Not yet. I would like to call the June 10, 2026 Clearwater Marine Advisory Board to order. Off our phones, and thanks for the reminder. Yes. Oh, dear. Has everybody had a chance to look over the meetings from last March? Yes. Yes, and do we have a motion to accept? I'll second. In a second. All in favor? Aye. The minutes from March 4th 18th are approved. Are there any citizens to be heard today on things that are not on the agenda? No? Okay. As apparently everybody heard, we're going to skip over 4.1 because our speaker is a little detained. We'll go to 4.2, which is the Beach Marina Reconstruction Project Update, which we're all totally excited to hear about. Good morning, members of the board. My name is Kelly Petrich. I'm the Engineering Division Manager in Public Works for the City of Clearwater. I'm happy to say that we are now 82% build for the entire project, so we're finally coming to the end here. Some of the activities currently going on, we have all the upland utility construction is progressing pretty well. We have the water and fire and stormwater work is all complete. The electrical is actually 50% complete with underground rough-ins. And then the sidewalk paving and the shade structure foundations, that will start within two weeks. Actually, both the A and B docks are actually, the install is actually well underway. We're very happy. We've been getting, all of our manufacturers have been doing a great job. Golden Docks have supplied most of the aluminum docks. And then we have Bellingham is supplying, actually, the precast docks, and they've been doing a great job getting everything on site. And Orion's doing a good job of placing them on site. Right now, the B dock main section and the support pilings are complete. Orion's actually installing the mooring piles where they will wait for the last few sections of the aluminum finger sections actually to be produced. They will actually complete B dock installation the last week in June. So, as you see, we're progressing really well on everything. 250 degrees of the dock. Main sections are actually installed. And completion of the dock itself is actually expected to see mid-July. So, you're actually going to see a lot of things happening in the next month here. The water and electrical rough-ins on the boardwalk are almost complete. Those trades will actually be starting work on the B docks this week. And the B dock utilities are expected to take one to two weeks. And then focus will shift, again, to the A dock. One of the neat parts of this project, I know you guys already know, is the actual fuel building. This was actually the floating fuel building, which will actually rise up to 17 feet above the BFE during a storm. So, it's a very resilient structure that we're putting in compared to the fixed dock that we have. That we had before we demoed it, of course, but the existing one. And the fuel building construction and the systems on A dock will actually begin the week of July 6th. So, yes, we have a lot of good things going on. And we're actually looking for the substantial completion for the project to be expected in August. So, fingers crossed, we'll stay on track. And we're hoping to get everything done there in probably middle of any questions. Is that what you want? Yeah. Yeah, I think that will be one of the last activities. You're still pumping fuel over the wall for now? So, we, you know, we tried to get the temporary fuel going after the hurricanes knocked off our fuel. So, and we could just never, something always came up. We ran into something. Now we're, you know, four months out from opening and we're like, stop. So, that's where we're at. Tenants are still, you know, able to call in. You know, we have three vendors that are, that the city can utilize for fuel. So, they're calling them in. They're taking fuel over the seawall, off their trucks. And, you know, we have a slip for them to utilize to do that. So, we're just almost staying out of it and letting them go with their own vendors? Yeah. Okay. Did you have a piece of floating dock get loose a few days ago? Yeah. It was a new one that they had brought in that they were trying to get a set on the phase two side. And it just came loose, I guess, off of the boards that was out there and floated out. I saw it was slightly, slightly, what, east of Brightwater. A couple jet skis came out and snagged it. Yep. Okay, yeah. So, if it came a little closer to my house, I might have claimed it. Those are really sturdy, by the way. I don't know if you guys. I heard that a couple times. I bet. It's amazing how sturdy those docks actually are for being alone and being able to float. I mean, you walk right on them, you wouldn't even realize that they're materials. I don't have any more questions. Okay. For Kelly? I think that's it. We're excited. Thank you. Yeah. Look forward to seeing a date. Sure. We'll be talking to Mr. McDonald, as I brought up, that we're invited to see the grand opening. So, thank you. Yep. Very attractive so far. Yeah. I was down there just a couple weeks ago. The old habit of walking the docks, as we used to call it. You walk the docks. Anything else on that item? Kelly, anything else to read? No. Thank you very much. Nothing else on the beach marina. Okay. You're staying because you're going to talk about Seminole? Yeah. Oh, okay. We'll move on. Go sit down. We'll move on to 4.3, the update on the Seminole boat ramp update. Yeah. So, as you know, phase one is complete. So, that's the upland portion. I'm sure a lot of you have seen the great job they did on fixing the concrete portion of the deck. So, now for phase two, we're going to go to the water side portion. So, here we're going to fill in what there is actually a void out there. So, we're actually going to fill that in with either it's going to be a cast in place or a precast slab portion. And so, right now, we're actually done with all of our plans. So, we're actually going to have our EOR is actually First Line Coastal, and they're going to put together all the products for us as far as the specifications, the whole bid package, the bid items, and the plan set to go out to bid. So, we're looking to actually get that hopefully by the end of this week. And the staff will internally review all that. And usually, that's about a – so, then we'll hand that off to procurement, and that process is about 90 days. And then we'll select a contractor. But what we're looking at this time is a construction window, and we feel like this is the best time to actually do the project, which would be in the January, February timeframe to actually do the construction of this. And we're looking at a duration of 45 days for the actual construction. Are you going to do half and half like they did before? We're looking at a couple different options, but it'll probably be – we want to remain one of the ramp open. It'll be full closure. Yeah. Okay. Well, we're hoping to keep half-half open. Okay. We're looking at the costs. So, if this was to take place in January to see, you know, if we did this in one mobilization, how long would the ramp speed down, and then, you know, look at the cost of that compared to doing the two mobilizations to keep the ramp open. Okay. So – but this is like a January where the ramp's not utilized. Yeah, but weather's not conducive to a ramp open activity. Correct. So, will that – will that – that'll be in the general conditions of – put that out, how that's going to be built? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're requiring 45 days, and we're open to, you know, having the phasing plan and also to do it all at once and get the difference in the cost. Because, as Mike said, it will be also quicker if you can just have the whole thing closed and then you'll have one trade on there that does all the rebar instead of having them come back and forth. So, it'll be a quicker process if we have it. But we're going to look at different options. We feel like it'll definitely save the city money, though, if we can just do one mobilization and close it all. Do they coffer dam that off? Yeah, there'll be a coffer dam there. Any other questions on that? I'm excited to see that fixed. It's been – Are they going to put the barrier originally eight or ten years – I don't know. There was going to be a barrier on the south side of the parking lot, kind of a wave attenuation, and also a day dock and staging area. Originally, the sign that was at the top of it – Correct. So, this project, the Seminole Project, had three phases. They had the parking lot, and then they had the restrooms, and then they had new facilities. We opted to not do the new facilities because we have to reinvest in our current facilities, which is the boat ramps. So, we used that money instead of putting in the new floating dogs and used that money to replace the boat ramps. Okay. So – I'm going to give up being a harbor marine. No, I had that in my director's report, but, yeah, if you want to go ahead and give an update on that. Okay. Yeah, do you have any more questions on the Seminole boat ramp? We've got a couple things. None of the ramp itself, they won't pertain to you. This has more to do with information that just gave. Save that for – Yeah. The agenda, you could look at, you know, new business items, and then you can start your own discussion. We can – Oh, I have the notes here. Okay. So, this diagram here is the south end, the work we're going to be doing to fix the wave attenuators that were damaged from an earlier storm. So, this is – right now, we currently have – we officially have Kelly Brothers, who will be our contractor. They're under contract right now. We're actually working through the pre-construction submittal process. The longest time is going to be actually going through the submittal process and constructing the actual precast wave attenuators. So, that process will take quite a long time for the precast to put all that together. And so, we're probably looking at the construction to start, actually, the spring of 2007, once that is. And it'll be a pretty, actually, quick process once they're out there, once we actually get the wave attenuators on board, probably less than a month, I imagine, to actually do the actual work. Any questions on the south side? I'm just looking to – can you point right where the actual attenuators are going to be hanging? Yeah, in this corner, right. Oh, okay. It's actually going to match the same design as what we have fixed on the south. Yeah, I just – I think I had my north and my south mixed up. Yeah, it's actually the same design. So, what you'll see – end product will be the similar where you'll have the same type of wave attenuator and the pier in the middle. So, this was Hurricane Ian damage, and so, also with Hurricane Ian damage, on the far south side of that, we lost those transition plates. We had one of the HDEP sleeves slide down one of our new steel pilings, and then we're missing some caps. And so, that's going to be a part of that work, too. Okay. Yeah, so, this will be our new, improved, more resilient design. So, this will definitely be able to withstand future storms. And, as Mike said, this is a FEMA-funded project, as well, over the north side, then. So, this actually occurred during Hurricane Helene and Milton. I'll show you the area here. It's right in this area here. We're looking at about five wave attenuators that were actually damaged that are going to be replaced. As well, it's a similar scope to the south side. And, the status of that right now, we're getting the FDEP permit is being submitted. The building permit is being submitted. And, we're right now compiling, again, the final drawings and bid package from our ER, which is Moffitt Nichols. That's the same engineer that actually is doing the beach marina. So, a good firm we're working with here. And, again, that will be a 90-day bid process. And, yeah, it really depends on, you know, the construction. When we get the contractor on board and what their schedule will be. I don't have any time frame at this time. But, again, it will be very similar in that once we get all the wave attenuators actually produced from the precast facility, it will be a very quick actual downtime construction process. We're looking at less than a month, two to four weeks probably, to actually have to do the construction work, just similar to the south end. And, then, this is also, like I said, a FEMA-funded project from Hurricane Helene. And, with this project, we're also replacing the gangway that collapsed during Hurricane Helene on that far north side. And, then, we're replacing all the tension cables. You know, each one of those wave attenuators, they're held together by tension cables. And, they've all filled throughout that dock and part of the south side. And, then, some new electric cords will be ran. And, the new cables are actually going to be stainless steel material. So, you're looking at a lot less corrosive and more resilient product as well. And, that's kind of been our whole focus on these marinas is making a more resilient product for the communities to basically take the future storms. Is that section there still closed? Just where the gangway has collapsed on that far north side. It's in the water. It needs to be designed and rebuilt. It's not salvageable. There you go. Okay. All right. Any more questions? Anything else? Thank you. All right. Well, thank you, everyone. Thank you. Good. Thank you, Colin. You're going to talk about the kayaks? Yeah. We'll go ahead and skip back to number one, which we were happy to do. I'm so sorry. Oh, no. That's fine. Because, we're – I think we all know how busy Trish is, so – And, we all want to know how things are going down there. It's going great, and I'm really happy and excited to be here to update you. Please don't take my delay as a lack of wanting to be here. Okay. So, we have really, really exciting things. So, everybody is getting together. Our group is becoming more solidified and more reliant on each other. All the camaraderie is happening the way that we had hoped within the marina and all the tenants. They're talking to each other. They're looking to each other. Everything is happening the way that we had hoped, which we're happy about that. Yes, we're really excited about that. Our tenants is growing. Our email, for example, in the beginning when we sent emails, we would get about 22% reading on of our emails because we do keep track of that. I put it through a program so I can see how many people are reading it. And, our last email went on. It was 67% to give you an idea of the attention that they're paying attention to what we're sending to them. We've also included your parking team. Michael Sheel and his team, he's given me several emails to be in contact. And, they were on our last meeting. So, to give you the difference in what our communication was with the city and working with all of the elements of what the marina has to deal with, we're working with all those elements quite well, too. So, just a brief update on kind of the highlight of the things that we talk about right now on our agenda is that we're ordering dock boxes soon. We did apply for a, through the signage department, we have a ask of the city that they give us a definition of what the signage is going to look on on our kiosks. Those kiosks have, of course, to be in line with all the sign code that exists, but we have an element that we've never had before, which is white, blank kiosks that we need design on. We need it to look like a marina. So, that is being worked through right now. Derek on our team is the one sort of leading that charge. He recently, I call it step one to meeting one of the members of the signage department and had a good, productive, on-site meeting with them to talk about what it really meant to be defined as mural and how they would accept what was mural versus signage and how we're going to work with that design. We don't have definition. We will soon have it. Once our dock box order was waiting for that definition because we didn't want to place a dock box order if, for example, some of the signage, we wanted to know where the signage would be on our kiosks in order to know where we're going to put dock box. But we think we're at the point now where that is possible. So, this week, an email is going to go out to all the tenants. We reached out to the same company that the city ordered dock boxes from to try and get the same pricing. We organized a box that would end up in the marina, and the company agreed to give us the same price as long as we had a minimum of 10 dock boxes ordered, which we already have that now within the simple asks of the people in the marina. So, that order will be placed. The association will jointly pay for it to get the discounted price. So, it's offering about a 20% discount on all, which is good for them. So, that order will be placed soon. I don't have any idea what that order is, but next time around, I'm sure I'll tell you how many of those boxes were ordered. And there's four different sizes that the city approved that they can do. It'll be in line with that. July 3rd and 4th, we know what the city is doing for their celebrations, their big, giant, 250-year celebration. So, they've asked the tenants to maybe coordinate and do a thing in those events that are going on. We did consult with many of the marina, and we don't have the budget to say everybody is still down. What we hoped, everybody knows, the business is down. And so, what we had hoped to be the change and turn on the lights and everybody be busy as we were, 20, you know, before the construction started, that didn't happen. So, everybody's still pretty down in terms of numbers. They don't really have a budget, per se, to put in their businesses to light them up and do that involving 4th of July. So, instead, what we decided is that we would present, some of us in the marina already do sightseeing with the boat parade. We already go parade, sorry, to watch the fireworks. So, we're getting those people together to say maybe we need to have a little coordinated effort to the businesses that already do something for the 4th of July and the 3rd of July and coordinate a little showcase. So, communicate with Michael and his team to say during the fireworks celebration that the marina tenants are going to showcase at whatever time period we're going to do it and have a little lineup, mini parade-ish, to just be a part of the celebration. So, that's what they agreed to do there. And then, that's pretty much it. I don't want to tell you too much, but other than just to tell you there's also a holiday and lights campaign going on for the Christmas holiday. You'll hear more about it to come, but it is an event that is going to involve probably an event at the marina, which I'll have updates on that, but it involves for the holiday. We're already working. Does anybody have any questions? Sounds like you've, like, unionized. Yeah. I mean, it's great to hear how well you're working together, and I gave Mike gruff when we showed up at one meeting and you had been formed, and it was news to us. But I immediately took that back because it's been the best thing that could have happened to you guys down there is to have a coordinated effort to get over this, to get through this. Anyone have any questions for him? Good morning, everything. Thanks, Richard. Thank you. I'm always here if you have any questions in the meantime, too. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for rushing in. I believe Mike's going to tell us about the HIAC launch sites. Yeah. Good morning, board. Mike McDonald, marina and aviation director. So I spoke with Matt Anderson over Parks and Rec, and they're the ones that are doing the kayak launches through Parks and Rec, and he has a couple of them that he's doing. The first one's going to be the one at Cooper's Bayou at this park right here, and that's going to be on the bay side. So they were looking at getting some grant funding. I'm not for sure that that's going to pan out, but that's going to be the first place that they do a kayak launch. The second place that they are doing it is going to be at the old shuffleboard club, and that's going to be right there on Stevenson's Creek. And there's already an informal launch there. There's a parking lot there, and you can go out right into the creek, and you can stay on the creek where you can go under the bridge, and you can go out into the intercoastals, and that's the second one that they're doing. And like I said, they're still looking at grant funding for that. And those are the only two launch sites that they have. We looked at doing the one at Seminole Boat Ramp, and it's kind of an informal one because there is a spot here that we removed a bunch of stuff, but it's not marked, and the reason why it's not marked is it's not safe. You have the boats launching here and coming out right here to the channel that's right here. Try to launch kayaks there, and it's just not safe. It's nothing that I could get behind and say, hey, let's do a launch site here. But, you know, not preventing people from parking there and then launching their paddle boards from there. Yeah, it's especially weekends, mayhem. Oh, yeah. With somebody in the paddle board. It's just not safe. I originally, well, for a while I had my boat right there in the Clearwater Harbor Marina, but originally out of Pirate's Cove. And to get out there, you have to run past the kayak and parasail renting, and that channel is somewhat odd. Yeah. And you have to stick way to the right, sharp left. So you have to run right along the beach, and they get out there, and you can't. You have to shut down. You can't vary, and this is kind of the same thing. Though I believe the north of there in the picture, you're off the screen a little bit. Slide it up. Yeah, I think right at the bottom of the picture would be where the no-wake zone sets in. So boats shouldn't be, or minimum wake anyway, shouldn't be running full speed as they are out in Dunedin. But they do. They trail out two or three in a row, you know, in a line and can stretch right across the channel. And this is another spot. There's not a lot of variance of where you can wander off out of the channel to avoid them. Yep. So I understand that. That's, when we talked about it, it was, the Stevenson Creek one is great. Even the Stevenson Creek people are all for it. Yep. They're one of the people that we're pushing for it, the advisory group there. I know the one by my house. I walk that park multiple times a week. And it's just a little bit of concrete and then mud, and you have to wade through the mud to get your kayak launched. But dozens and dozens of people every weekend or every day even go out of there. So to have a formal, safe one would be great for them. Absolutely. Any questions? That's great. That's one of the first things that we were talking about. I think that will help take some of the pressure off some of the other locations, too. I had heard somewhere in some city meeting that the Shuffleboard Court and lawn bowling was to go away, and it was going to do something. I know that has no bearing on us. Yeah. I want to say that the Shuffleboard Club is closed down, but the lawn bowling is still active in there. And I might be wrong, and if Matt Anderson is watching, I'm sorry if I butcher that. It doesn't matter if that will affect the kayak launch, because that's to the east of it. Yeah. Great. Thank you. Yep. So a director's report. Mr. Director. Yep. So we've gone over Seminole, and we've gone over Harbor, Marina. That was in my director's report. So Stevenson's Creek. I submitted the draft application as well as the draft ordinance and all documented data to the Florida Wildlife Commission, FWC. FWC responded and is in favor of making the creek a manatee zone from Edgewater to Fairmont and Overbrook Bridges. From Fairmont to Betty Lane will remain just the slow speed minimum weight. FWC wanted advice. FWC wanted advice why they wanted some language changed in the draft ordinance, which we're working on, and wanted to update the map to show the language from the ordinance. So the map that I submitted with the draft, they wanted the map updated, which we're working on, too. And then they wanted pictures of why we stopped at the Overbrook Bridge. So we went down and took pictures of, you know, people can't access that through that bridge. That's why it ends there. And then they wanted some pictures of the shore erosion from Fairmont to Betty Lane. So we took some pictures of that. We'll submit that with the application. The next step will be to complete the requested language changes and the updated information. And we'll send them a new draft. And then they'll go over it and advise if they want any more changes, if it's satisfactory to them. If it's satisfactory to them, then we'll go ahead and do the ordinance change through city council. Do you think that could happen this year? I'm going to try. I mean, I know it's been a long process just to get to this point. But a lot of the stuff that when it's in our hands, we take care of it and get it back to them. And I don't know how regularly they meet to, you know, to vote on these, to let this come through. The Stevenson Creek group? FWC group. Oh, FWC group? Yeah. Okay. At least we're moving in the right direction. Yeah. And I just want to say that all the data that the Stevenson Creek Abbaski group put together was satisfactory. They did. They're not requesting any more data or anything like that. The Stevenson Creek groups, to be commended, they are a diligent bunch to Mike's credit that I'm sure they stay in crutch. Sherry's been great to work with. Mike Foley's been great to work with. And, you know, they're passionate about the manatees. And their last meeting that I attended was on Sherry's back porch with her wide backyard with Stevenson Creek spread out there. And you realize what motivates them, how beautiful the spots are there. If you just look at it from an overview map, it's just a body of water. But when you're down there and on cue, a manatee was out there on cue, a fisherman running at the proper speed came through. And it was, you know, probably, I'm guessing, snook or something in the back corners. And it just made it all clear of why they're so passionate about it. And standing on the trail with you and Jeff, I mean, just... If you saw our interview on Bay News 9, look up Stevenson Creek. Yeah. We both had 20 minutes of good things to say, and we both got about 40 seconds on the air. So we're learning how TV works. Mike might have already knew. I think that was my first interview. But it's been great to work with them. And I know they just gave out a grant themselves. And I wish I had the gentleman's name here. There's a retired gentleman who's back up north now. But every winter, he spends wading that creek and cleaning up the garbage. And they gave him a stipend to make his life... I don't know if he has a difficult life, but to make his life a little better and show their appreciation because any waters in Florida are dangerous to go wading around in. So really a commendable group. Absolutely. Fingers are crossed for that project. Anyone have any questions on that? Yes. Mike, is FWC the only approval authority? Are there any others that have to get in the mix? No. The FWC gave counties and cities the ability to create their own manatee zones. The manatee zones that we have in Clearwater is from the FWC. They do the studies, and then they place zones appropriately. And at the last time that they did their study and came through Clearwater, Stevenson's Creek didn't have enough data. But with the data that Stevenson's Creek put together and the data that was shown, they support it, and they come right out and said that we support this. So that's great. Now we hope that the potential move of the sewage to the northeast plant, the expansion of the northeast plant, which is a much safer plant, and alleviating the east one by my house and the one on Stevenson Creek would be Lincoln. Yeah, I'm not for sure. The Lincoln plant that had a big spill during the hurricanes. And they have – that's, I think, a big step for really restoring that creek is that whoever thought to put it there on a floodplain. They – if you read the city information on it, they criticize themselves for saying, what were we thinking, basically, for putting this so close to a body of water like this. So that would really, I think, help bring the seagrass back and the redfish and the crabs and turn it back into probably how it was 50 or 60 years ago. It's been a long track. And I don't know if you know that they've spent, if not tens, maybe $100 million since I've moved here on different things to mitigate the whole floodplain from taking out the golf course on Gulf of the Bay and all the way down. So high hopes. Yeah. Any other questions on that? I'll move the line. For me, thank you. Council approved the second phase of the rate increase for the recreational tenants at the Beach, Harbor, and Island Estates marinas. This will bring the recreational rates in line with the market rate provided by the Walter Duke rate study. The Beach and Harbor marina will be $23 for residents and $25.30 for nonresidents. Island Estates will be $20 for residents and $22 for nonresidents at Clearwater. The recreational tenants will not be, I'm sorry, the commercial tenants will not be increased in Phase 2, but after substantial completion of the Beach marina project, the department will conduct another rate study and advise you and city leadership of that study. The new rates will go into effect for the recreational tenants on October 1st. As you guys recall, we came in and we talked about the rate study and how low the rates were. You guys advised us to do it in two phases, so that's how I approached council. Council wanted this phased out longer than what we gave them at the time and to come back with a performa, which I did June 4th. So they've agreed they should be. That's kind of where everybody's at and what they're going to. And then you can see the commercial tenants in the middle. And really the commercial tenants are at $23.65 a foot right now, which is more than they were before. If you remember, we had a passenger count and then we've gone to a per foot count. Can we get copies of that? Yeah, absolutely. Or put it in the minutes or something? Yeah. If not, I can just e-mail it to you guys. Either way. Thank you. Yeah, e-mail it to you. Thank you, man. To e-mail them. And then we also got the kiosk rate in there. So what that's going to be is it's going to be $350 a month for the first eight years. And then after that, it's just going to be a land fee, and we'll evaluate that. Because at the end of that eight years, the kiosk will be paid off what we paid for them. Okay. Then technically, we still own them, though, or the actual tenants will own them? Correct. We'll still own them. The city owning them, I'm assuming the city will maintain them? Yeah, we'll maintain them. We'll do the maintenance on them. We'll replace them. Okay. And then the transient dockage did not change. That went to a full rate at our first meeting. We didn't phase that in. Can you point that out? Is it on there? So we have to. Oh, transient dockage. Okay. Per foot, per day, per week, and then per month. And then if you come and you stay a month, you get a little bit of a discount. And so that's what that just shows you at the bottom. So daily equivalent, weekly rates, $2.50, and the monthly rates, $1.78 per day. Does that make sense to you guys? Yes. Daily rate is how much per foot? It's $2.50 if you're just coming to stay the day, but if you do a weekly rate, you're basically paying $2.50 a day. You come and stay a month, you're basically doing $1.70 a day. What if you're spending a night? That's just a one day. Just for one night? Yeah. It's the $3.50. Yeah, that's what I thought. So a 30-foot boat, about $100. Yeah, I'm going to take it. A lot cheaper in a hotel room. Yeah. Longboat Key is $6. Is it? Well, yes. Longboat. A lot of people in this city want to be Sarasota. It's a totally different environment. South East was over $6. Is there any questions on this? Great. Yeah. Thank you. Great. Thanks. And then the last thing. So the police department and the fire department dock, it was damaged during Hurricane Helene. Kind of taken that over. Kelly and I have taken that over to get that fixed. So we received the damage assessment, the conceptual design, and the engineer's cost estimate for the reconstruction of that dock. The cost is estimated to be $431,000 to replace the dock. $485,000 to fix the dock. So, of course, we're going to go with the replacement. So the next step in the process is to continue to work with FEMA on the actual cost and get approval. When FEMA came in, they estimated the dock at $70,000. So we're working with them to get that number changed. Or have them do it for 70. I'm sorry? Or have them do it for 70. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So our next step, besides working with FEMA, is we've got to get a supplemental work order from the engineer of record. And they're going to do the final design. They'll do the bid packaging. And they'll do the construction services throughout the rebuild. So I don't know if you guys remember what the police stop used to look like. So on this east side, the police stop was here, and they had hydraulic, what would you call that, the flat bottom? Yeah. Oh, so the platform itself. Yeah. It was a platform. But, you know, the hydraulics, it was hard to keep up with and everything. So we're looking at just going with the regulatives and then two piers. So the dock, to meet code, those piers have to be wider. So really the only change to this dock is widening the piers. It's going to be very similar. But there's mitigation involved with this that's going to help with the FEMA funding. And, you know, one of those things is we're going to install flow-through decking. We're going to install removable electrical pedestals, kind of like we've done at the Beach Marina. As we had Eaton come in and not really design, but design a breakaway pedestal for us. So when a storm comes in on these fixed docks and where the kiosks are, it's four bolts that you take off. You can pick the pedestal up, and there's a quick connect underneath. And then you take the pedestals. So, you know, those pedestals, $4,000 a piece when you have that many of them. So we're going to do that for the PD dock 2. We're going to replace the older generation piles. We're going to raise the deck level a couple feet, and then we're going to install some cross bracing. And then on the lift itself, there's going to be a storm restraint system. That will help securing more for this project. So when they go to replace it, it will need to be up to code. But there was no damage to the seawall. You're doing that, so there's going to be a requirement. No requirement until we go to replace that seawall. And that is all I have for you, gentlemen. Do you have any questions on the PD dock or anything? No. Except maybe this was theirs, and you've taken over responsibility for it? Well, I help since I do a lot of this work anyways. And you have cops and firefighters who need to be cops and firefighters, not engineers and project managers. So, you know, Eric Gandy, I asked him, I was like, hey, do you want me to jump in and help you guys do it? I'm still working with, you know, Major Burnside, Lieutenant Dean, with the PD, and, you know, they're giving me direction and everything. They have a whole monster to handle. Yes. Just one? Also, as a footnote, the docks, I saw three marina last night. Oh, really? Because it's not permitted? Is it because it's not permitted, that area? No, remember the guy who came and was against docks, and he said, we put in new docks. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. I think the manatees like the docks. They like the fresh water that comes off the docks, too. Yeah, there were free manatees in our basin there. And that gives them some protection. So can we get a manatee zone now? Out there in front, slow down. You know where I'm headed with that, right? Get the data. Can we take pictures? Get us the data. I think that if there's anywhere we would put a new wake zone, it would be there by the Yacht Club. I think we told the Stevenson Creek people even that. We'd love to just give out no wake zones. Well, they have a sewage pump out now. Yes. Good. Which is even a better reason to put it forward. Is it something we should talk about in the future? At what point can we or should we? Or is it acceptable? Will they give us any more? I mean, we would just have to, like I said, we'd have to show the data. So for that area, you wanted to do a manatee zone, a slow speed zone criteria. And people ski back in there and not only run full speed. They just run full speed. Yeah. Obviously. And that's the only finger in Clearwater that you can do. Yeah. Yeah. Mandalay Channel there. And you seem to hint that you resolved the problem with the wakeboarders back in there. Yeah. So when we went out and we started doing the permits at Seminole Boat Ramp for commercial operators, because a lot of those people, a lot of the vendors were picking up at a Seminole. And one of them in particular, we ended up having a great relationship with. And yeah, and in that permit, it says you can't wakeboard or ski in that zone. You need to find someplace else. And that's in our documented permit. And they're not allowed to do that. You have the want of people coming in. I thought they were back. There was someone who spent the day last week. He knocked off a what? There was a guy waxing my boat. But it was not a company. It was just somebody who had it. Yeah. But the commercial people shouldn't be in there at all. No commercial people. Yep. Excellent. Any other questions for me? We. Thanks, Mike. On these subjects? Yeah. Oh, yes. Please give us your name again. My name is Marion Capusta. I run and operate the Clearwater Basin Marina right across the parking lot from the Seminole Boat Ramp. I also live on Bayside Drive across the street from the Yacht Club there. So a lot of these things sort of relate. And the questions I had. Sure. Yeah, there you go. Basically 2011 or something. So quite a while. So I've seen all the things and changes. But the question, I guess, was about departments for the commercial guys. I'm not sure that all of them have them. I'm not sure how they're being enforced and all that. So I guess that was the question and was to point out that I think that, well, although the system that was invented is great, I don't know that there is enforcement on it and what the current situation there is. It really still doesn't seem totally under control by any means. The guys that follow the rules and pay the permits do that and the ones that don't just have a wild party over there, which doesn't seem – it seems more unfair than it's been because some people really try and then the others just continue to cause a problem and a mess. So, yeah, just figure I'll point that out while sitting here since I'm there every day and get to watch a lot of these things that maybe you guys don't get to see. So you have these commercial boats running out of here that are – No, I don't – so we have some docks right here, but, of course, and the bait shop here. It's right there at the ramp with the fighting and these people sitting here and taking up space. And it continues to be a problem. I think a simple solution is a way to enforce these permits. But as far as I know, there is no way or nobody does this or I don't know whose jurisdiction this is to enforce this. But I think the city should benefit from this and have it under control. And I've actually been attempted to be sued a number of times from commercial guys, you know, somebody getting hurt and contacting us because we're in a close vicinity saying, oh, you know, one of your commercial boats, and we fell and I broke my leg. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is definitely a mistake. So I feel like if this was enforced and the city actually had this under control, we would at least know who is insured, who is not insured. It would, for example, be great. A fair amount of, shall we say, question activity as far as if the charters or tours are licensed, if they have the pickup and operation permit. Of course, I know the Coast Guard was looking at a lot of unlicensed activity as well. But you've got jet ski rentals operating out of there. Somebody will come down with a trailer with six jet skis on it and launch them for the renters, tractors loading and unloading, pilings and materials and boats and so forth. And then, of course, tour boats and fishing charters that have, they have, again, they just show up and they tell their customers, meet and they get on the boat. I guess that's part of another problem is because this happens. These people or customers show up looking for their charter and they come to my shop, which we don't run any charters. And, you know, my guys are mechanics and they're an information center. How do you pay for parking? Where's my charter? And all this stuff, which, you know, we've been doing it for years, so it is what it is. But it is kind of obscene, as it is. And like I said, I think the permit idea is great because at least we get to collect these people's insurance and information. That way I don't get sued and I don't go to prison. I've got to. But it just doesn't get enforced and I think it should. Do you still pump fuel there? Yeah. You still do? Okay. Yeah, we took that as a, so we had tanks before that for our boats and then during hurricane, after the hurricane wiped out the city marina, it was pointed out that we should attempt to retail sell fuel, which caused some issues for us because obviously our pumps previously were not retail pumps, like the weights and measures. So we had to go through that process, but luckily we were able to get that done relatively quickly. But that's what we've been doing and working out pretty good, I think. He's been by. I'm good friends with people at Jet Age Fuel that are just down the street. And they say, oh, you should do this because of this problem because for them they have fuel minimus, I don't know what is, 100 or 150 gallons. So like anybody that needs any less than that, we can't even deliver to them because it's just not feasible for us. So you should do this. I'm like, yeah, but our tanks are so small because it's our use. Oh, well, we're so close, we'll deliver to you multiple times a day. I'm like, okay, let's try it, and that's how that happened. So I think it's been a good thing, especially this project with the marina has taken so much longer than I expected. So I think it helps out the community's good. Stick your tanks. I ran a fuel dock on that area for many years. That was thoughts that were brought up. It's like, oh, we should put in-ground tanks and all that. I'm like, no, we're not doing that. I am a low-liability type of guy. Yeah, and yeah, so that works out for us, and that's the reason I pointed this situation. 3,000-gallon gas and a 2,000 diesel in-ground that I stuck every morning, every evening. And the end of the dock where they were changing a marina into a restaurant had to dispose of their 5,000-gallon tank that they had to take out of the ground, and they thought they could pump the water out and then just pay to have the old deteriorated fuel pumped out because it's really expensive for a gallon to pump out. But they borrowed a pump from the city, which was like hundreds of gallons a minute, and filled our bay with gasoline. And it was a northeast wind, so it blew it into the corner in front of my fuel dock. And when I got up in the morning, 6 o'clock in the morning, and turned on the TV, and there's my boss being interviewed of what's going on. And I rushed down there, and I had the data that I had just stuck them. We re-stuck them in front of the fire department, and they traced it back. The guy actually went to jail. Wow. Even to this day, his family still owns the restaurant, liquor license, Rum Runners, which is the eerie. They used to run the rum from Canada over to this point that he still can't be on it. He, like, fell any conviction for it. The guy from the city that loaned the pump lost his job. And it's a huge liability to have fuel blocks. And diesel, that much more. I mean, gas at least evaporates. So in some time, it's going to be gone. The diesel doesn't go in there. We had a situation semi-recently, a couple months ago. A large boat across the marina from us had pumped a bunch of diesel overboard for something failed. Anyways. And Coach controlled up to us. And, like, what is all this diesel about? What's your diesel spill containment? And I'm like, well, we don't sell diesel. So there is none. So they stand there scratching their heads. I'm like, yeah, you need to go elsewhere. So luckily, I felt good about that because that was a little bit of a mess because that basin doesn't wash out too well because it doesn't really have an in and out. So the diesel's stuck there for a few days until they got it all cleaned up. But also, I think we were talking about the no-wake zone there. It starts right at this side. I don't know how much of a job it is to move it 100 feet just past our basin. But if that's ever in question, that would be great because it starts just or it starts or stops in a way that they stop right at that corner. So we get all the waves right into them, which is, if it ever gets moved, great to move. And we also have manatees, by the way. I think the manatee zone does. And I think the no-wake zone goes back to it. It's nice to meet you. Thank you. That's the end of the director's report? Yeah. Do you – we have a response. Oh, yes. Oh, you've looked into it. When we initiated this commercial use permit program, we did have a permanent part-time employee security. He just – he didn't have enforcement powers. That's just with the police department and their marine unit. So we're kind of beholden to them when they're available to do enforcement. They were just out there a month ago, wrote several tickets. I know that because we started getting phone calls, and we got a few more commercial use permit applications after the tickets. We're written. But after the storms, we lost that permanent part-time employee. We do intend on hiring one back. We have all that written up right now. We just need approval to submit that and hire. But, again, he's not enforcement, or that person would just be really educational. And their presence really does knock it down, the violators, some of the violations. We do actively pursue – if we get a complaint that someone is operating out of there without a permit, I'll research the Internet. I'll try to find their booking sites. I'll call them and let them know there is a commercial use permit. I'll call the PD, let the marine unit know I have a good working relationship with them. And we have cameras out there. If I can see the logo on the side of the boat, I'll call that company and remind them of the commercial use permit and let them know that they have been reported to the police. So we are as active as we can be on addressing these issues. But I do know it is a problem. People are going to be people. The little big brother is watching. We try. Yes. Good. And there has been – you know, what Marion is saying, we've heard the same thing. So there has been this spring season an uptick in the activity that he's talking about. And PD is aware of it. Like Bill said, they were out there, wrote several citations. So we are aware of it. Any other questions on that? Good. I have one or two questions. One was I meant to bring up when we were talking about the beach marina that I saw a line item appear, though it's on hold, through the parking department of $39 million for a garage out there in the parking. And I know that's not – it's where we have to let go. We can't have any influence on the parking. But is that going to be a real thing? Yes. Yes, it will be a real thing. They're doing the parking study now. And, you know, the next thing that will come out will be an RFQ for a designer for it. That's going to be a public works project. Parking is within public works. So it's needed badly and has been for quite some time. But I think we will eventually get there. Is there still storage incorporated for the tenants of the marina and incorporating the first floor plans? When the design comes out, yeah, we'll definitely be asking for that. You know, the first floor can't be anything but storage anyways, by FEMA rules. Plus, you know, we have our underground storage tanks there, and the transport truck will have to get in there to drop fuel. So there will have to be some design elements built into that regardless. Is it thought to be on the east end like it was some time ago, or is it bigger than that? The last I heard, yes. But hopefully when those meetings start, when they start the RFQ to send out for design, I should be involved in that, and I'll have more information at that time. So we'll have to start going to the parking meetings, I guess. Well, that will be good. It will be a little more hardship going on for the tenants. But in the long run, the big thing of the parking at the beach is they always want to see how it's going to pay for itself. And peak times it pays for itself, but off-season they don't always. And I think this would be one that would year-round would pay for itself. The other question I had, we've spoken a few times about the boards of Clearwater. We used to have an annual gathering. Yes. We would all get together, and you would meet people from other boards, the environmental board. Once a year, board ceremony. I was going to say parks and rec, but I'm not even sure that's a board anymore. That's been kind of incorporated. They've combined it. But you knew you got a chance to meet them and know who they were, and the council and the mayor would attend, and pictures taken. And Mike and I are waiting for our eight-year plaques. If you serve two terms, you've got a plaque. I've been writing that you did two terms of service. Of course, we didn't want to quit until the beach meeting was done, so we're still here. But I just thought that was a great thing, and I don't think it was a huge cost of a thing to buy us dinner. And you've got dinner and one drink coupon. I'm going for the drink. Yes. You're close enough to take an Uber. Yeah, we had it at the Sheridan, St. Key. Yeah, it was here in St. Key. Any thoughts to do it again? I know you talked to some of the powers that be, and they just haven't responded. I don't know where they stand on that. So that would be a conversation that I'd have with my boss. I think it died. Cost and COVID. Yeah. Is that what it died? 2020 was the first year we didn't have it. Anything else? We do. End of the director's report. Board members to be heard. I've got something I'd like to mention. Okay. Whenever it's my turn. It's your turn. Okay, thanks. We'll have you go first. Well, back to some of the situations at Seminole Street. I just discovered this week that the city of Dunedin is in the process of drafting legislation. They've got their bases covered. There will never be jet skis or any motorized watercraft launched from the Dunedin Causeway again ever. From the beach? From the causeway, on the beach, anywhere on the causeway. Paddlecraft, sailcraft, nothing motorized. And they have I as dotted and T as crossed. They've got DEP. They've got law enforcement. They've got fire safety involved. Everybody parks and rec. So there's no pushback. So when the jet ski groups come in and say, oh, but what's that got to do with us? We're not Dunedin. No, but the trickle-down effect. And as I'm sure Marion can vouch for, the change in the usership of the Seminole ramp has changed significantly in the last couple of years, and especially in the last year. A lot of personal watercraft. Overflow parking doesn't exist legally. I don't know who owns the property around there. That's up to them if they want to charge, if they want to let them go, if they want to tow, whatever. We're not in that business. Unless the city were to potentially contact one of those owners and say, can we lease this or set it up for pay, whatever. I was proposing the parking spaces on the north side facing the playhouse. Up at the hill, create-in spaces. If those were angled, made a little long, maximum length, you could have that entire stretch for short trailers, jet ski trailers. Because right now, what happens, you go down there at any point in time, especially on the weekends, Marion, what would you say, 40%, 50% are short jet ski trailers? So the guy with the triple axel with the 36-footer that wants to go offshore and catch his two-red snapper, he's got no place to park. They don't need the long places. Now, okay, how do you get them to park there? Again, with some education and some signage. But additionally, now this is the other thing where Dunedin can potentially throw more business our way. When they do open the ramp at the marina, that will be for resident use only. If they allow non-resident, it is going to be at a significantly higher ramp fee. Really done as a, hopefully, to dissuade use bond city residents. Can we investigate a citizen versus non-citizen parking fee structure? The only issue is, you know, that Seminole boat ramp was built with grant funding, so you wouldn't be allowed to discriminate like that. Okay. Even outside, I mean, anything, out of state, out of county, anything? Correct. Yep, open to the public. We couldn't limit the use of vessels. Okay. We couldn't limit where it was first come, first serve. But it really wouldn't, other than restripe that lot. And likewise, many of those spaces, they look like they're 12-foot wide spaces. They're pretty big. Even when you've got a big, fully truck in there with a triple-axle trailer, there's still plenty of room on both sides. It makes you wonder, could that lot be restriped and get another 20 or 30 spaces throughout the entire area? Plus, if you were to change the straight parking to angle parking, short trailers, it might help alleviate. I'll pass this along to Parking. Okay. It has become quite a... The Playhouse does utilize a lot of that upper parking. Yeah, but they've got their own parking. And anyway, what the deal is. It's, you know, parking, especially for boat ramps, there's Dunedin, and then there's Clearwater and Bel Air. Yeah, that's it. You've got it way down to Park Boulevard, way up towards Tarpon, Ozona. That's a little one hole. No water to speak of here. Pretty skinny. Those kinds of things, it's not a lot of money. And again, talking about being self-supporting, if you have more spaces, there's more revenue, potential for more tickets would be doing stupid. That's all. And anything else from anyone here? Chair, I have one thing to say, only that we'll be actually looking for advice. Some of you may know I'm a candidate for city council, and I want to still chair the September meeting. By then, maybe the election would be over, maybe not. But am I going to be permitted to stay on this board as long as I am not officially a council member? If I win in August, but I'm not sworn in until November? I can't answer to that. Okay. I'll definitely ask Rose and Nicole. Let everyone know, because they, I think, need to be prepared to take over. If they say you won in October, or you won in August, you don't take office until November, but you still have to step down, that you guys may have to take over for me. Good question, no. Okay. Are there currently any vacancies on this board, if there are one or two? I believe we have one open share. One vacancy, right? Yes, one vacancy. So if you go to city council, you've got to bring that. Well, I've got to recruit the person, I see. We can find somebody. I've had a few people that I've bugged for years. One guy, he's a boating family here, up and down. Actually, when I'm giving it away, I think his brother owns the fish market and restaurant at Dunedin Pier. Walt. They've literally generational people. I talked to Walt, too. He's not interested, and neither is his brother, Eric. Eric was a real estate person for me, so there we have revealed his name. Really good, sharp guy, knows the waters, and some people just don't see the value of it. I don't know that I saw the value of it until I sat through my first meeting here and wanted to get more involved. So if you have anybody in mind, we'll be looking for one or two people. Do we have anything else? I think we have not set any records, but we have had a good meeting for only four items on the agenda, one hour and 12 minutes. So anyone move to adjourn? I move to adjourn. And a second. I second. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you. Thank you, and good night. Good night. Good night. Good night.