Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 15 of 19
“Okay. Thank you. All right. So then did we already vote on that?”
“Okay. So the town attorney says that we do not need four fifths vote to pass a budget tentative budget at the 4.6, which is above the rollback rate. So that three, two vote that we had then passed. Correct?”
“Okay, just real quick. If for whatever reason that was wrong and we came back two weeks from now, what might be the impact?”
“I mean, yeah, I'm super, I don't know. I actually think there's legislation requiring for that one, too, to be four votes, but the town attorney looked for a minute and doesn't think there is.”
“No, I mean, I'm just, I'm a little, I am a little worried, I'm not gonna lie, but we think that it passed at 3-2, and I say we adjourn. We say that we, I mean...”
“We have a motion to adjourn and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye.”
“Okay, that carries 4-1. We are adjourned and we will start the next special meeting with our building official. So thank you.”
“All right, it's 821. We are starting our second meeting, special meeting, and this is the building official that's going to present. I actually don't, I don't have a packet for this. Nobody does. I have no packet.”
“So I'll just read from my old one that has, that has, we need to do, while she's passing out the packets, when you get done with that, you do a roll call and we'll do the.”
“so this will go on the website though for a packet Okay. I'm sorry. Roll call.”
“Okay. We will say the Pledge of Allegiance. Welcome to silence.”
“OK. Moment of silence. all right uh the i will read the civility pledge the commission and the staff of the town of melbourne beach pledge to conduct all public discourse in a civil manner the mayor and all members of the commission will treat one another with courtesy and respect and ask the public to do the same towards the commission towards each other towards staff will be respectful of one another even we disagree we will direct all comments toward the issues we will avoid personal attacks we will open it up to public comment general public comment for anything on the agenda Seeing none,…”
“Can they see him if he's there? No, he would have to stand at the podium. You don't have to, but just because this is, yeah. I do think sometimes the public likes to see him since it's your item. Sorry. When we take questions, you can go back or whatever, but just that way they get to see you present.”
“Is it effective December 31st or is it effective January 1st, 2027?”
“Usually they do it January 1st of the next year, which is confusing because it's... Okay, so it is effective December. All right, cool.”
“It'll be nice because it'll be the 2026 building code that became effective in the last day of 26.”
“Hopefully the end goal is that our insurance rates in the state of Florida will become solvent and come down. That's the whole point of the building code.”
“thank you I have question and they're more also maybe some comments or suggestions this will have to come back to us in an actual resolution because we passed these schedules by the resolution okay which this is not in but we could at least you know give you the idea that we're okay with or whatever but what I would suggest is Well, let me do my question first. And thank you for this, too, by the way. And I agree that you need to err on the side of caution. And I read your options, alternatives, and I made giant X marks across because that number two alternative, yeah, that's scary. uh so my…”
“What I would suggest though is to actually detail the resolution where we passed this the metrics and the data of how we got to this and like like a description of like for a commercial inspection it generally takes us one hour one like whatever the whatever that basis is or you know because even a range of anywhere from 50 minutes to you know 100 whatever 65 minutes but that cost”
“And there's a couple reasons why. One, it complies with the statute. It doesn't have to be like an exact penny for penny, but we've done the research and tied it to it. But the other reason is that one of the discussions in the past that's forever with the town is that sometimes people take longer LIKE A LOT LONGER. AND WE ACCOMMODATE THEM. BUT WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST IS IN ADDITION TO EXPLAINING HOW YOU'VE CALCULATED THESE, LITERALLY WITH IT, IT TAKES ABOUT AN X AMOUNT OF TIME AND THAT'S HOW, YOU KNOW, AND THE RATE THAT WE'RE AT. that amounts to x x dollars and so that was the number that was…”
“What I would say is if we have it defined and explained in there, but it's not saying that you're definitely going to, but it does sort of explain it from the get-go and kind of define some of the terms and sets times. It provides a reasonable basis by which if you've got somebody that's spent an hour and a half, but it's meaningful and they are important and we're not running over this month, But if you've got somebody that's spending two and a half hours, because the truth is, in that case, it's actually probably their contractor that's not doing it right. So the town is essentially…”
“I'm uncomfortable with the at the discretion of the I liked what you said at the beginning which was we're going to have a we're going to have a written policy that says these are the different things that you can do so now I'm confused will it be a written policy so will it be discretion it's going to or some combination of both it's going to be a combination of both because what we can't do is we can't have something that is a little bit more complicated and they want to do it as a virtual inspection however um”
“Okay, has everybody had a chance to ask questions? So this will probably, I mean, I think, is anyone opposed to the numbers or the presentation? This will need to come back to us in a resolution, but it looks like we have no objection to the number, like any of the numbers, and we appreciate you doing it. My thing, as I said, would be to have some definitions and tie some of the estimates of time to it.”
“And I love the virtual inspections, but I think that you should have a list.”
“You don't have to list everything, but you could list a, here's the types of things that would be eligible for it. Here's the types of things that definitely wouldn't. Anything that's not within these categories is subject to the sort of discretion that way, but...”