City Council - Regular Meeting

and presentations meeting is April 28th at 5:30, 2026. For the invocation, we'll hold a moment of silence. Please bow your heads. Thank you very much. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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 very much, city manager.

Yes, sir. The first item on special recognitions and presentations is the employee of the month for April 2026. And this month the awardee is uh Tabitha Armstrong. And Brad Parish will present the award. So this month I'm happy to announce that Tabitha Armstrong is our employee of the month. Was happy that she was selected. She did a a great job helping us out with historic preservation for the city. Um everyone is familiar with the Jonville and Beyond project. Uh previous historic preservation planning projects reveal a gap in our documented African-American history. and Jonville and Beyond was initiated to help residents help reveal uh fill in that gap. Tabitha volunteered to lead that project. She organized and promoted a successful community event where residents shared their experiences memorabilia. She led a presentation at the American Planning Association conference in Daytona this year and she or in 2025 and she authored grants to help implement the education phase of this project. She continues to find ways to integrate the project into events and programs when opportunities arise. In fact, she did submit a nomination to the Florida Historic Trust, and I believe we have a very good chance of winning an award for that project there uh in July. Tabitha is a dedicated and hardworking employee. She's extremely organized and focused on continuously learning and promoting the city in the best light possible. And I'm happy that when my recommendation was approved for her to be employee of the month,

Yes, sir. The next item is uh the department spotlight, the city clerk department. We have a short video and this is just another one of the department spotlights that we do periodically showcasing our outstanding employees.

The city clerk's office is at the hub of city government and serves as the information source for citizens. The office provides three major functions including facilitates public participation in governmental processes, protects and manages the public record, administers the legislative process. To begin, almost every responsibility of the office is tied to laws and policies set by Florida statutes, Florida administrative code, the city's code of ordinances, and city administrative policies. Laws that govern much of what the office does also govern the estimated 411 cities/ towns and 67 counties in the state. With the changing nature of legislation and policy, staff must be flexible, adaptable, and stay a breast of new legislation and information. Staff also seek and maintain professional and continuing education in order to skillfully and carefully perform our role and provide excellent and efficient care to the citizens. Further, the office must remain neutral in all instances as well as the offices responsible for many ministerial duties. Now about the office's three major functions. First, facilitate public participation. Here, the office facilitates public and citizen participation at city council and community redevelopment agency meetings. Provides advanced public notice and legal advertising on upcoming public hearings. oversee appointments of citizens that desire being appointed by city council to serve on various public advisory boards and committees. Administration of city council elections. Coordinates and invites leaders of all religious assemblies to give the invocation and solemnize city council meetings. Provides liaison support to the student advisory council

and Titusville community service award select committee. Second, protect and manage the public record. The city clerk along with staff oversees implementing and coordinating the city's records management program in compliance with state laws and policy and serving as a key contact between individual departments with the exception of the police department who oversees records related to the field of law enforcement. Here, the city clerk's office protects, manages, and provides security for records entrusted to the office and incorporated into the city's electronic records database or laser fish. Oversees compliance with state rules on records retention schedules, electronic imaging requirements, exempt information and inventory keeping, responds to public records requests, which often requires collaboration with city departments. Here, staff must ensure the redaction of any portion of exempt or confidential information not available for public inspection per the Florida legislature. Examples: Staff may need to first redact any references to an individual's personal medical conditions that may be contained in a record, certain personal identifying information, security plans, etc. In fact, Florida statutes provides more than 1,000 exemptions for information that may be exempt from public inspection. Next, the office places a high priority on digital public records, equipping departments to scan, import, and retain records in digital form rather than paper. The office also collaborates with city departments to provide training on Florida statutes and public records laws. In addition, in the mindset of continuous process improvement, the office is implementing new laserfish tools to assist departments to

streamline processes related to forms and contracts from creation, routing, approval, signature, tracking and renewal, etc. No paper will be necessary. Third, administer the legislative process. Here the office provides notice of city council meetings, prepares the city council agenda at the discretion of the city manager, attends all city council and community redevelopment agency meetings, and prepares the minutes. In addition, the office oversees the online posting and codification of new ordinances approved by city council that amend the city's code of ordinances and code volumes. The codes are available through the city website as hosted by Civic Plus, formerly known as Munich Code. Additionally, the office provides mail career services to the entire municipal organization. Plans the annual student awards ceremony hosted by city council that recognizes outstanding students, grades K through 12, plans the annual boards and commissions recognition ceremony hosted by city council. to this. We hope you have enjoyed this overview of the Titusville City Clerk's Office. Well, on behalf of this board, I want to personally thank our city clerk, Wanda Wells, for everything that her and her team do. So, thank you very much. City manager. Yes, sir. The next item is the 4C, the alternative water supply. This is a presentation by our public works director regarding actions as far as alternative water.

Oh, hello. All right. So, if you remember, I think two meetings ago, we brought um a brackish water study to you um and uh council recommended that we bring it back to the TEC and then come back to you with their recommendations and our recommendations. So, we have a quick presentation to go over alternative water supply and what what it actually is. This is always the fun part. Yeah, it's dead.

So, oh, okay. Thank you. We can start. So, what are alternative water supplies? Um, alternative water supplies are non-traditional water sources. Right now, we use fresh water for our drinking water. And in the future, we will need to look at different alternative water supplies because even if you were to not allow a single another person to move into this city, we still need to look at alternative water supplies because due to drought, due to rising sea levels, our freshwater supply will turn saltwater and we need to look at other options to supply our current water demand. So there are a few there are a few options. brackish, which brackish is groundwater or sea water. We're seawater is, you know, a little bit far away, so we probably won't be able to do that one. There's reclaimed water. There's surface water, storm water, and aquafer storage and recovery. And why we need alternative water supply, went over that a little bit, is we need a long-term availability, a reliable water supply for future generations and growth. We need to meet regulatory compliance. St. John is is there is no written law, but St. John's is for their with their water supply plan is requiring us to look at options for alternative water supplies. We need drought resilience. Right now, we're in a drought. I'm sure everyone knows that. So, so some of these um some of these options will are drought resistant. And for sustainable growth, um it diversifies our water sources. So, we're not relying on one water source. If there's an issue with one, we have multiple sources. So one of the options is brackish groundwater. So brackish groundwater it the wells are deeper than our current wells. So it goes in it goes very far down and it's the most common del. We're going to say del because that word is very hard to say method in Florida. Um and it removes a lot of contaminants

including pas because you have to use reverse osmosis. So it is droughtp proof. It's a reliable water source and it you get superior water quality from it because it it treats issues like PAS and reduces our reliance on freshwater sources. Some of the challenges are it's it's a different water source. It requires different treatment. Um and there is there is a brine that is made from it. There's something that needs to be disposed of. So there's methods there different methods for that. the feasibility study that we're recommending will look at those and see what is the best way for us to dispose of that. Um you do need knowledgeable operators which you know we have they'll have to learn a new method. Um so our recommendation is to move forward with this this feasibility study. We can't go straight to design because we need to look and see if it's feasible. I don't want to we don't want to spend a whole bunch of city money if it's not feasible. So you need to look at initially is it feasible? What's the cost? What do we need to do? and we would like to combine it with our current water system, current our current wells. So, we're not just getting rid of those wells. We're looking at a hybrid system and that will take a lot of planning to look into. Another option is reclaimed water and portable reuse. So, we all know what reclaimed water is. We're we use reclaimed water throughout the city. We're actually we're looking at expansion of our reclaim system um which starts with the um increase in storage capacity and we also have a task order for aquifer storage and recovery uh recovery well feasibility study currently underway to expand our reclaim system and to store excess during storms. What reclaimed water, portable reuse is is taking that reclaimed water and treating it using advanced treatment um to turn it into portable drinking water. It's it's currently allowed by the state. It's actually probably the cheapest and most environmentally friendly, but I would not recommend

moving forward with it at this time because public perception, they don't want it. And I I just don't it's hard to recommend it's hard to recommend something that you know is not going to pass. So that's our recommendation.

So there's also portable water water aqua for storage and recovery ASR. So that involves during times of excess water where we can inject portable water into the groundwater and store it for later use in times of drought. It does not create a new water supply. um the portable water doesn't um but it can store it for later. So it is I think we should also look into this at in combination with our brackish water with our current wells to see if this is something that we can that we can utilize also to store water so we have another source during droughts and then you have surface water and storm water capture. So that's um utilizing you can either um some some municipalities use freshwater sources like lakes those those come with a lot of water quality challenges. Um and then there's the idea of diverting storm water into into your um portable water wells. You can't right now it's not prohibited but no one has has um permitted directly putting storm water into wells. But what you can do is rehydrate your current wellfield. Um so you could try to fi find a way to divert storm water to a well field to rehydrate that wellfield, our current wells and create more fresh water. Um it it turns a burden into an asset. We all know we have a storm water issue. So it's something that we could definitely look into. Um so what TEC recommended was to proceed with a brackish water feasibility study but also consider consider evaluating well field recharge from both storm water and reclaimed water sources. Um and looking at aquifer storage and recovery as a potential component of the overall long-term water supply strategy for the city. all these multiple

resources to try to work into one and make our system more reliable and more resilient. And we agree, we think that's a great idea. So, our recommendation is at the 6:30 meeting, we have the task order for the brackish water feasibility study. Um, we recommend moving forward approving that and then we can bring back a change order to that task order to evaluate the recommendations by TEC. I would like we could wait but it would be nice to move start that project and then we can bring back the change order with the cost and you guys can look at approving that at a later date. Thank you very much Miss Andy. Any questions? Member Stol.

Yes. Um do you know how long have other communities been using brackish water before? And if so for how many years? I don't know how many years. I know there are other communities that use it. Um, but I don't I don't have how I don't have that information on Yeah. used it for. I know I know it's the most common the most common method for alternative water supply. Okay. In Florida.

Okay. And I appreciate your comments on the reclaimed water. I would agree. Um, yeah. And I I think my thing would be just to how can we ensure that the water is up to good quality water standards, especially as developments get approved and we're saying, "Oh, we have plenty of water and now we're telling people that they have to drink a different source potentially." And they're Yeah. So, that's what this feasibility study will kind of look at at kind of merging it with our current water supply, doing like almost a pre-treatment to get it into our current water supply. Um, and ARO, if you look, if you research ARO, it's it's it's good quality water. It's it's a good system to go to. Do you know if other communities are using reclaimed water outside the state maybe or outside the state? I think so. California. Um,

okay. I was curious about that. I think what Lily Lily looked it up for me and it was they call it forever water. So, we could try to, you know, change how they label it. Okay. All right. Thank you, member Mscoso. Thank you. Um so I think during my briefing I one of the questions I asked is um are we asking to increase our cup and my understanding was in order to request that we have to prove that we are looking for for alternative studies and so that was really helpful for me to see the importance of why we're going through this process because ultimately

so let's say that we do this study would we request immediately to increase our cup and then work on the rest of the process process of let's say we choose the brackish water. How does that how does that work? So, we're going to have some meetings with St. John's coming up to kind of see um to see what their appetite is for that. Um we we have we're looking into looking at a consultant to help us with the cup increase. Um so, I think we're going to kind of do them all at the same time. Um I I think us having this task order and say we are looking at it is a huge step towards them even to start talking to us about that.

Okay. And then um are any other cities in Bvard County um what are they looking into and is there any way because my concern with the brackish I mean I think it's a great option is just the cost after um and so I don't know if we any other cities have done studies that we can at least have an idea of what it's going to cost because it it from my little knowledge it appears it's a whole new system especially with the

and so um I understand the why of why we need this feasibility study because we want to try to increase our cup, but then and obviously we want more clean drinking water, but then um what is the cost and is that something we can actually afford in our community if we're not growing at the rate uh I mean we look at our growth rate and it really isn't that that much and so just wondering how that would would affect it. I think there's a lot of variables. You look at other studies, you know, you're not going to get the same thing. Our wells, our areas are different than others. So there's there depends on the water quality treatment is different. So we can look at that and we can kind of give you a rough order of magnitude kind of take a look at what's been done and what what costs are but it's going to be a pretty big range but this feasibility study will will give us hey this is what you're looking at this is this is the cost before we move forward into full design if we look at it and go there there's no way then you know that's why you start with the feasibility study to kind of look at that stuff and see if there's a different way forward

and if we don't go with that the option is there anything from this feasibility study that we can use if we decide we're not going to, you know, I mean, to spend $700,000 on a feasibility study is a lot. Is there stuff that we'll be able to take from that? Um, instead of It's only like 90,000. Oh, 90. Oh, well, there we go. That was the storm water. Sorry, the storm water one. Okay. Um, not only 90. No, with the um the change order that TC requested, if that's what you guys want to move forward with, I think that wellfield recharge is another bit that could also increase our cup. So if we look at that and we say h we can still move forward with looking at possible ideas for wellfield recharge then St. John's will look favorably on that also.

And then last question if we do the um change order do we know how much it costs for the additional No that's what we'll have to I didn't want to reach out to them until you guys said that's what we want to do. So we'll reach out to them and price and come back to you with that. Okay. Thank you. Vice Mayor Cole, I know you haven't had a chance to price it out, but um a diesel plant is

very cost prohibitive because I've dealt with those before and uh you know in a smaller scale that's what they use on submarines is uh they desire the water, they take the water out of the ocean to use it. So, you know, it almost in looking at the alternatives, it almost looked like if we can't use reclaimed water cuz we don't want to drink that that, you know, del may be the way to go. And I I'm not it's going to be cost. I think I think the groundwater dell is a little bit more cost effective than than straight ocean. Um I think that there's so that's a different process. It's still reverse osmosis, right? It's the same process. Yeah, I think it's just a little on a smaller scale. Yeah. Okay.

Well, we won't know until you're able to price it out anyway. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate you guys. City manager. So, the last item is 4, the annual sustainability action plan update. And Lily Galo will go ahead and give us a presentation.

Hello. Hello. Can you hear? Okay. So, this is a rather large report. April is kind of our month to review the update on the sustainability action plan. I gave you all a copy as well. Sorry, it printed kind of weird. Um, but it's a report basically summarizing all the actions taken against the sustainability action report from April 2025 to April 2026. I just kind of felt that this outline kind of speaks for itself. So, I'm going to run through it real quick. the table of contents intro. This is just for people who are unfamiliar with the action plan. Kind of goes over it a little bit. Then there's a section on the grant projects. Summarizes all the different um grants that we're currently or at least this department's currently u monitoring and managing and um they have different uh related project pages that talk to them. And as of Friday, we were awarded that grayed out one. So bringing our total to 575,000 uh in grant funding, which is pretty good. And also how each of those grants relate to the SAP. So this is example of a project page. This is for the urban forestry management plan. It tells you kind of where we're at with it. Um any metrics related to the current project and then a QR code if they if the project has a U project page. And this is for the energy audit vulnerability assessment. And uh that's the flood flooding one that most people are probably familiar with. Um and then the SS4A only has a little one because it actually hasn't started yet. We just got awarded. So page 13 is actually when we get into the meat of it. This is the actual reporting on all the six focus areas, the 28 objectives and the 87 action items. So actions taken and any metrics related to those actions. um mostly

measured through website views tracked on Google Analytics. And I tried my best to count how many in-person um interactions that we had. Uh that's a pretty hard number to to track. I found out the community conference was a big one actually. If I go back, you can see the the web page for the community conference did better than any of the others combi combined essentially. So that was pretty good. Um 100% of the survey respondents who attended said that they did increase their uh understanding about local government which was the whole point of that. So that was really great win. And then summary of other actions and different pictures that I took over the year. You might recognize yourself in in it as well. Uh these are more objectives maps that are generated to try to track metrics in those objectives. the ecosystem and resiliency part that is heavily um focused on what most people I think assume sustainability has stuff to do with and it's the environmental metrics that's largely due to the forestry plan and then LI is also the metric in there so we've increased our L adoption rate by to 40%. So I also have a link for people who want to learn more about LI. We were featured at the MRC conference where I was educating other cities on how they can adopt L kind of lessons learned because we were the first to try and tackle that. So they were very curious and then we're currently going through a six sigma project on how to better improve that that process as well. So a lot of stats and monitoring in there. This is the living shoreline a year later. So that was April 2025 and now 2026. I say it's looking pretty good, but the actual report for that won't come out until 2027, I believe. Resilient Titusville, that's the that's

the flood one that um had a lot of engagement mainly because of October, but we kind of were able to put this map to the test as well. And then I did put it all online for people to pull up. That's the QR code there. Energy, that's honestly the biggest section of the SAP. and probably with the least actions taken towards it. But I did join the East Florida Regional Planning Council's Greenhouse gas committee to try and work on reducing emissions um as a collective. So in partnership with Bvard, Lake County, Marian County, Orange County, all of those guys. Um they just released a dashboard that they were making over the course of I believe a year or so. Oh. Oh, sorry. The energy audit came back really interesting information. It was an Ashley level two energy audit. So, it's a pretty detailed. They walked through the buildings. They identified almost $75,000, I believe, in energy savings projected. What I really think is interesting here is that it it makes a really strong case for LED lighting upgrades. Almost as strong, if not stronger than solar. So, we have all of that now information as well. This is the part that talks about trash and our um waste diversion rates and how we're monitoring that. So, since the SAP was adopted, we're gunning for a 20 a 75% diversion rate. Um, based on the metrics, it's just really telling me that some major intervention probably needs to happen. Otherwise, we're going to keep coasting on a similar trend rate as we have been for past five years. Though, I did make sure to go check I did do a tour of the recycling facility just for my own sanity check and talked with the manager, watch where the trucks dump, um, how that whole process works. um figuring out a metric of you know what actually ends up in the landfill versus what are they bundling and reselling as a as a business model. The uh mobility and transportation that that is also uh partnering with TPD and

doing a lot of the um helmet fitting trying to get more mobility away from cars for the most part and being able to try and have more micromobility options. Water, interestingly enough, is not more about the lagoon. It's more so about uh water conservation and reducing our daily water consumption. So that's how that one item I believe that came before you all at uh the CRA. We identified that city hall was using about 45% more water than a median building of its similar size. And our actual water uh like toilets and plumbing is is pretty efficient according to the audit. So he thought that maybe it was that water feature out front and then Sept kind of come up came up with a idea for how to maybe better use that space. So that's where that project is at. And then the smart growth that's also going to be going back to the SS4A grant, but I did put in a couple metrics in there as well for anyone who wants to read this report about, you know, how many sidewalks did we repair, how many sidewalks did we add. This is all about being able to get around by bike or, you know, not car as well. And then lastly, the sustainable economy. Most of the efforts probably in this category was focused on um working with the youth as since my intern of last year created an entire framework for how to engage with the um high school high school generation. And she identified different ideas and clubs and field trips and partnership programs. And we took that to the student advisory council and they ended up adopting the student leadership seminar which I was able to take away a lot of interesting insights about you know where our youth is thinking. It's about 18% of our population kind of where those future leaders are um headed. And then the last last part is the metrics which is arguably also one of the hardest parts of this plan.

Mainly the big takeaway is just trying to figure out the SAP originally didn't talk about how to measure the metrics. So I tried to draft some. That's why the ones that are blank I haven't actually gone through the exercise of doing because they they get a little complicated. Um but I'm working through it. Ones I could find numbers for I put in there and then hopefully we'll be able to track it year over year. And then at the very very end is the actual original 2023 implementation plan. That's it. It's all online so everyone can go read it.

Thank you very much, Miss Lily. Um, you know, absolutely crushing it. There's 80ome different projects you're working all at the same time. So commend you for that and and and all that you do for our city. Member Stokel. Yep. Who made the booklet? I did. I figured that. Yes. And you just do an incredible job. You know that. Um and I just appreciate your passion that you bring. Um thank you for all you do. Thank you. Member Nelson. Okay. Lily, I have a question for you. Okay. I don't know if you have an answer, but I'm gonna give it to you. Every time I pass the gas station, every time you pass gas station

gas station, it's like 298 3:15. We're at 4. I don't see it going down.

Are we working? Maybe this is Tom question. We can put Tom on the spot. And every time I see that and I'm like, even if the war stops tomorrow, we're still stuck with probably another year, would you say, of high gas prices? So is there any thought toward switching to electric for what? For either vehicles or solar panels because we need gas for electricity.

There in the plan, the sustainability action plan talks about the uh we have EV goals of trying to promote electrification in in the city. A lot of that is was originally in 2023. we were looking at should the city be having you know chargers and stuff like that and then the private sector kind of swooped in there and filled in a lot of the the gaps and a lot of their parking lots. So that kind of covered the it was more the plan mostly talks about EV readiness not necessarily how to promote electrification like that though the energy audit talked a lot about moving to solar for the municipal buildings. I'm not sure what to do about the gas prices other than maybe talk about there is a section in the sustainability plan that talks about affordability and helping reduce poverty and I don't know it's probably a reach but

I guess maybe the maybe maybe we should put Tom on the spot. I just, you know, I see the prices going up, the gas prices going up, and we're paying um to put gas in our cars, our city cars. And I'm like, wow. Um I don't know how much we spent on fuel last year, but we're spending more money on fuel this year. We're going to spend more money on fuel next year. Is there a point where we say, "Hey,

there certainly is a point. I don't think we're there yet." Now, I think the interim step would be transitioning to some of the more administrative vehicles to hybrids which get 40 or 50 miles a gallon and are not, you know, just uh EV or or internal combustion. Um, another I think we would be looking at maybe in the future if gas prices continue and diesel is even more expensive than Yeah. than gas to look at some of the special vehicles like solid waste. Um, you know, not electric but uh natural gas. Okay. So, we're looking, but I don't think we're there. And and you know,

they're pricey. you know, there's been prior to the, you know, recent gas spike, I think, uh, major manufacturers are actually not making as many EVs. It's been downward, but I think this has spurred them to, uh, take another look at that. As gas, you know,clipses four, four and a half, $5 a gallon, EVs will become a a more attractive choice. and and if the initial costs come down where we can afford it, certainly we would look at switching. Tom, can I interject?

So, I just want to point out that last week the governor signed a bill, house bill 1217 that says we are not allowed to um pro provide procurement or purchasing preferences of any goods, vehicles, equipment equipment based solely on the types of sources or fuel used. So, we would have to do a a major effort to show that it's cost savings to the city. It can't just we can't just say we want hybrid, we want electric. We need to do we need to do the full exercise how many miles we do and how many miles we drive and make sure that it is the most cost-effective method for the city. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, thanks.

Thank you very much. Thank you again, Miss Lily. And now we're on to petitions and requests from the public. We're in our CRA meeting or sorry, special presentations meeting at 5:30. Stan Johnson here and I'm going to ask for another three minutes. Make it six minutes. I've got a mouthful. One of the things is is has to do with what Lily was talking about. That's sustainability. I've sent you an email regarding um uh fools and u liars and in the case of sustainability we have liars and uh they we even have an admission by Brad Parish in the uh s the sustainability report called resiliency 2019 it's fraud so uh he admitted that in front of Joe Diero and Joe Dairo was doing some things and uh he was taking care of it and revising the uh report and so forth and now the report is revised back again. So it's it's fraud. It's fraud and it's very serious fraud. It's costing the city as far as I can see over a number of years millions and millions of dollars. And the fraud is not only by by Brad, but it's also by Lily who just spoke um Eddie Galindo of the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council. Uh and I've contacted them severely on this is that they're just lying. Uh so this is a serious issue that's going on. We need to have uh stop the cover ups of what the city has done in in their budgeting. We have we have a number of fraud budgets which

I've talked to uh Tom and and uh Cook about that has been historically fraud by the city of Tyville in their uh budgeting process. So uh I mentioned that but I also mentioned to you about Chief Laauo. I have two signs back there of of the corruption that he has been involved in and I'm filing a u an internal affairs complaint against against Lao. I consider him to be a good cop in many re areas, but as far as I can see, he's changed. He's changed to a bad cop. I mean, he we've got uh uh I've been arrested falsely. I've been uh the records are are gone from the police department about my being visited in jail by the police officers. That's gone. The paper I signed for the police officers that's gone. Interrogation papers gone. The uh uh interrogation recording gone. See, all these are serious. My understanding that's a felony was what what's going on. What what our chief of police has done. A felony. That's a pretty serious issue. So, uh, I would like that to continue and I'm asking for another three minutes. Can I get another three minutes?

Are you interested in the fraud that's that's being perpetrated by Nelson and Stokel and so forth? Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Thank you,

Miss Sha. kind of forget. Let's start fresh. Shiloh Tropic Street, the historic Norwood House. I'm here because this is a special recognition and presentation meeting. And I'd like to point out um I'd like to accentuate two resolutions at the April 21st meeting of the Bvard County Commission. Two resolutions that were brought forward by our district 1 commissioner. And at an invitation, I was invited to come and accept for the citizens of all of Bard County, not just District 1. The first resolution was to resolve that May is citizen empowerment month. And that's why I said we ought to just kind of start fresh right here because citizen empowerment is really a good thing to have your citizens participate in your meetings. And the second resolution was to recognize the Bvard Citizens Academy, of which I'm a two-time graduate, because I feel like you can't meet enough important people. And that's what happens at that citizens academy, kind of like ours here. Ours was a very good but very brief. That's a sevenw week session. Uh one one session a week for seven weeks to meet all the different department heads of Breard County. And it's also something that's attended by a lot of Bvard County staff people so that they learn what's going on in other departments because connecting the dots and having the right hand know what the left hand is doing is

so important. It keeps things from slipping through the cracks, things like sidewalks that should have been done maybe and now are people would know what's going on. So, I just wanted to speak about those two resolutions by the Brevard County Commission and our District One Commissioner and um make a public recognition that May will be citizen empowerment month and all citizens should get involved in their local government. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Miss Shiff. Anybody else? All right. Seeing none, we're going to adjourn to our meeting at 6:30. Can I have a motion to adjurnn? I have a motion over adjourned