City Council - Regular Meeting

six o'clock. I won't rush us too fast. We're all moving a little slow because we're cold. Uh, welcome to the regular city council meeting for February 2nd. We'll begin with our invitation followed by salute to the flag led by Councilman Sutton. Please rise.

Thank you, mayor. Yeah, my legs are still tired from yesterday. So, uh, let us pray. Lord, we uh we thank you for your grace and mercy. We um we lift up the lift up this council and uh and pray for all of our council members and our city staff as we work for the citizens of Jacksonville Beach. And uh while it was certainly chilly, we celebrate all of the great success from yesterday's marathon. And uh thank you for all of the the great volunteers and all of the participants and of course ask for your healing and comfort for those that have battled and continue to battle breast cancer. uh lift up our military, our first responders and medical providers and thank you for their protection and their healing that is only through you. We ask these things in your son Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This meeting is called to order. Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Golding here. Council member Horn here. Council member Jansen here. Council member Sutton here. Council member Wagner here. Council member Wowers here. Mayor Hoffman here. Moving on to approval of minutes. I move we approve the minutes from the council briefing held on January 12th, 2026.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh, approval of the agenda. I move we approve the agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Council announcements. I'm going to start. Just want to say congratulations to all of the runners who braved the frigid cold temperatures yesterday. Um, but sun came out and it was a beautiful day. Um and a very successful uh 26.2 with Donna and in particular recognize councelor Golding who participated for the second year right in the half marathon. Did you run it last year? I've done it for this year.

Just kidding. Eighth year. Okay. Even more impressive and continues to be one of the top fundraisers as well. That was very impressive to see. Um so, uh another great event, great showcase for our city. um starts and ends in Jacksonville Beach. And uh I know I'm very proud to uh have that fact and to be able to show off our city and bring in really just thousands of visitors to our area. Okay, Miss Golding. Thank you, Mayor. And I guess I will just continuing that theme. Um, just wanted to say what a great event the Donna Marathon and Half Marathon was uh yesterday and I want to thank our Jackson Beach Police Department and all the officers as well as the officers from our neighboring communities who supported the event. There were a lot of officers and first responders and a lot of us runners were thanking them as we were running along the route because they had to be cold. we were running, they were not. Um, I also want to thank all the volunteers because not just the volunteers for the Donna um itself, but we had Jack Beach Police Department volunteers that were helping out. They always help every year and they do an amazing job. Um, and the volunteers helped to make the event a really great experience. And I also want to recognize the event organizers. They run one of the best events I think and and I'm so proud that we get to have that event here in Jacksonville Beach. Um and especially given the weather and the challenges. I mean all this they I I know they were scrambling to try to get things um set up so that the runners wouldn't just be frozen solid before the race started. And um also want to thank our community who came out. I mean, I think this year,

even though it was so cold, it seemed to me like there were more people along the race route than I've seen in the past. And some of them had fires, which was nice. Um, they were handing out water. Somebody was handling handing out pickle juice, and I'm like, "No, no." But there was music and there were smiles and um and encouragement all along the way. The signs were hilarious and that's what keeps us going honestly because in that weather it was really hard. But uh anyway I was I it that was one that will definitely be a memory for me for a very long time. Um, also want to uh recognize all of all of the council and the mayor who uh we all went to Tallahassee last week for the Florida League of Cities legislative action days and we had meetings with our legislators and I feel like and I think everybody agrees that the meetings went really well. Um, and I also wanted to I sat in on the League of Cities Monday morning call. Few things I wanted to bring up um, from that call. So, sovereign immunity is an issue that's part of my policy committee. Um, and just want to make sure everybody knows that it's going to be heard tomorrow at 1 PM in the Senate Judiciary Committee. And this is um, Senator Yarborough's chairing that committee. Um, and as the League of Cities said, this bill is a far better bill than the House bill. If we have to accept something, this one is a better bill. So, um, the league is asking us to ask our senators to support the bill as filed and not

support any house any house uh, legislation that that may be they may try to get the Senate to support. And also just wanted to mention the local business tax bill which is also going to be heard tomorrow at 8 a.m. Um, and this is the last committee for the House. So, um, and and just wanted to point out to everybody that the Senate bill, that's the companion bill for that. Um, its next committee is the Senate Finance and Tax Committee. And the third committee is appropriations. And we don't have Senator Yarro is not on either of those committees. So, he can't help us there, I guess, unless we can get him to talk to some of his colleagues. But um we're hoping I guess we need to encourage the Senate to to kill it basically is all we can do I think. And then they discussed on the call this morning again there are terrible terrible land development bills. Several terrible land development bills. And um one in particular is the starter home bill which is um let's see which one that the bill numbers real quick are Senate Bill 948 and House Bill 1143. And just some of the things I wanted to share with everyone for the audience. Um, you know, over the last couple of years, we have spent a lot of time working on our comp plan and our land development code, and these bills would basically wipe out what we've done. Um, and it's primarily targeting residential residential areas and it's basically would take away everything that we've set up for our residential zones, but it exempts HOAs.

You know, it's so it's ridiculous. It would not allow us to set minimum lot sizes greater than 1,200 square feet. I mean, that's that just doesn't I mean, that doesn't fit with our community, right? So, these one-sizefits all bills are just are terrible. And I would just encourage you guys to um continue to follow those bills in particular. Like I said, that's Senate Bill 948 and House Bill 1143. Um, the next Senate committee that the Senate bill is going going to is the Senate Judiciary, which Senator Dearber chairs, and the next House committee is the Intergovernmental Affairs, which Rep. Michael is on that committee. So, um, there are no dates for th those bills to go before those committees, but, uh, we need to start communicating with Senator Yarro and and, uh, and Rep. Michael and just let them know. I mean, if you have a chance, please go look at the League of Cities summary for those bills. It's really really good, but it's also really concerning to see all the stuff that they are doing which basically is taking away our ability to decide how we want our residential zones to be developed. So, um, and let's see, do I have any other Oh, um, I do have a couple of other announcements. We have our first Jack Beach farmers market that's going to be Tuesday, February 10th at 3 PM in Laam Plaza. And that's I think that's pretty cool. I know I've I've heard people say, "Oh, we should have a farmers market in Laam Plaza for many years." And so now we're going to have one. And so I hope people hope we'll have good weather and I hope people will

plan to go out and um it it's there will be 50 to 60 local vendors with a focus on handcrafted and homegrown products. So, that should be really good. And last but not least, I wanted to mention that uh Beaches Watch is having a meeting this Wednesday, February 4th at 7 p.m. at the Beaches Branch Library. Um we'll have the three city managers there, including city city manager Mike Stfopoulos who will be talking basically it's going to be city city budget 101 type presentation. Um, but it's intended to educate the community about our budgets and so that they can better understand what proposed property tax cuts will do to um services and the well basically the services that we provide our community. So thank you.

Thank you Miss Golding. Mr. Wagner. So, um there was a lot that was just shared and I'm going to bridge back to the beginning of Sandy's uh and share that. Um while this year I was unable to attend the uh Donna's run, I am lucky enough and fortunate enough to be gifted two autographed name running badges from Pete the Pete Sparkall and autographed by counselor Greg Sutton. So, I'd like to thank you very much. I'm I'm I am going to actually take down my autographed Mickey Manel jersey and replace it with this. And and then this one I'm just going to look for a good charity to donate because I just I mean these are just really like priceless. And and I and I do want to thank you for the survivor medal for my wife who is 15 years of survivor and she hated missing this. But we also got to go to our one-year-old nephew's birthday which uh brought a lot of joy to the family. So,

thank you. I'd like to note that they will not fetch nearly as much considering the drink coupons are removed from the the race bed. I just want to point that out. Shot coupon left on one of There's one shot. Thank you, Mr. Wagner. Mr. Jansen,

I just want to piggy back uh what councelor member Golding said. First off, I'm really proud of our council and mayor. Uh we showed up collectively uh in Tallahassee representing the city of Jacksonville Beach. And let me tell you something, it it the our presence was felt. Every time we walked into a rep's or senator's office and they or they saw us waiting in the hallway, they immediately coraled us in. They closed the door and they said, "You guys get extra time because we're your we're your district." Um they were very responsive. They gave us extra time to listen to what we had to say. And I think when we all go down there as a unified front, um it's and partisan politics are aside and we tell them what's important for Jacksonville Beach, they listen and we got warm receptions on all of them. Uh to add on to the House bills and all the stuff that Miss was talking about, um property taxes, one thing about the property tax agenda, I know everybody's looking at that going, is it going to happen? Is it not? As of today, there's still not any property tax um companion bill on the Senate side. So, that's not to say they won't come up with one be before this the legislative season ends. But, you know, if it were to end tomorrow, there would be nothing on the ballot for property taxes because the Senate hasn't addressed it yet. So, there's that caveat that's sitting out there. Also, I'd like to say that we were featured in Quality Cities magazine this month and for our communication plan and all the good things that are happening in Jacksonville Beach. If you get a chance to take a look at that, you can do that online. And then last but not least, um it's been slowgoing, but I've been trying to work with um uh Congressman Rutherford on appropriation for Jacksonville Beach for expanding um 13th Avenue North as it turns into Robert's Drive in front of

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South, sorry, South in front of uh Beaches Hospital. And um that appropriation just got approved last week. So, exciting news. Uh, and the House side, it still has to go to the Senate side at the federal government and pretty much I I'll say this carefully. Most times when it makes it over to the Senate, it gets approved and move right along. So, keeping your fingers crossed um we'll have that approved and we'll begin work on the uh all the improvements to 13th Avenue South and and Roberts which are desperately needed. Um, and one last thing is I'm proud to sit in front of you and just let you know that when you see a council like this working at all levels of government because I can tell you this when I when I go over to Tallahass here or to DC, I don't see too many other people from other municipalities there as a as a whole. You know, you you see an occasional person here and there, but not the entire council. So, that's it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Jansen. Mr. Sutton and I'll I'll sign that for you as well there.

Um ju just wanted to thank in particular and and and um agree with Councilwoman Golding and Councilman Jansen on our um really unified overwhelming seven out of seven of us in Tallahassee last week was uh and and um city manager Stfools, thank you for being there as well. And um it it really uh was a strong showing and and um meant a lot. Um and we and we did get the attention of uh of our um senators and and representatives that we visited, but in particular, Councilwoman Golding and Councilman Jansen. Thank you guys for how well you guys articulate our message and and represent the things that are important to Jacksonville Beach. it doesn't go unrecognized and a lot of the rest of us can learn from that. So, thank the two of y'all very much.

Thank you, Mr. Sutton, Mr. Wowers. Thank you, Madame Mayor. And, uh, thank you, Councilman Sutton, for saying those comments because you beat me to the punch. Congratulations once again. Um, so you went to the bar crawl. Is that what you did? You did not participate in the run. Just to set the record straight, I ran somewhere. And last but not least, I would like to wish happy birthday to our parks director, Mr. Jason Fatitis. We're wishing you many more, sir. You're awesome. God bless you.

Our gift to you is not singing. You are welcome. Any other council announcements? City Manager Stfools.

Thank you, Mayor. Just wanted to give a a quick update to the council and to anyone else who might be uh out there watching at home about the u uh electric power and energy in general within our service territory. Uh over the last several days, you've probably seen on social media and in the news a lot of announcements, not just from us, but from other power agencies around the state asking people to conserve uh asking them to set their thermostats low or asking them not to plug in their EV vehicles during certain times of the day. All of that was to make sure that we in the state of Florida did not end up in a similar situation to Texas a couple of years ago. If you remember, they had uh blackouts and extremely high uh power bills that came through because their grid was not able to handle the power demand that came through. Uh for those of you that may not know, we are part of FMPA, the uh Florida Municipal Power Agency. Uh we actually have a consortium of over 30 municipalities across the state of Florida and we also participate in power generation. We own pieces of power plants in some cases whole power plants across the entire state. One of the things that we needed to do was make sure that the the demand that came into our system that the system was able to handle it from a production perspective. Um Saturday night going into Sunday morning that was very rocky for FMPPA. uh we found ourselves having units across the state that went down, not just ours, but other providers as well had generation that went down and the grid as a as a whole was was a little sketchy at that point. Um coming out of Saturday and looking for or coming out of Sunday and looking for what we could expect with Monday, there was a lot of concern that we were going to try to shave the peak as best we could to reduce the demand during those critical hours of 6:00 a.m. to about 9 or 10 in the morning. Don't forget, we do also have some solar generation, but the solar generation doesn't kick on until not just the sun rise, but until it's at

a good enough angle that it can actually generate some electricity. Um, so we we took some measures here at the city. Part of that resulted in us opening a little bit later this morning while we kept those thermostats down as low as we could to reduce demand. Uh, but I would also like to thank uh all of our commercial partners as well. We put calls out to some of our largest users that have diesel backup generators and they were able to turn on their generators and take the demand off of the system. Uh overall, FMPA shaved about 5% of its peak demand across all 33 municipalities that participate. That was enough to keep us uh to keep us where we needed to be. But to put it into perspective, when FMPA is having conference calls with the Department of Energy on a regular basis during this event, you knew it was a big event. So, uh, we'd like to think that we came out of it pretty good. A thank you to all of our partners that participated and hopefully the worst of us is behind us. The worst of it is behind us.

Thank you, Mr. Stfools. Any other council announcements? Moving on to courtesy of the Florida visitors. I do not have any speaker cards, madam clerk. Nope. Okay. Moving on then to consent agenda. I move we approve the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Consent agenda passes. City manager. New business. Mr. Baron. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Dennis Baron, public works director. Um, I have an item in front of you tonight for replacing um or or a new uh irrigation at the golf club and some golf club pond connection project. Um, this is of course a big project for us because this is part of our Senate Bill 64 solution projects. So, um, as part of our, uh, initial battle to get that underway by the 2031 deadline, um, we've got to shore up our irrigation to be able to spread the water. There are two, um, aerials here. The first one shows the limitations of the golf course itself on the left, um, positioned sideways because that's the way it came out when they drew it. Um, it's positioned correctly on the screen, but all the writing is sideways. is the basically the new golf course construction. Um, in talking with Jason today, uh, going through some of it, our current system only covers about 30 to 35% of the golf course in irrigation. This system is designed to cover 100% of the golf course in irrigation. So therefore, it's why it becomes so huge for the public works department to be able to asssure that we can meet our Senate Bill 64 needs by increasing that area. And I'm here if you've got any other questions. Thank you, Mr. Baron. Can I have a motion on the item one?

I move we award bid number 2526-02 to Mccura Golf Construction, Inc. for Golf Club Pond Connection and Irrigation Improvements for an amount not to exceed 7,463,557. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion by council? Mr. Jansen. Just a quick question. Maybe this is more for um our parks and recck director. The water that's going to be used, is it going to present any kind of challenges for the greenskeepers on the golf course or is it going to make any changes or I know my answer, but I'll let him

is water water that's going to come through that irrigation system or is it different or uh Jason Fitis Parks and Recreation? Um, no, we will be monitoring the the amounts of water. If um if it gets to an overflow, we do have some alternative um um things that we can do. And the and the I guess I was looking more like towards I don't know the pH or any content of the water. Is it going to be just fresh clean water as it is now? Yes. There'd be no change. All right. Thank you,

Mr. Wagner. Um, I want to start by uh Dennis thanking you for responding to my question. I know it's always fun to get those last minute and was was hoping that you could if you wouldn't mind sharing with the rest of council the the spirit of the question and the response.

I can. So, um I received actually two emails um today from from two different council members um wanting to discuss the the cost of the project in comparison to uh what the engineers estimated opinion of cost. So, prior to us bidding any project within public works, we usually get an updated estimated opinion of cost. That's when my opportunity is to sit down with um finance first and foremost to find out where it falls in relations to our budget and how that fits. and then ultimately to have further conversations with administration to determine how are we going to handle any budgets one way or the other to asssure that we've got the funding for that. So the engineers estimate for this project prior to bidding on October 2nd was $6,547,500. The base bid for this project from uh at the time of award which is now is 6,785,5128. That's within 3.5% overall of the entire budget. That is that is way tighter than we'll probably see on most other projects just because to be that close to the number. It's sometimes over, sometimes under, but to be that close is pretty relative is that that's a good accurate number. We knew we were expecting that kind of a number when we put it on the street for bid and we were prepared to be able to award that number when it got to the point if that's where we were at.

Thank you for that. The the concern was just the number of we sent it out to a bunch of people only one bid and so what you want to do is make sure that we're you know that we're not getting an over inflated bid because there's no competition. And I think that that was a fabulous answer and it really kind of put all of that concern for me to rest. So thank thank you for doing that. Miss Golding,

I definitely want to echo what Mr. Wagner said and I do appreciate that because when I was going through the packet and everything, I was con I too was concerned about the cost and the fact that we only had one bidder and you know, you know, when we have multiple biders, sometimes we see some that are just really high. And so my concern certainly was is this one, you know, since this is the only one we got, is this the best really the best bit, but thank you for your response because that does help to give us a better feeling that this is not out of line.

Correct. If if we would have had an out of line, we wouldn't we would have been having a different conversation, I think, at this point if we weren't prepared to fund that extra if it indeed had been extremely out outlandish. So we were we're prepared to make those calls when we have to, but bring them to you when when we're when we're at the point that seems like a reasonable expectation.

So my request would be that maybe in the future if we have another situation like this, maybe some of that information could be provided in the memo. uh maybe the engineer's estimate to show that it's within 3% and that you know that it was a reasonable it's a reasonable I mean is that something that's possible to include in the memo. Okay. Because I I just think that that could be helpful for all even the public who reads the agenda and looks at the packet. You know we don't want them to have that the same concerns that we do. We get to ask you and get that information but they may not. So that that could be really good if you could include that in the future.

Hopefully we don't have that in the future, but you know, you never know, right? I never see you all with public works projects, so I'm sure that won't happen even by in two weeks. Guess what? You'll probably see that already on the next one. Thank you, Miss Mr. Wowers.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. Excuse me. And I would like to thank director Baron and director Fatitis for their lengthy conversation today at the golf course as well as uh Mr. Street the golf pro there and I really appreciate the comments of my colleagues and I understand where you're coming from but um there's a few things I would like to say and I've given this a lot of thought. Um, this one bidder is taking up 3% of our budget for 2026. And the people who are giving us their money, just for example, if they were to get a home improvement project or buy a car, they wouldn't have one person come over and say, "Hey, we can do it for x amount." Now, as Mr. Fidi has explained this is, you know, highly specialized work and there were limitations on who could actually bid and I appreciate that. But we have seven biders on our next project on the table. And given the fact that we have 2000 till 2031 32 to complete this and we have a new governor coming in and there could be new policies where this could be a moot issue and that's probably a a remote possibility but I think it would be a smart move to table this and try to rebid it and see if we couldn't get another bidder. So therefore, I will not be supporting this. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Waters, Mr. Horn.

Yeah, I want to say um I agree with Councilwoman Golding in regards to um if you know the concerns obviously that several members on I guess all of us on council have. Uh we are reaching a point of increased scrutiny in regards to how we spend the tax dollars. Um I know that this is associated with this is a partial implementation of SB64 and our goal for elimination of um the surface water and um my concerns I can say them now because council uh Councilman Wers brought this up but as we are within three and a half% I think it was of the estimated cost of this project my concern is if we resend this out to bid um next time it might come in at five or 10%. and knowing that, you know, as it stands right now with SB64, we've got until a set date to reach that. Um, uh, if we push this off the next time it comes in at 8 million, 9 million, you know, again, being at three and a half%, this is a big number. I do see where, you know, this was, we have what, three million in the fiscal year 2025 budget. And I wanted to ask is that last technically last year's budget going into this year or it was scheduled to be spent last year for this project and we were pushed. So that is comes into this year as well. How's that? Okay. So we had money from last year budgeted we did not use. We have money from this year budgeted which we did not use or which we are using. Correct.

Reserve. Reserve. Okay. Okay. Um Okay. So again, I just want to say, you know, I I am appreciative of all the members of council who are kind of monitoring and realize that we are all going to be under significant scrutiny as stewards of the tax dollars. And um I know I appreciate you guys getting this going because we have to get it done at some point uh under SB64. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Horn. Miss Golding,

just one quick followup. Um to follow up on what Mr. Horn said, um the And for the sake of the audience, this is what we call an unfunded mandate. So the state a few years ago said that we had to do we had to do this. And um you can now see that the state's requiring us to spend $7 million. And like Mr. Horn said if we were to rebid this, we might end up in the same situation we were in with those walkovers, with the beach walkovers where we saw a really big increase in the the cost to do those beach walkovers. So, it's it's it's a really challenging situation, but the fact that it was within 3% of what the engineer estimated, you know, I I think we we really it would be prudent to move forward with it. Mr. Jansen.

Yeah. I just want to kind of reiterate something that you mentioned. I think was either at a briefing or previous council meeting that the deadline is uh I think January 1, 2030, which means not really 2030 2032. 2032. It has to be done before that. If you if you wait till that time, it's too late. So, we have to get we have to get on it. We have to get on it now. And kicking that can down the road is a terrible idea. So, thank you. Mr. Sutton.

Yeah, I um I really like the idea that we're able to um both meet the requirement and we're really investing in our asset here big time. Um I think Dennis mentioned we can irrigate what is it now 30ome percent.

It from from what Mr. Fatitis was sharing with me today, our current irrigation system which was part of the original golf course. um when we redesigned the golf course or when they did some redesign work in 2018, they did not do anything at all with the irrigation system. So, the irrigation system that we have at the golf course is the original irrigation system. The next golf course renovation is going to require a complete golf course renovation, including all of this work, which is irrigation work. So, my project is kind of jumping in, or public works project is jumping in to be able to fund this project ahead of Mr. Fatiti's schedule for parks. also will be the the foundation for moving forward in the golf course design simply because now we've got a high-end irrigation system designed to water every corner um of the system. And so our current system basically runs right down the middle of the fairways and it it waters the fairways and that's it. The new system waters

every single inch of the golf course. So it's a completely you can see that

on the diagram on the right there. I mean it's just going to cover everything which is awesome. and Allan Mccurick and his group um know what they doing know what they're doing. They they're uh they're the organization that's involved in any course certainly in Northeast Florida and beyond and and moving dirt and uh and doing renovations. So, I'm sure they'll uh they'll do a great job and take care of our course and uh I think it's great that we're investing in the in the asset like this and especially given last year some of the problems we had with the cold and all and I'm sure we incurred some damage last week and a couple of nights ago if not last night and um we'll be having to, you know, you know, work our way out of that here this spring. Uh but this will only help.

Mr. Wowers. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just want everyone to know that I love Jack Beach Golf Course and I've been a member there for years and years and I want to see it protected and improved, too, but I don't see that how getting a competitive bid process would be detrimental to those goals. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Waters. Anyone else? Um, Mr. Baron, how far does this move the needle to meeting our Senate Bill 64 requirements? So, uh, a lot of this baseline work, um, and the, um, major permit mod that we have sitting at D for consideration right now, um, will be adding about a half a million gallon to the golf course. um to be distributed on the golf course. And then this will actually set us up to be able to feed more for the passive park that's coming as well as to be able to include a line to go north to go towards Tall Pines Park and towards Penman Park as part of the Penman Road project. So this piece here is the huge piece because it's it's going from our 1.1 million gallon allocation now to close to 1.7. we need to get to somewhere around 2.7 to meet our needs and and so this will be moving us ahead to at least 1.7 and then everything else we can add we can begin to take chunks off of the rest of it to be able to get to our needs. So this will be able to be pivotal for getting us where we need to have to go.

Thank you Mr. Sutton. Did you have a revisit? Just a quick question too since you were mentioning those. Um, also included in these was distribution, water distribution to Kirkland and Warren Smith as well. Right. I believe

that's those are currently already irrigated. We have an irrigation line that comes from the golf course, extends out up Penman Road, it picks up all of the of the of the Windgate properties. It picks up the police department, picks up O andM, goes to the golf uh goes to the cemetery, and then crosses over Beach Boulevard to the other cemetery. Um, I got to figure out where that connects and whether I'm going to have to recross Beach Boulevard as the next project to be able to go up Penman when they do the Penman Road construction. We're working with Jacksonville to have that designed um as part of their project. So, they'll replace and put that in as that as part of their project when they get ready to do Penman Road. So, that'll be the next piece to be able to get us to the next three parks on the north end where Jason's eager eagerly awaiting additional irrigation water. Good. Um, thank you. I'm glad we're taking this huge step. It sounds like this is going to be the lynch pin to have a successful few more years as we work towards the 2031 goal. Um, as recently as last week, someone addressed a rumor that we would be selling the golf course. And it it happens. You guys probably hear this every couple of years. And it gives me the opportunity to explain something that I learned from our prior city manager, which is this is a really it's not just a recreational space in our city, but it's a really important part of our infrastructure. Um, it's been very important to our storm water drainage system, and now it's going to be important to meeting our SB64 requirements um to eliminate surface water discharge. So, um, so it's not just a pretty golf course. It's so so much more than that. It's so important to our community for reasons that our average citizen doesn't even know. So, I really appreciate um public works and parks uh working together for some really creative solutions. There are some cities that are talking about doing uh what is it? Deep deep water injections, which would be so expensive. Um and the fact that we can use a lot of

this water to water things that we're already watering is um very impressive. And I think that that is is probably going to be something that'll be a model for other cities that are not addressing this as proactively as we are. So, I really appreciate um the leg work on this and the fact that we can tie it into improvements that already need to be made at the golf course um is a win for Mr. Petiti's budget, I'm sure. Um and I know our CFO also really appreciates that. She's nodding if you can't see her on camera. Um so, so thank you. This is going to be a huge step. Uh, any other questions or comments from council? Madam clerk, roll call on item one. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes.

Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, no. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Item two, I move we award the agreement with Dubberry Engineering for contract administration and engineering oversight for amount not to exceed 86,138. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further comments on this one, Mr. Baron? Um, I don't. This is just the contract management side that does all the paperwork to make sure everything meets what our needs were as they were set forth as they're being able to do it and check mark that we get everything and make sure we get finished documents at the end to asssure that we've got everything accounted for. Thank you. Any questions or comments from council? Madam clerk, roll call item two. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton,

yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, no. Council member Golding, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Item three. I move we authorize the mayor and city manager to negotiate and execute any contract as a result of this bid award. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madame Clerk, roll call. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Baron. Thank you, Mr. Fatitis, as well. Um, seeing no further business, can I have a motion to adjurnn? I move to we move to adjourn. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. Oh,