Remarks by Alison Dennington
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“Could you consider adding a change of occupancy fee for a change of use just very basic bland in there and having a fee associated with that so we it's inherently already built in okay and here here's how you know where I'm going but I do I do so if somebody is doing a change of use”
“So if they pay the application fees that they have to do five different types of inspections, they have to do this inspection, then that's five inspections, so that's five inspection fees or just one?”
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“Okay. If you get that, I would like to hear it if you get it.”
“Okay. and i do believe that it's a distinction this is for non-owner occupied so if you live in the house and you rent out part of your house or you know you you occupy it most of the time and you only rent it out partially whatever that is still that is clearly r3 it's people that own a house they could live in town but they don't live in that house or they say they're in arizona and it's whatever and it's definitely you know but it's basically not owner occupied it's it's always a short term rental that's that's where it's the r1 correct so for people out there worrying if you are an owner…”
“Everybody else would. Yeah. Would. Yeah. Uh, so I would need a motion then from someone to, I guess, authorize the building official to maybe get with the town attorney to sort of finalize this, to bring it back to us at some point when y'all want to have it back in a resolution with somebody don't take this the wrong way, but even if you say no, I'm going to do it anyway. yeah so but i know but that gives you at least if we keep a record of it and then would somebody like to make a motion and timing wise do you all want to have a date when this comes back mr knight how long do you think this…”
“Well, just so everybody is on the same page, the original opinion that the building official, we were going to have that and it got canceled or whatever, but the Sanibel building official had that opinion last year. that was challenged it has been upheld there is a binding interpretation by the florida building commission now that case does have to do it was like a set of old condo units or whatever that were being uh renovated it was like a small hoa you know like the little ones that we have and um but anyway so but there is case law and there and there were changes in the ibc A set of…”
“This R1 issue, and the R1, all of that, R1, R2, R3, it's actually different from R1, R2 zoning the way they are. They sound like they're the same, but it is different.”
“I just, I want to, we sat down and had like a 30, 45 minute discussion where he explained this issue because I want to know, I read it, did a little research. I want, thank you for bringing this up because the Sanibel building official had the exact same opinion and basically there was a set of things that happened last year in 2025. It's run through the course and there is now a binding agreement and so that's what i've been sending to mr knight and so he's been reading the actual minutes that we can't find them so we're having to try to get them to here because there's a couple different…”
“Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any public comment or any discussion? Any public comment? Seeing none. aye aye sorry okay there was no public comment all in favor say aye aye sorry my microphone went off yes that passes 5-0 uh make your comment before anybody makes a motion to adjourn yes please um so i don't know what is in your ordinances in regards to it's implemented so if you have luckily our fee resolution as it exists it's a resolution sign ordinance it's a lot faster and easier mr knight knows this they one time they passed the same fee resolution like six times in…”
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“weird okay all right so uh it is 704 um august 26 2026 we are town hall for the second of two meetings today this is the budget workshop um uh if the town it is 704 if the town clerk could call the roll okay mayor allison dennington here vice mayor terry cronin here commissioner anna butler here commissioner tim reed here commissioner sherry corey here town manager amy smith here finance manager jennifer kerr here”
“Okay. We will stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. All right, I will read the, we'll have a moment of silence. Okay, I will read the civility pledge. The commission and the town staff of the town of Melbourne Beach pledged 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, each other and towards staff. We will be respectful of one another even when we disagree. We will direct all comments toward the issues and we will avoid personal attacks.…”
“Okay, so because that, you know, yeah, because you know what happens, like, yeah, what happens is you can't comment on the thing on the item, but okay. All right, so we will allow people to comment before we adjourn on the budget itself, even though we're not, we won't be having a vote because it's workshop. So confine, wait for the comment period then. We will not adjourn until allowing a comment period, but we'll go ahead and start. Okay.”
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“It's the walk-on corrected figures that are walk-ons number three. 2 and 3 but side by side with 4.6 millage plus the rollback and then walk on 5 is a document I created it basically explains some objections that I have had related to our non-compliance with chapter 15 parallel columns and and there's been several meetings back and forth and there has been discussion and willingness, I believe, to fix these or discuss it, but they haven't been included. So these are sort of my public objections for the record. There's a cover page and then there are Seven attachments, each of which is…”
“Thank you. Okay, we're gonna take just a short recess just because these, it does get confusing when you have multiple ones and new ones. We'll take a recess, and then we will let the finance manager for the record kind of explain what these are. Actually, do you want to do that now on the record? Then we can recess, and we can...”
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“It's just that two page. Yeah. And this is from that thing that I sent that. Correct.”
“Thank you. And walk-on two is the one that's the 4.6. It doesn't say 4.6 at the top, but when you look at the other one, you can identify it, and that one's walk-on three. It does say the rollback. So if y'all are looking at these, you're trying to figure out which, find the one that says rollback. So that one I labeled walk-on three. Okay, and then walk-on four is that new side-by-side. and that way if anybody were looking at the original packet two versus these new they'd be able to go oh they would also have the correct right and then we did make copies for the table and the town clerk…”
“And real quick, I do wanna point out that for the town going forward, this is something that is possible to be fixed because it's not in the charter, it's in the ordinances. So if we decided we didn't wanna do this, y'all can amend that chapter 15, those various ordinance provisions. to change them, to remove some of these things that aren't gonna be required by the upcoming statute, because the upcoming statute will actually require a bunch more, but Chapter 15 does require some other things that aren't required. It's amendable by ordinance, but it's in our ordinance, so it's not just…”
“Okay, and for anybody who wants to, if y'all wanna look, if you'll look at this walk on five, we'll be on the website, on page 15, it kind of is a demonstration of what these additional columns would look like, it cites to the thing. So if anybody's like, what are they talking about? They could look at an example, page 15.”
“I mean, the good news is we're getting close to the end anyway. So you'll you know, you have this in the estimated part that you have to estimate will be a bit easier because we're almost at the end. Whereas in May it would have been harder. But so.”