in the right hand, slip it through the left, and then just watch. Okay. Yeah. Heel's left side, but how often do you heal it? Right. But that's really what the heel is. All righty? Good time? Mm-hmm. What was your name again? Noah. Noah. Thanks for joining us. Have a good evening. Good evening, everybody. Welcome to the City of Safety Harbor Commission meeting of Monday, August 18th. At this time, I would like to call the Reverend Jeff Davis to please come forward. He's from the First Presbyterian Church of Safety Harbor. So if everyone would please stand up and then remain standing for the place of the flag. Please pray with me. God, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this opportunity to assemble and the freedoms that you have given us. God, just allow this time to be fruitful. Allow this time to have meaning and purpose in the goals of Safety Harbor. And we thank you for all that you're doing and all that you've blessed us with. In Jesus' name, 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 God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Reverend. ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE NO PRESENTATIONS TODAY, SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO ROLL RIGHT INTO AUDIENCE TO BE HEARD. SO IF THERE'S ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT WANTS TO BE HEARD ON AN ITEM THAT'S NOT ON THE REGULAR AGENDA OR THAT'S ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE COME FORWARD, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION. OKAY. SO WE NOW HAVE ONE PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS ADOPTION OR DENIAL OF ORDINANCE 2025 OR CONSENT. GET THAT WHOLE SECTION. WE HAVE FIVE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. I JUST ASSUME NOBODY WANTED TO PULL ANYTHING. SO WE GOT FIRST AN APPROVAL OF THE AUGUST 4TH MEETING MINUTES. SECOND, APPROVAL OF A CONTRACT WITH SOUTHERN INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR INSTALLATION OF AN ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM FOR CITY HALL IN THE AMOUNT OF $31,000. NUMBER THREE, APPROVAL OF A CCTV CAMERA INSTALLATION CONTRACT WITH SOUTHERN INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR $50,000. NUMBER FOUR, APPROVAL OF Kimley Horne Associates proposal for the MiSTRIVE safety analysis in the amount of 53,000 and approval of a purchase of a 2026 Ford F550 cabin chasis with VersaLift aerial device from Allen G Automotive Management for 174,000. Does anyone want to pull any of those? I'd like to pull number four. All right. Anyone want to make a motion? Move approval one through four. Second. You want to amend that to 1, 2, 3, and 5? Yes, 1, 2, 3, and 5. Sorry. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0. I think it's probably going to be for you. So I think it's probably okay. I just wanted to get a little more context in it maybe and then just vocalize what it is we're doing here. So my understanding is it's the crosswalks over – by the hospital, right? Yeah, it's the area on Meese Drive and Millray Drive. There are some pedestrian crossings there. Meese Countryside approached the city and worked with Renee Cooper on some of the pedestrian concerns. There's been some near misses and at least one injury in that area. So we've developed a scope of services with Kimley Horn to have them do data collection, to do some stakeholder coordination, actually meet with representatives of the hospital and talk about some of the safety concerns out there. And then they'll do some analysis of the sort of turning movements and crossing movements. And then finally, they'll do a couple of concept plans for pedestrian improvements to see how they can get people across Meese Drive more safely. Okay. So I think the question would be, It seems excessive to have a study. And I'm going to answer this. Fill in the blanks if it's rhetorical. But it seems excessive to have a study. It's a simple crosswalk. And the question, you know, why can't we do our own engagement with the hospital to come up with a solution? We're going to have to spend money for whatever the solution is anyway. But did I tease out of there that we think that there's a likelihood that an all-way stop might be? warranted there, and do we have to have some engineered backup in order to justify that all-way stop? I don't know if an all-way stop is proposed, but if you do want to put in a stop sign, it does have to meet warrants. So it does require a traffic engineer to go in and make sure that that four-way stop is warranted. The types of evaluations that they'll be doing, we don't have that expertise on staff. We don't have a traffic engineer on staff, so they'll be doing some analysis of some of the turning movements and crash data. So the engineering measures that will go into the design we think does warrant a traffic engineer. And I did want to mention that two representatives of Music Country started here, Maury Catania and Dwayne Traster. Thank you. and they'd be happy to come up and answer any questions about the concerns that they have. Okay. I want to piggyback that just, I guess, in working with Mies, I would assume, I mean, we have residents that live back there, I believe. There's a community back there behind the hospital. But at the same token, I would imagine a lot of the traffic, or at least 50%, is there going to be a way they're going to be able to tell what's hospital traffic and what is residential traffic, because what's going to end up happening is I'm certain if you put a four-way stop or you put a stop there, I guess just an all-way stop, you're going to have some doctors that are upset, you're going to have patients that are upset. I mean, it's a pretty big medical, I guess, complex, and I don't know. To me, it looks like the fix, and I think they did put a crosswalk over there. I haven't been back there in a while, but I know there's a crosswalk. over east now. And this is the area further to the east. Okay. Yeah, it's the area of Millray Drive. They will actually be doing field evaluations to see where those cars are coming from. So they'll be out in the field doing counts. So would you like to have the representatives from the hospital come up? Sure. It's always good to hear what their input is or what their suggestions are. I'm Wayne Traister. I'm the facilities manager at East Countryside Hospital. We've had at least two accidents where pedestrians have been hit in the last five years out there in that intersection. We have near misses almost every single day. It doesn't seem like the traffic will heed the warnings, even though there's blinking lights and all those types of things. crosswalk signs in the middle of the road that are on pedestals and things like that. It just seems like everybody's in such a hurry and it's so congested because of all the traffic that's coming in and out by our MAV, the neighborhood traffic and everything else that it really is unsafe out there. We're all afraid that eventually something bad could happen out there and somebody could get hit. DRASTICALLY HURT AND OR KILLED. BUT IT'S DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE FACT YOU'VE GOT BECAUSE OF THE FACT YOU'VE GOT BECAUSE OF THE FACT YOU'VE GOT MEECE DRIVE THAT SPLITS OUR CAMPUS MEECE DRIVE THAT SPLITS OUR CAMPUS MEECE DRIVE THAT SPLITS OUR CAMPUS AND YOU'VE GOT THE PARKING ON ONCE AND YOU'VE GOT THE PARKING ON ONCE AND YOU'VE GOT THE PARKING ON ONCE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MEECE DRIVE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MEECE DRIVE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MEECE DRIVE AND YOU'VE GOT THE HOSPITAL AND YOU'VE GOT THE HOS Because that light is a little lengthy there, you can sit there almost five minutes waiting on it to change. And I've seen it myself where it's green and people just race on down there to make that green light. So anything that the city can do to help us to make that a safer roadway. There's two crosswalks down there actually, one down there with the bridge is over the top and then one. further east down by our MAD building. But anything that C could do to help us to make that a safer intersection for the people that come and visit the hospital would be much appreciated. I have a quick question. From your perspective, not scientific yet, but from your perspective, from what you've observed and experienced over the last five years, is the majority of traffic that, I guess, Is contributing to the issue here just from the neighborhood coming through trying to make the light, or is it a combination? It's a combination of all of it. It's extremely, extremely busy. I guess the question is, I mean, putting a light, like a stoplight up there, I don't know that that's necessarily the answer. I think we're going to get a lot of blowback. is there not a flashing light for pedestrians to push and then cross? There is. There's actually two of them, one at each crosswalk. No one cares. And so really the idea of getting Kimley Horn involved is to look at are there other design measures we could take to emphasize the pedestrian crosswalk, whether it's some traffic calming with some bulb outs, maybe the – just the configuration of that crosswalk and where the flashing lights are. I mean, it really is a design problem to be solved. I'd want to just, in my concern here, I 100% think that we could make improvements on that because I drive that. My wife actually works at the skilled nursing facility right around the corner, so she's down there all the time as well. And the few times I've driven down there, I've had a couple of near misses too, people that I didn't see. you know, watched other people get over there. So I 100% think that we've got some improvements to make that intersection safer. What I wanted to state here and for our residents to hear if they're listening is why we're paying $50,000 for a study when sometimes a cross work like this seems like we could just come up with a solution and do it because we're gonna have to pay to fund the project anyway. And I feel studied to death a lot of times up here. But digging deeper, in order to give us, and tell me if I'm right or wrong on this, in order to give us all of the options, we are going to need an engineered study to back it up anyway. So if we just get together on our own and decide a stop sign or a stop light is warranted, we've got to go back to somebody like Kimberly Horn to do the study. to get us there anyway. We might as well do it from the start. Is that what we're thinking here? Dr. That's correct. And one of the factors that contributes to the cost is they are actually doing some drawings for us. So, once they identify the potential solutions, they'll do preliminary design and produce cost estimates that we can use to budget the improvements. Dr. I have a question. As I'm listening, I'm thinking about a headway. would be an incline. The pedestrians would be up. But would that be just completely impractical, or would that be something that they'll consider to get them away from the traffic? There's currently an elevated... There is one from the parking garage, but I mean east, toward the park. You're talking about toward that park. Is there any way to make something like that, like you have at the parking garage? And would that cost a lot more than $53,000? Oh, I'm sure. And, you know, a lot of these questions, right, this was definitely in our complex case group that we talked about, and it was, you know, I brought up very similar questions. You know, what's out there right now? What can we do? But it all comes back to, right, these are all great ideas, whether maybe it is another overhead walkway, maybe it is another light or a speed bump, but we don't know. We just don't have that staff member on board. here on duty in-house. So great for them to go back and evaluate it. And, you know, there's at least 50 residences back there. There's multiple doctor's offices and businesses. And Mies, it's a very busy area with an active emergency room. And I think with all the stakeholders involved, that's what Kimley Horn, being one of your engineers on on contract that we already have is why you have them on contract to do that background work for us so you all can make the best decision. Okay, thanks. I think it's very complicated. I mean, probably, I think it's a lot more complicated than putting a red light. In my opinion, right, I think it's very visually complicated, the whole area, because if you're driving down there, you have on one side the parking garage, you've got a... You've got a driveway here, so you're looking and you're trained as a driver to be kind of swerving this way and this way. But you see cars coming this way, but they're in their parking lot. Cars coming over here, another parking lot. You've got the walkway over, people walking. So there's a lot of information being thrown at you at one point. And also somebody walks in a walkway. And a lot of people walking in a walkway have this premonition that people are seeing them and they're going to stop. I think it's very complicated. I think it's going to be difficult to get a red light or a flashing red light or a speed bump, or I think it's going to have to be something where you block off some of that, you know, keeping maybe Kimberly Horn focusing on what drivers are seeing. Because I've driven down there, unfortunately, too many times, and I'm always, like, looking and... You know, you see people, you know, who's going to cross you? You know, and then all of a sudden something, you also got the ambulance in and out. Sometimes the ambulance is parked in the middle there of the road. Lights, it's going on pretty, you know, it's very busy. I would agree. Yeah, I appreciate everybody. I just kind of, I thought it was appropriate to talk out just a little bit. and help everybody understand why we need to spend the money to do it the right way. I think just surface level, somebody goes, oh, this would be easy to solve. But it's not. It's not as easy. So I appreciate you all talking through that for everybody to hear. This would be definitely a step in the right direction. If it could prevent somebody getting injured. What price do you put on safety? A leg or an arm alone. $50,000 is nothing. At least mine let go hard. I don't know about yours. I've never priced in that. I've never priced out in that. Thank you very much. Thank you. On that note, you're a ball player. You think like that. I will move approval of Kimberly Horne & Associates' proposal for the Mies Drive safety analysis in the amount of $48,000 plus $5,000 contingency. We already have the second before you finish. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0. All right, now we have public hearings, and we have one item, which is adoption or denial of Ordinance 2025-01. So, Noah, do you want to read that resolution? Ordinance number 2025-01, an ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Safety Harbor, Florida, amending the five-year capital improvement schedule of the comprehensive plan. PURSUANT TO SECTION 163.3177, SUBSECTION 3, SUBSECTION B, FLORIDA STATUTES, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. GOOD EVENING, CAROL STRICKLAND, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. THIS IS ADOPTION ON SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE 202501. THERE HAVE BEEN NO CHANGES SINCE FIRST READING AND STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL. ANYONE FROM THE AUDIENCE WISH TO BE HEARD ON THIS ITEM? ANY DISCUSSION OR A MOTION? I'LL MOVE ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 2025-01. SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. MOTION PASSES 5-0. NOW WE HAVE NEW BUSINESS. FIRST ITEM IS WE'RE LOOKING FOR ONE ALTERNATE MEMBER FOR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD. THANK YOU, MAYOR. Ms. Sylvia Maracas, as an alternate member, was recently removed from the board due to lack of attendance. We did receive two applications from Greg Childers, who currently serves on FAC, and Lindsey Schaffer. If Mr. Childers is appointed, he will be required to resign from the FAC. It is requested that the City Commission appoint one alternate member to CEB. I've got a couple of questions here. So... Ms. Marakis, didn't we just place her on planning and zoning last week, too? Do we know if the attendance issue is, like, is she committed to that board? Do we know? She said she is. She's very interested in the board. I don't know why she missed the meetings on the other board. Just want to make sure we had touched base where there wasn't going to be something we're circling back to. I spoke with Greg Childers. prior to this to get his take on it. I think he had a he wanted to serve on code enforcement. He ranked that high on his application list, but he's just been placed as the chair of the Finance Committee since he's been put into there and expressed to me that he he thinks at this point he the Finance Committee could use use a little help, you know, maintaining quorum and getting where they need to go. And he he'd like to see that through. So with With that in mind, I'd recommend Lindsey Shafer to take this role. All right. Anyone from the audience want to be heard on this item? All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0. Now we're looking for five members for the Sustainability Advisory Board. The City Commission created the Sustainability Advisory Board via Resolution Number 2025-02, THIS RESOLUTION CALLS FOR THREE OF THE MEMBERS TO SERVE THREE-YEAR TERMS AND TWO OF THE MEMBERS TO SERVE TWO-YEAR TERMS SO THAT THE BOARD WILL HAVE OPPOSITING TERMS IN THE FUTURE. WE DID RECEIVE SEVEN APPLICATIONS. OUT OF ALL THOSE APPLICATIONS, ONLY ONE DID NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS, AND THAT'S CAMERON. IT IS REQUESTED THAT THE CITY COMMISSION FIRST APPOINT THREE MEMBERS TO SERVE THE THREE-YEAR TERMS AND THEN APPOINT THE TWO MEMBERS TO SERVE TWO-YEAR TERMS. Can I jump in on this one too? Okay, good. So first, now that we've got this huge audience in here, nobody can see the audience on TV anyway, but I'm really excited about this board. And I just want to say I'm excited about this board. I want to thank the rest of my fellow commissioners and mayor up here for supporting the forming this board, and then especially Renee and Rachel and all the staff, all the work that you've done to put it into code form and get it up here and get it going. And then I'd also like to acknowledge we've got some really high-quality candidates in here. If you've read through the applications, I'm really impressed with several of them. So I'm just excited about this. I'm excited to see where it goes. So that makes it my recommendation. We're being asked to come up with three for a three-year term, two for a two-year term. Looks like that's two different motions potentially. So to focus on the top three, I think three of them stood out to me, and that was Dr. Jennifer Cedillo, Ivana, I can't say that last name. I thought that I could. Ivana Kay and Mr. Gary Rosenberg. Those to me are the top three, just from their backgrounds and past involvement and everything else. I can tell you I like to see Jan Tracy as one of the three that get a three-year term because I don't know if you've seen her around. It's kind of like Joe Casey every weekend. Not only does she have a good background for that and an interest in it, but she is very active in the community without serving on a board. Quite frankly, I'd like to see her as one of the three with a three-year term. So, yes, I'd like to see Mr. Rosenberg with a three-year term because I think he's also very active and very vocal, and he understands it and has a good perspective on it, and I think he'd be a very active individual on the board. And I think Dr. Cedillo obviously has a pretty good background, so I'd like to see those three get the three-year. And then as far as a two-year term, I think that would leave... My understanding is Cameron doesn't have the qualifications. I'll make a motion for those three. Go ahead. Yeah, that's a second. For the top three being... Dr. Jennifer Cedillo, Gary Rosenberg, and Jan Tracy. I'll second. All right, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0. I'd just make a note that Jan, on her application, considers herself an expert in roadside litter. I don't see that. She picks it up every day. I always fear. I can't read this word, but she's adopted two streets and safety harbor, so good choice. Yeah, I miss her. Can we take a stab at the two-year term, people? IVANA KECHTOVONCIK, AND LISA HINTON. AND IVANA'S GEO SCIENCES, AND LISA IS A SIERRA CLUB MEMBER. THAT'S WHERE MY HEAD IS AT, TOO. I'LL SECOND. ANYONE FROM THE AUDIENCE WISH TO BE HEARD ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. MOTION PASSES 5-0. CONGRATS TO ALL THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING FOR A REPRESENTATIVE TO THE PINELLAS OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU. THE CITY IS A MEMBER OF THE PINELLAS OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL AND IS ENTITLED TO APPOINT ONE REPRESENTATIVE TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS. THE REPRESENTATIVE MAY BE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, BUT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT. MS. SAMANTHA MOULET RECENTLY RESIGNED FROM THE POC. THE POC STRIVES TO COMPACT combat poverty in Pinellas County. The POC meets virtually at 4 p.m. every other month. The next meeting will be held on September 23rd. Members must be available to regularly attend meetings and training sessions. Seats are five-year terms but require annual reappointment. It is requested that the city commission appoint one rep to serve on the POC. And the other option as well, if none of the board is interested in serving on the POC, we can also advertise as well and then bring back some applications. You said it's a reappointment every year? Yes, it's a five-year term, but they make you reappoint every year. I'm just curious if, unless somebody's got, I mean, I love the idea that we went outside of the commission for this, and Samantha was just like the perfect fit for that when we did it. So I'd love the idea of finding another person like that, but I don't have anybody in my pocket. I talked to a couple people, and they sort of expressed interest, but they're not here to be appointed or haven't told me they'd be a go yet. So I'm interested in what anybody else thinks. But if need be, I'd be willing to serve on it with the idea that maybe at one of those annual appointments, a resident might step into it instead. I'd like to continue this and in the meantime reach out. to one of the residents in Safety Harbor. I think Neil Brickfield, I'm not sure, does Neil serve on that? Do you know if you know? He's not currently on that, is he? But he's, I guess, he's the director of affordable housing for Pinellas County, I think it is. The housing authority. Housing authority, yeah. I'd like to see if we could possibly reach out to him because I think it would be, I mean, he's serving, he's in that kind of like Samantha was. He's in that community, and it may be a good opportunity for us to have someone that understands and would be involved with that. So I'd like to, unless someone's got someone else that they'd like to appoint. I'd also like to make a note that whoever serves Safety Harbor has to either be a resident, they have to live or work in Safety Harbor. Yeah, he resides in Safety Harbor, North Bay Hills. That's the only name I can think of at this point. Are you offering your name because you don't think we have anyone? I think there's also, I mean, aside from him, I mean, I think Neil would be excellent, but we may look at charities like maybe Kiwanis. I'm not opposed to reaching out to them to see if somebody. What we could do is we could table this, bring it back to another commission meeting. We could advertise as well as reach out to... Neil, unless you want to, the commission wants to go another way, if you want me to just reach out to Neil. I mean, that's up to you. And I'll also reach out to the neighborhood family center to see if there's someone there that resides in Safety Harbor that might want to serve as well. And it's live or work, because that happened to Samantha. I think she lived here, and then she moved and was afraid she would be removed from this council, but because she still worked at Maddie Williams, she was eligible. So it's live or work in Safety Harbor. So just for clarity, you'd like me to reach out to Neil and advertise and reach out to some local charitable organizations? Just get the word out and then reschedule this item for another meeting? Or do you want to reach out to Neil, see if he's interested? If not, reach out to the other ones? We have time. I'd like to table it and then see who we can... and reach out to a few people in the community to see if we can, I mean, if no one wants to serve, then, you know. Yeah, if one of us can do it. Okay, well, I'm happy to bring this back to another meeting. And if we find candidates, do we push them Rachel's way? I mean, there's not an application for this or anything. We just need to get our options on the table. Since this item was on the agenda, we'll need a motion to continue it. I'll move to continue this to another meeting. Extra regular meeting? Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes 5-0. All right, we are now up to our commission reports. Commissioner Besor, do you want to lead us off? Yes, Mayor. Actually, I don't have a report. I've been grieving my sister, and I would like to thank all who've reached out to me with condolences. She did pass away from her cancer. And I want to reiterate how thankful I am to Pastor Davis, Jeff Davis, who reached out to her before her passing and was a person of comfort. So thank you, Mayor. That's all I have. Okay. Commissioner, Vice Mayor? Yeah, Nancy, once again, my condolences to you. Thank you. Yeah, yesterday I attended the Glenn McKinney Memorial. Glenn McKinney was very active in Safety Harbor for a long time in the political arena. He was there during some pretty difficult times, but during all those times, Glenn was just a class act. He was always a class act. AND HE WAS ABOVE AND BEYOND THE POLITICAL DIFFERENCES THAT EXISTED AT THAT TIME IN THE CITY. AS FAR AS MY PERSONAL INVOLVEMENT WITH GLENN IS THAT I MET HIM, HE WOULD STAND BACK THERE IN HIS 6'5", YOU KNOW, STARING AT ME AND TALKING ABOUT HIS DIFFERENCES WITH WHAT THE COMMISSION WAS DOING AT THE TIME. AT THE END OF THE DAY, Every time I would go out, he would just greet me with a smile, and he would just shake my hand. And he was just a lot better than a lot of people in the fact that he treated people like people should be treated with respect. And he will be missed quite a bit. Aside from that, during, after that time in Safety Harbor with politics, very involved in Main Street. He was going around and he was friends with everybody. In fact, he came to my birthday party this past December. And he was just an unbelievable and lovable person. And, you know, I'll miss him quite a bit. So that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Burnett. Thank you, Mayor. The I really am proud about our sustainability board. I'm excited to see it up and going. Really can't wait to hear some report outs on where we're headed with that and the ways we can leverage that advisory board to engage with public, engage with us, and everything else. So really excited for that. This last weekend, I went to the Florida League of Cities conference. Thank you very much for sponsoring me to go to that. It was in Orlando. It was... Three days, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, very long days of working hard, but really exciting, great stuff. So classes, I got my ethics course in, in person. That was incredible. It's so much better in person than when you're watching it online. Set through how to manage the Doge initiative. Actually, the guy that's the executive director of the Doge program from Florida came and spoke with us, and we got to hear kind of all that. We met with a couple of lobbyists to talk about navigating the legislators in Tallahassee and how it is we can get into their doors, the different avenues we can use, and how we get our asks across to them, both in committee weeks and in session. So with the... With the committee weeks, I still intend to try to navigate some sort of trip up there. I've been appointed as third VP for the Suncoast League, so I'm on the executive committee, which will forge me to go meet during committee weeks sponsored by the Suncoast League. So I intend to do that and then hopefully get with JD and the Schumacher folks to maybe host a – get us a happy hour and get some face time after that. So looking – looking for some opportunities for us to get over in the state. I also got to attend a couple of classes on emotional intelligence and then one on marketing your city. And there were several that I wasn't able to get to, but it was great. I had a huge exhibit hall, and you wouldn't believe the amount of watershed management people were there. So I got a lot of cards, a lot of booklets, everything else. Some of them grant programs that we might be able to tap into. Others were product sales that... felt like they had solutions to all of this. So really some great things. I engaged with each of them, told them where we were coming from, got cards. We'll be doing some follow-ups to see if what we're doing can put us in a position to receive some funds or receive some help for our city and our watershed. Connected with the National League of Cities, turns out we pay a dues to be on the National League of Cities as well. I've got an engagement going on with the rep there to potentially be on some advocacy committees with them. They only have like seven, but a couple of them speak to what we need here in Safety Harbor. Maybe one of us can jump in on that. I connected with many, many local municipal officials there. Actually, one of my friends is here in the audience from that conference. So it was really great to build those connections. I know a lot of you have given me that advice to go and learn and ask what other people are doing, and it was great. I want to remind everybody, the Florida League of Cities, probably as much as anything, is trying to fight for home rule. Their slogan is local voices, local choices. Try to get in there and mitigate the preemption that we're seeing and going up against. So I'm going to stay close to that league and try to do the best I can to represent them and then represent Safety Harbor's interests within it. So thank you so much for letting me go to that. It was a blast. The Southern Coast League of Cities, the regional player of that, we are hosting here in Safety Harbor for September 19th. So we'll send some notice out to the rest of you if anybody wants to pop by for that lunch at our new upstairs library. And then last, I will be... I know I said this before, and it got shifted, but I will be absent the next meeting. I'll be headed back overseas for a couple of weeks. But I think that's Labor Day. Are you all meeting on Labor Day? We'll meet Tuesday, September 2nd. Okay, so I will be absent Tuesday, September 2nd. And that concludes my report. All right, Commissioner Stengler. Thank you. Commissioner Burnett, thanks for picking up the time. picking up and carrying us through the league. You know, there's a lot of stuff to learn, a lot of connections to make, and I always found it very helpful having those connections and actually getting all that additional information to bring to the commission because there's so much more out there that we just, we're kind of working in a box here. And unless we get this new information, it's hard to kind of see different directions on different things. I did want to bring up the Live Local Act, which I brought up last time, and I want to bring it up and I want to address our residents and anybody who ends up watching this. We need your input. There's a potential two developments on 590, State Road 590 at McMullen Booth in that area. And there potentially would be another probably 500-plus residents moving into that area, which I guess they're trying to potentially build pursuant to the Live Local Act. So the public's not really going to be alerted to what's going on. So I did get one of our residents. I don't know if everybody else received his response. I did get another resident's input as to the position that I voiced. He was against it only because he felt that we would receive reprisals from the governor. But I want to hear from our residents. I really wish people would chime in because before you know it, it's going to be on the doorstep, and we need to hear right now so we can determine. Is this something that the community wants to take action against, or do we just go along with it, pick up another 500 residents, and determine really is it affordable housing or is it not affordable housing? So please write your commissioners, email us, voice your opinion about the additional 500 potential residents moving to Safety Harbor in this potential development. Nancy, my condolences. I did attend yesterday's Celebration of Life for Glenn McKinney. Glenn, you know, I was on vacation when he passed. I think the last contact I had with him was right before I left to go to Europe. But I used to have coffee with Glenn probably three to four days a week, and it got... We met so often, my wife would just say, I'm not meeting you at the coffee shop because you're going to be with Glenn. But anyway, I guess to sum up, Glenn, he was the epitome of our citizens here in Safety Harbor. Believe it or not, just attending yesterday's celebration of life, you look around and you go, wow, this community is really special. People come out. and they show their love, they show their friendship, and that's what Glenn was to everyone. I wrote down here, he was a friend to every citizen, and he was an enemy of no one. He just was just a regular nice guy. He may not agree with you, but he's just a nice guy. So, again, I think we've got a lot of citizens here in Safety Harbor. He'll be missed. and, you know, my prayers to his family during this time of loss. But he lived a great life. He traveled. I mean, I was looking at my e-mails going back to, you know, 2022, and he's like, I'm going to Poland, going to Israel. I mean, he was in Israel on October 7th. And he would send me on my cell, I'm writing him like, I hope you're not around this craziness. And he'd text me back of all the locations that were being bombed by Hamas. And he was like, I'm over here, I'm not there, this and that. But anyway, he lived his life to the fullest. So, again, he'll be missed in the community. So that's all I've got. Thanks. Well, thank you. And, Nancy, again, my condolences for the passing of your sister. I didn't know that Glenn McKinney passed until you just said something. I'm trying to get caught up now on Facebook here, and I'm a little shocked because I had developed, I thought, a pretty good friendship with him. And I actually first met Glenn, what year was it? It was probably 2013, 14. I was running for a commission seat, and he was holding signs for my opponent. But every time I saw him, he couldn't be nicer. So I was like, I had a hard time trying to figure that out. But then afterwards, years later, we started talking. He's just such a nice guy. I'd see him out walking early in the morning because he was doing his early morning walks. And we'd have these pretty good conversations, a lot about where are you going next? Where's your next trip? Where are you traveling? He's always going somewhere, doing something really exciting and asking about the family. So I'm kind of in shock right now. I'm just learning about this, but thoughts and prayers to his family. And the other thing I just want to mention is the improvements to the living shoreline are coming along really well. I don't know if you see the pictures online or not. Thank you to Fred Burchard for capturing those drone footages of the progress. There was one, there was a video showing the crane moving the big boulders back and forth, and it's just coming along beautifully. So that's great, and the pilings are going in for the pier. I had a good question to Renee about how one of the components of that works, and she filled me in on that. But it's coming along good. I think we're making good progress on these big projects. I know when I'm out and about, people are always asking me, what's going on with the pier? So it's good to get them up to speed on that. That's all I got. Josh? Sure, Mayor. Just a couple of announcements and reminders. In September, your Labor Day meeting is September 2nd. That's a regular meeting. And then your next regular meeting in September is Monday, September 15th. I bring this up just to remind you, you have two special meetings on the other Mondays. So we'll have you each Monday in September. Those special meetings are on September 8th and September 22nd at 6 PM. Those should be on your calendars. I DID SEND YOU AN EMAIL THAT OUR NEW LIBRARY DIRECTOR, BRITTANY NORSWORTHY, WILL BE STARTING SEPTEMBER 15th. WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT HER BEING A MEMBER OF THE TEAM. AND WE'RE SAD THAT LISA WILL BE DEPARTING SEPTEMBER 30th. SO WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN OUR TRANSITION WORK WITH MYSELF, WITH LISA, THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR, AND LIBRARY STAFF. SO TRUST THAT THERE SHOULD BE NO NEGATIVE IMPACTS AT ALL TO THOSE WHO VISIT OUR LIBRARY REGULARLY. AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD. and definitely working with Lisa as she's transitioning out. On September 13th, just a reminder from Renee, there will be a free community workshop regarding Tidal Creeks. That will be on, like I said, September 13th, which is a Saturday from 10 to 3 at our library, just to announce that online here, and I'll be sure to put that on your calendars as well this week, commissioners. Mayor, that concludes my report. What do we have coming up on Saturday? There's a... This Saturday? Yeah. It's something... We have... That's it. We have coffee with... Thank you. We have coffee with a cop at the Starbucks this August 23rd from 9 to 11. You can make coffee with a cop. Come on out. Yes, sir. Noah, do you have anything? I do not. Thank you. Could I say something? Our former policeman was promoted, correct? Does everybody know this? I believe so. You all know this. But that's why we don't have Jimmy. I think so. Okay, because he got promoted. I believe yes. I believe he was promoted yesterday. So goodbye. Tell him bye. I'm the new Jimmy. Thank you. Can we call you the new Jimmy? No. We'll go with that one. All right, all. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned. I didn't even know it. I didn't know it.