Welcome. Welcome to the Board of County Commissioners. We are going to start with an invocation by Samuel Stafford S. Quair, the spiritual from the spiritual assembly of the Baha'is of Gainesville and thank you and everyone please stand, remain standing for the This is a prayer for America. Old our time, Lord. The scattering is turning to the—these hearts are radiant with thy love. These minds and spirits are exhilarated by the message of thy glad tidings. Oh God, let this American democracy become glorious and spiritual degrees, even as it has aspired to material degrees and render this just government victorious. Confirm this revered nation to up raise the standard of the oneness of humanity to promulgate the most great peace to become thereby most glorious and praiseworthy among all the nations of the world. Oh God, this American nation is worthy of thy favors and is deserving of thy mercy. of thimersy. Make it precious and near to the thirv thy bounties and bestows. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, which stands one nation of God. In this whole, we've been waiting for justice for all. I just want to say something to say. Separation of justice. We're going to call this meeting to order and we can get it approval or 30 changes to the agenda. Madam Chair, just one change we would like to bring in Jen Grice of our Director of Emergency Management to give a briefing on the pending storm that's coming up through the Gulf. And then of course we'll act for the Board to consider passing a State of Local Emergency. So move approval of the agenda and consent agenda adding to the first item on the agenda our emergency management operator Jen Grice. Second. adding to the first item on the agenda at our emergency management operating agenda, Grace. Second, do we have any comments on the agenda? Any public comment to the agenda? Seeing none, all in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like sign? All right. Mark, can you connect us up there? Okay, Jen, guys, can we get us up there? Okay, Jen. Guys, can we get Jen on screen, please? Hey, Jen, you're in the meeting. Thank you, Mark. Chair, commissioners, Jen, Bryce, Director of Emergency Management for Lashow County, here to just give you a brief update on what is now Tropical Storm Haleen. So this is a strong storm forecast to become a major hurricane category three potentially higher. A lashville county is currently under a hurricane watch for the western portion of the county so west of I-75. Rainfall for us is likely to start Wednesday night with four to six inches of rain through Friday with the western portion of the county experiencing clear amounts. The wind incants will likely start a little later than that, so we're looking at Thursday morning or into the afternoon. But we are for to see a significant win here in Latchwick, and again, you know, it's really going to be a primarily the western portion of the county, but any shift to the east, more of the county is going to see those significant impacts. So I really urge our residents to take the storm seriously and make the necessary preparations. We do have today and then tomorrow to make those preparations. And with that, my recommendation to the board is that you declare a local state of emergency for a tropical storm, Haleen. Thank you. So moved. Second. All right, we have a motion in a second to move into a state of emergency. Do we have any board comments to the motion or any public comment to the motion? Commissioner Prisya. No. Go ahead, do you feel free? I just wanted to make sure that folks knew how to get all of the very latest information with the Alachua app and all of the very latest information with the Alachua app and all of that kind of thing. I am sure that Mark is going over there. I'm hoping that Mark covers that during his announcement. Okay, great. Thank you. Hi, welcome. Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to commend y'all and declare in this early as we've seen the model at 11am show. Lattua County and Gainesville seem to be moving a little bit outside of the path. However, the rest of North Central Florida is very much still in danger. A state of emergency has been declared for all the coastal counties. Storm surge is going to be the biggest threat. And so these state of emergency is allowed for mutual aid to begin to be coordinated. I think that's going to be probably the most important thing. As I've spoken to the mayor of Cedar Key, they've all said we need to be ready for after the storm because it's the aftermath where we all have to come together and these orders they do allow for that to be prepared in advance. So I commend your staff and the board for taking that. David, we all know you, but for the record can you please introduce yourself. David Areola, a concern citizen, thank you. Thank you. All right. Any further comment to the motion? All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign? All right. We have a state of emergency. I do also hope that everyone keeps Cedar Key and their prayers. They just, of course, had a fire that destroyed a good part of their docks. And so this hurricane is gonna be pretty catastrophic. For them. All right, Mark. Okay, Madam Chair, Mark Sexton's communications director. As Jen talked about and as we witnessed in the briefing that we had right before this meeting, Alacura County is still squarely in the cone. We are definitely not out of the path of the storm right now and the storm can still shift. We want to let folks know that there are a number of ways that you can get the most up-to-date information. One is by texting 888, excuse me, texting Alachua to 888-777, and then you will get real-time text messages with important updates. Another way is to go to AlachuaReady.com, that is a website devoted just to information on states of emergency. Another great way is to follow Alachua County Emergency Management on Facebook, follow Alachua County on Facebook, Twitter or X, Nextdoor and Instagram. Those are instant ways to get information, most current information. You can also go to our website and you can see video updates on channel 12 but social media is certainly a great way to do it. Text messages are a great way to do it. We encourage everyone to sign up for those features and get the best information. And Madam Chair, we've been a little busy this morning so that's the last of my announcements. All right thank you Mark. All right we'll start with our first item we're no close 12 yet which is to appoint two members to the Arts Council of Alachua County with a term ending September 30th, 2028. I did want to share that one of the candidates, David Morris, contacted me today. He wanted to be here in person, but his life is undergoing chemo and he had to take her to the hospital. But he had hoped to be here today to talk to us. So I told him I would share that. I understand if we appoint Amy Coster, Coster, that will also need to appoint a third person as the alternate. Yeah, I think we should do our two top. Yeah, is anyone here that is applying for the arts council that would like to speak? All right, we'll go forward with the vote. Can you hear me? So I'll call on each commissioner for your two votes. So I will start with Commissioner Chess Knight. I'm going to go with the Kester and Walton. Who would you like to choose as the alternate? The alternate will be Carl Davis. Commissioner Willer? I'm Amy Kester. I'm going to go with the Kester and Walton. Who would you like to choose as the alternate? will be Carl Davis. Commissioner Willer, Amy Kester and Philly-Sawalton and Devin Thomas. Commissioner Chet, sorry, Commissioner Cornell. Amy Kester. Commissioner Chet. Sorry, Commissioner Cornel. Carl Davis and David Morris as an alternate. And Chair Afford. Amy Kester, David Morris and Carl Davis. And it looks like you have a Carl Davis. Is it all today? Yes, there is. So it looks like it will be Amy and Walter. Thank you. I'm going to ask for a call. So it's like it will be Amy and Walter. I'm taking. Okay. Oh, yeah, we motion a second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like sign? Okay. All right. Amy Kester, police Walton, and then Carl Davis has an option. Welcome. Very exciting. Thank you. You're going to have a big week. We did pass the Arts Council Strategic Plan on our consent agenda. And so for those that just joined, I encourage you to take a look at that. They've got a quite ambitious set of goals for the next three years. I'm very excited about their efforts to really try to increase grant funding for artists to be able to do more in our community and to think about ways they can reach non-traditional audiences to engage in the arts here in Elettor County. So exciting stuff and welcome to our new members. All right. Thank you for doing that for me, Commissioner Prisya. I'm thinking about something. Yeah, no, I'm trying to decide so we would have public comment at 12 but our first item is the West and community engagement and I think that's going to be a robust discussion. We could do the animal resources update. I don't want to be more of 15 than that's probably. Our staff are prepared to do the animal resources update now if so we can do that real quick and then get back to work and animals ready for this. Yeah. Thank you. That's a good, good move. I think, do you know just what to find her? Because we still have people wondering in for West End so I don't want to start it early. Yeah. There she is. That's okay. We're trying to get you in and out of here. You can go. so I don't want to start it early. Yeah. There she is. That's OK. We're trying to get you in and out of here. You can go. Sorry for rearranging on you. That's OK. Things are moving quickly today. That's all right. I understand. I don't need to get the timing mark. She gets the PowerPoint up. I think. We need to get you back so you can get umbrellas over everything. I'm ready. We're ready. All right. I think the PowerPoint is on one screen if we can get it on the other we'll be good. Yeah, they're working on it. There we go. Is it out there? Okay. Good afternoon commissioners, Julie Johnson, director of a Lattcho County Animal Resources. Glad to be here to be providing you with an update today. And as far as the hurricane goes we are ready to roll. Everything is packed. So just want to mention that. So quite a bit it has been happening over the last few months. We've done a lot of improvement work at the facility, which we're going to see in this as well. But I always like to highlight some of the numbers and some of the things that we've been doing. Thank you. And so kind of wanted to start with that because it is kind of telling how we've had more animals in the shelter when we started. The beginning of this year, again, these figures are only going to go through August. So these are kind of, you know, these are moving targets still. Our intake was, we were off about 15 animals from, you know, last year, which really isn't make much of a difference when we started with 95 animals more. So anyways, it is really kind of training along the same lines. But if I can draw your attention to this number at the bottom, the public intakes 76%. So we have been taking in animals from the public. I know y'all get a lot of email saying we were not taking anything. 76% of our animals are coming from the public in only 24% from the field. As far as our outcomes go, we've been really lucky. We've been holding our live release number study. Our adoptions are what has really jumped this year, which has been fantastic. We really grew from 49% in 2023 to 61% this year, which is very exciting. So we are getting a lot of animals out. So that is very, very exciting. And our ending counts at the number at the bottom are kind of pretty close between last year and this year. Our officer statistics, this is always very interesting and how these calls have been flow. You notice that we, it seems like we're down for calls for service, but really what's been happening is a lot of the calls that we've been called to have been taking longer periods of time. So there's more follow-up involved in those calls, there's more investigative work in those calls. I have to unfortunately call Carl and Diana on like a daily basis just to give an update on some of these cases and investigations going on because they just take a long time to get through the system. So I don't really have any concerns with this and I feel like these numbers will go up again once we get some of these other cases out of the way. As you can see, our citations have really gone up as well in this period. So, and we have been bringing on some new officers, so getting them trained up and ready to rock in the field is going to be important. Community outreach has been a lot this year. As you can see, we did our summer 11 adoption event in partnership with UF. We got 50 cats and 35 dogs adopted. That was in August. Our Jack's mega adoption event. We went up to Jacksonville, took some dogs up. We got out 19 long term dogs, which is fantastic. We did our first park in the park, microchip and vaccine clinic to get ready for hurricane season in conjunction with emergency Operations team. That was so much fun. That was great. Did a drive-through kind of clinic to get everybody vaccinated and ready For the season. That was done at Depot Park. It was it was a blast and we want to do more We've also hired a new foster and rescue coordinator We've partnered with Humane Society of North Central Florida now to give out free spare, spare, neuter vouchers. They got a grant. And so we are giving those vouchers out to residents that need it and our officers are distributing them. So it's really cool because our officers know the areas that need the help the most as they're out and about in the community. And so they are able to give out these free, spare newtovouchers, and then they can get their pets fixed for free at the Humane Sighty. So it's very exciting. And then we created a return to owner task force. So staff and volunteers are basically becoming our pet detectives. Trying to get more animals home, because our return to owner rate has really been stagnant, and we need to get that at more. So people are really being reunited with their pets and not feeling it's prohibitive. And then finally, dogs playing for life return for the third time this month to train some staff. And these little guys in this picture, they were the sweetest children in the universe. They raised donations for us. And they were so proud and so excited and they were the most adorable children I've ever met in my entire life. They were so excited to bring in the donations and see the dogs and kiddies they were helping. So it was just a great picture. It was a really cool time. These are everybody involved in our outreach events. This is Bark in the Park on the top left with emergency management. This is one of the dogs coming in for the vaccines in the car. He was very excited to get a shot, just kidding. And then this was at our Jack's Mega Adoption event. Some of the animals we took up there has a lot of fun, our summer love and event. And this is just some staff. And of course our UF staff and Dr. Levy and her crew that always makes summer love and so incredible. And just kind of our little logos for our return to owner, task force, and of course, dogs playing for life. And some dogs in a group, in the play group, enjoying our new turf. Our rescue partners have continued to grow this year, which has been great. We're always grateful to our rescue partners have continued to grow this year, which has been great. We're always grateful to our rescue partners. They've had to pull some hard cases this year that have been challenging medical cases, and so we're really grateful to them for all they do. And then finally, as you can see in this bottom picture, and then I'll get to our little doggy. Finally, this is our new shades, an astroturf that are in the playards, at all the yards at The facility and what's cool is the mistors have been installed now So what's cool is it's also helping to cool the walkways through the kennels Just by having that mist and it's cooling the astroturf and so it'll make everybody a lot happier I'm sure and this little pup she came in She's very shut down on As you can see from her intake photo, she was not happy to be with us at all. And just by getting her out and getting her enrichment and some really great things, you can see the smile on her face just a week later, what a change it made in the dog. And so we're very proud of her for making such a great shift. And that really is a testament to all my staff and the volunteers that help us do what we do. Thank you, Julie. Thank you so much. What a great report. Commissioner Cornell? I was just gonna say, Julie, thank you. This is really great, great input. I'm really commending you and your staff for really this turnaround. I know the facilities are not what we want. I know it's a big priority of this board. When I look at the partners, you know, the rescue partners, that slide is as big as I've ever seen. I remember when the adoption data was in the 30s and 40s and the C that we have gone over the 61%. That's a huge accomplishment. It really says a lot about the priority that you and yourself have faced despite the facility. And I wanna thank you and continue to stress that help us on the way. And we are really focused. It's a big number in our budget. It's not gonna happen as far as next year, but in the coming years, hopefully we will have a facility that matches the level of commitment that our staff in this community care about for our animals. So thank you. Thank you. We're very excited. We want that new facility. I would move except it's other report. Second. All right. Commissioner Wheeler. Yes, please. Commissioner Cornel, the dog I picked out for you, you snooze, you lose. It's gone. It's been adopted. Just saying. Still looking though, OK? Now, Julie, how many of these calls that we're getting, this number of calls would be affected by grace marketplace? It's a lot. We have Carl and I actually went and had a meeting with the members at Grace Marketplace and we really talked about trying to brainstorm some ideas to help them and help the pets that they're sometimes not ready to accept because maybe the person's not in the program and this was kind of all done before the latest sweep was done. But they have some challenges too and I understand that and that's a real and fair challenge. And so Carl and I met with them to try and brainstorm some ways that we can get some mutual help whether that's through grants or whether that's through some shared resources and some ideas. And so Jacob Schaefer is the animal person over there. And so him and I have been in touch and we were able to get two of the dogs that were at grace that were abandoned, fixed, chipped, everything for them. And then they're happy to help place them. They just want to see these dogs thrive too. And so we're really trying, you know, this partnership to see how we can mutually help each other so that we're not getting so many calls. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Mr. Prision. Yeah, I just want to say thank you for the work. I know that we work, we were getting those comments about public dropping off dogs and feeling like calls for service for picking up strays weren't necessarily being responded to, so this is helpful to see the real information and the real data, thank you. Question for you about the, and I'm excited about the new facility that we have going on. I know that you're just getting working with the engineers and architects for the basics. How are things going with the Animal Welfare Committee and integrating them into what you're doing with day-to-day operations? I think it's great. I mean, my goal is truly, once we get the architect and construction manager fully on board with the contracts done and all that, is to start having some community engagement meetings so that we can really start bringing the community in as well. But I needed them there as the experts to be able to hear the public and what they want as well. And so that's why we haven't done a lot of that up to this point is because we knew what the basics have to be right. You have to have kennels to hold dogs, you have to have cat spaces, you know, we know those basics. But I really am looking forward to community input to tell us what they hope to have in a new animal shelter and how that's going to benefit them and why and what exciting ideas there are. I have tons of exciting ideas, but you know maybe the community wants to see something completely different. I want to hear that. So that's what we're really looking forward to next is once we get everybody signed in on board that we can start doing some community kind of you know round tables with the residents in hearing from them. Awesome. One other question is, I know we have our new volunteer portal. It's a great way for people to get involved and plug in. There are a lot of teenagers in our community high schoolers who need community service hours. And I was wondering, do we have a way? I know that they're minors, but many family members are working. So I'm wondering, do we have a way for them to be supervised and volunteer do volunteer hours at the shelter? We do so we have a whole policy on it. We lowered the volunteer age and so thanks to you know getting that hammered out that policy younger volunteers now we have junior volunteers and so it's been a great program and it's great to see them come through and really get excited about helping the pads there. Awesome. Thank you so much. You're welcome. And just a side note too, we are 60% above our sales and licensing this year over last year. There ever seems outsourcing. So it's been very good. Well, if I can add one more thing, I participated in the Bark in the Park of In. I got my dog and my brother who had just moved here from Albert Kirkke his dog and we went through the Bark in the Park program and I was so impressed with how smoothly it ran, how quickly it was and the fact that she partnered with our emergency management and handed out flashlights and blankets and other things. It was so well done. Yeah, and I got a big, give a big shout out to all the UF students that were there to give the shots in the minister room. If anybody knows anything about Dr. Levy, she is very particular about how things run. And so she was determined to take the best practices and put them all together and it was great. It was fantastic. It really was. It was fantastic and it was I expected a long wait and there wasn't and everything just kept moving so nicely and it was so well coordinated it just kudos to all of you. So thank you. All right. I have one more question. Okay, sure. And it's more for staff, Julie, thank you. I would just, you know, when can we think to hear a report about the status of our contract for the land to actually build this thing? Madam Chair, we're negotiating with the university still and trying to hammer out our MOU with the vet school. We still have some few issues there to hammer out and we get that done and then we can complete the lease agreement. They have been cooperating and sent back a term sheet. Our legal staff has taken a look at it and I think we're I think we're getting close now If you would like we can certainly bring an update to the board Either at the next meeting or the second meeting in October And now mention that to the manager. That sounds like a good idea. Okay. All right. Thank you Yeah, we're asked about sounds like a good idea. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. We're asked about it on a regular basis. Yeah. All right. Well, we are now right at noon. So we're going to go ahead and take our general public comment. Now at this time, you can comment three minutes on anything on the agenda and three minutes on anything that is not on the agenda and three minutes on anything that is not on the agenda. If you talk about an item that is on the agenda, then you cannot talk about it again when that item comes up. So that's to help people that may only have a few minutes to be here but want to comment on an issue and then need to leave. All right? So what we'll do is we'll take our public comment here in the room and then we will go and see if we have any public comment from the telephones. And I'm hoping to keep this moving right along today because I know everyone needs to go home and get ready for hurricanes. All right, thank you. Also, please introduce yourself, so we know who we're talking to. Good morning my name is Bert Weatherington I'm also President of the Turkey Creek Lions Club but I'm here today to speak about concerned citizens on southeast Hawthorn Road from Lake Shore Drive to Kate's Fish Camp. Hawthorn Road is also known as State Road 20. DOT does not have lights out there. But my biggest concern here is there is a business who has been reopened at Earl Powers Boat Park Lake Shore, it's called Lake Side Barn Grill. The business was closed down last year from code enforcement and the Elokchua County and it has been reopened according to new permits and everything. Well for the last month, every weekend there has been nothing but noise complaints from area residents. The Elokchua County Sheriff's Office is aware, code enforcement is aware, and the sheriff's office only has so many deputies that work that area. And this past weekend, there wasn't accident at 5,900 Southeast Hot Thorn Road, and every weekend, they're constantly always, at least 200 cars or more, lining up along Southeast Hawthorn Road. And in that little small parking lot next to Earl Powers' Boat Park, they are also going into the turn lane at 6,06 and turning around and coming back to the boat park. And you can hear their music, their boom boom music all the way from Lake Shore Drive on Hawthorn Road all the way down to Catesfish Camp. Residents who live across the street from the road to trails or south on road to trails or the Hawthorn Trail can hear the music. You have children, you have families that are trying to sleep. This music starts at 9 p.m. and goes to 4 a.m. and even after deputies have tried to clear the place, they continue their music again and then deputies get called once again. But this has been a continuation for a month now since August 31st. And my concern is from residents and myself as it needs to go to a higher authority, to be shut down, to have an extensive fine of some sort to say, look, you know, you don't stop this. We're shutting you down. And I feel bad for the Sheriff's Office and wasting our tax dollars to come out there all the time every weekend. They can't monitor it 24-7 while this business is open at that time of night. So my concern is shut it down from the county once again. So we do not have this problem once again. And the safety concern of residents in the area that are scared of their homes being torn. Right. Yeah. Mr. Weatherington, if please don't leave until we're done with public comment, somebody may want to address your concerns from the board, but we take all of those concerns and save them to the end of public comment to address them at once. Right. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Ron Rose past the Greater Bethel AME Church and also service chair of your equity advisory board. Just got something that I want to share with you all to make sure we remain on the same page. In our country and in our state, there are some that despise the word equity. And they're trying to rewrite a narrative or a definition about words like equity, about words like diversity, about words like inclusion. I'm a service to share your equity advisory board. There's been some movement. Our equity manager has resigned. Our assistant county manager is retiring. And then I noticed on the agenda that the county manager has something on here about reorganizing or restructuring or something that area with the equity manager. And so the county manager, Ms. Liebman, did send us a note in our last meeting last week there was a lot of concern about what was going on with our board. It's a volunteer board, but we put on a lot of work. I don't want to put that type of time into something that's not a priority of yours anymore. And so I want to come before you all. And I'm going to let you know that we are concerned that that board and the mission that you all have tasked us with that it remains a priority and in our restructuring and reorganization that it's not a priority anymore and all the teeth are taken out of what we're trying to do. Thank you, Pastor Rose. Additional general public comment? So impressed by that duct tape. It's been there for like seven years or something. Once deducted. My name is Mark Vance, who's working. And I had another thought about this whole building community thing and how really they're on the forefront of, you know, the whole climate adaptation, you know, movement, not just in this county but elsewhere. And because I started thinking about how the little bit of cars are becoming more electric. I mean, like a little bit of a little, if you look at the market trends, like 20 years from now every other car is going to have some kind of electric and hybrid type of components. And so like a four-prong outlet is about like, you know, it's like 15 bucks or something like that. So every garage really should have a four-prong outlet because that way you can hook up your EV and start charging it when you get home and never have to go to Kangaroo again. But the time to do that is when the house is being built, when the house is being built, it's got studs, it's empty. It's like a skeleton, if you will. And then you've got the circuit board and you open it up. And at that point, it's almost no extra charge. Or it is no extra charge to actually change a 20 amp, for a 40 amp, or a 40 amp, for a 60 amp. The 80 amp is a little bit more expensive, but that's when you have your extra wire go to the garage so that when you have an electric car, when you come home, you know, five years from now, 10 years, you can just plug it in. And the same for say the solar access thing on the roof, and then you have your own demand hot water heater and all of that is like less than a hundred bucks. When you're building the home, that's maybe 200 bucks? Well, I don't know, you'll be better. It depends on the design, go ahead. But for real, that is deep time to do it. It's gonna be a lot cheaper and easier to do than if you do it later on. And so that's the kind of thing I was thinking like we're the building community. They're very busy these days. There's a lot of stuff going on and to get them included in this whole thing where you have a social component to it where it's like, hey man, you guys are great. We love you and a little bit of a practical thing like these are the market trends. There's a practical rational component to it and maybe there is a thing where it says, you know, it's basically half a year, but spread out over 10 years, and you don't have to have money up front. You don't need to have a budget. Basically, it comes at the back ends. There's other ways to compensate for that. Anyway, but that's what makes me think that the building community is really like a key to actually helping navigate that direction. So whenever you guys have your retreats, how do you get the building community to be part of this movement, you know, emotionally committed, rationally committed, and also needs to be some kind of like thing on the back end where it becomes easy for them to sell those homes, whether it's a brand or a label, it says it's a climate-ready home man. Did you know that blah blah blah, oh yeah, honey, what do you think? Thank you, Mark. I appreciate it. And honey says, of course, darling. All right, thank you, Mark. Appreciate it. And Honey says, of course, darling. All right, thank you, Mark. Good morning. Good morning, Patricia Lee, resident of Gaysville. And I made similar comments. I had to see the commission meeting recently. And I will start with some quotes by Mark Twain, which says, the secret of getting ahead is getting started. He also said, don't wait the time will never be just right. With regard to Naval-focused multi-paceted development and products on the east side, we have hundreds of thousands of dollars in studies and countless man hours invested in those studies, but have not gotten started on any comprehensive solutions. I, in the past five years and a few decades prior to that before I left and came back to Gary's Bill. I've actually brought a God-given inspired solution to the community. I've actually provided this Board of Crowning Commissioners with a copy of our business plan, which is show some very positive results. I did that earlier this year, perhaps January, February, sometime during that time. And I have noted that the county, as well as the city, has been able to garner projects, mullies for various things over the course of the past few years. And this year, immediately, yet we have been unable to garner some less-get-started action oriented commitment from much-needed collaborating partners. We are more than ready to get started but need your proactive help with a sense of urgency. We have discovered that there is an ideal facility now available that it could be in danger of going to yet another tax exempt purpose and as you know, almost 50% of the properties in our games or area is already taxes that's not generating any tax revenues for the benefit of the people. We understand that many does not grow on trees, but we also know for decades that we are the dire need of people slash neighbor focused economic development on the east side of Gainesville. Therefore, I would like to now ask and I have been various ways before, how is it we can get the collaboration, I have some sets of the funds that seem to appear for other projects so that we can get started doing some things. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Lee. All right. Welcome. Good afternoon, Brian Bisher, High Springs. I'm going to go back to the next slide. Good afternoon. Brian Bisher, high springs. Thank you, commission. I've got a picture. I just put it there. Is that how that works? Yeah, they'll new to that. All right. So I've been here before about the Northeast corner of 441 and I-75, which is the terror developments related in Mill Creek Sync. I'm now talking about this property kitty corner, which is southwest side of 441 and west of I-75, and it's called Tomoka Hills. It sounds good on paper, private golf course, only two people will play on it. That's at least what they purported to the Environmental Protection Department. And that there would only be 10 homes. But I went to the neighborhood meeting. And you can see in the fine print, it talks about 350 units, 540,000 square feet of commercial, 300 units and then 350 apartments, 100 houses and then 10 houses on the golf course, so 720. Madam Chair, good point. Can you point from what numbers I'm looking at? Yeah, not the numbers but the places where you're talking yes all all here on the green is the golf course okay thank you great part is office for tower insurance 72,000 square foot office building and so I went to the neighborhood meeting and I said, hey, well, this kind of dumps into the cross-county fracture that we didn't talk to everybody about. And that ends up in water in high springs and all the wells in between and into the horn's beak. And they said, no, no, no, son, you don't know what you're talking about. And so then the Florida Springs Council came out just this last week with this map. I'm not I'm sorry Florida Springs Institute came out with this map and so the subject property is right here in this corner right and so it is in fact in the Hornsby Spring priority focus area and horns be spring shit. So that drains all downhill. It starts out about 160 feet in elevation. Drops down to about 100 feet of elevation. So water as we know goes downhill. Oh, it's right. So I'd like to mark Twain quote from before. So here's Mark Twain quote for you. We'll just keep on that same theme. Whiskey is for drinking, water for fighting over. And this is water quality issue that we have to deal with. Speaking of storms, tie that in. All right, it's coming. Get ready. So that's actually Terabay Wood on the last storm. Thank you Mr. for sharing. Okay. Welcome. Can you pull that mic down so we can. There you go. Yeah. Is that a good? My name is Holly Barris and I'm an annual member over at the Alachua County Farmers Market and I just wanted to say thank you so much for extending our lease for another two years. I'm a beekeeper and I've been doing it over three, and I've done farmers markets all over. This is so unique. It is a very, very special market, and I've done hundreds in different locations, and there's nothing like it. So I just wanted to show my appreciation being a new member since May that you're extending that lease for us because it is a hidden a hidden gem and the community is just amazing So I just wanted to express my thanks. Thank you missurs Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. Welcome. My name is Amanda Payton and I am actually the market manager at a lot of county farmers market. And I also just wanted to first and foremost extend a huge thank you for renewing our lease for the next two years. We really believe that our market is a very valuable asset to our community for multiple reasons and to be able to continue that in our location. It's wonderful, so we just wanted to really show up and be able to thank you guys for that. So thank you. Thank you Ms. Payton and thank you for managing the market so nicely. All right. All right right any more public comment We're gonna go to the phone. Oh wait. We have one more person mark Just one comment my name's Dennis Comfort. I live in the unincorporated area my address is in Newbury, but I saw the gentleman's presentation about the development, I guess it's it. I, 441 in I-75, my other name, Tara. Tara is a red flag. That's all I've got to say. Thank you, Mr. Comfort. I'm beginning to believe that by somebody else. Okay, Madam Chair, we do have some folks for public comment. I want to remind people to hit star nine if you want to raise your hand to be recognized for public comment. And our first one is Millie. Millie, if you'll hit star six, you will be able to speak. You're in the room. You've got three minutes to speak to anything on the agenda, three minutes to speak to anything off the agenda. Please state your name. Can you hear me? Yes. Can you hear me? Yes, please. I'm Melissa Bell and I too am a local farmer and I am also here just to express appreciation to the county for the Alachua 441 market. It's a credit both to that market and to the county's support that it has existed for as long as it has. And it truly is a benefit to the community, any community that has farmers in it is more resilient than one without. So I just wanted to say thank you for the next two years and also working with us in ensuring the market continues. Thank you so much. Thank you, Miss Bill. Okay, and Madam Chair, the next caller is phone number ending in 7518. If you would hit star six and state your name. Hi Mark this is Val Leitner. Thank you so much. Thank you to all the members of the commission. I intended to be there this morning but since we have major hurricane that looks like once again, it's coming to visit us near Horseshoe. I'm on Oyster Cage Flash Crab Trap duty today to prepare. I wanted to call in and say thank you all so very much for all of your assistance with the 441 farmers market. I am on the board of that market. And we are so appreciative that you all have renewed our lease and we look forward to talking more about opportunities on that parcel or on another parcel moving forward so that we can continue our market which as you heard from others we believe is a great asset to our community. We have about 40 farmer members, so we're pretty much at capacity. And we seem to be just doing better and better all the time with having new community members come and new products from our farmers and also value added products. And so thank you all so much again. And I hope you all have a wonderful day. Thank you, Val. And good luck with the hurricane. Also, thank you for your very detailed letter. Yes, thank you. I appreciate you all reading it. And Madam Chair, that was the last caller. All right we will now in public comment and we will move to our first action item. Oh wait let's oh sorry let's have a response for comment. I'm sorry I'm in an anxious to move look today. That's a freaking. All right so sorry Commissioner Prisya your first. Thank you. So first to the gentleman regarding the lake sidebar. And I had gotten those complaints and I appreciated the community reaching out. I have been in touch with code enforcement and they said that it was a complex issue, but they were working on it. I'm hoping that we could get an update from staff at some point maybe at during manager's comment or we could find out what is going on that or how we are going to be addressing that issue so that the community members can get some. Oh, unless they're ready now, that would be great. Yeah. Now we're drawing me on the spot. Good morning Madam Chair. We are working codes enforcement, the building department, growth management, more growth management, and the sheriff's office are working on the issue. It's complex because they were approved to be open as a restaurant. There's still some building issues they have to complete. Sheriff has been out there as you've heard in your emails several times the past few weekends. There's, we're not entirely sure about the number of people inside or if they're just using the parking lot. So we're having to address it from several areas and parking lot, parking, those kinds of things are what the sheriff would enforce. We are definitely working on it diligently and trying to address it from all sides. Depending on the storm, we'll be out there again this weekend and going inside and figuring out what's going on if we need to completely shut it down or how we can get rid of them. And that the sheriff can't also enforce the noise ordinance, correct? Sheriff enforces the noise ordinance and there has been a lot of music, a lot of loud noise makers. I'm not sure what they are, not music, just some kind of noise makers they're using. Plus the music coming from the cars. And we're trying to make sure with the sheriff's office we're kind of back and forth in discussions whether all that's coming from the cars or any of it's coming from inside, which is another issue altogether. They can enforce that. And noise, unless its construction is enforced by the sheriff's office, not codes. Also with regards to them hanging out in the parking lot in their cars, it's also, he says it's late as 4 a.m., all businesses are supposed to be closed by 2 a.m. as my understanding. So even bars, like, you know, have a 2 a.m. curfew, at least in in downtown they're all closed. So I'm wondering why they are allowed to remain. So that's part of what we're trying to figure out too is if they're just coming and hanging out or if the business is actually staying open. They are bleeding into the park and getting trash in the park, they're blocking the road. In some instances, so the sheriff is doubling down on what they've been going when they're called out but they're proactively going about it now and planning to be there consistently to try to make it stop. I would say I can give you a better update probably by Monday. Okay great. Well if we can also get this Mr. Weatherington's contact information and stay in touch with the residents so they can get an idea of what's going on that would be really great. Well, if we can also get Mr. Weathering 10's contact information and stay in touch with the residents so they can get an idea of what's going on, that would be really great. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. May I follow your question right there? Do we find for code violations like that? I mean, is that the sort of thing that we could actually employ funds to put some pressure on that business? It's going to depend on what we find out when we get out there with a group, whether it's inside or outside. But yes, if it's a violation of, I mean, they were, they went through development plan approval, administrative plan approval to change from, I believe, a bait and tackle shop, a retail shop, to a restaurant recently. So they are allowed to be a restaurant, but there is a big difference between a restaurant and a bar night club tavern, which they're not allowed to be. So we're trying to get that information and figure out from that angle, then it's basically you can't be operated. I mean, you would get a code enforcement violation and fines would start once they're found guilty if that's the process we went through, but for hanging out in the parking lot and the parking tickets, right now, the shares are writing tickets to everyone that's out there with the deputies. If they're blocking the road, will they be towed? Well, I would imagine yes, they would be except that from what I understand in my conversations with the deputies, they're just writing tickets, and if the people don't want tickets, they're leaving, so the people are there. They're not parking in the road and leaving. They're hanging out so they're getting the people to move. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. All right, my second was regarding equity. I just wanted to speak. First of all, to say thank you for your service, this chair of the equity committee, where I will say, I for one, but I know this whole board is in agreement that equity is still very much a priority for us. It's something that we built into our strategic plan and we continue to remain steadfast on. And the reorganization is really in an effort to ensure that there's a really good set of leadership and support for our equity director and that they have the tools to be able to reach across our organization, to be able to integrate the work that you all are doing with equity, to kind of look at our comprehensive plan, look at our internal documents so that they have the structure and the supports that they need. So I don't think that the reorganization is a reflection of our sort of pulling back on equity at all, but rather our learning curve in trying to understand how best to support that position, learning curve on writing the job description for that position and ensuring that they have all of the support that they need to be successful. So I just appreciate you being here. That's my personal take and I'll let the management respond if they want to respond as well to that effort. But I also did you have anything? Did you want to say anything about that? It's in our charter. Yeah, it's also in our charter. It's in our charter. Yeah. Right. And then regarding the, also regarding the climate, comments around climate change, I just wanted to quickly say there's a Hawthorne Climate Summit this Saturday which you might want to attend and that is if it's not canceled due to the storm and impacts and that's going to be at the new generation church from about 10 a.m. to about 3 p.m. in Hawthorne and they're going to be addressing all things sustainability and climate change and we'll be having our own climate summit November 16th so mark your calendars for that. Regarding the economic development on the East Side I wanted to quickly say I hear you the urgency is real and I believe that this commission I can't go into all the details during public comment but I believe this commission has tried to be really diligent and pushing forward on trying to do more work with Eastside redevelopment and thinking about the ways in which we bring good paying jobs and we bring economic development to this county. Unfortunately, in my opinion, we made a grave mistake in leaving the full authorization and management of our CRA dollars for East Gainesville to the city commission. So we don't have any say in when and how those dollars are spent specifically. But I do know that they have plans for actual execution which they shared with us at our last meeting six months ago. And we will have another meeting December 16th where we'll be meeting with the city commission to get an update on those action plans. And so I would encourage you to come to that. And also, if you'd like to set a meeting with me, I can connect you with our new economic development director to chat more about some of our initiatives there and opportunities to connect regarding potential grants and things like that. And then last but not least, I just wanted to say, thank you for coming out for the farmers. We love you. We're so happy to have you as a farmers market. And I know we're going to be talking about the farmers market location and sort of the plan for that space and the farmers market. When will that be coming back to us? Do we know? Madam Chair, unfortunately, I don't know. When it's coming back, but we'll search. We will check and get back with you on that. OK, that would be great. Just so the farmers can know. I know that's something that they've checked the board has checked in a couple times about is what we're you know I know that there's a lot of moving parts there with the fire rescue department and everything and I just want the farmers and the board there to have opportunity to weigh in so whenever we know that's coming it would be great to thank you. Thank you. All Perzia. Commissioner Chessen. Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to make a couple of comments about the DEI stuff and equity. You know, a lot of accounting is also took on a truth and reconciliation process and also dealing with the individuals that were lynched in a lot of accounting and trying to address those issues. And from that came the equity issue with them making sure that our county policies and all of that are addressing the needs and the issues of DEI type of stuff. But of course, we have a governor now who disagrees completely with that particular concept in trying to change those definitions. And I don't think that's good for America. I think it's bad for America. And I don't think it helps with that kind of rhetoric and that kind of belief, things have changed over the years, things have changed for better. But I do not, as an individual, want to go back to where it was 50 years ago. And I will die trying to fight against that. And I just don't think it's appropriate this day in time. I think what we're moving forward with our truth and reconciliation process, we're trying to deal with those issues, the traumas that had happened years ago and trying to deal with those issues. But this is that had happened years ago and trying to deal with those issues. But this is very, very important to me as a commissioner and I think it should be very, very important to all of the citizens of Elantra County really because it benefits everyone, not just one particular group of people. It protects everybody. And I think it's important that we address those issues as a Board of County Commissioners, and I think we're probably, we'd be maybe one of the ones, except for Broward County. I think that addressing these issues, so I think that we're sort of a leader here in that process, and I give staff the opportunity to respond, but I think it's one of those things that are important to a lot of County, and I think it's one of those things that are important to a lot of accounting. And I think the previous commission and this current commission supports that, at least I get that feeling from my colleagues. So that is a very important issue to us. And we're going to continue to address that issues. We did have the equity manager to, I guess, leave us. And also we're having Carl Smart retiring. And so I think that those issues will be addressed in future meetings and talking with our manager and all of that and making sure that we keep that equity and diversity, equity and inclusion process still alive and a lot of accounting as kids, it is in our charter. So that's one of the most important things we did. We think to make sure we always have diversity, equity and inclusion in our community. So I just want to make those comments. And I do have some concerns about the fish camp area and all of that stuff. It's a safety issue, that lead at night with the traffic and all of that stuff. I can see the accident happening there, a real fatal accident there happening there. So I think that that's an important issue to address and look at. And so I'm with the rest of the commission on that in terms of our staff looking into that and getting some resolution to that Thank you Madam Chair. All right. Thank you. Commissioner Wheeler Yes Carl, do you have did you did you want to say something more to Reverend Rawls too about some of his concerns and also you're still going to be working with us on these These projects too. Yes Yes, sir. Yes. Okay. Madam Chair, yes. Although I'm retiring at the end of this month, I will, the manager has asked me to come back and work on a couple of special projects and those two primarily will be gun violence prevention and then the other one would be truth and reconciliation, the electoral kind of community remembrance project. And both of those projects are very dear to me and be glad to come back and work with the work on those projects. Certainly we value equity with the county and the managers made that real clear. And there was a study done back by the Friendship 7 in 2017 that showed that was inequity here in our county, unfortunately. And so you're passing the resolution for truth and reconciliation. You're creating the position of the equity manager, equity and community outreach manager was a response to that. And so we certainly want to see that it remains a priority. And I'm sure it will on the county manager. Thank you. Thank you. And then to Miss Lee, I know you've been working on this a long time. We've talked about this when I'm, right as I came on the board. So I would really like to have some time with you too to find out where you are. You know what has been accomplished so far, you know, and where we need to get going. Because I am committed to you and others like you and our community who have these passionate dreams. And I've got a couple of years left to get in trouble with you. So just, you know, give me a call. Let's sit down, all right. So I can find out where you are because I'm curious to about, I know about this building that you're talking about too. All right, so let's get together. And Mr. Bush here, thank you for continuing to be our canary. Thank you, and for the updates as well. If there's something I can do to go to the high springs area or to be, I just don't always know about all these meetings. And so I'm not there but I am there. Okay and Mr. Comfort, thank you for your comments. Yes. Thank you. All right. Commissioner Cornell. I'll be very brief Madam Chair, four comments. One, whiskey, sweet drink and waters for fighting. Through our farmers, thank you. The reason it was extended for two years is because of your involvement in really some of the county's strategic initiatives for local food. So thank you. My third comment is to our growth management. If we have a restaurant that got a permit to be a restaurant and then they're trying to be a bar, I got no problem with shutting that down and having them start over, I think that's wrong and I think it's a safety issue. And then finally to pass the roles, you know. I don't think I could say better what my colleagues have said other than to tell you that we are so committed to what the citizens ask us to do in the charter amendment, which is equity. And in fact, the Latua County won with the Florida Association of Counties an award to host the entire state next year in the innovation conference here in Elatua County. And one of the reasons we won is we actually are going to share the efforts that we've made with Truth and Reconciliation with Mr. Justice and Soledorship, and obviously with Deputy County Manager Schmarts leadership so that the rest of this they can see what we have done, what we're currently doing, and more importantly what we will continue to do. We're all riding on this together. And so thanks for being here. Thanks for leaning in. You know, on the advisory board. It's important and your work is valued. Thank you, Madam Chair. All right. I want to echo all the comments that my colleagues have made. And I would also like to ask if, do we have any update on the Tomoka Hills Taraues in Elachua. So Madam Chair, we've sent you a couple emails. There were two pending hearings, one before the Planning and Zoning Board in Elachua and another one on a final plat in front of the city board. Both of those have been pushed out. We don't, I don't believe they've been rescheduled. You have staff coming to you. I think it's October 3rd. Yes, but especially, October 1st. So a week from today to talk to you about the issues you asked them to look into what we would tell Alacua. If we went out there, what I would say is that in anticipation of those hearings before they were canceled, we shared some of the concerns and data analysis that the county had regarding the environmental sensitive issues out there. And we're hoping that that will be considered in their hearings. All right thank you I thought the public should hear that update. Manager smart? Yeah madam chair in reference to the discussion on the farmers market and the expansion the extension of the lease their Tommy Crosby is here deputy manager, assistant. Tommy Crosby is here, deputy manager, assistant manager, Tommy Crosby can speak to that. Thank you, Toby. Hey, Tommy Crosby, assistant manager for budget fiscal services, just to the question that was asked, tonight you're getting a budget, obviously that is substantially larger than last years. Most of that is capital in nature. We've been spending a lot of time on the five-year plan. The things we try to guard against is things that are not on the plan anywhere and all of a sudden they're the highest priority of the plan and they get pushed up to year one. In terms of the farmer's market area, we are working with the chief on what his training needs are for that he's made that the training area and expansion and he has some things he would like to look at expanding that so putting all of those pieces on the same spot whether it's practical or not or how it looks, what we do with fleet now that we're buying the warehouse, his fleet department will have a large impact on that area as well, that big building this there. So all of that we are working on that and so we're probably looking at a December January timeframe to come back to the board with a concept plan of This is what we can do to provide the services the board wants us to provide whether it be the support of vendor the farmers marker whether it be Expansion or both and how that looks and what we can do that's most effective most cost effective and the cost attached to that So that's the time frame we're looking at. All right, we do have a question. Commissioner Prisya? Thank you for that. That sounds great. I just want to, I want to, you know, I mentioned it a couple of weeks ago, I think at our last meeting when we met and I just want to reiterate, I know the farmer's market is growing. It's, I mean, it's growing and expanding and they have a lot more daily vendors that want to be annual vendors but there's not room and so as we think about how things fit on that space or what we do to move people around to other properties we own or places we might acquire I just want to be making sure that we maybe meet with that board and have a conversation with them about their needs about their vision for growth so that what we do isn't going to be another thing that in five years we have to do over for the farmers market. And that's my only comment. And I really appreciate all the work that you all have been doing with that site, because I know it's not an easy site to work with. Just the parking issues alone are a little bit of a nightmare. So thank you. We will definitely keep the board and ask for board direction in many cases for what we need to do because there will be dollars in the policy. We need to make sure. And hopefully this goes back to some of the strategic planning you were talking about as well. So there's a larger longer term vision of exactly where we need to go. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Crosby. All right. We will now move on here. I think we had a motion to adopt to accept that presentation. Oh yes. Thank you for mining that. Let's vote on that real quick. All in favor of that motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Like sign. All right. Thank you for that point of order. All right. Now we'll move on to action items. Number one, which is the West End Community Engagement and Capital Improvements Update. I guess we'll wait and Madam Chair, commissioners, Jason Mauer, Director for Parks and Open Space. He's providing you the results and kind of updates on the community engagement process. As soon as we get the presentation loaded, we can go through that. While we're waiting on that, Mark, can you get up and talk about sandbags real quick? I've had a couple of texts about sandbags. And I know that we are distributing them. Yes, we are. And we're distributing them at the Public Works location on 441 by Wayside Park. We've also just learned that the City of Hawthorne has also opened up a sandbag location and we are waiting for the go ahead from the City of Gainesville. They haven't notified us yet but we anticipate they should be opening up their operations soon. All right. Thank you for that update. That'll hopefully the folks that texted me are listening. Thank you. All right. Jason, thank you. OK. So as we talked about, we had a community engagement, the community engagement meeting August 13th. We had a huge turnout. We sent out 11,796 postcards to the residents within five miles. We also worked with Mark's team to push out social media, media blasts as well to advertise the meeting. So, I'm prior to the meeting. We actually got a lot of feedback from the community via social media. And as you can see by these results here, we have quite a bit of a, let's not the right presentation. So, this was listed in priority. So basically the number one vote. This is a different presentation. I think if you need the right one, maybe Mark could pull it from the agenda, because the correct one isn't back up This doesn't appear to be the same agenda or the same presentation we have in the Now it's out there Did you send us the update? Yeah. Okay. Excuse me, give us one moment and we'll pull the latest copy from the agenda really quick. Sorry about that. I'm sorry. Sorry, our website is taking a minute to load. There we go. You left a scroll down. Come down one more. All right. Sorry about that. All right. All right. So prior to the community engaging meeting we got a quite a bit of response on social media. As you can see here this chart shows you kind of the priorities of what the most requested items were, amenity improvements, and kind of programming they'd like to see. No surprise splash pad with shade was number one, along with playground and shaded walking paths. So we incorporated that into some of the data, but during the community meeting, we had 225 people in attendance. We probably was a little bit more, but that's what we got off the sign off sheet, but I think some people came in a little later, didn't get on the sheet. So we took our time, went through the process, we walked them through how we got there, we went how the world masters was key to getting this property and what the improvements were going to be before that event, so that the community understood what was going to be done, how it would impact or not impact the development of the park in the future so that we could put their minds at ease They all got the same same story So as you can see we had an amazing turnout very engaged community Okay, so we did not put any kind of restrictions on what they wanted to ask for we didn't we wanted to encourage Creativity and everybody's ideas were important. So as you can see, we had quite a list of amenities and requests from the community. And some of the things that we found to citizen concerns, they're worried about increased traffic, people wandering into the yards, off the property, lower in the speed limit. So there was a kind of a plethora of concerns that were brought up as well, which we actually were grateful that they were able to present those to us. There was also some neat ideas of having 5K runs, food trucks, concession stands, making an event space. And then as you can see, the amenity suggestions were pretty long lists. So during the meeting, we did run out of time and we were not able to get with the community and prioritize everything because it just was such a great turn out a lot of feedback. So what we did is we got together and did a follow-up survey. We sent it out to all those in attendance. And so what we did is please pick your top three of all these amenities that were suggested. What would be your top three that you'd like to see on the property and as you can see from the results these were weighted First but I got to remind myself vote off so first place you got was a three points for that vote If we waited them second was two points third was One point so we tried to wait them based on the priority So as you can see nine whole golf course was one of the number one requested items along with walking trails, driving rains, the tank, playground shade, pickle balls, flash pad and so on. So we reviewed all these and then we compared it with some of the social media, some kind of weighted them all out that way. And what we're suggesting is, our recommendation is even though nine hole was the highest scoring, was maybe compromising with the community and possibly doing the driving range, would be a better fit with all the other amenities that are gonna go in. Some of the concerns we have is the irrigation is completely shot for the nine. Let's say we use the front nine. The irrigation is shot for that. The sod is completely gone, so the amount of money that would need to be invested into revitalizing that is quite a significant amount. And that also doesn't really, our master plan didn't recall for needs for golf courses in the community So that's as much as they would like to have that we think compromising in this particular instance would be a great course of action so what we'll do is After today's input from the board and going over everything we would like to move forward with You know doing design engineering, working with a consultant that then will come back with the community around February, early spring to have another meeting to workshop these ideas and concepts, and then once they have that secondary community meeting, then they can start working towards the final design and engineering for the part property. As you can see here, I can read these if you'd like with the recommendations are, or if, okay, let's see. Got that one. Okay. And then I guess now we just go with the questions if you have any. All right. Why don't you move back to the staff recommendations while we're asking questions just for the public and are this from the last time or did you? to the staff recommendations while we're asking questions just for the public. And, um, are this from the last time or did you? No, I do. Okay. Okay. I'm sure Prisia. Thank you. Um, I guess the first time I want to say thank you was I attended that, um, community engagement meeting and it was really impressive how many people came out. Thank you to all the folks who are in the room here who are at that meeting and so many more. It's been really powerful and helpful to have that much community input and engagement with regards to this park. I guess what I've heard loud and clear from folks in addition, like with regards to that and sort of being out on the campaign chart, you know, I'm meeting a lot of individuals having a lot of conversations as well and just to reiterate what's up there, I think. You know, folks have really talked a lot about golf. I think the previous owner let that golf course kind of go on purpose because they were looking to redevelop it, and with a lot of the other golf courses, municipal golf courses, and golf courses closing all around our community. I mean, that's in part because I think maybe there's less golf being played overall but those that do play golf have less and less options for where to go. So it has been something that people have brought up again and again. Perhaps there's a way we could build, you know, have like some short pitch and putt holes or maybe have and have a putting green maybe do something that would allow people to at least practice their shots, get in some work without having a full golf course so it's something I'd love to hear about as we move forward in this. Another big thing that Splashpad was definitely something that people want and we have a lack of aquatics on the west side so I'd love to definitely hear more about our plans for that. Of course Commissioner Cornell everyone was all about pickleball so you'll be very pleased to know that tennis and pickleball was something everybody brought up. And then the other thing I wanted to bring up is you mentioned the food truck parking in wastewater dump, a food truck parking, one thing that in talking with some of the food trucks and the other food-based businesses, the restaurants and the food-based businesses didn't feel like that would necessarily be a threat to them. So that's a great thing to hear. They felt like it would bring in more opportunities and engagements. So I was excited to hear that, you know, our business owners feel like a rising tide brings up all ships. But they did mention that the food truck vendors mentioned that having a dump station for water waste water would be really, really helpful and important. We've lost the one that we used to have at the over at the extension site and the fairgrounds and so there's not really, there's only a few places where they have that opportunity and so having that on the western side could be really helpful if we do put in parking spots for food trucks which I think would be really useful. And then the last thing I wanted to bring up is the crosswalk. So I think that no matter what we do, I'm hoping that we can, in addition to these staff recommendations, which I'm happy to make, this motion is to ask that Ramon reach out to the Department of Transportation and start having conversations about a traffic study for that area because I think at a minimum we're gonna need some kind of a lighted crosswalk, perhaps a signal at that entrance to Tioca and the park. I mean they're basically right across from each other and I know there's gonna be lots of families that are gonna be wanting to cross and walk to that intersection and we want to make our community walkable so we need to come up with a solution for that and the last thing we want is for that to be another public safety problem. So I'd like to get ahead of that and begin that dialogue as soon as we can with the Department of Transportation But I'll hear from my colleagues and then I'll make the motion of course. Right. Thank you Commissioner. Where's the Commissioner Cornell? Thank you, ma'am chair. First of all Jason, thank you and Saft. Thank you for just amazing job of getting us where we are today. I mean we I'm reminded of Cusco Willow when we called Mary Ellen down at the auction and we got that park wall. I feel kind of that same way about West End. When we passed the infrastructure sales tax and the master plan, West End was an option and here we are. And so from my perspective, I couldn't be happier with the community engagement with many of the folks that are here today and have been here for many, many, many, many meanings. I want to back up a little bit though, because I'm having a, I have no problem with most of the recommendation, but number four, I think we need to spend some time on it. I think we may actually need a separate meeting. In reviewing the numbers, I'm just going to give some big numbers, with Gina yesterday, what we are getting on an annual basis from the wild spaces side of the house, that half penny is about 18 and a half million. 20 percent, we've now allocated it to active parks. And if any of these numbers are wrong, stop me. Which is 3.7 million. 80 percent is to conservation, which is 14.8 million. That's your 18 million. To acquire West End, we spent a year's worth. We spent $4 million, which was loaned, and is going to be paid back over eight years, a half a million dollars per year. So at that 3.7, a half a million is off the top, and paid back over eight years. So it's really 3.2 that's available. So I'm interested in seeing kind of what have we spent since then on our existing parks and kind of what is our long-term plan for the next eight years. And the reason I bring this up is because I've been hearing a lot about obviously Pickleball. Forget about that for a minute. Just don't forget about it. But I've been hearing a lot about obviously pickleball. Forget about that for a minute. Just don't forget about it. But I've been hearing a lot about it. But what I've actually heard a lot about was the splash pad and how I was presuming that that was going in veterans park, but that got canceled because of the cost. The cost came in at $4 million instead of $2 million. And so, you know, when I first heard that, I was like, okay, let's make it a lot smaller or figure out how to do it better because that's a full year's worth of our funds. And so I think commissioners we, with staff and with cost increases, probably need a separate meeting to talk about our CIP plan. In totality, countywide. And because many of the folks that were anticipating a splash pad at Veterans Park have now all come and it makes sense here, how about West End, we need it there. And we need it. We may need it in both places. We just can't afford to build $2, $4 million flash pads, but maybe we can figure out how to build some smaller ones. So that's my first kind of comment. My second comment is when we bought West End one of the things that really appealed to me since I learned how to play golf there when I was three, four or five, was the live hoax. I think we are preserving what I believe are some of the keystone live hoax in this community and the community wants, I want the community to have not only education about them, but access to them as often as possible. So my question, Jason, is have we had an opportunity yet to do a tree survey of the 75 acres to identify where they all are on the property? How big are they? Have we had a chance to do that yet? That was done part. Yeah, that was partially done during the initial surveying, but the driving range areas, so they did survey a lot of the trees, but that would be something that if we want to do the entire property, we probably need to have that done separately. Yeah, so I would ask maybe that the maker of the motion maybe, I think that's an investment that we need to make and The reason I think it is is because I think there's an opportunity for us to perhaps Which isn't on any of these lists create an arbor What's the word say it again? Thank you. Arbor item which is Not only could be a really special thing, but also an education thing as we start talking about the importance of live-oaks as a keystone species in our county and how we have some of the best here at West End or whatever we ultimately call this park. So that's important to me. Going through the motion motion we had that extra million dollars of tourist development money. We put a half a million to Jonesville. This motion puts the other half a million to West End. I am in favor of that. So that's one and two. Item three is moving in our master plan, the community park to a major 10-year master pan park moving it from a neighborhood park to a community park. So when I think of that, I think of a pocket park versus like a Jonesville or a Veterans Park. I'm in favor of that. That opens up another 400,000. So I'm good with one, two, and three. I'm good with five asking staff to go do some more work. Let's bring it back kind of a plan that we can begin to engage with the community and they can see it. I would love for a tree survey to be there because I think that opens up a whole new walking trail, places for people to congregate, have lunch, bring their kids, learn about live folks. So I'm five would find. The only real problem I have, and I don't even know if it's a problem because I'll probably get there, is I feel like we need to share with the community and with us what we spent our 3.7 allocated to date on and where are we with veterans, Jonesville, some of the other parks that we're investing capital in and then make a decision about kind of the next five years, really the remainder of the wild spaces. And so I want to change forward to be maybe either a workshop or a separate special meeting to discuss in more detail the CIP plan. Now we're approving it tonight. We approved it in a budget. And so we literally spent what, seven or eight minutes on that when it came to that. And I think it just deserves more of our time and more staff times to prepare for a meeting like that and More than just we did in the budget meetings and so That's those are my comments. Thank you. I'm really glad we're here. Thank you to the citizens and Yeah, that's it. Well, this slow it down though Well, this I don't think we're out. Well,, it slowed down what we're trying to do. I think we're waiting for the masters. So no, that's the masters is different. This is for, I believe some of it was for the acquisition. Some of it was for like we have an R working CIP document that we sent to the board yesterday. It's kind of an in-house document that we use We have money like 490,000 per the master plan is what it recommended for any so we have that worked out with OMB I think we can just go back with them and make sure that they're all still gonna work and we can come back again Have a meeting to go through that working document once we have a chance to sit down with them and True everything up and get a look make sure we're all on the same page so that when we come to you we can say here's what we've got plan here's what we've been on here's what we're recommending doing over the next four or five years barring another you know pop west end pops up or something yeah I guess what I'm really asking for is we have the master plan that we approved we haven't really had another discussion about it since we approved that master plan. It's kind of like an update of the master plan that's then tied to our actual capital CIP project. I would like for staff to have some time to prepare that so we know where we're spending the money. In accordance with our, that really was an initial plan with the big circles in the little circles. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Cornel. Commissioner Prisya. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Commissioner Cornell. Commissioner Prisya. Madam Chair, to respond, I love the idea of the full tree survey in an Arboretum. I think it's great. I mean, I do think it would be a great opportunity for us to showcase some of the other species as well to be able to plant additional plantings that would showcase the trees that are on our development list so people can see specimen trees and examples of those. I love that idea. The reason I was all four fours because it was already in Comberd money that we were going to put for Tour Diamond Sports Park, that we are now just reallocating. But I hear you, I think either way, I love your idea that I think we do need to revisit that strategic plan now that things are shifting around and think about how tourism and development fits in with our with wild spaces, public places and our overall plans for parks and our community. So I'm all for that workshop. I would hope that we could do it after stuff have done a general plan for Weston and some of the other parks they're doing for this year because that'll be around the same time that we're doing mid-year budget adjustments and it'll be a great time right to really have the full conversation about budgeting. So I'm fine to put off and re-encumbering that six million but it was already encumbered and so my understanding is that that money was associated with parks. I guess I'm not objecting before. I guess I'm wanting to add before. Right, right. Yeah, so I'm yeah because I saw you talking. I saw you walking up. I saw you walking up in my brain. That's all I'll say. Yeah, yeah I'll just leave it sitting for now and you're kind of earmarked for parks But maybe not for diamond or for West End It's just sort of for parks and then after we have that larger conversation while we understand what the cost of West End would be what the cost for veterans Will be etc etc. We can begin to make some of those decisions. Okay. All right. Well I would move staff recommendations with the change to number four that we hold off on and just income or that money for parks and recreation until for capital improvements until we know what we're going to do that we add a motion for a full tree survey and the idea of an arboretum to be included as a Possibility for the planning process in number five and for number seven for staff to begin work in conversations with DOT about public safety upgrades for pedestrian crossings at the intersection of Tioca and Weston Park All right, we have a motion in a second. We have any further discussion from the board? Seeing none, we'll now take public comment on this agenda item. So if you could add just one. Sure, please. So just FYI, Veterans Park, we still ran the utilities for the future splash pad and bathroom. And same thing, if we were to do it Weston, if we don't necessarily do the splash pad in phase one, we would still kind of set up everything if it's going to be phase two that everything would be there so that we can kind of build forward. So they're just saying, you know. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you for that, Jason. All right. So now public comment on the West End golf course. So if you came to speak to this issue, please come to the microphone, introduce your spouse, and you have three minutes. Park. Now what did I say? Golf course. Yeah, not golf course. This is, I'm Laura Dairinger, and I hate to have my back to people. One of the reasons for a golf course was that, Laura, yeah. Okay, yeah, don't worry about this. They'll all hear you and see you on the screen. Thank you, Mr. Ancher. Thank you very much for your work, your very hard work, and I really appreciate that the entire board, well at the time, you voted four to one with Miss Raimi voted against recreation. But we are so grateful to have this area for recreation and lots of activities are what we had in mind. We really did want to have a golf course for many, many reasons. And there are numerous schools, high schools on the East. Mr. Darynger, please stay on the microphone, because we have folks on TV that are trying to hear you. Thank you. There are many, many high schools which practiced at West End, East Side, Abbey Halls, I believe, and Newberry, the Santa Fe Community College offered classes. I just, I know that you're still kind of in a preliminary stage, so I would like you to rethink the possibilities of a nine-hole golf course. On behalf of Paul Hornby, I wanted to offer some insight that he had about the homes that are on the curve of the sea as you move forward with your planning. Please consider the private properties as needing some quiet space directly behind their homes so that you might want to put trails and golf course directly behind their homes. I think that that's really important. The arboretum would that that's really important. The arboretum would be really, really beautiful. I think that using plants thatail, if you go to the Bostic course and you see the Pollinator Gardens which he has planted, I think that fits in along with our baritum and maybe reinforcing part of the area. We're really looking forward to seeing the new plans in 2025. I wanted to say thank you to each of you for everything that you've done to help save this land as recreation and make it into a park every day when we go past it on our way to the grocery store just amazed and very honored and thank you very much we're very very grateful thank you mr. Anger all right if we have a lot of people here to comment you're welcome to line up and use both of the podiums so that the next speaker can jump right in. You're good job. Hi, I'm Susan Pruitt and I live at Petty Holmes West End and my one thing I would kind of like you to consider would be something that would bring money in rather than just a park that is going to be taking money and to have some sort of a business venture in conjunction with county that would bring money into county and make people happy also. Which a golf course, nine hole golf course would probably be very effective. I worked at West End for a long time. I golf there and I know there are many, many people in the county that would like it to be a nine hole golf course. We don't have a matter book anymore. We have ironwood that we can play out. Hale is expensive. University is limited. You know, it's really, it's not, I'm not going to say it's not fair, but it would be nice. And I would really, really hope that that could be considered. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Perot. My name is Master Maudowning, and I live off of the Western Gulf Coast. Before the course was acquired to become a county park, and it was still for sale, I remember approaching numerous departments at UF to see if they would help us and they would not touch it until it had been purchased by somebody. So now that it's a county park, whether it's an Arboritam or native plants or the old growth trees that we want to survey, we should definitely involve IFA's and IAX extension people and now we can encourage them to be involved with the county in helping make a go of the park. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Baswin-Dromy. My name is Dennis Comfort, as I told you before, I live in the unincorporated area. I live immediately north of the golf course. I wasn't... And you, uh, they're, oh wait, he's, there you go. All right, thank you. I worked at West End behind the counter from June of 2014 until July of 2019 and watched them run into the ground. I brought a couple of pictures and I guess I'm going to try to use this device. There's, I don't know what the technical term is but there's a geographic or topographic or some sort of anomaly out there. If you could turn that 90 degrees, there you go. That's a picture. This is a picture of the driving range one night when I was working. It's flooded as you can see. This second picture was taken the same night on the 10th fairway. You could literally paddle a canoe from the south side next to our greens at West End to the north side across the 10th and 11th Fairways. The next day you could play golf and that was one of the advantages of West End over Ironwood, UF, any of the other courses. We would get a flood of business on the days after heavy rains because they were closed. This is a sinkhole on the tenth fairway, I believe, that came up and required several dump trucks full of sand to fill. Here's another photo. I think I'm the tenth fairy. I don't want to be held to that. This is, I was playing golf with a friend of mine and his son. I stepped in this hole that you can see at the bottom right above Mark's pointing. And here's my friend's son standing in that hole. These were not the only sinkholes on the property. There were sinkholes, I believe, on the fourth and fifth fairways. Historically, I was told that I think the 12th green at one point completely collapsed into the ground. And I'm saying this because I think you all need to be aware of the risks of building on this property are very high. I have a granddaughter that loves the splash pad at Depot Park. $4 million? For $4 million, you could build a two-tier driving range at West End that would generate thousands of dollars in income. The National Golf Foundation is based in Jupiter. Oh, shit. I'm sorry, Mr. Comfort. If you want to hand your comments to someone else, they could read them. All right. Hello. My name is Amy Elliott. I'm the president of the HOA at Tara Weston. Speaking of Tara and the red flag that comes with his name, our community does not have enough parking. It was not developed with enough parking. And so we have people parking on the streets and we have people parking on sidewalks and we have people parking on the grass actually that goes to the park. Now I was wondering if there's any way for us to work together, I don't know the legal cut out or whatever, that'll have to be done. But if there's some way for us to work together to garner some of that land for parking for us or if we could park overnight at the park and you know people will be gone in the morning when they go to work. Such is a concern that I have, that I would love to be looked at if possible. Miss Leigh Woodney, for what was that again? Sorry, Tara Weston. It's the front. Tara Weston was the front. OK, just making sure I had the right one. Any further comments on this agenda item? All right, seeing none. Mr. Prisius, this is a quick comment. To thank you for the comment about IFA. I think we have an amazing forestry department there that could definitely help with the Arbor Freedom concept and with tree service. I know we have great arborist here on staff, but I know they're also really busy with all the work they have. They actually have a class where they do teach tree serving, and so it may be a great opportunity for them to get involved. And so thank you for that suggestion. Should we put in the motion as they reach out to us? Yeah, we can do that. I can add to the motion if the seconder is OK with it that we reach out to the University of Florida, IFAS and Landscape Architecture departments to see what kind of support and interest they have in participating in our planning process. Thank you, second. Great, graduate student project. OK. a great graduate student project. Okay, thanks everyone for your comments. We took lots of notes, but now we're gonna vote on the motion at hand. All in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed like sign? All right, very good. We'll be moving forward with West End. And thank you Jason for your amazing help of that. We already did. We're now going to move into public hearings. Our first item is the fiscal year 24 budget amendment for reappropriations. Madam Chair Moe, we should tell you a budget manager. Normally this item is brought back after the County Clerk does his audit. We were a little busy this summer, so we're bringing it back now before the year ends. I just really wanted to do a preview before tonight's meeting at 501. So I'm glad to be here. Attached you will find this primarily is cleanup of items that get moved from one fund to the other So per Florida statute we have to advertise as a public hearing which we did on our county public legal public notice page on Friday so I am requesting adoption of the resolution and improve the budget amendment to amend FY 24 budget for reappropriations. Move staff recommendation. All right. We have a motion in a second. Do we have any further comment from the board? Do we have any public comment on this budget amendment for reappropriations? Seeing none, all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, late-side? All right. Thank you. We'll move on to the second item an adoption hearing for a privately initiated ULDC text amendment section 404.28.5. Hotel or motel adaptive reuse for multiple family dwellings. So we need to convene as a land development. LRDC? Yes. Are we do need? Yes. Don't we've heard it? No. Yeah, me too. Afternoon commissioners, Chris Dawson, Principal Planner for Growth Management, for Development Services and Growth Management. afternoon commissioners, Chris Dawson, principal planner for growth management for development services at growth management. This item is a privately initiated text amendment to modify the current section of the code regarding adaptive reuse of motels and hotels. We're just going to go through a quick presentation. The applicant is here as well, so if you have questions they may also be able to answer them. The current land development code in section 404.20.5 identifies that multiple family dwellings are allowed as a limited use in the BH zoning district. And it's subject to a few things. It allowed for adaptive reuse only of hotels and motels. That identified that they must be connected to centralized sewer and water and that a bonus density was provided. Densities kind of a weird word because we don't regulate hotels by density. But what we did do was say that you could use 200% of the room count of the hotel as multi-family units. So if there were 100 rooms in the hotel, you could have 200 multifamily units. Generally, those properties fell in just a few areas, really. And the hotels that currently exist in BH zoning really fall at Williston in 13th sort of in the southeast corner of this map. Williston and I-75 South Central in the Oaks Mall activity center generally which is kind of in the center of the screen and then also in the Spring Hills activity center up in the Northwest. So the applicant requested really to the sort of summary of their requested changes was to allow on the same kinds of sites, but to allow rather than only the reuse of an existing hotel structure to redevelop the site and use potentially new multifamily structures on those sites. And also suggested in the change is that there would be a requirement for a percentage of the units to be maintained as affordable at a certain AMI for a timeframe. SAF worked with the applicant on the language that was originally submitted and we kind of arrived at what's on the screen now. And that's really what it does is it provides for redevelopment effectively of existing, you can still adaptively reuse the structures, but redevelopment of hotel sites that are in BH zoning within activity centers as multi-family. It provides for reducing the parking that would otherwise be required on those sites with the reasoning really that they're already located in activity centers close to existing transit and within walking distance of existing non-residential development. And it would require that at least 40% of the units be maintained as affordable for rent at or below 80% AMI. And you may recognize that is actually a lower threshold than the Live Local Act that you've seen recently provided for. It was still required a land use restriction agreement similar to other affordable types of development that we've been talking about. There's a lot of support in the comp plan for this proposed change and we've listed some policies here but generally housing policies that provide for an incentive for affordable units, suggest proximity to activity centers and look for reuse and fill for lower income households. And again, in the future land use and economic elements, there's support within the comprehensive plan for these changes, including a range of housing types, parking maximums and activity centers that we already regularly in various ways, and to encourage the redevelopment of existing infrastructure using alternative standards. Staff supports the potential change or reduction in parking maximums or parking minimums for these types of uses. We went through a couple of sort of scenario kind of ideas to just look at what those numbers would be like. The applicant provided some suggestions about multi-family development that was in the city and there or in some in the county. Those are really different kinds of developments than this would be. So while we looked at them as a way to sort of say is that reasonable, really what we looked at was what would be the effect of those changes. And we think that there will still be sufficient parking on these sites to accommodate any users. One thing I can tell you from having worked in in development review, development services for a long time is that developers don't build things that don't have enough parking. And so if somebody comes in and decides to do this, they're going to figure out how that works with their business model. And I would anticipate that that is going to be a sufficient amount of parking for their needs. It also helps that almost all these sites are going to be proximate to transit. So that will support sort of the ability of people to live in them without a car. So really, Madam Chair, I just want to wrap up with the recommendation that we've reviewed the application. We've worked with the applicant to make some changes, to make it fit better with our code. Staff finds that the text amendment is consistent with the comprehensive plan and internally consistent with the rest of our land development regulations. And we would recommend that you convene as the land development regulation commission and find it consistent with the proposed ULDC amendment consistent with the comprehensive plan and then reconvene as the Board of County commissioners to adopt the amendment. And if you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them and as I said the applicant is also here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Commissioner, we have a couple of questions. Commissioner Cornell. Thank you, Madam Chair. So Clay and staff, thank you for bringing this forward. Chris, can you go to slide three, which actually shows the areas we're talking about? So first of all, all this is west of Main Street. So that's a huge plus, thank you for the creativity. So the issues we have with the live local really are in and around the university. So those bottom two are potential student housing. Could they be could those bottom two be excluded from the live local act or how would that so on this map. Mount chair this property actually would not be included because that that hotel is not in an activity center. This is this is where we currently allow adaptive reuse to happen. This map shows that, but in the proposed regulations, this one would not be allowed. These two properties right here, there's two of them, two old hotels, this are actually owned by a lot of accounts. There are, okay. And so while I wouldn't say that no students are going to live in them, I think the county has a plan for using this property. So we're really talking about new bearing 75 and 39th and yeah, I think that's great Okay, I don't I don't have any changes. I'm I'll When we get to the unit when we reconvene I'll make the motion if you'd like come out. Sure. Thank you Commissioner Prisya. Yeah, I don't have a lot of questions either other than I just you know You made the comment that developers won't build things without enough parking But we literally just heard a resident talk about not having enough parking So I just want to be clear like that that's not necessarily true if well So I'll make a distinction Madam chair if I can between a developer and a business owner so I'm and that's that's really to say, somebody who's going to make the investment to potentially demolish a building and then construct a new building, they're not, they're not going to make that kind of investment when we're talking about 200 or more multi-family units. They're not going to make that kind of investment if their residents aren't going to want to live there. And people don't want to live in a place where if they have a car they can't park. So I think that there is a difference between those two situations. And I mean yes, I've seen people who will sort of push the limits when they own a piece of property to fit as much as they can. I haven't really ever seen that with a multi-family developer. Yeah, I would agree. I just wanted to point out that just for the public's, I mean, we literally just have that comment. So I wanted to be clear. I'm really excited about this. I think it's a great adaptive reuse. And I'm particularly happy that we're looking at this as a way to allow people to completely redevelop the space. Because the way we had it written in our code was they just had to use that building and I think that's really limiting in terms of us being able to build much more affordable housing and build more types of affordable housing which I'm excited about. So thank you for bringing this forward and for taking the time to think about how we can do it creatively and I'm in full support of the recommendation and excited to vote for the motion. Mr. Wheeler. I hear you're asking these getting the best of me. Which one of these and what has happened to our community that is that they're buying into the idea of transforming these into housing. I'm all about it. You want to hear from the applicant? I do. I'm going to know what happened. You know that now all of a sudden we've got this in the pipeline and I'm excited about it too. I'm just curious as to know what happened. Commissioners, I'm Clay Swagger, uh, put the, uh, Texamem an application together. The short story is, um, a lot of the development in the activity centers in the county is starting to age a little bit older hotels and motels that are maybe 30, 40 years old and they either need to be redeveloped or refurbished. And clearly there's a shortage of housing in the community. And activity centers are attractive because they're in centralized areas. They might be near an interstate interchange, they're on major roads, they've got RTS, Mass Transit service, so it's attractive to want to locate housing there. And I think that's the short answer. Is it it's time for the life cycle for a lot of these hotels and so forth or it's time for- And it's going to be expensive though to be able to make that happen. Especially if they're older buildings, that it's going to take some investment in order to make that happen. Yeah, every redevelopment right now is so expensive with construction costs and land costs. But I do think that this will really add another tool in the toolbox that to redevelop a site that already has utilities and infrastructure, that makes a lot of sense. I'm a $1.00 and cents standpoint. What doesn't always make sense is to have the code the way it's nearly written now where you have to take an old motel that the room might be 12 by 12 or you know, and it's hard to convert those to residential units. And the county is doing it with a couple projects which is great, but this is really just keeping all of those regulations and allowances and adding to it. And developers, and I can personally attest that there's one that's our client that would like to look at doing one of these near I-75 and Newberry Road, but they just cannot figure a way to reconfigure the hotel. All right, this is a motel site. Is the ownership changing from a hotel owner to a developer? Is that's what happening? Yes, I would say, in the case I'm mentioning yes, I would think in most cases that would be the situation. And motel owners are not usually looking to redevelop with affordable housing. But we think this makes a lot of sense, and it allows for some reduction in parking. Because the county code is a little interesting in that there's not much of a parking requirement in TNDs. But if you're just doing pure multi-family, the parking standards actually pretty high still. And so this would allow to go down to potentially half of that requirement, and the number crunching that I did if you look at TNDs which a lot of them have apartment blocks in there. If you look at those I looked at five of them you know they really is it really is a comparable to what this code would allow for the amount of parking and I agree with Chris that you know you have to provide parking to some degree to make developments work but in these specific areas that are very limited they all have access to other modes of transportation there's uh mix of uses around there there's RTS service so we think that it it makes sense. No I think it's perfect it does make sense I just it was real curious as to what was happening to change the mindset for some of our folks that's all I'm all about it that's just it was real curious as to what was happening to change the mindset for some of our folks. That's all I'm all about it. That's just it's a shift. Yeah. Well, thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Wheeler. I I I'll jump in before we revisit some of the commissioners that just want to say thank you to you and your developer that is doing this, this is the exact kind of thing that I was hoping would happen here. And you mentioned access to transit and other uses, but the big thing is access to jobs. This is where we need housing desperately because there are so many jobs in that area and so many people that are Having to commute such long distances. So this is really good. So thank you Commissioner corner just to reiterate you know this I think this started when Jerry brought us to Chevron member of the Chevron on Tower road and like how do we redevelop these things and so like thanks for spending the time You know you have that hotel by 75. You've got the one on Tower Road. You've got the Thais Inn. All these sites are ready to be redeveloped. And what I really like is Clay, you brought this forward, hearing the Commission's desire for affordable housing. And we're kind of putting that into that saying, we can do it. There's our ways to do it. So I'm looking forward to seeing what comes back as a result of these changes and I appreciate it. Thank you. If we convene as a land. I move we convene as a land development, regulation commission. Are we convene? We are, we will convene as a land development regulation commission. All right, so I find that the proposed code amendments consistent with the complaint. Second okay we have a motion in a second do we have any public comment to this motion. About to get a big thank you. Thank you. Cully Brown. Well I'm very glad to see this. It's it's heartbreaking. We have one developer I've seen around here who really pays attention to affordable housing. Everybody else has a usual bundle of excuses. We haven't decided yet, but all this other blah blah. So it would be great if the area you mentioned the people living under the highway bridge right around the corner there and get to come indoors, I hope I wish that would be a target. You mentioned activity centers. And that's an important concept. I was in a meeting just recently talking about the activity center beside Eastside High School that has been labeled of such since 1994, but no road wide name, no enclosing of roadside swales, no extension of fiber, no upgrading of infrastructure is going on to make it useful. So let's put something into the activity centers, especially over there. And that's an area that doesn't have that big old excuse for the East Side, it's too wet. Thank you. Thank you, Collie. Do we have any other, any further comments to the motion? I just wanted to make a quick comment that I hope we can look at this model to think about other areas that could be doing adaptive reuse and infill development. Because I think we have as we're growing and as the urban services boundary is getting pushed against I think we're going to have more opportunities for redevelopment and I hope that we can use this as a model to be thinking about the way we are approaching redevelopment projects in the future. Absolutely. All right. Seeing no further comments, all in favor of the motion. Please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign? All right. We'll now reconvene as the Board of County Commissioners. Chair, I would move that we adopt Z24-5-0s and a six amendments to the text of the Unified Land Development Code. Okay. We have an motion in a second. Again, do we have any public comment? Seeing none, all in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like, sign? All right. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Spur. Thank you very much. And thank you, Clay. It's kind of nice to be on the same side clay, Ralston. What do you all do? Good afternoon, Madam Chair, commissioners, Rollston, Riyadhika, community support services. So this is the first of two required public hearings for the community development block grant program for applicants. And so the state of Florida through the Department of Commerce administers the Florida Small Cities CDBG program. And so for this current funding cycle, which we just considered the federal fiscal year 2023, they've announced the cycle that opened September 2nd, and it closes on October 17th. They've announced $25 million in funding for small urban areas and rural communities, which are considered non entitlement, meaning they have an opted into a HUD entitlement program like the City of Gainesville. And the population threshold is about 200,000, less than 200,000 for unincorporated communities and then above, or sorry, less than 50,000 for incorporated areas. And so, Elastra County is considered a non-entiment community and in a local government. And so there's four categories, neighborhood revitalization, housing rehabilitation, commercial revitalization, and economic development. And for those first three grants, a total of 750,000 is available to Elastra County. So that's based upon the low and moderate income population in unincorporated Elastra County. And then for the last grant economic development, it's about 1.5 million is available for Elastra County to apply for. All right. million is available for our last county to apply for. All right, so for the CDBG program, there's three national objectives that every proposed project or activity must meet. The first one is to benefit low and moderate income persons. That means the income household income is less than 80% of the area median income. And so that's making sure that every person or beneficiary assisted, there's 51% of those funds are going to those households for indirect beneficiaries. But for 100% of direct beneficiaries have to be low in moderate income, something like housing rehab. The second category, or second national objectives, elimination of slum and blight. And the third is to address any urgent need. All right, so these are some examples of CDBG funded projects. They include water and sewer improvements, rehab of substandard housing, street and sidewalk improvements, economic development activities, that create jobs for low and moderate income persons, downtown revitalization, including facade improvements, streetscaping and underground utilities, park facilities and community centers, and drainage stormwater improvements. All right, so this is most recent grant history. This is not the recommendation, I'm sorry for that. So most recently, about past 15 years, Alastaira County has been successful in securing a grant for housing rehab. And these are the federal fiscal years that Alastaira County has secured in the past. And so really the staff recommendation is to get citizen input and board recommendation on which category to apply for for this current CDVG application cycle. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Prisya. Yeah. I guess I'm, I think, you know, having this funding for housing rehabilitation is important. Are we not allowed to apply for both categories? Madam Chair, so we're only allowed to select one category to apply for. In the future, we can actually apply for an economic development grant if we have an open CDBG grant. But for each cycle, you're only allowed to select one category. Okay. So, I hear staff's recommendation and I understand why. You know, one, we've been successful, two, we have a lot of housing rehabilitation needs and this is an important bucket of money we use to do that. However, I just in my ears number one I hear our continual commitment to the root causes of poverty and economic development in the east side and we just heard Colleen saying invest in your activity center on the east side. Being able to do those things like utilities improvements and upgrades and street escaping in areas that we want to see redevelopment and investment is really important. And so, I guess I'm in support of moving forward with this recommendation, but I hope that we can also, I would like to add that we explore opportunities to apply for the economic development grant in the future and bring forward suggested projects. So I would move to's recommendation with that addition. OK. I have one quick question. Are any of the categories more broad? Are they very, very prescriptive? Or do some of them have some leeway to do multiple things with? So with each CDBG activity, some of them have some leeway to do multiple things with? So with each CDBG activity some of them overlap into categories, right? And so there is that flexibility within the CDBG program. That's what I was hoping to hear. Okay, good. All right. Thank you All right, I support this motion. Do we have any public comment to this motion? Mary, I just when she went there through I have a quick question. Oh, I'm, when she went there through, I have a quick question. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah. No, it's okay. No. Please come ahead. Come on. Please come ahead. Good afternoon, positionally. And first I'd like to thank Commissioner Prisya for bringing up the idea of academic development because I have not looked at the CDBG rules for a while, but there was always an opportunity to use CDBG funds for economic development. Higher overhead has been the practice of the city and the county, even when they had economic development funds, they mostly put them into social service kinds of activities. So I would like to encourage as husband recommended that we look at using those CDBs for economic development because economic development we surely cut down on the first social services. Thank you. Thank you Miss Lee. I'll go ahead. I didn't hear anything of an analysis about application since the last grant. He said 2017 was the last time. Have we been applying every cycle consistently and missing it? And why? That might suggest it's a reason to think of looking at a different category. If we keep trying that when it's failing, maybe it's the target. Maybe somebody higher up wants to see you diversify your ask. So please consider that. Thank you, Collie. All right. Any further public comment to the motion? Commissioner Wheeler. I have a quick question too. I, seems to me in the past that I had heard or got in my head that there is certain competition within the area for these grants. Does each individual municipality have the opportunity to apply for the grant or is there is it limited to one for the county. I'm trying to remember what we had talked about when we were talking about this buying the church over there between high springs and all that. Madam Chair, so each cycle the state of Florida announces the eligible communities that can apply. So, you know, City of Archer High Springs, you know, they can all apply in this cycle if the state has them on the eligible communities list. I see. So, do we know which of our communities are on that list? That we could encourage those people if they're on that list to actually apply? It's on this data floor's website. I don't have it. I'll talk in my head. Okay, that's okay. But it might be something that we could let folks know. So there's not a competition or I mean there's a limited number. If we have two of our communities on that list they both apply. Madam Chair, yes that's correct. It's a competition throughout the state for all eligible communities, a total of 25 million. And again, the funding, the grant award depends on the population of loan-moder income for that community. Are these cities or counties too? Is it both? Small cities and rural communities. So like for instance the city of Gainesville is not eligible to apply because they receive funds directly from HUD. They're an entitlement community. So in that same regard for economic development activities we would be limited to unincorporated Elastro County. Okay. Similar to any other categories. All right. thank you. Thank you. But if we could somehow alert those folks who may not know even to look on that list, maybe they do, but their boards change too. You know, their commissioners, their city managers change. Well, somehow, you know, if we could somehow alert those folks, if it would take a cheer letter or someone just from our social services, even if a cheer letter would help, I would propose that we do that. I think that's a fun idea. I do know that the city of Archer does not have a city manager right now. Right. Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. Really. They fired up last week. right now. Right. Right. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Really. If I were to must read. I can I can add to the motion that we do a trailer of the small cities who are eligible encouraging them to explore the CDBG grant and reaching out to let us know if they're what they're applying for if they're yeah they're eligible. Thank you. Okay. All right. We have the dendom to the motion. Any further comment from staff or? Madam Chair, if I may just to respond to Mr. Colley's question regarding. Yes, thank you. The last grant that we received in Federal Fiscute 2017. A little bit from there because I wrote that grant, we secured it. And to my knowledge, we have not applied since. So I think right now we're still batting 100%. So we have not been unsuccessful. We got some CDBG grants during COVID, but they were different. Yes, for a coronavirus. Yes. Do you have to, oh excuse me, one more question. Do you have to apply for a specific project? Do you have to have the project in mind as you apply or is it just okay? So you all got a list of ideas. Ready? So basically you apply for the category and then you have to submit in the application the projects that you have in mind. How much time do we have to do that? Well the application cycle would open up similar to our ship program and we would allow and accept applications from homeowners in unincorporated county. Right, gotcha. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. All in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like sign? All right. Motion passes. Let me say, I think I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So, before we adjourn this meeting to reconvene at 501, I have to be at the EOC tomorrow at ADM and I have a big yard and a big house and a lot of things that I need to do since I won't be able to do them tomorrow. So I would like to ask your indulgence for me to miss the evening meeting and allow Commissioner Chess not to chair the meeting That's all right I appreciate that and At this point we will Yeah, let's go ahead and do commission comment now that that would be great. So everybody can get home tonight. That would be a good idea. Do you have anything? I do. Meaf, are you looking at me? I am. I'm looking at you, Commissioner Wheeler. I guess we got another Flagler Henry Flagler award for our tourist SIPPIN 7 campaign that we did. So this is our second that we've gotten through the tourist development group there. And then I have a request from Central Florida Community Action Agency that I continue on their board as a representative from this board. And I'm sure that would probably be okay with you guys. Okay. All right, I have a motion. Second. Okay. You got a motion now. You're second. Okay. All right. So, are we good? Is everybody in favor? It's administrative. All in favor. The motion is signified. I. I. Any post-like sign? One other thing I've been getting calls through the weekend about this music park. And I don't know where we are with that. But I know a lot of folks that are calling me from that community of mail rows. And I gave them my number. I said, you call me. But I said, you also need to call the board because we haven't even had a presentation. We all this is what we've got, right? This cute little thing, right? So just, I don't know where we are with that. Anybody know about this? Muncher, I can't speak to that if you would like me to. So we did, Jeff Hayes, growth management director, we had seen the email to the board so ago, two weeks ago, and saw there were some reports in the media. So I actually did from the email address that had been sent to the board reach out to the the proprietor or the person who's interested Just to give them some sort of due diligence Notes that they would need to take to whether it's the property that they're looking at or any property in the county what would have to be done In terms of the scale of what's being proposed if it was going to be a permanent facility It would need a rural events center Which would be a special exception that would come to the board. So any property, whether it's this one or any other property that's being discussed, would have to come to the Board of County Commissioners as a special exception to have that type of facility there. It's interesting to me because you're building a lot of community pressure from the arts community here, from what I hear from the music community here but love to see that out there the medieval fair would love to see it out there so they're building support from the community at the same time they're building opposition and we haven't so it's a war I know there built there is a war building without us even you know knowing what it is that we're worrying about. And that's, I would just... I've spoken to a lot of folks in Melrose and have yet to find anyone that is anywhere close to in favor of anything like it. Not there. It's in here in Gainesville and in the city that... Sure. Right. Yeah. I do think that people are... I think that we owe it to the community, though, to get good information about those projects and perhaps invite these folks if they are going to be applying for this to come and do a presentation because I do think that people are getting misinformation, but it happens a lot. Like you hear something and then your friend tells you something and tells you what it's going to be like and then they actually refer to a festival that wasn't run by these people but had a similar name and it was horrible and like these rumors get spread and then people don't want it, but they're asking us to do economic development in Eastern Alacto County and to do things that aren't gonna impact their ways of life. This could be a really amazing opportunity to have a destination that would create a lot of economic development in an area without a lot of impact if it's done right. And I think being done right is the key phrase. And I know that some of the people in our music industry have approached me that are potential competitors actually of this person in terms of venues but have talked about how this could be really complimentary to things like the Florida theater that's being redeveloped to the hippodrome, to the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, and that it could potentially, the programs that they run, I think in North Carolina and in New York have done really, really well and have been a real boon to those rural communities. So I think getting more information about the impact to the communities that are in another place is getting more impact information about the scale and what they're planning to do and having conversations with the arts community and with the rural communities that are going to be facing this if it happens is important. But I just hope that people take the time to actually do their homework and stay open-minded about this and hear what it actually is before jumping to conclusions that it's going to be horrible for their neighborhood or their rural way of life because I actually think, again, if it's done right and if we have the right people behind it, it actually could be a real benefit to Eastern Allanto County. And it's private sector development in Eastern Allanto County, bringing in economic opportunity. And I hope that people at least were made open to hearing what it is they're trying to propose. Thank you. I'd like to, you know, I, I, they, they make a financial case in there and I don't know how much of that financial case takes into account the requirements that we would have as a county for creating that venue. So I'm curious to see if, if this still remains financially viable after they understand the requirements of creating a venue like this in a space like that. But yeah, yeah, both. I'd be able to continue to all agree on one, which is a, you know, it's an easier road to travel rather than a little, was it 2.19 a. Right. That they're talking about. That anyway. All right. Well, thank you for bringing that. Commissioner Prisya. Thank you. Anyway, all right. Well, thank you for bringing that. Commissioner Prisiot. Let me get to my spot here. Okay, the first thing that I have is something I want to talk to the board about. We did a recently we designated signature authority to the manager for the Lura the land use restriction Agreement for a specific project. And I think that I'm asking the board to consider a motion or I'd like to make a motion that we designate signature authority for all those Land Use Restrictions agreements once the projects have been approved by the board to the manager. Because right now our allotted county energy efficiency program is using those lures as the tool to hold those landlords to their to their affordability standards for the grants and right now the way it sits every one of those is going to have to come back to the board so it's really slowing down the ability for us to do those energy efficiency improvements and I think it's same thing is the ability for us to do those energy efficiency improvements. And I think it's same thing is going to happen with developers with projects that they have moving. And then it's going to, if it takes a month, it could slow down a development project and kill a deal. So I feel like those agreements are based on projects we've already approved. So I don't know why we wouldn't designate that authority. Madam Attorney. wouldn't designate that authority, madam attorney. So, Madam Chair, you use Laura's in a number of different situations. In fact, the language that you adopted today has a Laura as a method of enforcement for affordability in those new units in the former Motel Hotel sites in the activity centers. The one way you discussed the delegation was the Live Local Act. The Live Local Act properties that would be built solely because they're permitted under the Live Local Act, with the Live Local Act in that section also says that the board can't have any further approvals in that. So that was the basis under the Live Local Act. You are using this particular method of enforcing affordability in the weatherization program that was discussed by Commissioner Prisya. You're also using it probably in the housing world and then again in the one that you adopted today. I imagine that we're going to continue to use those. They're turning into kind of a standard form. Each of the programs has a little bit of something different, a little bit of, for instance, how long they have to stay in affordability. You know, what happened if they didn't, those are coming out of different departments. Our office has tried to standardize those forms. I think we're still in that process of trying to meet all the needs of all the different programs. But I don't think that there, since you approve the programs themselves, they're all that different. They're just sort of an implementation of the programs. If, for example, they wanted to come off the program, or if they wanted to make big changes to the template. What I could say is long as it's in keeping, there's not significant deviation from the originally adopted program or project. Right. To, for instance, if today's, if someone were to come over the lure for the redevelopment of hotels, that it would be the 30 years, that they would keep it in 80 or 8% or less, I think, for a number of units, 40% units, I think. Under that, if it says that, then it's an implementation of a code that you adopted. I like it. But if they were to come off of that, I would expect that to come back to you. So you might see some of them. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, sometimes people are going to ask for exceptions and then they would come to us but in general we get to keep things moving more efficiently. I like that. Right, we have motion on second. Any further discussion? Any public comment? Seeing none all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like sign? not here she gets work. One of the deals. Yeah, if you don't show up you get pointed to stuff and all kinds of stuff. The other thing I had was just that I wondered where we were with the exploration of the conversations around our our responsibilities and plans or thoughts if any around unhoused people and the state statute and camping facilities for unhoused individuals. And if we could ask staff to send us an update or to bring an update back to us at some upcoming meeting in the next couple months. I've been getting asked a lot on the campaign trail about homelessness and unhoused people. And of course people are interested in the work that we're already doing, but a lot of it is about what are we doing about unhoused people on the streets that our people feel are as public safety risk or people feel are making things unseemly and they want to know what we're doing about that state statute that says they're not supposed to be there anymore. Yeah, I mean I think as I understand that state statute it gives law enforcement the opportunity to now clear the streets. And so in the city that's happening in the city that's happening with GPD outside of the city, I presume the sheriff would do it if we asked him to. We have a really asked him to. But it does say in that statute as well that the government body is supposed to provide camping facilities for those individuals. No, it doesn't say that. May provide. Yes, and that's a huge important word. At least this has been a big issue if I may add. A fact, yeah. Yeah, a fact. And we actually had a workshop with the two sponsors on the Senate side and the House side. And there'll be more clarifying legislation I presume in the spring, but that word may was really important because he wanted to see for those places where municipalities were the primary emergency shelter, how did they handle it, and there's many counties in the state that don't have municipalities. And so it was really written for those, I believe, for those counties that say, you have to do something. And so you now have the ability to clear the streets as long as they have a place to go. And we have a place to go. And so I didn't think we were going to do actually anything until we at least got to the clarifying legislation to see where that took us unless I hear otherwise from this board. Well, that wasn't me clear to us. The first time we heard about it, it was we're exploring it, we're looking at county land, we're having these conversations and then it just disappeared. So I think I'm getting a lot of questions from the public about what are we doing? Are we doing this? And to be frank, some of the service providers that are providing health care support to those homeless individuals that are providing other types of support to those homeless individuals have proposed the idea of some standardized campgrounds that would allow them to deliver services more efficiently and also more safely and also for the people. Different than grace. Like campsites, not camping. For the people, graces don't have enough beds. Graces don't have enough beds for all the people on our streets. There are tons of people on the streets. If all of the people on the streets got swept today and said to grace, we would have a line of hundreds of people outside the gates of Grace with no beds. So we don't have enough shelter, emergency shelter for all of the people on our streets. And so they're camping and they're going to camp somewhere. And right now they're just camping either legally on someone's private property where they've been given or semi-legally, where they've been given permission, but maybe it's not really a campsite, so I don't know how legal it is, but they're there. Or illegally on public property that's where they shouldn't be camping. So I think it's worth a conversation about it in the long term. I don't know how it needs to come right away, but I do think it's something that we need to talk about a little bit and think about. So I just wanted to bring it up because it's coming up a lot for me as we're having conversations out in the communities. People are really concerned about. I wonder if this should be our topic with the city. Yeah, one of them for sure. I mean I think a strategic we talked about that idea of having a strategic planning process with Grace and family promise like I think a workshop with the service providers that continue with care and the other service providers to think about What we have and what we need with regards to services for unhoused people is probably worthwhile I think we need to include the clergy in that too. There's absolutely There's a lot of church space in this community Yeah, you know that's being unused and they were for a while I think a lot of them providing overnight accommodations and a lot of them have backed off of that. And I'm not, like family promise, could talk a little bit more to the why on that. But I know that family promise used to use a lot of churches as places to provide overnight accommodation for families while they were seeking housing. And I think a lot of them have stopped doing that. Well, there's church grounds too, that tents could be set up, you know, what I mean too. So anyway, just a worth a conversation. At some point, it doesn't have to be immediately. I know we have a lot on our plates right now, but I would love to see us begin that dialogue with the city. I know that meeting meeting in December and then plan for a workshop post that meeting. I would too. I, you know, if every church in this county adopted one or two folks that were housing insecure to help out, we wouldn't have the problem we have today. Yeah, it is hard though as many people are feel safer in their own community. You know, they build community themselves and they want to stay together etc etc Anyway, if staff could help us remember that for the city meetings since I think it'll be in the time when we're shifting chairs and all of that And just remind us that that's something we wanted to put on the agenda along with the CRA update with the city It's what the same madam chair. We we have had some conversation with city staff in Reference to to this issue. And so they are concerned about it to across the street. And Missy Daniels has some information that she'll like to share as far as a possible grant that might be coming to the area to help also deal with this issue. So Missy. Madam Chair, just a quick update. The continuum of care is receiving a challenge on shelter grant. They're looking at the issue of expanding shelter capacity to address the public camping problem. So that will be coming. It's not been released yet, but Ms. Tuck will share that when it is. Thank you. And we'll make a note for the joint meeting December 16th that this suggested this item goes on the agenda. Wonderful. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Is that it? Yeah. All right. Make sure to check that. Do you have anything? Commissioner Cornell. There's one thing I could pass this out. Thank you, VanJer. So we had our children's trust trend meeting, adopted a budget. The major item that we talked about at the meeting was the gun violence initiative. The trust is allocating $500,000 to this issue in fiscal year 2025. Carl was there and as part of the alliance, as was the city commissioner, a city staff as part of the alliance, the city is allocating $173,000. The county is allocating $150,000. What I just passed out to you though is not that. I just wanted to let you all know that that happened. What I just passed out to you is the self-evaluation form from the executive director. I think you all know that I think really, really highly of her. She really is amazing. I mean, just amazing. This is a good summary of what has happened in the last year. If you, it's 10 pages, I would say grab a cup of coffee or maybe a gold beverage at night and read through it. It shows you how she is, she and her staff are really transforming this special taxing district. I'll have the honor of being the chair on it next year and then I'm sure someone wants to take a turn but I'll do that next year. And I've been a county commissioner now for 10 years and you know how I feel about our executive director but I don't know if I've read a more complete self-evaluation form as this one. It really shows you how fortunate we are to have Marsha at the trust. And if you see her after you've read this, just put your arms around her. We have had so many folks that are coming now and thanking the trust for the work that's being done. And it's really those are some really impactful meetings. The strategic plan is implemented and we're implementing it. So we'll see where that goes, but I was just really proud of her and the work that she's done and I wanted to share with you all. This whole thing is her self-evaluation. What's that? This whole thing is her self-evaluation. It is. Oh my goodness. Very nice. All right. For sure, Chrissia. Yeah, I just want to echo. I don't even need to read this because it shows in the community. I can't, I am as a leader, like what she's been able to accomplish in terms of listening to the community and responding to what the community is saying about their needs for our government to listen and be better at working with communities, but also holding people accountable to the resources they're getting and helping support them and hold their hands to provide capacity building support. And I mean, and to fund the things that are really needed, like the resource centers, for example, in our community, it's just, I'm hearing it and I'm seeing it on the ground in the community every day. So yes, a real testament to her and the whole staff over there and what they've been able to accomplish. And to that end, I wanted to mention that the One Health and Wellness Community Resource Center, any scandal that we had the presentation on the other day with regards to the community health workers and the food work that they've been doing are having an open house on October 11th at 6.30 p.m. So similar to the Willie May Stokes community center down in Micronopie, this one's a little newer so it's a little rougher around the edges but they're working really hard and they're doing really amazing work. October 11th at 6.30 p.m. It's at the one community family resource center which is located just behind the Manning Center. You know where the Manning Center is on East University Avenue. You go past Waldo Road and you go, I don't know, maybe three blocks or so down. On the right hand side is the Manning Center. It's owned by the school board. There's a building kind of, if you turn on the road just before the Manning Center, it's off that road. I can send the address to Latoya so it gets on your calendars. Yes. We have the trust has sponsored 42 different organizations for $54,000 but it has it's all around the county. I mean and that's just one small program and you're right. Liz, Elizabeth Archer just there just didn't really no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Ford I think is. So I think definitely Mary should do it. And so I will do it, but I also don't mind if you wanted to do it, Anna. I really don't because I'm like, I feel like we get an extra because I'm going to be involved in it. Like I was with career source and I don't have to do this. I mean, if you do want to do it, I'm happy to defer to you. I mean, I'll do it. I mean, I'll do it as long as I can do it. I'll just say that right now, well, I guess it depends on how, you know, I just have with my kid, like I couldn't attend the Regional Planning Council meetings right now. And I almost are going to the other. Okay, good. So as long as as long as we yeah, I'm good with that. I'm happy. Are you okay? Sure. I'm happy to do it Yeah, and who's the vice chair of the MTPO you're the vice chair Of the MTPO it'll be Cynthia Brian It's gotta be we have Mary Hill and are you the vice chair? So so I would move you a Mary actually because next year it'll be all three and so we'll have a lot of And I'll be we're all gonna be involved obviously. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm okay with that You're all right with that Mary. Absolutely. All right. Do I have a motion? Yeah, so I would move Commissioner Alfred and Prisya PR to represent us for the steering committee for the MTPO Motion a second Ministerial all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye aye and he opposed like sign Finished madam chair Speaking of MTPO Jeff Hayes have a couple of items in speaking of MTPO, Jeff Hayes, have a couple of items in reference to MTPO. Madam Chair, you just knocked off, and I think we blew by Manager comments so in the agenda, but you just knocked off one of the items which was pointing this year in committee members. There was one other item that came out of that last MTPO agenda that came to us late, but it's just something. It's also fairly ministerial. It's a map that was on the MTPO, your last MTPO agenda. I have copies of it here. It's the 2020 urban area boundary and functional classification map. And it's just the chair of the County Commission. He's assigned it as well as the chair of the MTPO as well as the mayor. And so we need that. So you need a motion to adopt that map? Yes. Yeah, I would move the way we adopt that map for the chair of sign. Sick. Any motion in a second? Does anybody need to look at the map before they say yes? That's all it. Yeah, OK. All in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, like sign? All right. Thank you, John. Thank you. All right. I didn't blow by a comment, but it was start the end of the agenda. Do you guys want to do comment now? Or do you want to wait till after the evening meeting? Yes, the counter manager will have some some comments. So we'll just if it's okay, we'll like to wait and She has landed here in Gainesville so she's here and we'll be here for the afternoon for the evening meeting. Okay, if I can get all my stuff done, I'll be back at five o'clock. I just don't know if I can. So I will. Mark. Madam Chair, I just thought I would tell you in the residents watching that the 311 emergency line has been activated. So if you have a true emergency, you always want to call 911, but if you need information on the storm, if you hear a rumor that you're not sure of, please take advantage of the 311 line. They've got all the information you need. And the special need shelter has been opened. Did I hear that? No. No, we have not announced that yet. Oh, you're in the update. Has it at least gotten through the Yucatan? Has it still turning there and- Yeah, do we have a weather update? I do not have a weather update. I'm kind of doing some other stuff right now. No, it just seems to be sitting there in that same spot. That's I didn't know if it had broken loose. Yeah, we encourage folks. The site that we like the best is the National Weather Service in Jacksonville. So we highly recommend that folks go there but you can watch the Weather Channel, you can go to the National Hurricane Center. There is a plethora of information and sites out there available. Yeah and yeah and again the western side of the county is under a hurricane watch right now and we do have for anyone watching sandbags available out by the our public works department. And we also have sandbag locations in Hawthorne and Newberry. You can go to our Facebook page, next-door page, x-page or Instagram page for those addresses. All right thank you very much and we will... Can I just make one of those? Sure, please. I know we breeze over this MTPO thing, but I just, I want to say, and I know you all probably agree with this comment, that the work, Allison and Jeff have done in our doing is not to be understated. It's a big lift. I thank them for it. I've already thanked them for it. I want to publicly thank them for it. I've already thanked them for it. I wanted to publicly thank them for it. In the short term, it will be a lot. In the long term, it's going to be really great and our citizens deserve it. I just wanted to Jeff tell you that. Tell you to stop that. So thank you in advance of a lot of work. Yeah, I would echo that. I know when I was chair of the MTPO year before last and I went to events and talk to folks that were involved with other MTPOs. It was incredibly interesting to see all the different things that were being accomplished in other places in the state. And I look forward to having those same opportunities here. So thank you all. And with that note, this meeting is adjourned to reconvene at 501 PM.