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Attendance (the roll call)
Listed present when the roll was taken: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Matthew Barringer, Janne Etz, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss, Candace Rogers
(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: Alex Goins
Also listed as present (staff and other roles): Anthony A. Garganese (Agency Attorney), Ryan Browne (Recording Secretary)
Named on at least one ballot later in the meeting: ETZ, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss, Matthew Barringer, Mike Blake, ROGERS (participation, which can differ from the roll: arrivals and departures are in the minutes' text)
Adopted actions (4)
to approve the Agenda for the Regular Meeting of November 6, 2023, as written (moved by ETZ, seconded by Lavander Hearn); PASSED 6-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Matthew Barringer, ETZ, Lorraine Koss, ROGERS; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
to approve the resolution (moved by Lavander Hearn, seconded by Mike Blake); PASSED 6-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Matthew Barringer, ETZ, Lorraine Koss, ROGERS; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
to approve the resolution (moved by ETZ, seconded by Mike Blake); PASSED 6-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Matthew Barringer, ETZ, Lorraine Koss, ROGERS; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 3
to adjourn the meeting (moved by Lavander Hearn, seconded by ETZ); PASSED 6-0; ayes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Matthew Barringer, ETZ, Lorraine Koss, ROGERS; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 4
Agenda (the City's wording)
The City's agenda for this meeting is on file (CR_Reg_Agenda_11_06_2023), but its item list has not been read reliably by machine yet, so no outline is shown.
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use templates, but I change the colors and put in the pictures and do the, you know, it just takes hours. It takes hours to do a month's worth because you want to do one or two every day and, ugh, anyway. But I
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my man for program. Would everyone please rise? Please, ma'am. Please, sir. Uh, we would like to secure all cell phones. Pagers. I'm normal school. We will have our invocation led by agency member Matt Beringer and the pledge of allegiance by, uh, vice chairperson.
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Thank you. Uh, please stand and bow your heads. Heavenly father. We come to you together today as a body, uh, on behalf of the city to, uh, to really help uplift all of those that we
We may serve. Heavenly father. For those of you that are considering, uh, calling Coco home. Uh, we, we hope that you feel the welcoming and open doors to our, to our wonderful city, uh, and hope that you are guided, uh, in your journey with what you need in order to make informed and great decisions. Heavenly father,
uh, just absolutely continues day in day out to continue to work. And for all of our citizens who decide to either call Coco home or, uh, work in Coco as well. We just, uh, ask that you protect them, lift up their businesses and
Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Brown. Chair would like to proceed on to item number two approval of tonight's agenda regular meeting of November the 6th, 2023. What are the wishes of the agency? Move to approve. We have a motion on the floor by
Thank you kindly, ma'am. Okay. Seeing no cards for delegations, we will proceed to item number four. Presentations. Well, what do we have here? No presentations
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On behalf of the staff here at the Coco CR a. We'd like to welcome Matthew Berenger as our newest agency member to our board. And so please welcome him agency members to the
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every month at 6 PM and your schedule is attached to the to the agenda. And with the exception of January and September of 2024, all meetings will be on Monday night. The
are due to the fact that we have holidays that fall right after or right. Our meetings fall right after the holidays on those nights. So so these were the set meetings and I asked agency members approval to accept those dates so that we can advertise for next calendar year.
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COCO sign an interlocal agreement to use off duty COCO police officers to staff the weekend night shifts of 11 PM to 3 AM Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. This special detail would consist of two officers
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and they received either overtime pay or comp time and the overtime pay is submitted to the CRA for payment. And it as we had concluded the fiscal year, the CRA budgeted and transferred $72,800
which will actually initiate the ‸ first part of the transaction, which is the Council approval of the amendment to transfer the funds back to the CRA.
I know we have a card in the audience. I can take a motion and then listen to the audience or one person or I can just take a motion after whatever the wishes of the agency member. Would you like to hear from Mr. Greenwood? Okay, Mr. Greenwood front and center, please young man.
Alex Greenwood Brevard Avenue Cocoa Village. And thank you. The board to allow me to come and speak and include that includes the chairperson. I'm very much in favor of this. The commercial property group. Several more than several people had called and showed support of it. But it needs a little fine tuning because the main reason that this was something that was so important was because of other negative issues that were seen in the Melbourne area. We're trying to prevent that from happening here. That includes problems with homeless people that would be hanging around late at ‸ night. And that would also include other issues like groups of people that might look like they're in the process of getting to fight, you know, things like that. And then also other ordinances that need to be enforced, which is the same thing outside the village. It should not be something that ‸ the ordinances are supported only when there's a complaint. It cannot be done that way. This is something that when the police are there, if they notice something's wrong and they know that it's not allowed in the downtown area, they need to go ahead and proceed what they have to be able to fix it. The other problem is the hours. I was surprised to see that the only time that the officers start in the village is at 11 o'clock and that is entirely too late. Most of the people when we get the busiest starts at nine and that's when some of the ordinances need to be addressed. Because even though there's a court date in December about a noise ordinance violation that's in the village that I'm involved in with all the other people that have asked me to pursue this, mainly the commercial property group and also residences.
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very proactive. I mean, it's just like when people are violating when they're driving their car around. When you see the issue happen, you address it. And I also wanted to state that Donna was not able
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She also Kettner, she's a business owner and also has been here for 40 years and she wanted to support this. But the biggest thing that she also had to add to the noise issue is the homeless. We're still having a problem with that. And they are the police are addressing it. They're doing a good job. But if they come a little earlier, just two hours, I just hope that that's something that we can fine tune and be more proactive. And then try to make this place even better than it is. We do not want a bar village. Okay. Thank you very much.
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We'll proceed in this order. Yes, ma'am. Agency member Rogers. And then agency member. We haven't gotten your name scribed it, but we will agency member. Very. Very. Sir. Matt. Sorry, sir. Go ahead, ma'am.
Okay. So ‸ I want to thank the city for sending myself and other members to the Florida Redevelopment Conference. It was very enlightening. And one of the subjects that we covered was community policing. And as I listened and learned a little bit more, it was obvious, I think, from the beginning, we did not know how much policing that we would need. And I don't think it's just a matter of how many police we have, policemen down here. But I think it's a consistency. I think we have to look at how many people are actually in the village. And when crime happens, how does that really relate? If we look at it as a percentage, it usually looks really high. But ‸ there's another metric I think we can look at, and that is if you have a burglary or a murder or whatever, how often does that happen?
10 years, and you take that and you divide it into the population, and it comes out with a little different look. But the other thing that I learned is that we have to see them visibly. It can't be just like at 11 o'clock when you see somebody. It should be consistent, and it should be a dedicated force. ‸ If it's only two, then it's two. But they're dedicated, and they go throughout the week because crime doesn't happen in just one day. We do need to make them more visible, I think. We have, what, five electric bikes, so I'd like to know at some point when that training is taking place so that they can get out on the street because we haven't seen them.
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defensive method. You know, the merchants have a right to make a living, and we want them to make a living. Otherwise, our property values will go down and so will our taxes. So it is incumbent upon us to do some of these small things that we think really don't make a difference, but they do. And the governor just signed in March of this year that all, if you have five units on a plot or greater for multifamilies, you're going to have to take the crime prevention through environmental design.
we'll get there. And it's, I do think tightening the ordinances and actually enforcing them is terribly important. And we have boats down there that have been down there for months. And when we had the big events, people were coming and they couldn't tie up at the T dot because these people literally have been there for months. And that's all I have to say. Thank you so much.
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to like 31,000 or something. ‸ So it's like ‸ $5,000 swing or something. I know that there is purpose and intent for that. I was just wondering, can we explain. What that. What's that black box?
was the and I'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, Brian, the the 25,000 to the 31,000 is the taxes and insurance that are applied to all of these rates. And I don't know I don't have the exact amounts for each one of those, but that's what those would be.
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some great, uh, refreshments and some, uh, historical, uh, presentations and, uh, a view of the museum. So we hope that everybody will be able to attend. We'll be sending out. If you have not already received your invite, you will be getting that invite shortly, uh, within the week to, uh, to register to attend.
then additionally, uh, just a reminder that the city will be closed for the following holidays in November, Veterans Day, which is this Friday, which will
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Uh, they went to all of those, uh, different seminars, and I think they gained a lot of information and knowledge that can be used for, uh, some of the things that we are doing here in our CRA. And also as well as in
board that participated. So we hope to share with you some of the, the different and exciting things that we learned at the conference over the next few months.
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interesting. Something I learned, I toured the Jacksonville beach, uh, their downtown, uh, area. And something that was interesting to me is they were faced with the same issue that we were having in our downtown area parking. So what they
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up doing in their attempt to address the parking, they actually built a lot of parking lots and it actually affected their, uh, the outlook of their downtown
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something we could think about as we move forward and we look forward to, uh, parking solutions that we don't take away that, uh, walkability aspect. Um, cause it kind of hurt
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identity. Um, that's what they reported. Um, it was actually interesting ‸ to see some buildings that they had that were over five stories and, uh, there was pushback. Um,
a part of the process and working with the developers to try to, uh, keep the buildings, uh, in line with the, uh, facelift or the outlook of the rest of the, uh, downtown area. So that was something interesting. I just wanted to report that back to you guys.
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If it supersedes five stories, they can still construct it so that you can maintain that ambiance of the downtown nostalgic look or contemporary look. And that's what it's all about. Okay. I got you. I'm coming straight down. Agency member. Did you attend? Did you?
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I took the tour of the downtown Jacksonville, which was interesting because it was so thoughtfully planned out in their planning that what they did was take the old downtown, which ‸ was at one time the new downtown when they after the fire. And now they're coordinating and taking underutilized abandoned buildings and creating like nine different neighborhoods, each with a distinctive theme. One was also celebrating two black composers that were famous for let freedom sing. And, and then they added in housing.
But what connects them all is these interesting, like the Emerald Greenway. They all are connected like a spider web. So you're getting this revitalization, connectivity, and everything that you always dreamed of.
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a price. Each project was like 21 million here in 21. so you know but we did take some things and say we can do that and I would like to try to figure out one day how we could connect ourselves. Because we have been divided up by
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we could figure out one day how we could connect it. But that was all very interesting then I went to the it was how to do community art and yes you can use a committee. And it can be very effective. You know, but you set the parameters and say, this is how we're gonna ‸ brand ourselves. And you pick a brand. And, you know, you put all the little pieces together. And then when they come and ask for a project that we had like for the entryway I learned about a call for entry. And it's a free organization. ‸ doesn't cost us anything. And they send out to all the artists who can submit. And through this organization, they give you guidelines. Like if you're doing a mural, how much you could be expected to have to pay for that. And it goes out. And then these artists may see this project. And they'll have their tick-tock or Facebook followers and they'll start you know if they get the project, maybe it's now going out all over. So you get added exposure. And because you own that now if you gave ‸ paid them to do the project. So that was all very interesting and I think we you know we can learn from that I think I was talking to Charlene why don't we have a category for that you know in the budget because I think we tend to sometimes just say, oh that sounds good.
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highlights and then on the byways of the scenic byways I learned Ed McMahon was the first president and then after that I learned that all the youth you know ways that we could actually, you don't fight progress. You just be smart about it
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they do have lots of force us source funding for the in different projects that we could maybe tap into and if I forbid a chain store would ever want to come here which I don't think it will so relax it did show you that you don't have to accept their facade and then if you look at Walmart and been what's it Benson Arkansas ‸ their headquarters are they have something you you wouldn't even know it was a Walmart so it was all very interesting but it's better to you know be intelligent and thoughtful about your redevelopment and I think we must have done okay from all the people that came behind us up to this point because we hear it all the time. The village gets everything. And it looks nice, but we want that too so I think that's actually a backhanded compliment thank you
thank you very much if I may say so in conclusion knowledge is power and I'm tickled pink that you all attended the conference thank you Because you're bringing back a plethora of information that we can use as a valuable resource. Do we have any other questions or comments?
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