Economic Development Board - Regular Meeting

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can do if any member of the audience has any public comments, presentations. You're welcome at this time to make any public statements. We'll of course allow public comment on each item. So the reason why we're discussing and reviewing the SEDS are the goals. And one of these Bliss had me print last night for each of you the SEV regional economic strategy and how it aligns with our SEDS.

Also what was printed last night is from the future land use chapter. And this is commercial. This is goal two in the flu chapter or element. And this is the commercial space opportunity overlay. And so one of the things that we wanted to talk about was actually implementing into the land development code some of these policies that were put into the comp plan because they've really never been codified anywhere.

So we have these goals and objectives, but we're not really working towards them. So we want to make sure that we're meeting those. Let's go to Okay.

Was there any audience participation? Good morning, Tracy.

So one of the things that so we have in objective 1.1 identified desirable business and industry targets. So right now you can see below I should put in bullet points these are all the industries we are targeting. With this 2025 update what we'd like to do is change from green industries and technology to really go to health care and technology. Just because the federal government is removing subsidies for green technology. We've really had no one interested in coming here to do that type of product.

Given the demographics where over 50% of the city is 55, I think targeting health care and technology is probably a better fit for the needs of the residents and the community than just solely targeting green industries. Of course, can see that both building marine equipment supplies, commercial and industrial and aviation is a critical component. So this needs to be updated because now this has Insertec going into the south part of the city instead of factory direct marine RV. So this is what we've updated so far for the entertainment leisure. One thing I'd like to add in here is that the city is focusing and on expanding access to the trail and amenitizing the trail system.

And so we actually have a new development going in right off a park for pickleball courts and a coffee shop right off the trail. So the city is going to be trying to foster that type of active rec adjacent to the trail with some commercial undertones in the future here. So that's an update that we'd like to add to here. And then again green industries and technology. You know I think when I asked the public, about the 120 people, it was pretty much overwhelmingly when I asked about green technology and its implementation.

Like, should I make all new gas stations at the city have a charging station? Just require it. They have to have at least one charging station. It was overwhelmingly no. So this policy and our SEDS is really it doesn't align with what the public wants and or would expect us to be enforcing upon people. Same thing for some of those other kind of technologies. It was just kind of overwhelmingly people didn't want to do that, or they didn't want to be forced to do that. They felt that the market should just adopt it.

Think there's businesses within our city organization or community that probably manage a greener environment. Doesn't necessarily have to be mandated. So I think that's a good substitution. And if you look at health care, it's the largest employer in Southeast Volusia County, first of all, with AdventHealth. And all you have to do is travel down a few of the Port Orange.

It looks like Medical Row And 40. It looks I mean, it's a large business. And as you say, with our population and where we're going, it makes sense to have a focus and attract those industries that would support those things. Correct. And I think also just getting more health care opportunities by targeting it or end up just providing more services. You go back one for Would So me just for a in here, we talk about desirable waterfront uses, restaurant, retail shops and charter. I know that we are in the midst of moving public works, and that's underway. So maybe just a little bit of color on where we're at with that.

So they're currently in the horizontal phase of the project. So they're moving dirt, grading. They're all done with clearing. And that will allow us to move our current eliminate our current buildings at the wastewater plant and allow for expansion. One of the big things about Main Street and even kind of some areas like Boston.

The city had rezoned that property in Boston. Interestingly enough, we have this in here and I think really in the comp plan the public said the river is our greatest asset. They want to maintain a small town feel and this and that. But encouraging changing the waterfront to be more commercial was not really a desire. People restaurants and stuff.

But they didn't necessarily want Riverside Drive to become more of a commercial mixed use go down there. So I think that part of that is challenging to this thing. And I think that's why we've never seen Boston develop.

There's limited access. There's limited property available for that. It's whatever, 95% residential. And there aren't really empty properties,

to

do commercial on Riverside. I think it's a nice area to keep on the map, and I think ideally we all have a vision of how walkable and how cute that would be. But the reality is it's expensive. It's challenging for a city to manage and mandate. It feels almost like a partnership with some kind of private don't know, but ideally, we'd like to see if you have people that come into town. Where's Downtown Edgewater? I mean, most people end up going to New Smyrna. And it's cute still. It has its charm. But even Canal Street has its challenges.

It's getting better. Flagler Avenue corridor has always been much more

lucrative. Right.

Good morning. Good morning. Apologies.

Just started. Nope. Trains.

I have never had to wait over twenty minutes for the train, no matter which.

I have. Place switching.

I went. Yeah. No. Wow. Good. We

actually just went through call to order. There was no minutes. Old business. We're kind of just talking. There wasn't any audience participation. So we've literally just started on the set. Good. Good, good. Go ahead, Ryan. He's on page two.

So we're just discussing entertainment, recreation, and leisure services. I think some of the success to the downtown, this main street, is going to be a tourism type pool. And it's going to be capturing in essence, we're going to be trying to capture those using the boat ramp to stay before and after their boating experience. And so it's interesting that we're trying to get people to come here. We're trying to do a mainstream, but at the same time, we're trying to keep it quiet.

And so I think trying to flush out that kind of dichotomy, where it will be really crucial to understanding how we're supposed to implement waterfront wise kind of commercial development. Because there is very few spots left in the city that will be developed on the water as full.

All right. We were also talking about eliminating green. That's where Ryan had gotten to and adding into our SEDS health care as one of the goals, which I think you're very familiar with. So that's as far as we've got.

Health care and yes, we need to keep technologies.

Yes, we kept everything else. It was just removing green at health care.

Okay. So then it's aviation, aerospace, and supply services and technologies.

Do you want to put the list back up, Brian? I think that was on the first page. Boatbuilding, recreational, commercial, industrial products and services, eliminate green, add health care, entertainment, recreational, leisure, aviation, aerospace. I think those were the areas that we wanted to focus on. Yes. Okay.

And then then with the aviation and the aerospace, it's rather big. So back in 'twenty two, the city a couple

of questions. We we regional plan. So I just wanted everybody to see that these things support one another and that our compliance with the comp plan is a little

things because leaders change every couple of years, and it's tough to make sure that there's an alignment there.

Under the aviation and aerospace, it talks with whom we are working closely with, Team Volusia, Space Florida. And it says that we will actively pursue. And we are doing this through those entities and SEBMTC. And then if you look at the comp plan policy 114.5, it talks about attracting high technology and other industrial development, ensure the appropriate land, infrastructure and amenities are available to attract high technology and other industrial development that is compatible with the local labor force, raw materials and land form and environmental constraints. And then the comp plan itself, or the space overlay, lays out the framework, and there were some very interesting policies in here for helping us achieve that.

And if you go to policy 2.1, zoning and land development opportunities, the city shall implement the space overlay through zoning and land development regulations to ensure that the targeted industries associated with the spaceflight industries are captured. 2.11, identify the commercial trends. That is being done through Team Volusia Space Florida and the Florida Space Commerce. 2.12, identify suitable lands. The city shall identify suitable lands within the city, coordinate with private landowners as to the availability of the lands, and develop targeted space related businesses.

Brian, are you working with any

question. Be I've think set up a meeting with that's FP and L to discuss Park Avenue and trying to get them to essentially, once the Space Coast is done and the city's done paying for that, the next pad ready development site will be on park. And that's based on what the comp plan it was overwhelming. I had over 60 dots on park that were industrial. So that will be the next kind of shift.

And so we are, I think, weeks from meeting with FP and L to discuss getting significant power to the area because we know that manufacturing requires a lot of power. And there's not adequate power to encourage people to develop there right now. That's interesting. And so it's something that with Insertec we're realizing, hey, wait. It's great to have land, but we help we can't get people to move faster if we don't have it kind of pre primed for them,

which Well, they're shovel ready and there's Utility ready.

Yes. I mean they're

kind of So when Whaler did their expansion, we had to bring in a lot of additional utilities. FP and O works, but it's another added layer of time.

Right. And time is

Correct. And so the whole thing about the space overlay is that it's trying to expedite reviews and the process to get people to come here and build for their space industry.

So how does that work with FPL? Like do we invite them to come in?

Yeah, yeah. Going to have a meeting with them to talk about development and growth and then try and get a partnership to city planning as we are planning to kind of whether we're going to do utility ready or pad ready depending on what just to help facilitate that. Because you're right, one of the big things too is if we're focusing on technology. If we get one of these AI hubs or something, nothing we could, I mean, the amount of energy that we need insane. Would So it's really important that and even just the manufacturing jobs take a lot of power.

So having the infrastructure ready, I think, will be a key portion to having that part of the city develop. And it's really kind of transition from the park count being built out to now over to Park and facilitating that. Yes. I mean,

that's to be one step ahead of the competition. The other areas, I guess, would be to have that infrastructure ready.

What area are you talking about?

The area in question? Sorry.

Didn't say Park, but I'm guessing

All Park Avenue is an industrially zoned border. The largest in the county.

Are we talking about West Of Parktown? Yes,

all the way to Old Mission Road.

Right, because obviously East has power.

All the way to Old Mission Road.

So Park for industrial. And right now, there's a lot of things, right? So the city has a lot of traffic coming in with the new development there. So that will probably trigger a light at Park. Likely, eventually, a light will need to go at Air Park and a light will go at Mission.

Air Park Road needs to get expanded. There's a lot of things in this area. In order to facilitate I mean, because what the public had designated is a couple of 100 acres. So you're talking about possibly another 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 square feet of industrial buildings. That's a lot of traffic and the roads aren't ready there either. So there's a lot of work for the city to get this area ready.

We need an overpass. We need an overpass.

That's the train.

The train?

I'm serious. While I was sitting there thinking, it didn't matter how far south I went, we don't have an overpass.

Well, it's the same thing if you ever had a kid in school. It's just comical. Is comical.

Prime time at 08:00.

Yes. Perfect.

It feels like train switching.

Or at Dayton Daytona Street.

So question. Am I allowed to ask somebody in the audience? Yes. So I know Tracy had some experience in getting and so does Bliss, a lot of experience. I'm not saying they don't. People interested in what other cities are doing that might make them more attractive. What are we missing? Great question. Brad, too, yes. I have all kinds of experts here, but I know it isn't me.

I think we

can hear you.

Think Edgewater is heading in the right direction with those things. When the overlay the space overlay comp plan amendment was made, that was language borrowed from the county. So it put us in massage for SE Volosha, and then we walked through and we did all three cities, so we had a regional plan that met the county plan. So we so and I think Bliss as well is, you know, on target with, you know, asking Ryan what's the next steps we can do to try to accomplish some of these goals identified in the comp plan to further this along to make us more attractive for that market. But, yeah, I think we've recognized the market.

Aerospace is it. And that's a great target industry here. That's part one.

Somebody needs to be going and selling that. Correct?

Well, getting things ready. Make sure you have something to sell. So that was the other problem we had. Bliss and I worked to sell. And we worked with Brad, too. He brought a couple of projects. I have this, but we had no product, whether it didn't have infrastructure, didn't have the appropriate zoning. Mean, we just come out of a moratorium on some other areas that you couldn't even get So so make sure you have that product to sell. And then you say, yeah, you go out and sell that as well. Now, the second component to that that a lot of people don't talk about is the affordability of housing. You know, we worked with a large distribution center many years ago, and that was a big part of it. Is one of the things they look at. It says, great. We got zoning. We got infrastructure.

But we've got nowhere to put employees or attract employees. So it's a multi pronged approach to balance all that out. And that's something that typically economic development board focuses on, that non residential, non residential, but also recognize that's also an important component to make the non residential component work. Did it help answer some of questions?

Plan's important because it all feeds into the reason why people choose here. But I just know that city manager wise, I remember very actively you, Bliss and King Volusia, out in the community selling our community. And not just obviously, Edouard, Southeast Volusia, it was all over Volusia County. I just didn't know how that happens today. Senior manager wasn't out there that much and was that active. I know team Volusia has changed. Brad's obviously still out representing the entire Volusia County. But just didn't

And some of that changes with your administration just through elections. We've seen those waves where you get administration in. They don't want Edgewater sold because they think Edgewater shouldn't grow. And so you get some of those waves administration as well. It's like, hey, let's keep Edgewater the best kept secret. And then usually then as time goes on and you don't have a growth or diversification in that tax then you get a new administration in that comes in and says, hey, we're poor and we need to grow to backfill the coffers. So it's always that cycle.

And on top of that, as he was just a segue right there, we're poor. We need to replenish replenish the coffers. Without the diversification of the tax base, we can't pay for all these capital improvement projects. Mean, you can go out for grants and this, that and the other, but they want to see some

growth.

In the game, matching funds, whatever.

And then if your rating, your bond rating has slipped, if you do get something, you getting it at a higher interest rate. And then on top of that, we just need to work as a whole region, Volusia County altogether. Some areas are better than others. But down here, I'm sure Tracy does too. I meet with developers that are interested in coming here because of our location and our close proximity to The Cape.

But they don't want to be down there. They'd like to be up here. But the time to develop a piece of property, they can go out west, up north, northwest, buy it, develop it, and be running in eighteen months to two years. And here, you're just barely getting your permits. And so time is money. They go elsewhere. And I've met with several of those people this year. I love it here. This is where I'd really like to be. Even with the

space overlay, it still has.

Well, this is there's no the space overlay is in here.

Right. And the expedited review, do we do that? Do we have a plan? Do we have it somewhere that we can read what an expedited review is?

I do not have an SOP. I did expedite the Space Coast one, But that was mostly just convincing them not to originally do the plat and just do the site plan, and then it made the process a lot quicker.

But Insertec didn't get the benefit of an expedited

Well, they're getting the benefit of their building expansions only occurring over the concrete. And it was already permitted, so it's just a building. So they are getting that benefit.

But they've had problems with water.

Had problems

mean, the low site location down there, it

And that's really right across the street from Boston Whaley.

Yes. It needs utilities, and they have to run all utilities. But you would have thought factory direct would have had all those utilities.

So

the other interesting part about the comprehensive overlay, If you read the language, all nonresidential land use categories are eligible for rezoning for the planned unit development zoning classification in order to participate in the expedited review and development of targeted industries. And then it says the following criteria can be used in this implementation policy. When you're doing this comp plan amendment based on our community of 100, are we making

policy is stating that HUD's zoning. So city staff should probably have a base template for that area ready to I mean, it's just work for staff to get this ready.

But if you're doing the comp plan, it would seem to me that this is the time, especially going south.

Because you've already had people wanting to change that to residential, correct? Correct. That's a concern because those

are That's a big prime concern. Then as you go on over to the next page of your comprehensive plan in front of you, we've already discussed the expedited review. We need that. It's good to hear you're going to be meeting with Florida Power and Light.

Yeah, and the other challenging part is for the next three years, the city is doing the Parktown project. So part of this is there's a lot of policies in here that are asking staff to do work. So there's plenty of things for staff to do to get us ready there. So when we do have the funding, we can then work with private landowners to help get these pads ready.

So for Park Avenue, when we talk about transportation network, I'm stepping down a couple of points. That's 100% up to the city to manage any kind of expansion or improvements in Park Avenue. Is that correct?

Park And Mission Air Park, yeah, are county roads. And they're maintained by the county. Technically, the county, it's a part of their thoroughfare network. So they should withhold admission. So as impact fees come in, they're going to be updating the roads. Obviously, one of the hard parts is depending on how much comes in, you don't get the impact fees until after they are building. And so sometimes the challenge is getting the work done prior before they're actually there.

But when we talk about utilities ready such as it also has to do with that road currently probably is enough for what we have, but to add a lot more, which is what we're talking about, it would be a challenge.

And it is the gateway into the Parktown Industrial Center. It is. Another one. And if you look right now, I don't know how many of you live in that area, but Samantha and I drive Park Avenue, Old Mission, Glencoe all the time. And Glencoe is becoming a truck route. And you're seeing all the yes, and those S turns? Yes.

Like why?

Oh, yeah.

Because like right now, we have the public works being built off of Dale Street. Well, the dirt is coming from up there north, like the Tomoka Farms area. Well, it comes down 95%. They get off, and they don't go. 44%. They're taking that road. And I mean, it's dump truck after dump truck after dump truck.

For those of us residents that live on this side of town and have to get to that side of town, like a Home Depot or something, you've always just skipped 44, any kind of. You take old Mission out, or you go all the way to 95 and come back down.

Even the people from Oak Hill, they

come up. U. S. Mission has now become very, very challenging. And you've got those big culverts that look like anybody happens to push you. Reminds me of $4.15, which I've never been.

And then you can't use it after the year because of the floods.

Okay. And on the county's website, Old Mission Road to Josephine, that's West Park Avenue, they have a $2,500,000 total expenditure, and that is to shift the road alignment to the west away from the existing canal. But it doesn't say anything about four lining it at the same time. They have been acquiring right away with the additional or addition of the subdivisions coming online. But there's I was riding it the other day and looking at it.

There's a whole lot more right away to be acquired.

For the second part, the south part, yes.

And the north part, around the campgrounds. But then if you take this back to the regional plan, the regional plan is so that we can work as a region. And so if we work together, like we're working together on storm water and other things as we've worked together on brownfields in the past. If we were to work together on Old Mission Road, we could get that accomplished more

easily. So what does that vision of work together mean for us? What does it look like? I understand us understanding you're dealing with being able to talk intelligently, but what other parties, and I think about our city council, and the mayor maybe don't have as much knowledge or understanding understanding of this, that maybe those aren't the focus.

This is why the plan is a good start. This is why the economic development directors are working together with their commissions and the chamber and MTC and Lord knows who else, the Board of Realtors, everybody's working together. The summit, you might want to go ahead and put it on your calendar, is going to be October 27 this year.

Where will it be?

It's going to be at the Brannan Center. I don't know what time it starts, but it'll end about noon. And, you know, we're going to be coming back and looking at the plan. This year, they're focusing on storm water, I know, and traffic corridors. But this is where the Southeast Volusia plan, the regional plan, was to give us access to state and federal funds.

And if we work together as a region, of course, we're stronger. We have more ability to garner those funds. But it takes the cities working their plans and making sure their comp plan is working with their plan and then coming together as a region. But it's the individual plans that are going to drive the regional plan. And you have to identify that something that is a win or a need, which will be a win for each of the cities.

But this is where bringing people together and uniting them, uniting the vision, uniting the need, and uniting them on how to get the money and solve the problem is where it takes a village and it brings us all together with our plan. But if people aren't even aware that they have a comprehensive economic and development how it relates to the comp plan and bring it back and be willing to know that we have a larger network now in which to work it, it's for naught. This is why I'm trying to connect the dots here so as we all go out in our sphere of influence, we can be talking about it intelligently and educating our elected officials. You know, they want things things solved, solved. But they aren't working together until we bring them together, until the city staff brings them together with other cities.

And I don't have a clock up anymore. It's not

a new problem. Mike has a hard stop in fifteen minutes, so he's got an employee here. So

this is as far as I wanted to get today. Do you all have any comments, questions, suggestions? I have

to just applaud you, Bliss. You've always been the champion of how this works for the city of Edgewater. You're out in the community doing many more things. Maybe you should teasing. It's tough to bring everybody together.

And as those people change positions, it feels like it's almost a full time job to keep people educated on it. In my mind, when I heard you say the commercial space overlay, I picture these beautiful painted new painted walls and having a map that shows those things and the people that come into this place, but it changes often enough that maybe it isn't, but as part of the day quarter to give people that visual, this is what the city needs. We need a balance of industrial. We need to attract great jobs here. We need to have an infrastructure quarter, whether it's utilities and roadways and overpasses. All of that we need

all that. We do need all

that, of course. But we first need people to champion. Yes. And you're one of the ones I always see consistent. I know there's been other people in this room that have been champions over time.

But the comp plan is on the city's website. I can't find the SEDS on there.

I couldn't either.

The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy, can't find it. Much less find the regional plan.

I don't know if this suggestion would be to someone from the county or to someone in the region, but I see a crosswalk in my head of all of the plans, like a comprehensive spreadsheet with if about

overarching I'm just you

the

And

what's in it. Maybe you're just listing the objective or the policy that is covered in that city's comprehensive plan. But again, I don't know who would pull that together. I don't know who would be in charge of maintaining it. That way, you don't have folks sitting here trying to How

does one match with the other?

Do we use where it

used to be a public

charge, right, that's what this is and what each of the cities, whether that visually. But I agree with you. That's why when I say a map here, where highlighted in green is the industrial overlay. So that when somebody brings it up or somebody at City Council or City Council is presented with things, they have an instant reminder that this that's an industrial, and we want to maintain that because this city's growth and its tax base is dependent upon building that type of infrastructure. If someone tries to to

residential, it's obvious that.

Well, if you all remember what Lou had to say last time, our plan was fantastic. Spearheaded the

rest of it.

New Smyrna Beach is now working on updating their plan. Oak Hill, we need to check-in with them. I think that they are reforming their economic development board, but they had a plan. It's a

goal. The thing that comes to my head immediately is, you know, who are the stakeholders? Well, the city is the county, their stakeholders, the colleges,

time

is great. So, who would that together ultimately?

I don't know.

Someone who For region, benefits

the

it needs to be since we have a regional plan, it would need to be people within our region.

I see.

We have Samantha, Ryan. She had

another baby coming in November.

Brian, do you have any help?

For what?

Babies. Babies? Babiesitting? No, I'm kidding. And any of I don't mean that sarcastically. I mean, honestly.

Well, this is why we need an economic Well,

I mean, and I say that truthfully because it's easy to say sit here and say as a member, well, this done, is this done, is this done, is this done? And the truth of the matter is, I'm not real sure unless you're Superman or Superwoman how you would ever get that done if we don't have Same same manager.

Don't have

If this is one of your 12 jobs, fairness to you.

And same as

the same manager.

Yeah. Mean, it'll be slow, but there will be

progress made. And I don't doubt that. I'm not insulting you. I'm looking out for you, actually. I just think that that's another reason why this is more of a full time

We are. I am interviewing this week and next week for that. I think it's now a manager, economic development manager. What was it before?

This is just a lot of upkeep to Melissa's point. That's a good

question.

Plan, like

I that's that's was just talking

about, is a It's a big job.

Yeah. And it's just it seemed a little overwhelming.

This is why the city needs to hire some people.

Right. I think it's less about you and more about the city funding, helping you to

And it's not to bash Ryan.

No, it's not. No, just bringing awareness

to this whole issue. So Ryan said he's interviewing in the next couple of weeks for a manager position, which was upgraded from a coordinator to manager. So I think that's fabulous. It's going on, what, eight months since we've had you've been doing double duty. So I think well deserved. Where are we at with city manager?

It's paused for the hurricane season, then it'll start back again. So

in my mind, that person champions a lot of how this plan gets communicated and gets moved forward. So that's disappointing

to see that.

At this point, though, because of the last last city manager didn't work, the comprehensive economic development strategy either, and our council doesn't use it either, it is up to the people sitting here, if you find it valuable and important, to carry that message forward to our new people and our electeds that this is important. Already have a road map. We already have a how to. We just have to implement it.

You do. But you also have to have planning and zoning on board. You also I mean, one hand has to talk to the other. I

mean, yes.

So the benefit is it's all my I think once I start getting the staff, I think we will start rocking and rolling. I think it's just with everything that is going on at the city. I mean, just going be honest, the growth is incredible right now. I don't think the city has ever had, between subdivisions and site plans, over 40 projects under review or being under constructed at one time. It's a lot. And this planning staff is the same size as it was when we were a city of 10,000 people, when we're now Hence having We're probably getting close to 27.

Hence having a city manager and economic development coordinator so you can go focus. I mean, all of those decisions today to delay. Because

we are managing a lot of things. We're managing doing a $3,500,000 DOT grant from Air Park all the way down to Silver Palm, down Silver Palm connecting 30th. There's now a sidewalk all the way around. There's a lot of things that are going on in the city, all very positive things. I wanted to touch on it very briefly.

So I was going to go over mainstream. We'll go over this again. But one of the big things is that with the mayor acquiring or being able to obtain $1,000,000 in funding.

That's just still preliminary, right?

I believe that he has. The governor did not beat

the Okay.

Good job. And so with million dollars of ARPA, city staff, and there is a program through Transform three eighty six for Milton will be coming out in the fall for infrastructure. It's a 50% match using ARPA, the state grant, and money that's been left over in the CRA. We could do about an $8,000,000 project in the CRA for storm water. Right now, there's all this vacant land against North Ork County along that G2, G11 Canal.

The city are going to propose to council that we use the $4,000,000 to get $8,000,000 to do an $8,000,000 storm water project over about 30 acres on the G2G11 Canal.

And now hardening or for making space for water to go?

This would be no. So this would be most likely an overflow. So it allow it would be a bermed up pond that would allow the canal to flood it Where purposefully for

is the G2 Canal? Sorry, I

don't see where it says Canal Road? Literally, it's just going all way.

It's on the

Oh, I got you.

Sorry, I couldn't read that.

Pearl Street. Is that Pearl?

Old County Road.

With that, one of the challenges is I'm going to reallocate most of the funds in the CRA. Now, I'm still under contract to purchase the home behind the police station. So we're going to still work towards that. One of the challenging parts is that the CRA will only have nine years left. So the implementation so these are the properties we own right now. These are the ones that we are going to target. That's what I brought to you originally. This was kind of a second phase. That would be the whole thing, looking at it.

Wait, go back.

But CRAs can. Can be

We own them. We'd have to go back to the county.

It wouldn't be the first time, would it, Tracy?

Current.

So the original CRA plan had 2,500,000.0 allocated for stormwater improvements in the CRA. Specifically, it was talking about near 10th M Park was where the focus was in the document. So I think we have legal justification in there.

Same with some of the industrial place that we're talking about? Parktown. Yes. Right.

Yeah, I mean it benefits the district. We don't have. About 100,000 square feet of industrial flooding. Correct. Park County is connected to the G2, G11 Canal. And so without improvements to it, Park County has the possibility of flooding in a five hundred year storm event.

So it is an opportunity for future Correct. It's like setting up Yes. Yes. Right.

And it's within the CRA.

So folks, I know Mike, it's 09:00, and he said he a hard stop. Was there anything else from your standpoint?

No, it's just that we would work towards city staff are going to work towards doing. The reason I had done a smaller vision was just because of the time frame. But we can cover this next time, just some of the elements that I think would make why the site design reasons give you an idea of that could be the downtown. But of course, we have to talk about what we're going to do with City Hall. That's the big thing.

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I think it's great. Okay.

Please hang on to your document.

Does this need to be approved by city council or anybody? The thought would be, number one, we could use it to additional funds from businesses to support the scholarship for trade and or certification programs? Or this would be handed out at high schools or for students, maybe even Daytona State that has they could provide for students interested in HVAC or nursing or other opportunities?

So this is a once a year, once a year it is. March or whatever we make

the selections mark, I think that the applications are accepted January through March or January through February.

January, February. So I mean that's something that it says apply now. Yes, this was

we can change anything we want. We can put a date Good down point. You might want to say applications are January through February with announcements made. I think it's actually April, right?

Well, guidance counselor will be we need to check with that because that's I think you can apply for scholarships at any time, actually.

That's what I'm wondering. Yes, there's a deadline. Do we have the forms ready for the next year because they apply whenever. Yes, it's a standard form.

Believe that if you're I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that you can if you're a senior, you can apply for the scholarships at any time. There's a deadline for each scholarship that's available. Good point.

I can find out when the deadline is because this is 99% new summer, I think Burns has some input. So I can find out when the deadline and then look at that. But at least just keep this in mind. Think about it. And if you guys have some input, let me know. Perfect. Liz, do you have anything real quick?

Yes. Please hang on to these documents. The SEDS, the comp plan, and regional SEDS. We're going to be adding to this. We just didn't want to hand you a bunch of paper, but we're going to be adding to these documents. Perfect. Drinman.

All is well. Yes.

I guess, I need to address whether it's been brought to our attention whether a couple of us are need to be Yes.

I'll get us reappoint.

Before you guys came in and sat down, there's

a few people.

Mine's coming up. Liz is expired. You guys are either coming up or expired. So I think we're going to go back to Andrea and see when the last one was because she kept those pretty good. So for the last year and a half and then for the next meeting, we'll put that on the agenda. Perfect. Thank you.

If not, I'll run the show right now.

Motion to adjourn?

Go ahead. A motion to adjourn. So moved. Second.

Perfect. You.

Thank you.

You.

Thanks for coming, Brad.