Cocoa Community Redevelopment Agency Regular Meeting

What the City's record shows

Built only from the City's minutes (281_CR_Reg_Minutes_11_14_2017.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: Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Jan Stewart, Ed Lanni, Clarence Whipple Jr.
• Arrived after the roll: Henry Parrish III (the minutes note: “arrived 5:04 pm”)
• (Checked against the ballots and the printed roll lines; no independent membership list of this board is available to confirm that the roll is complete.)
• Listed absent: Brenda Warner
• Also listed as present (staff and other roles): Anthony A. Garganese (Agency Counsel), Torri Edwards (Recording Secretary), Matthew Fuhrer (Assistant City Manager), Nancy Bunt (Deputy Community Services Director), Karen Hamilton (Community Services Director), Samia Singleton (Redevelopment Specialist)
• Named on at least one ballot later in the meeting: Clarence Whipple Jr., Don Boisvert, Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Lanni, Stewart (participation, which can differ from the roll: arrivals and departures are in the minutes' text)

Adopted actions (9)

• to approve the agenda for the regular meeting of November 14, 2017 as written (moved by Lanni, seconded by Clarence Whipple Jr.); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
• to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of October 10, 2017 (moved by Lanni, seconded by Clarence Whipple Jr.); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
• to approve the request for a Commercial Fagade Improvement Program grant in the amount of $5,000 for the property located at 300 N. Cocoa Blvd (moved by Lanni, seconded by Clarence Whipple Jr.); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
• to approve a budget transfer of $12,706 from the Infrastructure Account (110-3230-559.63-00) to the Professional Services Account (110-3230- 559.31-00) to cover the costs of demolition of the former Coast Guard Auxiliary Building and playground equipment in Lee Wenner Park (moved by Clarence Whipple Jr., seconded by Stewart); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 3
• to authorize staff to retain the services of Infrastructure Solutions Services to prepare a Five-Year Cocoa Waterfront Development Plan consistent with the 2008 Cocoa Waterfront Master Plan; and approve a budget transfer of $35,000 from the Cocoa CRA Contingency Account (110-3230-559.39-00) to the … (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Lanni); CARRIED 6-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 3
• to authorize staff to prepare, issue, and market a Request for Proposals (RFP) for development, subject to the conveyance of the property from the City to the CRA, to redevelop the 4.32 acre former Oak Mobile Home Park site at 915 Florida Avenue consistent with the Highest and Best Use Analysis (moved by Lanni, seconded by Jeri Blanco); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 4
• to provide Agency staff direction to either continue the original April 28, 2017 RFP for 603 Brevard Avenue or withdraw the RFP and direct staff to reissue a revised RFP which includes a public parking component of the redevelopment project (moved by Clarence Whipple Jr., seconded by Don Boisvert); CARRIED 6-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 4; the vote on p. 5
• to accept the Staff report on the FIND Grant update (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Stewart); CARRIED 6-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 5
• to adjourn the regular meeting of November 14, 2017 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Lanni); CARRIED 6-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Don Boisvert, Jeri Blanco, Clarence Whipple Jr., Stewart, Lanni; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 5

Money named in the minutes' motions (what each motion did with the amount, in its own words)

• $5,000 — CRA: decided in an adopted motion. “approve the request for a Commercial Fagade Improvement Program grant in the amount of $5,000 for the property located at 300 N. Cocoa Blvd” (motion result: CARRIED; the City's minutes (281_CR_Reg_Minutes_11_14_2017.pdf, pp. 1–2); fiscal period not recorded)
• $12,706 — CRA: decided in an adopted motion. “approve a budget transfer of $12,706 from the Infrastructure Account (110-3230-559.63-00) to the Professional Services Account (110-3230- 559.31-00) to cover the costs of demolition of the former Coast Guard Auxiliary Building and playground equipment in Lee Wenner Park” (motion result: CARRIED; the City's minutes (281_CR_Reg_Minutes_11_14_2017.pdf, p. 3); fiscal period not recorded)
• $35,000 — CRA: decided in an adopted motion. “authorize staff to retain the services of Infrastructure Solutions Services to prepare a Five-Year Cocoa Waterfront Development Plan consistent with the 2008 Cocoa Waterfront Master Plan; and approve a budget transfer of $35,000 from the Cocoa CRA Contingency Account (110-3230-559.39-00) to the Professional Services Account (110-3230-559.31-00) to cover the costs of preparing the Five-Year Plan” (motion result: CARRIED; the City's minutes (281_CR_Reg_Minutes_11_14_2017.pdf, p. 3); fiscal period not recorded)