City Council

Special City Council Meeting

Date: 2026-04-01
Status: City minutes and machine transcript available
Source: CivicClerk event #1448

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What the City's record shows

Built only from the City's minutes (2349_04_01_2026_Minutes.pdf). Page numbers are the minutes' own. Discussion is in the minutes' text; it is not summarised here.

Attendance (the roll call)

Listed present when the roll was taken: Mike Blake, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss
(Checked against the ballots and the printed roll lines.)
Listed absent: Patricia Weeks (listed absent at the roll call; named on a later ballot)
Also listed as present (staff and other roles): Kristin Eick (City Attorney), Stockton Whitten (City Manager), Monica Arsenault (City Clerk), Jonathan Lamm (Fire Chief), Evander Collier IV (Police Chief), Mary Humbert (Director of Business Systems and Innovation), Jennifer Justiniano (Community Services Manager), Mitch Lawyer (Interim Chief Technology Officer), David Grissom (Helpdesk Support Tech)
Named on at least one ballot later in the meeting: Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss, Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks (participation, which can differ from the roll: arrivals and departures are in the minutes' text)

Adopted actions (3)

Agenda: Special Meeting of April 1, 2026. (2026-238) — to approve the agenda as written (moved by Lavander Hearn, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 2
IV. Delegations: 7 OM, Consent Agenda: 1: Approve Resolution 2026-022, Extending a State of Emergency due to a technological incident affect — to approve the Consent agenda (moved by Mike Blake, seconded by Lavander Hearn); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 2
to adjourn the Special meeting of April 1, 2026 (moved by Mike Blake, seconded by Alex Goins); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 2

Agenda (the City's wording)

Time links are automatic matches to the machine transcript and may be off.

An item without a time link may still have been discussed; the link is only added when the automatic match is strong.

I. Opening Matters

1. Call to Order
2. Invocation
3. Pledge of Allegiance
4. Roll Call

II. Approval of Agenda and Minutes

1. Agenda: Regular Meeting of April 1, 2026. — 00:01:33

III. Delegations

IV. Consent Agenda

1. Approve Resolution 2026-022, Extending a State of Emergency due to a technological incident affecting the City of Cocoa's critical technological infrastructure. — 00:02:10

V. Adjournment

VI. Notice to the Public

Transcript Partial transcript

Machine transcription of the meeting recording. The words are the recognizer's, except where a passage is marked as corrected or machine re-recognized; most have not been checked against the audio, so words, numbers and names can be misheard. It describes what was said. It cannot establish who voted how, an amount or an outcome — the City's minutes do that (above). A time links to its passage, and “Copy link” copies that link. “▶ Play” opens the recording at that moment, as the City's file, in a new tab.

How this transcript was made. New machine transcription of the whole recording, with 4 voices separated from the audio. 2 short machine repair(s) (3 word(s)) are labelled in place, with the original words beside them: an ordinary word was replaced only where two further machine readings agreed on a different one. Checks run on this transcript: the recognizer's own warning signs, whether a voice was detected where the words are and a language review for likely mishearings. A second, independent machine reading was compared with it word by word: the same words for 92.7% of 490 content words. Dotted words (9 places) are ordinary wording differences: hover or tap to see the other reading. 20 passages (18% of the words) are marked suspect: their words are not shown ("unclear audio") and support no statement: numbers, amounts, negation or names differ; the language review questioned them; or no voice was detected there. Agreement between two machine readings is not verification.

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Brings back memories of teaching. I'd like

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call this meeting to order, please. We will

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then we'll do roll call. Would everyone please stand, including me, and secure your cell phones for invocation.

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Let us pray. Our dear,

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gracious

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Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you for this opportunity to come together as a city. Lord, we pray that you watch over our community, watch over our council. Lord, be with us and please, Lord, be with our troops as we go into a time of need to protect our country. In your holy name we do pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to

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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.

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Hook them

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Horns, how about the Navy?

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You're a Navy man?

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The

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ladies. The ladies are in the final four. Right. Yes, sir. And you're a Navy personnel, correct? ‸ All right. ‸ All right. We'd like to call roll call for us, please.

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Mayor Blake.

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Present mail.

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Deputy Mayor Goins. Here. Council Member Hearn. Here. Council Member Koss. Here. Council Member Weeks.

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And City Manager Whitten.

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Here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much, Madam Clerk. Arsenal. We're going to item number two, approval of the

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What are the wishes of Council? Motion to approve. Second. We had a motion on the floor by Councilman Hearn

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Chair's going to call the question. All in favor, saying aye.

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Aye.

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Any nays? Ayes have it unanimously. Proceeding on to item number three, delegations. Seeing we have no cards. Madam Clerk, no cards?

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Going on to item number four, the approval of the resolution 2026-022, extending a state emergency due to a technological

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Mr. City Manager, sir.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This, again, is a request to extend the emergency declaration that was originally put in place on February 17th. This extends for the maximum interval of seven days, and so it

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would

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be retro to

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The authorities that you've delegated are outlined in Section 2 of the declaration. We would ask your favorable consideration of the extension.

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Do we have any questions for the city manager?

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to approve the

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extending

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the resolution. Looking for a second.

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Second.

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Do we have any questions? Saying no, Chair's going to call the question. All in favor, saying aye.

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Aye.

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have it unanimously. Item number five, any concerns for the betterment of the great city of Cocoa? Seeing none, Chair entertains a motion to adjourn.

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All in favor by saying aye. Aye. Any nays? Ayes have

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unanimously. Go in peace and thank you for your commitment and dedication.

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Transcript revision built 2026-10-27T13:50:19 · 390 ordinary words, 100 in suspect passages, 51 machine re-recognized.

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