--------- e e e e uh yes I'm here treml yes Bagby yes Tera AB here well I'm here Kimberly cop but City attorney all right I will look for an agenda approval if I can get that motion
motion to approve second thank you all in favor say I I I no new okay all right we at this point can have public comments if anyone in the public would like to come up and say anything we have large audience I see I dare you I will I
dare you your time you got hello my name is Bobby Wagner I live at 422 Anderson Drive in Dustin in Florida uh I would just like to make sure that there's emphasis on Workforce housing in the CRA districts as we expand the Commerce that we also make sure there there's a place for the
workers to live thank you so much for being here we appreciate all that you do for our city thank you mayor all right we'll move on to new business uh Larry uh city manager if I could get you to go over the draft Harbor CRA master
plan I'll I'll take that one thanks Steve absolutely so um it's the you have before you the draft uh Harbor CRA master plan um this is the culmination of efforts between uh the consultant 3tp
staff and the um Harbor CRA advisory committee um really what you have what you have before you is is a very much improved master plan um from what we currently have um in and completely reworked um
to um really bring it up to current Uh current regulations current standards and just to give us a better picture of what is currently going on in the harbor CR District um it was also presented to the CRA
advisory committees in conjunction with the Mobility plan because a lot of the projects that are part of the Mobility plan also fall within the harbor CR you'll find that with the Town Center c as well um so there's a lot of crossover with that um so if there are any
questions on this and or the the Town Center CRA um staff will be here to answer those does anyone up here have questions all right M traml go ahead turn on your mic turn your mic on uh can we go ahead
and make one motion to accept both sure okay then I'd like to make the motion that we accept uh the harbor and the Town Center master plan all right I'll accept that can I get a second I'll second all right the second
do we have some discussion go ahead Jim so before we go final with this can we update you know the members of the council and the members of the CRA and all that other you know the uh that's my
first question I guess I'm sorry I didn't catch that last part of the question go to draft Harbor CRA board and just go to page two
okay I think it's page two okay so you still got Lewis you still got John Stevens you still got Johnny King we absolutely can okay thank you I appreciate that absolutely
it want to give the right people the credit where do the the talk to me about the first finding of necessity predominance of effective or inadequate Street layout but then you go on you're
talking about internal connections that's not the street layout that's the the lack of it and I understand internal connections you want people to basically not have to get out on Highway 98 as an example and be able to go down most of
the harbor corre area okay okay but that that's that's not a street layout that's internal uh connections so could we uh just I guess redescribe that finding so these are the
original findings from the from the the establishment of the c 25 years ago okay yep yeah so so correct me if I'm wrong Kim if we wanted to redo those we'd have to um redo the agreement the CRA
agreement to to change the findings to for the you wanted to redo what the findings for the establishment of the CRA because we didn't change those so the findings of the findings to establish the C originally to change
those wouldn't we have to change the agreement or update the agreement with the county what what is your goal but you're looking to change the names in the staff members to change we don't have to go back to change names but was there more to
it no I I actually want to change the agreement the whole agreement yeah where we gave up 50% of our Revenue to the county which we never should have done we will have to renegotiate yes so I'm just
asking as an example if we change the initial findings of what was wrong with the CRA would we have to would that reopen the agreement with the county on the CRA when you're talking about the initial
findings do you mean the findings of blight and all of the things that establish oh I don't think that alone would open it up to the county is it is that your intent to open it up you would like to open it up it would be a best practice to open it up
with the county and uh I would probably defer till Mr dtin was here because he was here when these findings these original findings I don't believe Sandy was were you I was here but not sitting no I didn't sitting up yeah I was here but I wasn't sitting
up here where where we gave away the farm to the county uh which has always been you know one of the things that I I would I didn't vote on it but I fought
against it and I lost and you know cuz the county made the the council at that time believe that if they didn't they wouldn't approve it and they wouldn't you know get on board and they would fight it in the court or whatever and
so as we usually do we caved like a cheap suit so I'm just I've always looked for I don't care you know I'm I'm term limited so I I've always looked for a uh way to reopen that I'm just asking if that is a
legitimate way I don't want to you know get slapped down and get a summary judgment if it's a waste of everybody's time I guess does that make sense it does I'm not sure looking at the creation of the CRA would open up negotiations to the agreement honestly
but let let me look at it with that question in mind and come up with some options for you if that is your goal okay okay do we have so we can postpone this instead of approving it because we're not looking to approve this if he's
having it reopened correct so at this point we're going to hold this to like our next CRA meeting so we can look and find out what we can do to renegotiate where we're currently at so that we can pull back some of what we gave away
correct your mic's not oh I'm sorry do you want to set a time frame to discuss you know a time frame for when our next CRA meeting will be for this when is our next CRA can we make it like the first one in May yeah that's what I'm asking if you'd like to I think we should make
it the first meeting in May that'll give some time to get it together and then we have our CRA meeting in May and we can bring these back up and discuss what we as a CRA Council want to do yeah I think there's are you worried about the advisory meetings I'm just gonna give
them some legal options okay yeah oh we'll do whatever needs to be done yeah I mean so depending on what you do we may need to go back to advisory boards if you're making changes but what I'm talking about for May is we'll just talk about options for how to open up the
agreement with the county and achieve some of the goals that Jim that council member Bagby has mentioned I think that's something we should we vote on this or can we just say that we want to bring this back up the first week in May I'd rather you voted for the record can I get a motion
to postpone this I'll get motion to postpone till the first meeting in May second I'm not going to Second it because I wanted to speak before you made that motion but anyway I I I I will tell you that that when you look at your
agenda the proposed legislation ends all cra's July 1 so I think we need to do something one way or the other and maybe we need to discuss that before we make the motion to come back in May that's
all I'm saying does that make sense yeah no I will ask our resident Florida leue of cities expert who's sitting here as a member of the public you know I assume the Florida League of cities is fighting hard against uh or the city manager or the
city manager one of these two fighting against but knows what the Florida League of cities is doing to make sure that CRA which are instrumental in helping uh communities redevelop what
they're doing other than going over and having parties in Tallahasse for the past 60 days I've been working my real job I'm sorry I don't have an update I I don't have anything from Florida leue of cities uh I can we can we can find out
yeah and that was kind of the reason it's here tonight is for Council direction for me to direct Kelly Beth to take a city position to our legislative delegation and those that she has influence over but the the Crux of the
bill says that all cras will sunset at their termination date if that is sooner than 2045 and they were all sunset in 2045 you're it prohibits any uh bonding
or financing activity after July 1 so going forward it's going to be a pay as you go basis uh and our two cras I think they both will expire before 2045 so when they're up they're up and I know Crystal's done some following on it as well she may have something to add to
that I think you know the biggest thing is uh it's going to be a pay as you go cash basis until there is no more money so my question would be twofold ours will expire before then and we you know
we might as well get as much money out of it particularly in the heart we we're getting the full my understanding is we get the full amount in the Town Center is that correct Crystal that we due by law that that's correct we're getting the full amount in the Town Center uh the harbor it's a uh it's a match so
they put in exactly what the city puts in as you know our mill rate is 1.61 theirs is 3.8 so that difference between the 3.8 and the 1.61 is what the county is keeping yeah and that that would in
this example be $3.8 million more that we would be getting to help redevelop that area and do things like the little taking people around on golf carts in the harbor area or whatever the
mayor wants to do with that Mobility plan but no I'm just saying that would be money that we could use so uh the other thing one of y'all or both of y'all Pro will know
or Kim will know can we set in lie of and I haven't read the legislation because I just didn't think it was going to pass but maybe I should get more interested can we set up a special taxing district like a municipal services or a municipal
benefit unit that just dude I I'm just you got to think outside the box to get Revenue sources that just happens to Overlay a similar piece of terrain in this city
yes mstu or other type of taxing district for a geographical area of the city for assessments potentially he wasn't he was just saying is it possible yeah okay so where would the tax money
come from the same general tax or Would We additionally tax just for addition it would be additional if you did it just on those but it would be only be able to be spent on them in that are and there are two
versions of that the MST is Ador based msbu is the benefit so if you get twice as much benefit as Mr Bagby you pay twice as much as he does that takes a pretty extensive study that Crystal's former organization does on a regular
basis yeah that's that's a lot I just don't know if I want to tax our citizens any bigger than they already getting taxed any more discussion on this no I can second his motion all right did you want to redo your motion for Ray the the one for accept in the master plans Madam
shair can can I ask for uh some direction from uh Council as far as engaging the lobbyists to take a position on this we yes I think that we all would like for her to help us get a position okay just want to
make sure we're clear I'll will convey that and Madam chair I I think we probably need to vote on that just to make sure it's let's do this motion first which which one are we doing to accept the pl when bring them back in
maying bring them back uh hold on Steve go ahead Steve what's the question if if the intent is just to do the harbor would would the board be willing to move forward with the town center with a separate motion sure um and just and then just doing The Harbor at a later
date if if amenable either way it's good with staff I just okay I think that works so then change what your me okay I'll make a motion that we accept the Town Center uh plan master plan as presented second all right take a vote
for that Rodney yes yes yes yes now the second okay I'll make a motion that we direct staff to bring back the harbor plan at the first meeting in May uh after the City
attorney uh does some research on that plan and uh the potential of reopening that plan with the county can I get a second I'll second that I just had a question for Jim yeah did you want it to
go back through the harbor CRA committee before it came to us no CU it's we're not changing their no we're not changing their plan I'm okay with the plan I've just never been happy with the funding okay so all right that's fine so if it comes back if Kim comes back the first
meeting in May and says no nice try okay let's just accept the plan and move on okay so you're seconded on that standing all right with that we'll call for a vote Yes treml Yes Bagby yes AAR
yes okay I will make a motion that we direct the city manager to direct our uh advis lobbyist we might do that one at the council meeting okay okay not the CRA meeting okay we'll hold off that all
right uh now let's go ahead and move to C the fiscal 2024 annual audit and financial statements I think that's your area is that correct Crystal that that's correct so these are the same financial statements that were presented to council that were accepted by council at
the uh March 7th meeting uh so now it's time for the now they're before the CRA board for the CRA to accept the their financial statements I'll move that we accept the financial statements second all right with that go for the vote
Rodney yes tro yes yes yes all right and final option here is a proposed legislation HB 991 sb1 1242 cras can you is that for
you to help that's the one we just spoke about no it's it's not so you'll need to add it uh at the beginning of the regular agenda meeting wor made a note to remind you already okay thank you well or or the
chairman can bring it up for that if we vote on it here then the chairman brings it up at the council meeting so it's up to you all right okay so we'll bring that up at the council meeting D yes all
right with that we uh have public comments if there's anyone in the audience that has anything they'd like to get up and say before we close this meeting looking all to the nobody here all right with that to all right with that we will adjourn
this meeting at 5:48 p.m. 17 March Part: 2
great all right I'm going to call this city council meeting to order happy St Patrick's Day with the shill all right first up uh the invocation by our very own Pastor Steve Ferris thank you for being here yes you can yes yes
sir well father we just come before you thanking you as king of kings and Lord of lords for this beautiful place that we are able to abide in and Lord for all these people that give their time and their energy and Lord it's a it's a good place to live because of that and Lord we just thank you and ask you to keep in
guiding them and using them in the way that you would Lord I want to especially thank right now all those folks that are involved with this storm damage and all the people that lost their lives Lord that could have been us and it has been Us in the past so Lord we want to just always pray for our First Responders and
all those and Lord we s got such a big military operation here and Lord the it's Troublesome times and Lord it's a it's a time to stand on your promises and understand that you're in control because we are certainly not so Lord we just ask for your guidance today and
thank you for all the blessings of life in Jesus name amen amen thank you for that councilwoman abar with the pledge please please D me with your hand over your heart 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 justice for all all right thank you Steve for always being here and doing that for us we appreciate that all right the agenda approval we have a couple uh notes if if
you guys know them say them or I can bring them back up uh Mr Mayor I'd like to pull 4 C the request for exception delivery and place it on the agenda for the next meeting okay and I would like to add a uh agenda item under number four
proposed legislation of House Bill 991 Senate Bill 1242 concerning CRA community redevelopment areas all right thank you kasma bag you have a second I'll second that all right motion a second any
further discussion on the change of the agenda seeing none we will call the vote yeah my okay all right everyone's logging in all right eyes have it 4 Z so
moved all right up first is going to be the proclamation water conservation month all right thank you guys for being here you guys are always here anyway so I'm glad we can get you guys here to honor what you guys do and and be a partner with you guys for another year of this so the city of Destin Proclamation water
conservation month whereas water is a basic and essential need for every living creature and whereas Destin water users Inc is the water provider for the city of dtin and whereas the State of Florida Water Management District the city of dtin and dtin water users are
working together to increase awareness about the importance of water conservation and whereas the city of dtin dtin water users and the State of Florida have designated April typically a dry month when water demands are most acute Florida's water conservation month
to educate citizens about how they can help save Florida precious Water Resource and whereas Destin water user has always encouraged and supported water conservation through various education programs and and special events and whereas every business industry school and citizen can make a
difference when it comes to con conserving water and thus promoting a healthy economy and community and whereas efficient Irrigation Design programming and maintenance can conserve water Destin water users will encourage citizens and businesses to evaluate
their irrigation system for a potential efficiency enhancements now therefore I Bobby Wagner by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of dtin and do hereby proclaim the month of April as water conservation month thank
you guys so much yeah absolutely you guys would like to say anything oh awesome you got sure I like encourage everybody now that's you're in the planning season spend some time look at your irrigation
system make sure you're not watering the street it doesn't need it uh and uh make sure you get the water on those plants so thank you very much awesome a little shout out plug for Des and water users they have an awesome app and when you have a pipe broken the app lets you know how much water your household's using
per hour and uh it saved me several hundred dollars once by catching it early so in addition to conservative conscious conservative water also some technology sometimes can uh help a lot as well so thank you guys for for your approach all right next up is the public comic
portion of this meeting um so I will take our left y'all's right if anyone's from we are going to start from the middle so all I need is your name and address oh yeah all right it was my left she got up so I
thought she was coming but all you now yes ma'am yes ma'am just there you go good afternoon Carissa harbarger 307 Mountain Drive I was wanting to know if maybe perhaps I could reserve my three minutes
whenever we go into discussing on the city manager G for G if I could reserve my 3 minutes would that be okay mayor if you can keep it at 3 minutes I got kind of breaking a whole list of rules doing that well we'll keep it to 3 minutes
okay I know that you're this is a very intimate topic with you so I'd like to keep it fair with all of us yes sir all right thank you thank you all right yes sir D Dallas 442n Snapper Drive Destin
Florida I'm going to give out a voice today he there we go I've been gropping for the last two years so number one the day after last city council meeting Mr Burgess brought me three quick dams from my house which I needed them thank you
Mike number two Mr Dustin he came well he's not here today but he's here some he's here here Spirit uh he came by my house a couple times last week check on me make sure that some young lady that's sitting up
here you know you had a late meeting last time 11:00 at night whatever I was gone some lady up here thank you ma'am said somebody needs to come by there and help me with them 60 lb bags I put them out so I appreciate the
thought I don't know D he said they come by said I don't know I had to go to the doctors and whatever and then the better deal or not the better deal but a great deal get a doorbell ringing after dark I turn a porch light on the police
standing out there I said oh man what did I do now that's what Dey said too uh I want to thank Mr Joe Gordon sitting right well he was right there he is and I told my wife to get a hold of Chief over there Sheriff's Department he
stopped by to see if I need help with the bags so uh let's see yeah Miss A bear and on the eth I didn't oh on the eighth I didn't put out the bags because we did that uh car show that we do every
year for children crisis up there at Baytown and I I was there at 6:30 in the morning got on about 4:00 that afternoon and I was dog tired well it rained 2 feet in my garage so that's best I could do but anyway uh let's see yeah so all I
got to say is life is good in the hood thank youall all right thank you sir all right anyone else public comments all right anyone from the middle Far Side seeing none we'll close the public comment portion of this and I will entertain a motion for the consent
agenda I'll make a motion to do I was there one of those I needed to pull off what was no all I'll make a motion to approve the consent agend second all right got a motion got a second councilwoman traml uh any further discussions seeing none we'll call the vote for the consent yeah I was thinking
the same thing as far as the notes all right there we go I just have it four zero so moved moving on to City management report Mr Larry Jones Thank you Mr Mayor our first item 4 a is we're pleased to uh present to you Mr David
pashard as our chosen candidate for community development director I believe he is online if you have to have any questions or comments you'd like to make but uh we are asking for your confirmation to of his appointment to that
position I was glad I had a chance to meet you face to face last week so thank you for making the trip in and look forward to you um taking care of our our city thank you thank you right I'll make a motion to approve yeah I'll make a motion to
approve second B councilman Bagby uh if if I can just make a comment on on Mr bashard and Mr Toms the next the engineer that we'll be presenting next this was not a me sit down with them and have a conversation we put these guys
through some very extensive interviews uh in involved uh many folks in our staff so that it was just not one perception of whether this is the right person individual or not uh our standard was if you've read our good to get great book or have heard any of it is get the
right people on the bus so we that was our standard when we interviewed these folks are they the right people to be on our bus and it was unanimous in both instances that they are and that they're we believe they're very capable in their
fields that they'll be an asset to our organization and we look forward to working with them so uh thank you for your kind consideration of them awesome I appreciate that and um with that I will call the vote all right Mr David welcome to the bus 4 Z so
moved congratulations welcome thank you Mr Mayor the next item 4B is a similar request from Mr Robert Tomac uh to fill the position of city engineer uh Mr Toms is online with us if you have any questions or comments to him thank
you Mr Toms for coming in I enjoyed getting to meet you last week and it sounds to me like your uh your team is happy to have you on board so thank you for being part of the hiring now I look forward to seeing what you can do helping us with our engineering projects yes ma'am awesome any other
seeing none make a motion to approve second motion got a second seeing no further discussions we will call the vote all right two up two in welcome to the bus thanks guys and welcome guys we very much looking forward to you coming on
and be a part of us and Council on behalf of Staff we want to say thank you these are two uh positions that we needed to get filled but we just didn't fill them for the sake of filling them we think we're uh moving forward in a good direction so thank you yes ma'am
when is their first day when y'all going to be here tomorrow yesterday I think that's a no not for on tomorrow uh we're we're having those conversations uh they both got to wrap up where they are and you know give appropriate
notices and give them time to relocate but uh hopefully in you know as soon as we can get them here we're going to welcome them here we may start them to work before they get here we don't know well just just let us know yes ma'am thank you welcome aboard all right
anything from David Robert anything you'd like to add no I'm just just that I'm looking forward to uh to coming down and starting work awesome very good thank you guys we'll see you soon thank
you 4C was pulled is that correct correct okay so we'll move to 4D is regarding the uh public parking for the 68th annual blessing of the fleet which will be Thursday May 29 they the organizers
of that are asking that after 2 pm that we um Abate parking fees for the mar Marler parking lot um so that would be our recommendation for a motion all right with that uh councilwoman trema I'll make the recommended motion mayor
all right and then uh do I hear a second yeah I'll second all right second by councilwoman AAR seeing no further discussions call the vote all right I have it 4 Zer so moved thank you
next oh I'm sorry I I pushed the button I had it on already uh regarding our community rating system this is a recertification uh for the city as a class six community so that's the status quo we didn't lose any points we didn't gain any uh we've had some conversation
among staff of what it would take to improve that so we can bring you some ideas back at a future meeting of uh some things that could be done um a lot of it is notification and making sure people are aware of things but that would require mailing documents to some
7,000 people on multiple occasions so there's some costs involved and trying to get that done but we'll get that back to you in short order uh and Micha thank you for your hard work anything you want to add to that yes sir I'm glad that audit is
over very well and so no no U action is requested or required next item is the uh 4f where we're being recognized as a storm ready Community by the National Weather Service there are a list of
things in your packet that says what we've done what we have in place uh that we are ready for a storm and I was kidding Michael earlier today that the storm we were anticipating to have when uh Saturday night satly Sunday morning
obviously saw our storm ready sign and decided just to go pick on somebody else so uh we were so thank you Michael for y''s work there anything to add okay great next item is uh Code Compliance for the um Beach Patrol Division and
some thoughts and plans we have for that like Steve is going to present that to you thank you evening mayor councel um so yeah uh a few months ago a few meetings ago you all asked that staing back a plan for
patrolling the beach with code in your pocket is a a tentative schedule of patrolling um it's not a hard and fast uh Patrol schedule it can be adjusted as needed um as OB observations are made
hey um the vendors for The Umbrellas and the chairs are setting up wrong like do we need to get out there a little earlier right and and and as we have seen in in previous Seasons um generally these are new people that come in every season don't know the rules and so
there's a little bit of an education and awareness that needs to be done at the beginning of the season and so that will probably take care of itself over the next few weeks the next biggest thing is the the ice cream vendors vending wees and food on the beach is not allowed period um the only
thing that is allowed to vend are those beach umbrellas and then recreational items such as standup paddle boards and kayaks and things like that so it it is a priority for code to address these uh illegal vendors on the beach and
therefore that's why that that tentative schedule is put together and as I said it can be adjusted um that is just one schedule that I put together the other one I hadn't quite hashed out it was more of a a patrol in the afternoon-ish time frame um noon uh noon and Beyond um
because as we know there may be some days where it's super cloudy in the morning and not many people go to the beach and so the beach is going to be more crowd in the afternoon or vice versa right um or as some of you noted in your um briefings rain days right we
may not need to be out on the beach that day so we can adjust elsewhere put Focus efforts that elsewhere as part of this plan there is um going to be um every day um two officers one uh one assigned as primary
Beach officer and this and then an SBO a secondary Beach officer um the primary is going to be the one that that takes the beach Duty that day um and then there will be a secondary assigned to relieve the primary of their duties because um for safety purposes I don't want them out there for more than two
hours because it gets hot um and and they do need a break um they do need to get into some AC and um other things we've we've got some gear for them we got a camel back we're going to be getting some those Sun shirts long sleeves um the the hoods um just to
protect them as much as possible um I will authorize shorts when they're doing Beach Patrol um for obvious reasons cuz we don't need out there with pants and sand because that's just not a good combination um what else um so so the for the primary Beach
officer their focus will be that day the beach and they will be working with and will coordinate with the Sheriff's Office on that so that we're not you know we're not in the same area we can have um you know focused efforts on on either side of of uh Henderson Beach
State Park um so that way there's coverage um and we're not we're not doubling efforts in one area now that's not to mean that we can't support if needed um if there's a lot more activity on the east side we'll respond if there's more activity on the west side we'll respond and this also doesn't mean
that the other code officers can't go out there and respond um yes we are down a couple of code officers right now um but the good news is is that there are several applicants um several good applicants that that we have in um and we will be starting those interviews as
well um so so um I'm confident that we'll be able to attack this and approach this in a um methodical and and planned out way so that hopefully it's not going to be perfect it's never going to be perfect um I can't promise
Perfection but there will be hopefully a better concerted effort at attacking this and addressing this problem any questions specifically about Beach thank you for that councilwoman AAR he yeah yeah I wanted to hear okay right would you like to come up now
or wait wait until we okay yeah so yeah I got a couple other things once we're finished with the beach to adjust the code with the okay yeah yeah right would you like to it's now or never it's now or never treating it like a public hearing
Rodney yeah yeah Carrie harburger 307 Mountain Drive well I can't thank you enough and first I want to back up to a few meetings ago a couple meetings ago I came up here and I addressed the council and I asked y'all for help and then I took my bags and I walked out the door and I didn't listen
to the rest of the meeting and I did go back and I listened to it and I wanted to first of all I should have thanked you from the very beginning for hearing me and actually addressing it because this is the first time in three years we've actually had a council that is aggressively addressing this and thank
you Mr O Conor for that I would like to ask if there was a possibility we could get a little copy of the schedule just so that we can just see it and um thank you is all I can say and I hope
that oh it's online okay oh okay perfect thank you thank you so much all right all right on the beach side of it just while we have this section of it um I know that Larry and I have talked to the sheriff U what we've
tried to do is um have them help us which I'd like for you to explain a perfect example of what they're doing to help us with today's ice cream vendor we haven't sat down and had those specific detailed conversations um but given this
plan and then um there's some other conversations going on that we will sit down and nail that so that we can get that coordination worked out um I will report back with those details but I wanted to point out that your code guys today called the sheriff and you want to
go ahead and tell them what transpired is a good cohesive yeah I was dealing with a broke down card sorry had Sheriff tell us what happened yeah code enforcement got out with an ice cream vendor today and uh I'm not sure what they needed assistance
with other than identifying the person but they called and the beach Deputy responded over there and helped them out out and everything ended well so based on that I was asking Larry if we could expand our help with the sheriff's department and I think we're
going to try and do a cohesive coordination to have them help us help enforce some of the issues especially with the new code guys you know not having you know a gun and a badge you know having that back up I think is going to be a good cohesive Synergy
between us and the sheriff's department even if we have to hire on with the new money um an extra share of help absolutely and that was um the uh when Captain Fen was at the visioning session and he came and requested that extra Beach um that's kind of what spurred the
the conversations at first so um so we're still having those and we'll work out the details and coordination and and uh hopefully get that get that nailed down tight great uh council member bradden thank you mayor um these officers they
going to be on foot on the beach or what are they going to be on so we have a side by side um so um it'll be just one to start with and then that secondary if if the primary wants them back up they'll be able to ride along or drive along um with with the primary um there
may be moments when they are on foot um it just kind of depends on how the how the day goes okay thank you um if if a citizen calls in either the city manager yourself and says there's a beach vendor you know I'm stand there looking at them
MH at wherever it's at gives you an address is that something that you can make that a high priority and and call your Cod compliance officer and say hey I don't know where you're at but you need to get to this location absolutely um and and just depending well you know if if it is somebody that's on the beach
um we'll have to contact the the officer who's on the beach to see if they're actually within um response distance otherwise it might be more beneficial to pull somebody that's you know patrolling Crystal Beach um and get them CU they might be at uh a beach entrance so we'll we'll we'll
take that we'll we'll we'll do that operational decision making when when that call comes in but absolutely I think there was a citation issued last year a warning or something is that still in effect so if there was a warning now we're starting to write tickets I believe so warnings last more
than a year yep if it's the same violation yeah it's the if it's the same same person same company same violation yes thank you that's all man correct awesome Bagby okay uh we had a great conversation during the pre-brief and
you addressed most of the issues and the thing but listen to you and the sheriff um the the key to success is two things equipment okay so do you have the ability to track every where every one
of your code officers are I have the ability I have the ability to track the vehicles but I don't believe Michael do we have a GPS on the on the side by side so yes we do okay so your assistant it doesn't have to be you but your
assistant can pull up if a call comes in hey who's the closest person to Joe Krab Shack on crystal be we have radios that we can do that rather than having to call Michael and log into the system and and take a look at that um but yeah every you have situational awareness all
the time I mean you just we have the ability to we have the ability to track I don't think I don't think code has the access to this the GPS system to do real-time tracking I think right now only Public Works does but we have the radios that we can reach out to to to
get everyone's uh location okay is that because we only have one license and you have the one license or why is that no sir that was always kind of the the way that we played that information
kind of um single Source because if uh I mean this is just my opinion if that you know that login got out you know people could kind of look at Whoever Whenever you know for what reason you know so if Steve needs to know where anyone is at
any point in time uh he can simply call me it takes me 30 seconds I can tell them exactly where they are um if the city manager would like you know me to add uh Mr o'conor as a kind of a power user on that site I can do that let's we'll we'll have that conversation
because I think there's some value to being able to take a I mean hard look and heck even as the TDC director I knew where all the beach code guys were because I spent the extra two bucks for their phones and I could pull up at any time okay this guy's here that person's
there that person's there it it shouldn't be I call City Hall City Hall calls you you call Michael Michael calls you back to tell you who's closest no I mean this is dadgum
2025 you ought to be a he ought to be able to have situational awareness of every one of his code officers 24/7 or whoever's when he goes on vacation whoever's doing that ought to be able to do that you know I mean so and the other
thing is you have radios do your radio does the sheriff's Beach Patrol have one of those radios I believe the I believe in in c f correct me if I'm wrong the the Sheriff's Office can reach us but we don't have the Sheriff's Office frequencies to reach
them we communicate back and forth with the Code Enforcement Officers via cell phone okay so the key to success is situational awareness of where your code officers are and your ability to communicate with the sheriff's Beach folks or the sheriff okay I mean if
there's a fight breaking out so the thing is I want to hear a solution at the next meeting on other than your person calling oh that that beach guy is off today do you know who which beach guy was on today see there's a
coordination a a deeper coordination y'all did great today but there's a deeper coordination thing that I want you to achieve for this summer for this and I want you to practice it this spring it ought to be almost instantaneous if we get a complaint
there ought to be a code or a Beach sheriff Deputy in route to that complaint within 5 minutes that that's that's yall standard right is if if you get a call you know I I got it it's a cat stuck up in a tree
falls behind a you know homicide or nonemergency non-emergency calls we average between five and six minutes getting okay so that that ought to be our standard for these these Beach coat and as we discussed today I I'm I'm over this whole enforcement thing we I want
to see it actually work this year and I think you can make it work this year I just want to tell you that where I see some break points where it's not working so situational awareness communication coordination those are the three things
that I need y'all to focus on this spring to to fix it so that we are actually addressing the problems the other thing and I know everybody has their opinion but have an over over seen Beach code enforcement for a while over
in Walton County one of the one of the key things is the beach vendors and you're entirely correct you can get them straight after about two weeks you go down there and you go you're set up too close to the water move yeah but I got all these people you can move or you
cannot come back to this beach guess what they will move they they learn and I get it it's 18y old and it's not the same 18y old as it was last year they will learn so I agree a couple of weeks
you might get start the early shift but the problems as I see them are the food vendors and the people leaving the holes in the ground okay so I'm going to ask that y'all let us know what what you do as the schedule
because they ought to start at noon out there so they can come in at 11: and they can end at 7 or whatever they have their lunch break and all their breaks but they ought to you know the food vendors are getting out there around 11:
and the holes are getting left out there about 4:35 5:30 where okay we're tired let's go home okay no fill in your hole before you leave so I I just want y'all to and I and I trust you and Larry and the Code Enforcement Officers to figure
this out but what I don't want to hear is every meeting or every week from my neighbors and our fellow citizens well here's another hole picture on Facebook or here's you know here goes another food vendor dragging their skiff across the water because
they're in the wet sand type thing okay that's my expectation appreciate the vote of confidence please have a little bit of Grace all right uh Council traml I was just going to ask if if we have the GPS coordination do is there also a way that you can ping this so we
have some kind of record of it's happening more in certain areas than it's happening not happening in other areas is it I don't know I'm asking are you talking the the the legal activity Yeah Yeah well yeah we would so unfortunately right now Compass doesn't
give us a really great we can't drop a pinpoint in the middle of sand or water or whatever so we have to tie it to an address and unfortunately most the activity on the beach can't really be tied directly to an address um but with
the new system that's coming online I I believe that it is a capability of dropping a pinpoint in the location where they're they're being cited um so we'll have a better situational awareness once that uh comes online and get get some good records of that however uh based on the information that
uh Miss harbarger has given us um shyra uh Tarpon and chrisal Shores is kind of where the area where they they mainly enter at least the Crystal Beach um and we'll have to find the the places over on the the the west side of Henderson I was just I was just trying to get some
statistics built up so that we would have some actual raw data that we could actually and like I said I don't think we're going to have that to be honest with you right now with the information or the the the database that we have I think moving forward we will though once we get this new system online okay so I guess the city manager needs to talk to
Andy and say get that part going as fast as possible it's moving along a lot faster than I expected so um yeah so that that should be should be happening fairly soon okay thank thank you uh councilman bradden thank you mayor um I just want to say I agree with everything
Mr Bagby said um with the expectations but as council members we cannot direct staff to do anything so I would graciously appreciate if Mr Bagby would make some kind of motion to that so we could vote on it I'd really like
to make that more official if possible yeah I'll make a motion that we direct the city manager and Steve to no not Steve I'm sorry just the city manager to execute a plan and report back at the
end of April on number of violations number of citations and how the plan worked during spring break second I'll second that could you expand just a little bit on citations and violations related to the beach so
how many have we issued so far one on the beach I mean we're just talking about Beach enforcement I'm sorry not Builders and I I want to fix the beach issue this year or at least make huge Improvement
yep all right I got a motion in a second any further discussion yes Jim will you add that um I'll add anything you want the uh thank BL um the way finding the um getting the yeah I I Larry you understand exactly what we want but I
I'll add that we improve the communication the coordination and the synchronization with the sheriff's office I think you know exactly what I'm talking about needs to be done and as a second you good with that I'm good with that second all right good good all good
around all right let's call the vote all right eyes have at 4 Z it is official let's go get on all right um so another another thing I wanted to bring up um uh I think it was back in November Council gave
directive on uh parking trash uh signs and then later on a little later on Noise Okay so a little bit of an update on parking okay um I'll be straight up honest the the numbers for November December January and February were not
great zero um for for for paid to for paid to park as far as January and February you are correct there were zero okay so for January paid to park zero zero citation zero warnings um for parking citation so this is just like a improperly or
illegally parked vehicle one um parking warnings 19 um St Str citation parking so this is this is citation for over parking over the limit from from 10: p.m. to 7:00 a.m. okay um zero uh Str
Str warning citations for parking um seven okay for February again paid to park with zero parking citations again improperly parked one uh parking warnings six uh s Str Str citation uh parking one and then warnings uh were
six okay now moving on to since March one this is since March one paid to park um actually just got an update on this a minute ago 57 okay um Steve um if I can cut in I don't know who's working this evening
but I'm watching it real time right now and they've written 20 citations in the last couple 77 77 and let let me add on this is and this is what's very interesting and guess where they are and they're at the Maguire's lot right across that the city lot that's back of
Maguire and that's why when I came home from work today I was like let's get on this so I am very happy that you have the code guys you have and I know for the last three or four months you didn't have that kind of activity under your hat now you've got a good squared away
group and you're you're growing them I want to put on the record Kudos that one March they're on it and especially today being St Patty's Day you know everyone's got a park somewhere to go drink so thank you for having them out there absolutely and so just to round that out
um so 77 as of uh 639 today Steve Steve I am not kidding add one more 78 as of 639 um we have nine nine parking
citations so improperly or illegally parked um 41 parking warnings uh two parking Str Str citation uh parking citations and then 21 site SDR warning citations okay um and and I can't I
can't take credit for all of that obviously it's the guys out in the field doing this um one thing that I think that has contributed to this is that we have set up now sectors across the city um it's been divided up into three
sectors um with the with the number of officers that we currently have we cannot have a an officer in each sector every single day um however as operations are needed they can be shifted around but like I said we've got
several good um applicants in in the in the the pipe right now so um so yeah so I think the sectors are working as far as I can tell for right now it's I think it's a little too early to say it's a complete success um and then once we
factor in the beach um patrol officer and all that we'll we'll hopefully start seeing a little more success in this quick question how many trucks does Code Compliance have on on the docket um nine
nine nine so you have two guys out at any given time because there's seven that are in the lot and there's a gator when is the gator used is that not Beach Gat the gator only goes out on the beach on the weekends or no whenever whenever it's needed on just hit or miss thing and so once we once we start hammering
the the the primary Beach officer duties that will spend a lot more time out on the beach um it won't be necessarily parked there um so so yeah the the the the the truck situation yeah so right now there's there's probably only going
to be two on from about 7:30 to 3:30 4:00ish and then the next shift comes in excuse me um about 2:30 and it's generally only one so at any given time um between you know there's probably only going to be one to two individuals
out right now um I am looking at shifting schedules around because they are kind of all over the place it's hard for me to keep track of as to who's on who's off um I am working through that right now with the team um and and hopefully we
can get it a little more standardized um while keeping while maintaining the same amount of coverage um but maybe looking at doing someone more of an on call uh Staffing um in the later hours rather than having somebody just on um so that
way we can focus CU we all know the more people you have out the more eyes you have the better chance you are going to be able to catch these so if if we can have more people on during the highest period of activity which is generally between 10 and 5 we're going to be able to do a lot more so so if I can shift
the schedules around a little bit to get that focused effort with four into four maybe five individuals on between 10 and and five um I think we'll we'll do a lot better well and that was what I was curious about because we got 10 trucks
or nine trucks in a gator and now we've only got a couple that are used at a time so there's a lot of extra so that's why I was hoping you were going to say we get these extra people hired in we'll have five vehicles at any one given time between 10:00 and 5:00 all over the city in all the areas that need to be
monitored and I'll also take a look at you know I think at any any point um there's there's got to be a give and take with with with um you know the equipment you're given um coming from the Marine Corps right we got the hamme
downs from the Army you know um so there wasn't really a time where I didn't have used equipment um um and so the understanding that hey you may come in um but you're going to be sharing a vehicle with
somebody um or it's going to be somebody else's vehicle on a different day right hot seating whatever you want to call it um so that we can actually reduce the number of vehicles that are just kind of sitting around um and we can re we can we can put those towards different efforts and and get the vehicles cuz we
have one from I think 2017 they's still in the fleet that we've been actually trying to get away um uh you know or instead of selling it off um redistributing it amongst the fleet where where maybe it it doesn't get used as much um and can
be utilized in A Better Effort so no no uh councilman bradden thank you um how many code officers do you have that can go out on the road right now um I have five but we only have two that's working
the road at any given time at the moment yes just do just do the way the current schedule is which is why I said I wanted to rework the schedule and then when I get uh when we hire the other officers um we can we can kind of take a look at um I I haven't really finalized my
thoughts on everything which is why I I can't be so committal but I I do want to bring something back to you all just to have your all's input and feedback and get the attab boy so okay my next question is is why are we writing so many
warnings so state law requires that a warning has to be written first before a citation now when it comes to parking for an illegally parked vehicle or or a vehicle in a paid to park that that
that's that doesn't fall into that category but when when we have an Str Str violation so say because again we only we only enforce the parking limit on the short-term rental so if your short-term rental says seven vehicles on it right that's only
enforced from 10 p.m. till 700 a.m. okay so if you have 8 after 10 p.m. right that's a violation of the Land Development code and therefore a citation has to be written but if that if that house has not been written a warning it has to receive one warning
before we can write the citation thank you that's all I there all right thanks great awesome thank you thank you and just uh along that line we've we've had a pretty good reset in code of late and uh we're seeing some attitudes
come around on you to do a good job and we're seeing them perform at a little higher level so I do want to commend you and Steve for last Wednesday morning going around moving some trash cans off the street back up the driveways I appreciate that I think a lot of residents don't realize how important it
is is but certainly the renters don't realize that they're sitting on the sidewalk in the street so thanks for your effort on the side there thanks Steve Well I get you for my perspective it doesn't hurt to get out and experience those things and participate and uh my staff has heard me say many
times there's no big me little you we're all in this together so whatever needs to be done we'll get out there and do it all right you want to jump to the legislation CRA yeah before announcements yeah okay y uh Mr Mayor I would make a motion that we direct the
city manager to direct our lobbyist to notify our legislative delegation of our strong opposition to House Bill 991 and Senate Bill 1242 I'll second that all right other than that um I don't know if
we need a proclamation for the next one or any kind of resolution to go for it I'm sure that's Kelly Beth yeah discussion all right we'll we'll pass this along and I'll have conversation with her if she needs any uh you you may ask and include that if she would like a
letter that you authorize me to draft that letter and send it on behalf of council am my motion all right we got amend I'll amend my motion as such and I'll second that both the motion and the second or amended uh councilwoman traml I was just going to add to Mr Bagby if
you would to um add that the mayor and the city manager when they go to Tallahassee also bring that up oh yeah I definitely will yep we'll be up there next week okay already going to be up there all right all right with that we'll call the vote all right I just have it for zero
so moved announcements 4 is uh you have in your report a your um financial statements from Miss Crystal and the TDC monthly report absent no questions we'll move on to announcements okay um uh we've had some conversation
with the Nora F Nora po Point folks the contractor and the D since we published our agenda uh and Miss Kim can probably shed a little more light on because she was more involved in those conversations but they've given us some dates which
we've provided you for substantial completion which is the 1st of June um and total complete by the end of June and they did mention the idea of signs prohibiting boats docking on the harbor side um so we think that would be
prudent there's having some issues there of some difficulties that those Vats may be uh fighing but before we granted them permission to post those signs or do you need legis sponsor for that what we're looking for is Council to authorize City staff to put up the signs if you're in
agreement with that I'll make that it was discussed at prior meetings but it was never formally decided I'll make that motion and I'll second it all right I got a motion in second councilman Bagby no I want to speak on a different topic okay all right we put you back on
the Queue um what's the signage say is there a fee I mean this is going to be an absolute local uise go ahead sorry no I it's what I sent in an email to you but there's a state law that it will refer to and it will say no trespassing during construction this is temporary
and as a city manager just said hopefully the construction will be over by the end of June and the signs will come down but during the construction to keep children and other people from going on the site it will Author it will provide Authority for the sheriff to be able to come and if people are giving
the contractor a hard time they'll be able to better enforce if am I misstating anything captain no you're you're absolutely correct it actually makes it a felony for people to trespass in a in a um constru an active construction zone it'll give us the power to help the contractor keep people
out of there cool as long as you guys responding and not the code we got enough things working on it all right I got a motion in second we'll call the vote all right eyes have it so moved 4 Z did we uh want to talk about the TDC
and the pickle ball or tdd and the pickle ball we can uh we were uh the at the last meeting the the tdd it the motion was and and and uh
voted to request $300,000 of our bucket money for the pickle ball courts to supplement that the we made that request and and Jeff can help me out here but the TDC TD folks came back and said uh
we're only going to allow you 25% of the overall cost whatever that may be as opposed to the $300,000 so uh Jeff did I sayate that right yes sir that's right and I think we'll have a better number you they really want to you know have
their control those funds that we think are our funds as to the degree we can use them so we mentioned that earlier um in in Mr bag's briefing and so that's the situation we are in we've we've kind of pushed back on it some but we're not sure whether we can get any traction on
it because they kind of hold per strings so that's about if if we go with the bid that we basically rejected at 700,000 that's 175,000 that they're authorizing so just instead of the three they're asking for they only do
175 so with that yeah I'm I'm going to make a motion to direct staff to convey a sense to the council that you know we want the entire 300,000 it's related to tourism it impacts tourism and uh we we
believe that they ought to approve and I I normally would wait for Kevin since he's our representative but I'm not inclined to to wait so I'll make that motion I'll second it motion to Second alternate on TDC okay oh there you go uh
any further discussion on the matter right seeing none any clarification no I think we're clear all right let's call the vote all right I have it 4 Zer so moved it's tough item is uh 5A under public hearings uh
so this is a public hearing relating to the non-residential mean Marine construction um this is what we know as the um dock for the destined fire fire district um for a they applied for a
non-residential marine construction at 127 coun Avenue all right kimy ready Daniel okay no all right good evening so as Larry stated this is the um mrd Associates on
behalf of dust Fire Control District they are seeking approval of the extension of their existing finger pier in the existing staging area for a total of 264 ft total there is no expansion of length for the dock no expansion in slip
density they're not creating any slips it's simply just expanding the finger pier in the St staging areas to to better um access their new boat that they got and I believe the applicant as well as the fire district is here to answer any questions and the hbor waterways board did hear this item um in
the February 27th meeting and recommended approval unan unanimously all right seeing that this is a public hearing at this time if there's anyone from the public that would like to speak on this issue this is your time to do so all right seeing none I'll close the
public comments of this public hearing and uh do they need to speak or do we can we go for a motion yes they should be able to speak okay so does the applicant have anything you don't need to speak if you don't want
to we understand all right good deal all right so with that uh We've crossed our tees and dotted our eyes I'll make a motion all right got a motion by councilwoman AB bear do I hear a second I'll second second Council woman traml any further discussions seeing none are you both the
conditions uh yes right seeing none we'll call the vote all right I have it 4 Z thanks for hanging in there with us Mr Mayor happy St Patrick's Day as usually I forgot to recognize I was going to come back to you but you went
right into the public hearing so I don't want to get legal Quagmire on us Dr T yes I'm ready okay so we were originally planning to have Terry Shaw from kimley horn here tonight to discuss intelligent intersections and uh they
had a flight cancellation because of weather so we're working to see if we can get that topic on the agenda for April 7th and we wanted to acknowledge it tonight since we had brought it up at previous Council meetings also um super happy last one is the Easter egg hunt will be Saturday
April 19th at the Morgan Sports Center the event will begin at 9:00 a.m. and while it's designed for ages 12 and under I've been the last couple years and it's fun for um all ages so we hope people come out awesome thank you all right going
right into are you gonna talk go ahead have question are you gonna say anything about the pooch paloa first weekend in April I don't have anything on that I did meet with um the granddaughter of Nancy the other day and we started pushing it out on social media um so if
if you can add to it that would be great I can pull up yeah it's Saturday April uh 5th and that will be taking place here at the dog park and in the parking lot of the CC anex um it is from 10:00
a.m. to 3: p.m. do you bring your dog okay proed proceeds are going to and you bring your dog like it's found on what that is what what you do so what it is is um we have that Arians we have different um uh there's going to be a
silent auction there'll be um a little pet Talent contest there's just some fun little things for the dogs and the pet owners um and all the um the vendors will be paying and anything we um bring
in from the auction and it does go to the park foundation and this is the very first event that we are having with with the parks foundation and we're all excited aren't we you need any volunteers well yes if you want volunte
yes give me a call hear that everybody that's watching online if you want to volunteer and be part of this wonderful pet paloa call The Parks director at uh the community center right Lisa Yes actually let me just read real quick we're going to have the blessing of the
dogs we're going to have um a pet Talent contest the sheriff K9 will be there uh demonstrations from them um there'll be a professional pet photographer Raffles Pooch nail trimming vendor boost and
food truck and a um trick sent demonstration and more so if that doesn't sound fun no what and the proceeds will go to improve the dog part yes okay anything
else nope all right uh councilman Braden thank you mayor uh the only thing I have tonight as um legislative sponsor on the ordinance um exemption to uh separate requirements for the 501c and 19 entities um this is on the um we was
um I'm sorry I was just trying to help you remember for the church by iselia yeah it um I guess we had the I don't know if it was um wasn't the Elks or the beds was on a paletto um right there like palow on the mountain now they want to move around
the corner on a zelia and I think the way the ordinance says serving alcohol within 500t of the church and they're 423 ft um but I think the best of my knowledge I don't think the city's ever had a complaint with the with our
veterans with the Elk's Lodge or anything else is it still private it's all it's all private um so I was just um I just like to make a a motion to direct staff to make that exemption for the
501c and the 19 entities for I'll second that thank you right got a motion in a second any further discussion yep is there a reason we're we're doing this as an ordinance as opposed to just a variance just a straight variance and my
my question is it's going to require us two or three readings hearings readings whatever to uh pass an ordinance as opposed to variance application currently have a variance for this in
the code and that was um council member Braden's first suggestion when he reached out was could we do a variance it's not currently authorized so we would so I suggested you could make a limited exception in the code this 501 c19 it's not for all nonprofits or anything broad like that it is for
military based organizations that are tax exempt they have to be Army Navy or Marine related yeah I I get nervous when we because then c6s will want it and c3s will want it and C4s will want it and next thing you know you know well you
gave it to the it to them we can put in a variance um if that's the way you want the ordinance to read no I'm I'm just curious it seemed like it would be we had for our discussion this afternoon uh with or my discussion with the staff it
just seemed like it easier to do a variance but if it's not easier it requires the same three meetings then it's not only that it's also would be hard to meet the criteria for a variance because it can't be self-imposed and arguably putting your use next to a
church is always going to be self-imposed so I don't know that a variance would I see your point it would be simpler but that was kind of the reason we didn't go that route okay yeah cuz I think we all agree we want to be a familyfriendly town we don't want a bunch of to bars which is
why we have the ordinance we have you know but okay well we'll narrow we'll draw the exception very narrowly for for what we bring for you to consider all right see no further discussions we'll call the vote all right I have it 4 zero so moved
thank you guys thank you mayor that's all have awesome all right Council woman traml I have nothing tonight awesome uh council member Bagby I would ask the city manager and uh Steve to update us of gotten numerous complaints from the
various contractors that are burying utilities underneath uh our rights of way and uh what what the status of that is and how they expect to enforce going forward uh the leases or the agreements
or our codes or whatever uh to make sure that the problems we seem to be having uh are minimized or at least repaired promptly thank you Mr Bagby um first we have uh representatives from live o here tonight so if you have any questions
directly for them they're certainly prepared to answer them uh we had a meeting last week with uh live o and Giga power who are the primaries um that are doing the undergrounding
um due to some issues that we found in pretty egregious situations uh we asked them to come in for a meeting and we had a very good meeting we laid out to them what we expected to happen and why we expected it to happen uh the conditions
of their permit require many things from them and we made sure they were abundantly aware of what those were and that we expected them uh to comply with those standards uh we explained them that uh if the situations persist that
we've been seen that we don't mind suspending a permit until we come to a a solution uh an a quick amicable solution that fixes a problem without leaving a dangerous situation for our citizens um
they were very receptive in the meeting uh we came to an agreement that a they're they're going to notify us two weeks in advance of where they're going to be working that uh we will have at least monthly meetings to discuss any issues they're having or any issues
we're having and if we need to have them more often that we will um that you know there to leave no open holes period I mean you know if you got it covered up with a piece of you know 3/4 inch fly would cover it up but in any situation
they need to be well marked that safety is our number one concern and that needs to be their number one concern um where asking that their subcontractors have their signs uh readily uh visible on their vehicle so
uh we don't care if it's a sub of live o or gig or whoever they may be we know who the permit holder is and that's where we're going to go for a solution uh so I think we made a lot of progress I think we were very clear that uh you know that we intended to look
after the safety of our citizens and the assets that we had claim as a city being our rideways that those that they damaged we expect them to leave them in a better condition than what they found them and that goes for private property as well there's some instances where
they uh deviated off of the rideway on private property and when they've caused issues there we're expecting them uh and holding them accountable to repair those as well so uh I do think we made some progress and uh we'll certainly stay on top of it and continue to monitor it
closely U and Steve anything you could add from there or would like to no I think every I think Larry covered everything that we um disc I wasn't at the meeting myself personally I was out but um I had my notes with Larry and Larry covered everything that and added
to it um so um if there's any questions or comments or concerns um any of the residents can reach out to code Code Compliance uh Community Development specifically engineering um and we'll we'll get into contact with either live o or Giga power to get those issues
rectified awesome ccom TR I just wanted to ask I'm sorry did I do something um Can can we have the representative from Live vot come up to the microphone Hello I'm mcmanis with live
fiber oh thank you y um I just wondered um what the solution was for Mountain Drive when they dug on private property because they didn't realize that the center of the road was not the center of the road it had been jacked up yes and
they did some boring there and nothing has been done to my knowledge to rectify any of those so I just wondered what your plan was for that yes uh we have rectified all those issues on Mountain Drive and we had another instance on coun Drive uh we work directly with the homeowner and uh got that sit that
situation resolved as a property owner on Mountain Drive I can tell you it was not rectified thank you all right I was told that was taken care of so I will make sure that's taken care of yes ma'am we'll make sure it's taken care of yep yes ma'am thank you all right thank you
appreciate that mayor uh who on our team owns the permites so if Andy has a complaint or a neighbor that has a complaint or I have a complaint or the people on Fourth
Street who complain to me or the people in destiny that complain to me who who do I call or who do they call to call these folks so all permitting is done through the permitting building and permitting division um under Community
Development um so they can they can call um myself uh but but engineering the engineering division is really the one that's kind of the point of contact for most of these issues um so the engineering division can be contacted if they call any one of you all call the
main Community Development line um just ask for engineering I've got a live o or Giga power problem and they'll direct direct you to the appropriate person if it needs to get elevated to my level it will um and then if I need to elevate it
to Larry I'll do the same well who so as a for marine you understand unity of command I want one button that we can push that has a direct line to him says you need to go out on Fourth Street you need to fix
this problem you just tour up somebody's cable or water line or irrigation line and I will be out there in 2 hours to make sure that you fixed it that would that would be engineering so the main the main Community Development line just
requests engineering and um that'll go straight to um the engineering staff that's appropriate for that and it'll get it'll it'll get rectified it will run up um to myself Larry will be made aware of it as well but yeah um the
quickest will be straight to engineering because my perception is his folks tell him oh yeah we fix that they tell you somebody engineering you you somebody yep we got it corrected
our understanding is it's corrected okay but nobody goes back to Sandy and says okay so is uh your water working or is your cable working or is your whatever working and then all that does is frustrates the heck out of her or some
other citizen so I just want to make sure we're kind of again this is tonight's theme is communication synchronization coordination okay we're closing the loop and we're going back to Sandy who gave us the initial complaint
saying we're told it's fixed nope I'm sitting here my TV's on and all I got is snow yep so I'll I'll just kind of run through a what if scenario say there's a problem they call engineering um uh
engineering contacts the appropriate permit holder and gives them a timeline um a an engineering staff member or other inspector will go out and ensure that it is rectified um and if it is not then they
will contact myself and I will authorize re revocation of that permit okay that that's what I want to know because and and I'm not beating up on you you folks because competition is a great thing you know if you sawell my
Cox bill every month you'd be like we need to go to Destin we need to start putting in fiber because we can make a lot of money just cutting his bill in half okay I got that I want competition and I want yall to be both of you to be successful but I want you to stop
breaking all this stuff so these people stop calling me or running into me on my Friday night you know time my friends and family uh no I that's what we get paid for yeah one one of the things I brought with me were some flyers I was going to give maybe there's a soci
social media Personnel I could give this to with a direct number to contact us so they don't have to come to you guys can I give this to you Dr T the best way to get these resolved for us uh from an organ organizational standpoint is we're housed in nville and Blue Water Bay if you pick up that phone
you're going to talk to somebody there we're going to get a ticket in our email uh bucket for construction we're going to call you within 24 hours at least to make sure that it's taken care of uh or a plan is put in place to make sure it's taken care of if we can get someone uh to call into that number get a hold of
us get you on that list um our average resolution time on all the tickets on our incident list that we keep up with now is two days so quickest way to get it is to get it to us and not have to go through everybody else to get it to us um we like to door tag get out in front of the crews make sure everybody's aware
they were coming uh the same numbers on there unfortunately I think a lot of homes in this area are vacation homes or rental homes and you know people may not see that kind of toss it aside but and hopes that if you get something on social media and blasted out there and let people know call this number if
there's a compl okay awesome thank you all righty you have another one of those pieces of paper I had about 20 of them let me grab you one okay okay go that was my all right Dr I um can you can you stay right there
she wants to speak' for gig of yes just real quick um I wanted to find out I had a couple neighbors said I've seen that live oak TR truck when are they going to say we're available do you want to switch Services um depends on where you are uh we plan on going Main Street
downtown dtin um I would say by the beginning of April we'll be getting people uh to where they'll be able to be installed and it'll it'll go from there as uh the coming weeks of months so hopefully by the summer we'll have everyone in that area lit up and ready to go perfect thank you yes ma'am did
she want to come up please you can than just push that gray button yep there you go okay that's for the vertically challenged of us right I hear you um I'm Alicia Jackson and I am the director for gigap power so saying the same exact things we participated in the meeting
with Mr Jones we we will participate in the monthly meeting to provide any communication back to us that you need to um we had suggest as well we have an 800 number that you can call in with customer complaints but it also varies um on your level so if it's a water you know that's probably one that someone
there will try to handle immediately you know they our teams contact your local water and say hey let's facilitate this and we usually do pay for those expenses as well so I just wanted to reiterate we're all here to try to be good partners I know just as Live Oak is competition is great um this is an area
that we feel was underserved with fiber so that's why so many people are coming to bring those services to you in this area so I have also shared my card and we shared the information about our 800 number feel free to reach out to us we try to resolve everything as quickly as we can and same question for you when do
you see that you'll be uh starting your up and running we have two um areas that are already up and running um in the city of dtin and I only unfortunately know them by their numbers of our our areas but um Dolphin Street I know that's where our equipment is housed so
there's two areas probably a mile on either side of dolphin Dolphin Street that have been turned on um we are participating with the city of of city of dtin sorry remember where I am in the joint trench project so uh we're going down 98 uh until Airport Road and we've
we're pre-building in areas um north of 98 um going back towards Fort Walton so once that joint trench project is finished hopefully by the end of June uh we'll be able to pull our fiber through there and turn those up within you know another month thank you very much
appreciate you being here question for you on that too uh the that's AT&T yes is that is this the 5G uh home or is this actual fiber connected to the home actually fiber to your home yes you know AT&T is not the I like in this area so yeah um like you said there's Cox or
centry link or whoever it is so our ability to bring it is through just direct fiber gotcha all right thank you so much thank you and if you can hit that gray button and just turn off that mic for me thank you so much thank you so the only other thing I have mayor is just that I wanted to uh thank Larry for
working so hard to get us those two spots filled getting our directors in place and I know that it helped Steve because Steve did not want to be the director and I am so happy that you will be able to let him take charge and you just keep managing what you're doing so thanks for what you're working on I
appreciate it I know it's been tedious but I know it's um it's a work in progress so thank you and thank you for getting the guys up to speed just word there again it was a group effort so I appreciate our staff pitching in and um we value their feedback in these things because it's
important because they got to work for them awesome all right the only thing I have it's really just kind of uh throwing it out there nothing to take action on just more of an update um it really I spoke about it maybe a year and a half ago uh but with us jocking over a
couple parking spaces uh with the TDC Beach Parks I figured this would be a great time to bring it back up uh Mobil on demand whether there's a lot of different forms uh I do not want scooters in the city I don't want any of those drop them leave them things uh but
if we have well equipped manned eight man golf carts six people golf carts at different varieties uh it's really trying to take the short-term Rental Community areas and allow them to go within that mile the one mile radius uh
so if people like the Dustin Harbor haulers uh is what I use on the west side of town to get to the harbor um if we can expand on that as I travel around Florida a lot of these Coastal communities have it there's a lot of different ways to set up the the
business model um some have it few I say the rarest way would be you're paying as a a rider but through advertisement and or tourism development dollars you're providing people a way to get to the places they want to go in a free public
transit way that's a little bit more Beach Town versus the the mini buses that we have and everything so um this is something an idea that I'm kind of mulling over and we're getting some participation and so hopefully I'll come back with a little bit more polished
presentation by a couple people and we could either go out for a bid or if we can find other ways to work creatively it might just be up for your guys' consideration so really if you guys have any knowledge on it now and have questions for us to kind of stay within
the box so we don't go too far out of the way we'd love just to hear kind of where those um I guess the guid rails may be but if not we'll come back with some more information but really that's where we're at right now so if anything I'll keep moving along nothing all
right all right Kim I don't have anything thank you all right public comments anything else uh oh here we go one person involed yeah the one person knows everything is that what you said invol
in directional drilling good evening Monica Wallace dust and water users 14 Industrial Park Lane um I just want to add to the conversation about the directional Drillers we're happy to participate if you'd like us to um the permits are right of-way permits that is usually run
by the engineering division so hopefully want you get your engineer on staff that will maybe run a little bit smoother uh my staff has indicated that um a lot of people are coming to drill in Dustin on Fridays because other cities have not allowed it uh I give that to you as Food For Thought um so far we kind of Fridays
have been busier days for us but not as busy as some other days some weeks we'll have several hits other weeks we won't have any hits so I just leave that up for discussion I will say those lately the subcontractors have been working well with us to get things restored and recover our costs um but some of the
prior ones were still out out there that we're working on um try think if there's anything else related to that I think I'm happy to answer any questions but um we any idea why what what's your opinion on why Fridays are because I have an opinion but I want to know what your
opinion is on why Fridays are busier here yeah here because all the Drillers come to dtin because they're not allowed to drill in other municipalities well Friday on Fridays why not I I don't know the answer to that and maybe something yall check into because that's just coming from staff
I've not vetted it myself either um but it's something just we are a busy tourist town on the weekends and Friday typically so that's probably why they're not allow at the other towns because they don't want the Friday mess it's it's possible
I don't know the answer to that um but again they've been working great with us to get things restored um and so I I do want to commend them on that and we have had a good working relationship Unfortunately they may be the permit holders but it's their subs we have to build um so there's a relationship there
that we work through um but they're usually pretty good about holding their subs accountable um but they change their subs quite regularly so perspective of the water company for you any other questions if it's torn up on Friday sometimes it doesn't get fixed
till Monday so oh no we fix it everybody needs water yeah the proclamation said it was essential for living yeah and we we we've also yeah we've also encouraged um if you I'll get calls also if someone has a sewer backup call us first and let
us determine whether or not it's a plum issue in their house or if it's potentially a drill through it the lateral so yeah awesome all right Mr May talking about DW I was talking about the subs that are bonica before you leave just if you haven't noticed uh Destin
wat us users has graciously painted the fence around the pond in front of City Hall so it looks much better so I want to say thank you and for those you who don't we charge some reclaim water to keep the pond topped off from time to time Michael calls me quite regularly got any extra give but uh yeah we're
working on beautifying the fence hopefully they'll be done say thank you for that yeah I saw that today thank you I was going to give him glad you can get the credit now keep moving the cups all right anything else seeing none
all right happy St Patrick's Day