Town Commission - Regular Meeting

All right. Good evening, everyone. Let's call to order the Oakland Town Commission meeting for July 14th, 2026. If everybody could please stand for the pledge.

Heavenly Father, thank you for the day that you have made. Be the guide us, protect us, and keep us. Watch over the town of Oakland, our residents, staff, our commission. Watch over all of us. Be the guide us, protect us, and keep us. Lord, be in the midst of everything that we do. Thank you, sir. All right, Kathy, good evening.

Good evening.

Commissioner Keller?

Here.

Vice Mayor Satterfield? Here.

Mayor Taylor?

Here.

Commissioner Malley? Commissioner McMillan?

Okay. Tonight we have a presentation from the auditors. Gabby, anything you want to say before we come up? You want to introduce them?

Hi. Sure. This is Carly. She is with our auditing firm, Purvis Gray, and she's going to give our results of our fiscal year 25 audit.

Thank you. You made me read this, so I figured I'd keep it.

Thank you. Hi. So again, like Gabby said, I'm Carly Freyfelder, Audit Supervisor with Purvis Gray, and I have with me in the audience, Tiffany Mangold, the partner. And we are here today to present to you the audit results for fiscal year ended September 30 2025. So first, I will just go through a quick overview of our reports, and then some brief financial information at the end. So the first report is the independent auditor's report. So this is where we give our opinion on the financial statements. So we gave an unmodified opinion, which is a clean opinion, and it's the highest level of assurance you can receive in an audit. And this just means that your financial statements are fairly stated in all material respects. So that's great. The next report I'll go over is the report on internal controls and compliance based on government auditing standards. So during the audit, we review your internal controls over financial reporting. And then if we identify any areas, material weaknesses or significant deficiencies, then we would report them in this report. So during the audit, we did not find any material weaknesses. We did find one significant deficiency in internal control. So this is just a repeat of the prior year finding on segregation of duties. So nothing new. It just states that the town operates a small finance, accounting, and customer service department and does not have the resources to properly segregate incompatible duties among employees. We recommend that the town continues to develop and if necessary, expand its current staff and reallocate oversight duties to ensure no one employee has sole control over approving, recording and accounting for transactions. So again, it's just a small operation. So just need some more like detective controls in place to make sure there's no fraud or errors occurring. But they did make significant improvements in these processes this year. They just had a couple of things outstanding at the end of the year, so we had to have this finding again. So I think that they're hoping next year these will fully be resolved. And then the next report is the Auditor General's Management Letter. So in here, we are required to update you on any prior year findings that we had. Again, we just talked about the one prior year finding on segregation of duties, and management has done a really good job making progress on that finding. We also had a prior year recommendation in this report last year about capital asset disposals. So last year you had some large capital assets that were accidentally taken off the books that should not have been. So your team input some new controls this year. They sent out some capital asset listings to the departments to make sure that they had the assets at the end of the year and followed up on any discrepancies. And we did not find any issues this year related to those disposals. So that issue was resolved this year.

Great job.

And then we also go on to say in this report that there was no findings of deteriorating financial condition or financial emergency. And then we noted no noncompliance with contracts or grant agreements. And then back to the last report on this page is the compliance with Florida statute 218.415. So this report just states that you are in compliance with that statute, which is on the investments of public funds. So you're fully in compliance with that statute. And then the last report we'll go over is the communication with those charged with governance. And this letter is directly to you all and talks about just things we think are important for you all to know. So the accounting policies, you did adopt GASB 102, which was a new standard this year on certain risk disclosures, but it did not have any impact on your financial statements. So nothing changed with that. You'd had no other changes in your existing policies. And then we did not know any transactions for which there was a lack of authoritative guidance. Then we go over your significant estimates, your useful lives of your capital assets are an estimate, your OPEB liability that is based off the actuary's reports, fair market value of your investments, your leases and subscription-based IT arrangement calculations, your accrued compensated absences. And those are all normal estimates for a town. And then we wanna talk to you about the upcoming GASB pronouncements that are effective for next fiscal year. GASB 103, these will both be effective for our next fiscal year. GASB 103, financial reporting model improvements. So these are small changes to your management discussion and analysis, just adding some more detail in there, and certain financial statement formatting. So no changes to any calculations, just formatting and the way things look, basically. Gatsby 104 is similar. It's on your capital assets, and it just adds some more disclosures to increase transparency of those. It won't affect any calculations, just the way things are presented in the notes. And then again, those are both affected for fiscal year 2026 next year. And then other matters we discussed in this report, we previously discussed in this report last year, you had some long outstanding internal balances in your due to and due from accounts. And they had been outstanding for several years. So we just recommended that the town look into these and clean them up if they needed to be so the town did make significant progress in that there's only one outstanding balance that they were still working to resolve at the end of the fiscal year. And I think they were making progress on that. The next matter on this slide is the Oakland Avenue Charter School. In their report, we had a comment or just a governance letter comment that they overexpended their budget by $93,600. And this was offset by some additional revenue. But for her the statutes, they should have gotten a budget amendment. But since they didn't have it as of June 30, we did have to put a comment. So we're we just had to put it in yours because there are revenue special revenue fund of the town. So that's why it's also in your report. And this report just goes on to state that your financial statement disclosures are neutral, consistent and clear. We did not encounter any significant difficulties in dealing with management or performing the audit. And lastly, we'll go over just some financial statement highlights. And right here, you go back a slide before. No, there you go. So first you have your general fund and you can see you have the 2025 column versus the prior year numbers 2024 and you can see the change. So your revenues in total increased by $1.3 million. This is mainly due to your taxes, which is mainly due to new developments on the tax roll, your increased property values and the increased millage rate this year from 6.3 to 6.7. Your license and permit revenue increased $119,000, and this is due to more building permits and increased rates. The expenditures in total increased by $1.5 million. General government was $420,000, mostly related to consulting services and contracts and new developments. Public safety increased 620,000, mostly due to the fire rescue service fees that you pay to Orange County, since those are based on the property tax values and military. And then transportation increased 491,000, mostly due to Hurricane Milton and the salary study increases that you had. So in total, the fund balance decreased by $403,000, but you can see on the bottom right, your unassigned fund balance as a percentage of current expenditures increased from 37% last year to 40% this year, which is good. And that means you have about five months worth of expenditures unassigned for anything. If you never got any more revenue in, you'd be good for five months. And the recommendation is to have three months at least, so you're above that. And then we'll move on to the impact fee fund. Just a couple highlights there. The fund balance increased $39,000 versus a $210,000 decrease last year. This is mainly due to your revenues increasing $76,000. And this is based on interest earned on your new money market account that was opened last Your capital outlay was down 291,000, mostly due to less expenditures for the Oakland roundabout this year. The transfers out increased 141,000 for lift station seven and alternative water supply projects. And your assets increased 47,000. And this is about 2.4 million for amounts that were returned to the town for the roundabout offset by decreases related to the due to and from payments, cleanup payments. And lastly, we'll go through the enterprise fund highlights. Revenues increased by $255,000. And this is mostly just due to new homes and connection fees. Expenses increased $296,000 for various smaller increases across the board and increases in rates. And in total, the net position increased by $1 million. And on the bottom right, you can see that the unrestricted net position as a percentage of the total expenses increased from 65% last year to 81% this year. That's great.

And that's all I have.

So in summary, had a clean audit opinion on modified, it's the best opinion you can get. That's the one significant deficiency that finance has been working on. And it's like to have a good control on that. So hopefully it will be resolved next year. And we just want to thank Elise and Gabby and the whole team for giving us what we needed and make an audit go smoothly. We always enjoy working with them. And yeah, I'm available if you have any questions.

Thank you very much. Any questions from anybody? Seems pretty good, pretty clean.

Yeah.

Very happy.

Improvements made this year.

Awesome. Yeah. We won, right? Yeah. Yes. Congratulations, Gabby. Thank you very much. Ty. Thank you.

Ty, too.

Ty did a great job. Ty is very helpful.

Okay.

Thank you, guys.

Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, moving on to our consent agenda tonight. And on the consent agenda, we have four items. Approval of the June 23rd, 2026 Town Commission work session and regular meeting minutes. Approval of a piggyback contract with Processes Control Systems for the SCADA Maintenance Services. Approval of the Oakland Avenue Charter School 2627 Mental Health Allocation Plan. and approval of the Metro Plan Orlando funding agreement for the school year 26-27, renewing that agreement. Any questions or concerns?

Seeing none or hearing none, we'll entertain a motion. Thank the motion to accept the consent agenda as presented.

Second.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

All right. Next on the list is Ordinance 20-2604. This is the second reading of Briley Farm, Farms Phase 1 Plan Development and Development Agreement Amendment. We're a lot split.

An ordinance of the town of Oakland, Florida, adopting a first amendment to the development agreement for the Briley Farm phase one land development as recorded in the public records of Orange County, Florida, document number 2024-033-9441, and approving the revised preliminary subdivision plan on certain real property owned by Briley Land Holdings LLC, as more particularly described herein, making findings and providing for conflicts, severability, and for an effective date.

Thank you, Kathy. Sarah, you got that one? You got this one?

I'm not presenting again tonight, but I'm available if anybody has any questions.

I think it's pretty cut and dry and easy. Any questions from you guys?

No? OK. Anybody from the general public? It is a public forum. No? OK. So hearing none, we'll close the public forum, bring it back here, and we'll take a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve Ordinance 2026-4, second reading of Riley Farm v. 1, plan development and development agreement amendment.

Thank you. Second?

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. OK. Easy.

All right, moving on to our other policy matters tonight, and it is the Florida League of Cities 2026 Annual Conference and a voting delegate designation. Kathy?

The 2026 Florida League of Cities Annual Conference is being held August 13th through the 15th, and the LFLC is requesting a voting delegate be designated by the town to vote on all official business matters. Staff is requesting a motion to nominate a commissioner as the voting delegate.

Okay, thank you. I think we have one.

Go on.

No, you. Are we all okay with Joseph? Sure. Commissioner McMullen, yes. All in agreement.

Okay.

Congratulations. Welcome. Welcome. I can. Yeah, okay. Okay, we'll make a motion.

I move that we approve Commissioner Joseph McMullen as the designee for the Florida League of Cities 2026 Annual Conference.

Thank you. Second? I'll second. All in favor? Aye.

Aye.

Okay. Congratulations again. Next on the policy matters is East Vic Avenue paving direction and work approval. We'll save John a trip and public forum with this one. So, Elise, take it away.

okay so i promised i would bring back all the relevant information for you to make an educated decision on east vic um so what we were able to do is get an additional proposal and you can see the proposals range from 41 000 to 49 000 for the project The determination was made we could potentially use partial impact fees, but we'd have to go do additional survey or study because we want to potentially move this forward. We decided that we would go ahead and look at our general fund for this year. So originally in the general fund, we're $100,000 for repaving projects. We were gonna use that for Southern Oaks. However, those proposals came in at like 215 with contingency. So what our recommendation is, is if number one, you need to decide if you wanna move this project forward. And if you do, then recommend doing East Vic out of general fund budget for this year. and then also authorize me to award the proposal to Seminole Paving in the amount of $41,510 and to execute any necessary documents.

Thank you. Okay, discussion here? Thoughts? Opinions? We've been talking about this for a while.

And my personal opinion is we finish a project before we move on to another one. I would like to see us put Southern Oaks office. I don't think it's as dire as we would need for a big street and move forward with that. Mike. Anyone else?

And are we certain that the subsequent budget would accommodate the 215 for the Southern Oaks?

Yes, we currently have it in the budget for that amount.

26, 27?

Correct.

And then the remaining that was in the budget for 25, 26, that just gets rolled over?

No, we don't roll over line items. It would only be if the bottom, once all the expenses and revenue came in, if the bottom showed a positive amount, right? So we can't guarantee that any amount's going to roll over. And if it did, it might go towards other line items. So we'll just put 215 in for the next amount. Anything that's additional will go towards another expenditure item or go towards some of the drainage that's currently being done in Southern Oaks.

All other additional paving projects.

That's correct.

And I think that's important to note that This isn't like found money because we're using less than we had planned for this year because the project that we were going to do is actually more. So we're still paying more to do that project and just moving that into next year's budget so that we can make this happen. I also think it's important to note that, you know, while some things have been moved around, and if this should go forward, if the vote is for this to go forward, that, again, this is the way this has to be done, that we as a group can't, individually, we can't promise anybody anything, that nothing goes forward unless it's voted on by everybody on this commission. I just think that's important because I think there was some misunderstanding that this was kind of a done deal previously, and that's not the case. And I think it's really important, as we just heard in the audit report, things have to, money has to be spent for things that they are budgeted for. And with the upcoming potential changes in funding for our town, it's gonna be even more critical that we stick to the budget that we agree on. not to say that things don't come up that need to be addressed, but I think it's just important that we continue to do things the way they need to be done. And again, if there's things that come up, we'll certainly look at them. But when we say we're going to look at them, that's not a yes, we're going to do it kind of situation.

I've made my point.

Thank you.

Thank you. Go ahead.

And then one more item I just want to clarify. Should this

I don't know that information we were waiting for direction from the Commission first.

Anybody else. I would second i'll second what Mike said on the road it's. What we put down on the millings I think held up pretty well compared to. Previous product. That was down there, but you know with the amount of traffic and it shows is proven with amount of traffic running up and down vick as a connector road between star and tub street you know. where's down fast so. paving it similar to what we did on henshin for the school traffic. And that's nice.

Same type of premise.

I think there's other roads in town too that may not need it.

The millings that are in the arterial roads like Edge Grove and Mathersmith and Arrington, I think I drove down them. They're a lot better than what was there, and I think they're holding up. They don't see the traffic that Vic sees, in my opinion.

But yeah, I'm okay with it.

Yeah.

Anybody else?

No? OK.

So you need a motion to proceed forward. Is that correct? That's correct. OK. Does anybody want to make that motion?

I'll make the motion that we authorize $41,510.49 out of this year's budget to pay Vic Street and take the $215,000 amount for Southern Oaks and push that to next year's budget, but have it in so that it can be done.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye. All right. I still need you to authorize that we award the purple bid to Seminole.

Did you just amend his? Is that what he can do, just amend?

No, and add in to authorize the town manager to execute any necessary documents.

If you can just read it all again. I think if you just read what the recommendation is, great. Thanks, Garrett.

yeah and then awarding it to this contractor i'll make i'll make the motion that we should move forward with the east big street paving project uh we use general fund dollars for the project approve the proposal from seminole paving in the amount of forty one thousand five hundred and ten dollars and forty nine cents and authorize the town manager's x necessary document second all in favor aye aye aye okay

All right, thank you. Thank you, Elise, for all that hard work on that one. Okay, so next is a public forum. Open it up to anyone in the audience that has anything they would like to talk about that is not on the agenda tonight. Anyone? Nothing, John? Okay. All right, so we'll close with a public forum and bring it back to town manager.

Okay, I know you thought you were gonna be done but I have a lot to cover. Okay, so first thing, Ashley's not here, so I'm going to go over employee anniversaries for July. We have a ton. So we're going to start with the highest years of service. We have Niecy, Ned, Donna, Bailey, and Janice, and Jonia that have 20 years of service over at the school. And then continuing with the school, Carlos Torres has 17 years. Pam Dwyer has 13. We have at the PD, Andrew Ricks that has eight years. Back over to the school, we have Teresa Acevedo at seven years. Jennifer Saul with six years. Back over to the PD, Renee Castro has six years. Samaria Lake has four years, back over to the school. We have Nicola Hill, Stephanie Rycroft, Joy Hickey, Jordan Gillespie, Danielle Mears, Susan Jacobs, and Brittany Berry, that all have three years. We have one over at Public Works, Joan LaMarche has two years, and then at O&P, Melinda has one year. So I wanted to start with that because that's a lot, and those 20 years are really impressive.

Did I get a watch or anything?

Nice that you'll get a free meal in the cafeteria.

So I have some updates from the Mike Parker world. So on July 7th, 8th, and 9th, we completed roadway improvements to West Sadler between Walker and Tub on South Cross between Oakland Avenue and Sadler and Walker between the West Orange Trail and Sadler. So as you remember, this is an initiative set forth by the commission last summer to improve all the unpaved roads unpaved not unimpaved roads within the town the next roads to be improved and include west tension from tub to daniels north cross from oakland avenue to petrus east tension from tub to star and east gully from star to winter street and then the additional engineering for west vic is also in the works will include drainage improvements to the roadway It should be noticed that several sections of roads scheduled for improvement will need to wait until the wastewater construction is completed, and we anticipate that construction efforts to begin soon after January 2027. I put in your packet, I sent out an email, but I just wanted to reiterate that it looks like we are the recipient of yet another legislative appropriation for advancement of our wastewater initiative. Buried deep within the state budget was 1.5 million to design and construct wastewater improvements in the area loosely bound by Oakland Avenue, Walker, Jefferson, and the West Orange Trail. We anticipate an agreement with the state later this year to officially make this a reality. And then the intersection improvements of Mackey Avenue and Winters Landing Drive will soon be under construction. After waiting for precast concrete structures to be made, we're going to issue the notice to proceed next Monday. We had hoped to get this done before school started, but that hasn't happened because of the precast structures that had to be made. And so it is anticipated that the intersection would be closed to traffic for an estimated 180 days. Be on the lookout for detour signs if you live in that area. On another note, John Elkamp resigned last week, so Scott Townsend and Steve Pressimon are both taking the lead for each of their respective public works divisions and assisting with after-hours public works emergency coverage. The public works director position is posted on our website if you know of anyone who might be a good fit for the towns. We were asked by Orange County to provide a representative to the 2026 TDT, which is a tourist development tax citizen advisory task force. Steve Stanford will be the town's representative, and we're grateful for his willingness to help in this way. The Color Speaks exhibit at the Arts and Heritage Center will only be on display until July 24th, which is not this Friday, but the following Friday. So if you haven't had a chance to see it, now's the time to get over there. There are no farmer's markets this month due to the weather. And then the last thing, I'll be on vacation from Friday, July 24th through the 22nd. July 31st, Friday through Friday. So unfortunately, I'll miss the next budget work session, but Gabby will have that covered. Chief Eason will be in charge while I am out. So buckle up, buttercup. That's all I have.

That's pretty good. It's a lot. Kathy, you got anything good going on?

Yes, I do. I have a quick question for Elise. Hey, Elise. On the winter's landing work that's going to be done, since we had announced that that was going to be happening soon and then it's been a little bit delayed, do we need to communicate anything to the residents of winter's landing or has any communication been just to let them know that it's coming?

We'll do another post once the notice to proceed is issued.

Kathy?

Yes, we will have ARB and PNC meetings next month. And we do have a budget work session at the next town commission meeting, July 28th, starting at six o'clock PM.

Thank you. Gabby, Ty.

so really nothing in the finance besides the work budget session like everybody's been mentioning in the last three minutes but um that will cover water impact fees and capital improvements and we will go over any of your requests or changes that i asked of you from the last budget workshop for general fund um there's also changes to the general fund so i'll briefly touch on those since, you know, we have now added the roads. There was a couple other things that needed to get added. So I wanted to reflect those too, in case you wanted to update your requests since I give you those. I'm going to try my hardest to do a third budget session in August. I don't think it's going to be feasible just because the way that the month falls and then the way that our tentative and final budget hearings fall. But if it does happen in August, it may not be with a commission meeting. It might be on its own. So I'll let you guys know if that ends up happening. So.

Okay.

And then just to piggyback on the budgets, at least I'll speak for you if you're okay.

Orange County is doing theirs. They're reviewing their budget. You want to start real quick?

Yeah, sure. So Orange County is doing their budget work sessions the next two days. So we're going to be obviously keeping an eye on the fire rescue part of that to see what the comments are. We got a tentative letter from them, but it's all pending Orange County approval. So we'll see what the board says on Thursday, and we'll see what the work session looks like tomorrow. So we're definitely keeping an eye on that part.

The only reason I brought it up was because of fire, because we're relying on them and their budgets coming up. So, yes.

Chief? Chief?

We are trying to, well, next town commission meeting, all of the commissioners will be provided a copy of the PD's three-year strategic plan that we have been working really hard for a long time to create. It's almost done. It will definitely be done by next meeting and get all of you a copy. But part of that strategic plan is the establishment of a wellness program for the officers to take care of not only their physical fitness, but mental wellness as well as financial wellness. I sent an officer down to Boca Raton this morning. He came back. He went down on the train, got what he needed with Bocapedia, came back today. It has a lot of information that's going to help us start this program. I've shared it with Ashley. If we can get it off the ground for the PD, then we're going to share it and open it up to all town employees to take part in this total program, which is really, really important to me. And the other thing is that we are, I'm sorry, part of that wellness program, Kelly has been applying for a grant for a quarter million dollars to help us get that. That will wrap up the entire program. So we should be able to do. through the whole program off the grant funds. So more to follow on that. It has to be submitted by July 29th or something like that. So we'll get it submitted and I'll let you know as far as the success of that. And then the other thing, we applied for two grant positions for personnel, for officers. We've applied the last three years and we've been denied. But this year, according to Kelly, she thinks that we have a really good chance. So if we do the position, the grant, the federal grant covers 75 percent of the officer's salary. So we would have to pay 25 percent to get to bodies here, which would be really, really good for us because we as you know, we've had officers move on to other agencies. So. the ability to add to our staffing would really help. So that's kind of where we're sitting with two grants that we normally would not have gotten. Hopefully we can to get that. Wellness is very, very important, but additional staffing will be good too. That's it.

Thank you.

I've got one question for you on the school cameras real quick. So I know the signs. Can you just kind of just for the general public, what's the hours, times, days, and all that stuff?

Yes, the school speed cameras, not the school cameras. School speed. There's a difference. I just want to make sure the public understands the difference that there are cameras, security cameras, but no, the school speed zone cameras and the signage is... clear on Catherine Ross. It's been ordered to be on Oakland as well. But so 7 30 till 8 30 is 20 miles an hour from 8 30 until on regular school days from 8 30 until 2 30. It's 35 miles an hour, but the cameras are still rolling. So if you come through it 11 miles or more over the 35 or the 20, given those times, you'll be issued a citation. It goes back down to 20 at 2.30 and stays 20 miles an hour until 3.30. Once school is out of session after 3.30 and the students have been dismissed, it goes back to 35 miles an hour, but the cameras are no longer rolling. School speed zone cameras only work during the school hours. So while students are arriving to school, attending school, and leaving school. As soon as school is over at 3.30, the cameras turn off and we can't monitor. We would have to monitor speed through the radars in the patrol units if we were going to do that. But the idea of the speed zone program is just to keep the students safe. That's the only time it's running. On Wednesdays, it's the same exact thing, 7.30 to 8.30, but then it's 12.30 to 1.30, and then it turns off at 1.30. I believe that's the time for the late, or maybe 11.30 to 12.30. Is that what it is? 12.30 to 1.30? Is that what it is?

Or is it 2.30?

It might be 1.30 to 2.30. I would have to refresh. There are so many different 30s. I would have to refresh my memory. It's 30 minutes before school lets out up to 30 minutes after for a total of 60 minutes. Yes, it's all pre-programmed. The company has the school calendar and the dates and times on half days on Fridays. When they get out at noon, I believe, it runs from 11.30 to 12.30, and then it turns off. So they have next year's school calendar already. We sent that over to them already. It's all programmed in the system. If there's a two-layer approval system when a citation is issued, the company goes through and looks at the video and reviews it to make sure it was the correct times that the cameras were running and all that stuff, and then they send it to us, and we have an officer in-house that gives it a second look and reviews it before a citation is ever issued. After the two-layer approval, then the person gets the citation. Right.

Clarification, it is not running right now because it calls out.

Correct. It is not running.

I know it has a flashing light. My understanding, though, if the light wasn't flashing in school's end session and you're going by at those times, are you getting a chance of getting a ticket?

A guarantee. There's not a very good chance. There's a guarantee. The state statute says that as long as the signage identifies what times is 20 miles an hour and what times is 35 miles an hour, the flashing light is only a courtesy. The flashing light does not have to be there. We don't even have to have the flashing light on the pole, but we do as a courtesy to drivers as a second layer of, hey, pay attention, there's kids around. But according to that statute, that light does not have to be flashing. So if somebody does get a citation, and it was during those times, as long as the signage is on Oakland Avenue that says what time to do 20 miles an hour or what time to do 35, the light is a moot point.

So does our flashing light correspond with those times on the sign?

It does. And it's verified every day by the SRO. She visually observes it, and she enters it into our CAD system that says, on July 14th, I checked it at this time, and the light was flashing. She enters it into CAD. That's only for us just to say, as a courtesy to the violator, yes, the light was flashing. Because in the last hearing, a lot of violators came in and said, the light wasn't flashing. We had it backed up in our system that the SRO literally drives from light to light. There's only two of them. She drives and checks each one. beginning of each flashing light period and confirms they're flashing and enters that note into the CAD. But like I said, I just want to reiterate, it doesn't matter if the light's flashing or not. But it does not matter if the light's flashing or not. That doesn't matter as long as the signage is correct and it is. I'm asking all these questions. Oh, I get it because I was here for the hearings.

And I know that we've had a couple of hearings and there's been a lot of that.

There were some issues in the first hearing where we didn't actually have the proper signs and we discovered that, so those tickets were dismissed. So it is what it is, but the signs have now been corrected. When the school starts this year for the 26-27 school year, all signs are correct. Flashing lights doesn't matter if it's there or not. The times are identified on the signs. So it's what time is 20 miles an hour is written and what time is 35. And the cameras do not work outside of school hours.

We'll actually rehash it again in August.

No worries. I'll be here, I think.

And then on your police activity report, I know reading through that, those tickets or whatever, they're not posted, there's not a line item for that.

No, for school speed zone, because it's not, it's, it's, it's totally separate. It's an administrative fine, not, not a, it's not a Florida uniform traffic citation. So we don't track them on that. Everything you see on that report is uniform traffic citations. That's an officer pulling somebody over, writing them a ticket for suspended license seatbelt or at a crash scene or anything like that. Those are the numbers that are reflected on the manager's report. We don't, we don't reflect the school speed zone tickets at all on the stats.

What was the average, what was the number you were pulling in with the last tickets?

For the school speed zone? I would have to go back and look. It's very small. We've had a reduction of over 90% of unlawful speed coming through there. So from the inception of it last year till now, we have approximately 10% of the speeds, still unlawful speed coming through that we had when we started. About a 90% reduction. That's exactly what our goal was. We, to be totally transparent, We have taken in zero dollars from this program. That's not what it was about, that's not what it's intended for. But we have also had zero crashes in the school zone. That's what it's intended for.

Thanks, Chief. Sarah, tell us something good in the planning world. Kathy said you're having an ARB and a PNZ meeting.

I'm not sure what's going to ARB.

I'm not on whoever is in charge of that. That's not me.

I can give you an update on what I do know. We had a pre-construction meeting with the Turnpike Commerce team this morning. So we anticipate them breaking ground probably next week. We did receive a letter of no objection from the Water Management District on the amendment to the LDC and the comp plan amendment. Yes. So we're still waiting to hear from the other state agencies, but so far so good.

Um,

I was trying to think of what else we have going on. That's the most exciting thing since the last time I've seen you guys. But the deadline to receive comments back is the 21st or 22nd. So we should know, hear back from all state agencies within the next two weeks. Good.

I hope no comment.

Was there anything else in the planning world that we wanted to?

Oh, yeah, please.

I can tell you what's going in front of Airbnb. the property by tractor supply. That project will be coming through ARB and planning and zoning in August and then to you guys. So something exciting, huh?

Yep.

Yeah. Thank you very much. Thanks, Sarah. We'll bring it back here. We'll start with Commissioner Keller. Commissioner McMullen.

I will be as brief as possible. As you know, I was not here at the last meeting. I went up to D.C. with a project called the Florida League of Cities Fly-In, where they have state elected all over state to go up and talk to us federal partners. And so it was about 52 of us. from all around the state and our main topics were just trying to ensure that there's good dialogue or good communication between the cities and towns and villages with the federal partners, and not really trying to have us go through the state. And so some of the main topics that I would say that will benefit us was grant access, along with making sure they maintain the CDBG grant program for housing and infrastructure, also infrastructure projects. There are other things they talked about, FMEA streamlining those issues. FEMA, I'm sorry, FMEA is a music program, I apologize, but FEMA dealing with making sure that those dollars are not pulled back or those programs are done properly. flood programs. We met with both of the senators as a group, Moody and Scott. And then, as I mentioned, it was 52 of us. So we were broken up into different groups. And so the group I was with was a commissioner from Daytona and another commissioner from right across the lake. Montverde. I mean, not Montverde. Montdura. So it was pretty good. So we went around and we had meetings already set up. So we met with WEPS a couple of times. Also met with Frost. Met with another state, sorry, congressperson up in North Florida. Again, we're talking about the different programs that's going to make sure it's easier for us as cities and towns and villages. But at the same time, some of those programs come back to us, i.e. some of the grants. And then during my conversation, I had a good amount of time with Congressman Webster. Sent some emails off between Elise, myself, and Parker. Probably need to bring in Chief because Congressman Webster's office has a grant department that will help you identify grants on a federal level. They're not going to do the grants for you, but they would definitely help you find those grants. And so it was a good conversation with Congressman Webster and his staff. And as I mentioned, I already made some email connections. Frost is there to help support us generally, on a general level. Same thing with Congressman Fryen. But it was a great, great meeting because, you know, in our town, we need so many things. You know, we have so many infrastructure projects. We have, you know, water and all that. But there's a lot of dollars out there. But at the same time, we really just need to have access to that information. So, A lot of the cities and towns, like I said, it was 52 of us, came back with some good information and I felt real good. So the main piece about the communication with Congress and website office shared, gave us some guidance. Plus we met with some representatives from EPA. There's some grants. There's a lot of infrastructure grants, a lot of water grants. And so hopefully Mike Parker can go through all those things that I found and probably help us to, you know, make some progress. I got them in contact with some main people too as well. So I like, again, Lisa was on that email as well. So it's really just position us in a place to lean on our federal partners and just be in a position where, because they telling us there are dollars there, there are programs there. We just need to be able to have access to it. And we're saying on a local level, we don't know. So just help us get that information. So it was a good meeting. And like I said, the fly-in is done every year. And it was not paid for by the town. It was paid for by Tri-County League of Cities. But it was a great time. We really made some great progress on a federal level. As we all know, with all the property tax and all the other discussion coming our way, we need to do all we can to plug in every possibility to bring in some kind of funding to help. Again, it feels, let me say this, it feels good when I'm sitting in somebody's office and I can pull out our paper to talk about our infrastructure and say, hey, these are the things that we're doing. It's not like I'm walking in and say, hey, we need help. We're walking in and say, we need help, but this is what we need help.

I just want to say kudos to the staff.

It's easier for me to communicate. All we need to do is just try to plug into those resources.

Thank you so much. Thank you, Commissioner Motley.

Very briefly. Um, just want to thank you to our town clerk for creating such an amazing orientation program for this new commissioner.

Um,

about 112 days in but i've had an opportunity to meet with all the department heads um and staff and i just am overwhelmingly impressed with the town staff what we're doing the programming and and projects and just all the resources that are available um to us in our community

like the only thing i have is i don't think we announced the school luncheon back to school luncheon for the teachers is august 6th is that correct it was sent out but i wasn't sure if it went out as an invite and it might have just been oh yeah verifying with me and i don't know that that's why but it is august 6th at 11 30. um and we don't have to cook again this year it's pizza which is a wonderful thing so I don't know if it came out as an invite. It started out on the 5th and then it had to get changed for some reason.

Anyway, that's all I have.

Thanks.

The only thing I have is Elise and I last week attended Mayor's and Manager's Luncheon that we attend every other month where we get together with Winter Garden and Okoye and Windermere and and talk about challenges and achievements that we're all having in our towns, individual towns. One of the things we are talking about is what Joseph talked about a little bit is the incoming property tax reform so um you know just talking about education and you'll be seeing some materials and some workshops and some meet and greets that will start to happen here just to kind of give you a heads up of uh what what uh what what is what could come uh if it passes or or fails uh but anyways just a heads up on that that's what we did this week yeah nothing else Other than that, Joseph?

I think, so Commissioner Wilson is trying to put together a town hall, probably in October, and then the rest of the West Range group, so her district is Windermere, us, Winter Garden. But then we've talked about doing just like a town hall that will be open to the public to educate them on what this would be probably in October as well. But it would be all of the jurisdictions, municipalities in West Orange County. So stay tuned. We'll let people know when those are so people can become educated. If you'd like to know more about the issue before you go and vote.

yeah and i think too with gabby's presentations uh the last time of the general fund and she's gonna do it again with the enterprise fund uh it's it gives you a good what ifs uh to let you know what what what dollars would be cut how much would be cut just uh you know it's uh obviously it's all preliminary but uh if it happens but it's good so if you get the chance to attend the next workshop

I'm going to preface this real quick. The water fund is a little harder to do a what if because I don't know what money is coming. But don't promise a what if. I'll do what I can.

I'm not promising anything. There are good workshops to attend, especially right now.

Right of our hearts and minds are satisfied. It is now 7.52 p.m. Let's adjourn.

He did.