Remarks by Davison Heriot
79 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
- Play at 1:06:30
“Thank you mayor. Thank you Ben for showing, showing up to present tonight. I've got a few questions. As part of this study, did you guys look at where the water, the source of the water, as someone who has stood on Catalina Boulevard for two of our natural disasters, Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Milton, that water rushes very rapidly across that. So can you speak to where that water comes from?”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“What I'm trying to get to specifically is that the, the majority of that water that's rushing in across Catalina, that is not water that falls specifically in the city of Deltona, that the Deltona is, not dealing with appropriately a lot of that water that's rushing across el can or catalina being in the northeastern more most portion of the the basin coming from outside of the city into the city is that yes we are we are accounting for for flows then that are coming from the unincorporated county and and other cities in the northern part of the basin um and and quantifying yeah what's coming…”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:09:00
“Okay. And so I bring up those, those points primarily because. this i want to reiterate something that you said is that this has to be a partnership this is not something that deltona can fix on our own this this has to be a partnership and we have to work very closely and very well with st john's river and volusia county as we've seen on the presentation there both of the sites that have been presented are their sites and so i just want to stress that to the residents that are listening that this is not a deltona can go and fix this on our own the solution to this flooding is we have to work…”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“My understanding is that both of those lakes kind of rise and fall together. They do. And that would that would lead to the fact that elevation of El Cam Boulevard would not impact or cause any additional impacts downstream, just specifically from that project, because as it is today, those two lakes mimic each other in terms of water level. So by increasing the connection between the two of them, we're not increasing adverse reactions downstream. Does that surmise?”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Excellent. And then have we looked into or do we have the data to identify the pollutant load within the Teresa Basin versus the overall impact? middle st john's b map area to specifically what i'm getting at is how much difference is the water quality within the theresa basin versus the middle st john's b map and what level of nutrient reduction would be required prior to discharge we again we do have uh water quality data uh for the lakes uh that would be pumping out of and when if you know for”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you for that explanation. The, um, also have there been, have you guys looked at the data in terms of the four B site? Because I know that, a main component of that 4B site project is to pull surface water off of Lake Monroe, clean it to a drinking water standard in terms of reducing that nutrient load that would also provide credits for stormwater releases in other ways. So does that, is that taken into effect?”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. And then my last question, I promise it's the last one. Having experienced the Orlando Wetland Park over off of Highway 50 along the St. Johns, is there an opportunity where we could develop some sort of wetland-type filtration system where we could, in turn, clean our stormwater before it leaves the city, but also turn it into a recreational opportunity for our residents?”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
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“Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for bringing up that last little piece about other funding options, because that's a very important key there. Thank you for your presentation. Absolutely.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:26:15
“Thank you, Mayor. I just, two things, or three things. The first is that I know that we've talked a lot about water conveyance between the lakes. There was a plan put in place, I believe, in the mid to late 2010s that was the Blue Ways Trail, and I'd like to ask staff to bring that back as a possibility to include recreational opportunities, but also increase the capacity at the same time between lakes so that we can help move water throughout the basin quicker, but also provide that recreational opportunity, which, as you've mentioned before, opens up additional funding opportunities. And…”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:28:39
“The consensus would be to direct staff to update the 2019 stormwater master plan.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:30:39
“And then the original idea behind beginning in fiscal year 27 is that we're two months away from the end of the fiscal year. And it's going to take them a couple weeks to prepare the documents and figure out an estimate and work through it. And then it's going to take some time to move it forward to the next step. So if we could just have staff work on it and plan it to begin it at the beginning of fiscal year 27, that would be ideal. Let's just see what we can do.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:33:23
“The idea of the stormwater master plan is to address, is to update that plan that you spoke about that was last updated in 2019 with those smaller projects that are focused on the street level within that localized flooding that typically comes from just a large afternoon storm.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:34:01
“Can we get consensus for that stormwater master plan there?”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:37:48
“Yeah, my request was just for the commission to provide consensus and direction or consensus to direct staff to update the 2019 stormwater master plan. and begin on it as quickly as possible, understanding that it's going to take more than two months.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:38:09
“No, this is completely separate from Ardura.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:39:21
“I'd just like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda items.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:53:05
“I'll second, but I'd also like to point out that we've had this agenda for the better part of a week now and staff is here. The CFO, the deputy city manager are both here to answer any questions that need to be asked. There's nothing on this budget amendment that is know vanity per se with you know we've got uh fire safety manager retirement payouts we've got pfos settlement proceeds we've got we've got uh stormwater study uh transfers from the stormwater fund to the capital improvements fund um there's this is a lot of just proper accounting uh treatment adjustments this isn't uh you know…”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 1:56:45
“I'm gonna make a motion to amend the budget amendment to approve the transfer of funds related to the Lake Windsor-Force, Maine project and the SCADA project that was approved at the last meeting so that we don't forego those funds and have to return those.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:15:17
“No, we're good. I just wanted to make a second. Okay.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:16:44
“I'll be real quick. I want to thank staff for bringing this up to us so quickly. This was something that was asked for three meetings ago, four meetings ago, and they worked very diligently and brought this. We're at second reading, and so this is final adoption. And thank you guys very much. And we've heard this from the community many times that this is a tool in the toolbox to help address the feral cat problem.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:22:07
“I'll make a motion to extend the meeting until we get through 9C, which the residents in their back are here for.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:26:08
“Yes. So just to reiterate, we're talking about a moratorium for 12 months on all data centers regardless of size. Yes, that's what I was wanting this evening. I recognize that we could be a little bit more restrictive on the mega-sized data centers, but the reality of it is that there is not room in the city of Deltona for these mega-sized data centers. My largest concern for today is that We have data centers that are the smaller scale data centers that can come in and pop up in any of our industrial or commercial areas and impact the residents and the neighbors that live next door to them.…”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:27:05
“I'll make a motion to approve a 12-month moratorium on all data centers regardless of size.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:29:11
“Thank you, Mayor. On Friday, I had the pleasure of meeting some of my neighbors, Patty and Joe, who spoke during public comment.”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 2:29:21
“Comment today. On my way to the Deltona Battle of the Boulevard game, I intended on just a quick drive by to see what their yard looked like. And they were outside with their neighbor that actually ended up calling me. And we stopped and said hi. And they are not exaggerating. The hour that we were standing in front of their yard, every single neighbor that drove by stopped and waved. Every single kid that came by stopped and was just having a very cheerful time. It is definitely an asset to the community. So with that being said, I would like to get consensus to hold in abeyance any…”
City Commission · Aug 24, 2026