##VIDEO ID:0O5wUsoDT58## good evening good evening [Music] everyone iPhone says it's 6:00 my military dad is here so if you're on time you're late let's begin this evening's meeting as you can see we have a little bit of a special agenda today our regular city council meeting for Monday November 18th will begin with the invocation followed by the salute to the flag delivered by councilman Jansen please rise right good and gracious heavenly father of Salvation Lord we just uh ask you tonight to lift our brother and sister up in prayer we know that your grace abounds and your love is Limitless Lord in this month of pancreatic cancer awareness I just ask that you be with those families that have lost loved ones to this disease and give strength and healing to those that are going through it right now Lord I just ask you to give strength to our First Responders as they keep us safe and provide blessings our military as they keep us in peace we ask this in your matchless name of Jesus amen amen to flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all this meeting is called order counc Golding here council member horn here council member Johson here council member MAA here council member suton here council member Wagner here n Hoffman here moving on to approval of minutes I move that we approve the minutes from the regular city council meeting held on November 4th 2024 second we have a motion and a second any discussion seeing none all in favor signifi by say n anyos motion carries announcements Mr Mesa i p John W here so uh about a week and a half ago I was working more to attend the S of for new officers uh which is very good um I wish these four new officers a great and Sav Journey hopefully one of them will one day become a chief maybe one of our police officer will become a chief uh it was the the old was administered by captain Rick Hoffman retired uh the mayor's dad and he gave a beautiful uh sent statement right before the oath and uh it's some with me you know it's good to have leaders you know like you and this community and many of the other individuals that are here so it was good to see you out there doing your thing doing your thing and then two weekends ago we had the surf competition which is pretty awesome uh it was well attended uh I said the mayor was out there cheering on the Surfers and I think it's pretty cool that these young girls you know they had a good panel you were one of them so it's very inspirational and I'm hopeing that these John serers will eventually you know become the president or become someone important so I think it was a wellp put event and uh yeah that is it thank you thank you Mr MAA Miss gold thank you mayor um I have a few announcements uh for anyone who may not know de the cheers is going to have its opening night on November 27th um so hope everybody will plan to come out for that also want to let everybody know our 50th citizens Police Academy with the Jax Beach Police Department is going to be starting in January and if you've not done the citizens Police Academy highly highly recommended it gives you a behind the scenes look at what our police officers deal with um from day today and it is it is beyond unmatched I think um so it's only $25 to register for the um for the class there's an application deadline of December 27th you can find it online if you go to our City's uh website and there's also on the city's website there's an urban Trails survey that we would like the community to take um so please go uh to the website to take that and then also want to thank beaches go green um I think uh uh is he here uh Kevin Brown was going to be coming tonight to speak but I want to thank them for um raising money to and buying Sea Oats and planting 5,000 Sea Oats in Jack Beach this past weekend with 207 volunteers which is amazing protecting our dunes and building our dunes and also they did a great rake which is something that our very own Kevin Brown came up with which involves raking the seaweed to the base of the Dune and that helps to collect sand and helps to build the dunes too so um they did a lot of great things for our Dunes here in Jack Beach uh want to mention that Beach's watch has uh will be presenting Beach's Habitat for Humanity with the give back award in December on the 4th at 7 o' at the beaches Branch library in recognition for the great work that beaches habitat is doing in our community and then want to thank Fernando for your service your four years of service on the city council um I enjoy I enjoyed working with you and wish you all the best with your little baby to come and I just want to say congratulations to my fellow colleagues the mayor uh my neighbor Mr Jansen Mr Sutton and Mr Wilders for your your reelection or your election to the council and I look forward to working with you over the next two years thank you thank you Miss Golding Mr Jansen uh just a couple things number one as I mentioned in the prayer um November is pain gr at cancer awareness month and uh just if you're so inclined uh pan can.com they're always accepting uh donations and keep those that are going through this horrible disease in your thoughts and mind and prayers um also Al had the opportunity to attend the grand opening of the first te over at Jack Beach golf club with uh a colleague in the mayor and uh it was a fantastic uh installation and it's going to be really good for our community uh it allows uh a combination of bringing up children with good morals and golf so um it's a fantastic thing and I'm going to Echo my uh uh my neighbor sentiments that um thank you uh for for your dedication and service to our community um you've been an esteemed colleague and I appreciate all that you've done for the council and for the city of jackville beach Mr ragman I wanted noted I got my buttons correct May then for the first time I I just want to take a second and kind of echo my colleagues as well and just fernandoa tell you how much I I really appreciate everything you've done since I've been on Council I've learned a lot lot from you and I really appreciate it and I know you're going to go on and do great things so thank you very much and congratulations to uh everybody else moving forward Mr Mason I I had an announcement I forgot to to add to it you guys are trying to make me cry you guys need stop um no I was going make an announcement obviously um um if I was to remain in office uh one of the other things I was going to work on was with the police department uh CC di passing legislation with the council members uh regarding the police department JSO it was called a Heroes act uh I talked to our City attorney and our wonderful city manager about the heroes act which it protects or not protects but it helps any City employee that is serving the military uh won't go into details but I just wanted to say that I wanted to bring this to you guys' attention and hopefully continue the conversation and help our active duty of reservist that are working with the city thank you Mr s uh yeah just echoing uh Golding Jansen and Wagner's comments uh to Fernando appreciate your um your service um for the past four years in the past two with me and uh above that thank you for your service to our country and um congratulations to uh you you and Helen on an awesome new chapter to your life coming soon Mr hor I'm last of the last of the party here um again thank you Fernando for your service to the city of Jacksonville Beach um well done um and congratulations to all of the other uh newly elected and reelected members um on at the local State national level um it's going to be an interesting time coming up as many of us know and some will learn it is not a prize to be won it is a burden to bear um and um you know serving the public is um it takes a lot I thank you very much l for doing it just to add um I'll talk about Fernando in a moment but the Supergirl serf Pro as he mentioned was a couple of weeks ago and congratulations to Kira Pinkerton who took home the uh the red cape and the coveted prize of the winner of our Jacksonville Beach Supergirl um we also was out at the Doom planting event and strolled up the beach towards the pier and took a look at the Florida cup surf competition and I'm pleased to announce that the Jacksonville team won this round against some other Regional teams so that yes you can the next the next leg in that competition will be in St Augustine on uh December 14th and for both events they had great way so I don't know which one of us are going to take responsibility for that but they were really pleased with that I want to recognize a few uh dignitaries that we have in the audience today we've got a few as you can tell some special things coming up but we have uh mayor Curtis Ford is here or was there there we go Mayor Ford of Atlantic Beach thank you for being here um The Honorable Gary Flower who's going to help us with our swearing in is here and then two past council members Georgette deont and Cory Nichols are also here thank you both for coming Cory thank you all for being here along with many others and I also want to recognize the blue t-shirts in the audience this is our citizen information Academy gr pending graduates we'll see if you get your diplomas today um they have gone through a six week course that was a little longer because they had a couple storm delays um actually worked out though because I think this is a really good meeting for you guys to see to kind of um kind of put a bow on your experience um with citizen information Academy so I hope um that once we get through the formalities that you guys will all stay um to see the rest of the meeting but we'll understand if you don't want to so um moving on to Courtesy of the floor to visitors we oh sorry um point of order we did not approve the agenda did we not no we did not oh okay just kidding uh can I have a motion to approve the agenda I move that we approve the agenda second motion a second any discussion all D signify by saying I I any see how quickly we fix that all right moving on to Courtesy the floor Clerk's light is still on okay uh Mr Curtis btis think you know the drill my best three minutes C congratulate for okay c c this and uh address is 1280 Mayport Mayport l in the drive and uh I'm here on behalf of De the chairs but first was it 2014 or 2015 at Police Academy 14 so I would like to as well thank Fernando for his service our councilman LSA he was so excited about take the chairs and we had conversations about that and becoming Police Academy Cadets or whatever you become after the time spent so I'm here on behalf of De the chair is 12 SE it's great to see the faces the smiles and we're super excited I've got 2 minutes 24 seconds I marked the page in the program so there's no program we put one of these this year and Beyond everything that you know about thaty chairs the 40 50 chairs that are decorated all the Partnerships we have if you go to the page that is marked there are about 120 I'll call them Partners so decorators perform forming groups and then you have what are school decorating groups and then of those 120 Partners we believe there will be about 3,000 plus children directly impacted by Beck the chairs this season either on the stage dancing and Performing or in the park at the zoo decorating on our behalf chairs lifeguard chairs so this thing continues to swell and become something really special for the city we will launch de the chairs November 27 it will run through January 1st we've got a ton of programming on that stage I think 40 different shows on the stage 11 dates that are scheduled so please look at the dates mark them come out to the park this is our first year really trying to use the park space during the daytime and so we we think we should see some greater attendance we think that the uh kids and how they the stage it'll be it'll be a safer easier kind of opportunity for the children and um we're just super excited the board worked really hard this year uh we want to make the city proud we've got I know in terms of Outreach already what I'm seeing from social media we've got our biggest interest this year so I think our attendance should be pretty cool and that's about it thank you mayor thank you everyone you have so much time thank you thank you for all you and your team do to put that event together every year um if you looking for something to do with your family the day after Thanksgiving uh you won't be alone and going to DEA chairs I think it's one of the biggest nights that they have out there so make sure to check it out and come back throughout the season if you learned anything it said there's a lot of different programming um two of Christmas this year a lot of dance and now we have our former councilman Tom Taylor has joined us welcome Tom I introduced everybody so I'm not singling you out okay next on courtesy of the floor Kevin Brown Kevin Brown uh 1833 Kings Court thank you for your service good luck to you uh and I always appreciate what you all do so this weekend we had a big event we uh planted 5,000 Sea Oats from Beach Boulevard to the pier um um this was with 207 volunteers through go green um when you put numbers for that it was 414 hours at 31.6 61 cents $3,086 of people people power the cost of those were encumbered by G green which was about $5,000 and when we put that total together we put in about $18,000 ,000 worth of work towards the city which is never never uh it never um is is is is a job and here's the cool part um we put in those SE and within about 30 minutes we had uh parents coming up with little kids saying can I do it and we were enjoying them now I've got two minutes to talk about seaweed okay we've got this seaweed out there the way to battle nature is with nature and you can rap this seaweed and put it on the toe of the Doom we've done it in Neptune we've done it in Atlantic Beach and within about two weeks that seaweed will be covered and you'll have this new little Doom forming and if we can continue to do this you would be surprised if you want to see what it's like just walking up to beach cuz we have done it several times there um it is free all it takes is me and anarine moin picking up a phone and saying we need to have y'all out there um I would ask I noticed that beach rakers has picked up some and they piled it at the accesses I don't know how easy it would be I'll be happy to talk to them I've got their numbers they have to call me every morning for turtle patol control and I think there's a way that we can take this seaweed put it up on the beach keep it in the toe of the dun and once again it is a cultural thing um I've got adults doing it in South Jacks Neptune a few in Atlanta if we can get everybody rake and seaweed for no cost and enhance it our Dunes I think it'll be very beneficial um we're going to continue to do these events and uh we're going to continue to uh keeping our beaches sand DS in place um the education part of it was great I got to talk to 200 kids from various high schools so they kind of get our gist now um I wanted to let y'all know and I want to thank councilman Golding and mayor Huffman and councilman Wagner your appearance is always cherished the kids when they see leadership like that they just want to work harder so thanks a lot and I appreciate your time thank you and I was going to give you extra time to talk about cwe so well done see let me tell you this let me tell you so it's SE it's not this is not something that has to go on every weekend we only get this seaweed when it's a noreaster strong wind so this is something that can just be coordinated at certain times but it doesn't cost us a penny it is free you we once again I want to say this we live in it and we lived on it we got to learn to live with it and I think this is a good way to do that thank you appreciate thank you thank you for your leadership moving on to consent agenda I move that we approve the consent agenda second we have a motion in a second all in favor signif by say I I any oppos motion carries okay moving on to item a we have the um results of the election that took place on November 5th uh they've been provided by the Dual County canvasing Board and uh we had an updated report today from the supervisor of elections which was provided to the city council Madam C do you have anything to add um just that the numbers were very minor Chang but it did not change any results thank you Comm motion I move that we adopt the Declaration of election results as provided by the Duval County campusing board for the election results of the city of Jacksonville Beach general election held November 5th 2024 second we have a motion and a second any discussion M CL call council member golden yes council member horn yes council member Johnson yes council member MAA yes council member member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes mayor Hoffman yes motion carries as you might have picked up on from our announcements so far today um one of our colleagues um was not successful in his bid for reelection so now it's my turn and uh he was my first political opponent back in 2012 and he shaved his facial here so he looks just like he did in 2012 so this is a little bit of a Bittersweet moment but I bear with me as I read uh this resolution of a stee to council member Fernando Mesa whereas Fernando Mesa served as a council member at large seat one from November 3rd 2020 to November 18th 2024 and whereas Council council member Mesa was a key leader who Focus strongly on the concerns of the community and community outreach and whereas council member Mesa was instrumental in improving the quality of life for Jackson will Beach residents by approving funding and participating in the planning of numerous initiatives including the following developing and adopting the city's strategic plan and vision and mission statements developing and adopting the city's code of ethics for public officials participating in and completing a review of the city's entire Charter and presenting proot proposed amendments to the Charter to constituents opposing short-term rental preemption to the state developing and adopting the city's paave parking program developing and adopting the city's outdoor dining pilot program amending the language and regulations of the Land Development code pertaining to outdoor restaurant areas the requirements to qualify for a special restaurant alcoholic beverage license and clarifying definitions pertaining to restaurants approving the relocation of the Veterans Memorial to the Ocean Front Park developing and adopting the city's honorary streeten designation policy for for military veterans and Fallen wartime Heroes supporting the city's local Bill jb1 to be considered by the Duvall County legislative delegation for the 2023 State legislative session approving two position classification and pay plan amendments for city employees approving the redesign of lean pla Gonzalez Park and sunshine playground receiving the Florida Liga City's home roll hero designation 2023 receiving the 2023 Cesar Chavez Legacy award recognizing Latina leadership serving for three years on the finance and Taxation Florida League of cities policy committee serving as the jacksonv public library Board of Trustees chair now therefore be it resolved that the city council of the city of Jacksonville Beach Florida congratulates Fernando Mesa on his Exemplar exemplary service and authorizes this resolution of Este steam we forgot to add that he served as the Easter Bunny multiple times for the kids of our community Fernando congratulations and thank you for your service Mr M would like to say a few words little ja is would know pry that right now uh please bear with me um it's it's a um pretty good exciting moment to be leaving office but you know I worked on something real quick uh all righty then let's get to it um first I do want to thank my wonderful R who has been with me stood by me and has supported me tremendously throughout our first campaign in 2020 and this most recent one and of course I got to thank God for giving me my breath my daily breath these past four years on a professional level have been the best time of my life Who would thought a kid from South Central H would have beened here in South since taking office in 2020 I have taken every vote seriously considered every option available if feasible on this di we all that I know I face challenges and adversity on multiple occasions the we Jackson the beach and no matter what live throws at this city this city always Rises to the top and I believe in it wholeheartedly even when things got hard on the D not ones that I ever think about quitting after my first term so i r for re-election and I'm proud of how I can Pro with Integrity that the best I can every song that was out there commercial residential was through commission and through the respect of these individuals to the residents that voted for me thank you thank you thank you very much to the residents that did not work for me thank you thank you thank you very much and we I have the election and it can be seen as a loss but in my eyes I see it as a win there are many reasons recently I G two titles husband and a father of two son Liam and in April I'll be fathered to Ry MAA mea I was just part of a building process where residents we the people elect the representatives and even though it did not go my way it's feel pretty cool to be part of it and I see that as a will Our IT department has improve over the years and since 2020 it hasn't got even better but the sway events were bad ear this year but it could have been a lot worse if we didn't take any actions I am glad to have been part of every infrastructure project approv to make this city better and happy to know that no bandages were put on these projects I know detours and construction are new but they will make our city better our quality of life better our public works department is around by someone who has been very proactive and making sure we as a city on top of things being part of for of cities has taught me many things and I've Le absorb as much as I could to the residents I can tell you with 100% certainty that a public work department is Rob us and we are way better off than some of other cities around Florida the staff of a water cheting PL I'm pretty excited about this they're so proud of the work they do they have two fish tanks of clean water and the fishes still live so that's pretty cool so big to them and of course to thank you for everything and to your staff across a ditch when power is out the outage and respond time is very very long but here Jackson week is very different even F in office and Mr pman was a director Beaches Energy has always been on top of things and I'm glad that was part of many of the improvements that were done to our Beach's energy Department I am glad that our very young Beach's energy employees go out to support and help partner cities to explore power in time of need so Mr P I don't know if you're here but if you are thank you but somebody Tom I appreciate this his commitment I am glad to see the sunsh park renovations to the program basketball court and the pickall court that's story uh glad to see part is almost done in the car center is next on the list I canot take credit for making C debt free but I can say Jack Beach is still debt free to the many residents I have met in these past years thank you for being in this wonderful City and being an active member in our community I mean I always G to go right but in the end I had to go on facts I did have plenty of sleepless nights just as my wife I do have one thing though uh one of my goals was to take care of a police department I have been an advocate for Public Safety since I was in college attending Council meetings and addressing bi on safety concerns if you didn't know our Police Department for many years was a evolving door but that stopped around 6 seven years ago my goal was to give our department good paying salary benefits Etc but the anti police rhetoric the economy took a tour on everyone of the country with WIS and cost of living the shortage we had on the police department was not because we have Council cut the budget but many people across the country did not want to be officers our police department now has licensed bre leers more new vehicles an a van and J and our Police Department is the highest paid agency in the northeast Florida and I'm very proud of that than you to the FP Karen Nelson our CFO Ashley gossip and of course our city manager for making this happen I was I'm happy that I was one yes of the six other yeses that approve the increase in police officers to this agency and glad to see its recruiting efforts are way better now than it was before taking office officer I made the most of it and Alan for has taking the ball and doing a magnificent job I myself went to one of his J with the with o ion and the point was to let the future candidates know that they El the officials care and support op PD to our chief I see in the back my stash GP Smith years ago when AR told me they were th to have you as your Chief the morals began to boost I got happy and I got thrilled thank you for applicating for your officers our officers thank you for your 30 years of service and I hope you have a grand retirement party whenever that is I love you big dog being your council member has been a dream representing you has beenal even I see Careful by some of you guys I public sometimes I enjoy every minute of it and that I was part of History here in Jacksonville be as I serve for the first female mayor elected to office in Jacksonville Beach and being party Council when all three each Mayors were all females that's pretty cool so when this C we have many aanes resolutions issues you even though you never voted the same at times I've always respected your point of view May we're lucky to have you thank you for always advocating from the citizens and I know we didn't agree with things sometimes but I respect your view John R my man I wish had another four years to work with you but you have my support in two years where then my man Dan Jon I met you up 10 years ago think probably over 10 years ago and I'm proud what you have accomplished and what you will continue to accomplish as an El official my buddy P this swimmer of a lifetime you know you should have been a Liv um thank you for stepping up when someone was stepping down and assuming the duties you were the right person for the for your District mky to have you represent your District Greg Greg s St James um you came in the middle of you came in the middle of controversial issues but the way you handled it and spoke on it request me very much to our serve next Senor CH Jackson has given me a different perspective on many things thank you br I love you city manager ni the pop is hey you have been great to our city staff and departments especially when our officers were was going out as soon as you took over in my opinion and I speak for myself I am glad you are our city manager and thank you for I was making yourself avable to me when I a question that mayor mayor has a Hoffman off Mar Chris hman my experience is be first night running against each other it's been wonderful I know many people do not feel the same way but we're all entitled to our own opinions I learned many things from you but one is being diplomatic on certain issues I may not have agreed with him but in the end it was the right thing to do sometime you must wa to see why it was done a certain way uh I can no longer calling Mr mad mayor and it's official the old language you know TR is out so Madam mayor has been a pleasure seeing you in your world and to have you once again I can't change people's minds on how they feel about people but I can say this mayor when fight broke out across the stream from City Hall on New Year New Year morning you and I were there when we had want to be promoters come to Jackson beach in 21 you and I were walking the city when the father's life was taken away you were there supporting as much as you could when they hosted C at par you and I were there and try to hit again Jackson Beach you and I were there city manager or chief every Commander was there for one thing that they appreciate more and elector officials than being visible to the people and representing the city to the best of their ability mayor has been a pleasure Serv as your council member advocating with you Tallahassee with our fellow colleagues and making sure our residents are taking care of and going into so thank you Mr Bruce C to be CC over here in a second sir I wish you nothing but luck and the best once you get up here you'll see things are very different but you'll see it in a good way and I hope you can manage that very well I was guys I wish you all the best and I'm excited to what I was part of will continue R and see to for to Jackson Beach lifeguards and you both will be here long after we Alles to exist and this community is like lucky to have you by J andc to our citizens of Patrol you are glant and appreciated My Hope eyes serve this country as a sa I serve this community as your count to the best of my abilities Jackson Beach thank you for the past four years God bless God bless joh and God bless this country for out [Music] thank you Mr MAA uh in case you miss at one of the um initiatives that passed on it second try was removing um the only male gender references in our Charter referring to the mayor as uh only in with male pronouns so I appreciate no longer being referred to as Mr Madam mayor thank you Jacks so we will um go ahead and administer the Oaths of office and we're going to take these one at a time and we'll um bring judge flower up here to the and we'll begin uh with council member uh Wagner if you want to go ahead that first me hi hi John Wagner you Solly swear you solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution will obey the laws will obey the laws of the United States of the United States of the State of Florida of the State of Florida and of the city of Jacksonville Beach and of the city of Jacksonville Beach and will Faithfully discharge will Faithfully discharge duties of the office the duties of the office of council member of council member upon which I am now upon which I am now about to enter about to thank you so congratulations I your name do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support Constitution will obey the laws we obey the laws of the United States of the United States of the State of Florida of the State of Florida and the City of Jacksonville Beach and the City of Jacks Beach I will well and faithfully and I well and Faithfully discharge the duties discharge the duties of the office of the office a council member council member which I now which I now about about so me so help me out congratulations thank sir [Music] I st your name I gr do Solly swear do solemnly swear I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution we obey the laws we obey the laws of the United States of the United States of the State of Florida of the State of Florida and of the city of Jacksonville Beach and of the city of Jacksonville Beach and I will Faithfully discharge and I will Faithfully discharge the duties of the office the duties of the office of council member of council member upon which I am now upon which I am now about to enter about to enter so so we got congratulations council member elect routers I state your name I Bruce wers do solemnly swear do SW solemnly square that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution will obey the laws and obey the laws of the United States of the United States of the State of Florida of the State of Florida and of the city of Jacksonville Beach and of of the city of Jacksonville Beach who will Faithfully discharge and will Faithfully discharge the duties of the office the duties of the office a council member a council member upon which upon which I am now about to enter which I am now about to enter so so help me God congratulations thank you [Music] I state your name I Christine Hoffman do solemnly swear do solemnly swear I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution and obey the laws and obey the laws of the United States of the United States and of the State of Florida and of the State of Florida and of the city of jackonville Beach and of the city of Jacksonville Beach that I will well and Faithfully that I will well and Faithfully discharge the duties discharge the duties of the office of Mayor of the office of Mayor s God congratulations [Music] okay it appears the new Council has been seated mam CL goldall council member golden here council member horn here council member Jansen here council member Sutton here council member Wagner here council member Wilders here mayor Hoffman here our first order of business will be to nominate and select a council member to serve as the mayor Pro 10 with a turn beginning November 18th and expiring after the certification of election results in 2016 I will open the floor for nominations all you need to do is simply State the name of your nominee don't see anys Mr rner Dan Janson um Mr lers Sandy golden are there any other nominations we'll do a roll call and as your name is called please State the name of your nominee or the nominee that you would like to select between Mr Jansen and Miss Golding M CL call council member Golding Golding council member horn Jon council member Janson jansson council member Sutton Janson council member wner Jansen council member Wilders gold mayor Hoffman Jansen congratulations Mr Jansen you'll be taking the role of Mayor Pro 10 so now the hard part is you have to start making all the Motions would anyone like to volunteer to be the seconder Miss Goldie all right keep it down at that end of the days um okay what a lot of you have been waiting for the citizen information Academy graduation are you glad I mooved it to after weren't you so glad to be here for this wearing you guys are people that are into coming and learning about public works and parks and W you are people that are going to want to see this swearing in so I appreciate you guys um taking part in that so what we're going to do is as your name is called if you want to come up the middle um just to the uh side the podium and I will give you your certificate and then you'll go around that way and Monica will give you what looks to be a really fun bag of goodies donated by local businesses here in Jacksonville Beach um so uh we will go ahead and get started with that I share you'll be calling me okay give me a second to get there I can start with Bailey because she is not present okay still y Patricia buser Christen do is also not present Chad Ian Donald Abigail Hamry Sarah Hower Marcus C he know do Matthew Cor Kimberly lawon and the next two are not present Regina Masson is not present Kevin Myers is is not present Adam petris Susan [Music] Shad B string margarite vest Sydney talot Diane Wagner Ron witon it's never going to get old just keep calling me Mr Mary and then before if any of you want to delete we want to try to get a class photo really quick of the dean and Dean [Music] [Music] [Music] anle anle yeah [Music] [Music] congratulations like other come on folks little more a little farther I got half of you over here e SC I got move back got move back we're a big group all right now I think I got everybody [Music] [Music] okay members of the CIA thank you again for participating I hope you enjoyed the program as much as we enjoyed putting it on for you um and it was great to see so many um potential board members and uh current board members council member uh attending that so it was uh hopefully a really productive uh experience for all of you so if you can stay we're going to get to the rest of our um of our agenda I see Mr Baron has already taken the podium go ahead sir all right mayy Council I have an item before you which is the replacement of lift station number eight this is a four-part approval with approve first part of the approval being to award the construction contract uh or the construction and the contract piece and then the uh contract Administration side for our engineer and then the the uh the final piece of the contract part for that um this is located on 18th Avenue North directly in front of um s s Pablo Elementary I had to studi that sorry um anyway this uh this station is currently sits directly in front of the Circle Drive and there's a map there with a little box that sits right in front of the Circle Drive right off the right of the Circle Drive uh we'll be replacing this entire list station including the wet well the building will be demoed it'll be all new pumps and all new equipment for in uh this was part of a land swap scenario because we have an easement for this list station so we had to work with the school to be able to get the list station um to be able to get the easement worked in to be able to do this and then we'll do our work and then we'll ultimately give them a little bit of for the ground back to the uh west of where our Cent L station's at when they're done uh this project uh is going to be awarded to pedy coach Schmidt and uh we had three uh biders come in from that particular contract after requesting for 22 different um to soliciting the 22 different vendors um a lot of work to be involved in this one this is part of a project I inherited when I got here it was part of a really big project with list station 7 list Station 8 list station 20 uh list station 20 has been decommissioned list station 7 has been approved and all improved all the work related to that is completed and now we're the final piece of that three-phase project which is lift stationing this will actually set us up to do some reversals coming up in the future to be able to move some of our sewer lines we have uh in the area of the city that's in backyards without Alleyways for access all we have is easements which makes it very hard if I have to do any work I have to get landowner permission to be able to get in so that's a future project that's on the CP this is key and and and uh and Elemental to being able to approve that uh forthcoming work thank you Mr Baron can we have a motion on item one I move that we award bid number 23 24-12 for liist station number eight replacement to Petty coach SCH civil Contractors Incorporated for amount not to exceed 1,988 542 second we have a motion and the second is there any discussion Madam CL roll call council member horn yes council member Johnson yes council member yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes council member Golding yes mayor Hoffman yes motion carries item two I authorize the mayor and the city manager to negotiate and execute any contract as a result of this bid award second we have a motion and a second any discussion Madam clerk roll call council member jansson yes council member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes council member Golding yes council member horn yes mayor Hoffman yes motion carries item three I move to we approve construction Administration Services proposal from Jones Edmonds for an amount not to exceed 9,551 second we have a motion in a second any discussion Mr horn just a I didn't see in here do we does it does the construction admin come from the constru company I may have skipped over it in here but I was trying to find it where does that come from so generally we have to have somebody that acts as the lia on between us and then whoever we're applying the construction to on most of our construction projects um the the engineering engineer of record is who we generally go to first to do construction admin so this project was designed by uh Jones Edmond so we went back to them and asked them to continue with the construction admin so this involves a lot of submitt they have to get uh all the pumps submittal go to them they approve to make sure that the pumps meet all of our specifications before the the contractor begins ordering them they're the ones that double check everything to make sure we're getting what we paid for that's across the bid make sure it all meets our specs um so this is all part of that process that we pay to ensure that we're actually getting what we're supposed to be getting and that everything meets us spe if they want to uh substitute in a different pump they have to work with that particular engineering firm to be able to prove that that one meets all the same curves and everything else works so so that it's not just uh well this is cheaper so I can make more money so I want to substitute it in they'll actually do the behind the scenes work to make sure that that's an approved thing they also act as R Lea on uh during construction to be able to report back to us to let us know if there's any concerns or problems if they run into a problem and and it wasn't expected um they they're the kind of the go between between the contractor and ourselves to be able to help negotiate that part of it thank you any other questions or comments on item three that for call council member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes council member Golding yes council member horn yes council member johnon yes mayor Hoffman yes motion carries item four I move you to authorize the mayor and city manager to negotiate and execute any contract as a result of this award second we have a motion on a second any discussion Madam CL call council member Wagner yes council member wers yes council member Golding yes council member horn yes council member Johnson yes council member s yes mayor Hoffman yes thank you Mr Baron the long awaited and much anticipated sign project Molly aler please take the v um good evening mayor and Council Molly aler assistant to the city manager um before I start my item I just want to congratulate all those who were reelected or newly elected and thank you Fernando for your service to the city I get the distinct pleasure of working with Council more than most staff so um I'm appreciative of all of you and working with us and your service this that being said I'm going to move on I'm here tonight seeking a word for GI consultants for the Citywide signage brand standards RFP one of the city's identified priorities for the Str IC plan is to develop a branding strategy and implementation plan the goal of this project is to create a cohesive network of signage that connects all residents V visitors businesses and the general public to the city's vision of a vibrant Coastal Community this RFP was solicited to the public as well as sent directly to 14 firms and we were pleased to receive five proposals and response that were each independently reviewed and scored by our selection committee the RFP uded the city's new logo and brand standards that were adopted by City Council in 2023 and may be used as ultimately in the color palette scheme but we'll see where it goes the deliverables for the RFP are to develop a comprehensive brand and signage standard to create a minimum of two designs for consideration by the city council at a future briefing date create an inventory of already existing signage to identify effective locations in verbage and other specs for new signs to provide a cost estimate for construction and develop a detailed wayfinding sign uh map and plan creating a brand standard for Citywide signage was adopted as part of the fy2 24 and fy2 capital Improvement plan and we've allocated $120,000 for the development of the design and standards and because I know it will be asked it is the city's intent to put all signage on a regular maintenance plan once it's been installed um I'm here for any questions that you may have thank you can we have a motion I move that we award RFP number 04- 2324 for Citywide signage brand standards to G AI Consultants Incorporated second we have a motion in a second Mr rers did you were you trying to say something yes I just wanted to ask is this going to fix a sign at be and third the programmable Message Board is something that we already have underway it's not part of this project but we have issued a PO for that sign and we're looking for installation hopefully by the end of the calendar year please forgive me for not knowing but thank you any other questions or comments Mr horn what's the timeline for this process I didn't I went through 130 pages plus some them so I I will have to try we gave the firm about five months to complete all the deliverables um I do anticipate with the holidays and our stat briefings that we already have coming up that it might take a little bit longer but I do anticipate this being done well within the fiscal year so but this has been we've been trying to get this for a little while since can we hold to the five months oh absolutely thank you Mr ragner hey Molly um so we've we've talked oh sorry so we've talked about a couple of things uh in Council briefing over the last 6 months or so with things like the adop the highway program and and various other opportunities some needs for additional or some opinions about needs for additional signage uh at the incaps and things on those lines um if there isn't a process currently for that type of stuff to be looked at through this is there a way um that before kind of before we get to kind of the end that we're able to kind of step back and make sure that we're touching all the points we need touch yes so at this point what we're looking at doing is just creating the brand design standards it's just going to be the guideline for whatever signs we determine we need um I do anticipate that including part signage way finding signage anything that need boardwalks any public parking signage anything that we have in the city we want to have a cohesive look to it that way when you see the sign you understand that's a city sign including the buildings um that's up to city council okay thank you any other questions uh Madam cler council member wers yes council member golden yes council member horn yes council member Json yes council member suton yes council member Wagner yes Hoffman yes motion carries item two I move that we delegate authority to the mayor and city manager to negotiate and execute a contract as a result of this RFP award second we have a motion in a second any questions or comments from Council I would just like to appreciate the slide just in case anyone was wondering this is only a four of probably multiple other examples of signs that we have around this community that we can um certainly do better in a cohesive coherent look as well as that maintenance plan that Molly mentioned anybody else M council member golden yes council member horn yes council member Johnson yes council member Sutton yes council member Wagner oh yes council member wers yes mayor hofman yes motion carries thank you for your work on this so far Chief Smith is this you okay come on up Commander Shan Ste that was for you Comm Jacks Beach Police Department unfortunately officer Piper and uh K ja ni medical reasons uh good evening return Council mayor new council member Fernando thank you for your service before this official action takes place on this matter I just wanted to give a quick uh background on aler Piper and Kanan jao Canan program I know could just be done by a vote but I want to give a little insight there uh the Jackson Police Department has had a Canan program for the last 30 years uh since the mid 90s though and through the achievement of the national accreditation toia the Jackson Bri police department has kept trained and deployed two Police Service Dogs uh on two uh opposing shifts on the evening shift they are Dual Purpose dogs meaning that they are narcotic certified and that they are track and apprehension certified um and Cil M gold get the nail on the head or Stillen Thunder there by the way we haven't attended uh the cop Canan program that is by far the most popular Night by far so quickly K Piper here is uh 24 years on the job he started with us in December of 2000 uh he's a US Marine Corps veteran Dan kjo is a Bel of Mal and he was born in 2015 if you paid attention to please can out names out there you know there's some really interesting and cool names out there um and it always comes up from time to time how we name the dogs the hand gets the name the dog with some oversight from us uh the name Jacko though j a CO is significant that is the uh the name represents the first initial of each one of Craig's children I just going to show you the bond and the commitment between hammer and Canan each Canan is part of our family just second an officer they have an employee number they have an employee file they have a badge they have a bulletproof vest they hate to wear and their photos even on our picture boards hanging on the hallway of the police station they also possess an ID number just like their Handler Greg Z number is 1211 jaos is 1211 bra um as you can imagine K ja and Craig spend thousands of hours training thousands more riding together on troll uh like most Parker teams they've had good nights they've had bad nights um gave assistant law enforcement agencies at every level local state and federal uh they've done hundreds of demos they' met thousands of kids uh the picture on the left is their canine training card that we give out at demonstrations they have numerous apprehensions to their credit and they have seized roads by the to jaos cleared cars and searched our buildings when wasth the safe forer to do so he's now missing people and located evidence when it could be clearly seen by an officers out but after 7 and a half years of dedicated service and being 9 years old Kanan jao had to be Medical retire this month so on behalf of Craig Piper of the Jackson Beach Police Department thank you for your time and consideration in this decision to let Kanan jao comfortably with his Handler for the rest of his days thank you Commander sha and a motion please I move that we approve the retirement of Police Department K9 joa and transfer of ownership to officer Piper second we have a motion on a second any discussion Miss gold I just want to say um I I did right along with officer I for like many years ago when I did the citizens Police Academy the first time um but um I I do appreciate all the service that he and his partner uh Joo have provided our community and um I I'm glad to know that Joo will be spending the rest of his days with um officer fiver so thank him for his service Mr Jansen uh just real quick I know that these uh Kines mean a lot to the officers of my brother-in-law is a K9 Officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and he's retired a dog that he now um has in the family and uh the bond between the family and these dogs is really special so this is a this is a special move and I think it's uh that officer Viper is well entitled to it any other comments please pass on to Kanan and officer Joo that he's the best good boy see no other comments Madam CL will call council member horn yes council member Johnson yes council member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes council member Golding yes mayor mman yes motion carries um the final item on our agenda mayor and council at a u recent briefing you all in at that you wanted to revisit this issue of making a donation to The Beach's Veteran Memorial which is located in Atlantic Beach so we have put it back in front of you for your formal consideration thank you and a motion please I move we approve a $5,000 donation to the beaches Veterans Memorial in atlanic Beach second we have a motion on a second any discussion Miss gold um I just want to say that that I do support this because we do have we will will have Jack Beach um Fallen that will be uh memorialized on this Memorial so I think it's a I think it's a good thing for us to approve I wanted to add to they the people organizing this Memorial have done extensive research um at our Beach's Museum uh among other places so they are making sure that they are um honoring and remembering uh those Fallen accurately and this is also the site of our annual Veterans Day and Memorial Day cere C monies if you don't um already attend those I would highly encourage it they're really well done and it's a a great Park um and it's a great opportunity for all of the beaches to gather for those events Mr ran um the the council is aware of this but just to share with everybody else this is the last amount of money they need to push this project over to completion so we're I also very much support it we're pretty excited to be able to consider it thank you see your lights mon call council member Json yes council member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes Council Golding yes council member horn yes mayor Hoffman yes motion carries thank you all for sticking it out we see you we appreciate you I also want to recognize um Miss Mabel McQueen daughter of Margaret McQueen who once sat up here on this thank you for being here we appreciate you guys all and I hope that you found this meeting to be interested uh CIA folks um and Mr wers you WR on M mayor you want to call you mad mayor if I may have a moment I would like to thank Mr Fernando from the bottom of my heart he's always been gracious and kind to me and you're a real class actor i t my hat to you I congratulate you on your service to our community and more importantly to a service to our country you said something that really touch my heart when he said you joined in response to 911 and I tried to join too but I was too old and ni we know but well done sir and I'll do my best to fill your shoes thank you thank you Mr wers can I have a motion to adjourn I move the with second we have a motion second all in favor second by saying iOS icept Mr for house to St thank you have a great night