Town Council - Regular Meeting

My name is Abigail Eberhart, the public information officer. We thank you so much for coming today. In the room with us, we do have our town counselors present. Town counselors, if you could just wave. Yes. Awesome. Great. And obviously we have our mayor, our town manager, our deputy town manager, and all of our directors here to hopefully answer your very pressing questions. But before we do the hard stuff, we're fun stuff. So we're actually going to play a game and our deputy town manager here is going to kick it off. Dr. Kohler.

Thank you, Abigail. I guess you can't take that educator out out of me after all. Um, so like Abby said before we get into the uh questions, I thought we could game. It's like a trivia game about the town and we have prizes. Prizes are up there on the day as you can see. Um, so, wow, that was weird. Um, if you could bring up your phones if you want to participate and just open up a web browser. So, it could be your Safari, your Chrome, your Google, however you want to do it. And you just simply type in cahoot.it. And it's on your handout as well. cahoot.it. it and eventually you'll get to a screen that says game pin and then you just hold. Okay, if you have any questions or need any help, just raise your hand. We have some folks who will walk around and help you get to cahoot.it and get you ready. I know we have some competitive people here.

No. [laughter] Yes. So, I mentioned the prizes in the back, but maybe I should talk about those prizes to get you like excited. So, the first prize is a gift basket. It has the 30th anniversary t-shirt in it [snorts] with some other goodies, water bottle, um, koozie, etc. And then the second prize basket, look at my beautiful Vanna's. The second prize basket does not have the 30th anniversary t-shirt, but has all the other goodies. So, thank you to HR, to Lisa, and Shelby for helping craft those. And then our third place winner gets the water bottle and a sticker and a kind of a fanny pack type. There we go. That's our third pir. All right, Eric, do you want to switch it back over to the game? We're going to start very soon. Does anybody need any last minute help to get to Cahoot?

We're going to give you the pin in just a minute. Yeah. Anybody else need help getting to cahoot.it?

All right, Eric, you can bring it on up whenever you're ready. All right, there's your game pin. Your game pin is the 345364. And again, it's on the screens around the room. You will have to enter a nickname for yourself. You don't have to put in your official name if you don't want to, but a nickname if you as long as you remember what your nickname is because if you win, you want to be able to claim your prize.

Does it have to be PC? Oh, yes. Thank you. Thank you, mayor. Please make sure it's something that can be, you know, appropriate. [snorts]

Thank you. The teacher and me. All right, Eric. I think we can go ahead and get ready to start. All right, you can look at your phones. You'll be able to see what's on the screen on your phones. The first question is, when was the town of Fort Myers Beach officially incorporated? Press your answer. Go [snorts] ahead, Eric. Press next. Oh, you look on your phone. You gain points by how fast you are answering and if your answer is correct. [snorts] Any seconds in order to answer. All [snorts] right, Eric, press next. Let's see who our leaders are. Oh, it didn't show us, Eric. All right, here we go. We'll go to the next question anyway. Ready? Take a look at your phone. What is the primary advantage of FMB's counselor manager form of government? We get some tricky ones. All right, hit next. Go ahead and select your answer on your phone. It's they get tricky and then they get easy, then they get tricky and then they get easy kind of. All right, we'll just let it sit there for a minute. All right, a lot of people got the correct answer. We have 18, which is uh the professional management of daily operations separate from policym. All right, let's hit next. Who is responsible for implementing Did we just do this one? Okay, who is respons I've looked at these questions all day long. Who is responsible for

implementing town council policy and overseeing daily operations? All right, we can hit next,

right? He has to hit next. Go ahead, Eric. Hit next. There's your answers. Go ahead and select it. All right, everyone selected the town manager who's participating. Oh, one selected something else, but that's okay. We're all good. Go ahead, Eric. The next question. What is the town's primary role in the community rating system or CRS? Go ahead, Eric. Click next. All right. Little dispersement of answers, but mostly letter A. Next button. Which type of regulation is most associated with community development review? Which regulation type? Next.

All right. A lot of people know zoning and land use. Next question. We'll get through these quick. What is the purpose of a development agreement? What is the purpose? Next. [snorts] Okay. To establish binding terms between the town and a developer for its project. All right. Next. Which entity primarily provides law enforcement services to Fort Myers Beach? Next. [laughter] I have so many assistants in the crowd. I appreciate that. Should be an easy one for us.

Right. Yeah. Right. The Lee County Sheriff's Office. Next. [snorts] Fun one. What animal is in the center of the town's logo? Next. [snorts]

Okay, it is the dolphin. All right, next one. What is the main function of code enforcement or code compliance in Fort Myers Beach? Next. I'm so excited. I can't wait to see who the winners are. [snorts]

All right, everyone. Did everyone got that one right? Next. We're almost done. We're over halfway. What department is primarily responsible for maintaining townowned infrastructure such as roads and drainage? Next. [snorts]

That must have been an easy one. Everyone answered quickly. All right, everyone got that one right. Excellent. Next question. [snorts]

What is required for most town council decisions to be approved? Next. Okay. Majority vote. Great. Next one. What is a key purpose of town hall public meetings such as this one? Next, maybe I should have curtailed that question. [laughter] Hey, but we all got it right. Yeah. All right. Next question. [snorts] What is typically handed out during the town's anniversary celebrations?

Oh, yeah. Well, we did eat a lot of hot dogs, but something else next. That one was fun to do recently, wasn't it? Yeah. [snorts] All right. It is cupcakes. Remember our cupcake ladies? We had some great pictures of the first original cupcake ladies in our art walk there on old San Carlos. Next question. What is the primary role of the town clerk in Fort Myers Beach? Next. Oh.

Oh. Well, yeah, that's true. We have one town clerk and then we have a deputy. Yeah. Well, there's only one role kind of that in the answer. All right. Very good. Official records and ensuring compliance with public meeting laws. Next.

Yeah, I told town staff they can't play. What is quorum in the context of a count town council meeting? Next. All right, almost everybody got that right. The minimum number of council members required to conduct official business. Next, what's the difference? Oh, this one's a tricky one. What's the difference between an ordinance and a resolution? Next. Think we have a couple more questions to go. All right. Ordinances help create laws. Resolutions express the policy or the intent of the town. Next one. Which branch of military did our town manager previously serve? He didn't know this question was in there. I added it in later. All right. Next.

All right. Next. Oh, this is a tricky one. What does substantialment typically trigger under FEMA regulations? Next, we lived that, didn't we? Okay, we mostly got it correct. Absolutely. Bringing a structure into compliance. Next. Oh, what is the address of our current town hall? The one right here. Next. And question I believe. You may have it embedded in your brain the previous address. So, we'll see. All right. Yeah. Excellent. All right. Next. All right. So, in the end, we will make sure we figure out who our winners are, and we will uh announce who the winners are by however your nicknames are by the end of the meeting, and we'll get you your your prizes. Thank you for participating. Hopefully you got a a good glimpse of all the different things that the town does. Oh, it did. Oh, who's third place? Who's CRK?

Who's CRK? Who? Me. Oh, Chris, come on up and get your prize. And who is Spud? Spud got second place. Come on up and get your prize. And first place is Johnny Mac. Oh, you Oh, you No. No. For you. Okay. All right. Well, then we have first and second. No, we're gonna give first place to uh Mr. Brady and second place to the person you gave the third place to.

Yeah, right. Thank you all for participating. The the teacher heart of me is happy. So, thank you so much. I'll turn it back over to Abigail wherever she is. Or do you want to do it? Okay, back over to Will. So yeah, they need a little bit of time to set up our live uh things and everything. So thank you Will Mechanic, town manager. I really appreciate the terrific turnout tonight. Thanks so much. And while