Thank you. the commission. If you would please stand for the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you for this opportunity to come before you to do the will of your people, God. We ask that you grant us wisdom, knowledge and understanding. God is and lead us as you would have us to go, God. And we will be so ever grateful and give you the glory honor and praise in Jesus Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for wishes stands one nation under God indivisible May I have a motion to adopt the agenda. I so move. Second. I have a motion by commissioner Elliott, a second by commissioner grove. Any comments? All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Agenda adopted. Before we move on into the workshop, I just want to welcome to Franklin County, Apalachicola, the newest member of the city staff, Mr. Michael Brea Hart. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our city manager, thank you, Mr. Brea Hart. At this time, I will open it up for public comment. If we have any. Thank you for joining us. And you know, feel welcome to join us. Ms. Clark. Thank you. Mayor and commissioners, I appreciate the opportunity to present this. This is the 2025 Appalachia Cola Vulnerability Assessment Update, prepared for the city. Did it through my business Bay Media Services with help from high tide intelligence. The 2024 Vulnerability Assessment Update uses hazard specific data and risk modeling to determine the short and long-term vulnerabilities resulting from combined sea level rise and storm surge to apologicalist critical assets. The updated assessment differs from the 2017 study that we did in that this one includes storm surge data and it includes all required storm scenarios outlined in chapter 380 Florida statutes and it also includes an innovative flood risk data modeling effort by high tide intelligence that provides us building level economic impact results that will help the city and residents identify potential risks. Okay. There are, when we did the 2017 and I brought it, it's right there on the desk. When we did the 2017 vulnerability analysis, the state really was in its infancy as far as resilience planning. And they got busy. Because in 2021, the chapter 380 outlines very specifically some very complicated measures that local governments now have to go through in order to identify your assets, identify your vulnerabilities, identify any data gaps that you might have in coming to these conclusions and resolving them. And it all, for the purpose of developing a statewide resilience plan. So everything's been standardized and so everybody comes to the table and is able to lay all their information together and this state is building its own resiliency plan based on everybody else's materials that come together. The steps required to update a VA are inclusive. We had to acquire data from all of our critical assets and they're separated into four classifications, infrastructure, transportation, natural culture, and historic and community emergency facilities. Beyond that, there were things that this board during our first workshop identified that they'd like to see also including zoning and airport access roads and so we have done that. You are required as you analyze what all of your assets are, what are you missing? And what we found was missing is the city did not have a geo-reference set of all of its utility maps, whether it be water, sewer or storm water. What we had were maps dating back to 2006 from Basquibal, Donovan, and we had a lot of scribble work that were done on those. And I believe that there were also some AutoCAD maps involved. So with the help of the city staff, in particular, Rep Butler has been just wonderful in terms of helping pull all this together. When Chris had a question, he'd go in the field and Rep would sit with him and they would resolve it. Long story short, the data gaps have been resolved and the GIS files are now available for the city crew. And that was a substantial part of this project. We've been doing this now for over two years and I would say that close to a year and a half has been focused on getting these maps right. And now the end result of that is that. Ret is contacting diamond maps, the people that run the field. GIS system so we can get these files into the cities and we'll have very much up to date maps. So that was a big win for the city on that. You're required to make a risk assessment of exposure, which basically means that we run the model over the all of the assets and identified the location and potential flood depths for all critical assets within a select number of storm scenarios. And those storm scenarios are 2023, basically present day, sea level rise, 2040, 2070, and 2100 for a 10 year, a 50 year, 100 year, a 500 year storm event. These are NOAA models. And after consulting with NOAA, because they have a bunch of different, they have intermediate low, intermediate medium, high, blah, blah, blah, they would decide it and they concurred with the state that we would run intermediate low and intermediate high for all these model runs. The risk assessment sensitivity model required us to identify the extent. So we know the depth of potential flood and we know the extent of how far it's going to go out for each one of the impacts of these model runs. You're required to prioritize your critical assets by immediate need and risk, and then based on where those assets are, then you're required to identify focus areas where you wanna spend your adaptation efforts. How are we going to resolve this potential impact to this asset? And that's what adaptation planning is all about, and that's the next step beyond the vulnerability assessment. Now, beyond what we've done that was state-required, this vulnerability assessment also includes a zoning parcel impact series of maps showing potential flood impact by zoning designation and the economic impacts and this was really the the software that high tide intelligence brought to the table and we can show the potential aggregate economic loss, total number of buildings impacted, tax impact percentage, and the number of potential households at risk for displacement based on all of these scenario runs. So it's quite, quite inclusive. So we've already talked about the data gaps so we can just go over that. One. After everything was collected and the models run, this is what was produced. The series of GIS based maps show the anticipated impacts of sea level rise and surge surge on the city as evidenced by the present day. 2040, 2070 and 2100 intermediate low and intermediate high. No scenarios. The scenarios were run for 10 year storms, 50 that has been entered your storms and 500 storms. The analysis details the critical facilities within the city that will be impacted. It details city owned assets and other critical assets that may be impacted by projected storm models. It updates the historic resource list that we have and it identifies the impact to the city's historic resources and those historic resources are identified as the ones listed with the state with a master site file ID number. The economic exposure quantifies the economic impact of potential flood damage to buildings and dollars. And the number of households potentially at risk of displacement due to potential flood damage. They focus area identification and prioritization. It uses the model projections to identify vulnerable focus areas, locate assets within each of those areas and to prioritize those focus areas for adaptation measures. And we will touch again on the adaptation strategies, but it's really a planning effort that's going to happen after this because it's whole, it's own little animal. Part of and we're going to risk level percentages. Part of the VA requirements include documenting risk level percentages for the city and then identify the areas and assets that fall within each category from low on up to extreme. The assessment ranking use percentages of inundation and assets affected to determine risk. You'll see in your handout, I didn't number the pages, I'm sorry, that there is a table that we picked up from the state that talks about the low or no risk is obviously no land inundation. A low is less than 25%. Medium. the low or no risk is obviously no land inundation. A low is less than 25%. Medium is 25 to 50% impact. High 50 to 75. And anything over 75% in terms of percentage of inundation is considered extreme. And we can jump over that next page also and go directly to the map. In your handout, and this is all in the report too, but I kind of created a little condensed one so you wouldn't have to go through the big report. Low, less than 25%, there are a number of model runs that are represented as low. And so the one that I chose to illustrate is just one. And the good news is there's more low impact than there are some of the others. So that's a win. A 2023 present day sea level rise, 100 year storm, which was probably was probably a hurricane Michael wasn't it? Yeah Could produce an inundation that impacts an estimated 22.7% of the city's land area and that's represented on the map in your packet During a low level risk event flooding impacts occur where you'd expect them to. On the low elevation commercial area west of the river, the low elevation residential area north of the Bay, and an L-shaped relic creek bed in the residential area in the East Central part of town. Flooding also has the potential to occur in the northern part of the city that backs up to low drainage areas. A medium, a medium storm or a medium inundation could impact up to 45% of the city's land area. And you can see that represented in this map as well. In addition to the flooding impacts that occur in the low-risk area, a medium-risk event expands the boundaries basically. High impact as represented in a 2040-int high 500-year storm could produce a flood that may inundate more than 70% of the city's land area. And it produces flooding in all but the highest areas located generally between Avenue G and Avenue M and Fifth Street through 16th Street and the area in the northwest city between Bluff Road and Timothy Simmons Street. There are other little islands of high area that you'll see as well, but we're flooded at that point. I did not bother to print out the extreme because it's the whole city. So we're toast at that point. Impacts to assets based on the model run maps and tables. The most significant assets affected are critical infrastructure, including our waste weller facilities, our storm water conveyances and drinking water facilities and conveyances. Roads low level inundation impact will potentially occur on the city's roads at the far eastern point along Water Street and Apache areas northwesterly along Water Street and Commerce Street. Medium inundation can affect additional areas of Water Street and Commerce Street as well as portions of Market Street, 4th Street, 5th Street, and the northwestern part of the city. High inundation as the the inundation increases, more roads are affected. Critical community and emergency facilities, depending on the storm scenario, many of our critical community and emergency facilities can be potentially impacted. Natural, cultural and historic assets, again, depending on the storm scenario. Many of those community buildings and our historic resources are potentially impacted as well. The next series of maps on the following pages show a low inundation. The next one is a medium inundation. And I guess I could have done individual maps, but it just made better use of the PowerPoint to put a model on one page to show you how much more of our assets get impacted as the inundations rise. focus area identification. The V the inundations rise. Focus area identification. The VA statutes require that we identify focus areas that contain critical assets important to the city and we did that back in 2017. Not surprisingly, the same areas that we considered vulnerable in 2017 are still vulnerable in 2024. Those are our low areas and our potential nuisance flooding areas. The model run data along with elevation data was used to establish the risk assessment ranking. Three of the six focus areas are at the lower elevation of town. However, each focus area ranked by vulnerability to storm surge flooding has also been prioritized by the number and importance of the publicly owned asset within each area. And that's important because even though some of the areas like here's our focus areas, focus area one. is. They not contain as many of the city's critical assets as I'm going to ask you to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the committee to ask the our resources and our assets. The focus area number one is area here. It's an area of special flood hazard and much of the riverfront is a rated velocity zone, which means it's subject to direct wave action. The area is projected to receive impact from all storm surge and tidal events due to its low elevation. Some of the critical assets that are included in focus area number one, or almost 3,000 linear feet of roads, 60 vacuum sewage lift stations, 13 stormwater outfalls, the Harbor Masterhouse, and six historic structures including the Harrison Rainy Building and the Middle Book Building. Okay. There is an insert an insert, I would direct you to the other handout that I gave you that has the. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. the focus area to. That is the area where the community center is located. It's another low elevation commercial downtown area. It's slightly higher in elevation and contains major roads, vacuum lift stations, the community center, local government facility, courthouse, and emergency health facility, and two historic and cultural assets. It's the predominant commercial hub of the downtown. Under the assets, it's got a bunch of linear feet of roads. It's got 26 vacuum lift stations. It's got two critical community and emergency facilities and historic assets. Okay. Okay. So, the focus area The area is the low elevation area along Bay Avenue. The area is entirely residential and it's subject to coastal flooding. There are several lift stations and outfalls that work to drain storm water from other basins that come to this area But it doesn't contain that many critical assets Focus area number four That is the area of the relic creek bed that's roughly between Avenue B and M and night street Market Street. This area is significant because it's subject to nuisance flooding. The area contains major roads, vacuum lift stations, and one historic and cultural asset. A special note in this one is that the vacuum lift station is the vacuum pump station located at F and ninth and it transports all of the sewer effluent to the wastewater treatment plant. And it is worthy of special consideration. And it's been parceled out in the analysis below because it is very vulnerable and very important to the city to protect and mitigate. Focus area number five is basically the rest of the city. Happily, it's the highest in elevation, but it also contains the most critical assets. It contains the hospital, contains vacuum lift stations, 402 of them. It contains a myriad of stormwater outfalls, a communication facility public housing is located within this area. Six government offices, the fire station, law enforcement, and four other healthcare facilities beside the hospital. Two schools and 40 historical and cultural assets, not all of those cultural and historic assets are publicly on their private, but because they're designated by the state as historically included them. Okay. Focus area number six is the almost thousand acre parcel west of the city that houses the wastewater treatment plant, the drinking water facility, and also the airport. The V.A. requirements ask that local governments prioritize these focus areas because those theoretically are going to serve as your project needs list when you go for funding and you go for a legislative appropriations. If you say this area has been targeted as one of our primary focus areas and this is critical infrastructure that we need to protect and here's what we need to do it with. The wheat took a shot at prioritizing these areas, but it doesn't, it isn't necessarily based on coastal proximity. We based this assessment on critical assets and the protection thereof. So you can see that in the priority ranking that we put together, priority ranking number one is actually focus area number five. Because it contains the greatest number of important assets to the city. We ranked as number two, focus area number six, because it contains the wastewater treatment facility. We are on this page. By the way, anybody needed to. These have been updated. These are updated. I've made an error in the document you ahead. Focus area five. Is six. Number three. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. And that's the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the area of the is going to be impacted, no regardless of what your focus area is. And so, even though we're required to identify and prioritize these focus areas, it may not necessarily be the ultimate consideration when managing your vulnerabilities. And I think that anything that the city does needs to keep making that point. As far as resilience funding goes. I'm sorry. You had wrong information from me before, so it was my fault. I'm looking at the I already sorry. Are you already one? We can certainly change that. The your input is required to either ratify, you know, what we've recommended or to change those. And like I said, it's such a small town. You know, you're certainly justified to change those. But at some point we do need to go on record and agree or change. You know what our focus area prioritization is. And you know that part before you move forward, is it possible to pause right now so we can further discuss this ranking prioritization or do you want to finish your presentation? Absolutely do whatever, whatever, whatever works for the commission. We can talk about that now. I think this is the most critical part of it is the study. So I think it's important that we kind of stop and and look at it. Let's talk about the ranking as you have suggested and confirm or not if that's the route that the commission would like to take. So the priority ranking number one is focus area five. Which is the largest part of the city. Which houses the majority of the assets. So commissioners would you say that that ranking should stay as is? Yes. So number two is a focus area six, which is where waste treatments facility is located. And the airport. Important for getting help in. I think it's important that just to interject it's important because we do have funding requests on the table that impact both of those that should money not be enough. It probably needs to be high enough ranked that you can justify asking for additional funding. Everyone okay with the ranking for focus area six at priority two. Yes. Priority three is focus area two as it's this is our downtown. Business the business district basically. It does. No. I had to say. That's And I don't know we're just looking at it. It is in a fairly low area and it gets affected by a lot of scenarios and I I don't know if you could do something like build a wall around it with a pump that pumps it out if it ever accumulates water or something like that. I know they do a lot of that in New Orleans with variable results, you know. But yeah. That would be an adaptation measure that we would recommend. Yeah. Yeah. And then there again it's outside of I don't have the specifics is how high is all that within the building, I just had to go with the inundation of the parcel itself. And here's the depth of the various scenarios. So you might talk to the manager of the place, and he says, oh, well, it's six feet in the air inside. Yeah, I'm sure. So everyone is okay with off at ranking number three. I'm working number four. Focus area one. We're okay there. Yes. Ranking five is area four. Yes. Or is a relic creek bed? That's our nuisance flooding. Part of town. Okay. So are we okay there? We will be okay with number six. Focus area three ranking. Focus area three. As number six, focus area three, ranking, focus area three, as number six. Yes. Very good. Thank you. Thank you, Cindy. So the next part that included in here is that documenting our vulnerabilities justify your funding requests. Everything you do, every decision you make from a plan perspective or from a zoning perspective and certainly from a report like this is used or can be or should be used when you go for funding. You know, if you can document your vulnerable critical assets, it helps justify your capital improvement funding requests whether it be through the legislature or resilience money that's available from the state. It was Mayor brought to my attention that several of the infrastructure vulnerabilities documents. from the state. It was Mayor brought to my attention that several of the infrastructure vulnerabilities documented in here are actually part of the city's critical state concern work plan. Those are a couple of them are identified on the following page with our table such as our construction of the wastewater treatment plant lift station rehab vacuum station upgrades water plant spray field repair the flow back monitor. I'm not sure where all the where the progress is on any of these and how many of them actually got funded but they're certainly consistent with what we have found as far as identifying critical assets. The next couple of sections don't connect directly to state statute requirements, but they were included in 2017, and you'll requested that we update those for 2024 and we did. You can see parcel impacts by zoning category in this report, and you can tell we didn't do percentage inundation. We just looked at what model runs impacted these areas. And the C1 commercial area is impacted by the intermediate high 2100 and title scenarios. C2, not so much. C3 is, and we looked at the 2023 C level rise, is that correct? Is that correct? C level rise, no C level rise? No, 20. Okay, no C level rise, Right. So anyway, unless you had a question on that, it's pretty self explanatory. And the map the following map, it's no C level rise 100 year inundation. Excuse me. is the map that's represented on the next page. And all of these maps plus a million more are in the full document along with the tables that support all of that. Moving on to the economic impacts. This shows the economic impact of the various storm surge scenarios to structures in the city. And it should be noted that the dollar value shown in the table are estimates and don't reflect local labor costs and should be adjusted for inflation to the cost of building materials. And it was also present day money, you know, and that was a year ago, probably that we had this. The table, table 67 is arranged by storm scenario and shows losses and dollars, number of structures potentially impacted the tax base, impact and dollars and as a percentage and the potential number of households at risk of displacement. So this was a very innovative model that high tide intelligence brought to us. And we felt like it was a lot of very useful information. As anticipated, all costs and loss increase with storm severity goes without saying. Does anybody have any questions before we kind of work into the adaptation measures? Okay. The next step after you've identified, what all your assets are, where they fall in terms of vulnerability for all of the model runs, and you've prioritized where you want to spend your adaptation efforts to either eliminate, mitigate, help protect these assets. It's called adaptation action plan. we will begin that after we are approved up at the state with this VA. Excuse me. There are four main categories of adaptation strategies that are used to adapt to storm level and sea level rise. Protection, accommodation, managed retreat, and avoidance. Protection strategies involve hard and soft, structurally defensive measures to mitigate the impact of rising waters. Two examples are shoreline hardening, armoring, and beach renourishment. Protection strategies may be targeted for areas that are location dependent and can't be significantly altered or relocated. Such as the middlebook building and the Harrison Rainey. We're not going to move them. And I'm pretty sure we're not going to elevate them. So we would do something else. We would protect them. Accommodation strategies. They don't act as a barrier, but they alter the design through measures, such as elevation or storm water improvement to allow the structure to stay intact. Rather than preventing the flooding, these strategies aim to mitigate the potential impact. Managed retreat involves strategies that involve the actual removal of existing development, their possible relocation to other areas and or the prevention of future development in high risk areas. Retreat strategies usually involve the acquisition of vulnerable land for public ownership but could include other strategies such as TDRs transfer of development rights, purchase of development rights and or conservation and evidences. Avoidance ensures that development doesn't happen there in the first place. It may involve identifying future limited development areas within local government documents, which could include the designation or zoning of lands for limited development or non-habitable uses. An avoidance strategy could like managed retreat include land acquisition or restriction tools or the transfer of development potentials with low or no risk to sea level rise. There is the cities has adaptation recommendations outlined in the 2017 plan. Until we actually get into specifics of adaptation planning, we did not have any other recommendations for that other than what was already recommended. Thank you Cindy. Thank you Chris for your work that you've done. We greatly appreciate it. Commissioner Elliott, do you have any questions regarding the VA? I do not have any questions at this time. I will say that the work that you all did on getting the service lines for everything put together and put to paper is a monumental task. That is something that we have never had before and being able to rely on that as we move forward with building the new wastewater treatment plant as we bring in new staff and beef up our water and sewer departments that's going to help a lot and getting new people in there and getting them very well trained. My only question does not pertain to the assessment directly but the adaptation strategies as we're expected to conduct an adaptation action plan. What would you say is a timeline for that? I know that project would probably take a while, but we're currently on the clock with the adaptation grant. And so I would expect that we would start on that within the month. Okay. Yeah. And I think the grant runs out next June. Excellent. I thought that came to mind in particular about avoidant strategies, managed retreat, relocation and infrastructure protection, identifying those parcels that, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, the streets, areas that are nuisance because I think something we're going to have to reckon with in the future is we have a finite amount of parcels that can be developed. The ones that can't be developed someone eventually is going to have enough money to build it up as high as they can or do whatever is necessary to to get a jump on that and get those hardest to manage areas and bring them into the city's fold. That will take things off the tax roll, which is something to consider if we add the lower tax on the budget. But I think that is something we can figure out at that time. No further questions. Thank you. Commissioner Duncan? I don't have any questions, but thank you. The report was incredible. Thank you. Growth? Thank you. Just a couple things to point out. The Cindy and I came to you years ago to try and get first of the 2017 vulnerability report done. So that's been done when we updated it. And we came to you to get funding for the adaptation plan. So it's with Bree and Cindy and Chris, I think we've worked it's fast as we can to get these documents done because it puts us in line for funding. There was $600 million the first year for the resilient Florida. It got sucked down South Florida faster and you could even put in a bit. Yeah, so Miami raises roads. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and they they enormous plants. I brought Cindy a magazine that floored a trend copy that was in our boxes and the centerfold as a whole section on resilience and what South Florida and other communities have done. St. Augustine and Pensacola. We've done a lot too. That's why I shared it with Cindy. We've gotten rewards. We've gotten all sorts of projects and funded and done, so I'm glad to see this. It will allow us to get more funding to address these issues. In terms of a list of vulnerable properties, we already have that commissioner Elliott that's something we worked on developing and it's in our list of mitigation projects. The only problem is FEMA does not fund the purchase of vacant property and the sources for funding are H&GP money. So, right now, they want to find somebody's house that's been floored over and over and over again and then you buy it, tear the house down and make it a park. They don't want to fund a piece of blank or empty property so that's the problem. But we can require them to be higher. You can't fill in this town because you're going to flood out next door. So that's a problem. But I think that this really gives us a leg up with other cities. I think we're ahead of the curve and I'm thinking for your dedicated efforts and brings efforts to get this funded and finished. I did notice this is just a little thing and you can change it or not change it depending on how many you have printed out. It's not worth printing out new copies, but the old elementary school behind the library is the cardiologist left there. And now it's a preschool. And it still is a critical cardiologist. Right. Long we've been working on it. I know. So don't feel like you have to change it. I mean, it's still both a a critical asset and so that was yeah thank you very much and I'm really glad to see you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate your support. Commissioner George. I don't have any questions but thank you Cindy and Chris for your work and for explaining it to us on a way we can understand. Cindy what is our next step. What is the next step for the City Commission? The next step. We are still dancing a little bit with DEP on a couple of issues on the sensitivity. So we will be submitting those changes back to them. It's not anything that affects this. It's just how they wanted a map to look and how they wanted a table to look. So we're doing that. If this, the exposure analysis has been approved, the sensitivity analysis we anticipate will be approved within the month. We have documented our workshop and the submittal of the final revised document probably is going to happen, has to happen by the end of May. So we'll be done and we will start on adaptation. And approval of the ranking from so at the next meeting, at the May meeting, we will need to approve that. Yes. Okay. All right. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Have any questions for Cindy? Sorry, make sure your microphone is. The fact that the city has its phenomenal most communities don't. We have worked with some stores that have gone through six. Everything from the tropical store in the field, which took two years to clean up, to lasers in the neighborhood. The convenience system will break itself and naturally as the level levels go down. But at the same time, six of a plant goes down. It's going to take some time in the community. So I'm just waiting to throw that out. So whether you go five or six or both extreme high priorities. And I think the only reason that six didn't rise to the top is that we have money. We're working towards the relocation of those facilities right now. But yeah. And the plant will be raised up so making it less vulnerable, but yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you commissioners. We appreciate it. So if there are no additional questions or comments for Cindy, we will may I have a motion to adjourn? I said move. I have a motion by commission. Elliot may I have a second? Second by commission and grove. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Meeting adjourned. We will convene, reconvene and ten minutes. Thank you.