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special meeting to order at this   time if you can silence your cell 
phones and electronic devices be great today we had uh our planning director Steven   spraker and Senior planner 
Sarah Motes serving as greeters today we secretary Taylor Lochert city clerk 
Susan Dauderis Deputy Mayor Zone one commissioner   Lori Tolland good morning zone two commissioner 
Travis Sargent good morning uh zone three   commissioner Kristin Deaton is not attendance zone 
four commissioner Harold briley city manager Joyce   Shanahan good morning and we have our assistant 
city managers we have Claire whitley and Shawn finley and today we have the 
assistance City attorney Scott McKee  and we have our police chief Jesse godfrey and deputy chief Nathan 
you go and I'm mayor Jason leslie at this time I'm going to call Pastor Al 
um to do invocation on Greater Grace Chapel stand   together first of all behalf of all the clergy in 
town I'd like to say thank you to our legislators   and our First Responders for your service and I'd 
like to think that if you feel a little dose of   strength every now and then it's every Wednesday 
when we meet I head up the local group we pray   for you all we just want thank you so let's pray 
Heavenly Father we thank you so much uh for the   opportunity to be here today Lord I just want to 
pray for uh these legislators and all here this   morning I pray in this special session that you 
would bless them give them wisdom knowledge how   to serve our citizens here in Norman Beach better 
we thank you for that Lord and we look forward to   also not only to today but to 2025 and we pray 
Lord it would be the best year that we've ever   had here in this city and may we place uh those 
uh who are residents here above our the interest   of our own of ourselves and we thank you for that 
Lord so uh as it's been said to serve man is to   serve God and so I thank you for these servants 
this morning we pray your blessing upon this   session in Christ's name amen amen if you turn 
your attention to the flag and join with me in   the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the 
flag of the United States of America and to the   Republic for which it stands one nation under God 
indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you so we're on line four now and I don't sorry 
we go line four now U I don't have any cards okay   so no cards we're going to move on to the next 
part uh Now open up for public hearings and city   clerk please read the title for resolution number 
2024-27 resolution number 2024-217 a resolution   making a finding pursuant to section 1961 1978 
subsection 3 Florida Statutes based upon the 2024   shimberg Center for housing studies annual report 
in to not exempt certain properties located within   the city of or Beach from Ador taxation under the 
live local act subject to that finding providing   for the preservation of existing exemptions 
authorizing the execution of all documents   incidental there to and setting forth an effective 
date this is resolution number 20242 read by title only see Mr spraker can you speak on the item please 
sure uh good morning uh Steven spraker planing director   this is a resolution regarding the Live local act um 
this Act was passed in 2023 um the ACT preempted   local governments for Lon zoning regulations 
regarding zoning density and height for the   provision of affordable housing to commercial 
industrial and mixed areas it also provided tax   exemptions under certain conditions um provide a 
75% tax exemption for um properties that provided   housing at 80% to 120% of the area mediate income 
and then it provided a 100% tax exemption for   those uh properties that provided 80% or below the 
area uh area meeting income so it provided some   exemptions from both city taxes and County taxes 
in 2024 there were amendments to the live local   act and what that did was it provides an out out 
op out provision for those properties providing um   the 80% to 120% um of area medium income and that 
was determined based on the shimberg report that's   performed by University of Florida per the statute 
a resolution has to be adopted by the taxing   jurisdiction and approved by super majority um 
by January 1st and also provided to the property   prer by January 1st so there is um a very tight 
deadline the shimberg study came out on December   16th um what it showed um was that the 80% to 
120% there is enough affordable housing within   blushia County there's still a deficit below the 
80% so that 100% tax exemption would still apply   to those properties um the city doesn't have any 
act or projects that are seeking to utilize the Live   local act no one has been in discussions with staff 
but uh we believe as other jur jurisdictions have   done this is a prudent thing to do to uh help 
protect your your tax revenue if you do have a   project like that staff is recommending approval 
and available for any questions commissioner briley   Mr mayor I don't have any statements or anything 
like that I think this is a good thing especially   was not crazy about said original and I would 
make a motion that we go along with second okay   any other discussion sorry any other 
discussion no City please call vote   commissioner Tolland yes commissioner Sargent 
yes commissioner briley yes mayor Leslie yes yes I'll now close the public hearings so now 
we're going to go to the point six and I'll   move on to staff and commission report suggestions 
and requests starting with City manager Joyce Shanahan   good afternoon so even um thank you for agreeing 
to me today this we apologize for the short   timeline on this um initially we weren't going to 
be able to opt out and the fact that the county   study came back and supported it for all of volusia
County I think most all neighboring cities have   um also adopted this so I think it's a protective 
measure for our community and we appreciate you   doing that I have nothing to offer except to say 
um best wishes for the new year and stay safe and   I'm happy to answer any questions thank you Joyce 
uh assistant city manager Claire just happy New Year   thank you Happy New Year assistant City manager Shawn Finley 
happy holidays as well happy holidays uh assistant   City attorney Scott uh just happy New Year thank 
you okay and this morning we'll start with uh   commissioner briley thank you just want to wish everyone 
happy New Year hope everyone had a great Christmas   just a quick question I guess we probably Sean 
any word back yet from have you FDOT regarding the   little the mob outs at the intersections of like 
St B Street and the are they scheduling those to   be removed it's my understanding that all of 
those have been scheduled to be they they have   at a minimum are reviewing each and every one of 
those I believe that they've already removed a   few of them I'm pretty sure that all the rest of 
them are um we'll take a look at what's what's   remaining after the first of the year here um and 
make sure that they that they are all navigable   um and if they're not navigable we'll make sure 
that they I know that the one at A1A was certainly   one of the key ones the one at us one was was 
another one that I think was was the heartache   and I believe that the one on Halifax that there's 
some trouble for the public publix traffic so so I   think that I think that all of them are being 
being um chocked up as being maybe good design   ideas that didn't translate well into the field 
and were and and we're getting those take care so   believe they're underway got they may want to look 
the one too review the one at Beach Street for   right over here at the foot of the bridge because 
it's it's started up pretty good already so yeah   I'll make sure we take that's all thank you thank 
you commission Briley uh Deputy Mayor right well good   morning everyone just um really want to thank 
staff for working so efficiently and so quickly   on this you know having a January 1 deadline 
when you get a report by December I think it   was 16th you we said that that during the holiday 
season um was a lot and I'm very appreciative of   that of you you are always looking to protect us 
um appreciate it and just want to wish everybody   else a very happy New Year looking forward to 
2025 thank you deputy mayor uh commissioner sargent   thank you Mr Mayor I just want to say thank you 
to staff for putting this together as well but   also for these microphones for the technology 
that we can hear think the audience can hear I   mean this is pretty high tech here the chambers 
will be done for hopefully our next meeting you   peek in there there's no chair January 7th wow 
that's all I have thank you and happy New Year   thank you commissioner sargent and I'll close 
by saying uh that I am a preach of Staff who put   this together I remember Joyce called me and 
I said oh we got little very little time but   we got we got together and good job so uh U but 
I hope everybody has a uh Happy New Year I hope   you all had a great Christmas and uh we'll 
see you uh next year meeting aour thank you