Your work that you called them to thank you for this wonderful commission and team. Thank you for all those who serve in this beautiful city, call the God for thank you, Lord for all the citizens. I pray that you will bless each and every person a day, and that you will remind us of what's real info in this faith, this family, this friends. And I just thank you for the privilege of serving you. Thank you once again, I said Jesus, name and pray, amen. Amen. to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice, growl. Thank you. From here, you always take off before I get a chance to thank you. I appreciate you coming out and doing that for us. All of the blessings that you have. Okay, I'd like to have City Clerk Blender Bojois as the role call please. Mayor Fuller, Vice Mayor Dele, Commissioner Eden, Commissioner Deerman, Commissioner Wallsby. Okay. Now we'll have the city manager and see attorney for their announcements. First of all, city manager Ryan Buckhead. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Heritage Day will be on Saturday, March 8th from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. And that will be right out here on East Palm Yellow Street. There will be a historic bus tour, vendors, food and more. And we do need two commission volunteers for the bus. We've got two bus tours so we need a commissioner and attendance as a part of the deal there, so to speak. And we do we have the exact times on that? 10.30 and 1 o'clock. They've already got me committed to be Mr. Gardner. So apparently there's a hat and a wig involved for me or just a hat. You need the wig? Yes. Anyway, come out. That'll be very festive and we enjoy the hair of the day. the hair is dead. I think it's come out. That'll be very, very festive and we enjoy the the hair is day. I think it's a kill. A kill? I get the kill. See, I've managed to get into a kill and now we're signing up for a wig here. So, and I've already been in the dump tank too. So, it's been a, it's interesting where you end up sometime, but So that'll be if that'll be a fun event for everybody next Ridge, Relika cities dinner We held at the Barthead Civic Center that'll be on Thursday March 13th beginning at 6 p.m Please provide your reservations to the city clerk our next city commission meeting will be held on Monday March 17th of this year And I had a lot of good turnout for the Parks and Recreation Master Plan on the open house. Emily will cover that a little bit more and her department updates. And so looking forward, I'll send that out in an update, kind of the different slides and things that were available. But that'll be making its way to the Parks and Recreation Board for additional discussion and then make it to the City Commission as well. But good turnout and I think we've made a lot of good feedback and a lot of good progress on that plan. And then also too, I mean I would yield to the mayor on this. There was a ribbon cutting or groundbreaking event so to speak on the southeast well field project down in the southeast part of the county and mayor Fuller represented the city of Lake Alfred Wellas many as the other cities and so Mr. Mayor if you just want to kind of explain what was going on there. Yes I saw the blisters on my hand from digging that big hole. There's a picture of a stair of the board of directors for the, the wealth board for the water guava. The wealth of our bridge. So anyway, that was a great, great turnout. There's probably 150 people out there. All the news, media was out there. Different people, again, from all walks of county management here. We had a lot of people from Tallahassee. And so it was a real good event. And it's up to the only picture you got here. Got a close. Yes. Becky Cropman, a couple of them. That's Keith on the right hand. Yeah, Keith John. And then Becky Cropman's the young lady in the middle there. Mr. Folks to the far left there. He was the former mayor of like Wales. And he was on that particular committee as he was the president of that committee at one point. But we had a real interesting time. Our goal in shovels were put to use that day. And he had any pictures. If that's all I said was... I took several pictures and sent them to write. I wouldn't sure exactly how many He had, but it's going to be an exciting process to get this going. We've got the well drilled. It's going down to 8700 feet. And it's going to be about 60 miles of pipe to run the thing from the well field there. Right off of ice, or a state road 60 and Boy Scout Road. So it's got a long way to go to get up here and then it shoots across it. It's about 60 miles of pipe, though. That's what they've said. But $18.28 million for that. And that's just one of two that got another one slated to go in the Lakeland area coming up. So it was a real fun event. My first groundbreaking and it was fun as you're to be there. I'm on the board now. Been to enough meetings. Now you're not totally overcome by the numbers and everything that they're talking about. Because it's big, big money that they're talking about. I know Ryan's there often with me and he just kids me about all the money I spent that day. Anyway, but that it was a real interesting day there. And just for a certain context, that this is the Southeast Wellfield project. Alternate water supply, as we've talked about and known for many years, the water below our feet, they're not making not making any more of it and so as new growth comes in it has to be satisfied with those alternate water supply projects In coastal areas you might see things like desalination plants Inland though for us you might see reservoirs or in this case you're seeing lower floor than well So very deep wells very deep wells, the water is very brackish. And so it just requires a level of treatment almost as if it was desalination. That's the same process of reverse osmosis. So very capital intensive, power intensive. What I like to call expensive water versus the cheap water. And the main trunk line that the mayor is referring to that is going to run pretty much along highway 27 and capture all of the cities there along the ridge. We're a part of that project but our water is actually getting wheeled through Winter Haven's distribution system and so if you'll recall there was an action item probably two meetings ago where we were buying property in the Lockstreet George area by the Winter Haven interconnect and that's going to actually build the receiving station for us to receive the water that's actually that we're actually purchasing from this project. So we've purchased 1 million gallons per day total from this facility, from this project. It'll get wheeled to us through the city of Winter Haven. We'll receive it in the receiving station. They're at Lock Street, which is basically just that big ground storage tank. And then it'll be distributed through our water system, just like any other water plant. So this is a long time in the making. The water co-op was formed back in 2016-2017, but this actually stems all the way back to 2006 when the county was actually originally put under a consent order for upper Florida and withdrawals too close to Orlando and the towhoe area and so the resolution was to come up with a deep well as far away from a Orlando as you could and so they came up with the southeast well field and I think it's got like a 40 or 50 year permit and hand so here we are 18 years later breaking ground on something that was first conceived 18 years ago. So when we talk about water projects and transportation projects, by the time you see the dirt moving and the well being drilled, just know you're probably a decade plus worth of planning, you know, even to get to that point. And then one last announcement, I got it in the mail today and I'll go ahead and read the letter. Your government should have recently received electronic correspondence at U20023 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, qualifies for GFOA's certificate of achievement for excellence and financial reporting. To commemorate that achievement and closed is the medallion which can be added to your existing plaque. As I testament to the government's commitment to producing annual reports that evidence to spirit of full disclosure and transparency. Congratulations again that plaque is actually out in the the hall here and Amber I've got the little 2023 placards so Amber congratulations and thank you for all your efforts on the on the Catholic and that is all that I have no other announcements. Okay and now we'll refer to or City Attorney for his announcement set. Mayor only that we remain grateful to represent the Grace of the Lake County. We're grateful to have you here with us. OK. Tonight we'll have our first recognition of citizens for items that are not on tonight's agenda. If we have anybody in the audience that would like to come forward and speak, please stand up to the podium, say your name, and your address. Cherry, if you. You're in the short straw. I got the short straw, actually, probably the short and the stick to, okay, I spoke with Ryan, I'm also slowly the mayor of that, oh, I'm sorry, Sherry Parker, 4.0, South Clinton, and I spoke with mayor and also the city manager about my issue. My issue is like that for the elementary. I'm tired of it. I've done over. I've over it. I've done over it. When I cannot get to my house, when I have to go someplace and I want to change clothes and I'm being called, all kinds of names and the parents are prey that I want to cut the line. I have to go trumps in one, waiting to get in, and here my foot me off, call me some names, really call my names, I'm not cut the line. When I'm saying there are my happy-go-trumps in the line, wanting to get in and parents like, flipping me off, calling me some names, really colorful names on my party here. I don't appreciate it. I could not get to my house and I had my son-in-law say, 81-year-old, a grandfather, a grandparent with me. He's like, well, I'll get out and try to remove, because the birds are gone offline. So, carbon double bit, carbon high, it moved up really fast. You know, I just said, heck with it. I went on. Now, my adventure's going four times. I can't head on because you have people parking in the street. The streets only so wide. Come on, give me a break. break so the guy was very persistent when he back up I have car behind me can't go anywhere I don't know I know I was there first too bad so they did squeeze in the past me now move forward big huge G.M.C. the when he dropped big black so guy could speak English he's looking real hard. I'm like rainy, crock, big, black thing. Guy beneath his feet, English. He's looking me off. I'm like, no, no, no. I don't know how to tell you. So he's squeezed and the feroent is my car. Now, this is not the only time this has happened. This has happened multiple times. My husband's been late to work because he can't get out for coming home. He works at eight's hardware. Hello, but he can't get there online because it's been a long time. I should not have to drive through my yard to get out of my street. I live right there in the corner of Renaro, England, heard me. I am going to put the city on legal notice. Seth, here's, I will sue the city if I get into a wreck. Because I've had the school, he'll be, it's not my problem, it's the city's problem. The city is the one that's creating this problem. No, the school board is. So not only when I sue the city, I will also sue the school board. We are gulping. They're gulping schools. Hain City, Armadale, Winter Hayden, into a little any baby elementary school. When I talk to the principal, they were a thousand and 14 students. Now, here's a solution. The school could say, if your parents want to pick up, so you don't prep another side of the road. Because they're too lazy to prep in the practice cases. The word of football theorem will provide a best. It can't tell when they're in the drop them off or you'll have to pick up. Too easy to sample. Now, it will allow you to get some kids up and get them all the lives. No, no. City problem. Another thing is, you put up orange and white barriers on one side of the road. That way you have one side parking. At least we could so you can get through the road and have some passing, you know, least back. But here's a bug kicker. If there was a rack in the police report out, it would be written out as no fault. Should I have out all my insurance? Because of negligence? This is outright negligence. Somebody needs to do something. I am done. By the way, I did a lot with my yard, so I can go someplace the other day because I had an appointment. I couldn't get out. I paid taxes here. I own property. Unless you all want my house, I keep telling you it's $150,000. Come on, buy it. You'll offer it yet. That would be an awesome place for I across some central park, fix ball field. Back to my, provide parking. It could be an office building, it could be lots of items. But again, I will sue the city a late conference and I get to Iraq because of the school. You've been put on notice. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Anybody else like to come up? if I may, just to end response and I have had good conversations with Ms. Parker about it and understand certainly her frustration. As I mentioned before, the school board is a unique situation because when they come in there and they put as many portables as they do, there's no permit with the city, there's no site plan approval, construction plan approvals, anything like that. They have a lot of autonomy through state statutes in order to do that. They've got their own inspectors. It's really autonomous from anything that the city has. And I say that because any other business, any other entity, any other nonprofit business, even the city, if we were to do it, there would have been a permit, there would have been a site plan, there would have been impacts that would have been created to mitigate against that. The problem with Alphard Elementary is it's effectively a neighborhood school built into the confines of a neighborhood. And so for the same reason, while you don't see a public's built in the middle of a neighborhood, it's built along the commercial corridors, is quite simply because the roads are not built to sustain the level of volume that a commercial business would normally impact. And so we've just got a unique situation where you've got a neighborhood school that's over-debbled its capacity and it's impacting roads in a way that was never designed for it and if we had any say over the permitting wouldn't have been allowed. All that being said, it is what it is that there's absolutely massive impacts to that neighborhood. I drive it. I put eyes on it. Chief Voting Humber couldn't be here tonight but he's at conversations and him and I have at conversations as well. There's not going to be an infrastructure solution to that because at the end of the day it is a neighborhood and you just exacerbated it. Now one of the suggestions that I've put forward and working with the Chief and you'll see that coming through the budget process is even though Alford Elementary doesn't have an SRO because the county opted out of SRO, the school resource officers at the elementary level, you know, a lot of the revenue that's being generated by the camera citation system has to be reinvested back into law enforcement and safety programs. And so I think one of the suggestions is what better way to reinvest the funding, which is actually being created by Lake Alfred Elementary because that's schools and there are four Lake Alfred Elementary. If we were to reinvest that into daytime officers and things like that, two or three officers and maybe they could help maintenance of traffic and really kind of set up barricades and really set it up like we would almost like the parade, like special event type, you know, because that's the kind of volume that we're getting down there to alleviate some of the pressure and some of the safety concerns that misparpurs identified and others. That's just one idea that's being put for out there. I know that's not an instant solution, but I think that's something that I'll propose going through the budget process. And just to let you know that I've had those conversations with the police chief and the residents and we'll be looking to make some type of change there to accommodate really what was done by the school. And I get it. If I was a superintendent, I would understand they're kind of behind me, all to you, they just don't have the capacity and so they're they're versing at the same. So I did want to just give that response. I just had a comment about that whole thing while we're looking at it. We need to have a dedicated line up route for everything because you have the same problem down on Ramona Avenue. They clog up the whole right side. So people are going the wrong way on the other side. And then if a car comes, they're pulling into people's yards to get out of the way. So it's not just from the north or the south or the east, but if we had like when the food kitchen, food bank, they have made a whole new route and that's the only line there is. And it's also kind of a pain, but it's more respectful because it doesn't block as much of all the directions. So if the school went, say up and then maybe down one block and down and back another block or all the way down to Haynes or something to where it had just one line and that's all. That would be the only helpful. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you. Anybody else? I'm using the shirt. They take both sides of the road. You have one line that's there to pick up. And you have another line of people who are too lazy to realize the parking spaces fence of a road over in Central Park. And they park in the road, both of them actually park in the road. But you but you have one that's due to pick up and you have the other one. It's like a given one line, maybe the line that's picking up like a little bit nicer. I don't know because so far they haven't been nice. They haven't been nice at all. I was tempted to, the other day, but I didn't. I got my comments and I saw that I was very well preserved. But, you know, this is something, the school board. I call the school board. I have eight phone calls after the school board. Do you know that I've heard from them? No. You know, my idea, I get a run around. I don't hear from anybody. And the principal, this link offers problems, not my problem. I'm concerned what's inside school. That's it. Thank you. Have a good day. Okay. Well, thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. Is there anybody else that would like to come up? Yes, maam Academy when I came in and I don't know what they did to get an officer out there. Look it was a motorcycle car, you would always because it was somebody that just like you when cars come down they would block the ladies, you couldn't get out to go to work nor husband. I don't know what they did unless you might want to contact one of them and see what they did but I know it was a motorcycle officer out there and he was out there for a short period of time. And he was out there to make sure that he'd block her driveway for her. Because you know, during the time school was getting out. I guess that was the time she could get ready to go to work on a husband. But they would just sit there for a few minutes and then make sure nobody'd been block her driveway. because he also directed traffic like when another car moved up here, tell the other car to move around, but they would never blocker driveway. So I don't know what they did to get that happen, but the legs start complaining and it went great. So when the school was out, he went on his way and it was done. So I don't know, maybe I want to cut that brick and what they did. Well, we'll formulate a plan. Part of it's going to be having the officers to help facilitate it and then as vice-mayor daily suggested, which you know, upspot on on the food bank, you know, if we can organize it to where it's one way in and one way out and you just kind of do what you do, like you do the food bank, only you're picking up your kids instead of the food and it's one rather than everyone coming from all directions and the free for all and then the additional off once everyone's got to bend the mode and trained up on and it should be easier to manage but then having officers on the edges of that perimeter to enforce it so you don't have folks trying to to run through peepers yards or queue up in other areas. That's where having those additional resources will kind of help box it in and facilitate that that traffic pattern. But we're gonna have to do something again. I never like it one one government, drugs a hand, or you know, drugs the shoulders and go, it's a school board's problem, or oh, it's a city's problem. We all work for the same citizens and the same team, and so it is what it is in the sense that those board of bulls are there to stay, and that student count is there to stay to the ball, whether we like it or not the balls, and then kind of put into our court to do a response, and I'll work with the chief on coming up for the plan and Sherry, I'm going to ask you to be patient and try to keep the temperature down and if we can avoid conflict that's probably the best strategy but I talk to your husband I talk to you I understand 100% I'm the guy who when I back out of my drive way at Haynes if I have to sit at the stop sign from more than two cars you know I'm grinding my teeth so I get it I get it I could not imagine dealing with the line of cars and people getting upset at you for pulling into your own driveway so 100% understand where you're at and I'll work with the police chief on facilitating a plan and I'll keep the city commission updated and Jerry I'll keep you abreast of it as well. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Brian. Hi. My name is Beverly Moore and I live two blocks over on Pierce Street. Okay. And I was backing up to put my car, and I have been told that I'm not supposed to be driving. And so I thought, well, this is the first time I've driven for, and wouldn't you know I backed into a car and I dented his car, but he's a minister. So hopefully, and I gave him my state farm insurance, because remember, So we can call the state farm insurance to get it covered tomorrow. Okay. So I'm just here to let all of you know what's going on. Okay. And this is a wonderful town and a wonderful place. And I'm not and we have wonderful people here like the minister. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. That was hypothetically if she was driving hypothetically. I said this can't turn it off. Okay, um next item of business here is a proclamation for the Irish American Heritage Month Proclamation. And they sent this to me and they asked if we would enter this into our agenda in March since it is the month that they typically recognize. So I'm going to read the proclamation and we will make sure that they get a copy of this. Proclamation. So as whereas by 1976 nearly 300,000 Irish nationals had immigrated to the American colonies and played a crucial role in America's war for independence. And whereas five signers of the Declaration of Independence were of Irish descent and three signers were Irish born. And whereas the Irish first came to Spanish La Florida in the 1500s, first as missionaries and mercenary soldiers, and then as planters, traders, businessmen, doctors, and administrators. And whereas Irish Americans and Americans in America's inception have provided and continued to provide leadership and service to this nation's political business and religious establishments. And whereas it is fitting in proper to celebrate the rich cultural heritage and many valuable contributions of Irish Americans. Therefore, it be proclaimed that the city of Lake Alfred recognizes the month of March as Irish American Heritage Month. And witness hereof, I appear to set my hand this third day of March, 2025. So this will be trained and sent to the people that sent it to me for reading into our minutes tonight. And anybody here of Irish to set? I might be. That's my baby. Okay, well, congratulations. Welcome to Irish American Heritage Month in Lake Alfred, Florida. Okay. Let's go to our consent agenda, please. Consent agenda has two items out this evening. City Commission meeting minutes for February 17th, 2025. And the second item is City Commission announcements. There any public comments on the minutes of those meetings? Okay, seeing none, I'll move on any commission account comments. Mr. Mayor would like to make a motion and we approve the consent agenda. We have motion and second. Any opposed? Okay, here none and Any see with the motion seconds all in favor say aye and Then motion has carried Okay, now tonight our agenda Public hearing resolution 06-25 CDBG grant support and I'm gonna ask city attorney to read the resolution 06-25 into the record. Thank you Mayor. Resolution number 06-25. A resolution of the City Commission of the City of Lake Alfred Florida supporting the submission of a community development block grant CDBG application for the fiscal year 2025-2026 providing authorization for the City Manager or his designated take all necessary further actions to submit and implement the A4CED CBBG grant application providing for an incorporation of the titles providing for the administrative correction of the resource, providing for the repeal of resolutions that conflict are with, providing for severability and providing for an effective date. Okay, and now ask the City Manager to present the analysis please. Thank you Mr. Mayor. The City Lake Albert is a subversive community development block grant funds through the partnership agreement with Polk County. A formula determined funding in the anticipated allocation in the fiscal year 2526 cycle is approximately $3,000 with the potential to add allocated roll over funds from fiscal year 2425 of roughly $11,000. The CPG grant program provides communities with resources to address unique community development needs. Each CPG funded project must meet one of three national objectives, benefit low to moderate income persons prevent or eliminate slums and blight and meet other community development needs having a particular urgency. Polk County has requested project proposals from the municipal partners for the upcoming fiscal year 2526 cycle. City staff proposes to demolish existing restrooms and then construct two regular size restrooms one male and one female and one eighty A restroom at City Hall. So right here in this building this one creates a city's level of ADA accessibility for its residents along with a new ADA accessible entrance into the hallway from the City Hall chambers. They propose the proposed project benefits those who cannot access the restrooms due to a lack of an ADA restroom and an accessible entrance. The proposed project has an estimated cost of $60,000 and has been identified in the city's ADA transition plan. The additional funding needed for the project will be included in the ADA project line item for the fiscal year 2526 budget. Upon approval of resolution 06 test 25, the cityaro will be authorized to execute the CEDG grant agreement and all related documents. Staff recommendation on this item is to approve Resolution 06-25 and staff will be happy to answer any questions. Okay, this is a public hearing and we'd like to ask anybody that has any comments or questions about 06-25 grain support for that If you have any comments or questions please come forward Okay, seeing none I'll close that option and go to city commission comments, please I do have one question It's more about that what can can you tell me more about the formula that goes into my calculator? I always try to see if that's the maximum worth. There's potentially more to maximize the grant. Now that we're growing in larger. So it's formula driven based upon population is my understanding. And so if you're a sub-recipient through the county they receive a pot of funding and then it's formula allocated to the sub-recipients. If you don't participate then you don't get guaranteed funding you then have to go it would be called the Small Cities CDVG program so you would opt out of the guaranteed money and then that would allow you to basically put in applications or throw a dart for different, you know, different projects. We opted out one time and we applied for a sewer infill project but we didn't meet criteria and so because we didn't have any other projects that were CDBG eligible that were competitive, we just opted back into it. So we took the guaranteed money rather than swing for the fence, so to speak. So we do evaluate that from time to time, but CDBG, because it's tried and true, we've just gone with the guaranteed allocations. Quite a few other cities do as well. I know Auburn Dale, Dundee, if I recall, other cities have just stuck with the formula allocation. And then if you're going to swing for the fence, we would typically do that through a federal or state appropriation. Okay. Thank you. That was curious. I had a question about the process for, say we have this potential 44,000 and then we We approve this tonight and then you would have to bid the project then what if you either the pitch cannot weigh over or we under then how does that work? So we switch around the type of work we do or how does that? No we kind of look at it as so that you can see in the analysis there's an 11,000 roll over from the previous year. So that's the example of it cost a little bit less than what we thought it was or we had surplus funding. So they let you roll over if you have a surplus into the next cycle. You can't do it indefinitely one year. You can only do it for one year. So we roll over and a roll over the surplus or the excess funds from this year into the next cycles and then we'll have 44,000 but then you can see the estimate already at 60 and so we'll exhaust the grant funding we'll spend the 44,000 and then let's say at 60,000 right on the dot the additional 16,000 then we can use our own funding, which again, we've already budgeted for ADA projects through the general fund, like $125,000, $150,000. So then we would pair up the 16,000 from that pot with the grant funding in order to complete the project. Yeah. Right outside. One thing before we go to the emotion, I want to recognize Linda for the great job she's doing on that committee and her committee members. They put a lot of work and time. Now they just met this last week and they've got another set of things that they're working on. So we'll look forward to seeing what you can come up with. But thank you for great job you do. Thank you. Thank you. OK. Any other city? I'd like to concur with you on that also. And the CWG is with us. It's been up in your law. It's been very beneficial for what we've done in areas all through the city. Epitaters, fruitland with the parks. And this is just a close to get this done. We've got to enter tender motion please. I make a motion and we approve resolution. O. and this is just a close to get this done. Right, we've got to enter. Enter. Motion please. I make a motion and we approve resolution 06S25, C-B-G grant support. Second. Okay, we have motion and second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, I will say this motion has carried. Okay, number two, resolution 05, it's going to be the 07-25, CWSFR planning activities, loan application, and I'll like to ask the city attorney to read resolution 07-25 into the record please. Thank you, Mayor. Resolution number 07-25. A resolution of the City Commission of the City of Lake Alfred Florida relating to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection at the EP Clean Water State Revolving Fund LUM. CWSRF Program, project number WW530521, authorizing the design activities LUM agreement for the WACE Water Treatment Facility, upgrades for advanced nutrient removal, providing for the in cooperation of recitals providing authorization to execute a loan agreement for the Waste Water Treatment Facility, upgrades for advanced nutrient removal, providing for the incorporation of recitals, providing authorization to execute a low-degree agreement for the funding, establishing pledge revenues, designating authorized representatives, providing for assurances, providing for the administrative correction of the Sputnikers' Errors, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. Okay, thank you, sir, and now city manager to present the analysis, please. Thank you, Mr. Minnesota. The city's wastewater treatment point was initially constructed in 1954 with the last significant improvements performed approximately 15 years ago. The plant is showing signs of wear in addition to older technology and limited capacity to accommodate future growth. The proposed project, which has been planned for in the city's capital improvement program to 10-year facility plan and the wastewater master plan will upgrade the facility expand treatment capacity and include advanced new dream removal systems to improve treatment standards of the F1 discharge from the plant. The city is participating in the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program or the CFSRF, CWSRF through FDEP. This program allows for 80% principle forgiveness associated with the project's obligation. It has various steps and milestones from facility planning to design an eventual construction. Now, are we clipped into, we know, are we locked in on the 80% for this phase or will we not know? This is the one that we always find out in 60% there's different different we get we've got more direct experience with the water plants. I'm glad. Clip to public works and renegative, see the lake out there. So right now, we are logged in with 80% for the construction agencies, all right? And for right now, that's what we have. OK, so we'll take it while we can get it out of the, that'll roll through on that percentage on the construction side, but we'll take what we can get on that side. But so it is 80% on the design. Of this 1.7 million. Yes sir. Okay. Alright. So we'll, we'll see if our luck holds on construction But we'll carry on to construction. We'll we'll go for it But we'll see what we can get I guess it's just a different formula allocation because we got 60% on water. Yes, sir Okay, because of the nutrient removal for the waste waste that got us additional bonus points for the program Okay, very good. All right. Thank you On December 2nd, 2024 under RFQ 24-02, consultant professional services, master agreement, the City Commission approved CPH to provide consultant services related to the design and permitting of the City of Lake Alfred Watt wastewater treatment plant improvements for the project. The proposed resolution authorizes the City to enter into a loan agreement with SRF for the Clean Water Program Design activities associated with the wastewater project. The loan amount is 1.7 million to cover the plans cost with 1.36 million of the principal for forgiven through the program. City will be responsible for the 340,000 plus capitalized interest of 1100 for a total of 341,000 to be paid 20,000 semi annually over 10 years. The City will be, will fund the remaining loan balance with wastewater connection fees that are eligible to be used for this growth related project. If approved City Manager will authorize the authorize to execute the design activities loan agreement and all related documents. Staff recommendation on this item is to approve resolution of 7-25 and staff will be happy to answer any additional questions. Okay thank you sir. Okay this is public meeting and open for your comments or questions at this time. Any questions or comments on this particular item? All right. Seeing none, I'll move on to our city comments. So on this project this is to work with the wastewater out east of town. Yeah so effectively our wastewater plant was designed for 1 million gallons per day. We're pumping. What do you think? It's in 600,000, little less. A little right at 600,000. 600,000 gallons. And so what happens is the EP is never going to let you get up to right next to your limit before, hey, time to expand. Because it's such a long runway to expand your plant and do things like that. So this is kind of that analogy of skating to where the puck is going. We know all the developments are in process coming on board. We've planned for this for many years. It's been a part of the 10 year capital improvement program, the wastewater master plans that were previously adopted. And so what this will be is an expansion of the plant basically a doubling of the capacity. So we're going to go from 1 million gallons per day to 2 million gallons per day. That should accommodate all of most of the future growth quite a bit because you figure We're at 600,000 now at about 8,500 8,000 population even if the city were to double to 16,000 you just kind of carry the math you get that probably put us at 1.2 1.4 million and then with a little bit of runway to accommodate you know even you know more growth in the future and again if you get you end up with a high water user that has a as a accommodate, you know, even, you know, more growth in the future. And again, if you get, you end up with a high water user that has a high, you know, sewage on the industry side, that can also use up a lot of capacity. We're kind of applying this lens on residential growth because that's mostly what we've been getting. But that is what this is for. So this will serve us for many, many, many years to come. It is not a cheap price tag, but at the same time, we've planned for it, we've prepared for it. And if we can get any type of principle forgiveness on it, that will be a major win for the city, just like the water plant program was. What's the total price tag? Is it the $15 million one? No, the longer plant. And this is probably going to be closer to 35 million by the time it's all said and done. Every year we talk about this the price keeps going up. I think we got to lock it in as soon as we can. Otherwise it's going to keep jumping up 5 million every hour. As I said, commissioners, even if you think about it in terms of paces or rupees, it doesn't sound as bad when you say 35 million. You all know how I feel about not borrowing money, but when you can get alone with forgiveness of 80% then I'm going to make an exception. And I would move to a resolution 07-25CWSRF wastewater treatment plant design activities. Second. Okay. I have a motion in the second. All the favour say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Here, amendment motion is carried. Okay. Item No. 3, Pope County subordination agreement by the House of City Manager, 2%. agenda item number three, Pope County subordination agreement by task city manager to present the analysis. I'm taking this mayor. Pope County is interested in certain lands that have been determined necessary for road and drainage improvements for the upcoming county road 557 widening project. This project requires the subordination of interest in claim lands by the city of of Lake Alfred, two-pole county. The associated claim lands are located at the intersection of the Evans House Road and County Road 557. So you look out for it obtained a utility easement from the school board of Pohl County on June 18, 1997. This agreement will outpole county the right to construct, operate, maintain, improve and to to upgrade, remove, and relocate facilities on, within, and upon the lands, within that easement. In addition, they would have the right to trim trees, brush growth, and other things that may impede the project. Upon approval, the subordination agreement with Bulk County will be, this authorizes me to execute it. And so the way it's been described to me is we've got an easement in this area here about, and that's kind of the discovery academy from the old school there. And so we've got an easement, and the county just effectively needs to subordination of interest in that easement as they kind of do the 557 expansion and if there's any utilities or anything in there that they impact the county is responsible for paying for the relocation. So it's a good deal for us. It's kind of a little bit wonky. I don't think I've ever done a subordination agreement before but they don't often do forlaining of major roads either. So just kind of a unique thing there. City attorneys looked at it, we worked with county staff and also the utilities department. The director didn't have any objection to the request and staff recommendation on this item is to approve the subordination agreement with the city of Lake Alfred, or between the city of Lake Alfred and Polk County. And staff would be happy to answer any questions. And at the same intersection that they brought the water pipe and the heading to under and then up and then up and then up and then up and then up and up. That's our water pipe, right? So if they did have to come in and relocate it, they would have to. But now we coordinated with the county on that project because that was my one ask of staff and the engineer I don't care who pays for it I don't want to lay a pipe and then 18 you know six months 12 months later someone's got to dig it up and relocate it that's just a misuse of resources even if the county did have to pay for it again, we're all planned for the same team, ultimately. So why force the county taxpayers to incur that? So we've designed that such that we knew where the road was gonna go. And so, Glyphin just correct me if I'm wrong, or we didn't get shaped there on the pipe. Okay. All right, so that should, we, no one should have to relocate anyone, but as a legal agreement or a legal document with the easement, they just needed to cross their teas and dot their eyes to get the subordination agreement with us for that. But this isn't a cost to us. No cost. More of a formality than anything. If we had something major in there, it would have made it have taken a different look at it. But this is just allowing them to do what they need to do for the road expansion. And then they're responsible for any relocations if there were to be a need. But the only thing I believe that's in there is our water that was put in there but that was designed with knowledge of where that road was going to go so we should be in good shape. Okay at this point I'd like to open for public comment being a public meeting. You have opportunity now to come up ask any questions. I know as I'm going around the city, a lot of questions are coming up every time I come down. You'll be in 557 going to be done. What's going on with this? You know, they're moving this out and not moving that out. And I don't know that those kind of questions are necessarily what we want to address right now, but I mean, if you've got questions, you're certainly welcome to see if there's anything we can help you with as far as understanding what all is going on. I know our intended completion of that program was way up guilty right now. Hopefully this is the last straw, right? Is the last check-by circuit a movement?? There's a couple more little things I need but I've heard that they're looking to break ground in a late summer of this year. That's why I heard that recently from John Bodie and Jay Jarvis and Conna County management over the project that they're looking to break ground this year. Late summer going into early fall. Do you know how far the forelings are coming in? Like as you're coming into town? Where's that? So the pivot was originally they were going to chop up the project and phases, but now what I've heard latest and greatest over the last couple of weeks, I guess the county management kind of gave the directive at the beginning of the year was to do the project. All in one continuous phase. They're going to go all the way from the interstate, all the way down to the intersection right here, pat over the railroad tracks and connecting into Shin Bullbard. And we fought for that because the county was actually trying to stop the project short. They were going to stop at Sw swoop street there by the park. And they didn't want to deal with CSX or FDAT or federalized project. But when they got assurances from CSX and the state that they weren't going to make them do anything else other than run the lanes to the intersection, we kind of facilitated them to do that. Which makes sense. And that's what I told the county. I'm like, you guys are going to spend $120 million on a road and you're going to four lane in and then it's just going to bottom that right at the worst possible time. So I'm like, I really don't know what that does for you all other than just It doesn't work for us. It just creates more problems So so I'm glad we were able to get that and then they'll they'll run it up to Shinn now that doesn't we still got to do the Lane repurposing the downtown study and that's kind of the The F the O T's leg of the race so to speak but the county at least did their part and got it all the way to the state road. Does the growers property come into play at all as far as widening or? You're going to see probably some agreements moving their way forward here in the next month or two. The county needs some right of way acquisition off of growers and a couple other parcels that we don't necessarily have a huge interest in along the road, but that's fine. That's just us kind of being a team player, you know, facilitating the project. But it's not going to impact, you know, design or anything, but they're going to shave enough out to be able to forlorn it. Okay. We're done with the people. Actually, no, I was going to say we've opened it for public comment but I think again there's a lot of a lot of questions hopefully City Manager has answered a lot of those and if you've got questions on this please feel free to come up right now and say your name and address and your question. Okay, seeing none I'll go ahead and close close that option and we've already had some commission comments so I would ask for continuation of that. I was waiting for that to be done. Just from that picture, the project we're talking about now is just on that green line or does it go further up or past that area? Like what's the length and width of what we're talking about? Our easement for this agreement is right in this area. It's in the, that's the retention pond for the Academy. It doesn't go beyond Evan House Road on the other side or just south straight there on the south side. No, it's on the south side because the school board gave us the easement and so it was on the south side of Evan House. It doesn't go to this area up here at all. Okay and the reason is because across the street is wetland and that's why they have to dig the road over that way. And so just for design purposes the county is going to come in and they're going to actually have to expand this part of the project is going to expand Almost exclusively to the west because you've got those major power poles on the east side of the road and There's on enough dollars in the county to relocate those major utility poles So when the project gets down to this area the forelaining is going to be almost exclusively to the west side. And that makes sense because all of the property acquisitions that they did, the housing demolitions, it's all taken place on the west side, they left the east side of the road because they just can't encroach upon those main transmission lines from Tico. So they're going to have to do a lot of infill to build the road and then they have to offset all of that. So any floodplain or wetland impacts they do, associated with the road, they have to offset that in other areas. So this particular agreement doesn't have anything to do with the north of Evan House where that with another little electric We're just showing the green line on there because that was our most recent pipe project But the easement is in that vicinity I just didn't have a good visual to show you all that that's where it is Any other comments about to entertain the motion. I'd like to make a motion to approve the poll count as a coordination agreement between the city like Alfred and Polkan. Second. Okay, we have a motion and second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, and this motion is carried. Okay. We have two separate motions, number four, and number five. First one is CFRPC Advisory Services Agreement. And the second one is CFRPC Comp Plan Amendments Agreement. We'll handle one at a time. But I think they're going to read city manager will present the analysis and you can probably cover both of those at once and we'll discuss each one of them. Yes, separately. Thank you, Ms. Marron, April 1, 2024. The city like Alfred Conch at the Center for Regional Planning Council for the CFRPC for supplemental planning services, disagreement bolsters, he consultant services to help offset some of these increased demands to provide redundancy and backup within the department. The CFRPC also provides additional reviews to improve accuracy and provides additional expert opinion on land use and land development matters. They propose planning services agreement assist the city with planning review, GIS services and the processing of future land use and zoning applications as well as tax amendments to the comp plan and the land development code. The contract price is 25,000, which is 5,000 over last year's agreement funding is available within the department to fund this expense on October 1, 2024. The city of Lake Alfred received a notification that the evaluation and appraisal report, also So now that's the year on process, what is due to begin at least every seven years the comp plan is reviewed to determine whether it needs to be amended to reflect changes and state requirements since the last update. The city has one year to complete the process ordinance 1399-18 adopted the last year based amendments on November 19, 2018. The proposed comp plan agreement will allow the CFRPC to prepare and draft the necessary data and analysis related to population projections, accommodation of anticipated growth, availability of services, environmental suitability, transportation analysis, and other required appropriate data. This plan will be compared to the 2030 comp plan with a 20-year extension to the planning horizon. So basically we're going from the 2030 comp plan to the 2050 comp plan. So in addition to the seven-year cycle, this is also an extension of that 20-year planning horizon. So kind of a big comp plan amendment, so to speak. The contract price with the CFRPC to conduct the evaluation of $50,000. Funding is available within the department also to fund this expense and again something necessary and critical that we need to do. And probably not a bad thing just with all the moving parts that we've had recently. Not a bad idea to kind of go through the conf plan, re-up things, and then that will probably, that will also then likely translate into other code amendments. So this will kind of be a good pause and a good focus on that comp plan just to make sure that everything's where it needs to be for the next 20 years. So very timely and CFRPC is great to work with. They've helped us periodically throughout the years our downtown code, recent code amendments. They've helped out with as well. So they're very familiar with Lake Alfred and they'll do a good job. So staff recommendation on this is to approve the planning advisory services agreement with the CFRPC in the amount of 25,000 and then the other staff recommendation is to approve the comp plan amendment review for the year requirements in the amount of 50,000 and those are two separate action items and staff will be happy to answer any questions and Jennifer and Jeff could not be here tonight but they passed on their enthusiasm to me that they're looking forward to working with Lake Alfred on the conflant. Planners love conflant, so this is like, this is their bread and butter, so they're excited and they're all about it. Okay, thank you, sir. All right, this is open now for public comment and if you've got any questions or comments on this particular item, you're welcome to come up and ask your questions. Seeing none, I will close that option and move on to the City Commission comments. Well, Mr. Mayor, some of us that's been in very well. We've very complimentary to the Central Florida Planning Council. We know that things go up, but the service that they provide to help us, we've had great relations and vice mayor of the test and I think in all of us here, I'm very honored that we can bring that for backup. Great. Anybody else? Okay. Okay, if you'd like to enter any a motion for CFR PC advisory services agreement. I just, I just want to make a motion that we approve the CFR PC advisory service agreement of the amount of 25,000. Exactly. Okay, we have a motion in second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, this motion has appeared. Now the second part of that, the CFR PC, CompLant of Memants Agreement, pretty much was covered in Ryan's presentation of the analysis, is there anything else you'd like to add to that? No, additional analysis, staff recommends approval of the CompLant of Memant Review for the year requirements and the amount of 50,000 with the CFRPC. Okay. So public meeting and you're welcome to come forward and ask any questions or comments if you've got any. Okay seeing none now I'll close that option and move on to city commission comments for the second part of this motion This mayors I stated earlier. I'm very honored that we have this group to do this and We're always looking above the the box and I'd like to make a motion that we approve CFRPC Conflan amendment agreement and then 50 pounds Second, okay, I have a motion and a second all in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none this motion has carried. Moving right along. In our last, none of that's not the last. Property purchase methodist church vacant lot. Again we ask city manager to present the analysis on this. I will number six. Very good. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The Methodist Church of Lake Alfredo is a vacant parcel on the north side of West Haynes Boulevard. Next to Scotty Muffler, the city has historically used this parcel as overflow parking during events at Lyons Park. Church leadership indicated to the city that they were interested in selling the property. The city doesn't have other good opportunities for overflow event parking. The lot is also in the downtown area and may have strategic future views for general downtown parking or other amenities. The read upon purchase price for the property is $60,000, which will be provided from General Fund Reserves. And appraisal was performed on the property that value to the $90,000. But this was attributable to its commercial zoning designation as the highest invest use of the property. And whereas the city is just planning to maintain it as parking. So the 60 was a fair ask for what we're trying to do it. Use it for where it's going to be developed or anything like that. And we do, I park there, you know, myself for events over the years and so the concern is if it was sold, you know, that might be fenced off or closed off and we would lose the ability to use it. And we're trying to grow events down at lines, long with the park revisioning and master plan process. You know there might be ample parking down there, but with some of the events that we might be planning, I think parking may always be an issue. And so this lot could really turn into similar to the lot we have over here behind Ace Hardware, where we use is either extra of that space or even parking. Even the small lot that we have there at Haynes Boulevard across from the restaurant, that's a city home. We turned that into a parking lot that used to be a grass lot and now I'm glad we have it because the Mexican restaurant, they're crushing it out there and the dance studio and said that parking lot gets quite a bit of usage. And so, who knows long term, there may be other businesses in the area that utilize parking and said this lot could be a strategic use for not only the park, but for other downtown parking as well. We do have the head trustee and the audience, Mr. Nagel. Thank you for coming and for having that conversation with us. It's a, I think it's a good win-win all the way around and we'll of course maintain it. That gets it off of their maintenance roster, gives from additional funding to the church. And then we get to kind of preserve that for parking that pretty much everybody can use. So staff recommendation is to approve the purchase and sales agreement for the vacant lot and the amount of $60,000 and staff will be happy to answer any questions. Okay, thank you. Okay, this is a public meeting and if you've got any questions or comments on this particular item, public purchase methodist church vacant lot. I would invite you to the podium and last Mr. Nagel. I just wanted to say pleasure working with Ryan. You made it very easy for the church to take care of the situation. So I just wanted to say thank you for me. It's very simple. Thank you sir. Are there any other questions or comments? I'll be right ahead. You guys about to be moving. This is the other photo that you can kind of see it right there next to Scaldi Muff order. And then of course lines barred down the down street. All right. We'll be open. We'll close for public comments now and open for city commission comments. Where does the money come from? This is because we didn't have this budgeted. This is just going to be from General Fund Reserves, which we have ample supply of. And we're adding more to you by the year. The only comment I have variegated is that I appreciate the negotiation I appreciate Mr. Nagle. I feel like we got better deal on this one on the last one you brought the previous meeting. So if you're improving now, I appreciate that. And when I don't have to run water force mains or water mains, it makes it a little easier to negotiate Just mayor like to make a motion that we approved the purchase of the method is turns making love for the amount of Second, okay, we have a motion at a second all in favor say aye any any opposed here we none that motion is carried and now I'm going to defer to the city manager for our department updates for our last agenda item and I'm going to kick it to Emily Parks and Director if you will walk us through your department update I need that. Okay. Hi. Oh, there's that. Linda, you wanted to it. Go ahead. Oh, there you go. I'm going to go first in my region. So, I wanted to start with just a picture of some of my staff. So we have on the left here we have our person right crew. So you'll see some familiar faces, some new faces this year. And this is the crew that you'll see out there doing just about everything. So they're going to be at our events. They're going to be mowing. They're going to be maintaining our parks, being a trash. Just a little bit of everything. In the middle it's myself and Ellie your assistant and Jessica who's you. She's our events coordinator and our American staff is our library staff. Not included our volunteers, they're just all staff employees. And it's a little bit of overview. So I listed out all of our awesome parts that we have that we take care of. So some of the smaller neighborhood parts that you may not know are city perks, but all of those are our properties that the parts of hermit takes care of. And then at the top, me and two of my staff went to the Florida Recreation Park Association conference training this year. We learned a lot, brought some really fun, great ideas back to the department to use for last year and this year. We're looking forward to going to that again. And then just some fun things we all got to do with this year was we had a lot more hurricane cleanup than we normally do. So these were just some pictures from one of the hurricane that we had this year. So we spent a lot of time cleaning up and fortunately we lost some of our favorite trees in the sky. I think at least once a week someone asks about the tree and by the parking lot that fell down. We're hoping to reclaim a few of those. They won't be as pretty as they are now, but eventually they'll go back. We spent a lot of time, which I'm sure public works as well, doing a lot of hurricane thing up to share. So along with this sort of society, we got to reveal the Frightsea Gardener House historic marker. So you'll see a picture there from that event. So that was really fun event with this sort of society. They were the ones that founded the marker, but that's right out in front of the Gardener House, if you can see a little bit about the Gardner House. Some more projects we did this year. With the public works department, we worked on the central homestry parking, so a lot of parking there along the side, the median landscape in between and then also, while not the most glamorous project, the central park's dumpster, to make that look nice, somewhere to put our stuff and then we match it to the wall that's in the whole parking lot there as well. Some other parks that got upgrades this year, some of of this 2025, some of it was from 24, but there was a back-through renovation done inside the ANCC as well as the entire inside got patched and repainted as well as some nice new plants to go out in front, so that building's looking great. Some fun little parts about the library this year. So here's a picture of the friends of the library at one of our events. And they graciously donated a large sum for us to work on the plans for the library expansion. So we are working on that. Why don't have plans to do today? We are working on that. In the background, also some stats from this year. So, and then again, this was from 2024. So the circulation numbers were 54,000, season and total, so that includes eBooks, movies, anything that we circulate. So that was through the year 2024. Our Patreon numbers was a little over 38,000. And then the new Patron, so that's 376 Patrons, either County or City that come in that may not have a library card. Like those are different. New people that have got to experience the library. And then we had a total of 3000, a little over 3000 for our appropriate participants this year. So that was an increase in almost all categories from last year. So the last year for comparison our circulation was 37,000 so our circulation went up a lot. Which is great news. Yeah, it is one of a lot. And then our computer users went up some, the program participants went up a lot. So last year there were like 800 program participants. So we offered a lot more programs though so it's not that the other programs were we've just we've expanded our program range so we were able to accommodate more programs as well as we added some other agents to try some programs out so and then the corner you'll see Senya and then some of our some pictures of one of the programs we did. I think Jane and Margaret are in the same position. You guys are in the same order on the federal bed. Yeah, they might be. And then, Steve, some of our volunteer groups, we had a, every year we do a field trip from like Alfred Elementary School. There's over a hundred Kino's like to hide, to hang out with our volunteers. They do a short hike, educational stations, lots of fun, they have a dance, a song, the whole night art, it's a lot of fun because there's so many now, we actually have to do multiple days of field trips. So, they do a great job with that. That was a lot of fun. We actually have our one for this year upcoming here quickly. So we're looking forward to that. And then some more about our volunteer program. So this group leads nature hikes sometimes during the day, sometimes at night. Educational programs, they are there almost every Monday unless the weather is really bad. They are there Mondays, age to 12 if you want to come out and join them. They always love seeing some new faces. Whether you have garden experience or not, you will, by the end of your work day, with the volunteer group. So, for example, they do, it was a 1700 hours for their volunteer hours, which was 24, and if you both buy that by the Florida volunteer pricing, it's equivalent to $53,000 of volunteer hours that they put in to specifically to Macai. So they get a lot of work during that time frame and I think they have fun with it. And then this leads us into a little bit about our property because we also host a lot of special events at this location. So this last year we have 50 30 rentals, which may not sound like a lot, but how many weekends are there in a year? So when you think of these special events, there might be one wedding, but they might be their Friday Saturday and Sunday. And we only hold one wedding per weekend. So we're pretty maxed out. There'll be a few weekends here there that's like holiday weekends that people don't want to get married on, but for the most part we have, we're booked out for special events there. You'll see some of these photos are from some of the weddings that took place this year. Someone are back patio with our with tents. Some inside, some outside of the nature, just a little bit of everything. Some other projects that happened in the cave this year where we have, we actually were blessed with two different eco-style projects. So we didn't pay for either of these. We worked with the local Boy Scout troop and they had two different Eagle Scouts that worked on their project and had connections to this property that really wanted to do them at this park. So the one on the right, he built a hammock park for us, which is so fun. So you can come and enjoy the nice, nice weather under a little bit of shade. And then the one on the left is, you'll see there's a couple of them on property, they're bath boxes. So they're almost like really tall bird houses for the baths on property. Do you have any? Do we have any baths? I have a climate there in check, but we do have bats on properties, so we're hoping they find homes in the bat houses. And that one's pretty new. I actually just signed off on that a couple of weeks ago. So those are like, Korean new. But if you're walking around here, you might see a couple of them, discerse on property. Something else that we did in 2024 is we renovated the French garden beds in front of the house. So we updated those a little bit, gave them a little bit of TLC and check out some a lot of weeds. So that's living good. We've had a lot of people, because we can see them from the. A lot of people will just come I take pictures like with them. It's pretty funny. So yeah, those are just some of our projects we've been working on the last year. And next I have some special events that we have done, you know through. So the first one being in January, this was January of 2024, so not January of this year. So it was the Bluegrass Festival. It was really cold that year. And then unfortunately, the event organizer has retired this event, so we didn't get to host it in 2025. However, we did bring the most popular Bluegrass band that's going to be a heritage this weekend. So there's anyone here that really enjoyed Bluegrass. The most popular red from that will be here this weekend in Heritage Festival. Senior Heritage Day. So this past year is shame, March 9th. So if you haven't been to that event, we have Living History Actors presenters, we have petting zoo, kids activities, a live band, his work bus tours, food trucks, craft vendors, a whole lot of really fun stuff. So if you haven't been to that event, it's happy to be this weekend so you should come to join us. Another fun event that we do throughout the year is the community cleanup. So this one starts here and we just kind of spread out in groups and help pick up some trash and things around town in big groups. It's a lot of fun. So if you are available that we can join us and that one is coming up here soon in April. And then when summer hits, it's a little too hot to have any outdoor events. So we had focused on summer camp. So our summer camp at 2024 was June 10th through July 26th. Our summer camp was sold out and had a pretty long wait list. This past year, we really focused on structuring the summer camp a little bit more and gave a lot of staffing changes, but it worked out really well because that was great time. We went on a field trip every Tuesday, so we went to Bonnet Springs Park, Bowling, Ice Cating, Gate Investors, we have some movies, urban air, and the aquarium, so they had a great time, a little bit of learning, but also a little bit of fun. And then we have shows that come to check them out for summer camp on Fridays. So we picked up really busy and had a great time. And they finished the summer with their favorite part, which is the talent show. And then after summer camp is back to school, so we throw our back to school back to the library, where we do a giveaway for school supplies, with kids activities and sleigh rolls. The girls tell us to come out the last couple of years to help participate in this event, and then lots of library activities inside and kind of get the kids used to coming to the library. So that way they have any projects throughout the school year. They need to research the comfortable coming in the library. They go with their library card so they know where to go. And our next event is Heroes and Hot Rods. So this one is with Central Florida Street Rod Association and this one is just car sheep, trucks, anything on wheels. Come down to Lions Park. Our really fun car show so whether you're bringing your car you're just coming to watch for fun. We had a C show last year as an edition and that was super fun. And then our emergency services so fire and police department come out and they should pay some of their vehicles so we appreciate their participation in that as well. And it's just a great community event. We unfortunately had to cancel fall fire fest for this last year because of one of the hurricanes. It just happened a couple days before the event everyone was cleaning up and just wasn't safe. Hold this event. My staff did put a lot of time to the planning this event so we did put it back up on the slide. And then we are looking forward to hosting this event for 2025. We're hoping to bring that back and hopefully throw up the effort came that weekend. And then another special event while this is set up by the community, the city help does help support this at Central Park is our Halloween event that happens on Halloween. So trigger treating at Central Park and I think every year grows. So it's a lot of fun. We're happy. I think fire police, parks and racks, so there were several cities where the start came out to participate in this and They've got five years five years. There you go. So yeah, we're looking towards about one again And the next we, we did not host Veterans Day this year. We all traded it with Auburnale. So in 2023 of the lack, that was a picture from Arrument. And in 2024 was a picture from Auburnale Center in Stays. So we did go out and support their event. And then in 2025, Feeble host Veterans stay. And then we had a couple of employee appreciation events throughout the year. We had Thanksgiving and Christmas that we hosted at Mekai that were a lot of fun. And then of course my favorite event is Light Up Lake Outferred. So this year we added several activities and several things to this already great event. We host letters to Santa, the Christmas parade, the tree lighting, and just festive entertainment and more activities. And we're just hoping to continue to grow this program. We had several entertainment, like local entertainment from the Lake Upper Dance Academy, OAS School Choir, which was a really fun treat. Also Mrs. Clause came to read the, to read to all the kids for the program. It was really fun. We are already playing on adding more to that this year, so stay tuned for that But that one's a that one's a really fun event Can you mention the part about the snow that we had this year? Which part of the snow that we couldn't get Snow yes, sorry, you're right. So yes Traditionally we have like um a of ice that the kids like to play on they love to play on it in fact before the kids are not used to playing with the snow and ice. Unfortunately, we were not able to acquire the ice this year or in 2024 because they are facility actually got hit by a hurricane so all of their ice melted melted. And surprise and prizes, not that many ice warehouses in Florida, so they had a really hard time finding replacements for that. So we're hopeful that when we open running for this year's event, I haven't such a trace of them yet, but we're hopeful to be back for this year. In replace with that, we did a snowball fight and said, so we did pretend snowball fight and said so we did pretend snowball fight we had some fake snow on our parade floats but we didn't have the actual ice in 2024 but we'll see we'll try to bring you back this year and then so those were kind of our events now there are that we are, we worked a lot out in 2024 that are so leading into 2025. So, they're kind of in both years, I thought I'd want to mention. So, some of you guys may or may not have come to the Master of the Open House that was Friday. We spent a lot of time planning some of that in 2024 as well. Working with the architecture firm. So that is kind of a 24, 25 project as well as the library extension plans. There's pictures up here, you'll see the Central Park playground shortly. The next two months, they'll be installing that playground. So we'll be ready to play for my summer. We're just so exciting. We can't wait to do the opening for now and let all the kids play on it with summer and then also if they're yes ongoing projects and of course we'll have some more fun additions for a light up light up light up for this year. So yeah that is Parks and Rec so we really busy this year we had a lot of fun. Added some programs, this year. We had a lot of fun. Added some programs, added some events, did a lot of park projects, and I just wanted to say thank you to Ryan, the commission and all the dissentincents for coming out to support our events and coming to the parks to enjoy, and then those that are volunteering to help keep the library and the parks and everything running. So thank you. Thank you. I'll just say this. It's amazing what you have done the last two years that you've been here and it's been a pleasure to work with you. And we're looking forward to seeing what you bring up and how you use all of the props that you're going to use, the human props. I want to see Ryan end of me. We'll take a picture. Don't worry. He'll have his own slots. I've been set up for the next presentation. Thank you So thank you. I had a question before you run off. I know we've gone around and replaced all of the programs and docs in the city. I was wondering what the status of the LeCuy doc that was removed when that's going to be reinstalled. I don't have any to hear about it. But we can look at that. The last time it was bid out, it was like two to three times more than we anticipated it be. But we can take a look at that and try to re-bid that out. I think the, I think, job was the last person to bid that out. So I can ask to see if he has any Sets on that or maybe Amber still has those similar last time it was bid out, but But we can take a look on that. Thank you Jamelian we we look to keep it busy We want to worry about that. Thank you. Thank you Thank you. And we'll get you out of the good update. My big name for Emily is the director of fun. So there's a lot of... Got the right person. Well a lot of fun projects, a lot of cool activities that the public really appreciates. I think a lot of times when you talk about utilities or other things, like I can't really picture, you know, you're dropping $30 million on a pipe that I'll never see again, and you kind of just fades into the background. But Parks and Records is one of those things where you take pride in it. I know many of the city commissioners, myself, the citizens, that's kind of the reward. You know, that's the dessert we all get get to eat. We eat all our peas and carrots on utilities and some of the others. Then you get to celebrate with high quality recreation projects and just appreciate Emily coming on. About two years now as a director and she's made it her own and I think experience from Claremont and other places she's been able to bring those ideas forward. We've got the budget and we've got the projects and really looking forward to you know presenting the feedback and the the master plan adoption there for Parks and Rec. As you may recall we did the original plan back in 2018. Updated in 19, hard to believe. That was over five years ago. I wish I could pay for projects with 2019 prices. That would be nice. But you're going to see a lot of opportunities coming forward. Every rooftop that's built in like Alfred is paying just over $4,000 in wreck impact fees that goes to fund those projects. So you do the math 100, you know, 100 houses. You're gonna have, you know, $400,000 contributed to kind of be the engine on those projects. So very exciting times in Lake Alfred in all departments, but especially in parks and recreation with some of the things that we're going to be able to do in the very near future. So I'm way appreciate the update and a good job on that. We've got one final department update and that's going to be me pinch hitting or double-hatting at SOTUS BEAT. So this is the community development director update. You're gonna clock me okay. All right where are we at? 30 past the hour? All right so just gonna kind of go through when annexations and I appreciate staff we're kind of updating the stats here. So these are stats from the last five years or so. Whoops, that's not the laser. From the last five years or so, I'll look at kinda the acreage. So you can see in 2023, we annexed 7,000 acres. That record will never be beat. And of course, that was us bringing in the Hello Chi State wildlife preserve into Lake Alfred. Last year, 2024, pretty light on annexations, only 7.78 acres. We are working this year for annexations to come forward. We've got a couple of applicants that are going to be working their way through and then also working on the annexation process there for the Experiment Station Road folks. So that will be working its way through the process. I've got CFRPC and staff kind of working on that, but we've got that in the hopper so to speak. We did two cost plan amendments for code amendments or map amendments. That's part of the again COMP plan text maps. Land use and zoning. ULDC text map amendments. We did four there in 2024. Last year we did three or 2023. We did three and then then seven map amendments and then community development districts you can see none last year although we were in conversations with one or two more that might be working their way through CDDs is your familiar with you know those come forward and create those little I call many cities or HLA on steroids. They've got different nicknames, but that allows them to do the tax-advantaged finance center bond issuance for infrastructure improvements. All right, long range planning. Again, we're continually updating these water wastewater transportation traffic calming. We did that in the last year, the last year's process. And then you will be seeking on a moving forward. We're doing a facility master plan update as well. Those updates then will trigger Rafftillis, our financial consultant to update and make sure that our impact fees are in alignment with With the projects that have been identified so even the Parks and Recreation Master Plan that master plan will identify all these projects have associated price tags we then need to contract with Rathtilis have them update our impact fee studies and And now, statutorily, we cannot increase impact fees. I think it's like every four years or five years, is it so? On impact fees, unless there's a critical need. Every four years. Every four years. So, we're probably, we're right at that threshold, but it's important to update them, even if you can't increase them, you need to make sure that you're charging the most accurate information possible because the longer that plan goes, it kind of gets stale after a while. You need to update it in a bit, in a result center reduction. So be it, you have to pass that through as a discount. If it results in an increase, Then you just might need to sit on it until statutory early you're allowed to go back and revisit that so We're always in the process of looking at those plans. I'm development review committee This has got a DRC Just on different things a special advance that would be even like wedding venues and things like that, five plants, 17 construction plans, 13 site plans and 15 pre-apps. So you can see pretty consistent with what we did in 2023, pretty much on par there, even more on the pre-apps, increase site plans, construction plans, the slight down step, but we've got the site plans then turn into construction plans. So we've got quite a few active developments that are still going through the process. Building activity, this is probably the most useful slide, so you can see permits issued. You look years ago, very low, and you can see from COVID, we've just kind of ramped up, and we've stayed up. 407-598-652, over 1,000 in 23, and then 1,426 in 2024. So that is a lot and I give credit to the staff and community development. We've got a very lean team, but they're very efficient. They're very good at what they do and they've adapted well. The Excel of program that the City Commission authorized a couple of years ago for permitting, that couldn't have come at a better time. We desperately needed that. That Excel software is the same permitting software that the county uses and that allows us to become more streamlined, more efficient, more user friendly and a lot of contractors and developers are already familiar with the county system. And so it's a very, very slight learning curve, very low learning curve for them to understand our system because it's the same system that the county uses. New homes, you can see, going back all the way to 2017, 21, 91, 46, 30, right darn coded, but then coming out of the gate, 141, 159, and then 663. Last year you saw the update from Clifton on the utility side where you saw the water meters. We kind of did loose math and estimated it in that range. And then you see kind of that comparable from the community development on the CO side right there as a 663. So that's going to appear in multiple departments and you're going to see it in multiple sections in the budget, not only on the revenue side but on the expenditure side as well. Building inspections that has also then ramped up as you can imagine as permits are issued, those have to be inspected. You know, a permit might require multiple inspections for different parts of the process. So that's why, you know, why are there five times as many inspections as there are permits? Well, you've got multiple inspections potentially on a single permit and coming back out there. In 2024 we've got some developments that have gone to private provider inspections and say that's allowed for in state law where they basically pay to have their own inspector services do it. We don't have a choice in the matter. We still get to collect a lot of the permit fee revenue, even though they do go private provider. But that is just something that they're allowed to do through state statutes. And my personal opinion you're asking the Fox to kind of guard the house there so to speak but you know again it is what it is and every year the legislature passed more and more laws to make it, you know, effectively harder to do our jobs in a lot of ways. I mean, again, the private providers, they still have to do their jobs, so to speak, but I trust our inspectors and making who knows the city inside and out better to do that job than the private providers. We are We are allowed to do audits periodically and so we do have the ability to do that and do different spot checks and things like that but that is an option that is allowed to be a state law that we just we've got to kind of roll with it. Lean searches, this is just where people kind of reach out. It's usually an activity of overall interest and property If you're getting lane searches that means folks are kind of checking in on properties So that can kind of test the temperature of you know how how One indicator of your overall market so that number's gone up and down over the years But you can see we're still you know, we still still have some decent interest on the lean search side. Herings, code enforcement herings, you can kind of see the different numbers there, different violations in the way fire inspections. Now that we've got a dedicated fire marshal, that's kind of been ramping up and you can C13 last year, 77. And so just appreciate the chief kind of working with the marshal to get that up and running. Even though it's a fire department employee has a lot of office hours here with Comdev, because building inspections and fire inspections kind of go hand in hand. So even though the marshal is a fire department employee works with Comdev quite a bit, but under the direction and the tutelage of the chief, because the chief was the fire Marshall for many, many years and has that experience and that expertise. So chief, we appreciate that. And we will keep it that go. And that That number will only continue to increase and that's a very important function of the business tax receipt side process. And with that, Timmy's made, Timmy ought our, our building inspector, he's making progressions. I should probably print it out one time, but all the things that they have to do to get all their certifications between residential, commercial, and specter, plan reviews, all of these different things. It's like a March Madness bracket with all the things they've got to do to get their different certifications. But he's making good progress on that and getting his ducks in a row, hopefully, to be eligible to be a building building a facial one day. Mickey Madison for those who don't know long to piece help us out for many years on a contractual basis but as Mickey likes to say he doesn't have many arrows left in the quiver so he's getting close to retirement and kind of winding down but doing a great job for us and other cities in a contractual basis and You know, but eventually the thought being is he'll he'll eventually kind of fully retire and hang up this verse and then a bill We have to have a bill in a facial and so Timothy or Timmy's kind of getting his is Ducks in a row so to speak on getting the different trainings and experience and the certification necessary where he could eventually qualify to be the city's building official. So we appreciate that. His efforts as well as Mickey's efforts in training and mentoring him and succession planning for the city already mentioned, excel, and then of course, the Hello Chi Wildlife Management area, that big annexation we did a couple of years ago. And that's all that I have. I'll stand for any questions. I've got one. You think we're good? 10. Oh, oh. I don't know. Thank you, that was an end. Oh, Ryan, I know this doesn't fall under community development, but I would like for you to take an opportunity to recognize what we got accomplished this afternoon late in the way of our grant in Aubrey. I want to maybe ask Ryan if he would let you come up and and take a bow and take a little credit for a lot of work you did on getting... yeah come on up here. Aubrey's introversion is the gluing herd of the sea. She knows we've been having lots of phone calls and backs and forths today making sure we got it done. We got it settled. It's all good and they're good to start tomorrow. Would you please tell these people what you have been able to accomplish for us? Um, I simply made some phone calls. We had the diner was waiting on some perfect stuff and so I worked with community development today, the building department and it just a group effort I definitely can't take all the credit. Mickey and Erica and Evan and Sean they were wonderful and they dealt with me coming to Bunbim every like 45 minutes and what we got it set and they're good to start and I know they're excited to get everything ready and this is with the capital improvement grant that we did through the C.R. they were one of the two that we announced last meeting that did get that and they were very very happy today at Diner was over at my office over there today at lunch and she she did come up and you know you know is is making you gonna be able to get the permit sign. And then it's like, came over here, and we were like, say, we were scrambling a little bit, but you guys made my day complete when I got that last rhyme that everything was done. Oh, it made my day as well. They had their, they had their paving people scheduled for tomorrow, and if they didn't have that permit sign, they had to wait till June. so she was ready to get it done. And so I want to be there Wednesday morning when she comes in and say, is this the mayor's part? and that permit signed the annualical June. So she was ready to get it done. And so I want to be there Wednesday morning when she comes in and say, is this the mayor's parking spot? Yes. And they had everything they needed. Just a miscommunication, the contractor, we couldn't see one of the, it was in a different color. So we weren't able to see it on the map, but we got it all together. and I got to call in at like 420 because we said it had to be everything I'd be ready before 30 and I gave them a call like 415 and I was like you're good everything's ready you can start tomorrow and they were very happy to hear it. So I was happy to deliver it. Well, I wanted to take the opportunity to thank you again. You've just bought a whole new level of great service to our city and you've got a good boss. Absolutely. And he's a cute brother. He's got a great team. They have permit and contractor conversations more than I do so it's given me a new wins on kind of their side of things and it's been great. They're great to work with. I definitely can take all the credit. Well, but I said in on a phone Zoom call with you and Congressman Franklin and DC and we've got a few things cooking there too and I'm excited to see what comes of that but having you on that part of our team is really a benefit to the city. Thank you so much. Happy to be here. you so much. And just as a recap on that, again, we strive for customer service across the board. So the department with Excel and other things have been able to rapidly issue permits and kind of get through the backlog. So again, when that call comes to me, and it's like, ooh, what can we do? You look at it and you're okay, they turned in their permanent application and then what's the feedback from the bill beneficial? And that's a situation where we call and we ask, I've made a comment, I've made it 15 years without ever telling a bill beneficial what to do. They're kind of a charge of the building division, even as the director. They have a lot of autonomy. And so let's, can we get Mickey to look at this and see what his comments are? And they were able to, the contractor was able to address that quickly. And we were able to provide that customer service for the customer there. So we follow the process, we follow the book, but at the same time sometimes we can hit the gas and if things, everything lines up, we were able to do that. So in that instance, I was happy that we were able to accommodate the customer and absolutely it's always a team effort with the City of Lake Alfred and that's what I like to say and we all came together and did it and we were able to deliver it. I think they were a pretty aggressive timeline. I don't think I've ever seen someone get a grant and then like a week later or two weeks later they're chomping at the bit for the permit but I knew they had travel plans and they're trying to get it done. They switch off. They go back, why have you go and have some terms? We were happy to do that Mr. Mayor. We'll take the win. Absolutely. Alright. Okay. This is another opportunity for our recognition of citizens if you'd like to come up and have anything else to speak on. He's got some opportunity now for five minutes and come up to the podium and say your name address and tell us. Tell us what you want. and our second week on 926 Inverness White. I just wanted to say thank you to Parks and Ragnall, the other departments for the summer job you all do and looking forward to the events and groundbreaking and I hope that myself and my two little boys will be invited to the ribbon cutting for the park and they'll be super stoked because we've been looking forward to it for a very long time. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I'd be remiss if I didn't say it that completes task presentations. I gotta keep my streak alive. Thank you. Sherry, factor 450, sound plan for unanim, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Park, Thank you for everything I do. I'm doing a great time in the city. Everything's going to look good. Thank you. Art USA complaint. He's really one of my water out there. That's okay. He's busy. Thank you all. I'm up there. Brian, I want to say that the guys have done a wonderful job. I'm picking up the degree at my house. There is one last final piece of your call tonight today. And so thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Gochit, to me about like that, but I love my treat. I'm really looking for you at that. Let's start. So thank you. Yes ma'am. Good morning for trying this mystery. I know I'm looking for a custom inside of the backpack part for the skis in the summer. It's been a long time coming, but we finally get in there. So I want to thank the commissioners for the great job. Y'all do it here in Lake Africa. I want to thank Amber, Audrey, Emily, John Clifton, good work to y'all do here. Emily, you are doing a great job here with Roxanne Wray? Let me ask them all to it for you, OK? All right. Now, good night. Thank you. Anybody else? OK, we'll close that up and move on to Commissioner Questions and comments. So Commissioner Maltsby leave us off. Yes. I want to thank the City of Lake Alvin Commission for the people of Lake Alvin. I'm glad you made some 20 years on this commission. I have a feeling that I have to meet a lot of times. You said thirty to Bill, after you take that deep safe, but I've been a feeling many times to me. You deserve it. I'm not going everything. Congratulations. Seven Mary. I tried to do my best 26 so I'm like the guy in the army when he gets to be a showtime or you put it now. I'm going to write a manual, but it feels like there's more days. And I've been through that too. I had a few more days left for now. And so I appreciate it very much. I was at work 26 more years. Time was catching up with them. Well you're like the inner juggler's a bunny. You just keep coming back. Okay. All right. Well I want to thank your sweet daughter for watching after you bringin' in these last few meetings and you take good care of that. Thank you. That's my 9N3O baby. My name is NN3O baby. Okay, is that in this post? I think that's good. Okay. I'm T.A. by Schmere. Hey Lee. I wanted to appreciate all of the events that the like Alfred and the community hosted for the Black History Month last month. I was out of town for a couple of them, but I'm really proud of our city for recognizing that a whole month of event and people people contribute to it. And then I wanted to congratulate Emily in the Parks and Rec Department, the Open House, the other night, was really, really great. All of the work that went into it and, you know, asking the community for their input is so important. And, you know, when we do our master plan, I know the last time we did it in the back part of the booklet, it actually printed out all of the comments that we had gotten from the public because that's one of the things you always hear people say out in the city. Well, why didn't I get to comment on that? Or why didn't they ask me what I thought about that? So I'm really glad that we were able to put that together and it had a pretty good turnout. There was quite a few people and a lot of input and I was really glad to see how that all turned out. And the plans look fantastic. I mean, if we could speed up time a little bit and have unlimited funds, you know, it could be amazing. And it will be amazing someday, but I really appreciate that quite work. And with that, I'll turn it back over to Mayor Fuller. Thank you, ma'am. And I have a couple of things up. I wanna ask Chief Boat-Nimer, I had a question this week. And those of us that are getting ready to start pounding the streets for this next election, we're meeting people and they're asking questions. So I've got one for you. On the speed, rate our cameras when, oh okay, you can come up with people like that. I hate to make you run up here. Go ahead. But he on those cameras in the actual school time the school's own time which is when the flyers are going there's a sign on there that says that the fine is double is that applying to the speed cameras or just if you get radar. That's that would be a radar citation. It doesn't it doesn't apply to the speed cameras. Okay I wasn't sure and they weren't sure I thought I will have an opportunity to catch up with you tonight, so that's just just the same fine on the speed cameras For the same thing during any of that time it was $100 Anything other than that speed zone usually would be over $400 Okay, and points absolutely. Okay. Okay, thank you, sir. All right, that takes care of the business part. Now, my thank you for, first of all, for everybody being here tonight. And Mark, do you need that 10th this weekend? Yes, please. I'll bring it to you. Okay? Yeah, we'll be there. Thank you. Yeah, I got to check my list here now. So here to today is going to be a good time. I want to let you know I will be happy to do the the bus tour. So you just let me know whoever's in charge of that if that's Emily or whoever's sending that up. I'll do the bus tour. Oh, the bus tour. You say you need two people, so. You have the first one or the second one. Both the same tour. You want us to guard here or want us to the seventh tour? I'll do the gardener. I'm not scared. You want to take a residence? It's not when they do the play. I take your role. There you go. They will be the man. OK. Don't forget this weekend we switched over to daylight savings times. So don't miss church. We've got a lot of things, have a lot of things in the last two weeks as far as our commissioners and city manager. We had a legislative delegation meeting in Bartos, 1pm to 5pm and Jack and Ryan and myself with over there I know Nancy said to she watched it on TV. But it was real interesting to see all of the Commissioners and the city managers and the people of the local governments get up there and we had Senator Albrighten from Bartow actually he's but he's the president of the Senate this year, but he was there. We had three or four of the Congress you, the state representatives there that handle our area and they addressed a lot of the questions and said that we had overall there was 51 people slated to stand up and say their piece and they had three minutes each. So if you multiply 51 times 3 minutes each and each one of them, every one of them without any, nobody missed it. They were done at three minutes and it was really nice to see people that paid attention to that clock. I already saw the well project stuff. Again, Nancy and Ryan and myself and Jack attended the fundamentals for kids over at the Lions Club. It was their 25th year anniversary. That was Thursday night last week and just a dinner just celebrating the 25 year of that particular program. It was great that Lions Club did a great job and does a great job of supporting that particular event. And it's just nice to show up and have an opportunity to share a meal and listen to their stories about how things come about and how they're funded and how things work. And it's a great organization over there. I know they're getting short on people. I think it's just one of those things where people age out over there and they're not replaceable people. So if you've got any interest in volunteering for the Lions Club, I'm sure they'd love to talk to you. So just catch up with them over there sometime. They're over there quite often. I know Friday's there quite often I know Friday's in Sunday I think it's a good time to catch them. I've got a leadership class Friday afternoon this week and in Orlando's my fifth and last class on what they give us an opportunity to do to just gain more information on you know leadership of what we do up here and I think most everybody appears attended some if not all of them and I just thankful that I have that opportunity. That's all I have but thank everybody for giving this dreaming evening and we're going to get out of here by night. So Mr. Deer. Yes I concur. I just want to thank everybody that came out for that and just it's an honor to be presented with the information that we get every weekend and week out. The city manager there is enough in all the department is to excellent job and just thankful for everybody here and we've got a great heritage they hope and weather hold out and we'll do it. And it's all on him. Thank you. Hey, and Commissioner Eden, what is that at 4 is here. Thank you. As always, I want to thank both chiefs, all the first responders out there, and we appreciate what you guys do. I want to give a special thank you to Sherry, the voice and her frustration. It's kind of a unique situation with the being in the school, being in the neighborhood. Most schools, they have one way in, one way out. But I think we can work together, they'll create a solution. I think Ryan's already on the ball. I think that's a good idea with using some of the traffic money. Appreciate all the ball. I think that's a good idea with using some of the traffic money. Appreciate all the department updates. And I just thought that somebody out there made a special thanks for all he does too. So thank you so much. Thank you for all you do over there in the corner. That's all I have to know. That's the one night wow. I'm just having fun in to have any due to due to due to due to due to due to the due to the special hardware. That's it. Everybody have a good night. I have another quick announcement. I'm not sure if everybody is aware that the first respiratory and church of Lake Alfred is closing as of March 9th. There's going to be a celebration of life for the church on Sunday, March 9th at two o'clock. It was a really sad day because it's a pretty little church and it's been there a long time. And I know my daughter got married there. So it's, it's, it's, it's soft spot in a lot of people's hearts. So we're real sad to see that go. Anyway, they're having a celebration on this Monday tonight that too. Yeah, we, we ran into John Duncan's wife on the way up here at the scene. And they were telling us that two o'clock and then John's program that he's associated with over there with the kids will continue to be held at that church though all the church is closing down. The kids will still have their program there through this time next year. So June after the end, school year of next. And then the Presbyterian Church Association that actually leases it to them will make a decision whether they want to carry it forward. Those kids, you know, they get a lot of great attention over there and I know I've gone over there and helped John with a few events where take the firecrack over and do class pictures and stuff and they lie down when they see that thing and it's just sad to see any church close down because of lack of participation but that's unfortunately they haven't had a pastor for some time and so pray for them pray for those kids that go there and we'll continue to learn there and all but anyway I will get you to happen here.