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Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the City of Titusville City Council Special Presentation and Recognitions Meeting on August 25th, 2026 at 530. I call this meeting to order. City Attorney, do we have a quorum?

Yes.

Thank you very much. In lieu of a prayer for our invocation, we'll hold a moment of silence, please. Thank you very much. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you very much, City Manager.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of Council. The first item on the agenda for this evening is a Titusville Community Service Award, and the award recipient is here. And my understanding is the Mayor is going to read the citation and present the award. Thank you very much, City Manager.

I'm going to first read off the Titusville Community Service Rewards Select Committee, and if you are here, please stand. We have Chairperson Sharon James, Clergy Representative Alex Bowman, Christopher Childs, Barry Russell, Amanda Bates. Not seeing any. All right. So we're here this evening to honor a citizen from our community who was nominated for the 2026 Community Service Award. This award was first named as the Harry R. Lee Unity Award in honor of reverently spirit, words and actions that personifies the concept of service and unity in the Titusville community and setting the example for discouraging disunity. In 2001, the award was redefined and renamed the Titusville Community Service Award, still in the memory and honor of Reverend Harry R. Lee to recognize citizens for service, not just unity. The city's desire for this award is to perpetuate and encourage the example set by Reverend Lee. Award information is sent yearly to numerous area organizations for nominations. Nominations are not restricted to persons residing in the city limits of Titusville, but rather that their service benefits the citizens of Titusville. Today we are pleased to recognize the recipient of the Titusville Community Service Award. Although every individual's efforts are exponential, the committee had to make a selection from the nominees as to whom they believe best reflects the spirit of community service and unity through their actions. The winner of the 2026 Community Service Award is Billie Ruth Fitzgerald. She was nominated by St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church. Here's the nomination. How does one earn center stage on Kennedy Space Center's IMAX screen? One person who certainly deserves it is Billy Fitzgerald. In 1953, when the Kennedy Space Center area was known as Redstone Army Base, Billy was recommended by Dr. Wernher von Braun to serve as the secretary to Dr. Kurt DeBue, head of the rocket program that was preparing to launch America's first moon mission. For family reasons, Billie initially did not want to move to Titusville, but ultimately she did, beginning a remarkable 73-year chapter of service to the community and to the space program. As Dr. Debut's secretary, Billie became closely involved in the historic moon mission. During one crucial meeting, Billie was the only woman in the room filled with male engineers. Suddenly, one of the engineers stood, pointed at Billie, and demanded she needs to leave. She's a woman and will tell everyone what is going on." Dr. DeBue firmly replied, she stays and stay she did. For more than seven decades, Billie has devoted herself to the Titusville community through civic leadership, volunteerism, and public service. She served for 24 years on the Parish Medical Center Board and has recently been reappointed to another four-year term. She also served for 40 years on the Titusville Housing Authority, serving as president for much of that time. Billie was instrumental in researching, developing, and spearheading the funding for Titusville Tower's assisted living facility, securing numerous grants and other funding sources to help make the project a reality. Her commitment to the community extends far beyond her professional accomplishments. Billie has actively participated in the Garden Club, NASA Wives, and Scouting. At St. Gabriel's Episcopal Church, she served on the vestry, altar guard. She also became a realtor and broker, furthering, contributing to her time, knowledge and leadership to the Titusville community. Billy Fitzgerald represents the very best of Titusville. She is compassionate, industrious, intelligent, courageous and deeply committed to serving others. Her life reflects not only a connection to one of the most extraordinary chapters in American space history, but also more than seven decades of meaningful service to the people and institutions of her community. Billie Fitzgerald is not only deserving of the Titusville Community Service Award, she is an exceptional example of leadership, dedication, and community spirit that this award represents. Thank you for your heart of service. That was your nomination, Ms. Billy. I think that was just absolutely amazing. Can you all please join me in a round of applause for Ms. Billy?

Well, for once in my life, I'm speechless. Thank you so much. That means so much to me. I have enjoyed everything in Titusville. I love Titusville, and I just feel sorry for people who can't live here. And a lot of it goes to people like you that give your time and effort to make this a wonderful place to live and raise a family. And I've raised three beautiful children here, and they're all doing well. And I thank the leaders, all the leaders of the community that makes this such a great place to live. And I hope to live here a few more years. I'm going to outlive Herman, so. So thank you so much. This is a bonus that I didn't expect. So thank you.

You ran off without your award. Maybe your daughter could help you because we got two big ones here.

We got a big friend who's building it for you as well as an award. Oh, nice. Oh, I don't know which one's heavier. I don't know which one's heavier. You want to hold this one? I'll hold this one. Why don't you hold this one? You can join in the picture. No, it's okay. Where are you going? I'm certainly going to come back.

Right here in the middle. Right here. Okay. Okay.

Okay.

I would just also like to say congratulations to all who are nominated. I know it was very competitive this year. Your actions speak volumes about your heart of service, but as you can imagine, that was a pretty amazing resume. Thank you again. Congratulations to Ms. Billy. All right, city manager, moving on to item B.

Yes, sir. Item B is a public-private partnership capital infrastructure replacement. An emerging trend in municipal government is establishing public-private partnerships to design, build, and long-term lease capital-intensive facilities such as city halls, public safety buildings, and water plants. A representative from the Pizzuti Group will provide an informational presentation on how these public-private partnerships are developed and operated. I'll turn it over to Mr. Harmer. I heard her, but I couldn't interrupt him.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council members. This is a great opportunity. We appreciate that opportunity to share a little bit about public-private partnerships. We know that you have a full agenda this evening, and so this will be kind of a high-level overview. And if there's time available, we'll be happy to answer questions and follow up as necessary. I wanted to start off, if I can make sure the clicker works. pushing a bunch of buttons but none of them can we get clicker support please all right while he's doing clicker support i'll keep going if that's all right So, again, Tom Harmer, I'm representing the Pizzuti companies. With me this evening, I have Jim Russell. He's an executive vice president with Pizzuti. Pizzuti is a national developer, private developer based out of Columbus, Ohio, with offices in Orlando, Nashville, Chicago, and Columbus, Ohio. As a company, we've developed over 100 million square feet of private development throughout the country, all different types. Probably the one thing that's not on our list is single-family residential developments, but office, industrial. hospitality, multifamily, et cetera. Again, over 50 years, family-owned. And we, about 20 years or so ago, we formed a wholly-owned subsidiary called Pizzuti Solutions, part of the company. that focuses solely on public clients and working with public clients on their real estate needs, assisting them with real estate advisory services, helping them plan projects, and helping them manage projects from the planning stage all the way to, say, a certificate of occupancy and beyond. And we've been doing that for over 20 years now. I'm going to introduce Jim real quickly. The slide that I was going to show you, and if it may pop up here, It must be operator error is what I'm thinking.

All right. My trainer earlier.

So I knew you couldn't read all those words, so I didn't want to really read all those to you, but I just want to give you at least a background on the company and where we're coming from. I'm going to turn it over to Jim Russell, and he's going to talk a little bit about why you might want to consider a public-private partnership and why communities consider public-private partnerships. And then he's going to provide a quick example of a building that would show you how it would be applied to that type of project.

so with that i'll turn it over to jim i'm very nervous about this clicker good evening it's a pleasure being here and as tom had mentioned we know it's a busy night for a lot of other important things we think this is one that we're just happy to and pleased to present one of the things i'll add to what tom had talked about is what's unique about the pazuti solutions company that i run for the family is that most of our associates are former public sector employees. I think you know Tom spent a career in fire service and in city management. I'm a former city manager, spent about a decade in the public sector, but back home and scattered are numerous other professionals, former public officials who have worked from finance to economic development to planning, really understanding the ins and outs and the transparency that's important in the public projects. But we also have contractors and architects who work with us, not designing or building buildings, but really to be a trusted advisor to the public sector. One of the things that I know every public official faces at some point is the useful life of our buildings. It's easy to work on the policy and understand what you have to do, but everything that government does happens in a building and everybody is busy. When you're trying to balance capital needs on the programs that your community wants and the people what they want and what they need, Sometimes, you know, how you can fund these projects get a little bit challenging. And that's really the key behind trying to find alternative options for you to consider as you're looking at new facilities. And that's really the heart of public-private partnerships. It's creative ways on looking to build, design, financially position them to really find some alternative financing methods other than just issuing public debt. So it's just a way to kind of leverage the private sector experience with the needs of the city. You know, a couple of the pros and cons just at a high level for you. You know, the pros are a little bit easier to understand most of the time, but it'll lead to a little quicker delivery of your projects, getting them out of the ground and open. Sooner rather than later, and that becomes very important because of the cost escalation that we face in our day to day lives. But it also significantly impacts your construction projects. So that quick delivery is important. Having the, the expertise and the design and the functionality, the buildings usually add to the useful life of the facility. It frees up. much needed capital dollars and your ability to issue debt for those emergencies that come along and to have that flexibility to issue debt for items that you need and not necessarily for items that you want so those are some of the pros some of the cons at the end of the day it does cost more money it's the cost of capital purely as the driver in the differences so understanding that that you're looking at a little bit additional cost because of the private debt. Some of the challenges that go along with having annual procreation requirements because you're now entering into longer term debt as a lease instrument for the most part, Taking that on and having the private sector absorb the risk. We all know from the public sector that if you build a city hall or if you build a new courthouse, if you build a police department, those are single use, very purposeful built buildings and you're not really going to move out of them because you can't just move down the street in a similar facility. But the lending community looks at that a little differently. They're always focused on exit strategy, and so if they see a building that they may not be able to take right to the marketplace, sometimes they're pushing up the cost of financing, and that's one of the challenges that come along with public-private partnerships. But at the end of the day, it's a great tool for you to look at other options for you to be able to construct your public facilities and then amortize that cost over the long run. So a few examples Tom had mentioned. We're showing the facility. It's called the Fran Ryan Center. It's a project that we manage for the city of Columbus, about 45,000 square feet. We use it purely as an example. The spaces that are involved can be easily converted to a city hall, but this is more community space, a senior center and community recreation center with some performance space. So a little bit different, but it's really about the cost that we're looking at. That project completed early last year's about $34 million project to construct, similar to what we would see being built here today if you were building a new city hall or a similar facility. Great look and feel, very modest because at the end of the day, you want to make sure that you're leveraging your dollars. In this fine print, that'll be really hard for everybody else, but I'll just share with you the numbers. What we looked at, if you were to... sign a 30 year lease for this facility. Um, what you're looking at is advertising that debt over the life of that 30 year term. And at the end it would be structured as a capital lease. So this first example is at the end of this 30 year lease back period, you would own the building for a dollar. So it's basically just like you would finance your house over that long period of time. And then at the end of the day, um, you don't it for a dollar and everything would have been, um, amortized over that 30 year window. So that 34 plus million dollar note would run about $2.3 million a year in a lease payment. So an annual lease of about $2.3 million over that 30 year period and you'd owed it for a dollar. The second example that we just wanted to share is very similar but to provide purchase options at intervals. And so we've worked in communities where maybe they had debt that was going to be paid off in a few years and they'd rather convert that to a lower interest debt or a public debt. So this is just using the example that if you would still sign that 30-year lease payment or that 30-year note, and then you'd have that same $2.35 million annual payment. But at year 10, you would have a purchase option in this structure that you would purchase that building for $27 million. So, you know, if you would add your total of your purchase price into lease payments, you'd be somewhere around $30 million, $29 to $30 million. Same thing there'd be a 15 year purchase option, depending on when you would want to restructure your debt and the purchase price would drop to a little over 22Million dollars. And then at year 20, that purchase price would be about 17Million dollars to purchases out purchase at that point. So just looking at those numbers in two different ways, one running through that whole 30 year you have for a dollar. The second is just building in options for you to purchase it at intervals that make the most sense for the individual community. The third option that we just ran as a hypothetical for you was maybe you have the ability to issue debt in a few years, but you need a building sooner. So in this third scenario, you're basically looking at an interest only payment for the first three years that would drop that payment to $2 million. And then at any interval after that period of time, then you would purchase that building at whatever the cost would be. So it'd be almost like a mortgage release at that point. And the idea behind all of these options, it's really just a flexible way for you to be able to advance your buildings, utilizing the most competitive debt that you could, and getting them in and open and out of the ground in a quicker manner of time. This is just one example. There are many different structures. Even as you're looking at some of your future projects, that you have the ability to publicly finance those a little bit differently without just issuing a bond. We worked with the city of Las Vegas on a new city hall and they purchased, they developed their city hall using certificates of participation or COPs. And it's a different debt structure where you would still sign a lease to another quasi-public entity like your CRA or another group. And they would actually be issuing debt out in the marketplace. That's the certificate of participation or COPS. They're bought in the marketplace just like a bond would be. but it does not count against the debt service limit of the city. It's a credit obligation to you because it's just like signing a long-term lease, but it doesn't impact your debt. It could impact your rating a little bit, but it's another tool if you don't want to have a voted-on bond issued, you don't want to issue a bond, there's still some other versions of these public-private partnerships that can work for you. So that's our kind of our brief, uh, presentation. We'd love to answer questions if you have any or if you want to submit them to the city manager or others, we'd love to help you any way we can.

Jim, I just want, I just want to jump in real quickly as we finish up. But I think as you understand, these are privately developed and delivered public facilities like a city hall. and it happens all over the country, and the private sector does that in a way, and you heard the pros and the cons, so I won't go into that, but there's a process, if the city decides they want to explore that, there's a process in Florida statute that allows you to do that. We listed in the slide, and you should have copies of all that, so we didn't want to read it to you, but there are cities in Florida that are doing this now, Throughout the state, and I can tell you former county administrator for Sarasota County, but Sarasota County is one of the projects listed. Sarasota County was doing a lot of capital projects and they had limited bonding capacity to do all the projects they wanted to do. So they partnered with a private developer and delivered a facility. It was a 20 some million dollar facility with a very similar terms as Jim mentioned, they had a three year buyback. So they did this three years ago. This year they decided to exercise their buyback because their bonding capacity had changed and they had more cash than they did three years ago. So they just closed on buying that building and no longer leasing it. So it's an alternative funding source, it's an alternative partnership approach, and there's a mix of options of how you can structure these types of approaches.

Vice Mayor Coole. Is this a design bill? Who's responsible? Who does the design? Who pays for the design?

So basically, there's a couple approaches. For the most part, it would be a design build. So you would contract, have your program develop, full program develop, and then part of your selection of your partner would basically be the architect and the contractor all under one contract. You could do it where if you wanted to contract, for architectural design services to do your program and design your building, and then you would bid that package out to a builder or a contractor to be able to deliver it. So there's a couple ways. The safest way for you is typically a design build where it's one entity, one contract that you're dealing with.

So do we do the design build through your company, or do we just hire an architect and design the facility that we're talking about? And then put give the total package with the specifications to your company to be built in the cost of the architect is born by the city.

So again, vice mayor, you can structure that a lot of different ways. So you would publicly procure your partner, whether you started with, um, uh, a firm like our friend could be the advisor to say, how do you structure and set up? You would, um. procure those services or of an architect to understand the size and scope of the program that you want, and then you would still go and publicly procure a development partner based on the parameters. Now, you could roll into that submission, that qualifications-based selection, All of those services being provided. One of the things that I will say, and it ran into me as a former city manager, you want to make sure that you have on your side of the table someone who really understands the delivery piece of that because In some design-build structures and scenarios, it moves over to that entity, and all of a sudden, what you expected, you want to make sure is delivered. Having someone to watch over that to make sure that it's happening the right way. There's a few ways you can do that. The term bridging, you may hear, and that's where you would engage an architect that maybe would design your building to about 30% complete. and then you would bid that package out. So another architect may finish them, but all of the important decisions have been made. So there's a variety of ways to deliver, but you want to make sure you get the building that you need to provide the services that you need.

Thank you.

I just want to address your question about who pays for those design fees. And so again, there's so many different ways these can be structured, but it's a qualified project cost. so that it can be folded into the overall cost. So you have your soft costs in a project that would include things like design, and you have your hard construction costs. All those can be folded into, for example, a developer partner approach where that's all part of the cost of the project that the developer assumes as part of their lease structure with you.

I have a question about the lease and these leases that we structure that, you know, we don't own the building. We're just paying rent. Who's responsible for the maintenance?

So a lot of that, so in a typical structure, you would have maintenance assessment done in some projects where you would have what you might have referred to or heard referred to as CAM charges. That would be the cost of maintenance and the cost of the building upkeep would be prorated into that. And those are typically like landscaping, mowing, some of those services. Capital improvements or capital reserves would be rolled into that lease. So you wouldn't be responsible over the term. It would be part of the responsibility of the owner of the building. So that would be factored into that lease payment would have a capital reserve. So if carpeting needed to be replaced and those items, it can be rolled into that lease rate.

So if the HVAC went out, the roof started leaking, the chiller exploded, that would all be covered by the owner of the building?

Treat it as a public city hall apartment building. I mean, in essence, you would call your owner and they would be the ones who would be responsible for that.

Thank you very much, gentlemen. I don't see any other lights on. Thank you.

If you had a question, okay. Thank you again. Yes, thank you.

Appreciate it.

City Manager, by the way, City Manager, can you speak into your mic a little bit so everybody can hear you? How's that? Perfect. Next item is the department spotlight, an ongoing series of spotlight videos showcasing our different departments. And this month we're going to be taking a look at the community development department.

Every community tells a story. Some are written in roads and buildings. Others are found beneath the shade of century-old oaks, along quiet neighborhoods or in the businesses that shape a downtown. Here, in Titusville, every decision made today helps define what the city will become tomorrow. Within the local government, there is the Community Development Department, a team of professionals working together to guide growth, align policies with practices, strengthen community and create opportunities for generations to come. Before a home welcomes a family, before a business opens its doors, every project begins with a commitment to safety. The building division reviews plans to any vertical structure, renovations, additions and more. This division is tasked with issuing building permits and performing inspections to ensure construction meets today's codes and tomorrow's expectations. In only a year, this team will have conducted over 15,200 commercial and residential inspections and issuing an average of 183 permits monthly. With numbers like that, it's no surprise this is the largest division within the department. Their work protects the places where people live, work and gather, building confidence into every structure across Titusville. Growth doesn't happen by chance. Every new neighborhood, business, roadway and utility system begins long before the first shovel breaks ground. Development Services serves as the city's technical gateway for new development. Engineers and development reviewers scrutinize site plans, drainage calculations, transportation impacts, utility infrastructure, landscaping and construction details to ensure every project meets local, state and federal standards. Armed with engineering expertise, technical analysis and decades of regulatory knowledge, the team verifies that each proposal is safe, resilient and compatible with its surroundings. Their work helps ensure Titusville grows responsibly, protecting public infrastructure, safeguarding natural resources and laying the foundation for a stronger community for generations to come. In many ways, cities are like living organisms. They expand, they adapt, and sometimes they reinvent themselves. The planning division helps guide that evolution by balancing growth with community character. Through land use planning, zoning, annexations, and long-range planning, every proposal is evaluated against the city's comprehensive plan, infrastructure capacity, environmental constraints, state law, established precedent, and the community's long-term vision. Because each decision can shape the city for generations, planners are trained in ethics, law, urban design, policy and research to provide detailed analyses outlining the opportunities and long-term impacts of every recommendation. Last year alone, the division processed more than 50 land use applications, annexed 4.64 acres into the city, and completed a seven-year state evaluation and appraisal report for the state of Florida, and continued their professional education and regional collaboration efforts. Every downtown has a history of culture and community. In Titusville, the Community Redevelopment Agency is the entity dedicated to preserving that history while creating new opportunities for investment and revitalization. Across our 300-acre downtown last year, this division awarded over $200,000 in grants to downtown storefront improvements. launched two crime prevention assessments, engaged directly with property owners to support continued investment in the district. As a result, our downtown saw the revitalization of the Main Street program, environmental infrastructure improvements including the city-funded low-impact development demonstration site along Indian River Avenue, a living shoreline in Scobie Park, multiple tree plantings, and pervious pavement installations. With many more exciting projects underway, this division operates as the staff liaison to the Historic Preservation Board and CRA Board. Nature has always been Titusville's greatest asset. But protecting it requires more than appreciation. It requires planning. The Sustainability Program brings together science, innovation and community partnerships to prepare Titusville for tomorrow's challenges. From climate resilience and transportation safety to energy efficiency and urban forestry, the program transforms long-term planning into measurable action. Today, nearly half a million dollars in grant funding supports the advancement of the city's Sustainability Action Plan, which includes 87 individual action items to execute. New initiatives are helping identify hundreds of thousands of dollars in long-term energy savings, increasing the adoption of sustainable development practices, and launching Titusville's very first urban forestry management plan. These efforts have gained statewide recognition, positioning Titusville as a leader in resilient community planning across Florida. Opportunity is rarely accidental. It grows where preparation meets investment. The Economic Development Division works behind the scenes to help businesses establish roots in Titusville. By connecting companies with resources, incentives, and regional partners, the Division helps support new investment while strengthening industries that continue to shape Florida's Space Coast. A city's greatest resource is its people. Neighborhood Services works every day to ensure opportunity reaches every corner of the community. Through affordable housing programs, federal and state grants, public services, nonprofit partnerships, and the Harry T. Moore Social Service Center. The division helps improve lives while strengthening neighborhoods. During the past year alone, more than $1.8 million in grant funding supported housing, infrastructure, community programs and services for Titusville residents. The division has taken on social recreational events for the neighborhood as well. including serving over 500 meals to the community, hosting the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee and the Social Services Ad Hoc Committee, and offering free fax, copy and notary services for those citizens applying for services or benefits from federal, state and local resources. A city is never truly finished. Every permit approved, every tree planted, every neighborhood strengthened, every business opened, every partnership formed. Together they become something much greater than individual projects. They become a community prepared for the future. Through thoughtful planning, responsible development, environmental stewardship and unwavering public service, the Community Development Department continues helping Titusville grow, not simply bigger, but better. The future of Titusville is not something that happens to the city. It's something the community builds together.

I don't know about y'all, but that voice was very soothing.

And just a shout out to our media services division. That video was produced entirely in-house. Thank you, City Manager. On to the next item. Yes, sir. The next item is the revitalization of the Titusville Police Athletic League. As you know, years ago we had a very active PAL program. It sort of fell dormant for a few years. And recently we've taken some efforts to revitalize that program. and inject some more life into the program and a number of activities very well received, and we have very enthusiastic staff. So I'm gonna turn it over to the chief to provide a little more information on the revitalized PAL program.

There should be a PowerPoint as well. So while they're getting that loaded up, we'll give a little history of our Police Athletic League. It was formed in 1993. And it was the traditional pal with a traditional standalone building with your traditional sports activities in 2011. How decided to reorganize and go in a different direction. So the titles of youth foundation ties of police youth foundation was created as doing business as pal as we weren't really getting the the rewards of a standalone building. So we had to kind of take in a different direction. And then towards the end of 2025, we realized we want to go back to the traditional PAL setup, try to land a building so we can try to get into these programs and start reaching out to our youth more frequently and more often. So a lot of things started happening. So in January of 2026, we moved Lieutenant Joyner over to our community relations unit with the goal of by 2027 secure location for Powell and be able to have something running frequently. Also with us is Jeff Davis, our North Area Parks Operations Manager. He's available for any questions as well as we're working on a partnership with Brevard Parks and Rec. So like I said, the proposed launch is fiscal year 2027. Our target population is ages six to 17, but our PAL foundation also in our bylaws, we revamped it where we can also bridge in community as well. So we're not just limited to just youth. So it's youth, community, and it helps if I change my slide over. youth community and law enforcement. And our year one goal once we do launch this is at least 150 youth to start out with and then reassess and then try to take it next year in 2028 even larger. So our executive board and directors right now is made up of a total of seven. You have myself as the president, the vice president is Lieutenant Joyner. Our treasurer is Don Welk, Secretary Angie Spangler. And then we have three members at large. That's Jessica Cabrera, Mike Bates, and currently that seventh position is vacant. We just have not reconvened the board to select a new person. And our city attorney's office is involved on the attorney and legal side, David Melito. This is hard to see, but it's a snapshot of revenues coming in, which is all strictly donations and expenditures going out for 2026. And they match about the same for each year with donations coming in. We have our usual donors every year and our usual events every year, with our largest event right now being shop with a cop. So roughly this time this year, we've spent or expended approximately $4,500 on various events to include Martin Luther King Jr. event, tour de force, Cops vs. Kids basketball, and various events. And you'll see some pictures of that here in a minute. So why invest in PAL? The overall reason is building positive relationships, focusing on our youth first, community second, and bridging it in with our law enforcement. The goal is to develop leadership and life skills, receive academic support, help them explore college and career pathways, and ultimately build a sense of belonging within our community with our law enforcement. So with that, I'm gonna turn it over to Lieutenant Joyner, and we'll be bouncing back and forth on some of our slides.

First off, I want to just thank Interim Chief Wright for allowing me to spearhead this project. Honored to present this valuable strategic program that's going to be beneficial to the future of our youth for the city of Titusville. I also want to thank Jeff Davis who will be Parks and Rec's partnering with us in getting this up and running. So the power model, our goal is to reach out to at least 150 youth connected to positive adults and through structured activities and pathways to success. We're going to be doing that through our athletic programs, several different athletic programs that we're going to be presenting our relationships between bridging the gaps with our officers, volunteers, coaches through the community, mentorships and our pathways through academic colleges and career and leaderships. Our pal is more than just sports. The goal isn't simply to keep kids busy. It's to connect them to a future. Like I said, we're going to be doing that through our mentorship programs, tp officers as coaches, mentors and positive role models throughout our community. Also, our academic will be reaching out to Children throughout academics. Also throughout tutoring, study sessions, academic accountability for each child. Also, we are out. partnering with the local colleges, Eastern Florida State College. One of my advisors, Dr. Cador, been reaching out to him. He's ready to take part in the program that we put together also by utilizing some of the college students to come out and tutor some of the kids with their homework and different programs that we provide throughout our program. Also, our career aspect of it also will be reaching out to local businesses that will be taking part in this effort and putting this back together also. Building on a proven framework, title of the Police Department Athletic League, we'll be patterning our after establishment. We'll be modeling Jacksonville PAL to put this together. Over time, we did a little bit of research with some of the local PAL centers also within their success and their long-term goals also. So we're trying to model there. their efforts. Also, um, some of these efforts were law enforcement youth engagement. I said, I T P officers as coaches and mentors. Um, at our athletic department, we'll be trying to implement at least six to eight youth sports such as soccer, girls and boy boys flag football, basketball, wrestling, volleyball and track and field. Also, we'll have youth opportunities through scholarships provided through our grants and whatever funding that we have to facilitate this efforts will be utilizing scholarships to help those that are in need and need help participating in the event. So we don't want to turn any kid around from participating so. Powell is a community investment, not simply a police department program, so our efforts and partnerships will help our long term goals established in this program. Some of our partners will be parks and recs with our public schools. Eastern Florida State College.

So our first year strategies is obviously getting this launched and off the ground, secure the building, secure the location, get it furnished and outfitted and then start building building off there and then start getting our local youth involved with our programs and events that we have. We already have a team of officers that, as I say, we wear many hats. They're working patrol, but he'll call and, hey, I got something that popped up and I need a few to come over for this event. So there's a team that's ready and willing, even when they're off there, coming in, volunteering their time. So we have the people in place. We just don't have the people in the places to do it, so they're not wearing all the hats yet, and that's our vision of getting there. Continue to partner citywide, countywide to continue to develop this. And then obviously we want to sustain this. So over the last probably four to eight years, we've had our regular private donors, our regular corporate donors. And then we've been a little proactive with reaching out through various grants and getting securing grants. where we're going to get real aggressive on is trying to advertise for donations, having like QR codes and links working through all those sources so we can start getting steady stream of, uh, I say income coming in, but to help support and keep this program up and running and again sustaining it for future. So what we're looking at trying to do the first year is outside of Lieutenant Joiner is identifying personnel We're just estimating a cost here, maybe thinking part-time employees that can help work at the PAL Center, be the ones helping build these projects, build these events. We also have personnel in-house that we can be strategic about with reassigning once we have our personnel in place as well. Youth program delivery estimated costs. Looking at our stuff from past years, doing the basic that we have, it's averaged anywhere from 10,000 to about 15,000 for the last four to five years. Again, with the biggest one being the annual shop with a cop. But we anticipate this increasing. So we're estimating the first year roughly $32,000 in expenditures. Facilities and transportation, just an estimation of upkeep, stuff we need to change, secure, you know, make the location secure, furniture, sports equipment. Youth scholarships is a projection that we want to be able to donate, so roughly 15,000 is what we would like to try to donate for youth scholarships. For example, the Tide Azul Youth

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The Titusville Terriers Sports Youth. So for an example, if there's a team that can't afford new jerseys or a child that wants to be part of the team, but they don't have the funding, we would like to be able to make that happen. And then marketing and outreach coming up with campaign materials to advertise it and try to get these donations coming in more frequently. So with our partnership with Brevard Parks and Rec, we have secured the Gibson, or will be securing the Gibson Gym. We're still working through crossing some T's and dotting some I's. This is just a visual of what it could look like, but we don't exactly know what furniture we're landing or anything. We have an office set up, computer lab, and a library that's gonna be in there as well.

So what we've done so far this this year as I took over community relations, one of our my first goal was to connect with the youth of the city of Titusville. So we put on several events throughout the year since back in March. One of my first events was. Next one. cops versus kids that was one of our first events held at the gibson center it was very successful we had a large crowd come out what i did is i reached out we normally do cops versus kids against the middle school age so i wanted to make it a little bit more competitive so i reached out to astronaut high school basketball team and titusville high school basketball team and put together one team to go against our officers um they kicked our butts yes Um, but it wasn't. It was a great event. Kids loved it. They talked about it and ready for another competition against officers again. So this will be something I probably do annually. Um, cops versus kids. We fed everybody that was there free pizza. So it was a great event. Another one of our successful events was our casting with cops event. When we went out, cops came out and we fished with the kids. We also had the mayor and city manager out there, had a great time, caught some fish. So that was a great event.

So what was neat about this one was sportsman's wholesale there at Titus Landings came in clutch and donated 30 complete set up fishing poles with the rods. And in the top left picture is actually their manager, I believe, helping out and the kid in the picture with the pole that's bent. had hooked a rather large tarpon and fought it for a good 30 minutes and got it right up to the dock so we could try to land it and snap the line. So that was the excitement for the day. Other than that, it was a bunch of blowfish and a few tiny redfish.

So we had several sponsorships for this event also. We were expected to purchase bait for the event, and we had one of our local... Mosquito Lagoon. Mosquito Lagoon came out, and they provided all the bait for this event, so we didn't have to go out and purchase anything as far as baits or rods. Walmart also donated several rods for the event also, so it was a great event. It'll be something we'll be putting on again soon, so... And also that kid that caught that fish was my son.

Well, he didn't catch it. Almost. The other one that we did that was going to be an annual, and we're actually expanding on this to where it's... other ideas. But Teen Leadership Academy, I came across the idea and hit him up. And within about three days he had a program ready to rock and roll. We advertised it and I think we had 13 13 youth from our area, some from out of the area. But I was excited. We had youth regardless participating in this teen leadership program. And the highlight of that was Army recruiters, Navy recruiters, they all came in and talked about some leadership. Our officers came in. We had other dignitaries from our area coming in. And then the highlight was a totally free entry to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Center, doing a tour of that with leadership lessons all through that as well.

Also, as we approach the summer, we needed some. Normally, our SROs, those that aren't taking off, they'll be assigned to a patrol squad and work the road. This year, Chief had an idea to assign them to our community relations. So I had to figure out what I was going to do with them. So I came up with an idea. Most kids are in summer camp throughout the summer. So I assigned each SRO a summer camp to put on a snow cone event. And which they did. We were able to hit the Grove Church with their summer camp in I think IRC on 50. They did. They had a summer blast event where they were signed out there, did snow cones out there. We hit some of our parks and recs location, Isaac Campbell. They really had a blast out there. We had a big slip and slide and snow cones and we hit our Sandra location out on Singleton. We had a snow cone event out there also, so. It was a great event, something we'll probably be doing every year. And we also mentioned the Boys and Girls Club. We also stopped in there and gave our snow cones with them also.

And then we ended the summer off with bowling with the badges. I think we estimated about 120 families in there, completely taken care of as far as cost with the bowling alley and private donor palm point for the food. And we have a new idea that we may be exploring bowling with the boomers. As a request. We have some upcoming events that are approaching us rather quickly. Our annual national night out in October here at Titus Landings. The advertisement should be coming out soon within the next few weeks. Another upcoming casting with cops. The annual shop with a cop, which we lean on our school resource officers to identify the children that are in need for that. Our Halloween trunk or treat. And we're revamping some stuff we did last year because we had a couple crazy ideas that we wanted to do. We just didn't pull them off in time, so get ready for this year. May or may not involve most decorated houses, first, second, and third place. And last year, on a whim, we came up with some Christmas-themed ideas and drove around town for several days. Those are all coming back. Also doing some advertisements for most decorated Christmas houses as well. And I believe that's it, if there's any questions.

Thank you very much, Interim Chief Wright, Lieutenant Joyner, of course, Mr. Davis, for being here. As always, an effort of time. I'm going to ask if anybody has questions on this board to get with you directly. But you guys are doing the work out in the community. And on behalf of this board, we really appreciate it. So thank you very much.

And we're always open for events, too. I forgot to put this out there. There is a main email, tpdeventrequests, with an S. Very easy, tpdeventrequests at titazil.com. Send it over. We'll take a look and let you know if we can partner.

Thank you very much. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have a big crowd here tonight, and we're not into our 630 meeting yet. It is 628. We're at the special presentations meeting where no action is taken, but there still is a petitions and requests portion. So if you come up here and ask us to do anything, that doesn't happen at this meeting. So at this time, petitions and requests, if you'd like to come up, now is the time. Mr. Johnson.

My name is Stan Johnson. I've sent you some recent emails that you haven't responded to. Back in 1985, the city was approached with a program to construct a number of dams in the city of Titusville. Well, here's what happened. I was there at this meeting in this room, and the question was asked by Mayor Mariani. He said, And when you put these dams in, won't we have a door or something so when a storm comes, you can open the dam and it won't flood anything? And Mr. Ball, I don't know if he remembers this, but he said something excitedly saying something like, but you're gonna flood these people's property. So here's what the response was from the two engineers from DRMP. Their response was what? Can you guess what it was? There was no response. No response. So now what we have is a program that has been building dams throughout the city of Titusville. They're all illegal. Obstructions and ditches and so forth. And I wrote to you an email that's titled Titusville is the illegal dam capital of the world. So I'll read a little bit of this to you. It says it says I count at least 10 illegal dams or obstruction in ditches. Uh, for this reason, I see that ties feel Florida is not only the space capital of the world, but is also the illegal damn capital of the world. Again, offer you $100 to any person, any person in this room, $100 you can get. Who will obtain a sane professional engineer who disputes in writing or by public address my findings that the two dams at the senior center contributed to the flooding of homes, vehicles, and property, and they are illegal? By the way, there's 40,000 professional engineers in the state of Florida. So if you can find one of them to disagree with me, you'll do it. So right now what I'm saying is I'm asking for your resignation if you can't get rid of these dams. And it's for cause because these dams are illegal. And you should know it's very simple. You put a dam in the city of Titusville. How in the world in low-lying country can you do this? How can it be illegal? Well, it's not legal. And I've sent you emails about it. These nine different reasons that what you're doing is you are doing what you're filing your oath of office. That is the Constitution. It's just taking a property is illegal. It's illegal if you because you need due process of law. Building a dam is not due precedent at all. I want your response to this. I want a motion to remove these. I'm also asking you to resign if you don't do anything.

Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Any petitions or requests for our first meeting? Again, we don't take any action in this meeting. We've got to get into our 630 meeting before anything can happen. Did you have something? That'll be at the next meeting. Yep. We're still at our 630 meeting. We're still in our 530 meeting. I'm trying to end one meeting and go into another meeting. So again, I apologize. I know we have a lot of newcomers here. That's what I was trying to explain. Like we're not at that point yet. Anybody else? All right. Sure.

I am Jeff Greenberg. I live at 2405 Harris Drive in Titusville. I could have waited, but this is probably a very good preface for what's going to come later. Before we do anything else, I think as a reaction for why a lot of these maybe almost all these people are here. is because it looks like we're rushing forward without really any sort of due evaluation on this stormwater issue. People are afraid. They don't want to have to pay more money if they don't have any confidence from the people that are extracting that money that we're going to accomplish anything. And I think that's very valuable. I would highly recommend, of course that's not the time to do that right now, but later on, that maybe there'd be a workshop where other people, expertise people, I include myself on that and I include some other people as well, people that are on the TEC for example, that we have a workshop dealing with stormwater. We don't, we shouldn't be depending on paid consultants to do our work for us when we have science and other very credible people that live right here in Titusville. Yeah, so I think we need to wait. Some of the issues that would come up would be, for example, looking at maps that actually locate all the drainage ditches in Titusville. I've never seen that before. I've asked for it. All the drainage ditches mapped. where we could look at them. And all the flooded areas over the last at least couple years, have those all been mapped? Have they been all specified? Not saying these are in flood zones, but they've actually flooded. We need maps of those. Somebody needs to have that information. And of course, the geological side of it, because I'm a geologist, is what are the elevations and natural flow situations in Titusville? Are we paying any attention to those? Now I want to compliment the council because the last couple of times I think that some fairly irresponsible developers have come in looking in areas that were very iffy as far as flooding would be concerned and what they might contribute would make it worse. And they've been turned down and I applaud you for that. That took a lot of courage. And I think the same kind of courage is needed here. But not a knee-jerk reaction that, oh, people are flooding and they're mad, so let's go out and get more money. I think we're going to have to see, because the bottom line question that I hope you attend to is, what's that money going to accomplish? And is it going to do so in a scientifically valid manner? I have my doubts. Last thing I want to say is just very quickly because I came to this body a couple years ago and wasn't very well received, but my own background is a PhD 50 years plus in working on things like this. At Wheaton College in Illinois, I was the coordinator of a wastewater project that was published in three different international journals. I'm also working with a group called Water for Life.

I'm sorry, sir. That's all right.

That's all right. I just want to make sure that people realize I have credentials.

Not disputing that, but we will get into the whole stormwater conversation. I understand.

I just want to make this a preface. I get that.

All right. Anybody else for our first meeting? I'm trying to end so we can get into our second meeting. I'm not seeing anybody. I do want to recognize we do have a special visitor in the House, and I would like to invite him an opportunity to speak and close this out before we move into our next meeting. Congressman, the floor is yours.

Thank you very much. Well, thank you, Mayor, for having me this evening. It's great to see everybody this afternoon and some exciting times right now in Brevard County. We could not be more thrilled that the Bright Line is finally here. And of course, the amazing work y'all are doing, making sure that we are space ready. And of course, on Sunday morning, we're launching the Grace Telescope, which should be an exciting thing. This will give us an aperture into space like we've never had before. But I was just coming by as we're finally out of Washington, D.C., for a change. I just want to come by in person and say thank you for taking all the time you have to be a part of the team. You all have been amazing about keeping me updated on what's going on in the city and about our mutual needs, whether it be at the Space Center with the wastewater issue or other items that have come up. One of the things we really tried to stress over the last couple of years has been, of course, the issue of the Indian River Lagoon. With your help and others, we're able to lobby successfully to get record funding for the Lagoon this year and making sure we continue to clean up that waterway as, of course, Brevard County residents have really stepped up as well. We were especially pleased when we passed the big bill back in July and were able to get the stormwater money in place and start to move that forward because we really need to improve that area as it affects not only the course space center, but the surrounding areas, including Titusville. And but more than anything else, I just want to come by to say this is a team effort and you all have been up in Washington consistently talking with me about what's important And my job as your congressman, of course, is to take these good issues up to Washington, D.C. and get things done for our community. And I think we've had some success, but there's a lot more work to do. And again, as we make our rounds through the county is we're actually home this month. I just want to come by and personally and say thank you for making that effort. our true public servants, and you're always taking the time to make sure that we're well informed to make smarter decisions. And I just I think there's a lot of people waiting to talk tonight, so I'll stop it there. I think you guys had an important issue here, but it's been a remarkable time and again could not be more excited about what the city is doing. And I applaud what the Police Athletic League has been doing as well. What a great program to get our kids more in touch with our law enforcement officials to make sure that Brevard County stays this incredibly safe community. So with that, Mayor, if you are council members, if you have any questions, happy to answer. But I just want to come by tonight and actually say hello.

Well, first of all, Congressman, thank you for representing us up in D.C. Oftentimes people ask me about national issues and I say, you know, I don't know. I'm too focused on Titusville. That's why we elect somebody to represent us. So thank you for that. And I think I heard a crazy stat. How much money from the federal government have you brought back to Brevard County?

Well, the good news is we're over $300 million. Over a third of a billion dollars has come in through the grant different grant processes. But what was really nice is that Lagoon got record funding. And of course, NASA has record funding as well. Not only the 24 billion regular, but we got almost $10 billion additional for NASA because we're in the space race and we're really excited about going back to the moon in 2028. But more importantly, the incredible jobs are being created. You heard about, of course, the big news or relativity as they'll build another massive company, just like we have currently with SpaceX and Blue Origin and so many others that are coming to this area. And we recognize that when the shuttle went away, we weren't sure what this community, how it might be impacted, much like we were worried about what happened in the Apollo years. But instead, the public private partnerships that we formed with your good work included, we're seeing so many jobs being created. And we also see a lot of programs in our high schools now where you can actually get certified and go right to work, whether it be the public sector with NASA or the private sector and these new emerging companies right out of high school. You don't have to go to college in that regard. Everyone has a different path. But I love working with you all, and I appreciate the time you have taken to visit me in Washington, D.C., and really just stay engaged. This is a team sport, as I like to say, and my job is to carry water, no pun intended, up in Washington, D.C., for you all.

All right. I don't see any other questions. Thank you very much. Thanks, everybody. Have a great night. Thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, just bear with us. We're going to end this meeting, and we'll take a short 10-minute break, and we'll reconvene for our 6.30 meeting that will convene at 6.50. So with that, I'll have a motion to adjourn.

Yes. Motion, second. We're adjourned.

See you back in 10 minutes, guys.