:39] this area. And so once the land is given, the land now belongs to you all

[1:19:43] and it's nothing no nothing that the city or anything like that would um

[1:19:50] the city holds a deed restriction on it. So you're still a partner in the in the

[1:19:55] project and essentially the land donation is not coming to us. It's it's

[1:19:59] transferring to the families. Um and so during the process, it's a very short

[1:20:04] process, but once the land is um in our name, per se, um we go through the

[1:20:10] process of finding the candidates at the beginning before construction starts,

[1:20:14] those families take ownership of the land,

[1:20:16] » right? And so the land can't be are you all looking for the land to be you're

[1:20:21] looking for the land to be given, right? Not where you all want to purchase the

[1:20:24] land. So once you Okay, so that's I just got to clarify. Yes, that would be the

[1:20:28] city's um subsidy contribution to the project to help with the affordability.

[1:20:33] » And if you're a private person, are you still looking for the land to be donated

[1:20:36] or are you looking for them to sell the land to you all or how would that work?

[1:20:41] um for those parcels when we've dealt dealt with private owners. Um the

[1:20:46] private owner whether they're looking to rent the property themselves or if

[1:20:49] they're looking to sell it um let's say for the let's say we have five families

[1:20:54] that um qualified at x amount and those five families got the the donated lots

[1:20:59] as an example and we have a waiting list those private owners we could place

[1:21:02] those families with those owners if their um approvals will allow for a

[1:21:06] purchase. So, it depends on what they're trying to sell the property for and

[1:21:11] ultimately what our buyers in this area um if it can take the amount for that

[1:21:17] amount for to to roll into the mortgage. >> So, it wouldn't be where if you have a

[1:21:21] private owner say, "Okay, I want [clears throat] to allow you guys to

[1:21:25] build there, but I want to charge rent on the property." Will you be able to do

[1:21:29] that or No, >> that's a little separate from the

[1:21:32] program. We're housing developers and builders so it can be done but a little

[1:21:35] separate from the program itself that we're um not

[1:21:38] » presenting to the city. Yep. >> Okay.

[1:21:40] » Okay. Thank you so much for the presentation.

[1:21:42] » Appreciate the time. Good evening. >> City manager will present the last and

[1:21:47] final presenter. >> Mr. Mayor, we have our consultant

[1:21:52] services update and contract performance report from Miss Angela Reyes.

[1:22:23] Good evening, Mayor and Pokei Commission. I'm here tonight to provide

[1:22:27] an update on work performed by Angela Reyes LLC under my consulting engagement

[1:22:33] with the city of Pahogi. The objective was to help the city strengthen its

[1:22:38] financial operations, address audit and oversight concerns, improve internal

[1:22:43] controls, and put process in place that can be sustained after this engagement

[1:22:48] ends. Tonight I want to walk you through what has been accomplished, what is

[1:22:53] currently underway, and what remains to bring this work to completion. Next

[1:22:58] slide. [snorts]

[1:23:02] An integrated approach. My work has really been concentrated in four

[1:23:07] interconnected areas. First is financial management and budget strategy. Making

[1:23:13] sure management has reliable financial information to make decisions.

[1:23:18] Second is audit readiness and financial accountability. Helping the city move

[1:23:23] the audit forward and addressing the underlying financial and documentation

[1:23:28] issues affecting the process. Third is corrective action and internal controls.

[1:23:34] It is not enough to identify a problem. We have to establish controls so the

[1:23:40] same problem does not continue. And fourth is silly is policy

[1:23:46] implementation and organizational compliance. Policies cannot simply exist

[1:23:51] on paper. [clears throat] Employees have to understand them. Management has to

[1:23:56] enforce them and the city has to be able to demonstrate compliance. So we are no

[1:24:02] longer simply identifying what needs to be fixed. We are fixing it and putting

[1:24:06] it um in a structure around it. Next slide.

[1:24:15] budget management and financial decisionmaking.

[1:24:20] One of the first areas I focused on was the city's budget and financial

[1:24:24] management process. I worked directly with leadership, the finance director,

[1:24:29] and the city manager and departments through the fiscal year 2627 budget

[1:24:34] process. that included departmental budget meetings, documenting assumptions

[1:24:39] and priorities and identifying items requiring followup. I also performed

[1:24:44] budgettoactional analysis across the city funds. This is important because

[1:24:49] adopting a budget is not only I'm sorry, it's only the beginning. Management has

[1:24:55] to continuously understand where actual revenues and expenditures stand compared

[1:25:00] with the adopted budget. I reviewed and organized historical and

[1:25:06] current budget records uh specifically five years and supported forecasting

[1:25:12] amendments, trend analysis and executive level reporting.

[1:25:18] The result is a budget process that is more organized, better documented and

[1:25:24] more supportable for management commission and ultimately the auditors.

[1:25:29] Next slide. >> [clears throat]

[1:25:32] » I have a question first. Are we going to ask questions as we going along or are

[1:25:36] we going to just let her continue? >> Yeah, we'll let her continue the

[1:25:40] presentation and whatever question we have afterward, we can ask a up to a

[1:25:45] certain time limit at least. >> Audit findings and audit readiness. The

[1:25:51] fiscical year 25 audit remains one of the city's most important priorities. I

[1:25:56] facilitated the audit kickoff and follow-up meetings with the external

[1:26:01] auditors and reviewed prior year audit findings to determine what remained

[1:26:05] unresolved and what documentation or corrective action was still necessary.

[1:26:11] I have also assisted with reconciliations,

[1:26:14] schedules, corrections, and supporting documentation needed to move the audit

[1:26:19] forward. After careful review, the city would benefit from a forensic audit. A

[1:26:25] forensic audit would allow the city to examine specific transactions, financial

[1:26:30] activity transfers, and areas of concern as a much deeper at a much deeper level.

[1:26:36] If the city would like a more indepth review on a transactional level, the

[1:26:42] forensic audit is the pre is the best approach.

[1:26:46] Next slide. [clears throat]

[1:26:49] Internal controls. A major component of my engagement has

[1:26:53] been strengthening the city's internal control environment. The areas addressed

[1:26:57] include purchasing and payment controls, travel and reimbursement, IT access and

[1:27:04] asset controls, fraud and whistleblower protections, grant and leasing

[1:27:10] monitoring, and OIG reporting and documentation.

[1:27:14] These areas were not selected randomly. They relate directly to control

[1:27:19] weakness, documentation needs, and oversight concerns identified during the

[1:27:23] review.

[1:27:27] The objective is straightforward. Reduce risk, establish accountability, document

[1:27:33] responsibility, and create a clear process that employees can consistently

[1:27:38] follow, which will limit future audit findings. Next slide.

[1:27:44] Policies and procedures. There are 10 major policies and proceed procedure

[1:27:49] areas current that are currently being finalized and reviewed for your

[1:27:53] adoption. I'll go down the list. The first one is

[1:27:58] IT asset protection and security, fraud prevention, whistleblower policy,

[1:28:04] tuition reimbursement, capital asset management, travel, grant administration

[1:28:10] and compliance, lease management, procurement and audit and compliance

[1:28:16] response readiness. Each policy identifies responsibility, establishes

[1:28:22] controls, provides documentation requirements, and creates

[1:28:25] accountability. The master procurement policy is particularly significant

[1:28:31] because the procurement touches virtually every department and

[1:28:34] represents one of the city's most important areas of financial control.

[1:28:39] When this work is complete, the city will have a much stronger documented

[1:28:44] framework governing how these activities are to occur. Next slide.

[1:28:51] Progress to date. The slide is important because it shows that the engagement has

[1:28:56] moved from assessment into execution. On the completed side, on the completed

[1:29:02] side, I have conducted the comprehensive budget review, participated in

[1:29:06] departmental budget meetings, performed financial analysis, review prior audit

[1:29:13] findings and documentation, and developed corrective action workflows

[1:29:17] and policies. Um, the workflows are in the back of the

[1:29:21] presentation package you received as a sample, so you can see what that

[1:29:26] actually looks like. Uh, it's hands-on. Uh at the same time we are actively

[1:29:32] supporting the fiscical year 25 audit and reconciliations completing the

[1:29:36] master procurement policy and implementing corrective actions and

[1:29:39] internal controls. The next phase is implementation and accountability

[1:29:44] training employees obtaining acknowledgements monitoring compliance

[1:29:49] and making sure these processes become part of the city's normal daily

[1:29:53] operations. Next slide.

[1:29:57] [clears throat] Moving into implementation. At this

[1:30:01] stage, the focus shifts from developing the pro the policies to implementing

[1:30:06] them. There are four remaining priorities. Adopt, execute, train and

[1:30:12] monitor. First, we adopt the policies and remaining workflows.

[1:30:18] Second, we execute all employee and on employee on and off boarding and other

[1:30:24] corrective action procedures. Third, we conduct compliance training so

[1:30:29] employees, contractors and employees and contractors understand what is expected

[1:30:35] of them. And finally, we continue monitoring the progress.

[1:30:40] The last piece is critical. A policy without enforcement and continual

[1:30:44] monitoring is simply a document. The city needs acknowledgements,

[1:30:48] implementation tracking, compliance reporting, and followup to demonstrate

[1:30:53] that the controls are actually operating and working.

[1:30:57] [snorts] Next slide.

[1:31:06] There's one that says road mapap to substantial. Go back to the last one.

[1:31:09] Maybe that one. Yeah, road map to substantial completion. This is the road

[1:31:14] map for completing the remaining work during August is to adopt all policies

[1:31:20] and remaining workflows and finalize the audit from August through September. The

[1:31:24] focus moves to implementing an approved procedures and corrective actions and

[1:31:29] providing administration with all the training materials necessary to prepare

[1:31:34] for the OIG site visit in mid to late September. During September, we move

[1:31:39] into compliance training and formal acknowledgements. So when you look at

[1:31:43] where this engagement started compared to where we are today, significant

[1:31:48] progress has been made. We have moved from identifying weaknesses to

[1:31:53] developing solutions, documenting controls, supporting the audit,

[1:31:59] strengthening the budget process, and establishing an accountability

[1:32:03] framework. Mayor and Commission, my goal through

[1:32:06] this engagement has been to leave the city in a stronger financial and

[1:32:11] operational position than when the engagement began. Significant work has

[1:32:16] been completed, but there is still important work ahead, particularly the

[1:32:21] completion of the fiscal year 25 audit, adopting and implementation of the

[1:32:26] policies and internal controls, compliance training, and continuing

[1:32:31] monitoring. Ultimately, the objective is not simply to correct past issues. It is

[1:32:36] to establish a system that reduces the likelihood of those issues again and

[1:32:42] give management and the commission a greater confidence in the city's

[1:32:46] financial operations. With that, I'm available to answer any questions.

[1:32:54] Commissioners, >> I do have a question and thank you for

[1:32:58] the presentation, but my question is um you say the policies and a lot of this

[1:33:04] has been done and we're listening to what you're saying. You don't have any

[1:33:09] I'm just I guess I'm I'm looking for documents to see. I I hear what you're

[1:33:13] saying, but I don't see anything before us that And so that's one of my So you

[1:33:19] want to respond to that? >> Yes, I do. Um so the policies were

[1:33:23] provided um to the administration which have to be reviewed in internally with

[1:33:27] city attorney city manager city attorney and then that comes before you guys as a

[1:33:33] commission to adopt it formally. >> Okay. And my next question you said you

[1:33:38] gave a timeline. Now, I know your contract is up in August and you told us

[1:33:42] that you will have all of this done prior to the contract, but you said in

[1:33:45] September, midepptember, there's some things going to take place and so

[1:33:51] everything is not going to be completed before your contract is up.

[1:33:55] » No. So, my contract is up early September. um when I looked back at the

[1:34:00] document and from when I came to council from when the contract was executed um

[1:34:05] technically it's up September 2nd but the full execution happened um September

[1:34:10] 12th or March 2nd which brings me back to either September 2nd or September

[1:34:15] 12th. With that being said, I am committed to looking um seeing this

[1:34:19] through and um this is my work. So if the OIG comes in

[1:34:25] midepptember and my contract ended September 12th, I can make myself

[1:34:30] available to come on site with no charge additional to the city to see this

[1:34:34] project through and to make sure that all of the policies that were provided

[1:34:40] comply with what the OIG was looking for. If they need a revision, I will

[1:34:44] also do that. Again, no extra charge to the city just to ensure that this

[1:34:50] engagement did what it was supposed to do. Okay, that's my that's my question.

[1:34:56] » Yeah, I'm I'm glad you clarified that because that was my question as well.

[1:35:00] » Um would there be an additional cost to to the city uh as a result of things not

[1:35:06] being completed? But um thank you for clarifying that

[1:35:16] it was indicated in your contract that you was working as a team. I think

[1:35:20] you'll bringing on, if I'm not mistaken, at least three to four different uh

[1:35:25] individual to work with you. Could you name some of the uh things that that

[1:35:32] team worked on besides you? I know you had to oversee everything, but just give

[1:35:38] us some type of perspective of the different

[1:35:41] » Sure. Sure. Um, so I do have a back office team. This is this does require a

[1:35:47] lot of research and um back office is just administrative. So even putting

[1:35:52] policies together in the right format that an OIG would have to look at that's

[1:35:57] that's one aspect of it and make it deliverable to a city administration and

[1:36:02] presentable. That's one part. Um then I had attorneys reviewing all the policies

[1:36:07] to make sure that it coincided with the charter, the state and the um and the IG

[1:36:12] finding so that it talks it speaks directly to what the statutes are. Um,

[1:36:17] and then I did have a CPA on my team that actually I actually had two that I

[1:36:23] had to go to just to in, you know, just to get second opinions on what I was

[1:36:28] seeing and viewing in the city of Bohoki to make sure that I make the proper

[1:36:32] recommendation to city administration as we um move through the fiscal 25 audit.

[1:36:38] I had to go back five years uh to look at audit findings and see how

[1:36:45] we can correct that. put policies and put structure into the finance

[1:36:50] department so that those things are no longer an issue moving forward.

[1:36:55] And looking at the oi report, the concerns that they had, do you feel

[1:37:03] comfortable that you have addressed and looked at all of them and came up with a

[1:37:10] workable solution that would satisfy their needs as well as the cities?

[1:37:17] » I feel com I'm I'm comfortable in my work. Um

[1:37:21] I I can back my work up. But you also have an administration that is competent

[1:37:26] and is willing to take the steps to move it forward. I can present theoretical

[1:37:31] policies, but if you have a an administration that is not willing to

[1:37:35] work with those policies and being implemented, then you just have

[1:37:39] something on paper. But I'm confident that your current administration will

[1:37:46] comply with what the IG is looking for. And they're looking for the action.

[1:37:49] They're not just looking for the paper. They're looking for the action. and they

[1:37:52] want to see that these uh compliance issues have been addressed. So, I'm

[1:37:57] confident in in your staff. Confident might work, but I'm confident

[1:38:02] in your staff.

[1:38:05] I have a question. You said that you we need a forensic audit. So, do you have

[1:38:10] documents that you're going to provide to us that why we need a forensic audit

[1:38:14] so we can see exactly what it is that you're talking about, the reason that we

[1:38:17] need or what the findings were? >> Yes, ma'am. I do have that. Um and at

[1:38:21] the end with [clears throat] my uh report that I will provide to

[1:38:25] administration and will provide to the commission, it will have specific um

[1:38:30] details as to why you I I think the city would benefit from a forensic audit. Um

[1:38:39] » yes. >> And how far back would that forensic

[1:38:43] audit go? >> That that's the thing about the forensic

[1:38:47] audit. It depends on where that rabbit hole of that transaction takes it. I I

[1:38:52] cannot speak to a time frame where the where that would be. I'm sure there's

[1:38:56] limitations and statutes that limit that and you know with banks and all that,

[1:39:00] but I don't have a time frame. >> Again, going back looking at the IG

[1:39:07] reports to me, they went

[1:39:12] well over and above a normal audit. Yeah,

[1:39:17] » I look at a forensic audit as a person coming on say a new city manager that

[1:39:22] has no idea what transact transacted during a certain period of time to come

[1:39:31] in and really see how money was spent and how it was divied up and whatever.

[1:39:39] But I think basically that what they have done and it was pretty thorough to

[1:39:45] me that would really substitute to a lot of degree on my opinion of what a

[1:39:53] forensic audit would have on the covered during that process. I may be wrong on

[1:39:59] that, but that's just my impression. >> Okay.

[1:40:03] Um I I I'm going to stick with my recommendation respectfully, mayor, and

[1:40:07] say that um you want the forensic audit [clears throat] to come and say, "Hey,

[1:40:11] this was just bad accounting for all these years, and there's nothing going

[1:40:15] on in the city with the books, with the money. This commission, this manager,

[1:40:19] this administration has respectfully handled the finances well and there is

[1:40:24] no foul play." And that is what the forensic audit will do. it will say this

[1:40:30] has just been bad accounting for previous all these previous years. We're

[1:40:34] moving forward. We're flipping the page and we're we're we have controls in

[1:40:39] place for it not to happen again. That's what the forensic audit is for

[1:40:44] » to just spend money. [clears throat] I mean, because a forensic audit is not

[1:40:47] cheap just to say what you're just saying.

[1:40:49] » Um I did get some quotes just to see what that would cost. Um, and it it ran

[1:40:55] about 20,000 25,000 for about a minimum of a 6 to 8 week period. Um, but it is

[1:41:03] worth you getting that opinion. In my op in my professional opinion, it

[1:41:09] is worth you getting that opinion to say this is just bad accounting.

[1:41:13] » Well, once we get your paperwork and see what it is that you put on there and

[1:41:17] absolutely the backup documents, >> I understand. Yeah, we should look at

[1:41:20] it.

[1:41:29] And so the policies you said are coming to us in I think next uh meeting next

[1:41:33] week. >> The Yes, it's on my report. The policies

[1:41:36] will be presented to you at the August 25th meeting.

[1:41:41] » Is it a lot of them or we going to have to do it all at one time or can we break

[1:41:45] them up in pieces? because if we're trying to go through them, we're going

[1:41:48] to need the time to make sure that we can look at them versus the little short

[1:41:52] time we get to look at them if it's a lot that we're going to have to go

[1:41:55] through to make sure. >> So, there are a lot. Um, Miss Reyes list

[1:41:58] out all the policies that were presented there about 10. And so, our plan is to

[1:42:03] have those to you on Monday. So, you will have more than a week and including

[1:42:07] the weekend before the the um August 25th meeting. So, we are planning to

[1:42:12] give you more than enough time to review them.

[1:42:18] You said about 10 policies. >> There are about 10. Some of them are ju

[1:42:22] are new because they did not exist and some of them are updates. And I can go

[1:42:28] in I won't go into one specifically because I just have some on my head. But

[1:42:32] um but some of them are just updated to strengthen the policy and some of them

[1:42:37] are brand new policies. But they have um workflows. They're very clear. So you

[1:42:43] can read through them hopefully quicker than than a statute.

[1:42:49] » So Mr. Mr. Mayor, if I may, um what what Miss Reyes did with the with the team as

[1:42:55] well with the in-house staff is we went through each of the OIG um findings and

[1:43:01] listed each one to say this is their finding and that this was the solution

[1:43:06] for that or resolution for it and then list that out and those items were

[1:43:09] placed in the policy. So, we'll give you both of those items. So, you'll see what

[1:43:14] the OIG findings were. There were 14 of them. And so, for each of those, it

[1:43:19] lists out the information. Miss Reyes and her team also went through, as she

[1:43:22] just said, the statues, the charter, um, and that's what the IG did when they

[1:43:27] went through the process. If you go through their report, they went back to

[1:43:30] the the Florida statute as well as our charter as well. And so, they took the

[1:43:35] same approach to list that out so that we can be sure that those items were

[1:43:39] addressed. Okay.

[1:43:43] [clears throat] And many of those, if I may as well,

[1:43:45] many of those those um the processes have been put in place because they had

[1:43:51] to so we can make sure they work. If they were not put in place, then when

[1:43:55] the OIG comes back, we would have the same issue. So, we couldn't wait on the

[1:44:00] on the um approval. You all will do the approval, but by you doing the approval,

[1:44:04] you'll know that we've placed these things in place. For example, when I

[1:44:08] came in, there were POS. POS have to have certain documentation with them and

[1:44:13] the OIG wrote that up quite a bit where the documentation was not there. So

[1:44:17] before I even read the OIG report, I knew that when you're submitting POS and

[1:44:21] you're going to write a check, there has to be documentation to follow that. So

[1:44:25] for the auditor, that's what they're following, the audit trail. And if you

[1:44:29] don't have that audit trail, then that's an issue. So those things were already

[1:44:33] put in place before the procedures were done. So we know that they are actually

[1:44:38] um in place. So when the OIG come back in and the auditor come, those same

[1:44:42] findings would no longer exist because we have that documentation um so they

[1:44:47] can track everything. >> I also want to add that there were forms

[1:44:51] created also to streamline processes um to keep documentation better. So those

[1:44:57] forms also mentioned in OIG report. We did those and we did a couple more just

[1:45:02] to you know um be efficient in this implementation of the uh policies and

[1:45:08] procedures. >> So we're saying that checks were being

[1:45:11] written for things and >> there was no process for what we were

[1:45:17] » I'm just asking a question. I mean it's >> um

[1:45:20] » I I'm not specific with checks. I know. >> Well, I'm just saying we're paying. Let

[1:45:25] me just say we're paying whoever or whatever. Yes. With no

[1:45:29] » correct. That is one of the findings that the OIG uh did write up. So, yes,

[1:45:34] that is correct.

[1:45:38] » But no longer happening.

[1:45:43] » So, I know we just put this in place. So, that mean when we get our audit

[1:45:47] coming up and this wasn't in place. So that mean we may have some from the as a

[1:45:52] finding as well because this is just this is just taking place. So it was

[1:45:57] being done still prior to this taking. So we will still have some more

[1:46:01] findings. Again >> you will probably get a comment and with

[1:46:04] these um I'm not sure if it's a finding. It has to be material enough like the

[1:46:09] money the amount that they found checks with no supporting documents has to

[1:46:13] reach a threshold for money amount. But even if it's a comment, the comment will

[1:46:19] also say the city has placed policies and procedures to cure this. So that

[1:46:24] that goes to the state reporting >> and that's in fiscal year 25. We're

[1:46:30] we're fiscal year 26 right now. >> Wow.

[1:46:37] » Any additional question from the commissions? So just so that we're

[1:46:41] clear, um the OIG report cannot negate the need

[1:46:49] for an audit, a forensic audit.

[1:46:54] » The OIG did not specifically recommend that, but as I look through it,

[1:47:00] » just because we have the OIG report does not mean that we don't need a forensic

[1:47:05] audit. >> That's correct.

[1:47:06] » Okay. I just want to make sure >> and I do want to say we did so during

[1:47:12] this process it it wasn't just a straightforward is writing policies and

[1:47:17] turning them in each policy affects a different policy affects a different

[1:47:21] policy and they're all intertwined on top of that and day-to-day operations

[1:47:26] we're also getting you know we have to respond to state by a certain time so

[1:47:33] because we were already in this implementation we were able to provide

[1:47:37] uh the the feedback to the state saying yes this was a finding however this

[1:47:41] policy is now in place. Yes, this was a finding however a policy is now in place

[1:47:46] and that has softened a lot of the uh the blow for what our responses to like

[1:47:51] the Jax which is an auditing stuff going from there. Yeah.

[1:47:57] [clears throat]

[1:48:02] » Any additional questions? No >> Harry N. We appreciate your presentation

[1:48:09] and giving us an update of where you are and where we need to go.

[1:48:14] » Thank you very much. Thank you. Good evening.

[1:48:27] » Okay. Our next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. We have two item which

[1:48:32] consists of the July 14, 2026 city commission meeting minutes and the

[1:48:40] July 17, 2026 city commission budget workshop minutes.

[1:48:47] If there is no objection, I'd entertain a motion for the

[1:48:53] approve of the consent agenda. Mayor Bab, I move that we um accept the

[1:48:59] July 14, 2026 commission minutes and the July 17 city commission budget workshop

[1:49:04] minutes. >> Second.

[1:49:05] » It has been moved by Commissioner Ky Williams and probably second by

[1:49:11] Commissioner Mike Fearson for the acceptant of the consent agenda as

[1:49:16] presented. Call for questions

[1:49:20] hearing none. Are you ready for a vote? Roll call. Madame Clerk. Commissioner

[1:49:24] Cowan Williams, >> yes.

[1:49:26] » Commissioner McFersonson, >> yes.

[1:49:27] » Commissioner Scott, >> yes.

[1:49:29] » Vice Mayor McDonald, >> yes.

[1:49:31] » Mayor Bab, >> yes. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Thank you,

[1:49:34] commissioners. Motion passed by unanimous vote. Next, we have old

[1:49:39] business, discussion of existing activities of previously held events, if

[1:49:45] any, city manager. >> There are none.

[1:49:47] » Thank you, ma'am. Next, we have public hearings and or

[1:49:52] ordinances. We have couple ordinances and

[1:49:56] resolution. The first resolution will have our city attorney read it into the

[1:50:02] record. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Ordinance 2026-02,

[1:50:07] second reading and ordinance of the city commission of the city of Pokei,

[1:50:12] Florida, amending article 7, division 1, section 2-272

[1:50:19] of the city of Poki's code of ordinances entitled purchase orders to retitle as

[1:50:25] purchase orders competitive bids and exemptions specifically amending number

[1:50:30] paragraph six entitled exempt purchases to clarify that the determination of an

[1:50:36] emergency purchase is vested in the legislative judgment of the city

[1:50:41] commission. Providing for adoption of representations, providing for conflict

[1:50:46] conflict and repealer, providing for severability, providing for inclusion

[1:50:50] and code, providing for an effective date.

[1:50:54] » Thank you, city attorney. City manager, could you give us a brief explanation?

[1:50:58] This ordinance is intended to clarify who has the authority to determine when

[1:51:03] a purchase qualifies as an emergency purchase.

[1:51:07] The proposed amendment establishes that the city commission has the authority to

[1:51:12] make this determination, providing a clear and consistent process for pro for

[1:51:19] providing emergency purchases and ensuring the city has appropriate

[1:51:24] oversight of emergency expenditures.

[1:51:29] Thank you, city manager, city commission. Before we open this up for a

[1:51:34] first or second, we would open this for a public hearing on ordinance

[1:51:41] 2026-02.

[1:51:46] Open this public hearing on this ordinance. Do anyone from the public

[1:51:49] wish to speak on this ordinance?

[1:51:54] Hearing none, I'll close the public hearing.

[1:51:59] City commission having heard ordinance 2026-02

[1:52:04] properly read into the minutes by our city manager. Properly explained by

[1:52:08] city, I'm sorry, properly explain Properly read into the minutes by our

[1:52:13] city attorney. Properly explained by city manager. What is your preference?

[1:52:18] » I move that we accept resolution 2026-02.

[1:52:23] Ordinance. I second. >> It has been moved by Commissioner

[1:52:28] McFersonson and properly second by Commissioner

[1:52:33] Williams. Call for questions. Hearing none. Are

[1:52:38] you ready for a vote? Roll call. Madame Clerk.

[1:52:41] » Commissioner McFerson. >> Yes.

[1:52:43] » Commissioner Calvin Williams. >> Yes.

[1:52:45] » Commissioner Scott? >> Yes.

[1:52:47] » Vice Mayor McDonald? >> Yes.

[1:52:49] » Mayor Bab? >> Yes. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Thank you,

[1:52:52] commissioners. Motion passed by unanimous vote. Now we'll entertain res

[1:52:57] ordinance 2026-03. Sitter attorney.

[1:53:01] » Thank you. Ordinance 2026-3 first reading an ordinance of the city

[1:53:07] commission of the city of Pokei, Florida, amending article 2, section

[1:53:11] 2-29 entitled order of business, adding a report of the city clerk to the order

[1:53:18] of business. renumbering and reordering as necessary, providing for conflict and

[1:53:24] repealer, providing for severability, providing for inclusion and code,

[1:53:28] providing for an effective date. >> Thank you, city attorney. City manager,

[1:53:34] could you give us a brief explanation? >> This ordinance is needed to ensure that

[1:53:39] important updates from the city clerk are consistently included in city

[1:53:43] commission meetings. The amendment creates a designated

[1:53:48] opportunity for the city clerk to provide timely information, updates, and

[1:53:53] reports to the commission. Thank you, city

[1:53:58] manager.

[1:54:03] City Commission having heard ordinance 2026-03

[1:54:09] properly read into the minutes by our city attorney properly explained by city

[1:54:14] manager. >> What is your preference?

[1:54:17] » Do we have to do the opening for the hearing first? That's the first read.

[1:54:20] No. >> No.

[1:54:21] » I move that we accept resolution 202603.

[1:54:27] It has been moved by Commissioner Mike Fearson and properly second by

[1:54:31] Commissioner Wilson Williams for the passage on first reading of

[1:54:37] ordinance 2026-03. Call for questions hearing none. Are you

[1:54:44] ready for a vote? Roll call. Madame clerk,

[1:54:47] » I'm sorry. Just for clarity, the >> motion was by Commissioner McFerson.

[1:54:51] » Yes. >> And seconded by Commissioner Cowan

[1:54:53] Williams. >> Yes.

[1:54:54] » Okay. Commissioner McFerson,

[1:54:57] » yes. >> Commissioner Calvin Williams,

[1:54:59] » yes. >> Commissioner Scott,

[1:55:00] » yes. >> Vice Mayor McDonald,

[1:55:02] » yes. >> Mayor Bab,

[1:55:04] » yes. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Thank you, commissioners. Motion passed by

[1:55:09] unanimous vote. This is a first reading. There will be a second reading and a uh

[1:55:17] public hearing before [clears throat] final passage if so approved.

[1:55:23] Next we have several resolution actually we have four. First resolution,

[1:55:31] resolution 2026-43,

[1:55:35] city attorney. >> Resolution 2026-43,

[1:55:40] a resolution of the city commission of the city of Pokei, Florida, ratifying

[1:55:44] the execution and submission of the Florida League of Cities Incorporated

[1:55:49] 2026 annual conference designation of voting

[1:55:53] delegate form confirming Mayor Keith Bab Jr. as the city of Pahoki's voting

[1:55:59] delegate for the 2026 annual business meeting providing for adoption of

[1:56:04] representations providing for an effective date.

[1:56:08] » Thank you, city attorney. City manager, could you give us a brief explanation?

[1:56:12] » This resolution is needed to formally confirm the city's voting delegate as

[1:56:18] Mayor Keith W. Bab Jr. for the Florida League of Cities 2026 annual business

[1:56:24] meeting. This allows the city of Pokei to have an official designated

[1:56:29] representative who can participate and vote on behalf of the city during the

[1:56:34] league's annual business meeting. >> City commission having heard resolution

[1:56:39] 2026-43 properly read into the minutes by our

[1:56:44] city attorney, properly explained by city manager, what is your preference? I

[1:56:49] move that we accept resolution 2026-43.

[1:56:55] » Second. >> It has been moved by Commissioner Cowins

[1:56:59] Williams and properly second by Commissioner Scott for the adoption of

[1:57:03] resolution 2026-43.

[1:57:08] Call for questions hearing none. Are you ready for a vote? Roll call. Madam

[1:57:12] clerk. >> Commissioner Cowan Williams.

[1:57:14] » Yes. >> Commissioner Scott?

[1:57:16] » Yes. >> Commissioner McFersonson? Yes.

[1:57:19] » Vice Mayor McDonald. >> Yes.

[1:57:21] » Mayor B. >> Yes. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Thank you,

[1:57:24] commissioners. Motion passed by unanimous vote. Next, we entertain

[1:57:29] resolution 2026-44.

[1:57:33] City attorney. >> Thank you. Resolution 2026-44,

[1:57:38] a resolution of the city commission of the city of Pokei, Florida, approving

[1:57:43] the Pokei Middle Senior High School 2026 homecoming parade and authorizing an

[1:57:50] application for a parade permit from the Florida Department of Transportation,

[1:57:54] providing for adoption of representations, providing for an

[1:57:58] effective date. >> Thank you, city attorney. City manager,

[1:58:02] could you give us a brief explanation? This resolution is needed to approve the

[1:58:06] 2026 Pokei Middle Senior High School homecoming parade and move forward with

[1:58:11] the required permits process with Florida Department of Transportation to

[1:58:17] ensure the event can be properly coordinated in sufficient time.

[1:58:22] » Thank you, city manager. City Commissioners, having heard resolution

[1:58:28] 2026-44, properly read into the minutes by our

[1:58:32] city manager, properly explained by city uh properly explained by city manager.

[1:58:40] » Properly read into the minutes by city attorney, pardon me, sir. Properly

[1:58:44] explained by city manager. What is your preference?

[1:58:48] » I move that we accept resolution 2026-44.

[1:58:53] » Second. It has been moved by Commissioner

[1:58:57] McFersonson and properly second by Vice Mayor Mike McDonald for the adoption of

[1:59:04] resolution 2026-44.

[1:59:09] Call for questions hearing none. Are you ready for a vote? Roll call. Madam

[1:59:14] clerk. >> Commissioner McFerson?

[1:59:16] » Yes. >> Vice Mayor McDonald?

[1:59:18] » Yes. >> Commissioner Calvin Williams?

[1:59:20] » Yes. >> Commissioner Scott?

[1:59:22] » Yes. >> Mayor B? Yes. Thank you, Madame Clerk.

[1:59:26] Thank you, commissioners. Resolution 2026-44

[1:59:31] passed by unanimous vote. Next, we entertain resolution 2026-45.

[1:59:38] See there >> resolution 2026-45

[1:59:43] a resolution of the city commission of the city of Pokei Florida adopting a

[1:59:48] city commission civility and dignity pledge providing for adoption of

[1:59:53] representations providing for an effective date.

[1:59:59] » Thank you. City attorney city manager could you provide a brief explanation?

[2:00:05] This resolution formally establishes a unified statement for elected officials

[2:00:11] that outlines clear expectations for respectful and professional conduct

[2:00:16] doing city commission business and reinforces a commitment to respectfully

[2:00:22] communicate um to respectfully communication um

[2:00:27] constructive dialogue and maintaining a professional environment.

[2:00:33] » City commissioners Having heard resolution 2026-44

[2:00:40] properly read into the minutes by our city attorney, properly explained by

[2:00:44] city manager. What is your preference? >> I move that we accept resolution

[2:00:51] 2026-45.

[2:00:57] » Is there a second? >> Second. It has been moved by Vice Mayor

[2:01:02] Mike Donner and properly second by Commissioner Scott for the adoption of

[2:01:07] resolution 2026-45.

[2:01:12] Call for questions. >> I just have one question.

[2:01:16] » Is with this pledge, is this something we're going [snorts] to say at each

[2:01:20] meeting? Because I know in the charter it outlines how we are supposed to

[2:01:24] behave. So, I guess I'm just trying to understand

[2:01:27] » what you need to do, >> how I mean, how what are we doing with

[2:01:31] this pledge when it already outlines in the charter how we're supposed to act

[2:01:34] and now to say I have to get up and say, I'm just trying to figure out what are

[2:01:38] we doing with the pledge. Yeah, I think it should be in the beginning read at

[2:01:44] the beginning of the commission meeting and periodically we should read it again

[2:01:50] just for reference, just for remembrance, just for [clears throat]

[2:01:56] following along with the pledge that we are say we are

[2:02:02] want to follow. >> C call for question um mayor. I think

[2:02:06] when we when we uh take our position, we are sworn in. Also, the

[2:02:13] charter outline some of the same stuff that we should be following in the

[2:02:17] charter, which is specifically in the 2.26 ground rules for decorum regarding

[2:02:22] members of the city commission. The following shall constitute the

[2:02:26] guidelines for decorum to be adhered to by members of the city commission in

[2:02:31] their respective roles as elected public officials. And we're uh we sworn to oath

[2:02:36] when we do that to abide by these rules. And the rules outlined uh for instance

[2:02:41] one member of the city commission shall each conduct themselves with dignity,

[2:02:45] agree to disagree with each other, show respect for the point of view of

[2:02:51] other members of the city commission. Number two, members of the commission

[2:02:55] shall not falsely accuse another member of the city commission of wrongdoing,

[2:02:59] criticize each other in a recorous or unprofessional manner, make personal

[2:03:05] attacks on another member of the city commission

[2:03:10] or D individually act without the support of the city commission. Uh

[2:03:16] procedures B uh parenthesis one. The city commission the city of P hokei city

[2:03:22] commission is permitted by law to determine its own rules of procedure

[2:03:26] unless otherwise set forth here and all municipal meetings shall be conducted. I

[2:03:31] skipped down to number two. The city commission, the city manager, the city

[2:03:35] clerk and the prelim shall be governed by the terms, conditions and provision

[2:03:39] of this section as basis and framework for the procedures of the city

[2:03:44] commission. Members of the city commission and other public officials

[2:03:48] attending or participating in any regular or special meeting of the city

[2:03:54] commission shall abide by the standards of conduct and values set forth by the

[2:04:00] code of ethics for public officials public officers to be established by the

[2:04:06] commission. Members of the city commission are expected to ensure proper

[2:04:10] decorum during all meetings of the city. If after a warning from the mayor, a

[2:04:15] city commissioner is found to be disrupted in each a manner whereby

[2:04:21] business cannot be conducted as determined by the mayor, the mayor shall

[2:04:24] instruct law enforcement or other authorized personnel to remove a

[2:04:29] disruptive city commissioner from the commission chamber for that meeting. A

[2:04:34] decision made by the mayor may be overwritten by a vote of any four

[2:04:39] members of the city commission. If a member of the public, city staff,

[2:04:45] or charter officer of the city is found to be disruptive in such a manner

[2:04:50] whereby business cannot be conducted as determined by the mayor, the mayor shall

[2:04:55] instruct law enforcement or other authorized personnel to remove persons

[2:05:00] from the commission chambers for that meeting. a decision made by the mayor

[2:05:05] may be overwritten by a vote of four members of the city commission. Um I

[2:05:10] think um we got enough stuff already in our charter that covers these things. I

[2:05:14] mean I don't think we need to be making additional rules that um

[2:05:21] » can I say something >> that that's a double and plus we take an

[2:05:24] oath at the beginning of the uh year. I mean when we get sworn in to abide by

[2:05:30] these policies.

[2:05:35] » Did we do a motion in a second on this yet?

[2:05:38] » Yes, we did. >> Call for quiz. Okay.

[2:05:42] » So, >> all right.

[2:05:44] Basically, um, your point is well taken and, um, I only

[2:05:51] brought this back as a reminder, which, you know, there are plenty of times when

[2:05:56] we need to be reminded of the decorum that should be displayed in um, any type

[2:06:01] of setting. Um, so it was just a reminder and I do believe that um we do

[2:06:09] have a bunch of rules in our charter and and in our city code uh that we all know

[2:06:15] are there. And so I really don't see the harm that it would um be to have um this

[2:06:24] pledge as a reminder uh and included in our meetings um going forward. But of

[2:06:32] course, I'm only one vote, so however we decided um it'll be fine with me. But I

[2:06:39] it was my suggestion and as you all informed me, there's already um a

[2:06:45] pledge. I don't know where it's at because I

[2:06:48] don't see it on the wall anywhere, >> but I don't see the harm in having us

[2:06:55] being reminded of the way that we are expected to behave. that is those of us

[2:06:59] here on the desk as well as the members of the public. So it's fine.

[2:07:06] » So I have a question. >> I guess my point not trying to um guess

[2:07:10] my point is we already have rules in place to abide by the thing that's just

[2:07:15] like our audit. We just mainly a lot of stuff we need to just follow our own

[2:07:20] rules and and we keep creating rules on top of rules that and I'm not you know

[2:07:27] Respectfully, I'm just saying that um creating

[2:07:32] resolutions that are and stuff that's already addressed in the charter. We I

[2:07:36] think it's our responsibility to the citizens to know what the charter says.

[2:07:43] » Commissioner >> Williams,

[2:07:45] » so I have a question. May be I heard you say um you know we can read it um at the

[2:07:51] beginning of each meeting. So whatever >> No, I didn't say at each meeting but

[2:07:54] Okay. But I understand >> read to remind us. So, can we read

[2:07:57] what's in the charter to remind us so we'll know since it's right there and

[2:08:00] it's already in the charter and it's already been established and approved by

[2:08:04] the voters that you know we know that this is something we should be doing we

[2:08:08] can just you know stick with what's in the charter I guess instead of creating

[2:08:12] more rules. >> Okay.

[2:08:16] » And I was saying >> that's all I'm just asking.

[2:08:17] » Yeah. I'm just asking. I'm just asking. >> This this was brought up by a commission

[2:08:22] and we did vote to have it placed on the agenda, but listening to the other

[2:08:29] commissioners also about maybe it's like redundance. I will say that this haven't

[2:08:35] been the first time we have had some similar to this that we pledge and even

[2:08:40] had it put up whether in the chamber or the city manager office. Uh but if it's

[2:08:49] not what happened in the past that brought that up was because we was being

[2:08:58] I think as a commission as a whole sometime disrespectful to other

[2:09:03] commissioners. I don't think it maybe it's happening to some people may feel

[2:09:08] that way but I don't see it happening at this particular time and since it's

[2:09:13] already is in the charter we can that's a great suggestion that just

[2:09:19] periodically have it read at some point in time uh

[2:09:24] still just reinvent the wheel but either way I I don't have a real serious

[2:09:30] problem either way uh is a pledge to ourself how we would conduct our

[2:09:36] business. that when you take the offer oath off oath of office

[2:09:41] » oath oath

[2:09:44] » oath >> yeah you you you are saying these same

[2:09:47] things so it would be a little redundant any any additional questions

[2:09:57] hearing none we do have a motion and second so we'll vote on this if the

[2:10:02] commission call for question hearing none roll Call Madam Clerk.

[2:10:07] » Vice Mayor McDonald. >> Yes.

[2:10:12] » Commissioner Scott, >> no.

[2:10:15] » Commissioner Calvin Williams, >> no.

[2:10:17] » Commissioner McFerson, >> no.

[2:10:19] » Mayor Bab, >> no. Motion is declined.

[2:10:27] Okay. Next, we have resolution

[2:10:33] 26-

[2:10:37] 46. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Resolution

[2:10:40] 2026-46, a resolution of the city commission of

[2:10:44] the city of Pokei, Florida, approving the updated city facilities rental

[2:10:49] application and agreement as set forth hereto in composite exhibit A, providing

[2:10:55] for adoption of representations, providing for conflict, and providing

[2:10:59] for an effective date.

[2:11:03] Thank you, city attorney. City manager, could you give us a brief explanation?

[2:11:08] » This resolution is needed to update the city's process for renting city

[2:11:13] facilities and to ensure that users clearly understand the requirements and

[2:11:18] responsibilities associated with the facility use. By approving the updated

[2:11:24] rental application and agreement, the city establishes a more consistent and

[2:11:30] organized process for facility rentals and provides clear terms for both the

[2:11:36] city and those using its facilities. City Commissioners, having heard

[2:11:42] resolution 2026-46

[2:11:46] properly read into the minutes by city attorney, properly explained by city

[2:11:50] manager, what is your preference, >> Mayor Bap? I move that we table this um

[2:11:56] resolution 20 um 26-46. Earlier we had voted on to um have a

[2:12:04] workshop on this and these prices on here. I don't think they can't they

[2:12:08] can't be correct either. I saw were a lot of updates that I as I looked

[2:12:11] through this um needed to um I think have some conversation um I had with the

[2:12:17] with the manager that could probably be corrected and brought back to the

[2:12:21] commission.

[2:12:38] So, you're making an amendment to the resolution to be teddy?

[2:12:42] » Uh-huh. Yes.

[2:12:47] » Or a second on that. >> A second.

[2:12:58] It is moved by Commissioner Williams and probably second by Commissioner Mike

[2:13:04] Fearson to table this resolution to further notice.

[2:13:13] » Call for questions. >> Yes. I'm I'm noticing um there are two

[2:13:18] different forms in here. One is 44 and one on page 55. The one on 55 look like

[2:13:24] it has the right prices, but the other one it could just be the print of it

[2:13:30] because it's showing the amounts are or it it it looks like it was it's a

[2:13:36] correction in there, but I don't want to put this form out or have this form out

[2:13:41] with until this, you know, the document a proper presentation with the correct

[2:13:45] prices on it. >> May I Mr. Mayor? So on on page 44,

[2:13:52] there are dashes there that is exiting that. So it's three and then they X the

[2:13:59] next number out. It's a cross through. And then that's 50. So there's 350, not

[2:14:03] 3,350.

[2:14:07] And so it does look a little different because there's a there's a cross out

[2:14:10] there. Just crossing out a number and added a number before it.

[2:14:15] » But they're the [clears throat] same. If that's the case, it would be the same as

[2:14:18] what the previous was. >> I understand. I saw it. I'm just telling

[2:14:21] you what it's not 3,000. It's 300. And so I understand that. So yes, we can

[2:14:26] table it to bring it back to you so that it it clearly states correct and there's

[2:14:31] no dashes in there. >> Presentation.

[2:14:36] » Um just for further clarity, the form has track changes and strikethroughs. So

[2:14:41] it's going to show you whenever it's presented it's going to still have those

[2:14:44] strikethroughs because it has to track we have to track the changes so that you

[2:14:48] know what is being changed. So that's why the form looks the way it looks,

[2:14:53] » right? But >> and we had said a workshop because when

[2:14:59] I looked through here also we um I didn't see on here where it says that

[2:15:04] when a application is not approved that we were going to make suggestions to put

[2:15:09] on here. And so I know I haven't had an opportunity to talk to the manager to um

[2:15:15] you know some suggestions that I had because we had said we wanted a workshop

[2:15:19] for this but we never did get the workshop for it. So that's you guys did

[2:15:24] a workshop. You did an extensive workshop but I'm not sure what changes

[2:15:27] » facilities. No we didn't because we did. >> Yes we did.

[2:15:30] » Yes we did. >> You did. No we did not because remember

[2:15:33] the No, we did not because >> Okay. the last manager prior to the one

[2:15:37] we had had something in there about making the decision that they make the

[2:15:42] decision on nonprofits and all of that and so we were like no we wanted to have

[2:15:47] a workshop on it we did not have a workshop on the prices

[2:15:50] » you you did I shared the and I cannot remember the exact date at this moment

[2:15:54] but there there's minutes you you guys did an extensive um um workshop to this

[2:16:00] but I'm not sure what has changed since in this particular form so I can't speak

[2:16:04] to that but I can Say you guys did >> you guys had an extensive workshop.

[2:16:08] » Remember that meeting then? >> It was prior to Commissioner McD Vice

[2:16:12] Mayor McDonald. >> Yeah, because we even said we wanted on

[2:16:14] the um well where the new application at then because we even said we wanted I

[2:16:19] know I had to talked about it that if it's denied why was it denied? I I mean

[2:16:25] a lot of the things I where if we did it I know that I cuz I still have documents

[2:16:30] where I um all the stuff that I had typed up and sent to the manager and I

[2:16:35] don't see any of that on here if we had a workshop then and it was approved of

[2:16:40] the items that we talked about is not on this form because we even talked about

[2:16:44] how this form um if you renting um different places like if I'm going to

[2:16:50] rent the gym for my checklist why would I have on here talking about a stove in

[2:16:54] a refrigerator that we have a one fit all one size fit all. So we even

[2:16:59] discussed that. So yeah you yes you guys did um and you you

[2:17:04] did a workshop. I just don't know what changed on wouldn't turn over and

[2:17:10] management. I don't know what changed on this form but I can confirm that you

[2:17:13] guys did have a workshop on this. >> But what I'm saying you the record uh

[2:17:18] the keeper of records. I mean, if anything changed, you would have to know

[2:17:21] because they can't just change it without you knowing.

[2:17:24] » If someone has a form, I can't control as a custodian public records. I can't

[2:17:28] control what they change if they have that form in their access. That's just

[2:17:31] that's standard. That's anywhere. Somebody could take a form and change

[2:17:34] that. So, I didn't create this form. These are not my recommendations, but

[2:17:38] I'm here to just confirm to you that you guys did have a workshop.

[2:17:42] » But for clarity, what I'm saying, no forms can be changed though like this

[2:17:46] without coming to the commission. It can't just be changed that they create a

[2:17:50] form and change it is what I'm saying. Am I correct or not?

[2:17:54] » They should not. And I think this is why it's being presented with the track

[2:17:57] changes to you guys. >> So, Mr. Mayor,

[2:18:00] » but what I'm saying to you, I'm I'm not understanding you, Nene. You're saying

[2:18:03] that we had a meeting on it and and what I'm saying is this form that's presented

[2:18:08] to us today, if we had a meeting on it and changes

[2:18:12] was made, this is not the form. So what I'm saying to you, um, you saying we had

[2:18:19] a meeting, but this is not the form if you're saying we you guys had a

[2:18:23] workshop. So you you you guys had a consensus on what you wanted to change.

[2:18:28] And I will be more than happy to email those minutes to you guys on what you

[2:18:32] guys voted on changing. Again, I don't know what has changed in this particular

[2:18:37] document from what you guys um had a consensus on when you had the workshop.

[2:18:42] It wasn't a meeting, so a workshop in the form came back to us.

[2:18:46] » Yes, ma'am. So, that's all I've been saying. You guys had a workshop.

[2:18:48] » Had the meeting for it to bring back. >> That is correct. So, right now, that is

[2:18:51] why the form is being presented. >> So, Mr. Mayor, what we can do is get the

[2:18:55] changes and we will go back as the clerk said to look at the workshop meeting to

[2:19:00] see what was addressed in that meeting to get additional changes from the

[2:19:04] commissioners and we will go back and make sure that those changes are

[2:19:07] included and then present the the information again. So, we have a motion

[2:19:11] and a second on the floor to table this to further uh

[2:19:17] » my only concern is just I I'm just not pleased with the

[2:19:21] presentation. if we can correct that and have a more readable form because

[2:19:27] » yeah the presentation >> I can imagine if the public

[2:19:31] » the public wouldn't see that that would it will those will be removed but that's

[2:19:35] the system >> forms not like that that's the

[2:19:38] » changes for to you guys so it shows you what has changed once it's adopted and

[2:19:43] the form goes online all of those lines that you see it comes out once you stop

[2:19:47] tracking changes it goes away >> okay that is just the way that the

[2:19:52] program operates to show you what has changed. It may not be presentable for

[2:19:55] you, but that's how the program works. So once you all have voted on it, then

[2:20:00] you can do what we can do to make it easier for you as well. You can get the

[2:20:04] try and then we can show you the um okay >> the sheet without the um strikes through

[2:20:09] so you'll see exactly what it says. >> Okay.

[2:20:12] » But I still have a question. And I hear what you're saying about the line being

[2:20:15] there. Um, Nile, but the original price was three $350, but then I see you have

[2:20:24] a a three was added and you have a line through it. And I know you're saying

[2:20:28] that you have to put the line there to show the change, but the three was added

[2:20:32] and then you put a line through it. >> That's why we said we will go back and

[2:20:35] look at that. We understand what you're saying. That's what it is. So, okay. And

[2:20:38] this document is not from me. So, I'm just letting you know, you know, how we

[2:20:42] track it, but it's I didn't >> Okay.

[2:20:44] » change this form. >> Are there any additional questions?

[2:20:49] Hearing none, are you ready for a vote? Roll call. Madam clerk. [snorts]

[2:20:53] » Commissioner Calvin Williams. >> No.

[2:20:56] » You voted to table it, right? Oh, to table [laughter] it. I thought you voted

[2:20:59] to approve it. Oh, yes. I'm sorry. We got to discuss it. I'm sorry.

[2:21:03] » Commissioner McFerson. >> Commissioner McFersonson.

[2:21:08] » Yes, ma'am. [laughter] Commissioner Scott,

[2:21:11] » yes. >> Vice Mayor McDonald,

[2:21:14] » yes. >> Mayor B,

[2:21:16] » yes. Thank you, Madame Clerk. Thank you, Commissioners. Motion passed

[2:21:21] by unanimous vote to table this item.

[2:21:26] Now, we move to new business, presentation by the city manager of

[2:21:30] upcoming events, if any. We have two listed on here, and she will uh move

[2:21:37] this one forward. Mr. Mayor, first we have on the uh new

[2:21:43] business is Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

[2:22:08] Good evening. >> Good evening,

[2:22:11] » city leaders. Thanks for having me tonight. Um, just a couple little

[2:22:15] updates. Of course, the city already knows, especially with all the educators

[2:22:18] here tonight, that uh first week of school is in session. We've been working

[2:22:22] the school zones in conjunction with the Palm Beach County School Police and we

[2:22:27] will continue to do that to make sure that our kids are safely back to school

[2:22:30] and that the community realizes that school's back in session. Um, a very

[2:22:35] important thing is the upcoming road closure of 441 north of Canal Point near

[2:22:42] the Morning Star Road. That is a complete shutdown of 441

[2:22:46] and it's going to be open to local traffic only, but there is a point when

[2:22:53] they get to the railroad that if anyone tries to bypass that, they will be

[2:22:57] turned around. So, you're really just going to waste your time if you go past

[2:23:02] the detour route to think you're going to get by the site. They are literally

[2:23:06] digging up the road uh to replace the railroad. The road underneath is giving

[2:23:11] way. So, they're going to dig it out, take the railroad, build it back up, and

[2:23:15] lay the railroad back down. It's going to be from Thursday 7 a.m. for 5:00 a.m.

[2:23:21] They'll be there at 7 a.m. It's a complete road closure. The road should

[2:23:25] open back up by Monday at 8:00 p.m. with an option to go into Tuesday if for any

[2:23:31] reason the work doesn't get done. But that is a 18hour a day work. They

[2:23:37] understand the inconvenience that that's causing to the community and they're

[2:23:41] trying to get it done as soon as possible.

[2:23:43] » So the teachers coming from Fort St. Lucy, they're going to have a route for

[2:23:48] them >> to go.

[2:23:50] » So I put some brochures on the back table, but the way they're doing it is

[2:23:53] through Indiantown beline down through West Palm and coming back out Southern

[2:23:58] Boulevard. >> Commissioners, we included that map in

[2:24:01] your folder. It's it's approximately seven 70 mile

[2:24:06] detour. >> Yeah.

[2:24:08] » We we've been in contact with the schools from the beginning since we

[2:24:12] found out about it almost two weeks ago so that we could push the information

[2:24:16] out as fast as we could. >> Take some to the school that my teacher.

[2:24:19] » Yep. But there is some brochures on the back that that says that type of stuff.

[2:24:23] Uh Florida Highway Patrol will be manning the detour. It will not be the

[2:24:27] sheriff's office, but we will have extra deputies in the community during this

[2:24:32] shutdown, you know, to enforce the detour route to make sure that people

[2:24:36] are abiding by the traffic laws and the detour route and other things such as

[2:24:41] that. Again, this is being done by the Florida Department of Transportation.

[2:24:46] Um, and they understand the inconvenience that it is causing to the

[2:24:49] community and those that come back and forth, especially the workforce. So,

[2:24:53] they're trying to get it done as quickly as possible, but this is an emergency

[2:24:57] road repair that they're doing. So,

[2:25:03] » thank you. Are you able to share any information on the incident that

[2:25:08] happened at city hall, the uh vehicle running into the uh building? And the

[2:25:14] reason I'm asking, there was some misinformation out there. Some say it

[2:25:18] was uh a death and we certainly know it wasn't some it was only minor injury and

[2:25:25] maybe even to the point whether the person was whether they was intoxicated

[2:25:30] or maybe they was ill and had accident if you could just share some light on

[2:25:35] that. Yeah, to my knowledge there was no uh contributing factors other than maybe

[2:25:41] uh the time of night, maybe someone, you know,

[2:25:46] some drowsiness or something like that may have been involved in it. Um minor

[2:25:51] injuries, that's that's all we really have at this

[2:25:54] point that we can share. >> Thank you. [clears throat]

[2:26:00] » We we will continue to monitor Bacon Point Road. You know, we did the speed

[2:26:04] before and all that, too. At this point, we do we do we did do a traffic study of

[2:26:10] Bacon Point Road. We had that speed trader trailer out there. The report

[2:26:14] from the speed trailer I don't have with me tonight. Um, but it did show that it

[2:26:20] is not based on the traffic flow in and out of

[2:26:25] Pokei. It is not a traffic concern at this point, but it is a concern of the

[2:26:30] community. So, we will continue to monitor it and enforce traffic during

[2:26:35] that stretch of road. >> Okay. Thank you.

[2:26:40] » Thank you. >> Thank you.

[2:26:42] » Thank you. >> Thank you,

[2:26:45] » Mr. Mayor. If I can add on to that as well. Um, so city hall has been um

[2:26:50] secured. There are no front there no entry through the front door for um our

[2:26:55] residents and we have directed them to enter through the rear door. the um

[2:27:00] insurance company came out today. There are no issues with lowbearing walls and

[2:27:05] so we needed them to see that before the repair work was done. There is a a small

[2:27:10] hole in the front of the building. Um that has been um boarded up and so soon

[2:27:16] as we get the report back tomorrow, then we can start um the repair work, one of

[2:27:21] the pillars on the front of the building is completely um moved. And so we're

[2:27:26] looking at supporting that structure as well just to make sure. But that is the

[2:27:30] damage. It's just an inconvenience right now to our to our residents coming

[2:27:34] through and trying to get into city hall.

[2:27:44] » Now we have a report from Palm Beach County Fire Rescue.

[2:27:54] officials, employees, citizens.

[2:27:59] Um, so yeah, today I do have a report. I just want to make sure that everyone

[2:28:03] here including including uh all the citizens of the GL area and the visitors

[2:28:10] and their businesses uh know that county fire rescue um

[2:28:15] especially you know myself, I have attended to every meeting when it comes

[2:28:19] to DOT, FHP and um um traffic control from Lieutenant Brad and us. So, we have

[2:28:27] been constantly in communication together because we want to identify

[2:28:31] different operational um you know operational things that

[2:28:35] could happen and we don't want that to happen. That's why we do what we do. We

[2:28:39] want to be prepared especially when response times and congestion and the

[2:28:44] geography of the you know any incident possible can happen. So, we did um took

[2:28:50] some steps necessary some of those that I have taken for fire rescue is we have

[2:28:56] made some notifications to our dispatch center. Their cast system has been

[2:29:01] updated so they know the closure. So what we do with the cast system is

[2:29:06] pretty much they send a signal when this guys call and they would tell us how

[2:29:10] close we are, the delays and stuff like that in the address. So when seconds

[2:29:15] count, we want to be there as fast as we can. Um we definitely don't have control

[2:29:20] of what the traffic may look like. I mean it could be traffic not uh we

[2:29:24] depend on PBSO so that's me and Lieutenant Brad we have made different

[2:29:28] actually walkthroughs together so to identify the potentials um some of the

[2:29:33] things that we did is I know that they have communication with FHB we have

[2:29:37] communication with them so our communication is not going to change we

[2:29:40] can tell each other hey um you know this is what it's going to be so we can

[2:29:45] actually work with different agencies smoother than you know wait until that

[2:29:50] happens of the things that we actually do besides doing the considerations um

[2:29:56] of the traffic and the dispatch notification center the EOC our

[2:30:01] emergency operations center they're very aware of it so we have I have included a

[2:30:06] lot of other divisions when it come emergency center so they can put alerts

[2:30:10] out there um a dispatch center which is division chie is involved on that so the

[2:30:16] dispatch um center will have communication with the EOC when it comes

[2:30:20] to that everybody's very well aware of this because it is going to affect a lot

[2:30:24] of people and we understand that. Um so from my perspective my thing is to make

[2:30:30] sure the trucks emergency trucks can get there as fast as they can with as little

[2:30:35] delay as possible. Now if we do have some type of delay we are also prepared.

[2:30:40] We have um talked to our neighborhood agency um Martin County Fire Rescue and

[2:30:45] they had agreed and in case there is that delay they will provide us that

[2:30:50] service. So for any reason if there's any major delay that we cannot cross

[2:30:56] that road I'm going to be right now we find it impossible because we have

[2:31:00] actually find different set of accesses to get from the south to the north but

[2:31:05] we are also having that second backup. They have agreed to respond to the

[2:31:10] So Mar County is aware of it. They are providing that. It's already being done.

[2:31:15] Um those things the different access points we actually today we drove them.

[2:31:21] We put our trucks because they're very heavy trucks and very wide trucks to

[2:31:25] make sure there's no hangups. The last thing we want to do is that me and PBSO

[2:31:29] we did all this work for and then we can't put one of those trucks through

[2:31:33] it. So we did drill the trucks through it. Every single truck from a rescue

[2:31:37] through an engine through the is tender. We do have an area of concern which is

[2:31:42] that the creek the reserve area but it is pretty much the the the co value

[2:31:48] there is very low and we have the secondary access to it and the mutual

[2:31:53] aid agreement to it. So we're pretty confident there. Um we know that there's

[2:31:58] going to be a lot of consideration for commerce for trucks stuff like that.

[2:32:02] That's what we have our partners from PSO. We feel confident that they're

[2:32:05] going to help us get to them if they need to. Uh and pretty much that's

[2:32:10] that's what we have. I just want to make sure that the community leaders that you

[2:32:13] you guys are know to tell you to the fire rescue is prepare. It's ready. We

[2:32:18] have done our homework. We have drove the road um you know and and

[2:32:23] communicating with all the multiple agencies. They're going to be dealing

[2:32:27] with the road closure for for a few days. So any questions?

[2:32:30] » I have one question. So we know we have that truck route. Is something gonna go

[2:32:35] up so that they'll know at a certain point that if they are going that way

[2:32:39] that they're not going to be able to go that way and get like the semi-truckss

[2:32:42] and get all the way down there and then they don't have a way um to turn around.

[2:32:47] So that information has been put out or something is going to be up so that they

[2:32:52] are aware of it. >> Yes. So we've been pushing out through

[2:32:54] our community partners our social media. There's a digital billboard sign that

[2:32:59] has been in place for about a week now that's advising of the road shut down.

[2:33:03] » Okay. And the day of the shutdown, barricades will go up physically

[2:33:07] blocking the road with Florida Highway Patrol station at those locations so

[2:33:13] that they are more than aware that it is a detour.

[2:33:18] » Okay. Thank you.

[2:33:20] » Any questions for rescue? >> No, that's it. [laughter] Making sure

[2:33:24] someone rescue

[2:33:28] [laughter]

[2:33:38] Next we'll have the report of the mayor

[2:33:44] and I'll be brief. Uh this week we'll be attending the city

[2:33:50] commission will be attending the Florida League of Cities annual conference in

[2:33:56] Hollywood, Florida. I want to emphasize Florida. I say Hollywood. They think

[2:34:03] we're going to California somewhere. [laughter]

[2:34:05] Uh but the majority I think will be leaving

[2:34:09] tomorrow, which is Wednesday, and staying to Sunday.

[2:34:15] It's an annual conference of uh city leaders and

[2:34:21] some staff will be also I believe scheduled to attend. I'm not sure which

[2:34:28] staff

[2:34:32] Also,

[2:34:37] I'll be initiating a mayor's utility assistant program

[2:34:45] with the assistant of the city manager who will

[2:34:51] provide a construction form for it to exist.

[2:35:00] Millopire Reyes has volunteered

[2:35:04] to pay for the utilities of two seniors

[2:35:10] per month. In addition to that, we'll be seeking

[2:35:17] uh some other assistance maybe from like the Henderson uh foundation

[2:35:26] Florida Trista and US Sugar to add to whatever he's providing so this can be a

[2:35:36] longterm program. Right now, it would benefit seniors who

[2:35:42] are 75 years or older. Well, we're targeting the older seniors. That's not

[2:35:49] the only senior we're targeting, but these are the one we're mainly targeting

[2:35:55] first and foremost. They are bill committed to assist

[2:36:00] in identifying and helping to decide who would receive the funding.

[2:36:09] So I just wanted to bring that to your attention that will be coming uh

[2:36:14] hopefully uh during our new budget year which begin in October. We'll have that

[2:36:22] up and running and I'll have our city manager hopefully at the next uh city

[2:36:27] commission meeting just outline the program as a whole and how it will work

[2:36:32] and operate and if you have any suggestion of course we'll be loved to

[2:36:38] have your input in in in the formation of this uh particular program. also

[2:36:45] would like to make sure we continue with the and I I'm I'm not bragging. I hate

[2:36:52] to even say it, but the mayor's gold hammer and nail awards that is for a

[2:36:59] business who do significant improvement on their building

[2:37:06] and that normally can be identified by the uh our own internal department.

[2:37:14] someone come in and do a lot of work on sale storefront and put a lot of money

[2:37:20] into that. We want to really reward them or recognize them for that effort. Also,

[2:37:26] we mentioned that we were going to move back to doing the monthly uh

[2:37:32] » lawn >> lawn of the [clears throat] month. We

[2:37:35] need to start that when whenever we can so we can begin to recognize

[2:37:42] residents for their lawn because it's a ripple effect. It not only brutify their

[2:37:48] lawn but it brutify the set as a whole because a competition now you know I

[2:37:53] want to win the lawn of the money at some point in time.

[2:37:58] So again that's something I would like for us to see done.

[2:38:03] Uh we we also was asked by the city manager for any input on uh things that

[2:38:11] we would like to see on the longterm capital improvement

[2:38:16] uh schedule because we are in budget session. I personally and this will be

[2:38:23] voted on by the city commission in a preference because everything can't be

[2:38:29] done in one year and that capital improvement I think went out to a

[2:38:34] fiveyear period but one of the things we didn't have on there that I would like

[2:38:38] to mention is uh bea uh and four streets

[2:38:45] are one of the two worst road and I know it's [clears throat] probably somewhere

[2:38:50] down the line in one of them phases. But I don't know if we can afford that much

[2:38:56] conference and wait two or three years for that road. I know that public uh

[2:39:01] works were going to be expected to do some filling in but that need to be a

[2:39:08] total reconstruction road is one of our best baddest roads and has

[2:39:13] been giving us a lot of uh bad press. So, if we can somehow move that up into

[2:39:23] a more workable schedule, that would be really, really helpful. Also, the new

[2:39:30] entryway sign that the previous commission voted and approved on my cert

[2:39:38] sunseted. We no longer will be receiving cert

[2:39:43] fund. So since that particular project was already approved, I just want to

[2:39:48] make sure that's one of the things that we do. I remember I've been in school

[2:39:54] for out of school for 50 years. That's a long time, but always wished and hoped

[2:40:01] that we had a new entryway sign. We were finally able to get one about three five

[2:40:07] years ago. We did a good a ceremony. We did a public uh uh dedication of that

[2:40:15] sign and I'd like to see us do some similar to the next new sign that we

[2:40:21] have and it should go on maybe the busiest the next busiest road that we

[2:40:26] have. Uh I think Bacon Point was the first one because it was the most busy

[2:40:32] and most visible road. So, we have to decide where the sign should go and and

[2:40:39] uh and at least put it in the budget to uh move forward on doing it. I

[2:40:46] personally, and again, under the five-year plan,

[2:40:50] would like to see us do an amphitheater. Not only would this provide

[2:40:57] a revenue source, it would also provide a place where we can have entertainment

[2:41:04] on the lake. Uh the the activity we do the stage will already be permanently uh

[2:41:12] built. There's a lot that goes into that process. We have to make sure we get

[2:41:16] state approval because we put in a structure on state land

[2:41:23] when you do something. >> Uhhuh.

[2:41:25] » No, you can you can make it >> engineer also.

[2:41:29] » Right. So, I'm just trying to at least add what I think is important to me and

[2:41:37] hopefully to the other commissioners that we can at least begin moving

[2:41:42] forward on some of this and planning uh forward. And it don't have to be this

[2:41:47] year, maybe even next year, but it definitely need to be within our

[2:41:51] fiveyear plan and our fiveyear budget plan. The second one is the uh the the

[2:41:58] building of the new city hall which is projected to be at the old high school

[2:42:05] right across from us. Uh our city hall we're the only city in the glaze that

[2:42:12] don't have their own new basically city hall. Uh the building

[2:42:20] that we're utilizing was a uh a housing apartment or building uh space that was

[2:42:31] sold to the city. So that was always meant to be temporarily, but we got to

[2:42:36] start planning for it. We got to start doing some big things because the the uh

[2:42:42] conversation out in the community, and I know it's not true, but we're not doing

[2:42:47] anything. So when people see things physically, you know, and we can

[2:42:54] dedicate it and and move forward, that's what they're looking uh for us to do if

[2:42:59] we can begin doing that. And lastly, uh

[2:43:06] the the uh hotel just looking at ways that we may be able

[2:43:13] to attract a developer in that. That may be again one of the

[2:43:20] fiveyear items in the five-year plan, but we need

[2:43:24] to begin uh doing that. And going back to city hall, I don't know if we still

[2:43:30] have the old drawing, but if we don't, we need to get at least if we don't do

[2:43:35] anything else, get an architectural drawing and an estimate of the cost of

[2:43:41] what it would be or what it would take to uh move that further along down the

[2:43:46] line.

[2:43:50] » M, I have a question with the hotel. Didn't we vote to give lure $5,000 to

[2:43:56] work towards? They're going to see where the hotel is going to be. So, I guess we

[2:44:01] will hear something back from that to see where city or where they determine

[2:44:05] to put the hotel at, >> right?

[2:44:08] » May I miss Mayor? Um, we gave Lure $5,000 for the feasibility studies,

[2:44:13] right? >> And so, they will bring that back. I did

[2:44:16] get notice that they've started that process. They've been working. they got

[2:44:19] the additional funding that they need as well. So, they are actually working on

[2:44:24] that now. >> Oh, and I have one more question, Mayor

[2:44:26] B. I thought at one point when the um apartment was being built and I'm not

[2:44:33] sure, maybe you can explain it. There was some talk about they were supposed

[2:44:36] to do something with the old high school um tied into when they were doing the

[2:44:43] apartments or something. >> Yeah. Michael Snowgrass who actually is

[2:44:47] the main owner of those apartment building because he have some experience

[2:44:54] in historic renovation. >> He was going to seek uh funding to have

[2:45:01] that done on our behalf >> through a private partner public

[2:45:06] partnership. >> But he' been having so much issues out

[2:45:10] there with the one he's building. I don't know. It's like on the back

[2:45:15] burner. Okay. >> We have supposed to have did some type

[2:45:18] of >> agreement with him, a public private

[2:45:22] agreement that he will be able to do that for us. And not saying that can't

[2:45:26] happen. But all I wanted to do is just at least remain on the forefront that

[2:45:32] this is something we're looking at [clears throat] doing in in the very

[2:45:36] near near future if we can be if we are able to do it.

[2:45:42] Okay, now we'll move into the report of the city attorney, city manager. Sorry,

[2:45:51] keep me mixing up. So, Mr. Mayor, just to piggy back on one

[2:45:57] of the items that you talked about with the roads. So, the city um finally

[2:46:02] received the clearance on our credit. So, we were able to um purchase asphalt

[2:46:07] again and so we've purchased that and the potholes have started to be filled

[2:46:12] already and there will be more asphalt purchase on Thursday and Friday to fill

[2:46:17] additional holes. Um and so we'll give you an update on that as we see, but

[2:46:21] they are moving forward with at least filling the potholes so that we can at

[2:46:26] least get some release from that that portion.

[2:46:30] the um two uh for my report, two of the

[2:46:34] three city of Pokei need grant applications passed to the second round

[2:46:39] on July 15th. Um these include the playground, the playground shade

[2:46:43] structure and the playground equipment um project. U these projects entail the

[2:46:51] procurement and professional installation of playground shade

[2:46:54] structures in Commissioner's Park in the amount of $8,240.

[2:46:59] Um and secondly, the procurement and installation of new playground equipment

[2:47:04] in MLK Park in the amount of $7,255. The neat the neat grant awards are

[2:47:12] scheduled to be presented to the board of county commissioners for approval on

[2:47:16] November 17th.

[2:47:21] Pokei Parks and Recreation goes cashless. The first um little league

[2:47:26] park and recreation football game of the 2026 season was held on Saturday, August

[2:47:34] 8th, 2026. City Halloff staff collected at the

[2:47:38] gates using the cashless devices. Um a total number of attendees was

[2:47:43] approximately 366 with $2562 being collected. The little league

[2:47:50] schedule is on the table in the rear of the room and the little league team will

[2:47:55] host five home games.

[2:47:59] Employment benefits um resource fair will be held Wednesday, August 12th, 9

[2:48:05] to 1:00 p.m. City employees should contact human resources director Miss

[2:48:10] Prince for additional information. Residents of Poki and nearby

[2:48:16] communities, mark your calendar for two upcoming events in in partnership with

[2:48:21] the city of Poki Empowerment Health Care and Glaze Pink Walk Planning Committee.

[2:48:28] There will be a lunchon and learn on Friday, October 23rd, 11:00 a.m. at 2

[2:48:35] p.m. at the Eddie Road Gymnasium. The pink walk will is scheduled to take

[2:48:40] place on Saturday, October 24th, 8:00 um to 12 8 o'clock a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at

[2:48:47] the parks and recreation um complex. Glaze Technical Advisory Commission,

[2:48:55] which is GTAC, um, cordly invites all residents of the Glaze community

[2:49:00] leaders, neighborhood organizations, and and interested stakeholders to attend

[2:49:05] its public meeting on Thursday, August 20th, 9:30 a.m. at the Eddie Row

[2:49:12] Gymnasium, 360 East Main Street, Pokei, Florida. There are also flyers on the

[2:49:18] table in the back of the room. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss

[2:49:22] the statewide property tax proposal that will appear on the November 3rd, 2026

[2:49:28] ballot titled Save Our Homes from Excessive Property Tax with residents of

[2:49:36] the Glaze community including Belglade um including Pokei, Belglade, and South

[2:49:41] Bay in attendance. Food distribution reminder. Um reminder

[2:49:47] to mark your calendar and share with Pokei community. The office of community

[2:49:53] revitalization and Palm Beach Harvest Harvest Incorporated host its food

[2:49:59] assistance program event every first Friday in the city of Pokei. The the

[2:50:05] food distribution is usually held at the United Missionary Baptist Church at

[2:50:09] 10:00 a.m. And we do need um community residents to come out because these

[2:50:16] individuals are coming to Pahoke to to provide a service and there is not a lot

[2:50:21] of attendance from residents. So please pass the word.

[2:50:26] um schedule um schedule prepared to um maintain an

[2:50:32] acceptable um level of um of upkeep in the city of

[2:50:37] Pokei. I've sat with the public works group and we've um drafted a schedule.

[2:50:43] Um as we know the rain is plentiful and as it is grass will continue to grow

[2:50:48] faster. So, we worked through a plan to keep the cemetery as well as the city

[2:50:52] looking as neat as possible throughout this process, which means that they

[2:50:56] can't just cut once a week um like they used to. So, we've worked that that plan

[2:51:01] through. Um there's a town hall meeting um planned for Thursday, October 1st,

[2:51:07] 2026 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the Eddie Roll um gymnasium. And this is planned

[2:51:15] by this by um the city staff. The topics will the topic is the property tax

[2:51:20] proposal. Um what you need to know before the November 3rd um ballot. The

[2:51:26] first one that's being prepared by the county is in the during the daytime at

[2:51:29] 10:00 a.m. So lots of individuals are working and we had already planned um an

[2:51:35] an event for October 1st and additional town hall meetings will be prepared and

[2:51:41] coming forth. um on the

[2:51:46] um August 25th, 2026 agenda items um the uh policies and procedures that was

[2:51:55] mentioned by Miss Reyes will be on the next agenda and so we'll get that

[2:51:59] information to you in a timely manner so you will have time to review. If there

[2:52:04] are any questions, just give us a call as well. U give myself a call and and um

[2:52:09] and and some of the other um city staff and we will help you through that if if

[2:52:13] there are any questions. Um also on the next agenda will be the UNCCFOU

[2:52:19] and then software upgrades and purchases for our website uh mitigation uh agenda

[2:52:25] and meeting management and the next request. Um, we have also prepared the C

[2:52:32] CCNA RFQ which will be coming your way as well so we can get um back on track

[2:52:39] with the Mccclure Road and other roads updates.

[2:52:43] That concludes my report. >> Okay.

[2:52:46] And before we move to the city uh attorney, if there's support, I would

[2:52:52] like to just mention to the city uh commission, we try to recognize uh any

[2:52:59] of our clients or any of our residents who are 100 years or older during their

[2:53:05] birthday. And we do have two that coming up. their birthdays have already passed,

[2:53:10] but we're going to make sure that we get a proclamation by our next city

[2:53:15] commission meeting. And the reason I'm bringing this up also is if you know of

[2:53:19] anyone birthday that's a hundred or more,

[2:53:24] please let me know. The clerk knows so we can do the proclamation and honor

[2:53:30] them. And we're also looking to see if those residents was here during the 18

[2:53:37] I'm say the 1928 hurricane. So we can recognize them at

[2:53:43] that also because we had three for the longest the two Salvator sisters and

[2:53:50] Miss Williams that we was always recognizing

[2:53:53] not knowing that there may have been others in the community who was here

[2:53:58] during that time. So that's just some information I wanted to share and pass

[2:54:03] on to you. And now we'll move to the city attorney report if there's one.

[2:54:09] » No report this evening. Mr. Mayor, >> thank you ma'am.

[2:54:14] Next we'll move to future agenda items of the commissioners if any. And I'll

[2:54:20] start with Commissioner Scott. >> Yeah. I I like um

[2:54:27] for us to receive the um like the contracts. Can we get a like a

[2:54:31] spreadsheet of all the contracts in the city like the beginning and end because

[2:54:36] I wasn't aware that um with auditors that her contract was up.

[2:54:42] It'd be nice to know when when this stuff happening.

[2:54:46] » If I may, Mr. Mayor. >> Um we do have that list. We have a list

[2:54:50] of all the contracts. So, we will provide that information to you. I

[2:54:54] actually looked at it today and marked off all the contracts that we have. The

[2:54:57] one that is coming up is the waste management. So we will be um preparing

[2:55:01] the RFP for the waste management which I think is due by February. So we'll start

[2:55:06] that now so we can start that process. The others we've checked off but we will

[2:55:10] get that to you.

[2:55:20] » Commissioner Williams.

[2:55:24] » Vice Mayor McDonald.

[2:55:28] Yeah, I'm going to go [clears throat] based on the recommendation um of Miss

[2:55:32] Reyes um and say that we need to um go ahead

[2:55:38] and um make future agenda item with regards to

[2:55:44] um soliciting a company for the uh forensic card.

[2:55:53] Okay. Could you repeat that please?

[2:55:57] » Quotes. Uh what's your recommendation? >> Yeah, she said she has some quotes, but

[2:56:02] um if we can include that on um as a future agenda item so that we can uh go

[2:56:09] ahead and uh be expeditious about getting it done.

[2:56:14] That would be the only thing that I have tonight.

[2:56:17] » Okay. Are there a second to have that placed on the agenda for discussion?

[2:56:23] » Second. Okay. Been moved and second. Call for questions.

[2:56:29] » I have a question. So, we just vote. I because I want to see what I I me I want

[2:56:33] to see what she have to say that we need before we spend that kind of money that

[2:56:38] we need a forensic audit. That That's what I would like to see so we can make

[2:56:42] sure we're good stewards of the city's money.

[2:56:46] » I just >> Any additional questions?

[2:56:52] Are you ready for a vote? Roll call, Madam Clerk.

[2:56:55] » Vice Mayor McDonald, >> yes.

[2:56:57] » Commissioner Scott, >> yes.

[2:56:59] » Commissioner Calvin Williams, >> no.

[2:57:01] » Commissioner McFersonson, >> yes.

[2:57:03] » Mayor Bab, >> yes. Motion passed by majority for one

[2:57:08] vote.

[2:57:11] » Commissioner Mike Fearson, anything that you can do?

[2:57:14] » Uh, yes. I would like to use our discretionary funds

[2:57:21] Maybe they make a donation to the volleyball team,

[2:57:25] the Pokei High School volleyball team. I don't know if I need to put an amount

[2:57:30] on there. That need to be a future agenda item. So, we can just go ahead

[2:57:33] and uh because it's our discretionary form.

[2:57:37] » There is a budget versus actual in your folder as well.

[2:57:43] » See how much we got left. Do I need to put an amount on that now or wait till

[2:57:48] it comes back before the commission? >> I would I would lease

[2:57:54] » put 500. >> Okay,

[2:58:03] » we second that. >> Second.

[2:58:04] » Oh, I second. >> Okay, it's been moved and second. Call

[2:58:07] for questions hearing none. You ready for a vote? Roll call. Madam cler.

[2:58:12] » Commissioner McFerson. >> Yes. Commissioner Scott,

[2:58:15] » yes. >> Commissioner Cowan Williams,

[2:58:16] » yes. >> Vice Mayor McDonald,

[2:58:18] » yes. >> Mayor B,

[2:58:20] » yes. And I will say to Carl Balden was here. I was going to have him come up. I

[2:58:25] know. Did he send a letter to asking for the donation for the BT?

[2:58:32] » We have not seen it. No. >> Okay.

[2:58:37] » Okay. >> Okay. I know I spoke with him and I

[2:58:41] asked him to at least send a notice and a letter and then come to the commission

[2:58:46] meeting and request it so we'll be able to really vote on it and support it. So,

[2:58:52] we have it on the agenda and it it'll be taken care of hopefully.

[2:58:56] » Um, another item I want to put on the agenda and this may be something that um

[2:59:00] the city manager may be able to handle. I was thinking about us uh constantly

[2:59:06] getting complaints about the grass being cut at the parks and stuff that we

[2:59:10] either look at the um county and see if they got uh tractor with a bike code

[2:59:16] that would eliminate cuz that one bike bike bike code with the attachment on it

[2:59:22] do five times to work those moores that we have out there. If not, um, if

[2:59:29] nothing is available, maybe we'll look at suggest price and something, get some

[2:59:32] quotes. >> Bushall.

[2:59:34] » Hm. >> Bushall.

[2:59:35] » Bushall. Yeah, Bushaw. Not Michael. I'm sorry. Wrong language. Thank you,

[2:59:41] Commissioner Scott.

[2:59:45] » Are there a second on that? >> This is something to be added to agenda

[2:59:49] for >> Yeah.

[2:59:51] » Future discussion. >> I second.

[2:59:53] » Okay. Call for questions. Hearing none. Are you ready for a vote? Roll call,

[2:59:59] Madam Clerk. >> Commissioner McFersonson,

[3:00:01] » yes. >> Commissioner Scott,

[3:00:03] » yes. >> Commissioner Calvin Williams,

[3:00:04] » yes. >> Vice Mayor McDonald,

[3:00:06] » yes. >> Mayor Bab,

[3:00:08] » yes. >> Motion passed by unanimous vote.

[3:00:14] » I have one more item, but I don't know if I'll do it as as the commissioner's

[3:00:17] report. It's uh regarding the parks and recreation board.

[3:00:24] Well, I'll just give it to them. and I'll let y'all decide whether it need to

[3:00:28] go on future agenda item. This is something that um what is happening uh

[3:00:32] po pursuit to 2.162 the city of po pokei code of ordinance we had already voted

[3:00:38] for the uh requesting the park and recreation advisory board to develop a

[3:00:43] plan for improvement and repairs on MLK park. Um what we've done or what they've

[3:00:49] done in the meeting they have wanted to set up a date we got some volunteers

[3:00:53] lined up that want to help paint the park. most of the the work that they're

[3:00:56] talking about doing is going to be the beautifification. Um,

[3:01:00] and also even I know we got the neat grant uh coming, but if there's some uh

[3:01:06] donations which I mean they'll do the proper forms and all that kind of stuff

[3:01:10] to set up so they can go ahead and uh even just replace some swings if the

[3:01:15] donations are there. But we do have the uh in kind workers uh a couple of groups

[3:01:20] that are lined up that wants to volunteer and my tenative dates that I

[3:01:24] not I want to look but uh the board wanted to uh move forward with getting

[3:01:31] the painting and one of the things they'll be doing is the perimeter with

[3:01:34] those borders around there. um the pavilions being pressure washed as well

[3:01:39] as the bathroom even though the bathroom may not be used as for beautifification

[3:01:43] but this is all going to be volunteer work um and which I roll up my sleeve

[3:01:49] I'll be out there myself also um but the tenative dates that we're looking at is

[3:01:54] um September the 5th and it may be a two-day project I don't know if we're

[3:01:59] going to do it September 5th and 12th and actually that'll give it time to be

[3:02:03] done before they have the alumni picnic also And mainly it's going to be

[3:02:07] beautififications. But as well as I've already spoken, I think she was at our

[3:02:11] last couple of meetings. The city manager is already have public work

[3:02:15] working on going just filling the holes is trying to make sure it's level and

[3:02:19] the ground is level and stuff. But um and I just wanted to make everybody

[3:02:25] aware aware of that. And the uh date is September the 5th that we'll go ahead

[3:02:30] and try to get everything and they already aware of the forms and stuff

[3:02:34] that they have to sign as far as the uh if any donations as far as the

[3:02:38] paperwork. The clerk was all already aware of all of that.

[3:02:41] » I know you was trying to decide whether or not you need to add that as a future

[3:02:45] agenda item, but what would be the agenda item that you would like to add?

[3:02:49] Well, I could have did it as my commissioner's report as far as

[3:02:52] reporting for the as the layers on for the parks and rec committee. I that

[3:02:57] would need to get set the dates. >> We would probably need to add it if we

[3:03:03] need to have approval for the city manager to approve it. I'm

[3:03:08] not sure how that going to work to be honest. for instance, it may be some in

[3:03:12] there where it may be dayto day or it's something that she can approve without

[3:03:17] even having on agenda. >> The stuff that she's involved in, I

[3:03:20] think it's all day to day from what we um

[3:03:23] » probably filling the holes. >> Yeah, filling the holes and uh I think

[3:03:27] she's already got some paint and stuff that

[3:03:30] in line trying to get some paint and stuff donated for the project.

[3:03:35] » So, this won't be an island that we need to vote on then.

[3:03:39] » Okay. So it would need to be on the future general. You can

[3:03:42] » okay >> just work with the city manager and

[3:03:44] getting it completed or whatever. >> Just go down some of the things that it

[3:03:48] do. I'm not going to go through the entire um

[3:03:50] » Okay. But that that'll be under your uh comments.

[3:03:55] » All right. Now we'll move to comments of the committee commission for the good of

[3:04:00] the order. And I start with commissioner Mike

[3:04:03] » Fear.

[3:04:06] » Yeah. >> Don't ask me.

[3:04:07] » Yeah. General public comments. City manager. We have any public comments

[3:04:12] card completed? >> No, sir. There are no um for this

[3:04:16] section. >> Thank you, ma'am. Now, we'll move to

[3:04:21] commissioner comments for the good of the order. And I'll start with

[3:04:24] Commissioner Mike Pearson and work myself to the right.

[3:04:27] » Okay. This just titled for the uh report for the uh parks and recreation MLK park

[3:04:33] beautifification and readiness initiative. Uh the project is to improve

[3:04:36] the appearance of MLK Park in advance of the Pokei High School homecoming where

[3:04:40] they got a parade on the 25th and the alumni picnic. And the tenative dates

[3:04:44] that we're setting is uh September the 5th.

[3:04:50] Um mainly going to be uh correct minor safety issues which is we we've already

[3:04:56] talked about that with the city manager. Just uh that'll be some day-to-day stuff

[3:05:00] that she's going to handle. prepare a park for homecoming.

[3:05:06] Potential resources may include city departments as available through

[3:05:10] appropriate charter offices, uh civic organization, churches, and all of these

[3:05:15] uh different people that we're going to be reaching out to. We already have some

[3:05:18] volunteers. I think one of them is in the um he's going to have the um

[3:05:24] flag football team is going to be one of the volunteers and a couple other people

[3:05:28] that's on the um homecoming committee not the homecoming

[3:05:34] but the uh alumni committee has volunteered to agreed to volunteer their

[3:05:39] time also responsibility of the party for each project will be determined as

[3:05:44] coordinate coordination progresses uh inspect the program just suggest I'll

[3:05:49] try to keep this brief. Inspect the playground equipment uh if any replace

[3:05:54] damaged swings if there's uh proper donations going through which we have a

[3:05:58] donation policy. I think I have a copy of that if uh that we've already

[3:06:02] approved tight and loose hardware fill uh hazards which is filling the holes

[3:06:09] repair minor uneven walking surfaces and the but the main thing is just going to

[3:06:14] be mostly just cosmetics. Like I said, it's going to be painting the pressure

[3:06:18] washing the pavilions as well as the bathroom,

[3:06:24] painting them, and the perimeter around the outside is mainly going to be the

[3:06:30] majority of the work that'll be done, just the um cosmetics part.

[3:06:40] » Thank you, Commissioner Mike Donna. Vice Mayor

[3:06:46] Basically, I just want to um thank everybody that came out uh to the

[3:06:50] meeting uh this evening and uh we want to continue to solicit your support as

[3:06:57] we uh continue our efforts to progress for Hoki and uh have a good rest of your

[3:07:03] evening.

[3:07:08] » Commissioner Williams, >> I just want to say thank you to all the

[3:07:12] residents. So, good to see the ones that are here. Um, I want to say thank you to

[3:07:17] all the uh residents that are listening. Um, thank you for working with us as we

[3:07:22] continue to um move Pokei forward. I know you all want to see actually see

[3:07:28] something physical, but as you can hear and that we are getting things done,

[3:07:32] getting policies put in place and making sure that the city is not in the same

[3:07:36] situation and where we found it with not having proper documentation. So, it

[3:07:41] starts with the documentation and then we're able to move forward and start to

[3:07:46] build partnerships back so that we can start actually physical seeing um things

[3:07:52] come to Poke and buildings going up and corrections being made and that we can

[3:07:57] see um Pokei moving forward. So, continue to be patient with us as we um

[3:08:03] continue to do the works. And I want to say thank you to all my commissioners

[3:08:06] that I'm up here working with, how we are [snorts] able to work together and

[3:08:10] respect each other and continue to try to move um the city forward. Thank you,

[3:08:14] city manager and clerk and attorney for all your hard work and all of the

[3:08:18] workers as well. We may not say that that often, but we appreciate [snorts]

[3:08:22] all of you all and the hard work that you do and all of the workers for the

[3:08:26] city of Hoki as well. We want to say thank you for um being patient with us

[3:08:30] and working with us as well. and we're doing it all for the love of Poken. Have

[3:08:35] a good night, >> Commissioner Scott.

[3:08:39] » Yeah, I'd like to thank everyone for coming out and and the viewers. And I

[3:08:43] really would like to thank the administrators

[3:08:47] from the schools >> and the teachers for coming out and

[3:08:51] educating us and letting our uh community be aware of

[3:08:56] what's actually going on at the school and and the great things that they are

[3:09:00] doing. We really appreciate that. >> Thank you.

[3:09:03] » Good night. >> City commissioners, having taken care of

[3:09:07] all business brought before us, I would entertain a motion to adjourn our

[3:09:12] meeting. >> So moved.

[3:09:14] » Has been moved by second. >> Vice Mayor, second by Commissioner Kins

[3:09:19] Williams. Call for question. Hearing none. Ready for a vote.

[3:09:23] » I got a question. No, [clears throat] just

[3:09:27] [laughter] >> Vice Mayor McDonald.

[3:09:30] » Yes. >> Commissioner Calvin Williams.

[3:09:32] » Yes. >> Commissioner McFerson,

[3:09:34] » yes. >> Commissioner Scott,

[3:09:36] » yes. >> Mayor Bab,

[3:09:37] » yes. Motion adjourned at 8:11. >> 91

[3:09:43] » 911.

[3:09:52] » Whatever you say, my And I'll be up in Florida.

[3:09:55] » My birthday was last week. >> Vacation.

[3:10:00] » You tell me. Happy birthday. >> Happy beloved.

[3:10:03] » Oh yeah. I'm going to be another

[3:10:12] turning 55.

[3:10:27] So, I'll put it in your mailbox.

[3:10:32] » Thank you.

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[3:10:58] She posted

[3:11:15] » from 9 to 1 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. I told him whenever there

[3:11:33] » Commissioner Scott >> Commissioner that.

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