City Council

City Council Special Meeting

Date: 2022-11-21
Status: City minutes and machine transcript available
Source: CivicClerk event #276

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The City's record

What the City's record shows

Built only from the City's minutes (231_CC_Sp_Minutes_11_21_2022.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, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss
(Checked against the ballots and the printed roll lines.)
Absences: no absence line could be read from the minutes' text, so none is stated here; the first page of the minutes is the record.
Also listed as present (staff and other roles): Anthony A. Garganese (City Attorney), Stockton Whitten (City Manager), Carie E. Shealy (City Clerk), Jack Walsh (Utilities Director), Tammy Gemmati (Administrative Services Director), Charlene Neuterman (Community Services Director), Evander Collier IV (Chief of Police), Lora Howell (Deputy Finance Director), Jonathan Lamm (Fire Chief), Robert Beach (Chief Technology Officer), Monica Arsenault (Assistant City Clerk), Colleen O'Donnell (Records Technician), Lisa Richardson (Helpdesk Support Tech)
Named on at least one ballot later in the meeting: Alex Goins, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss, Mike Blake (participation, which can differ from the roll: arrivals and departures are in the minutes' text)

Adopted actions (3)

to approve the resolution certifying the results of the November 8, 2022 General Election (moved by Herbert "Rip" Dyal, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
to re-elect Lavander Hearn as Deputy Mayor (moved by Mike Blake, seconded by Herbert "Rip" Dyal); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 3
to ADJOURN THE NOVEMBER 21, 2022 SWEARING-IN CEREMONY (moved by Mike Blake, seconded by Herbert "Rip" Dyal); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 3

Motions for which no result was read from the minutes' text (1)

to re-elect Lavander Hearn as Deputy Mayor (moved by Mike Blake, seconded by Herbert "Rip" Dyal); no result was read for this motion from the minutes' text — the City's minutes, p. 3

Agenda (the City's wording)

The City's agenda for this meeting is on file (CC_Sp_Agenda_11_21_2022), but its item list has not been read reliably by machine yet, so no outline is shown.

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, on YouTube, in a new tab.

How this transcript was made. New machine transcription of the whole recording, with 4 voices separated from the audio. 4 short machine repair(s) (7 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 and whether a voice was detected where the words are. Not completed: language review. A second, independent machine reading was compared with it word by word: the same words for 90.0% of 2,530 content words. Dotted words (80 places) are ordinary wording differences: hover or tap to see the other reading. 70 passages (24% 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.
Inspection is incomplete: language review.

Speakers were separated by voice. A plain name rests on evidence tied to that voice; “provisional” is a name from an earlier text-only pass and is not verified; “Speaker N” is an unidentified voice.

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Invocation will

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And the Pledge of Allegiance will be done by yours truly, Commissioner, you're in the House.

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Thank you, sir. So yes, sir. But everyone, please stand. If you want to ‸ give us

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Father God, thank you for allowing us to be another day. Thank you for just blessing us, Lord. Thank you for just allowing us to just be in your presence. Thank you

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Bless everyone in this room as we do the

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Bless our entire council and staff and all the citizens that are here today. Bless their return back home as we commence today. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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Amen.

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Glory to the flag

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of the

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United States

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Madam Clerk, may we do ‸ roll call, please?

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Sure. Mayor Blake. Present, ma'am. Deputy Mayor Hearn.

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Present.

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Councilmember Dial.

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Here.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much. This concludes portion number one, our invocation, pledge of allegiance, and roll call. We

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Motion to approve.

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We have a motion

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I got it corrected. Yes. Do

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that statement?

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Okay. All right. What we would like to do to

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Do you want us to come down

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That's right. Yes

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sir.

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How's it going? Would you have your family

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Alright. I want you to get back in the house ma'am. You smarter than me. Bring your family up. Will the entire team please come forward. Alright. There you go. There you go.

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Thank

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you.

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Being on City Council is not an easy thing and it's not something that I take for granted. This is something that God put me here for. He put me here

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So, before I get started,

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would like to thank my wife, number one, and my son.

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And I know I'm not home a whole lot. And sometimes, you know, you don't understand, but you have learned to understand in the last four years. So, I appreciate your patience.

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watching YouTube right now.

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My mom, my dad, you know, a lot of people don't know it. A lot of people call me Alex, but my name is James. It's after my father. And the reason why, and I never told him this, he might think I'm lying about this.

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honor my father. For so many years, everyone always called me Alex. I don't know where that came from. But the only people calling me James is police and teachers. So, but I did that, you know, in all seriousness, just to honor him. I just thank you for being an example for me. Thank you for all the tough love, for sure. Very tough love. My mom, appreciate you for just being so forgiving. You know, I'm trying not to cry today, but, you know, I just, I just, I just appreciate you

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for sure, for just being there for me.

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My, so I call her my campaign manager, but she don't even know she's my campaign manager. Uh, this is my sister Courtney Blunt. Raise your hand, Courtney.

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Um,

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she did all, all the flyers and I, you know, I called her at the last minute. Hey, I need a flyer like in five minutes. And,

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uh,

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You know, yeah,

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I appreciate her husband for dealing with me, calling her ‸ 11 o'clock at night, saying, Hey, I need a flyer like 1135. Uh, so thank you. Alex and my treasurer. Uh, thank you for being so, so precise and so patient with me.

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Uh,

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So, uh, we appreciate her as well.

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Uh, that's part of the street team. Michelle Green is here.

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Um, it's unbelievable, man. They probably knocked over a thousand doors, um, in the heat. And you know how it was in September, August, July. Um, and, and just for them taking that time to do so,

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was just a blessing to have them.

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Uh,

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Is he here today? Jermaine? Jermaine, thank you.

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Come on. Um, so Jermaine asked me, and this is one of the reason why, another reason why I really wanted to run for office, because ‸ a young man like him, um, he called, he reached out to me and said, what, I wanna ‸ learn about government. What is it? I don't know anything. I am

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embarrassed that I don't know, right? This is what he said to me. And so I reached back and said, come with me. I'm gonna ‸ show you what it is. I'm gonna ‸ show you what it means to be out, uh, in the public, knocking on doors, and, and trying to encourage people to get out and vote. Um, so I appreciate you for all of your time. He did a lot of my flyers as well. So I thank you, uh, just in front of everybody. Appreciate you for just wanting to learn about government. So thank you.

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I don't know if they're here or not. Uh, but she ran for, uh, I think state house. Um,

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when I asked them, um, to give me stats on who voted, who didn't vote. Give me, give me ages, give me. And he did all of this at 12, one o'clock in the morning while he was on vacation in another country. Uh, so I appreciate them as well.

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you know my crew right here is Ms. Rorick and Mr. Rote. Can y'all stand up ‸ please? Um.

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Um, they were the ones when my signs fell down and I was too lazy to get up and go put them up. They said, hey, look, we have a sign down on us one. You need to go fix it. And then by the time I got to it, they already put it up already. So, you know, appreciate that because, you know,

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Um, it's not about just me, you know, it's, it's a lot of people like that that take the time, um, just to stand in the gap. You know, uh,

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how you doing? Uh, she allowed us to use her home, um, or her business rather, uh, doing the election cycle as well. Um, I know I could miss a lot of people.

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I may be

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making a mistake by naming people cause somebody gonna ‸ be mad at me.

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Cador,

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Kathy Hamilton Brown. Um, just to name a few, man. And just the entire community, um, for just getting out to vote. Um, a lot of people are turned off with politics right now. That's why

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you've

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seen the numbers so low. Um, and so,

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but

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I appreciate everyone for getting out, uh, in district one, man.

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really appreciate you and the ones who didn't vote for me. I love you. Okay. Because you are still ‸ my district. You are my constituent. You understand? So at the end of the day, it's not about who voted for who and all that crap. It's over with now. So all the ideas that I heard, I better hear them now. Um, because I heard a lot of great ideas. Because thank you for my opponent.

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see

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Appreciate you.

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They put a fire under my butt. They, they, they, they, they tested me. Because every time I turn around, there's a different sign on a different corner. And I was like,

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gotta beat them with signs. But I could not beat Mr. Green with signs.

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Uh,

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but, but you know, this,

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funny. Uh, but at the same time, man, it's a lot of work

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doing this. Um, special

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shout out, uh, right now, my

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Aunt Freda.

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Uh, she's in, uh, hospice right now.

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Um,

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and I've been doing this race. I've been kind of suppressing it. I have not gone to seen her in a few months. Because I, I know she would not want me to make her a distraction. That's how powerful a woman she is. So I went to go see her today. Um. Um. Um. God is just so good. Uh, God has had my back even though I know I don't deserve it. Um,

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Uh, to the city council, thank you for encouraging words, especially the mayor. He's always saying this, run your race.

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Basically that means don't worry about distractions. Just do you. And so I appreciate him for those words.

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the last two years, they assume, uh, me and Mike had beef. Um, because we didn't agree on things. I'm not a yes man. And he knows that. So when we don't agree on things that we vote on, that's not a dislike for my mayor. That's not a dislike for my council members. That shows, uh, that we are independent thinkers. That's what it shows. So. So. So.

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to my colleagues, Mayor Blake, I appreciate you.

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forward. Uh, or disagreements. Right. And, and, and we all are here for the same reasons, which is trying to fight for the city of Coco. And to the citizens, some things I am not going to agree with you on. That doesn't mean that we're idiots. That doesn't mean we get on social media and blast each other. What that means is you hold us accountable by picking up the phone and calling us. My number is 321-474-4923.

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I, I want to hear from you. We need to start opening up the dialogue with each other in this city. This city is too small for all the beef and animosity that we have. It's too small.

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too small.

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Oh, okay. I lost my track. Um, so the, my, my goal is is to continue to improve the infrastructure in the underserved areas. Um, to continue smart growth in our city. Uh, to improve communication between me, the citizens and city government.

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Uh,

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to continue ‸ supporting staff. Um, and we know that sometimes staff is, is, is tough. I know it's tough on y'all sometimes, especially I know it's hard for me to read some of the things I read and I'm like, I want to comment so bad. Um, but

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So I appreciate you staff for just doing y'all job, man, and staying the course.

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I think that's one of the things that we have done a great job in the ‸ last four and the last two years. Um, just trying to encourage citizens, uh, to open up

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Uh, so in closing, I'll leave with three words.

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respect.

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not agreeing on everything, but just respects others perspective. Dedication. Team Coco is just not a slogan. Team Coco must be a team. And sometimes I play football. Mayor Blake played football. My, my council member, buddy in the back, Kenny Johnson. Congratulations city of Palm Bay. We all play sports and in sports. I know for a fact I got into it with my teammates. But at the end of ‸ the day, we had a common goal, which was to win the game. So that's the attitude that we must have. And that's how we must be dedicated to the team Coco and sacrifice. I know I won this election because people seen the sacrifice that I know I've made. I know the sacrifice that my family has to make by sharing me, uh, with ‸ so many citizens

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the, uh, all of our council members as well have sacrificed themselves, uh, just for the

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So again, I appreciate all of you. Uh, ‸ see

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I see your homeboy. I see you. Uh,

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I, I, I,

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Jennifer Jenkins. I see you in the back, uh, school board member. I appreciate all you, my miss Pam,

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uh,

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uh, Bobby Burns back there. I love you. Don't start that today. Uh, but what you see is team Coco. Okay.

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We all are the city of Coco. That's what we are. Now it may be different experiences or, or, or different bank accounts or whatever the case may be, but look, we all go to the same gas stations. We go, we all go to church together. We all go to the riverfront. We all go get our dog treats in downtown. We all go to Wawa every now and then, you know, so we

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all are ‸ one and I really appreciate all the people here.

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Thank you. Appreciate you team.

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all elected officials, past and

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give them a round of applause.

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everyone there? Is

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this just the family?

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No, wait, ‸ this is everybody,

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thought. All council members. Anybody else? That's part of ‸ team going.

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Ready? One, two, three.

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