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Built only from the City's minutes (1051_CC_Reg_Minutes_05_27_2020.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: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins (printed “James Goins”), Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner
(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): Kristin Eick (Assistant City Attorney), Matthew Fuhrer (Interim City Manager), Carie E. Shealy (City Clerk), Tammy Gemmati (Administrative Services Director), Jack Walsh (Utilities Director), Michael Cantaloupe (Chief of Police), Jonathan Lamm (Fire Chief), Rebecca Bowman (Finance Director), Nancy Bunt (Community Services Director), Robert Beach (Chief Information Officer), LeShawn Hinton (Helpdesk Support Tech)
Named on at least one ballot later in the meeting: Alex Goins, Brenda Warner, Don Boisvert, Jake Williams Jr., Lorraine Koss (participation, which can differ from the roll: arrivals and departures are in the minutes' text)
Adopted actions (12)
Agenda: Regular Meeting of May 27, 2020. (20-290) — to approve the Agenda as amended for the Regular meeting of May 27, 2020 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Alex Goins); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, pp. 1–2
to approve the Consent agenda (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Brenda Warner); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 8
Approve the current Code Enforcement Lien for the residence located at 1803 N Indian River Dr, be reduced to $2,000.00. (20-284) — to approve the lien reduction to $2,000 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 8
IX. City Business: i Approve the City Attorney to negotiate the terms and conditions of the Purchase Agreement for the property located at 9 — to approve staff's recommendation (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Don Boisvert); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 9
2. Approve a Resolution Amending the FY2020 Budget, BAF’s # 20-065-A, # 20- 065-T1 and # 20-065-T2, sweeping expense budgets, to account for — to approve the item (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 9
3. Council approval to apply for Special Category Historic Preservation Grant through the Florida Department of State for $150,000 with a 1: — to approve the item (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 9; the vote on p. 10
4. To provide approval for the City to apply for Community Development Block Grant - Mitigation (CDBG-MIT) Program funds for the Fiske & Bro — to approve the item (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 10
5. Authorize the City Manager to execute multiple Interlocal Cost Share Agreements known as: Save Our Indian River Lagoon Project Cost-Share — to approve the item (moved by Brenda Warner, seconded by Lorraine Koss); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 10
6. Council authorization to apply for a Small Matching Historic Preservation Grant with the Florida Department of State, Division of Histori — to approve the item (moved by Lorraine Koss, seconded by Alex Goins); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 10; the vote on p. 11
7. Approval of a multi-year Purchase Agreement with Mobley II Enterprises LLC, 815 Brevard Ave, Cocoa, FL 32922, ITB No. QT-20-02-COC, for m — to approve the item (moved by Alex Goins, seconded by Don Boisvert); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 11
8. Approve the Resolution waiving the competitive bidding process by reason of single source vendor for a five (5) year multi- year term con — to approve the item (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Brenda Warner); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 11
to adjourn the Regular meeting of May 27, 2020 (moved by Don Boisvert, seconded by Alex Goins); CARRIED 5-0; ayes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner; nays: none — the City's minutes, p. 12
Money named in the minutes' motions (what each motion did with the amount, in its own words)
$2,000 — Council: decided in an adopted motion. “approve the lien reduction to $2,000” (motion result: CARRIED; the City's minutes (1051_CC_Reg_Minutes_05_27_2020.pdf, p. 8); fiscal period not recorded)
$150,000 — Council: requested (grant application): the amount asked for in a grant APPLICATION the body approved or authorized (whether it was awarded is not in the record; not an adopted amount). “Council approval to apply for Special Category Historic Preservation Grant through the Florida Department of State for $150,000 with a 1:1 match from the City for $150,000 for the historical replacement of exterior windows and doors to the Historic Harry T.” (motion result: CARRIED; the City's minutes (1051_CC_Reg_Minutes_05_27_2020.pdf, p. 9; the vote on p. 10); fiscal period not recorded)
Agenda (the City's wording)
The City's agenda for this meeting is on file (CC_Reg_Packet_05-27-2020), but its item list has not been read reliably by machine yet, so no outline is shown.
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The almost 100,000 folks that lost their lives to this COVID-19, so we can just have a few minutes of silence if you don't mind. Okay, if I can have you all please stand.
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grant writer. And just bringing you up to date. And thank you so much for allowing us at every meeting to keep you up to date with what's happening and for your support. And a special thank you to the city manager for being right there, always answering the questions and giving the answers when we need them. As you know, we aren't able to open this weekend. And to date, right now, this marks about $20,000 in refunds that we've had to give. We just added another $2,000 because we couldn't open this weekend. However, what we've done is choose another date even farther out, June
we've written to the governor, DeSantis, asking for him to look at our procedures set in place, our seating chart, and hoping that he'll consider allowing us to reopen by June 18th. Now, he may do that anyway, but we thought it would be really great to make ourselves known and issue our support, give our support to him, but also let him know about our historic theater right here in Cocoa Village. So that's where we are. One other thing, Chris Beavers is in the process of writing our state grant request, which is due June 1st, and it's an operational grant. So hopefully we'll be approved for that. Last year he literally scored first in our category. So we're hoping that this happens and comes through for us. So we're still holding on, and we thank you for your support and hope that June 18th will be the day. With the summer camps announced as far as being open, we are hoping that that will cause us to be able to open our children's Stars of Tomorrow programming, but we're watching those guidelines carefully before we make any kind of announcement as far as that. So do you all have any questions? I do.
just been approved. Actually, we were approved several weeks ago for the PPP loan, which is fantastic for us, and that will take us up to probably July, okay, which is assisting with our payroll. So yes is the answer to that. Okay, that's good news.
yes. But most people took gift certificates for a future show, showing their faith in us that we'll be back, and we will. It's just a matter of time and when. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am.
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There's no lateral to the property. ‸ Replace the drain fields, $13,000. If they have to apply for permits and get engineering and have the lateral put in for the city, it's $100,000 plus. They're paying $2,300 a month for temporary bathrooms since October. They're up to $25,000. They've
He said he could write a letter to the county. All the county's requesting, the state is requesting, is a letter from the city saying that sewer is not available because there's no lateral there, and they'll let them replace the drain field. John
Well, then John's not here. So ‸ I talked to Matt about it. Matt said, write a letter. Address it to Jack because he researched it and said Jack really needs to write the letter. He said he's talked to Jack. I've
You have said you've talked to Jack about it. I just asked Jack. I've called him three times today. No return phone call. He says he's never talked to anybody about it. I need help. These people are dying. I mean, they're in the booze business and
even really doing much business right now. Their business is down 75%. I haven't heard stress in their voices until today. They're like, do we close? Do we try to annex out ‸ the city into the county? What do we do? It's a simple letter saying that the city does not have a lateral to that property. Matt told me today that Jack may not write the letter that he may want to bring it to council next month for a council to do it. We had that conversation four months ago. So, I mean, these people are, you know, they're going to be, another
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But I know that Matt and I have had some discussions about it. And ‸ I had some concerns with reference. Because I think there's an ordinance that says that they would have to hook up to sewer. But then ‸ we were looking at the cost versus the fact that they had just, I guess they had just purchased a building, if I remember correctly.
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About 20 employees. I mean, we have other people in the city that sewers available and they're not hooked up in the river circle. We just had a business on Dixon Boulevard, our commercial business, just ignored the laws and put a new septic tank in. And they're up and running.
It's $10,000 just in engineering fee. Yes, it's a state road. I was going to put a lateral here on 520, and it's in for permitting right now, and we're moving it down the road because it was $55,000 to monitor traffic for two days while they dug up the road. That's the cost. We moved this lateral 30 feet, and the bill went from $55,000 down to $22,000. But there's no choice out there. It's
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There's no reason why a business like that should have to spend that kind of money. And it's a state road. Even the permitting process, we all know what the permitting process is like.
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have to deal with that. We're talking another six months probably before it even happens. In the meantime, they're still paying for portable bathrooms for 20 employees. They're
that this has even taken place. If there's no state law that says that they have to hook up to that lateral in the middle of the state road that we have not supplied, then why are we even having this discussion? Give them the damn letter and let them put their septic tank in. It's
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So ‸ if I may touch on a little bit of the city's code related to this, and ‸ Jack can provide any information in addition to what I provide. But ‸ the requirement is that they connect to our sewer system if it's available, and it's considered available if it's in front of the property. Now, in this particular case, I believe they're seeking a financial hardship due to the expenses because there's a current lateral available to the property. And
for review, and then ‸ based on his review of either accepting it and approving it or denying it, they can appeal it then to city council. So there is a procedure outlined within the city code for this. And I think the first step's taken with a letter sent to the utilities director.
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That actually ended up kind of circumventing the building process because the people on staff weren't alerted to the fact that they were doing a substantial change to the building, not just a minor renovation. And in doing so, the ‸ building permit or the septic permit was applied to the county and we didn't have any knowledge on this side. So we've tried to close that gap. We provided the Brevard County Health Department copies of our ‸ sewer system so that they know if people come in, they can look it up themselves. They can also contact us, of course. But just trying to ‸ get more information out there so that we can avoid that kind of stuff
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two or three days ago, maybe Friday. Or maybe hit my desk Monday or Tuesday when I came in. But, ‸ yeah, absolutely, ‸ the request has been made. My next step was really to really talk in detail with Matt because we haven't really given exceptions, I would say, you know, for ‸ this particular site. And to ‸ sort of understand what we're talking about, we have a substantial cost, no doubt there. And it is far enough away from the Indian River where it doesn't really pose an environmental hazard. So those would be the if council, you know, certainly feels, you know, that the section should be granted, that's absolutely I have no objections to that whatsoever.
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road tore up and blocked off and so forth. And they're willing to sign a letter to say when there's a lateral available or a sufficient cost decrease, they would hook up to it. But at this
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I mean, they bought the business off the original owner and everything, so it's just a financial thing. And on top of it, the fire department has requested several hundred thousand dollars in repairs to over the next two or three years also. So they have a new building and an old building. The old building's not under a fire system. And
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Yeah, I looked it up. It just simply says if the sewer is available ‸ within 100 feet of the property, it doesn't say whether it's gravity or whether it's force main.
We typically don't we don't certainly force residential. If there's a force main near a residential, that doesn't apply because it's not realistic to make a residence, you know, put a lift station in to serve their house. That
‸ But typically on commercial, if there's a force main nearby, then the expectation is that they would connect to that and install a private lift station to serve their property.
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now, what is the criteria that allows this particular property that it makes sense? And what's the monetary value? What's the distance from the river or distance from a water body? These are things, unfortunately, that we probably have to consider because those are the kinds of things that can be faced with on the next site plan, which is at a different location and has different criteria.
the redoing of Clear Lake Road since they're already ‸ willing to do it at the time the road is done? So, if we're doing this as a temporary fix, then maybe we don't circumvent some of those issues that you're worried about. ‸ Yeah, I think you're right. Is
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If Dave's client's willing to allow that and sign that off, then it's essentially temporary. ‸ It could be a couple of years, could be whatever, but when DOT comes along and they're willing to connect to it, then we can abandon it at the right time.
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our delegation at tonight's city council meeting from Candace Rogers. It was emailed to Samantha earlier this afternoon and Samantha's not at the meeting tonight. So, I'll read it on her behalf. So, good evening, Mayor, city council, and city manager.
Nothing angers people more than to ask them to participate, to give their time and effort to develop a plan at a cost of $40,000, then ignore what they
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and push another structure, even if it costs considerably more. The direction from the residents' input was more transparent, connected relationship between the promenade, boardwalk, and water's edge. The workshop determined that a stainless steel cable railing system would be favored, preserving the water view while still providing safety and air flow. It would provide transparency, resiliency, low maintenance, and achieve the views at the water's edge as requested. This was the majority of the residents' desire based on the workshop and
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the 2018 updated waterfront master plan. It was the collective plan of the majority in attendance based on input. It seems simple enough to understand desired direction, but here we are
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public three feet away from the water. You can no longer lean against the rail and look into the water to watch fish, turtles, and other interesting creatures. The Brevard Zoo suggested oyster mats along the length of the seawall edge to encourage a juvenile fish nursery. This would have delighted children and adults alike for free and encourage a relationship with the water. The oyster mats would have also been a natural water filter for the Indian River Lagoon. And help disperse and reduce the water energy when pushed by strong winds against the seawall. It is not a matter of the wall being pretty or a failure of communication by the people. It
it occurred. ‸ Yes, ISS gave a rather sterile and unimaginative presentation of the promenade concept. A council person gave a slideshow of what they desired. An 18-inch knee wall. No presentation was given of various cable and rail designs as used commonly in port cities. It would have only taken a quick Google search to find them. Ms. Warner advised the council to state what the structure would be to meet the FEMA deadline and then work out the design later. This option was rejected. ISS was directed to come back and with concepts showing landscaping, planters, and an 18-inch seawall. Because this selection was now in conflict with the ‸ waterfront plan, sorry, and it
‸ public comment. The ISS plans were by no means the best we could do. Asking the city to leverage citizen participation to formulate a plan that would support the spirit of the waterfront master plan would have brought forward the best ideas and maintain the process of community input. This did not happen. Shutting down or changing the process comes at what price? Perhaps
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numerous other community needs. Perhaps the monies could have been used to offset the $191,000 cost to repair the severed seawall ties discovered after construction began. But the greatest cost of all was the loss of faith of the residents and their local government to carry out the desires of the waterfront plan based on community input. When the process of community input is ignored or changed, so goes to results, community faith and good governance. In short, after the city asked the residents to work with the consultant for a year on their own time for free to develop a plan, the
plan, along comes a council member who does not like it and makes changes so it is what they want, even if it's going to add $150,000 to the cost, a cost that is paid by the residents' tax dollars. As a resident, how would you feel? Sincerely, Candace Rogers, Cocoa Village Neighborhood Coalition.
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think it's going to be lovely. And we're not going to have to look through steel cables. And that wasn't just my choice. There are other people out there that, you know, ‸ I'm sorry there's, you know, that her group did not like that. But as far as the oysters go, we're going to have to have rip-rap, something to attach those to. The zoo is looking at that. And
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‸ We have allowed a month after, so starting on June 2nd, customer service will begin interrupting service for unpaid accounts. Staff has worked very diligently during this time period, trying to contact customers and get them to sign up for a payment
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So I just want to let you know, it's been very slow since we've opened up in this last week, in the last year, but you'll probably start seeing a lot of people coming in in the next week or so.
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scheduled for early to mid-June. Regarding our annual paving, we started the milling of Washington Avenue, and the paving is scheduled for later this week, pending weather.
sir. I'll just give you a brief update on where we are state-wise and then break it down locally with the current COVID-19. Currently in the state of Florida, we have a total of 52,255 positive cases within the state. 2,259 of those have resulted in death. In Brevard County, we're at 399 positive cases. And in Cocoa,
also includes our unincorporated areas, we are now up to 68 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases. Currently, the state is continuing to run the test sites as they've been scheduled. They're
far as the number of positive cases we're seeing across the state in general. Just an update for us here locally, Friday was our first drive-through test site that we opened here in conjunction with Brevard Health Alliance. Great, phenomenal turnout. In
first hour, they did 65 tests within that first hour, so it was a little more than a car a minute they were pushing through there. So it worked out really well thanks
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It was very streamlined with Brevard Health Alliance and getting them through. We hardly ever had a backup except for the first thing in the morning when we first got ready to open. So with that being said, they did a total of 270 tests at that test site between 10 and 3 o'clock. Between
So they were very positive about the relationship between the city and the health alliance and doing that, so much so that we're going to do it again this Friday. So I've reached out to them. I've already coordinated with
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Same exact setup as we had this Friday. They're hoping to have 250 tests available. So that'll start at 10 o'clock and it'll end at 3. The caveat to that is it may end earlier depending on the number of tests they have available. So
they'll close. That's all they've got. So it's just been a great turnout. The response from the community was very much well needed. You can see it by the participation that we had in our local community and people that came out. So they definitely saw a lot of value in that. And certainly they saw the value between the city and Brevard Health Alliance and getting that site up and running so quickly and just the flow of traffic and how things went. So
I'm very encouraged by that. More importantly, I'm encouraged by the downward trend that we're continuing to see in positive cases across the state as a whole. So
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that coming up here in the next couple of weeks. So we'll actually be ramping all that up, meeting with ‸ EOC staff and all on the 26th to make sure that we're ready for both transitioning to work COVID and in the event we have a hurricane. Knock them wood, I'm praying that we don't. We can definitely handle those in the community as a whole.
Remember the heat maps are going by physical addresses in the most part, and that's what they're going by. So you really have to, I hate to say, nail down further and really zoom in on that map to see where those areas are at. It's no different than, I'm sure, the chief can talk about heat maps just as much as the fire department can. And
It's not until you actually zoom into that more and you start to see that disbursement of that heat map to where you see where your actual hot spots are. And they may not be in that one concentrated area. It
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a little bit farther into it, you'll find out that a lot of those are actually, we have the unincorporated Cocoa area that you're seeing a lot of there.
If you refine that down to even smaller those, just like the mayor said, you may wind up seeing that some of that will be in your unincorporated areas. But
and it's what we've been continuing to tell the public, just like what the CDC's recommendations are. Continue to follow those CDC guidelines and recommendations. Hand washing, social distancing, staying away from large gatherings. Now, all those things that help prevent the spread of this virus is what's going to help us heal as a community and really as a nation as a whole. So, you know, we just got to continue to enforce those CDC guidelines and get stronger as a community.
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received 23 resumes for applicants from all over the U.S. She hasn't gone through them all to source them, to make sure they're qualified or, you know, to narrow them down. But just to let you know, she's got 23. The position is open until June 12th right now. And if you'd like to, we can give you an update at the next meeting.
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Just a quick report, a little bit of follow-up. I know Rebecca had mentioned that the City Hall lobby was opened on Tuesday the 19th. We also opened the other City facility lobby entrances and then the rest of the facilities by appointment only. We've
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actually kind of surprised at the numbers that we were seeing coming in. Although we do expect those to increase this next week specifically related to customer service. We would like to, this next Monday, we're anticipating opening up the office up there, the entry vestibule community services. Or we could allow a limited number up into that area at one time and it could be controlled from the City Hall lobby. So we could start that process Monday to allow those folks to continue to get their permits, answer any questions they may have. That
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responded to him. It was related to the decision to bring code enforcement lien reductions directly to City Council and forego the code enforcement board review and recommendation. And his concern was, you know, essentially there's a policy or procedure outlined within the city code related to code enforcement lien reduction process. And, you know, due to the question came up at City Council meeting April 22nd under the reports. And at that time, Anthony Garganese, the city attorney, provided an opinion that, you know, the lien reductions could come straight to City Council as the code enforcement board provides a recommendation. And
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not including the code enforcement board even in the time of the pandemic. And I believe the intent was that without the code enforcement board meeting for potentially months, you have a few cases out there that would preclude sales, transfer of properties. And so, you know, ‸ the decision was made to bring those to the City Council. We had one at the last meeting and then one tonight for City Council consideration.
mean, Anthony did reply to ‸ Ed Green to myself. Ed Green hasn't received it yet. But essentially, it just states that the code board's role is providing an advisory recommendation on the lien reduction request. It's a, that's a local city requirement, not a state requirement. And so, you know, he believes it's his opinion that the ‸ power is vested ultimately with the City Council. And so, it is, it is okay to essentially do, consider those applications straight to the City Council.
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is that the request of the store owner to be out there? Is it our, is it our doing ‸ to just go out there and do it, number one? And are we trespassing people from that area?
‸ we've been doing a lot of stuff in that area based on the calls for service to that location and the activity that was occurring in that location. It seems to be getting much better. I
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response from the store that we would like to see. You know, they do, we've had a blanket trespass on file for a while. But the majority of the time when we do try to trespass people from there, most of the time, or even when we try to, more or less, when we try to make an arrest on it, we don't get much cooperation on the prosecution
starting to become better. We're actually working on a plan to be a more holistic plan for that area to hopefully be able to go in there with not only the police department, but with public works, with code enforcement, with community development, and try to work with the residents in that neighborhood, you know, and build relations with those residents, which I think we have a good relationship in there. And, you know, ‸ I'm actually working on the PowerPoint now to put together to present to the deputy mayor, because it is in District 1, and at that same time, bring in community development in some other areas to try to do some things in that neighborhood to make a difference. I talked to Matt
there. There's one on Fern, there's one on Grove, and there's one right at the ‸ entrance to the park that actually points towards Fern. And we were talking, if we could get those changed out, that would just alone, I mean, I know we talked before about trying to add some additional ones and stuff, and that definitely adding would always help, but if we could just get those changed out at this, you know, as soon as possible, and then I know we talked about working with public works also to try to go in there. If you've been down Fern, especially Fern,
it's horrible. It's so overgrown in that area, and it creates such a dark area that I think if we could go through and clean that up, not only will it ‸ open it up to lighting, and if we can get the LED lighting in there, it'll open it up to that, but I think by cutting those trees back, it'll also open the area up and make it more easier for people to see in there. It'll make the neighbors be able to see more because looking at it, there's, you know, I mean, a lot of things that happen, happen at that store, don't even deal with people that live in that neighborhood. It's not the residents in that neighborhood. Now, there are a handful of houses in there that we've dealt with, but for the majority, it's people coming to that store to commit crimes. So we're working on that and actually working on some other stuff I was going to talk to, maybe the
about trying a little idea I have. ‸ But that's kind of it right now. It's a hot spot. Hopefully, like I said, I went back and looked. I mean, ‸ we did five years analysis. I
one location are, yeah, I mean, that's a light way to put it. I mean, they really are. ‸ It's encompassing a lot of our time. And hopefully, we can work, like I said, holistically through that whole process and make some changes in there, add the lighting, make the changes, hopefully get some things going and ‸ help the neighborhood. I mean, bring that, I mean, like I said, the majority of that neighborhood, I even had code enforcement go through and do a sweep. And I can tell you out of, I think it was 139 houses that they went through and looked at individually and listed out whether or not they had code violations or not. If there were current ones, I think out of that, I
So, it's come a long ways. There's a lot of good people in that neighborhood that have worked very, very hard to make changes. So, I think if we can do a couple of small things in there, we can go at it from a different approach instead of, because obviously we've been enforcing in there for 30 years. And
We need to come up with a better plan. So, that's kind of where we are now. Just kind of ‸ trying to get it stabilized. I think we're getting stabilized. And if we can go in there and make these changes, I think we'll come out the other side. And
up here, can I add one more address to you? So, what's happening at Ball Head Store ‸ when we do our either ride-throughs or park at the store, so now what's
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we said, you know, either you get on board and cooperate and help us out, or unfortunately we'll do what we need to do to make a difference and make a change.
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This is a budget season. I don't expect that a lot will happen this year. But just looking at the potential of that area and noting that some of the best prospects recently this was brought on by a Moody Analytics article I read, an analysis, looking at the cities ‸ most likely to come out of this COVID crisis or any economic crisis. And one
the drivers. Just one. You know, we know we have the village. We have some manufacturing. But we also have a large campus area there that is, you know, I think what characterizes it best is that the
hope everybody's got that on their calendar. Okay. Okay. And I also wanted to ask that I know we successfully completed our audit a couple weeks ago. But I was hoping and I know that we looked at and was included in that some of our future liabilities. But I
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that would include any future liabilities, any post-employment liabilities that might impact us or might impact our children. Because I've become, you know, aware during this crisis and all of the federal dollars that are being spent now that that really is money in our future that will impact them. So I'd just like to know I'd like the
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to have a better idea of what those liabilities are. And then the third thing is I was going to ask for yesterday we pulled up the temporary sign ordinance. I know that this is, of course, the political season. We want all our citizens to be engaged. And we have been we have an ordinance, a temporary sign ordinance. And
that is picking up a package. But when I went over that, there seemed to be some discrepancies in the modifications versus the ordinance. And I don't want to have staff in the position of interpreting our ordinance or implementing it or getting involved in the politics. We know that that would not be good for us. So
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Just one thing. I received a phone call the other day from somebody who was looking to buy a home in the city of Cocoa and they were looking at a home that was completely renovated. New roof, new windows and everything. And they had done some checking and found that all of that work was done without any permits, that the city had no permits pulled on that residence at all. So I started looking at some of the other homes that are listed in the MLS that are totally renovated with new roofs. And I found three homes in my district that have been renovated to the tune of new roofs, new doors, new windows, new plumbing, and new electric with no permits pulled on any of them. I realized that our code enforcement officers are very busy and that it's not possible to spot that. So
either RV cops, some of the other volunteers, or maybe encourage some of our board members that are out amongst the community to, when they notice work going on, on these homes, to mention it to somebody at city hall. Because I can't expect my code enforcement officers, when there's three of them, to catch everything that happens in the city. But if I'm out buying a home that's been completely renovated, I don't know that I want to buy a house that hasn't been inspected and has had new electric and new plumbing put in it. And
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pull a permit and you can get away with it. And that needs to stop right now. It's not even about the loss of revenue. It's about people buying homes that are not safe to live in. So I'm expecting staff to come up with a way that we can address this, some way that we can at least start to spot it. Even if we have to meet with the realtor community and encourage them to stop listing these homes until they check and make sure permits are pulled. That's it for me. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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thank ‸ police and fire for assisting a lot of our community events that have been going on. I know sometimes y'all get them at the last minute and sometimes you might want to say no, but y'all are doing an awesome job with doing the best that you can to please everybody. Definitely with a fire, fire did a baby shower. What was that last week? Last weekend, I think. I
it bridges that gap. So I'd like to appreciate, you know, show my appreciation for police and fire for doing that. Thank you. I did a tour yesterday at the promenade. And despite
any type of way because I believe that they made whatever choice they made on their own merit, on their own research. So, but it was a very good meeting. I appreciate our project managers, Gary Palmer, for
And I think everyone in the city and everyone in the county or the state that visits the city of Cocoa is going to be happy with it. I have one thing with the, so we have an issue with apartment owners, house homeowners who rent properties. When they move the residents out, especially in District One, they have a tendency to dump all of their materials out on the side of the road. And it stays there at times for weeks and or
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couches, TVs, dressers, desks all day long. ‸ And I don't think anybody who lives in a neighborhood should be looking at that kind of stuff for months at a time. So ‸ I talked to Matt about maybe thinking we can add something in our ordinance is about requiring dumpsters, at least the small dumpsters for when it's time to kick somebody out of your apartments or your home that we require them to get a dumpster so they can get the material out faster. I
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So if we can have that conversation, I know we talked about you looking into it, maybe we see what other cities may do around the state. But I really, really would like to look at that because what they're doing a lot, especially ‸ one particular person, he's going,
bringing the trash from the other three to the one property. So that's ‸ because he knows that they're going to pick ‸ up at the, maybe at a house and not so much at a commercial property. So he's playing the game. So we need to do the best job we can. Code enforcement is on it. I think we have some code violations on this one particular person. But we need to let them know they can't do that in our city. Because ‸ it's nasty and ‸ our citizens don't deserve to see that all the time. ‸ So whatever we can do in it, maybe on the next meeting, next couple meetings, I don't know, but so
One question for Public Works. I know Mr. Smith is not here, but maybe you could bring it later. Did we approve a reclaimed water line on Park Drive in the last six, seven years or so, five years? That you were, maybe that's just
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Okay. Well, I had a resident text me today and said that they believe that it was approved a while back. And they, a few residents in that area wanted reclaimed water and they thought it was already approved already.
Right there because that's right in line with Carl Anderson Park. Right, right. And there isn't reclaimed there. I believe it's just, it ends on Fisk, just north, maybe a block or two from there. I
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I love, I love my staff. I like to see some other people sometimes too. So I appreciate you for coming, you know, because we're going through a difficult time.
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Hungry Howie's delivering all the pieces, bringing all the pieces over for them. So it was a great event. A lot of the folks came together and that's what it's all about. And
was just, you guys did just an excellent, brilliant job. And then also, once again, I want to thank Pebbles Catering Celebration, Tabernacle Church, the Real Church, and all the volunteers. They're still continuing to, continuing to feed our residents that are in need. Once again today, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, this week as well, they're from four to six, or until they run out of food. Pebbles Catering Company is actually doing all the cooking and then they ‸ have actually had some fresh produce as well there. So no questions asked, drive up or walk up and you can get hot meals. And they've been, and last time I talked to them, I think yesterday, and
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they've been serving some meals there. I mean, there's been a ton of them and a lot of folks coming out volunteering. So, I'm so grateful for what they're doing and how folks have stepped up ‸ and all the other organizations that have stepped up as well. And
actually putting flags on grave sites. And we were so grateful because I guess maybe the Boy Scouts or someone that beat us to some of the sites. And so, it ‸ really worked out well. But it was ‸ just an honor to be able to do that and to go to the different cemeteries that we have in the city and do that. And ‸ then while I'm talking about that, we have the
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So, if we can maybe figure out how we can get in there and do some of that. And I know what's happening there with these folks going in there and pushing those over. But if we can somehow, ‸ maybe we can get some volunteers that we ‸ can come in there and help us with that and ‸ get that done. So, but the interim postmaster for, post
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They're trying to get that up and going right now because they were shut down by their, I guess their ‸ main office. Because they weren't doing enough community events. And they're looking to revamp that ‸ facility now ‸ and how they do things. So, they're looking for a lot of community activities to kind of continue and ‸ keep that
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also, if we can, there's a house on the east end of Stone Street there ‸ just west of US 1. And it's a historical house. It's been deemed a historical house. And we can't do anything with that house. And it's actually a nice home. And maybe we ought to, at the city, if we can maybe look into maybe partnering with someone. Because I know there's some state funding that we can get for that home. But to just see it, you know, maybe we can look at possibly even getting that from the owner. I
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So. But also, you know, I know I've talked to Matt about the property, ‸ the trash on Bronson. And he let me know that they, I guess they don't have accounts there. But ‸ I know that some of the homeless that they've been feeding there are serving meals to there. They get them to go out and pile all those pond prines
And that's where those piles are from. And they've been there for over a month now. And if we have to, you know, go in there and maybe, and then get that stuff up and maybe talk to the property owners there, like the
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Yeah. Public Works actually went out and identified probably more than 20 areas where this is occurring. And they're working with code enforcement. So the property owners at least understand the situation. Yeah. And it's likely that Public Works is going to pick this up because there's no commercial account for green waste. So
Yeah. Okay. And I mean, the waste management have been doing business with the city for a lot of years. And you would think that, you know, if you see that, you know, it's just, it wouldn't take that ‸ much to just do something like that.
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I wouldn't expect them to do it all over the city, but certain locations, I would expect them to do something like that. But anyway, and one last thing is I want to talk about was the, the, the property on Roselle Jones on the, I've had a number of developers approach me about that property. And
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staff had a couple of meetings with the developer, but that was something that happened prior to some of us getting on the council. And I think that before we start entertaining, discussing anything with that property anymore, it should come back to the council or ‸ should come back to ‸ council because there was never a sound agreement. And
That's the way things are done. I mean, it just, we just don't start negotiating with someone on a piece of property that they've never signed an agreement with and
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hadn't been any negotiating. Or if we want to put it back out for RFP or whatever the case might be. That's a decision that should be made by the council. And I was a little disturbed by that because we've had situations like that before and that's the way it's handled. ‸ And, uh, I mean, it's, I
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And it's just something that, uh, something that needs to happen. Okay. Okay. There's a lot of folks in the city. There's a lot of developers out there that's looking to do stuff. And I mean, and they're looking at our city because there's a lot of stuff happening in the city right now. And
got a piece of property sitting out there, no development agreement. And, and it's just sitting there, you know, and we're still having to maintain it. Keep the grass cut. Kind of like the hotel. Yeah. And for us to negotiate, they
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That's coming back with the CRA at our next CRA meeting, but it's just something that needs to happen. We need to, that needs to come back and that needs to come back to us so we can have that discussion. Because
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‸ I don't know what's happening with that property. You know, and they did a little research themselves and they say, well, there's an agreement, but my understanding is it's not signed. And I said, that's my understanding too, as well. And I said, then, you know, but that needs to come back so we can figure out what's happening. Why, why is it taking so long or what's going on?
What is, I do understand that council cannot be a part of every single situation that comes through city hall. But what is the process when we have a property such as that one, when, when negotiation or attempted negotiation, is there a process that we can be notified of that prior to? Is that, is that possible? Well, well,
should, what should happen is that once there's a development agreement and you've got a timeframe and that doesn't happen. Yeah. And then that doesn't happen in that timeframe, then it comes back to the council and we make a decision on what we want to do. Do we want to extend that? Do we want to redo the agreement or however, but it just don't, you just don't at the last hour say, okay, let's start negotiating. Yeah. When you had three years to do that and there was nothing and it just doesn't make any sense to me.
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to move on to public hearing, and we have none. And so we're going to move on to council business. Item number eight is approve the current code enforcement lien for the residents located at 1803 North Indian River Drive to be reduced. Chief
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to approve the current code enforcement lien for the residents located at 1803 North Indian River Drive to be reduced to $2,000. There was a code inspection conducted. Everything is up to par. There are no current code violations. All the liens were checked on the property. There's no outstanding liens. ‸ And actually ‸ the request was for that amount, and that amount does cover the cost of investigation. So our recommendation to council is to reduce it to $2,000. Thank you, sir.
value was $880,000? ‸ I mean, and wasn't it? Because, you know, I know the woman. And I believe it was one of those deals where you sell back your mortgage.
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Well, you know, when the property owner passes away and ‸ the bank gets the property back on the reverse mortgage, and then it tends to sit there and nothing happens for months on end, which is basically what happened. ‸ The grass didn't get mowed and it became an eyesore right there.
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Thank you, Mayor. Yes, ma'am. The staff is requesting that you approve the city attorney to negotiate the terms and conditions of the purchase agreement for the property located at 915 School Street and proceed with the closing. As I brought to you last Council meeting, the surplus properties that were available, city-owned. This is the one property that ‸ actually has a unit on it. The other ones were all vacant, as you remember. And
started code enforcement action. It is in a six-plex along with 909 School Street and 915. We started code enforcement action on it. And then eventually in 2017, we foreclosed on the property. In the meantime, we've been working with Tim and Arlette Levenseller since 2016. They own two of the units in the six-plex. And it has been a constant issue for
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has had a tenant in it ever since. The 915 School, once the city foreclosed on it, at the last minute, Fannie Mae filed a motion to vacate the city's final judgment. And so although the city received a certificate of sale, we spent the next two years trying to clear the title. And
And so now the city is looking to get this property fixed up and get the vagrants out and illegal activity, the rodent infestation. As you've seen in the agenda item, there's the pictures. All
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They would have an agreement with the city requiring a certain time frame for them to be issued permits and to repair the property. And then ‸ we would proceed forward with the closing. They will provide a cash closing as well. Another developer, PPS Holdings LLC, has proposed $17,000
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They typically purchase properties, rehab them, and then flip them. So a third alternative for the city would be to do a request for proposals and seek out other developers who may be interested in repairing the property. The issue with that is the property has been open and has that rodent
and illegal activity. And with ‸ it being owned by the city, staff is requesting that we try to do something a little bit quicker than the RFP process. So we are requesting that council ask the city attorney to negotiate the terms and conditions of the purchase agreement with Tim and Arlette Levenseller for the property located at 915 School, the
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have a longstanding history of owning rental properties with approximately almost 70 within Brevard County. They would enter into ‸ a co-enforcement lien reduction agreement similar to what the city had with them previously on 909 School. And then we would proceed with the closing. So the city has also, in community services, we've already paid off the existing mortgage that was on it. And
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Just to expand a little bit, all the facts Nancy already had down there. But we actually now own and manage 909, excuse me, 917 and 919, three of the six units. We'd love to acquire this unit and do the same. I think the 909 project went very well. We could easily do it in 60 days. I think that's about what we did on the 909. The problem is, I'll just expand a little bit, though. The
it's really affecting my other tenants. And we've lost several tenants because of that. Because of the rodents mostly. They get throughout the entire building. ‸ You can't contain them. So what I did on my own incentive, we treated them. We had a professional company come and treat all three of our properties, trying to stop it. And then we also treated the entire building to try to prevent the egress of the rodents coming in and out.
was our main objective. So, and then the homeless and drug activity in the place. It's scary to our tenants. I've actually secured the door several times myself. And it just gets kicked in. ‸ They're in there. And we get calls. Our leg gets calls from the tenants. So
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them employed. And we would immediately put our three full-time employees on that job as well as my contractors, you know, getting the permits and stuff required for the electrical plumbing,
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brought up with the dumpster. ‸ Being a big property owner in the area, we love that idea. We are one that we do that. Literally every time we have a move out, we hire a small dumpster, load everything in
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started out as, I think, what, an apartment, then it turned into condos. And actually it was renovated in late 90s, early, late 90s, I believe. Both buildings were renovated and sold as condos.
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The interim city manager requested that staff go back and review their budgets. As a result of COVID-19, we have seen some reduction in revenue and are forecasting further reduction in revenue for the remainder of this fiscal year. So
got estimates from the state that we should expect a 50% reduction in sales tax revenue and state revenue sharing. So staff went through. All directors looked at their budgets for their travel. And then in addition, some positions had not been filled yet. So they're noted in this agenda item. The
the fiscal year. It's very important that he takes these kind of actions immediately when the city sees that there is something like this pandemic going on and reacts quickly to hopefully save jobs in the future. So
reduction in revenue through budget amendment form number 20-065-A, T1 and T2, which reduced the budgets for different departments to achieve the cost savings and reduce the budget.
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number three, council approval to apply for a special category historic preservation grant through the Florida Department of State for $150,000 with a one-to-one match from the city for $150,000 for the historical replacement of ‸ exterior windows and doors
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Yeah. So what's kind of happened over the years is those windows were replaced from the original windows, and some of the design, you know, like these have the cross members changed locations. The doors have been changed. This grant would reinstall what it was back in the day. The roof was previously done, and then one of the big items, you know, to make the building more resilient was the actual ‸ floor. The joist space was open to the ground underneath. They actually sealed that off permanently, so you don't have that moisture intrusion into that wood floor and everything that you had before. So this would complete the building, essentially.
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particular project just for city council's information during, it was really Hurricane Matthew kind of what started it, but it's kind of at the high point of Indian River Drive there. It's
a very steep slope. You can see where the guardrail bends out, where the slope has been slowly being eaten away by the Indian River. And we had met with FEMA when that damage had occurred. The problem is at the back of the curb line, it becomes private property. The property owner that's on the other side of the street owns that property, so the city couldn't apply ‸ for any sort of FEMA reimbursement for any work that would be done there. And
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Thank you. Council authorization to apply for a small matching historic preservation grant with the Florida Department of State Division of Historic Resources for culture engagement and educational resources for the historic Cocoa Junior High School Leon
a resolution dedicating the total match for the project if the grant is awarded. So this ‸ is in line with the grant request that Public Works was asking for for the exterior of
building. This is more for the kiosks and videos. Having a consultant that would be able to provide the educational materials, walking brochures, things like that. So it's a $25,000 with the $25,000 match.
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Cocoa, Florida for a multi-year line abatement service effective June 1st, 2020 for a period of three years with two optional year renewals. It's a long time coming. We
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by reason of single source vendor for five-year, multi-year term contract between the City of Cocoa and Tyler Technologies, Inc., providing a service agreement supporting the Brazo software subscription with PDA and printer for six users, along with software and hardware maintenance, approve
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That's, I think you're referring to the computer-aided dispatch and the records management system. That was on the consent portion. Oh, okay. But, yes. This ticket
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doesn't work real well with the software, with the records management software we have. So we end up doing a lot of extra data entry and stuff by going to Tyler Process, and they're all in one so it all interconnects. And then we don't have to pay extra to ‸ get the connection to the system. And
I want to go back. I know ‸ we approved in one of the block grants for the $50,000 for the parking lot for Provost Park. If we're going to spend ‸ money in the park, can we
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but the Provost Park, I think we know, and Chief definitely is behind it about getting cameras. So we really, really need cameras in that park before we start upgrading the park. That's just my opinion.
Just to give you an update, we actually demoed two different camera software providers. The reason why ‸ you can't just go and buy, you could go and buy a residential type system, but you really need to look at ‸ more of an enterprise grade system because if you want to integrate other
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maybe other areas within the city or the housing authority, you need to make sure that all the software will tie in, use similar storage capacity. And so we've met with two different vendors. We're getting the cost right now. ‸ Okay. Appreciate it.
Yeah, I just wanted to draw light to the informational item about Walmart and ask you because I didn't find in there, I understand that, you know, there have been these big capital investments made there and money coming in. I'm trying to figure out how much of that is actually staying in Cocoa. How many employees did they actually hire in Cocoa, from Cocoa?
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I'm telling you, it was amazing that there was a lot of residents of Cocoa that they had hired. And because of some of the temperatures in there, even though they have the jackets and stuff, they decided,
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