We're going to go ahead and get started with this regular commission meeting for Monday, October 5th, 2026. If I can please have the city clerk call the roll. Commissioner Caldwell. Here. Commissioner Harriot. Commissioner Howington. Here. Commissioner Novick. Here. Commissioner Santiago. Here. Vice Mayor Bill of Esquiz. Present. Mayor Bill of Esquiz. Here. This time we're going to go ahead and do the invocation, the pledge to the flag, and I will ask Commissioner of District 6, Chris Novick, to lead us in that. Bow our heads, please. Moment of silent invocation. And I would ask that you keep the family of Eli, the Birdman Chaparro, in your thoughts and prayers as he passed this last week. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So I'd like to acknowledge the anonymous Marine. Last Monday night, there was a traffic crash in front of our public works facility involving a single person on an e-bike. The adult male was seriously injured, and this anonymous Marine, former Marine, immediately stopped to render aid and emotional care for this patient, not giving any thought to his own personal danger and circumstances that he was in at that time. And when fire rescue arrived, he gave a quick arrival report on what he had seen and what he had done, which aided the crews in providing this medical care. The patient was trauma alerted. The patient did survive. And then crews turned to the Marine because they thought he was a patient. He was covered in so much blood from the victim that they thought he had sustained injuries. The crews then took him over to the fire engine. They cleaned him up, and they asked him, why did you do this? Why did you put yourself in such a position to be exposed to infectious disease and hepatitis? And he merely said, my training took over, and it was another human being. So tonight, we acknowledge this anonymous Marine. Once a Marine, always a Marine. Amen. Thank you, Commissioner Novick. This time, we're going to go to additions and deletions. We're going to go to, there's no presentations from staff, but there is presentations for economic development. All right, thank you, Mayor. I just want to give a quick mention of a few business ventures that are looking to work their way here to Deltona. We have two projects in full review right now, including the Seven Brew drive-thru coffee. They're confirming a location at Halifax Crossing near Chipotle. This is a project that's been going on for about a year, which really gives an idea of how long it takes for some retail recruitment. So along with the Dutch Brothers, Starbucks, Dunkin' Donuts, around the same area, nobody on I-4 should ever be sleepy. Amazon 3 is presently in review by the city staff to hopefully move forward this spring, bringing more jobs and revenue to the city. With a rezoning in process, we are also looking at a 1 million square foot industrial use building in the Deltona Industrial Park. More details on that is coming. Finally, a few businesses we are in pre-application phase with the city. They are Chase Bank, Chick-fil-A, EOS Fitness Center, Waffle House, an apartment project expanding the Deltona Village over near the movie theater. And with the market need for sit-down casual restaurants, the staff's biggest efforts has been a targeted push, contacting numerous restaurant brands such as Outback, Carrabba's, BJ's Wholesale, Brew House, not Wholesale, Restaurant and Brew House, City Barbecue, Dickie's Barbecue, Buffalo Wild Wings, Mission Barbecue, and Panera Bread. Basically, we're trying to look at some of the businesses that aren't in our surrounding area, the neighboring towns, but only time will tell how successful those efforts will be. Thank you, Mayor. All right, we're going to do the presentation regarding AI permitting. If you can please click on the button. There you go. Make sure we got it. Evening, Commissioners. My name is Patrick Vargas, and I'm with Evolve Software and based here locally in Florida. We were actually requested here tonight to show you all electric plan review and AI. So to do that, I brought in my better counterpart here, Christine, and she will demo that. All right. Good evening, Commissioners, Mayor and Vice Mayor. It's good to be with you guys tonight. My name is Christine, as my colleague Patrick said. I'm going to take you guys through just a couple of slides, and then we're going to actually do some demo. I know how everybody feels about slideshows, so we're not going to spend much time here. So just a little bit about us. We are Evolve. We do electronic plan review. And we do a little bit more than that. We're kind of changing some of our messaging because we support so much more of the process than just the markup on paper. And something as part of this presentation we looked at, we actually looked at your guys' 2050 vision plan. And a lot of the things that you guys call out in that plan, like your vibrant downtown, your remaining family-friendly, staying connected, walkable, and just having a strong local economy, which following your economic development presentation very much speaks to, we can support a lot of that process with our software. So what does that mean? We orchestrate delivery from end to end. So think about the pre-application type meetings you guys are having all the way through to inspections and as-built and just maintaining the infrastructure that's in your jurisdiction. We bring a special intelligence to a lot of those decisions as part of the development that is being presented and happening in your guys' jurisdiction. And what you guys asked to see tonight is we are applying all of that domain knowledge to ensure that the AI that we are developing is grounded in that domain knowledge. We don't just want to throw AI at the problem. We want to make sure that it actually meets you guys where you're at. So Patrick brought you guys some leave-behinds. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this slide whatsoever. This is in that packet that he's left. So if you guys want to read it, you're absolutely welcome to. The piece that I do want to point out, though, that supports what I just stated about the AI being deeply rooted in the domain knowledge is the item on the far right. We are using tools and permissioned data from real-world projects and our partners through Microsoft and ICC to build the foundation of our AI so that it's not being used on an open model or something like a quad or a chat GPT. Okay? So now let's actually look at what we are talking about. So we've got a couple of portions of the technology that, as you would expect from what I just stated about supporting the end-to-end process, fall at different points of the entire application and development process. What we're looking at here is actually a portion of the technology that would sit applicant-facing. So this would sit inside of your public-facing portal, and it would interact with your applicants as they're getting ready for their applications or as they're initiating their applications for development. We're checking – think of it as checking the quality of the attachments in the application as part of the overall process. We're ensuring that files, you know, just at their most basic level, are able to be consumed by your staff. So we're preventing the upload of a corrupt file, password protected. We can actually validate and ensure the certificate associated with digital signatures where those are required. We can help enforce the actual attachments themselves. So if you require these particular, you know, five applications or five attachments with this particular application type, we can help enforce that. And we're leveraging AI to ensure that what is uploaded has characteristics of things like a plan, for example. What we have seen through our customers' experiences is that oftentimes developers or applicants will upload a blank PDF or, you know, a picture of their cat is a commonly used explanation as kind of a placeholder. Get the application in, and then they'll come back and change the file later. We don't want that. We want to make sure that, especially given the shot clock times you guys have to review these applications, we want to make sure that what is being uploaded initially, your staff can actually action. And so you'll notice some of the errors that were flagged by these files here because they failed those checks. We're missing an engineering stamp. We do not have a north arrow. We don't have a scale. All of those things would be characteristics of a plan. And so this messaging can either fully stop the application from coming in, or it can be messaged as a warning and still allow the application to come in, and then allow your staff to make that human element judgment as part of it. So this is configurable. You guys can kind of determine how hard or soft you hold that line in the sand around these items. But we want to make sure that, you know, what you guys are getting that first time through is a much more complete application. Now we'll move to the back office portion, so what your staff would actually be interacting with. And this part of the application, the AI is being developed to really be a tool to put into the hands of the reviewers who are taking action on the applications themselves. We don't want AI to necessarily replace the plan reviewer, right? There's a lot in code. And I'm actually a former building official who did full-time plan review, so I can speak to this. There's a lot of code that is always going to have to have the human element as part of it. There are certain things that are really black and white and ways we can apply AI to this in order for it to be a tool for those reviewers. Some of those being in our application, we allow AI to analyze the page. And if you look in the far lower right-hand corner here, it has actually analyzed the sheets in this particular plan set and pulled out the scale for this particular drawing. That is a step that is traditionally done manually by reviewers. And that may not sound very time-consuming, but when we're talking about a large, you know, multi-hundred-page plan set, that is something that can take a significant amount of time, but really isn't something that requires domain expertise, right? So let's let AI do that type of a step for us. The other thing we are leveraging AI for is in a plan set, we are allowing AI to pull out the individual sheet references for each one of the pages as part of that submission. What this allows is for the plan reviewers and you guys as an organization to practice slip sheeting. So think about a 100-page plan set goes through review. Revisions are asked for. And as part of that revision process, the designer really only made changes to 20 of those. Slip sheeting allows the applicants to resubmit only the pages they made changes to. And in order to do that, that means we have to collect the sheet reference information. This is something that has always been a process that is either fully put onto the applicants as part of their submission or staff has been having to augment and make up and kind of, you know, bridge that gap. But this is a significant time savings, not only in the data entry, but also in the review itself. All right, then if we're talking about the actual review, right, let's identify some of these objects. We have AI analyzing the pages themselves and it will detect different objects in the drawing. So if you'll notice from this example here, it is highlighting different things such as toilets, sinks, interior doors, exterior doors. So you can see it presents the user a list here where I can click to them. It will take me to that focused view. If I've reviewed it, I can acknowledge that. So that way it removes it from my list. So we put it into a checklist format. We also have object counting. So think if you're counting like sprinkler heads or trees and shrubs, things like that, you can identify that object and have it count as, you know, how many of these are there in the plan set and give that type of feedback as well. And then lastly, the other thing I wanted to show you guys was the change detection technology. So this is a plan set here that has been resubmitted. And you'll notice that we have an indicator on sheet 2.2 here that indicates there have been changes made to that plan set. So we're feeding that information to the, to the reviewer, letting them know what pages have been changed. And we're also highlighting it in the page itself. So if we were to zoom in on this area, you'll notice that area of changes highlighted in all three of these windows. So I can see version one, version two, and versions overlaid, and it's highlighted for me in all three of those windows. So those are just a couple of the ways that we are leveraging AI through that domain experience that, that we possess for the last 20 years in business to make sure that they are being put into the hands of your guys as reviewers, as tools that they can actually leverage, right? Thank you all. And if there's any additional questions, just let me know. Thank you, Stephen. Do you have any questions? If not, we're going to move on. Yeah, I do have a couple of questions. What is your success versus failure rate? And how do you handle security-related issues when it comes to the input? Yeah, good question. So let me go back to, and I'll have to reshare my screen real quick. Let me show you the input. And we can follow up with an exact percentage. But we, the goal that we are striving for is above a 95% success rate on identification. But when AI does misidentify something, you'll notice the user has the ability to select that and change the input and what it should be. And that allows the AI to then learn from that. From a security standpoint, the models are only learning from permissioned customer data. So we do ask our customers as part of implementations and our customer success relationships if they would allow us to use some of their data. Those are what the models are being trained on. And we house all of that in the Microsoft Azure cloud. So it's not just open to anybody. This question here is more for staff. I understand we have these capabilities already within our programs. Have we looked at cost versus savings by implementing this? And back to the presenter here, what is the time savings on this from start to finish? I can answer first. And then the time savings just kind of depends on the size of the review. But traditionally, what we've seen is it's about a 60% or, excuse me, a 40% return in time on those kind of mundane tasks that your reviewers are spending. Counting items and, like I said, setting the scale doesn't seem like a big task, but ends up actually consuming quite a bit of time, as well as your intake staff. So it is a fairly significant time savings. And, Doc, have we looked at it? Yeah, you're asking about it. Yes, Commissioner. No, we haven't looked at the benefit analysis on time versus money. We do know that you're really not reducing staff because staff still has to overlook everything that's coming out through the AI. It certainly seems to be a nice complementary program to find things that we may not see. But due to, as you're well aware and everyone else, our code book is a little left and right and up and down in different areas that the machine may conflict in different areas, the system. So we'd have to still have oversight of a human going through the process. So it could definitely speed up review to help, but it certainly doesn't replace the human at this point. But that's something we could discuss another time. It would definitely enhance the applicant's process in this. It'll speed up, certainly. We get more data centers. Could we get some estimated numbers on cost versus savings? Well, we can look into it to see if there's any savings at all. Yes, correct. Thank you. That's all I have. Commissioner Novick, has the company been involved in any liability litigation regarding the tool yet? Not that I'm aware of. Christine, have you heard that at all? No, we have not. Thank you. Vice Mayor Avila-Vasquez. Thank you, Mayor. Coming from a former systems software analyst, I think it will save a lot of time to use this type of software. A lot of time. It takes a long time when you do things manually and you have to sit there and manually do the research on what was entered and what comes out incorrectly. Because you have to visually look at it in the stone ages time that I used to do it. So, I think this will be a lot of savings, you know, depending on which way the city goes. Thank you for the presentation. Yeah. Thank you all. Thank you. All right. We're going to go. We have no community events. We have some, but they're in advertising as we speak. Consent agenda items. At this time, I'll entertain a motion. Commissioner Santiago. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve consent agenda items A through H. Commissioner Howington. I'll second. All right. We have a motion and a second. For approval, is there any public comment? Please go ahead. Matt Borgans, please. I guess we're going to do all of them at once then. Okay. Some of my biggest concerns is with the project. I think they're great. I think what the city is doing is great. This came from some of the Volusia County, which I know David Santiago wasn't there that October 7th meeting I keep asking about. But the problem I have is that some of the planning, it was brought up about the pump from 2019, and it says it's still being developed. So are we going to get that kind of finished before this gets approved? And that's kind of one of my biggest things is some of the stuff going forward for the flying and everything is kind of not up to date, not current. And so I would think that we should probably make sure that's on there, because at least from the documents that was presented, if there's something else that's not being seen, then that would be nice. But from what I saw in the documents, it was from like 2019, and it was said by the engineer that it still needed to be developed more. But other than that, I appreciate it. Like I said, everything the staff has been doing, I think that's been great. They've been putting a lot of work into it. But the staff here has been making a lot of strides to make things better. It's just keeping up to date with what we have. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. That closes for the comments. All right. Before we go to a vote, Commissioner Caldwell, as you are on Zoom, I always give a courtesy if you have any questions. If not, we're going to go to a vote. No questions at this time. All right. Let's go ahead and vote, please. Commissioner Caldwell? Yes. Commissioner Harriott? Yes. Commissioner Howington? Yes. Commissioner Novick? Yes. Commissioner Santiago? Yes. Vice Mayor Villa-Vasquez? Mayor Villa? Yes. 7-0. Motion passes 7-0. This time we're going to go to ordinances and public hearings. If I can please have the city attorney read 8A as an alpha. Thank you, Mayor. This is second reading for ordinance number 16-2026, an ordinance of the City of Deltona, Florida, amending the City of Deltona Land Development Code by amending Section 70-30, definitions, amending Section 110-321, statutory uses, amending Chapter 76, affordable housing under the Live Local Act to update definitions, applicability, administrative review procedures, development standards, and related provisions consistent with Section 166, spot 04151 of the Florida statutes, providing for codification, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. This time I'll entertain a motion. Commissioner Santiago, you're up first on the, sorry, point of order. Commissioner Caldwell, would you like to make a motion? If not, I will go to Commissioner Santiago. No. All right. Commissioner Santiago? Thank you, Mayor. I make a motion to approve ordinance number 16-2026. Commissioner Novick? Second. We have a motion and a second. Is there any, do you want to go ahead, Jordan, and do your presentation so we can go to public comment? Good evening, Mayor, Commission. So this is second and final reading of ordinance number 16-2026, which updates Chapter 76 to reflect the most recent changes to the Live Local. The ordinance was approved on first reading on September 9th. Based on the discussion at first reading, we added language encouraging green building and sustainable development practices. Staff recommends approval. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Caldwell, any questions or concerns? I have one for the attorneys. I've been looking to where it states that this must be administrative. Could you direct me where to find that in that Senate bill or House Bill 1389? That's for Ms. Torcivia. Yeah. Commissioner, I want to understand your question. We're changing this to be administrative only. Is that correct? Is that how it's written in the House Bill 1389 under religious institutions? Commissioner, that part has not changed. It's always been administrative. I just wanted to verify it. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Is there any other questions? All right. Can we please go for a vote? Commissioner Caldwell? Yes. Commissioner Harriot? Yes. Commissioner Howington? No. Commissioner Novick? Yes. Commissioner Santiago? Yes. Vice Mayor Villavasquez? Yes. Mayor Villa? Yes. 6-1. Motion passes 6-1. This time we're going to go to city attorney comments. Thank you so much, Mayor. Commissioner, briefly, I just wanted to see if there's a consensus to add to the agenda for the next meeting, an extension, so a new resolution extending the ordinance review committee. That committee has a sunset provision, and so we can bring back a resolution to extend it for another year for the next meeting if it is the pleasure of the body. Would it not be better just to extend it when the new commission comes into place? That way they make that decision if they want to have them for another year? We're happy to do that and put it on the November meeting. If you don't have consensus for this meeting, we can put it on the November meeting. Is that okay with the commission? Simple yes? Yes. Yes? Yes. Very good. Thank you. Nothing else. Okay. City manager comments? Nothing more this evening, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Novick, we'll start with you. Nothing this evening, Mayor. Commissioner Caldwell? I have nothing either. Okay. Commissioner Howington? I want to thank Vima for putting on a great car show in partnership with the city over the past week, and in the future, we're going to have some fundraising going on, I believe, from the American Legion regarding their new facility. And so keep that in mind and kind of keep watch. This is another opportunity for us to add something wonderful to our community. That's all I have. Commissioner Santiago? Just really quick, Wig Out was a great success. It was great to see the community come together and support our cancer patients, local community patients that need the help. I also wanted to, again, Ms. Sia, Yorker was here. Just make sure everybody is aware of the 5K walk on Saturday, October 31st, from 8 to 12, West Cryo Park. And we'll have that information go out. And that's all I have. Oh, City Hall. Thank you, Doc. Beautiful. Looks bright. Really nice. So great job. Thank you. That's all I have. Have a good night. Commissioner Harriet. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate that. I just wanted to second the event that was mentioned tonight during public comment and make sure that the city, if we can get the copy of the digital ad, we can get that up on social media and our digital displays like she requested. And that's all I have. Any aye. Simple consent. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All those opposed? Okay. That's it. Vice Mayor Villavazquez? Thank you, Mayor. I just have one shout-out to the great graduation for the Sheriff's Department last week. There was one woman part of the group that graduated, and I think she got the, well, uh-huh. She was the best, the top. I mean, the top gun. And so it was really impressing, and that's all I have. So congratulations to all the new deputies that are out there, and may God bless you. Thank you. I have one request from the commission. I'm asking for a letter of support for a children's hospital or a children's urgent care that Mr. Cox with economic development can provide to the entity. Obviously, because of whatever restrictions that they have, a simple letter that we would welcome a children's hospital or a children's urgent care would be sufficient. So just asking for a simple yes or no. So all those in favor? Aye. All those opposed? That's it. Have a good night. Meetings adjourned. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. 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