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Attendance (the roll call)
Listed present when the roll was taken: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.
(Checked against the ballots and the printed roll lines.)
Listed absent: no board members; staff listed absent: Matthew Fuhrer (Assistant City Manager)
Also listed as present (staff and other roles): Anthony A. Garganese (City Attorney), John Titkanich Jr (City Manager), Monica Arsenault (Assistant City Clerk)
Named on at least one ballot later in the meeting: Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr., Don Boisvert, Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco (participation, which can differ from the roll: arrivals and departures are in the minutes' text)
Adopted actions (13)
1. Agenda: Regular Meeting of July 10, 2018 (18-271) — to approve the agenda as written for the Regular meeting of July 10, 2018 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Brenda Warner); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
2. Minutes: Regular Meeting of June 12, 2018 (18-272) — to approve the minutes as written for the Regular meeting of June 12, 2018 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Brenda Warner); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
to approve the Consent Agenda (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Don Boisvert); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 3
4. Ordinance No. 04-2018/2"7 & Final Reading: Amending Chapter 2 : Administration, Article Xl Special Events and Parades regarding applicati — to approve Ordinance No. 04-2018 on the second and final reading (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Jeri Blanco); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 4
1. Approve Resolution No. 2018-048 establishing the Rolled-back Rate, adopt a Tentative Proposed Millage Rate, and set the date, time, and p — to / approve Resolution No. 2018-048 establishing the Rolled-back Rate, adopt a Proposed Tentative Millage Rate, and set the date, time, and place for the : first Public Hearing to consider the FY2019 Budget (moved by Clarence Whipple Jr., seconded by Don Boisvert); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 5
2. Approve a Resolution celebrating 50 years of Home Rule in the State of Florida. (18-285) — to approve Resolution No. 2018-049 celebrating fifty years of Home Rule (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Jeri Blanco); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 7–8
1. Approve Task Order 2018-3 with CH2M for the Dyal Water Treatment Plant : Chemical Conversion and Reliability Improvements Project (CCRIP) — to approve Task Order 2018-3 with CH2M for the Dyal Water Treatment Piant Chemical Conversion and Reliability Improvements Project Final Design, : Permitting, Bidding, and Procurement Assistance (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Clarence Whipple Jr.); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 7–8
2. Approve as recommended by the Employee Insurance Task Force (ITF) and City : administration the proposed fiscal year 2019 benefit renewal — to approve the recommendation made by the Employee Insurance Task Force, using EyeMed as the vision carrier with the understanding that employees who are diabetic still have the availability of vision services through their regular medical care; moving forward staff will reach out to City employees to … (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Don Boisvert); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 10
3. Ordinance No. 07-2018/15! Reading: Amending Section 2-51 of the City Code to modify City Council regular meeting days from Tuesday to Wed — to table the item until the next scheduled Council meeting (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Jeri Blanco); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 11–12
4. Approve vendor selection for award of RFP #P-18-17-COC, Professional Auditing Services; authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execu — to approve the vendor selection for award of RFP #P-18-17-COC, Professional ; Auditing Services; authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a multi-year contract with Moore Stephens Lovelace, P.A. (in a contract form deemed acceptable to the City Attorney) through September 30, 2023 (audit of … (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Jeri Blanco); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 11–12
5. Reapprove Maintenance Agreement and Amendment with Canon Solutions America, Inc. (CSA) for the Oce Color Wave 650 and TC4 Scanner System — to approve the Maintenance Agreement and Amendment with Canon Solutions America, Inc. for the Oce Color Wave 650 and TC4 Scanner System as a Multi-year Agreement to be renewed automatically for successive one (1) year terms until either party terminates agreement retroactive to the effective date of … (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Clarence Whipple Jr.); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 11–12
6. Authorize the City Manager to execute a multi-year contract addendum between e the City of Cocoa and Orange Lien Data, LLC for Lien Searc — to authorize the City Manager to execute a multi-year contract addendum between the City of Cocoa and Orange Lien Data, LLC for Lien Search Services (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Jeri Blanco); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 13
to adjourn the Regular City Council meeting of July 10, 2018 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Clarence Whipple Jr.); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Henry Parrish III, Jeri Blanco, Don Boisvert, Brenda Warner, Clarence Whipple Jr.; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 15
Agenda (the City's wording)
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Thank you. A special little presentation tonight. I'm not going to speak. We have invited one of our next generation representatives, Mr. Jordan Miles, who has just completed one year of service in Israel, to come and give you some highlights and tell you what he did during this last year as a representative of the Sister City program. So I'd like to introduce all of you to Jordan Miles.
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So from an early age, I've just been brought up in this, and it's just nothing else I'd rather do. This is the group of 10 of us that I've been working with in Israel. The next generation of people are going to continue this effort and this relationship that we've built. Here are some of the different things I've been able to do in this past year. I've been able to go to these Holocaust survivors and hear their stories and just build friendships and relationships with so many people in Israel, and it's all thanks to you guys. So this is one woman
juice. And you don't say no to a Holocaust survivor. Just wonderful people. This is Rosa, and we were there for her 99th birthday. It was just an amazing experience to be able to be part of these people's lives.
just love on them, even though she spoke old Russian that even my Google Translate couldn't translate. Wow. So another activity we got to do is we went to the north and rebuilt bomb shelters. And we were asked by a municipality up north after the escalation with Syria to take over 100 bomb shelters and clean them up and make them available if any time in need that they have to go and use them. So this is just two that we got to work on. I also had the opportunity to talk to two Knesset members, which is like members of parliament in Israel. And it was just an amazing experience to be able to interact with them.
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while I was working there. And I was able to go and give them the Bet Shemesh. And it was just an incredible event to see how this has just blossomed into a wonderful relationship and how you guys have supported me even while I was there. I also had the opportunity to go and run in the Jerusalem Marathon.
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42.2 kilometers is a long way. And I got to see every back road of that city. It was an amazing event, though. And everyone came out to support those affected by terror.
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I don't know if you can spot me in there. I'm in the right corner. They call me the American son because I am over there. They don't talk to me in English anymore. Only Hebrew. So I learn how to speak with them. I go there once a month.
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broken homes. The children go to this school. And they perform this huge production. And those are just some of the kids. There's about eight of them. And I'm like the big brother now. And so just about in the early May, this is my mother,
And the center strives to initiate and strengthen bonds between Israelis and the United States and to promote understanding of U.S. policies, society, values, and culture.
One of my good friends now. I used to go to his house. I helped him build a website. This man was amazing, Walter Bingham. He's a 94-year-old, the world's oldest radio show host. He's still out there.
He's incredible. But he came out to support me and to put me on his show. So this is my Bet Shemesh family. They also came to support me, even though they don't even speak English too well. This is me in the newspaper recently with Lisa Wilschman. And she was the woman who runs the American Center of the U.S. Embassy. And it was just an incredible event and very humbling. It was a privilege to do this on behalf of Space Coast.
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Space Coast, and Florida. And thank you guys so much. It would never happen without any of you. And it's been a blessing to be your boots on the ground in Israel. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.
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male because he claimed to smell marijuana coming from him. Now, when he approached this male, he approached him aggressively. From within seconds, ‸ his forearm was to his throat. He was on the hood of the car. This
It was no reason for that aggression. This young man did not attempt to run. He didn't attempt to do anything. The officer attempted to search him. Officer ‸ Hernandez attempted to search him, and he said no. If he would have told him no, because you smell like marijuana, I want to search you. Or
people that I am a 29-year-old vet who has deployed twice. And I didn't deploy twice to see that, that ‸ your own people, your own police officers are separating your community because you guys do not know how to talk to people. You ‸ all are ‸ too aggressive, and it's not fair. A
They see a police officer, and they're so nervous. He was so nervous from that. ‸ I have little brothers. I have nephews. I have uncles, and I have family that I have to live for. I could have easily been mistaken. For a young male, all cops are not bad cops, and that's not what I'm saying. But the bad cops are putting a horrible name on your police department. I
And I know I have a time limit, but I just ‸ really want to let you all know that people are looking and they're seeing. And maybe if I would have spoken up that night and let him know who I was, the situation wouldn't have happened. But I sat and I watched. I can't sit back and watch anymore. There are people who are dying because of ‸ assumption. I
when he gets ‸ charged with resisting a police officer without violence, just because he said no, and then you have a forearm to your throat? To me, that's wrong. These kids, they watch the news. I get he's an adult, 19. To me, that's still a child. I'm
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I'm going to surprise you folks. No complaints. No complaints from the old man. All right. It's amazing. I would like to comment on the fireworks, which were great. Beautiful, beautiful show. As good as anybody else's show, great, and I hope they can do it again. ‸ Now, I know we had a little rain. The good Lord wanted to cool things down a little bit. And I was lucky enough to sit in my carport and look out to the east and see a beautiful show. So I wanted to say, very, very good show. I don't know how it affected the attendance down there with a little bit of rain.
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Mark's Episcopal Community. And on June 2nd, our 140th birthday just down the street at the riverfront, we launched a thing called the St. Mark's Community Action Network. And Deputy Mayor Blanco, Mayor Parrish were there for the ceremony. We
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You each have a flyer. I'll leave a couple more here for anyone who didn't receive one in some of the lobby for people who might be interested. We would love to see you at the event, but most were interested in receiving nominations for Inspiration Awards. ‸ Again, I'm working with Samantha on that, and I think she'll be able to channel any thoughts you might have. And
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I have no complaints either. I have positive stuff to say. I think that the fireworks, again, were great. I really would love to know if our attendance, even though we had the rain, was either equal to last year or a little higher. I'm waiting to hear that. I'm
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Wonderful. But I'm here for food for thought. I'm one of the old guys now. And I'm going over the people that have been involved with the city for many, many years. And I just wanted to make a statement about a particular individual that while I was on the council, I highly supported. This person also told me no several times before he even took me seriously about looking into an opening that was created.
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seen him, and he's doing well. But I highly recommend that some attention is considered to possibly naming the city hall after this person. And we're talking about Rick Holt. He not only was the financial director for many, many years, when there was an opening ‸ for city manager position. He fought me. And I kept embarrassing him during council meetings to consider. And
at that time was interested. And then that involved quite a few more years as well. But that was the only thing that I wanted to bring up today, is just something that you might want to consider. I
hall to anyone, because I was part of council and we even considered this building as well as the police department. So just thought I'd bring that up. Thank
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representing the Historic Cocoa Village Association. And the great news is I'm here more to listen than to talk tonight. So I know that's great news for everybody.
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frequently out of town on Tuesdays now, so I don't get a chance to come to as many meetings as I normally would be. So I miss out on a lot of the good stuff. So basically what I was ‸ going to do is just ask if it would be possible to get a very brief recap on how progress with the modification to the Master Waterfront plan is coming. And in particular, I know Matt looked into the feasibility of maybe doing something for a temporary facility until we really get the real one going. And I was curious about that. And I have a specific reason for it that we'll get to. If I get a chance to hear what's going on out there. John,
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with is coming up in December, which will be here in a blink, we will be having the fourth arrival of the Sail to the Sun rally. And last year, in conjunction with that, we did our first cruiser seminar, a pay-to-attend seminar that was hosted at the convention center. So we're going to be working, getting closer to having to make a decision on that again this year, whether we run it or not. And part of that decision will be facilities that are available to bring people in and whether it's just too much or what, and whether we want to skip a year or keep it rolling like this year and keep it going. So that's
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As I mentioned, this is second reading and final reading. There have been no changes since first reading of this ordinance. It's also a public hearing item, and we'd be happy to answer any questions if you have any at this juncture.
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five votes, and you'll set the first public hearing for September 5th at 5.30 PM. Just as a reminder, the proposed rate you vote for tonight can be reduced when voting for the adopted millage rate, which cannot be increased. So, just to provide some context here in terms of valuation, history, ‸ historical review, we normally have 10 years, but we added, we put 2008 in there, just to kind of show you where we are, where we were at the height of the market before ‸ the market crashed.
And in this most recent year, we had $25 million of new construction. This table is also historical, both valuation, millage rates, the ad valorem revenue raised as a result of the millage, and the variance from the year over year, and the percent of change.
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but just simple majority, you, uh, adopt a rate of 9.2317, uh, which would yield $8,487,075, or an additional $3,440,467. Uh, based on the analysis performed, and based on the budget that we, the budget workshop,
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really kind of speaks to the partnership and to what extent the city supports the redevelopment agencies. And you see in the second column from the left, yes, from the left, that last year the CRAs received a total of 836,592. If you maintain the current proposed
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family, looking at our single family property owners and what the increase would be. They're familiar with this slide. You know, in FY18, house valued at $100,000 less the homestead. Would, they pay $299 to the city for property taxes. With the increase,
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Obviously, what's out there on the horizon, we've discussed, is Amendment 1. All indicators are, suggest that it's going to pass, which would, not for this upcoming fiscal year, but the one after, would increase the value of the homestead exemption. And for the adoption hearing, I
but if you recall, a large percentage of our homes are below the 150 mark. Right. I want to say close to two-thirds, if not higher. So, as we always try to provide comparison. comparison.
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I think the department heads and all those have participated in the budget meetings. ‸ I know we've discussed this at the budget workshop or the fiscal sustainability workshop, but
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This is my sixth budget presenting to you, and this has been one of the more difficult ones in terms of, you know, looking at, you know, every fund, you know, feeling the stressors, you know, because obviously we have certain impacts to each fund that drive those budgets.
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have the governmental, corporate, and proprietary powers to enable them to conduct municipal government, perform, to perform, municipal functions, ‸ render municipal services, and may exercise power for municipal purposes, except as otherwise provided by law. Home rule powers are extremely critical to our city, and to cities across Florida, and to other counties.
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you know, generally speaking, and home rule is the center of that, and it's very important. And I know, in the last two years, in legislative sessions, uh, sessions, we have seen an outright attack on home rule, where the legislature's trying to claw back the powers and restrain, restrict, provide underfunded and unfunded mandates to the cities, which puts a, uh, a burden on, on the cities and local governments to deliver municipal services. Uh, our employees in, in the cities, uh, they're in the trenches. We're the ones that actually, local government, that deliver daily the municipal services that residents, you know, expect and, you know, uh, to be provided at the level that they choose that they be provided. And so, ‸ today, you have a resolution before you, uh, to honor 50 years of home rule. Um, so, the requested action is to approve a resolution celebrating 50 years of home rule in the state of Florida.
And I'll just say it out there, because I know we're on TV. That includes our representative, Mr. Fine. He would like to see you not be able to sit here in this room and help us make decisions.
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50 years of home rule. You deserve the right to vote for people who sit in your city and make the rules that govern your community. Not somebody who sits in Tallahassee.
And I'd say elect somebody. It could be, you know, I'll say it, even Mike Blake. Elect him. Um, because if you, if we don't elect people from the local governments to serve with experience, you gotta have experience in the, uh, on the state side, I don't know what to say.
And, uh, you know, it's a, it's a simple, you know, the house is a simple $29,000 a year job, but I've never seen more people with money, millions, throwing at a campaign that, I mean, that have money to throw at a campaign to own a vote that's gonna do harm to the citizens of our state. I mean,
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I did this the first time in 1999, and I've never in all those years seen a legislature that was so determined to pull power away from the people and away from the local level.
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All you are is a tool in my toolbox to get the job done, because they don't want people like me, Brenda, or anybody up here, or Mr. Blake, who's watching, hopefully, up there, because we'll make change. You know what
there is a resolution for, and then after that, we have, uh, like to ask all council, staff, and anybody, any members of the audience that support, you know,
and would like to honor 50 years of home rule and join us in front of the dais. And we're going to take a picture. We have some, our cocoa and let cities work. Let cities work.
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18-270, approve as recommended by the Employee Insurance Task Force Committee and State Administration, the proposed fiscal year 2019 benefit renewal for medical, which eliminates the BioPremier plan, dental, flexible spending, and life
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a final determination on the vision carrier, Humana or IMED, subject to a revised quote, and authorize the city manager to sign related agreements. We have, as you know, the city has moved to a self-funded plan in 2016, and we had some changes with regards to that. We
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All right. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Council. Good to see you all again. So as Gina said, we're going to jump right in here and talk about upcoming renewal and benefits for the upcoming fiscal year. A couple months ago, we did a little bit of a lengthy presentation reviewing some of the clinic data, which I think many of you remember. And we also gave a couple pieces of information that we're a little bit of looking into some of the stuff that we're going to look at tonight. So we're going to try and keep it pretty brief. Just go over real high-level background, medical plan utilization, talk about catastrophic claims. We spent some time on that earlier in the year, but need to hit on that again and then talk about some of the options that we looked at and ultimately the decisions that we're putting in front of you today. So Gina hit on some of this, and you've seen this slide before, so I don't want to spend too much time on it. But in 2016, the city was facing a pretty significant increase of 15%. In that year, the city elected to transition to self-funding. There was an initial savings in that year of close to half a million dollars by avoiding some fees that are associated with fully insured plans. And
able to capitalize and get our immediate return on investment for the money that we put into the health center when people use that. That redirects costs out of the plan at a lower cost than through the medical plan. So taking a look at medical claims averages, if you look at this chart, you'll see a pretty significant spike this year, which I'm going to talk about a little bit with the catastrophic claims. It's
The other thing we are seeing, and this is industry-wide, it's affecting every city and every employer around, is we have a lot higher pharmacy costs due to new high-cost medications. And I know we talked a lot about that with the clinic information. And the other thing is that we'll talk about a little bit more is the city has three plans. And if we look at those three plans individually and look at that claims experience, it's not equal across those three plans. We
and that's where we're going to talk about some of the recommendations that we're coming to today. So catastrophic claims, we gave you a little bit of an update on this, but in the last 12 months, so we always look at our prior 12 months in insurance, we've
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And our largest claim was actually about $870,000 and represented 15% of spend on the plan for the whole year last year. So that one claim, it was an anomaly, but those things happen. We have reinsurance that covers that. But when you look at that last graph I showed you a couple slides ago where this year looks pretty bad, if you take that one claim out, it's really right back in line with the averages from the years before. So those things happen on plans. They happen every couple years where you have an outlier like that. We just happen to have an outlier this year as we're going through that. ‸ So what we did here is I took the plans and we took the claims costs on a monthly basis. So this is an annual. This is the total amount of claims on the plan divided by the number of employees enrolled. And you'll see if you look at the base plan, last year that average was $533 in claims per employee per month. This year, at the same snapshot, same point in time, it's about $608. So
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So it's up higher than industry averages that we would see there. But then the premier plan, if you take a look at that, you see one, those averages are significantly higher than the other two plans as a starting off point, even last year. And then look at where we've gone this year. We're up at an average of almost $3,500 in claims per employee per month. So multiply that by 12. That's the average claims on that plan for the individuals on that plan. That
approached it. I know we've talked about it in some of the prior renewals and the city managers talked about it. But what we did was we, when we look at projecting insurance costs going forward, we're looking at medical inflation, utilization, all those things. We broke out that projection by each plan individually. And overall, it came out to a 10.6% projected increase for the city. That, the way we got to that, it's not equal enrollment, as you'll see in the parentheses, is the core plan would actually need a 16% reduction. So the premiums in that plan more than cover the expenses in that plan. The buy-up plan, which has 96 employees, would need a 37% increase. And the premier plan, which only has 22 individuals enrolled in that plan, or 22 employees enrolled, would need a 260%
When you start looking at that, when an actuary starts looking at that information, it'd be great to say, we're just going to follow these numbers. And everybody on the core plan gets a reduction. Everybody in the buy-up gets a 37% increase and 260%. What would happen in reality, though, is everybody would drop off those top two plans and they would take the 16% reduction. They're still going to have claims, even though they've moved plans. You know, $1,000 or $1,500 more deductible doesn't offset $150,000 of claims at a very significant level. So we took a look at that. We
We looked at going to one plan at a 7.5% increase because some people would have a lower schedule of benefits by doing that. That's what the overall increase needed would be to just have one plan. As
cities, and candidly, some of the employees in that core plan, to pay any more than they would have to pay ‸ just because other individuals are buying up. So we established 7.5% in a scenario where we went to two plans. We
the insurance task force. The insurance task force voted for scenario B, which puts the overall increase, as it does with both of them, to the city at 7.5%, which is about $313,000 to the city. I know there's a lot of numbers on that page, so please feel free to ask any questions. The next couple slides are vision, so I didn't know, Mr. Mayor, if you want me to stop there or keep going and save the questions until the end.
So the last item, we had a number of lines of coverage that I'll show you at the end that don't have any rate increase or proposed changes. So the only other item was the vision renewal. We had no increase proposed from Humana, who is the current vendor, along with no change to the schedule of benefits. ‸ There's been a number of administrative issues with Humana on the billing and eligibility side. So we did get quotes from other vendors. We had two very competitive quotes, one from IMED and one from VSP. They were both reductions with enhanced benefits. ‸ As we looked at the networks, both of the carriers have very good networks, but what we did find is that IMED had a significantly higher number of what we call retail providers. So that's going to be your Sears, Target, JC Penney, all of those. So there was a difference between IMED and VSP with that. And IMED was a 5.4% reduction in premium with some enhanced benefits. The insurance task force did recommend renewing with Humana. Staff in Gehring Group really believed that selecting IMED due to the cost savings and the enhanced benefit would benefit ‸ the largest percentage of population. So we did have a little variance there in the recommendation. And then up here, this is just kind of a high-level summary. A number of other coverages that most people don't think about until they use them.
average, you know, an 18 to 24 month kind of one thing spikes. So if you think about the type of conditions that typically drive these kind of costs, a lot of times it's cancers, could be heart related. But even that these days, you know, the cancer costs are really exceeding that. And if you think about somebody with cancer getting treatment, you know, you typically, hopefully they're getting better and coming back. You typically have about a 12 to 16 month kind of period where they're having a lot of tests. So you see that spike, and then you see it kind of drop back down. And
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can see that the employee is considered to be part of the poverty group according to the U.S. federal government, dependent on the gross income, net income, and measures of income. I hate to really come to you tonight to ask anything to speak about this, but the astronomical cost of these medical, you know, health going up. It's brought a lot of attention to everybody ‸ because it's raising blood pressure, it's getting people excited, and we're here to ask you to help us, the employee. It seems like the administrative branch, you know, they're there to make money, ‸ you know, they're making millions right now. So, if the insurance is being paid for the administrative branch at 100%, they don't care. You know, I've done a study, I've asked people that do have insurance, they don't care anymore.
the cost of living going up annually, and especially with the single parents, there's no way for them to sustain. This particular person will be forced to use approximately 25% of their gross annual income. And I was, had to drop my son last year, he was disabled, so I could no longer afford the insurance. And that's heartbreaking to have to do something like that. And what, some of the things that I'm asking here, you know, to look at, if
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don't have anything. We haven't had anything ‸ for years. I'm asking to please take a look at a cost of living with the negotiated LIUNA race, as we used to have long ago, many years ago. And,
use ‸ this clinic that we have that was supposed to be so great for everybody. If they can't no longer afford the clinic, you know, the insurance, let them use the clinic for free, at a minimal cost, something they can't afford, because you know what they're making. And you can see that this person cannot afford to add another member there. And there's a lot of employees that work for the city right now that have their children on Medicaid because ‸ they can't afford the city's insurance anymore. More and more individuals are having to do their own research. They're given just 800
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distributed through HR and told to, you know, they're responsible for calling doctors, hanging on the phone for hours, waiting for referrals, finding out why Cigna's not either, you know, denying a claim or, you know, refusing to pay for services. Since,
the big complaint now is it takes weeks to get into the clinic. There's been circumstances where people have been very, very sick and had to drive to Satellite Beach to be told to go to the emergency room. And I don't think that's what the clinic was actually, you know, supposed to do for us.
I work in the purchasing department. It kind of baffles me why the city declines to go out for bid for these services. We haven't been out to bid since June of 2012. And,
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They got a great deal here, but it doesn't make sense to me to have a, you know, hire a service that's actually working on commission from the insurance companies that we are using. Why would you do that? I mean, you would hire an independent to come in and do a study of your bids, and then you would have, you know, a service to come in and do all your other service.
You wouldn't have one shop stop because they're going to be working on commission. So when they do look through this, they're going to look at benefits for themselves, the commission.
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That was just another thing that I thought was kind of crazy. And, you know, I just wish for one moment that, you know, the executive branch that gets everything paid at 100%, you know, would be forced to be in our shoes for one moment and, you know, ask themselves, every year, is this the year I'm going to have to drop a child or I'm going to have to drop a spouse for my insurance? You know, pretty much our wages are staying dormant. Three percent is not even offsetting anything, as you can see in the numbers there. They don't lie.
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Why can't we do some of this stuff? If the city is going to continue with the, if they have the premier plans available for the executive branch, there's a lot of retirees and other people that do want to keep that plan if it is going to be available for them.
their employees again. You know, for the morale and this type of stuff that you're seeing in black and white, it's really down. People, the turnover is bad right now. People don't want to stay. And there needs to be some type of recognition for tenure, whether it's that, or peer-to-peer across the board.
know, just some more spot recognition. Just more, you know, getting with your people. And, you know, your employees work hard for, you know, your management and the city. Why not recognize them for what they do when you work, you know, hard in the workforce and you did a job well done, whether it's achievement, you know, critical projects that, you know, have done in timely manner. You know, reinforce positive behavior. Do something for the poor good. You know, the bottom line is for the citizens and the city, happy workers,
know, help everyone. It's a good ‸ work environment. So, you know, and the thing that bothers me now is, you know, we need to stop the good old boy organization. So, I thank you for the ‸ opportunity to get to speak tonight.
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I'm happy to answer any questions. But when we transition to self-funded and we've spent candidly a lot of time reviewing this as much as possible. I understand it's a ‸ hard concept sometimes when you're not dealing with it. But when we transition to self-funded,
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It's a pretty negligible fee in the grand scheme of things. That is the only premium or money that's paid to that third-party administrator. There's reinsurance that's purchased.
to the doctor, going to the hospital, all those things. So what you look at more with self-funding and going out to bid, I think there's a misconception that we're just going to go out to bid and somebody's going to give us a lower rate,
When you're self-funded, what happens is you're paying those claims as they occur. So what you're really looking at is who has the best discount on those services in the area. If you take a look around at a lot of the municipal entities around here, you'll see that they're insured with Cigna for their self-funded plan. The reason is that gets them the biggest discount on the claim. So when we're looking at that each year, it's not a fully insured environment where
that's gone on that and think about an insurance company's perspective and whether or not, candidly, the city's really attractive in a fully insured arrangement right now. I mean, you know, what kind of underwriters and actuaries want to, you know,
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as possible. So I just wanted to kind of address that because I think sometimes that gets, you know, misinterpreted with we're buying two equal products and
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Yeah. The, it is not covered, the diabetic eye care with IMED. However, this has always been covered with Cigna. A lot of employees don't realize that and that has been provided to them in the educations we have given them. And we also plan to include that education as well in the open enrollment meetings. We have a presentation before the actual enrollment sessions.
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kind of a general rule if it helps just understanding. Typically anything that an ophthalmologist would do is covered under the medical plan. It's largely your optometry that's going to fall under the vision.
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about the non-coverage of the diabetics. And it seems as though that's what's happening within our communities. We have a lot of diabetic people that needs the coverage that this plan is saying that they're not going to cover. And you say it's falling under the medical.
vision coverage because that is a covered medical benefit. It's just, and they have it now, right now under full. You know, if you made this transition, it would solely be under the Cigna medical plan, which
as a whole. There's some benefits to it actually being performed under the medical plan because that data is transmitted back and it helps the carriers identify what they call gaps in care. So like if a diabetic doesn't have their eye exam, they actually do an outreach and let them know, hey, you need to have an eye exam. You actually
So, I mean, with the cost of insurance going up across the board, whether you're self-insured or not, is there anything that the city can do to lower the cost for the employer or employee?
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, ‸ we've talked about a number of ideas. We've looked at different wellness incentives. We obviously have the health center. ‸ You know, the health center data, we showed you all some of the utilization. ‸ I understand that, you know, on the last minute, it may be frustrating to go to Satellite Beach. ‸ Still a better option than,
So trying to continue to promote that. We've looked and talked about different wellness incentive programs. I think there's been some pushback. I think, candidly, going to a single plan would be a good step towards really controlling those costs. That was really where that initial recommendation was this year, was put everything ‸ on kind of that same line.
the option of kind of the two plans. I think if you look as a whole where care is going and where insurance is going, whether individuals like it or not,
And there's more onus on the individual for their own care. And I think we have to continue to keep taking the steps that way. We have to continue to get people to be better consumers to make sure they're selecting the right location for care. Now, if you want to do that solely via plan design, the way to do that is do what most private employers have done, which is go to a high deductible plan. Where everything's subject to the deductible. We haven't taken that step yet because I need the police escort out then. But, you know, looking at some of those things is really where things are going. So we're trying to get there in an approach that, you know, we're taking baby steps more than just, you know, ripping the Band-Aid off. But I think if you make a drastic step and do some of those things, you know, you'll start to see more of those results quicker. Unfortunately, there's some pain in that transition as people get used to a different program.
that was said by her tonight. So that there can be some type of solution to taking care of some of those concerns about us being self-insured. And their prices are going up as an employee. I think her concerns are a lot deeper than ‸ the city being self-insured. There are other entities that she's mentioned that I think we need to address. So peace and understanding will come about. We may be doing the right thing as far as finances are concerned for the city. But if it has a negative impact on the staff, I think we need to address it. And I'm going to ask that the city manager address those concerns specifically with the individual that came before us tonight. I know that it says during delegations that the employee can come forward to discuss issues in regards to their employment.
for the city. So I'm going to ask the city manager if he can address that offline and report back to council in regards to whether he does it by interoffice communications or doing a council meeting. We need to find a solution to those concerns, period. That's it, Mr. Mayor.
Yeah, absolutely. I want to add to that. Tammy, thank you. Any other employees? Thank you. You're the heart of the city. Happy employees. You know, move the city forward. Not happy employees don't. And I think from our vantage point, the only excuse I can give you is ‸ we're at 5,000 feet up or 10,000 feet up, setting policy ‸ as we improve things through the years. You know, like the example would be the fire departments. You know, we opened the new fire departments, reposition them. It's great. And your policy is set, you know, comes in play.
the employee needs. Because employee needs, guess what, take care of the citizens. The citizens are the bosses. But I'm sure we have to look at everything that you, that you're being subjected to. And hopefully we can see it. Or maybe you can talk to us individually or whatever you like to do. But, but
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like to look at, always re-look at everything. ‸ You know, I want to be better than the other cities, the other counties. ‸ But I hear you loud and clear. We all do. And I think maybe we need, ‸ maybe even get a task force to look at this and see, and kind of refocus on,
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we set policy and policy does get stale and old and bad if you don't maintain it or, you know, look at it. And I think even though we don't set policy on employees, it affects some of our policies. But we need to make sure that we keep morale up. Morale is, always bothers me, you know. And I mean, we need to improve things. So,
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No, I just, I just had a question. So, I mean, the employees are looking at a 7.5% increase. And the council or the city budget is looking at a 300,000 plus increase. Is that what we're saying here? That's fine. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's my last question.
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options in addition to what was presented tonight to try to offset some of the ‸ impacts in terms of health reimbursement accounts, health savings accounts,
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some of them ‸ would cost the employees more. So, I mean, we're trying to provide a regional level of benefits. And so I'll be more than glad to provide you all an overview, you know,
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to two plans, and then we had two that were recommending one plan. And so, you know, while the administration certainly does believe, and I think it was discussed, that the, going to a single court plan would be more beneficial. But we said we would try the, this as an interim to see if there is a, you know, see how this works out. Also, ‸ you know,
think some things that Sean talked about, it also, education. And we have, you know, the wellness fairs, we have the open enrollment, and where all the benefits are explained. And we actually have Cigna coming out, I think they come out three, four times a year.
So, everybody's aware of the benefits that they have, where they can ask questions to, you know, so you don't have to get on that phone. I've been on that phone call before, too.
And, you know, and the one thing I will say, just in general, if you recall, you know, because I think it's, you know, at the core of this, back when the city made
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budget as well. And that's when we made the decision to do what we did. I mean, I think it was last year, there was a community in Brevard County whose employees faced a 30-percent increase,
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So, I mean, insurance costs, you know, even more so in the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act, you know, have, we've seen some of those costs increased.
It's one of our strategic issues in terms of, you know, investing in our employees and providing those, you know, reasonable level benefits. We also be, you know, also trying to be mindful that there's only so much money the taxpayers are willing to provide and trying to make the best decisions ‸ in the interest of both parties.
Well, that being said, Mr. City Manager, I would like to make a motion that we approve what is it being recommended by the employee task force that's on our agenda tonight using iMed as the vision carrier, with the understanding that our employees who are diabetic still have the availability of vision services through their regular medical care, which is how I've always done mine, not ‸ through my vision, but through my medical. And I want my motion to include that from this day forward, we will reach out to our employees and if nothing else, at least ask for suggestions on how they think we may be able to improve the health services that we offer at a more reasonable cost and see if maybe somebody out there has a better idea than what we have as a council. That's a great
And also let the motion include asking the city manager to maybe consider forming a employee group to look at insurance coverage, not just for the city of Cocoa, but, you know, what is happening to insurance nationwide so that we can use that information to educate our employees before we go through this process next year?
I think you summed it up earlier, Mr. Mayor. You know, we're not the only city, when you talk to other mayors, that are grappling with these issues in terms of maintaining
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Everybody is fighting for employees, and ‸ everybody knows municipal government doesn't have the best salaries. The benefits to our employees are the best things that we can offer. So ‸ we just have to hope that our citizens at some point understand that there's only so much cutting we can do, and we can't keep good employees if we don't compete.
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that's the way it goes in the private sector, too. I mean, any business will tell you employees and benefits for employees are a huge portion of their budget, and most of them have started cutting employee benefits because that's the only way they can. The deductibles go much higher. Most of my friends who are in the private sector, their deductibles are 75. My brother's deductible on his last surgery was $10,000, and he's the boss. He buys the insurance. Yeah. Right.
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the ‸ city council can change the meeting date from a Tuesday to a Wednesday. You asked that we look at the legal authority to change the meeting dates. We, pursuant to the city charter, the council has the right to change the meeting dates if it's your desire. ‸ Procedurally,
city council would have to adopt an ordinance to do that. So, this is just being brought to close the loop for your consideration on whether or not you even want to entertain changing the meeting date ‸ from Tuesdays to Wednesdays. And if so, there is an ordinance that we put in the agenda package in case that's the direction the council wants to go.
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I was going to say that's one of the issues that we've had residents... I can't attend the school board or the county commission meetings because we meet on the same days. I know we always...
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that having a council meeting on Wednesdays would be advantageous for the staff as well as the community. We have the school board. My main reason for bringing it up is that we have attendance to the school board more so than council meetings because they're on the same night.
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come here. We've had empty seats on Tuesday nights here when if we give people the opportunity the next night to come here, to voice their concerns, and get involved in city government, local government, more so than being in another place to where they won't be able to have the input they would if they
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Well, the biggest benefit I see is definitely that we have been sitting here having a meeting on nights when we all should have been in a school board meeting. Yes, many times. Many times.
times. And knowing how important, especially these days when we've lost our middle school, that schools are to our city. You know, I don't want to be sitting here when the school board is making decisions about our schools. I would ‸ like to at least be able to know that one or two of us could go sit at a school board meeting. Yes. I have no objection to changing it.
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the requested action is to approve vendor selection for award of RFP 18-17-COC, Professional Auditing Services, authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute a multi-year contract with Moore-Stevens-Lovelace PA in a contract form acceptable to the city attorney
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And I would like to mention one of the attachments that was, it was called the comparison that was attached to the agenda item. That was prepared by a non-voting member of the committee that made the selection. And there was a typo between two lines. But I just wanted to let you know that that comparison was not used in the scoring and the ranking at all. ‸ It was given to the committee, like, shortly before we met. And we had already, you know, scored our sheets and everything. So the typo didn't affect the scoring aspect at all. But I wanted to bring it to your attention.
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as a multi-year agreement to be renewed automatically for successive one-year terms until either party terminates agreement retroactive to the effective date of the maintenance agreement and amendment.
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reason I come up here, I want to publicly thank the mayor. I don't know if you people, whether he explained it or not, but they have a program which they call Honor
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in the wheelchair. And very, very good. Even took time for me to go to the bathroom and all that he was really did a good ‸ job and I want to publicly thank him for it right here. Thank you.
All right? Just make make that ‸ very clear. And DC has some great bathrooms to be laid out and so we did it but it yeah it was a great yes it's a great adventure and we met we
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you do go down and get the picture first with all of us and don't go there to Bob Dole so captain and I are see a congressman Posey shows up at the bus we're getting pictures with him and everybody's getting a little mad and I see Bob Dole he's looking at Captain
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So we went over there got pictures. and so we were in trouble most of the day captain and I we had a we had a great trip. It was a it was a great trip. so good all right. oh yeah. He's
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roll tonight Keep it up, right? ‸ Just a couple things. um I just wanted to say great League of Cities dinner last night Mr. Whipple and I attended and I wanted to say thank you to the city of Rockledge for letting us um sit and enjoy the meal with them. it was nice to see our friends in Rockledge and get to talk about what's going on in their city and we were both of us were without our city manager, so we could we could have nice conversation without feeling like the teacher was looking over her soul. so
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negative talk online uh in the port st john community about our water system and specifically about our meter readers and their employees and that's our employees and that's very upsetting to me because I know our employees are are doing their jobs um so I have suggested to people that they reach out to our city manager and deal with him uh
has suggested that every everybody from port st john come to our next council meeting so I just wanted to give our cocoa citizens a heads up if you get here and have no place to park it's your neighbors in Port St. John that are here. uh in the meantime
city manager and I am confident that he will address their concerns They would like for somebody from our water department to host a meeting in Port St. John to talk about um what they feel is problems specific to Port St. ‸ John and
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of Cities. It was requested in our board meeting that we have a representative from the City of Coco designated as their our representative, and she did.
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The traffic lights operational as of yesterday, and the new north and north northbound traffic light at 95 is operating. So now both entrances to the highway have traffic lights and they're working. They usually only had one before. you mean
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one thing i do want to mention that we had on july 1st in the park which was the u.s army jazz band And for those of you who did not get to attend that event, you missed a great concert. They were great. I mean, the audience. i Right, Brenda?
so And I mean, that's it's really an honor for the the of the band of their caliber to uh come to Coco and perform like that. So I hope to see them again in the future. And uh I think that's
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Wonderful turnout at both stations. I think the community really appreciated the fact that we did that. Thank you, Chief Prince. You and your team did a great job. Yes. ‸ thank you very much. um That's it, Mr. Mayor. Thank
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And I think, you know, by, I think earlier when we were talking about it, I think by, you know, having a group come in and try to, you know, circumvent what the local governments have done is not right. And history will show that today doesn't,
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as, uh you know, the stuff we're seeing down in uh Patrick and the water system down here all kinds of accusations going around. um Be mindful of, you know, you know our city. I'm very proud of our water system how it's, you know, all the work that has been done to it over the years and all the vendors that work on it and people that work in utilities. and uh you know very proud of the city. any Anything
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The speaker at League of Cities last night, John, was Ian Golden from the county's housing department. Karen, Ian was talking about some of the uh federal money that they're expecting um to come as a result of the last hurricane that they're still kind of waiting on. Yeah. um
Brevard County is eligible, one of the, I guess, one of four areas that's eligible for some of this money. According to Ian, some of this money that's coming to us is specifically designated for infrastructure. soThat's
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which is you know, I know we're going to shut ‸ down in just a second. This is important that we kind of reconnect because we can't talk, you know, and,
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