City Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone. We have a full house. How exciting. So, I'm going to call the city commission meeting April 7th, 2026 to order at 6:00 p.m. Sherry, can you take a roll call, please? Madame Mayor, here. Vice Mayor Ples here. Mr. here. Mr. Thomas, here. Mr. here. And I believe we have Reverend Melissa Grance from our drive-in Christian church. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you.

Good evening everybody. Please uh stand and join me as we pray together. We pause in gratitude for this community and for all who serve Daytona Beach Shores with dedication. As this commission begins its work tonight, may clarity, patience, and a shared commitment to the well-being of every resident guide our deci each decision. We give thanks for the creativity and service being recognized this evening, for the students who inspire us, for employees marking years of faithful work, and for those whose leadership strengthens our wider community. And even as we gather tonight, we do uh pray for our armed forces and their families and ask that you hold them close. For those deployed, for those preparing to deploy, and those carrying the weight of worry here at home, may they be protected, supported, and strengthened. And may this meeting be marked by integrity, respect, and a shared desire to help our community thrive. Amen.

Amen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. Or do Nancy, do we have someone? I'm sorry. We have someone here from Long Street that will be Yes, mayor. We do. Come on. Let's go. Thank you so much. We'll begin whenever you're ready. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you so much for doing the honor of leading us today. We appreciate it. Great job.

Okay, next we're going to go on to our presentations. And uh do we have s some certificates to pass out today? Okay. And as we've been doing for the past I think over a year, thank you very much for bringing your wonderful students here. We pass out some art student presentations. So if we want to all go down and we'll pass these out. Join me down there.

It's okay. Okay, the first one is congratulations. Congratulations. Hey, congratulations. Next is Kayla.

There you go. You're welcome. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Lots of thank you. Congrats, Maxwell. There you go. Congratulations. Major approach and thank you on your award. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Norma,

congratulations. Congratulations. Camden Full Camden, congratulations on your award. Congratulations.

Congratulations. And last, but certainly not least, Men Blair,

these are for you.

Thanks for everything. Thank you. Move this way. Come over here with me. This is the last year.

Down here. Maddie, do you want us further or are we okay? You guys are okay. Commission, can I have you split the podium in, please?

All right, everybody, close right here. Smile. One, two, three. One, two, three. All for your moms and dads. All right.

Thank you guys. Congratulations. down by down. You're not interested. The square will do that. Okay. Um, next, can I please have Maddie Mallister come forward?

So, Maddie is our PIO, which is our public information officer. Mattie's only been with us a little over 90 days. Is that correct? Or how long? I've had four months.

Four months. Okay. She's been with us four months and she has done such a phenomenal job. We are just so happy to have her. But I'm going to read a proclamation. So there's something called 40 under 40 and it although we didn't nominate her um someone else did but we're just sharing in the praise for her. So whereas this year the 40 under 40 event celebrates its 20th anniversary and whereas the event has recognized 800 young professionals over the past two decades. And whereas these young professionals are elected for their leadership and outstanding achievements both in their professions and within their communities. And whereas Maddie Mallister joined the city in October of 2025 and currently serves as the community information coordinator for the city of Daytona Beach Shores, bringing extensive experience in municipal communications and public information. Whereas Miss Mallister has demonstrated exceptional leadership in advancing public engagement, expanding communication initiatives, strengthening our community trust through innovative outreach, including enhanced digital communication, increased our citizen participation, and the development of a citizens academy that we just graduated on last week. Whereas her prior service with the city of Orange City and the Daytona Beach Police Department reflects a strong commitment to public service, including her leadership during emergency responses such as Hurricane Milton in 2024, as well as managing highprofile communications and community initiatives. And whereas Miss McCallister's dedication to fostering civic engagement, transparency, and community

connection continues to positively impact of residents and contribute to the quality of life throughout all of Valuchia and Flaggler region. Now therefore, we deem it an honor and a pleasure to congratulate Maddie Mallister as one of the 40 honores selected in 2026 and we recognize her as an outstanding young professional and leader in our community. I n Mayor Nancy Miller do hereby declare today, April 7th, 2026 as Mattie Mallister day in the city of Daytona Beach.

All right. That's a big deal. Amazing. You want us to with you? All of us. All coming down. Here we go. We are so glad to have you. Congratulations. We're so proud of you. You know what to do. I know. All right. Let's the middle.

Okay. All right. Chris, if you can Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Okay. Usually I do it.

Thank you. Do you mind if your classes. Thanks. Thank you. That's okay.

Okay. Next, we have employee service awards. Our public safety officer, Jack Ramson, was not able to be with us this evening, but we do have our sergeant, Enriquei Rosario, with five year of service. Good evening, Mayor Miller, Vice Mayor Politus, city council members, city manager Fowler, Mark Swanson, public safety director. This is the part of our job that is most fulfilling that we get to do to honor our employees. So, with us tonight is uh Sergeant Enrique Rosario. Um he is being uh given an award for five years of dedicated service with the city of Daytona Beach Shores. So, Sergeant Rosario is being recognized for five years of distinguished service. He joined Daytona Beach Shores public safety in March of 2021. He's been a field training officer, a taser instructor, a Glock armor. He was promoted to sergeant August of 2024, and he's certified as an EMP, firefighter, and police officer. Congratulations. Manny, do you want us to just stand?

If you would, baby. Okay. All right, everybody. One, two, three. Thank you so much.

Okay, I have another proclamation to brief, though. You're going to have to hear a couple more. Whereas so this is water conservation month and they asked us to do a proclamation. So whereas water is a basic an essential need of every living creature and whereas the state of Florida, the city of Daytona Beach Shores and the St. John's Water Management District are working together to increase awareness and the importance of water conservation. And whereas the state of Florida has designated April, typically a dry rainy month when water demands are most acute, as Florida's water conservation month, it is to educate our citizens about how they can save Florida's precious water resources. And whereas the city of Daytona Beach Shores has always encouraged and supported water conservation through various educational programs and special events. And whereas every business, industry, school, and citizen can make a difference when it comes to conserving water. And whereas every business, industry, school, and citizen can help by saving water and thus promoting a healthy economy and community. And whereas there now for be it resolved that by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Daytona Beach Shores, we do hereby proclaim the month of April as water conservation month. Thank you. Okay, next and I hope this is a good one. Um, we have our annual audit report, James Moore and Company. Good evening everyone. James Howerin, a partner at James Moren Company here to

present your audit for the year ended September 30th, 2025. So, a little bit about your audited financial statements. you'll see there is a lot of reports from James Mo & Company about five different reports included in the in the annual comprehensive financial report. We'll get to that in a little bit what that means. Uh but of course the first one everyone wants to know what is the opinion on the financial statement you know from the audit. It's an unmodified screen which does not sound glorious or spectacular but that's actually the best opinion we can provide as independent certified public accountants. Um the next report here, report on internal control over financial reporting and compliance. This is required by government auditing standards. So in addition to US auditing standards, you're also subject to government auditing standards. The state of Florida requires that's not required in every state. Um we're happy to report no material weaknesses in internal control financial reporting. We did have one significant deficiency we identified which was with the um sewer fund. the equity that was in the sewer fund that came forward from the previous year was off by 75,000. So it required an audit adjustment for that. We had no instances of material non-compliance that would require to be reported. Um the auditor general of the state of Florida also has us look at other items for the city like we would look to see if you're in a state of financial emergency which would be very severe. That would be like you would not be paying your vendors, your payroll, your debt service, those type of things. Of course you didn't meet any of those. We also have to perform a financial condition assessment and compare your the city of the beach shores over a 5-year period about 30 different financial ratios and also compare you to similar size cities being based off property value taxable property value and population. So we had no issues with that analysis. In addition, we're also required by statute to look at Florida investment statutes and compare that to the city's policies and whether you're in

compliance with those. We had no issues of non-compliance work there. So, a little bit on the numbers. Your general fund, that's your main operating fund for the city. And what we're looking at here are the ending balances. So, basically, your equity, your assets, less your liabilities in those funds. And you'll see there a total of 23 million this year, similar to the prior two years. And you see, it's broken up into five different buckets. Non-spendable is prepaid and inventory. You've already purchased it. you already have you already paid cash for it. So that's not available for expenditure going forward. Restricted is made up of road improvements. So you receive state revenues that are restricted for those purposes. Um so about 1.3 million right now for road improvements. And then the assigned fund balance that's your subsequent year budget. So each year when you prepare your budget, there's items that are not completed from the previous year. Those are rolled over. So about $3.4 million, almost 3.5 is what's being assigned to the subsequent year. So that leaves you with unassigned. You know, that's basically you're at your discretion how you spend that. You do have some policies in place to make sure you know where you guys are at. We'll go through that in a little bit, but about $18.8 million. So if you look at that fund balance and you compare that that fund balance of close to $18.8 million, your last year expenditures were 20 million.5 million. So and transfers out. So if you look at that and you say what is that as a percentage if you're thinking about your rainy day fund you whether you're at three months six months one month whatever you might be personally then from a business perspective so you understand right about 92% um you know for you know for the year for reference the government finance office association recommends going no lower than two months um and that's at a bare minimum right unfortunately I try not to use the four-letter word you know which is starts with an a ends in an a and

it's a federal agency. Um, we don't want to have to get money from them because that means we probably had severe hurricane damage. But in those situations, most of my coastal cities will be around anywhere from 50 to 75% up to 125%. Because if you do have an emergency like that, which you guys have had in the past, is you're going to have a massive drain on your cash flow and then you wait for FEMA to reimburse you. Um, we wish FEMA was faster, but we cannot speed up that process, but that that's the risk. So most of my coastal cities will keep a little bit more. Also, the larger the government, you'll find that reserves are less. So those the monies they're they're holding back because they have the ability they're larger. They may be borrowing from other funds internally where a smaller city like city shores could say compared to Valuchia County as a whole, their their percentage is much lower. And you do have your own fund violence policy you created. Was it two years ago, Lori? Two. So two years ago is when that was created. And it and it what it does you say okay you set up a minimum that you'd want to have which is 50% of your advalor the budget advalor because we all know with this legislature right now that you might want to relook at that when someone if if a law passes who knows if it will if I was as good at betting at that I'd be betting on investments you know but um so that could change potentially that policy once it does pass at the state level but you are in compliance with that policy just as a reminder because you always want to figure out what what do property taxes really fund for the you know for your city. If you look at all your governmental revenues you have coming in it's about 53%. So it's a large portion of your revenue stream you know very significant this year new you have your capital project fund. So you created a capital project fund this past year to kind of segregate you know those activities related to large you know projects you have going on. It was started by a $5.6 $6 million transfer from the general

fund. You spent a good bit there for this year. You know, you spent, you know, the leftover balance was 2.4 million. The big thing you guys did, you know, firetruck is always expensive. You know, wish they were cheaper, which they could get built faster, but that doesn't seem to be happening. And then you also did some projects with dune walkovers. So, you have those two things that kind of made up your expenditures coming out of that that new capital project fund. You also do have your contraband and forfeite fund that's related of course commissioner Dinsky would know about that. You know there's a restricted by statute for law enforcement activities. Those specifically for capital purchases there was some equipment purchases this past year which is why it decreased. Um cashem investments um you guys are invested in US treasury notes you know so for this year you have close to 38 million invested about 28 million of that is just US treasuries. Your overall investment earnings for the year right about 1.4 4 million. Of course, that can fluctuate over time. That's not just the interest. It it that's adjusted to fair value. So, depending on what the markets do and interest rates do that can affect the value of those treasury investments. Long-term liabilities, you have, you know, no, you know, no general long-term debt, but you do have some leases that are out there that are required to be recorded. So, we have some lease items. subscription based IT arrangements are basically softwares that you own that you're paying over a period of time about 119,000 compensated absences acrewed vacation sick time PTO that's in there there was an accounting change this year that required adjustment in that calculation and what it did it made you not only look at what would be paid when someone left the city so if someone retired or left to go work somewhere else don't know why anyone would want to go work somewhere else but if they did what we pay them out. That was their previous way. You only based it off the cash. What they what they did is they redid that standard and said, not only do you have to think about if someone leaves, you have to think about if they're staying with you and they may use that

time in the future, not get paid for it, but they're going to use it as part when they're still actively working for you. So, a little bit about your one business type activity, which is, you know, your sewer fund that you have, and you'll see this is the equity at the end of the year as well. So it's broken up in that position into those three buckets. It's what's invested back in the capital assets and the actual infrastructure that's in the ground for the most part. So about $4.4 million of that infrastructure. The restricted amount that's impact fees. So as you collect impact fees on on new projects that's restricted can only be used for expansion of service. So about 85,000 there. And then the remaining balance is unrestricted about 12.5 million. You'll see it's relatively consistent over the past couple years. Lastly, I'll end on pension funds. So, you guys are are a member of the state retirement system, the Florida retirement system, FRS, and that has two parts to it. There's a defined benefit part that pays a defined amount based on your years of service and calculated on a percentage of your compensation. HIS stands for health insurance subsidy. Um, so when individual retires, there's a a stipen they get on a monthly basis from the state. So, those are the two plans. you guys are a member just like many cities and counties are. So, state of Florida and their actuarial calculations, they calculate what you basically pay into that system. So, currently your general employee type person would be paying about 14%. Public safety is always higher about 35%. Pretty much in line with last year, public safety went up a little bit more, about 3% and um general employees just about the same as last year. I add that percent funding at the bottom just so you can kind of see those drastic differences. The regular retirement system is 87% funded as opposed to health insurance subsidy which is only at six. It's a non-funded plan. So basically it's pay as you go. So as the go as people are retiring then increase

that contribution to cover the retirees. Um 87 is a very healthy or for a state plan. You'll see a lot of state plans that are a lot less than that. And that Florida has a statute that requires not only the state government but also if you had a local government plan you must pay in what's accurately determined and the division of retirement in the at the state of Florida reviews all those calculations. Um so it's it's a good opportunity that FRS system as I mentioned before you do produce what's called an annual comprehensive financial report. Um Lori and and her department um you know does prepare that and the difference between that you guys go above and beyond what's required by Florida statutes. So it also not only includes the financial statements and notes, it also includes statistical information in the back. So you'll see a lot of information to back that on 10-year trends, some financial trends, some operating trends as well. Also includes a transmitter letter. So if someone's looking at the city chores and they're from Denver, Colorado, they know nothing about Daytona Beach Chores, that gives you an opportunity to explain a little bit about your community. Um, this is the fourth consecutive year you received that award for back one year ago and we anticipate you're receiving that again.

So, congratulations. Congratulations, Lori. That's all I have, but I'll take any questions or comments.

So, on all in all, we're in pretty good shape. Yes. Any specific questions?

I do. Yeah. Have you received questions or inquiries from other municipalities or other clients that you have about what we could try and do now or the finance department in anticipation of a a vote eliminating some of those adalorum taxes even though it's still up in the air? Is there anything we can do now or examine or look or start to prepare? Well, it's like anything, you want to diversify your revenues, you know. So, if if property taxes do have to decrease, then you have to start looking at some other avenues of how do you can you do other charges for services? Can you do assessments? Some cities are looking at fire assessments as one way to do that. That's just one example that that's out there. Um, so

sort of like a city tax uh in lie of the deficit. Well, fire assessment would be a special assessment that goes in a property tax bill. Okay. And it can only be used for um fire safety and basic life support. You cannot use it to pay for advanced life supports. Um really okay. Probably a more proper question for our director. Okay.

I know at the like she she goes through the Florida Government Finance Association. They'll have a conference this summer and they're constantly sending out stuff on it now. But that's one of the options that is out there. There are a couple cities here in Valuchia County that already have that. City of Edgewater actually presented their statements last night has that. City of Lake Helen has that as well, but that's been the most I've heard the most about that people are initially thinking about as another revenue stream to bring in. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you very much. You have a good night.

Appreciate it. Thanks for coming here this evening. Next, we're going to go on to the approval of the minutes from March 3rd, 2026. Do I hear a motion to approve those minutes? Oh, go ahead. I'll move. I'll second. Thank you. Any discussion or anything we need to change or update on those minutes?

If not, Sher, can you take a roll, please? And those passed 5-0. Thank you. Next, we're going to go on to the consent agenda. Um, uh, there are five items on the consent agenda. One moment, I'm not allowed to pull one, right? It has to be for discussion. I I think I have to turn the gap over to do that. At this point, I think you would discuss whether to to pull it as a

but I normally I'd make a mo or someone would make a motion to pull it for discussion. I don't believe Sher do you know the answer that I can pull for discussion? I think you can just request the item to be pulled. Okay. All right. And I'm requesting um item D pulled for discussion. So, with that being pulled, do I have an approval of the other four items? I'll make the motion. Thank you. A second. I'll second. Thank you. Okay. So, the reason I'm pulling item D, it's the city of Daytona Beach FPNL lighting agreement for the installation of lights in Espironza Avenue. And Norma, can you come up?

So, this is Norma Shabaro. Norma, can you tell us what grade you're in? And um can you pull this down? tell us a little about why you did this. Um, I'm in fifth grade and I kind one day I was walking on the street on that street with my mom and I realized that like I can barely see there. So, and my mom always said, "Well, try to walk in the grass area because cars can't see you on the street." So, I'm like, "Well, There needs to be a leg here because there's one at the beginning and near the end, but none in the middle. So,

all right. And so, how did you contact us? Did you write us a letter or what did you do to notify us? Um, I came to one of these meetings like a few months ago and I talked up here.

Okay, great. I do remember that. And I just want you to tell that this is where you come forward and let us know what's going on in our city or anything happening. And I think you probably got with our community service director, Stuart Cruz, because he's responsible for things like that. And because of your interest in our city, this was taken care of. So I just wanted to make sure that um I gave you the credit for this. Thank you so much. So, since I pulled that, I should have got a consent. I'm going to redo the consent agenda that um could all five items. Can someone do a motion for all five consent items to be approved?

I'll move. Thank you. Second. I'll second. Okay. Was that a right to do it like that? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Um, can I we have a vote, please, Sherry? And the consent agenda passed 5-0. Thank you again, Norma. We appreciate you. Next, we're going to go on to old business. Okay. And this is ordinance 2026-01. Miss Simons, can you read that for us, please?

Yes, ma'am. of the city of Daytona Beach Shores Florida related to wine beastros amending the municipal code of appendix G development code by section 2-2 general definitions by creating a definition for the wine trail amending section 14-23 GC2 service commercial district amending section 14-23.2 entitled permitted principal uses the use of per use amending section 14-31 entitled GCRD general commercial redevelopment district amending section 1431.12 entitled permitted principal uses to add one fee as a permitted principal use providing for legislative finance management providing for enforcement of penalties providing savings provision providing for complication providing for conflicting ordinances providing for separability and providing for date

thank you first good evening madam mayor vice mayor city commissioners Winhurstian city planner. Ordinance 2026-01 defines a wine vistro and adds it to the general commercial redevelopment district and the retail service commercial district as a permitted principal use. All consistency all consistency in staff reviews had favorable results and staff analysis um or staff recommendation is for approval at this adoption hearing. I would like to point out that the requesttor for parts of this change, uh, Don Rogers, the owner of Coast Wine Company, is in the audience tonight. She's in the fourth row and I'm happy to take any questions.

Here a motion to accept ordinance 2026-1. I'll make that motion. Thank you. Second. I'll second it.

Okay. Is there anyone in the audience? I don't have any forms. Anyone in the audience that would like to speak on ordinance 2026-01? Seeing none and not seeing any speakers, Sherry, can you take the role, please? And that ordinance 26 2026-01 passed 50. Thank you very much. Um continued best of luck in the shores. We're glad to have you here.

Thank you.

Okay. Next we'll go on to ordinance 2026-2. Miss Simons, can you read that for us, please? Ordinance 2026-02, an ordinance of the city of Daytona, Beach Shores, Florida, relating to outdoor dining conditional uses, amending the municipal code of ordinances, appendix G, a men development code by moving section 14-8 entitled special exceptions and conditional uses to streamline and clarify the application and approval process requirements for conditional uses generally by amending section 14-58.21. Outdoor dining to streamline the application approval and renewal process for certain outdoor dining conditional uses. Providing for legislative findings and providing for enforcement penalties, providing for a savings provision, providing for publication, providing for conflicting ordinances, providing for severability, and providing for effective date.

Thank you.

Thank you, madame mayor, vice mayor, city commissionershy, and city planner. Ordinance number 2026-02 will support applicants for conditional use permits by simplifying the application process for all four conditional uses and further simplifying the outdoor dining renewal process, including eliminating the $110 annual renewal fee. Certain outdoor dining regulations were eased when possible and where possible without compromising life safety and peaceful enjoyment of the neighborhood. All consistency and staff reviews have favorable results and staff recommends approval at this adoption hearing. And I'm happy to answer any questions that anyone may have.

You want to hear a motion for ordinance 2026-2 for approval? I move second. I'll second.

This is a second reading. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak on ordinance 2026-02? Seeing none, is there any discussion? We have no speakers. So, Sher, can you take a role on this, please? Again, that was a 5. Thank you. Next, we're going to go to ordinance 2026-3. Miss Simons, can you read that for us, please?

Ordinance 2026-03, an ordinance of the city of Daytona Beach Shores, Florida, relating to general penalties for certain illegal activity, providing for an amendment to section 1-8 of the city of Daytona Beach Shores code of ordinances with regard to the provision of penalties for violations of city code, providing for conflicts, providing foration, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. Thank you. Do I hear a motion to accept 2026-03? So move. Second. I'll second. Thank you.

This is a second reading. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak on ordinance 2026-03? Not. And I don't see any discussion items. Sher, can you take a vote on this, please? Madam, mayor, can I ask a quick question? Certainly. I know it's a little out of order. Whether it's um Director Swanson or or Manager Fowler, if someone if the state attorney's office imposes a fine on one of these ordinances, does the city enjoy a portion of that fine money to come to the city or is that all go to the state?

No, we we share in that. Okay. Okay, good. That's what I Does that answer your question? Okay, great. Okay. Um, and that passed 50. Next, we're going to go on to new business. So, this is resolution 2026-03. Bernie Simons, can you read that for us, please? Resolution number 2026-03, a resolution at the city of Daytona Beach Shores, Valia County, Florida. A resolution supporting the Valuchia County beach management feasibility study encouraging the Valuchia County Council to adopt a comprehensive beach management plan providing for implementing administrative actions providing for an effective date.

Thank you. And this is a tossup between one of our favorite speakers in the whole county between you and Sheriff Chitwood. Yes. So please introduce yourself and what do you have for us this evening?

Good evening. Jessica Fentress, Luchia Countyy's coastal director. Madame Mayor, vice mayor, and city commissioners, thank you for the opportunity to come before you today. There is a lot in this resolution. I want to quickly go over a presentation for you just so that you kind of understand the why and then the impact that our beaches has on the county. I think that's very specific to Daytona Beach Shores. I want you to see the numbers so that you can take them in your casual conversations with your friends and your connections outside the peninsula. So following the 2022 hurricanes, we received about an $82 million zero match grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection that helped us with emergency sand placement installing the trap bags uh doing the sand placement on the North Beach project with the Army Corps of Engineers. We got out and we got all the easements and we partnered with the town of Poninland, which was a very successful project. We're currently under construction in New Simra Beach, the South Beach project. It's going very well. We expect to be ending this up about turtle season May 8th. I may have a week delay because of this week's weather, but it's it's going great. Uh we're also going to talk very quickly about the inlet Schles to project. This is your next SAM project that you will see north of the inlet next year. And then finally, a long-term offshore sand source investigation. We're going through a feasibility study so that we can become grant partners with the state on future projects. Once the 82 million is spent, we want to have a partner with the state. so that we're not paying the 100% cost on these projects. They're very expensive projects. In order to be eligible, you have to have a beach management plan. Um, and then I need to I need to hit this home on why we love this beach. We know it's important. It is our bloodline, especially in Daytona Beach Shores, but I need to show why it's important to the entire county. And hopefully I can hit that nail straight on the head today. Um, this is your inlet Scholes to shore project. We're we have approximately 1.75 million cubic yards of additional beautiful sand. We

have a hole in the north inlet. Everybody knows about it. Uh on the North Jetty, the jetty is an Army Corps project and the federal government has a funding problem at the moment. Um what that hole does is it allows a lot of sand to go into the inlet and create sholes. The areas you see in red are the areas we've identified for quality sand. This sand came from the north beaches, grew for hole in the jetty from the 22 storms. You may have heard me say we lost 6.6 million cubic yards of sand. There's 1.75 of it right there. If there is emergent vegetation on it, if it is not clean beach quality sand and if it is identified as shore bird nesting habitat, we are not going to touch it. So, this is primarily being guided by FDP and the Army Corps of Engineers regulatory environmental side, but we hope to move on this sand, start excavating and pumping it onto our beaches in 2027, fully FTP grant funded. We're also going offshore looking for additional sand sources. One of the biggest feedback I heard from the Daytona Beach Shores residents was, "Why aren't you just pumping the sand out in the ocean back on the beach?" We didn't have it identified. We didn't have it permitted. This is a long game. It's a federal permit. You see a little pink dash line that runs shore parallel. That's the three mile marker. So everything shoreward of that line is in state waters. Everything seawward of that line is in fed waters. If I'm in fed waters, I got to start getting the Bureau of Energy Management out there. It gets really complicated. Uh this is our long-term 50-year sand location so that we're not buying it from Claremont and trucking it in. Again, fully funded by the D grant. And then part of the coastal study, I'm going to go over this very quickly. It's highly technical. If you want to nerd out on this, here is the website. There's a 30 minute presentation and then there's a long format three-hour lecture series that Mayor Miller was

very uh happy to see that. Um, all the information I'm going to talk about is in there. We fully explain all this to the the minutia of the detail. I'm going to breeze over it very quickly. So we basically have 37 miles of county maintained shoreline excluding the North Peninsula State Park and Canaver National Seashore. So who out of the 37 miles is the most critical? Everybody who has a property on the ocean is going to say, "Well, my property is the most critical. You need to focus on mine first." Um, I live in New Smyrna. It may or may not be the most critical shoreline. So, we did a a data analysis and we weighted this against a bunch of risk assessment um vulnerability parameters. That's the concrete name. And basically, you'll see on your top rows the different criteria that we weighted it against. Your bottom row is a weight. So, we did a high, medium, low on your risk assessment broken out by our physical characteristics of our shoreline. You'll see Daytona Beach Shores is coupled in with Daytona Beach. And the reason we did that is you are very similar physically to Daytona Beach. You have a high seaw wall propensity and you also have the same sand here that you have in Daytona that you do not see in Orman and you do not see in Death Beach. You also have high density residential and commercial as well where Wilbur by the Sea we all know is single family residential. So you're broken out for that reason. We rank it out. We do a weighted measure across high, medium, and low. And then I don't know whether to congratulate you or say I'm sorry, but you are ranked number one as one of the highest risk communities across our entire coastline. You are tied with Wilbur by the Sea. I think everybody understands why. They also got hit just as bad as you did. Although they didn't have the residential unit impacts, they still had the structural and linear greater shoreline impacts.

Jessica, I stop you there. I see why we're grouped in with Daytona, but from just driving up and down the beach, I didn't see the seaw wall impact of the crumbling in Daytona as bad as we had in the shores. Is that is that correct?

That's not necessarily correct. You have uh there are structures in Daytona today that if we had a noraster, they would be hard evacuated by law enforcement. Um there's a lot of the Tennessee Beach Shores is extremely proactive in their building department and you know crisis bring me together but we have a great relationship between the county and the city in the shores and the shores is very proactive in trying to engage their property owners to repair their property. Uh there's a there's a good chunk of Daytona but that has but I cannot say that. Um you you've recovered significantly better than those of our coastline. So now we know where our worst is. We had our number ones ranked. We have, you know, poor new Smyrna Beach North is doing great. She's not getting nothing. Um, what do we do to solve our problems? How do we fix this? What's our long-term plan? I have a four-year-old and I have a 5-year-old. What is my beach going to look like for my grandchildren? What is that vision and how can we start getting there? Um, again, go to the website.org/coastal study if you want to learn about all these individually. There's 10 solutions in the state of Florida that you can do. Uh no action, which is the government alternative. Uh structural relocation, which is not necessarily an option for going to be shores because you have condos and you have thriving infrastructure. You can't buy these condos out. You can't relocate these single family homes. Flood proofing and structural elevation is basically lifting houses. Seaw walls, we know what they are. Revetments, you have those as well, just south of Frank Brennan Park in that single family home section. Beach nourishment is the expanding of your dry recreational beach and elevating that dry recreational beach. Groins are shore perpendicular rock structures similar to mini jetties. Nearshore sand placement is similar to beach nourishment, but it's done in about 8 ft of water. Minimal impact on

the upland property owners, minimal impact on the recreation of the beach. What it does is it basically builds sandbars that the ocean will naturally bring ashore during our normal summer migration and give you baby dunes. Uh breakwaters are shore parallel rock structures. And then artificial reefs are very similar to breakwaters. They're a little more porous. They're not granite rock. They are usually some sort of 3D printed concrete thing. Um and they are also short parallel breakwater style structures. Again, because I'm an engineer and I like to nerd out, I have another really good chart analysis that ranks um your alternatives against your end goal. And you can see the top row, we have reduced coastal storm damages to structures, critical infrastructure, and cultural resources. Next row is your waiting that weighted the highest because why are we doing this? We're doing this to protect our investment in our property and our investment in our economy. followed by reduce risk of natural resource loss, reduce risk to life safety, avoid impact to recreation, minimize impacts to threaten endangered species in their habitats. And then finally, I got to be able to permit the thing. Um, ranking it out, you have your top contenders are beach nourishment, structural relocation, and nearshore sand placement. We talked about structure relocation not necessarily being an option for Daytona Beach Shores, but what I do want to put out there is the state of Florida will only partner on grant funding if it is a sand option. The state of Florida will not do a 50% cost match with us for building a groin or uh building an artificial reef. They will only cost participate for sand. That's nourishment or the nearshore placement. So, I promised Mr. Fowler he would get a

couple of new tidbits. Uh, Mayor Miller has graciously invited us to come to the elected roundt officials meeting in May to present this a little more in depth. I encourage you to come if your calendar allows you to. Uh, let's talk about why this is important outside of Daytona Beach Shores. Why do people come to Valuchia County? the beaches, but you know, it is we win. Uh regardless of why people come to Bluche County, whether they're going to a Stson Hatter's baseball game or they're coming for the excellent restaurants that we have on the beach, they come to the beach. 95 to 98% of all tourists in Valia County come to the beach. This is a really interesting stat. There are twice as many day trips to Valuchia County's beaches than to all 175 state parks combined. Wow. Our 37 miles of public access results in 61 million day trips a year. Heard me talk before, my husband is an avid surfer in the Smyrna at the jetties. He probably contributes about 500 of those day trips a year. Um, but the other thing that hits home, and this is what I want you to keep in your back pocket as you talk to your friends, you know, on the mainland is Valuchia County residents come to our beaches 19 times more than they go to Valuchia Parks and Trails. The beach is our county's recreation highlight. It is not just the shores recreation highlight. It is the counties. If you take anything away with you, bottom right hand corner, the largest economic driver that creates jobs in our county is beach related tourism. 31,400

jobs in the county are due to our beach tourism industry. Top right hand corner. Beach tourism alone in our county contributes $4.3 billion dollar a year to the county's GDP. That equates out to $28,000 of sales tax revenue for every homesteaded property in the county. So if if someone who may not live beachside or may live west of 95 says, "Well, I don't care about the beach. I don't I don't you know, it doesn't matter to me." Well, it's bringing in about $28,000 sales tax for your property and each one of your neighbors properties as well. So, what I want to leave here today with with you as elected officials as you reach out to your community and your friends and neighbors is our beach drives our county. It drives our jobs and it drives our revenue. It is important and it should be invested in. With that, uh I am currently going out I'm speaking to the municipal commissions just like you guys. I am collecting letters of support. The county council is very big on doing your homework. I can guarantee you they're going to ask me, "Did I go out and did I engage our residents? Did I engage our cities? Did you get their feedback? Do they know about this?" And I want to be able to say yes. So, thank you, Mayor and Manager Fowler, for inviting me here today. We hope to take this to our county council for consideration late summer. With that, we had a closing slide, but there you go. My contact information is here should anybody have any questions uh in the public they watch this online but I am available for questions.

Jessica as normal wonderful wonderful offer. You just so knowledgeable all this and um we appreciate the excellent partnership that we have with you and we have for years. So um now I'm going to ask you if we can give the support for resolution 20263. Do I hear a motion to approve that resolution? I so move. We second. I'll second. Thank you. Does anyone in the audience have anything they would like to say on resolution 2026-03? Certainly. Um and then we have um one speaker one question.

I do centress. I just want to tell you I live on the beach as most of us do or many of us do. That is the one thing that my residents are in my condo are all constantly asking me. Are you gonna do not you but us gonna do anything about the sand north pawn center? So it's wonderful to hear you talk tonight. Thank you. Thank you sir. Madam mayor and ask Hi. Yes sir.

I have an interesting question and I get a lot of people that ask me different things and sometimes I just don't know the answer. Is it accurate that when you go north on Flaggler on A1A, the Army Corps of Engineers has jurisdiction of that part of the beach and anything that happens, they pay to fix it over and over? And is the county going to be inclined to maybe do the same thing with the property we have so that way they can fix it and pay for it in the future? And I'm sure there's lots of pros and cons, but is is there any truth to that rumor?

Yes, sir. The Army Corps doesn't have jurisdiction. And what they have is they have a federally funded project. Uh Valuchia County has been trying to get a feasibility study performed in in order to have a federal sand project for project feasibility study to provide the government with the ROI that it's worth investment. Um that's a three-year project. Representative Waltz at the time, I believe it's Ambassador Waltz currently, he had our feasibility study fully funded uh last year and then when the new administration came through, our feasibility study was unfunded. So, we're working with our representatives in Washington to get our feasibility included in either the Army Corps's work plan or the president's budget. Uh now, that that is a really good point. The reason while it's a a longer process to get there to have a federal sand project, the buy down locally is significantly lower. When the federal government participates, they tend to participate in the realm of 75%. Where the state tends to participate on a state partnership, it's about 50%. So, when you're talking about a $50 million project, that's a significant partnership that you want to engage on. What we're doing with this feasibility study is we we are slow rolling this. It has been a slow and long burn, but we've followed the standards set in place by the Army Corps of Engineers so that when we get our federal feasibility project funded, we've already done the majority of the groundwork. Uh, our cost participation, which would be about $1.5 million, is pretty much spent in just our background work. So, if you know anybody in Washington, specifically in the Pentagon, uh, give them my number. I'm happy to talk to them.

Thank you. Thanks for that information. Can you talk about um it seems like I bet it was almost a year and a half to two years ago that we did have a representative believe from Jacksonville from the Army Corps of Engineers that came down uh we rode along on the beach with him. We stopped at the jetty and he agreed that we do need this as you're trying to explain that's great that somebody says yes you need this. It's the funding and and you're exactly right at that time I think we were working with um Congressman Waltz and Corey Mills and got their buy in and unfortunately you know things changed hands. So we know that we have the support we just need the funds.

We need to clear Washington and there's only five projects nationwide a year that are awarded. So the competition is insane and we were going against the wall in Mexico. We're going after hospitals. We're going after forest fires. We were we were competing against other projects that are civil works but not necessarily just beaches. Did that answer your question? It did. Thank you. Um, did we vote? Not yet.

Was there any other discussion or any other questions? If not, then Sherry, can you take the vote? Okay. And that passed 5-0. Thank you so much for coming in today. You do have our support. We appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we're going to go on to item B. This is the approval to apply for the ULI, the Urban Land Institute Technical Assistance Panel app program and budget appropriations. Director Maddox, what do you have for us? Good evening, Madame Mayor. Mayor,

would you like me to read out the new say? Yes, that would be great. I didn't resolution 2026-04 resolution of the Daytona Shores, Felicia County, Florida, amending the general fund fiscal year 2025-2026 budget for technical assistance panels economic development study for 25,000, providing for appropriations, providing an effective date.

Thank you. All right. I didn't see that resolution on here. Um, we'll try this again. Good evening, Madame Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Commission. Nancy Maddox, community engagement director. Staff is seeking city commission's approval to apply for the Urban Land Institute of Central Florida TAPS program, which is a technical assistance program that is made up of a panel of experts in architecture, real estate, economic development, engineering, developers, planners, and others from across the state. Participation in this program would provide an independent expert guidance and planning, urban design, economic development, and implementation of strategies. The expert panel will help the city address key questions related to defining a downtown gateway area, stimulating redevelopment and investment, and identifying policy and regulatory changes needed to support long-term revitalization. With your approval, there will be two public meetings to hear from our residents. The first one will be 5:00 pm on June 3rd at the evening exchange with the mayor and the second one is scheduled for June 10th at 10:00 a.m. The TAPS panel will be here and interview stakeholders, for example, city commission, business owners, realators, developers on July 16th and 17th for a day and a half. And once that process is complete, they'll compile what the results were from our citizens and from all of our stakeholders. And then they will present to you the afternoon of the 17th. And then now turn to director for the finance part.

And um Nancy, this doesn't have anything. This is totally separate from the parks and recck thing. This is correct. They're going to utilize that parks and recreation tool. Thank you,

Director Irwin. Madame Mayor, Vice Mayor, commissioners, as um Director Lori Irwin, finance director, as director Maddox just actually told you, what we're doing is asking for a budget amendment of $25,000 to come out of reserves to pay for this economic development study. Okay. Um, do I hear a motion to accept um, what was that? 26. What was the number on this? I don't have it on my 25,000 you asked for your 25,000, but I want to read off the uh, amen number and it's

a motion to accept. I'm I'm going to make that motion and I'll make the motion. I just want to say something after. A second. I'll second. Thank you. All right. And I believe that Commissioner Dinsky would has a comment as well. That is very reasonably priced. Most of these economic development projects cost four, probably four times as much,

which is why we're going for this ULI crafts program because it is a nonprofit agency of from all these experts um and they go around all around the state and do these programs. And I I do I do want to make sure that our residents know that Director Maddox did check with several other comparable agencies and did bring us best the best best price forward. Thank you. Any other discussion? I have a question too. I actually clicked too. I have a speaker. Vice Mayor,

how like does anyone know yet the parameters or like what are we going to get for 25 grand? Um are they going out 5 years, 10 years, 15 years or we haven't finalized the 5, 10 or 15, but we will be definitely going at least 10 years.

And listen, I'm not here to micromanage you guys. That's why we're so blessed to have you as directors in your various departments. That's why you're so good. That's why we trust you. But I just want to make sure that you guys are knowing what you're going to get because no disrespect sometimes you get what you pay for. So if you found a 25,000 and normally there are 75 to 100. I just want to make sure it meets all the needs and the inquiries because I know I had conversations with the city manager and I know a lot of constituents you know want to see what our vision is for the future and you know cafes and beastro and uh you know furniture shops and art shops and antiques you know they want to see more culture in the stuff and I want to just make sure we're going to get our quoteunquote bang for the buck. the team has put together a scope of services which includes the city manager Steuart and all of us and and so we have submitted that as our application

sort of like an RFP. Yes. Okay. Thank you. So right now our uh director of finance is asking for approval to take $25,000 out of reserves to pay for this. You will I do a motion to approve. We already did. We made the motion to second. Okay. I apologize. Who did decide? I did.

Okay. Now we will vote and this past 50. Uh I want to thank everyone for that. I I know the vision of our new city manager is to um move the city forward on, you know, some of the new businesses that are coming in, some of the new upsale condos. So, I think doing this study will let us know what we need to do to support that. Thank you.

Okay, next we're going to go on to um 2026-05, approval of the Zen Cohen Engineering Agreement. Attorney Simons, can you read that for us, please? Resolution 2026-05, a resolution of the city of Daytona Beach, George Shores, Valia County, Florida, amending the minimal fund fiscal year 2025-2026 budget for engineering up to 2053 South Avenue Park for $168,650 agreement ZC26026F providing for appropriations providing an effective date. Thank you, Director Maddox.

The 2853 South Atlantic Beach Access, which is right next to St. Kits, um was identified as the second highest priority in the city's parks and recreation master plan that was approved by the commission. The count the county echo funding for 26 27th grant cycle will be open soon. And um this is something that we would like to um apply the grant for um because it's very favorable. And in that is a requirement to have engineering and construction documents completed for the technical completeness review which is due June 11th. So staff is seeking approval of the Zev Coen contract and director Earl excuse me will present the financial request. Thank you.

Yes, madame mayor, vice mayor, commissioners, uh staff is here again asking for um you to appropriate $168,650 for the Zep Cohen uh engineering contract. This money will come out of reserves again um and it's part of the uh parks master plan. So we will be actually applying for the echo grant as director Maddox has already said and this would be our match or our contribution. This will definitely be part of our match for for the grants. Okay, great. Thank you.

All right. Do you have approval of 2026-05? I second. Second. And uh any questions? Okay. And is there any questions in the audience? Okay, seeing none, Sher, can you take that role, please? Okay. And that passed 50. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And next we're going to go on consideration of budget process dates. uh at

Director Irwin, can you go over again about um the dates that we do have to have before a budget and the workshops and different things like that?

Yes, Madame Mayor. In our budget, um we are required um actually and by the trim process by Florida state statutes, we are required to have two hearings um a year for to set our millillage rates. And we cannot have the hearing when the Lucia County Board uh school board has theirs or the Valuchia County has theirs because all residents must be able to attend the school boards, the counties and the city's um hearings for setting milit rates. And so what I'm what we're looking at here is the first thing we do is have a uh budget workshop. We usually have that the end of July and because what happens is we have to submit to the property appraiser by August 4th. actually the our military a proposed military which is usually the highest rate that you know we can we going forward with the tenative budget and your final bud budget you cannot go over that rate so what I as the dates here on the screen are we're setting the budget workshop which would be Tuesday July 21st at 4 o'clock or Tuesday, July 28th at 4:00. That is your choice. We're giving you an option here.

21st or the 28th? The 21st or the 28th at 4:00.

Excuse me. And then immediately following either night, the 21st or the 28th, what whatever you decide, would be a special meeting at 6:00 because this would be setting our proposed uh military. Then we need to set our first hearing which is in September. That's when we have that um different date for our first meeting. Now the first the normally scheduled commission meeting would be on Tuesday, September 1st. We would have for our first hearing that the earliest we could have it would be Wednesday, September 9th. Now that is up to you whether you want to have the September 1st meeting or just postpone that to September 9th at 6 o'clock. But that would be our first budget hearing on Wednesday, September 9th. We cannot go earlier than that because of Florida statutes. It's got to be 100 days. The first day we could have it, I believe, is the third and William County has already set theirs budget hearing for that day and the school board is the 8th and the 7th is Labor Day. So, so correct me if I'm wrong, Lori. You're saying if we wanted to do the if we want to do the budget hearing and a commission meeting the same day, we could do it on Wednesday, September 9th. I guess that

Okay. So, let's go back for the first thing she's asking for. I'm going to ask for a vote. Um, Commissioner Dinsky, would you rather do July 21st or 28th? I'm good with either. Okay. Commissioner Card, I'm good with either. Same here. Me, too. Do you have any preference? Ma'am.

All right. Okay. Uh let let's pick the um the 28th only because I believe the 21st is probably the county council meeting in the evening and I'm usually attend those. So if no one has any objection, let's do the Tuesday the 28th at 4 p.m. Okay. So next we're going to go on to what are our other choices on the menu? That was September 9th. September 9th. Okay.

Pardon me for that. Yeah. So, the first um budget hearing would be Wednesday, September 9th. What your choice would be is to have your originally scheduled meeting on September 1st or actually have it on the 9th. Okay. So, if we do it on the 9th, we could have the budget workshop at 400 pm and then go on. No, no, it's a budget hearing a budget hearing. So, that would be at six o'clock. Okay. You could have it actually at 501 would be the earliest. Okay. So, and a commission meeting at the same time. You could have a commission meeting. Does September 9th work for everyone? I hope so. Okay. September 9th.

Okay. And then the final hearing. Before we move on from that, Madame Mayor, uh, do you want to go ahead and cancel the September 1st meeting now and we will combine that all into the nth? Is that agreeable to everyone? Okay. All right. Thank you. And then the second meeting would be on the 22nd at 6 PM of September. Yes. 22nd at 6 PM. So the one would be on a Wednesday. Make sure we take special note of that. And that is because um I think probably on the seventh is the school board and the eth is probably the county.

Yes. Um seventh day, 8th is the um school board. Oh, school board actually. Okay. Um all right. So we are Wednesday the 9th. Anything else you need us to decide on? That is all. Sure. Okay. Um, thank you very much, director. We appreciate it. Uh, city attorney, do you have anything for us? I do not. Thank you. Thank you, city manager. I do. Thank you, Madam Mayor.

Um, if if you missed the news, Rendan Park reopened on March 31st. Uh, it has abundant free parking for uh our residents who have uh registered their vehicles. Uh, you can do that at 2430 South Atlantic Avenue. They have an office there. feel free to go down and take care of that. It has a brand new beautiful ramp uh huge ramp down to the beach and it also has a stairwell. Uh they have not opened the playground yet due to um a a source issue that they had, but they expect that to be opened um shortly after they get their equipment in. Um I'm sure you know Senate Bill 180 put several requirements on cities and counties. One of those was that uh senior officials uh complete the Florida senior elected officials course. Um the course is designed to educate senior leadership and emergency management. I went ahead and completed that course uh last month and um that fulfills the city's commitment. I checked and confirmed with the state that nobody else from the city needs to take that. However, if you're interested in taking that course, um, let me know and I'll send you the link. Um, congratulations to Mayor Miller. She won her fifth consecutive home rule hero award. Uh, the home rule heroes are local government officials who consistently respond to the request to reach out to members of the legislature and help give a local perspective on issues. I can tell you all that I have accompanied the mayor on many of these in-person visits to our area legislators and witnessed how well she represents us and represents our um our interests. Um

congratulations to her. Um, Mattie Mallister, who you saw earlier tonight, has been selected as the public information officer for the upcoming Central Florida Regional Planning Council mock mass casualty incident, which will be held on Thursday, April 9th, uh, from 8 to noon. Um, the Central Florida Regional Planning Council will be holding it under the name Operation Skyfall. I think that's a simulated plane crash. Is that correct? Yes.

Excellent. uh hospitals along with county emergency management offices, the FBI, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, local law enforcement, EMS agencies, public health, schools and universities, and many other healthcare organizations and community partners are participating in this full-scale mass casualty exercise. This will be the largest hospital-based training exercise in the country. So, we are very proud that Maddie was selected to be the lead public information officer for this uh huge event.

Um, our community rating system was approved uh thanks to the work of Director Stuart Cruz. Um the community rating system is a program that allows communities that participate in the national flood insurance program uh to develop and implement certain programs that result in discounts in flood insurance premiums purchased within the city. Currently there are 3,578 flood policies within the city and each of those uh property owners will automatically receive a 25% discount on their premiums due to the good work of Director Cruz. Director Cruz,

I'm sure a lot of our residents would like to take him out to lunch based on that. So, and finally, I'm happy to tell you that the developer of the Lux uh condo at 3159 South Atlantic Avenue has paid the initial B building permit plan review fees and staff has begun plans review. So, the Lux is slated for uh seven stories and 30 units. Um, we're taking this as a very significant and positive step forward for uh our strong economic development and the interest in developing short. That's all I have. Madam,

thank you. And what questions do we have for our city manager? Okay, seeing none, we will move right along to commission comments. Okay, Commissioner Dinsky, what do you have for us? Uh, nothing. Just amazing how many things are going on in the city. Isn't that true, Mr. Card?

Yes. On the Thank you, mayor. Uh, on the economic side, I'm happy to announce that we have a new dry cleaner in the shores. Uh, the former one that that closed, there's a new one in the same building. Um, we stopped by myself, Nancy and Maddie stopped by the uh, Hampton Inn and this and the Daytona Seab Breeze and we spoke with them, asked them if there's anything we could do for them. Um, one thing that they did discuss was that they are still looking for employees. So, they're they're trying to work on that. And last thing or actually third thing is I stopped by Son Napa. We were supposed to go there, but the owner was not there that day. I stopped by the other day and it's completely empty. They've they've got it clean. It's just about to start building out. So, we anticipate 6 months and it should be open.

Great. Yeah. And last thing is congratulations to the citizens academy. They graduated last Thursday. Well done, Maddie. And um Yeah, they uh high raves from most of the people. I I would say 99% of them said they enjoyed it. Um they uh learned quite a bit. So well done. Thank you. Awesome. All right, Commissioner Conamos.

Yes, it looks like we are going to have uh an opening on the Valuchia Flagler DO Citizens Advisory Committee and um and I know there's going to be some folks that are going to be interested in that. So, um I would encourage any resident that would be interested to get a hold of Stuart Cruz and he can get a hold of me. I know we have an alternate that's on the um bicycle pedestrian advisory committee. She may be interested as well. So, I don't know Stuart if you could reach out to Miss Fields possibly. Um if not, I can I can try to do that as well. Um but again, if you can e you know, get with Stuart tonight or just during the week sometime and and um and we'll see what we can do for that. So, I appreciate everybody's participation.

I'll try to have it tomorrow at Coffee with May. We'll talk about it again. The person that was on did a great job, but I think there was a personal issue he had to get off. My only suggestion would be I think last time we alternated for this month, this month, maybe this time if we did more of a consistency, they'd have a little bit more buy in for it. I think we did it for six months at a time. Okay.

Is what we did. And and the only reason we did that is so, you know, the alternate can get a turn at, you know, and and I know we actually do have a pretty good participation with um the alternates actually attending both sets of meetings and actually I think we do need an alternate for the citizens advisory committee. So I think we already have one for the um bicycle pedestrian advisory committee. So that there would be an opening for that as well. So, uh, we just encourage everybody, uh, who anybody who is interested in, uh, just getting with Stuart and or Mayor Miller or whoever, and I'll I'll talk about it tomorrow. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? No, that's it. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Yes. Um, you know, one of the benefits of traveling, you get to see other cities and you look at it with a different eye as opposed to just enjoying the venue. and I'm excited for this um economic development and if there's anything I can do to participate. I was in um a town called Delana which is in Georgia where the wineries are really a quaint little town. That's not us. But I went to Buckhead Village a couple of nights ago and we have so much potential to accomplish that and you know just finding the right real estate to give incentives to develop and like a walking pavilion with shops and stores and restaurants and I'm just so excited for the future for this city and I want to help as best as I can and you know with our city manager with the vision and the enthusiasm and all his directors going going to bring. Um I agree with um Commissioner Dinsky. We're going to have uh God willing a really nice solid future.

Thank you. Okay, I'm going to go over some of the April events. Tomorrow will be coffee with the mayor tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. I know it's the second Wednesday, but um it's always after the first meeting of the month. So, it's tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. And our very favorite speaker after Miss Fentress has left will be Valuchia County Sheriff Mike Chickwood will be there and also a personal personal friend of mine, Matt Reinhardt, who is our Valuchia County Council. He's the vice chair and he represent this district and he'll have a lot of updates on what's going on. Next, we're going to have our community yard sale April 11th uh right here in the community center from 9 to 1:00 p.m. Uh we had this last fall and it was so popular people asked Director Maddox to bring it back again. So, she has. Um we have 30 vendors. 30. Wow. Okay. Um, and then on April 21st from 6:30 to 8:30, we'll have the concert. Is it the 21st? Okay.

I thought this seemed early. What do you Did I type the wrong date? That's okay. Just let me have the correct date. Okay. Well, do you have a calendar there or do something? Friday is the 24th.

24th. Okay. Okay. It'll be the 24th from 6:30 to 3 6:30 to 8:30. There will be no um food trucks this time, but please come by. We'll have a fabulous concert in Mecca Park. Bring your um chairs. And then our new program, our partnership for anyone that was there at the last coffee with the mayor, we had someone that um represented the Brown and that is the new M museum. That's the new name, the Brown. and um we're going to be in partnership with them and it's going to be April 21st at 2:00 p.m. Ottabon in Florida. So, please come by. It's going to be fantastic. Nancy, do you have any other update on what that will be?

Um Zach Zacharias will be speaking and and telling us all about Ottabon's journey through Florida. Wow. So um you will see all the wildlife that he um documented and and portrayed especially all the burning that he did. So

good. Thank you. That should be um people were very excited that day. Um so next I have several speakers for today. The first one is Ed Offererman if you can come up. Ed Offererman, Demucci, Twin Towers. My pardons for not thanking the council, but I promised Sher I would try and get through three minutes so she doesn't have to alert the mayor to get her long hook out. I mentioned this a couple of years ago at a council at a council meeting in the month of April uh about never never forgetting. Uh this is the 13th anniversary of the Boston bombing massacre this weekend or this month in the 102nd anniversary of the battle of Ver of Vera Cruz, Mexico. Uh the best way for me to do this is in 2014 I wrote an editorial in a local newspaper in Indiana which they published under the title of Americ. And I think this time I'm just going to read it. While Americans remember the first anniversary of the Boston bombing, most are unaware of the 100th anniversary of an important battle in US Navy and Marine Corps history. On April 21st, 1914, 6,249 blue jackets and leathernecks of the second seaman regiment and the first marine brigade attacked the coast of Veraracruz, Mexico. The attack was ordered by President Wilson, better known as a pacifist, who had sent the armed forces through the Mexican coast after the US flag were purportedly not acquire not accorded proper respect by Mexican authorities. A resolution was passed by Congress authorizing the use of force to rectify the perceived offense to national pride. The attack began under the pretext of intercepting the delivery of German munitions in Veraracruz. The Mexican and German

government were assisting each other in the early stages of World War I in Europe and their concerns along the Mexican-American border. The sailors and Marines fought house to house and roofto roof, taking out snipers and setting up rooftop communications when the advance stalled US Navy warships bombarded a nearby Mexican Naval Academy, killing 15 defending cadets. In the end, at least 126 Mexicans were killed. The American losses were 15 sailors and four Marines. On April 27th, the American flag was raised over Mexican Navy headquarters in Veraracruz. Marine Colonel John Lunle was later named for him. Later recalled there was scarcely a dry eye among Americans participating in it or witnessing it. Mexican President Hyther had discovered had declined to hoist and salute the American flag, but we had forcibly seized his principal maritime city and had ourselves wiped out the indignity which had been put upon our country. President Wilson was visibly disturbed by the loss of American life. I cannot forget that it was I who had to order those young men to their deaths in what he called a war of service. Entire American cities paused to host funeral parades and services. Perhaps 1 million were on hand along the parade routes in New York City. An interesting bit of naval aviation history and occurred on the far off Mexican coast. The first flight in a combat environment occurred on April 25th while searching for mines in Veraracruz Harbor. Two weeks later, a plane was hit by rifles during an inland recon mission. The first naval aircraft damaged by hostile fire. While we take time to remember the victims of the Boston bombing, let us not let us also remember these Navy and marine heroes of the early 20th century who died in service to their country. Well done,

sailors and marines. We will never forget. My apologies that I did. That's all right. I did my best. I'm sorry. That's okay. I did my best. Yes, you did. All right. Thank you very much and for reminding us of that. Thank you. Hey, next we have Nicole Baker.

Good evening everyone. My name is Nicole Baker and I am the owner and operator of a local small business called CPF. It is located at South Atlanta cabinet. We are a gift and clothing boutique that has been indigenous for nearly three years. We've become a place for many of our locals and snowbirds to come and shop right here in our own community. We bring a very unique shopping experience that is unlike anything else here on the shores. And we do this by choosing items that are specific to our area and that are popular at use in a homemade process. As a Valuchia County native and a resident of the beach shores for the last 25 years, I have become familiar with the seasonal patterns that this area and side in general are subject to. To try to maintain a more consistent flow of foot traffic, we use a variety of tools and resources like social media participation in local events. And in addition to being on A1A, we do our best to keep our display windows merchandised in a way that engages people and adds to the look of our city. All of these tools help us to draw the attention of vacationers looking for things beyond beaches and locals who are not aware of our business. A rolling clothing rack was also an important visual asset and helping us find the new and continued support that is critical to so many small businesses. Recently, we were notified that the clothing rack is a code violation, which brings me to my reason for speaking tonight. I would like to request the consideration of a variance or concession to the current code. One that would allow for tasteful and minimal exterior displays that do not impede the flow of foot traffic on the sidewalk. We have used this display for over two years with no issues in regards to safety. I very much look forward to the possibility of future discussions regarding this. In the last few years, we have seen multiple cafes and small restaurants set up shop here, as well as a wellness studio that provides access

to holistic modalities like salt therapy and infrared sauna and most recently a curated wine shop that offers unique selections from a very knowledgeable business owner at Coastwine. I love getting to know my small business neighbors and networking to provide support for one another. I hope our city leaders can continue to lend their support and possibly modify the existing rules in a way that benefits the business owners and community as a whole by bringing a unique and pleasant environment for those who come and visit and who live here. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And afterwards, if you can I don't know um Director Cruz, have you had a conversation with her at all? No, I haven't.

Okay. All right. Um Nicole, if after the meeting, if you can get with Director Cruz, that would be in his house. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'm also going to ask Director Maddox to meet with her to talk about the upcoming TAP and the stakeholder portion where I think this would be uh an important place for you to provide that information.

Okay. Thank you. Um Angie Gonzalez. Good evening. Um, madame mayor, mayor, uh, vice mayor, the commissioners, and the city manager, Fowler. My name is Angie Gonzalez, and I own Revive Salt Lounge here in Daytona Beach Shores. First, I wanted to say I truly appreciate the intention behind the city's signage and promotional regulations, and I understand that they're in place to maintain safety, organization, and visual character of our community. I also understand why higher impact promotional activity like sign spinning is not allowed, and I completely agree with that. What I'm proposing is the exact opposite of that. After reviewing the city banner permit and temporary promotional activity guidelines, it seems the current system is designed primarily for temporary event-based promotions like race week, bike week, or big grand openings with advanced applications and limited usage periods. That works well for events, but small businesses don't operate in event windows. We operate every single day, and we rely on consistent everyday visibility. I also recently spoke with members of the code enforcement and planning who shared the city is already exploring ways to create opportunities for small businesses in this area which I truly appreciate. So I'd like to support that direction with a simple and practical solution. I'm asking up the city I'm asking the city to create a simple exemption from the temporary signage permit requirement. I'm so sorry. To one small freestanding sign and one small display element per business such

as a chalkboard or an A-frame sign and a sign or a small clothing rack provided that they are placed directly in front of the business, do not obstruct sidewalks, ADA access or visibility and are brought inside at the end of every business day. These are small, stationary, and low impact, much smaller and easier to manage than what is already permitted under current promotional guidelines. For many small businesses, this isn't about increasing signage. It's about having a simple, practical way to communicate with the community and remain visible without unnecessary barriers. I believe this aligns with the city's goals of supporting small businesses while continuing to maintain safety, accessibility, and the overall character of Daytona Beach Shores because when small businesses thrive, the entire community benefits. Thank you very much for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Can you hold We couldn't. The sign is too a little bit too far down. Can you just hold it up one minute? Bring it back. Okay. Okay. All right. Wet your fingers. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. And Marcho.

Good evening, Madame Mayor, Vice Mayor, and our commission. All of you here tonight. Thank you for everything that you do. I am Anne Marterano and I am here tonight representing the board of trustees, directors of the Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce and just wanted to again thank you for all that you do. This was a fun meeting tonight. There's a lot of lot of great things here. I wonderful to be a part of it. Um I wanted to just highlight a couple of things that are happening at the chamber in the next month and I just want to make sure you're aware of them. On um the 20th of this month, we are holding a CPR class at 4:00, which will be obviously a training session for anybody who has not gone through CPR training. I would highly um encourage you or anyone you know to um attend if they possibly can because it's one of those things that you never think it's going to happen to you, but if it does, um it surely is a nice thing to be able to jump in and help if you can. So, um, we would love to have, uh, as many people as we can at that event. We also have coming up on the 30th of this month our tasteful affair, which is our annual, um, fun evening of um, um, all sorts of good tastes. Uh, we have, I think, up to about 15 16 uh, vendors right now. And, uh, it'll be at the Riverside Pavilion. And if you know anyone who might be interested, I think we're still taking uh vendors, but it's it's looking like it's going to be a wonderful night again and we hope that you all will come out and support that. It's a lot of fun. And then finally, I wanted to make you aware that um if you weren't aware that we also hold a youth civic leadership experience at the chamber. Um that's where high school age youth can go through for a week in the summer and they get to be exposed to things like you all and all of our um our government and our city our Sydney leadership and the things that we do in this community so that they can hopefully be our future leaders going

into the future. So if you know anyone of that age who might be interested, I would ask you to have them uh or you contact the chamber and we would love to have them be a part of it. Um, other than that, if you don't have any questions for me, I just again want to thank you for all that you do. Thank you, Ann. And the leadership conference, if I can talk about that, I think this is my fourth or fifth year I'll be coming to speak to them. And you would not believe the intelligent questions they ask, just so engaged, and I think they're only 16, 17 year olds. Um, it's amazing, um, how much they want to learn. So, thank you so much for supporting that, and I'm glad to support it again this year. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you.

Uh, is there anyone else that wishes to speak that didn't sign up? That's Andy. You can fill out a form later on. Um, Sherry, I have Nicole up here again, but that's the computer.

Okay. Good evening, Madame Mayor, vice mayors, commissioners. I'm Sandy Cook with Realy Pros. I've got a couple things that I made notes. Um first of all the uli it I hear the amount that and we're interested to hear about the what we get for our uh expenditure but the time frame this 10 years do we have to wait 10 years before we're going to see any improvements? I mean uh I feel like our need is pretty immediate. I can have if you can have a discussion with her afterwards Nancy.

Okay. 550 probably other people feel the same that we need to see something before 10 years. Um the the chamber um is there any way I know we don't have an office here any way that we can get Daytona Beach Shores in the title this Port Orange South Daytona doesn't really give us any exposure and it's kind of drawing us over the bridge. No offense but we are we need the people here. We need we need some more exposure. So I'd like to see Daytona Beach Shores in the title.

So So Ann can probably talk about this later on. There's also Pon Inlet in there and Edgewater. That is so that's a little bit of a long title and I um I think probably since those were the two originating ones why it left like that, but you can certainly check later on. But you know, in all fairness to the other two cities that are in there, quite a long title,

right? I know. I just would like to get us more exposure. And so that brings me to the real reason I'm standing up here is that these business owners, they need more support. All of our businesses in Daytona Beach Shores need our support. They if they leave, we just have empty buildings along A1A. And I'd like to know a way that we can get them more exposure. This is no offense, but we we need more than the what you give us at during the meeting every month. I don't know is there a way that we can have like uh they talked to each one of the girls here for uh for three minutes um that we could have a highlight time during a meeting where they could tell us about their their businesses. I like I don't know what we can do. I've asked could there be something on the website. Um I've tried to support the businesses in the shores, but I think it's really imperative or we won't have any businesses and we won't even need a ula.

And again, that would be Nancy Maddox is our economic director. U Mark is our representative from the council. So I would say after this meeting, if you can get with Nancy or maybe set up some time with her to try and brainstorm what that looks like. more exposure. I think that we have some pretty great businesses here and you know my customers, they usually get something from CPIA. Okay. She's really great to work with. Okay. Thank you, Sandy. Thank you. Anyone else that wishes to speak?

Okay. If not, then we're going to go on. Does anyone have any items in particular they want to add to the new agenda to the agenda for next month? Okay. If not, I'm hoping to see a lot of you at coffee with the mayor tomorrow with uh Sheriff Chitwood.