Council - Regular Meeting

Call to order. Good evening. Today is Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 at 6:02 p.m. Wilson City Council Chamber City Council meeting. We're going to call to order. We'll first have roll call by Miss Latricia Wright. Mayor Goodman, he's absent. Council President Hines here. Vice President Cox here. Council member Jones here. Council member Martin here. Council member Rickio, she's absent. City Manager Subodet here. Attorney Kirsten Belaloo here.

City Clerk Latricia Wright, I am here. And all other staff here. Thank you. Here. All right. At this time, we'll have opening prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flag by Chief Steagle. Let us pray. Dear heavenly father, please put your hand upon us tonight and guide us as we go about the business of the city. Make us good stewards of your word through our words and actions. Lord, watch over us as we go about our way. Keep all of our PE employees safe from harm and out of harm's way. Lord, I ask everything in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under indivisible, with liberty and justice. Item number one, additions, deletions, changes, and approval of the agenda. Uh, madame president, we'd like to table item I FGU uh will be with us at the next meeting to explain this a little more fully for you all.

Okay, table. How about the annexation portion? Are we going to do that since he's not here? Oh, you're going to take care of it. Okay. I move we approve the agenda with the amendment of deletion of item I a second. Um before we go move forward. Do we need to make the changes from the beginning or no? Okay. All right. So I have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I.

All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 4 to zero. Item number two, mayor student of the month is going to be Chief RS.

MJ,

it's MJ. You want He said he said Kristen, didn't he? He did. So now you have to let him stand up there. You called him up there to have him.

All right. I heard it. All right. So tonight I get to do the part of the mayor. Uh, I'm not the mayor. Trust me. Um, I'm positive, Joby. Thank you. So, tonight I get to do the mayor as part of the student of the month. And with me up here, I have Mr. Kristen Bullock and his teacher, Miss Schultz. Put him in for Willist Elementary student of the month. What you think about that, buddy?

Kristen is his mama. Was that I was going to say Kristen is his mama. He's MJ. I'm just going by what? Is it wrong on the certificate? It says MJ. It says MJ, but it says Kristen Bullock. That's his mama. Well, where's the mama at? Right there. You're Steven Michael Bullock. Okay, we got this right now. I was going to give this to your mom. Are you okay with that? Say no. There's food involved. Don't say that. Don't give it away, buddy. Don't give it away. Don't give your food away. Well, you've been nominated by Miss Schulz. You know who that is? Who is that? Teacher. Who is it? My teacher.

Is she a good teacher? Don't say that. You can say it. Good. Don't put him on the spot. Keep going. Never mind. Miss St put you in for the student of the month and she made the following comments. Are you ready for this? Okay. She said MJ is an allaround amazing student. Is that true? Okay. All right. This is an interrogation. All right. So, you have to say yes, no, or plead the fifth. All right. You ready? Okay. She also said he works hard and is always willing to help others. Yes.

Okay. Good. He is a great role model for his peers and all and everybody around him. He leads by example through his positive attitude. strong character in his consistent effort in everything he does. Yes. Okay. Great. MJ approaches challenges with uh determination and never backs down from an opportunity to grow. Yes. All right. He is always looking for ways to excel academically, pushes himself to do his very best and taking pride in his work. I plead the fifth. Yes. He doesn't know that he's got to be educated. Did you hear what she said?

It's okay. All right. So, um, where was I at? Beyond beyond the classroom, he shows kindness, respect. Yes. All right. Uh, are you sure? Okay. All right. Uh, he he always treats others well. His willingness to encourage classmates to step up when help is needed truly sets him apart. MJ future is incredibly bright. YEAH.

That wasn't too bad, was it? That was pretty fun, wasn't it? All right, so here we go. So, we get an award tonight. Outstanding student award. Look at that. It even got your name on it. And it's presented by not Charles Goodman is the mayor. You know who that is? Okay. I'm not Charles Goodman. Okay. Good. All right. By presented by Charles Goodman, the mayor of the city of Wilson. I heard that, Lamar. This is a This certificate is to Stephen Michael MJ Bullet is awarded this certificate for academic excellence, leadership, citizenship, and attendance at Williston Elementary School. Given this third day of March, 2026, signed by the mayor of the city of Wilston, Charles Goodman.

There you go, buddy. You can't You can't leave yet. I mean, you can you see that look? I keep this one. Stay here. All right. All right. Well, let me give you this one. Also, when you are chosen as a student of the month by the mayor, you get a little extra, right? So, what you get is he's congratulating you for being student of the month, right? And then he's going to also from this nice place in town called Flamingo Freeze. You know where that's at?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You like that place? All right. Well, for being student of the month, you also get a certificate good for one kids meal or anything off the ice cream menu from Flamingo Breeze. What you think about that? That's pretty cool. You banana split. Here we come. Did y'all hear what he said? Uhuh. You going to get what? Fat. Fat. Man, you got a long ways to go, brother.

Yeah. You know, I used to like Joby, but I'm gonna be since I'm doing this student of the month, I'm gonna be my nice Miss Meredith because I can say some things that'll make Joby leave this room. But anyway, okay. So, here you go, sir. There is your certificate for your flamingo freeze ice cream. All right. Congratulations. Oh, we got to take a picture. Come on. Come on. You got to hold them up like that. Yeah. You got one upside down, bro. There we go. That's the test for tonight.

Congratulations, MJ. All right.

All right. At this time, we're going to do public participation. This will be your first of two times that you will have to speak on anything that is not on the agenda. Please state your name and where you live. Yes, my name is Tim. Can I pass this out real before I speak? Sure.

Thank you. It's something record 225. Uh, I don't like you starting the thing before I got up here, but whatever. Good evening, Mayor. Is it council members? I'm here tonight to ask about a very direct reasonable questions about transparency, accountability, and reasonable use of public funds. First, I want to know how much did it cost the city to purchase the properties from Randy and others. And just as importantly, where is the receipt and documentation showing that cost? Transparency is not optional. When it cost when the costs are admitted and withheld, it erodess public trust, leaving out information intentionally and is just as damaging as providing incorrect information. The public deserves clear and complete answers. This brings me to the public records request information request. What's the city's policy on responding information requests from residents? And were there repercussions if the city fails to respond to those requests in a timely manner? About a month ago, I officially asked to

be put on the agenda and uh the follow questions uh remained unanswered, including who's the project manager of parking lot 12, who's responsible for the errors that occurred. What is the total cost to fix those mistakes, such as when the land needed to be repurchased because the original purchase was never filed? Accountability matters. If something went wrong, the public deserves to know who is responsible, whether it be the CRA, city Wilson, legal council or project engineer. Also would like to clarify on liability risk management specific specifically. Is there professional liability insurance in place including errors and emissions coverage? Cy cyber liability insurance. Is there commercial umbrella liability insurance? These protections are not optional. They are critical on public money and public projects are involved. Finally, ask for clear answers on the project itself. What's the estimated project completion date? What's the original project projected to cost? And what was the final project cost now, including additional expenses, purchasing property to continue the project? There there are not unreasonable questions that are basic expectations of transparency and stewardship of public funds. Urge the city to provide clear documentation, timely responses and a full disclosure moving forward. Transparency builds trust. Trust is essential to a good government governance. Thank you for your time. Timothy Eckert.

Thank you, Mr. Ecker. So, in relations to this matter, attorney Beloo, did you have something to say? I I'm happy to provide uh the information that I can on this. So, we and correct me if I'm wrong, are still waiting on one set of documents to come back from the Philippines. Came today.

They came today. Okay. So now we have all of our documents regarding um fixing up the issue with the easements and the property purchases etc. Um the next step if you all would like is we can try and figure out so I know that we've talked about before this project was started in before 2010 sometime before 2010 is when we first started working on this. We have had two engineers since then. Um, we've had multiple different individuals involved, multiple different city managers involved in the process. So, we can take a look now that we've gotten the issue fixed because our direction was get it fixed first and then figure out what has happened. So, we just got it fixed today. Um, we can take a look into what occurred. uh my estimation and this is a an educated guess is going to be that there were probably multiple different points in which there wasn't proper documentation um or you know we we somehow missed uh some information um somewhere and I'm saying we I mean every party that was involved whether that be engineer and not not right Pierce right Pierce was not our engineer on that um but I don't know is is the answer to that question. Um, as far as the funds for that, the CRA uh issued the funds uh for the payment uh for that property. Uh I believe it was $2500

per per parcel um for us to purchase for us to purchase the land and to purchase the um easement. Okay. So both of those are what we received um from that exchange. Now we had the option at one point the CRA had the option um to instead of doing the property transfer to just do a redesign of the project. Um and it was determined that in order to get the most benefit out of the parking lot that that was not the option that the CRA wanted to go with. They chose to to purchase the property and keep with the original design. Um, as far as, you know, there's lots of questions regarding who did what and when and who should have done what and when. And the the honest answer is at this point, we don't really have a good sense of that. Um, the project has been something that's, you know, lasted over a decade and it's going to take a a while to dig through all of the documentation regarding that. If that's something that you all believe is something that you'd like staff to spend time on, we will absolutely do that. it will be quite time intensive, so we're happy to do it, but I just want to make sure that we're clear on sort of prioritization and expectations. So, it does not need to be decided tonight. Again, we just got it fixed tonight. Um, but that's that's what I can provide for you. As far as insurance, all of our um contracts have professional liability insurance. All of our contracts um have insurance um regarding commercial umbrella liability policies, cyber liability insurance. Um, typically we have something that that equates to what I I believe that that's looking at as far as like if they have um like a cyber attack on their company. We do have insurance uh that covers that if that's what cyber uh insurance means. Um I don't have numbers on the estimated

project completion date or the original project cost versus final project cost. Um, I'm sure that we can get those numbers for you if that's something that you'd like to take a look at, though. I feel like that addressed maybe everything that I have information on. So, what I would like to ask that we do is um whatever information on these questions that can be answered, we answer them in writing so that it then becomes part of public record so that it's not asked again and it can be found if we ever have to go back and look for it again. those things that we can answer. Let's try to answer those that we cannot. Let's not spend a whole lot of time working on whose fault was this and that. It was a fault of everyone involved until we got it right. Um, so let's potentially do it that way and then not next meeting but the meeting after have these questions answered so that we are all good with it. Yes, ma'am.

Um, I have a question. My question is beyond the 20700 2500 2700 per um address that was used to purchase that land. Were there any additional costs due to these errors? No.

Well, Nicole with Right Pierce. Um there will be there's a delay. We had a stop order on construction and that costs money. And so we've been in contact with uh Wilk Site Prep, notified them that we're about ready to have this resolved. So they're looking at what those costs are going to be. We're expecting a request for a a modification from them on that because it did. It stopped and it does that does add a cost and so yes, we're expecting a cost that delay. Thank you. Any other questions from council?

I just want to make a comment that all of this was done at CRA. CRA is public. All of the funds, all the discussion, they were here for hours. Um, the attorney was with them each time. Um, and it's it was all transparent there. And they are autonomous. Is that the right word I should use? Independent.

Independent entity. and they do act upon their own uh projects. Um if they get too big, they come to us with things that need approval for dollars that are above and beyond what they have or if to take out a loan or something of that nature. But all of this was discussed at length in their meetings and anybody who was here could have heard that. Uh and I stumbled in that's how I got in the middle of this. was just I happened to come to one of their meetings and they asked me if I would take on the property owners and get it done and that's the only reason I got in the middle of it because it really isn't a city council project it's a CRA project. So, um I would just that was what I would say the transparency is there if you're in the meeting and if not the questions that you ask we'd be glad to answer. And I'll also add, Madam President, that the CRA has a budget that is separate from the city's budget and can only be spent on projects inside the CRA district.

Right. So, so to clarify, the the $27,500 used to purchase the land plus whatever the cost is for the stopped work is CR funded, not correct. Funded by the city of Willist. Correct. Correct. All right. Is there anyone else from the public with comments? Seeing none, we'll move forward. Oh, we did say in the next two meetings this information will be back. Correct. Okay.

All right. So, um, we will start with the cons continue with the consent agenda. Council amendments from February 3rd, 2026 and council minutes from February 17th, 2026. I make a motion we approve the consent agenda from the council minutes from February 3rd and 17, 2006. I just say I saw a few misspellings and grammatical things in the ones from February 3rd. Uh, and I could get with Latricia on that later and it's not of no context at all. It's just spelling of words and that sort of thing.

So, I will second the motion. All right. We have a motion and a second with some clarifications with Miss Jones and Miss Wright. All those in favor say I. I.

I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes four to zero. Now we'll go to staff updates. And we will start with city manager Sue B. Thank you, Madam President. All right. Just a couple things tonight. First and foremost, I wanted to thank uh Commissioner Johnny Hires. We met with him last Monday. staff did to discuss the possibility of property taxes going away. And then we had a workshop, whatever you want to call it, a meeting at um Foss Walker last Wednesday with several other municipalities and discussed again the possibility of um property taxes going away. Um I took away from that meeting. There were about 15 different ideas that were sort of bandied about that we could do. Um, I have sent those over to finance um, director Steven Bloom to put some dollar figures on them to see if we where applicable. There's some things that we don't have in place and you know, but where possible um, to actually put some dollar figures on those 15 options. So, I will definitely report those back to you when I get those. Um, but there were definitely some some good ideas that that came about from the meeting. So, I really appreciate getting everybody together in that room. Um, second, I did receive an email, sorry, a letter from Safeuilt dated February 25th. Um, and I'll just read it for the record. It says, "The above referenced contract provides that Safeuilt is to receive a CPI increase in the fees charged for services provided under that contract. Based on the change in the CPI, that increase is 3%. The attached exhibit A provides the new fee structure for services provided under the contract and will be effective with respect to all services provided on or after March 1st, 2026. Please indicate your agreement to the foregoing terms by signing and dating this letter in the space indicated below and return a fully executed version of this letter to Todd Phelps. Um I believe that in the past what you have done is a resolution and

then increase the fees by the 3%. And I'm assuming you want to do the same thing this year, but just wanted your approval to do that. I think we should. I'm not happy with them doing it in the middle of a budget. I I get it. I think this is the time of year they always do it though. Um and I did look back at the contract just to make sure and it does say that they have the right to do a CPI every year. So this is pretty standard for them. But what I'm saying is even if it's doesn't start till March 1st, they need to tell us about it in October or June. Yeah. Rather than a week or two in advance rather than what time five months into the new year, right into the budget season.

Gotcha. I can certainly ask them for that in the future. Do a budget amendment to put it in there. Right.

Right. So if that's why you want to handle it, I can certainly do that and we'll come back with a resolution for the next meeting. Okay. Sounds good. And then um last uh just want to give you an update on the SCOP grant applications that we've been discussing. Um again that's the FDOT small uh small county outreach program grant applications. Um I have all of these applications right here that Walt has been working very diligently on. So he did put dollar figures on all of these. Um I just wanted to kind of give you an idea as to what we're looking at. Southwest First A the resurfacing there is $187,100. Northwest First A resurfacing $171,600. Northeast First Street Resurfacing $177,100. Northeast First A Resurfacing $17,800. Northeast Second Terrace and Northeast Second Avenue resurfacing $176,300. Northeast Third Street Resurfacing $89,300. Northwest for street resurfacing $159,000 and then Airport Road or Southwest 18th Street to Northeast 180th Avenue would be $78300. At the next meeting, we're going to have the resolution for you. Um that's going to need to be passed by both the council here and by the Levy County BOCC. So that we're doing that basically as a joint interlocal between the two entities. But the total amount for all eight projects and the airport road just advised a little while ago he's going to have to add a little bit to this but so don't it's not 100% but it's about $1.8 million all in for all eight roads. So it's it's quite a bit of money. Hopefully we can get at least one or two of them would be my hope. So um again those are due by March 25th, but we'll have the resolution um with the interlocal between us and uh the county

for the airport road at the next council meeting. Yeah.

Um, at the last meeting, uh, I want to clarify something that I said or the way I was conveying the airport road job. If we do this job with the inner agreement, what you will be agreeing to is is you're not taking over the the right away. you are agreeing to the maintenance of the improvements for their useful life which might be some crack sealing and things of that nature restriping that is what you're going to be responsible if you become the lead agency on that so it it's it's you're taking over it it the the key that I failed to convey or even understand two weeks ago was you're taking over for that improvement's useful life, not the useful life of the entire road, not in perpetuity. And so that's about a 15-year agreement. Lars, you you're going to take over the maintenance of that pavement if you become the lead agency on that. So, I just wanted to clarify that.

So, it's much simpler, I think, than what we were talking about two weeks ago.

Yes, sir. when your notes that you um that I have here, the countyy's kind of taken a wait and see out. Wait and see. That's literally what Commissioner Hire said to us. Yes. So, my question is what are we going to do and take care of us for taxes? Well, we definitely don't. Are we going to wait for them?

No, I don't think we should wait for them at all. Um, I mean, that's why, like I said, with the 15 options that they gave us at the meeting at at Folds Walker last week, that's why I gave that to to Stephen to kind of put some dollar figures on. I don't think we're going to make up $1.5 million. I can tell you that. But, I mean, maybe we make up 500,000. I mean, I I don't I don't know what it's going to be at this point, but we're definitely not going to wait and see. Um the other thing that Foldswalker gave us last week was a resolution that we could adopt um that again I hope to get to you for the next council meeting to basically say we're going to be proactive about the possibility of the you know elimination of the property taxes. Um, and then there's something I sent you guys today. You probably even haven't had a chance to look at, but um, we cannot, and Kirsten's going to correct me if I'm saying this wrong, but there's a certain window of opportunity that we can discuss this with our residents and spend money on it. Once it's enacted on the ballot, then we can't do anything about it. We can't spend public funds on doing something. So, we really we we we need to do stuff now. We've got to, you know, we really got to get the train now. be here before we know it,

right? We don't want to wait, you know, a couple months. So, we are we are definitely working on that now. We don't want to be the county. I can tell you there are some things on that list that I have no interest in doing. And I get that. I mean, I I understand. I mean, again, this was just, you know, between all the municipalities what we came up with and they had a list that they provided when we walked in the door. So, yeah, if you're not even interested in them, that's certainly fine. And that's just me. I I some of them are were very costly and would be for the residents and I have no interest in doing that. Understood. Understood. But we're just, you know, we're trying to come up with what we can, you know, in any way we can. But yeah, we don't absolutely not. We're not going to take a wait and see. Okay. Definitely not. Twofold. The backflow. Explain a little bit about that.

So, the backflow pre and I'm hoping Alex and Rob are going to correct me if I'm saying this wrong. Um, so this is for people that have a um irrigation system.

Mhm. They are FDEP is requiring them and I believe the requirement is already in place currently if I'm not mistaken. They are supposed to be tested every year. We are not testing them currently. We had a meeting with a company called BSI online that would take over the program for us and we're only looking at I think it was a hundred, correct me Alex? 100 people roughly around 100 people that have these backflow preventers in in the city. Um, BSI said they could take it on for us. Basically, they would do everything for us. They would contact the customers and say, "You have to have this tested." It was a little more complicated than we probably would like to do. So, Todd from Twofold, of course, we he's our wastewater and water operator. He came in and said that he does the same program. I can't remember the name of the municipalities, but I put it in the report. Um, and he could do it for us, and it's going to be a lot cheaper for them to do it. I think it was about $75, between $60 and $75. um it gets charged directly to the customer and um they send the report directly to the city which we then maintain. We don't have to give it to FDEP. We if they come in and they audit us and they say, "Where's your results?" We would have to give it to them at that point. Um but I actually asked um twofold to do my own house just so I could see it because I've never had mine tested either. Um he was saying that with the cold snap that just happened, it could very well be there's a lot of these that are

inoperable. Yeah. So, and then of course the customer would have to replace it at that point. It's about $600 to replace. So, we're just trying to get ahead of it in the event that FDE comes. I mean, it's another yet another unfunded mandate by the state of Florida. They want us to do it, but they're not giving us any money to do it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. So, Miss Wright, do you have anything in front of you? You all should have a Florida municipal officials manual. This is something that they have put together, and this is something that should have been available a long time ago, but we have it now. And this is a very good book. It tells you the dos and don'ts of a council uh commissioner and it also tells you about how uh city council started. So, it's a very good tool and I thought it would be very good for you all to have because you know I'm always looking for ways for you all to improve yourself and be a better council. Thank you, ma'am. Anything else?

Make sure gets one in a minute. Chief Rose, nothing. Chief Steagle, Mr. Danny, just a reminder uh on March 17th, it's going to be the smoke detector installs uh out in uh Cherry Point area and it start off in the morning and go to about noon time. We'll have Red Cross personnel and uh fire department personnel and if anybody wants to volunteer that day, we'd be glad to have you.

Thank you, sir. Miss K. Uh yes, we have a staff update as of today. Our public works supervisor position, we did an internal promotion with Nate Roberts. Uh he accepted and he is going to start Monday. Monday in that in that role. Thank you. Ma'am, can I just add something to that? Does everybody know who Nate is? Nate is the young gentleman that we gave the um award to for going above and beyond helping a customer that had approached him in the parking lot. Okay.

And is the public works supervisor over gas, water, and sewer? No, they have no employees. Um it's basically the position that um was created for not created that's a wrong term was um that we were going to give to Donald for his uh strong suits I guess. Uh but he's going to be the one like project management over infrastructure kind of like what Donald did. Okay. It's on the staffing plan.

Yes ma'am. It's Donald's old position public work administrator that got moved to a supervisor. Thank you. Good evening, council. So, short little updates. Uh, we continue to work out at the SOAR plant getting that area cleaned up. Uh, we're working with Chief Rolls and his staff on removing one of the old um armored vehicles, I guess you would call it, Humvey. Um, that's going to be transported elsewhere shortly. Uh, lots of lots of moving parts right now within the city as far as cleaning up and making some repairs to the roadways. Uh we did receive uh word from DOT they upgraded the uh crosswalk with an additional 3 seconds to each side. So that's been upgraded and we're working on uh meeting with DOT FDOT for a crosswalk across the street.

Thank you. Miss Megan, thank you for fixing Northwest first and first and second. That was actually FDOT. They ordered the part. They're responsible for that box. They did make the repairs. Cool.

I wanted to give everybody an update on Edmmonds and where we are with our list. Uh, everybody should have one in front of you. Um, the users being kicked out still happening. They're aware of it. They got a call today. They were monitoring it. Um, so it's still in progress. Um, customer receiving seeing previous payment as a credit that has been fixed. So that is completely resolved. We talked about that last week or last council meeting. Um each utility having its own tax, everything broken down on the bill. They're still working on that to consolidate it to what the bills used to look like uh before we swapped systems. Um bills online showing while I'm in the process of of making them. Um they have a temporary fix for that. They are going to attempt to include something that will be as simple as a button for future uh people as well, which was a hard uh hard lesson that they learned because they didn't know it showed online as I was processing them.

Yeah.

Nice. So, that was fun. So, that is in progress. Um data converted from ADG. They it it's they're still working to see if everything came over correctly. Um we have assessed everything and it is so far everything looks like it came over into the new system correct. So we're still working on that. Um the reader exceptions when I'm doing the rechecks um it took them a while to figure it out. So, I took it upon myself to contact It Ron, who is the carrier that we use for all of our meters and finally got somebody on the phone that could give me answers. And so, I went through and I have put in what they call exception codes. So, it should hopefully not have somebody with a $17,000 bill anymore because it will realize, hey, I don't need that last digit and it will drop it, which we've had happen. So, yes, that was something that uh manually I did, stopped waiting on them and just started doing it. And they were like, they called last week and they're like, "Oh, well, you did it. What are we going to do?" And I'm like, "Check it. That's what I need you to do. I need you to double check it." So, that's what they're they're doing right now, checking the background to make sure there's none that were missed. Um, as far as the work orders and using the tablets, we actually have training for staff um or a handful of staff and myself. They will be trained on um how to use them correctly tomorrow. We'll start our training tomorrow and um hopefully be able to implement those by the end of the month if all goes well and we can get all the tablets set up correctly. As far as the workflow, how we wanted it to go, it's not going to work exactly like we want it to, but they are going to try their

best to make adjustments as they start doing upgrades in the system as well. It will now go from customer service to to the system. And the gentlemen and ladies out in the field will just have to randomly check throughout the day, sort of like they do here. They come up and get the actual work order. they'll just have to slide and see what's what's up and what they need to take care of. So, almost the same process. It just uh will be digital in their hands, so they don't have to wait, you know, 20 minutes or 10 minutes depending on where they're at in town. They'll have it readily available, which will hopefully cut down on time of things getting repaired and or looked at. Um again, the tablets, we're doing that tomorrow. Um, the multiple window options, we know that's it's not really a an option for us unless I give the ladies a second login. As far as having two account fields open at the same time, you can't do that unless I give them a second login. And they both have said, "Nope, we'll work with it like we have it." That is also something that they said they would look into and see if any of their other customers would like it and possibly do it in an upgrade further down the line. So, something else we brought to their attention that may be helpful for other municipalities. Um, as for training or a module or a a setup for our residents to come so we can show them how to read their bill, they would like to get the bill finished um before they have everybody come in. They'll create a slide show for us and then myself and Miss Sue and anybody else who would like to participate. We can have all the citizens come in and they we can show them how to read their bill effectively so that it's not as confusing as it seems to be for sure. Um

the bill layout again they fixed that. It looks just like the one that they receive in the mail now when they come up and ask for a reprint. So we are good to go there. Lots of things in progress. Um, and if any of the citizens have anything that they are concerned about as far as bills go, please don't hesitate to reach out. Let customer service know. Give your info. They will send it to me. We are looking. We are trying to fix it. And if it is still wrong, we want it right for y'all. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions? Perfect. Yes. Mr. Cox. Yes. Go ahead, Rob. You go first.

Can you update the uh council about the problem that you resolved with Mr. Eert or excuse me, with Mr. Joby this evening? Oh, yes. Um Joby was questioning uh not being able to see the for eight months he's he's been trying to trying to get answers on his solar meter and how to read the bill. Excuse me. I pulled it up right here and showed him that it clearly shows what he's using out of our grid, what he's returning to our grid, and where his rebate is listed on on his bill. Anybody else who has questions about their solar are more than welcome to reach out. I'll be able to help them as well. Okay, Mr. Cox, they're there all along, huh?

So, I have a question. Yes, sir. Maybe I missed it, but could ask for clarity. So, let's say you got sick. Who's the backup? Me. I can work remotely. Um I and I I often do. That's not that's not really a problem. If it's an immediate problem that needs to be handled, honestly, Jennifer, our what I call our lead, she can handle most of everything that comes through. She's the one who trained me to be in effect. So, she's trained everybody that is currently working in customer service and and myself. Okay. I mean to have an official backup. No, sir. But she

I think we should have one. I would trust her to make a decision in the right direction if needed if I was unavailable. Yeah. Okay. Anyone else on the council? All right. Thank you, ma'am. Any other staff? Good evening, council. Um, want to present a little update on the fiber pro project. Y'all hear me? I can't hear myself.

Um, we have made quite a bit of progress in the last two weeks. Um, you know, we've talked about that uh with Fibersmith and the management software. That's the back end getting those things set up. Um, finished up this evening. We've got um 742 of the TTS that we have in stock have been entered into inventory. Uh 470 routers are in inventory. We've also able to get uh the 40 cowink customers imported in there cuz they're going to be the first customers. So, we got their base information in um the right now they're working on the workflows of how everything's going to work with activating a customer, provisioning the equipment and controlling the bandwidth and those kind of things. That's what they're working on right now. Our core router which sits here is controls our internet that's been set up for about 3 weeks. We've been running it through some few paces and tweaking a few things here and there. Um, no problems on that. Uh, last week we Friday we hooked up one customer at Lane Yardware, so he's actually on the fiber. Um, kind of chose him for a multitude of reasons. One, I manage his router personally, so I have access to his equipment. He has a dual internet feed capability, so he can still function with his primary internet. We can hook ours up and test with it and not interfere with his business. So, we're not interfering with anything. If we have to take something down or make a change, it's not going to interrupt anything for him. Um, we've tested the billing process in in Fibersmith. It's no problems. IP pay submitting payments has been checked out and confirmed to work. Um, in that respect, we're waiting on the asbuilts information so we can put all

that in there into the 3GIS which controls how the network itself works and and all the equipment where it's at, how long the fiber is from this point to that point, where all the splices are. So, that's all the information we're relying on to get that up and running. Once we get that, we are probably 99% done with the Fiber Smmith and the software to run everything. At that point, we can start hooking people up. I can't really give you a timeline cuz we're depending on getting this information from either Sun Coast or um Light Set. I don't know who it's going to come from. I think it's going to come from Sun Coast cuz they've been the ones modifying that build and making notes as they're building it here. So, that's probably where it's got to come from to get the most accurate data. Um, I don't know if I got any more questions I can answer.

Any questions from the council? I have a question. Um, you had mentioned people being able to pay via kiosk. Is that set up? It's not set up, but it will be when we get ready to roll out. We'll have a kiosk available. They can make payments. They can on the there's a customer portal that'll be available just like it has with cow link now. They can just go online and pay it. That's the fiber smmith. Yeah. portal. It's all part of that. Yes. And then the kiosk will basically be a link to like it be kind of an open page to basically. Yes. Okay. Got it. Yes. In a nutshell, it'll be an open page to that portal. Okay. Great. Thank you.

Okay. Estimated timeline. I don't know. I can't honestly give you an estimation because I'm depending on getting this information from the vendor. Okay, that that's being honest. Would I love to see it happen tomorrow? Absolutely. Do I expect it to happen tomorrow? Absolutely not. We waiting on permits. No, the permits not holding this process up at all. It's holding up what the permits is holding up is building out some of the other areas and getting those areas connected. But as far as getting customers on and getting the system up, we're not that's not holding us up at all. Okay. Thank you.

So, what is holding us up? Getting this information from the the asbuilts to get that into fiber. So, did they not have the information? Is it not complete yet? Have they not provided it to you? I have I haven't asked them. I I asked this evening. I sent Sun Coast a a message to ask if they could deliver that information on the completed sections and I haven't heard back from them. So, okay. So, it just got asked for today. We just did that today. Okay.

You good, Miss Dra? I was just saying hopefully when you hear back from them, they can give you a timeline. I I would expect so. Yes. I would expect if they they have the data, I don't expect it would take that much to export the data out in the format we would need to get it imported in and test it and make sure everything's right. I mean, that's you know how that goes. It's not that difficult. It's just about getting it. You need to insist that they give it to you in a timely manner because that's what we're waiting on. Yep. Thank you. And we have a meeting tomorrow with all the key players in this thing to have a head banging.

Okay. Thank you, Miss Bel. I mean, attorney general. Uh, I just wanted to touch base a little bit and, uh, build on what Sue talked about. So, we did have a meeting at our office. Many of the obviously one of the benefits of Fold Walker as your attorney is that we represent other municipalities. So multiple of the municipalities that we represent including Newberry and Elatchua um came to the meeting regarding property taxes. One of the things based on one of the comments that was made that I'm not saying but other people who are smarter than me and numbers are saying is that it your comment uh councelor Jones is is very right on the nose about the increased cost to citizens. Um the estimations are in order to upkeep the level of service that citizens are expecting in order to transfer it to these other methodologies like special assessments and impact fees and franchise fees. Um those are all things that are going to actually end up costing the citizens more money than they're currently paying. Um so those are maybe a good talking point for if anyone is ever asking you about property taxes. Uh, I did want to let you know that the so the House had a bill that was proposed uh on the House floor um that wouldn't have eliminated property taxes. It would have raised um the exemption from up to 75 to up to 150. Um that was denied and the House passed a bill that totally eliminated um the property taxes. That has now gone to the Senate. We do not expect the Senate to approve um the reduction in that manner. The session is set to end March 13th. So if there is not a bill passed on that and the session isn't extended, obviously then it will not be on the November ballot. So we're keeping our

fingers and toes and all of our other things crossed. Um but we just want to make sure that um everyone's aware of, you know, the the status that we are. Um like Sue said, we'll be putting out information pre um this measure being placed on the ballot. Um because as soon as it is placed on the ballot, it is something that we are very limited in what we can do. Um and it being placed on the ballot is it being passed by the Senate. So that's it's not November, it's you know in the next couple of weeks. So we need to be pushing as much as humanly possible and then we'll continue to have those meetings. um with uh the municipalities including uh Williston in order to just just brainstorm ideas. Um but you are absolutely right. Um in order to do the things that are being requested, eliminate property taxes and also we with that we can't reduce we're prohibited by the law from reducing police or fire or other public safety services. Um, so the money's got to come from somewhere and all estimates are that it will be more expensive to do it in the peace meal 15 different parts way than to finance it through um, property taxes. So, we will continue to keep you updated, but I just wanted to make sure everyone has that information because you all have lots of people's ears who are also have lots of people's ears.

That's all for me. All right. Thank you. Any questions for attorney? anything from the council.

Nothing. Mr. Fox, Miss Hey, hey, hey, be Miss Meredith. No. And Miss Jones, you have nothing. I have nothing as well. All right. So, the mayor is not here, so we will move forward. So on to new business discussion with possible update update on Wilon Fiber Hector with performance services. Well, good evening. Hi, madam president, vice president, council members, and madam manager. I have a one handout um in this packet. I'm just going to give this to Latricia.

Excuse me.

It's three pages and the only page that really matters is the last one. It's just an update on the number of drops and splices and where we are with with the numbers. And you'll see that uh we're at 95% to the last council meeting we were at 87% uh complete with the drops just uh the drop number keeps changing as we get more and more addresses we're able to keep moving forward with those drops but we are making progress in the drops again we're 95% complete now Sue asked me to thank you chief Sue asked me to speak on a few few topics I don't know if she mentioned these to you, but I'll go ahead and and speak to them now. And I'm here to answer questions. Uh, if you need to throw darts, you really should be coming in my direction. Your staff has been absolutely wonderful. Aaron, Rob, Sue, they have been great to work with and really have been very, very helpful. Um, Aaron, I hadn't heard about the asbuilts that you needed, so I'll follow up with those. And I'll follow up with those as well. But one of the things that Sue asked me to to address door hangers, uh, I got the design today. I will as soon as I can talk. Sue says she knew somebody local that she wanted that we could use to for to do the print the printing for the door hangers. I can get them done most anywhere, but if you've got somebody local, that would be best. And also, if you can tell me how many you need and we'll be taking care of that so we can get those to you those to you right away. Fermits has been a a saga. It's been a challenge. And uh um what I'll say about the those is that we were finally able to talk to the F.Reff on Monday, yesterday. We understand exactly what they need. And interesting is you heard Aaron talk about asbuilts. They need as belts from the city for all the uh utility lines that that are are in the fiber way that exists. The asbuilts don't always exist. Some some of these uh infrastructure things have been around for years and years and

years. And so you just don't have those plans that you can submit right to FDOT. That was explained yesterday. And we will we will be submitting new plans uh this week and hopefully that's going to be sufficient to get the I want to say it's six or eight different FOT permits approved. Once we submit those this week, we'll have a better sense of it. Actually that they're going to be submitted to the city so that you can submit them to FDOT and that should happen this week. those updated plans that FDOT has asked for. Any questions on on FOT? So Aaron Aaron just said that FDOT was not holding up this process, but it sounds like it's holding up this process.

Well, there's two different parts of it. There's the what what Aaron is doing is we've already got, you know, as I said, 95% complete. There's some f there's some I think it's eight permits that we still need from FOT to finish up basically the loop but things that Aaron can start doing and those are those are separate from what we're doing on the infrastructure. I'm not holding up Aaron but it's holding up everybody. But is it holding up the ability for people to get access to internet? I don't think so. Only in certain areas the areas that we can't connect to yet. That's what we're waiting on to be able to cross the road. This would be

um without looking at it, I couldn't tell you for sure, but probably Chameleia Plantation down 41 going south. Um kind of that area, that direction, but pretty much everybody else we can start getting to as those areas get completed. Okay.

Yeah. Of the uh nine geographic areas, three of them, three of them are dependent on these FOT permits. So, the other six are not. And um yeah, there's um you can see it on that table on the third page the drops you 79 complete 91 96 87 you see where we're still short and where those FTOP permits are impacting. Not a big number but certainly a number that's going to impact our ability to close that that final loop. Any other questions on the uh on FDOT? I mentioned the door hangers. There's only one other thing that I'm going to mention unless Sue has uh other questions and it really gets back down to the um the revenues that that should have occurred during construction uh should be occurring today. The the expenses that the city has incurred, for example, the shipping expense that uh that we've talked about uh are any repairs to the RV resort that have to be done. Those are all things that we're we are aware of and I'm in conversation with Sue. Don't want to throw a number out there today for how that's going to get resolved. We we know that it's on us and we're taking responsibility for that. That's not a question for us. You know, we're on the hook for that and we want to make sure that we we're doing the right thing. But I want to I mentioned to Sue that I want really want to wait till the end, which is maybe just a few weeks away so that all the so that we're not changing numbers between now and then so we get a final number of what you think the re lost revenues were, any repairs, any expenses. So, we want to just be sure what that number is so that we can go back and get that get that um get those checks cut, you know, one for the RV resort for their repairs and so on. And certainly for one for the city as well. So, no question that that's going to happen. We we we we get that. We're we're happy to provide that, you know, because those are lost revenues. So, no issues with those. But I want you to know that just want to wait to start committing to numbers

until we get done in these next few weeks. I have a um related to the door hangers. Um are we looking at two or three different people getting estimates on the door hangers or are we just going one person? We typically use JJ Fields, correct? And I think that's who we've used on most of the fiber stuff that we've made so far, but we can certainly get quotes from others. Is this for the door hangers? I'm going to take care of it. So, unless you want to cover it's not coming out of our Okay. Okay. But if you want to Well, I mean, no, it's just that, you know, we need to make sure that we get the best price that we can.

No, that's And that includes for you as well. I mean, it's just Well, you know, yeah. I appreciate that, but uh it was never intended for you to take cover that cost. Not uh we've got that. We kind of dodged the bullet with the crossings because they weren't 100% packed out like they normally are cuz a lot of the Canadians did not come down this year because of the money exchange rate and everything. So, we kind of it's kind of a blessing that it's not one park and gives the guys a chance to maneuver around and do what they have to do.

Yep. Yeah. That's kind of an unfortunate blessing that that uh so unfortunate that it's needed, but uh those repairs are something that we understand. Um so so we're how many months behind at this point for the crossings? Let's just start there. Five months behind. So my question is what are you guys doing actively doing to ensure that we are up and running as soon as possible because I just can't believe we're this far behind quite honestly. Yeah. I don't know that it's 5 months but nonetheless I think it maybe closer to three month maybe going on our third month but but

I think the contract with Williston Crossing was that we would have internet in there. Originally we told them October. Oh, I thought it was January 1st. I I understand there's nothing in writing.

It doesn't matter if there's nothing in writing. If you stand at the podium and you say that that's going to be in there by October, that that's a that's a promise. And I know it's not contractual, but that's a promise to our residents. And I'm saying, well, there's nothing in writing. I'm sorry. It just isn't an excuse for why we're five months behind. And I just want to know what is being done to make sure that we are absolutely ahead on every single step going forward. And I also would like to know how long between because I know there are two processes once you guys complete the fiber the install of the fiber to the poles and then the next step and this is probably a two-part question for you and Aaron is that the next step is actually hooking up the customers and I would like specifics on how long that's going to take and what we're doing to make sure that that process goes as efficiently as possible. Whether we need to hire extra staff, whether we need to whatever we need to do, I want to know what we are actually doing because we're way behind. Well, two two parts. I mean, today and I don't Erin's again been doing a great job. He's working on his side so that he can start connecting customers. Soon as he's able, and I'm going to press on those as builds because again, first time I hear about it, but as soon as he's able, he can push out quite a few customers, a few hundred customers already today. I mean, if if you had all, you know, if everything was done, not him, but everything was ready. Uh, on our part, we're going to continue on the infrastructure side on the drops. We I you know our numbers are we have completed 8 800 and 8 819 drops. I mean that's how many uh potential customers you could already start hooking up. Um so

so you're saying we could be hooking those customers up now? I again say they're 100%. as in and I I guess I I need to clarify hooking up as in I know the drops are at the houses but connecting them to the act connecting the customer to the internet so that they actually have access to the internet that's something that we could be doing today is what you're telling me.

So I know Aaron's going to respond here but Aaron's always needed at least a month to get from the time that this that everything was up up and running on the I'm going to call it the head inside he needed a month to do what he's doing now. So, um, he's on track and if we had had our our front end already in place in October, November, he would have been done and and customers would have been online. So, that's why those lost revenues that I talked about are are on us. But, uh, yeah, for back to your question on our side, we're I'm engaged as much as I as as I mean, I'm engaged, fully engaged. And this is, uh, I talked to Sue, we text Aaron, we're on this. We have another call tomorrow with FDOT to talk about the FDOT permitting. So, we're all I can tell you is that we're we're working it hard because this is this is embarrassing. I'm going to say to say that here our um in general, we have about 80% repeat customers. So, things don't go like this normally. This is very unusual and it's very, you know, I don't like having to address this. Sue asked me to come here every council meeting and I do because again, there's darts to be thrown thrown at me. Um, you know, it's we're responsible for where things are today and we're going to be held accountable and no issues with that. So, again, the the answer to your question is I'm I'm engaged. Our team is engaged. We have calls on this. I've got our executives involved. Our exe our president knows about this this the problem we're having at Wilson. So, we have everybody understanding the issues and we're continuing to work them and trying to get through them as quickly as we can.

And so, those issues are I guess that's my question. And I I I I I appreciate and I'm sure that you would like this done just as quickly as the rest of us, but I I guess I'm looking for more specifics, not generic issues, but what specifically are the issues that continue to delay this? Is it is it just that we're so far behind that now we're behind and we're playing catch-up, or are there still issues that are actually causing us delays?

Yeah, the the again the delays right now are are let's just say 90% 95% is done. So a month later or or you know sooner Aaron's going to be able to start selling service on that 90 95% that's done. So what you're asking about is that last five or 10%. And that's FOD dependent. And that's what we think that as soon as we I shouldn't say we think, but we I was told that as soon as we get those FOD approvals, the rest of it, it's about a twoe process to get everything completed, but getting that FOT approval has been the hangup and it's been an issue um for a while and we can I mean there's reasons for that, but they're not good reasons.

Okay. So, and again, forgive me because I feel like I'm talking and we're talking in bit in circles. So, what you're telling me is that the part that is completed, we could actively be hooking up customers right there. Talking to him. Well, um, yes. The answer is yes. The answer is yes. That we could actively be hooking up customers right now as soon as Aaron's portion is done. And again, he's had to wait on us. But now we we can physically hook them up. Yes. But we can't control the bandwidth or this the the equipment until the fibermith's done. That is the backend that has to be completed before we can start hooking customers up and charging them internet. And the delay on that is the information that you asked for.

That's the information I just talked about today that I'm that we just got to this point today where we're ready for the AS bills. Okay. So, let me ask you this question. You said that the people who are going to get um connected first is going to be the cow link subscribers currently. Is the um the RV park part of those cow? They'll be hooked up in conjunction. I'm just not even counting them as as they're going to be in the process at the same time. Okay. So, we probably should say that so that they don't think that they're being they know that. We've already talked to them about it. They they know that. They're aware of that. Okay.

I I was more referring to the residents here in town, but yes, they're they will they will be going online the same time because their area is I think 100% complete minus one drop that they're still working on doing to their main building. And can I go ahead finish? So Hector said you need 30 days from today. Is that I don't know that I need that much. It can be sooner than that. It's just a matter of getting this information and getting it in the system. the the fibermith people have been very responsive. Um I literally sent him an email today and he called me in 30 minutes and we did what we did this evening after hours. So

that was from the time that that head in was put in then he Aaron was able to start his process and that was going to be about 30 days. I I think you're probably at about 3 4 weeks now. We're we're probably about 3 weeks into the setup of stuff. So we're we're getting close to that 30 days now. But again, until I actually get my hands on it and get it in there and prove that it's correct and everything's working, I I'd be hardressed to give you a time. I I don't really know cuz it's out of my control. Okay. Thank you, Madam President. Can I just say one thing?

Yes. So, the plan is to have one of our fiber techs do the entire crossings and then our other one who's a little more experienced um to do the actual houses. So, he would start with Cow Link. So, they'll be able to work simultaneously. We've also spoken with Sun Coast, which is one of PSI's subs, um, about the possibility of having them help because they are only two people and we have 800 to do, so it could take longer. So, we we've already spoken with them as well to try to get some additional help. So, once once everything's up and running 100%, we we're ready like we we have a plan in place to to roll this out as quickly as possible. So, we're we're trying. Just want to say that.

Yeah. Because I'm sorry. I mean, sure, everybody has seen it, but like we have Dish Network. I've seen Starlink commercials like crazy starting at 50 bucks. Um, T-Mobile's been all over the TV with with uh, you know, fiber, their internet, you know. I just don't want more and more people to start jumping on board and then we lose people because we're haven't been able to get them the product. I I understand. I've been

Yeah, I've studied this thing for as you know well over a year when I started looking at this and why I said I thought it made wonderful sense and I I think it still will. I just wish it had started sooner for you. Um that's why those lost revenues that's why I'm you know that's it's on us. Uh we want to get you know make you whole but the lost loss if you lose customers you can't get them back for at least not for a while. So trying to get everything done as quickly as possible so that you can still capture at your rate and at your speed which is unmatched u by any of these other ones that are that are advertising. Yours is going to be far superior at a great great price. So hopefully you're still going to capture that.

I have an offthe-wall question. Hold that thought for a second. I will. Mr. Actor, I got a question for you, sir. So on what what part of the city are we holding up the FDOT permits? I I I don't know. There's three I I don't know the answer to that question. I could tell you what number areas they are, but I don't know the exact geography. I couldn't give you the streets or there's some railroad crossings, street crossings, but I don't don't have that. What is your contractor doing to expedite this?

Uh had a call with FDOT yesterday and understands now what the what the requirements what FD requirements are. um with light set folks, I'm sure you you know. Um and so they're they know what they need to do. They're getting those plans together. I was told that they're going to get those plans together by tomorrow. Hate to say that, but that's what I was told. In fact, on my way down here, they have those plans submitted to the city by tomorrow, but maybe that means Thursday, but that's what I was told. And then you can submit again, you would be able to submit those to FOT for your for your uh for permits. So, if they're not submitted by tomorrow, what are the plans for your contractor? If you're asking about switching contractors, if that's what point of your question.

Yes, sir.

Uh, we don't have that plan right now. The the expense of switching contractors is going to be about $4 or $5,000 permit. Um, and while we're not excited about how things have been going with lights set, um, and as you know, um, the coordination of the permits really wasn't in our contract. That was something that the city had said they would take on. Um, but that's, uh, really that was last year and just now we're getting into the weeds and right now we're just trying to get to get those permits approved. So, from what I see on the map, it's um the northwest Willist,

North Central Willist and Central Willist, southeast of City Hall. If that helps you at all, does it? Yes, somewhat. But we still have the map. We still have permitting issues that we need to resolve.

Yeah. And those again those permits are because we haven't been able to submit the ASB belts different as built than than what Aaron is asking for. These are as belts that you would have you know plans of this building for example how was it built where the electrical line where the water line those are the ads that FDOT is asking for but only for the infrastructure and again the city doesn't have them. So, we're trying to work around around those FO requirements and we think we have found that solution as of yesterday and we're submitting to FOT what we do have. And then there's a couple of exceptions that they've asked for uh that we're going to submit as well. Um, but the things that they've wanted, we've had to explain to them that they don't exist.

Okay. Erin, quick question. So, how many of your Cow Link subscribers are in those areas? Oh, you okay? Without without looking it and seeing where their addresses are, I really couldn't tell you. Okay. Most of them are probably available to be hooked up. There may be a handful that are not, but I I don't think they are. I think they're all going to be available to hook up in those three areas. There's about a 100 drops that are listed. Um I want to say that about 150 have been done. Okay. But it's in those FTO permit areas.

Yeah. And I don't think any of those are directly Cow Link customers currently. And we've got a couple of Cow Link drops that still haven't been done. There's one that is dependent on the F dot. Uh no, matter of fact, there's two. I did now that I think about it, there is two. Okay. Madam President, can I ask one more question? Just one. Okay. No, just just one. Is Light set planning on being at the meeting tomorrow? I have to look at the invite and set.

I didn't see them on the invite and there's a there's a reason that we're asking and I know I've asked to switch from light set to Sun Coast and again there's a reason for that. The last set of plans that we received about a week or two ago. I'm just going to be really honest with you and I'm sorry I have to do this in public but those plans had they were basically cut and paste. The last couple pages of the plans had another company's name on it instead of the city of Willist. They have been cutting and pasting this entire time. It's it's very sloppy work. That's all I can say. Let's They were on the call yesterday with FDOT. Let If you We can wait till at least see how they what they produce this week.

Okay. Then we can have that conversation again. If it if it doesn't happen tomorrow, we we really we need to look at somebody else doing this work. It's I mean I I don't know what else to tell you other than 17 rejections in 3 months is just not acceptable. It's just not. Yeah. So I would recommend they be there tomorrow. You sent that invite. I did not. I think you sent it or maybe Vicki did. I don't I don't know. But I when I looked at who was on there today, lightsite was not on there. Right. Okay, I I'll I'll forward if I sent it, I'll make sure they get it. If not, I'll forward it to them if it was sent to me.

Mr. Hector, one more question for you, sir. So, I've been in touch with Mr. Stacy at FDOT for the past two weeks. Past two weeks, we've been getting updates that the plans will be in tomorrow. The plans will be in tomorrow. Yesterday was the first time that he's heard from your third party contractor in two weeks. That's unacceptable to the city. We need to get this project rolling, sir. So, again, like Miss Miss Sue just said, we we need a decision tomorrow on what we're going to do with this third party contractor. We have to get this project going, sir. When did you say that you got that information? Today. Uh, that was yesterday, ma'am. Yesterday,

I spoke with Mr. Stacy for the past two weeks. Every day I have recordings on Ring Central as well. Okay. Did you guys call Hector to let him know that you were having not to Hector multiple emails to Mike McCain? McCain. Yeah. Mike McCain over and over again with the same Is that the point of contact? He's our project manager. And Okay. Um Rob, I'm told that our guys have not been able to reach FOT on They haven't called, sir. I'm told they called multiple times and they would just find out. Okay. Okay. I'm just telling you what right

what I heard that what they're telling me is that they I've called for the last two weeks and I've not been able to get a hold of them until yesterday. U I'll I'll go back and dig into that. But if you're able to reach out to deod and and speak to them you said every day for two weeks. That's that's not what I'm hearing on our side of it that we're having a lot more of a more of a challenge for us and almost an impossibility for us to reach them. What's one of the challenges that I'm told that we're facing, but I I'll dig into this tomorrow. Thank you, sir.

And Sue, in response to your question, I I appreciate what you're saying. And let me let me look into that. Let me just see if they're going to uh answer the bell, you know, this time around. And I suggest you guys have a conversation before the week is out. That way, everybody's on the same page. Um, and we'll kind of stop it here. I have one last just logistical question if I may, which is just the AS belts that Aeron's requesting. Is that information that the company should already have or is that something that they're going to have to generate?

I don't know the answer to that. That's those are the when you finish building a building or any any structure, anything as belts are created. This is what we built. Here's how we built it. Here all the all the utilities are so we are creating that for what Aaron needs. the asbuilt that we need are what the city whoever built the infrastructure would I'm referring to what Aaron needs. Is that something that's that's already generated or is that something that they are going to have to take time to generate before they give it to Aaron? I don't I don't know the answer to that. I don't know if they have them available or if they need to generate them something about it. T

typically they the way they build they're using a a software called Catapult. It's basically a GIS software, which is how they put this line goes from here to here and it's this coordinate.

They're building that as they go. So, the data is there. It it shouldn't take that much for them to generate the data cuz the the Sun Coast is taking charge and they've been changing and building the plan all along. So, they should be able to generate that fairly quickly. even if it's not completed, if they can just give me what they have as far as the areas that are completed. I don't necessarily need the overall asbuilt because we can modify it and change it as we go, but if they'll give me what they have now, we can move forward. Great. Thank you. Any other questions or discussions for off the wall? Oh, yes. Yes, please. I totally forgot about your off the wall.

Off the wall question is is for Aaron essentially. I think it could it could actually be for Hector. Um, and it and it's from Facebook, so please just humor me. U, multiple people have said that the contractors are putting the box on their back wall, but they are not signed up. If if they're on the list, they have pre-registered. That's where these addresses and and stuff came from. We did find one address this week that was they put it on the wrong house. Okay. but he's interested and still wants it. So, he's I believe that was the one I saw. This guy said that he did.

I saw it as well. And we addressed that the next morning and he's okay. Everything's good. But they effectively it was like the house beside him and the house after him and somewhere with the contractors not being familiar with the area, they just got the wrong house. Perfect. Cuz not all of our houses are numbered quite correctly. Appreciate it. So, but he's happy. Thank you. Well, that was easy, right? Thank you. Thank you. All right. At this time, we're going to take a break for dinner. Oh. Um, so, okay. We'll pause at 7:25.

I love it. Return 7:45. 20 minutes. Stick me.