City Council - Special Meeting

Megan Camp.

Good evening. Um Barbara Boyd with Pervis Growing Company. I'm the partner in charge of the audit engagement. And uh here with me today is Megan Camp. She's the director in charge of the audit. Um so pleased to be here again to present the results of the 93025 um audit. Um, before I get started, I do want to say thank you to Ashley and her team for for doing a great job being ready for us, being responsive with all the questions that we ask. It really does make for a good smooth audit. So, we certainly appreciate um their their assistance with that. All right. So, we have here a PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the book that you have in front of you as well as a separate letter. Um, we can get into the book if you have questions and you want to, but for the most part, I'm just going to go through this presentation. So, the first slide here is a summary of the auditor's results. In the boundary report, we have several reports that we issue. The first is the auditor's opinion on the financial statements and the notes. Um what that report is telling you is that we issued an unmodified or a clean opinion which is the highest level of assurance that we as auditors can provide and what you want to see in that report. It means that based on the evidence that we gathered, what we tested, we concluded that your financial statements are fairly stated and they're free of material errors. The next section there is the report on internal control or a financial reporting and on compliance. Um, as part of any audit, we do look at the internal controls, not to issue an opinion on the effectiveness of your controls, but to determine whether there are any areas that um that that are risky and that we need to devote more of our attention to. Um, and as part of that process, if we identify any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies or material non-compliance, we would bring that to your attention. So, I am pleased to say

there were no reportable items in that report. The next two items are examinations, examination reports that are required by the auditor general. Um, and they require specific reports with um the city's compliance with certain local or certain statutes. So, the first is the investment statute. Um, and we concluded that the CRA and the city both complied in all material respects with the compliance requirements of the local government investment statute, Florida statute 218415. And then the next one is just for the CRA. Um, in the separate CRA financial reports, we concluded that the CRA complied with the redevelopment trust fund in uh statute. The next item on there, the auditor's opinion on compliance for each major federal uh program and the report on internal control over compliance. Um, this is a single audit report since you had over a million dollars of of federal funding this year. It was your ARPA funding. We took a deeper dive into compliance with that grant um and controls over compliance. So, we concluded based on the testing that we performed that you were in compliance with the requirements, the directive material requirements of that grant agreement. Um, and no issues with internal controls to report either. And then finally, there's a management letter that's issued in accordance with the with the rules of the auditor general. No reporting um no findings reported in that report either. So, all in all, very clean um audit this year. So, congratulations. May I ask a quick question on the next to last bullet where it says no significant deficiencies. Is it just no significant or no deficiencies?

Um it's no significant deficiencies because we don't issue we don't um do sufficient testing to issue an opinion. It's not the same level of assurance as we would for the audit. So we can't tell you we identified no control deficiencies at all because we don't look for that. Um now there's nothing to report. I will say right there's there's nothing that came to our attention that was concerning to us that we would report to you. I I just because the you the auditor language just wanted to clarify. Yeah.

All right. The next the next slide is the summary of the separate letter that we issue the required communications with those charged with governance. Um, and that letter just gives you some information that that helps you assess the the qualitative aspects of the audit that are not, you know, readily um, available just from reviewing the financial statements. So, the first item, the qualitative aspects of accounting practices, um, there's broken up into three different sections. Your accounting policies, your significant estimates, and your notes and disclosures. We look at all those items in your financial statements to make sure that they're consistent from year to year. Um there is that there's no management bias included in how for example the estimates are computed. Um so no issues there. There were two new uh accounting standards that were adopted this year. Gazsby 101 uncompensated absences and Gazsby 102 on certain risk disclosures. Neither of those accounting standards while they did change your policies neither of them had a significant impact on your financial statements. So they remain consistent. The rest of the line items there are more the qualitative aspects of auditing practice if you will. So if we encountered any significant difficulties in dealing with management, any um any disagreements with management as we were reviewing the data. Um no issues there. No other audit findings or issues uh other than there's some new accounting standards coming up that we discussed with management. U we did have one past adjustment meaning an adjustment that we proposed the management but they didn't make but it was really um just a timing issue between a reclassification of cash and investments. Um no no um overall impact on your total assets or on your net position. So not a significant not a material adjustment um but something that that we did bring up.

So that is it on as far as our reports and the letter go. Um I do have a few slides on some financial highlights of uh comparing current year to prior year in your financial statements. So this we broke break this up into the governmental funds, the C excluding the CRA, the CRA, enterprise funds and fiduciary funds. So we'll start with the governmental funds and this is very high level but um looking at your total revenues they are down $1.3 million over the prior year. Um the main reason for that is the um intergovernmental revenue which is down $1.9 million. That was the timing of ARPA funds being spent. So that's less ARPA funding in the current year. And then your investment income and other revenue is down 1.2 million over the prior year. You still had a very healthy year as far as your investments go. It's just that fiscal year 24 was an excellent year. Um so it does show is is a decrease from the year prior. And that uh those decreases are offset by an increase in the taxes line item. That's an increase in valuation um and assessments not in the millillage. The millage did not change from year to year. Looking down at your expenditures, those are up $4.6 million over a prior year. And that is all driven by um some planned resurfacing projects that occurred. So you can see roads and streets are up $5.5 million. And then you have public safety that's up about $1.5 million. And those are primarily personnel cost increases. Capital outlay is offsetting those increases by 2.6 million. And that's again related to the timing of the ARPA projects. So all in all, your net change in fund balance for the year was $2.2 million increase. The box on the right shows

what you ended the year with. So your your ending fund balance is essentially what you carry forward to a future year that can be spent in a future year. Um so when you started out with 61.2, you added um $2.2 million this year. So you ended the year with 63.3 million. Um and then the classifications of fund balance there are basically um from top to bottom is is how much control you have over how those funds are spent. So the non-spendable fund balance is pretty minor for you, but that's not convertible to cash. So that's like inventory and prepaid assets. U the restricted fund balance is generally restricted by outside sources or by Florida statute. So um you have some control over how those funds are spent. maybe what types of projects but not the overall categories. Your committed fund balance is uh your revenue stabilization primarily. So those are um funds that you have set aside for revenue stabilization. You can change that through ordinance. So you know going down in how much control you have over that um you are able to change it but generally that that stays um the same in accordance with your ordinance and your policies. And then your assigned fund balance is the most flexible and that you have um set aside for unanticipated events and emergencies f almost $6 million. And then uh capital projects $27.4 million. Those are funds that you have transferred over to your capital projects funds that are set set aside to pay for future projects as you have the uh a pay as you go philosophy for your infrastructure. All right, your CRA. Um, same story here with the revenues. Your taxes are up due to valuations. Um, but your investment income is down from prior year. So net you have a total revenue increase of

about half a million dollars. Your expenditures are up $5.7 million and that's driven by the timing of the capital projects that the CRA engaged in during the year. your ending fund balance for 2025. You've got your restricted um downtown district funds is $25.5 million and restricted for South End is 15.2 million, right? Your enterprise funds. So enterprise funds differ from governmental funds and that enterprise funds are intended to collect user fees to pay for the cost of providing those services. So you've got um you know electric water sewer, most most of your utilities here as well as the golf course, natural gas and and lease facilities. Um your total revenues for the enterprise funds are up $9.6 million. Uh while your total expenses are up $6.8 million. Uh that is that the revenues and the expenses are primarily driven by electric and water and sewer. Um the electric is purely consumption. the water and sewer is both consumption and that the annual CPI rate increase that's driving that. For electric, you can see that uh as consumption increases, the purchase power cost increases. So, you see a similar percentage increase between purchase power and electric revenues. It's about eight between eight and a eight and eight and a half%. Moving on down in the schedule, um the nonoperating revenue and expense, that's as we've seen with the other funds, your um investment earnings. So that's a decrease from last year this year. And then you have your capital contributions, which were set $13.7 million last year and only $750,000 this year. Uh last year's capital contribution is for is an internal

contribution for um certain infrastructure that's paid for by the governmental funds and then transferred over to the utilities. So um last year's case was I believe those $6.7 million for a storm water project and about $6.6 million for a um water project. Yep. Just so I understand what I'm looking at. So where you see electric revenues have gone up by whatever $67 million. Did our cost of the power increase by the same amount or similar? Is that what I understood you to say?

It did. Yeah. So you see your purchase power under expenses increase 4.7 million. That's an 8.1% increase. And then the revenues increase 7.3 million. That's an 8.4% increase. So very similar percentage increases for both. Thank please forgive me when you said your names. I was listening but I couldn't quite make it out. Of course. I'm Barbara Barbara Boyd and Camp. Thank you so much, Mrs. Boyd.

Um, so looking at the box on the right, how you ended the year, your net position, you have a net investment in capital assets. Forgive me, I can no longer see. Um, $221 million is invested in capital assets. And then um 140 million or so is unrestricted net position in the in the uh enterprise funds. And our last item on here is the pensions. Um looking at some very high level summaries of your pensions. So this is a five-year schedule of your net pension liability and your plan net position for those pensions. Um, the year that's highlighted is 2024 because that's the net pension liability that's included in your 2025 financial statements. The accounting standards allow to allow you to use one year prior measurement date so that it doesn't delay the issuing of your financial statements. Um, so looking at 2024, the net pension liability that was reported um is 12.4 million for the general employees, about 200,000 for police, and 1.8 million firefighters actually you don't record a net pension liability. You have a contractual um agreement with the city of Jacksonville. So um so just looking at the first two general employee and police officers. One of the things I did want to point out on here though is I said 2024 was a very good investment year and you can see that in the trends, right? You can see that your net pension liability decreased significantly in 2024 and that was driven by the investment earnings. Um but in 2025 there's a little bit of a reversal of that. Um again still a good investment year. You met your your projections but um not as good as 24. So you're seeing some um increases in the net pension liability there and decreases in the the

um excuse me the plan net position. Um I did want to point out for police the decrease in the plan net position is about 10%. So, it's a little bit bigger than what we see in the general employees and that's due to some benefit changes that occurred in 2025 for the police plan. So, that concludes my presentation. Um,

can you go back to the um the financial page right before the CRA, the very first one? Yeah, that one. Uh, under expenditures capital outlay. Um the this might be a question for Ashley. The I guess we're down $2.5 million. Can you explain that to me as we not doing the projects or

um so 2024 was extremely aggressive year for capital projects because of the ARPA funding. Um if you'll remember, we received the funds from the federal government and we had to obligate them to projects by December 2024 and we had to spend them down by December 2026. So in 2024 we spent $6 million on um the chlorination projects and this year we spent $3 million. So we're kind of winding down and we're on target to spend all the money. Um but we spent 6 million 24 and 3 million and 25. Okay. Thank you.

And Ashley, just to clarify, so you're saying that those were ARPA funds. Those were not that was federal government money, right? That was not our tax dollars. Correct. The ARPA funding they gave us 11.8 million in total. Um and we uh use those funds to make improvements to our water treatment facility and some of our roadways. Okay. Thank you. I think this is a dumb question. for the investment income that's actually like hard income dividends and realized gains, right? Or does is that unrealized gains and losses? It's both. Okay. It's both unrealized and realized.

Okay. So, it wasn't that time of question. Thank you. If there's no further questions that council,

thank you, Mike. Um, I'm not I'm not sure if I should address it to Miss Boyd or Miss Gossip because I think Mr. Gosset understands my thinking a little better. So, I see on page 19 at the bottom of the left hand column of governmental activities, a total expenditures of $241.8 million. And as I understand our budget, that's what we spent basically in in 25. As of now, the numbers are all counted.

So that $241.8 million on page 19, which is the statement of net position, and that's the governmental activities, that's actually the net position in our governmental fund. So that's how much money we are holding and investing in our infrastructure um and our planning for future projects.

How much did we spend in in fiscal 25? That's what I'm getting now. So how much did we spend in discussion five? Um so program expenses in the um governmental activities which does not include transfers was $39.4 million.

Well, let me ask you this question. What was our total revenues taken in from tax dollars and for taxes. So tax revenue across all governmental funds, our total tax revenue is $38 million and that includes property taxes and communication service taxes.

Thank you. Thank you. That's that's all I had. And if there's no other questions from council, that'll conclude our special briefing. The acceptance of the annual comprehensive financial report is on the agenda for the council meeting starting at 6:00. It is under consent item A. And uh obviously if you have any questions at that time, you can always have the opportunity to pull the item before consent. Otherwise, the briefing is closed and we have about seven minutes until we start up the meeting. Evening everyone. Welcome to the regular city council meeting for Monday, March 2nd. We're going to do things a little bit differently this evening and I'm going to turn it over to Council Member Golding to run our opening ceremonies. Thank you, Mayor. On behalf of our Jewish friends and neighbors who live in Jacksonville Beach, I have invited Rabbi Dime to join us tonight to do our invocation for tonight's meeting. And Rabbi Dime is from Bethl the Beaches Synagogue. And I'd like to ask everyone to please stand. God, the eternal source of blessing. We pray for this council, council members, and city staff who serve the citizens of Jacksonville Beach. Please grant wisdom to us and our law enforcement community as we grapple with how to handle teen takeovers and any other troubling events in our community. Oh God, bless our military, first responders, medical providers, and law enforcement community. God, hear our prayers and grant us peace and all the world peace. And together we say amen.

To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.

Thank you, Rabbi Dime. 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. Item A. I move to approve the minutes for the council briefing held on February 9th, 2026. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item B. I move we approve the minutes from the regular city council meeting held on February 17th, 2026. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any post? Motion carries. Approval of the agenda.

I move to approve the agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any post? Motion carries. Council announcements. Miss Golding.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh, first of all, I'd like to thank Rabbi Dime for coming tonight and doing our invocation. Um, truly appreciate your participation in our council meeting tonight. Um, I also wanted to, um, thank our Jack Speech Police Department for all they've done in the last couple of weeks. Uh, in particular with regard to the teen takeover event that happened a couple of Saturdays ago. um for the benefit of the public. Uh our police department was on top of was on top of what was going on. They knew that there was something in the works and they had put together a plan and they had overstaffed or well not overstaffed but they had added to staff uh what they would normally have. And you know it's a very difficult situation to handle because um people are allowed to come to the beach, people are allowed to enjoy the beach. we just want them to do it lawfully. And uh unfortunately um later in the afternoon, early evening um there was there were issues and I I'm just grateful that no one on our in our police department was injured and I'm glad that the um that the incident wasn't any worse than it was. But um it's unacceptable and I know that our police department is doing everything in their power to um make sure that we do not have these issues in our community and I just want to thank them. Um couple of things I wanted to mention is um with regard to the legislative session. I don't know how many of you were on the call this morning, but um just wanted to for the for the benefit of the public, there is a property tax

bill that the House has passed and they've sent to the Senate, but um it's the Senate hasn't done anything with it. And the Florida League of Cities is saying that that they're thinking that there's going to be a special session on property taxes. So, we may expect some uh some additional um work to to happen in after the legislative session is over with. Um, also wanted to mention that the League of Cities mentioned that there's a taxation and budget reform commission which I wasn't familiar with that and uh they meet every 20 years and they are scheduled to meet next year which is 2027 and the League of Cities was saying that this this commission would be um better to vet the property tax ideas. So, if you have an opportunity to talk with legislators, um that is a good a good point to bring up that about this uh taxation and budget form reform commission that we encourage the legislature to allow them to do the work that they need to do when it comes to the property tax issue. And then also wanted to mention that sovereign immunity is still alive and uh it is going to be in the Senate rules committee and there is an amendment proposed to increase the caps. Um and the proposal is to increase the caps to 350,000 per person and 500,000 per incident. And just wanted to mention Clay is not on the Senate Rules Committee, but um you know, we we should still reach out to him and let him know how we feel about the amendment to because ultimately if it gets approved, it will go to the Senate floor. Um and then let's see.

Oh, one other bill that I wanted to bring up is the um House Bill 1389, which is going to be heard this Wednesday on the House floor. This is a live local act bill, and it was loaded with a lot of bad amendments, including the uh ADU bill language that would allow ADUs to be permitted anywhere in residential zoned areas and allow them to be rented less than 30 days. And because this is a live local affordable housing bill, um that's not supporting affordable housing when you allow accessory dwelling units to be rented for less than 30 days. I did reach out to Rep. Michael to let her know let her know our concerns about the bill and um and to let her know that it basically undoes all the work that we did with our land development code and our decisions about where ADUs are appropriate and um so she um she seems to understand our concerns on that. And then I just wanted to mention that there is a meeting coming up this Wednesday. Beaches Watch is hosting a state of the St. John's River meeting. That's Wednesday, March 4th at 7 p.m. at the Beaches Branch Library. And uh Lisa Rhinman, the riverkeeper, will be there to talk about the health, the current state of our river, the health of the river. Um it should be a really good meeting for everyone to learn more about um our river. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Golding. Mr. Ragner. Thank you. Uh wanted to share that uh my wife and I had the opportunity two weekends ago to uh participate in the Seawalk Music Fest. And if anyone here attended that event, you would know how fabulous it was. And and the reason that I wanted to kind of share some thoughts about it was the city working with the organizers really pulled off a a really fabulous great experience, great event. The night was gorgeous. The ferris wheel looked beautiful. uh all in the midst of knowing that we had a potential risk within our city and the fact that we were so prepared and so protected and and and just really knowing a little bit of what I knew from the inside and then watching what occurred. It was just so impressive and I really want to, you know, thank everybody involved, but really a special thanks to the Jacksonville Beach Police Department for their preparation and all of the extra effort they put into making sure that we could attend that event in a very safe manner. uh and really really got to enjoy ourselves so up until right at the end. But uh it was really what really was a great event and I encourage everybody to participate in our city events. Uh it really is a wonderful location and a wonderful way to spend some time with your family.

Thank you, Mr. Wagner. Mr. Jansen.

Yes. I just wanted to kind of piggyback on some of the things that council member Golding was talking about. Uh so that the tax uh taxation budget reform committee, she's spot on. They meet once every 20 years like she said. Um what's interesting about it is that committee is designed with I believe 20 members. Don't hope it's that number exactly. That's a set by the governor and then the uh Senate President picks seven members and then the the uh House Speaker picks seven members. in that core group is the ones that kind of make major decisions on municipality budgets. So that will be our opportunities as legislators to really reach out and talk to them. And I would encourage you folks at home when the when the uh opportunity arises. Now that would be 2027. We should have a new governor by then. So it'll be kind of an interesting dynamic when that comes into play. And one other thing in reference to the uh accessory um uh dwellings that you were talking about. So Miss Goldie made a point that it doesn't put any caps on parking and it doesn't put any caps on the time staying there. So in essence, what could eventually happen is that these these dwellings could end up being short-term vacation rentals. And that's where we already have that problem that exists in our community. So, if we're going to allow that to happen, then the accessory dwelling units end up being, you know, problematic because you're just increasing the amount of times that that you can have short-term vacation rentals within our community. And I'll also piggyback on saying that our police department did a a phenomenal job as far as uh trying their best to keep the community safe. The one thing I want to point out was when these teenagers armed with guns decided that they were going to shoot, uh, they were within 25 yards of two police cars. So, they had no regard for for life or the fact that law enforcement was literally right there. There's plenty of videos out there in the social media if you wanted to see it. So, uh, we we certainly got to get

our hands on that, but they're doing a really good job, uh, with some social media intervention and catching these before before they're uh before they're happening. So, thank you, Mr. Jansen. Mr. Horn,

um, I'm going to piggyback on a couple of things here. I will just add on to what several of my colleagues have said. U, I thank the city of Jackson Beach Police Department for their efforts. I thank Chief Smith and all of the fine officers who serve us. Um, I just I I love saying this and I'll say it over and over again. I thank Chief Smith for doing everything he can to make our city as comfortable, as safe, and as welcoming for the citizens and for the visitors who want to come and enjoy it um as he can. And I want to I thank him for making it as unpleasant as legally allowable for anybody who wants to come and cause problems. I think um uh we're seeing a paradigm shift and and um councelor Jansen mentioned it. I mean, you see those videos and in a in a space the size of this room and there's a police officer at the other side of the room and somebody's willing to pull out a gun to shoot somebody. Um we're looking at a hard issue. Um we're looking at a we're looking at a societal problem and I hope we can um continue to get rid of this in Jacksonville Beach because I don't like seeing it. Um the only other thing I wanted to mention was as discussed earlier the property tax bills are coming out and I want to say this just a brief synopsis of what that what's kind of coming down the pike is that make sure you pay attention if these come out and they become something that gets uh on the ballot because the idea if if everybody said you know everybody I would love to not pay property tax you know anybody who wants to pay property tax raise your hand nobody's gonna raise their hand nobody wants to pay property taxes Having said that, we want roads that work. We want the police to come to our house if there's a problem. We want to be able to flush our toilets and have, you know, the uh that the the plumbing work. Um and so when you're looking and if you see something on the ballot, make sure you understand what you're voting on because again, if you're let's say you're a two-income household and you their bills

are X and one of the people in that household says, "I'm not going to, you know, we're going to take away property taxes." This person said, "I'm not going to work." Yeah, that's fine. We're losing that income. How are we going to make it up? If we're taking property taxes away from cities, counties, state, you know, the state, we have to make sure that there is something there to meet that need. Because if we don't, you will realize, oh, wait a minute, that's great. Then I don't pay property taxes. But now the police, it takes them instead of two minutes, it takes them 30 minutes because there are less of them or the roads don't get fixed or the sewer in my in my city does not work the way it's supposed to. So, um, again, I'm not a fan of property taxes. I would love to see them go away. I want to make sure that we're doing this correctly so that we don't cut services to our citizens. And, um, you know, because I live here, I don't I don't want my services cut. Um, I also don't like the property taxes. Uh, we need to do this correctly. And that's just my thoughts and I want to make sure everybody's aware of that because the idea when it comes up on the ballot, everybody like, "Oh, yeah, great. Let's get rid of property taxes. It's wonderful." But they don't think about the other side of that coin. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Horn. Mr. Wowers. Uh, thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh, I just want to let everyone know I concur with all the statements of my colleagues. Chief Smith does a great job and he takes it very personally. And for all those people, you know, who take cheap shots online at our police department, they did all they could. And I want to thank Councilwoman Golding for inviting the rabbi here. I think it very appropriate. And one thing I haven't heard touch upon is I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for the military folks we've lost. God rest her soul.

Thank you, Mr. Waters. Any other council announcements? I'll just touch on a few things. Not to belabor the point, but on the sales or the property tax uh issue. If you came in a little early, you heard part of our audit report um which was um as great as an audit report can be and really uh if you want to borrow it and read through it um I think you will see that Jacksonville Beach is doing a great job um managing our general fund, our community redevelopment agency funds, our enterprise funds and we have completely separate audit for our pension funds. So, thank you to the purpose gray team and to um our Ashley and our entire finance team here in Jacksonville Beach and all of the department heads and everybody who helps uh make sure that we have sound uh responsible decision- making with with your tax dollars. So, um you can rest assured that that we are doing that. Um a couple other things, spring is here. It might not quite feel like it out there yet, but um with that, we have a lot of events coming up and I really encourage you to support some of these events that we're working on putting into the Seawwalk Pavilion in Laam Plaza. Times we don't have big festivals that we really want to see our our locals come out um and enjoy. So, we have uh the new Tuesday night farmers market. So, it's 3 to 6 right now and I think it goes to 3:00 to 7:00 once the time changes. um Tuesday night right out here in Laam Plaza. Then on Wednesday we have Seawwalk Sessions which is just a really laid-back um music event out there at the Seawwalk. Um and then on Sunday we have the Women's Wellness Fest. So if you are bored in Jacksonville Beach, I don't know how because we have a lot going on. Um but before you come down here, make sure that you are registered for paid parking because that is also starting this weekend. Um, so make sure to um spring your clocks forward and ensure that you're registered for paid parking. So, we've got a busy spring coming up. Um,

and we just thank you all for coming out supporting our our local events and again the men and women of our uh police force and and all of the public safety agencies who who helped us out this weekend or this past weekend, two weekends ago. Time flies. Um, and we'll continue to do so uh throughout a busy spring and summer. Any other announcements? Okay, moving on. courtesy of the floor. We'll start with uh Megan Tilakos. Come on up. Give us your name and address and you'll have three minutes to address the council. Just hit the button there so that it There you go. My name is Megan Tilakis and I live at 13 Freedom Way. Um I'm going to try and keep this quick. Recently, our business was cited for allegedly dumping dirty water into a sewer. The determination was made from an exterior inspection um from a city vehicle and a sidewalk without a full inspection of the operation. Uh we invited that city official on to our business to help review our setup and allow us to explain the process where we were told that was outside of his jurisdiction and he declined. Um to clarify the process, we built a system that captures and contains all of our waste water. It is removable without having to move the full truck. What was being emptied into the sewer on the Sunrise property was water containing soap and sanitizer. Um the city ordinance clearly states we cannot dump into city sidewalks, tree pits or storm drains and that grease disposal is prohibitive which we did not do any of those things and we do not create um any grease on our truck. Then on Friday, we recited again, this time for remaining on site for what was described as impermissible hours um between 3:00 a.m. and 7 a.m. We were told this rule exists to ensure that food trucks leave to properly dump waste water. Um under the state of Florida food truck regulations, we are self-contained. We are not required to visit a commissary daily. Um and we believe that we were operating in compliance with that standard. We were

also under the impression that modifying our water removal process addressed the city concerns. Therefore, we were shocked when we received a notice stating fines of $250 a day. Um, we complied immediately on Friday. We went to the came here to the city offices to try and speak with Miss Beavers. Um, she was unavailable at the time. We wanted to discuss the differing interpretations and try and find a way to move forward together. So, we've now been closed. We're still closed as of Monday at 6 p.m. We have still not received any response from Miss Beavers or anyone in planning and zoning. Um, this is now the second citation without an on-site inspection and without any willingness to engage in dialogue um to reach a mutual understanding. As a result, like I stated, we have been closed since Friday afternoon. Um, we're still paying our employees. It's not an issue that they've come up with and we still have all of our own expenses and bills to pay as a business. Um, so we're not asking for special treatment. We're asking for clarification and communication and fair enforcement of these rules. Um, we want to operate in compliance, but we need consistent interpretation and we want to see our city employees um, be held to a higher standard and work with us as, you know, taxpaying citizens to get resolution on these matters.

Thank you. Thank you, Miss Tilakas. Katherine Screamman. Come on up. Give us your name and address and you have three minutes to address the council. Um, good evening. My name is Katherine Scrimman and I live at 107 CBZ Avenue. Um, me and Charlotte Basi are currently working on our silver award project for Girl Scouts and we attend troop 64002. Um, I have lived in Jacksonville Beach my entire life and I have noticed that at 16th Avenue South at the beach access entrance there is no beach rinse off shower. Um, I live a few blocks down the street so I go to the ble beach a lot and this is always an issue because cars get sandy, skin can get irritated and it's just a lot for people. Um, so our proposal is to ask the city to install a beach shower on 16th Avenue. After talking to many citizens of Jacksonville Beach, many agreed that installing a shower would be extremely helpful. Um, it was a lot of people, surfers, moms, parents. Um, and after seeing so like a big variety of people agree on the topic, we knew this was something important. We have an online petition and an in-person petition. Um, the online petition has gotten over 230 signatures and the paper petition has gotten over 50 signatures. Hello everyone and good evening. If we install the rinse off shower, the community will use it often and you will not be wasting your money. People with kids and beach equipment will be so grateful for this because they can rinse them off like their kids and their equipment and they will not hear complaining the whole way home because

there's sand everywhere and it irritates them. Since there is no beach shower, most people use bottles of water to pour on themselves which we could be drinking instead of wasting. when our so a personal experience is when our friends come down and we go to the beach. We used to go to 16th Avenue South, but now we go to a different beach access because they have a little kid and we don't want her uncomfortable with all the sand. So now we get go out of our way just for a shower. Thank you. Yes.

Okay. Thank you so much. You make some great arguments. I appreciate that. And I happen to know our parks and wreck director is here listening intently. I won't point him out, but he is uh nodding right now. So, uh we will definitely look into the feasibility um of that shower. And uh as one person sitting up here on the day as I tend to agree and I get crappy when I'm covered in sand on the way home, too. Um so, so thank you uh for choosing this as your as your project. We really appreciate the leg work that you've done on it as well as with the um online and in person petitions so far. Um we appreciate you coming out. That is the last uh courtesy of the floor item. So we'll move on to consent agenda.

I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Uh moving on to item A under Mary and city council. Do you want to make this motion, Dan? I would allow Miss Golding to make the motion. I'll make the motion. I move that we authorize Council Member Dan Jansen to represent the city of Jacksonville Beach on the board of trustees for the Florida Municipal Investment Trust. Second. We have a motion and a second. Uh does anybody want to say you want to say anything about what that entails?

Sure. So, this is going to be my second term on the Florida Municipal Investment Trust. Um, fill out a form to speak. Yes, sir. So, can I can I fill this out and still speak? Uh, well, we're done with courtesy of the floor. Is it attached to an agenda item? This is attached to

Okay. Well, we're we're done with courtesy of the floor. Yes. Yep. Okay. So, failed to we're we're in the middle of our agenda now. You're welcome to stay after the meeting and speak with any of us individually or come to our next meeting. Mr. Jansen, okay. Thank you, M. Mr. Jansen.

As I was saying, this is my uh this will be my second term under Florida Municipal Investment Trust, and it it does have a component that benefits the city as I sit as the chair of the pension board. So, um, I get to take the experience in both directions, both with the investment trust for the Florida League of Cities and for our pension board with the city of Jacksonville Beach. Thank you, Mr. Jansen. Uh, we have a motion in a second. Are there any other comments or questions? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horning, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Waters, yes. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. Motion carries.

I guess we know who's up next. Mr. Hughes. Item A.

Good evening. Trevor Hughes, the city of Jack Beach Parks and Recreation. We're coming uh tonight looking uh for approval of Eagle Club systems point of sale software. Our current point of sale software uh is no longer supported. It's being phased out. Uh we're looking for alternatives and this one fits the needs of the golf course the most. Um it also has very strong uh inventory controls to help us control our inventory processes and our retail. Um it has a great credit card processor. Um and it has a great tea management. The other thing that this will be able to allow us to do is we will be able to we will come back to you. We don't have all the details worked out first but will give us the opportunity to charge that booking slash no show fee. Uh we'll be back to you at a later time with the full details. It will take us about four to six weeks uh to build the entire point of sale once it up is up and running. We'll bring the the rate resolution back for those other details. Um also with the um the second part of it, the the card connect um this is uh actually saving us some money. It's a a lower cost than the state contract pricing we were using. And so we're excited about that. available for questions.

Thank you. And a motion on item one. I move we approve the purchase of the Eagle Club systems point of sale software for Jacksonville Beach Golf Club. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion, questions for Mr. Hughes? Mr. Wowers. Thank you, Madame Mayor. I was just curious. I'm not sure if this for Miss Goss or for you. Um, as I understand it, the golf course has about a million dollar surplus that they reinvest in the course. And I was just curious, I know this is a minimal amount, but is this going to be paid for with those funds or with other funds?

These funds will be paid for. It's a monthly fee. Uh, it's it's it's similar to what we're currently paying. We we pay each month for a point of sale. So, it'll be a monthly payment. Thank you so much. I know it includes website hosting and web design. Does that all align with kind of the rules and regulations of a of a municipal website? I mean, I know we have a lot. We will we will ensure that it aligns with all proper procedures and PCI compliance and Okay. And and like accessibility and things like that. Okay. And then do we have a separate website right now for the golf course? So there is and it's hosted by forup but it's linked back towards our page. Okay.

So it'll be similar in that means it'll be you go to our web page and you click on it and it takes you takes you somewhere else. Okay. Thank you. Any uh Mr. Rogers again? I'm sorry. I just had a follow-up question. Will this affect how you can make tea times? Will it still be like you know the magic whatever 6 or 7 in the morning? So, we'll we'll get that at at to the at the resolution, but the tea time, it may look a little bit different because it'll be on the website. Um, but yes, you'll still be able to make your tea times online. All right. Thank you. Any other questions or comments on item one? Madam Cler, roll call. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes.

Council member Waters, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. Item two. I move we approve an agreement with Card Connect LLC for credit card payment processing services at the Jacksonville Beach Golf Club. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Mad clerk. Roll call. Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wagner. Yes. Council member Waters? Yes. Council member Golding? Yes. Council member Horn? Yes. Mayor Hoffman? Yes. Motion carries. Item B, Mr. Fatitis.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Jason Fatitis, Parks and Recreation. Um, this item we're asking council to approve an agreement with um the Volunteer Life Saving Corps and Ocean Rescue to co-host the South Atlantic life-saving uh regional competition. This is an annual competition and um Ocean Rescue along with the BLSC are members of the United States Life Saving Association which is part uh the the Salah region is part of that and last year this was uh hosted in North Carolina I believe um and we're looking to host it this year. It's open to all agencies within the region that extends from um southern Virginia to Northern Florida. And the agreement simply lines out what uh each party's responsibilities are and that it would be a total um cost sharing both in revenue and expenses.

Thank you, Mr. Fatitis. And a motion. I move we approve a co-sponsorship agreement with the volunteer life saving corps to host the 2026 South Atlantic Life Saving Association Regional Life Saving Competition. Second. We have a motion and a second. discussion, Mr. Wagner. So, have the combined organizations discussed uh any plans to humiliate Counselor Horn during this event? Can catch me. Are you offering an amendment to the agreement,

sir? I'm sorry. I'm sorry, sir. You need to please be quiet while we're going through the city's business. We are laughing at a joke about an entirely different issue. Sir, continue and I will ask you to leave. Thank you. Sir, Mr. Wowers, bring home the gold VLSC. Yeah,

I really appreciate that uh both organizations are working together to sponsor this event. I think this is going to be a really um great uh event for us out here on our coast and I think at least the weather will be a little warmer than last year. Wasn't it really cold up there in North Carolina as I recall? Am I making that up? Okay, I see nodding back there. Someone who was probably in the water. Any other questions or comments? Madam uh Mr. Sutton Jason the um looking at the financials there. So, anything as far as sponsorships go, which would is I guess would be starting sometime soon and seeking those that'll continue to offset the

Yes. And and we will share everything equally. This uh we've been actually meeting together monthly since um November. I think we have another meeting this coming week. Um and then probably in April, we'll start to meet maybe twice a month or whatever is necessary. But so far, you know, those meetings have been very productive. Everybody's excited about, you know, doing this together and um and putting on a stellar event. Thanks, Mr. Horn.

And I was just going to say in regards to the financials, I do not think that this will end up being an there may be an upfront expense to the city, but in regards to um sponsorships and things like that on the back end, competitor fees, things like that, they will all be recouped on the back end. So, I think it's not a uh an expense for us. Any other questions or comments? Madam Clerk, roll call. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Waters, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Mayor Hoffman,

yes. Motion carries. Item C. So, uh, this item, mayor, is to approve an the second amendment to our agreement with the volunteer life saving CP. Uh, if you recall, we entered into an agreement with them in 2023. The agreement requires that we meet annually at the end of the season to debrief and discuss operations. Um, when we met uh for the third year operations, there were no issues. I can report that the relationship is working as it's intended to work. Uh we are very very grateful for the additional service that they provide for us. And so we had nothing operationally to discuss or amend in the agreement. The only amendment that we we are going to make are three minor amendments as to the use of the life saving station.

Thank you. And a motion. I move we approve the second amended and restated agreement between the city of Jackson Beach and the Volunteer Life Saving Corps for Ocean Rescue Services. Second. We have a motion and a second. Mr. Borne, I will reiterate uh what you said. I want to thank members of Volunteer Life Saving Corps for continuing to serve the city of Jacksonville Beach as they have since 1912. Um it is a huge benefit to our community. It is a huge resource to the young folks in our area. um they get leadership training, they get uh you know um training in how to serve and serve the community, serve the citizens and it's a wonderful organization. I just thank you all very much.

Miss Golding, I just want to thank both organizations um both JBO and VLSC for um taking a really difficult situation and making it a really good situation now and and working so well together. and for all that the BLSC is doing to support uh J board. Ditto to that we've come a long way. I'm really glad to see it. Um it was hard to get here, but I think it's it's paying off and I really appreciate both parties for u being so willing to work together for the betterment of our community. See no other questions. Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Waters,

yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. The next item is to uh appoint a second alternate for our board of adjustment. We had offered the position to someone who declined it due to scheduling conflicts uh and and time commitments. So, um I'll open the floor for nominations and then we will close the floor and vote. Mr. Jansen, I'd like to nominate Victor Malone. Miss Golding, I'd like to nominate Margarite Best.

Thank you. Are there any other nominations? I'll have um Madame Clerk roll call and we will um Miss Golding, I I just wanted an opportunity to make sure comment if I could. Thank you.

Um I I'd just like to explain um that I am nominating Ms. best because she applied for this uh for a position on one of our boards back in 2024. So, she has been patiently waiting for quite some time. Uh she is a civil engineer and an environmental engineer. So, she certainly has um impressive credentials in that respect. And she participated in the CIA, which is our citizens information academy. So for anybody out there in the audience, um it's a really good opportunity to learn about uh our city and how things work and uh we do appreciate it when our citizens attend that because it uh can I think hopefully make them better board members as well. So, um I she I believe she's the only one in the list of candidates who has taken taken the CIA class and so um I that's why I'm supporting her for the board for the board appointment. Thank you, Miss Golding. Uh any other comments before we uh select our choices? So, as u madam clerk calls your name, just state your selection and then whoever wins that we'll go ahead and do the motion to appoint. Madam clerk, roll call. Just just to clarify, the first one was

uh Victor Malone. Okay. Thank you. Council member Wowers. Am I supposed to say that? Sorry. Yeah. Malone or vest? Vest. Council member Golding. Vest. Council member Horn. Malone. Council member Jansen. Malone. Council member Sutton Malone. Council member Wagner. Malone. Mayor Hoffman. Malone. And a motion. I move we appoint Victor Malone as the second alternate on the board of adjustment.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Waters. Yes. Council member Golding. Yes. Council member Horn. Yes. Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. And thank you both, um, Mr. Malone and Miss Best for stepping up to serve our community. Um, moving on to resolution A. Do we have a update from Mr. Hughes?

Trevor Hughes, City of J Beach, Parks and Recreation. Um we're here tonight to to um pass our bylaws. We we started some time ago with answering the question or our biggest complaint that we can't make a tea time. How do we make a tea time? It's one of those things is when you operate the golf course, hey, this is a great problem to have. But at the same time, we got to make sure that we're offering fair opportunities for everyone to play. Um so we looked at it. What what are our problems? And we identified two major problems. One of the problems is is our league play does occupy a big portion of our times. The other is a is a tea time booking window that's not practical and doesn't function very well. Um it it has a window of 21 weeks. You're allowed to book a tea time 21 weeks. Who knows what they're doing 21 days from now they're on a vacation. So you have people coming on booking multiple uh tea times. They do cancel them last minute. They do get sold, but they're not available for everyone to book. Um, so what we're looking at is is some of the solutions that we're wanting to offer and what what's in these bylaws is we want to make more tea times available, but we want to also honor our league play that's done an outstanding job. They show up. We want to offer that outlet to our community. Uh, right now our men, our senior men play every Monday and Wednesday. Two different groups of ladies play on Tuesdays and Thursdays. And then we have a very large Saturday group and a smaller Sunday group. But we've asked we we've met with every group and we we've come to a compromise with our groups. All right. Our our Monday groups are willing to push their tea times back. Opening the prime tea times. Most everyone that plays golf, they either want to play after work or want to play first thing in the morning to get their round of golf in, get around and and not ruin their entire day. Uh the men's uh leagues have graciously met with us and accepted. Yes, we we are willing to play a 10 as long as we can still play our

leagues. That opens up 56 opportunities for anybody on a Monday morning to make a tea time. Tuesday, the ladies play late enough where they're really not impacting. We have good availability on Tuesdays. Wednesday, if you want to make a tea time, tea times won't be available till after 9:30 because of the men's league. We'll honor that leak. Thursdays, we have good availability on Thursdays. Fridays, there's there's no pre- booked. Fridays are fully open for everyone to book. Saturdays we've reduced the league and and the majority of the Saturday league are J Beach residents and we do have 775 beach passh holders that are Jack Beach residents and the majority of these Saturday Saturday guys make up those groups that they they they do take care of us but we've asked them to shrink their league by 32 players. So this frees up um eight tea times every Saturday. And then on same thing with Sunday, we've asked our league to shrink by 16 people, freeing up uh four tea times every Sunday morning. We feel like this this brings a fair balance, a compromise to our leagues. Um it brings us an opportunity to make more tea times available to the public. Um the other the other thing we're changing is is the booking window. we we will shrink that booking window from 21 days to 10 days if you have the beach pass. Um it'll be 10 days if you do not have the beach pass. Um we feel like if people more or more they'd be able to book their tea time knowing and be able to plan accordingly. Um the other change that'll be coming will be at a future resolution when we add our booking feecancellation fee. That will also be included in making more more times available. people will be less likely to book a bunch of tea times if they're knowing it's it's going to cost them if they don't show up. Um, and then also in these bylaws, we will limit we will only allow J Beach residents or

should I say beaches energy customers to purchase a beach pass moving forward. We feel like these um three changes um give us the best opportunity to have a successful golf course and fair making tea times moving forward. Questions? Thank you, Mr. Hughes. And we have one uh courtesy or uh speaker form if you want to step aside real quick, but maybe stay close for questions. Holden Hackbarth, give us your name and address. still have three minutes to

my name is Holden Hackbarth and I live at 4515 Handover Park Drive in Jacksonville and I'm the uh president of the J Beach Golf Club Seniors and I thank you for uh the time to address the uh council once again. Um we're we're quite pleased with the uh compromise we made with the parks and rec department. Thank you. Um you know the initial proposal was no Mondays. So now we have later Monday and I think everyone is happy for now. Uh the suggestion I would like to make is I I still am perplexed by the you know the data that was collected to make the decision that Monday morning tea times by the leagues are are creating a big problem. And I just would like to suggest that once we have the um new point of sale system in where people get charged if they don't show up the shorter signup window perhaps we can get more visibility into um where the problem really is. Is it on the weekends? Is it Monday? Is it Wednesday? Um, and I'm just asking that, you know, we somehow, you know, can start to kind of track that and maybe we could readress, you know, earlier two times for the main on Mondays later, you know, next year once we collect some data. That's it. Thank you very much. Oh, yeah. And I also want to thank uh the council members um Mr. Booters and uh Mr. Wagner uh for some time that we were able to meet before this all started to help get our arms around around it and understand what what the process is and all that. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hackbart. Um can go ahead go ahead and get a motion, please. I move we adopt resolution number 2204-2025 adopting the amended Jacksonville Beach Golf Club bylaws.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Mr. Jansen. Uh first off, Trevor, I just want to thank you for taking the time to meet with the the club members and and uh facilitating that. I know that uh when our first meeting occurred, there was a lot of friction there. So, uh working this out is is really a big deal. And it's also important that we that we open up tea times for the public. It's a public course and it should be a public course. And so, I thank you that and and hear this gentleman's response um really speaks to the negotiation process. I also want to thank you for addressing the no-shows and how we're going to see that through the point of sale because that's that's very important too. It's a matter of con um convenience for some to just go out there. We'll take the example of going out to eat at a restaurant just making reservations all over the place and then decide, well, I just want to show up with all the other ones. So, it really inconveniences some people. So, um addressing that is very important, at least to me on the council. So, thank you for the work that you've done, sir. Thank you for um working with the city,

Mr. Wagner.

Yeah, echoing many of the points that uh the good counselor provided. So, we really do appreciate uh kind of us that you guys being willing to take a step back, reassessing with the with the community and the and the folks that love this golf course. It's a huge part of our community. So, that I think that's fabulous. I I would like to see us formalize some type of input process or you know you know council of the clubs or something along those lines as a as a repetitive process. I think it's uh it can only make us better and so and I know folks are willing to have those type of discussions. So um really do want to again express my appreciation and and just encourage us to make sure that this feedback loop is a repeatable process. Thank you

Miss Golding. Thank you. Um, real quick question for you, Trevor. You stated uh a number of beach passholders that are Jack Beach residents. Could you repeat that again because I did it was 700 and Yeah, about 775 are Jack Beach residents. Yes, ma'am.

That many. Wow. Okay. And I just want to quickly echo what my colleagues have said that um I do appreciate all the work that you guys have put into coming up with a compromise but also meeting with all the interested um parties and uh because you know as Mr. Jansen said it was, you know, it was a a difficult situation and and I I feel like you guys have come up with a really good compromise. So, thank you so much for all that you've done to to get to this point. Mr. Sutton,

Trevor, you mentioned um a few minutes ago about down to 10 days on the booking window. It's it's um currently 21 for passholders and that's going down to 10, right? And then for the general public, it's 14 and that's actually going down to seven, right? Yes, sir.

Okay. Yeah, I think that'll help tremendously. Um, you know, combined with the additional tea times and and opening things up and and as everybody else has stated, uh I really appreciate the work. Um, you know, it was uh pretty contentious there at the beginning and um appreciate the the uh leagues working with uh parks and recck staff and uh thanks to Wagner and Wowers too for uh helping out. So, Mr. Horn,

uh yeah, basically Councilman Sutton just mentioned everything I want to say. Uh yeah, appreciate you working with the leagues. I appreciate everything. I just I had actually planned on saying this earlier before all this came up, but I want to make sure that once we have this new system in place, if you guys like to Mr. Hackbar's point, if you guys can use the data that we're getting and really kind of, you know, use it, if we're getting this new system, let's put it in place and let's really kind of use that to make this even better. We have, you know, we have an amazing course and we need to use the tools we have just make it better and better. you know, it's kind of lather, rinse, repeat. You know, keep doing what we can, quality improvement, and just do what we can. So, thank you, Mr. Jansen.

Thank you, Mayor. Just a real quick revisit. Uh, thank you for uh also continuing to recognize our our junior golfers and the benefit that they get along with our military and first responders. I think that's very important for our community. Thank you, sir. Mr. Wowers. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, Trevor, thanks. Difficult situation. Y'all did a great job. Um, I would just like to echo hopefully we can revisit this as time goes on and see how we can tweak it to make it better as we maybe at least on a yearly basis. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Madam Clerk, roll call. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen,

yes. Council member Satin, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Um, before we adjourn this meeting, I'm going to give you the opportunity to come and address the council, sir, if you'd still like to. You have three minutes. Give us your name and address, and I encourage you to speak with respect. I understand that you're angry and frustrated right now, but as soon as I hear any disrespect, I'm going to gabble this meeting out, and we're going to be adjourned.

Fair enough. Thank you very much. That that means a lot. I appreciate that, Mr. Uh, my name is Vance Phillips. 7-Eleven Beach Boulevard. Moved here from up north. Shocker. One of those, you know, us northerners that came down here. My wife picked this place. We were ecstatic. We moved in November. We walked to the beach every day. It was heaven. What we're doing now is looking to go somewhere else. This is out of control. By June, we did not like this place. It's out of control. I appreciate the respect you have for the police department. I'm a firefighter. I respect them as well. Got a job here. I work just down the road. It's been amazing. But I will not live in Jack's Beach. Peru. This beach is not a place to go to if you are a ci civilized civilian. I've seen chicken wings put in the sand. I've seen cigarette butts. I've seen drug deals. I've called the police twice since I've been here in three years. What you need to do is stop spending money anywhere else except for private hired police forces to sit on the pier, to sit on the corners, to sit at McDonald's, to sit at everything. It is you you have to make a statement. This is a beautiful place. It is an amazing

place. This is the prime of northeast Florida and it's going in the wrong direction. So I beg you, I ask you, this is this should not be happening. I'm telling you, when we moved here in November, we never thought we'd leave, but now we're buying a house in Bonavville. We're leaving. We ride our bikes up here and we were ride. We came up to the concert at the shooting. We ride our bikes. We still love to come here and we came here. Now I My wife's life was on the line. We ride south right behind McDonald's. That could have been us. We came up to that concert. We want to come down to the concert. Serve bar. We like We do it all. We love it. I got friends in Miami Beach. We drive. We We ride our bikes first street all the way. Should we avoid Jack's speech? Guys, ladies, it's heartbreaking. You need to We need to You need to cut ties, do something, spend money, make a statement.

Thank you, Mr. Phillips. If you could go ahead and fill out the speaker card, too, and just hand it to the clerk so we can have that on the record as well. Thank you very much. Uh, and do I have a motion to adjurnn? I move to second. All in favor signify by saying I.