Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Commissario Davis.

Commissario Dre.

We will make the announcement and then we will have a couple of presentations.

Tonight City Manager will have something to add to these two presentations of tonight. At the moment, no development of relief.

We have a verbal, then we have the second reading of the order requested by Lake May District JV LLC.

City Manager. Mr. Mayor and Commissars, nothing has changed at this point from the first reading.

It is again about the development of a PUD or the application of a PUD in the area of ​​the properties of Marine Supply.

This establishes the standards for allowed uses, development standards, marine structures and parking requirements. The developer intends to improve the property with additional uses and other parking spaces, the boat club, food truck, open entertainment and a marine resort.

No changes from the first time.

Will they continue to put the boats there and all the rest? As far as I'm concerned. Everything is still going up, right?

City Manager, do you want to take care of it? Certainly, and I will rely on the staff to receive assistance on some of them.

But as far as the 10A is concerned, I apologize, the collective work contract with the International Association of Firefighters of the local association in Quattro Mani Renne, Giusezza. They have been our agent of contract since 2014 for our employees in trial and full time in the classifications of fire sergeant, fire sergeant 1, 2, 3, lieutenant of fire sergeants and our roles of inspector, inspector and investigator of prevention. In 2023 we stipulated an effective collective contract until 30 September 2025. So we had to negotiate a new collective contract with them. We did not complete it before September 30, 2025, but you will remember that we had already defined the salaries.

That was part of the contract.

So their salaries were approved before October 1st or agreed before October 1st. So they obtained their wage adjustment in the last year while we defined the remaining details of that collective contract.

We negotiated with them from July 28, 1925 until around the end of May of this year.

And we reached a preliminary agreement for a collective contract of a year that lasts until October 1 of this year. Therefore, we will have to return to the table and start negotiations as soon as this is approved. However, this covers up to September 30 of this year with an annual contract and has been submitted to the members for ratification, being approved by the majority. Your information sheet indicates that there are some articles agreed in the preliminary route in the contract listed, as I mentioned, for salaries, namely article 30. This was done through

a memorandum of understanding last year in this period.

So it's just about adopting that language. We will recommend to the Commission to approve and authorize the execution by the City Manager of this collective contract 2526 for the city. Questions about... I have a question about the increases that have already been received. Yes, they received, historically, it happens that the negotiations continue in autumn and sometimes until late spring, so all their salaries must be adequate. We have chosen and agreed to apply them directly to the first of October. Last year I think it was one of the first years, if not the only one, in which we were able to conclude them before the first of October. So they perceive the appropriate salaries from the first of October. There is an element of retroactivity that we must consider in this context, which concerns the return on average. Their schedules have changed effectively since January 1, 26, as outlined in their collective contract. This is due to the addition of the Kelly Days, which has reduced the number of hours worked annually and we must retroactively correct their return on average. However, I want to say that one of the things on which we have already agreed for the future is that starting from the first of October of this year, the payment of the paramedics will no longer be paid on an hourly basis. It is a total incentive import that is then subdivided for the 26 periods of payment. We will no longer fight each other. We are complete. How many places are vacant?

Uther, do you want to answer this question?

Good evening. We are almost complete. All our positions at the base level are full.

The only vacant positions that we have...

We are close to the total and organic coverage as it has not happened for many years, right before my arrival. We are actively researching to cover those open positions. The role of tenant is regulated by the contracting unit and there is a procedure that we have to follow for the assumptions, so we are following those processes. And it's all already.

We just have to find the person to follow the iter.

And this depends on the fact that the requisites for the tenants include some certifications and a certain period of time in the grades. Usually they are promoted internally because they already have knowledge. But often, due to the turnover of the entry of so many new elements, there is no time of service necessary to do those promotions. So it takes a little more time. So he only said a lieutenant.

Five.

Your next point is the adjudication of a lift station at Shipwreck Harbor.

Gary, can you present this point, please?

Certainly.

This is the lifting station. It is located exactly in front of Lake Sheep Park. This lifting station manages a very high flow. So it is on our list for an update. It will manage much more flow than in the past.

a causa dello sviluppo in questa zona.

Quindi lunedì sera vi chiederemo l'aggiudicazione del contratto per l'aggiornamento di questa opzione e c'è un punto correlato, un punto successivo, riguarda l'acquisto diretto da parte del proprietario di una pompa di bypass. Per questo ci presenteremo davanti a voi lunedì. To provide some more details, the contract, this was a race for the station of elevation published and opened this summer with five proposals received, which is a good number. Danny Martinez Inc. of Saint Cloud is the company to which the application is recommended. No claims have been presented against the total price of the project offer of 868,640 euros. And as for the bypass pump, as Mr. Over said, we will buy it directly internally through Xylem Watering. By buying it directly, we will save about 17,600 dollars. We save the taxes on... In addition, there is no indebtedness to any repayment of the fee provided by the contracts. There are questions. The next point will be presented by Andy Palmer and concerns a donation that will be made by the Polk County to support our operations towards the Advent Health Fieldhouse.

The Polk County has donated to the city new equipment for a value of just over 90,000 dollars to be used at the Fieldhouse. The equipment is specifically used to continue promoting and attracting sports tourism in the Polk County and in the Fieldhouse. The equipment included new covers for the floor, suitable for use in the Field House. The covers for the floor have a expected duration of 5-6 years. The old covers were torn, so these completely replace the previous ones. We also received 15 Rhino protective nets, used to divide the areas, reserve the fields and keep the balls inside the field. We use them for special events, tournaments and for the open gym, to separate the volleyball activities from the basketball ones. In addition, we obtained 10 additional three-file tribunes of the type tip and roll. These increase the capacity of the current inventory of the tribunes. So now we have about 20 tribunes. and there is a capacity of about 30 spectators per set of stands this according to the specifications could be a bit tight but we have a total capacity of about 600 seats to sit on the stage where they are all held and I repeat the total of about 90 thousand dollars just over 90 thousand dollars The city has received all the articles. They are new and in good operational condition. The county of Polk has actually bought them and sent them to the Field House. We would like to thank the county of Polk for this donation and we will ask that the donation, it is a donation agreement, be accepted and this will be the object of the final approval on Monday night.

I'm just curious, how did this donation come about? Did you ask for it?

Did they notice a need or... We are in constant contact. The Pol County is a way in which we can indirectly support our operations at the Channel Links Baseball Park. They helped with temporary mounds and also with some screens and equipment. So it's something we usually do. And it was, for example, the flooring of the floor. It was old and worn out, and to continue to operate, it was their way of helping us integrate through that partner.

So they haven't answered my question yet. They noticed it and decided, or you asked for it, you. I don't know the exact answer to that. I was just asking.

But I think it was a combination of both.

All right. When we originally built the forestry, even the coating of the original floor came from them, as well as some of the other services. So that interlocal agreement that we have with them for this structure, as well as for the baseball fields, offers them a discounted price for use. Their use is what creates the demand and the use of existing goods. So, without having here Mrs. Burke or Mr. Years to speak specifically, I would say that this happens in collaboration. Hey, what are your needs? What do you think you have to get? The first reading of the order for Monday evening concerns the compensation of the citizens' commissioners and the mayor. I will pass the floor to the mayor of the city to talk about this point. This is followed by the indications that we have recently received from the city commission to present something that the commission can do. And this was built based on a recommendation, the values ​​were based on the recommendation that Commissioner Davis had elaborated.

It may seem slightly different, but the numbers are different. So, Mr. Murphy.

Thank you, Mr. City Manager, Mayor, Commission, Members. I would like to reiterate what Michael has just said. The order you have in front of you is for your revision. I don't respond in great part to the lines of the night of the Commissary of Justice, but also to the... ...as you have all discussed during... ...worked together with the Department of Human Resources of the city, Mrs. Dyke, of the Financial Department. ...

I'm not a person brought up by mathematics, so I didn't want to take advantage of it.

This proposal of order is in line with the compensation of the citizens' commissariats, including the basic salary and your identity, in accordance with what the Commissary Davis, in his note, As clearly indicated in the staff report or in the information sheet, there is no recommendation from the staff on this topic for you. This is presented for your conversation, your discussion and your deliberations on how to... The current version of the code that is modified is explained in the order and is in the section below. and in the order you can see that at the disposal of the code there is an automatic alignment in line with any code, that is, an alignment at the cost of life that could be granted to the employees every first month. If there is no code then you do not even receive it. This is how it works and that is why the numbers are bad and then replaced are slightly I think that the information sheet probably details the rising points of the tax impact and allows, if you look, to demonstrate or show in the information sheet what the level of compensation would be if you did nothing and increased by 3% the amount of money. Let's show what this order would be if it was adopted as it is. And then we show the difference between them. One thing within the ordinance, and I want to thank the lawyer and the staff for having worked with us. When we talk about financial impact, we have already accounted for a 3% cut in the budget.

Because, as you know, the commission receives the same cut.

So, when we talk about the financial impact of the increase of these tariffs, it is actually about the difference between what that 3% would cost, what the income would be, or the additional earnings, in addition to that. The order proposed for your specific consideration, that if we increase to what would be the figure of 24,180 dollars, We will not apply a 3% increase. This would replace the adhesion at the cost of life at Kola. The next adhesion at Kola would be the first. So there would be no problem. Of course there would be. This concludes my talk. Yes, it is true. As in some years, I remind you, there was no cola. So you did not receive an increase.

You are directly linked to your work regarding the concession of the cola.

And that was a decision taken by a previous commission. I believe that Commissioner Bilzon was in the commission at that time. But none of those currently in charge today So that was the political choice made. And the allies, I think, knew... ...the memorandum that you received in May... ...from Officer Davis... ...and the epilogue of the tax returns... ...given by the City Manager on July 13th.

They are still...

I appreciate your diligence and punctuality. I mean, this reflects, as far as I know, UM and from our previous conversations, UM, what I had suggested in my pro-memory, UM, and you know, for the audience who pays attention, this is based rationally on UM throughout the county, without, with the exception of the low-density areas of population where it was a bit distorted.

So I appreciate your work.

All right, let's move on to the new questions. So, new questions.

Two points for your consideration.

This is the first U that we worked on to make this plane fly.

It looks like years, but it's probably been years.

In November last year, we issued a qualification request for the construction manager at RISC, also known as SIMAR, for services in the water production plants of Cypresswood and Farberow. These are two different water plants designed by two different teams of engineering and design. Wright Pierce is working on the Cypress Wood one, and Atkins is the Realist of the Fard Road structure. So, the Warto Smith has been selected by the Committee for Professional Services as the most qualified company to carry out this work, as the Mar... The City Commission has authorized the negotiation of a contract in February of the current year. The CIMAR process, as I explained previously, works in such a way that the CIMAR company works in tandem with the design company. They are sitting at the same table.

The design company is responsible for the design and engineering of the project. CIMAR representatives are present to perform value engineering in real time.

to identify means, methods and alternative materials that can be adapted and to help identify potential problems in an approach or design element. They evaluate the project during its entire implementation. So, during this part of the work, we define the pre-construction phase in the contract.

Once again, Cimar collaborates with the city and with the consultants in the design process.

We are always at the leadership position. The responsibilities of Cimar include assistance in the development of specific plans with particular attention to the buildability. They provide preliminary costs, value engineering and direct purchase strategies from the owner and initial construction activities. They establish a chrono program of the works and a maximum price guaranteed preliminary for each component of the project and includes a fee of 130 dollars for some exploratory investigations of the underground that we consider necessary and specifically for the site of the plant. From there we move on to the construction phase, in which the Cimar will provide the definitive GMP and the complete management of the works for the component of the project.

They will obtain all the permits necessary for the construction and will provide programs and updates on the works.

They manage all the supervision of the labor, the materials and equipment and provide the supervision of the start of the project, the training of the staff and the delivery of drawings. So they proceed in parallel to the design team and when we get to the construction phase, the roles are exchanged on who is in command. They are building it and the design team provides support for the RFAS. We are members of the PNLBubblogy and the PardRoad website is the reception structure for water from the alternative public sources of Winter Haven from the SALT project. So, to receive it, we must have PardRoad operating within October 2028.

We are just over two years old.

This requires GMP for some specific initial work packages for any long-term delivery articles. Some site preparation work is obviously key. We have set up funds for an import of 699 dollars. To cover the table. So their presence at the table and their expertise on buildability and everything else in the initial phase amount to 600. and then when we move on to the construction those projects will be planned and accounted for in our IP.

Huarto Smith will receive a work management commission during that phase equal to 8%.

We have negotiated in the long run on this aspect. Commissioner Beardong will remember that his work with the ROVG plant is the same number, perhaps even a little less for some of the projects. It was one of the things that took time, but we believe that it is a commission. Therefore, we recommend the commission to approve and carry out the Seymart agreement for the water production plants of Cypresswood Farm Road and to authorize the design of the City Manager.

There will be multiple activities associated with this work. Certainly the Pard Road plant is a sixth activity.

Cypresswood is also an activity.

There are also improvements to the fourth street which is located in the area of Vanita and comes to the Pard Road site from the west. This would be an activity.

Each of these is managed separately.

The current water source is the aquifer.

And these two water production structures will extract water from the lower aquifer of Florida, but they are in a sweet water area. So the authorizations will be slightly different from our current permit. So we will work with SWIFTMOOD on that. And the water in the upper zone is fresh water, but at a slightly higher level of hydrogen and sulfur. Therefore, the treatment technology is slightly different. But this is a good approach for Winterhaven, because reaching from the lower Florida will be classified as an alternative water source.

It is authorized.

Question G. We have not planned possible funds for the reception structures because I know that in the water cooperative they have talked about the cities that require directly So we are evaluating the thing. We have evaluated it every year. There have been limited funds in the last two years and we hope that next year we will see some money coming from the legislature to finance the Heartland Headwaters Act.

Because it is fundamental and the Department of Environmental Protection

And SWIFT knows that without these reception structures, the project does not work. So they are a fundamental part of the project, PNVC and, of course, we will make pressure to obtain funds in the form of subsidies.

You have to give some competence and merit.

David, as you know, has been our water director here many, many years ago. So he knows the details and this is certainly an added advantage for this project.

He was not part of the team, but we are very happy.

Your last point for tonight or for the evening of Monday. I will ask Mr. Labbi to present this topic. It is a follow-up to the presentation you received from Arthur Winterhaven regarding their project of temporary transit lodging located at the corner between the 7th and 8th floors of the 7th floor.

So, I think you know the property.

It is a specific piece of property at the corner between 7th Street South West and N South West. It is approved and authorized by... It is already partially developed. The horizontal infrastructure is present, including parking lots. The remaining work to be completed is the vertical construction on the property, namely the villas... Hartford Winterhaven has signed a purchase and sale agreement with the current owner and intends to develop the billets after the property with what they call popular lodging.

You have received a presentation of their plans regarding how to use that property.

They asked for 350,000 dollars of funds from the city, from the additional tax fund for the popular building, to help with this project and so we put together an agreement for the public transit building. This agreement provides that the city contributes with 350,000 dollars from the tax fund for the popular building to be used specifically only for acquisition purposes and construction on the property. The funds will be deposited with a deposit agent with a guarantee and will be available to be delivered to Hartford Winterhaven at the closing table or at the time of the execution of this agreement if the property has already been purchased within 30 days.

Hartford Winterhaven will allow the city to put a bond on the property, protecting our investment in that property.

The units built on the property will remain at affordable prices according to the standards and the HADDE definitions used for the purposes provided for a minimum of 7 years from the date of occupation. The structure of the funds at Art4Winter Haven would be that of a loan. in the condition that the units remain at affordable prices and used for the intended purposes, the loan or the subsidy can be granted at the rate of 15% per year and if Art4Winterhaven turns out to be invalid, according to the terms of the agreement, it will take 30 days to heal the failure. We have worked in close contact with the office of the city prosecutor. And also just to add to what Mr. Labbi presented, the agreement delineates the certification process, which is contractually required by Hartford's personnel. They must certify the city through the office of Nancy Farley at this point, as long as she is in that position during... and at any time they are respecting the terms of the agreement regarding who rents the properties that are suitable based on the AMI that they have in a very similar way to what would be expected according to the standards of the Florida Housing Fund. I want to be clear on the fact that the obligations of conformity are between their partners so that we can... We will meet It's very similar to the agreement we made with Mr. G.

You will remember when we started the construction.

And he built his building. We could not simply ask them to send everything within January 31 of each year. In reality, it is based on the initial occupation of the unit.

This was my next question. So there must be seven years of affordable rent, starting from the issuance of the first housing certificate, seven years from that date. In reality, from the date of the lease contract, since the units are being built and they could do it in phases.

could complete the first front building. And six months later, or down there, do that. If you have a four-unit building, the entire building must be occupied at the same time. So it is correct, at the completion of the first building, seven years of accessibility start from that moment.

From the moment they sign the first location contract, let's say that unit number one in that building signs the initial contract.

but we can't put the honor on them to provide every year the names of the tenants and how much they pay to meet the criteria and if they don't do it they are unfulfilled with respect to the agreement and the condonable part follows the same rule Once the certificate is issued, or once the first contract is signed, it's 15% a year for six years and you get to 90%. So what happens? The remaining 10%. At the end of the seventh year, that final 10% is extinguished at that moment. And once all of them have fallen, at that point, it's the property of Hartford Winterhaven, free and without problems. We will leave you. And there is a timing that obliges them, I'm sorry, but a timing that obliges them to the construction. What did he say? 12 minutes. So they have to start the construction of the first building and the closure. And in 30 days the city will have a link. 30 days from now. The construction must begin within 12 months of the delivery. So let's put it that way. I don't think it also allows an extension of this at our discretion, based on the circumstances. For six months. An extension of six months can be granted for situations outside their control.

So what aspect would that mechanism have? Assuming they ask for the extension, they get it, we are 18 months away. We ask them to sell the property or to return us 350. Another thing.

They should modify this agreement. Agreement. The commission at that moment must agree. But essentially yes. At the moment, there could be three new commissioners here and they could remove the carpet from under their feet. So it is the prerogative of that commission at that time.

It would actually be a registered bond. Once the property is purchased, we will have an interest in a bond.

We will probably reduce the bond. And we will take it back. to the extent that we do not agree to subordinate to a valid... This will be my next question. ...to a valid legitimate loan. You know, we understand that the world of loans probably must have a capacity. First link.

This will be a first link.

We could potentially add a maximum CLPV in that field. Intending a loan-pricing ratio of two combined values.

So, if you take that first link, if you take our import, you don't want it to be... You don't want it to be 75% of the proposed value.

We didn't specify it, Mayor, in the agreement, but I assume that the private sector... Yes and no, because we subordinate our position.

We agreed on an agreement to subordinate...

I know, but I think we could add a clause according to which the maximum CLT should never exceed 75%, which is the norm for this type of project.

I'm happy about what? What is the maximum? CLTCE.

CLTV, understood. We just try to cover our shoulders. To make sure that the funds of the contributors are still protected.

And the suggestion is not to exceed.

So if the property is worth a million, we give it 350. We would never want the loan to exceed 400,000. Well, commissions, feel free about this, but I... It's not a point at which I personally think. I just want to put the dots on her and cross them. Do you agree with these suggestions?

I think we're good.

I have an element that is only informative.

Last week we talked about a project that the FDOT is starting... ...opens the entire length of Avondale Boulevard from Autostrada 17 to the intersection of 92. Avondale... It is mainly focused on the flooring, but with some improvements. So it could be treated as a traffic jam, or replacement of ramps, or the flooring.

It's really... And I think you all have received some communications from the residents before the...

The staff participated in that public meeting, and the focus was really to collect feedback on proposed and potential plans. So what we have tried to do is to take the comments of the residents and the observations of the staff and summarize them in a letter that we will send to the PDOT that will be part of their formal record of that meeting. The main points concern the need for safe pedestrian crossings between the eleventh street, where is the semaphore of Spring Lake Square and Havenal Boulevard, and the twentieth street, immediately after Lake Havre. It is a long stretch in which there are no pedestrian crossings. There are several ways to improve it.

At that point, we have included the request that this be taken into consideration.

It talks about filling the interruption of the footpaths in the corridor, specifically on the north side of the road, about the fifteenth road to the east, up to Idle Wild Drive. The entire section presents rather fragmented footpaths.

There is a fairly large void at the western end and it is a bit irregular at the eastern end.

So we ask them to evaluate the addition of a footpath of one and a half meters. Finally, the last point concerns the concerns of residents and commercial activities of the area, mainly in terms of access, i.e. the ways in which they can reach their activities and their neighborhoods. In addition, safety in performing the turns and everything is added to the excess of speed in that corridor, with the fear that closing all those traffic jams will further transform it into a...

I will try to balance... I just wanted to tell you this.

We have prepared it for the signature of the mayor and we will make sure that the staff has participated here. So if there is nothing else from the commission for the good of the order we will proceed with the update.