##VIDEO ID:Wxl3kisMOn4## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e basically um taking waste and creating energy uh and that's through a partnership with uh reworld and kanta um before we got too serious in negotiating a contract with Waste Management we wanted to uh have a waste management and reworld come present to the city commission to tell you a little bit about their alternate proposal what uh would be entailed and then if the city commission is satisfied and would like to move forward with that alternate um the uh selection committee it has recommended um Waste Management's alternative bid as the number one response uh and so if the city commission is comfortable with um the waste uh waste to energy concept then we would move forward starting to negotiate a contract with Waste Management uh that we would bring back to you in January and so we have Representatives here from waste management and from reworld uh to talk to you a little bit about their proposal come on up gentlemen and then I also um as uh one of the um one of the things that we ask for uh based on some concerns presented by um Waste Pro uh we asked Waste Management to have reworld confirm that they would be uh willing able and have the capacity to accept our way and so I'm going to out to you a letter from reworld related to that and Jose you can go ahead and get start welcome Jose hi Jose mayor Commissioners I'm Jose bosan government Affairs manager uh for Waste Management uh here in Central Florida well I wanted to take the opportunity to first thank you for the honor of uh serving sing the city for 38 years it's been a great partnership and we look for forward to that continued partnership through this process um you know providing high quality service to your residents um the staff recommended WM through through that process and we appreciate how hard they worked and and all of us had a chance to meet with the committee do presentations and kind of discuss how the waste to energy proposal what it look looks like what it entails um uh WM Wildwood has provided the lowest cost we were the lowest bidder and that's one of the reasons we received that number one also our history the transition plan all those things ranked us number one um through that process and then uh by continuing to um use Waste Management you won't have any issues through the transition plan um we you know we can easily go through that and waste to energy is considered uh by Statute recycled uh 50% of all the material that that's the tonage that's taken is considered recycling so that that is by State Statute um and then um we'll have reor kind of do the presentation and and uh Patrick Walsh uh their area asset manager we we'll do that uh once I introduce him um you know and there's other cities where we have done this that we worked uh to go to a waste to energy process they were doing traditional cycling and move to the waste of energy those are the city of dellen Fruitland Park the town of Lady Lake leeburg Mount Dora Wildwood and about 89,000 homes in The Villages so it's not a New Concept and all of these uh report to Lake County or the county where they reside and they report the uh tonnage and that is considered recycling uses will be able to do the same thing um and then you know we we will work closely with your uh to do an education uh to Residents we'll take care of the cost of that uh it will be a no cost to the city and and just let people know what the process means and all that and um and we look forward to to that opportunity um with that I'd like to introduce Patrick Walsh the area asset manager and all around waste to energy Guru for reor thank you Jose thank you welcome Patrick thank you Jose thank you mayor Council uh thank you for for the time um Patrick Walsh area asset manager for for reworld Lake uh Incorporated um just wanted to give you take a few minutes put together a brief presentation on how the process works um waste energy is not a new technology it's uh it's been around for about 50 years um the Lake County plant in oklahuma has been operating since 1991 um so we've had a a long partnership with with Waste Management um and and with Lake County as well um up until 19 until 2014 um when Lake County decided to go a different direction and move back to landfilling their material instead of uh going to a renewable renewable energy uh facility so just a very brief presentation there's about a three-minute video that kind of explains the process um from start to finish uh again it's it's something that that uh reworld itself uh formerly kanta formerly Ogden Martin has been operating built the plant in okah hunka and has been operating since since it opened in 1991 um so for more than 40 years we've been a leader in sustainable Waste Solutions and waste energy is is a key Mi key factor in greenhouse gas mitigation going forward that has been been classified and stated by the UN environmental uh environmental Council uh it's recognized worldwide um just just a little bit about the company itself we handle about 20 million tons of solid waste per year um so it's something that we're avoiding 41 million metric tons of greenhouse gases by processing the material in what and we call it thermomechanical treatment because what happens when you think of the word incinerator you think of a smoke stack with black smoke coming out the top hospitals used to have incinerators apartment buildings used to have incinerators but in 1990 the EPA enacted maced regulations and put limits on what those emissions could be all the hospital incinerators shut down all the apartment building incinerators shut down Air Pollution Control technology is one of the key pieces of this technology that makes it work and make it more makes it more environmentally friendly um just just to give you an idea we are recovering all of the metal post combustion so through throughout our Fleet we recover about 500,000 tons of metal every year which is enough to build five Golden Gate bridges every year so we are we are actually recycling that material the rest of it we're using the material as fuel to recover recovering that material we're re using that material to generate renewable electricity around the world the United States is far behind far behind there's a reason why there's 400 of these facilities in Europe there's a reason why China is building 300 right now because landfills have been recognized as methane super emitters landfills also methane has been has been identified to be 84 to 96 times more harmful to the atmosphere than CO2 and it's a fast acting greenhous greenhouse gas so by taking the material to a facility like ours we don't generate any methane but if you look Germany Denmark only 1% of their material gets to a landfill because they have landfill taxes they have legislative support and they're better they are better at recycling they recycle a lot but the LA the last step is landfill last last option is landfill and we're at 65% here in the United stes States still going to all land again we have a 90% volume reduction there are there are 10 facilities in the State of Florida 10 waste to energy facilities that have all been operating for 30 plus years and if you think about all that material going to landfills over the last 30 years there'd be ca landfills all over the state you get that 90% reduction so for example a facility like ours we handle 165,000 tons of material a year so if everybody's familiar with Epcot spaceship earth in the middle it's about three and a half of them and we reduce that down to about half of one and then that material is using being used is alternative daily cover at a landfill instead of Virgin Lime Rock clay sand or mulch so it's being beneficially reused even the byproduct from an energy energy generation standpoint even if you're recovering the methane from a landfill you're getting about 65 kilowatt hours per energy of energy per ton of material that goes into a landfill with our with our process you're getting 550 kilowatt hours per time so it's about 10 times more efficient referring to this solid waste of hierarchy there's the American and and the European reduce reuse recycle recover energy from waste where that fourth are everybody knows the first three we're the fourth one the reduction is the key if you don't generate it you don't have to you don't have to mitigate I have a brief video about 3 minutes I hope we have at a reworld thermomechanical treatment facility ttfs are sustainable waste ecosystems that include modern waste to energy technology here's your chance to see how this technology Works once trucks arrive they are weighed and checked in before heading inside to the Tipping Hall the waste is unloaded onto the Tipping floor and Visually inspected for any unacceptable items which are removed for separate Rec cycling or proper disposal waste is then pushed into a storage pit and thoroughly mixed before being loaded into bins which we call Hoppers where it travels to the combustion chamber The Tipping and waste storage areas are maintained under negative air pressure to contain dust and odors once fed into the combustion chamber waste is combusted at extremely high temperatures in a self-sustaining process at approximately 2000° f a typical Hopper load is completely combusted in 1 to 2 hours as the waste is burned the heat converts water in the steel tube lined walls into steam that rises through boiler tubes where it is superheated the steam turns a turbine driven generator to produce electricity or may sometimes be used directly for heating or industrial processes the electricity produced by the turbine generator is exported to local utilities for use in homes and businesses each ton of waste can generate 550 to 700 KW hours of electricity Steam from the process is condensed back into water and returned to the boiler tubes making it an efficient closed loop system after combustion the volume of waste is reduced by 90% leaving an inert Ash and metal collected metal is sold to be made into new products remaining Ash is beneficially re used or landfilled as non-hazardous waste Ferris Metals such as Iron and Steel are recovered using a rotating drum magnet and nonferrous metals like aluminum and copper are separated by an eddy current system state-of-the-art enironmental control equipment ensures that emissions are well below limits to be fully protective of human health and the environment we neutralize acid gases using lime in a scrubber reactor and inject activated carbon for heavy metal control we control emissions of particulate matter primarily through a bag house which employs thousands of fabric filter bags all Fu gas must pass through the bags before exiting through the stack throughout this process the control room closely monitors emissions through a realtime continuous emission monitoring system controls steam flow and manages a number of other automated systems inside the facility we hope you enjoyed the tour reworld is a leading sustainable Waste Solutions company providing an extensive range of services to assist our customers in achieving their carbon negative goals that reduce reuse recycle recover and renew we reimagining what's possible with waste so just a few brief facts about the lake plant itself I I kind of touched on a couple of them um but we we process about 160,000 of Municipal Solid Waste every year um so we're recycling about 4,500 to 4700 tons of Ferris metal per year about 300 tons of nonferrous metals um that you know Alum primarily aluminum and copper uh so basically I mean if you were to take all those garbage trucks and Stam end to end from RE Lake in in oklah would go all the way down to the University of so it's something that you know as far as the metals recovered Metals you know there's a couple cool cool cool little stats there you can make a paperclip chain that goes around Earth seven times you always wanted to know that 82,000 megawatt Energy megawatt hours of of of renewable energy going on the grid part of it is we we are a base load supply to the grid we're putting electricity on the grid 247 unlike wind unlike solar where they're only supplying the Grid at the highest peak times and it's averaging 14 to 18% of the time our availability averages 92 to9 4% including scheduled maintenance time from En environmental performance and this is the question people want to know you look at that line in that in the graph okay that's the federal standard that's how far we run below the federal standard emissions allowable emissions and there's a lot of talked right now in in in in the D to lower those allowable emissions and out of our 45 facilities throughout the country almost all of them would still be compliant without having to change anything so it's something that that's how far we run below the the allowable limits and and we're continually as the research as as research the technology gets it better we're continually improving that what comes out of the stack 99.9 98% of what comes out of the stack is water vapor oxygen carbon dioxide nitrogen and AR so .4% is other emissions I mean it's it's it's nominal the main thing is from from an emission standpoint for every other energy generation technology we are one of the lowest in CO2 SO2 particulate matter nitrous oxide particulate matter we we average 99.3% particular removal from from the flu gas that's why you don't see anything coming out of the stack when you drive by um methane is the biggest concern right now it's been identified as the most concerning greenhouse gas out there this is the only energy generation technologies that is net negative greenhouse gases for every ton of material that comes to a facility like ours it is almost two tons of greenhouse gases that are not being generated just to give you an idea this is one year in the life life of reworld okah um we're avoiding 396,000 tons of CO2 equivalent green greenhouse gases you know we're generating 90 megawatts of of of energy so it's enough to power about 100,000 homes per a month reduces the need for 55,000 tons of coal or about 6 million gallons of fuel and that's every single year and we've been doing this for 34 years now questions anybody have questions for Patrick yes you've been in okah for a year excuse me how long have you been in okah okah we built the facility in uh 1991 okay all right um I've personally been there 10 years are they customers excuse me is Oklahoma one of your customers the city of okka yes no sir we're actually part of the city of lesburg now we've been annexed to we we got annexed to the city of leberg about four years ago and they are one of our customers MH um have you had any feedback from the city of okah because of the emissions or anything like that no um I mean it's it's something that that we're very proud of our of our missions record um Arlington Ridge is right across the street we've 31 years we've never had an an odor complaint um you know our our we we are required to self-report by the D if we do have an exceedance uh and and our our emissions record is Stellar okay all right and I have to admit the uh the video answer probably about five or six of my my questions so anyone else how often do they actually inspect I'm sorry the D how often do they inspect uh the D does they do surprise inspections it's a minimum quarterly um and then we actually do annual stack testing uh we do stack testing annually every January uh and we we test for 11 particular uh different different particulates in the in the in the flu gas so we're required to do that by the D we monitor minute by minute we have a continuous emissions monitoring system that is actually available online you can actually go on to our website and look at our emissions results you know it's it's a I think it's a 12 or 16 hour delay um but our daily emissions results and like I said we're monitoring those emissions that flu G minute by minute and we're required to self-report the D right do you accept materials from other count or only Lake County um we do there are some material that comes from that may be generated in other counties in in Su and uh and Maran and citrus um so it's something that for the most part we are hiring other than we hire we we contract with some municipalities uh again lebur to various Villages some Villages spans across multiple counties as we know um and then I have a couple of commercial agreements directly with commercial haulers so it's it's just a matter as long that's classified as Municipal Solid Waste then we can take it okay how many employees do you have I beg your part how many employees uh right now 42 um and actually we we do handle uh some some specialized materials palletized materials product destruction we work with 27 different uh law enforcement agencies throughout the state to do evidence destruction Etc so so we're that part of the business that's Trail material that in sem that could be coming from all over the state or out of state um so we're we're actually ramping that uh that that system up so we will soon have uh 48 employees within the next year and the majority of them have been there for 15 to 20 years or longer some of them since the doors opened in May May of 1991 Patrick I've been fortunate enough to tour the facility years ago if any of the commission wanted to tour the facility could they do that absolutely okay it I think y'all would find it interesting the video was great the video was great and the information was great but to see it actually an operation is really interesting it's pretty impactful it really is really is it's a great solution in a lot of different ways it seems like um could you maybe walk through what kind of the impact is on the residents what does it look like for them this might be a waste management question as well but what is what does a daily life kind of look like for our residents how does that change impact them I will defer to Doug hi Doug good evening mayor Doug commission my name is Doug McCoy I'm the uh senior uh manager for Wildwood you're pauler for the last 38 years and I've been servicing you for 28 up here thank you for letting us uh present tonight uh very little uh that the resident will have to do differently uh what we would do is work in concert with the city to develop some educational materials either through your utility billing separate mailings uh uh staff mentioned and we can do this too put a another decal on their recycling container that explains the new program and basically what this does is they no longer have to prepare their their recycling material or separate it and put it in that uh green bin with the yellow lid on it uh they can use both bins for any materials that they want um and uh they don't have to do all that so there's really nothing on the residence part except making their lives a little easier more convenient so it's it's a great program as we mentioned before several of our cities been in it for a number of years uh the the biggest uh uh obviously is the villages and uh they did a you know a campaign and educated their people and I was actually at the meeting where they entered into an agreement with reworld uh and there were a number of environmental groups in The Villages in fact few of those people after receiving all the information and understanding that uh this was a great process they actually got up and endorsed uh the agreement between the villages and and reworld just kind of tell you what happens now uh the recycling uh we pick it up with a truck separate truck in the U in the Recycled bin it goes to Wildwood and it goes to our transfer station and we have a special day for the recycle materials there the material is then uh scooped up into 100 yard trailers and those trailers go to U uh Tampa to our murf down there so if you think about a carbon footprint um where the material has to be trucked to Wildwood reloaded and then sent to Tampa that's a pretty good carbon footprint in just dealing with your uh recycling materials things may change in the future there may be closer facilities to use occasionally we do use a facility and no altitude when when material maybe backing up at our at our but the fact of the matter is uh okah humka as you all know 33 and 470 is pretty close so um and you're and we're running not necessarily one less truck but because we have to add you got to remove the one truck single pass from driving by and picking up the recycling separate but we've also got to add capacity back to pick up the the volume because the volume's still going to be there so it's been an exciting program our cities love it and uh the uh amount of community uh education that we do with this with the city's help there's hardly been any push back from from any any of the residents and they actually enjoy knowing that the material is being used in a very friendly way in a recycling uh recovery way that does meet uh Florida statute definition of a type of recovering uh recycling uh I know the uh uh Rick Public Works director wants to report uh the what tons we we take there uh and in fact we found out some information I know Rick's back there that all he has to do is send the number of tons to the State of Florida and tell them it's coming from a waste energy plant and they do the calculation so the eustus city of Eustace uh receives the appropriate credit for for for that material based on tons per megawatt hour whatever Cas oh good that was going to be one of my next questions okay yeah do uh does all the the waste including yard and bulk pickup does that go there as well well uh we are have plans to uh the the the problem with the bulk and the yard waste as we do pick up bulk it's larger materials and chairs and tables and stuff we're planning on just taking the material that was historically garbage and recycling which is the the heaviest part of the of the waste spring the other material will go to our uh Wellwood transfer station MH any other questions does that have any impact so hurricanes were a big thing for us recently does that impact the amount of trips there's a lot of trips that happened we had all the hurricane debris outside with all of our trees and I know it's been very impactful does that hurricane debris go to this facility or does it go to the previous one well we were using every facility we could at that particular time in fact uh part of our presentation with staff we actually ran 40 additional route days to help you guys uh clean up the city after that storm the city did a fantastic job collecting the debris obviously they avoided all the uh loopholes and Hazards with dealing with FEMA and reimbursement and stuff Rick's team did a fantastic job and we were very happy that we provided additional uh support with those 40 route days and at charge of the city uh we feel that we want to be involved in the community and we've always done this for our cities you know as long as it's not a catastrophic event uh we'll we'll we'll pick up uh what we can pick up uh that is uh you know properly prepared at uh we would have normally picked that stuff over a very long time but what we did is expedite to pick up so and we were very happy to do that we'll continue to do that as your partner any other questions Gary did you have any I guess my questions from um director dor staff I mean what what made you pick this as opposed to the other the other two uh it was a combination of um the environmental impact or reduction in environmental impact and cost uh this was this alternative from waste management was the lowest cost to our residential customers lower than what we have now it is not lower than what we have now uh every proposal that was submitted uh involved some level of increase uh but this was the lowest uh the least increase of all the all of the proposals um just um to give you some basic information uh we are currently at $19 1902 per month for residential pickup um this alternative proposed by Waste Management would take us to $21.80 so basically it's a A180 increase um and that was the lowest of everything that was proposed so I would say it's two reasons one was cost and two was the reduction of environmental impact thank you anything else K and just to that one last point that was that was how the other cities also looked at it um uh keeping the cost low to the to to to the city and obviously the residents and obviously it's a great uh a great uh I wouldn't say substitution it's a great alternative to the conventional traditional recycling program perfect I publicly just want to thank waste management for your partnership over the years and especially every time we're hit with a storm you're right there for us at right at the end of the T so we appreciate that I know during the last storm I sat in our eocc and I called Jose several times personally and he always p picked up the phone and he was right there for us at every every ter so we appreciate those comments you so much and I mayor can I elaborate a little bit I'm yes sir sorry um the we again we had a selection committee uh we reviewed the proposals um I the two factors certainly that were important were uh environmental impact and cost uh but we reviewed on a variety of I mean the proposals were pretty complicated uh and we reviewed on a variety of uh criteria and um I would like to say that I think the city would be well served by any of the three companies that submitted um but we have had the benefit of working with waste management and so we know their customer service we know their performance um and uh again we evaluated based on a variety of criteria but um that that all factored into our decision making thank you Gent appreciate it commission one of the things we need to do is decide whether we want to instruct staff to go ahead and work on contracts with Waste Management I wanted to ask the question of Jose before okay of information that I received about that basically with the recycling we think we're recycling but a lot of the containers and things that we have are not cleaned out and as a result that ends up in a regular trash is that a fact yeah um in most recycling programs there's there's contamination um and that's an average anywhere between 25 to 35% of everything that it's put in in a recycling container that that 35% is then landfilled that would be separated and then landfill so you don't have that problem with with this the waste of energy that's why it's such a cleaner and and the amount if you think of it now your garbage and you're recycling therefore you'll have more material going in and that even if a 50% you'll probably be recycling more material than you are now okay thank you any other questions and and again I want to thank you all for that continued relationship and friendship and that I've had you know with the city and and our company and we just really appreciate that and thank you very much thank you Christine you go ahead with a good with us moving forward with negotiations absolutely Willie yeah Gary absolutely vice mayor yeah I had a vision oh oh boy what's your vision this could be scary I was thinking about all the landfills when you're driving on the highway you see this big Mound it's sad in South Florida see oh yeah and you smell it and you see it and then there's the the buzzers or vultures or whatever those things are that's flying around it and imagine in the land that it takes to do it on so that eliminates all of those things so absolutely was some good Vision absolutely thank you all right thank you all so much uh now we're going to uh come to Future agenda items and comments uh Gary you want to start a off yeah sure sure um so um as everyone knows I wasn't here for the last meeting um and I know there was a there was discussion about uh habitat and a project they were doing in an HOA yeah have we have we gotten any any further along discussions with that we I don't we have not had any conversations but but I we did get some direction from commission to do what we can okay uh to support uh habitat and U take a look at what they're doing and how they're doing it so we're we we'll work on that okay um and then the other comment I would like to make it was light up Eustace that was just amazing um want to thank the um everyone that involved in making light up uses as successful as it was um the park was packed everybody body seemed to be having a good time the rain was a bit of a damper but we got over that and we um we we had we had a really good time so and then the last thing I wanted to say is you know I'm uh I'm finishing up my second year as a as a commissioner and it's the holidays and I am I have a lot to be personally thankful for but I wanted to give some thanks to uh our commission for working so hard throughout the year staff leadership for everything that you guys do for us throughout the year year um all the city employees they do an amazing job and a lot of them don't get the thanks that they deserve so um and um I think we're going in a good direction I know we're all working hard individually as well as together to uh to do what we think is good for the for the city and um I like where we're going I like how we work together so um I just want to say thank you and happy holiday thank you thank you Willie oh I'm not going to get as sappy as Gary uh tomorrow uh there's a special needs Christmas party uh yeah for special needs adults from 6 to 8 at the uh the Women's Club so if you have a minute stop by and you know wish him a a Merry Christmas uh and also the eustus africanamerican Heritage uh committee is having their uh Gala on Saturday from 7 to 11 7 to 11 uh tickets are $12 I think I think that's what I saw yeah yeah $12 is that the same time as Winterfest also really yes yes okay all right yeah yeah I think Winter Fest is is done by what seven Sam eight eight it's done by eight okay yeah so you still have time to come sh yeah all right okay and you know I have to uh Echo uh you know what Gary said I I think and you know and we say it throughout the year but I I just think that this commission is a great group of people uh you know this city the employees um and and I appreciate uh uh you know all of you you know we don't always agree I supposed to but we always do what we think is right for the city so uh so I appreciate that and thank you for for stepping in thank you uh for the last couple of months uh we really appreciate your I've really enjoyed it thank Youk thank you Willie vice mayor I'm gonna change it up you're gonna go next and we're going to do Christine last okay oh I thought you tell me I was last okay um on on future agendas what I would like is for us to have a retreat and in that Retreat I'd like each department to come and share with us their goals for the year and how they plan to achieve those goals and and for us to just take a real deep dive into what we're going to do and how we're going to accomplish it next year I think we talked about doing it so I'd really like us to to look further into that it's a great idea and then the other thing is I I was very sad that we uh chose to decorate the trees on the lawn at the Clifford house and our theme was the Grinch it had to be a movie theme and was a grinch well we had a real life Grinch because someone went in there and destroyed the the trees and just made a mess of things it was very disheartening but you know we were able to put them back up and U I hope that you get to see them and and and and U we'll be taking them down soon but it was a great effort and in the end uh the sugar was a sugar plum one and they got to contribute their funding that they want to um to um an organization so that was good and it was very um well done their tree was so I was just kind of sad that that the the vandalism that occurred and it and it isn't the only thing that people would just stop and think and and have a Kinder more gentle um attitude and and and way of dealing with our C within our city and I also want to thank my Comm fellow Commissioners and Christine for being here for us and um Sasha and um now I have a new favorite person over there over Tom and Miranda thank you Tom Miranda for for supporting us and American Bloom I'm I'm almost done American Bloom we we've um we're going to recommit um next in January sign up again for it um we are going to do a presentation I want to give a shout out and thank you a big thank you to Rick Sally Ellis Michelle Greg nen and our city manager and Miranda our um assistant city manager for the work that we do with American Bloom we recently did a rock painting project with um modern Schoolhouse and you'll see rocks out there please feel free to take one and some people will take more than one and then leave someplace else so our rocks gets distributed kids were very happy about doing it and we really enjoyed that um we are going to continue in the um processing the purchasing of planters for downtown and uh we'll have a whole new look to it and we're excited about that project and there's more to come and we thank you very much our committee D for all the support that you've given us thank you vice mayor Merry Christmas to everybody Christine well thank you Mr manam today um marks the conclusion of my time upon this Das and I'd like to take a minute just to express my gratitude because I have enjoyed every second serving this city the past four months I really have uh but first I would really like to welcome commissioner elette George's body congratulations and I truly wish you the best as you serve this city coming forward and to my fellow Commissioners it's been an honor serving alongside of you um and I'm grateful for the trust that you've shown in me and the collaboration that we've shown we I think everybody up here has expressed it already you know we work well together we're not necessarily supposed to agree but everybody up here is representing the city the the citizens of this city and it's been a privilege to watch it from here um and to City staff you guys truly are the backbone of this community um and I think that's kind of underrated I don't think a lot of people realize how much work you do your professionalism and your commitment to the city is invaluable uh especially during the emergencies your communication and your expertise really shown and it was incredible to watch the work you guys do behind the scene that a lot of people don't know I'd like to give a special thanks to eustus PD eust fire department your bravery your professionalism your quick respon response time you really truly make our community safer and stronger thank you guys and thank your teams for me please um and to the residents of Eustace your input all of you it's guided my decisions and reminded me why I'm here and the daily importance of the work that is done up here serving as your commissioner has been humbling deeply rewarding and the honor of my life thank you so [Applause] let's I ask that we all to stay kind to each other and just grateful for the blessings of the community that we've built together because we really have built this community Brick by Brick and it's incredible so thank you again to my colleagues the dedicated staff the residents who us us and serving as your commissioner has been an honor and I'm grateful for this chapter in my journey thank you stop crying and make me down FR I didn't even notice thank you so much thank you for the friendship over the years and thank you for stepping in when we needed your okay City culture opportunity Vitality as a member of the city commission se4 de [Applause] Tom you want to go ahead yesk you uh just a couple of items uh the commission um we had a presentation uh related to smoking in public public places um our um Recreation Department is working with the public works department and sign shop and with the PD uh to get signs installed uh saying no parking or no no smoking in Parks um and so those signs are going to be going up like Parks or children's Children's playgrounds uh it's going to be playgrounds we're going to be focusing on playgrounds yeah um we a couple of major items uh we had gotten our presentation from kimly horn related to ldrs uh so we are moving forward with those uh changes uh one thing uh I'd like to ask is um we had Set uh some we've been able to set some meetings with a uh major property owner with Commissioners we'd like to get uh that uh major property owner before all the Commissioners and so we'll be reaching out uh trying to get something scheduled on your calendars and the two are related and so we do need to um we do need to work on that as we work on the ldr changes uh we will be uh we had our a public meeting related to the master plan uh we'll be bringing back uh adoption of the master plan uh that will come to the uh I had talked previously about City commission and CRA um but I think it's it's really a CRA board thing because it gets incorporated into our uh CRA Redevelopment plan uh which is a very important uh plan in that it governs what the CRA can and can't spend money on and so that will be coming back before the CRA board and then um wanted to thank everybody uh was able to uh take a little time off over the Thanksgiving week I wanted to thank everybody for allowing that to happen thank you to the commission and to the the staff um it's good to be back and then uh happy holidays to everyone really appreciate the city commission all the support you give uh but also uh the entire staff who works hard every day to uh make sure we're doing right by the citizens of eust so happy holidays to everybody Tom are we having a CRA Workshop we are we need to coordinate with Horus and the um the board of the Housing Authority uh because uh Horus asked that his board be able to attend that meeting uh and so we need to coordinate dates but yes we need to have a meeting to talk about priorities in the CRA Madam attorney I just want to wish everyone happy holidays as well thank you all right as many have said I want to thank this city commission um in my tenure on it um it's probably one of the best groups of people that I've worked with um and we agree to disagree at times but that's good and it's healthy for this city and we move forward so I want to thank all of you City staff you're just unbelievable um every time I turn around I see something new going on and I watch the way you all respond to it and you might not always agree with the decisions that are made up here but you you still move forward and you carry out the the wishes of our commission which ultimately usually are the wishes of our community so thank you so much and I know there's plenty of times you shake your head of what are they doing up there so but thank you um thank you for your support I want to thank Parks and Recreation for all that you all are doing you're doing a great job I want to thank uh our folks with events and tourism a home run with with light up and First Fridays police fire um Rick your group out there without it nothing works you all work handin hand and make sure that we do great things here in this city so again thank you for all of that behalf of myself the city commission merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all and we will see you on January the 2nd we're adjourned