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Good evening. Welcome to the board of commissioners regular meeting. Today is Wednesday, August 12th, 2026. It is 6:01 p.m. City attorney, would you please lead us in the invocation and pledge of allegiance? >> Sure. Our heavenly father, we meet to serve

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our community, to use our resources wisely and well, to represent all members of our community fairly, and to make decisions that promote the common good. We recognize our responsibility to the past and the future, as well as the rights and needs of both individuals and our community. As trusted servants, we

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seek blessings on our deliberations this evening. This we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Mayor Brooks, >> here. >> Here. Commissioner Taglery >> here. >> Commissioner Dylan >> here. >> Commissioner Gavayi >> here. >> All are present.

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>> Next is the approval of the agenda. If the commission has reviewed the agenda and there are no changes, do we have a motion? >> I move that we approve the agenda as as published. >> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please?

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>> Commissioner Taglery, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabbay, >> yes. >> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carried five to zero. >> With no presentations, we will move on to public comment. Public participation

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is encouraged. If you are addressing the commission, step to the podium and state your name and address for the record and the organization or group you represent. Please limit your comments to five minutes and do not include any topic on the agenda. Public comment on agenda

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items will be allowed when they come up. If you would like someone at the city to follow up on a comment or question made at the meeting, you may fill out a comment card with the contact information and give it to the city manager. Comment cards are available at the back table in the commission

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chambers. Completing a comment card is not mandatory. For any quasi judicial public hearings that might be on the agenda, an affected person may become a party to a quasi judicial proceeding and can be entitled to present evidence at the hearing,

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including the sworn testimony of witnesses and relevant exhibits and other documentary evidence and to cross-examine all witnesses by filing a notice of intent to be a party with the community development director not less than 5 days prior to the hearing. Do we

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have any public comment? >> Hi, Bob Bellow 13301 Golf Lane. Um, I apologize if I missed any announcements and this is redundant, but I'd like to recognize Megan and public works team and thank them for their continued work with Duke Energy on the undergrounding

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project. Um, as a resident, it's exciting to start to see some tangible progress. We understand that coordinating with Duke has been a challenge and the project has experienced delays, but recently we've seen crews out. They've contacted some

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of the residents such as myself um marking sites about two weeks ago. I understand there's another round of them coming out and doing some site visits again probably next week in plan preparation for phase one of the storm damage repairs. So publicly would like

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to say thank you to Megan and everyone else involved for their persistence and hard work in moving this project forward. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have any additional public comment? With no additional public comment, we will move move on to the approval of the

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minutes. If the commission has had the opportunity to review the minutes and there are no changes, do we have a commission or do we have a motion? >> My brain is thinking about something else. >> Yes.

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>> I make a motion to approve the minutes. >> Do we have a second? >> A second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes. Commissioner Gabayi, >> yes. >> Commissioner Taglerini,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carried five to zero. >> Next is the consent agenda. Any member of the board of commissioners can ask to pull a consent item for separate discussion and vote. I will read the

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items. A ITB number 26-04 storm water backflow prevention project. B. Disaster Debris Management Participation Agreement with DRC. C. Amendment to RFP number 26-05,

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Marina Seaw Wall replacement number two to include 129th Avenue Area 5 seaw wall replacement and D interlocal agreement with Pineellis County posttorm recovery services within geographic Pineellis County.

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Madam Mayor, I would like to pull item A. Okay. >> Any additional comments on the consent agenda? Then do we have a motion to approve B, C, and D? >> I move that we pass the consent agenda

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with the extraction of item A. >> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Tagarini. >> Yes. Commissioner Gabay, >> yes. >> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes.

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>> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The [clears throat] motion carried 5 to zero. Next on the agenda then will be item A, ITB number 2604, storm water backflow prevention project. Commissioner Go.

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Um, we discussed this at the um, previous [clears throat] uh, workshop and I'm just not in favor of it and I my vote will not be yes. >> So, Megan, I think you have something to show us. >> Tom, can you pause that for a second?

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>> Thank you. So, I do have a video that is up on the screens for you all to see. This is the valves that we would be installing. So, this video is going to show you the installation. Actually, go ahead and play it, Tom, and I'll walk you through. So, this is a storm drain.

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This is the valve that goes inside the storm drain. It gets mounted at the outfall. The black that you see, that is a rubber gasket. So, what you're seeing now is the water like if there's a rain event. So, that's emptying out into the

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bay. What you're going to see coming now would be the tide coming up. So that'll show you that as long as that valve and that gasket is closed, the water is not able to enter back into the pipe. Now the pipe filling up is if

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there's a rain event at the same time. So this is if there is a title event with a rain event and there's not enough pressure from the roadway to push that gasket open, it is then going to cause some minor issues on the roadway with

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flooding. But once once that tide goes down, you'll see that that valve opened up and was allowed able to empty the roadway. So I just thought it was really important for you all to see how that works. Obviously issues that we have had in the past

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would be if there is any type of debris that gets stuck within that gasket. We have had issues in certain areas. We do have these in Boca. We have them in 137th Avenue Circle. And then we did have one on Puit Drive, but we upsized

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that pipe. So, this project would put another valve in that location because it is extremely low. At the beginning, whenever we first received these valves back in 2017, we had a big education push that we did that helped tremendously with the

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residents. So residents that don't hold their landscaping debris in their yards and ones that are particularly right at the inlets typically are the issue. But with the landscape ordinance that Joe is working on and Marcy's team, that'll

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help tremendously. But what you've all seen, and I'm not sure if anyone has driven around, that the title events that we've had in the last couple weeks in the areas where we do have the valves, the water did not did not overtake the roadway. Was it in the curb line? Probably because water will find

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the path of least resistance. It's not going to 100% stop the water, but it will slow it down enough to where it will not cover the roadway. So this is an option that the residents have asked us to re to try to you know alleviate.

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This is the best solution for what we currently have in place until we start being more resilient and raising roadways. >> Do we have any public comment? Commissioners, do you have any comments or questions? >> I just appreciate that. It helps me to

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understand. >> Absolutely. Oh, that's great that visual. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> The issue in my mind when the water comes up, it basically shuts the flapper valve and does not allow the water from the street to get to the bay and that builds up.

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Until that water goes down in the bay, that valve will be shut. So, I I'm not in favor of it. I'm sorry. >> So, then I have a question to play off of the commissioner's comments.

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So if the water in the bay is here and the wa and we have a so we have a flood and a rain event no water's going anywhere. >> That is correct without the valve. >> So without the valve there if it was just open when the bay rises the water

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is going to come up in the pipe and it's going to flood the street even if there's not a water event. >> That is correct. But if the if the valve is there and the bay rises and it's not raining, then the water the valve is going to stay closed and the water is not going to go on the road.

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>> Correct. >> Correct. >> Yes. >> So >> the the top of the inlet is typically I'm going to say maybe a couple of inches below the seaw wall. So, you know, the the water basically I

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if you know, if it rises, it'll go through the seaw wall and it'll flood the the streets. >> 90% of our issues with localized roadway flooding is due to tidal events.

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>> Yeah. Yes, we do have shortterm if if the tide is low, we do have shortterm localized flooding because the system may need a minute to catch up, especially in areas where pipes are way under sized. But along 140th, prime example, if you

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are a few days ago in the the the tide that we had at a 3-foot and even along North Bay Shore in certain sections, >> there is water in the road to where you can barely pass one lane. Yeah, the the water basically has to go through the

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pipe. It'll come up through if the inlet is low. The water obviously will be flooding. >> All of our inlets are low along with our roads. >> They're all very low. I would say >> what happens to the rain when you know

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when it's raining. So the the valve is shut, the water is all the way to the top of the grate and and you have a rainfall >> right now. Currently with no valve, the water is not going to go anywhere until the tide goes down. >> Same as what it would do currently. So

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if there's not enough pressure in the roadway without a valve, >> you will see here and you and I receive several calls if we have a high tide and a rain event. >> Without any valves, our roadways will flood. >> So really, it's not too much different. You just need a little bit more pressure

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with a valve. >> Okay. You'll be driving through fresh water as opposed to salt water. Correct. >> Which is helps the vehicles. Um, how many valves? This is this is one thing. We've got some valves in place. We've

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got this thing for more valves. How many more valves do you see, you know, that we could need as a city? this project when I was building it out and going out for bid and working on budgeting I

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budgeted for to be able to do 13 13 valves throughout the city with just this project in place now we have seven in Bokea and we have three along 137th. So then kind of my question is I guess

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is in terms of do you foresee I I have a good idea this is going to work very well. Do you think we need another 10 20 or I mean you or is this too much speculation? >> I think that we could go for more funding next year. I think we need to

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look at our capital improvement plan because we don't want to buy valves for small pipes if that's our next project area. So the valves that are within this project, we have mostly anywhere from 12 in to 15in pipes and then there's a few

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18-in. So those those valves can move if that's like within the next project area. So even if it is in a project area within the next 2 years, we can then move it to say East Madiraa Avenue who is a little bit further out on our CIP schedule.

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>> So the valves are removable. >> Yes, absolutely. Thank you. >> Okay, I have uh just a couple quick questions. Uh these uh valves will help with the nuisance flooding, right? Correct.

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>> The title flooding. Yes. >> Yes. The nuisance flooding. And we also were awarded a a grant of $100,000. >> That is correct. We have a grant from FD for $100,000 and we are matching that $100,000. So, total of $200,000 project.

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>> Awesome. And you said um the maintenance on these valves is quarterly. >> We do maintenance on them quarterly. That is correct. So, we have a system 4Erunner. The planning and zoning department also uses 4Runner. So, we have all this information in one program. We then document the cleaning

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of those and we are working with 4Runner to be able to make sure that we schedule those out so we make sure that we're hitting them quarterly. We probably do clean them more often and if we notice that there's an issue, the guys will jump in and check it immediately.

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>> Yeah. Thank you for uh the tour you gave me for where the valves were going to be located. And um also what is the uh and we had talked about that. What is the number uh what's a couple of things that really stop the

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valves from working? >> Mulch, everyone's favorite. Uh we love the mulch we have. Um in the Bokeh neighborhood, there is a lot of residents who have rock and shell that are right all the way up to the curb line. They do not have any barriers to

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hold in the landscaping material. So I know that Joe asked me about that one. So that was made sure to put into the new ordinance. Um landscaping debris. I know it's amazing, but may a lot of people put their piles of brush directly

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on top of the storm drain grates. So, that is something that is a big problem. So, it it's it's really based upon like area. So, 137th, I honestly do not have issues, knock on wood, with those valves. Bokeh was a big adjustment with

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the landscaping and and educating the residents. Basically, we can only clean them so often. help us help you. Please ensure you keep all your debris maintained. If something gets in between that valve, as you have you seen, it can't close. So, if it can't close and

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it can't stop the water and that was one of the major issues. We also found that making sure that you hydraulically seal around that valve is a big big big proponent. So, we that's why we're going through this project the way that we are. >> So, if there barnacles build up, how do

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you remove the barnacles? same way you do a pipe, but the barnacles, knock on wood, don't really secure to the the rubber. So, mostly the what's what you see is exposed is if they do grow, they grow on the exterior of it, which doesn't affect the valve, but cleaning

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them and have a ma a maintenance schedule really helps with that. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. Okay. If we have nothing further, do we have a motion? Uh, I move that we authorize the award of ITB number 2604 to Randall Engineering and Construction LLC in the

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amount of 187,882. Authorize the standard 10% construction contingency of $18,78.80 for a total project authorization of $26,610.80. >> Have a second. >> A second. >> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role,

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please? [clears throat] >> Commissioner Kaggleri? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Gabay? No. >> Commissioner Dylan. >> Yes. >> Mayor Brooks. >> Yes. >> The motion carried 4 to1. Next on the

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agenda is public hearings. Ordinance 2026-07 charter amendments relating to municipal election dates, candidate qualifying periods, term transition provisions, and referendum questions. Second reading and public hearing. And I will hand this to

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the city attorney. >> Thank you, mayor. I'm going to read this ordinance by title only. This is ordinance 2026-07, an ordinance of the city of Mader Beach, Florida, submitting to the electors of the city of Mader Beach, proposed amendments to the city charter relating to the date of municipal elections and

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candidate qualifying periods amending section 3.3 nomination of board of directors subp paragraph A filing of the city charter to change the candidate qualifying period from December to June amending section 3.4 4 manner of holding

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elections subp paragraph A of the city charter to change the municipal elections from March to November to coincide with the state general election and providing for the extension of the terms of commissioner district 3 and commissioner district 4 until November 2027

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and extension of the terms of commissioner district 1 uh commissioner district 2 and mayor commissioner until November 2028 amending section 2.2 Two board of commissioners created qualifications, term of office and vacancies. Sub

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paragraph B, qualifications and term of office of the city charter to provide for certification of the election results and providing for the extension of the terms of commissioner district 3 and commissioner district 4 until November 27, 2027 and extension of terms

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of commissioners district 1, commissioner district 2 and mayor commissioner until November 2028. Amending section 4.8 induction of board of commissioners into office meetings of the city uh charter to provide

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consistent commencement of terms and installation procedures. Providing for a referendum, providing for ballot language, providing for notice of election, and providing for an effective date. That was the second and final reading of ordinance 2026-07

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by title only. >> Do we have any public comment? Commissioners, do you have any questions or comments? >> I just want to say out loud that this is approving that all of us will serve >> several months, maybe five, six months more >> extra.

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>> Extra. >> Correct. >> And that's and this is the only time that that will happen. I'm just saying in future elections. It'll be our standard terms. Just want to say that out loud. >> And it also will save the community money. um where now we do our elections

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in March and there is an added cost to the city to put that election on, we will be able to hold our elections in November when we're already doing other municipal or other elections. So, >> and a lot and a lot of uh voters participation, a lot more

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>> voter participation. >> Do we have a motion? I make a motion to pass ordinance 2026-07 charter amendments relating to the municipal election dates, candidate candidate qualifying periods, term

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transition provisions and referendum questions. Second reading public hearing. >> I second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Vice Mayor McGee? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan?

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>> Yes. Commissioner Taglerini, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabbay, >> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carry five to zero. >> Next on the agenda is ordinance 2026-08, fees and collection procedure manual,

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first reading and public hearing. City attorney. >> Thank you, mayor. This is a reading of ordinance 2026-08 by title only. Ordinance 2026-08, an ordinance of the city of MadiRaa Beach, Florida, adopting a revised appendix A, fees and collection procedures manual of

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the code of ordinances of the city of Madiraa Beach, Florida, amending the fee schedules for the fire, marina, parking, recreation, and storm water departments is set forth in exhibit A repealing ordinance 2025-18 providing for conflicts, providing for

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severability, and providing for an effective date. That was the first reading of ordinance 2026-08 by title only. >> Do we have any public comment? Commissioners, do you have any questions or comments?

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>> I I have one question. Um, Wednesday market, where would that fit in this um category? should be recreation maybe under recreation.

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>> It is under recreation. >> I don't believe that. I believe that um I can speak on Max's behalf that recreation is going to come back to us with some changes. >> They had not um processed all theirs. So, we're going to approve to provided

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we vote yes. Um this is the first reading to approve the changes that we've been brought so far. And there will be additional changes that will come from, I believe, community development as well as recreation in a future workshop meeting >> and we'll workshop whatever those

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changes are. >> I see. I just have a couple of just a quick concerns or or comments. Um, will we have to approve it annually to continue or will it just go on for as long as they want to?

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>> Yeah, I can address that. So the fees and collections manual, the the fees in there remain intact unless changed by future ordinance, which would be two readings. Typically, we do this exercise annually. Um but to the mayor's point, we discussed in our workshop the

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prospect of adding community development permitting fees uh given the state's recent regulatory changes around assessing of permitting of permits uh permit fees and needing that to be more timebased than um as the mechanism. We

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need a little more time to uh put together a fee schedule on that. So we're delaying that. We do have recreation fees, fee changes in here that are that are in exhibit B. You can see the before and after, but we're also going to be looking at recreation a little deeper as well and look at per

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program costs a um in a little more depth and ensure that you know the the fees assessed align well with the actual cost of administering the program. So, we could see some future changes on the rec on the recreation side. When exactly

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that'll take place, not quite sure, but future changes could happen in the horizon. The one that we discussed that you there's pretty much universal support for the ones that we discussed in the workshop with the exception of one in parking on on backing in parking. So rest assured we have removed that. So

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please back in away as to your heart's content you will not get fined for that. So that has been removed. >> All right. So, so as far as um solid waste and usage of the uh

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sanitary and restrooms with the market, Wednesday market, are we charging them? Are they paying us a fee for that? >> I'm not quite sure about the intricacies behind that. Max, do you have some any

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comments on the cost around Wednesday market? >> So, traditionally in the past, the Wednesday market, they would mainly take all their trash with them. Any trash that was in what was uh made, if you will, in the market was just used uh on

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the trash cans along Madira Way. As for restrooms, the local businesses allowed patrons and the market vendors to use their restrooms. We did not provide any restrooms for them. So, all we charged them in the past was just a street closure fee and then they

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ran the market for us as a as a service to the community. >> Okay. >> I'm sure there's um cleaning [clears throat] for the restrooms and things in that nature would would would who would clean up the restrooms? >> None of the businesses on Madira Way like the saltwater hippie beach bar and

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shop. They were the ones who mainly in Forbotus would allow patrons and and people to come use their restrooms in their facilities in their in their businesses. They never charged us any fees for that. They were just happy to have a market in front of their business every Wednesday. >> Yeah. Thank you.

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>> With no any addition, >> I just have a couple questions for It's both recreation. Sorry, Max. This splash pad and weddings. That's what I'm asking about. And the splash pad, uh, it looks like there's a fee for the splash pad, but that's only if they want to reserve. That's that's if just you say you want to have your birthday party at the splash pad. That's what that is. It's

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just you you have the splash pad reserved exclusively for you during that during that time. >> But otherwise, anybody can >> otherwise anybody is welcome to use the splash pad for free. That is great. >> The other the other one was about weddings on the beach. Uh so it looks like even weddings under 50 have to get a permit and and does that happen

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regularly with tie the knot and >> Yes, that does happen regularly with tie with all the different beach wedding uh with all the wedding planning companies we have. >> Okay. all up and down the coast there. >> And just just because we the the residents that live on the other right there at the beach uh across from Tide

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the Knots and West, they have concerns because often times the the problem is that they don't hold the weddings in front of the city property. They hold the weddings in front of their house. And one in particular has repairarian rights to the water. And anyway, I just

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I just wanted to make sure they they're supposed to get a permit even for 50 or less. And they have a fee attached. Correct. If you're if you're setting up an an arch or or any structure on the beach, even if you're just renewing your vows with with 10 people, we still require a beach wedding permit. >> And am I correct that they're supposed to stay in front of the

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>> They are supposed to stay right there pretty much. And like if you're referring to where uh uh off the top of my head, what I >> Bob? >> Uh yeah, it's at 134th. Um we we we instruct them to set up in front of the walkway. Yeah, that's pretty much

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>> making sure that that's clear because he's had a couple runins and he called me and I didn't know what to do. They were gone. >> Some of those weddings do tend to get kind of large there. So we as as we try to work with all the different wedding planners and organizations that do take Yeah. >> all the permits, we try to stress that set your wedding up right in front of

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the beach access on city property. >> Great. Thank you. That's all I had. Thank you, Max. >> You're welcome. >> Do we have a motion? I make a motion to pass uh ordinance 2026-08 fees and collection procedure. >> Do we have a second?

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>> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Vice Mayor McGee? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Gabay? >> Yes. >> Commissioner [clears throat] Taglerini? >> Yes. >> Mayor Brooks? >> Yes. >> The motion carried 5 to zero. Next on

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the agenda is ordinance 2026-09 non-conformances and rebuilding regulations first reading and public hearing. City attorney. >> Thank you mayor. This is ordinance 2026-09, an ordinance of the city of Madera Beach, Florida, amending chapter 110 zoning, article 3, non-conformances

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of the city's land development regulations to clarify regulations governing non-conforming lots, uses, structures, and density. To revise rebuilding and redevelopment standards following a catastrophic loss, extending the deadline for certain repairs related

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to the 2024 hurricanes. to wave the business tax receipt requirement for structures that were damaged during the 2024 hurricanes provided that certain conditions are met providing for conflict severability codification and an effective date. That

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was the first reading of ordinance 2026-09 by title only. >> Do we have any public comment? Commissioners, any questions or comments? >> I've got many. after my drive around

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with the um [clears throat] lovely people that doing the code enforcement. Um there's so many places that have just been vacated. Excuse [clears throat] me. And I've asked the city to do a little bit of um homework where we extended this 6 months

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already and to extend it another year. I was kind of leerary about it. However, I was told that we should talk to our lawyer to see if there's something about the section 180 or one of the laws that are going to be passed as to whether or

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not we can not do this. Uh I'd even ask so much as to the extent of how many people are doing anything and by kicking this can down the road are we doing any good? So, mayor, can I just address that? I

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think that uh Commissioner Dylan is referring to Senate Bill 180. There's a requirement under that Senate Bill 180 that we cannot adopt regulations that are more restrictive than what we currently have for uh the period of time

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listed in the in in the law. But these are making it less restrictive. And so, the Senate Bill 180 would not apply. it it doesn't prohibit us from adopting this ordinance because it's less restrictive. So, in other words, you're letting more

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things happen than what the code currently allows. So, >> and and one thing I think that comes into play is uh we talked about if and I emailed attorney Tras a while ago to

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confirm well if the deadline passes say we didn't extend this deadline and there's properties that are prefirmed. So, they're not elevated, they're non-conforming, they haven't pulled the permits. Can we take some code enforcement action to like force

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demolition? And the attorney's interpretation of the current code is no. There would need to be some kind of other violation of the code, whether it's a nuisance or they're caught doing work without a permit. So essentially what that means is if the

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deadline wasn't extended then it would just result in anyone that submits a remodel permit after the deadline the remodel permit would just get denied and then it would potentially have the opposite effect that we're wanting and the property would sit

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abandoned for even longer because it takes longer to get new builds plans prepared than a remodel. >> Okay. So with that in mind then excuse me do we just kick it down the road 6 months as opposed to a year I mean and

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I'm asking you people for your advice. >> So the thing with a year is so Senate Bill 180 lapses in about a year. So potentially if we extend the deadline another year like we're proposing here,

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then possibly we can by then work another ordinance that proposes something more restrictive where maybe we do force demolition if that's a route. Um and and go that option once both Senate Bill 180 and the new

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deadline passes. Well, and I guess my my main concern was all the vacant properties. There's so many that, you know, and it's easy to tell because the post office has put the blue tape over their mailboxes. So, as

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to whether or not all of those homes are just sitting vacant, you know, rodentinfested. And that's kind of my concern. and many of the other people that were here in the original discussion, the real estate

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people, if you're trying to sell your house and you're going by all these places that are abandoned or look to be abandoned, it's not a very good look. So, that was my concern about kicking it down the line. I think that the better conversation for

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us would be to add to our next workshop code enforcement because the issue you the issue of the abandoned homes and the overgrown grass we've talked about we've been talking about for over two years

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now uh or almost two years now over two years now because we're in August about the houses and the the issues and code enforcement and getting our deputies um a clear definition of what it is we're looking for that they are

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responsible for doing and then a better definition for our our code enforcers that are internal for what we're looking for for the community and having some sort of reporting system to be able to at least once a month provide to the community how many properties have been

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code enforced, what happened with them, where they're at, not the specific properties, but the number. and what we're doing and also to educate the community and ourselves as well on what that looks like. What can we do? What can we not do? Part of this conversation

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was there are many people who own properties in MadiRaa who are still waiting to find out if they're going to be approved. There are many people who are still waiting on their insurance to pay. And so by not extending it for

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another year, then we're telling them that, you know what, it doesn't matter. Time's up for you. You're done. But we still can't make them do anything, you know? So, we're giving them a year so that they can breathe. They have the opportunity um to be able to find out

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whether or not they're going to qualify for a program that's going to help them with whatever the program is. There's there's several different programs out there people have applied for. And then in the meantime, I think it would be best for us in my view that we our next

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workshop doesn't have very much on it and that we spend some really good hard conversation on what our ordinances says we can do with code enforcement and give the direction to the people who are responsible for enforcing it in what we

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want to see done and that would make a difference. I believe >> I completely agree but I couldn't talk to you about that. So, it's just like I had to bring this up however I could to get the ball rolling. And that's where um exactly, you know, and as to how

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exactly we can do this, but by working with our staff, it's it's phenomenal. And that's what I thought, you know, I was completely amazed that they go around generally speaking twice a day doing code enforcement and doing all

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this stuff. And I was like, wow. you know where I I didn't think [clears throat] that it was done that much and that's what I was like okay this should be done well it's already being done and it's just I didn't see it I mean you know but it's it's being done

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and to do continue you know to help not to hinder our residents but to help them but yet give them that nudge okay so like guys you got to maintain your properties I mean you know and that's just like I

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understand that, you know, rodents, I mean, I've got many friends that are just like, you know, they they got rodents now and it's it's bad, you know. So, and that's what understanding, but to have more teeth in our ordinances is

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what I'm looking for. So we can't add we can't add teeth right now. But what we can do is understand the ordinance and give the expectation of the commission to those that are in charge of enforcing it and do it that way. And at the same

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time it will educate the community. I drove the um city this weekend and my personal view not as the mayor but as an Marie Brooks who lives in Mader Beach. If I lived on XYZ Street and there were three abandoned homes and

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they weren't cutting their grass, I would cut their grass. That's just me. And I know that there are trespass. >> No. Well, they're not living there. They don't care. >> And there are I know from conversations

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with the community that there are many people in the city who live on streets where there are abandoned homes or homes where the people haven't made up their mind what they're going to do. And when their lawn service comes, the lawn service cuts the neighbor's yard in. >> Well, good for you in that condo. I

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spent two hours today mowing mine. >> I'm I'm saying that there are so that I mean, the idea wasn't my idea. It came from a resident who said they listened to someone come and and make comments about overgrown grass. And I was someplace one day and a resident came

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over and said to me, I watched that on the meeting and let me tell you how we do it on our street. We cut the grass. That's not an option for everybody. I'm just saying so I think that we workshop this, we can have a conversation and maybe we can come up with ideas that would be helpful for the community and for all of us. Commissioner,

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>> so to go further with this, I went over the the Pine Hills County Sheriff's uh contract that we are going to vote on. It's we have to have either approve it or not approve it by October 1st. Uh and a lot of what we're talking about we're already has it's already contracted.

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What I would like is during our next workshop to have a representative from Pineelis County Sheriff's who is responsible for this contract to make sure that the wording is uh clear and what our expectations are. Uh and and I I I would like to see a report on a

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regular basis for these non-emergency code violations, these short-term rentals, these these what some people call a nuisance. I think they're more than nuisance. So, I I I if that's possible, uh Mr. Mr. Hellfrick, I'd love to see someone representing the

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sheriff's department at our workshop when we're talking about this contract. >> Yeah, I I've requested that. I I'll get with them uh this week and make sure that's lined up. >> Great. Thanks. And then I had one more question. Uh the 2024 hurricane damage status. I can Can you It says QC.

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There's just a couple things that I understand. I'd like to understand QC needed. That's a big chunk of properties. >> Yeah, I can explain that. So, let me go to the pie chart. So this comes from 4Runner. So basically the way we're tracking every property to see if they got a

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permit or not is through these statuses and the QC needed one is means that we don't know for sure. It looks like that's most of them, but that's because it's a lot of condo parcels. Like all the condo buildings have hundreds of

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parcel IDs, so it's grouping them all there. >> But what is QC? Uh that's just the code name that we gave it like quality control check needed like >> it's the definition would be those places that they haven't submitted a permit request they haven't done any work they're just

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>> so let me run through the statuses real quick so QC needed basically is it's built so anything that was built before 1975 and doesn't have a permit we know with almost 100% certainty is going to need a

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permit. So, it's pre-firm and there's no permit. So, that those go on the no permit status. Then, just because it was built after 1975 doesn't necessarily mean they don't need a permit. So, we didn't want to just block those out

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completely. So, those anything built after 1975 was put in the QC needed status for now, which is just like we'll figure it out later. And then anything that's on the demolished/substantially improved means they got either a full

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structure demo permit or a new build permit or an elevate permit since the hurricane. Anything that's on the owner and communication status means they're really they don't have a permit, but they have they're working with us in some way. Either we've logged like a

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conversation with the owner. They're like waiting for Elevate Florida. Maybe they have a permit under review. Some of those and then the postfirm no damage is has the least because those are the ones that are mostly QC needed. those anything that's on postfirm or no damage

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means that we've manually checked to see that it's either an elevated house so we don't have to expect a permit from them or if it's not an elevated house we have substantial evidence that we can produce to FEMA when we get audited on why we didn't require a permit on that parcel

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either through pictures usually pictures showing that they didn't get any damage like in some uh unusual situations like in the high side of Lilian five. A lot of properties are pre-firm and they still didn't get much damage. But technically, our ordinance requires any

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repairs need a permit. So, by default, it would go in one of those statuses. >> And I'm sorry, I missed I guess I missed what you said. What what defines that gray area, the no permit. >> The no permit, those are the ones that were built before 1975. So, we know it's

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prefirm. And they didn't they didn't get either a remodel, elevation, new builds, or full demo permit since Alen, >> but you see that work was done. Is that what you're saying? >> No, not necessarily. We just we have so we have data from tidal basin that shows

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the water level across the community and we know that obviously every property that's prefer was submerged in water. So unless and when FEMA comes to audit the city, they're going to want documentation on why this pre-firm

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structure is still sitting here with no permit. So we just put it in the no permit status to say like we we need some kind of documentation whether a permit or something. >> Okay. Seems it seems like there's a little bit of overlap, but I think I have a better grasp of that. Thank you.

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>> Yeah, the data the data is a little rough and what is what is skewing it is the condominium. So this is kind of a rough blush at the data. Um and this wasn't being captured real time during the storm, right? This was all post storm. We we got 4Runner, then we were able to back in data into it. So it's

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been a a lot of heavy lift. So it does need to be cleaned up some. So the the data is a little misleading because it is picking up the condo parcels. But we're going to work with 4Runner to start separating that data out so that it doesn't throw off the numbers like >> but it says updated July 2026. So this is where we are. So we just created this

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chart like I know I know you guys wanted some numbers so I wanted to give you something. This is the best that I that I can give you some [clears throat] kind of data to show the properties. So that's this is our first run of the of the data with 4Runner tracking it. They

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actually just released this feature to to create a pie chart like a couple month like a couple weeks ago. >> Thank you. This is very helpful. So that's what the 5261 numbers that you've got there. Uh that's the total of those. Um so that's all

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how did that's all >> that's all the parial IDs in Madura. >> So but of which like you said 100 could be in one condo. >> Yeah. [clears throat] Correct. Because each condo is it has its own paral ID. >> Okay. Thank you.

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Well, I would also like to add to that workshop the uh the abandoned swimming pools that uh the residents that have reached out to me and my district. >> Let's wait and do that when we get to the agenda setting. >> Okay.

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>> Adding. >> All right. >> Well, I mean, we're talking specifically about this. So, we're going to add >> the next workshop is >> when we get to agenda setting, we can add it then. >> Sound good?

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>> Do we have a motion? >> Madame Mayor, I would like to adopt ordinance 2026-09, nonconformances and rebuilding regulations. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. City clerk, would you call the role please?

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>> Commissioner Gabbay. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Mcan? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Taglerini? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan? >> Yes. >> Mayor Brooks? >> Yes. >> The motion carried 5 to zero. Next on

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the agenda is ABP2026-01, Florida Fisherman, Inc. And I will hand this to the city attorney. >> Thank you, mayor. [clears throat] The next two items on your agenda are both quasi judicial. There's a process that as you know that we go through. I'm just going to lead you through that process.

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So first of all um on the first one um I need to give you the summary of the application. Uh, this application is requesting authorization from the board of commissioners for the approval of a 2 cop alcoholic beverage license for the sale of beer and wine by the drink or in

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sealed containers for consumption at the vessel located at 112 Boardwalk Place, 124 Boardwalk Place, 140 Boardwalk Place here in MadiRaa Beach. The standards that need to be applied are those standards set forth in section

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110-532 of the code. I'm going to read them. Uh when considering the alcoholic beverage application, the board of commissioners shall consider the following factors. Number one, the extent to which the location and the extent to which the proposed alcoholic beverage request will adversely affect

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the character of the existing neighborhood. Number two, the extent to which traffic generated as a result of the location of the proposed al alcoholic beverage request will create congestion or present a safety hazard. Number three, whether or not the

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proposed use is compatible with the particular location for which is which it is proposed. Number four, whether or not the proposed use will adversely affect the public safety. And number five, no application for review under this section shall be considered until

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the applicant is paid in full any outstanding charges, fees, interest, fines, or penalties owed by the applicant to the city under any section of the code. Uh the burden of proof in this case is set forth in section 2-10A of your um

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code of ordinances and it reads as follows. The applicant shall have the burden of proof at the hearing to show by a greater weight of the evidence that the application is consistent with the city's comprehensive plan and complies with all procedural requirements of law. Conditions may be suggested by the

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applicant, the city or any party or may be imposed by the board which are intended to assure consistency. The parties in this case are the applicant Florida Fisherman Inc. and the property owner is JE Investments LLC.

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There have been no notices of intent to become affected parties. So, we won't be adding anybody else. Uh the order of the presentation I would propose would be the city present its um staff report first followed by the applicant. I need

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to go ahead and read the quasi judicial procedures that you need to follow today. This is a quasa judicial proceeding where the board of commissioners acts in a quasa judicial rather than a legislative capacity. At this hearing, it's not the board's function to make law, but rather to apply law that has

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already been established. In this hearing, the board is required by law to make findings of fact based upon evidence presented at the hearing and apply those findings of fact to previously established criteria contained in the code of ordinances and in order in order to make a legal decision regarding the application

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before it. The board may may only consider evidence at the hearing that the law considers competent, substantial, and relevant to the issues. If the competent, substantial, and relevant evidence of the hearing demonstrates the applicant has met the criteria established in the code of ordinances, then the board is required

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by law to find in favor of the applicant. By the same token, if the competent substantial and relevant evidence of the hearing demonstrates the applicant has failed to meet the criteria established in the code of ordinances, then the board is required by law to find against the applicant.

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At this point, I need to ask each and every commissioner whether or not they need to report any ex exparte communications with regard to this application. No, I'm seeing no any conflicts of interest that any of the board members of the commission need to express at

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this time. Okay. All right. At this point, I need to swear in any witnesses on this particular agenda item. So, anyone that's going to speak on this agenda item, if you could stand up, raise your right hand, or be sworn under oath. So, the applicant's not here, Andrew. >> Uh, I I'm I mean, they know the date of

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the hearing, so All right. So, do you swear that you if you swear the testimony you're about to give is going to be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? >> Okay. All right. We're going to need you to get you in front of that microphone, Andrew, so we can hear your voice. >> Okay. No problem. >> All right. You ready to make your

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presentation? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. >> So, so both of these are um these applications are pretty similar. Um but for alcohol permits there um when it's related to a vessel, it has to be for each ship. So that's why there's two of

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them. Um so this one is for a dolphin quest 2. Um so pursuant to land development code article let's see division six alcohol beverages the applicant for AP 202601 is requesting authorization from the board

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of commissioners for approval of a 2COP alcoholic beverage license for the sale of beer and wine by the the drink or in seal containers for consumption at the vessel located at 112 Boardwalk Place 124 Boardwalk Place and 140 Boardwalk Place Madira Beach Florida. This

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establishment is in the C1 Johns Pass Village Activity Center zoning district and the boardwalk character district. The future land use designation for the property's activity center. Pursuant to section 110 539, the notice of public hearing has been properly sent to all property owners within 300 ft of the

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subject property 15 days before the scheduled consideration by the board of commissioners. Such notice has also been posted on the subject property at the Gulf Beach's public library, city hall, and the city of Madira Beach website. The public notice, mailing address, and posting pictures are included in the

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agenda packet. Um, when considering the alcoholic beverage license application, the board commissioner shall consider the following factors. To the extent to which the location and extent to which the proposed alcoholic beverage requests will adversely

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affect the character of the existing neighborhood. The proposed alcohol beverage license is in the boardwalk character district of the John's Pest Village Activity Center. The boardwalk character district supports various commercial uses that are oriented towards tourism and maintaining the the fishing village character of John's Pest

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Village. Various businesses in the boardwalk character district serve alcoholic beverages. Serving alcoholic beverages on charter boats would not adversely affect the character of the neighborhood. The extent to which traffic generated as a result of the location of the proposed alcoholic beverage request will create congestion

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or present a safety hazard. Uh the affluent listed three parking spaces, one handicap parking space and five bicycle stalls up to which are worth up to three uh parking creds. This property is in the John's Pest Village special parking area which allows for the

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reduction of the required off- streetet parking by 50%. Since the property is located in a special parking area, each charbo boat would require 1.5 spaces. Additional parking is available in a privately owned parking garage across the street, but the existing on-site

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parking is considered sufficient. It is not foreseen that serving beer and wine on an existing showboat service would create additional congestion or present a safety hazard. Whether or not the proposed use is compatible with the particular location for which it is proposed, applicant the applicant says

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that the license would be for selling beer and wine and prepackaged drinks on a pleasure cruise vessel used for dolphin watches and sunset tours. When the alcohol is not being sold on the charter boats, that alcohol will be stored on property. The proposed use of selling alcohol beverages on a charter boat is compatible with the this

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particular location. Whether or not the proposed use will adversely affect public safety. Serving beer and wine on a churbo boat would not uh adversely affect public safety. The proposed alcoholic beverage license would be replacing an existing alcohol alcoholic beverage license because of a change in

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ownership. The vessels are licensed and registered with the US Coast Guard. The dock where the vessel is located is more than 500 ft away from any established church, synagogue, temple, or place of religious worship, public or private school operating for the instruction of minors or youth recreation center. No

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application for the review under this section shall be considered until the applicant has paid in full any outstanding charges, fees, interest, fines, or penalties owed by the applicant to the city under any sections of the code. applicant has no outstanding fines or

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penalties owed to the city under any section of the code. And uh the city staff recommends the approval of ABP 2026-01. Attached are the uh local application and support materials and the public notice mailing and posting packet which

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shows that we we mailed out and posted the the public notice in the required time. >> Okay. You're asking the city receive into evidence your staff report, Mr. Morris? >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Any questions of Mr. Morris?

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I'm not seeing any. Again, is the applicant for this application here in the audience? >> All right. Mayor, there's no one here. Anyone in the public want to speak on this agenda item? It's back to the commission then for consideration and approval.

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>> Any questions or comments? >> I've got one. I was on that ship, the pirate ship many years ago and they serve beer. So now they're selling it. Is that what the difference is? Or is it changing ownership? I think you said >> this one was a change change of

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ownership. Um sometimes when owners ch they don't want to transfer the alcohol license over uh that they have. So then they have then the new owner has to apply for a new one. >> Any additional comments? Do we have a motion?

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>> Are we Are we doing both of them or just one at a time? >> Just one. >> One at a time. >> Uh, I move the approval of AP 20261. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Tagler, >> yes.

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>> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gavay, >> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. The motion carried by to zero. [clears throat] >> Next on the agenda is ABP2026-02 Florida Fisherman Inc. and I will hand

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this to the city attorney. >> Thank you. Okay. The summary of this application is that the applicant is requesting authorization from the board of commissioners for the approval of a two cop alcoholic beverage license for the sale of beer and um and wine by by the drink or in seal containers for consumption at the vessel located at 112

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Boardwalk Place, 124 Boardwalk Place, and 140 Boardwalk Place here in MadiRaa Beach. The standards to be applied are those that you I just listed in the previous application. The burden of proof um is the same. The identity of the parties are the same. Um the order

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of presentation is going to be the same. The quasa judicial procedures follow the same as I just read. Any exparte communications on this application? Anybody needs to report? >> No. Um any conflicts of interest that need to be addressed? >> No.

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>> No. Okay. So, I've already sworn in all the witnesses. So, Mr. Moors, um it's back to you. The only the only difference is this is for a pirate ship. So other than that, my uh staff reports pretty pretty identical to the other

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one. I I think unless you want me to reread through it again. Um but that's it's for the for the the pirate ship. That's not necessary, Mr. Morris, unless the commission wants that. I'm not seeing any um objection to you. Um do

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you want to submit your report into evidence though? >> Yeah. Yes, sir. >> Okay. So, that'd be received in evidence >> and and is is is the Are any questions of Mr. Morris on this one? >> No. Okay. Thank you. Um is the applicant here on this application? No one here.

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Anyone from the public want to address this application? No one here. It's back to the commission for consideration approval. >> Do we have a motion? >> I make a motion to approve ABP 20262

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mailing and Second fisherman. Yeah. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Commissioner Tagalini, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGin, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabayi, >> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes.

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>> The motion carried 5 to zero. >> With no unfinished business, next on the agenda is contracts and agreements, air DNA software purchase. And I believe the city manager will take this or All right. Um, mayor, vice mayor,

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commission. What this contract is is [clears throat] um software that identifies short-term vacation rentals. Uh BRBO Airbnb. Uh, we've had issues. There's been public comment related to whether um short-term vacation rentals are legal in

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their current setting or where they're even at. So Marcy and myself, we [clears throat] sat through many, many presentations with various um software programs. This was the most cost effective. Um it does everything that all the other ones do. It doesn't have

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all the frills and benefits and what have you, but it gives us the the raw data that we want. And what that does is that this will turn into the fee schedule that you all approved earlier because now we per Florida state statute, they have to have a life safety

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fire inspection and we charge for that, you know, and then it will also help community development. I'll let Marcy speak on that. And we are looking to split this down the middle between both departments. The the benefit that community development will see from this is

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through the code enforcement and finding short-term rentals. Uh they'll be able to provide the data to us in a lat long format which will then feed into 4Erunner and it'll interact with our map that shows where short terminals are allowed and where they're not and help

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flush out the ones that are being advertised at locations where they're not legally allowed to operate. So that would help code enforcement. and they'll also identify ones that are operating legally but maybe didn't know they needed a BTR and stuff like that. So, we would then be able to contact them. Um, we would be able to do our rental

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inspections as well. So, that would be helpful in identifying that too. >> Do we have any public comment? >> Oh, sorry. >> Hi, Bob 13301 Golf Lane. [clears throat]

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Uh, prepared a couple notes. I saw the AirDNA DNA contract on the agenda and as both the real estate broker and owner of multiple short-term rental properties, I wanted to offer some perspective for the commission's consideration. In reviewing

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the memorandum, I understand the primary purpose of software is to help identify illegal or unregistered short-term rentals. I fully support that goal. um those operating outside the rules can negatively impact those of us who have taken the necessary steps to operate legally and comply with city

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requirements. My concern however is with the accuracy and uh and reliability of the ARDNA data. In my experience reviewing ARDNA data, I found it to be questionable at best. Um for instance, um the main use of their software is to

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project what you will make it as far as rental income. it's horribly often from my use cases. Um, so if their main use is that poor, it I I'd kind of question

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some of the other secondary data they provide. Um, so more relevant to the city's proposed use. I'm also aware of properties that continue to appear in AirDNA's system even though they've been dormant and have not operated as short-term rental for extended periods

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of time. sometimes even years because one of my old properties show up that way. Um, before the city relies on this data, I identify potential violations or send notifications to property owners. I would encourage commission to make sure there's additional checks and balances in place to independently verify the

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information. AirDNA may be useful as an initial screening tool, but I'd caution against treating its data as definitive evidence that a property is currently operating as a legal short-term rental. Um, is a weird coincidence today. I've actually received an email from a

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property management group um, just forwarding to me the AirDNA software telling me how much I can make with one of my properties as a short-term rental. The only problem there are projections for this property. It's not legally zoned to be a short-term rental.

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So, just again, there's some some challenges. Ultimately, I support the city's efforts to identify and address um, illegal short-term rentals. I simply want to make sure the city's getting reliable value for the approximately $22,000 being spent and that property

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owners are not being unnecessarily contacted or subjected to enforcement efforts because it's inaccurate or outdated third party data. Thank you for your consideration. >> Thank you. Do we have any additional public comment commissioners?

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>> So I thank you for that m Mr. Bellis. So, it seems like this is a a real advantage for us because in the past code enforcement has struggled with identifying without a lot of specific evidence that there is being a

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short-term rental uh in in place. How will will this help us bypass some of this? Is is it going to require less, >> you know, a video of people moving in and out? Is it going to be >> Exactly. And this and the backside of this, this will also help with um code

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compliance because we were putting together an actual process now working with Marcy and PCSO deputies cuz before there were some um things that were getting lost in translation. The deputies might be notified of a short-term vacation rental that's

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operating illegally. They will go out and notify. they're doing their job, but then the process ended there. So, we weren't notified of it as as the city. So, we're actually implementing new policies and procedures related to all of this as a as a whole.

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>> Will there be members of of your department, the fire department, who are going to be doing some of this now in addition to our >> Absolutely. This is [clears throat] per um the information on the surface that we got from AirDNA because they they obviously don't want to give us the all

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the information for free, you know. So, they gave us some information based on those numbers. That's where the uh second fire inspector will come into play. And this is from the on the surface again on the surface level numbers that they provided. it will more

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than pay for the our half of the contract and pay for that fire inspector position and still produce revenue. And um just to address Mr. Bellow's comment too, the the AirDNA, they don't they don't know our zoning. So they just see

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a a uh short-term vacation rental, but when we have that information, it's up to us to do what we want with it. You know, they don't know that it's illegal or not. They don't they don't have access to the zoning or if they do, they're not going to dig that deep into it. Well, then can you see a situation where something might happen where you would go to some place uh that I've

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identified as a short-term rental and it turns out some for some reason it's not? I mean, it's not an automatic ding to them. Right. [clears throat] >> Correct. So, what they do is um if if they have if they are active listed for even one day in a 30-day period, they

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show up on the on our monthly report. And then if they go dormant, they're supposed to anyways um pull be dropped from that list. And then once they go active again, we'll be 30 days behind, but then they'll show up on the next listing, the next monthly report showing

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that even for one day, they advertise that they were available to be rented. >> Thank you. I sir, I love this idea. >> I thank you for the research you did, Mr. Bellows. Thank you for yours as well. And as I recall or believe, it's a

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12-month lease. So, I don't think we can go wrong with the 12-month lease. And Bob, you're certainly active in the city. So, if you keep coming back occasionally and see and we can kind of bounce some things off of you. I think

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it's a great idea, though. A step definitely in the right direction. >> Yes. In speaking with city manager Hellfrick, you know, we they offered a a little discount going for a two-year contract. We agreed, you know, sitting down and discussing it that let's just see what they're able to do for us for

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that first year and then we can go from there. >> I'm definitely for it. Great idea. >> Thank you. >> Is there any competition? >> Oh, yeah. There's a uh we sat with I don't want to name the companies, but

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one was well into the six figures for their their software. One was um 8 in the 80s. Another one was 55,000. And then once we got with AirDNA, I understand it's not uh the all the frills and benefits that the other

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companies can offer, but we don't need that. We just need the locations. >> So yeah, there there's definitely others out there. much much more expensive. >> So, you're vetted. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Me, myself, Marcy, her staff, uh the fire marshall, we sat in

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many many presentations >> to get to the end point where they dropped the price on us and we say, "No, that's we just wasted an hour of our day." >> And we sat with me in many presentations with AirDNA as well. When we had a question, I would get with their rep.

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She would set up a team's meeting and we would discuss everything and any questions we had she would answer. >> And the fees will be paid upfront or would that be month? >> It's an annual fee. So we we would go and do their just like a a regular

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business in the city. They would get their annual life safety inspection every year and it's per again as per Florida state statute. We don't ask for anything more or anything less. >> Y thank you. >> Yes sir. So, the only question I have on the contract is that it is an automatic

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renewal, and we don't typically do automatic renewal contracts. This one will automatically renew unless you give 90 days written notice. I would be in favor of not having that

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in there and and removing the 90 days and h making them have to give us a new contract every year. >> Agreed. I >> So that we don't miss it cuz >> Yeah. I and I know we don't typically do that. I sorry if I missed that. >> Yeah, good advice. >> And

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>> it's all I have to give input on this. >> Yeah. >> Attorney Tras, would you like me to send that back over to them and copy you or would you like to >> handle that? You can tell them what the what the commission is considering and they'll approve it subject to the re the deletion of that language. >> Okay.

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>> Yeah. So, can we have a motion to approve the contract with the removal of the 90-day notice? >> I move that we approve the 12-month subscription agreement with Air DND LLC

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with the removal of the automatic renewal. >> We have a second. City clerk, would you call the role, please? Commissioner Taglerini, >> yes. >> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabbay,

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>> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carried 5 to zero. Next on the agenda is the revision to the Readington EMS station funding agreement. >> Yes. >> Chief, >> this was the it's basically the same agreement that was presented to the board uh last month. They sent it back

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to us because they wanted the signature page changed to where the county administrator could sign versus bringing it to the board of county commissioners. And that is the only thing that has changed. The funding is still 100% coming from Penllis County. And um city of Madura Beach is still the project

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manager. >> Do we have any public comment? Commission, do you have any questions or comments? If not, do we have a motion? I make a motion uh to approve the uh funding agreement

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with the uh Bington Beaches EMS station. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Vice Mayor McGee? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Tagarini? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Gabayi? >> Yes.

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>> Mayor Brooks? >> Yes. >> The motion carry 5 to zero. Thank you. >> Next on the agenda is new business, the authorization to proceed with due diligence. And I'm going to give this to the city manager. >> Uh mayor and commissioners, um

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[clears throat] we have discussed uh purchasing the 455 property and um we had an u an agreement that um we have had reviewed by the city attorney and

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also the by uh the sellers attorney. um I'm sorry, real estate agent and uh we just uh received uh the um their signatures on the document.

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However, we have not allowed you all to review it uh sufficiently at this time. Um so I s I'm going to suggest that we maybe have a a special meeting for that. um or unless you all want to to review

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it right now. Uh it's about 16 I think maybe 17 pages long. Um but I'm going to leave that up to you to decide how you wanted to um to proceed. Um, before we go to public comment,

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commission, do you have any questions or comments or opinions on what the city may >> I have a question. Why do we need this property? What is the end goal?

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>> I understand we property. >> Yeah. >> Well, there's there's a couple of reasons why. um it's splitting the two properties that we own right now. Uh it so without owning that, we don't have a continuous property. The other thing is

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is that on the west side of the property that we just bought for $18 million, we would not be able to use um that area to um to dock boats on. So, we would only

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have a two-sided marina instead of a three-sided marina. Um, and those that would be that would be my reasons uh for buying it. I I have obviously I would look at the

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full contract, but I in in the memos that we were provided regarding the former underground gasoline storage tank uh and historical petroleum discharge and soil impacts have bear confirmed not not fully deliated. That's in the wording that we saw. Is there anything

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that would could be discovered that would prevent the purchase of the property? And if there's a substantial environmental issue, would we be able to negotiate the price? Um my understanding is a a an environ

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phase one environmental site assessment is required uh that um so we would proceed with an environmental site assessment. If something came up uh that determined that we needed to do a a phase two site

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assessment, it's in the contract that says we have um up to 60 days to get a a phase two. Phase two is sampling and things of that effect. as we were I was going through the um the environmental

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um I think it's called a supplemental site assessment that was done that was the um that's in the um in your package. Uh it states that that the contamination was just in the soil

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and not in the groundwater. Therefore, most likely we would not have to proceed with a an environmental site assessment. Um, a phase two environmental sight assessment. Um, therefore, I I don't think at this point

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right now that there's any kind of of of risk of of contamination there. However, there is soil contamination. Okay, we know that from the from the uh report.

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So, a reduction in price, I'm not sure that that's something that >> Yeah, I I don't believe that. But a phase two of site assessment would be determined after the phase one site

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assessment. I I I mean, you know, I'm coming into this kind of blind. Uh the four of you were apprised with the other property beforehand and I had some questions

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about that which I can't ask anybody. So, I'm kind of like with my hands tied, but here we're jumping. And I was just looking through here to see if there were any numbers. But I, you know, I don't know in

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right faith that we're jumping into the right thing. And just from a standpoint of I understand being the whole continuous thing but um how much grief are we going to be

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getting more from this? And and I guess I'm going back with the thing of I had talks with Mike about putting a whole plan together. And you know, one of the things like I didn't

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know going into the idea with a plan. So by having this piece of property now, there is another look about plans. And I guess I'm I'm I'm kind of bambling here, but I'm like, you know, I know information, but I don't know

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information. And um I need more information here. I mean, you know, but I'm just one person here. the four view went forth with the 555 property. So I mean you know I've heard rumblings but yet now it's here and I don't know

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whether or not at this point where where we're going with this. So we gave the com So when we purchased the 555 property and we started doing the meetings um the community there was a great

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interest from the community for if we ever had the opportunity to purchase this property that we purchase it to give the city the full 10 acres. I believe it's right at 10 acres all of it. And um we had a meeting where we

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gave the city manager's office the authorization to pursue purchasing the property. And so what he's done is he's gone out and negotiated a contract. and he has to bring that contract to us to approve it so that he can do the next

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steps which is to get the appraisals, do the um due diligence on the environmental testing and then it would come back to us with all of that information. I think what Mike is saying is that we received the contract today at like 6:20 signed and so the meeting

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had already started. he did not have the opportunity to share the contract with everyone so that everyone here could read the contract and see what it says and the purchase price and all of that. That's what he was giving the information on. Um, as far as the

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purchasing of it, four of us did give authorization to move forward. Um, but I any questions that you have about the property, whether it's the the what we've already purchased or this, we can talk about that today in a meeting or

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you could ask Mike anything um as far as that goes. But we have I can tell you with certainty that many residents have voiced their opinion on wanting the city to acquire that. It's the entrance to the city and it would give the city full control of the

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entrance to the city and how it looks. >> Thank you. I mean, I'm not opposed to it, but I'm like I'm trying to come in after the game's already been played. >> No, I understand. >> So, and and so understanding it uh and and I mean, you know, Mike and I have had many, many conversations, the two of

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us coming in new and he's newer than me, but yet um inundating with things. So yes, you know, and and and once again, he wasn't really even privy to 555, so

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he didn't know any more than I did, you know. So, and and I mean, you know, I'm not opposed to it, but it's just like, you know, oh, here it is. >> Eddie or M Commissioner McGee. >> Yeah, definitely. I think that adding this property would be idea. We've

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already talked about adding this property. The only thing that I would like to talk further is is the soil contamination. Um, and basically we can talk about it here. We can talk about it oneon-one. I believe the residents, as the mayor

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said, are in agreement with this property. That way we have it the whole thing. Um, I just don't know much about when you brought up the soil contamination. Mhm. [clears throat] Um the state of Florida uh D FD uh Florida

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Department of of U environmental protection, they had a program to remove underground storage tanks. This this site had a 2,000galon underground storage tank and part of the state wanting to come in and aband and wanted

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those abandoned tanks to be removed. So the state um paid for the removal of the 2,000galon underground storage tank and then they also paid for a an assessment afterwards to see what type of

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contamination was left behind. Part of that was to take soil samples and also take groundwater samples of that area. So there's probably and I I counted them up but I can't remember. I think there's five environmental um monitoring wells

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out there and over the years they've been sampling those and they do not have any contamination. However, when they did the removal of the tank, there was some leftover um soil contamination. It wasn't to the point, it wasn't in a

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an amount that the state says, okay, this is an environmental hazard. It's just that there's traces of petroleum in the soil. Um, the only time that that would be of hazard is if we were to tear the building down, pull up the the

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foundation, uh, and start to try to build something on that. this program that the state has uh if we do go that route ter you know to to remove the building and the foundations the state

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would come in and for their at their cost remove the top 2 feet of soil um so that's the program that that site is under and it gets transferred over to the city so I see it as a very small risk of that contamination again we have

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to do our due diligence on the envir environmental site assessment phase one. That phase one will then direct us if we need to do a uh a phase two. >> Mike, do we know how much they would be

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asking for this property at this stage of the game? >> The property uh we offer uh our offer is at 3.5 million. To me that's a lot of money. Um I can understand make the properties

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contiguous and enjoy a whole you know giant nice piece of property. Um, I think the little bit of an upland that they have doesn't justify the the cost and also

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there's a lot of obviously wetlands and and the bay and all that water really there is generally stagnant because it has no other place to go. So, it kind of goes bacterious. But that's another item

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for another day. Um, you know, I don't know what the board thinks, but I I'm not going to support this. >> Mayor, if I if I could without sounding too much like I'm getting up on a soap box, but we're on the precipice of making a historical

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uh change and for the better in Madira Beach. I I think we should wait and have the opportunity to look at the contract. Absolutely. I think we should discuss it. I don't know how much time we have since it's been uh signed before we can get mov forward. But all the first step

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is to get that testing done to phase one. >> We can't do that. We cannot do that. So the way it works is we need to have we need to all review the contract, have a meeting, approve the contract, and once we approve the contract, then the

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testing can be done. >> I guess that's what I meant. That's what I meant. I just I Yes, there's going to be a lot of details. It's a lot of money and it's a lot of land. But if we were to do this, this would this would be a gamecher for our city.

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And and I think it would be a positive game changer. The fact that we could use the entire three sides for for for revenue, for for docks, for income, for whatever we want, and the fact that we couldn't if we didn't own it. Uh all of

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that. So I not only in favor I'm strongly in favor of moving forward but after we look at that contract >> could um maybe could or rec department do an assessment as far as how much money we can bring maybe in the next 10

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years would that be possible too >> I feel like I've already seen some of those numbers just with two sides of it >> right >> that was presented at one of our workshops and uh just by the way I meant to say earlier at I went to all of the workshops we had with and there were

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there were no push back right from any residents, right? They were all positive. Yes. Let's get this done. >> The community as a whole was very positive in the purchase of the of the 555 property and were very supportive of the city pursuing this purchase. Um so I

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think the conversation is when can we have a meeting and um is everybody available on the 24th of August? I'm not >> uh depending on the time I'm either free

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in the morning or I'm free after 300 p.m. >> And there's and it's burger week. >> Well, we can all leave here and go get a burger. >> Can we order in a burger? >> I'm good. >> I'm good. The 24th all day.

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>> Commissioner McGee go. >> I'm good. >> You good? >> Yeah. So >> funny >> he they said good you said after 3:00 >> either after 3 or before noon >> tr cannot be here for it could some >> I would remind you also you have code

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enforcement special master hearing starting at noon and there is at least 23 cases that are I think 23 close to it cases are going to be heard I don't know how long that meeting is going to go um so we do those in this chamber so it it

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should not be early in the afternoon and I'm double booked on the 24th and I'm not sure if I can get a lawyer here because my backup is covering another meeting that I'm double booked on. Um,

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we are all here on the 21st. I don't know if that would work for strategic planning until 4 o'clock >> after that. >> Well, that would work except I think we're serving burgers that night. >> No, we're serving No,

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>> we're serving burgers on the 26th at noon. >> Okay. Sorry. So it is so the 21st is the kickoff to um burger week. >> So burgers and after the strategic planning

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>> strategic planning then then a special meeting and then village Friday. I I don't know. I'm just I'm asking I'm verbalizing it. >> I'm I'm fine with that. It'll be a long day, but we'll all be here >> on the 21st.

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>> So, we're thinking the 21st at what? Five o'clock. That's a Friday. >> Or or when we're done. >> Yeah. Right after that. >> No, you have We've got a sketch. We have to advertise it. So, >> Okay. What about Thursday the 20th where

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you don't have another commitment? >> Um, >> I'm free in the afternoon. I'm good. >> So, I can do in the afternoon. >> Who's [snorts] on vacation? >> Sounds like our AV guy may be on vacation.

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>> That's fine. We'll we'll work that out. >> So, 5:00 on the 20 >> 20th >> 20th. >> Yep. >> That works for me. >> 5:00 on the 20th. Commissioners. >> Yes, that's >> city attorney.

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>> Okay. Okay. Then next on the agenda is agenda setting. And uh Commissioner McGee, you have something you'd like to >> Yeah. I would just like to add I've had some residents reach out to me on 144th

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and 145th. And as you know, Marcy, you've taken drives around that that horseshoe. um [clears throat] 145th, you know, uh I believe there's three or four pools that have not been kept up and uh

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they've reached out to me and a lot of they have children on 144th and they they don't want them to play outside because of the mosquitoes that are just breeding rampantly over there. So maybe we can add that we can uh get together and uh see if we can do something about

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that. anything additional that anyone else would like to see on the agenda? >> Madame Mayor, um I have the um plaque, the uh the key to the city plaque

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and um which we're going to discuss in a few minutes. So, if we're trying to set an agenda, then we probably need to let the recipients uh be present. Um, so the next meeting that we have that we're setting an agenda for will be

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a workshop. Do you want to present them at a workshop or in a regular meeting? Yeah, regular meeting. Yeah, >> I agree. For the next >> regular meeting. >> Regular meeting. >> Do we have any public comment?

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Then next on the agenda is reports and correspondence. Board of Commissioners reports and correspondence and I think commissioner is going to present. You want to present this to the commission? >> Um yes, I would love to have the commission take a look at this uh plaque

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for the key to the city. >> Um >> and it'll have it would have this here >> with Poppy on it. >> And I would like to get some advice as far as you know the notation that goes on that plaque. Oh,

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>> nice. Very good. >> I'd like to if you're asking for help, I I'd give it some thought and send it to you. >> Would you? >> Yeah, sure. >> So, we could have that on our workshop. >> And is So, just to be clear, is this a plaque that goes to the entity and stays

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with them? Or is that a plaque that has a list of people that get it from year to year? >> Goes to them and stay. >> So, the next time we give a key to the city, it'll be another plaque just like this. We'll have two plaques because we're going to give two keys to two

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folks that we have discussed previously. >> Okay. Yeah. But from the same entity. >> Yes. >> Yeah. So I'm just asking because it'll make a difference on the wording should say. So this is specific to that entity and those people. So when we approved this plaque, so when this came to us, um

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we gave it to the commissioner go to go out and work with the city clerk's office to come up with a a plaque and a key in the presentation way. This will now be the way we present any key to the city that we give moving forward. >> Yes. >> So this will be will this would

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>> nice. Yeah, >> it looks nice. >> Very nice. >> Thank you. Thanks for that work, Commissioner. Are we going to have anything here that shows who we gave keys to? >> I mean, you know, >> so the city has been giving keys for

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many years and that's never been done. I'm sure that we could put something up that said who got them, but there have been a lot of keys over the years given. >> It'd be nice. That's a good idea to create history. >> Yeah. I mean, because like they're

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taking this. So, and then and then did we decide is it a year or how often are we giving away the keys? So, a commissioner gets to nominate someone that they believe deserves the key to the city. And we had quite a bit

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of what I would call robust conversation in um not just giving the key to anyone. So I think in the past that I've learned there were keys given not particular they were given for lots of different reasons and this commission

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tended to lean towards giving a key to someone that was exceptionally doing something right. Not just handing a key to everybody but it being >> but so like this is one of the two keys or two keys that we're giving out for

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2026. This is the highest honor that >> right I mean but like is and and I'm trying not to >> degrade it you know so like you're just giving keys away keys away so we'll be so like this is the two keys for 2026

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are given away >> so I I that commissioner um Dylan bringing that up I think that because currently there are only four items on our agenda coming up for the workshop I think it would be mindful to have a discussion about the ordinances that we

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have in place currently for keys, coins, awards, those sorts of things. And that will help us that will propel us also into um the anniversary of the city because we're going to be doing awards for that,

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too. So, if we could add that, then we could have a really good conversation about that. And because this is a different commission um and we've learned other ordinances that existed that we weren't necessarily aware of. So we can do that. I think that would make for a great conversation.

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>> If I may, um as we all know, August is a Purple Heart month and um obviously right now it's kind of late, but maybe we should set this up from next year on to recognize Purple Heart >> with the American Legion right now.

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Yes. But >> yeah, Eddie Eddie took the lead on working on Purple Heart. >> Yes. No, I understand that. But as far as like some sort of proclamation here that we recognize this month as a Purple Heart heart month. >> Yeah. >> It would be just nice to

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>> Well, we can do that coincide that with the resident of Madira Beach that receives the recognition for the Purple Heart. >> Okay. >> So, Commissioner, if you wanted to, we can do that. We could do a proclamation at our BOC workshop on the 26th. It

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would be the end of the month, but we could still do that if you want to. >> Okay. I think that would be lovely if we could do that. >> I think the city clerk can prepare that. >> Yes. >> I get send me all the information on it. I can put something together. One other item I wanted to bring up and

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and I was talking to our city clerk as far as um um um as far as getting a raise and I I don't think we have given her a raise since uh

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her last evaluation. U am I correct? Um, I've got the 3% over to board of the same and we were supposed to get a valuation every October and of course it's late coming and we have another one this coming October and it the

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commission approved in the budget which I was included for the up to 3% depending on the numbers and >> but but but my point right now is you you did not get a raise from last October, right? So, it's

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>> not the mayor, not the um the merit as the same as the other employees. >> So, >> she got the cola raise, not the merit raise. >> Right. >> Right. Anyhow, just wanted to bring that up. >> Okay. >> Yes, definitely. And that was in the budget, too, was it?

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>> Yes. >> And it was due October 2025. >> Anything additional? Next on the agenda is the 2026 meeting report. And I think that's just our regular report that Clara provides for us.

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Any questions or comments on that? Next on the agenda is city attorney. >> Thank you, mayor. I don't really have anything to add. I'd be happy to answer any questions if anybody has any. >> Any questions for the city attorney? >> Thank you.

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>> We feel secure having you here, Tom. >> Appreciate that. And next on the agenda is the city clerk. >> Um we've been doing a the city clerk's office has been doing a complete scan

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project and so we'll soon not have any uh records stored at off-site storage trying to get everything in the laser fish. And the more we can get in there the better for the community. and it's like looking on your computer, you know,

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your phone for information. So, we're hoping that our public portal will turn into that one day. And um we're also getting ready to do a ready scan and u the company is waiting on access to all the share drives and stuff and it's

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going to tell us what documents we have and that's not in laser fish and everything over the board. Um what our final one is and all. So we can capture all our documents that's somewhere whether in email or um in these shared

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drives and all we can get those the final of those documents inside laser fish for the public portal and which is to the commission as well to look. So I I'm really looking forward to that. Uh the last piece to that ready scan is the

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city manager and it given the um the access to those share drives and everything and they're ready to move forward. And so we that should be done this within probably a week and then we get started from there. And so we're

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really excited about it. >> That's nice. Yeah. >> Thank you, Clara. >> You're welcome. clear up a lot of space. >> Next on the agenda is the city manager. >> Uh I'd like to have Max come up and give you an update on the burger week and uh

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I think a progress report on the seafood fest and then I've got a few other items I'd like to to catch you up on. All right, mayor, board of commissioners, I'm going to update you kind of on everything that's going on down at the recreation center um along

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with special events. So, for athletics over the summer, just so you are aware, um we did run a specialty summer uh basketball and volleyball specialty camp um in conjunction with OciOla High School, we utilize their indoor gym with our joint use agreement. We had over 100 kids participate in that uh that

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specialty camp program. It's the first year we've done this. So, um we're really looking at expanding our athletic programming uh in that aspect. So, um right now we have fall youth soccer. Uh registration is open. Um and then we're

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also planning and looking forward at our our winter programming. Um last year we instituted the the volleyball the indoor volleyball uh co-ed uh big big big hit. So, we're looking to expand that even more uh this coming uh winter spring

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season. Um senior programming. So, our Madira Beach Social Club is still on its summer break. Um staff, we are finalizing the schedule and programming for the upcoming season. Um which our first uh get together for the season takes place September 14th.

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Uh child care, we just recently wrapped up another successful summer camp serving approximately 70 children each day. Um that program included daily field trips and larger weekly trips uh to places like the zoo, the aquarium, educational outings. Um our after school

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program uh is full for this season. So we are operating on a wait list. That program um it's limited by uh the space of our facility. We can only legally have so many children um in the rec center uh for after school care. So we are full. We have a wait list. Uh we are

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accepting uh for that. Um, special events. So, we are in the final planning stages for the 3rd annual Madiraa Beach Burger Week. Uh, that's taking place August 21st through the 30th, as you all know. Uh, 18 restaurants participating. Um,

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we have the burger bus taking place August 22nd. So, tickets are on sale for the burger bus if you are interested. We are going to three different restaurants. um on the bus is a tour of all different burger love and community fun. So, uh

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that should be a really good time. Um and then to back up even more, Village Friday is our burger week kickoff party as you all know. Um that'll start at 6:00 down at John's Pass featuring live music from the Crowns. Um we'll be down there handing out Burger Week passports. We

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have some Burger Week giveaway promo items. Um, we also have some Burger Week merchandise that is for sale in the city store. We will also have it down there at Village Friday for sale as well. And then we do also have Burger with the Board on August 26th at the Cambria

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Hotel. That's taking place from 12 to 2. That's where you guys are going to serve your burgers. And it's kind of a spin-off of Conversations with the mayor, but we're going to have a burger with the board. So, really excited about that. Um, next big event we have coming up for

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recreation wise is uh the 45th annual John Best Seafood Festival. Um, so we're we're in crunch time for that planning. Uh, that's going to be the 23rd, 24th, and 25th. Uh, vendor applications are

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still open through the end of August. Um, those can be found on johnspass seafoodfest.net. Um we are currently in the process of uh booking entertainment for the three stages. Um and we're also working on um any sponsors and securing those last

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minute partnerships. Um we have been working on a partnership with iHeart Media and JJ Taylor for the marketing of the festival. So hopefully that pans out well. Um, overall recreation is coming off of a very busy summer and looking forward to a strong uh fall event and programming schedule and we're excited

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about the upcoming events and the opportunities to provide our residents, visitors, and local businesses here in Madera Beach. >> Thank you, Max. That's awesome. >> Any questions? We're good. >> Do we have any vegetarian burgers? >> I have uh I have a shrimp burger.

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>> Close. >> It's close. >> Pescatarian. >> Pescatarian. Okay. I will uh I'll work on that though. All right. Thank you. >> City manager, >> uh just a reminder, strategic planning

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uh is August 21st, which is next Friday. Um John's Pass dredging project has been completed. Um and we are in contact with uh Florida Department of Transportation to figure out if they are completed with

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their removal of debris. Um it does not look like it is, but they may be completed. So we may have to go back into conversations with them on removing more. The sand is already coming back as you know. Um the snack shack

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restoration. Um right now we're working on the historic um des um designation. Uh we're going to try to do a few things in parallel to get the design the white

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uh the white box design uh completed as we're going through the historic designation. Um, area three, uh, drainage improvement. I believe Megan's going to come up and

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talk about that real quick. Thank you [snorts] >> and Kitty Park. >> Good evening again, mayor and commission. Um, area 3, they've finished the milling today. So, all of the roads have been mil. Um we will be doing our

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walkthrough tomorrow to create the final punch list um for items that need to still be completed. So um but the asphalt is down and it looks fantastic. And Tom and Kitty Stewart Park, we are working on finalizing the foundation

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plan for the restroom. The restroom is still in design. Not in design, I'm sorry. Production drawings have been approved. They're waiting for state stamp approval. I believe Mercy was the conversation we had last week. >> I believe that's correct. >> Yes. So, it's it's it's in progress, but

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because it's coming from another state, it does have to make sure that the Florida state approval it's stamped and receives the FEMA approval and on all of our regulations. Um, so that is still in the works. We do, and you all have already approved the not to exceed with

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Keystone for the um not to exceed $500,000 for the park restoration. So we have been in talks with them about the foundation plan and they are we don't have the site plan finalized yet. So we haven't been able to receive a proposal

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from them but we have been actively working with them so they are aware. Um I am working on the landscaping plan that you all asked to receive. I have been a out of town um traveling a little bit these days and I'm still working on that. So I will have that for you for

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the workshop meeting. And then just an update on the paving. Um you all received a not so great news email from me yesterday regarding John's Pass Village. Um that is a unfortunate but the

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contractor is aware and they are going to fix um tomorrow we will be visiting every single one of the shops. Has it have has everyone received the email from me? Okay. So the issue is is the striping was incorrect. Um the only way for us to actually receive what we paid

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for is to mill and to repave those places or otherwise it would just be subpar and I'm not going to accept subpar. So um it will be we will mill Sunday night um one side of the road pave Monday morning and then the the

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next Monday night we will mill the other side pave Tuesday morning and we will stripe it. And the issue was is the angled parking. The striper did not double check his work. So it did not meet the minimum standards and we

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cannot accept that. And then Baypoint has been completed as well. So that has all been mil overlaid. So projects are moving right along. >> Thank you, Megan. Megan, I I have one question. Um the at Kitty Park the we

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call it a seaw wall, right? Even though >> a sand wall, seaw wall. >> Yeah. So the cap is is that wood? >> It's recycled [clears throat] plastic. Yes. >> So it is going to survive the moisture and Yes, sir. heat and everything. >> That is what is on all of the docks that

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we have. That is also the stairs that are at Archbald bathrooms. That is what all of that is made out of. >> I see. Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. I'd make a statement that well of course I was just out there the other day

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but what you have in that first island as you come in is gorgeous. I mean it is all drought resistant. >> I would love to take that but that was not us. Catties actually planted that. Um so we with your we can leave that in.

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Um those are not typical plants that I would plant. the grasses um get a little bit too tall. So, they are over that 36 in. So, they're over in the sight triangle. Plus, those grasses get they are pretty at first, but they are kind of a bear to maintain and they collect a

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lot of garbage. And then whenever you have to trim them down, I don't know if anybody's seen, but you have to cut them almost like a buzz cut. And in my professional opinion, they are not very pretty. Well, like I say, I I what you've done with the rest of the city is

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perfect. Very well done, and I'm I'm looking forward to what your recommendation is. >> Thank you. >> That's easiest to maintain and take care of and drought resistant. >> We love that. >> Thank you.

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>> Thank you, Megan. [clears throat] Um this week we started our interview process for the uh for the new RC department head. Uh we are hoping to have that selection by Friday or early

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next week and then start the negotiations to have that uh person come on in within a couple of weeks. >> Okay. >> Awesome. >> That's all. >> Thank you very much. Next on the agenda is respond to public comment. We only

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had one public comment and it was a thank you. So, thank you Mr. Bellows for coming and giving a compliment to staff. They surely do deserve it. And it is 7:52. We are adjourned.