Good evening. We're going to go ahead and get started with a special city commission meeting for Monday, February 9th, 2026. If I can please have the city clerk call the roll. Commissioner Caldwell. Commissioner Harriot. Commissioner Howington. Commissioner Novick. Commissioner Santiago. Here. Vice Mayor Villa-Vasquez. Mayor Villa. Here. I'm here also. At this time, we're going to go ahead and stand for the invocation and the pledge. I'll ask Commissioner Caldwell if you can lead us in the pledge. All right. Before we get started with the consent agenda item, is there any of the consent agenda items we want to pull before we go to public comment? Commissioner Caldwell. Mayor, I have a point of order, I believe. I'm concerned about how the last meeting on the second was resolved and moved. Is it normal for us to show up at the meeting or were we supposed to get called prior to the meeting? City attorney, do you want to respond? Once the gavel hit, was that meeting adjourned or was it continued? I believe it was called for adjournment. So on February 2nd, the regular city commission meeting was called to order and a quorum was not present in the room. The vice mayor, as the presiding officer, then acknowledged the lack of quorum and recessed the items on the agenda to two dates certain. The first is the special commission meeting tonight on February 9th, and the second is the regular city commission meeting on February 17th. The recess of the February 2nd meeting is in line with the commission's adoption of Robert's Rules of Order as a guideline for parliamentary procedure. So Robert's Rules of Order and the Sunshine Law mandate that no official action may be taken in the absence of a quorum. So Robert's Rules provides that once a quorum is no longer present, the commission must adjourn, recess, or take some other measure to assemble a quorum. In this case, the vice mayor called for the meeting to be recessed. Attorney General Opinion 90-56 advises that if a meeting is to be adjourned and reconvened to complete the business from the agenda of the adjourned meeting, the second meeting should also be noticed. The city clerk has confirmed that notice was provided for tonight's meeting in accordance with law and with the city's general procedures. All right. Is there any of the consent agenda items that anyone reaches to pull before we do a motion, a second, and then public comment? Commissioner Harriet? I'd like to make a motion to adopt the consent agenda items as presented. There is a motion by Commissioner Harriet. Commissioner Santiago, you're up next. Second. Second by Commissioner Santiago. This time we're going to go ahead and go to public comment on the consent agenda items. Martin Padada? Mr. Padada, if you can please turn on the microphone. Go ahead. My name is Martin Padada. I'm an attorney. My address is 120 East Rich Avenue, DeLand, Florida, 32724. And I would like my clients to place their names on the record, please. David Sosa, Deltona. Timothy Howington, Deltona. Jason Volz, Deltona. Sean O'Donnell, Deltona. Taylor Neeler, Deltona. Pamela Braun, Deltona. Wendy Page, Deltona. Gail Barr, Deltona. Chris Collier, Deltona. Albert Bryan, Deltona. Randy White, Deltona. I handed a packet to the clerk, if the clerk can please get those to the commissioners. And I request that those be entered into the record for the purpose. Excuse me. Point of order, sir. Is this having to do with anything on the consent agenda? Yes. If you let me talk, I'll explain. Go ahead. I didn't get there yet. I respectfully disagree with your attorney's analysis that that last meeting did not violate the Sunshine Law. And I provided a letter and the case law and the arguments that's saying that they were not in compliance. And so we're objecting and putting on the record that that act that happened at the last meeting was not only constitutional, unconstitutional, according to Florida Constitution. And that's in Article 1, Section 24, about having open meetings. It's in violation of the Sunshine Law Act and all the cases that I cited in there. And also in violation of the attorney general opinion that is document 2010, Florida AG, Lexus 132, advisory opinion informal. And that basically says that if there's any kind of meeting, that two or more together, they have to comply with the Sunshine Law. And I put all the exhibits that were. And there was a notice that due to lack of quorum, that tonight's meeting would be canceled and would take place at another time. And after that went out, you guys continued to have the meeting anyway. As a matter of fact, one of my clients was not able to even get in because at first the door was locked and someone had to open up the door to let them in. So that was clearly a meeting that was held behind closed doors and not with proper notice. The notice was canceled. A notification that went out said it was canceled, and you held the meeting anyway. So that was continued today on this consent agenda. And we're objecting to that in the upcoming meeting because if one is wrong, they're all wrong. You have to start from the beginning and give proper notice and start all over. You just can't have a continuation. As a matter of fact, I cited some of the cases in that packet that says a continuation is improper. So I'm contesting on behalf of my clients the legality of you continuing on the consent agenda here and any subsequent hearing until you comply with the Sunshine Law. And that's our position. City Clerk. Other than everyone who he named, is there anyone else who wanted to speak on the consent agenda who did not, who's not represented by the attorney? Okay. Just sometimes I'm a senile citizen. I did ask you to put those letters into the record that I. Yes, they'll go in the record, sir. Okay. I was, I'm just checking. Thank you. Kathy Bryant. Good evening. Kathy Bryant, Deltona. Um, I'm not being represented here, but the fact that you guys canceled public forum for that meeting and then we're not having it again tonight. Um, and the, as they said, they canceled it. Um, there was questions about it and the way the whole deal was done was unfortunate. So I really don't think you guys should vote on this tonight. I know you probably will anyhow, but when you guys don't things, do things correctly, and then you wonder why we react to how we do, there it is. If you're going to cancel a meeting, cancel a meeting. But just because you don't want to advertise it again is no excuse. Thank you. Brenda Knott. Hi, my name is Brenda Knott, Deltona. I believe that what the city attorney said would be accurate had it not been for the notice of cancellation that was put on a public city website. I was embarrassed at the fact that I thought the meeting was canceled. And the only way that I found out that an actual meeting had occurred was when a commissioner posted the YouTube video of it. I didn't show up that night because the meeting was canceled. I was not one of them that was locked outside. I just didn't show up. I planned on coming in. And that is unfortunate. I also believe that what occurred following would have been proper had you not canceled the meeting. Would you have had some angry citizens here because you would have had to pull the major agenda item from the agenda that night? Yes, you probably would have. But you know what? You need to follow the process and the policy. And then you handle the aftershock. You did not follow the process or the policy. And this is what you get for the aftershock. I encourage you to rethink what you're doing this evening and proceed in the right fashion. If it costs you an extra $800 to re-notice a particular item and potentially delay the vote, then so be it. You will be incurring a lot more expenses than that $800. And that will be on the commission. And, city attorney, I encourage you to provide the clear response, which is, was that meeting properly called and held? Mayor, that closes public consent. Thank you. I would like to do a public record. Sir. Mr. Sosa. Mr. Sosa. Mr. Sosa. You're out of order. Vice Mayor Avila Vasquez. Thank you, Mayor. Just for the record, since there was just myself and another commissioner at that meeting, I personally did my job, my duty, as I was instructed by legal. Just want to put it out there. It's not that we showed up, or at least I didn't show up on my own. Commissioner Howington. Thank you, Mayor. Yes, I concur with the Vice Mayor. We were directed to show up to the meeting, and I would like to read a statement into the record before we vote. I remain concerned that the consent agenda items before us were recessed from a meeting that had been publicly noticed as canceled. The meeting was canceled and then called to order. As a result, I'm not comfortable voting in the affirmative on any of these items. I continue to question how the city can cancel a meeting, subsequently call that meeting to order, and then carry forward business, specifically votes on consent agenda items tonight, at a special meeting that was itself noticed as having been called during a canceled meeting. Until I receive clear legal authority demonstrating that this process complies with Florida Statute 286.011, I remain concerned that proceeding in this manner may constitute a violation of the Sunshine Law. Out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of protecting the integrity of the city's legislative process, I will be voting no on these items because I don't believe the continuation was done properly because that meeting was publicly canceled. And many people have told me they were on their way to City Hall and saw the cancellation and turned around and left. Thank you. All right. We're going to go ahead, and since there's a motion on the floor, there's a second, and no one has decided to pull the items. Let's go ahead and vote, please. Motion passes 4 to 3. City Manager, is there any comments? All right. The special meeting is adjourned, and we will recess for five minutes for the commission workshop. Thank you.