Feb 12, 2024 Regular City Commission Meeting

[ROLL CALL]

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WE START THIS MEETING. SORRY FOR BEING LATE A COUPLE OF MINUTES. UM, MARY ROLL CALL. MAYOR BRUNER HERE, VICE MAYOR RICH COMMISSIONER CLARK. COMMISSIONER COLLINS COMMISSIONER MCDONALD HERE. AND NOW WE HAVE, UM AN INVOCATION PASTOR JAMES BROCIUS. THANK YOU, SIR. WE'LL ALL RISE.

THANK YOU. AFTERNOON, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. FATHER IN HEAVEN. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR LOVE FOR US AND YOUR CARE FOR US THIS MONTH OF LOVE, HELP US, UH, TO SHOW THAT LOVED ONE FOR ANOTHER FATHER. UH, AGAIN. YOU ARE A GOOD AND GREAT AND I THANK YOU FOR THESE, UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ALL OF THEM LOWERED THAT SERVE YOU HERE AND SERVE US. GIVE THEM GREAT WISDOM. AND UNDERSTANDING. GIVE THEM EMPATHY TOWARD ONE ANOTHER AND TOWARD THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH HERE IN THIS IN THIS STATE. AND IN THIS CITY TO BRING YOUR GRACE AND MERCY UPON ALL SO GIVE WISDOM AND, UH, UNITY. UH, YOUR BLESSING. I PRAY IN JESUS NAME. OH, MAN. AND I WILL DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. A OK? I IN . REALLY? NATION. THANK YOU. JUST. MARY. WE MARRIED. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT, UH, MRS CLARK? COMMISSIONER CLARKE IS HERE. YES, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE'RE GONNA START IN THE PROCLAMATIONS. YES, THE ARTS MOMENT. LET ME PUT IT. WELL, I

[1. ARTS MOMENT - THELMA WASHINGTON, ABC'S OF BLACK HISTORY IN STUART AND THE CHILDREN OF GERTRUDE WALDEN]

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WILLIE SIMPSON OLDEST VETERAN AND MARTIN COUNTY. HE THE WATERS INFANT CARE CENTER BUILT IN 19 TWENTIES. THE AWARD IS STILL HELPING THE RESIDENTS OF ANY TOWN TODAY AND WAS RECENTLY INTO THE FLORIDA WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME. YOU YOU BAPTIST CHURCH BUILT IN 1923 AND JENSEN BEACH WAS DESTROYED. SEPTEMBER 11TH 1949 REBUILT IN 1961. B TO MY HEART, VICTOR MIKE HARDY, LONGEST SERVING VOLUNTEER AT AMERICAN RED CROSS W. WALTER OOM, FIRST BLACK, PRINCIPAL OF MARRIAGE HIGH SCHOOL. LERA WASHINGTON FIRST BLACK TO DANCE CAPTAIN OF STUART POLICE DEPARTMENT. X TO NOIA ANDERSON PRINCIPLE AT P ELEMENTARY IN CRYSTAL LAKE ELEMENTARY DIRECTOR OF CURRICULUM AND MARTIN COUNTY SCHOOLS. WHY YOU GOT TO DO BETTER AND ALL THEY DID Z ZEALOUS ABOUT ACCOMPLISHING THEIR GOALS. YOU THANK YOU. THANK YOU, KIBA.

MAYOR NOW WE HAVE THE STUDENTS OF GERTRUDE WALDEN, WHO ARE GOING TO SING A SONG FOR US REAL QUICK. F. IN. THANK YOU FOR COMING. LITTLE BOYS AND GIRLS. THANK YOU.

ARE DOING GREAT. THANK YOU. SHE.

YOU. I. WE. I OK? AND.

BLACK. THIS IS HE. ME. YEAH. WITH.

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LOOK, LOOK UP FOR IT. THANK.

[2. ENGINEERS WEEK (FEBRUARY 18-24, 2024)]

WHEREAS ENGINEERS DESIGN CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO A HIGH QUALITY OF LIFE. FOR ALL RESIDENTS OF THE MUNICIPALITY.

THIS THE MUNICIPALITY GROWTH DEPENDS ON ENGINEERS EXECUTING INNOVATIVE, CREATIVE AND HIGH QUALITY SOLUTIONS TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. AND WHEREAS THE PURPOSE OF THE FLORIDA ENGINEERING SOCIETY IS TO ADVANCE THE PUBLIC WELFARE PROMOTE THE PROFESSIONAL. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE ENGINEERING PROFESSIONS. AND STIMULATE AND DEVELOP PROFESSIONAL CONCEPTS AMONG ALL ENGINEERS THROUGH EDUCATION. AND EXCELLENCE AND PRACTICE. AND WHEREAS MEMBERS OF THE FLORIDA ENGINEERING SOCIETY IN THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES OF FLORIDA. ARE MAKING STRIDES TO INTERACT. WITH THE ENGINEERING EDUCATION SECTOR TO PREPARE FUTURE ENGINEERS TO MAINTAIN OUR ECONOMIC LEADERSHIP. AND QUALITY OF LIFE.

AND IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF AMERICA'S ENGINEERS. NOW THEREFORE, IN RECOGNITION OF ENGINEERS WEEK IN THE CITY OF STUART I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART TO HEREBY PROCLAIM FEBRUARY 18TH THROUGH THE 24TH 2024 AS ENGINEERS WEEK. MR. I'LL COME DOWN AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF STUART FOR CELEBRATING AND HONORING ENGINEERS DURING THIS WEEK, SO THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU GUYS. THERE PROCLAMATION HAS A HOPE

[3. HOUSE OF HOPE 40TH ANNIVERSARY]

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THEREFORE I REBECCA S BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY, STUART YOU HEREBY CONGRATULATE THE HOUSE OF HOPE IN CELEBRATING ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY AND PROCLAIM FEBRUARY 2024 AS THE HOUSE OF HOPE. 40TH ANNIVERSARY. YOU'RE AMAZING. ROB WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS? THANK YOU. UH, THANKS FOR BEING A PART OF OUR JOURNEY. WE APPRECIATE OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY AND OUR GARDEN THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE EASTER COMMUNITY. UH, AND ALSO JUST THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THIS IMPORTANT MILESTONE FOR OUR ORGANIZATION. UH WE'RE VERY PROUD AND PRIVILEGED TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY. UH AND THE GROWTH THE PAST FEW YEARS, ESPECIALLY HAS BEEN EXPONENTIAL, AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A BRIGHT FUTURE OF CONTINUING TO SUPPORT OUR RESIDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTY. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JUST. I'LL MAKE YOU MAKE YOU HOLD ON.

REALLY? WE HAVE ANOTHER PROCLAMATION, NATIONAL CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH MONTH

[4. NATIONAL CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH MONTH]

LITTLE LIGHTS, DENTISTRY. UH, SEEKS TO REDUCE DENTAL HEALTH DISPARITY. IMPROVE DENTAL HEALTH OUTCOMES AND INCREASE ACCESS TO CARE BY EMPHASIZING CONSISTENT HOME CARE ROUTINES WITH REGULAR DENTAL APPOINTMENTS. BRUSHING WITH FLUORIDE TOOTHPASTE TWICE DAILY. FLOSSING DAILY AND REINFORCING NUTRITION HABITS THAT BENEFIT ALL FAMILY MEMBERS. AND WHEREAS THE FUTURE IS TO A LARGE MEASURE DEPENDENT ON THE GOOD HEALTH OF OUR FAMILIES AND GOOD HEALTH CAN BE ACHIEVED IN PART THROUGH GOOD DENTAL HABITS LEARNED EARLY AND REINFORCED THROUGHOUT LIFE. NOW. THEREFORE I REBECCA S BRUNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM THE MONTH OF

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THANK YOU.

HAVE YOU MOVED THIS WAY? JUST A TAD BIT. THIS ONE. YOU GET YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, DOCTOR, SIR. STUFF. BLACK HISTORY MONTH. NINA DOOLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE AFROAMERICAN

[5. BLACK HISTORY MONTH]

THEREFORE NOW THEREFORE, IN RECOGNITION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS PAST AND PRESENT IN THE CITY OF STUART I. REBECCA ES BRUNNER, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF STUART, TO HEREBY PROCLAIM FEBRUARY 2024 AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH. DON'T SEE MISS DOOLEY HERE TONIGHT, MR. GO, GO, PLEASE. THANK YOU.

GOOD EVENING. I WANT TO THANK THE, UH, THE CITY OF STUART FOR RECOGNIZING THE AFRICAN AMERICANS, UH, COMMUNITY, UH, IN THE PART THAT WE PLAY IN THE COMMUNITY, SO WE WANNA THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UH, WE TURN THIS INTO NINA. UH, GOD BLESS. APPRECIATE GOD BLESS YOU. YEAH

[6. CHILD TRAFFICKING AWARENESS]

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UH, OUR SEXTING SEXTORTION. AND CHILD, AND THESE GATEWAYS ARE IN EVERY SCHOOL RECRUITERS ARE NORMALLY THE SAME AGE AS THE CHILDREN AND THEY'RE STARTING SEX TRAFFICKING RINGS, SOMETIMES WITH ORGANIZED CRIME. AND UM, LEGISLATION, AS YOU KNOW, IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS. AND UH, THE FLORIDA FAITH ALLIANCE HAS BEEN WORKING WITH STATE HOUSE, UH REPRESENTATIVE TOBY OVERDORF SINCE 2019. IN ORDER TO CHANGE LAWS AND ADVOCATE FOR VICTIMS. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT OUR FLORIDA SENATORS TO SUPPORT BILLS HB ONE AND HB THREE, WHICH LIMIT UNDERAGE PARTICIPATION IN ADDICTIVE SOCIAL MEDIA, WITH CERTAIN ALGORITHMS AND LIMITS UNDERAGE VIEWING IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA. AWARENESS IS A POWERFUL FORCE FOR US TO UNITE AND FIGHT WITH, AND WE COLLABORATE WITH ORGANIZATIONS, LAW ENFORCEMENT EDUCATORS AND GOVERNMENT LEADERS LIKE YOURSELVES. THE CALL TO ACTION IS TO SUPPORT LOCAL AWARENESS PRESENTATIONS TO EQUIP PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS ON HOW TO PROTECT THEIR CHILDREN. AS 80% OF, UH, PROSECUTIONS NOW INVOLVE ONLINE RECRUITMENT. ALSO TO LEARN ABOUT AND SUPPORT OUR HEALING PROGRAMS FOR SURVIVORS.

AND SO TOGETHER, WE SAY, NOT ON OUR WATCH. AND SO IF YOU GUYS CAN SAY IT LOUD AND PROUD, YOU 1239. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THIS INCLUDES MY WORDS. I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT LYNN SPOKE HIGHLY OF YOU. GIVE YOU THIS. THANK YOU. TEAM EFFORT. OH, I. OK? THE VIDEO FIRST. THIS FIRST.

STRONGER. A.

AND WE NOW HAVE A SHORT VIDEO.

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SAFETY OF THE ORIGINAL CENTER. WE HAVE A FEW DON'T SEND MORE GRAPHIC PICTURES OF YOURSELF AND YOUR BODY, THEN WILL GO TO SCHOOL. YOUR FAMILY AND ALL OVER SOCIAL MEDIA. AND SEXUAL.

SO.

OK, AND SO I WANT TO SHOW YOU WHY. TAKE THE BAIT. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT. DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND HE SAID. JOHN? NO I'M PRAYING FOR YOU GUYS REGULARLY, AND, UH, WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR CITY. THANK YOU. MAY I HAVE S? YES PLEASE. I DO APPRECIATE MR DOBBS COMING IN. LEARN OUR FAITH ALLIANCE PROVIDING THIS INFORMATION.

THIS. PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE. YEAH. IS HIDDEN FROM US. IN A SENSE OF WE NEED TO SUPPORT. OF EXTERNAL FORCES TO COMBAT CHILD EXPLOITATION. COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. INDIVIDUAL WALK INTO MY LOBBY. WITH THOUSANDS. PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIALS. WHICH HAPPENED NATIONWIDE. SO ALBEIT THE LEGISLATIVE BODY IS ATTACKING THIS. WE NEED TO FURTHER. OK? AS A COMMUNITY.

WITH THAT SAID I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THANKS FOR YOUR. AND TO GO INTO PRESENTATION

[7. FEBRUARY SERVICE AWARDS]

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[8. 2024 LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE]

UH WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH JUST A BRIEF TIMELINE. I'M GONNA TRY AND MAKE IT AS BRIEF AS I CAN.

UM, THIS YEAR HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT WEIRDER THAN NORMAL YEARS FOR, UH, FOR THE LEGISLATURE AND WHAT'S BEEN PASSED IN THE TIMELINES AND ALL THAT. SO UM, THIS YEAR? UH, A LOT OF THE COMMITTEE STARTED IN, UH, AUGUST SEPTEMBER TIME FRAME, AND THEY'VE BEEN KIND OF ONGOING BEFORE THE SESSION STARTED. AND UH, STARTING IN JANUARY, UM, THE 60 DAY KIND OF TIMER, UM, STARTING A TOLLING BACK ON, UM, ON THE NINTH. WE WERE A LITTLE OVER HALFWAY THROUGH. SESSION NOW, UM AROUND THE 50TH DAY OF THE SESSION, WHICH WILL BE TOWARDS THE END OF THIS MONTH ON FEBRUARY 27TH, YOU'LL SEE PRETTY MUCH MOST OF THE BUDGET WILL BE WRAPPED UP BY THEN. WE'LL HAVE A GOOD IDEA. UM WHERE EVERYTHING IS AND THEN MARCH 8TH IS THE, UH, THE OFFICIAL LAST DAY OF THE SESSION. AND UM AND THEN THIS YEAR, THE GOVERNOR WILL HAVE A SUBSTANTIALLY MORE TIME BEFORE JULY. 1ST TO, UH, TO SIGN THE BUDGET AND MAKE VETOES. OF COURSE. UM, SO AN OVERVIEW THIS YEAR, UH, MORE THAN 1800 BILLS WERE FILED, UH, VERY SIMILAR TO LAST YEAR. IT WAS A LITTLE OVER 1800 THEN, UH, THE YEAR BEFORE THAT IT WAS, I THINK OVER 3000. SO IT'S UH, IT'S CONSIDERABLY DOWN FROM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. UM, STILL, IT'S A LOT FOR US TO TRACK THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF POLITICAL FOCUSES ON SOCIAL MEDIA RESTRICTIONS FOR MINORS, HEALTH CARE ACCESS. UM, OF COURSE, THE HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE UH, CRISIS IS STILL ONGOING. I'M A HOMELESSNESS IS ANOTHER FOCUS THAT CAME UP THIS YEAR. OF COURSE, THAT THAT, YOU KNOW, TIES INTO, UM YOU KNOW THE HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE ISSUE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING. UM THERE'S BEEN, UH, KIND OF A FOCUS ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT TERM LIMITS. SO THERE'S A BILL THAT WOULD LIMIT UH, COUNTY COMMISSIONER TERM LIMITS. AND UH AND THEN, OF COURSE, OUR OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS SOMETHING THAT THAT'S BEING DISCUSSED AS WELL. UM THE STAFF HAS TRACKED OVER 100 BILLS THAT POTENTIALLY HAVE IMPACTS TO, UH TO THE CITY OF STUART. UM, SO FOR ANYBODY WHO'S LISTENING OR WATCHING TO THIS, UH, WE'RE NOT GOING OVER EDUCATION BILLS AND A LOT OF OTHER BILLS THAT WILL HAVE LOCAL IMPACTS, JUST NOT PARTICULARLY TO THE CITY OF STORY OPERATIONS. SO UM, IF THEY'RE OMITTED HERE, IT'S UM IT'S NOT FOR ANY OTHER REASON. UH, MANY OF THE BILLS THAT WOULD HAVE HAD A NEGATIVE IMPACT THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, BEFORE THE SESSION STARTED HAVE HAVE ALREADY KIND OF BEEN TABLED OR OR BEEN AMENDED AND REVISED. UM SO THEY'RE NOT AS HARMFUL BUT SOME OF THE BILLS I'M GONNA GO THROUGH. UH, TONIGHT STILL HAVE THERE'S STILL SOME SERIOUS CONCERNS WITH THEM. UM AS FAR AS OUR REQUESTS GO, WE NEED THREE APPROPRIATION REQUESTS IF YOU REMEMBER, UM LAST FALL. THE THREE REQUESTS WERE $1 MILLION EACH FOR THE SEPTIC. TIS CONNECTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

UH A MEMORIAL PARK. UH, MASTER PLAN IMPROVEMENT, AND, UH, THE GUY DAVIS COMMUNITY PARK REVITALIZATION. UM, THANKS AT LEAST, UM, IN PART TO OUR ARK CONSULTANT, AND, UM, CERTAINLY, UH, OUR OUR LEGISLATORS IN IN TALLAHASSEE. WE HAVE CURRENTLY A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE SEPTIC TO SEWER AND GUY DAVIS, UH, PARK PROJECT RIGHT NOW IN THE HOUSE BUDGET. SO, UM, LET'S LET'S HOPE THAT TAKE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS NOW, AND, UH UM THROUGH THE CONFERENCE BETWEEN THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE, AND THEN, OF COURSE, UH, PASS THE GOVERNOR'S VETO PEN. SO I'M GONNA FOCUS FIRST ON SOME ENVIRONMENTAL BILLS. UM SOME OF THEM I. I THINK WE HAVE PRETTY DRAMATIC, UH, IMPACT LONG TERM. OTHERS ARE KIND OF JUST SOMETHING TO BE AWARE OF, UM, THE MANGROVE RESTORATION, I THINK IS A GREAT THING, UM, TO KEEP YOUR EYE ON, UH, FOR TWO REASONS. ONE IS THE OBVIOUS NATURAL BENEFIT TO THE ECOSYSTEM. UM, BY INSTALLING, UH, IMPLANTING MANGROVES ALONG NATURAL SHORELINES. YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY, UH, IMPROVING WATER QUALITY LOCALLY, UM, AFTER HURRICANE IAN ON THE WEST COAST. THEY ALSO FOUND THAT MANGROVES HAVE ANOTHER, UM, ALMOST SECONDARY OR TERTIARY BENEFIT. THAT IS, I THINK, JUST AS IMPORTANT, WHICH IS THAT THEIR WAY OF ATTENUATOR NATURAL WAVE ATTENUATOR, SO THEY LIMIT POSSIBLE MAXIMUM STORM SURGE SO YOU'LL SEE IN SOME OF THE BILLS. THE STATE IS KIND OF REFOCUSED ON THIS ON THESE NATURAL, UM, DESIGNS BECAUSE THE COST OF DUNE RESTORATION AND THE COST OF, UM OF OTHER SORT OF LESS NATURAL, UH, DESIGNS OR ARE FAR MORE EXPENSIVE, LONG TERM, SO THAT'S JUST A BILL TO KEEP IN MIND. LITIGATION BANKS. UM, THIS IS JUST A POINT OF AWARENESS THAT THE STATE IS KIND OF LOOKING TO HAVE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS BE ABLE TO, UM, INSTALL WHETHER PRIVATE OR PUBLIC MITIGATION BANKS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES. THESE MITIGATION BANKS, OF COURSE USED

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FOR THE PUBLIC WHO'S NOT AWARE OF WHAT THAT IS. IT'S PERF, UM, ALCOHOL SUBSTANCES. THESE ARE HISTORIC, UM. CONTAMINATIONS BUT HISTORIC SUBSTANCES THAT HAVE BEEN USED IN MANUFACTURING OF TEXTILES AND, UM REALLY LIKE, UH, CARPET STAIN. UM INHIBITORS? UH, A LOT OF SURFACTANTS.

PRIMARILY USE, UM, PFOS AND UM AND SO WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE IS, UH, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND OUR STATE GOVERNMENT ARE STARTING TO KIND OF COALESCE AROUND A PLAN NOT JUST TO DEAL WITH PF THAT'S IN THE ENVIRONMENT THAT'S GETTING INTO WATER SYSTEMS, SOME WATER SYSTEMS, INCLUDING, LIKE THE CITY OF STEWART. UM, WHICH OBVIOUSLY HAS A, UH AN EXORBITANT SUBSTANTIAL COST TO REMEDIATE REMOVE. NOW WE HAVE TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW PFOS MAKES ITS WAY INTO WASTEWATER. WHAT THAT IS. IT'S BASICALLY A HOLISTIC. LOOK AT THE SYSTEM.

HOW ARE WE, UH, PUTTING P FALS BACK INTO THE ENVIRONMENT THROUGH THESE KIND OF, UM INDUSTRIAL USERS WHO JUST REALLY HAVE LEGACY SOURCES OF CONTAMINATION POTENTIALLY ON SITE OR THAT THEY USE THROUGH THEIR RECLAIMED WATER. SO UH, POINT IS, IS, UH, WASTE WATER UTILITIES ARE KIND OF BEING REQUIRED TO NOTIFY THROUGH THIS BILL DEP KEEP UP ON, UH, SOURCE MONITORING AND MONITORING OF THE ISSUE. NOTIFY INDUSTRIAL USERS THAT THEY HAVE CONTAMINATION IF IT, UH IF DISCHARGE LIMITS ARE EXCEEDED IN IN THE STATE, CERTAINLY STARTING TO SET NEW DISCHARGE LIMITS THAT YOU COULD KIND OF SEE ON THIS SLIDE HERE. UM SO 10 NANOGRAM. PER LITER IS

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UM OUR UTILITY WOULD HAVE TO OPERATE, UM, IN A WAY THAT ALWAYS KEEPS THAT THAT, UH UM THAT RESERVE WHATEVER OUR NUMBER WOULD BE, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK INTO ON THE STAFF LEVEL. IF IT'S IF IT'S SUBSTANTIAL OR NOT, UM SO SENATE BILL 894 PROVIDES FOR A LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BUYERS TO CONDUCT VIRTUAL MEETINGS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS. DON'T GET TOO EXCITED HERE. UM AS WE'VE HAD FUN WITH ZOOM IN THE PAST. THIS IS ONLY A MAXIMUM OF TWO MEETINGS PER CALENDAR YEAR AND CAN'T BE CONDUCTED WITH ANYTHING , UM, SERIOUS IN THE SENSE OF QUASI JUDICIAL OR FORMAL ACTIONS ON ORDINANCES. UM SO WHEN I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS IT TO ME, IT MAKES SENSE. IF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, UM, AGENCY WANTED TO CONDUCT A WORKS. DURING THE YEAR THAT WAS REMOTE. THIS WOULD PROVIDE YOU KIND OF A COUPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO DO THAT. UM, BUT THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT'S A POINT OF AWARENESS FOR THE COMMISSION. UM, SUITS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT. UM SB 472. THEY'RE ABOLISHING COMMON LAW DOCTRINE HERE ON HOME VENUE PRIVILEGE. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY TUCKED INTO THE BILL. UM NEITHER NEITHER NECESSARILY A BIG DEAL FOR US. BUT THIS THIS TALKS ABOUT, UH, SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY CLAIMS? UM WHAT I'VE GOT GATHERED FROM THE BILL AND HOW THEY'VE REWARDED IT THIS YEAR FROM THE PREVIOUS FEW YEARS , AND THIS YEAR, IT KIND OF LOOKS ON TRACK TO PASS.

POTENTIALLY SO UM, IT WOULD REVISE THE SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY CLAIMS TO BE BASICALLY DOUBLE WHAT THEY ARE NOW. I THINK IT'S 200. 300,000 RESPECTIVELY NOW AND IT WOULD GO. I THINK TO LIKE 406 100,000. UM BUT, UH, THE INTERESTING THING IS, THEY'VE ADDED LANGUAGE HERE THAT THAT ALMOST DOESN'T MATTER. UM THEY PROVIDED THAT THE SUBDIVISION OF THE STATE MAY ELECT TO SELL A CLAIM GREATER THAN LIABILITY LIMITS UNILATERALLY WITHOUT, UH, LEGISLATIVE ACTION. SO ALL THE CLAIMS BILLS THAT YOU SEE IN THE YEAR IN THE LEGISLATURE EVERY YEAR. UM IF WE DECIDE TO SETTLE A CLAIM, UM OURSELVES, WE DON'T HAVE TO ASK THEM FOR PERMISSION TO DO SO IF IT'S GREATER THAN OUR OUR, UH, TORT LIMITS. SO UH, I WILL SEE IF THAT PASSES KIND OF A LEGAL SCRUTINY. LONG TERM, BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND. UH AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS. SB 6 2016 28. REVISES REQUIREMENTS FOR BUSINESS IMPACT ESTIMATES FOR THE ADOPTION OF LOCAL ORDINANCES TO NO LONGER PROVIDE EXEMPTIONS FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS. SO YOU MIGHT HAVE REMEMBERED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS. THE LEGISLATURE SORT OF ATTACKED THIS IDEA OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS BEING ABLE TO ADOPT LOCAL ORDINANCES. YOU KNOW, FOR THEIR OWN REASON, AND THEY'VE REQUIRED LOCAL GOVERNMENTS TO IN IN CERTAIN INSTANCES, UM DEVELOP A BUSINESS IMPACT ESTIMATE AND I'M AND I'M NOT SURE IF WE'VE HAD TO DO THAT YET IN THE CITY, UM, ON A POLICY ORDINANCE BECAUSE THEY THEY EXEMPTED EMERGENCY ORDINANCES. THEY EXEMPTED, UM, PRETTY MUCH EVERY KIND OF LAND DEVELOPMENT OR ORDINANCE THAT WOULD COME BEFORE US FOR A FOR A DEVELOPMENT ITSELF. THE PROBLEM IS WHAT THIS DOES IS ANY TIME THAT WE WANT TO ACTUALLY CHANGE OUR LDRL DC OR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE? WE WOULD HAVE TO DO A BUSINESS THAT IMPACT ESTIMATE. UM AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, OR HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST AND WHAT THE FEASIBILITY OF THAT IS, BUT THIS IS THAT'S THIS BILL THIS YEAR AND SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AND , UH, DEVELOPMENT. UH, PERMITS AND ORDERS WOULD REMAIN EXEMPT FROM BUSINESS IMPACT ESTIMATE REQUIREMENTS. SO UM, THAT THAT WOULD STILL BE, UH, EXEMPT. I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR. THIS IS REALLY JUST OPENING UP THE DOOR FOR LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATION. TO REQUIRE A BUSINESS IMPACT ESTIMATE. 328 SBFSB 328. WE ALL REMEMBER THIS FROM, UM FROM LAST MONTH, UH, THE CITY COMMISSION ADOPTED A RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT.

UM OTHER TYPE OF S 12 DASH T 2024 IN SUPPORT OF, UH SB 328. THE BILL HAS BEEN MODIFIED SINCE , BUT IT'S STILL FOR THE MOST PART, UH, FOLLOWS KIND OF EVERYTHING THAT WE SUPPORTED.

IT'S JUST IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER HERE THAT THIS THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENCES. UH THEY'VE REVISED THE BILL, UM, TO NOW PROHIBIT US FROM PRO BEING AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.

UM UH, FROM BEING ANY LESS THAN 100 OR ANY MORE THAN THE SORRY ANY LESS THAN 100 AND 50% OF THE HIGHEST ALLOWED IN THE CITY FOR THE FLOOR AREA RATIO. SO IN OTHER WORDS, UM IF THERE'S AN ALLOWED DENSITY ON THE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, UM WE CAN'T RESTRICT IT TO BE TO BE LESS THAN THAT. SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE GIVING THEM A RIGHT OF 100 AND 50% OF THE HIGHEST ALLOWED

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AND UM, COMPLAINT AMENDMENTS TO INCLUDE THE AMOUNT OF LAND LOCATED OUTSIDE THE SERVICE AREA. THAT'S A NEW CONSIDERATION. UM, THAT THEY'VE ADDED HERE. AND LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS ARE NOW REQUIRED TO ESTABLISH MINIMUM LOT SIZES WITHIN SINGLE FAMILY. TWO FAMILY TOWN HOME ZONING DISTRICT TO ACCOMMODATE MAXIMUM DENSITY AUTHORIZED WITHIN THE COMP PLAN, UM AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS A LITTLE CONFUSING NET OF THE LANE AREA REQUIRED TO BE SET ASIDE FOR LIKE THINGS LIKE SUBDIVISION, ROADS, SIDEWALKS, PONDS, BUFFERS, ETCETERA. SO WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO HERE IS MAKE MORE LAND WITHIN THAT DEVELOPMENT. THAT PUD THAT,

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UM, THE TAXES WOULD BE COLLECTED BY THE LOCAL TAX COLLECTOR, SO IT WOULD BE UP TO THE LOCALS TO OBVIOUSLY REMIT THAT APPROPRIATELY. AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, UH, CAN STILL DEVELOP A REGISTRATION PROGRAM. UM AND THERE'S TOO MANY. IT'S A LITANY OF, UH, REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES THAT THAT I WANT TO LIST HERE. UM BUT WE'RE ONLY ALLOWED TO AT THE FIRST TIME GET 100 AND $50 PER RENTAL UNIT THAT'S REGISTERING, AND I BELIEVE IT'S $50 EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER FOR EACH, UM EXISTING ON THE BOOK, UH, RENTAL UNIT, SO IT IT IS A POTENTIAL REVENUE GENERATOR. I DON'T KNOW WHAT OURS WOULD BE. THAT'S THAT WOULD TAKE TOO LONG TO KIND OF GO INTO FOR TODAY. UM AND, UH, THERE'S OTHER REQUIREMENTS, BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO BE MINDFUL OF.

THEY'RE THEY'RE ONLY ALLOWING. THEY'RE PREEMPTION US ON EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW ON VACATION RENTALS, EXCEPT FOR THIS WHOLE REGISTRATION PROGRAM. SO UM, THAT'S IT FOR THE UPDATE FOR TODAY. IF UM, ANY COMMISSIONERS ANYBODY HAS ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME , SIR? UM, I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA BRING THIS UP ON MY COMMISSIONER COMMENTS, BUT I THINK THIS IS PROBABLY A BETTER TIME. UH, BEN, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT, UH, HOUSE BILL 1317. IT'S A IT'S A BILL THAT AND THEY JUST REVISED IT IN FEBRUARY. 1ST UH, LOOKING AT STUDYING THE ELIMINATION OF PROPERTY TAXES. THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN. I SAW THE HOMESTEAD BILLS, WHICH PRETTY MUCH GET TABLED AND , UM, EARLIER LAST MONTH, BUT THIS ONE I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT. YEAH, THEY IN FACT IT IS. IT'S ACTUALLY JUST A STUDY, BUT THEY LITERALLY WANT TO STUDY AND THEY WANT TO REPLACE IT WITH A CONSUMPTION TAX, WHICH I'M NOT EVEN SURE WHAT THEY MEAN BY THAT. I, BUT, UM I CERTAINLY THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO JUST, UH AGAIN. IT'S NOT. THEY'RE NOT LOOKING TO DO IT RIGHT NOW. I KNOW. I SAID I

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YES. GO AHEAD. OK? I JUST HAVE TO COMMENTS. I DON'T KNOW. I JUST WANTED TO. I'M THINKING WHAT WOULD BE REASONABLE CAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE LIKE LARGE PROPERTIES LIKE A LARGE FARM 10,000 ACRES IN CENTRAL FLORIDA ALONG THE SWANEE RIVER, THE ST JOHN'S RIVER OR SOMEWHERE AND YOU HAVE DUMPING OR SOMETHING GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT PROPERTY, IT TAKES TIME FOR THOSE THINGS TO SEEP INTO THE UNDERGROUND WATER. THINGS TO HAPPEN. I WISH IF THERE WAS SOMETHING, AND I HAVEN'T READ THE BILL, EITHER IN THAT BILL OR SOMEWHERE ELSE IF THEY HAD PUT UP A STANDARDS LIKE LET'S INSPECT ACTS LIKE ONCE A YEAR ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS, THEN THAT WAY, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO AT LEAST GO ON THE PROPERTY AND INSPECT CERTAIN KEY POINTS OR WHATEVER AND KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING TO SAY THAT REASONABLE CAUSE AND YOU KNOW YOU HAVE LARGE AREAS AND OUTFALL. OVER SWAN IS SAINT JOHN'S RIVER LAKE OKEECHOBEE. JUST A FEW EXAMPLES.

I MEAN, THAT'S TO ME IS LIKE A BIG RED FLAG THAT SAYS WE'RE TURNING A BLIND EYE. YOU KNOW, I . I DON'T KNOW HOW HELPFUL THAT RULE IS AND TO SAY THAT DP CAN GO IN THERE IF THERE'S REASONABLE CAUSE SO UNLESS THERE'S SOME BIG, NASTY OUTFALL GOING ON SOMEWHERE. THAT'S OBVIOUS. I DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE THINGS THAT'S CAUSING. UM SEE PAGE THAT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, SHOWING UP YEARS LATER, IF WE HAD A SYSTEM WHERE WE COULD INSPECT WHETHER IT'S FARMLANDS OR WHATEVER THE TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL WHATEVER IT IS, UM, THAT'S KIND OF INTERESTING TO ME , BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S A STEP FORWARD, BUT TO ME, IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU KNOW WHEN DOES REASONABLE OCCUR. AND WHO DOES IT. IS THERE SOME LITTLE PERSON HIDING OUT TO CHECK OUT THINGS ON? YOU KNOW, SO ANYHOW, I JUST THOUGHT THAT IF THERE WERE GUIDELINES SET TO INSPECT CERTAIN PROPERTIES OR FACTORIES OR WHATEVER THE RULES ARE WHETHER UNDER OR UNDER, I DON'T KNOW. IT'S JUST SEEMS STRANGE. THE OTHER ONE WAS ABOUT THE, UM I GUESS ELECT IS IT ELECTED OFFICIALS MEET IN REMOTE OR HAVING WORKSHOPS? I THOUGHT THAT WE COULD DO SOME THINGS ALREADY IF WE ADVERTISE IT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT OUR CITY OF STEWART IN THE PAST HAD HAD, UH UM A REMOTE. UH, WORKSHOP LIKE A RETREAT OR SOMETHING, AND I'M WONDERING HOW IF THIS I THOUGHT THAT WE COULD WE COULD STILL MEET. WHAT? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE WITH THIS IS THE JUPITER ISLAND BOARD VOTED A FEW YEARS AGO TO ALLOW THEIR COMMISSIONERS TO APPEAR AT THE MEETINGS REMOTELY AND TO VOTE AT THOSE MEETINGS, THE CITY COMMISSION BOARD HISTORICALLY HAS UH, TAKING A DIFFERENT APPROACH AND VOTED THAT COMMISSIONERS COULD NOT. HERE AT THE MEETINGS REMOTELY. THE COMMISSION COULD. CHANGE THAT AT ANY TIME IF THEY WERE INCLINED TO BY ESSENTIALLY. SEEKING TO AMEND THE CHARTER AND HAVING THE ISSUE ADDRESSED AT THE CHARTER.

UM LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, IF IT WAS THIS YEAR, AND THE COMMISSION WANTED TO PUT TOGETHER SOME RULES THAT SAID COMMISSIONER COULD THIS UP TO TWO MEETINGS AND APPEAR BY ZOOM AND STILL VOTE AT THOSE MEETINGS BY ZOOM. THEY COULD ADD THAT TO THE CHARTER, WE COULD PUT IT ON THE NOVEMBER REFERENDUM AND THE PUBLIC COULD VOTE ON IT. IT PROBABLY PASS BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T BE A MISS EVERY MEETING THING AND QUITE FRANKLY. A VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY. IS BETTER THAN

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EVEN IF ONE IS BY ZOOM AND ABLE TO VOTE IS STILL BETTER FOR THE COMMUNITY THAN ONLY HAVING FOUR AT THAT MEETING, BECAUSE, IN THEORY COMMISSIONER IS NOT GOING TO BE AT THAT MEETING IF WE DON'T ALLOW IT ANYWAY, SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABSENT FOR WHATEVER THE REASON IS THAT CAUSED THE ABSENTEE BUT THE IT'S A POLICY DECISION AND OBVIOUSLY IT IT, IT LOSES SCALE IF IT BECOMES EVERY MEETING. NO ONE'S PRESENT AND THE PUBLIC IS SITTING HERE AND THERE'S NO ONE SITTING AT THE DAIS. SO YOU KNOW, YOU OBVIOUSLY WOULD HAVE TO FIGURE OUT SOME PARAMETERS ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT IF THAT WENT THROUGH, IF WE JUST FOLLOWED THE STATE STATUTE, WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING LOCALLY. THE STATE DURING COVID STARTED IT, BUT PASSED SOME LAWS THAT ALLOWED MEETINGS TO BE ABSENT, AND I KNOW THERE WERE SOME CABINET MEETINGS LAST YEAR UNRELATED TO COVID. IN THE CABINET MEMBERS WERE NOT IN THE ROOM AND THE PUBLIC WAS THERE AND THE HEARINGS HAPPENED. UM, BY ZOOM. NOW IS THE PROBLEM THAT BECAUSE OF A I NOW THAT WE MAY HAVE SOME PROBLEMS IF PEOPLE. TRY TO DO MORE THINGS BY ZOOM OR IT DOESN'T HAVE A I HAS SOMEBODY COULD IMPERSONATE SOMEBODY. ELECTRONICAL. I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, I WOULD ASSUME, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU WEREN'T GOING TO BE HERE, YOU WOULD TELL US IN ADVANCE. AND THEN IF YOU APPEARED ON ZOOM, AND THEN THERE WAS ANOTHER COMMISSIONER CLARK ON ZOOM. WE HAVE TWO WE'D HAVE, LIKE AN A I WHEN WE'D HAVE TO DEBATE IT. IN THEORY, WE IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE YOU THAT WOULD WOULD APPEAR. BUT OBVIOUSLY IF IT WAS AN ISOLATED EVENT OR TWO MEETINGS THE BENEFIT TO THE CITY OF YOU KNOW IF, IN FACT YOU BROKE YOUR LEG AND COULDN'T COME TO THE MEETING. YOU CAN APPEAR FROM ZOOM FROM HOME. THE BENEFIT TO THE VOTERS THAT YOU COULD CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE AND EXPRESS YOUR VOTE. WOULD BE BETTER THAN YOU SIMPLY NOT APPEARING AT ALL AND NOT BEING PRESENT IN THE MEETING, SO IT WOULD BE A POLICY FOR THE COMMISSION. AND ESSENTIALLY, THE STATE LAW ALLOWS THAT TO HAPPEN. IT'S JUST THAT OUR CHARTER. DOESN'T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN AT THE CURRENT TIME. IF WE WANTED TO DO THAT NOW, UM, COULD WE ASK YOU TO LOOK INTO THAT AND BRING BACK SOMETHING FOR CHARTER CONSIDERATION? LEE WOULD BE HAPPY. TO OH, I I'M ALREADY WORKING ON MANY OTHER, UH, AMENDMENTS. UM, ALREADY IN THAT IN THAT MOOD, AND OBVIOUSLY A CHARTER AMENDMENT IS DIFFERENT THAN A CODE AMENDMENT BECAUSE IT WOULD REQUIRE REFERENDUM LANGUAGE. WE COULD BRING IT BACK NEXT MEETING. ANY COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTION? FOR BEN. NO. THANK YOU, MR HOGARTH. THAT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU, EVERYBODY FOR

[9. OPEN GOV PRESENTATION]

AND SO. WHAT THIS IS THE BUDGET IS ENTIRELY PAPERLESS. AND WHEN I SAY PAPERLESS WE DIDN'T EVEN DO A PDF. UH, THE BUDGET IS COMPLETELY COMPILED ELECTRONICALLY PUT TOGETHER. AND

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WE'VE BROKEN UP THE DEPARTMENTS INTO DIFFERENT FUNDS THAT THEY BELONG TO SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME STAFF IS NOT ALWAYS FAMILIAR WITH WHERE IT'S AT. WE PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE BUDGET IS. AND THEN OH, LUCKY HERE'S, UH, HERE'S SOME PHOTOS OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS. LITTLE STATEMENTS ABOUT THEM. THIS IS THE BOARD MAKEUP AT THE TIME THE BUDGET WAS ADOPTED AN ISSUED OK, SO I KNOW THAT THE SEATS HAVE CHANGED, BUT FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET, IT'S WHO WAS IN THE SEAT AT THE TIME WE GOT VOTED ON. AND HERE'S THE COPY OF THE PRESENTATION WE RECEIVED FOR LAST YEAR'S COMPLETELY DIGITAL BUDGET AS WELL. WE EXPECT AND HOPE TO WIN THE AWARD AGAIN THIS YEAR FOR THE 24 BUDGET, THEN YOU I MEAN, JOE, YOU DID THAT. THANK YOU. NO MA'AM. NO I. I JUST, UH AS I'VE SAID MANY TIMES, I'M YOUR COOK. I'M NOT YOUR DOCTOR. THE UH, DEPARTMENTS ARE THE DEPARTMENTS ARE CHUNK AND POTATOES AND CARROTS AND EVERYTHING INTO THE POT, AND I JUST DO IT. THAT'S ALL. SO THE DEPARTMENTS PROVIDE ALL THIS INFORMATION TO US NOW, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS I'D WANNA SHOW YOU AS FAR AS INFORMATION AVAILABLE SO BACK UP HERE UNDER THE TABLE OF CONTENTS. YOU MAY SEE THAT WE PROVIDE. LET'S SAY YOU WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT AVALOR AND THE CITY HERE. WE PROVIDE THE VARIOUS TAXABLE VALUES TAXABLE VALUE HISTORY OF THE CITY. ALSO THE AVALOR TAXES GENERATED. THIS IS THE CHANGE IN TAXABLE VALUE. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO CAN'T SEE THIS IS THAT 2008? 2014 TIME FRAME WHERE THE VALUES WERE NEGATIVE. UM OR THE INCREASE OF THE VALUE DROPPED, SO THE INCREASE WAS A NEGATIVE INCREASE. AND HERE'S OUR HISTORY OF MILLS. YOU SEE, THE CITY HAS A HAS A NICE RICH HISTORY OF SET IT AND FORGET IT. MILLS AND WE'VE BEEN RUNNING AT THIS FIVE MILLS FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS NOW. UM WHEN YOU RETURN TO THE TO THE MAIN PAGE ALSO YOU MAY SEE THAT THERE'S A HERE'S OUR STRATEGIC GOALS AND LONG RANGE PLANS. SO THESE ARE THE, UH, THE RECENT DOCUMENT THAT JIM CROWS PUT THE OTHER, UH WITH THE OUTSIDE CONSULTANT AND PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION THAT THEY REVIEWED AND ADOPTED. THESE ARE THOSE GOALS AS WELL AS HOW IT WILL BE USED, BUT ALSO YOU'LL SEE THAT BECAUSE IT'S A DIGITAL BUDGET AND NOT AN ACTUAL PDF OR PAPER. YOU CAN CLICK RIGHT HERE AND GO RIGHT TO THE ACTUAL ADOPTED. PLAN. UM THAT WE LOOKED AT THE 15 PAGE DOCUMENT WITH EVERYTHING THAT WAS ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION. SO IT'S INTERACTIVE ONE STOP SHOPPING, THE CITIZEN OR THE USER OF THE DOCUMENT CAN GET RIGHT TO WHAT THEY WANT. ALSO ALONG THE WAY WE PROVIDE OTHER THINGS, SUCH AS THE DEBT OF THE CITY. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE INTERESTED THIS IS ALL THE DEBT OWED BY THE CITY OF STUART OUT TO THE YEAR 2041. THIS IS YOU KNOW, BY THE EAR. THIS IS PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS AS YOU'LL SEE THEY THEY YOU KNOW AS YOUR OWN PERSONAL LOANS DO AND THEN THERE'S THE INTEREST.

THAT'S WHAT IT SHOULD LOOK LIKE IT SHOULD TAPER OFF. THIS IS HOW MUCH WE OWE TO EACH OF OUR CREDITORS. THE STATE REVOLVING FUND TRUEST BANK, JP. MORGAN CHASE BANK OF AMERICA. AND THEN HERE'S THE DEBT SERVICE BY YEAR BY FUND AND THEN DOWN HERE, WE GIVE AN IN DEPTH DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THOSE BOND ISSUES AND LOANS WERE FOR. THERE THEY GO, AND SO YOU CAN SEE AT YOUR CARE AND AS YOU POINT TO THEM. YOU'LL GET A LITTLE DIFFERENT STUFF. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU HERE'S COURTHOUSE COMMONS, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CITY HALL TWO, WELLS FARGO. SO AS YOU POINT TO IT, YOU'LL FIND OUT WHERE THAT IS. WHEN IT ENDS. AND THEN ALSO THE DEPARTMENTS SAY. FOR EXAMPLE, THE FIRE RESCUE DEPARTMENT WHEN YOU DRILL TO THEIR FUND, YOU'LL YOU'LL GET A LITTLE EXPLANATION OF THE DEPARTMENT AND ITS BACKGROUND. UH, YOU'LL GET THEIR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE COMING YEAR.

HERE'S THEIR PERFORMANCE MEASURES, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE DIGITALLY COLLECTED. THE NUMBER OF RESCUE CALLS BY YEAR. WHICH IS GRAPHED OUT AND YOU CAN SEE AS WE TALK ABOUT BUILDING STATION THREE TO ADDRESS THE CALL NEED I BELIEVE IT WAS, UH CHIEF ION, WHO MENTIONED THAT BUILDING STATION THREE BASICALLY GOT US TO WHERE THE CALL VOLUME WAS BACK IN 2018, NOT WHERE IT IS TODAY. AND THEN ALSO, YOU CAN SEE THERE'S AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY FOR EACH ONE OF THE EXPENSE CATEGORIES OF THIS DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS THE LINE ITEM DETAIL OF THEIR BUDGETS.

UH, WE HAVE INCLUDED WHAT THEY REQUESTED WHAT THE MANAGER RECOMMENDED AND WHAT THE COMMISSION ADOPTED. THEN ALSO A DETAIL. COUNTING OF THE STAFF THERE AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS

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AND THEN, AS YOU COULD SAY, THIS IS FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION. IF YOU WERE CURIOUS ABOUT WHO THE LARGEST EMPLOYERS IN THE CITY ARE WHO PAYS THE MOST IN TAXES, THAT KIND OF THING. SO I. I WOULD INVITE ANYONE AND EVERYONE TO DRILL INTO THIS. YOU CAN SEE YOU CAN GO DIRECTLY TO AN ENTIRE FUNDS MAKE UP OF THE WATER SEWER FUND, ITS REVENUE SOURCES. AND ITS OVERALL EXPENDITURES BY DEPARTMENT AND ITS TOTAL. UM POSITIONS IN THAT DEPARTMENT.

NOW. UM, SHORT OF ANY SPECIFIC THINGS. WHAT I WANTED TO TELL YOU IS THAT OPENING UP ALSO OFFERS US SOME OTHER FEATURES. SOME OF THOSE IS EARLIER, BEN WAS TALKING ABOUT THESE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS. AND SO OPENGOV ALSO GIVES US A PUBLIC FACING SIDE WE NOW CITIZENS AND USERS CAN APPLY. FOR PERMITS ONLINE AND IN THAT PRODUCT, I KNOW THAT JODY'S WORKING ON GETTING IT DOWN TO HER INDUSTRY SPECIFICS. BUT BASICALLY, THEY'LL THEY THEY ARE ABLE TO ADDRESS THESE DEADLINES OF RESPONDING TO THE APPLICANTS WITHIN A NUMBER OF DAYS. THEY CAN ROUTE THE APPLICATION CORRECTLY TO THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO NEED TO VIEW IT BASED ON THE LOGIC, BUT YOU CAN SEE HERE AT OUR WEBSITE WE'VE ALREADY INCORPORATED FOR YOU TO CLICK. CITIZENS CAN CLICK AND PAY THEIR AMBULANCE BILLS WITH THE CITY. THEY CAN ALSO CLICK HERE AND PAY. UM THOSE OTHER SERVICES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN MOVED TO OPENGOV YET. SO FOR EXAMPLE, FIRE SAFETY INSPECTIONS WILL BE GOING LIVE NEXT WEEK ON OPENGOV. SO THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER LINK HERE. ALSO YOU HAVE THE BUILDING AND PERMITTING DEPARTMENT WHERE YOU CAN REGISTER YOUR ALARM SYSTEM APPLY FOR A BUILDING PERMIT OR REGISTER AS A CONTRACTOR. AND THEN WE HAVE THE BUSINESS TAX PAGE WHERE YOU CAN DO A BUSINESS TAX. IF YOU'RE AN OUT OF STATE INSURANCE, OR IF YOU'RE CLOSING IT, AND THEN WHEN YOU GO IN HERE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S SOMEWHAT OF AN INTERACTIVE PAGE WITH HELPFUL PDF S FOR YOU TO VIEW OR DOWNLOAD AND ALSO A LITTLE Q AND A S THAT THE USER CAN CLICK ON AND GET THE ANSWERS THEY NEED AND THEN CLICK HERE AND DIRECTLY GO INTO APPLYING ONLINE. AND IT'S NOW AN INTERACTIVE KIND OF LOGIC TO THE QUESTION ABOUT THE A I IF YOU ARE REQUESTING TO BUILD A RESTAURANT, IT KNOWS THE ROUTE THAT REQUEST TO SOMEONE TO CHECK FOR A GREASE TRAP OR THE INSPECTIONS RELATED TO THAT AND WE WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THIS.

I HAVE TO SAY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO WE'RE ON A DIFFERENT SYSTEM THAN THE REST OF US. THEY'VE ACTUALLY ADOPTED THIS WHOLEHEARTEDLY. YOU CAN NOW SCHEDULE YOUR OFF DUTY. DETAILS UH, REGISTER YOUR GOLF CART, INCLUDING AN INSPECTION OF THE GOLF CART. UH, PAY YOUR PARKING TICKETS AND EVEN MAKE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. THROUGH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S POINT. ALSO TO THAT OPEN GOV OFFERS WHAT THEY CALL THEIR TRANSPARENCY PORTAL. AND SO OUT HERE IN THIS TRANSPARENCY PORTAL, WE CAN BEGIN TO TRACK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE COMING TO THE WEBSITE. ANY ENGAGEMENT KIND OF COMMENTS THEY LEFT. AND THEN WE HAVE STORIES AND REPORTS THAT ARE OUT HERE AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE TO DRILL INTO. AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IS WHEN YOU GO INTO THE TRANSPARENCY PORTAL. CITIZENS WOULD SEE. THEY HAVE. DIFFERENT REPORTS THAT WE'VE MADE AVAILABLE TO THEM AND THEY CAN HAVE STORIES SO THEY CAN JUMP STRAIGHT TO THE 23 BUDGET FROM HERE. OR THEY COULD GO TO THE 24 BUDGET FROM HERE. THEY CAN ALSO GO TO THESE REPORTS. AND LET'S SAY HERE'S THEIR INTERACTIVE REPORT OF REVENUES AND EXPENSES FROM UM. ANY ONE OF THESE YEARS THAT THEY CLICK ON AS YOU DRAG THE DIAL OVER THE NUMBERS CHANGE TO DISPLAY A DIFFERENT GRAPH.

THE USER CAN GET A LITTLE CURIOUS IF THEY WANT AND BREAK IT INTO DIFFERENT MODELS. UM WE HAVE THIS ALSO, HERE'S THE METRIC. SO IF YOU WANTED TO COME IN HERE AND CLICK AND SAY I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY BUILDING INSPECTIONS HERE'S THE HISTORY OF BUILDING INSPECTION ACTIVITY AT THE CITY. FROM, YOU KNOW. 9 2020 THIR OR 2013 TO YOU KNOW THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR THAT WE HAVE, AND THEN A COUPLE OF FUN ONES I'VE PUT OUT THERE FOR PEOPLE, UM YOU KNOW HOW MUCH DOES MY PROPERTY TAX PAY IN THIS BUDGET? THIS IS YOUR PROPERTY TAX THAT WE COLLECT FROM YOU.

THIS IS HOW MUCH PUBLIC SAFETY COST WHEN YOU BEAT THIS COLUMN, THEN YOU MIGHT GET OVER HERE TO PAYING MY SALARY AS I'VE HEARD OVER THE YEARS. MANY TIMES, YOUNG MAN, I PAY YOUR SALARY LIKE, OK, WELL HAVE TO PAY FOR THE POLICE AND FIRE THEN YOU CAN COME SEE ME. SO UH, AND USERS CAN DRILL INTO THIS AND PICK DIFFERENT LOOKS THAT THEY WANT AND NOW THE LATEST ONE THAT I YOU KNOW, HAVE BROUGHT TO THE CITY MANAGERS. TENSION IS, UM WHAT THEY CALL THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK PRODUCT. AND II. I KNOW THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS, BUT IT'S NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME YET SO I DON'T EXPECT TO SEE 50 EMAILS TOMORROW ASKING FOR THESE, BUT I

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LASTLY SOMETHING LIKE WE. WE'VE TRIED OVER THE PAST TO GET PHOTOS FOR THE ANNUAL CALENDAR OR FOR THE BUDGET COVER BOOK. YOU CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS, WHERE YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SUBMIT. YOU COULD ASK CITIZENS AND THEN CITIZENS CAN UPVOTE THEM AND LIKE THE PHOTOS YOU CAN ALSO DO THAT ON COMMENTS. YOU COULD VOTE COMMENTS AND OR IDEAS. YOU COULD DO AN IDEA ENGINE, INCLUDING A MAP, YOU CAN POINT ON THE MAP AND PUT YOUR LITTLE PIN ON THE MAP AND THEN HAVE OTHER USERS UP. VOTE THAT SO AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, WE PLAN TO TURN STAFF LOOSE ON THIS ON COLLECTING THE DATA FROM THE PUBLIC DIRECTLY ON WHERE THEY SEE THE DIRECTION OF THE CITY GOING SO THE OPEN GOV PRODUCT IS COMPREHENSIVE ACROSS YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE USING A DAY TO DAY DOWNSTAIRS TO CUT CHECKS AND ISSUE P OS. UH, CONTRACTORS ARE REGISTERING, AND THEN THAT'S FEEDING INTO THEIR BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS OR BUSINESS. WE'RE GOING TO BE RUNNING ALL THE INSPECTIONS OUT OF UNI AND PUBLIC WORKS OUT OF THIS. AS WELL AS YOU KNOW, THE FINANCIAL REPORTING THAT GOES OUT AND THE BEAUTY OF THAT IS AS THESE TRANSACTIONS HAPPEN. IT IS AUTOMATED, SO THAT REPORT IS NEAR TIME SOON TO BE REAL TIME, ACTUALLY, BUT NEAR TIME. SO THE NEXT MORNING THAT REPORT THAT I SHOWED YOU ON THE PORTAL IS UP TO DATE. SO THERE'S NO MORE WAITING FOR FINANCE TO ISSUE THE REPORT, OR, YOU KNOW, MAKING A PUBLIC RECORD REQUEST TO FINANCE TO SAY, WHERE'S THIS REVENUE AND EXPENSE FROM LAST YEAR? IT'S THERE, SO WE DO MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN WHAT'S AUDITED OR NOT, SO WE'RE CERTAINLY TRYING TO MAKE USE OF THE SYSTEM AND IT'S COMING ALONG VERY WELL. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? MADAM MAYOR? YES MR CLARK. SO THAT, UM, OUR BUSINESS TAX RECEIVED LITTLE GLITCH THAT WE HAD AT THE AT LAST YEAR TO NOW. IS THAT ALL RESOLVED NOW THE WHOLE SYSTEM IS ABLE TO GO CLEARLY THROUGH FOR NEW PEOPLE OR COMING IN. I WANNA PAY THEIR ANNUAL BUSINESS TAX COMMISSIONER . UH, I WOULD SAY NEW IT. THE PROBLEM IS NOT NEW BUSINESSES AND NEW RESPONDENTS. THE NEW BUSINESSES AND NEW RESPONDENTS ARE PROMPTED WITH THE SYSTEM FROM THE FRESH START, AND THEY ANSWER THE QUESTIONS FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND THE LOGIC WALKS

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THE CITY OF STEWART WAS ALREADY UNDER SO ALL WE'RE DOING NOW IS GETTING THIS ELECTRONIC SYSTEM TO MEET THAT. BUT YES, IF THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT BILL'S REQUIREMENT OF WITHIN FIVE DAYS, THEY HAVE TO KNOW THAT THEIR APPLICATION IS COMPLETE. DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOUR APPLICATION HAS BEEN APPROVED AND YOU'RE READY TO GO TO CONSTRUCTION. THIS MEANS YOU'VE CHECKED ALL THE BOXES AND YOU'VE SUBMITTED A GOOD APPLICATION. THERE'S ACTUALLY A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH TIME WHERE YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO GET THEM TO CHECK ALL THE BOXES. THEY NEED TO CHECK OR UPLOAD ALL THE DOCUMENTS I NEED TO UPLOAD. SO YES, THAT THIS OPEN UP SYSTEM IS VERY INTERACTIVE WITH THE DUE DATES AND RESPONDENT TIMES AND THINGS LIKE THAT OF IT, ROUTING IT TO STAFF. YOUR APPLICATION IS NEVER GONNA JUST SIT EMPTY ON SOMEONE'S DESK. THAT'S SICK. YOU KNOW, AT THE BOTTOM OF THEIR INBOX. NOW IT'S GOING TO BE ALERTING PEOPLE AND I BELIEVE THE SPEED FROM APPLICATION TO PROCESSING IS GONNA INCREASE. IT'S UP TO JODY AND HER STAFF ABOUT HOW THEY ORGANIZE IT FOR THEIR INDUSTRY. BUT I KNOW THAT THEY ARE DEFINITELY MAKING SURE IT MEETS THOSE STANDARDS, IF NOT BEST PRACTICES. EVEN VLADMIR ONE MORE. I'M SORRY. YES, APART FROM UM WHEN WE GET LETTERS AND EMAILS AND PERSONAL COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS REGARDING WHETHER OR HOW WE FUNCTION AS A COMMISSION OR HOW STAFF IS RESPONDING TO THEM. DO WE HAVE SOMEONE WHETHER IT'S IT OR SOMETHING THAT'S LOOKING AT COMPLAINTS THAT COME IN WITH REGARD TO OUR SYSTEM, SO WE KNOW WHEN WE'RE HAVING PROBLEMS IN A PARTICULAR AREA. WE WE DON'T GENERALLY GET COMPLAINTS RELATED . TO THE SOFTWARE OPERATIONS OF THE BUDGET. WE GET COMPLAINTS FROM PEOPLE RELATED TO TRAFFIC OR RELATED TO A POTHOLE OR RELATED TO ISOLATED EVENTS. WE TAKE THEM INTO THE CITY, AND WE PROVIDE A COPY TO THE RESPECTIVE DEPARTMENT THAT THE ISSUE MAY BE RELATED TO AND EITHER MYSELF OR, UH, SOMETIMES THE COMMISSION OR THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR WILL ADDRESS WHATEVER THAT THAT ISSUE MIGHT BE. BUT I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER SEEN A COMPLAINT OR COMMENT FROM A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC LIKE RELATED TO OPEN GO RELATED TO YOU KNOW OUR EMAIL SYSTEM OR ANY OR OUR, UH PUBLIC RECORDS, PROGRAMS OR ANYTHING. YEAH AND SORRY AND COMMISSIONER. I MEAN, MAYOR BRUNA TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN AND I WAS WONDERING WHERE THE SLIPPERY SLOPE STOPS WHEN WE HAVE, UM, COMMENTS COMING IN, AND YOU SAID THAT THERE WAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH IT THAT COULD DISTINGUISH CERTAIN THINGS BECAUSE WHEN WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT, YOU KNOW, JUST FLOOD THE PLACE WITH A LOT OF THINGS. I JUST WANTED TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF WE ACTUALLY HAVE A WAY TO CLEARLY DO THAT. NOW WE ARE NOT FLOODED WITH COMPLAINTS. I MEAN, HONESTLY. THE COMMUNITY WILL LET US KNOW IF THEY HAVE A CONCERN, BUT OVERALL, THE EXPERIENCE WE HAVE IS THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY HAPPY WITH THE SERVICES THEY'RE RECEIVING. IF THEY WOULD SEND US LETTERS LIKE THAT. GLAD. THANK YOU OK ANY ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, SIR. GREAT PRESENTATION. THANK YOU OPEN

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[COMMENTS BY CITY COMMISSIONERS]

TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY, UM GET THEMSELVES, UH, INVOLVED WITH, UM. RSVP AND ATTENDING THIS PROGRAM, SO I'D LIKE FOR THE CITY TO DO THAT. I MEAN OUR COMMISSIONERS TO DO THAT WERE 100. THE WOMEN'S CLUB IS 110 YEARS OLD. YES YES, AND THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH THE HOSPITAL WITH A LOT OF FORMATION OF OUR CITY BECAUSE THEY THEY STARTED BEFORE THE CITY ITSELF. UM WELL, I DON'T KNOW, TROY, YOU MUST KNOW 2024 IS WE'VE DONE A HUN. WE'RE ALL 100 AND 10. WE'RE ALL IN THE 110 RANGE. YEAH YEAH, FROM BECAUSE 2014. WE'RE AT 100. SO EVERYBODY'S AT 100 AND 10. SO WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME, UM, RANGE AND THEY WERE VERY, VERY HELPFUL IN THE FORMATION AND WORK WITH WITH OUR CITY. UM THIS. THE COUNTY IS DOING THEIR 1/100 CENTENNIAL IN 2025, AND THEY'RE IN THE PLANNING FOR THAT, AND THEY HAVE A WEBSITE. I'VE GONE TO THE WEBSITE AND IT LOOKS LIKE THEY WANT ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTACT THEM OR TO SAY WHAT THEY'RE DOING. AND I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW THEY'RE PLANNING COMMITTEES WORKING, BUT I'D LIKE YOU FOR A COMMISSION. UH, IF WE HAVE TO VOTE ON IT TO ASK OUR CITY MANAGER TO TALK TO THE COUNTY. WE ARE THE COUNTY SEAT TO SEE WHAT IT IS THAT THE CITY OF STUART CAN DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL CENTENNIAL FOR MARTIN COUNTY, WHICH WAS DONE IN 1925 WHEN GOVERNOR. UH MARTIN WAS GOVERNOR , SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO VOTE OR IF MISTER MORTEL CAN JUST KIND OF TELL US IF HE'S EVEN HAD ANY CONTACT WITH THE COUNTY WHEN HE COMES UP ON HIS PRESENTATION. UM WITH REGARD TO I JUST MENTIONED MARTIN LUTHER KING, UM, RESIDENCE AND SOME FOLKS HAVE ASKED ME AND I'VE TALKED TO COMMISSIONER HETHERINGTON. WHO IS OUR, UM, UH, DISTRICT COMMISSIONER WITH REGARD TO DOING CROSSWALKS, UH, MARKINGS AT THE INTERSECTION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND PALM BEACH ROAD. WE HAVE A LARGE INTERSECTION AT UM, EAST OCEAN IN PALM BEACH ROAD. WE HAVE A HUGE INTERSECTION. AT UH, 10TH STREET IN PALM BEACH ROAD BECAUSE THE SCHOOL IS THERE, AND THERE'S A LOT OF CROSSINGS BACK AND FORTH. THERE'S NO TRAFFIC LIGHT THERE AT MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD, UH, AND SEVENTH STREET AND PALM BEACH ROAD RIGHT BY THE AUDUBON AND, UM, WHERE THOSE NEW HOMES HAVE BEEN BUILT ON THE CORNER THERE, SO I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THE COUNTY AND SEE WHAT IT IS THAT THEY CAN DO TO HELP WORK WITH, UM SOME MARKINGS THERE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE WALKING ACROSS OR BICYCLISTS OR JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE CAREFUL IN THAT AREA OF OUR CITY. UM. I ALSO WANTED TO ASK ABOUT. SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP BY, MR UM.

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BUT A LITTLE MORE RECENTLY, I WAS. DISCOURAGED TO HEAR, UM. IN CHAD GILLIS, WHO WRITES FOR FORT MYERS NEWS PRESS. THIS WAS SHARED BY GIL AND VOLT WATER, BUT, UH HE HAD REPORTED. AND, UH UH, THIS QUOTE IS PRETTY PRETTY HARD TO HEAR, BUT LARGE SCALE LAKE O DISCHARGES. LAKE OKEECHOBEE DISCHARGES ARE LIKELY A FEW WEEKS AWAY. AND THAT WAS INCLUDING TO THE EAST. SO I HAVE A BIT OF A AND ASK FROM YOU GUYS IF YOU WOULD BE OPEN TO IT, BUT UH, I WOULD. I WOULD LIKE FOR US , YOU KNOW, FORMALLY AS A CITY AS A BOARD TO IF YOU WERE OPEN TO IT, WRITE A LETTER. UM, WITH THAT, POTENTIALLY BUILDING UP. YOU KNOW, THERE HAD BEEN ONE CONVERSATION FROM, UH, MAJOR BELL AT THE LAST RIVERS COALITION MEETING THAT YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT DISCHARGES. AND NOW IT SEEMS LIKE THERE MAY BE A PIVOT, SO I JUST WANTED TO ASK IF THE REST OF YOU WERE OPEN TO IT. JUST, YOU KNOW, NOTHING AGGRESSIVE, BUT IF WE WOULD BE OPEN TO WRITING A LETTER? UM TO THE ARMY CORPS, YOU KNOW? DRAFTING SOMETHING UP. THAT'S REQUESTING FOR THEM TO EXHAUST ALL POSSIBLE OPTIONS FOR GETTING WATER OFF OF THAT LAKE BEFORE THEY'RE CONSIDERING GOING EAST AND, UH, TACTFULLY, THANKING THEM FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO YOU KNOW, HUMAN HEALTH WATER QUALITY. THE BIODIVERSITY OF OUR ESTUARY, YOU KNOW? I'M SURE BEN COULD COME UP WITH GREAT WORDS. BUT YOU KNOW SO SOMETHING FORMALLY, IF YOU ALL WOULD BE OPEN TO IT, BUT ALSO PERSONALLY, UM, IT'S NOT LIKE THE OLD DAYS WHERE MAYBE ONLY ONE OF US COULD HAVE THE, UH, ARMY CORPS NUMBER. I KNOW THEY'RE VERY OPEN TO COMMUNICATION FROM ALL OF US AND ARE HAPPY TO TEXT AND CALL AND TALK TO ANY OF US. SO WITH THAT POTENTIALLY LINING UP OUR JUST LIKE TO ENCOURAGE ALL OF US TO REACH OUT TO MAJOR BELL TAX CALL AND JUST LET THEM KNOW HOW WE ALL FEEL HERE AND THAT WE WOULD VERY MUCH APPRECIATE. EXHAUSTING AGAIN EVERY POSSIBLE OPTION FOR GETTING WATER OFF OF THE LAKE. BESIDES SENDING IT OUT TO THE EAST, SO WITH THAT THAT WAS ALL.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. ANY OTHER COMMISSION. COMMISSIONER RICH WANT TO GO FIRST. GO AHEAD, MR RICH. I WILL RESPOND TO THE COMMENTS BY. COMMISSIONER COLLINS BECAUSE A FEW WEEKS AGO I ATTENDED THE EVERGLADES CONFERENCE. CO CHAIRED BY MARTIN COUNTY'S OWN MARK PERRY. AND UM 450 ATTENDEES. THE BOARD OF SF, UH, SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. ALL THE COLONELS ALL THE MAJORS. AND. ONE OF THE REASONS I'M HAPPY TO GO IS BECAUSE EVERY OPPORTUNITY.

I HAVE TO SPEAK TO THESE GENTLEMEN. I CONVEY THAT THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT TO THE CITIZENS OF STUART AND THE QUALITY OF OUR WATER. AND TO POISON OUR WATER IS TO KILL OUR COMMUNITY. AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY WE'VE ALL DONE A GOOD JOB. I'LL GIVE US ALL CREDIT FOR ATTENDING THE RIVERS COALITION MEETING. THEY KNOW WE'RE MAKING EVERY EFFORT TO STAY WELL INFORMED. THEY KNOW THEY. AND THEY KNOW WE CARE A GREAT DEAL, AND THEY HAVE, ALTHOUGH NOT FORMALLY ADOPTED, LO SUM. WE HAVE AN APPROXIMATE DATE BAN. NO. UNFORTUNATELY. SORRY, JUST FOR THE RECORD, UM THE WHAT THE COURT TOLD US EARLIER THIS YEAR WE WERE EXPECTING AT THE END OF LAST YEAR BY DECEMBER FOR IT TO BE IN EFFECT, UM, ALREADY, BUT BECAUSE OF OTHER CONSTRAINTS THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH ON THE LEGAL SIDE, IT MIGHT NOT BE UNTIL SOMETIME LATER THIS YEAR

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YEAH, AND IN IN THE ISSUE SO. WHAT WE SAID TO IN PREVIOUS YEARS, AND THIS IS GOOD EDIFICATION FOR THE COMMUNITY TO REMEMBER, TOO, THAT WHEN WILSON FIRST STARTED, WE FIRST STARTED TELLING THE ARMY CORPS BY JUNE 1ST EVERY YEAR WE, THE CITY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT LAKE AS CLOSE TO 11 FT AS POSSIBLE AND THE WHOLE MINDSET BEHIND THAT IS IN THE WORST. WATER A YEAR YOU WOULD SEE UP TO 6 7 FT OF WATER DUMPED IN THAT LAKE AND WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS ENOUGH TIME BY THE TIME THE, UH, WET SEASON ENDED TO THE NEXT DRY SEASON THAT THAT LAKE WOULD BE LOW ENOUGH AGAIN WHERE WE COULD JUST MITIGATE WHEN AND HOW MUCH IN IN THE WAY OF DISCHARGES. WE WOULD GET PROBLEM IS THAT WE'RE AT. I THINK IN THE LAST 20 YEARS, PROBABLY ONE OF THE HIGHEST POINTS IN THE LAKE ELEVATION AS WE'VE BEEN THIS TIME OF THE YEAR. AND THAT'S CONCERNING, UM ON ONE HAND, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE COULD SEE AAA MASSIVE VOLUME OF DISCHARGES IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME BECAUSE THEY WOULD NEED TO, UH, EVACUATE THAT WATER FROM THE LAKE IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME IF THERE'S IF THERE IS AN EARLY START TO THE TROPICAL SEASON, SO THAT'S A CONCERN. BUT UM, THE LAKE WITH THOSE LEVEES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT IN THE THAT'S BEEN BUILT, UM, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST 10 PLUS YEARS, HOWEVER LONG IT TOOK THEM. UH, THEY'RE CONFIDENT THAT THE LAKE CAN, UM WITHSTAND THE LONGER OVER. YOU KNOW A HIGHER ELEVATION FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME. BUT UM, OUR CONCERN AGAIN IS THE HIGHER THAT LAKE GETS THE LONGER DURATION WE'RE GONNA HAVE FOR HIGH VOLUME DISCHARGES WERE NOT. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT ASKING MUCH.

ALL WE'RE ASKING IS THAT THE LARGEST WETLAND RESTORATION PROJECT IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD BE BROUGHT TO A SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION, SO THERE ARE 60. 68 SEPARATE PROJECTS INVOLVED IN DEALING WITH THIS PROBLEM. IT'S A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING. YEAH. THAT'S IT. THAT'S IT. OK WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, SHE ALREADY BROUGHT UP ABOUT THE HOUSE. BILL UH, 1317. I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THE, UH, STEWART NEWS HAD AN EDITOR OVER THE WEEKEND, GIVING US UH, THE ONLY A GRADE IN MARTIN COUNTY. SO I'M VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. THAT UH, I THINK THAT'S A WIN FOR US AND THE QUALITY OF, UH, OF THE QUALITY OF OUR ESPECIALLY OUR STAFF. I I'M GONNA GIVE ALL OF OUR CREDIT TO MR MTEL AND EVERYONE ON HIS TEAM FOR THAT, AND, UH, I, UH I JUST WANT TO THANK PETER, OUR DIRECTOR OF, UH, PUBLIC WORKS. UH, FOR THE, UH, UTILITIES. I'VE HAD A COUPLE OF ISSUES COME UP LATELY WITH SOME RESIDENTS, AND WE'VE BEEN WORKING HARD TO RESOLVE ALL OF THEM AND ONE OF THEM IN PARTICULAR. THEY'RE ALL BEEN A LITTLE BIT COMPLEX, BUT ONE OF

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[COMMENTS BY CITY MANAGER]

OBVIOUSLY, WE HAD ARTS FEST LAST WEEKEND. THE, UM STURGEON BOULEVARD WAS WAS. CLOSED BUT IT'S OPEN NOW, AND IT ACTUALLY SEEMED VERY SUCCESSFUL. DOWNTOWN WAS VERY BUSY. I WANNA MENTION THAT WE'VE HAD SOME EXTREMELY HIGH TIDES. UM AND THEY'VE STARTED TO SUBSIDE. BUT THE HIGH

[02:00:05]

IT HAPPENS A LOT. IT'S VERY ATTENTIVE, AND THEY ALSO HAVE A BRIDGE. ATTENDANCE UM, SO THERE'S THEIR CONCERN ABOUT IT. GREAT LINE TRAINS ARE GOING TO TWO AN HOUR. THE PRICE OF PEOPLE UM YEAH, IN ANY EVENT, I MEAN, IT IS WHAT IT IS, AND I'LL ADDRESS IT. BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE EVERYBODY AWARE THAT PLEASE DO NOT TRESPASS ON THE PROPERTY. UM I WOULD HATE FOR THEM. TO REVOKE. THE EASEMENT TO GO UNDER THE BRIDGE BECAUSE THAT COULD BE THE NEXT STEP. AND IT WOULD MAKE IT SO THAT WE CAN'T USE IT AT ALL. UM, I GOT I WAS CONTACTED. WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY OF LAST WEEK. AND IT WAS UM. A WOMAN THAT WAS WORKING FOR ROGER DEAN STADIUM. AND SHE ASKED ME TO BRING THIS UP TO THE COMMISSION'S ATTENTION, AND I TOLD HER I WOULD TONIGHT. SHE WANTED TO KNOW IF THE CITY WAS INTERESTED IN OVER THE SUMMER DURING THE STATE LEAGUES.

PARTICIPATING IN LIKE A ROGER DEAN STADIUM. UH, STUART KNIGHT. AND HAVING THE STUART SAILFISH RACE THE LOCAL PERSON AND GETTING TICKETS AND GOING TO THE GAME AND HAVING THE MAYOR THROUGH OUT THE FIRST PITCH AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. SHE SHE BROUGHT IT UP AS A AS A COMMENT AND THAT THEY WANTED TO GET COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. I MENTION IT TO YOU BECAUSE RATHER THAN HAVING YOU MAKE A DECISION ONE RIGHT NOW THEY WERE CALLING IT TOWN SPOTLIGHT AND THEY WANTED TO START WITH STUART. I SAID I WOULD BRING IT UP AND HAVE THE COMMISSIONERS GIVE ME FEEDBACK.

UM OUTSIDE OF THE MEETING. IF WE FIND THAT IT COMES TOGETHER. THEN WE'LL TALK FURTHER AND DO IT WITH HER. ONE OF THE CONCERNS I HAD, THOUGH, AS WELL WAS, IF YOU HAVE A STEWART KNIGHT AND ONLY FOUR PEOPLE SHOW UP, IT HAS THE EXACT OPPOSITE EFFECT. AND UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEAUTIFUL OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW, BUT COME JULY . IT'S NOT THE SAME. I MEAN, YOU'RE LIKE EVERYONE SAID OH, I'D LOVE TO BE OUTSIDE NOW, UM, ANYWAY, BUT YOUTUBE STAR IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN THAT OR HAVE ANY CONCERN ABOUT IT, PLEASE. UM, LET ME KNOW. AND I WILL, UM PURSUE THAT AND FURTHER UH, GET BACK TO YOU ON IT. UH, LASTLY, AS COMMISSIONER CLARK WAS MENTIONING THE RESOLUTION REGARDING THE HALF SAID SALES TAX FOR CLARIFICATION. THE AMEND THE AGENDA ITEM FOR TONIGHT. IS LIMITED TO WE'RE JUST ASKING THE COUNTY TO PUT IT ON A BALLOT FOR A REFERENDUM BECAUSE CITIES CAN'T DO IT. WE ARE NOT DEBATING OR DISCUSSING WHAT PARAMETERS WE WOULD SET ON THE FUNDS THAT MAY BE GENERATED FROM THAT, IN THE EVENT THAT THE COUNTY ULTIMATELY VOTES TO PLACE THE ISSUE ON THE AGENDA OR ON THE BALLOT. I WILL THEN SCHEDULE ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM SO THAT THE CITY COMMISSION CAN, IN FACT TASTE VERY SPECIFIC PARAMETERS ON THOSE FUNDS SO THAT THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY WILL KNOW THAT IF THEY VOTE FOR THAT SALES TAX THAT IT'S NOT JUST GOING TO BE BURIED IN THE GENERAL FUND, BUT RATHER THE COMMISSION WILL DEDICATE IT TO SOMETHING BENEFICIAL FOR EVERYBODY. BUT THAT WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO COME BACK. UM, AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE. AND

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I GUESS I GET FOR THE STATE NOW. THEY'LL COME IN AND THEY'LL CHANGE IT. BUT UH, BECAUSE THE, UH BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT SO MUCH LOBBYING MONEY, THE, UH THEY LITERALLY IN TALLAHASSEE THIS YEAR, THEY HAD, UH, CANNABIS PLANTS. IN A BIG DISPLAY IN THE THIRD FLOOR. OF THE OF THE I NEVER THOUGHT THAT I WOULD HAVE SEEN MARIJUANA. AND IN THE CAPITAL. GROWING AND IT STUNK TO HIGH HEAVY. HOW DIFFICULT WAS IT TO GET INTO THE CABINET? YEAH YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO SNEAK IT IN, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY WEREN'T SNEAKING IT IN. IT WAS JUST THERE. SO I FORGOT TO MENTION UM , THAT I HAD BROUGHT UP PAINTING THE ANNEX BUILDING OF BRIGHT WHITE. AND I WAS WONDERING IF WE COULD OR HOW I CAN STILL GO ABOUT GETTING THAT BUILDING PAINTED UP. NICE, CLEAN, BRIGHT WHITE. UM, YOU HAD MENTIONED THE CLEANUP OF THE BUILDING AND I KNOW THAT MILTON AND I SPOKE AND HE HAD HAD SOME PRESSURE CLEANING, DONE AND CLEANED IT UP. WE DIDN'T UM WASH OVER THE UM THE MURAL. BUT IT. UM IF YOU LOOK AT IT CLOSELY, IT DOESN'T ACTUALLY QUALIFY AS NEEDING ANY MAINTENANCE. I MEAN, IF THE COMMISSION WANTED US TO GET A BID AND PAINT IT WE CAN, BUT UM IT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S THE PREROGATIVE OF THE BOARD. IT WASN'T ON OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT. IT WASN'T BUDGETED. SO I CAN HAVE MILTON, GET SOME ESTIMATES AND BRING IT BACK AND SEE IF YOU GUYS ARE INTERESTED IN PURSUING IT. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. THANK YOU. MADAM MAYOR, CAN I SINCE YOU MENTIONED THE BUILDING? WHAT? WHAT ABOUT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BUILDING? WHAT DID WE DECIDE AGAIN? MR MORTEL? ON US ONE. YOU DIDN'T DECIDE ANYTHING. OK SO WHAT? YOU WERE GONNA JUST CLEAN UP THE LANDSCAPE AND ALL THAT IS GONNA DO SOMETHING FOR THE LANDSCAPE IN WELL, UM, I EMAILED A PERSON FRIDAY AND TOLD THEM THAT IF THEY WANTED TO PRESENT YOU WITH AN UNSOLICITED OFFER THAT THEY SHOULD SUBMIT IT. I, UM HAD SOME OTHER IDEAS FOR IT RIGHT NOW, BUT BEFORE I BROUGHT THEM FORWARD, I WANTED TO HASH THEM OUT. SO I'M NOT REALLY WANTING TO DISCUSS IT ON THE FLOOR. OK, AS YOU KNOW, THAT BUILDING HAS A, UM 10 YEAR, UH, RESTRICTION BECAUSE IT'S WATERFRONT. I'VE ALSO HAD SOME TALKS WITH BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS. IN THAT AREA, EXCLUDING THE EIGHT TOWNHOUSES THAT ARE NEXT DOOR THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT SINCE THE LAST TIME THIS ISSUE CAME UP AND THERE IS NO DOUBT IN MY MIND THAT IF YOU THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING A RESTAURANT THERE YOU WOULD BE MET WITH OPPOSITION. UM, BUT RIGHT NOW, I HAD, UM THOUGHT ABOUT MAKING IT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC BY PUTTING A 501 C THREE IN IT AS WELL AS POTENTIALLY MAKING IT. PROPERTY SIMILAR TO THE HISTORIC PROPERTIES WHERE WE'VE ALLOWED A STATE REPRESENTATIVE. UTILIZE IT AS AN OFFICE SPACE. BUT I DON'T WANT TO GET ON THAT PATH YET BECAUSE THE SESSION IS GOING ON, AND I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH OUR STATE REPRESENTATIVES TO HASH OUT ANY DETAILS, BUT I WILL BRING THAT BACK TO YOU AT SUCH TIME AS I HAVE IT IRONED OUT. THANK YOU. AND THAT'S ALL I GOT, OK? I MOVE FOR APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA. I

[APPROVAL OF AGENDA]

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[COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC (Non-Agenda Related) (3 Minutes Max.)]

HELEN MISS HELEN MCGRAY. HELEN MCBRIDE. I LIVE ON FLAMINGO AVENUE. NOW MY COMMENTS COMMISSIONER COLLINS AND COMMISSIONER RICH YOU WEREN'T ON THE BOARD AND YOU WEREN'T SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE. SO PLEASE, YOU KNOW BUT I'M GOING TO SAY I WAS HERE WHEN YOU PROVED H ON THE RIVER. AND YOU MADE A LOT OF COMMENTS AND PROS AND CONS. ONE AND COMMISSIONER MADAM MAYOR. YOU MADE THE COMMENT. YOU WANTED TO BE SURE THERE WAS PARKING. TO THE FISHERMEN. WELL ON FEBRUARY THE THIRD. I DON'T LIKE GETTING IT OUT. AND I THOUGHT, OH, I'LL JUST TRY DOWN TO FLAGLER PARK. AND NO LOTS OF PEOPLE ON THE RIVER, AND THAT I CAME DOWN AND WHEN YOU WENT TO MAKE AROUND THE CIRCLE BY RESTAURANT. YOU GOT THREE POLICE CARS. SITTING THERE WITH THEIR LIGHTS ON. FLASHING LIGHTS AND THEN ALL ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE ARE CONES AND I THOUGHT, MY GOD BE A NICE HOTEL. MAYBE THEY'RE HAVING A WEDDING AND THEY'RE RESERVED THE SPOT. I WENT AROUND AND THEN BINGO ALL COUNTS. THE FISHERMEN AND THE ONE THAT I SAW. WELL, THERE WAS TWO OLD UM, I SAY GUYS IN THEIR THIRTIES OR FORTIES, BUT THERE WAS A GRANDFATHER, HIS SON AND HIS GRANDSON. AND THEY WERE CARRYING ALL THEIR GEAR, AND THEY KEPT WALKING AND WALKING.

AND THEN I THOUGHT, OH, THIS ISN'T RIGHT. BECAUSE YOU TALKED ABOUT PARKING. ME. YOU KNOW THE SPACE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE VALET PARKING AND OR WHATEVER. BUT SEEING ALL THOSE CONES AND THREE POLICE CARS WHO'S PAYING FOR THOSE POLICE CARS AND THE POLICE OFFICERS. AND TODAY WHEN I WENT TO A MEETING. A SENIOR CITIZEN WHO WAS BORN HERE IN THE CITY OF STUART. SHE WAS MAD.

SHE'S A TALENT. I WENT DOWN LIKE , WELL, HER SON CAME INTO TOWN, AND HE SAID, HEY, MOM, YOU HAVE TO FISH. LET'S GO DOWN TO THE BRIDGE AND FISH. SHE USED TO BE ONE DOWN. AND SURE ENOUGH, THERE WAS ALL THE COUNT. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE POLICE CARS. THERE WAS A POLICE CAR. HE WAS WRITING A TICKET FOR TO SOMEONE AND SHE SAID. WE CAN'T NO PARKING I SAID. NO, THAT WAS ON THE THIRD.

SHE SAID. HELEN, I KNOW MY DAYS IT WAS THE SATURDAY NOW WHAT'S GOING ON? WE CAN'T WE? THAT'S PUBLIC PARKING. I CAN YOU ALL DID SAY YOU'RE GONNA LEAVE SOME? NO THEY COULD TAKE SPIKE. MAYBE FOUR OR FIVE SPOTS. I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY THE NUMBER BUT WE THE PEOPLE COME DOWN TO FLAGLER PARK. WE CAN'T PARK AND ENJOY OUR PARK. BECAUSE SOMEONE IS RESERVING ALL OUR PUBLIC FREE PARKING SPOT THAT'S WRONG. YOU ALL HAVE GOT TO REALIZE YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO THE PEOPLE OF STUART. YOU CAN'T FAVOR THE BUSINESS PEOPLE OVER THE CITIZENS. ESPECIALLY IF A FATHER OR GRANDFATHER WANTS TO BRING HIS CHILD DOWN. OR LIKE ME. WHEN MY GRANDSON'S IN TOWN, I BRING HIM DOWN TO WATCH THEM THE TRAINS BECAUSE HE'S A TRAIN BUFF. TO DO SOMETHING. AND JUST LIKE, IF YOU REMEMBER THE I'M GONNA PICK ON THE FORMER CITY MANAGER IN THE FORMER CITY ATTORNEY WHEN THAT WAS GOING UP AND THEY WERE SHOWING THE PLANS, AND I SAID THE DECK IN FRONT A BASE IN THE RIVER. I WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS A PUBLIC DECK. AND I DON'T. IT'S IN THE RECORD. I SAID, OH, THAT'LL BE NICE. I COULD GET A COCKTAIL AT THE RESTAURANT AND SIT OUT THERE TO MY TABLE WITH ME AND I WAS TOLD, OH, NO, THAT'S A PUBLIC DECK. BUT SINCE THEY OPENED, IT'S ALWAYS HAD TABLES AND CHAIRS OUT THERE, AND I MENTIONED IT TO QUITE A FEW DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE CITY. HERE IN CITY HALL. I MEAN, HAS TO HAND THE RIVER HAS WHAT'S GOING ON. HE'S A VERY NICE GENTLEMAN. I LOVE HIS OTHER RESTAURANT. BUT THE ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WHEN I COME DOWN ON THAT WAS WITH MY THE WOMAN THAT WAS TALKING TO ME. SHE'S LIKE ME. WE'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WALKING AND HER SON SAID, WELL, WE'LL PARK IN CITY HALL. SHE SAID. OH, NO, I'M NOT WORKING THIS FAR.

AND BUT IT'S TRUE. YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING BRIEFLY. RESPOND UM, JUST SO YOU KNOW, THE, UH, A

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HOWEVER THE FEC TOOK OVER TWO OF THEM BACK BECAUSE OF THE COUNTY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THAT THE COUNTY HAD AS IT RELATED TO THE RAILROAD CROSSING AND THE COUNTY REQUIRED. THAT THEY HAVE FULL TIME. BRIDGE MONITORS AS PART OF THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT. HOWEVER WE DIDN'T ASSIGN THE, UM . OTHER SPACES AGAIN TO REPLACE IT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WHEN THE PUBLIC HEARING HAPPENED ABOUT THE VALET AND THE VALET WAS ADOPTED, IT WAS THAT THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO CHARGE FOR VALET AT ALL. AND THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT THAT YOU GO INTO THE RESTAURANT SO THE EFFICIENCY OF THAT WAS THE SAME PROBLEM THAT THE CITY RAN INTO IN 2006 WHEN THE PROPERTY OPENED SUNSET BAY MARINA AND THE SAILORS RETURNED THAT BECAUSE OF THE MERGING OF THE PROPERTY OF THE MARINA AND THE RESTAURANT. IT WOULD BE COMPLICATED TO HAVE PEOPLE PARKING AND NOT PARKING AND DELIVERIES COMING AND THE CITY RESTRICTED IT JUST AS THEY DID HERE. TO, UM ALL OF THE VALET PARKING IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND THAT YOU YOU'RE WELCOME TO TIP THEM, BUT YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO TIP BUT THEY CANNOT CHARGE YOU AND THEY CANNOT REQUIRE YOU TO GO TO THE RESTAURANT AND THEY WON'T IF I COME DOWN, AND I DID TO THE VALLEY. I WANNA PARK BUT I WANNA PARK SO THAT I COULD SIT LIKE WHEN MY BACK WAS REALLY HURTING ME. SIT IN THE CAR AND ROLL THE WINDOWS DOWN AND YOU CAN LOOK OUT THE FRONT WINDOW. AND SEE THE WATER AND THE PEOPLE AND MARTIN YOUNG KIDS. THERE IS NO WORKING SPACES DOWN THERE THAT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO DO THAT. OH, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FACING THE PARK NOT FACING THE FISHING BRIDGE, THEN NO BASES IN THE PARK PEOPLE. UH WELL, IT USED TO BE BEFORE THIS ALL STARTED. UH, PEOPLE. I KNOW THERE WAS ONE SERIES OF VERY FRIENDLY LADIES. SHE HAD LIKE A BAND, BUT IT WAS LIKE A CAMPER VAN AND SHE'D BE THERE ALL DAY. RIGHT, THAT THAT'S THE LADY THAT LIVES THERE. YEAH, NO. MISS ALLEN. I.

I TRULY AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE FISHERMEN. I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO. UH THAT SHOULD BE THEIR PARKING PLACES, AND THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE. AND I KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING. AND I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU. UH WHEN THIS IS OVER, WE KIND OF DO SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND MINISTER JANINE ALEXANDER. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. SOME OF YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT I WAS HERE IN OCTOBER OF 2023. UM MAINLY TO BRING ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT I WAS, UM, DOMESTICALLY ABUSED IN FEBRUARY OF 2015, AND IT WAS NOT PROPERLY HANDLED BY STUART POLICE. UM I STILL HAVE FIRM OPINIONS AND BELIEFS AS TO WHAT HAPPENED AND TRANSPIRED. NOT ONLY THAT EVENING. BUT ON MY INITIAL ARREST IN MARCH, 12 MARCH 11TH OF 2015 WHEN I WAS SURROUNDED IN SWAT TEAM STYLE. IN A PRIVATE COMMUNITY 55 PLUS AT 1030 AT NIGHT. IT ALMOST COST ME MY LIFE. I'M GOING TO DISCLOSE SOMETHING TO YOU. THAT HAS BEEN A MATTER OF HUMILIATION TO NOT ONLY MYSELF, BUT MY CHILDREN AND MY DECEASED MOTHER. I STILL CARRY THE TITLE OF FELON ON MY HEAD. AND I WILL DIE WITH IT ON MY HEAD. UNLESS I TAKE THE MATTER BEFORE THE BOARD OF CLEMENCY IS RECOMMENDED BY THE GOVERNOR OF THIS STATE'S OFFICE. I HAVEN'T BEEN VIEWED VERY, UM SERIOUSLY BY THE FORMER CITY ATTORNEY. WHO IS NOW THE CITY MANAGER. RECENTLY I HAD OCCASION TO CONTACT HIM AND EMAIL AND ADVISE HIM THAT WHEN I ATTENDED THAT EVENING ON OCTOBER, 23RD THE MEETING. A LADY APPROACHED ME A MISS KAREN. ROBS. SHE CALLED ME ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO. I HAD OCCASION TO REACH BACK OUT TO MR MORTEL AND ADVISE HIM. OF WHAT SHE WAS CLAIMING IN HER PHONE CONVERSATION, WHICH SOUNDED A LITTLE BIT DELUSIONAL, AND I'M NOT GONNA SAY ANYTHING DEROGATORY, THAT COULD, UM, FIND ME IN A PLACE OF DEFAMATION. AGAINST UH AGAINST HER BECAUSE

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I MADE MY POINT. I DON'T REALLY WANNA PRESENT AGAIN BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION. I'LL TELL YOU WHY I SUFFER FROM POST TRAUMA BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS THAT HAPPENED IN 2015. IT TAKES EVERYTHING IN ME TO COME PUBLIC. AND FOR HIM TO MAKE COMMENTS AND EMAILS. THAT ARE DEMEANING, DEMORALIZING AND DEVALUING OF WHAT I NEEDS TO BE ADMONISHED BY YOU ALL AS CITY COMMISSIONERS.

YOU NEED TO LOOK AT HIS EMAILS AND SEE THE KIND OF COMMENTS AND NOT LISTENING. I AM LISTENING.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING THIS EVENING. I'M GONNA EXCUSE MYSELF . UM, OFFICER TO MINELLI BEFORE I DO. COULD I GET YOU TO DO SOMETHING FOR ME? SORRY, CHIEF TO MINELLI. WE HAVE ANOTHER. UM I JUST WANT YOU TO HAND THIS TO MR MARKEL. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. WE HAVE ONE MORE REQUEST TO SPEAK. MR TOM WHITTINGTON. GOOD AFTERNOON, MR WHITTINGTON. GOOD AFTERNOON. AND COMMISSIONER STAFF. AS FRIENDS. I'M I'M THRILLED TO BE HERE. TOM WHITTINGTON, HOPEFULLY THE OUTGOING PRESIDENT OF THE MARINE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION. I'M JOINED HERE WITH OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JUSTIN BEARD, WHO'S JUST OUT FOR A GREAT FIRST YEAR. UH, IN THIS JOB I AM HERE TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUING SUPPORT FOR THE MARINE INDUSTRY AND THE STUART BOAT SHOW STUART BOAT SHOW IS OUR MAJOR FUNDRAISER AND IT'S WHAT WE USE TO DO WHAT WE DO IN THE COMMUNITY AND I HOPE YOU'LL CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE BECAUSE THIS YEAR WE'VE BEEN VERY ACTIVE. I'M HERE ESPECIALLY THOUGH TO THANK YOU FOR SEEING ME IN. 2023 AFTER OUR 49TH BOAT SHOW WHEN WE FOUND THAT WE WERE LOSING SOME PROPERTY TO HAVE THE SHOW BOAT SHOW AND WE WERE SCRAMBLING. WE WERE LOOKING AT ALTERNATE VENUES FROM FORT PIERCE TO INDIAN TOWN, AND WE'RE WORRIED THAT WE WOULD HAVE 1/50 STEWART BOAT SHOW AND BY GRANTING US THE ROAD FRONTAGE ON A ONE A, UH YOU ALLOWED US TO MAKE LEMONADE OUT OF LEMONS AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT. I HAVE BEEN PART OF THE STUART BOAT SHOW FOR 14 YEARS. I'VE BEEN PART OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROBABLY 6 TO 6 PLUS YEARS AND THIS WAS THE SMOOTHEST BOAT SHOW I THINK I HAVE SEEN AND EVEN THOUGH WE HAD A DIFFERENT VENUE, A DIFFERENT LAYOUT. WE GOT A LOT OF COMPLIMENTS. A LOT OF FOLKS SAID OH, THE SHOW'S BIGGER WELL, IT WAS NOT BIGGER, BUT IT WAS SET UP REALLY, REALLY WELL. ALL THE SPORTS DID A WONDERFUL JOB WE HAD OVER 200 VENDORS WE HAD ABOUT THE SAME NUMBER OF ATTENDEES. WE ACTUALLY SET A RECORD IN PRESALES FOR TICKETS, BUT WE HAD ABOUT THE SAME NUMBER OF A ATTENDEES AND THE WEATHER HAD SOME EFFECT. BUT THAT WAS ALL RIGHT. WE STILL HAD A GREAT SHOW WE HAD KIDS FROM, UM,

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WE'RE GOING TO DO IT WITH MARTIN COUNTY CITY OF STUART THIS COMING THIS NEXT YEAR, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS THAT HAPPENED AND I. I DO WANNA THANK THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO BE COMING AGAIN TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, UH, OUR WORKING WITH BRIGHT LINE AND THE US COAST GUARD AND WE THINK EVERYTHING IS GOING WELL AND EXCITED ABOUT THE PROGRESS OF THE BRIDGE AND THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK. AWESOME. THANK YOU, SIR. I OK? OH, SO HAWKINS PUT IN A PAPER. WAS THERE. ANOTHER ONE? NO. I HAVE ONLY OF ONLY. THREE MOVED TO APPROVE THE CONSENT

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CAN I GET APPROVAL? YOU GET APPROVAL AND MAYBE GET A SECOND. OH, HERE WE GO. YES, WE HAVE IT.

ALL RIGHT, UH, ALL IN FAVOR. YEAH. COMMISSIONER MCDONALD. YES, COMMISSIONER COLLINS? YES, COMMISSIONER CLARK? YES VICE MAYOR. RICH MAYOR BRUNNER? YES. OK? NOW WE'RE GONNA PULL 11. WAS

[11. AUTHORIZATION TO ACCEPT $130.5 MILLION FEDERAL MEGA GRANT TO HELP FUND REPLACEMENT OF THE ST. LUCIE RIVER RAILROAD BRIDGE (RC): RESOLUTION No. 07-2024; A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF A U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MEGA GRANT TO ASSIST FUNDING THE REPLACEMENT OF THE ST. LUCIE RIVER RAILROAD BRIDGE AND AUTHORIZING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE GRANT; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.]

UNDERNEATH IT. THE MARINE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION WILL, IN THEORY, AND WE HOPE TO SEE THIS COME TO FRUITION. BUT STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT 85 TO 90% OF THE CURRENT REGISTERED VOTES. UH, USING THE WATER WAKE THE PRESENT TIME WE'LL BE ABLE TO PASS UNDER THE BRIDGE WHEN IT'S CLOSED, AND THERE'S THE DOUBLE TRACKING PART WHICH WILL STOP US FROM HAVING THESE FREIGHT TRAINS STAGING AND OTHER INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. UM WITH THAT BEING SAID, I ASKED DR. MAY TO TAKE IT FROM HERE. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY, UH, FOR THE RECORD, JACKIE MAY CITY OF STUART GRANT'S ADMINISTRATOR, AND AS MR MARTEL STATED, HE ASKED ME TO JUST PROVIDE YOU WITH A VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW. IF YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS THAT I CAN ANSWER AFTERWARDS, I'LL BE HAPPY TO TRY TO DO THAT FOR YOU. SO UM, JUST TO RECAP, UM, WITH THE GOAL OF REPLACING THE ALMOST 100 YEAR OLD SAINT LUCIE RIVER RAILROAD BRIDGE, THE CITY AND PARTNERSHIP WITH THE FLORIDA IN THE NAVIGATION DISTRICT. BRIGHT LINE TRAINS FLORIDA LLC AND THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY APPLIED FOR A US DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSISTANCE MEGA GRANT FOR 130.5 MILLION. WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE FULL AMOUNT. WE REQUESTED, UM THE CITY WILL SERVE AS THE LEAD APPLICANT AND OVERSEE MANAGEMENT OF THE GRANT FIND IS CONSIDERED THE LOCAL INTEREST SPONSOR DUE TO THEIR EXPERIENCE, MANAGING COASTAL RESOURCES AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

BRIGHT LINE WILL SERVE TO SUPPORT THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TO MEET THE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS AND THE CAPACITY AND THE FEC WILL LEND THEIR EXPERTISE REGARDING BRIDGE OPERATIONS, REGULATORY MATTERS, SAFETY AND, OF COURSE, AN OWNER OF THE EXISTING BRIDGE. UM SO GETTING DOWN TO THE NITTY GRITTY WE DID, IN FACT REQUEST THE 130.5 MILLION. THAT WILL COMPRISE 60% OF THE BUDGET, WHICH IS ESTIMATED TO BE $218 MILLION FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT.

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YES MAYOR BRUNER. YES MR MCDONALD? YES, COMMISSIONER COLLINS? YES? OK, NOW WE'RE

[14. AWARD OF ITB#2024-102: CITY OF STUART PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE ZONE-1 MILL/OVERLAY AND POINT REPAIRS PROJECT (RC): RESOLUTION No. 16-2024; A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA APPROVING THE AWARD OF ITB #2024-102, CITY OF STUART PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE ZONE-1 MILL/OVERLAY AND POINT REPAIRS PROJECT TO THE LOWEST, AND RESPONSIBLE BIDDER WITH A TOTAL UNIT PRICE OF $380,099.95 TO M&M ASPHALT MAINTENANCE, INC. D/B/A ALL COUNTY PAVING OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO EXECUTE A FINAL AGREEMENT SUBSEQUENT TO REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY CITY ATTORNEY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.]

THOSE STREETS CONSIST OF, UM WRIGHT BOULEVARD. FROM DIXIE HIGHWAY TO US ONE. WALK RUDE FROM US ONE TO NORTH RIVER DRIVE. THESE ARE ALL IN ZONE ONE. AND THEN WE'LL BE LOOKING AT SOUTH OF THE BRIDGE, WHICH IS WEST OCEAN BOULEVARD. FROM US ONE TO DIXIE HIGHWAY. AND SOUTHWEST SEVENTH STREET FROM US ONE TO CHANNEL AVENUE. AND LIKE I SAID, THIS IS A MILL AND OVERLAY REPAIR. PROJECT. QUESTIONS EIGHT. MILTON I'M, UH, JUST FOR PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW.

UH WE DO IT. WE DO AS UH, AS A ONE ZONE EVERY YEAR WITH THE, UH MILLING AND OVERLAY. CORRECT YES, THE CITY IS DEVELOPMENT IS FIVE ZONES ZONES. THAT'S WHY I WAS WONDERING HOW MANY ZONES WE HAD SO EVERY FIVE YEARS WE'RE GOING BACK TO AND DOING EITHER, UH, MILLING AND OVERLAY OR DO WE DO ALSO DO THE CRACK CEILING CEILING POINT REPAIR REJUVENATION? IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT AREA NEEDS IT. RIGHT SO IN THAT, SO THIS IS A REGULAR THING AND IN BIG CITY STAFF. KEEPING UP ON THIS AND DOING THIS ROTATION. WE ACTUALLY KEEP OUR ROADS IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE.

CORRECT? YES WE DO. OK. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. I'LL MOVE FOR APPROVAL. SECOND RIGHT. WE HAVE, UM BE. ROOM FOR APPROVAL, ACCEPTED A SECOND. DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS FROM THE AUDIENCE? I MOVE FOR ROLL CALL MARY. COMMISSIONER COLLINS COMMISSIONER MCDONALD YES, VICE MAYOR RICH COMMISSIONER CLARK MAYOR BRUNER. YES. OK, NOW WE GO TO THE COMMISSION ACTION. 17

[17. STUART MAIN STREET CONTRIBUTION AND SERVICE AGREEMENT (RC): RESOLUTION No. 19-2024; A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY/CRA AND STUART MAIN STREET, INC., FOR ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY AND THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC VITALITY, REDEVELOPMENT, AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE STUART MAIN STREET DISTRICT; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.]

RESOLUTION NUMBER. 19-2 2024, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A SERVICE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY. SEE YOU IN THE STUART MAIN STREET INC. FOR ITS CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY AND THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIC VITALITY, REDEVELOPMENT AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION OF THE STUART MAIN STREET DISTRICT.

PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. GOOD EVENING . JIM KOWALSKI, COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR. FOR THE RECORD, NOT THE A. I VERSION THE REAL VERSION. UM I'M HERE TO DISCUSS, UH, RESOLUTION. 19-20 24 AS YOU'RE AWARE, STUART MAIN STREET HAS, UH, BEEN IN EXISTENCE SINCE 1987. AND IT'S EVOLVED OVER TIME. UM IT HAS BEEN OPERATING UNDER A SERVICE

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INSTEAD OF A SERVICE AGREEMENT YOU HIRED AND PAID A STAFF MEMBER TO RUN OUR PROGRAM. IT'S NOT VERY COMMON. WAY OF MAIN STREETS OPERATING. IT DOES HAPPEN. THERE ARE SOME CRAS THAT DO HOUSE THEIR MAIN STREET PROGRAMS. UM PERSONALLY, I THINK MY BOARD AND I PREFER THIS ARRANGEMENT WHERE WE CAN BE A STAND ALONE NONPROFIT AND BE MORE OF AN ADVOCATE FOR YOU. UM AND WORKING AND SUPPORTING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, BUT AS WELL AS THE RESIDENTS AND OUR VISITORS. UM I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A CLEANER, UM, WAY OF ORGANIZING IT. UM. DID.

COMMISSIONER RICH HAVE SOME QUESTIONS? I BELIEVE II. I WANTED TO SAY A FEW COMMENTS, TOO. WHENEVER YOU ARE UM. SHOULD I GO? YEAH, WELL, COMMISSIONER CLARKE BRINGS UP A GOOD POINT.

SO I'VE ACTUALLY SPOKEN TO FORMER COMMISSIONERS ABOUT THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CITY'S AGREEMENT WITH STUART MAIN STREET AND THE FIRST TIME THE 70,000 WAS AWARDED WAS AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. BUT IT WAS, UH, YOUR PRIMARY FUNDRAISER WAS RAINED OUT. AND IT CREATED A DIRE SITUATION AND THE CITY. PROVIDED THE 70,000 AS A STOP CAP TO HELP YOU GET BACK ON YOUR FEET. BUT THERE WAS THERE WAS A AN END DATE ON THAT ORIGINAL MONEY. IT WAS NOT MEANT TO. BEEN GIVEN TO YOU ON AN ANNUAL BASIS ON AN ONGOING BASIS. AND THEN, MORE RECENTLY, THERE WAS A 140,000 WAS GIVEN. BUT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DECLINING IN AMOUNT OVER. I BELIEVE IT WAS A THREE YEAR PERIOD AND THEN COVID CAME AND THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT AT ACCOMMODATION THERE. BECAUSE OF THE FACT YOU COULDN'T RENT THE FLAGLER. UM. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A IT'S A DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP.

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IS THAT CORRECT? AND YOU DON'T ANYMORE. YOU USED TO DO THE CHRISTMAS PARADE AND YOU DON'T ANYMORE. WE'VE NEVER DONE THE CRUISE. OH, NO, NO, NO, NO, THAT WAS V AND A AND ALSO MARY HUTCHINSON STEPPED IN. OKAY? RIGHT? AND BECAUSE WE STOPPED DOING THE FIREWORKS, WE WERE ABLE TO DO A LOT MORE FOR THE DOWNTOWN AND I DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER MAIN STREET PROGRAMS THAT FIND AND PUT ON THEIR CITIES. FIREWORKS DISPLAY. THAT'S NOT REALLY OUR I CAN CORRECT YOUR CHRONOLOGY. THERE WAS A FUNDRAISER DANCING IN THE STREETS. THAT WAS A BIG FUNDRAISING FOR THE ORGANIZATION . AND THEN AFTER THAT, THERE WAS A RAIN OUT MAIN STREET, UM, WAS SHORT ON REVENUE, AND THAT'S WHEN THE CITY DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE AN EMPLOYEE. THAT WAS QUITE A WHILE AGO. HE WAS, YEAH. AND WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WAS WHEN SANDRA LEFT THE CITY TO GO TO FORT PIERCE, WHO WAS THE MAIN STREET DIRECTOR. THE CITY HAD BEEN PAYING FULL SALARY AND BENEFITS AND HAD AN OFFICE IN CITY HALL. SO WHEN SHE WAS LEAVING MAIN STREET HAD A VOID BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE A DIRECTOR. SO THE INITIAL $70,000 WAS GIVEN TO MAIN STREET TO HIRE A DIRECTOR. WITHOUT THE CITY, INCURRING THE EXPENSE AND LEGACY COSTS OF HAVING A UM. AN ADDITIONAL EMPLOYEE IN CITY HALL OR OR CREATING WHAT WOULD BE ESSENTIALLY A SUNSHINE BOARD.

AND THEN, UM. THAT WAS THE INITIAL IS THE COMMISSIONER. UH, RICH POINTED OUT. THE THREE YEARS OF FUNDING THAT WAS GONNA BE PROVIDED THEN. SOME TIME AFTER THAT. MAIN STREET CAME IN AND BID ON THE FLAGLER CENTER. TO REPLACE THE DANCING IN THE STREETS THAT FOUNDER HAD CANCELED. UM AS A AS A FUNDING OPPORTUNITY AS PART OF THAT REBUILDING THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE DURING THAT THREE YEAR PERIOD. HOWEVER. THE FIRST YEAR WAS COVID. SO THE CITY RIGHT AFTER WE LEASED IT TO HIM, TOLD THEM THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE PEOPLE IN IT. UM WHICH YOU KNOW WAS OBVIOUSLY NOT FORTUITOUS FOR ANYBODY, WHICH IS WHAT LED TO THE EXTENSIONS. UM THAT TOOK PLACE, HOWEVER, IN COMMISSIONER CAMPBELL'S OR COMMISSIONER RICHARDS DEFENSE, THE ORIGINAL. $70,000 CONTRACT IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, AND I WASN'T PART OF THAT NEGOTIATION, BUT THAT WAS INTENDED WHEN, AFTER THUNDER LEFT TO GIVE STUART MAIN STREET LIKE YOU SAID , UH UH, A REBUILDING OR TRANSITION PERIOD, AND IT WAS INTENDED TO AND THEN THE FLAGLER THING WAS ACTUALLY UNRELATED, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS THE SAME ENTITIES BECAME KIND OF INTERRELATED, WHICH THEN IN TURN. CAUSE THE EXTENSION. DO IT. AND UM, I THINK THAT THAT CLEARS UP THE HISTORY AND THEN ALSO AT THAT TIME OF THAT AGREEMENT, YOU DID NOT HAVE THE GREEN MARKET. SO YOU'VE ADDED THE GREEN MARKET TO YOUR PORTFOLIO SINCE THEN, WHICH. I ASSUME IS PROFITABLE FOR YOU. IS THAT CORRECT? MONEY IN MONEY OUT WHAT MONEY IN MONEY OUT. IT GOES TO SUPPORT THE DOWNTOWN IN OUR MISSION. ACTUALLY IT'S SO THANK YOU FOR FINALLY WE DID FINALLY GET THE FINANCIALS HERE AND SO I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. UM. IT'S UM. IT SAYS UNDER VENDOR PARTICIPATION INCOME IS THAT THE GREEN MARKET AND THE FALL CRAFT FESTIVAL AND THE SPRING ARTS AND SPRING CRESTS, SIR. UNFORTUNATELY WE DO NOT MANAGE THE VENDORS FOR THE THREE ARC SHOWS THAT WE DO AND HAVE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HOWARD ALLEN. WE GET A DONATION FROM HOWARD ALLEN THAT THOSE VENDOR FEES ARE MOSTLY OF GREEN MARKET AND ALSO, UM I THINK WE ALSO NOW ALLOCATE VENDOR FEES FROM THE SMALL VENDORS THAT WE HAVE AT ROCK AND RIVER WALK EVERY SUNDAY. HOW MUCH DOES HE PAY YOU FOR THOSE EVENTS. HOW MUCH DOES HE PAY US? IT'S A DONATION, SO A DONATION IN A PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM. UM DOES HE PUT THEM ON? DOES HE ORGANIZE THEM? ESSENTIALLY YES, WE PUT IN. WE PUT IN THE APPLICATION FOR THE EVENT. WE PAY THE UPFRONT. WE PAY THE, UM THE FEES THE EVENT FEES FOR THAT. AND THEN HE IT'S LIKE A THIRD PARTY FUNDRAISER, SO THEY DONATE MONEY BACK TO THE ORGANIZATION FOR OUR SUPPORT. YOU DON'T ORIGIN. YOU DON'T ORIGINATE. HE JUST COMES TO YOU AND SAYS CAN WE? CAN I BE UNDER YOUR RUBRIC OR. I MEAN, DO YOU GO TO THIS INDIVIDUAL AND SAY WE WANT YOU TO PUT ON THIS FALL CRAFT FESTIVAL? THIS IS WELL.

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WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS. WE'RE HAPPY TO HELP WE'VE ACTUALLY A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. I JUST SHARED WITH SOME OF OUR COMMISSIONERS AND REMINDED THEM OF A PROJECT THAT WE DONATED. COUNTLESS OF HOURS TOWARDS, UM, THE NORTH OSTEO EXTENSION PROJECT DESIGN PROJECT TO INTRODUCE MORE PARKING INTO THE DOWNTOWN. MORE EFFICIENCY. UM AND IN OUR, UH, ROADWAYS IN THE DOWNTOWN. UM BUT THAT GOT PUT ON A SHELF SO ALSO BECAUSE WE ARE IN PARTNERSHIP. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AN ADVOCATE AND AN ASSISTANT TO SOME OF YOUR PROJECTS THAT OBVIOUSLY ALIGN WITH OUR MISSION AS WELL AND OBVIOUSLY BEING IN THE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN. I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE FOR US TO BE MORE UTILIZED IN CERTAIN PRO WITH WHEN IT COMES TO CERTAIN PROJECTS. UM FOR INSTANCE, SOME OF OUR PROJECTS IN THE PAST WE HELPED WITH THE RIVERWALK EXTENSION WE HAD TO GET THE PROPERTY OWNERS TO KIND OF BUY INTO THAT CONCEPT, RIGHT? THE COLORADO AVENUE ROAD DIET THAT WAS DONE BACK IN WHAT 2015? I BELIEVE NICK SO THAT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE ALSO DO. WE JUST HAVEN'T BEEN UTILIZED IN THAT WAY. AS OF LATE, SO, YES, I'VE HAD TO JUST DO AN EARTH DAY CLEANUP TO TRY TO MAKE SOME SORT OF POSITIVE IMPACT FOR THE

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COLORADO WAS DEAD. OSCEOLA STREET WAS DEAD. E STREET, UH, WAS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF. AND BUT BUT MORE SPECIFIC, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HISTORY OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS THAT THIS THAT MAIN STREET HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN FOREST REVITALIZATION, AND IT'S MUCH EASIER TO COME UP WITH BIG GRAND PROJECTS WHEN YOU WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING, AND SO WE'VE WE'VE FIRST OF ALL, WITH THE ESTABLISHED MAIN STREET. THEY ESTABLISHED EVENTS IN DOWNTOWN THEY WORKED WITH THE CITY STARTED A JAZZ EVENT DOWN AT THE , UH, RIVERWALK, UH, MAIN STREET TOOK THAT OVER. TURNED IT INTO ROCKING RIVERWALK. I CAN'T IMAGINE STEWART WITHOUT ROCKING

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I THINK, UH, I THINK IN LIKE 2000 BACK BEFORE, UH BEFORE THE, UH, MAIN STREET ACTUALLY TOOK IT OVER AS A TENANT. THEY FOUND A DONOR, UM KIM CAP AND FOUND A DONOR TO PUT IN THE GLASS. UH THE NEW GLASS WINDOWS, WHICH I'M GONNA GUESS THAT HADN'T BEEN 40 OR $50,000 IN WINDOWS, AND THEY RAN IT FOR US. BUT IN 2009 MIGHT CORRECT ME WRONG. WAS IT THREE BETWEEN THREE AND 400,000 IT COST TO RUN. I KNOW THAT THAT JOLIE'S HERE, I. I THINK IT WAS VERY CLOSE ABOUT THREE FROM MY RECOLLECTION. THREE SO 3 300,000 YOU KNOW, WE SPEND 250,000. I THINK A YEAR RUNNING THE SAILFISH BALL FIELDS AND WE DON'T HAVE. WE DON'T REQUIRE ANYTHING. HARDLY FROM THE, UH, LITTLE LEAGUES HERE HERE. WE'RE GETTING SO MUCH VALUE. FROM. MAIN STREET THAT, UM, YOU KNOW THE COLORADO EXTENSION AND WHEN I WHEN ME AND COMMISSIONER CLARK CAME ON TO THE COMMISSION IN 2011, THAT WAS A BIG, BIG ISSUE, AND IT WAS A AND IT WAS A CHALLENGING ISSUE, AND I WILL TELL YOU AND YOU, YOU KNOW, MAIN STREET, YOU KNOW, MAIN STREET. NOT ONLY DID THEY PUSH IT, THEY BROUGHT IN EXPERTS TO COME IN AND WALK THE COMMUNITY AND MCMILLAN CAME AND WALKED US WITH AN EXPERT. MAIN STREET HIRED THEY FOUND A DONOR TO DONATE THE MONEY TO HIRE AN EXPERT TO TALK TO US ABOUT THE ROAD DIET AND THOSE BUILDINGS MAIN OR COLORADO AVENUE WAS 80% VACANT. THE THERE WAS THE OLD GOODYEAR STORE THAT WAS JUST AN ABANDONED TIRE STORE . THAT'S I THINK SEVEN OR EIGHT BUSINESSES NOW THE OLD PRAIRIE BUILDING IN, UH, WAS VACANT FOR AT THAT POINT FOR SEVERAL YEARS THERE AND THAT IS, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ANOTHER 10 BUSINESSES. THERE ARE NOW AND ALL OF THAT HAS HAD MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO PUT INTO IT, NOT TO MENTION EVERY ONE OF THOSE BEST BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN FIXED UP THE OLD SLOCUM. WE UH WEBER BUILDING . MY UH, HAS BEEN NOW WAS A BASICALLY A, UH, UNDERUTILIZED. FAILING AND I HATE TO SAY FAILING, BUT IT WAS FLOWER SHOP.

OH YEAH, NEVER MOWED THAT NO LANDSCAPING WAS DONE. YOU COULDN'T SEE THE BUILDING BECAUSE OF THE BUSHES THAT HAD JUST OVERGROWN AND NOW IT'S A THRIVING BUSINESS, THRIVING COFFEE SHOP EMPLOYING PEOPLE WHO, UM, MY WIFE'S FATHER'S OLD BUILDING. UH IN FACT MERITS I SEE MERITS HERE AND HIS FATHER USED TO PRACTICE IN THAT BUILDING YEARS AGO. THAT WAS AND I CAN TELL YOU WHEN MY WIFE'S FATHER WROTE IT, HE PUT NO MONEY INTO IT. THE NEW OWNERS, THERE'S, UH, WITH THE BECAUSE OF THE, UH UM BECAUSE OF THE RENOVATIONS ON COLORADO AVENUE.

THEY INVESTED A LOT OF MONEY IN RENOVATING THAT BUILDING. THE UH , WHERE MAX IS SHAVING IS THAT BUILDING USED TO BE ALWAYS BE EMPTY. IT'S COMPLETELY FULL NOW. THE UH, NEXT TO THE DRY CLEANER

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AIR. WELL, I WAS GONNA ASK COMMISSIONER COMMISSIONER CLARKE. DID YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP? I THOUGHT NO, I SAID MY PIECE. UM I GUESS, UH, SOMEBODY TALKED ABOUT ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, SO OUR EMPLOY, MR. I GET AT THIS TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE. SO WE HAVE OUR REGULAR UM WHAT IS IT? ITEM NUMBER 21 DASH. UM NO. SORRY IT'S NOT ITEM NUMBER. YOU HAD A MOTION THAT WAS FAILED FOR LACK OF A SECOND AND THEN YOU HAD A SECOND MOTION. OR DID CHRIS YOU YOU SAY THEM? THE COMMISSIONER COLLINS, SECOND IN THE MOTION THAT WAS OFFERED A AN AMENDED MOTION WAS OFFERED. IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT WAS ACCEPTED. SO YOU HAVE A MOTION.

AND THE SECOND WE HAVE TO ALSO ACCEPT MR MCDONALD'S MOTION AT THIS TIME. NOW YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON THE FIRST MOTION. HE MADE A MOTION. I REQUESTED THAT WE PASS THIS RIGHT WHAT I SAID YOU CAN.

YOU CAN'T. WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE FIRST. I'D LIKE TO JUST MAKE A COMMENT FIRST, RIGHT? I GOTTA GET BACK TO THE FIRST ONE. THE FIRST TAKE A VOTE. AND IF NOT, NO, NO, NO. I HAD A COMMENT. I HAD A COMMENT. I'M NOT DONE YET. WE'RE STILL DISCUSSING THAT INITIAL MOTION. SO UM, I THINK IT GETS A LITTLE BIT MUDDY HERE, RIGHT? UH, SOMEHOW. I MEAN, I MEAN, WE'RE THIS THIS MOTION IS SAYING WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR AGREEMENT WITH MAIN STREET AND DO THE $70,000 THE ONLY THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IN IN WHAT'S WHAT'S PROPOSED HERE IS THAT WE CONTINUE TO REVIEW THIS EACH YEAR, WHICH I WOULD SAY IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK ABOUT IT. YOU KNOW, HAVING IT AUTOMATICALLY RENEW IT PROBABLY MORE STREAMLINED, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT ARE ALWAYS HAPPENING. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO NOT TO BEAT YOU UP, YOU KNOW, OR BEAT UP WHAT MAIN STREET'S DOING? EVERYBODY UP HERE VALUES WHAT, YOU I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO SPEAK.

SO WHEN YOU GET THROUGH, I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK. UM, I KNOW, BUT EVERY EVERYBODY UP HERE VALUES WHAT YOU DO, I. I THINK WE WOULD ALL SAY THAT THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS FROM WHAT'S PROPOSED IS WANTING TO CONTINUE WHAT WE'VE PREVIOUSLY BEEN DOING, WHICH IS JUST LOOK AT THESE EACH YEAR. UM SOMEHOW, THOUGH. HAVING ANY. UH NOT CRITICISM, BUT BUT TRYING TO LOOK AT THIS CRITICALLY. I THINK MAYBE PERCEIVED BY SOME AS NOT VALUING MAIN STREET. UM. ALL THE WORK THAT MAIN STREET'S DONE.

UH, WE'RE WE'RE ALL VERY THANKFUL FOR AND WE ALL KNOW THE HISTORY OF YOU KNOW WHAT THE CITY WAS LIKE IN THE PAST, BUT AGAIN, JUST FOR CLARITY. I WOULD LIKE TO SAY I, I THINK PART OF THIS DISCUSSION. IT'S GOOD, BECAUSE, UM, I THINK I THINK VALID POINTS WERE MADE, YOU KNOW , WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGINAL INTENT OF THIS AGREEMENT WITH MAIN STREET. BUT I. I ALSO AGREE THAT IT'S DYNAMIC. IT'S BEEN THIS DYNAMIC THING THAT, UH, SEEMS TO BE FUNCTIONALLY WORKING, RIGHT? THIS IS EVEN THOUGH IT MAY NOT BE COMPLETELY CLEAN AND THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY IS FOR THIS BUDGETED. IT WORKS SOMEHOW IT IT JUST WORKS. UM BUT I DO THINK IT IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR US TO CLARIFY SORT OF GOING FORWARD, ARE WE GOING TO LET GO OF THIS, UM. GETTING YOU ON YOUR FEET THING RIGHT? LIKE THERE'S BEEN THIS THIS THE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE OF THE $70,000 WAS TO GET MAIN STREET ON THEIR FEET. AND I'M SAYING THIS FOR CLARITY OF THIS MOTION. I'M NOT. I'M NOT POKING YOU FOR A COMMENT. HANG TIGHT. CAN WE? CAN WE MOVE? ARE WE MOVING PAST THAT? AND WE'RE GONNA JUST SAY THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE THE AGREEMENT AND PERPETUITY WHICH I'M I'M FINE WITH AND IN THAT CASE, THEN YES, IT SHOULD AUTOMATICALLY RENEW LIKE IT. THAT SHOULDN'T EVEN BE AN ISSUE. BUT WE KIND OF NEED TO FORMALLY, I THINK. BUT OUR OUR FLAG IN THE SAND AND SAY THIS IS THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT NOW, AND THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO. GOING FORWARD VERSUS ARGUING OVER THE HOW VALUABLE MAIN STREET IS. IF THAT IF THAT RESONATES AT ALL, LIKE WE ALL KNOW MAIN STREET IS VALUABLE. BUT I WOULD JUST SAY, DO WE WANT TO CONTINUE IN THAT ORIGINAL? HEY, THE 70 GRAND WAS INTENDED TO GET THEM ON THEIR FEET OR DO WE WANT TO MOVE INTO A NEW ERA

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I'M GETTING TIRED OF HEARING HER JUST GETTING ON HER FEET. I DON'T KNOW WHO BRINGS THAT UP.

BUT WHY IT GETS STARTED, BUT, UM, THAT I ALLOWED TO COMMENT ON THAT VERY THING. YES, MA'AM. YOU MAY THERE ARE FORCES IN THIS ROOM AND I WILL NOT PICK THEM OUT. BUT THERE ARE FORCES IN THIS ROOM THAT JEOPARDIZED OUR ORGANIZATION. I'M HERE TO FIX IT AND MAKE IT RIGHT. NOT JUST FOR MYSELF, BUT FOR THIS CITY. HOW WE WERE TREATED. WAS A JOKE, IN MY OPINION, AND I'M SORRY, AND I DON'T WANT TO SEEM LIKE I'M NOT BEING THANKFUL OR APPRECIATIVE. THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT JEOPARDIZED OUR RELATIONSHIP AND PUT US IN A BOX THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED WHEN I TALKED TO MY STATE DIRECTORS AND MY NATIONAL DIRECTORS THEY ARE EMBARRASSED FOR ME. AND THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO BE PROUD ABOUT. FOR THE CITY OF STUART. WE SHOULD BE BETTER, RIGHT AND IT JUST SADDENS ME TO HEAR THAT THAT WAS UNFORTUNATELY THAT WAS RIGHT BEFORE ME, UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE IF I WAS THEIR DIRECTOR AT THE TIME, AND I WAS IN PLACE THOSE CONVERSATIONS I WOULD HAVE STOPPED AND CHANGED THE NARRATIVE. I AM TRYING TO GET US BACK ON THE RIGHT PATH. SO THIS CONVERSATION OF. LET THEM BE ON THEIR OWN. LET THEM BE ON THEIR, YOU KNOW, GET THEM ON THEIR FEET. WE GIVE THEM FLAGLER CENTERS SO THEY CAN HAVE A REVENUE STREAM. NOT GONNA DO IT.

ALL YOU DID WAS QUADRUPLE OUR BUDGET WHEN WE GOT FLAGLER. NO OFFENSE. I'M MAKING IT WORK, BUT IT'S NOT AS PROFITABLE IN ORDER FOR US TO BE SUSTAINABLE WITHOUT THESE OTHER REVENUE STREAMS AND OTHER PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS LIKE THIS AND IF YOU CUT OUR LEGS OFF, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO MORE. WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GROW ISN'T THAT THE POINT IS TO CONTINUE TO GROW AND DO MORE AND BE MORE VALUABLE. INSTEAD OF JUST DOING EVENTS, WHICH WE'VE BEEN PUT IN A BOX TO DO. THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO. WE'RE NOT AN EVENT ORGANIZATION. AND AGAIN, OUR PROGRAM IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN PERPETUITY, HELPING EITHER OUR CR A OR THE CITY IN GENERAL. ACHIEVE THESE GOALS THAT YOU HAVE. YOU NEED US TO HELP GET SOME OF THAT WORK DONE. OBVIOUSLY AGAIN. LOOK AT OUR RESUMES ON OUR WEBSITE. OF ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE HELPED WITH. AND AS OF LATE, UNFORTUNATELY AGAIN, WE WEREN'T UTILIZED BECAUSE STAFF CHANGED LEADERSHIP CHANGED.

CONVERSATIONS WERE BEING HAD ABOUT WHAT THEY THOUGHT OUR ORGANIZATION WAS AND WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING. SO, YES, IN PERPETUITY, JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER 2000. THERE'S 2000 OTHER MAIN STREET PROGRAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. ARE HELPING ACHIEVE GREATNESS FOR THEIR COMMUNITIES.

WHY ARE WE BEING TREATED SO DIFFERENTLY? ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE LOOKED AT FROM NATIONAL IN THE STATE AS ONE OF THE LEADING MAIN STREETS IN THE COUNTRY? WE'RE BEING TREATED THIS WAY. SO I'M HERE TO FIGHT FOR THAT IF I COULD JUST IF I JUST I'M NOT SURE WHAT FORCES AT PLAY, BUT I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT THE CITY DIDN'T DO THAT. MY RECOLLECTION OF IT WAS THAT THE UH, THERE WAS A COUPLE IN PALM CITY THAT WERE OPERATING THE GREEN MARKET, AND THE CITY WENT OUT TO RFP AND MAIN STREET APPLIED FOR THAT WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY ASK THEM. THEY CAME TO THE RESPONSE TO THAT, AND WE ALSO WENT OUT TO RFP WHEN ISLAND PARTY REYNOLDS LEASE ENDED ON THE FLAGLER CENTER AND MAIN STREET APPLIED FOR THAT AS WELL. WE DIDN'T ASK THEM TO DO THOSE EVENTS OR TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT IT WAS SUPER BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY, AND I TOLD ALL OF YOU AT DIFFERENT TIMES THAT THE CITY COULD NOT POSSIBLY MAINTAIN. CENTER OPEN. UH, AT THE BUDGET THAT'S RELATED TO MAIN STREET RIGHT NOW. HOWEVER, FOR CLARIFICATION. THERE WAS NO TIME THAT I EVER FORCED FLAGLER OR THE GREEN MARKET ON MAIN STREET. NO AND YOU ARE NOT THAT PERSON.

BUT MIKE MIKE, I WOULD JUST FOR CLARITY. I, I I'M NOT TRYING TO BEAT THIS TO DEATH, BUT FOR CLARITY THAT THE ORIGINAL AGREEMENT FOR THE 70 A AND YOUR UNDERSTAND? I JUST I JUST WANNA SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. LIKE I FEEL LIKE THIS HAS BEEN THIS MUDDY THING SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE. WHAT WAS THE INTENT OF THE $70,000? THE INTENT OF THE $70,000 WAS TO GIVE MAIN STREET $70,000 AS SEED MONEY BECAUSE SANDRA LEFT AND THE CITY MANAGER AT THE TIME. WAS NOT HIRING A DIRECTOR WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF THE CITY, AND AS A RESULT, IT WAS TO GIVE THEM THE MONEY TO HIRE A DIRECTOR AND MOVE ON. I KNOW THAT MR TROSKY WAS, UH, PROBABLY MORE INVOLVED IN IT THAN I WAS, AND HE COULD PROBABLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS, AND I WOULD AGREE WITH MIKE'S DESCRIPTION OF THAT THE THREE YEAR AGREEMENT FOR THAT PURPOSE BECAUSE, UM, WHEN THE EMPLOYEE WAS WORKING FOR THE CITY, FIRST IN THE CR A AND THEN IN MY DEPARTMENT IT WAS, UH, AN AWKWARD UM, TH WAS A GREAT EMPLOYEE, BUT BECAUSE THEY ANSWER TO A BOARD AND ALSO AS A CITY EMPLOYEE, IT'S JUST SORT OF AN AWKWARD MANAGE. WE COULDN'T FIRE OR HIRE. YOU KNOW, DARA

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BUT, UM. I WAS JUST THINKING AND I KNOW THAT MISS MISS CALLAHAN DIDN'T COME WITH THAT TONIGHT.

AND I DON'T THINK JIM OR EVEN JOY OR MISTER MORTEL. BUT IF WE VALUE THE INTRINSIC ROLE OF THE STUART MAIN STREET AND WHAT IT MEANS TO OUR CITY OF STUART AND THE THINGS THAT COME FROM HAVING A MAIN STREET AND HAVING THE ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER PARTNERS IN THE STATE AS WELL AS PARTNERS IN OUR COMMUNITY. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS. I KNOW THAT WE STARTED WITH THIS EXTENSION AND STARTING OVER, WHICH IS WHY THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE IDEA THAT SOME SEED FUNDS NEED TO BE THERE. BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHY WE AS A CITY WE WERE PAYING FOR THRE, AND IT'S BEEN YEARS NOW, AND PRICES HAVE GONE UP. THINGS HAVE CHANGED. THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT PUT IN A LOT OF MONEY INTO THE BUILDING THEMSELVES. AND EVEN BEFORE THAT, WHEN JOHN LOZIER AND OTHER PEOPLE WERE THERE, THERE WERE ALWAYS ISSUES GOING ON. I THINK WE AS A CITY ADMINISTRATION NEED TO STEP BACK AND SAY. DO WE AS A CITY NEED TO PUT 100,000 OR 100 AND $50,000 IN OUR BUDGET TO SUPPORT AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MAIN STREET PROGRAM AND WORK WITH IT? BECAUSE YES, THEY HAVE THEIR THING. AND, YES, THEY ARE RAISING FUNDS AND THEY'RE DOING ADMINISTRATION. BUT I THINK IT'S JUST SO INTRINSIC, THE VALUE THAT THEY BRING TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE NEED TO SHOW STRONGLY THAT WE SUPPORT THEM. I DIDN'T WANT TO BRING UP ADD IN SOMETHING TO THE $70,000 TODAY, WHICH IS WHY I'M THINKING THAT YOU KNOW YOU'RE SAYING TO DO IT EVERY YEAR, BUT I THINK THAT WE AS A CITY NEED TO, EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T HAVE AN EMPLOYEE THAT WE'RE HAVING. WE NEED TO PUT IN SOME MONEY MORE THAN $70,000 TO HAVE IT IN OUR BUDGET ANNUALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR BACKBONE IS GONNA BE THERE AND THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE, THEY'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO REALLY HAVE THE STRONG FOUNDATION AND THE KEY SUPPORT OF OUR CITY TO DO THAT. THAT WAS I START. I JUST BROUGHT IT UP ABOUT THE 70 HOPING THAT SOMEBODY WOULD SAY SOMETHING, AND I SEE THAT MR MCDONALD HAS DONE ANALYSIS OF SOME OF THE INTRINSIC VALUE AND THE PHYSICAL VALUE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED. WE WOULD BE NOTHING IF PEOPLE LIKE MACMILLAN AND OTHER PEOPLE DIDN'T PUT THEIR REPUTATION ON THE LINE TO STICK WITH MAIN STREET AND TO MAKE SURE WE HAD PROBLEMS. WE'VE HAD PEOPLE WHO'VE PASSED AWAY, NOT CALLING ANY NAMES. WE'VE HAD PROBLEMS WITH THINGS BEFORE. WE'RE GETTING THE REPORTS THAT WE NEED . NOW WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN REALLY THIS SOMETHING THAT'S UH. IT'S ALREADY IT'S A WHOLESOME ORGANIZATION. IT'S DOING WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO WHAT IT NEEDS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT FOUNDATION AND AS A CITY IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, AND FOR THE THINGS THAT MAIN STREET HAS DONE, AND FOR THE REPUTATION THAT WE HAVE INSTEAD OF SAYING WE'RE DOING 70,000, WE MIGHT STOP THEM. NEXT YEAR. WE MIGHT STOP THEM THE YEAR AFTER WE NEED TO BE STEADY, AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WELL, I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING THEY GIVE AN ANNUAL REPORT IN ALL THE ONE MINUTE, MR COLLINS. I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO ANYTHING WITH YOU. OK, SO, UM WE, UM WE IT DOES SAY AN ITEM NUMBER THREE, MR COLLINS THAT THAT THEY CAN, UM, COME BACK. AND DO SOMETHING EVERY YEAR. WHERE IS THAT? CAN SOMEBODY HELP ME? SECTION THREE, SECTION TWO, OK, SECTION TWO AND THREE THAT SAYS THAT THEY CAN, UM ADDITIONAL, OK, SECTION NUMBER TWO. YES SO IT DOES IT.

IT IS COVERED. IT IS COVERED THAT THEY CAN COME BACK AND WE CAN DO IT AT ANY TIME, BUT I REALLY NEED MR. CALL, MR. CALL OUT OF SOMETHING THAT'S NOT ACCURATE. HOLD ON. WE'RE SAYING SOMETHING THAT'S NOT ACCURATE. DO NOT SAY ANYTHING WHILE I AM SPEAKING, I'M NOT FINISHED.

LISTEN IF IT'S NOT ACCURATE, IT'S NOT ACCURATE. OK, JUST HAVE YOUR TIME TO TELL HER THAT THE TIME IS RIGHT. WE ARE INACCURATE THINGS AT TIMES, BUT WE DON'T BEHAVE LIKE THIS, SIR. SOMEBODY

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OH, GOD, WE JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGH THIS, UH ONE THING EVERY YEAR THEY CAN DO PLANNING AND SHOW US WHAT THEY'RE DOING, AND THEY CAN BE BUDGETING FOR THE FUTURE. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE. I WILL NOT SUPPORT THE MOTION THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN, ANNOUNCED RIGHT NOW, SO HELPS US KNOWING THAT WE HAVE YOUR TRUST AND YOUR SUPPORT BECAUSE WHEN WE GO AFTER GRANTS, THAT'S A LONGER LIKE I APPLIED FOR A GRANT. AND I WON'T HAVE THOSE FUNDS FOR LIKE ANOTHER YEAR. SO THE PROJECTS LIKE THE LEAD TIME ON THESE THINGS, IS WHY WE HAVE MAIN STREETS GENERALLY HAVE IN PERPETUITY AGREEMENTS AND YES, IF WE'RE NOT DOING OUR JOB, THEN YOU HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT ABIDING BY THE AGREEMENT, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN WHILE I'M HERE JUST FOR THE RECORD, BUT I THINK IT JUST IT HELPS US FEEL MORE. SAFE RIGHT AND ANY KIND OF RELATIONSHIP BUSINESS TRANSACTION. YOU WANT THAT SAFETY NET YOU WANNA FEEL VALUED AND THERE'S GOODWILL THERE. I JUST I DON'T KNOW. I DID IT SAD AGAIN. I WILL REITERATE IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN HANDLED THIS WAY TO BEGIN WITH. IT NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN A THREE YEAR AGREEMENT OR A ONEYEAR AGREEMENT. IT SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS SHOULD HAVE ALWAYS BEEN FUNDING FOR THIS ORGANIZATION RATHER THAN PUTTING IT ON THEM TO FIGURE IT OUT, AND THEN THEY HAD TO PRODUCE A HUGE EVENT OR DANCING IN THE STREETS. A HUGE FESTIVAL TO TRY TO GENERATE. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH IT COST TO PUT ON BIG EVENTS? I KNOW MY FRIEND DOES OVER THERE. IT'S NOT A HEALTHY WAY OF BECOMING SUSTAINABLE OR DOING BETTER AND DOING MORE THINGS FOR OUR COMMUNITY, AND I'LL STOP THERE. WE DON'T WE DON'T JUST LOOK AT THIS EVERY YEAR AND JUST PASS

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IF YOU GET OUT OF LINE, WE'LL WE'LL LET YOU KNOW. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW YOU'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD GIRL. SO YOU HAVE MY SUPPORT. NO, I WON'T ACCEPT THE THEIR MOTION. HERE. UH, HAVE YOU HEARD JUST FOR A MINUTE. OF TWO THINGS. NUMBER ONE. VICE MAYOR'S MOTION HAS BEEN SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER COLLINS SO THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BEFORE ANY SUBSEQUENT MOTIONS ARE RAISED.

UM, NUMBER TWO. I THINK THERE'S OBVIOUSLY SOME UNCLEAR ABOUT THIS TERM THAT I DRAFTED IN THIS AGREEMENT. UM AND IT IS IT'S ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA ITEM. AND IT'S ON THE VERY FIRST PAGE IN PARAGRAPH NUMBER TWO. IT'S THE FIRST SENTENCE. UM, AND IT DOES SAY, UM, NOW MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS UH, THE PRIOR CONTRACT EXPIRED BEFORE I CAME ON. I THINK SOMETIME IN SEPTEMBER THEREABOUTS UM AND. AND SINCE IT DIDN'T HAVE AN AUTOMATIC RENEWAL AT THAT POINT, WE'RE NOW, UH, SEVERAL MONTHS INTO IT, AND THERE IS NO CONTRACT IN PLAY. SO, UM IF THERE IS AN AUTOMATIC RENEWAL. ON AN ANNUAL BASIS THAT COULD HELP PREVENT WHAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH NOW WITH SEVERAL MONTHS AND I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE, BUT UM COMMISSIONER, UM MCDONALD POINTED OUT THAT THERE'S TWO AREAS IN THE CONTRACT THAT ALLOW US TO TERMINATE THE CONTRACT WITH 30 DAYS NOTICE. WE CAN DO IT AT ANY TIME. REGARDLESS OF THE RENEWAL, BUT ALSO AT THE RENEWAL. YOU HAVE 30 DAYS BEFORE THE RENEWAL. WE CAN NOTIFY THEM THAT WE'RE CANCELING THE CONTRACT, AND THAT OBVIOUSLY WOULD GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY IF YOU WANT TO RENEGOTIATE TERMS. BUT IF EVERYBODY'S OK WITH HOW THINGS ARE GOING, AND YOU DON'T REALLY HAVE TO DO ANYTHING, AND THAT'S THE QUESTION, SO I'M JUST ACTUALLY I WAS ACTUALLY JUST LOOKING BACK AT THIS, AND IT ALSO SAID IT'S SUBJECT TO THE END OR NEW APPROPRIATION APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION.

SO WHATEVER THAT IS, IT DOESN'T HAVE A MINIMUM OR MAXIMUM AMOUNT SO WE COULD ACTUALLY IN OUR IF WE WERE UNHAPPY WITH MAIN STREET , WE COULD ACTUALLY JUST NOT FUND THEIR BUDGET. THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER AVENUE. AND WHILE YOU'RE IN THERE ON, UH, EIGHT, THERE'S A BUILDING NEAR NEEDS TO BE MARKED OUT. THERE'S A WHAT? THE SCRATCH IT OUT ON NUMBER EIGHT, ALL RIGHT. OK SO II. I FEEL LIKE IN OUR DISCUSSION WHERE WE WE'RE FINDING CONSENSUS THERE WITH. THIS BEING IN PERPETUITY AND THAT SORT OF GETTING ON YOUR FEET THING MAYBE WAS A NARRATIVE THAT WE WAS MISCHARACTERIZED OR WHATEVER. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS FISHING FOR EARLIER. UM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT EVEN IF IT'S NOT DIRECTLY RELATED. TO WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE GONNA FUND THAT PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT THAT WE DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY YEARLY , MAYBE FOR YOU TO COME FORWARD AND FOR US TO TALK ABOUT IN SOME DETAIL. YOU KNOW THE GOALS. WHAT'S GOING BECAUSE II I HATE TO LOSE HAVING THIS KIND OF A CONVERSATION BECAUSE THINGS JUST ROLL OVER AND I KNOW YOU WOULD BE TOTALLY FOR THAT. BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT CONTINUE EACH YEAR. I KNOW. I'VE TOLD SOME OF YOU. UM AND I'M SORRY. YOU LOVE THAT. WE DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO MEET, BUT WE ARE PLANNING TO HIRE A CONSULTANT TO COME AND WORK WITH OUR ORGANIZATION. UM HOPEFULLY THE TIMING WORKS OUT ONCE WE KNOW THESE OTHER BIGGER PROJECTS. DISTRICT HAVE BEEN APPROVED, UM, TO GET US ON THE SAME PAGE, AND WE'RE GONNA BE INVITING ALL OF YOU BECAUSE WE ARE YOUR PROGRAM TO KIND OF WORK WITH US ON LIKE, WHAT DO YOU WANT US TO DO LIKE? IT'S A COLLABORATIVE THING. IT'S NOT YOU KNOW, SO YES, BY ALL MEANS.

LIKE I SAID, THERE'S BEEN SO MANY MISSED OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAIN STREET COULD HAVE BEEN OF MORE SERVICE. UM AND I'M I JUST PROMISE YOU THAT I'M HERE TO BE MORE INVOLVED WITH YOU GUYS. I JUST HAD ONE MORE POINT. AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I KNOW THAT THESE EVENTS ARE PROBABLY A LOT OF WORK FOR YOU. BUT I, I HOPE THAT THAT YOU DON'T MOVE AWAY FROM DOING EVENTS BECAUSE OH, NO, NO, NO. ONE OF THE BEST THINGS. WHAT WE'RE DOING WILL ALWAYS REMAIN THE SAME. SO JUST

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MAY WOULD. WOULD YOU GUYS BE OK WITH HAVING A CITY COMMISSION HAVING A BOARD SEAT? I. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE I . I WORK FOR MY BOARD, SO THEY'LL HAVE TO GIVE ME DIRECTION ON THAT ONE. WE DO HAVE WE DO HAVE JORDAN WHO IS ON OUR EX OFFICIO? AS AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER. UM, SO IF THERE'S NO CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON YOUR END OF THINGS I DON'T SEE WHY THAT WOULD BE. I THINK EX OFFICIO. WE THINK THERE SHOULD BE A VOTING MEMBER. FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T I IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT DURING SOME NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE PRIOR CITY MANAGER THAT THE MAIN STREET BOARD GAVDISCRETIONA REPRESENTATIVE AS AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER. I THINK WHAT WOULD PROBABLY HAPPEN IF YOU GUYS APPOINTED A COMMISSIONER THAT WOULD REPLACE JORDAN RATHER THAN UM. HAVE A DUPLICATIVE IF I MAY. I DO LIKE HAVING STAFF AS WELL, UM CITY STAFF, AND I THINK WE WOULD WELCOME BOTH. THAT MAKES SENSE. UM WE ALSO HAVE AC RB REPRESENTATIVE, TOO BEFORE BEFORE I GO ON. YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY BOARD MEMBERS AS YOU WANT. AND IF YOU WANTED JORDAN TO BE A BOARD MEMBER FOR ANY REASON, SHE COULD BE WELCOME TO BE ON YOUR BOARD. JUST AS ANY OTHER MEMBER COULD BE ON YOUR BOARD. I LOOKED FOR AND COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING IN WRITING THAT CREATED JORDAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE CITY AS FAR AS A BOARD MEMBER. WHEN YOU AND I SPOKE, YOU TOLD ME THAT IT WAS RELATED TO IT. BUT THERE IS NO DOCUMENTATION THAT SAYS IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS, THE CITY HAS AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER. SO WHAT COMMISSIONER MCDONALD IS TALKING ABOUT IS ACTUALLY INCORPORATING IT INTO THE CONTRIBUTION IN THE CONTRACT AND SAYING AS A CONDITION OF THE MONEY, THERE'S A BOARD MEMBER IF YOU HAVE OTHER MEMBERS. OF YOUR BOARD THAT OUR OUR, YOU KNOW. WORK FOR THE CITY OR RELATED TO THE CITY. THAT IS NORMAL. BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE A DOWNTOWN BOARD. I MEAN, THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE. SO WOULD YOU GET WOULD THAT THAT'S FINE WITH YOU? IT. JUST ASK FOR I BELIEVE THAT'S FINE. YES. THEY CAN YELL AT ME LATER. IT'S FINE. SO THAT'S A YES UM, COMMISSIONER RICH. DO YOU WANT TO AMEND YOUR MOTION? I'D LIKE TO. NO YOU'VE FINISHED. YES. YOU GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER. AND I WE STILL HAVE THAT MOTION. IT'S BEEN SECONDED. I HAVE TWO PEOPLE THAT NEEDS TO SPEAK. AND WE STILL MIGHT HAVE ANOTHER MOTION AFTER WE, UH, VOTE JUST TO ROLL CALL.

UM THE CREEK DISTRICT IS NOT PART OF MAIN STREET, RIGHT. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN SEPARATE. THAT IS CORRECT. DOES THE CITY GIVE THE CREEK DISTRICT ANY MONEY TO SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS? UM, THAT WOULD BE A STAFF QUESTION. THAT WOULD BE NO. UM WE HAVE A LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH THE CREEK DISTRICT THAT'S SIMILAR TO ROCK AND RIVER WALK. UH HUH. OK. AND THE DP IS SEPARATE FROM THE DP.

A. THAT'S CORRECT. UM WHY DO YOU ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE EVENTS? IF THEY'RE SO BURDENSOME TO YOU AND DISTRACT YOU. YOU SEEM TO INDICATE THAT THEY DISTRACT YOU FROM WHAT YOU REALLY WANT TO BE DOING. WHY WHY LET US OUTSOURCE THEM TO YOU? THAT WAS IT WAS FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY. AND AT THE TIME THOSE EVENTS IS WHAT HELPED DRIVE THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY FOR THE DOWNTOWN. I DIDN'T SAY I WANTED TO STOP DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING. EVENTS ARE GOING TO STAY THE SAME. JUST WANT TO DO MORE. LARGER PROJECTS IF IT IS A CAPITAL PROJECT, MORE PROJECTS, NOT JUST EVENTS, BUT WE WANT TO DO MORE PROJECTS TO HELP THE CITY WHETHER IT'S A DESIGN PROJECT OR AN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT. AND NOT JUST DO AN EARTH DAY CLEANUP BECAUSE THAT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE YOU KNOW A VALUE BUT WE WANT TO BE A VALUE. WE JUST NEED TO KNOW. WHAT? YOU

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COMMISSIONERS LET'S I'M SORRY. I HAVE ONE MORE I I'M A LITTLE MR BAGGETT. I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED BECAUSE IT SAYS WE WILL PAY THEM 70,000 UNDER FIVE. SO. I UNDERSTAND THE POINT MADE BY COMMISSIONER MCDONALD'S REGARDING SUBJECT TO ANNUAL FUNDING APPROPRIATION. BUT DOESN'T THIS OBLIGE US TO GIVE THEM THE MONEY? YEAH. I MEAN, WE'RE. UNDER THE CONTRACT. YES IT WOULD BE, WE'D BE SO WE'RE MANDATED TO APPROPRIATE THE MONEY. YEAH. RIGHT? SO THAT I WAS SO WE DON'T GET ANOTHER BITE AT THE APPLE. I WOULD ACTUALLY I THINK 70,000 IS FINE. BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS, UH BUT AGAIN WE COULD NOT. WE COULD NOT, UH, APPROPRIATE IT AND CANCEL THEIR CONTRACT WITH 30 DAYS NOTICE. THIS IS ON. THIS IS AN ANNUAL CONTRACT. I GUESS BEFORE YOU HAD A THREE YEAR CONTRACT, THIS IS JUST A ONE YEAR SO EVERY YEAR AUTOMATICALLY RENEWS ITS UN UNLESS YOU DECIDE TO CANCEL IT. UNLESS DURING THE BUDGET YOU DON'T FUND IT. MR HOGARTH, I LOVE TO HEAR YOU SPEAK I. I FEEL , UH REMISS IF I DIDN'T SPEAK SINCE I. I DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF AUTHORSHIP IN THIS LANGUAGE. SO I DIDN'T WANT ALL THESE PEOPLE TAKING THE BULLETS AND NOT ME AS WELL. SO UM, WITH THAT, SAID THE THOUGHT PROCESS THAT WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS BEHIND. YOU KNOW WHAT IT SHOULD BE, AND IT'S NOT PERFECT LANGUAGE. I GET THAT, UM LIKE CON THINK OF IT FROM LIKE A CONGRESSIONAL STANDPOINT, BY BY FEDERAL LAW TO PASS. UM, ANY KIND OF FUNDING MECHANISM IN CONGRESS, YOU NEED TO THINGS YOU NEED A FEDERAL AUTHORIZATION TO DO IT AND TO FUNDING. YOU NEED TO FUND IT. SO BOTH OF THOSE THINGS HAVE TO BE DONE SEPARATELY AND EXCLUSIVELY. WE KIND OF TOOK THAT MODEL HERE WHERE WE APPLIED IT TO THIS AGREEMENT. WE SAID HEY, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE AUTHORIZATION. RESOLUTION AND THEN THE FUNDING MECHANISM EVERY YEAR THROUGH THE CR A OR THE CITY. THAT'S A SEPARATE MECHANISM THAT'S DONE SEPARATELY IN DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU WANT TO DO THE YEAR TO YEAR. IT COULD BE THAT YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE TERMS OF THE CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT IN WHICH YOU WOULD GO BACK AND REVISE THE AGREEMENT WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, 30 DAY RULE OR WHATEVER ELSE OR YOU WOULD JUST CHANGE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT. IF THE DOLLAR AMOUNT WAS WAS AT ISSUE. YOU WOULD CHANGE THAT THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS. WHAT THAT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO DO IS IF YOU JUST WANTED TO CHANGE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT. YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO GO BACK TO THIS AGREEMENT EVERY TIME AND DETAILS. YOU COULD CHANGE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT SEPARATELY AND EXCLUSIVELY NOT SAYING THAT'S THE PERFECT SOLUTION OR THE BEST SOLUTION. IT WAS JUST THAT WAS THE MODEL WE USED. UM THE LANGUAGE CAN CERTAINLY BE CHANGED. BUT THAT'S THAT WAS THE INTENT BEHIND IT IS YOU HAVE REALLY TWO AVENUES, UM, AND AUTHORIZATION OF THE LANGUAGE, BUT THEN ALSO THE FUNDING MECHANISM. SO THANK YOU.

THANK YOU JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY , AND NOW I'M GOING TO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE FIRST ONE IS AARON HOPKINS, MR HOPKINS. THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT AND WAITING. YEAH, IT'S NOT GOOD. UM I JUST WANTED TO COME OUT TONIGHT AND GIVE SOME, UH, PUBLIC SUPPORT TO STUART MAIN STREET. UM, THEY. UH EVER SINCE I'VE GOTTEN INVOLVED WITH THE ORGANIZATION I'VE REALLY SEEN HOW MUCH WORK AND HOW MUCH THEY ACTUALLY DO FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. UH, HERE IN THE DOWNTOWN, UH, BESIDES THE MAIN STREET I ALSO WORK FOR BUT NOT WORK FOR, BUT I VOLUNTEER MY TIME WITH THE MARTIN COUNTY BLACK HERITAGE INITIATIVE, AND, UH, ON THE SIDE, I. I RUN MY, UH, ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS. SO I GET A LOT OF INTERACTION HERE IN THE DOWNTOWN WITH A LOT OF THE PATRONS, AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT IT WOULD BE THE VALUE THAT MAINSTREAM OFFERS IS NOT STRICTLY FINANCIAL. IT IS MORE THAN THAT. UM I HELPED CRAFT SOME OTHER SURVEYS THAT THEY USED TO REGULARLY GET FEEDBACK AND INFORMATION FROM THE COMMUNITY, UH, FROM THE PATRONS FROM THE BUSINESSES AND UH, IT. IT'S. IT'S A GREAT ORGANIZATION THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY SEES THE VALUE IN IT. UH, THE PE. THE BUSINESSES SEE THE VALUE IN IT. UH, I JUST I HOPE THAT EVERYONE PERIOD CAN ALSO SEE THE VALUE IN STUART MAIN STREET. UM I ALSO WANTED TO EXTEND MY SUPPORT FOR ITEM 19. UH, ON THE LIST. I KNOW. PARKING IS A HUGE THING. IF I CAN CONNECT THIS TO MY FORMER POINTS TO MAIN STREET WAS A LEADER ON THAT STILL IS I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE PARKING SITUATION. UM BUT LIKE I SAID, BEFORE, I RUN A LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY, AND I HAVE A LOT OF TIME TO INTERACT WITH PATRONS HERE IN THE DOWNTOWN AND A NEW LOCATION. DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE CERTAINLY INTERESTED IN. MORE VARIETY, THE MORE PEOPLE THAT COME, THE MORE CUSTOMERS THE MORE MONEY MORE HAPPY. BUSINESSES ARE SO THANK YOU, SIR. APPRECIATE IT. NICK. NEXT. ROTH, MRS. EVENING

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SO WHEN THOSE RELATIONSHIPS ARE INTERWOVEN, THEY ARE LONG TERM AND ESTABLISHED. THAT MAKES OTHER FUNDERS LOOK AT OUR ORGANIZATION, OUR COMMUNITY AS SOLID AS GOOD STEWARDS OF THE FUNDING THAT MAY COME OUR WAY. SO I URGE THE CITY OF STUART TO CONTINUE THIS PARTNERSHIP. FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, AND I APPRECIATE COMMISSIONER CLARK'S WORDS ABOUT LET'S RE EVALUATE THE FUNDING FROM YEAR TO YEAR. BUT DON'T RE EVALUATE WHETHER WE DO THIS AGREEMENT OR NOT. IT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE A PART OF THE CONTINUE TO BE THE DNA OF OUR OF OUR COMMUNITY AND LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO ENRICH EACH OTHER'S, UM SERVICE AGREEMENT. IF YOU WILL, OURS TO YOURS AND BACK AND FORTH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES. YOU COME AND SPEAK. AND THEN TOM WHITTINGTON'S GONNA COME RIGHT BEHIND ME. THAT'S OK. MISS ELLEN, YOU'RE SPECIAL AROUND HERE. WE ALL KNOW IT. UH, HELEN MCBRIDE, UM BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I WAS AT THE VERY FIRST MEETING WHEN ANNE AND JOHN RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM IN THE CITY MANAGER WAS A COLLINS WAS HERE AND TRUTH THERE AT THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE TALKING AND WHAT THE THEIR DREAMS WERE. AND I THOUGHT, OH, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT WAS STILL HARD WORK. AND, UH, THEY GOT TO 20. I THINK THEY IT WAS JOAN INDIAN THAT WENT DOWN IN MIAMI AND GOT THEM UP HERE AND ENTERTAINED THEM AND THAT AND HE WAS THEY REALLY AND, UM JULIE, FROM, UM BIO. AND I. I KNOW MYSELF. I VALENT I WAS AND I SAY , ANNE, IF YOU NEED ME, CALL ME BUT YOU HAVE VOLUNTEERS. DON'T CALL ME DON'T BE FAIR NEEDED, MISSY CALL I WAS HERE. MAIN STREET HOSTED ALL THE OTHER MAIN MAIN STREETS IN THE STATE, AND THEY CAME UP WITH THAT FLAGLER CENTER, AND HE CALLED ME AND I STAYED ALL DAY. BUT WHEN THEY WERE ALL LEAVING, THEY COULDN'T GET OVER BECAUSE FOR LUNCH, THEY ALL WENT TO DIFFERENT RESTAURANTS AND ALL ONE GIRL. SHE WENT SHOPPING AND SHE WAS SHOWING ME ALL THE THINGS SHE BOUGHT IN DOWNTOWN STUART. IT'S YOU KNOW YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR. IF YOU KNOW IF I BUY A SANDWICH, AND I DON'T WANT TO PAY A DOLLAR, I'M GONNA GET A SLICE OF BREAD. I'M WILLING TO OK, BECAUSE THEY'LL KNOW I'M GETTING YOU SOMETHING GOOD TO EAT. THAT'S IT. WE CAN'T DO. I KNOW THAT YOU SAY $70,000. SOME PEOPLE MAKE THAT, YOU KNOW. IN THE YEAR, BUT WHAT YOU WOULD GET A LOOK THROUGH THE FUTURE. BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO COME UP WITH DIFFERENT THINGS THAN THAT.

AND YOU LIKE, UM TROY SAID. YOU GOT THE RIGHT OF THE YEAR. THREE. NOT LIKE WHAT THEY'RE DOING SO YOU CAN CALL THE STURT MAIN STREET PEOPLE UP ON THE CARPET AND SAY, HEY, WE DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU'RE DOING. BUT THE DANCING IN THE STREET THAT WAS WONDERFUL. WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED IT, THEN THEY GOT BIGGER AND BIGGER AND I KNOW I CAME DOWN ONE THAT WAS THE DEER. I COULDN'T GET IT DOWN IN BECAUSE THE PLACE WAS JAM PACKED. SO WE WERE VERY, VERY SMALL TOWN SO NO . AND I I'VE BEEN PAYING TAXES FOR 50 YEARS, BUT THIS IS A GREAT INVESTMENT. SO PLEASE KEEP OUR STORY. MAIN STREET GOING. THANK YOU. YEAH. MR WHITTINGTON. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. HAD A MAYOR, THE COMMISSIONER TOM WHITTINGTON. I'M USUALLY PLAYING TENNIS ON MONDAY NIGHT SOMEHOW, WHEN I'M WHEN I'M HERE. I'M I'M SORRY. I'M NOT HERE BECAUSE, UH, WATCHING YOU GUYS WORK. YOU FOLKS WORK WATCHING YOUR CONCERNS YOUR YOUR INTEREST IN WANTING TO MAKE SURE YOU YOU'RE DOING YOUR JOB, I. I APPRECIATE IT. UM I'M NOT A RESIDENT OF THE CITY, BUT I'VE CERTAINLY BENEFIT FROM THE CITY OF STUART. UM I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, I SEE A LITTLE BIT OF A CHANGE A LITTLE BIT OF A WAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A UNDERSTANDING, ACCEPTANCE AND SOME MOVEMENT, WHICH IS GREAT. I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR ALL OF US. I. I DON'T THINK THERE'S A QUESTION ON ANYBODY'S MIND THAT THEY HAVE A VALUE. STUART MAINSTREAM HAS A VALUE HERE. IT'S JUST FIGURING OUT HOW TO MAKE THAT WORK FOR THE CITY, AND I'M SURE YOU GUYS WILL FIGURE THAT OUT. I WOULD JUST SAY,

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WITH THE UNDERSTANDING IF I DON'T GET THAT I DON'T HAVE ANY FUNDS COMING IN? IT'S DAUNTING, AND I JUST CANNOT IMAGINE, UH. ASSOCIATION LIKE STUART MANSHIP MAIN STREET, NOT KNOWING THAT THEY ARE BEING LET'S SAY FUNDED HELPED. UM SHEPHERD, ALONG BY YOU GUYS IN PERPETUITY, SO I WOULD JUST WELCOME YOU GUYS TO GET WITH THEM BE ON THEIR BOARD. HELP CONTINUE THIS. MAKE THIS WORK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. OK? THAT IS NOT. YES SIR. COMMISSIONER. I MEAN, MR MATHESON. I'LL FILL OUT A GREEN CARD AFTER IT'S MERRITT MATHESON FOR THE RECORD, STEWART. THANK YOU, UM. THERE'S SOME STUFF THAT THE CITY DOESN'T WANT TO RUN OR SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. AND THAT'S WHERE MAIN STREET COMES IN, AND IT IS A GREAT PARTNERSHIP. UM. THEY'VE INCREASED THEIR WORKLOAD OVER THE YEARS THAT I'VE SEEN AND THE NEXT STEP. TWO HAS TO BE ON THE COMMISSIONERS. I CAN'T COUNT THE NUMBER OF TIMES, CANDACE AND I TALKED ON THE PHONE OR WENT OUT TO LUNCH. UM OR I TALKED TO MR FLANAGAN OR MRS ABOUT WHAT I WANTED TO SEE AS A COMMISSIONER FROM MAIN STREET AND HOW WE COULD WORK TOGETHER. THAT COMMUNICATION HAPPENS THE BEST NOT HERE IN THESE CHAMBERS. JUST OUT ONE ON ONE WALKING AROUND THE FLAGLER WALKING AROUND THE CITY, TALKING ABOUT WAYS THAT BOTH ORGANIZATIONS CAN BENEFIT THE CITY. IF THAT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN, YOU KNOW IT WILL BE GOOD FOR ALL OF US. SO YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. OK, SHE WILL ANSWER.

NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THIS MOTION IS, UM UH, COMMISSIONER RICH'S MOTION. THIS IS THE ONE WE ARE VOTING ON. UM ROLL CALL MARY. THIS IS THE MOTION FOR ITEM TWO IN THE AGREEMENT TO BE CHANGED TO A ONE YEAR EVALUATION. YES, MA'AM. NO NO ANNUAL BASIS, OK? UM COMMISSIONER MCDONALD NO. COMMISSIONER COLLINS NO. COMMISSIONER CLARK NO. VICE MAYOR RICH MAYOR BRUNER NO. OH, MADAM MAYOR, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGREEMENT AS STAFF RECOMMENDED WITH THE CHANGE THAT THIS, UH THE CITY COMMISSION IS ALLOWED TO APPOINT A COMMISSIONER, AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE BOARD. SECOND, UM. YOU DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE? DO WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL WE HEAR BACK? Y EX OFFICIO DISC OF TIMES WE MAKE IT A STANDARD STRAIGHT BOARD MEMBER. I'LL JUST CHANGE IT, BUT I MOVED IT TO, UH, WE APPROVED, MOVED THE AGREEMENT AS A AS DRAFTED AND THE, UH THAT WE GET A CITY COMMISSION GETS TO POINT A BOARD MEMBER. I HAVE A MOTION TO HAVE A 2ND 2ND 2ND BY MISS CLARK. UH, WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC? ALL RIGHT, MARY. ROLL CALL, PLEASE. MAYOR BRUNER. YES VICE MAYOR RICH? YES.

COMMISSIONER COLLINS? YES, COMMISSIONER. MCDONALD? YES, CLARK? YES. THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN. AND LADIES. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. CONGRATULATIONS. WHERE'S THAT EASY BUTTON? AND I JUST WANNA SAY I KNOW SOMETIMES WE'RE WE. WE DISAGREE, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF VALUE IN US GOING BACK AND FORTH AND SORTING IT OUT. I KNOW IT CAN BE DIFFICULT AND SOMETIMES WE WANT TO GET OUT OF HERE. BUT I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU BEING WILLING TO TALK. IF YOU WERE MY SON, MADAM MAYOR, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HANDLE ME HAD A MAYOR. I MUST SAY THAT, UM UH, ALBERT. SOMETIMES I JUST I'M I'M PROBABLY SOMEBODY WHO SPEAKS ON MY BREATH OR SAY SOMETHING SOMETIMES. SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT. UM MR COLLINS IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO INTERRUPTS BUT WHEN IT'S SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S THERE, AND MR BAGOT IS THERE HE'S CAPABLE OR IF WE NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING CLARIFIED, AND I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE THAT I COULD AT LEAST SPEAK WITHOUT SOMEBODY GOING IN. IF IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I WAS SAYING AGAINST SOMETHING THAT, HE SAID, AND HE HAD SAID IT AND IT WAS INCORRECT, BUT IT'S ALREADY IN THE IN THE THING AND IT'S I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE UM, OVER SOMETHING TO YOU, BUT I JUST WANT TO KNOW THAT IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT WHEN IT'S SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I JUST DON'T APPRECIATE IT. THAT'S ALL. I SAID IT AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER. YOU.

[18. SUPPORT OF HALF-CENT SALES TAX (RC): RESOLUTION No. 21-2024; A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA SUPPORTING A REFERENDUM ON THE NOVEMBER 2024 BALLOT FOR A 10-YEAR DURATION, HALF-CENT SALES TAX TO PURCHASE AND CONSERVE NATURAL LANDS IN MARTIN COUNTY BEING VOTED ON BY THE MARTIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ON FEBRUARY 20, 2024; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.]

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SECOND WE HAVE A MOTION. WE HAVE A SECOND UM, WE HAVE A COMMENT. IS THERE ANY WOULD, WOULD YOU WOULD, MR MASON? MR. MATHESON I'M JUST HERE OF MARTIN COUNTY FOREVER TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

JUST FOR THE RECORD. MERIT MATHESON ON BEHALF OF MARTIN COUNTY, FOREVER CITY OF STEWART.

YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INITIATIVE? BE HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. NO I. I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SAY I KNOW HOW HARD YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS. PROBABLY TWO YEARS. I'M NOT SURE , BUT I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU. AND EVERY TIME I SEE YOU PUT SOMETHING ON FACEBOOK AND ALL THINGS ALL THE PLACES YOU'VE BEEN GOING AND ALL THE HARD WORK . I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HAS ANY IDEA HOW HARD YOU'VE WORKED, AND I TRULY BELIEVE YOU HAVE GOT THE COUNTY ALL OF THE PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE CITY, BUT THE COUNTY. THIS WHOLE COUNTY THAT IS GOING TO VOTE FOR THIS. I REALLY TRULY WHEN WE PUT IT ON THE REFERENDUM THAT THIS IS GOING TO US AND IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF YOUR HARD WORK, AND I THANK YOU. WELL, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, AND I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE FEBRUARY 20TH. THERE'S A PRESET AT 1030 WHERE WE'LL BE GONE BEFORE THE COUNTY. UM, BUT THAT'S PHASE ONE. PHASE TWO IS TO GET IT PASSED BY A MAJORITY OF THE VOTERS. NO. SO. AS I KNOW ALL TOO WELL AND EVERYONE DOES UP IN THOSE SEATS. YOU CANNOT. STOP. SOMEONE FROM DOING WHAT THEY HAVE PROPERTY RIGHTS TO DO. AND IF YOU HAVE A PASSION. TO PRESERVE MARTIN COUNTY'S QUALITY OF LIFE, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS INITIATIVE IS OVERALL. NOT JUST AN ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE, BUT A PRESERVATION OF MARTIN COUNTY'S QUALITY OF LIFE. WE NEED TO TAKE SOME MORE LAND. IN PRESERVATION. AND I HATE TO SAY IT, BUT THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT. A SALES TAX. BEST WAY TO GENERATE MONEY IS TO HAVE OTHER PEOPLE PAY FOR ALMOST 40% OF IT. THAT'S WHAT THIS WILL DO. THANK YOU ANY QUESTIONS? MAY I JUST WANTED TO? I'M JUST VOLUNTARY. I JUST YOU KNOW YOU YOU'VE MADE IT DIFFICULT FOR YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU'RE THIS IS GOING TO BE ON THE BALLOT DURING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. I WOULD PUSH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OFF IF I COULD. BUT UH, MOST MO MOST PEOPLE PROBABLY AREN'T AWARE. MARTIN COUNTY IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST VOTING COUNTIES IN THE COUNTRY. I ONCE DID EXIT POLLING FOR NBC. AND THE MARTIN COUNTY CAME IN AT 93% AND I REPORTED THAT TO NBC AND THEY SAID THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE AND SO AND OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A VERY CONTROVERSIAL ELECTION. EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE OUT. SO YOU YOU? YEAH YOU HAVE A BIG HILL TO CLIMB EVEN AFTER YOU AGREE TO GET ON THE BALLOT AND HOPE. HOPEFULLY WE CAN FIND WAYS TO HELP YOU. THANK YOU. I'LL NEED ALL THE HELP. I CAN GET. UM IT WON'T BE EASY. BUT THE TIME SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIVE YEARS AGO. I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T SAY THIS. IT'S NOT COMING FROM THE MAYOR OF STUART. UM A PERSONAL CITIZEN . THAT WILL PROBABLY WILL VOTE FOR THIS. BUT ARE YOU HAVING PEOPLE COME AND SIT IN THAT AUDIENCE AT THE COUNTY AND WAVING SIGNS? I AM ENCOURAGING EVERYONE TO COME. AGAIN. FEBRUARY 20TH. WE HAVE A PRESET OF 1030. BUT I ALREADY KNOW PEOPLE WILL BE THERE BETWEEN EIGHT AND 830 TO SHOW UP. SUPPORT WILL BE PASSING OUT STICKERS AND SIGNS AND WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET. EVERYONE. PLEASE COME AND SHOW UP. THANK YOU, SIR. FOR THE SCENE GOING THERE. OK? THEN WE BEGIN PHASE TWO. THAT'S RIGHT, EDUCATING EVERY VOTER IN THE COUNTY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. NOW WE'RE GOING TO, UH. WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO FOR THIS RESOLUTION. UM, ANY COMMENTS FROM THE AUDIENCE? RIGHT? COMMISSIONER COLLINS YES, VICE MAYOR MAYOR BRUNER. YES COMMISSIONER CLARK? YES,

[19. APPLICANT REQUESTED A CONTINUANCE TO A DATE CERTAIN OF MARCH 25, 2024 CCM: 101 S. COLORADO RESTAURANT - REZONE TO URBAN PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT & SITE PLAN APPROVAL (QJ)(RC): ORDINANCE No. 2524-2023; AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF STUART, FLORIDA, APPROVING A REZONING FROM URBAN WATERFRONT TO URBAN PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT FOR A 0.234 ACRE PROPERTY, LOCATED AT 101 S. COLORADO AVENUE, SAID LAND BEING MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A" ATTACHED; ESTABLISHING THE COLORADO WATERFRONT RESTAURANT (UPUD); TO RE-PURPOSE THE EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING FOR A 150-SEAT RESTAURANT AND PROVIDE RELIEF FROM VARIOUS PARKING REQUIREMENTS; APPROVING A FINAL SITE PLAN; PROVIDING FOR DEVELOPMENT CONDITIONS INCLUDING A TIMEABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT, DECLARING THE PLAN WITH THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN; PROVIDING DIRECTIONS TO THE CITY CLERK; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND OTHER PURPOSES.]

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