Tarpon Springs City Hall Board of Commissioners 2017, 6 Jun 2017

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I'm calling to order the regular station meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the city of Tartu spring, so Tuesday, June, 6, 2017 or 6:30 p.m. roll call. Please Merrill.

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Mayor Panthers, absent and excused commissioner Seaver here, commissioner tiptoe here, Commissioner Khare here.

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Getting everyone and welcome to our Commission meeting tonight's invocation will be given by revving horn from the church and the by you, following by the presentation of the flag by the police department, honor guard. And if you please stand and remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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If I had come two weeks ago, we might have prayed for rain, but we don't need to do that now. Let us pray God of all creation. I, give you, thanks for these servants of our community guide them in using all the resources available to them wisely and well help this Commission to represent all members of our community fairly and to make decisions that promote the common good bless these your servants in this meeting and in all they do to serve this community amen.

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Like to thank our honor guard for presenting the flag and the colors today, the matey's ceremony some info, thank you so part of we are now going to the public comments of the items that will not be discussed tonight. If you have any comments, please come forward to the podium we're here. Now we go to Proclamation item number one: the hurricane awareness month.

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Seat of Tarpon Springs Florida Proclamation, whereas in August September, 2004, Hurricane, Charlie, Francis, Jean and Ivan May length will Glen fall along the Florida coast. All within forty four time span causing tremendous damage and whereas even though that it has been nearly 95 years since the last major hurricane made landfall in Pinellas County and despite decrease tropical storm impacts for over the past decade, on Ellis County remains extremely vulnerable.

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The storms, high winds and flooding associated with tropical storms and hurricanes, and whereas Pinellas County and the entire Tampa Bay region faces challenges of hurricane evacuation responses of recovery in the cost metropolitan region and what else residents of TARP or spring should be informed and empowered to take steps to keep their families. Businesses, communities safe, the more resilient and whereas the killed is a success, is any hurry of any hurricane evacuation plan is being formed.

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The citizens and now, therefore, a chrysalis losses by work of the authority vested in me as the mayor of the seat of Tarpon Springs Florida, do hereby proclaim June 2017 as a hurricane and wireless month.

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The next presentation, okay,.

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The iron number two on the agenda is a presentation. Hurricane season, 2017 will be given by the fire department.

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Good evening mayor commissioners, hello, folks, welcome to hurricane season. 2017 I am Rick butcher Archie. Also the director of Emergency Management for the city of tarpon reason that we're wearing shirts this year are that are not the fire department. Uniform shirt is because we're trying to change the culture just a little bit from hurricanes and paradis being a first responder item, it's no longer just the police and fire issue where we go out and we ask people to evacuate and prepare yourself and all that hurricane preparedness involves all of us. It's an emergency management issue.

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So therefore we represent emergency management, not just the fire department. We were actually able to participate in a countywide training earlier this month or last month for the integrated emergency management system with the Pinellas County. This training was a four day training session chief Jung and lieutenant Drake were involved in it from the very beginning, so they're going to come up and they're going to talk more about hurricane season specific to this year, but I just want. Everybody know that we're broadening emergency management beyond police and fire. It's not just the first responder issue.

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The training we did involved all the department heads our policy makers. This is it's it's bigger than just people in uniforms hope, so you need to really pay attention as we go through things and keep an eye on all the different outlets, all the media outlets and like that they are very good at what they do now. Having said that, deputy chief Scott young, we kind of taking the reins and leading us through the presentation and he'll be assisted by the management coordinator, who is lieutenant Josh straight chief young.

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Good evening, everybody, so it's that time season again a little PowerPoint presentation together here for everybody to kind of follow through, and we came close this last year. As the mayor said, the proclamation has been about a hundred years since landfall in Pinellas County last year, September first became close by 100 miles offshore. We had a hurricane Hermine, so that's the first one in Florida. Actually, since 2005 that made landfall the storm visited the damage to our our area, some street flooding stuff a couple homes were damaged, but we were lucky.

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We could have been a lot worse as if they made a little bit of a right jogs, we would have had a lot more flooding. So are you ready all right? Here's your home, ready things to look at! Is your roof need to repair this time of year to start looking at that, if you're thinking about it, it's a good time to get it before the storm happens, because it will definitely tear apart in a good storm in the news.

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New roofs always have the new codes a little bit stronger and should have last a storm of category three or at least shuttering windows is always a great thing. Windows are very susceptible to flying. Debris glass can be broken. Once your glass breaks in your house, water intrusion into the home and start getting the damage started. The duct tape, ideas that we used to see people taking the windows. I really doesn't do a whole lot may look like you've done a lot, but the glass is still going to break.

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It might keep some of the big pieces together, but it's still going to break so it's not going to protect the home weather stripping around your house doors. Any windows stuff like that check that see if it's needs to be replaced or repaired during a storm of a significant wind. The rain doesn't just fall straight down. It's going to fly left to right, doing the horizontal, so I won't get into the house so make sure your caulk is good and your weather stripping isn't up to par your garage door.

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Garage doors old are not when resistant to no any significance. They will collapse on a heavy storm blow in once you start getting your into the house, you pressurize your house and that's when you see these roofs start to come off so make sure your garage doors are up to par and if they need to be replaced, look for something as reinforced and when rated and then sandbags the city does do sandbags.

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Every time we have a storm and a couple different locations, the jury's still out on sandbags, whether they do a whole lot or not. But if you feel it something you want to do then, when by all means I will provide them or have the sand available for you to get bag it up.

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Okay, then we move to your yard. The yard is very important. This is where, if your trees are need to be cleaned out, when I mean cleaned out clean them out, so your list less wind that can push the tree over if they're they're less branches. Of that, don't need to be there. You get taken care of, but then the main thing is don't leave all the tree limbs and stuff laying around the ground. All you're doing is now having more projectiles in the air flying through those windows.

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We just talked about gutters and downspouts I know in my house. I used to have a problem not getting up there enough to clean those things out and they're always not fun to clean up, but it's important. You keep your gutters and stuff clean, so the water flows the correct way off the roof and it doesn't cause any other problems.

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Ok, yard furniture, toys, all that stuff we all have in our yards, make sure you bring all that stuff in when the hurricane warning is issued, that's the time to really get out and start walking the perimeter of your house and get that stuff in barbecue grills that we usually have outside get them inside the garage. If you can, we don't want anything like that. Flying around y'all probably seen the pictures of the 2x4 flying through the air palm tree.

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That does happen, and it shows you that the extent of how strong these winds can be don't drain your pool. We don't want you to drain your pool. We want you to chlorinate. It really super high turn off the water pump to the pool okay at the electrical panel and all the accessories to the pool that way the everything stays intact there and then some people I've actually seen, though there are pool furniture out by their pool into the water.

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So they don't have to try to drag it into the garage if it just stays in the water. It's not going to fly around all right the vehicle, one of the most important things you might be getting in your vehicle and having to leave the area if the storm is really coming. So there's some things up there that we recommend that you have in your car, some non-perishable food bottled water.

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If you're on the road- and you get some traffic and you get stuck out there, we want to make sure you have some stuff to us to get through the traffic jams. Jumper cables batteries die. You want to have that flashlight, of course, some type of a power inverter and charge the cell phone to charge cell phones and other devices. You want to make sure you have all those cables with you.

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So a map for the shelters- you might want to keep that in your car, like so you know where you're going if you get lost or where you might find another one in the county businesses you need to go box. We want to make sure that you have all your important phone numbers with you as a business. All your important documents, any contracts that you may have you want to bring those with you and backup, those cell phones or iPads or whatever you have that way.

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If you need information, you're going to have it with you on the road, you have electronic devices in your business, you might want to bring those with you if you have a laptop, because all that information you might not have when you get back if the storm is big enough and destroys buildings, Nell's county's first call. This is similar to the reverse 9-1-1 system.

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It sends emergency alerts out to your cell phone. If that's, what you want to use, each member of the household can register their own phone. This is an automated system. It's completely confidential. You don't know the numbers not given to anybody else. It can be used on land, ma, landlines, landlines and text messages.

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It just lurks you what's going on in the county, what the County Emergency Management is telling us you're getting the same information so what storms are happening and what what the county's plans on doing the next phase? This is how you register for that. Just the website you can go to and register for. The first call on like again all the content information is confidential, so know your evacuation zone. I will tell you that this year the did change. The new surge models which I'll talk about in a minute have changed.

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So flooding is expected differently, so some of the maps have changed. You can get these maps in the lobby of the city, hall, library, a Public, Safety Building, and if we don't see them there, they run out just get a hold of us at the fire department. We have a lot of plenty there. You also your evacuation zone is also on your trim. Notice too.

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Nobody would realize that, but if you have to trim notice and pull it out and tell you what zone you're in there's an interactive map that you can go to on this website here through the county you put in your address and it will exactly show you where you're at and what zone you are in today. So.

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Something that the mayor and chief butcher have worked on for years and now is something that we're doing go through. The county is pet shelter. Pet shelter is down and Dunedin Florida right now, but all pets must be pre registered. They don't want us bringing pets there. They want to kind of have a count of Na the pets.

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I would assume, though, if something happened and you didn't get your pet registered and you showed up I, don't think they're going to turn them away, but I do believe you have to provide your own food and stuff for the pet and make sure you bring that with you and here's the shelter, shelter situation. We have tarpon springs middle school out here as one of our shelters and then maybe a closest pet shelter is also a shelter down in Dunedin at Dunedin, middle school, so preventative measures for utilities.

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If the storm is coming, and we start going to a mandatory evacuation, we will be starting to shut down the water system in the city, especially on the west side of the city, just to prevent any infrastructure damage during the storm after the storm has passed. This water air system will be turned on in different stages to make sure that there's no damage. This is for health reasons and just to protect our infrastructure of the city.

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Ok, the projections are out for this year right now we're expecting an above-normal hurricane season. The reason that is is the forecasters are saying that the Atlantic waters are a lot warmer than normal and just the El Nino that we've been benefiting from for many years now is very weak this year. So we don't have those steering currents to push them off back out in the Atlantic plus the warm water so they're expecting it above normal.

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We all know that these are projected numbers and, as the season goes, you'll see them modify their predictions, so that may change a little bit up or down, and you don't know how the seasons going.

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Here's the name of the storms for 2017 I, don't know if your name is up there, but, as you can see, we've already had one storm this year, Dec in January, unprecedented for us to have a storm, but our lien was a storm in January, didn't amount to much, but that's going to usually have a storm in January, but we did so.

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So, what's new this year for the first time, the hurricane center will now be issuing storm surge, watches and warnings when I, say surge. That means water, ok, they've, never done this before they've been piloting this program for many years, and this is the first year they're going to roll this out. They talked about it. The hurricane governor's hurricane conference last month, so on top of your hurricane watches and warnings, you'll, see you'll pie, see something by on the news that says surge.

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You know kind of tell you where the where they predict the biggest surge of water, going to it's going to happen. That, of course that changes just like the hurricane watches and everything change, but this storm water surge is the biggest threat to life and property. Water does more damage than it does the wind itself does. So that's why we talked about protecting your home from loony type of water, so storm surge. This is the new numbers and on the left-hand column you see ABCD and E. Those are the evacuation zones.

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The aides own they hit predict if it's an a vacua ssin. You can expect up to 4 to 8 feet of water if it's just an a all the way up to e. If we went to an evacuation, that means all those zones are evacuated. We can look at 30 feet of water in town, so that's those models. Numbers have changed so watch those storm surge, watches and warnings they're kind of important now so social media is important. Nowadays everybody has facebook or some Twitter account.

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We have Pinellas County emergency medicine has a Twitter account Facebook in Pinellas County Bright, House, Channel 6:15, the city has a Facebook page, and a police department has a Facebook page. The fire department has a Facebook page and we will be posting information on there as we get it. A lot of the information we'll be getting and posting on. There also come from that. First call from Pinellas that you can put on your phone, so something I just wanted to point out real to real quick.

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Now it just came out there's an app out there that is free from Pinellas County called ready Pinellas. It's free on most phones, I, don't think this county is charging anything before it's you. What this thing does is it's interactive map like right now, a mine I. Have it up, and it says I'm in a zone see evacuations wherever you're at during the anywhere in the county. I'll tell you what evacuation zone you're actually in at that point it had links for interactive maps, etc.

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So it's free just go to the phone and download the app that's pretty much it for our little presentation and again, don't have the hurricane amnesia. We put this light up there every year because we haven't had a storm and people just kind of think. It's not going to happen, but it's always the question is when's it going to happen. You know we've been lucky and hopefully we continue that trend. So thank you very much. Thank.

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You give young thank you for the presentation too tall ways. Informative appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Are they need Commission comment question sure thanks.

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For the presentation and everything you guys do on a day-to-day basis for the city talking Springs, there's a touch space in the sandbags I know. We talked before I use a combination of a black garbage bag, that's like a yard bag to put against my doors and then put the sandbags against that that prevented water from getting in my house during Hurricane Hermine, so it the sandbag, don't always prevent water from coming in because it's it seeps through the sand and could get your house.

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So if you are using sandbags, make sure you use some type of plastic bag also on the backside to prevent the water from coming through the bags in your house, the.

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Sandbags, if you just put sandbags by themselves and stack them up, all they prevent is a crashing wave. Water rising goes right through them, so they have some sort of a plastic backside on them, forms like a swimming pool and that's exactly the way to do it. You want to make sure you have some plastic or some kind of a barrier to stop the water, because just piling up sandbags in front of your building is just intended to stop the crashing waves or awake. That's all they do they. They don't really stop anything else.

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You know this is a really a good question that was asked.

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The sandbags really doesn't work when I was the manager for the central offices in Verizon what I've done there was because we had specially in Hudson the elevation solo and the switching was getting wet every time, so we'd up building a a door, a metal door that was going into a track and sealed, and it was blocking the water for coming in and the the height of the door was like three feet, but probably it's something that we need to design and recommend it to a business, especially down at the dock. Well,.

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There's a lot of one of the building codes. We don't have anybody for the building here, I'm sure Tom probably is aware, but there are some provisions in the building code. When you have a building is below the floodplain level. You have to have these certain constructive barriers, similar to what you're describing so there is that in the code, but it doesn't pertain to the single-family residences and some of the smaller buildings locally. But yes, that's a great idea and I know a lot of it has to do with with educating the public.

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That's everybody wants their sandbags and and I understand. Why? Because they feel like they need to do something, but sandbags alone really won't cut it, except for the crashing waves, Yass.

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Impacts is like a tape on a windows yeah. Thank you any other comments. Yeah. Are they any public comments of this item here? No. Thank you. Thank you very much.

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We are not going to item number three, which is Florida Sun co-op program by mr. Salman and.

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Just introduce this later on in your consent, items um well item for you to vote on two for a partnership with them. I want to thank Dori Larson for getting me in touch with Dave and coming here and give this presentation. um It is an offer for partnership, we're not asking for money from us or asking for manpower. It's a partnership to try to get our citizens. Some good deals on solar and increase what the city is trying to do to get the word out. So this is a great program.

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I've seen it at conferences before, in other places, st. I saw the one in Orlando's, where I saw the presentation of them. So this is around the state and they'll. Give you what it is, and hopefully, in the consent item will agree to be a partner in this North County co-op that they're forming great thank.

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You Commissioner saying thank you. Mister occurs for that nice introduction. Thank you Dori for helping out as well today, while I explain the nuts and bolts of the FL Sun solar, coops and I'm, going to speak a little quickly. I think I brought a few too many slides here when I'm going to speak quickly, but the the idea is pretty straightforward, so we should be okay.

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The FL Sun coops are a partnership actually of two nonprofits. It is the League of Women Voters and another nonprofit called community power networks in Washington DC. They are dedicated to promoting solar around the country in a variety of ways. They give communities tools with which to start various programs great and what they have been doing. They've been operating in four states, um they're located in Washington DC they've, been operating in Virginia, West, Virginia Ohio in Maryland for several years I believe they started 80 coops in those states.

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In his last few years, the program came to Florida just about one year ago it actually didn't come if there was a Floridian who learned about that program and brought it here in Orange, County and the first year. There's now nine coops up and running around the state and at least that many in some level of formation right now, there's one coming in north Pinellas later this year, which is what I'm here to talk about and as a quick background for a little context. It's important to understand the huge potential that solar provides us.

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It was something even Thomas Edison in 1931 when he was talking to his buddies, Henry, Ford and Harvey Firestone. He he famously said I'd put my money on solar and I hope. We don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. One reason you can keep that up for just a second or um certainly I'm sure. One reason he was excited about it was the abundance of it that graphic on the right, it's a little crowded, but the main takeaway from that the large yellow circle.

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There is how much solar power the earth receives every year and the small circle on the left is total global energy usage per year. So we really just need to harness a sliver of solar energy to power the whole the whole planets needs I. Think in every 14 and 1/2 seconds, the Sun provides as much energy to earth as we use in a single day.

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So it's quite abundant and another pression thing that he mentioned was that you know certainly some day or on coal and gas will run out so we're going to make this transition someday. Inevitably, anyway,.

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What's wrong with this picture is that that is an aerial view of could be anywhere Florida and it is a bunch of naked rubes without solar on it. We we, unfortunately in Florida, we truly are the Sunshine State. We have the best solar resource on the East Coast, but we are lagging in solar deployment, and the important thing to note about this is if the solar industry is growing hand over fist.

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In the last six years, the cost of solar has dropped by 80% and as it's come down, the amount of deployment across the country in the world has gone up at an equally steep rate, and there are so many states in the U that are leaving us in the dust states with far less Sun New York New, Jersey, Massachusetts Connecticut are way ahead of us states of Arizona is our big leaders, North Carolina states that are traditionally conservative politically, but they have separated as they shared any politics from clean energy and economics.

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Just are driving this. It's really a question of making economic sense and we hope to change that. So part of our mission is to help bring Florida to some to a more leadership position.

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Here's a few statistics about where we're at today we have the third best resource in the country in terms of amount of sunshine, but we're currently ranked 12th arm solar jobs. We have 8,000 a 260 in the state right now there are 260,000 people working in solar in the United States right now, that's far more than oil and coal and natural gas combined and jobs being created in solar at twelve times the rate of the rest of the economy. The industry is going hand over fist and jobs they're going hand over fist.

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Some of the key stood I won't go over all of these on the total investment in the state is quote getting close to two billion dollars, and these investments derive to remain this return. So there's a great ripple effect from that and you can see the price decline 64% over the last five years, which is really driving driving this whole revolution, which is well underway.

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um This is just a quick snapshot that Florida does spend more on electricity than most homes in the US and, as you see from the next slide, the cost of solar PV right now, if you get a solar system on your home through the co-op's, the point of the co-op's is to help get volume discounts for customers I'll get into that a little bit more in a second but dr.

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James Fenton, who runs the Florida Solar Energy Center at UCF, has modeled this out and determined that rooftop solar costs about four cents per kilowatt hour, as opposed to twelve cents for pie out of the wall. Right now, and in addition to that, um the return on investment is 14% varies a little bit depending on your location, but it's double-digit returns with no risk, essentially.

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This is it's quick slide. I'm not gonna, spend a lot of time here, but this is points out a lot of benefits that Solar provide solar customers provide to all electricity customers, solar, contrary to some some some false statements that have gotten out in the press and such really benefits everybody. It reduces, wear and tear on the grid. It reduces fuel costs, it reduces picker power they and believe for extra generation at peak times of the day, um and it it just has a lot of key benefits.

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The Brookings Institution has done a study on this. The Department of Energy is going to study in this. Numerous states have done their own studies on this, and solar is actually a benefit to the grid as a whole and non-solar customers.

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So uh currently, with the one of the biggest barriers is knowledge and price in folks, you know deciding whether to get a solar system on their house, and that is where FL Sun comes in.

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Basically, what we do is Greg doing the FL Sun program and the coop itself at its core simply is a group discount program. We collect groups of homeowners. Thinking about going solar and we put out an RFP and solicit competitive bids from long local, installers and solicit group discounts you a second. um It is free market approach.

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We have competition in the market and the FL Sun side of the equation brings the solar expertise which helps guide people through the purchase process, which is important because a lot of people buying solar today would be buying their first there for systems, and it's there's a learning curve and we help in that process as well.

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um So once we get the bids, the FL zone program helps assess the installers and the bids themselves, and then the group collectively makes a decision on an installer. At that point, the installers will reach out to each co-op member individually to give them a personalized proposal for their house and there's no obligation for co-op members to buy, for whatever reason they don't want to go ahead and buy such and that's going to be fine.

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Some of the advantages of having systems they start paying back on day. One and several states have also shown that solar does add value to your property as well. It really. It's been calculated, it adds three dollars per watt to the value of your home. A typical home I have a system on my home, it's a five kilowatt system and at that that number it would add about fifteen thousand dollars to the value of my house.

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It's cut my power bills by forty five percent and it's a great investment, so the summer coops are the way we spread. The word is through community partnerships, um which is why I'm here to talk to you tonight and ask for your partnership as well. Community partners can be a variety of groups from municipalities to community organizations, foundations, environmental groups, churches, anything. We look for organizations that have a trusted name and hopefully a big enough footprint.

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Where um you know you can help us spread the word through mention on the website or an email blast or a newsletter, maybe letting us table at events. That sort of thing that's how we spread the word about the program and there's a few of our partners and a few of our municipal partners around the state. um Broward County Sarasota Orlando, Orange County, st. Pete, was actually the very first solar cop in the state was in st. Pete and Mayor Christman down.

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There was a huge job order of our program where you get to logo, but he he was a great help in getting this whole thing started. We also do have the city of oldsmar on board for our North Pinellas co-op and we're in talks with some some of the other cities in North canoas.

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One aspect of our program is that we put on public solar information meetings um to just kind of raise public awareness and where we just give a primer on solar and talk about the basics of how systems work and, of course, the all-important. What's the return on investment and the important thing on this slide, it's a little crowded, but the bottom line.

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There again is the rate of return on this investment, which is you know, double-digit returns on investment and a payoff generally of about eight and a half years to pay off a system that is warranteed for 25 years and should last 30.

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So these so information meetings provide as I say. A basic knowledge explains their the benefits of the coop, which is getting group discounts, and we also offer a few on financing options and the results so far have been. Our average discounts from these group purchases have been 20% discounts again. The return on investment, 14 percent, increased property values. um We also really do want to support our local solar industry.

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um That's an important aspect of what we do, as well as the public health benefits and energy security, and that is the nuts and bolts of the program.

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Thank you thank.

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Silver, thank you for the presentation taking we'll take the time to shares with us. Your thoughts about solar energy I can tell you that, in a big supporter of solar energy have been did a project seven years ago and still there and is working very well I.

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Very glad that we're going to be part of this effort as you and I, we talked that you know the energy has many advantages. The only disadvantage that we had up to this point, it was the other cost, was holding the back now with a 20% discount I. Think it's going to be very easy for people to be able to get solar equipment and installation.

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Absolutely thank you. Thank.

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You any Commission comments, we shake it. Thank.

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You thank you for this presentation. Actually, I am currently looking at putting solar in my home. There's a group going around door-to-door in Oakley village and such a busy dieter. You.

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Think yeah that's evident.

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It was interesting because they they pull up our home on whatever glass.

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That was really show.

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Us how much Sun we're getting and everything so it's not everybody qualifies for it. It all depends on how much Sun you know in order for to be cost-effective for you I guess, so they really hit our neighborhood hard and that's how I see a lot of people going into using their product. So are they part of your co-op or.

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They will probably be one of the installers who submits a bid. I would imagine if.

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I had talked to them about coming to the city and whatever, but anyway this is a great program. You know I always say that we live in the Sunshine State and why are we not taking advantage of it? You know it's so important and, and they did and I did not understand how all that works. They explained everything and it's amazing. You know you could start selling back your energy back to power. Companies are absolutely.

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Know it's just I wish look I wish more people were educated about this and and I learned so much and like I, said I'm very interested in putting solar in my home I. Think.

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If you could wait till the end of the year, join the cooperating oh.

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Yeah I'm glad I didn't do tonight because, because the gentleman you know he texts, these is, can I come back. They want to remesh and I, never called him back. I'm glad I didn't this. Is this a great opportunity for community and I really look forward to working with you on this? This is this is awesome. Thank.

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You so much you hit the main points right had we really do hope in addition to getting people discounts to guide people through the process, give them some peace of mind going through the process. Vivian is a good company. You have meet a good company. There are other people out there, selling solar, who might not be so good and there's a few horror stories about some fly-by-night companies and we we help alleviate that thoroughly, assess the companies and their bids, and- and this is why we partner with entities with good names.

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So when somebody comes to our website to check us out and decide whether to sign up, they can see the logos of the city's churches, foundations and and and feel comfortable that that were who we say we are and- and we can offer some guidance through the process and help up the learning curve. Yeah.

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Well, thank you and I look forward to working with you. Thank you.

H

Mission stable, yes,.

D

I also want to thank you for the presentation, some impressive, slides here with how much solar energy we have and how do we use all so why are we ranked number twelve or is it because of economics or to.

E

Be honest with you: it's all policy solar technology is fantastic and getting better every year. The economics are incredible and getting better every year. The only thing that separates the states is state policy, but now the cost of solar is so affordable. It's it's going to happen anyway. It makes economic sense with or without friendly state policies. So we are at an inflection point and you know you don't read about about it in the papers, all that, often how quickly this industry is growing, but you sure you read about it in the trade papers seasons.

E

This industry is on fire in five years from now, solar is going to be ubiquitous, it's going to be everywhere and we need to be in a leadership position because again well, I showed the one statistic: I think we have. Eighty two hundred people working in solar in Florida California leads the country they proactively decided to. You know forward the transition to clean energy several years ago. They have a hundred thousand people working in solar energy. That should be us. We should be leading a country we should be leading the world.

D

I agree: we should be leaders I'm curious about the municipalities that are partners all as Mars closest to us how largest participation how's that going. Can you give us any kind of sure.

E

It's a little early in the game. Right now we haven't started. We won't start marketing the program we're going to launch in September, so we won't really start promoting the program until our website is up until we're live. So the at this point we're talking to potential partners, that's going really well, it's we've got enthusiastic response from pretty much everybody. We've talked to and and then as I say, the partnership really entails.

E

What we would ask of the city or any partner is, as I say, a little bit of mention, maybe on our web site, an email blast, a newsletter or maybe borrowing a venue to have one of our solar information meetings. Maybe having a city official speak at our press conference, we'll kick it off with press conference and that's that's the gist of it. I think. Hopefully it's a pretty small ask, and it's really just an endorsement in spirit.

D

But I'm definitely very.

N

D

N

Asked not the number of people that would be involved like residents ooh, yes,.

E

Oh I'm, sorry how many people are potentially yeah I'll tell you it's interesting we're getting too many people they're trying to limit it a little bit. The arm, coops have been ramping up. The first co-op in Saint, Pete I think got 250 members.

E

These last several are getting closer to 500 families signing up and it's getting a little unruly for the installers, we're going to try and we're going to have our co-op oven for three months and hopefully have it a little lower than 500 just to be a little bit more manageable for the installers themselves. That's.

D

Exciting I definitely think that we should have a solar information meeting and inform our citizens of this opportunity and I'm happy for you guys being here and for us partnering with you. Thank you thank.

E

H

K

For the presentation believe is a unique opportunity for the residents to save a significant amount of money and harvest this energy, that's natural to our state. That's not a couple questions is this involved battery storage at all and your coop has that been discussed or look into it all I. Don't.

E

K

With the solar, it's.

E

Completely individual, so if you would sign it for the coop once we as a group pick an installer, the Installer would give you an individual proposal, and that would be an option for you um at this point. One things Florida does have going for it right now is a very good net metering program.

E

Net metering is simply the the regulations that says that the power company has to buy back your excess and they pay the same retail rate that you pay, so you get full rate for it and you can almost think of it. Battery storage is still just a little bit expensive right now. It's it's following the same cost curve as solar is, but it's a few years behind, but you can almost think of net metering is interchangeable.

E

It's what you do with your excess power right now being able to sell it back to the power company at full rate, is just as good as any other option. So a lot of people over sized their systems on their home and sell back a lot and essentially have little to no electric bill of.

K

What thanks what's the timeline once an RFP goes out for a citizen to have it install the roof, see.

E

Arm this is this is generally a three to four month project from start to finish so.

K

Rfp going out and then actually insulation on the roof, yeah.

E

Fps go out, I would say it's probably another. Four to six weeks before we choose the installer from that and and then it's you know a couple of months for the installers to to get around to each person and install all the systems. I'd say about half the people who sign up for the co-ops actually go ahead and purchase the system.

E

But, interestingly, we found in some of these earlier coops that folks, who didn't necessarily either get into the coop or decide to buy through the coop, came back a few months later and and got systems on their own. It raised public awareness and it spurred the industry generally in the areas where there argue up and running and.

K

Can you just give me one more clarity? What happens if I have five years up in my roof, I think they put a new roof on and I have solar panels in my house. What happened to that situation? Well,.

E

I, that would really be a question for the Installer I didn't wanna I, don't wanna, I I would assume they would probably want to do it on a newer roof. If you had that little of a roof left, they might advise not to, but like this. At the same time, these systems last longer than most roofs do so I believe they could take a system off re roof and put it back on adding additional expense, of course. But um but don't call me have.

K

Nothing that I think that's an important part that I have and your presentations one meeting with citizens and residents of Tarpon Springs yeah.

E

It's good question I'm going to find out the answer. Yeah. Thank thank you. Mr.

H

Silver I like to ask a couple questions: the the price of the other system. It's expensive for some people come up with $18,000 any financing available. You.

E

Know yes, there is there's this. We offer some referrals to arm, there's a good number of banks that are offering products specifically for this and hopefully um we're going to have pace financing in Pinellas County by the time. This launches paces a terrific program whereby, through bond issues, arm the the county finances on your system for you and you repay it on your tax bill on your property tax bill annually, and these are structured where your payments are generally less than your electricity savings.

E

So your cashflow positive from from the get-go and it's based on the equity in your home, you don't need a certain credit score. um It's a great tool. It's that the wheels are turning to get approved in Pinellas and hopefully, it'll be available as well for our co-op yeah.

H

Thank you, solar energy, water here is a very popular year. Do you see that coming here? Oh absolutely,.

E

Well, Germany leads the world um Spain. The UK big manufacturers.

H

Siemens, just the ones mix, yes,.

E

Yes, they're doing a lot and yes, I I was in Germany last year, I was actually in the countryside and in the Black Forest, and all these bucolic beautiful, old farmhouses have solar. Everybody has solar in Germany and and and their emphasis really has helped driving the whole industry itself. Everything scale up which bring us cost down. That's why we're where we are today in terms cost. Thank.

H

M

Thank you, I had a couple other comments. I want to make for Commissioner Khare one of the criteria. Is they look at your roof and that's what these people did. They came around looked and I own my recently a year old, so they came knocking on my door and, of course, to see that how does sunlight hit your roof, your qualifier or not, but they will look at the age of the roof to see if you qualify to make sure that it can withstand the weight of it and everything.

M

So that is one of the criteria they look at and then financing is available. They give you a term as well like 10, 15 20 years things like that, and usually it is a lot lower than what your utility cost is. So that's the savings right there for you, but my one question I had was so many told me so there's a minimum that our energy is a Duke Energy. We haven't, even though that we have to pay a minimum to them every month. Regardless you know about that.

M

E

Do know that everybody pays a service charge for the grid, so it's the regular base, charge I believe covers maintenance of the grid, and then we pay the fuel charges. On top of that, it's.

M

Not much you know, yeah.

E

It's not terrible yeah.

M

That's what I thought so there is so I would just I'm just trying to figure out I guess: I need to call the power company and ask them what their minimum is. If we were to do that because I know, there's a minimal cost like I said it might only be 20 bucks, but they will force their hands yeah.

E

Yeah, it's nominal, but it does. You know solar cost me do help pay for the grid as well. The power companies aren't thrilled about solar. They really have kind of pushed back quite a bit as I mentioned, I have solar, I paid 45 percent, less than I used to do my Power Company. If everybody did that, that would be very good for business, so they've been they've been pushing back and talking about how non-solar customers subsidize solar customers. It just really doesn't square with some of these studies that were done and.

M

L

M

I appreciate thank.

L

H

Thank you we're now going to the public comments. If you have any comments or questions come to the podium.

L

N

Dr. Robinson, um a couple questions would.

H

You please state your name and address for the paulrobinson.

N

A couple questions if I have net metering with Duke Energy, and it's interesting that you followed the hurricane season. 2007 thing, let's say: there's a power outage and the grid goes down. Can I continue to power, my house, through my solar, or does my house go down.

E

Unfortunately, your you, your house, would go down as well. The reason be, even though technically you would have a power source. um You are disconnected from the grid in case of an emergency, because if there's guys working on the lines, they can get shot. It's a safety thing. So, unfortunately, at this point, if you go down in the storm, you.

N

Said that the battery system right now is fairly expensive, um is there an alternative to being on the grid so that I've got a battery or is there a way to have my cake and eat it too? If I'm connected to the grid most of the time but I disconnect after a power outage and run through the battery can I, then power in my house I believe.

E

You can yes, I believe if you have storage, you can run your house off of that again that we don't, hopefully that is, would be a first for this fella, but I'm 75, okay,.

N

Thanks last question: um is there a federal rebate for the system? Yes,.

E

There's a 30 percent of federal rebate bill on the foster system that got extended last year. That will still be in place until 40 to 41. It will step down in a few years, but these are the last few years of that 30 percent rebate and that's that's significant. It's a tax credit. It's not a ton right off, it's a full 30 per sec Freddie and that's.

N

The first year after you install yes, okay, all right. Thank.

H

You, sir, thank you. Thank you, mr. Neal. Thank you.

L

My name is Chris Gaskell it on Stonehaven way and I. Understand that the solar industry is a leader now in employing veterans. Is that true I.

E

Yes, it is I know, there's been um initiatives established specifically to employ in the for veterans, is there's more than one organization focused on that effort.

O

Yeah, my name is Steve Williams I live off, Fox, Run, Drive, and to answer your question: I've had two different, the solar estimates and it's 15 dollars. That's what you have to pay back pay Duke, regardless of what you're getting at least that's what both of the companies told me. Thank.

H

You, sir, do we have any other comments here? None. Thank you so much for the presentation. It was.

P

Very informative, Thank.

H

H

Chief of these coaching will give us an update on these five year strategy plan. Thank.

A

You honorable mayor board, commissioners, let me just get set up here and we'll get going on the UH presentation. Thank you.

A

Okay, as you know, we have a five-year strategic plan. It's really a blueprint, a vision for where we want to go over the next five years as an agency and as a team. We're big believers in this because you know without vision, you're kind of like a ship in the ocean going nowhere. So this this plan was actually done from the bottom up started with the troops came up through the sergeants level came up through the majors Chiefs level.

A

We had input from the community and obviously he was brought before the Commission before it was implemented. So pretty unique plan we like to keep it simple: I have a 25 slide, PowerPoint I'm going to go through pretty quick, because city manager will get mad at me if I go over 15 minutes, so I'll get through this pretty quick and then any questions I'll be glad to answer them.

A

We look at current trends to the department and get through these bullet points here available technology, our technology's excellent partnering, with the Sheriff's Office with the CAV RMS system. We also just merge with the IT department in the city, so we really are technologies excellent. We have good staff, we have excellent equipment, we have excellent training, age reputation, I believe is very good and we have a lot of mo use and we strongly believe in partnerships- community programs, whatever we can get involved in from a proactive perspective.

A

We do, we think that's real important and crime prevention. We're real big on that. We have a full-time police officer dedicated to that program and very active in the community and working with people we condition are our vehicles are in very good condition. As you know, most of our purchases, the penny fund, what you would call local option. Sales tax.

A

Current weakness is the department. Well, you know you have strengths. You're going to have weaknesses, nobody's perfect. We all know that staffing shortage, one of the things we've been trying to address to this plan. Our high level of services is really exemplary and you know it's getting to the point where it's getting very difficult to do everything we want to do with the staffing we have tradition and police work.

A

You look at staffing per thousand expense per capita and if you look at that in the county, we're about average, but our service levels extremely high workload, increases policing in America has gone through major change, but we go back to the 50s and 60s. Most people never call the police for anything because they had strong family units that dealt with their problems. Today, we're called for everything the service- you know, demand for service and police work is just going through the roof.

A

We're called from everything to you know my kid won't get in the car to go to school, to the squirrel my attic and we go all the calls. You know we're big believers in that. But, of course we prioritize our calls, but all across America demand for policing is is really skyrocketing retention to personnel. We have a new generation coming to police work like any other generation. They have their strengths and weaknesses, but a lot of times they're.

A

Looking they're looking for you know money or they're looking for something else, and sometimes it's hard to retain personnel. You really got to compete and we do the best. We can to compete crime analysis function. One of the areas that we really need to ramp up is crime analysis. We just hired I'll cover another slide.

A

We just hired a really good crime, analyst out of Virginia it's going through pre-employment now, but it's going to be a big plus for our agency work, our detectives and patrol division and losing veteran officers through attrition one of the biggest things going on. It's not just in police work. It's in corporate America too, when you look at generations, there's a huge generation gap. You got baby boomers, you got Gen X, mostly leading now, and then it's a big gap, all the way down to the millennial generation.

A

So right now we have a lot of people, baby, boomers and Gen Xers that are getting ready to retire, and now we got to fill this gap and train this new generation. That is going to be really burdened with a lot of people. A lot of institutional knowledge, basically leaving the profession I can retire. Major young can retire. We have a whole bunch of sergeants that can retire and you look at any agency. It's the same picture.

A

You look at any corporation, same picture, it's going to be a big challenge and we have to step up and meet that challenge and pass the torch on the next generation. It's going to be real important opportunities, commercial growth technology, social media, intelligence-led policing, like I, said we hire a crime. Analysis will be ramping that up annexation. I know the city. Does the best I can to annex properties and kind of you know, bring more tax base into the city, but with annexation comes more demand for service networking with le Academy instructors.

A

This really has to do with our recruiting, really really tough task nowadays and connection with community groups. You knows a lot of groups in our city that we're connected with, but we still want to reach out and connect with a lot more. You always look at what your threats are just like a corporation or do you know what are the threats out there to you and there are a lot technology. The criminals are you know, social media is just blowing us away. Internet crimes, computer crimes- I mean it's just it's rampant out there.

A

It's a big challenge for law enforcement, anti-law enforcement sentiment. You see it you see in this country. You see things that are going on. We get very concerned about threats, we monitor them on social media, but um we can. We can also say that the amount of police officers killed in the line of duty is on the increase, now police academy standards, they're kind of they're kind of lowering the standards for people getting into the Academy, which I'll agree with media, and in this let me, but it's a social media.

A

You know anyone can say anything they want. You could do something someone to take a video of your officer doing the right thing, but catch one moment along that timeline that looks bad posted. It goes viral and within three minutes, 10 million people think that your officers, corrupt in your agencies, corrupt, it's, a big challenge, extremists. We know, we know what that is put of a climate that can change at any time.

A

Department goals we get into the goals of the department and you know basically look at you know what we want to achieve and we set goals through those achievements goal one is to maintain and enhance community service and partnerships. If this is the core of our community policing programs goal two is infrastructure department equipment, things like that that support your services go. Three staffing and staff development talk a little bit how we have to develop this millennial generation to take over and lead more enforcement here, probably the next five to ten years goal.

A

One maintain, enhance Community, Partnership, start rings. Police Department will seek to maintain and streamline our approach to enhance community service and outreach.

A

Some of the things we did in the first year again we're talking about first year of compliments. We establish an Operations sergeant, so we look to kind of structure and streamline how we run things. So he oversees our homeless outreach efforts. Code enforcement, crime prevention, k-9s, arrows crime prevention officer works closely with patrol and detectives to address operational needs. It's kind of like a conduit to all these different services.

A

We provide as a full-time position to kind of bring everyone together, even though we're small, it's amazing, sometimes that when you don't have extreme light operations, how things you know won't be as effective for you. We establish a peace team which is proactive enforcement and community engagement- that's actually done through patrol. So these are officers that really look at specific problems and try and look at solutions for those problems. And again we talked about going to community means, traffic enforcement issues, surveillance, etc, etc.

A

Obviously, you know we have a retirement with officer Lewis and we replace similar officers. Hollingsworth you Reagan has replacements smooth transition, we knew it was coming so Jose was training, Jacob Hollingsworth, so we think it's going to be a smooth transition and we think Jacobs going to do a really good job. He's got some big shoes to fill. He knows that, but I think it's going to continue to be a successful program expansion. Our current community policing issues, we're really ramping up our bike unit.

A

You know we have 11 certified bike officers, we want more, we're looking to, you know, get better equipment into the unit, Traffic Unit Park Patrol. We had some overlap, shifts that focus on on traffic enforcement and problem areas, and they also handle crashes. So that's their primary objective. That doesn't mean they won't handle other calls, but this kind of helps.

A

You know the shifts, focus on community policing and problem solving when they're not taking calls when President Obama was in office, they they came up with, and this is years of research, something called 21st century policing model. It really is six pillars and we did a lot of them. We're ready to go a lot of them and we incorporated that plan into our strategic plan and pillar. One is building trust and legitimacy. We do that with community policing policy and oversight, technology, social media pillar for community policing and crime reduction.

A

We do all that stuff, Toto, fibers training, education, I think our trainings, phenomenal and pillar six, we're working on officer, wellness and safety I think we need to ramp that up a little bit, but um again a lot of this stuff. We've already doing.

A

Second year goals, we want to continue expand on a foot patrols, business checks, nine guys bike, patrols, cops and kids Youth Center. That's always been a very strong program, very proactive program dealing with youth community Austin, Public Schools, it's a very strong program. We still do that.

A

We still commit to it: crime, prevention liaison, Neighborhood, Watch, public housing liaison, that's Officer, Ulrich homeless, outreach again knowing we did the transition with our new officer, but we're also beginning to bring patrol officers into the mix to see if um you know they can really ramp up and help with that program. And then one of the things we want to do in the second year is really reach out and develop stronger partnerships of our faith-based and business organization, contacts and working groups, more of a community policing initiative.

A

Second year goals continued six pillars which mostly ready do begin. Citizen engagement, meaning establish open forum meetings with the community will be more run through sergeant, fog, know and officer over, but patrol will be involved.

A

We talked about infrastructure, continuous views, technology needs maintain, update list of priority, seek to expand digital storage capacity first year, accomplice reorganized we merged with the city big step, so we're all one with IT and on the other side of the equation is Pinellas County Sheriff's Department.

A

We did consolidation serve skins first year, improvements I'm going fast because they have a lot of slides here endowed with the consolidation of servers, consolidation of workstations and dispatch update security networks, Grima tarpon springs, fire departments are mobile, so basically, with the station 71 coming now, we have storage some of our specialized vehicles that really need to be inside. So that was a big help for us too. We remodeled the downstairs portion our building or the mayor. Just came by last week when we did the dedication of our hospital and he yeah.

A

He saw some of the renovations that we did our buildings getting kinda old. We have solar energy. You know.

A

Continued our information technology we always got to continue a technology can use storage committee. We have a committee that works with Suzanna constantly assessor IT needs develop a plan implement program, we're all video and audio service use for evidence will actually be stored in our property and evidence room. Another technical thing we're working on research, feasibility of having to a computer, communicational detective division, our interview rooms again, another technical thing that we should be able to accomplish continue to train all supervisors, personnel and public information. Also requirements has to do with media utilize.

A

Analyzed a available through a CSS is our CAD RMS system through the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department goal three we'll continue to talk to fish and staffing service and organizational structure. Analysis C to increase, enhance employee training, development and wellness. One of the big things about this is continued life scan. We also add a heart scan over in Tampa that we're putting everyone through in five years is a very advanced scan of the heart and lungs, so we can make sure our employees are healthy.

A

Restructure again, we talked about the operation sergeant x. Jooheon special events was moved over to my accreditation sergeant. We talked about traffic unit and the peace team, wellnitz fitness center we upgraded the whole gym and, oh maybe did you see the gym or ah yeah, so we did a really good job and you know really upgrading the gym. You know there's no saying in police work once you become a cop, you lose your right to be on fit first year, a compliment at once.

A

One position with the work of city manager and the commission we're up to fifty officers. Now again, that's a part of this plan to add officers to the department of health services. We applied for three grants reward one traffic we always usually get the BVT grant, which is bulletproof, vest, grant 5900. We did apply for three officers. We were not awarded funding for those positions we also applied for traffic homicide unit upgrade will not reward that recruitment.

A

Personnel have indentified trained research and vote and process sponsored political candidates and law enforcement have sometimes you look to have that really excellent candidate sponsor put them through the Academy and you try and commit them to a three-year contract. We have incorporated into our department of coach culture training into our field or FTO program, so we've extended orientation. Basically, where you know we really talk about the culture department and what we are really trying to instill that upon our recruits completed process of hiring crime analysis.

A

That position has been higher, hopefully we'll get through all the pre-employment stuff. I, don't know. Whitey's world points are going backwards. We have contingency of officers, prices. Cit training is something that you hear a lot about. It's crisis intervention training it's 40 hours. We have about 8 to 10 officers that have been through that the goal is to get the whole department through it, but that takes time.

A

Second year structure continue life scan in advance. Fist came heart, scan we've done all that continued research implements. This will fitness program we're on a volunteer basis going towards wellness community duck down evaluations, Department staffing, continue research grant opportunities. We always look for them, but then again you have to you have to find the ones that are reasonable and in this requirement with the state you know looking a homestead exemption that that's something that you know. We really have to look at hard see if it's worth our time to do.

A

Research and recruit individuals see part time, reserve officer unit we're trying to ramp that up review run the funding sponsor candidates through the Academy. We talked about that point. Creb, critical interventions, crisis team leader will continue to train more officers in this area and that's pretty much it I mean I. Think we've really accomplished a lot in the first year. Our goals are ambitious for the second year, but you know we want to keep rolling through this plan and keep keep bettering the department and our delivery of service to the community.

A

So with that said, I'll be glad to answer any questions you have to.

H

Coach and thank you for presented to us your five-year strategy plan that includes not only the regular policing functions, but also so many good programs that we have in place. As you mentioned, the SRO, the youth programs, the the homeless, which is a very, very important role on the neighborhood crime watch. Prevention V and many others I like to take this opportunity to thank every officer that we have for the outstanding service that they're providing to the city. Thank you very much. I have a question to ask you on your second year ago.

H

You have, you said that you will expand. The foot patrol is that it going to include the sponge docks in the downtown area. Yeah.

A

We we hit the sponge ox heavy and downtown we're down there all the time if it's not lost your gas and it's patrols again. We're ramping up the bike unit, our foot patrols. So we are down there. A lot I thought.

H

Yes, I see that already a Jenna. This is something you're going to continue known right. Absolutely. Thank you very useful. Thank you very much. Keep any clinician coming emergency room I, just.

D

Want to thank you for presentation and of course thank all of the officers I see after gas and down on the docks and I know. He's worked with me in the past on some situations, so I appreciate him and, and all that you guys do. Thank you. Thank.

A

You very much, commissioner, listen.

D

K

Thanks for the presentation, I hope everyone knows on your staff that we support the police department here in Tarpon, Springs too I know there's a lot of things that you guys deal with on a day to day basis that most of us wouldn't see or don't know what goes on. So thank you for everything. You're doing I noticed that there is some bike units increased. Were those bike units patrolling the.

A

Area primarily, you hit the docks you hit downtown. We don't really do the 19 quarters or too much. You know because of traffic out there. It's difficult logistically get the bikes out there, but you know that the Kmart politely old, Kmart Plaza Publix Plaza downtown docks. Sometimes you get them out to the schools in the neighborhood. So that's primarily look to do that. Enforcement with.

K

Safety and well thanks with safety and wellness I, know there's two things with the Wellness part: one's mental health and one's physical health. Are we encouraging the officers to reach out to mental health, or is that opportunity available to them and.

A

Ultimately, we have an EAP program to the city. We have a police psychologist. Actually, after armed officer conduct was was shot and killed. We brought in one of the best out of Atlanta police psychologist that deals with police shootings and I was the first one to go as an example about hey.

A

You know we need to anyone that needs to talk or whatever and see this individual should do it, and you know we always we always make it known that you know it's not it's not a shame to use our EAP program which most of its confidential anyway, but absolutely and.

K

Then, on the physical part, it is an opportunity that is provided from the city for officers to see like a dietician of some sort for food nutrition, because that's such an important part of health and a lot of times, we look at make sure you're doing your physicals and heart scans and so on, like that with the stresses.

K

But the impact of what we actually eat has a direct impact and our the way our bodies react and how reaction times and so on so I know if that's an area where we can improve, or maybe help with and along with the fire department. I, don't know if that's currently available today or if that's something we could look at for you.

A

Well, I mean we have the city health clinic, that's free. We have an excellent health care program and you know we do everything we can promote, but I'm also believer that you know we can only meet you so far. You know the rest of it. Like I said when you're a police officer, you know we give you the gym. You have access all this stuff. You know we constantly preach health and fitness, so you know we can only go so far. You know there is a personal accountability with that.

A

But yes, we have a lot of avenues for us to educate themselves and they.

K

A

More about nutrition, okay,.

K

Thanks Mission.

H

M

You chief I just want to thank you and you and your team for everything they do for our community. You guys are amazing, I I, don't know anybody today. That would, you know, want to become a police officer because there's just no respect and it's sad, really sad and I I commend you for what you guys do, but I do I want to thank you again, but, like the community meetings, I know there was I, don't remember what officer it was I think they made a McDonald's or something had coffee with big people. Yeah.

A

Coffee with a cop yeah yep.

M

And I had a lot of positive feedback from that, so hopefully you can continue to yeah.

A

Those those are excellent, I, try, I, try and command staff. We try and go to most of them. They're excellent I mean people just talk, and- and you know they wait, you know it's just one-on-one communication and the last one we did was it Yankee bean I was very successful. Yeah good.

M

I hope that we can keep that up, and then you know the bike patrols. I just spoke about previously I. Think that's a great idea by accident. I ran into a couple of officers on bicycles and I. Think that's a great idea, especially in our community. You know in the smaller parts of town if they could keep them up in the public area. That would be great.

A

Yeah, those sounds are important. Yep.

M

But I think that's a great thing that we're doing there and just and just keep applying for as many grants as you can. You know, and you know you know how that goes. I mean we never guarantee anything, but just you know, keep your eyes and ears open and five or whatever grants we can get the.

A

Officer grants we'll have to be careful with because we don't know how bad the homestead exemption is going to hit us and a lot of times with those grants you're going to have to commit to at least two to three years after they expire. There's a bunch of strings attached that you can't reduce staffing. So you know everything is strategic. You got to look at these things, but yes, um every grant that comes by. We take a look at yeah.

M

That's all we can do, and you know we're here to support you and and your team and thank you for everything. Thank.

H

You thank you. We are now going to the public comment. You have any public comments of this item here. None. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am.

H

We are now going to the event addendum number one, which is a discussion on the Inca River Gretsch project. You probably already know that the funding was vetoed by Governor Scott mr. Lucas yeah.

G

Yes, um this is item nass, be put on the agenda by Commissioner Seaver, so I'm going to turn over to her to to begin.

D

Thank you Mark, yes, I did ask for this to be added to the agenda tonight when I heard from representative Sprouse and Senator lap Bella that our request for funding for the end quote, we were federal, channel and dredge had been vetoed by Governor Scott.

D

This funding would have enabled us to Ford with our dredge project and would have helped us secure a spoil site which is needed before we can obtain any federal funding. We're thankful to the county for pledging $300,000 to help us begin this project and securing the spoil site would have been the next step. Although it was specifically told by representative sprout and Senator LaBella that the veto will not be reversed by the governor, we cannot just throw our hands up and in defeat and do nothing.

D

We must try to continue to fight for some type of funding. For this important and crucial project for the city of tarpon springs governs God stated that he wants more funding for economy and tourism. How does this project not meet these criteria? We learned some interesting data from an economic impact study that we conducted last year in reference to this project and I'd like to tell you about some of the data.

D

The anklet River is the source of 250 million dollars for marine commerce and tourism industries in the city of Turpan, Springs and Pinellas County 50 marine related businesses and more than 100 tourism. Businesses are located on or near the anklet River.

D

These industries provide them was 2,500 primary employment jobs in a Tampa Bay area, with 20% of the that work towards being in the city of tarpon springs and tarpon springs, attracts 1.1 million visitors annually, and that's just some of the data that was was collected and a few of the findings with a special session scheduled in Tallahassee this week. We want to make sure we put all of our efforts into reach and Governor Scott and our legislators.

D

You will be hearing resolution that was drafted tonight if passed, it will be sent along with a cover letter to the mayor's office and a copy of our economic impact study, plus a funding package to the governor and representative Sprouse and senator lat Bella. We have also posted links on our city, Facebook page or any citizens who want to voice their thoughts or concerns to the legislators.

D

I want to add that I did receive a call from representative sprows yesterday, although he stressed that the governor would not reverse his decision, he stated that there will be some restructuring of fun during of funding, which would include economic development and in structure going to the de oak Department of Economic Opportunity, with the anklet River dredge falling into these types of programs.

D

There may be a possibility of receiving some funds from the de Oh representative Sprouse mentioned that he'll be talking to Senator, Lott Vala and that he would also be talking to or reaching out to congressman Billy raucous and Senator Nelson after the special session ends to educate them on the possibility of acquiring funds from the do, for the anklet reverse. Dredge project I want to thank vice mayor.

D

Banther was not here tonight for initiating this project almost two years ago, along with our board the city manager, Karen, lemons, Bob Robertson, our marine Commerce Committee, our businesses and our citizens for all their hard work on this project, which is vital to our economy. I urge you all to voice your opinions and concerns to the legislators that I mentioned, so we can move forward with this project. We cannot wait another year for funding on this project.

H

Thank you thanking Commission super after who heard these negative news. I called Governor Scott on his cell phone call him several times, but I couldn't get hold of him.

H

So just yesterday, his secretary into the forum and I gave her the the message about, and it explained to her the importance of this project and also that the ankle river swimming board to our local economy- and we have you know so many businesses that, depending on the on the ankle river, not only the marine businesses but the tourists businesses as well also I explained that to her that the board captains are telling us that the navigation of the river is unsafe and it's very concerned many times.

H

They have to wait for chitin or for them to get here, and it's not always the best thing to do, especially we have a bad storm out in the Gulf and it must have come in for the Gulf I mean coming there into the river.

H

We're not going to stop we're going to continue working on it right now. We need to regroup and we're going to have an action plan, so we're going to get it done sooner later.

H

Vice-Mayor panther was not able to be here today, but he left us a memo that everyone asked our city clerk to read. It I.

C

Want to thank mr. Seaver for putting this item on the agenda for discussion in my absence. I've personally been working on the in clover dead project for almost two years, as this project is crucial to maintaining our working fort, which is a major economic driver in sharpen Springs in Pinellas. County I was very upset on Friday afternoon when I received the news that the funding for our school site was vetoed from the state budget due to the budget deal between Governor, Scott and speaker Cochran.

C

If there was ever a project worthy of state funding, one that drives tourism and provides thousands of jobs, it's the maintenance dredge of our working waterfront on the in clover. I am very discouraged at representative, Sprouse and Senator LaBella for unsuccessful in securing funding for the school site. Despite numerous assurances from them, I do think I do think them both for their efforts and I support, whatever they can do.

C

Moving forward to secure state funding for the school site as we move forward with this project, I believe we must focus on different funding options for the school site. We cannot afford to wait another year for the state budget. We must also not lose sight of our next major hurdle, which is securing a spot in the Army Corps of Engineers budget through congressman Miller actists for the physical dredge of the river.

C

The hard political lesson that we have learned is that we as a city, especially the Board of Commissioners, must play more act, an active role in future lobbying, with decision makers on the state and federal level. By way of making better use of our economic impact study, we must constantly be reminding them, especially in person that any funding for the anko River dredge project is funding that supports jobs, tourism and environmental preservation.

C

I support, whatever decision the board of commissioners make in my absence, I am in full support of resolution, 20:17 24, requesting restoration of funding for the dredge project. Vice mayor, David, banther.

D

H

You official yes.

D

After reading this letter, yes I agree that we do need to do better lobbying, but I was in Tallahassee in February, I spoke to Senator, Lott, Vala and representative sprout and even in February, we're still being assured that this funding was going to come through. So it was quite a shock last Friday when I got a call from both of them that the governor had vetoed this funding.

D

So this is why we need to make sure that we approach the governor approach on legislators and tell them what we need to continue to fight for this funding from any source. We can get.

H

Cheney major yes,.

G

Actually, it was a great time to be in Orlando at the state city manager's conference on Thursday and Friday, because from the time we heard of the Thursday night behind closed doors budget deal, um we spent a lot of days Friday again, everybody from around the state get information and when I called Karen lemons mid-afternoon, we kind of all figured out that we were going to all get chaptered and there was going to be most of our project cut.

G

Although we were going to share it at 3 o'clock that the project was probably going to be funded and they didn't see a problems. Of course. Three hours later, we have to call that um that it was cut. um So we began preparing Friday before the news came of what we had to do, and I really want to thank Karen lemons for the weekend working on the weekend to work on the resolution and um for the game plan that we got um a reporter called me and I told her.

G

You know about what was going on tonight and we're asking to overturn the veto, and she said the same thing as as mr. sprong said. Oh, you have no chance of doing that and I told her again. If you can change the entire state budget in in back time door meetings, anything can happen in reality, Kenneth, probably not.

G

But what can happen is there is money in that state budget, as as you said, there is money in that deal, so maybe the exact category that we got Dido will be back in there, but there's money available and the one thing we got.

G

Of course, our biggest biggest thing we're fighting against is politics, because if you go on the merits, you know I'll put our project up any of the ones in the state, I'll probably put off against most of the ones that got left in the budget and the true mayors of economic development, of jobs, of vitality to a region. You know we don't need political help. We stand on our own. That study showed us. That is our project, so there is funding going to be there.

G

Even if this veto isn't reversed, it does not put back in which is not they're still going to be money available, that we got to keep fighting for and try to get, but I also want to assure everybody. When we were given this project as a city and city team working with you, um we knew there'd be pissed balls. We always I, think I get that from law enforcement. We always plan for the worst to happen, so there is already a plan in place.

G

For instance, if we didn't get the county money, we had a plan in place. We had a plan in place. If we didn't get this state money, um the only place there's no contingency plan is is when it gets to the federal, the federal dredge of four or five million. We have no contingency plan. We have to have our congressman, get that federal funding, because that, but in this case we already have chosen the dredge site, we're already paying rent with the money that this Commission put in the last budget for penny of Pinellas.

G

Now now that money was going for some study that we had to do and some other things that we had to do to prepare the site, we've probably spent about a hundred thousand coast, a hundred thousand, but there's still plenty of money left to keep paying the rent in the spoil site to continue. If you remember what we did with the penny was put a just-in-case amount in next year's budget. To do so, so there will be no stalling of this project. We are going full force in it.

G

While we continue to fight for other fun sources of food and to get the state money reserved we, the study is going on. County came through for us again that money you put a way that the county want to come through. We had to use that money to do that. Well, they came through for us, so we got this money available. So so we need to continue the fight go forward. Get the money word do, but the project is too important.

G

It's not going to be installed and thanks to your wisdom in this commission, what they did, we can keep going until we fight and get the money we deserve.

H

Thank you mr. lecoeur. As we said, we will get it done.

H

Commission kick thank.

M

You- and that was one of my questions as we're paying on that spoil site, so we need to keep fighting Chris, but no I mean but seriously I mean this is something I can tell you. I can assure you that people sitting here on this board will fight as much as we can and when I got that phone call Friday afternoon very disappointed, I I, just couldn't even that I couldn't even think about what was going on.

M

I was I was shocked that that this would happen to us and that dredging is so important to this community for our tourism to keep a working waterfront going and I just I'm just flabbergasted about the whole thing, but Commissioner C, but you talked about a Department of Economic Opportunity. Is that so possibly they could have funds available? Well,.

D

They may be restructuring some other fundings, but according to Chris Sprouse, and maybe there's a possibility that some of that funding could come to us so.

M

So there might be other avenues for us, because I'd honestly, don't think that our governor is going to change his doing at this point. But we will fight and I promise you that Thank You Commissioner.

H

K

I echo a lot of the comments that were said already tonight: I've also reached out to representative sprawls senator lavalle, our County Commissioners, and also the governor's office requesting multiple answers and also additional funding for future allocations, similar to the economic development that was been discussed here tonight that was put in the state's budget, so I think as a group.

K

We all need to continue and as a city to reach out to the governor's office and our elected officials in the state and ask that the tarpon springs. Ridge project is included in economic development package because there is a bucket of money there to be had, and it we've seen the direct impact base in the study of what this river has such an impact economy, wise and job wise throughout this area, so I support.

K

This I would also support, adding any additional language that we need to about requesting his economic development funds as well or if that could be a separate request that we do to the state. Thank you.

H

Before we go to the public comments, I like to give the floor to mr. licorice one more time, yes,.

G

One thing I forgot to mention is: is thanks to Karen's hard work this weekend, this packet, which included a letter from the mayor. It includes the resolution that was going to be passed and it includes the economic study that was done. It was done sent out Monday and in the governor's office this morning, so that we made sure got to the governor's office. It's there reminding of the economic study again, nobody sure who actually did the cuts, whether him or his team or whoever, but that was percent delivered with this resolution.

G

There's another reason why it's important to pass that resolution and, yes, we can come back when they set up this economic thing and do other ones, but we told them it was coming. We told them it was deserved to be in there. We already send the resolutions that tomorrow morning, the clerk Wednesday morning the clerk is going to send them to sign one that we're all going to approve and encourage them stuff. So again, that's that's the other reason we delivered and told we can do it and you know I'm sure in the next item.

G

You're going to bring up will deliver that resolution and we'll continue if they set up something we'll go after that money and do the same thing on another resolution. Thank.

M

You Karen thank.

H

You we are now going to the public comments.

H

Could you please state your name and address for the record? Yes,.

Q

Joan Jennings 22:04, pine drive and I'm. Also a member of the Marine Commerce Commission. The dredging project is a project. That's long overdue. It's every time. We delay it yet again the damage to the environment and the cost increases. It's not only important to tarpon springs, but it's important to the entire region. In a lot of different areas: fishing, tourism, recreational boating, commercial shipping, def worth seal boats just launched a steel boat.

Q

The hogarth for the that was a commission by the florida oceanographic institute and its duckworth is a long-standing tarpon business that employs a lot of people and brings a lot of money into the area. The boat could only be gotten out of Duckworth's on a full moon high tide. You know this type of thing is really unacceptable. It really straps unnecessarily all of the local industries that are bringing lots of money into the area.

Q

All of that was demonstrated in the economic and impact study that was commissioned and that's going to be sent to the governor and I'd also like to encourage every citizen to contact their legislators, especially the governor, to petition him to overturn the veto or allocate otherwise available funds to the project. Thank you. Thank.

H

You any other common.

F

Jack Russell 6-1-6, Island, Drive, duh I, think we read through your resolution. I. Think you how to make a bigger statement on what a safety issue that it is I mean we there's a lot of boat traffic. You know in the river a lot of accidents, you know people being killed and everything else, but a lot of places. We have to go on the wrong side of the channel or outside of the channel. You know to make it to the river a lot of times we're caring.

F

You know my boat holds 10,000 gallons of fuel, some of them hold 20. You know you have an accident. You spill that fuel. You know it's it's going to have a ticket off. If the logical impact you know the other stress the fact of the safety. You know it's a safe harbor to come in from a storm. There's a lot of traffic in the river. We try to stay out of it on the weekend and I think they ought to stress that a little bit more, you know. So we have a decent channel.

F

It's going to be safer. We all know about all the accidents on the river.

H

Thank you. Can you have too common a dealer? You have something to say no, okay, thank you. We are now going to a demo number two, which is resolution. 2017 24, requesting restoration of funding for Oakland River dredging project, see attorney, will read the whole resolution resolution.

P

2017 24 resolution of the Board of Commissioners of City of Tarpon Springs, employing the governor in Florida state legislature to restore funding for the anklet River dredge project and providing for an effective date here of whereas the anklet River is the source of a 252 million dollar, marine commerce and tourism industry in the city of Tarpon, Springs and Pinellas County. And whereas more than 50 marine related businesses and more than 100 tourism. Businesses are located on or near the Anclote River and depend on the river for their livelihood.

P

And whereas these industries provide nearly 2,500 primary employment jobs in the Tampa Bay region, which represents 21 percent of the work in the city of tarpon springs and whereas tarpon springs accounts for 56% of the value of all commercial fish landed in the Pinellas County. And whereas the anklet River federal channel requires maintenance dredging to maintain in advance its regional impact on commerce, tourism and shipping. Its ability to serve in a regional public safety and disaster preparation and response capacity and its ability to provide a harbor of safe refuge for vessels in danger.

P

And whereas the ankylo River was last. Seventeen years ago, and in its current condition, is impassable along several areas of the channel causing a loss of commercial fishing operations and whereas the US Coast Guard issues, weekly warnings to boat captains called local notices to Mariners, which inform them where navigation is unsafe due to showing into areas in the inclu.

P

River navigation channel have been on every weekly notice, since October 2014 and whereas the city has established a marine commerce committee comprised of concerned residents to advise on River conditions and whereas the city of tarpon springs, Pinellas, County, Marine, Commerce, Committee, US, Coast, Guard and Army Corps of Engineers are jointly working together and have toured the river to assess and confirm the need for a dredge and whereas Pinellas County has pledged three hundred thousand dollars to support the project.

P

And whereas the Tampa Bay congressional delegation supports the project and has jointly signed a letter attesting to the need for a dredge and whereas a spoil site must be secured prior to obtaining federal funding for the dredge and the state. Senate and House have approved 920 thousand nine hundred and seventy three dollars to provide for a spoil site for the dredge.

P

Now, therefore be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the city of Tarpon Springs Florida, that the city of tarpon springs respectfully, requests at the 920 thousand nine hundred and seventy-three dollars allocated for the Anclote river dredge project that was included in the state of Florida fiscal year 2018 budget and was vetoed by Governor Rick Scott be restored to the state of Florida fiscal year. 2018 budget copy of this resolution shall be sent to Governor Scott senator, let Vala and representative Sprouse. This resolution shall become effective upon adoption. It's resolution 2017 24 in full.

P

H

You, they need be sure, Commission Commons alone. We should call got.

K

A quick question appreciate the comment you brought about the safety. There is a lot of recreational use on this river and with the commercial boats going in and out of the river and if they have to cross the channel multiple times we're coming and out in certain areas that is creating a very large safety concern.

K

That's not addressed for the recreational boaters, it might be someone that might boat once a month or once a year or someone down on vacation also so to have possibly you have a lot of educated voters that are out there, but then you have a lot of uneducated voters or less experienced ones. So I know the city management mentioned that this is already sent to the governor's office. Is there an opportunity to add an emphasis for the stress of safety, because if we have a us, 19 safety issues, that's going to be reported.

K

We have a us 19 of a waterway right here in our back yard. That I think we need to report a safety issue with also all those safety is highlighted in some of the points. I would agree that that part could be emphasized stronger.

H

Being that the packages already go there and will be received by the governor tomorrow morning, actually it should be this position if they.

G

Said this morning, this.

H

Morning though, it's probably you know, I think it's kind of mixing up the information I think it's good to stick with it and I think the the points were very well made on a navigation that it comes safe and it's very difficult for the big boats to come in I. Think we are my opinions, will let it go the way it is now since the governor already having on his debt.

K

Consume this clarified for me real quick, since it's not signed on our end, this resolution is it. This sign resolution then sent to the governor's office and the senator's office, and the representative, or just the resolution is sent up there. It.

H

Is explained that it was Dean Pat how he was not the border. Yet, okay, it was explained on the letter. I think you got a copy up.

K

How come additional information can be added to it? um Maybe you got.

G

Nothing, obviously you can I mean eat. You can add anything you want. You just have to have the exact language we haven't. Have it. You know where it's going to be added, because the clerk has to send it out first thing in the morning, but you you can you do have the option to add something to it.

D

It does a set have warning issues from the Coast Guard to Mariners, which would include the recreational Mariners, so I think that we have covered the safety issues. I just wanted to point that out and separate in a couple of places here so I'm not sure how we would need to add more language to that. What.

H

Language, do you think we should be placed in there satisfied? Can you I'm.

K

I'm not gonna, be able to throw something at you right now off a whim but yeah.

K

Thank you three discussions and it sounds like there's the consensus of the board. Is that there's enough right now so.

K

I'm, okay, with moving forward with it, are.

H

Any other comments, no.

M

It's there is safety in the least bad rap. That I've seen mentioned.

M

H

Does say that, though the course got in the Army Corps of Engineers they're, going to working together to have that the providing information and at the state for some fairness there?

H

Oh, we still see bro what.

D

H

They call daddy well.

D

I just feel like it is listed here a couple of times and there are coast guard warnings to boat captains, which would include not only businesses but also I, think not only commercial but also recreational boaters I don't want to take more time and not get this I think that you know it's crucial that we get this to the governor and they have it signed. So the.

G

Court, the point is well-taken in future documents in the future, because I'm sure we would be doing some more of these um will make sure we we had.

K

G

On that inch and that safety issue yeah.

K

I understand time is of the essence on this situation. So I think it is an important thing to continue to add when we're reaching out to the representatives, if it's a congressmen or senators or ever, maybe also to stress that, yes,.

H

Are they any uh public comments on this item.

H

Here known, the chair will entertain a motion.

M

Motion to approve second and.

H

Roll call please miss.

C

H

C

Your kick there yeah Commissioner Seaver, yes, Mara losers. Yes,.

H

Thank you and good luck to all of us. We are now going to the consent agenda, which is item number five. There are 20-feet invoice, eighty, seven, nine. Ninety eight six is a special event. July 4th picnic in the park. B is the fireworks July 4 2017 seven is approved city partnership with Florida Sun and North Country County, solar, coop number aged extended file, number 1500, 63 seed, sjj Maine is prepare and operating supplies through Florida state contract number four 50000 eleven, this AC s, nine, is ratified, increase the bid, number 1500.

H

Ninety less B RS chemicals for the reverse osmosis water plan. Number 10 is the award RFP number 1700, 18 SP cm de Brissac removal disaster recovery service number 11 is increased, number 1700, 22, that's beat as RS temporary personnel services and number 12 is increased. Pile number 1701 32. This part. This are asked whether you get already contract for densa classes are any items that you like to pull for discussion. I.

M

Would just like to make a comment course thank you, Thank You, mr. city commitment, city manager for the fourth of July picnic in the park again and thank to our thanks to our sponsors. We couldn't do this without sponsors that help pay. For this event, it's free to all our residents and it's fun. It's a lot of fun to go out. There brings the community together and again that we have fireworks back on or still on. Our list is wonderful, but that's another event.

M

If you are a boater, everybody comes out by boat, watches, a firework displaying. Is it's really pretty cool or you can go out to the beaches and whatnot to watch it, but these are two two events that really bring a community together and show how what a tight-knit community we have. So thank you.

H

Thank you any other comments, you're, not on any public comments on the site. I need a motion. Nice.

D

And carefree second.

H

In roll call, please miss.

C

K

C

Sure kicked oh yeah, mr. Sieber, yes, missus. Yes,.

H

We are now going to the item number 15, which is to authorize person. First, a trip on the next vacant property northeast corner of north street of mango street. The partial number is 18 207 that 1691 zero 8000. Three, that's zero one, one: zero! Let's get.

P

The night ammonia Turk we could, we did yeah, we had a administrative.

H

Apologize that we missed once I'm going back.

L

H

Number 13 is request to settle administrative, fine or lien 740 Q upper scored, Thank.

P

You mayor commissioners I'll keep it brief. You've received my report. This concerns the property located at 742 Arthur's Court. We have code violations dating back to or fine dating back to September 20 of 2013 that followed a series of violations and hearings beginning in May of 2013.

P

We have total principal of about twenty two thousand four hundred dollars, which includes a forty 7.42 cent utility lien I'm, recommending settlement amount of two thousand dollars plus five. Seventy five in administrative costs for 2575.

P

That is two thousand dollars in excess of that offered by the owner to settle, which is the administrative cost solely of 575 I'm. Happy to answer any questions at you.

H

Thank you any Commission coming.

D

Yes, this has been going on a long time and I make a motion that we take. Our attorneys recommendation for the two thousand plus administrative 575 cause I.

H

Would use the acedia attorney recommendation right.

M

H

M

Second, that we.

H

Got first a second any other comments.

K

Can I just have you the maybe some clarification on the city manager or the city attorney on how we come up with deciding what property so now we've had some in the past before I was a commissioner that were in the five or $10,000 areas for the fines that were agreed upon by the board and then I know last Commission meeting or the one before that we had an element was reduced to just administrative thoughts.

K

So I don't know if there's something of precedent that or some type of guideline would go by if I just had some clarification, I'd be helpful. Yeah.

P

There's there's: no, this is not science, it's more art and it's not even good art and at some point in time and Mark may become upset with me for saying this to you tonight. But you know this policy is very difficult to administer its imprecise. It leads to some some inconsistent results. Frequently the process itself is prescribed by by the policy y'all have adopted several years ago. I went to tourney accubow and City Attorney it. This is somewhat of a uh an imprecise analysis.

P

You know we try to take into account the factors that were set forth in the policy.

P

The level of cooperation would receive from light of the original violator or the subsequent landowners. The nature of compliance so I wish. I could tell you, commissioner, that this was subject to some sort of a scientific or more precise calculation analysis, but it's really not I mean we try to be as consistent as we can in my recommendation, but I understand that no two cases are alike being.

G

Doing this for a long time as police chief trauma influences not well, it's not precise. um We do look at a lot of factors in there and there's input when the settlement is sent from J, we sent it to code enforcement building, all the people involved. The biggest thing we weigh is what was the extent of damage to the surrounding community, the neighbors that was done from it?

G

What extent that the people involved have a process in it, but again you also have to look at even if these people go on a foreclosure, buy the land for real, cheap they're buying it, knowing that these things are on there so well, you know you really want to settle for administrative cost. You knew you got, there's a half price because it had $100,000 of lien on.

G

Is it fair to give you that no there was an impact on a neighborhood for two three four years um we used to use a ten to fifteen percent like thing things like that, but sometimes when, when the fines go to 140 that 10 or 15 cent were extreme, so we main they kind of get to a couple. Is it worth a couple thousand? Is it worth five times? There's real severe five thousand. You know we kind of we kind of went somewhere in that range.

G

So, while there's not direct science, there is a methodology to it based on it and for this one and stuff the impact a neighborhood for a long time, it was about a two thousand dollar figured I thought. It was kind of the long-term impact, a neighborhood that happened to kind of decide as a fair thing for it.

G

If it's the same owner and he just completely ignored and some of their knows, that is then there we might go to ten or fifteen percent to five or some thousand, but that's kind of kind of looked at a couple of one lot of the ones that are reduced to impact really wasn't that great to the community. So we really had no objections and stuff, but um because there's really little imp, even though the fine to get up to forty fifty, it really didn't have a big impact.

G

Like you know the hoarder house we had with all the stuff, you know the places where you wouldn't want to do so you just try to do a common sense and add to it and stuff and that's what the attorney does does very well. We know the process needs some work and some consistency, but it's hard again putting you know. We put the numbers on it sometimes when they were way up there, even the 10 or 15 percent wasn't fair. So we went to just kind of a common sense.

G

What was it worth as opposed to what harm it did to neighborhood compared to who has the property and what extent they had to the problem? And you come up with a number into this board? Well, maybe that's too high. We go half of that. We go by the thing and this board kind of takes that and comes to a decision, so that's kind of how it's been done for for a while, where.

K

The funds going I mean I, don't know if it's appropriate assets right now, but where the funds go until we receive these funds general.

H

Fund general fund- yes I, would like Jesco City Attorney. Do you think this process? It should be reviewed and bring some recommendations that you thought yeah well.

P

Since you asked yes I do I you know I periodically talk to mr. Yakima and I say gosh I, you know I really so much to enjoy working for the city, but this process you put in place I would like to hit you over the head with something heavy for.

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P

You know I, it's a process was put in place, you know, during the height of the foreclosure crisis and I, think it had a place at that time. It frankly has since outlived its usefulness of the ten municipality we represent in our law firm. This is the we are the only city that as a process even close to anything even like this I mean it's a so yeah. The answer to your question is a resounding yes, please thank you.

G

But we'll work on it and bring something back to you. Okay,.

H

We are now going to the public ovens. Any public comments you desire here. No well. We have a first, a second and I need a real coal peace, Commissioner.

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K

C

Kita, yes, mr. Sieber, yes, ma'am is it yes.

H

We are now going to the item number 14, which is to authorize the purchase of a vacant property northeast corner of North Street in mango street. This probably will be used for stormwater ponds to correct the flooding problem that we have mr. Lake where's. Would you please explain that? Yes,.

G

um This this problem is this buying. This property is mainly due to the nearest project. As we know, the mirrors project is eminent from the side of the shop of the department, complex and, of course, the requirement for doing the complex is completed the road, but we still have our sections from near from distant to us. 19 and we've been looking at for a while, the problem of, as you know, the dip. If you're going towards 19 to dip there and as it got closer, we got into surveys.

G

We found out that there's probably no way we can do it without putting it on the ground vault, which is very expensive. One of the only alternatives was to try to secure a piece of land on the corner, which would frankly I had a lot of doubts that we could get a hold of, but thanks to the good work of Gary Sherman and if you all know, Gary he's the guy send out the angry neighborhoods and and to deal with hooking up the sewer and all of those things.

G

Because he's such a personal individual, he did work out a deal with mr. Burroughs I know the deal see higher than the property is, but the value to us in the city is going to save us hundreds of thousands of dollars and if we got any of the process and then tomato something like that, it costs far more than we're paying for the property to do so. For us, in the city and for our portion of the nearest project, which I understand the apartment, parks done they're almost down the road.

G

So they're going to be coming to the saying we're ready to go, which means we need to kick our end going and we need this property, or else we'll be spending. Hundreds of thousands of dollars extra to secure the drainage on our, so it's a very good deal and we'll be able to get our part of years put through at a savings to the taxpayers. Thank.

H

You well I'm glad this property became available because we pay six sixty thousand dollars for the property, fifty thousand dollars for construction, 110 thousand dollars for the whole project, which is very, very good on it, yeah any additional tunnel. Yes,.

D

I agree that having this property is important, there's a fifteen thousand dollar difference, so me being cheap I. You do say that you're going to do due diligence before you accept the CLEP, its closing so I just want to make sure we you know in negotiate.

D

That's my comment before.

K

I yeah, it is paying a premium I think for the lot, but at the same time what the cost would be behind a voltage system would be, and incredibly much more so in this situation, I think it's going to be a good situation for the city.

H

Okay, thank you. Are they any public comments of this I am here now the chair will depend of motion motion.

D

To approve second roll.

H

Call Commissioner.

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C

Shirt kicked. Oh yes, mr. Sieber! Yes, now is it yes,.

H

Thank you. It still occurs. We got to march in order. We are now going to the item number 15, which is the ordinance 2017 Tony. This is the application 17. That's 43 rezoning amendment for mrs. Gillis, six Tony Bayshore Drive from our 102, our 108. This is the first reading, and this is a quasi-judicial TTFN and will be Chicago will explain the quasi-judicial prospect, Thank.

P

You mr. mayor, this hearing is quasi-judicial as, as is the conditional use application call in resolution 2017 21 at 1430, L&R boulevard, so I'd ask if you're here for either of those items, please listen to the procedures and to be sworn at. The end when requested these are quasi judicial proceedings, where the Commission acts and the quays a judicial rather than a legislative capacity. As such a hearing is not the Commission's function to make law, but rather to apply law that has already been established in a quasi judicial hearing.

P

The commissioners required to make findings of fact based upon the evidence presented and apply those findings to previously established criteria contained in the city's code. The Commission may only consider evidence at this hearing. The law considers competent, substantial and relevant to the issues. If that evidence demonstrates that the applicant has met the criteria established in the code and the Commission is required by law to find in favor of the applicant.

P

By the same token, if that evidence fails to meet the requirement of the Commission is required by law to find against the applicant, all witnesses must give their testimony under oath all persons, testifying must give their name and address for the record. All testimony in questioning at this hearing must address matters that are relevant and material to the issues under consideration. City staff will present its testimony and evidence. First, the applicant will have an opportunity to cross-examine city staff. The applicant will present its testimony.

P

Witnesses of city staff will have an opportunity to cross-examine the applicants. Witnesses. Members of the public opposing the application will be given an opportunity to present testimony. After all, members of the public, speaking in opposition, have concluded members of the public and support will have an opportunity to present testimony each member of the public is limited to four minutes. The applicant will then have an opportunity make a closing argument or summary, after which city staff will be given an opportunity to make a closing argument or summary. Following this, the Commission will consider the matter.

P

Commissioners may ask questions of witnesses at this point emotionally made and it will be taken at this juncture. I would ask for the Board of Commissioners to please disclose any ex parte communications on either item 15 or 16.

P

Seeing none I'd ask for witnesses who intend to testify tonight on either application to please stand and be sworn as I. Raise your right hand, do you swear, or from the testimony you are about to give in this proceeding is the truth, the whole truth and nothing, but the truth. I did.

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P

Right, our first application is ordinance: 20 17-20, an ordinance of the city of Tarpon Springs Florida, amending the official zoning map of the city of Tarpon, Springs Florida for approximately 0.8 acres of real property, located at 62 0 Bayshore Drive, app 17 43 from our 100 to our 100, a providing for findings and providing an effective dates. First, reading of ordinance, 2017 20 by title only second reading to be held on June 20 2017 ordinances, published in the Tampa Bay Times by title, with a map on April 28th 2017.

P

With that we will turn to mr. Weller for staff presentation, Thank.

R

You Heather earlier Planning and Zoning director and staff to this application. Again, this application is a rezoning request from our 102, our 100. A essentially what's happened on this property. Is this property was developed, it's 260 foot wide Lots that were developed in 1954. At that time, your zoning code allowed for 60 foot wide Lots. Since then we subsequently changed his only coded 76. As a result, we don't establish the are 100 district at that time. Would change the required lot to mention to 100 by 75 foot wide.

R

So as a result of that, the applicant now would like to take down the house from 1950 and would like to essentially be able to separate these Lots right now, they're held under single because it's 120 foot lot furniture. That's what's required to actually have a developable lot at the time when it was built. That was not the case. The r108 district allows for development on Lots that are 60 foot wide lots.

R

We have several lots and I put a little table together in the staff report to show you within the half section that we're in the southern section. There have been several recent land-use changes early last one went back to 2007 its North section, North right above this, you just recently rezone in 2014 Bay, Shore Heights.

R

So we had reasons in this general area from our 100 to our 100 a to allow exactly what the applicant is asking for asking for the future land use on this one will not change it's consistent, our 100 and our 100 a are consistently in use districts. Some really the difference is not the uses. Not it's really just setbacks. What the side setbacks are a little bit different and it's really just a lot widths and a lot dimensions these Lots, even without just on the fact that you foot wide lots are very deep.

R

So, as a result, they're over 10,000 square foot apiece anyway, so they're meeting the are 100 districts for size. It's just they can't meet for frontage. So, as a result, staff went through the analysis and I won't bore you with my longstaff report here. Basically, it's consistent with the land development code. It's consistent with the policies and procedures that you that you've done in the past in this area and it's consistent with your comprehensive plan and with that I can answer any questions.

R

If ik questions that you have but staff is recommending approval of this application.

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P

The applicant have any questions for staff. Does the applicant wish to make an independent presentation of any kind? Okay, do you agree with the recommendation of staff all right? Are there any members of the public wishing to speak in opposition to the application members of the public wishing to speak in support, closing statement or summary by either party.

R

Not at this time.

H

Heather I want to thank you for the complete staff report that you provided. I have a question to ask you. You said back in 1976 this yearly change. The zoning from r12 are 100, that's practically the city to get a fit under the consideration that, because a lot to work, but it years ago for 60p, better 75, you.

R

Have a section in your code that allows for development on non-conforming Lots in this case, because the applicant held those Lots together for so long they've subsequently lost ability to develop these Lots independently without a zoning change.

H

And, as you say, there's lots are larger than the requirements. Anyway. That's.

R

Correct they meet, they meet the size requirements for the minimum lot size. They just don't meet the minimum distance requirement for a lot with. Thank.

H

You are they any other conditional comments on the second, you know, I know.

D

Sorry I just wanted to note that TRC also approved this and had no objections. That's.

R

Correct TRC and Planning and Zoning Board all over viewed this, and neither of them had real concerns or comments.

H

Thank you, Terry. Wasn't any motion motion.

D

To approve second in.

H

C

Carr yeah mr. Hixon yeah mr. Seaver, yes, Marilu is this. Yes,.

H

Thank you. We are now going to the item number 16 resolution, 2017 21. This is the application. 17 45 conditional use, permit and associate site plan resolution.

P

2017 21 a resolution, the city of Tarpon, Springs Florida, approving application, number 17 45, requesting a conditional use permit and associated site plan to allow for manufacturing recreation, watercraft on property located at 14:30, Eleanor Industrial Boulevard in the IR industrial, restricted district, providing for findings providing for conditions and providing for an effective date. Resolution 2017 21 ruler again.

R

Heather earlier planning is learning director and staff to this application. This uh this applicant is seeking conditional use, permit and site plan approval to construct the seven thousand nine hundred square foot, building on a site that was used for to manufacture or will be used to manufacture boats, charter boats, manufacturers, customs, oh, it's really moving to the property from outside the city. The property currently is developed with an existing two-story building.

R

That's approximately six thousand three hundred square feet and is going to be used for office and support facilities for the new manufacturing building that they're building with that I'm going to just go through the analysis criteria for finding an application consistent with the land available code under your conditional use property. The proposed use for the subject conditionally used in the IR district. The proposed design complies with the setbacks and other performance standards of the IR district.

R

The proposed use will be located adjacent to other uses and will be built consistent with the performance standards for the IR district. The site is located north of a residential e developed properties on jruby Boulevard. However, the area's mix has a mix of residential and manufacturing uses the applicant, as you can see, in the site, plans also providing a buffer and extensive buffer. That's undisturbed and they'll be doing additional plantings where it doesn't quite have eighty percent opacity to make that additional buffer available, so that there will be a separation between the land uses.

R

With that, the condition use is consistent with the goals, objectives and policies of the Comprehensive Plan. The use will not result with any significant adverse impacts. The surrounding area is a mix of industrial uses in this adjacent properties are zoned to allow development additional development of manufacturing industrial areas you're in an area that also has some undeveloped manufacturing properties that are within the county, not within the city limits. So those are going to be developed at some point in time.

R

Recognizing that the proposed use will not adversely affect the property values in the area and the development will not require the extension of additional public services. The site is already currently served. The proposed use is consistent with the majority of the uses in the area, as well as the planned uses in there. The conditional use will provide for an efficient and orderly development and will put the site back into useless, has been vacant for some time with that I'm going to go through the entire criteria.

R

Here there other than to say here for the site plan there specifically meeting all of the LD the land development code standards that they have to meet for the site development piece. This is already an existing site, so they're retrofitting the site, adding the building and the additional pieces that they need to meet the requirements of the land development code. It's consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, the level of service analysis. It's consistent with the existing level of service analysis for the building.

R

That's out there that by adding this additional square footage they're, not increasing the need for services, services that they're providing we can already provide to them. So with that, we find that the application is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan and the zoning map and staff is recommending application.

R

17:45 resolution 2017 twenty one offer for a conditional use permit and a site plan route to allow manufacturing of recreational watercraft and construction of seven thousand nine hundred and eighty square foot building at 14:30. Eleanor industrial in the RL just in the are ir industrial restrictive. Zoning district is approved with the following conditions. Developer is responsible for acquiring all jurisdictional permits and for meeting the minimum criteria. The land development code construction plan shall be consistent with the site plan and payment of all requisite fees.

R

Attended to the project shall be paid in accordance with the land development code. The existing structure will not be required to be retrofitted with sprinklers, provided that the west wall of the proposed metal structure is a two-hour rated wall. Separating the two buildings, the proposed metal building will be sprinkled. The sprinkler protected, the fire department connection will be put out of the way from the building within a hundred foot of the existing fire hydrant to the north side of the driveway.

R

The existing gravel in grass pad in front of the proposed no building will be either paved or rated to support. 30 tons of fire apparatus, the applicant must provide shielded lighting and direct all lighting internal to the project, and the conditional use in site level will expire within one year of the approval if the building permit is not issued for the property and with that, the Planning and Zoning Board heard this on May 15th TRC also has reviewed this project and has approved it, and the Planning Board unanimously approved the fraud.

R

With that I can answer any questions.

P

Seeing none does the applicant have any questions for staff before you get started any quicker? Thank you.

S

Hello, my name is David Bell 85/15 palm River Road tampa florida. We're here just requests respectfully requesting your approval on this. Mr. Weller I think explained what we're trying to do bring a and, in fact both manufacturing company 20-plus employees to the city and we're here to answer any questions you might have.

P

Any questions we commissioned so.

D

Is this boat manufacturing company in Tampa? Now no.

S

It's in I, think of zona, okay,.

D

Chanelle's County is losing this company to this property right.

H

The do you agree with you conditions recommended by the staff. Yes,.

S

We with it and.

H

I want to welcome you, starburst, Franks and I'm, looking forward to the resumption. Thank you. We.

M

Should come, I don't have a question. I just want to say this location is perfect location for your business there's, so many other books voting facilities out there I know God's built is out there as well. So it's just the perfect area for of this type of business. So I want to welcome you to me. Thank you.

H

Commission, kick this probably looking for new boat I could.

M

Find a new boat a lot of the nice boat, though.

K

What how many do you, how many boats are going to be completed, come on we've been told.

S

A 2 or 2, or a few more than that so.

K

S

Custom built as they're ordered, okay.

K

Yeah, it's a funny intersection where this driveway comes out and so I've got a concern because it if you were to go left, there's a chance that someone would fly off and close road and just flat through a trailer and a truck. And then it's also a dangerous intersection.

K

Once you get out to ultra 19, so I mean I would make a recommendation to anybody within the company to take a right and go out to the light at Ultra 19 and a blue anklet road or Boulevard I get the two mixed up: anklet Boulevard, because I know it's just that. It's a funny situation right when you leave this property and.

S

Then they end it to negate the ad it's an existing driveway that we're kind of landlocked. We can't adjust the driveway right.

K

Asian either yeah yeah I know thanks for, but these are being taking off. I mean. Are these sold like in a showroom somewhere just their personal order door? You know I think.

S

That really they're it's custom, they're custom built on order. They may have some in a showroom, but there.

K

Wasn't much parking.

S

Anxious for boats.

K

In the parking lot.

S

They don't know that they're not going to store here they're going to move on once they construct them. It's low volume, okay, so I think that's the important board yeah.

K

I appreciate thank you for the information.

P

Other members of the public wishing to speak in opposition to the application members of the public wishing to speak in support, would either party wish to make a closing statement of any kind. No.

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H

Thank you. Are they any other completion problem, yeah I.

K

Think this is a potentially another great asset for the city, like some other commissioners have expressed to have another boat builder in the city of Tarpon. Springs is huge and the jobs also for the city of Tarpon Springs. This is a great area for this to go to there's another boat builder in the area, along with a lot of marine jobs in the area. Also so I'm happy to see this come before the board and I think it's a great part, a great thing to see in Tarpon I agree.

H

With you sure, I one of objectives is to bring more business to tarpor Springs, and thank you for coming roll-call a motion. Please approve.

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Your kick yes, mr. Sieber, yes, Marilyn, yes,.

H

That concludes the agenda tonight and we go to the staff Commons chief coach, no.

A

Comments, thank you. Ma'am Peter.

H

P

Comments TD.

G

Manager just one thing, a note on where we are with the negotiation of the hotel property. Their attorney has asked us to give him the appraisal he's going to. He wants to bring it to his own appraiser and evaluate before meeting so they got it he's in the process of doing that, and hopefully we'll have our first meeting to start negotiations on that. Thank you.

H

Madam chair clerk, yeah Commission kick.

M

Thank you. Yes, I just have one comment. This Sunday at 11 o'clock of Tarpon Springs, Elks Lodge, is having Flag Day Flag Day ceremony at 11 o'clock a.m. and our tarpon springs. Honor guard will be joining us so and we have a little ceremony that we do and then there'll be a cake and punch or something afterwards. So if anybody it's open to the public, anybody is welcome to come 11 o'clock at the Elks Lodge Sunday.

M

H

Forward to yeah.

M

Could be fun yeah.

H

Commissioner silver, yes,.

D

We have a new event coming to the Sponge Docks this weekend: Friday Saturday and Sunday oppan Palooza, so we're encouraging people to come out and enjoy three days of fun and music and and food on the Sponge Docks, so hope to see you out there.

K

H

Got a couple of things that I'd like to mention here that on Saturday June 17, the Aurora cemetery has the centennial centennial celebration from 11:00 a.m. and that's located on. Jasmine Avenue I also like to congratulate our commissioner Seaver for graduating the class of 2017 leadership. Propanol. Congratulations.

D

Thank you well,.

H

That concludes our regular session meeting and it's adjourned at 8:46 p.m.

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H

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H

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G

Not more comfortable with your.

H

Investment, you can say anything you want I'm.

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