Town Commission - Regular Meeting

All right. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for coming in tonight. I hope everybody had a great Memorial Day weekend. So let's call to order the Oakland Town Commission meeting for May 26, 2026. Everybody, please stand for the pledge. Remain standing. All right. Good evening, Kathy.

Good evening. Commissioner Keller.

Here.

Vice Mayor Satterfield. Mayor Taylor.

Here.

Commissioner Motley.

Here.

And Commissioner McMullen is absent.

All right. Thank you, guys. So we're going to do some presentations of proclamations. We're going to switch it up a little bit on the agenda. We're going to do the proclamation first for Pride Month of June of 2026. I'll read that, and then we'll move on to the Police Department Awards. So Pride Month, whereas our nation was founded on the principles of equal rights for all people, but the fulfillment of this promise has been long and coming for many Americans, whereas the historical riot at Stonewall in New York City on June 28, 1969, is considered a turning point for LGBTQ liberation in the United States. For more than 50 years, June has been celebrated as LGBTQ+, Pride Month nationwide in honor of the LGBTQ+, citizens that rose up and fought the discriminatory laws in Stonewall. Everyone should be able to live without fear, prejudice, discrimination, violence, and hatred based on race, ethnicity, religion, class, gender, identity, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability, and to be supported by their peers, educators, and community leaders. June has become a nationally recognized moment to celebrate and honor the way LGBTQ plus Americans have overcome adversity and enriched our society. The town of Oakland strives to be a community where everyone is celebrated for our differences rather than being limited by what might divide us. Now, therefore, I, Shane Taylor, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the town of Oakland, Florida, on behalf of the entire town commission, do hereby proclaim June 2026 as LGBTQ plus pride month. thank you and i think legislators change where this is the last reading of this yep all right moving on to the police department awards chief say that yeah yeah

We believe you every time.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and commissioners and members of the town of Oakland. I would like to present two awards today. Basically, if you haven't seen it before, we present awards on a quarterly basis to people that are nominated by their peers and voted or approved to receive the award by the awards committee. If I could have SRO Officer Samaria Lake, please come up. See her? I wasn't here. Oh, don't clap yet. We don't know what she's done. May have been. So on April 3rd, 2026, the Oakland Avenue Charter School hosted an Easter egg hunt for the pre-K students. Officer Lake took it upon herself to purchase 400 plastic eggs and filled them with toys and candy by herself. These eggs were used in the egg hunt for the students. She went a step further and purchased a chicken costume, which she appeared at the egg hunt in full costume. While dancing and flapping her wings, Officer Lake furthered her positive relationship with many students and teachers who were a part of this incredible event. Her constant willingness to be creative and continue a positive bond with the students has demonstrated that her passion extends far beyond simply enforcing the law. Due to Officer Lake's continuous practice of community-oriented policing and always keeping the students and staff as her priority, Officer Samaria Lake is hereby awarded the Oakland Police Department's Community Service Award. I really wanted to get a picture in the chicken costume. We do. It's on Facebook. So follow us on Facebook while we're here. Okay, if you would, please stay. Please stay. There's more. The teachers and students at Oakland Avenue Charter School are not the only beneficiary of excellence in her duties. Officer Lake exemplifies positivity and professionalism in all she does. She has volunteered to teach new officers topics in their orientation, which we will be starting next week, take on a new officer for one phase of their field training, offered assistance to others when things get busy, and continues to display her smile, which seems to be infectious to others around her. Due to her overall performance during the first quarter of 2026, Officer Samaria Lake is hereby awarded the Oakland Police Department's Officer of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2026. And that is it. Thank you for your time.

Thank you very much. And I say it every time, we appreciate our officers here in Oakland. So you guys do a great job for us. Just seeing you drive around the neighborhoods is awesome. Conversing, talking, waving, everything. So everything you guys do for us, we really appreciate it. Oh, there's the... Show that in the camera. That's funny.

I was just going to add again, I was just going to add again, we do appreciate all of our Oakland officers, but Officer Lake, we see you time and time again being recognized. And I am so grateful that you have decided to grace our town with your services because you're truly a joy. So thank you so much.

Thank you. Yeah. All right. Moving on to our consent agenda tonight. And we have three items on there. First item is approval of the May 12th, 2026 town commission regular meeting minutes. Approval from the public works to dispose of town assets and approval of a new insurance broker. Highland is anyone have any questions or comments on the consent agenda? No. Okay. Hearing no entertain a motion. as presented second second all in favor aye aye okay all right moving on to ordinance uh a couple ordinances tonight our first ordinance is 2026-02 which is the first reading of ordinance amending the small scale future land use map for 2253 bayline road and kathy i think you have to read something right right one moment please am i moving too fast

An ordinance of the town of Oakland, Florida, adopting a small-scale town future land use map amendment of its comprehensive plan from agriculture to low-density residential or certain real property owned by Loriano and Nieza Lutina, located at the following address, 2253 Bayline Road, as more particularly described herein. with an approximate size of 12.91 acres, making findings and providing for conflicts, severability, and for an effective date.

All right, great. Good evening, Taylor. City Council Chambers, Good evening, Mr Mayor members of the Commission so just to start off this is going to be a. City Council Chambers, As you mentioned, there are two ordinances associated with this item tonight, but it will i'm going to be presenting them together, but they are going to be voted upon separately, given that the. City Council Chambers, rezoning ordinances contingent upon approval of the future land use amendment so we'll present as one, but the vote will be through two separate ordinances so get started, if you might starting up the. PB, Harmon Zuckerman, All right, so starting off just a little bit of background of the subject site, it is just under 13 acres and has both a zoning current zoning district and future land use classification of agriculture and it is located within our neighborhood general design district. PB, Harmon Zuckerman, Giving just a visual of the site, you can see it is right adjacent to the west of the whole island at oakland subdivision. PB, Harmon Zuckerman, So here we see the current future land use map and existing zoning map, you can see on both it is classified as agriculture and it is surrounded primarily by lower density lower intensity type of zoning classification. PB, Harmon Zuckerman, On the conservation along the water and low density residential primarily to the east. Looking at the requested action tonight, as was mentioned, first and foremost, a small scale future land use map amendment, which does propose to amend the land use classification from agriculture to low density residential. Subsequent to that and contingent upon approval of the land use map amendment is the rezoning of the property from agriculture to single family residential. the intent and purpose of these two items is to facilitate the subdivision of the property from a single parcel of land into five distinct properties each one of them eligible only for development as a single family home and it should be noted that this is put in just for background information per florida state statutes the actual subdivision itself would be approved administratively by the town but the rezoning and land use map amendment permit the use types future the single family use types that would be proposed for the property so looking just at that proposed subdivision you can see carved up into five distinct parcels of land additionally it's harder to see just visually but you can see the the hatched line running throughout the property this was agreed to and already reviewed and approved by the town's internal review team As part of this, there would be a dedicated 15 foot utility easement dedicated to the town, which would be intended to serve as a link to a future water line that would serve that area of the town. So that is something just to note that would be included as part of any future subdivision of the property. So looking at the staff analysis of the actual rezoning and land use map amendments, starting with transportation, based on the lot count, as I mentioned, both the land use classification and the zoning district permits single family residential uses. Given the proposed number of lots and the densities and intensities permitted, the site is expected to generate trips comparable to four additional single family homes with the existing home owned by the property owners to remain on the property. And accordingly, based on the ITE trip generation manual, the peak hour trips from the site would be projected to go from one trip to five trips, which is the going rate for single family residential properties. And given this, given the relatively minor amount of trips based on what the roadway classification was designed to handle and the density surrounding the property, this expected increase in trips is not anticipated to create significant deleterious impacts to the transportation network. Going into facilities and service, both with potable water and wastewater, either through interlocal agreements or existing capacities, or don't envision any conflicts with that. As I mentioned, the utility easement is being proposed by the applicant to be dedicated to the town for that future water line. or every new residential property, it is subject to school concurrency and any impact fees if and when future development of those residential properties occurs on the site. Environmental, it should also be noticed that the only request to be facilitated through this would be the subdivision of the land. There is actually no development proposed at this time. They're just looking for the ability to subdivide out the property and the applicant can give a little bit more background as to the why once the staff presentation concludes. But with that said, there is a wetland present on the western portion of the site, which would remain untouched and undamaged if and when development were to occur on the property. And of course, any and all required environmental permits and mitigation measures would be in place per general development guidelines. Looking at the actual code, the language of the land development code and the comprehensive plan, the proposal is consistent with the surrounding development and land use patterns. Being located within the neighborhood general design district, the intent and purpose of that design district is to support detached residential homes on those larger lots, which... the proposal would facilitate. There's no variances or any variations from code requirements that the subdivision would need. Essentially, the subdivision meets all of our current code requirements. And the proposed low density future land use classification and zoning, as I mentioned, encourage the single family development, limit density, and prohibit multi-tenant residential uses, all of which would occur through the two category or the two changes being requested for the property this item was her these two items i should say were heard before the planning and zoning board last tuesday on may 19th and the board did recommend approval of both items voting 5-0 with no specific conditions placed on that approval With that said, as I mentioned, this will be two separate votes for the ordinances, but staff does recommend that the town commission recommend approval of ordinance 202602 to amend the town's future land use map from agriculture to low density residential and ordinance 202603 to approve the rezoning from agriculture, a single family residential for 2253 Bayline. As I mentioned the, actually I'll go into the next steps first. Like I said, the subdivision would be administratively approved per Florida statutes, but after tonight, the proposal is intended to go for a second reading before you all on June 9th. That concludes the staff presentation, and the applicant is also here to give a few words and answer any questions you may have. Thank you all.

Thank you, Taylor. Okay, applicant, would you guys like to speak on anything? Sorry, you have to... That was last week. I wasn't there.

I was here last week, so I think you heard almost everything.

That was planning and zoning. We haven't heard anything.

Oh, you don't know anything?

No, we know nothing.

Okay. Well, basically, we have... enormous amount of children farm nine seven kids um so we're we plan on having uh something for one of our children in particular that would probably need to stay close and live near us just due to being adopted and some special needs so when we started this process we were like we're going to start the zoning and it's not it was not super easy and we were like the path is pretty intricate so we may as well look at our land as a whole piece because it's just a lot of land and managing it and stuff. We're like, maybe we'll subdivide in just different pieces. We kind of looked at it and we're like, let's try it out. So that's kind of what it was.

So an idea is a family compound.

I don't know that all of our kids are one of us. I know one specifically will be with us just because that's the way that life, you know, drew its cards. But yeah, it could potentially be. So we have no plans for it. It's just, we'd love to get it subdivided and have the option when that time rolls into play for her. So.

Is there anything you want to ask me?

It's really simple.

Can you please speak your name for the record?

What is it? Oh, it's Nisa Putina. Do I need to spell that?

Can you put up the slide of the division of the lots? I just would like to see that.

Thank you.

so my my concerns were which i think was addressed in the presentation there's a significant amount of wetlands in the property and obviously i would love to see that remain you know i don't know it looks like that's been taken into because i think it's pretty much the west we're not touching any of the wetlands at all and we wouldn't i and i don't even know law-wise if we can yeah so i we never even look to touch that okay

Does Taylor, and maybe Nisa, you know this, either side of your property, is that Orange County? That's not town, right?

There are some parcels around here that are Orange County.

Yes, Mayor. On either side? And then the back west side, is that butt up to Lake County?

We are Orange County.

You're in Orange County, but is the back property butt up to the Lake County?

Anywhere they'd be building is Orange, I'm pretty sure.

I didn't know if that's Lake County.

We are either orange or unincorporated orange. We never were Lake.

Okay, so Lake County line is still further. Oh, I see the line. Sorry, I'm not sure. It's a little further down. Sorry. I see it now on there. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Any other questions?

And that would still be for traffic going in, which really is minimal, I understand, to come in off Hall Island and shoot down that road. There's never been that little loop that's in the other end of it. That's just the way it is.

Yeah, the loop down at the end of Bayline Road. As far as I know, I don't, yeah, we don't touch anywhere near that. So our home is just lining. We almost look like the other homes, except like we're on the same street and all the homes around us are those, you know, the homes that were built on Hall Island and Bayline Road. And then across the street to us, and it just looks like woods right now, really.

Oh, I'm real familiar with it.

Oh, you are?

Only because everything was being built around there. I would go with Mike Parker a lot, watching, thinking, can't do all this here.

You did. That was interesting. We thought you couldn't either. We were like, yeah, we moved out with cows and trailer homes, and it was gone.

Not for you, but in general, the question, there's not a plan to loop that back around, right?

No, there's no plan. Not until that property that's in Orange County develops, and then maybe.

Thank you, Nisa.

Thank you.

It is a public hearing, so we'll open it to the public if anyone out in the audience has any comments or questions on these two ordinances. All right, hearing none, no opposition, great. Hearing none, we'll close the public hearing and bring it back here to any further questions or comments. No, okay. We need to vote on this one and then do the second one first.

Do we need a motion for the first one, or is that approved by you as the town manager?

Yes, I do need to read the second one.

You want us to do it individually? Sorry, Garrett. Mayor, if the commission could vote on the first ordinance, and then technically we should have a second public hearing to allow for the second ordinance after it's been read. Okay.

All right. So then we'll, if there's no further questions from the table here, we'll hear a motion for the ordinance 20-2602.

I'll make a motion to approve the ordinance 2026-02, first reading of ordinance amending the small-scale future land use map for 2253 Bayline Road as presented.

Second.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. So now reading ordinance 2026-03. Yes.

An ordinance of the town of Oakland, Florida adopting a town official zoning map amendment from A1 agricultural within the neighborhood general design district to R1A single family residential within the neighborhood general design district for certain. Real property owned by Floriano and Niaza Putina, located at the following address, 2253 Bayline Road, as more particularly described herein, with an approximate size of 12.91 acres. Making findings and providing for conflict, severability, and for an effective date.

Okay, so that's the Ordinance 2026-03. Is there any comments or questions on that one? It is a public hearing, so anyone in the audience have any comments or questions? Okay. Hearing none, we'll close the public hearing. And I am assuming, Taylor, once they split the lots, they'll be platted individually and that good stuff, right?

That's correct, Mr. Mayor.

Okay. All right. So if there's nothing else, we'll entertain a motion on Ordinance 2026-03.

Move that we accept ordinance 2026-03, first reading of ordinance for rezoning of 2253 Bayline Road as presented.

Thank you. Motion made second?

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Thank you, Nisa. And we'll do the second one on June this night, it looks like. All right. Moving on to other policy matters. And it looks like Mike Parker, you have something special?

I didn't read it, it didn't seem special when I read it. Mike, just so you feel comfortable, keep it short, Parker. It's about six pages long.

Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners.

Mike Parker, the Capital Projects Coordinator for the town. As you know, our water system relies on groundwater from three water wells. to provide for public services. These withdrawals are permitted by the state by means of a consumptive use permit currently set at an average of 890,000 gallons per day. Some days it's more than that and some days it's less, but in no case can we utilize more than 325 million gallons per year. Now I've been talking about this for about two years, but now we are at that permit limit. So we're taking action to renew it. While the staff memo and the permit narrative in your agenda packet give much more detail, about a year ago, staff began the two-year process of getting an increase in the permit. After many discussions with St. John's Water Management District, we recently submitted our permit application. And in the process, we had to demonstrate our ever-growing need for more water as well as explain our efforts to lower consumption through conservation. I would like to remind you that over half of the water produced in this town is utilized for residential irrigation. That's a lot. Looking to the future, we can expect to see further strengthening of these conservation mandates by the state, as well as additional enforcement activities. With that, I'd like to turn this over to Ms. Victoria Maruchkiewicz and Mr. Rob Gonzalez from CPH to explain where we are with the process and how we got to this point.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, and everyone of Oakland. My name is Victoria Marachkovic. I'm a project engineer with CPH. and town acquired CPH services to prepare a CEP modification application to request the St. John's River Water Management District to increase the groundwater allocations and extend the terms of the current permit. So the purpose of today's presentation is to overview of existing CEP allocations Also review of future known developments review of water demand projections impact of alternative water supply offset and also review questions for or request for my. So. Next slide is it here. So the existing CAP allocation includes, like Mike mentioned, the annual withdrawals. Maximum for the year is 324.85 million gallons and 0.89 million gallons per day on average. Also the maximum monthly allocation of 33, a little over 33 million gallons. And the current permit will expire in April 2037. So the town is growing and we predict approximately 1,759 new dwelling connections in the next 20 years. So the next slide will show the table. future known developments. So that number also includes the infill, which is 1% infill starting in 2033. The town population is growing, hence the portable water demand is expected to increase. This is the water demand projection stable on the next slide that was submitted to the Water Management District. And the Water Management District is mainly looking at the per capita usage. So the town is under Central Florida Water Initiative jurisdiction that has the specific per capita goals. And currently the town is trending 150 gallon per capita per day, which is the last five year average. The alternative water supply project that is the service water harvesting for irrigation of certain neighborhoods, the per capita will be reduced to 120.

So that's the second number.

with an arrow, which is getting closer to the Central Florida Water Initiative rule. The alternative water supply project is currently in the design phase and anticipated to be constructed by 2030. So the next slide presents the water demand table trend. The town's current water use permit was limited to the projections set by 2020 Central Florida Water Initiative Regional Plan. So you can see the dashed line, that's the current permitted allocation. The green trend line, that shows the 2020 Central Florida Water Initiative So you can see that once they projected that in, I believe in 2015, that's when the permit was issued in 2016, the next year. But purple line presents the adjusted 2025 Central Florida Water Initiative Regional Plan. And you can see that they recognize the growth and it was adjusted. The blue line is the current projections. And the red line is the projections with the alternative water supply offset. So you can see that with offset, the town will be in compliance with the 2025 demand that was projected by Central Florida Water Initiative. So the next graph, next slide, is a breakdown of overall demand between the groundwater and the alternative water supply. The groundwater is blue. Alternative water supply is a stack over with the green bars so CPH initiated coordination with the district so we submitted the permit on May 11 requesting the next slide show that we are requesting extension of the permit duration so we're asking for 20-year permits so increase extended from 2037 to 2045 Also, we're asking to increase the town's water allocation. We're asking for 1.29 million gallons per day through the end of the current permit.

So if they don't allow us to extend it through 2045, that would be at 1.29.

And if we go to 2045, we are asking 1.30 million gallons per day. And also we have associated max monthly allocation for those numbers. And typically the process, the CEP modification or renewal is pretty lengthy process, but hopefully the water management district finds the request reasonable and modification in a good time manner.

Do you have any questions?

Just out of curiosity, what is a good time manner look like?

Realistically, six months.

Do they ever deny the requests rarely or is it okay?

Mostly they don't issue deny.

They would issue requests for additional information to provide like a supportive information, proof of the demand is valid.

And they might have some conditions like conservation efforts. They might implement that in the permit conditions.

Okay um I know Mike I think the town has you talked about the irrigation and half of this is being used for irrigation. We have watering days right where you can only water X days a week. Yes, yeah right.

We follow the St. John's River Water Management District rules.

They might say you can water Saturdays and Wednesdays or whatever. Yeah.

Based on your odd and even addresses.

That's correct. They still have that in effect, right? We have some residents out there, it's just five days a week. They're not really understanding.

Well, if they're not, they need to.

Yeah. So I know that in your staff report, you'd made a comment about controlling or enforcing that.

Yes. It's been in our ordinances for many years. And with the state mandates that require this, we're just going to have to do it.

Yeah, and I think that just getting started, maybe having to do it, we just have to do it, and I guess that would fall to code enforcement or someone like that, right?

Code enforcement or police officers, I believe the code says.

Okay. It would just be a friendly warning first and then so on and so on type deal as it goes on. On the consumptive use permit, private wells, private irrigation wells, they don't factor into this, correct? Correct. uh yes they do they have all the same rules so a private uh private well i have a private well private irrigation well has to follow the st john's rules saturdays wednesdays whatever yeah they don't factor into the the the the c dup or anything like that right the consumption use permit they don't connections no right now okay but i mean st john's hasn't has that information that sits there and he says hey oakland's got you know 700 private wells And they track that information. But they don't take that into consideration. Yes. Yes and no.

Well, because they wouldn't have access to what kind of water is coming out of it, right? And I know our neighborhood, not to speak on behalf of Commissioner Motley, but we have, and I know our water bills show irrigation and longleaf community, for those who don't know, but show irrigation and potable water. So like our neighborhood, if there was somebody that was running their sprinklers all the time, the town would have access to that information, right?

Well, I believe with the current metering system, we would know what days there were watering and what times.

Okay. So that could be enforced, and I'm assuming that would be all the newer neighborhoods are probably metered that way, or would it be everybody?

well everybody everybody okay i i don't know mike i know that you you've kind of implemented uh the town has any new commercial development of substantial size they're responsible for putting in their own irrigation well and again that doesn't count towards our right that's correct yeah see uh see i mean looking at the future known developments a lot of these are maybe all but four are kicking in within the next couple years here. It's pretty substantial.

That includes residential and commercial development. Are there any restrictions as newer developments come on on St. Augustine grass as compared to Bahia or Bermuda that doesn't take near as much water? A lot of communities restrict that development.

So I'm not aware of that. There has been some discussion with the water management district on other surrounding cities that have model ordinances that they would like us to mirror. And that may be a concern with our consumptive use permit.

Anybody else have anything else? Okay, is anybody in the audience have anything, this is your water too, any comments or questions or anything?

Regarding the water usage, now you water your lawn and it seems like you're not sure about what days and times you're allowed to water.

Oh, I know. I know what it is. I'm just doing it just to make sure. It's still in effect. That's all.

Because there's not a lot of information that I see in any of our town sites telling people when they can and can't water. Citrus County, they're in a water emergency right now. So we're restricted to one day a week for my folks there. And I think the fine is $250 for no warning offenses. They have people that drive around because it's like before 8 a.m. or after 6 p.m., and they just know your address. And if your yard is wet, like, there's your fine. You've got an advantage because you can digitally see who's using the water in our town. So part of the other comment, earlier this spring, because our weather's changing, everything's so dry, you have neighbors I've seen their water on for years, three four hours every single day watering their backyard and i've wondered sitting here in the last many many years of who is enforcing any of these rules and pretty much everybody's getting away with it um and we have houses in our development that are actively putting in sprinkler systems and they're only going to be using drinkable water to water their lawn um our increase in usage and the new tank that we're going to have to provide out there basically is because we're allowing everybody just to water their lawns and every new hoa that comes in mandates them to keep green lawns and you must have your grass and you know they use thousands of dollars of water each month So, I mean, Oakland hasn't done anything to slow down water usage. So I really think this is something that. The reason I, yeah, thank you, Scott. Appreciate it.

The reason I bring that up is, you know, and you guys, longtime Floridians understand when we went through the first drought, I think that's when St. John's kind of implemented those, watering days uh and this was back in probably the late 90s 2000s was when all the fires broke out everywhere and hunters creek was on fire and everything else was on fire uh and and that's what i that's why i brought that up was you know there was there was restrictions on saying this is this this is peace yes ma'am

I just want to point out that Public Works is doing actually a really good job messaging. If you look at the town's Facebook page, they've done messaging on replacing any of the frozen plants that happened during our freeze with more Florida-friendly landscaping. They've done messaging on water conservation. Yes, we're not in the severe drought area. However, Just reminding people to follow the water restrictions that are in place, according to St john's river water management district and that. we're working with the police department they're working on some door hangers that their police officers can go around in place if they're noticing people are watering between 10 and four which are restrictions. They can do that. They can tear off a part and take it to code enforcement so that we can start encouraging that. If you're seeing people that are watering off cycle, you can also report that. We created a general public works email. It's just pw at oaklandfl.gov that you can report those violations to so that we are really trying to work towards some of these conservation efforts as a team.

yeah and and again it was you know going back to that and you remember that time when it was everything was on fire um you have a lot now we have a lot of new residents that maybe have not understanding you know that moved in here from since 2000 or 98 but we could still okay

Just one other thing. Michelle also sent out all those tips and rules to the HOAs themselves so that they can help inform the residents.

And I know that communication was forwarded to all the residents in our community by the HOA, so we did see that. And it was communicated as a communication from the town of Oakland. We just got it a couple days ago. So that is going out. Okay, great.

I do want to mention that the irrigation watering restrictions are on our website under the utility billing portion. And there's also a link to the St. John's water management that tells you what days you can, what your section is and all that. And also every new resident receives this schedule when they first move in. So we are trying our due diligence. We can't monitor every single person, but we are trying. So just wanted to put that out there.

And does new development still have like a 30-day grace period to water everything with new landscape and new plants and grass? Is that still in effect? Does anybody know? So new development, like if you build a new house or new development or you threw a saw in your yard, you get a 30-day grace period. Is that still in effect? Yeah.

There is a grace period.

Yes, it is. There is. It's in the MUTY code, which is also on the town's website. You could click on the municipal code and it will show every specific. There's only three people in the town that are allowed to enforce water restrictions. The police, public works, and a designee of the town manager, which in this case is public works. They're doing a great job with the email. If somebody sees people, the process is now clear. We've worked together. If somebody emails the public works email, they forward it to us. Every violation will generate a code enforcement case. Just like you get my report every month. So Steven will write up a case. The first one is a warning. The second one is a fine. If they don't pay the fine within 20 days, the fine can increase up to $500, and they have to go in front of the magistrate. Every case will be handled the same. We created a door hanger that tells when you can and can't water, and the bottom is perforated where we will, the officers, when they see it, they will write the address, the date and time of the violation, and the officer who's observing the violation, they will rip that perforated part off and give it to Stephen. Stephen will generate a case. Every case will be treated the same. I think we've got it all covered then.

except for holding hands right that's it you know i'm sorry you might want to reach out to other communities how they enforce it and what they do as much as i'm not really excited about the way some cities do it there are ones that when they get that fine after that first warning it shoots right on their water bill so there's no choice but to pay it No, and if it gets to where it's that bad, that's an idea that could enforce it because that kind of enables people to pay it by force.

Yeah, a lot of other municipalities also have a dedicated staff that all they do is monitor that. So that's why we're kind of working as a team to try to rectify this because we know with the consumptive use permit, there's probably going to be additional restrictions.

Don't I get it. And that's, I'm not suggesting that we do it that way. I'm just saying if it got to a point, that is an option that I see other folks that are doing that. I don't particularly like that.

Okay. Well, Mike, thank you. That was a little more exciting. A little more exciting than we thought it was going to be. All right.

Thank you.

Victoria. Thank you, Roberto. Thank you very much for showing up tonight.

okay so uh moving on to the uh public forum anything uh that was not on the town agenda tonight uh can be discussed does anybody have anything like to talk about tonight yes sir okay scott ran 305 edgegrove don't start my timer because this is feedback from last week i know we put in a really expensive sound system here but when the microphones aren't used it doesn't work um along with this microphone stand versus that big clunky one that almost fell over on people i was asking for a room mic that actually will pick up voices when the microphones don't work so i was interested in a portion of the meeting and i wasn't even able to hear it uh you can't hear it in the recording so it's tricky with having all these individual mics i think it was a mistake for the company that sold this to us we have Um, conference mics that can be put on the ceiling. That'll pick up everybody's word in the room anywhere. Um, so either we have to be a little more fastidious about the mics working, whether they're charged or not charged. Cause if I don't attend the meeting, I miss out on things. So I'm trying to follow up on the last meeting. Um, That John Hammerstein was up here asking for paving on Vick, which you discussed. And then he also asked for a short section of Arrington. And then I couldn't hear the response. And the minutes didn't really help me understand what the conversation was about.

John, you want to talk about that?

Sorry about that. So last week I found out that I was the one who pressed the button and they couldn't hear me. Michelle told me about it last week. So we was in the process of just getting the quotes to see how much it would cost us to pay Vick. And I did get some of those quotes back.

um whatnot so um i don't know if you guys haven't seen anything you haven't okay okay so he was asking for quotes on a short section of errington is exactly what he said to be paved as well and i know there was a little discussion about that and i know you said you're focused on vic yeah um but errington is a mess in our community yeah um

Yeah, and I think that we were looking at Vick or Arrington as well.

So I didn't get the quotes back for Arrington yet, but I did get the quotes back for Vick.

So it's in process. It's in the process.

For all of Arrington.

Yeah, I think you're looking at all of Arrington, right?

Yes. Okay, so then I'd like to add a short section of edge growth. and a short section of Mathersmith. And I'm going to refer back to March 11, 2025, and what the commission voted on, asphalt millings number two with the minor maintenance and no dust, which was written down. I'm also going to submit the things that I told you guys about before you voted, the cons, dust and loose particles, less aesthetic repeal, variable quality, all of which is going on in our entire community. And I'm also going to submit to the petition that was brought in and the 81% of the residents in our neighborhood that asked for pay. And that was prior to us doing the work. Yes. And that was my point was to stop you from spending money on a product that wasn't going to work.

Thank you. If you would like to submit those things.

and and i saw the new millings that are going down over on daniels and gully and uh you're going to end up with problems with those all we have are loose stones all over these roads and we have dust i'm collecting new dust videos that can be submitted and placed online to show the dust that's on errington because it's getting worse it was great for about a month or two The cars were clean. The driveway was clean. Now in the rainy season, every day go out to the driveway. We have black dust now instead of white dust. That's the only thing that's changed. Thank you. So you didn't meet what you said those substances were going to be, which was no dust. That was all the residents asked for. was we need to stop the dust. We didn't ask for millings. I didn't ask for millings. I didn't even ask for asphalt. I asked for the dust problem. You guys chose something that's not working.

Thank you. Yeah, Ed.

Ed Gulikowski, 51 Vandermeer Street. I've sat here and listened to the millings in Tailing Street And I cannot sit still any longer. I find it absolutely incredible that someone who purchased a home on a dirt street is now offended that there is dirt on their street. I have taken drives down the neighborhood, and I don't see the real issue. The surface is easy to drive on. seems to be doing what the intended function was. And I think that the commission should not be bullied into doing things that are inappropriate. Thank you.

Thanks, Ed.

Gentlemen, thanks so much.

Thank you. Okay, anybody else have anything else on the public forum? All right, anything, we'll close the public forum and bring it back to our town manager.

I'd like to ask Pam to come up, maybe cover some of the school activities since you're here. Class of school.

Yes, for 2025-26. So we are, that's a wrap. Tomorrow morning is our fifth grade flyaway in which that we say farewell to our outgoing fifth graders. It starts, I believe, at 915. The cars will line up. on STAR and wait for our direction to get started right about 9.15. So we hope you can come out and enjoy those. I think, let's see, what else have we had? Last week, we had an absolutely two amazing, wonderful days. We had our seniors, which was the first graduating class of those that were with me all the way from VPK all the way through fifth grade. They came back for high school, the walkout for high school. So they were all there. It was great to see all them. And then we had our fifth grade walkout on Friday afternoon. So We've been filled with award ceremonies and just fun activities for the last few days. Tomorrow's a wrap, and then we'll have two post-planning days for teachers, and then they will go off to summer, and I will start planning for next year. The good news is that I did put in, I believe it's in this manager's report, I'm losing track of days except for the countdown to summer. We did get some great scores. We are looking on a great trajectory for a school grade of an A again. Obviously, if they change the scales and the percentages and once we do double checking everything, there's a possibility that they can increase the rigor that's needed. But we're looking good and very proud of our scores, very proud of our teachers and our students. So hopefully we'll see some of you tomorrow at the flyaway. All right.

She doesn't, you know, always get a chance to speak. And I could have said it, but not as well as that. We are very, very proud of their scores. They did an amazing job again this year.

So just want to reiterate that.

Just a couple things to go over on last week, Mayor Taylor, Gabby and I attended the Tri-County League meeting in Windermere where Commissioner McMullen received Florida League of Cities 2026 Home Rule Hero Award. So that was great for us to be there to support him receiving that award. And then yesterday, Mayor Taylor, Vice Mayor Satterfield, Commissioner Motley, Chief Easton, Corporal Fisher, Corporal Edwards, and I participated in Memorial Day flag placements at Oakland's active cemeteries. And we want to thank John and Catherine Ward for coordinating this meaningful annual event. It was great. Farmers Market is Thursday from 9 to 1 o'clock. Oakland Nature Preserve is still conducting their 10,000 challenge match grant campaign, and they've raised about 75% of that, so a little over 7,500. So the campaign ends June 30th. As I mentioned last month, donations are currently being matched dollar for dollar. So we have about 2,500 more to raise. So this is the time to donate if you're going to donate. Just an update on the state budget. So a final state budget deal has been reached between House and Senate leaders. Legislators are expected to formally vote on the budget later this week. The total budget is approximately $115 billion for fiscal year 2026-2027. And not to jinx it, but our Oakland South Lake Apopka project is currently in the budget at $1.5 million. However, we know until the final budget gets printed and published and the governor signs off on it, that's not a sure thing. So we will keep you posted.

Our annual gala a couple weeks ago, which was lovely. Thank you for all of you that came out. We missed those of you that were not able to be there that night, but that night raised about $9,600, 9,600, 9,600. Our total fundraising dollars from the PTO this year looks like it's going to be around $59,000. Yeah. Very good.

Yeah.

Kathy.

So next month, we are having an appearance review board meeting and a planning and zoning meeting. That's it.

Good stuff. These things are coming in town. Ashley.

Yes, I just want to say that for the remainder of the week, I'm going to be at the Florida City County Managers Association held here. Well, in Orlando, not here, but our to our neighbors. And I'm looking forward to connecting with smaller communities from across the state of Florida, talking about what's important to our size and really connecting with those city, town and assistant town managers.

Great, have fun, Gabby.

I do have an update.

I know.

All right. So this one might be a little long winded. So I apologize. I should have gotten this to Kathy, but I didn't. So my bad. There's going to be an update to the utility billing ACH process. So that's going to be going away June 16th. The current process, which is we auto draft your account. The billing processor, MuniLink, is going to be ending that process to move to a more secure platform. They didn't want to be liable or irresponsible for those types of payments anymore. So all bill payments will now be handled by NCR Global Pay, which they currently process all the credit card and debit payments that people make to their water bill. So they're going to be offering the e-check options now. So we will no longer be auto-drafting your accounts. So, unfortunately, there's going to be processing fees that are going to be associated now. We tried to get them to waive it. They would not. They did reduce the one, but they will not be waiving them. So, an e-check will now cost 25 cents to get it set up as an auto-pay through their processing software. A one-time e-check payment will be 75 cents, and then credit cards will remain the same, whatever their cost is. The enrollment period is going to be from June 16th through July 8th. If you do not set up a new billing option by July 8th, then your bill will not be paid. So you'll either need to come in and make a physical payment or mail in a check or call us or something because it's not going to auto draft. If you don't have an online account, just contact our office. We can get that set up for you. We can walk you through it. If you already have an account and you're just not sure how to access it or you've lost your email or whatever, we can reset that for you. It's the same processing that you do now if you want to make a credit card payment. You're just going to have to set that up for your e-checks now. So if anybody else has any questions or you want to talk to me, I'm here. Or you can call our office during business hours, and anybody at the front desk can help you.

Just so I understand, my water bill gets paid through you guys. So that's null and void anymore. Mm-mm.

So the process that you have now where we just draft it automatically on August 10th, the town does, we're not going to be able to do that anymore. That's going to be going away. So you'll now have to go into the online account option that MuniLink offers.

July 8th.

By July 8th and select if you still want it to come out of your bank account, you'll need to set that up yourself. If you want it to come out of a credit card, you'll need to set that up yourself. But the town will no longer be handling people's Banking information.

So you're hitting me with 25 cents.

I gotta, I'm so sorry. I tried. I really, really tried. It was a dollar to do an e-check and we got them to reduce it to some.

So, and how is that information being disseminated to the residents?

So we have, um, made a Facebook post. We sent on an email notification, um, We have letters going out, but there's over 2,500 letters, so we're doing them in batches. And then I believe they're also going to be on the water bills for June, reminding everybody to sign up by July 8th. We are trying to get it out there. We were kind of hit with this short notice. They told us it was going away, but then they never gave us any more information. We didn't know how much it was going to cost, what the process was going to be. And we found that out about a week ago. And so we've been scrambling to try and get all the information done. So I commend the utility billing department. They printed out over 2,000 letters. They've been creating the labels and doing all of that in-house, because unfortunately the company would not help us. So we're trying to get it out. But in the meantime, we've done it through Facebook emails and we'll put it on the postcards. So.

I received an email with my personal email. That's how it was set up yesterday. Matter of fact.

OK, good. Yeah. And Kelly, who does our normal social media, she's going to be trying to do them weekly, sending out these reminders online on the Facebook page. And I'm going to see if we can try and send out more weekly reminders through the email as well. So.

Thanks for that.

Sorry.

Since it's happening pretty fast to June 8th, they're going to be July 8th. So there's like a whole month.

Yes. Yeah. We wanted to get everybody set up. You don't have, like I said, you don't have to make a decision by July 8th. You can let it slide. And then if you decide to do it later on, you can always set it up whenever you want to. But if you currently have it auto-deducted and you want to keep it that way without disruption, you'll need to do that by July 8th, and we can help you with that. Okay.

Thank you, Gabby. Deputy Chief, Chief, I know you visited D.C.

Yes, we did. Myself and Corporal Dozier went to Washington for the National Police Week Memorial Ceremony. A very somber but good week. And it was interesting to me that dozer um who's been in the job 30 years that's the first time he's visited and he he it was very uh emotional for him he got to see the name of his partner who died at 9 11 as a result of 9 11 on the wall for the first time so that was um very it was it was a good experience to to be able to be a part of that but The only other thing, I'm going to ask for help from the public. Please, one, make sure you lock your cars when you go in your house. Two, if you're around town walking your dog or walking or exercising or driving and you see something that looks suspicious, please call police. We will dispatch an officer to investigate it. Please don't feel like you're wasting police officers' times. This is what we're here to do. But the citizens are the eyes for us. We have two officers on duty. So if you see something that's suspicious, please call us and we'll come investigate it.

Thank you. Just one other thing, and I've gotten several questions on this, and it's the whole e-bike and scooters. Have you guys heard anything that's happening there?

Yes, I was in a meeting last week with Sheriff Mina. The county is writing an ordinance as we speak. There's a committee. They're working on it. Once the ordinance is done, every municipality in Orange County will adopt the same ordinance. That's the goal. We don't want differing, especially because the West Orange Trail runs through so many different municipalities. We don't want differing language in the ordinance. So we are standing by on Orange County. When they are done, then we will have our legal team review it and most likely adopt the same exact ordinance with the same language. So everybody's on a universal playing field.

At least something's being done. That's good. All right, Taylor, how are you? Anything new for you?

Doing well, thank you, Mr. Mayor. So thinking back to the extensive project list, the next thing that is to come to you at some point We're in the final process with the town review team of the review of the Oakland Town Center, which is, for those who may not be as familiar, roughly 84,000 square feet of commercial space adjacent to the tractor supplies. We're in the final review on our end here. When that review is completed by the town review team, it will come before you as an item at a future commission meeting.

So that's my update for today.

Great, thank you.

Mr. Parker? Nope, I don't have anything to bring else. Yes.

Thank you. So I just want to thank the residents for coming out to the hazardous waste. It was actually really successful. They loved it. So we're trying to hopefully get that done every year for the residents so they can throw away the bulk items and whatnot. So we had a good time. It was a good turnout. We had a lot that a lot of people had to dispose of. So we enjoyed it. So thank you.

Thank you. All right. Commissioner Keller.

I just wanted to echo the concerns about the e-bikes. I had talked to Elise earlier today and just had a conversation with a young person in my neighborhood on my way to the commission meeting. I spoke at the last meeting about the tragedy which turned into a true tragedy after that meeting of the young man that lost his life. We really do need to get an ordinance. We all know that. I know we're working diligently with the other municipalities and the state, hoping that that will come home. It really comes down to, I just, you know, I don't have children, so I try to be really careful about telling people how to handle their children. But you know, this young person in our neighborhood was going faster than the speed limit, the cars are allowed to go running through a stop sign that people coming the other direction and cars run the stop sign. And I just don't want to end up being the next place where there's a tragedy. So I would implore, you know, people to just be mindful of the devices they're putting in their children's hands. And, you know,

don't be afraid to say to somebody, if you see a young person out there, just try to, and we can't police them, but at least if we can maybe try to

just make them aware, because when you're young, you're bulletproof, right? So I know that we're getting there, but it's just a very scary thing, and to know that people are losing their lives or getting injuries that they will have the rest of their lives is very sad. On a happier note, it was lovely going to the gala for the school. Commissioner Motley and the mayor and myself were all there, and even though the, guardian angel or the fairy godfather of the school wasn't there. We represented you, I think, well. But it was a lovely event. It was a lovely event. It was a fun time. So that was good to be there. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the Memorial Day thing yesterday. I had to work. But I was glad that everyone else attended. it's always a worthwhile thing to um say thank you to our service people that protect us every day and um you know it's what our country's founded on and we're very fortunate to have people that are willing to give their service so um even though i wasn't there i do appreciate those folks and glad that we have them so that's all i have

Wanted to piggyback, I guess, on the attendance at the Havana Nights Gala. It was a wonderful event.

Your committee should be commended, especially for the funds that you were able to generate for the school.

We had a great time. Did a little casino games and a couple of auction items I lost.

But other than that, did you get my shoes?

And then, of course, yesterday we were able to commemorate Memorial Day with the Ward family and other members of the community, and that was quite impactful for us to come together and be with families and make that presentation on behalf of those who served us.

Thank you. Godfather? Very good.

I was trying to save you a little bit. No, I'm good. Everything would just be repeated for what you guys have said, so thank you all.

All right, I'm good, too. Is there nothing else for the good of the order?

We're done. I was just not here. Sorry. All hearts and minds are satisfied. We are adjourned.

All right. Thank you, guys. I really don't remember what he says.