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[0:00] I want to welcome everybody to our meeting on September 2nd at 10 o'clock in the county
[0:11] administrative building. Thank you all for coming. We don't have a lot of our agenda today,
[0:16] so it'll probably be pretty short. But I appreciate everybody coming. We're going to start, Jeff,
[0:23] stop is going to leave us in the prayer or give it prayer and then patty will leave us in the
[0:27] Thank you very much.
[0:29] Finally, I'm going to be here for this beautiful weather for all the rain.
[0:33] We've received help us to go about the business of these great people in an orderly
[0:38] responsible matter.
[0:40] I don't know if I've missed resolving the speeds professionally, and help us to care about
[0:47] each other and have new relationships and just naming them.
[0:53] I'd like to leave you just to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic
[0:59] for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
[1:08] Okay, thank you.
[1:10] I just want to welcome to our meeting, our new, well, your new attorney for the district.
[1:17] Tracey Cowdell is online. Welcome Tracey.
[1:21] Thank you so much Madam Chair. It's a pleasure to be here today.
[1:25] Glad to have you. I guess this will be Jeff's last meeting.
[1:29] Well, we're going to have one in a couple weeks.
[1:32] Okay.
[1:32] But these September will be the last month.
[1:35] Okay. Well, we want to appreciate all you've done so far in this.
[1:39] So thank you so much.
[1:42] Okay, we'll just get move on to the agenda and the first item is approval of the minutes
[1:48] for August 7th, 2026.
[1:50] Is there any discussion on that?
[1:53] No.
[1:54] Let's see.
[1:55] Okay.
[1:56] Okay.
[1:57] Okay.
[1:58] I make a motion that we approve the minutes for August 7th, 2026.
[2:04] All in favor?
[2:05] I.
[2:07] Okay.
[2:08] I forgot to mention Commissioner Myers is on line.
[2:12] She wasn't doing well today, so...
[2:15] Okay, we're going to public comment period and we'd love there.
[2:18] Anything you have to say, just come up to the mic,
[2:21] state your name, and speak for three minutes.
[2:28] Hi, Pat.
[2:29] Hello, Pat Moffitt.
[2:31] I live in the middle of the state.
[2:33] And I really just have a quick question
[2:36] which I could have called Clayton or somebody else
[2:40] and ask, but I'd like to get the answer on record if the board chooses to respond in
[2:46] the meeting.
[2:47] Now the new assessments, notices have been mailed and people are seeing their assessments.
[2:54] I'm seeing a lot of residents ask about, okay, this is great, but how much is my fire
[2:59] fee going to be?
[3:01] And I could respond and give them the calculation from the contract, but my question for
[3:07] the board is, is there an easier way to get them an answer? I know the county doesn't want
[3:13] to be flooded with phone calls, but is there somebody they can go to to say, can you tell
[3:19] me what my fee is going to be for the next year? Thank you. Karen, do you want to ask
[3:35] That's a great question and the board needs to adopt the new rate for the fee.
[3:41] Okay.
[3:42] And then before we can actually further look at that.
[3:46] Perfect.
[3:47] Thank you.
[3:48] I think we have to do that before the 16th rate.
[3:51] Yes, that's okay.
[3:52] Yeah, so it will be a 6% increase from your value.
[3:56] But yeah, later on today this board is going to talk about it setting a date where they will adopt a new fee schedule.
[4:07] If you as you remember last year they adopted a formula. It's a percentage of the taxable value of your property.
[4:16] this year due to the contract with Canal City on year two through five there's a
[4:23] six percent added increase to that and so if they need to they have to now adopt
[4:30] that same formula but add an additional six percent or to cover the contract
[4:36] fees so they will be doing that on a date that you guys will decide in I think
[4:41] because sometimes it's a whole week so that we can get that to hearing the entire
[4:45] she within and assuming send out that notice of how much your specific
[4:52] property fee is going to be.
[4:55] I don't know if we're sending it out.
[4:57] My thought is we should just make it available on the website because the map has been
[5:01] done by the
[5:08] It's not that you can, you can protest it, but that's pretty much set, but if there's
[5:15] a severe issue, like whatever, that might be a challenge, then we would want to know
[5:21] not a challenge.
[5:22] If you feel it's holding on accurate, not having to do with anything, with your assess value,
[5:26] that's under the assessor's office, this is just either the math or some change, and
[5:32] your circumstances that may not be reflected, then we can deal with that because there won't
[5:37] be a separate notice mailed until their tax notice is mailed, it'll be in the tax notice.
[5:43] But that's not until October.
[5:45] And that's what I'm referring to.
[5:46] It'll be emailed out on the tax list.
[5:49] Right.
[5:49] But don't you think we should give them access to see it if we have that before?
[5:55] No.
[5:55] So we've got more to talk to the whole people.
[6:00] Yeah, yeah, I'll have it in my office.
[6:03] Do you think that's everybody thinks
[6:04] share about putting it on the website?
[6:06] Yeah, if there's a way to do that,
[6:08] they would take names and personal information off
[6:10] and just be part of our own room.
[6:12] We'll do it like similar to what we did with the budget.
[6:16] We actually attached the schedule of fees.
[6:19] So we can attach the schedule of fees
[6:21] and then have that 6% annual escalator on there and then just have your
[6:27] parcel number on there right without personal information so just the parcel
[6:31] number and we'll make that I think we have to make that available anyways okay
[6:36] when we do the public hearing that actually has to be made available I think
[6:41] that's what we that's what we went off of last year when we made it available on
[6:46] public notice website but we can in addition to that once we adopt it we can
[6:52] put it on our webpage to our county okay yeah perfect because the the
[6:57] schedule fees is attached to our budget it's how we've been posting that so
[7:03] are you doing the closets? No, no, exactly, that's okay, just remember when you do
[7:11] look at that you'll need to know your partial number if you won't be able to do
[7:16] or you can just call me.
[7:17] Or you can call Karen.
[7:18] She has all the information.
[7:20] Yeah.
[7:20] But we're trying to avoid you having an accident
[7:21] and phone calls together.
[7:23] Um, there's three of us.
[7:25] So we figured out the day.
[7:30] Do we want, I guess we can figure out the day now,
[7:32] phone on the day.
[7:33] I was talking to Quentin and Morgan earlier
[7:37] and it seems like one of the day,
[7:40] probably the day, so Quentin's available
[7:42] and I'm available is either the 15th, no the 14th or the 16th Monday or Wednesday
[7:49] of that because it has to be an evening. This public hearing.
[7:56] That's good for me.
[7:57] Yeah, because you are in time.
[8:00] No, we'll be back by evening.
[8:04] We're fine with the 14th.
[8:06] That's a Monday.
[8:07] Yeah, I mean, so last year was that 6th.
[8:11] Yeah, we can any time after.
[8:14] After 6th grade.
[8:16] Celeste, do you have a preference on those days?
[8:20] The 14th of one month.
[8:22] September.
[8:23] We have to have it done by the 16th.
[8:26] Oh, you have a conference next week.
[8:30] Yeah.
[8:31] Well, the year on next week.
[8:33] I mean, we prefer seven, but there's
[8:35] another event that might be recovery awareness rate.
[8:39] That one more.
[8:42] Is that good?
[8:43] Is that good?
[8:43] Yeah, that's good.
[8:43] So, it's not bad.
[8:45] Yeah, that's good.
[8:47] That's good.
[8:47] You want to do it?
[8:48] I want to do it.
[8:49] I don't want to do it.
[8:49] I have to.
[8:51] Okay.
[8:51] Do we need to make a motion on that?
[8:53] Or just set it a date?
[8:54] Oh, you do set a date.
[8:55] Okay.
[8:56] We're going to do the public hearing on September 14th at 7 o'clock.
[9:02] We'll put that out in the public way.
[9:04] What I'd say knows?
[9:05] Yeah.
[9:07] Okay, and you're all invited to come in.
[9:10] I mean, like you can come and tell your opinion.
[9:12] We won't be able to change it because it's already in the contract but we'd love to hear if you have anything you want to say.
[9:19] Okay, so everybody else in the room that wants to make a public comment?
[9:27] Nope, okay.
[9:28] When we won.
[9:30] Okay, that we were going to discuss the candidate forums to be held on October 8th and October 22nd.
[9:36] And are you the one who can't remember your name?
[9:40] Penny Gray.
[9:41] Yes, well do you want to come and talk about that?
[9:44] Thank you.
[9:55] Penny Gray.
[9:57] Yeah, so just kind of a grassroots opportunity
[10:01] to meet the candidates and pose questions from the folks
[10:04] who live in the SSD.
[10:07] We have one October 8 during the daytime at 1 o'clock.
[10:12] And then we have our second one October 22nd
[10:16] at six o'clock, both in the multipurpose room
[10:19] of the Canaveral City Library.
[10:22] We'll have, I've reached out to all the candidates
[10:25] and heard back from most of them.
[10:28] Very much in favor of the opportunity
[10:31] to meet with constituents in the area.
[10:34] And so we'll feel questions.
[10:36] We have a couple of questions just in general
[10:38] for all the candidates to address.
[10:40] And then we'll turn it over to the constituents
[10:43] to post their questions.
[10:45] Okay, thank you. I think that's a great idea.
[10:48] I'm glad everybody wants to participate. Do you have anything, Patty?
[10:53] No, for some reason, my calendar, I'm sure we're having a really close meeting on the 8th.
[10:58] Which normally, I don't know why we would have it there, maybe I just missed it.
[11:02] Because we always have it Wednesday.
[11:03] Right. No, because you got to spend it.
[11:05] Oh, that legislator. So we're changing it.
[11:07] I was just going to let them know that we are having a really close meeting at 10 on that day.
[11:12] maybe you want to move your meat the candidates up so it's kind of right at
[11:16] closer I don't know.
[11:20] We had to move because legislatures are coming into
[11:22] town and we were invited to an event on Wednesday morning so we were moving our
[11:27] really close to Thursday at 10. I suppose we could move it to closer to the
[11:31] afternoon. I mean that's up to me and if that would work with so it does. You already
[11:36] have your schedule maybe we can move our little closer to Europe and
[11:41] Yeah, he could roll over into that thing.
[11:43] Yeah, maybe we could do ours at noon.
[11:46] That's fine with me.
[11:47] Is that okay with everybody?
[11:48] I'm dead, there is a...
[11:49] I don't know, we're dead.
[11:50] How there's a chamber on Sunday?
[11:53] Well, let's look at you do it after your forum.
[12:02] But do you have a ending time?
[12:05] Um, anticipating an hour, but I don't.
[12:08] As long as people would want to stay in check.
[12:10] I guess?
[12:12] Why don't we start off for two and then if you go longer, we can do 30 hour and an hour.
[12:19] Okay, let's go to 30.
[12:20] Thank you.
[12:21] Can you change that thing?
[12:22] Thank you.
[12:23] Appreciate that.
[12:24] Thanks for catching that, Patty.
[12:25] I haven't looked at the calendar so that's great.
[12:29] Okay, and no one else, no more public comment?
[12:32] Okay.
[12:33] Oh, we already went out of public comment, sorry.
[12:35] Okay, and now, what you're going to give us the financial updates and review the statements
[12:40] inspection? I don't have a lot of changes. We don't have any bills due or sending
[12:50] invoices or anything like that. One thing that the board asked for last
[12:56] meeting was a breakdown on what we actually have because our bank statement
[13:02] said something different than because we do owe some money in January 2027 that
[13:08] that would be the new resident service capacity fee that has been collected, and that was
[13:15] it?
[13:16] June?
[13:17] Oh, that's August.
[13:18] So, right now, it says that we have 276602, so you that have access on our BAKES statements
[13:31] can see that.
[13:32] However, I have Zoom out.
[13:37] okay
[13:41] so this is what the bank statement says this is what we would actually have
[13:47] because this is the Knapp city fee that's due so off of the new resident service
[13:53] capacity fee this is what we have collected total 161 924 58
[14:00] anticipate that going up by the end of the year this is for anybody that's
[14:05] building out there they owe the one-time new resident service capacity fee
[14:12] that fee is collected by us and then a portion of that stays with the VCSSD
[14:21] there's a we had talked about that two hundred dollars so the as of today the
[14:29] We can have city fee if we really give them a check, 160, 924, 58 goes to can have city,
[14:37] which we remain with us, 115, 678, 34.
[14:43] So I give you a little bit better idea on kind of what we have, which is about what we
[14:49] budgeted.
[14:50] I think we said around we would like to have around 120,000 dollars left in after everything
[14:59] is paid.
[15:00] Pretty close. Yeah, any other questions on that? No, I appreciate it. Doing that, breaking it down. Yeah, and just a reminder, it's all in the share drive there, so you guys can see that if you need to.
[15:17] Okay, thanks.
[15:21] Karen, was there anything you wanted to say in the meeting today? No, you're good. No, just I'm good. So as that's adopted, I'll have everything made available after you review. Perfect. Thank you.
[15:34] Yeah, do you have a question about our public hearing?
[15:37] This is a legal question.
[15:39] Do we need to have the public hearing
[15:41] and then have a meeting right after that
[15:43] to actually adopt it since we're on a tights?
[15:45] We can't wait to learn next meeting.
[15:48] Yeah, so it would all be,
[15:50] the public hearing would be part of the meeting,
[15:52] so it's not just the public hearing.
[15:53] So the agenda would be habit hearing
[15:55] and then there would be a second having
[15:57] to vote on adopting the feast hearing.
[15:59] Okay.
[16:01] Okay.
[16:01] But I'm scared we already established that date, so is there any other discussion
[16:06] havens anybody wants to talk about?
[16:12] No, really quick meeting.
[16:16] Yeah, okay, I guess I'll make a motion that we adjourn.
[16:21] I will.
[16:21] Okay.
[16:22] When are we going to do our budget public hearing?
[16:25] Or we have to do our okay preliminary, or whatever it's called,
[16:28] whether a budget knocked over, the final and the summer?
[16:32] Yeah, so so we'll do our
[16:45] Sorry, yeah, we'll do that so the the draft budget will adopt in November will present in draft and then we have to adopt the budget
[16:56] sometime in December just before December 31 so usually we'll do the
[17:02] budget, adopt the draft budget in November, first meeting in November, and then adopt the final
[17:10] budget with our schedule fees and everything in December. And that public hearing doesn't have to
[17:14] be at the evening. That will just be dirty. No, not a budget hearing. So we have a commission meeting
[17:19] in December or around one of the states on the A or adopting the county budget. Right, we could
[17:31] We have a submission meeting on the unit.
[17:34] Yeah, that's right.
[17:34] Yeah.
[17:41] That's what I'm putting out my text on this list.
[17:43] And that's what's on our website.
[17:46] Yeah.
[17:47] And we have one.
[17:50] We have one.
[17:50] This is typically on this.
[17:51] The first one.
[17:52] Yeah.
[17:52] Yeah, the second episode we'll have is there a benefit in doing both this and maybe just so because there aren't
[18:00] any people here so they don't have to go down twice or just schedule for the second right now.
[18:08] So what do you guys think about keep us scheduled? Do you want to change it?
[18:15] I'm good with whatever.
[18:16] Me too.
[18:19] I think it'd be kind of nice to meet on the same day as we have our commission meeting.
[18:25] I'm not against it. I'm just having a flashback. I've won this for me in like five hours, so
[18:33] lately I haven't lasted that long. Okay, it's not the last meeting in the area. Another meeting
[18:39] after that. That's not a flashback. That's PTSD. It was a long one.
[18:46] Oh, that's a Bermillianquist board. Oh, that's right, he's in. Okay, I'm lying with movement
[18:51] to that day, yeah. Okay, what, do we want to have it before after that? It might be
[18:58] safer to have it before because we never know how long we're finishing it. Yeah, we could
[19:03] have it. Yeah. 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 15. Let's go with 9 on December 8. Okay.
[19:17] Okay. Okay, we'll
[19:17] get that done. Then if anybody, yeah, will be nice or anybody who wants to attend,
[19:23] Okay, sorry, thing else?
[19:27] No, no.
[19:28] Okay, all in favor of a journey?
[19:30] Hi.
[19:32] Hi.
[19:33] Thank you all for coming.
[19:35] Sorry, it was so short.