that offers residents and visitors a welcoming place to gather and enjoy freshly prepared house-made cuisines. Sol Sicilian Fusion features signature dishes like octopus pasta, along with homemade pizzas, sauces, desserts, and gelato. This time we'll call to order the work session of the Clearwater City Council for August 3rd, 2026. Move to item 2.1 on the agenda, which is our August service awards. First, I'd like to call forward Joel Silcox of Parks and Recreation. He's a five-year employee of the City of Clearwater. Next, I'd like to call forward Larry Jones from Marine and Aviation, who's been an employee with the City for 20 years. Larry, if you'll wait there at the podium, the City Manager has nice descriptions you'd like to read on what you've been doing for us for 20 years. Larry began his career with the City of Clearwater on August 7th of 2006 as a Park Service Technician 1 in the Parks and Recreation Department. Through hard work, dedication, and a commitment to excellence, he advanced to Park Service Tech 2 in 2007 before being promoted to a trades worker in 2008. In 2011, Larry transferred to the Marine and Aviation Department, where he brought his strong work ethic and technical expertise to the City's marina's operations. After serving as a lead worker, he was promoted to Marine Facilities Supervisor in 2015. As his responsibilities continued to grow, his position evolved into a Marine Facilities Coordinator in 2017, recognizing his expanding leadership role. In 2021, Larry was promoted to Assistant Operations Manager, where he continues to serve today. Throughout his career, Larry has earned the respect of his coworkers and supervisors. He was recognized as Employer of the Month in 2008, 2009, and 2011, and was part of the Team of the Month in 2014 and again in 2024, reflecting both his individual contributions and his ability to work well with others. Larry is a leader who leads by example. He mentors new employees, he shares his knowledge, and is always willing to step in where needed. Whether responding to emergencies, maintaining critical public infrastructure, supporting capital improvement projects, or helping a teammate, Larry approaches every task with professionalism and a commitment to doing the job right. Larry's work reflects the City's commitment to superior public service. He helps ensure Clearwater's marinas, waterfront facilities, and public assets remain safe, functional, and welcoming for residents and visitors. His dedication to continuous improvement and developing others supports the City's goal of maintaining a high-performing government. Larry truly helps Clearwater thrive through his leadership, dependability, and commitment to serving the community. 20 years of public service is an outstanding accomplishment, and his career is a great example of the positive impact one employee can have on both the organization and the community. Thank you, Larry, for your 20 years of dedicated service to the City of Clearwater. Great service. Well, a great commitment to our city. Thank you, Larry, for your commitment to the citizens of Clearwater. With that, we'll call forward David Wilson of Parks and Recreation, who has been an employee for 30 years. Wait, hold on a second. Dave began his career with the City of Clearwater as a recreation leader in 1996 as one of the first employees at the brand-new Countryside Recreation Center. Dave spent the next 21 years at Countryside and was promoted to recreation programmer in 2004 and again in 2007 to facility supervisor. In 2017, Dave was selected to be the center manager for the new Morningside Recreation Complex. Dave was involved in every aspect of opening this new facility, from building design to the operation of staff and equipment, as well as scheduling activities, classes, and programs. The building opened in late 2018 and became one of our busiest recreation facilities. Dave is a servant leader with an outstanding work ethic. He leads by example and always has a positive, can-do attitude. Dave is known for his outstanding customer service skills and his ability to create and implement memorable community events. Through his dedication to providing quality programs and exceptional experiences for residents, Dave exemplifies the City's commitment to superior public service. His leadership, attention to detail, and commitment to continuous improvement also reflect the values of a high-performing government. Dave also heads up our division's Employee Recreation, I'm sorry, Recognition Committee and makes sure our employees know how important they are to the department and the city. He understands that investigating, investing in employees and recognizing their contributions strengthens our organization and helps us better serve our community. Dave has received many accolades over his 30 years, including being named Recreation Programming Employee of the Year in 2015. Dave's contribution to the City of Clearwater and its citizens is immeasurable. He has positively impacted and helped strengthen both the countryside and Morningside communities by providing quality recreation opportunities to participants of all ages. His dedication, leadership, and commitment to excellence have helped make Clearwater a stronger, more connected community. Congratulations, Dave, for 30 years of excellent service to the City of Clearwater. Thank you, Dave, for 30 years of service to our citizens and also for all the young lives you've touched over the years through our recreation programs and have gone on to do great things probably because of your leadership and your encouragement that you've given to many in our community. So thank you for your years of service. Well, it seems like Parks and Recreation is dominating our service awards today. Excuse me. So to continue on with that, I'd like to call forward our Employee of the Month for July 2026, and that's Dan Kreider from Parks and Recreation. Many people were forced to make life changes as a result of the hurricanes of 2024, and Dan was one of them. With the Beach Recreation Center significantly impacted and closed for 17 months, Dan was asked to step into a very different role by managing the North Greenwood Recreation Complex, a facility with nearly 10 times the number of employees he had previously supervised. Dan embraced this challenge with a positive attitude, flexibility, and a true can-do spirit. He not only kept the facility operating smoothly, but also invested his time and energy into supporting every employee and customer. His leadership fostered a positive work environment where staff felt valued, supported, and empowered to succeed. During his time at North Greenwood, Dan helped plan multiple special events, oversaw the renovation of the pool, and played a key role in the city's implementation of a new after-school and summer program. Beyond the operational successes, he made a lasting impact on the lives of those he served. He took the time to get to know the children and the after-school program and demonstrated genuine compassion by purchasing an alarm clock for a middle school student who was struggling to get to school on time. Dan's leadership exemplifies a high-performing government by embracing change, leading through adversity, and ensuring quality services during a challenging time. His dedication to employees, families, and the community reflects superior public service, consistently putting people first and exceeding expectations. Through his work supporting recreation programs, community events, and youth development, Dan also advanced community well-being by strengthening neighborhood identity through services and programs that foster community pride, connection, and belonging. Although Dan has now returned to his role as a supervisor of the Beach Recreation Center, his willingness to step into an unfamiliar environment, lead with compassion, and make a meaningful difference in the North Greenwood community left a lasting impact on employees, residents, and families alike. Thank you, Dan, for your exceptional leadership, dedication, and service. Your commitment to our employees and community truly helped make Clearwater thrive. Congratulations, Dan. Well-deserved. That will move to item 3.1 on the agenda. Appointed an individual to the Neighborhood and Affordable Housing Advisory Board as a citizen representative for a term through August 6, 2030. Council members, in your agenda packs, you have applications for Sean Astin. He is a business analyst. Jane Heisey, who is an associate creative director, and William Johnson, who is an accounting manager. Unfortunately, Ms. Spires, who has completed her term, is no longer interested in serving on this board for personal reasons, and that is why the item is before you. The other thing to note is that if you're not able to make a decision today, that's okay. Just know that the next item that follows, so this is the missing member for the AHAC. So whoever is selected to serve on AHAC would then be added to the AHAC resolution. That is the item that follows this agenda item. Okay. Any thoughts? No, again, appreciate people's interest in serving the city. It's always needed. I think on this one, all obviously qualified, but I wrote Sean Astin's name down. I've done some work on the neighborhood affordability of housing, work for the city, and being able to analyze data is important as well as understanding how policy impacts those decisions, and those are things that he's strong suit. So I'm open to anybody else's suggestions, but I wrote Sean Astin down. Mr. Roeburton? I agree, I think, with the business analyst would be very helpful in that. I mean, they all are very qualified, but I would agree with Sean. Vice Mayor? I mean, it seems like we're going cyclically down the line here. I also saw the senior business analyst as well as, you know, the six-plus years of living in the area. I just think that he'd be a good asset to that board as well. Okay, so I feel that all of them are, you know, equally qualified. However, none of them really fit the specialized professional categories that we were looking for. So based on that, I would like to support William Johnson. He's applied before to other boards, and we have all spoken favorably about him previously. And he would represent a part of the city that is not currently represented on the board. So to me, that would be my recommendation. I'm the last one, so I guess I looked at Sean Austin, too. I just thought, and I served on the AHAC for a couple years, so I just think he's probably the best fit for that. I appreciate Mr. Johnson applying again for something different, but I agree with the other three that Mr. Austin is the one, I think. So on that, do we have consensus, or do you want to? Yeah, that's fine. Okay. And then, okay. Thank you. That's 3.1. So, Jed, I'm 4.1. I approve the state of Clearwater's fiscal year 2026-2027 annual action plan, which is the second action plan of the 2025-2026 through 2029-2030 consolidated plan to implement the goals and objectives set forth in the consolidated plan and authorize the appropriate officials to enter into agreements with HUD and organizations. Good evening, everyone. I will be presenting the fiscal 26-2027 annual action plan on behalf of my manager, Dylan Mayhew, which Mayhew will provide additional information, address questions, and go into further detail as needed during the council meeting on August 6th. Okay. Okay, there we go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Emergency Shelter, which is HEP, and they're going to be doing drainage improvements and ADA door installation. Then we have HEP once more at their dental and wellness clinic, and they're going to be working on their parking lot and reconstruction of drainage improvements. Then we have St. Vincent de Paul, which is at the community kitchen. They're going to be replacing their roof and relocating their HVACs to make it more like a stable, safer place. Then under community development, we're going to have directions for living, and they will be working on their calibration and training space improvements. It's where they have their trainings and work with their clients. Then we have learning independent for tomorrow, which is a lift school in Clearwater, and they're going to be working on safety and security improvements for their students. Then under our special needs goal, we're going to be working with Hope Villages, and they'll be doing window improvements for their shelter. Next, we have CDBG Public Services. For public services, HUD caps 15% of the activities annually, so that's all you can see. For our public services, we have under homeless. We have WestCare, which is the turning point. They provide shelter and supportive services for individuals experiencing mental health and substance use challenges. Then we have Metropolitan Ministries, which they have their Neighborhood Hope and North Greenwood program. They provide case management and self-sufficient support to families and individuals. Under community development services, we will be working, we partnered with Interculture Advocacy. They provide victim advocacy support services for victims of crime. And under our special needs services, which is called Villages of America, and they have domestic, there will be possibly service partnering for domestic abuse, case management, and supportive services. Under CDBG Economic Development, there's activities. We have two. We have Prospera, which provides technical assistance and education to micro-enterprise businesses, and Upwards, which also provides technical assistance and education to micro-enterprise businesses, but they're specifically for child care provided within the city limits. And we also have our CDBG Facade Improvement Program, which allows us to assist businesses located within our designated low to moderate income areas, primarily within residential neighborhoods, by funding exterior improvements to their building facades. And now we have our affordable housing. So our first, affordable housing, excuse me, we have new construction, rehab, and our housing pool. So creation and preservation of rental, creation and presidential of owner-occupied housing, and then through home funds, we have our SHOTO set-aside, which is 15%. And just so everyone's aware, a home allows funds to be carried forward and combined other multiple years, making it possible to support larger scale affordable housing products. So then for our housing assistant, we work with the three agencies, Suncoast Housing Connections, Housing and Education Alliance, and then Tampa Bay Neighborhood Housing Services. They provide home ownership, education, and counseling. So they work on making, preparing people to become homeowners, getting them ready to purchase. And then we have our purchase assistance program that we work on. And we have two nonprofits that'll be helping us. We'll have Suncoast Housing Connections, Tampa Bay Neighborhood Housing Services, and they will be processing the down payment assistance loans. And we also partnered up with the Clearwater Housing Authority, and they work with our home funds for home TEPRA for security deposits. We also have removal, CDBG removal of slum and blight. And that's just basically for property acquisition, demo, basically for elimination of slum and blight. That's it. Does anybody have any questions? Any questions? No, no, I was saying, great job. Thank you. Don't you add something? Yes. Thank you. Wedding for something, really? Off the wall there? Yeah. Okay. Thank you for, thank you for that report on Gen Item 4.1. Gen Item 4.2. Appoint 10 members to the 2026 Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, City Council, City Manager, Assistant City Managers, and other respective officials. On the dais, this item tonight was continued, if you recall, from the July 16th Council meeting to follow up with the city clerk's item. There was a resignation, so we have a new member there. This item is to appoint 10 members to the 2026 Affordable Housing Committee and adopt Resolution 2612. This is consistent with Florida State Statute 420.9076. All local governments that receive state housing initiative partnerships or ship funding must annually establish an affordable housing advisory committee, commonly referred to as AHAC, and this committee is responsible for preparing the city's local housing incentive strategy, or LHIS. The committee will meet throughout the remainder of the year to develop the 2026 local housing incentive strategy, which is required to be submitted by the city council by December 31st of this year. The LH, excuse me, LHIS will identify strategies and potential regulatory changes that support the development and preservation of affordable housing within the city of Clearwater. Staff recommends that the city council appoint the recommended members to the 2026 AHAC and adopt resolution 2612. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Any questions on this agenda? No? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Now move to item 4.3 on the agenda. And before we discuss this, I want to state on the record that I identified a potential voting conflict a while back, a long time ago, and discussed it with both the prior city attorney and our current city attorney, and they have confirmed that I do have a voting conflict on this issue. With regard to my continuing employment, I'm an employee of Sports Facilities Management LLC located here in Clearwater for 12 years, and it is part of the sports facilities companies, and Sports Facilities Advisory LLC is a consultant to the proposer here on this agenda item. So I'm also general counsel for all the sports facilities companies, so I act as general counsel for Sports Facilities Advisory LLC, which is also, as I said, consulting with the proposer here today. So for those reasons, I have a voting conflict and have confirmed that and will not be participating in this vote. So with that, city attorney? Yeah, and Mayor, I have consulted with you a couple times. As it relates to a voting conflict under 112.3143, there is a restriction on the ability for an appointed official to participate in any matter regarding an item. That participation clause does not apply to elected officials, just so the public is aware. And I've identified no other conflicts under 112. Regarding doing business with one's agency and conflicting contractual relationships, what that requires is a contract between, let's say, the public entity and the public official's company. In this situation, sports facilities management would not have a contract with the city. The potential contract would be between Sunshine and the city. So under 112.313, that would not apply to subcontractors. But in full transfer, I will not be voting on this agenda item today, which is the pressing matter, okay? Yes, customer Menina. Thank you, Mayor. I, as well, for the record, will not be voting on this agenda item as we sit here today. It has been brought to our attention that it's not indefinite, but there is a possibility of a voting conflict due to my years as a youth soccer coach in our community for one of our community partners at Clearwater Chargers Soccer Club. We have worked directly with legal, our city attorney's office. We've submitted an opinion to the Florida Ethics Commission, basically just to err on the side of caution. As of today, I, too, will not be voting, but we could get that decision back by Thursday. And if that happens, I will be voting. So as of today, I will not be. I just want to clarify. So Council Member Menina's conflict is slightly different. He's using 286.012. Under that statute, a council member is supposed to vote. Now, there is an exception to that if there is a appears-to-be or a possible conflict under 112.3143. So in his situation, we are in the process of requesting a legal advisory, excuse me, advisory opinion from the Florida Commission on Ethics. So, and again, the conflict must exist at the time of the voting. That's the key. At this time, I think we have a presentation. Yeah, and before we start, if I could just talk about the charter for a couple minutes. So under the city charter section 2.01, subsection D, subsection 5 real property, there's a couple of different charter restrictions. One involves subsection 5, and that deals with the use of a property in OSR. So under the charter, if there's a new use for property in OSR, it requires a referendum, but if the existing use stays the same, a referendum is not required. Now, I review this. I've certainly discussed this with staff. In my opinion, a referendum is not required for this particular matter because the use stays the same, and the use would be a parks and recreational facility. Ms. Matsey is going to go into more detail on that. There is another charter restriction under subsection 7 that deals with the length of a lease. So under the charter, the city council can approve a lease up to 65 years with a 30-year renewal. Anything beyond 65 or beyond 30 would require a referendum. So council cannot approve any type of agreement that's 65 years or with a 30-year extension. Okay. Anything further? Not that I think Ms. Battle, we're ready for the presentation. I would have been giving you the wrong presentation, so we got that corrected. So for the record, I'm going to have a couple of people participate in my presentation. So I'm going to talk about some topics. Then Wendell Gardner from Public Resources Advisory Group will come up and talk about the financial review and analysis that his firm performed, as well as Lauren Matsey will participate with me and talk more about, from a planning and zoning standpoint, about the use, as mentioned by the interim city attorney. So, again, my name is Al Battle. I'm an assistant city manager here for you at the beautiful city of Clearwater. I want to acknowledge the fact that we received this proposal, and it's first going back in November and then a second version in November of 2025 for a property at 1875 Airport Drive, commonly referred to as public golf course, the landings. So high, high level, what is a public-private partnership? You've heard the term used on many of an occasion, but I just want to lay it out from a definitional standpoint for the public who's watching and those who are in attendance. Partnership between a government entity and a private company, private entity, private partnership to construct, upgrade facilities. Could be facilities, could be park facilities, could be public infrastructure, could be a public facility project that the public entity ultimately owns, operates, and occupies. These are often used in those types of cases for large projects, not usually for small ones. So in this case, we're following that framework in terms of this is a very large particular project, large capital investment, and the private partner may choose to work with the city or any municipality on financing the project. In this case, this partner is proposing to finance the project totally privately with the benefit of using our property, the city's property, in the form of a long-term lease. Under Florida statute, this particular relationship is allowed. They happen frequently across the state of Florida. I've participated in several of them in my past life. It establishes a clear process for evaluating them. As you read through the statute, it gives some framework in terms of receiving them, what should be included in the proposals, the process in which they should be reviewed from an internal review to a public review to the final decision-making process. All of those things are outlined in that statute. It allows the county or the municipality or even special district to consider them, whether they be unsolicited or through a solicitation process. So there's no special way that they can come to us. In this case, this is an unsolicited proposal, so we're bringing it to you for the first time in a public forum to present it and allow you to ask us questions about it. The city of Clearwater, prior to my coming here, we had a P3 ordinance that outlined exactly how the city would engage in these types of developments. The state has amended their statute from time to time, and what we found prior to receiving this proposal is that by trying to keep up with the state's amendments to the statute, it would probably be best that we repeal our platform and follow the state statutory process in terms of reviewing the proposals, and that is the framework that we reviewed this particular proposal through. Excuse me. So, since this is unsolicited, we followed the unsolicited process as outlined by Florida statute, by which a developer gave us a proposal. They also included a fee, $25,000 is the fee that's outlined in statute, and also the fee that we identified as acceptable to pay for any additional professional services and evaluation work that would occur as a part of reviewing the proposal. High, high-level review. This particular review is not consistent with what you would see in a normal project type of review, i.e., a site plan or a building plan or any other type of review in which there is an outcome at a regulatory level. This is a high-level review to really look at the concepts, understand the financing, review the financing and the financial tools and how the project has been put together from that standpoint and understand and also ask questions in the process to understand if the proposal that's presented conceptually, financially, structurally, if it's good enough to meet a qualifying project threshold, and if so, bring that forward for you to discuss and review the proposal in its entirety. So, this is where we are today in terms of that first city public meeting with the applicant. As you are aware, we've had several internal meetings with the applicant throughout the process, primarily with our financial consultant. Very little interaction with city staff, only to look at the proposal, provide some preliminary feedback based on what they've seen as they would typically do in any other type of conversation where private interests come to the city and ask us to give them feedback about things that they're looking to invest and build in our city. We do that a lot. At this point, they gave us a little bit more, so we decided to help them understand some of the things that we would have concerns with, and I'll go over many of those through the presentation. There are some other steps that could occur as an unsolicited proposal, but as I go through the presentation later, I'll explain to you what our recommendation is, and the path could be just slightly askew from what's on the screen before you this morning or this afternoon. So, from a background standpoint, as I mentioned before, we received the first version back in November of last year, and the second version, a more involved and more detailed proposal back in December of 2025, and we decided that that particular version was well enough, had enough information in it for us to move forward with its formal review. At that time, they also provided the application fee for us to pursue hiring the public resources advisory group and any other consultants we needed in order to review the proposal. The proposal in its entirety, multi-purpose, large sports complex facility with about 12 multi-purpose fields, football, courts, sand, volleyball, aquatic and water park, attraction, fitness and wellness facilities, restaurant, and food service, walking and biking trails, very large project encompassing pretty much the entirety of the golf course. Construction at that time was anticipated to take anywhere from about two to three years. That schedule seems to be, seems to comport still with what the proposal envisions for the project if they're selected. From a cost standpoint, this is anticipated to be about $180 million investment. All of the funds in terms of the makeup of the capital stack are before you, $108 million of a private loan. A bulk of the funding also is anticipated to come from the Pinellas County Tourist Development Tax Fund, and private equity of about $27 million make up the capital stack. Clearly our involvement with the project is the long-term lease, but also approval and acceptance of the proposal would provide a path forward for them to apply for those tourist development tax dollars. So this is really a linchpin of a couple of things. You're accepting it, approving it allows them to move to another step if you choose to accept and approve the project. So there's still a multiple steps that will need to occur in order to get to the finish line of having a project that we can celebrate as having funding and acceptance and approval at all levels. So at this point in time, I'm going to ask Wendell Gardner, who's a member of the public resources advisories team, to come up and talk a little bit about their review of the project. Thank you. As was said, I'm Wendell Gardner with Public Resource Advisory Group. We've been the municipal advisor to the city since 2019. And in that role, we help assist with your debt policies, your debt issuances, and we do financial analysis as needed. So we have reviewed the information that Sunshine has provided. You'll see our detailed analysis in your agenda package. And what I wanted to talk about today is not necessarily focusing on the numbers, because the numbers will change as the project evolves, but really talk about the financial structure, talk about what is being financed, and talk about what the revenue generators are. And in that, really look at what might be a little unusual or specific to this project and where certain risks or unusual features may exist. You saw that the $180 million funding sources... Do I trust you? All right. So you can see here from the details, the $180 million consists of a construction loan, public money in the form of TDT, and equity from the developer. These are common sources of funding for P3s, the public fire partnerships. The use is obviously very specific to this project. A significant portion is the horizontal hard costs. That's basically the cost of turning this golf course facility and landscaping into a flat ground that will support the fields, the parking, and the buildings that would go upon it. So that cost of the site development is about $40 million. So it's a large component and does actually fit with the need for the TDT funding since that cost is a sunk cost and really not producing any revenues there. The vertical hard costs down below, they represent all the buildings and structures that are going to be built, and that shows you sort of the various components that would be within the project. The site development and the multipurpose fields are part of horizontal hard costs, and then all of the others are part of the vertical hard costs. You'll see some of the large items in terms of construction costs beyond the multipurpose fields are the water park, pickleball, food court, and then the various other ones down below it. It is the next page. So we reviewed the financial analysis, and I think the takeaways at this point is to really point out that although the sports and rec are a significant cost feature here, the revenue generators are primarily restaurant business, especially in the beginning. It does change a little bit in year four when the water park comes online as part of phase two, but it is going to be really dependent upon successful operations of the restaurant component to make the transaction work. And we think it's also too early in the process to really determine the financial returns to the city because all of those documentations and the lease will need to get negotiated, but it is appropriate to highlight a couple of things to be aware of as you move forward. First of all, a significant portion of the cost of this project is kind of the flattening of the facility, which is, again, not a revenue component, but is a necessary cost to make the project work. The second point to be aware of is the restaurant operations do provide a major portion of the revenues. The development is scheduled to occur in two phases, so there is some risk that would need to be addressed in the documentation to make sure that the project does reach full completion. And then perhaps most critically, the lease is going to have to balance the needs of the private lender who's putting up $100 million to be able to protect their loan with the needs of the city to ensure that what you are envisioning for this site remains throughout the lease term. I mentioned earlier that private debt is common in P3 projects, and one of the roles that it plays is really the entity putting their money where their mouth is to make sure that they believe in this project for a full and detailed financial review. So we really think at this point, if you were to move forward, one of the most cost-effective methods in gaining comfort is working with the developer and have them successfully identify a financial commitment or term sheet from a financial institution that would provide the funding they need, give the financial institution the security that they need, and protect the city's interest in the lease and in the project that is being developed here. So I'll turn it back over for the rest, and I'm available for questions as needed. So as I mentioned, in addition to Wendell's team's work on this particular review, we also asked our city departments that would normally be involved in the development process, and in some cases marine and aviation because they operate the airport adjacent to it to also provide some comments. So the next few slides, I'll go through some of the comments that we've received from them. And then the first one, I'm going to ask Lauren to come up and talk a little bit more specifically about the planning and zoning, from planning and zoning perspective, just so you can get a more detailed sense of what her review revealed. Good afternoon, Lauren Matzke, planning and development director. So the code actually refers to my role as the community development coordinator, and through the code, it assigns me the responsibility of reviewing the proposed activities and seeing how they fit within the city's land use rules. So you've been provided a summary of staff's review and evaluation within your agenda materials, and so you'll see that staff generally found that it was consistent with the city's comprehensive plan, Clearwater 2045. That's one of the first things that we always check against. As mentioned, the property is zoned open space recreation, so you'll hear me and everyone else just start to call it the OSR district. Within that district, then parks and recreation facilities is an allowed use, provided the project meets the applicable development standards. So I'm going to try to talk through this in a way that kind of brings people along who maybe aren't used to all of my presentations in the past. So when I talk about applicable development standards, those include requirements for setbacks, building height, parking, and other code requirements. But I want to make sure to distinguish between a use determination, which is what I'm mostly going to focus on, versus approval of a development plan. So as y'all are aware, but for the benefit of the community, what we've been reviewing as a conceptual plan, we've not completed a detailed review or analysis of the proposed layout, any of the improvements, construction materials, anything to that degree. If the project moves forward, that detailed evaluation for compliance would happen later and would include water and sewer capacity, traffic and transportation impacts, parking, stormwater, floodplain administration, and other requirements, compatibility with the surrounding uses, including residential and the air park. So my review at this stage really focused on whether the proposed activities fit within the existing use, which is parks and recreation facilities. So I'll first talk about that existing use and the proposed use. In zoning and land use discussions, we often talk about what the principal use is. So that's the main use that defines the property. The principal use for this, as I've mentioned, is parks and recreation facility. That's what the code defines it as. So the community development code says or defines a parks and recreation facility as a much longer definition, but the short and relevant part is that it's a publicly owned property used for active or passive recreational uses. So active recreation can include the sports and fitness activities and then lower intensity recreation, such as walking or trails. Today, the specific recreational use, so today on the property, as we've been discussing, is the landings, which is a golf course. That also has secondary uses that support the main use of the golf course. Those are known often as accessory uses. And so currently there are two, at least two accessory uses that I'm aware of, which is the pro shop. So that's a retail that's secondary to the golf course. And then the clubhouse, which provides food and beverage services to the people who visit. So those uses support the golf course, but they're not, they don't define what that original principal use is. The proposed concept that we looked at follows that same land use structure. So its main pieces are recreational, such as the athletic fields, the courts, the water park, some golf, fitness areas, outdoor spaces, et cetera. Those create or form that main recreational use. And so that's where my interpretation was that the principal use remains a parks and recreation facility. So I've mentioned though, similar to current, the current landing site, with the concept, not every, every component of the project is a recreational use. It, it has food and beverage services, concessions, cafes, catering functions, and it also includes proposed personal service, such as, you know, getting massages and other spa-like amenities. Those would be treated as accessory uses, similar to the pro shop for the catering or rather the restaurant services. So in code terms, these, these accessory uses have to be subordinate. They have to be secondary in both their, the area or the amount of space they take up, the scale, and the purpose to the primary use. They must support the principal recreational use. They must contribute to the convenience and comfort of its users and be located on the same property. But the code does set like a numerical limit. There's a threshold. So in that instance, accessory uses taken together, so all of them as summed up may not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the principal use. And in this instance, gross floor area is the interior of building space. So the outdoor recreational areas, the fields, the outdoor courts, the water park areas, they, they are part of the overall recreational use, but they do not or are not included in the calculation for the gross floor area. Buildings on the site, which you saw, they may include both recreational and accessory functions. So in those cases, the applicant will need to provide us with the measurements so we can separate out which portions of those buildings are recreational and which portions of those buildings are accessory in structure. But, you know, the main piece is that the overall use is recreational, consistent with the current use. The other various accessory uses are limited. They cannot exceed that 25% gross floor area. and this, you know, my assessment doesn't approve anything. Neither does your decision today, but as it advances, that's when we'll get into all the technical details that will certainly come up with lots of questions. Okay, so I'll just briefly run through some of the other comments from other departments. Lawrence, we knew was something that was of importance just to review and understand the applicability of this particular use as it relates to the existing use in the OSR zoning district, so we wanted to give her an opportunity to speak more in detail about these points. Some of the other things raised by other departments, so I'll start with Parks and Rec. They specifically ended up of no items that they brought up were public and the community's access to the facility, albeit private. Right now, there's no limitation. You come, you play, pay for play, and in this model, privately, privately run, privately operated. What does that mean to the existing use from the standpoint of the public's access to the site? Also, the existing recreation programming that the city currently has in its offerings. Is this competitive? Does this augment? How does that fit in the overall recipe of what the city of Clearwater offers to its residents? Facility maintenance from a long-term standpoint. We have a relationship similar with the Phillies in which the relationship of maintaining the facilities is something that is a contractual obligation of the city. What would be the relationship here? Again, just a question about the relationship based on what we received. Also, the recreational service gap need. Number of fields that they're building here. Rectangular fields. What are our existing inventory of rectangular fields? And not only from the city standpoint, but just generally countywide and how does this fit, supplement, and provide additional access for people with the park and recreation opportunities of use. Same thing from Public Works. Some really, really high-level comments from them. Parking, traffic, first things when they looked at the site, clearly you see the parking lot. Clearly you know this is the site that is on a major thoroughfare and how do you access it and what would be those changes to the access. Pedestrian and bike safety was also something that was brought up as a concern and needed more analysis. Stormwater, how it's addressed right now. This is a place where Stormwater has an existing function that has an impact on how the community of Stormwater is dealt with in this part of the city as well as contamination and remediation for the site. This is a former landfill. There is existing contamination there. Any disturbance through the development process would require remediation and also the adjacency to the air park is something I'll talk about in the next slide. In asking Marine and Aviation for some feedback, they quickly identified a number of FAA regulations that would need to be addressed so we're far from having compliance if you will and the proposal's ability to respond to that. These are just some of the things that they mentioned just by looking at the proposal that the proposal would need to be aware of and need to address through the process. From an economic development standpoint, sports tourism is definitely something that's a growing trend across the United States. The proposal is consistent with the city of Clearwater's plan of promoting this particular use in this site or the city as a premier destination for sports tourism, events, and health and wellness activities as a part of the city's strategic plan as a point of emphasis and also the indirect and direct impacts are definitely important to the local tourism and small business economy. Total estimated economic impact for the first 10 years of the project is anticipated to be over $550 million. And from a manager's office standpoint, my review of the proposal as the professional leading the effort, clearly this is something that we want to also take advantage of and that is a local developer, local firms participating in the project and them having an ability to really understand the pulse of the community and specializing in those various specialties that would be of value to the local economy from an indirect and direct investment standpoint. Again, knowing that this project supports the Clearwater, City of Clearwater strategic plan is a plus and that this is also consistent with what we've been asked to do and that is inspire and promote private investment in the public interest in terms of the development opportunities, not just downtown, not just North Greenwood but also all across our city. So overall economic development strategy would be enhanced by at least reviewing this type of proposal and having a discussion about it and making a decision either way about how we want to proceed forward. So from a regulatory standpoint, still would be hurdles to cross. So this does not exempt that process, i.e. there's still traffic and infrastructure review that would be required. Still stormwater review that would be required. Airport compatibility, environmental compliance, site planning, building things would still be requirements of the proposal if they were provided the opportunity to move forward. So then it becomes a matter of what are we here today for you to give us feedback about. So a couple of decisions that you can make on Thursday night, three of them really that we see that could be more. But from the standpoint of the three that I want to highlight for you is that you can accept the proposal and direct us to move forward with negotiating an agreement to move forward with the development is one option. Second one, you may accept the proposal as a qualifying project but ask us to go out and solicit additional proposals. The last one, you can reject it at face value based on the information presented today. That ends the discussion and we talk about something else. So our recommendation from a staff standpoint is that you accept the proposal as a qualifying proposal and that we do solicit for additional interest in the site. Do a 30-day advertisement at the end of that period. Bring those proposals back for your review and consideration if we receive additional proposals based on that process. So if that was the case, advertise for 30 days, the solicitation will go out. If we receive other proposals, we would have a public meeting in which those proposals are reviewed and we would give you our evaluation of what we've received in terms of a recommendation to move forward with one or another of those proposals. And if one is selected, then we would ask for your direction and approval to move forward to at least approve an interim agreement which would allow for us to continue to negotiate to a full comprehensive agreement but also allow the selected project to be able to do some due diligence on a site that's got a lot of complexities to it. Also allow for us to figure out some things as we go through the process. There is an existing user. There is a contract with them. There are some other things that we may also want to address as well. So give us an interim process to at least continue to work towards a final development agreement would be the posture if we were to move forward with selecting a proposal at the end of the day. So that concludes the staff presentation. We will take questions now. We can wait to the end. I know that the proposer also is going to make a presentation so we're here for your as resources. Myself, Lauren, and of course, Wendell from Prague is here as well. So take your direction from there. I think it probably makes sense to have the proposer go ahead now and then take all the questions together. Good afternoon. Not quite evening. City Council Members and Mayor Brian Ungst, 625 Court Street here on behalf of the proposer, Sunshine Recreational and Entertainment LLC and its manager, Les Porter, of Porter Development. We're also happy to be joined by our civil engineer, Sean Cashin. We're joined by Miles Ballag, who is the National Brownfields leader for NSAFE and former Brownfields leader for the city of Clearwater. We're also joined by Michael Yates, our traffic engineer, who performed a detailed traffic study and Eric Sullivan and Joe Grossman from the sports facilities companies to all participate in this presentation. As the assistant city manager battle said, nothing is before you tonight to approve in terms of a development or a lease or terms or a deal or anything that would be binding or enforceable. All that's before you is an opportunity to continue a conversation with the proposer, with the community, and potentially to see what else is out there to compare against what the proposer has proposed. And we are in alignment with the staff recommendation to accept this proposal as a qualifying bid under Chapter 255 and issue a solicitation for other proposals to see over the next 30 days what could possibly be out there for this city-owned asset. As you know, the Landings is a parks and recreation facility. It has been since 1970. For 56 years, it's operated as a city-owned golf course. There are two other city-owned golf courses within the city of Clearwater, and 48% of the city's active open space is dedicated to golf courses. But prior to that, it was a landfill, and it still is environmentally contaminated. 22 acres of the site have garbage and trash compacted over the course of 80 years that are just six feet underground. This is an opportunity to remediate that under the monitoring of the FDEP and pursuant to Florida law to clean that site up for the future, for the present and for the future. It's also an opportunity to bring the site up to code. The site is not up to code for many things, including stormwater, drainage, flooding, water quality, and attenuation. When we had our community meeting on July 21st, one of the residents stood up and said, every time it rains, there's a puddle in front of my condo. Well, today, I'm sure there's probably quite a bit of standing water out there. And one of the huge benefits of this project is it will help increase the water quality that flows into Stevenson's Creek and it will mitigate and if not stop all of the flooding that's happening now, at least during daily rainstorms, up to a 100-year storm flood standard pursuant to Swift Mud, City Clearwater code. The other thing that we're talking about is we'd have to be up to code for landscaping, trees, shade trees, Florida native species. All of those regulatory steps are yet to come. So none of that is, again, before you today, but all of those things are opportunities to improve the current conditions and most importantly and perhaps most importantly, diversify the parks and recreation facility offerings so that it has something for everyone, retirees, children, young families, professionals that are busy during the day, like a lot of us in this room who need something to do to relax or rehydrate, whether it's a mineral spring or cryotherapy or whatever it is that I particularly need to keep going these days. So, again, this is an opportunity to continue that conversation. I wanted to introduce Mr. Cashin to walk you through a little bit on the stormwater benefits. Thank you, Brian. Sean Cashin. The golf course was constructed in 1970, which was well before the creation of the Southwest Water Water Management District, SwiftMUD, which was created in 1984. SwiftMUD is a regulatory body that regulates water quality treatment and stormwater attenuation for developments in the Tampa Bay area. As a result, currently the golf course stormwater runoff, which would include in the runoff stream pesticides, herbicides, sediments, fertilizers, et cetera, is discharging to the west of the site to Stevenson's Creek and, to a lesser degree, Allen's Creek to the south of the site. And this stormwater discharge has little to no water quality treatment that is occurring from this discharge from the golf course. As part of this redevelopment, this development would have to adhere to the statewide stormwater rules that were fully enacted earlier this year. And as part of the statewide stormwater rules, there's a very high-level, enhanced water quality treatment, retention and treatment that any new developments must adhere to. And that is to remove nitrogen, phosphorus, sediments, et cetera. So that would be a significant improvement over the current situation with the golf course as well as stormwater controls and floodplain management. And we feel that the water quality alone would be a significant net environmental benefit for the Stevenson's Creek watershed where the majority of this water discharges to. Thank you. Thank you, Sean. Now I'll have Mr. Balogh come up and explain the brownfield opportunity and what that process for remediating the site would look like under his supervision. Thank you. Miles Balogh, National Brownfield Practice Leader for InSafe and former, ran the City of Clearwater's Brownfield Program for five years at the very beginning of the program. As mentioned, this is a brownfield opportunity. We would go to DEP working with the City of Clearwater and present it that way. We would do a full site assessment and continue to look at the environmental conditions on the site. We would submit a full site assessment to DEP. We would come up with a remedial action plan to clean up the site. And as mentioned earlier, we also feel like this would be a great opportunity to improve stormwater. As also mentioned, was 20 acres of the property was an old landfill. And here are the key environmental findings. You see the red hatched areas. Those are solid waste that still exist on the site. We would do additional assessment. There may be a little bit of additional solid waste which would need to come off of the site. Also, when you have golf courses, you spray the teas and greens to maintain them with herbicides and pesticides so those areas would have to be managed properly. We haven't found any groundwater contamination in any existing documentation, but we would check for that. And then we'd go through the full process to leave the property in a much better condition than it was. Turn it back to Miles. Thank you, Miles. So just to summarize the long-term environmental investment, this represents millions of dollars of private investment into a city-owned asset to improve the public infrastructure as outlined by Mr. Cashin and Mr. Bollig and really bring this property into the 21st century which has been stuck from an environmental perspective in 1970 since that time. So what is the project proposing in terms of the public recreation facility, the active and passive recreation? As you all know, Pinellas County has been trying to attract a sports complex with rectangular fields to program for both local and visitors. For over a decade, Pinellas County has been trying to attract a project like this. And this represents a great opportunity to fulfill that vision and to work with the CVB to bring that project here to Clearwater which is also the home of the highest generation of bed tax in Pinellas County which I know we're all very proud of. So it really goes hand in hand. So we're talking about 12 multi-purpose rectangular fields, one championship field that would be for things like high school football championships or things of that nature. 24 pickleball courts which are now all covered. That's something that we identified as an opportunity to help with compatibility with neighborhood concerns over pickleball noise. So those courts will all be covered now. 12 sand volleyball courts, a 218 hole putting course which will be a state-of-the-art think pop stroke putting course, a very unique offering. Family entertainment center, fitness and wellness offerings which will include like I said those mineral springs and coal plunges and all of the latest and greatest for rehydration and rehabilitation. The water amenity which will be similar to a lazy river with a large pool and then the food and beverage component. Another thing that I wanted to point out as part of our negotiations if we get to a place where we even are negotiating which we're not there yet if we get to that place we are very aware that we will be offering significant discounts for Clearwater residents and the folks here that are local to make sure that this site is accessible. So we did have some community meetings. I do want to make it very clear we are not representing that anyone is supporting this project just because someone is willing to meet with us or ask to meet with us that's an opportunity we'll take every day. I want to hear what everybody in the community thinks and how we can improve the project. That does not mean they're endorsing the project nor have we ever implied that so I wanted to make that very clear on the record but one of the big things we heard from the Marymount neighborhood was close off airport drive. There was an access there to the south at the southwest of the site and we have agreed to close that off. It may be required for emergency vehicle access that hasn't gotten to traffic engineering yet but from our perspective from Mr. Yates' perspective it's something we can accommodate. Again, it's to be negotiated but we don't need it from our perspective so it's something we're definitely willing to give on. Another thing we've agreed to is 24-hour security. Security was a big concern for the neighborhood. We've also agreed as of just Thursday you'll see there's some landscaping in between the fields and the parking. What we've agreed to do is to move that parking closer to the fields by about 15 feet and move that landscaping up on the buffer of the St. Andrews Cove condos. So that will increase the buffer from St. Andrews Cove condos with the mature landscaping to about 40-ish 45 feet maybe more. So we're talking about minimum buffers of 40 to 50 feet all the way around airport drive over to the St. Andrews condominiums. We've also agreed to add an opaque wall to make sure that we eliminate any of those noise pollution and lighting pollution concerns and address all those other things through site planning and the negotiations. But this is the proposed site plan as it exists. We also moved the putt-putt to the north and put the water amenity more in the middle of the project. So next I'll introduce Michael Yates to discuss his traffic study. Good afternoon Michael Yates with Palm Traffic. We did prepare a traffic study to evaluate the transportation impacts associated with the proposed development. We looked at a couple of different things. We looked at the Keene Road how that would operate on a general link level of service. We were able to show that would operate an acceptable level of service to the city requirements. We also looked at each of the intersections adjacent to the project. we were able to demonstrate that those would operate at an acceptable level of service with a V-over-C all less than one. And then we also identified the necessary improvements which would be a northbound right turn lane and a southbound left turn lane at each of the project accesses. So that gets the traffic off the roadway and into the site with minimal delays to the Keene Road operations operations with that. And this slide just demonstrates each of the details of that the operation of the links the proposed improvements and the intersection operation. Excellent. Thank you Michael. And just to go back to the site plan real quick to show you what Mr. Eust was talking about. So we're talking about adding turn lanes dedicated turn lanes for this project. So taking property that currently is now the landings and turning those into turn lanes dedicated for this project. So basically improving Keene Road, improving the infrastructure of Keene to accommodate for the project. And again that's all coming at private expense. So private investment and city owned infrastructure to improve it and bring it into the 21st century. Finally we'll introduce Mr. Sullivan, Eric Sullivan from sports facilities companies to walk you through the programming, local and non-local programming and what the proposal offers from that perspective. Excellent. Thank you Brian. Eric Sullivan from the sports facilities companies. There's a lot of intentionality behind what's in this plan. So as you heard from staff, there's 12 multi-purpose fields and a championship field. 13 is a really important number from the tournament standpoint. It gets us to the U.S. soccer necessary standpoint to be a national destination. So we think about this from the lack of long fields. We say long fields, regulation soccer fields that can also be used for soccer, football, field hockey, lacrosse and a number of other uses. That's what we're talking about. And so what this allows us to do is work with U.S. youth soccer, work with national programming providers, work with FYSA, Florida Youth Soccer Association, ECNL, and a number of the other groups and events to bring those types of tournaments here to the market. Now from a local standpoint, this is also very multi-generational in how we're thinking about it from the mix of amenities that we have on site, the mix of programming spaces. So local programming from a youth standpoint will be everything from after-school programs, summer camps, working closely with the award-winning parks and recreation staff as we saw earlier today, also working with a number of local user groups. So everything from local soccer clubs, flag football, boys and girls clubs, PAL, you name it, we want to work with all the different organizations that are local and driving local programming that can have a home here on the site. The balance is about 50-50 when we think about it from the overall calendar perspective and the seasonality of both the tournament standpoint and then the 365 appeal for local user groups. We have met with a number of local organizations just to understand their desires, their need. Longfields being the largest segment of real estate on the site has by far and away been one of the biggest things we've heard from but we're getting a lot of excitement also for the amenities related to the aquatics, the fitness, and some of the other more leisure and passive recreation opportunities there. We're also being really intentional about making sure this is accessible. So you heard Brian say we've committed to security, we've committed to accessibility and we want to make sure that we've got fitness trails and other amenities that are welcome to bring the local population in at no cost. As we think about fitness, it's not just fitness for athletes. Certainly we will have sports performance training there where we can do all types of different classes. We'll grow on Mr. Porter's existing business from a CrossFit perspective that's here in Clearwater as well as more low-impact opportunities like yoga, Pilates, and things of that nature. On the wellness side, the intent is truly to be unlike a traditional spa, but truly a wellness center. We think about the things that we're seeing national trends for, for low-impact fitness for seniors. We think about mobility, we think about pre-habbing for surgeries, rehabbing after surgeries. There's a lot of focus right now on healthier living and this wellness center is designed to encompass all of those types of programs and opportunities. And then last but not least, from the water amenity standpoint, this is really, truly what we're calling a resort-style attraction where, again, it's multi-generational in terms of it's got a side for youth with the lazy rivers, with zero-depth entry, play spaces with some playscapes, but then also has an adult and family side which has more cabanas, food and beverage, and really just a program that will appeal for locals and for visitors to the complex alike. Excellent. Thank you, Peter. Just to wrap up the presentation, Councilmembers, I've already talked about some of the neighborhood input we've already received. We're not just taking neighborhood input from meetings. We're also trying to reach out proactively to stakeholder groups and to schedule meetings on our own, and also we're reading what's online, and we're reacting to that as well and taking all of that into account. So I went through a lot of that. Things like hours of operations certainly will be restricted and negotiated if this continues to a negotiation standpoint, and that's something we're absolutely committed to. Now, this does return the property to the tax rules, which is another huge benefit for the citizens of Clearwater. These numbers were generated using the Pinellas County property appraiser Mike Twitty's tax estimator, but we actually followed up with Mike and his in-house attorney, Alex Luca, and they actually confirmed that their estimates is that the taxes would be higher than what we're showing here, by a little bit, but still higher than what we're showing here. So we believe confidently in speaking directly with the property appraiser that we believe this is a conservative estimate of tax generation for the city of Clearwater. So you're talking about $31 million over 10 years in ad alarm tax. Of that, $9.5 million goes directly to the city of Clearwater. There's about $5.5 million in county sales tax, and then there'll be about $10.5 million in bed tax. That brings the total to $47.7 million, again, which we believe is a very, very achievable, reasonable estimate based on confirmation from the Pinellas County property appraiser himself. But again, this property, as far as I know, has never been on the tax rule, because what we know about it is, prior to becoming the municipal golf course that doesn't pay taxes, it was a landfill, a municipal home landfill. And last but not least, it also helps create jobs. So 615 jobs in a range could be more, as Craig pointed out in their report, it could be more, it could be 1,000 jobs when you consider construction and the different phases. But at least 65 of those jobs would be above the average median income for Pinellas County. So I know this is a lot, but again, I want to just reiterate, we're at the end of the beginning, or the beginning of the end of the beginning. We're not anywhere near a commitment. We're not anywhere near you approving anything. And Mr. Porter, as you know, is a Clearwater business person who's committed to this community, he's active in the community, and he's not going anywhere. So we are committed to this process, however long it takes. And I do want to sincerely thank City Manager Poyer, Lauren Maskey, Planning Director, Assistant City Manager, Al Battle, their entire teams, Prague, anybody I'm leaving out, I'm sorry, but Parks and Rec, I mean, everybody has been involved with this to this point. City Attorney Kohler and his great team. There's been a tremendous amount of effort to just get to this point, but what's the harm in keeping the conversation going and seeing what else could be out there? Thank you. Further presentations? With that, what questions does the Council have? That's Member Albritton. You're first. This is for Brian. You were just mentioning the taxes, and you said something about $47 million, what was the amount, and then you said bed tax. How are we getting bed tax out of this? So the, well, that's probably for Mr. Sullivan, but what Sports Facilities Companies has confirmed is that this will add to our hotel stays. So you're taking already an incredibly successful part of our economy, and you're adding to additional bed stays and additional trips to Clearwater, additional overnight trips to Clearwater. Oh, I see what you're saying. Of use for this, not necessarily on this project. That's correct. People will come in and be in the hotel. I got you. Yeah, yes, sir. Heads and beds. Yes, sir. Vice Mayor? Yeah, thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, City, for your presentation. Brian, you might want to stay at the podium because I'm coming to you. Thank you all for your presentation as well. You know, we received a few emails, talked with the neighborhood residents there. I appreciate you and the developer going and talking to those individuals, and I think you hit a lot of the concerns we were hearing with traffic. One of those, I understand you said that you'd be coming for the northbound turn lane into the property, but with the southbound, how are you guys able to develop those into the turn lanes? Is it just getting an easement from FDOT? I will let Mr. Yates handle that, and we can put the site plan back up if that would be helpful. Yeah, so there is an existing median out in Keene Road. I believe Keene is a county maintained facility, so we would need to work with the county and working through making modifications to the median, building those turn lanes and all that, but the northbound rights would be built on what is currently the property there today. Is there a way for the county to deny that potential? I mean, how often would that happen, percentage-wise? Well, we're aligning with existing intersections, so it's typically not that they would deny building a turn lane. It would be working through the access location, making sure that the access facing is met, and those justifications, like we may have to do an administrative variance for access spacing based on the locations, but we are aligning with existing median openings, so highly unlikely, but it would be a process through the county and part of the normal process that we go through on a regular basis. Okay, great. Thank you very much. Brian, I've got a few more for you. You hit the light and noise pollution portion as well, and I appreciate that with the opaque wall. For somebody who doesn't know what an opaque wall is, could you explain what that might? It's a decorative wall. It's not a fence. It's not PVC. It's not chain link. It is a large decorative wall like you would see in a community. Thank you very much. Additionally, I got another email this week from the apartment complex to the north of the property that was informing, I think all of us got it, about Helene, Milton, the flooding that came into their area. You did address how stormwater and enhancing those things would essentially ease that flooding. could you just explain maybe why that is? Sure. And Mr. Cashman was actually at the community meeting when one of those residents spoke about that specific topic, and we're talking about the St. Andrews Cove apartments right there. Perfect. Thank you. Sean Cashman. At the community meeting, some of the neighbors, the condos to the southwest had mentioned, I think it was during Hurricane Milton, that they had water right up to their doorstep, their patio, and, you know, what are you guys going to do about that problem? So part of this development is within some floodplain areas that we're aware of, and it is part of our overall stormwater management and flood plane programming plan. Any impacts to the floodplain will be compensated for at a higher level, and we always look at situations such as this where there is currently flooding that is occurring, and it may be impacting adjacent residents. So what we do is try to always try to improve the situation, so provide additional floodplain, stormwater retention, controls, whatever we need to do in order to assure, especially adjacent property owners, that these flooding problems will be a thing of the past. We will improve the situation. And it will go through permitting through SWIFT MUD, through the City of Clearwater, stormwater engineers, everybody who looks at that through the regulatory process, which of course we're nowhere near to being in that process, but it will be an objective improvement. It will be quantifiable. It's a quantifiable improvement, bringing it up to current standards and current code as verified by the outside experts, the regulatory bodies. Going on to the next thing that I've heard, and you hit on it a little bit, parking in the neighborhood. They're worried that when you do one of these events that parking will overflow, or maybe not even get into the parking lot and start parking throughout the neighborhood. Can you speak to that a little more? Thank you for bringing that up because I think I forgot to mention that. So that was one of the first things we heard from the neighborhood, along with security and lighting and noise, is they are concerned that if we charged for parking, because there was a small element in the pro forma of charging for tournament parking, that folks wouldn't want to pay for it and would try to park it on street in the neighborhoods. And we do see that happening in Safety Harbor and South Tampa and areas where there's a lot of activity right next to older historic neighborhoods. And so we've agreed to take that out. So we will not charge for parking, for anything, even for tournaments. So all of those parking spaces, which again, we do have a parking demand study and ample parking, all those parking spaces will be available free of charge to the folks who are using the facility. Awesome. I think you even just hit on the next thing that I had here was crime. Can you speak to what it is that you all plan on doing to try and mitigate whatever crime might be there? On top of having CCTV surveillance cameras and all of the things that you would typically have, we're going to have this six foot wall all the way around the property. The only part of the property that won't have this opaque wall is along airport, is along the actual air park, you know, which no one's going to be running across the air park because that's secured up to, you know, FDOT standards and city standards. So, and it's also going to have retention ponds there. So, you're going to have this wall and we've also agreed to this 24-7 on-site security as well. Okay. Do you guys have a duration of how long you'll keep that security or do we plan on maybe doing that for... I think it would be what's the intent is to keep it there as long as the facility is running and that's certainly something we'd be willing to negotiate as part of any negotiations with the city. Awesome. Thank you very much. I also appreciate you hitting the Clearwater resident potential for, you know, some definite discounts in that. I know that we're not anywhere near that portion of this process, but the fact that you and the development team here are considering that means a great deal to me, especially when we're dealing with the people's land and potential long-term leases. So, thank you very much. Yes, sir. Thank you. Any other questions? Right. Well, thank you all for attending today and presenting this proposal. With that, we will take a short recess before proceeding to the agenda item 5.1. Before accession, back to order, and we'll move to item 5.1 on the agenda. A client services agreement with Arthur J. Gallagher, Risk Management Services. Good afternoon. Monica Mitchell, Assistant Finance Director. This item is to approve a client services agreement with Arthur J. Gallagher for placement of our insurance policies over the next three years with the three-year renewal. We piggybacked on Pinellas County's agreement to arrive at these terms. Any questions? Any questions on this agenda? No. Do we have consent? Yes. We have consent on 5.1. Thank you. Thank you. Good item 6.1. Extend Owen Kohler's appointment as interim city attorney through October 1, 2026. Good afternoon. Tiffany Macris, HR Director. That is basically the intent of this item is to extend his agreement. Why do you need to explain that? Well said. But I am here for any questions if you have. Any questions? Do we have consent? Yes. Do we have consent on 6.1? Thank you. Thank you. Good item 7.1. Authorized a guaranteed maximum price proposal to Keystone Excavators for renovations and improvements at Countryside Community Park. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I think we've officially made it the evening. The GMP before you is for the construction of six pickleball courts at Countryside Community Park. These pickleball courts are not the only improvement. There would be lighting for these. There would also be improvements to our exercise equipment and also access to the trail. As written, the agenda item was originally budgeted for $1.25 million. This proposal with the lighting puts us $249,636 beyond that original budget. Now, the guidance we are searching for is do you approve the pickleball courts but also with the additional fees for the lighting. We have the money in a different CIP. It would mean that the Frank Tack improvements would not be done. That money would be shifted over to cover the lighting. So, it's sort of a two-part question. Do you approve the pickleball courts for consent? And if you do, does that include the lighting? I'll be glad to answer any questions at this time. And what were the improvements planned for Frank Tack? The improvements for Frank Tack included upgrades to the parking, landscaping, other items like that. Right now, there's a loose aggregate parking lot and that would be to turn it into an asphalt parking. Okay. Any other questions? Do we have consent then? Yes. Yes. Including the additional lighting. To include the lighting, yes. Thank you. So, there's consent for the pickleball courts and the additional lighting? Yes. Okay. Okay. Agenda item 7.2. Authorize an addendum to the existing professional services agreement with Rec Track LLC doing business as Vermont systems of Essex Junction Vermont for the payment services software Pay Track. Good afternoon, Mayor, Councilmembers. Art Cater, Parks and Recreation Director. The Parks and Recreation Department uses a software program that's called Rec Track. Rec Track as a programming tool that we use for all of our registration of participants and for our management system for our various recreation facilities around the city. We're at a point now where the existing hardware and the payment services provided by another entity, which is called Elevon, is no longer compatible with Rec Track. And to address this issue, we are requesting that Vermont systems act as the city's agent for payment facilitation services. And as such, we will be able to continue taking credit cards and debit cards. Basically, that's what it's for. Any questions? Any questions on this agenda? Do we have consent? Yeah, thanks. We have consent on 7.2. Thank you, Mr. Cater. Gen. Item 7.3. Award a construction contract to concrete protection and restoration for carpenter complex repairs. Good evening, Mayor, Council, Matthew Anderson, Assistant Director. The PO before you was competitively procured through the ITB process, we had four respondents, three of which were deemed complete. We reviewed those three complete respondents and selected the lowest responsible bidder, which was concrete restoration, or sorry, concrete protection and restoration. This contract is going to allow us to go in and re-coat the existing roof on the Montgomery building to extend its life. Go through and remove the roofing on the exteriors of the building. Every product will buy a lot more life out of the building. We've also got some rusted catwalks throughout the exterior fields. That'll all be cleaned up and re-coated. It also allows us to repair trip hazards that are throughout the training facility building where the players take batting practice, things like that. So we'd go in and remove those trip hazards and repair. I'll be glad to answer any questions at this time. Okay. Any questions on this or not? Not that we have consent. We have consent on 7.3. Thank you. And item 8.1. Appear change order 3 to Skanska, USA, Building, Inc. for the Sound Canopy Gutters Installations Project. I had good afternoon, so I will forego my 25-minute presentation for you guys to keep it short. I'm Jeremy Brown, Deputy City Engineer for the Public Works Department. The item before you is for gutters for the sound. For the people at home, these aren't your normal gutters around your building. These are designed specifically and fabricated specifically for our great amphitheater of the sound. One thing that did come up was maintaining accessibility while you're installed. I had some insurances from the contractor that there won't be any issues with that. And in fact, at the time, they said, Jeremy, we do this all the time. In fact, we're working at the Houston Texans Stadium right now. So with that, the installation is expected to occur sometime in the late December, and I'm happy to take any questions. Any questions on this agenda item? If not, do we have consent? Thank you. We have consent on 8.1. Thank you, sir. Agenda item 9.1. Authorize the purchase of heavy and light-duty vehicles and equipment in a not-to-exceed amount of $22,251,080. Good afternoon, Mayor, City Council, City Leadership, Brandi Calendrea, Director of General Support Services. Along with me is Debbie Moore, our Fleet Purchasing Coordinator. This may be her last time. She's looking to retire, so I apologize. I heard the back. The item before you is the fiscal year 2027 vehicle and equipment purchase plan in the not-to-exceed amount of $22,251,080. The plan includes the purchase of approximately 273 vehicles and equipment, including 241 replacement units or $20,111,030 and 32 net new units for $2,140,050 that support operational and service needs across multiple city departments. Our replacement program is based on life cycle management and considers factors such as age, mileage, operating hours, maintenance costs, reliability, safety, and operational needs, not simply the age of the asset. You will notice this item is coming forward before adoption of the fiscal year 2027 budget. We are requesting early authorization because vehicle manufacturers open their ordering banks well before the fiscal year begins, and those ordering windows can close quickly with little to no notice. Early approval allows us to place orders when order banks are available, secure current pricing before manufacturers increase, increases take effect, and reduce delivery times while remaining within the city's budget, process, and maximizing the value of taxpayer dollars. We are happy to provide any additional details on the replacement methodology, funding, or departmental purchases, and answer any questions that you may have. Thanks, Mayor. I'll be brief. I don't have a question. It's more of a statement. You nailed it. You know, I was asked about this heavy amount, but life cycle management is the key to that, and most people don't understand that maintaining vehicle costs over time could be more expensive than just replacing the vehicle at a government rate with specific government deals. So thank you very much for hitting that, and to whoever's watching, that is the reasoning. Thank you. Ms. Mertesha. Every time this topic comes up for an agenda, you know, I always get a lot of questions. So what I'm not going to ask you guys to answer all off the cuff, and the day's getting kind of long, so, but I will generate those questions and then just forward to you at a later date. Certainly. Okay. Thank you for clarifying that, too, because I did get a question about why you're selling perfectly good vehicles, you know, before you need to, and that's not, age is not the standard. It's how well the vehicle's performing has life in it. We get a lot out of them, don't we? Yeah. 100%. Asset management. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Do we have consent on this one? Okay. We have consent on 9.1. Thank you. Thank you. Gen item 10.1. Approve amendment number one, no monetary change and renewal number one to the 2021 Vanellas County Technical Rescue Team Agreement. Good afternoon, Council, State of Leadership, David Cato, Deputy Chief Operations, Fire Rescue. Approval authorizes amendment one language and the first one-year renewal of the Vanellas County Technical Rescue Team interlocal agreement with the City of Clearwater. The original agreement, which expires on September 30th, 2026, only permitted one additional five-year renewal. In order to address proper contractual items, as Vanellas County continues to evaluate the long-term administration of the regional technical rescue team program, a shorter renewal period and one-year increments has been proposed by the county. This proposal does not change the scope of current services, operational responsibilities, financial reimbursement to the City of Clearwater. The renewal extends the current agreement from October 1st of 2026 through September 30th, 2027, and preserves Clearwater Fire Rescue's continued delivery of specialized rescue capabilities to include structural collapse, confined space, trench rescue, high-angle vehicle extrication, and urban flood response throughout Vanellas County. I'll take any questions if you have any. Any questions on this agenda? If not, do we have consent? You have consent on 10.1. Thank you. Jen, I'm 11.1. Authorize an increase on purchase orders to Joe Payne, Inc. and Quorum Services for Florida Building Code Inspection and Plan Review Services. Hi. I'm Dana Root. I'm the assistant building official for the City of Clearwater. We currently have an annual purchase order of $850,000 for the services from either Joe Payne, Inc. or our secondary one is Quorum Services. It's for plan review and building inspection services. We are asking for $350,000 more. This will take us through the end of the fiscal year of September 30th. Any questions? Okay. Questions on this agenda? Council Member Albright. Yeah. Is that because we have positions that aren't filled or why we're going to third party? I know you've been doing it for a while, but I just didn't know. We've been doing it, as far as I know, for about 17 years. Sometimes we use it. Sometimes we don't. Probably the past 10, 12 years, we've always used it. And in the last three, five years, we've come back to ask for a little bit more money just to get us through the end of the fiscal year. So we are short-staffed. The permit count is up. So it's multiple things. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? Okay. Do we have consent? Yeah. We have consent on 11.1. Thank you. Thank you. General item 12.1. Authorize the purchase order with Verizon Wireless for cellular and mobile data services. Mayor, council, Dan Mayer, IT director. We're coming back after a few years to renew a contract with Verizon Wireless. It's a not-to-exceed number. It's not an obligation. It's about $50,000 a year less than our previous contract term. That's mostly due we've been diligent to reduce the number of phones that are not necessary. And we've had some rate savings on the wireless cards. And even though we've added a lot more field devices, we're saving money there compared to the previous contract. So I'll be happy to take any other questions. Okay. Any questions on this gen item? If not, do we have consent? Yes. We have consent on 12.1. Thank you. Gen item 13.1. Approve an encouragement agreement between the city of Clearwater and Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC, for the installation natural gas distribution pipelines to cross over Florida gas transmission pipeline facilities. Good afternoon, council. My name is Alex Leon. I'm the assistant director for CTS Energy. This is looking for your acceptance of the questionary agreement between the city and Florida gas transmission, which will allow us to do a gas installation to serve a commercial customer. Questions on this agenda? If not, do we have consent? Yep. We have consent on 13.1. Thank you. Gen item 14.1. My item, amend council rule six, to temporarily restore public comment regarding matters not on the agenda for additional period of time and adopt resolution 26-13. So back in February of this year, council restored citizens to be heard on items not on the agenda for a three-month period of time. It was renewed in May, and then in May it was extended again until August. So August the 7th, which is this Friday, is when that sunset provision ends. So I have drafted a proposed resolution 26-13. Everything stays the same. What that means is that citizens would be able to speak on items not on the agenda. It would come at the end of the agenda in its current location, be limited to 30 minutes or 10 speakers, whichever is greater, and there's no sharing time. So I proposed extending the sunset date until November the 20th, 2026. It's just about another three and a half months. I'm hoping for questions, sir. Are you really hoping? I did say a little hoping for questions. Yes. Any questions? Okay. All right. Thank you. And I'm 14.2. So 14.2 is adopt ordinance 9929-26 on the second reading and approve the memorandum of agreement with Duke. So three weeks ago, council approved the first reading of the 30-year franchise agreement with Duke. One legal document is approving the franchise agreement for the second reading. In addition, there is a memorandum of agreement between the city and Duke. I'm not going to go over it in detail, but if you look at section three, there's about, I think, $2 million in benefits or investments by Duke for that particular agreement. They're both separate legal documents. They can't be placed on consent because we have an ordinance. And I'm available for questions. Any questions? We're good. I'm 15. City manager, I do have a couple things. I'm sorry. I'll be super fast. But you guys were great and have really encouraged me to go to the credentialed city managers consortium on Thursday so I will not be at the council meeting on Thursday evening. But we had two events last week that most of you were at, and I think those events really demonstrated to our community how much we truly want to engage with the public and to listen to our community. And I think those events further demonstrate truly what a high-performing government and interagency collaboration look like. The first one was night at North Ward. It was an incredibly successful event. The attendees exceeded all of our expectations, and it was a really muggy evening, and still the people came out in droves. So I wanted to just take a quick moment to really thank Economic Development, CRA, Public Communications, and our assistant fire marshal. He certainly had his hands full in making sure that we didn't exceed the capacity in the house and keeping everybody safe. So really good job, team, on that. And then secondly, our Dollars to Donuts event. And that event was created as a result of hearing from several community members, several members from the council, and our staff just really wanting the opportunity to engage with our public regarding the upcoming budget, what does the general fund support, and what are the potential impacts should there be any changes to property taxes, such as what's on the referendum in the upcoming year. And it was another exceptionally well-attended event, and we've got some directors who've been here 30, 40 years who said we've never had a budget event that well-attended before. So the team really did an outstanding job. Every department was represented, and we're happy to be there and deeply engaged. I think that all the feedback that we've gotten was really positive about that. But I want to give extra thanks to public communications and budget. Really, we had an idea that they ran with with very little direction and also very little time, and what they turned out was absolutely exceptional. And then also I want to thank the legal department who made sure that we did not cross any lines in terms of what we were doing as it relates to educating our public. So we are going to be presenting both the staff's contingency plan, should there be a reduction in revenues, as well as the data that we collected at the Dollars to Donuts event to the City Council at the Special Budget Work Session on August 11th. So we're going over all of that stuff at that point. That was a question that we got a lot of, is when are we going to hear in terms of what may happen. And so that is the date, August 11th. And that's everything. Thank you very much. Thank you. Judd item 16, City Attorney Purple Reports. Nothing bad. All right. And item 17.1. Vice Mayor. Thank you, sir. I know that we're all ready to get out of here. However, I think this deserves some attention. I appreciate you appeasing me, and it's coming back to the discussion of putting a pause of the hotel density pool units until we get that traffic study completed. Again, I'm all for smart development and making sure that we're offering the best beach to our residents, businesses, and tourists, or visitors, but also ensuring that we can get the mobility of those people right as well. And after hearing staff saying that near the end of this year, we should be able to have that traffic study done to try and make some decisions on the way forward to move our people around our beach better, I just feel like it might be a good time to discuss if there is any interest in pausing that hotel density reserve until we can make a more educated decision in helping finding a solution to moving people up and down, off and on our beaches. I guess I would... Okay. Can you clarify, how would that affect the applications in progress now? It wouldn't. So it would just be for the remaining nine? The 19, I think, that are in there. Nine or 19. And then any that are allocated and come back into the pool, if that happens. I'm not saying that it will, but if that were to happen, then it just holds those until we get that traffic study back. In November. In November. So I'm not trying to put them in a... So I had some of the original people who were involved in this actual document, and they really wanted me to communicate that this was well thought out, and it was one of the most intensive documents that this city has ever done. And it also involved, and it was approved by the city, but the county as well as the state. And they had so many studies, so they just wanted me to communicate that, that this was not just a fly-by-night document. It was a very extensively studied document, and I still feel that it is applicable to today's standards, because everything was already part of the formula. So I just wanted to convey that. I appreciate that. I don't disagree with the document, the intentionality behind it, and the forethought of it. Again, I just know what it's like trying to go to North Beach or something. So it's the tangible assets of me coming from the mainland to the beach and feeling that and knowing friends, family that live on the beach or live on the island of the states that literally have to plan their day. If they don't get back on the beach at a certain time during a certain portion of the year, you're finding new plans to find a restaurant and or, you know what I'm saying. So that's what this is. Intentionality is not to stifle or stop any type of development. I'm all for it. I just want to see how we can move people better. Is there anything coming before us before November? I just, Lauren, I'm kind of gun-shy at the word of pause or moratorium. I'm not looking for moratorium. Okay, or pause. Let's make sure. If there's nothing coming before us in November. Stand by. Don't say that word. Hold stand by. I'm trying to use no words and communicate through my facial expressions. Understood. Good afternoon. Lauren Mamske, Planning and Development. At this point in time, we have received one application that would be requesting units from the reserve. I think it's about five or six units. It has not advanced, you know, beyond the, I don't, if I recall, it may have gone to the Development Review Committee. It may still be waiting to go to the Development Review Committee. Our code does require that we advance any applications that are complete through the process that's prescribed in the code, which would require us to bring it forward to the city council for consideration. So, any slowing down of things, things, would, I suppose, would be more word of mouth versus any official. But if we were to receive an application and it was complete, we're obligated to move it forward through the normal process of reviewing and providing recommendations, et cetera. But at this point, we have 19 rooms in there after the few that were allocated recently by the council. And like I said, we have one application that has put in to request some. And we have a different application that if, we have an application that is being processed now for a property that has an allocation of rooms. It's proposing something different. So, if that were to change, then those rooms would be returned to the pool and thus more than 19 available. But there's, like everything, that's why it's difficult to kind of keep up with the tables and everything. There's a lot of, you know, on what comes in and whether it becomes complete or anything. Yeah, well, I, you know, it's like I said the other day. I mean, we've only got 19 in there left and she's talking about, Lauren's talking about five now. I mean, I just don't see anything coming up. I mean, the point's well made that before we do anything further, you know, we ought to consider the traffic study out there. But many of us, like I said, I've lived out there a long time. I mean, the damage is done a long time ago. I mean, what a level we have left in the pool where it's been allocated and not built yet. I mean, it's already, you know, cats out of the box. I mean, there are, you know, study-wise from Epidot numbers where we've got six and a half million vehicles per year coming west across the causeway. And most of those are not staying hotel. Most of those are just visiting for a day or just, you know, they're not hotel residents. So I don't know that the small and narrow rooms that we have left is really a huge problem. But that, you know, when we get, you know, by the end of the year, we'll have that study back and we can use that to gauge whatever proposals come in. And I just hate to see us with what, you know, the director just said to do something that looks like a moratorium that really all we need to do is just consider the information that's coming before us personally. Anybody else? Thank you, Mayor. Just hit on what Ms. Matske just said, but staff is obligated to move those applications through the process. But we as a council are not obligated to grant density that's requested. And I think that's, without putting a physical word that starts with an M or a P, we have the ability as a dais to put a posture and to send a message of, you know, this is what we're looking for. And I think what you're speaking to, it's an opportunity for us to reevaluate Beach by Design. And while it was an amazing plan of 26 years and made it a world-class beach, we are now in a place of finding that exit ramp. And with that exit ramp, I think it's important that we do a bit of a more strategic discussion on identifying where are those gaps that the original vision had. And one part of the vision was the boardwalk on East Shore. And I know there's a couple assets there that the boardwalk is not finished. I think that maybe the discussion is having a higher level discussion on how we can strategically incentivize development in those gaps that we have in that vision. And I think that's the discussion. At the end of the day, this plan wasn't created so that people could put their hands in a cookie jar and take two, three, four, or five units at a time. It was created so we could put 100 plus, you know, 110 to 200 room, you know, medium density hotels or large resorts so that we could add that to the assets on the beach. Now we're to a place with 19. We very well may have 100 turned back in, which may put us at a place of 119. That's a beautiful sweet spot for one of those medium level density hotels in a place that we strategically identify that we should target. And whether it's East Shore or wherever, I know there's not many opportunities left on the beach, but there are a couple, I think, on East Shore and really identifying that strategic allocation is probably the next level we go and not just letting them disappear five here or 10 there. We truly have an opportunity at writing this last chapter of closing out an amazing plan and really using it to get the most bang for our buck out of it. And whether it's 19 or 119, that's one more resort or something. So I don't necessarily know if we need to physically put a P or an M on it, but having the posture of we don't have to grant any, whether the obligation is to push it through or not, we're not obligated to grant it. So really getting a hold on, whether it's traffic, but what are those assets? What are the gaps in that vision that we had in the plan? And how can we strategically use what's left in the density is kind of where I think we would get the most out of this discussion. I would like to explore the legality. I'm sorry, he pointed to me. You're good. He pointed to me. I would like to know the legal aspect of it. Like if, let's say 100 rooms were returned and we as a council decided, you know what, enough is enough, let's rethink this. Like legally, where do we stand on changing something that's a living document? Right. So I might need your help on this, Ms. Matzke, but for Beach by Design, that is a plan to the Community Development Code. Is there any type of limitation on where the units can go? There are certain areas where the units are to go, but to some of the statements that have been said, some of the words that were always described to me is it's discretionary, it's council's discretion as to how many to allocate. So an applicant could request 100 and council could authorize fewer. In terms of amending the plan in a more formal capacity, it's adopted by ordinance. It's also formerly a special area plan that was reviewed by both the state as well as what is now for Pinellas and the Board of County Commissioners. So there would be potential amendments, amendment review by those agencies as well. Yeah, to be clear, not looking to change any ordinances or like get way into the weeds with this, guys. It's just simple solutions, right? Like, hey, we've got a traffic problem. I'm not looking to do an ordinance. I'm very much open for smart development. I think we've been doing it. I think we continue to do it. I think our infrastructure is doing well. Our team's doing great. It's just, you're crazy if you don't think that there's a traffic problem going onto the beach and coming off the beach and traveling on the beach, just trying to make a smart solution to get to the end of the year, not trying to move mountains here. So I can count. We're good. We can move on. It's late. Okay. You know, the last time we flipped. Yeah, I do want to. We're military. You flipped. Yeah, and again, this is personal experience for a decade. Yeah, it's a little slow getting east-west across the causeway. Yeah, but I don't know it's ever taken me more than 20 minutes to get from downtown Clearwater to the roundabout. I don't know if it's ever taken me more than 20 minutes. The problem has been what's most frustrating for residents out there and businesses is not east-west. It's north-south. It shouldn't take you an hour to get from Sankey Bridge to the roundabout on South Beach. And so it's north-south is the biggest problem. That's been most, that's the biggest frustrating for residents. So regardless whether we add new rooms or not, we've needed to address that. We're addressing that. We're in a study and there are some, we've all been and had one-on-one meetings on some potential reconfiguring of things to alleviate that north-south transportation. So, but regardless of whether or not we change the pool or not, we're doing the study on the transportation. North-south is the biggest problem and this is, and hopefully we're close to having some ideas and some alternatives we can do to fix that. Thank you. If I may, just from a timing perspective, our long range of planning division has several major projects going on and with the transportation study we kind of paused while we added to that work and Public Works has been working with the transportation consultant which each of you had the opportunity to speak with and that was to discuss, you know, the, specifically the design of the parking garage and at the marina and kind of thinking forward and not just what's now but what could be some of the things that y'all regularly challenge us to do. So that portion, the kind of sidestep or side quest is scheduled to finish up towards the end of September. The challenge is then fitting back in and for our department gearing back up to do the outreach and I had mentioned at the last discussion we were requesting to potentially hold on that outreach until January. That gives us ample time to get prepared for it, not schedule anything during holidays and then pick right back up at the beginning of the year with the outreach that would discuss everything that y'all have previously seen, anything that comes from the study related to the marina barrage gives us ample time to kind of package it really for the public front and that also then means we're not overlapping multiple projects of outreach at the same time. So just to clarify from a timing perspective, we were looking to finish up then finding dates in kind of the late January, February time frame and then bringing everything forward to finish it completely with the consultant presenting back to council. Moving on. 17.2. Conversation regarding naming city hall and municipal complex. Councilman Menino. Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I think this is more a timing issue. Obviously, our beautiful new city hall is getting close and making progress every day. In this agenda item, you know, as it's written, it's not about undoing an honor. It's about we have an opportunity of possibly elevating it and Mr. Horn's impact unquestionably on Clearwater extends well beyond the walls of city hall and I just think that there's a handful of members of the community and groups that have requested us maybe be not naming city hall per se after somebody. It's Clearwater's city hall but maybe the municipal complex be named after Mr. Billhorn and I think because of timing and where we're at in the process of city hall, we probably need to have this discussion soon and that's what this agenda item is. So currently, what was decided by the prior council to name the entire city hall and... That is correct, sir. It was to name the city hall. And I've also had folks come to me from the community and some have served in elected office in the city in the past and they kind of agree with what you just shared, those that have come to me, that naming something significant for Mr. Horn is certainly appropriate for his years of dedication to the city and what he contributed. They're somewhat uncomfortable in the entire building, such a significant community asset, city asset being named for really any one person let alone Mr. Horn. So that's the feedback that I've gotten from some in the community. Councilman, Robert. So I know that there's a bus that was made of Bill Horn and that was always thought that it would be put in the new city hall. So, I mean, maybe we don't have to name the whole building, maybe we just name the, you know, the entry, the, what do you call it? The foyer, the lobby. The foyer, the lobby, the Bill Horn, you know, because his bus is most likely going to be there when you come in. So, I mean, that's something we can think about as well. Okay. Any thoughts? Council Member to Shady? I think we can honor his memory in many ways. There's many different beautiful opportunities without naming a municipal building after him, right? We can do the chambers, we can do the plaza. And so, I think the right balance is to honor his contributions but in a way that would not name the whole governmental building. So I'm open to that. I mean, there's different things. There's the plaza, there's the chambers, like you said, the hall. But I think that would strike the right balance. Any thoughts, Vice Mayor? I agree with the entire sentiment. Bill Horn Plaza sounds good. It's got a nice ring to it. I think it gives a good honorable dedication. I completely agree. I think City Hall just should be Clearwater City Hall. Do you feel about the plaza or is that a... I don't care. I don't have any specific part. You know, just I know we have a bus that's going to go in somewhere. I'm not sure where they're going to put it. But, yeah, that would be nice. Plaza would be fine. I'd be open to either. Council, my only question is do you want this back on the agenda for Thursday for a vote or bring it back to another... to the next meeting which does not have a work session. We're getting close where we need to make some... Yeah, that's what I was just going to say because we're getting ready to start ordering things and so the sooner the better if Council is ready to make a decision on Thursday night. And how would you like it to... or just the same title and someone make a motion and that's what we vote on? Or will you vote on, rather? I think this is fine. Okay. That's what we'll do. Okay. And then what... Help me better understand what exactly is the plaza. Is it the park out in front of it? Is it the municipal complex? What are we talking about? It's that green park in front of the... In front of the city hall. Okay. Gotcha. So we do need a motion or no? For Thursday. Thursday. Is that you? What's that? Thursday is that going to be you? Well, as it is written, I don't mind introing it and we can run from there or I will change the words from municipal complex though to plaza. My guy. You better put city hall plaza. Municipal plaza. What building are we talking about? City hall plaza? This is just... Yeah, but it's not municipal plaza. It's city hall plaza. Or do you call it... Is it called the municipal plaza? I think what she was referring to is the... Yeah. The three building complex of all the buildings, the NSP, the PD, and the... Oh, and that green space cuts everything together? The campus is a better word. Thank you. Okay. But I think what I'm hearing now, if I'm not mistaken, man, was that you're talking about the green space now outside of city hall, right, on the west side? I think that's beautiful. What is that called? Green space outside city hall? Now it's called the Bell Horns. We have a new name for it. I'll have that figured out by Thursday. The middle Lord plaza. That's 72 hours to refine it. Get the clarity on it. I have hours. Okay, folks. All right. Move to item 18. Any new business you want to discuss or add to be discussed in for the next work session? I just want to add an update to the opioid abatement because it's quite a good development and I need to share it all with you. Okay. Add that to the next... Anything else to the next work session? If not, move to item 19. Anybody have any council comments? If not, then closing comments by mayor. I have none. So we will move to item 21 and that is to adjourn the work session for the work city council for August 3rd.