Thanks to Councilman Salem for a fantastic eight years for all you've done for your community and your city. It's been, I think you've had a market effect, positive effect on the city and its citizens. With that, let's talk about your priorities. Okay. Well, thank you for those comments. I appreciate it. Don't have, it is my eighth year. And to me, the eighth year is more to complete some things that I'm involved with. And two very important passion projects for me are the clubhouse at Blue Cypress golf course. As you probably know, because I've talked about it 3,000 times, we have added the three holes out there. Yep. And the golf course is now 12 holes. It's been very popular. It's been a great thing for the course. They thanked me. They were very skeptical, but now that it's out there and people are playing it, they're very supportive. The next component to that is a clubhouse that will be a joint venture, so to speak, of the city and JU. And I've seen a design of it, and Daryl Joseph, who has become a dear friend over the years, is meeting with JU, and we hope to get construction moving in this year to get that completed. And that will be the clubhouse for the JU golf team, as well as a venue for golfers to have lunch, check in, kind of a regular clubhouse for a city facility like that. So I'd like to get that moving, if not completed at least. Is that a CIP item? We own it. We own it. It was approved during that $50 million thing that I think you were involved in, that Randy White chaired. Yeah, I got it. Okay. The second one that's a passion project that's very similar to that is J.P. Small. Okay. We are investing $10 million in J.P. Small. I don't know if you've been out there. I have. And you've seen the field and all those things and the new lighting and all those things are already in place. The last major component of that is the Hall of Fame that will be built out outside the left field wall. And I've seen designs of that. And it will clearly be a museum, and we're having discussions with the old owner, Peter Bragan, because he's got a collection as well. We definitely want a bunch of African-American paraphernalia from the Negro League and all that stuff in there as well. And so I'm hopeful that that will be ongoing and at least construction started as far along as we can, because I really believe that that could be a tourist attraction for people coming off the I-95. For sure. And where that Hall of Fame is going is at one of those street corners that is kind of the heart of Durkeeville. That's exactly right. And it's pretty run down now, but it has so much opportunity for improvement. You and I share the same thoughts. So getting those two as far along as I can in the next year are very important. Fantastic. And a lot of it is me working with Daryl. I mean, and Daryl is as excited about him as I am. Okay. A few cleanup things, as I committed to you, is to complete Doge in June. Yep. We have a meeting Tuesday, which will complete the health care analysis with some recommendations on rates and such that I hope the administration is paying attention and will take under consideration. I think beyond, as our good friend, Councilman Layden has said, health care, the completion grants, and the garbage fee. Well, we've solved the garbage fee issue. Yeah. We've gone a long way with completion grants. Yep. And the health care component last year, as you might remember, it was $21 million that we had to supplement it with, plus we had to add $5 million to the reserve fund. Yep. And we need to begin getting out of that. Yep. Yep. Exactly. So we'll have some recommendations. Fantastic. And then the special committee on JEA, our last major interview is in two weeks. Yep. And I think our survey is about ready to go out. Okay. I've heard your comments about that component of it. Yep. But I think we can forward, as I've always said, it's not our job to act upon that information. It's our job to get it to the board. Yeah. And let the board review it and determine what they think they should do. Agreed. Very nice. So we should have all that to them. It may roll into July, but we'll forward that stuff to them whenever it's available. Great. Sounds good to me. And then the capacity issue needs to continue. Needs to continue. Yeah, for sure. And get that resolved. And then, again, take it to the board. Yep. Let them decide if they want to collect it all, if they want to draw a line in the sand and say we're going to collect after this date or whatever it is. Needs to be fixed. Needs to be fixed. Yeah. Very good. Thank you. Noted. Okay. In terms of the rest of my time next year, as you know, I'm very interested in the budget process. And you've got to decide on all your committees and stuff. But I'll be monitoring involved in the budget process in some form or another. Yeah. Because that's what my interest is. What you like to do. Yes. Yeah. And I think this one's a very challenging budget. For sure. And we need to get all hands on deck for this one. Because I think it's, depending on what happens in November, that kind of thing. And then, Mr. President-elect, as I said to Kevin Carrico a year ago, I want your year to be successful. That's important to me. It was important to me when I was president to have people rally behind me and help me. Yep. And I say the same thing to you. This year, I served on three committees. I heard some bills three times. Didn't want to do that again. Well, it was something he asked me to do. So I did it. Yeah. But it got a little tiresome hearing the same bills three times. Yes. They were off in there. And whatever else you need or want from me, I want to help you. Fantastic. Get across the finish line. Thank you. And I hope for you to have a successful year. Because I know you're going to put the time into it, and you're already doing it, which is what I did. You're already working on things, and that's the way. If you're going to have a successful year, you've got to start in June, May and June. You can't wait until July. No, you're exactly right. So that's all I have to say. Thank you. I appreciate that. And yeah, I think you've kind of read the tea leaves on what the future holds. I think the November referendum is going to clarify things for us. And the clarity comes with we know what we have to do. We have to take a real tough look at that budget, every single detail. There's going to be a lot of scrutiny in that budget, and perhaps one of the compromises is we don't know what's going to be decided in November. So we do what we can to focus all of our spend on the core, make sure we've got spend on the core. And everything else, to some degree, has to be cut back. And maybe it goes below the line in case the referendum fails, and we do have money to support those initiatives. And then we have a special meeting in December to release some of that, almost in a way that happened during your presidency, when we had that $25 million, which we had a special meeting in December to release that. Right. Oh, I remember it well. Yeah. So that becomes kind of the model for what we might have to do in this one, so to speak. Well, I think clearly we have to take some amount of money out of that budget. Oh, yeah. Whether it's $50 million, $100 million, whatever it is, and get it out. It would be irresponsible of us not to, because the next council president is likely to face with the extension of the homestead from $50 million to $150 million, a $200 million bogey. And then the one after that, with the extension up to $250K for the homestead, is going to face a $300 million bogey. Well, I feel an obligation to do what I can this year, anticipating it's going to pass. Yeah. Yeah. And then if it doesn't pass, then we can revisit what we've already cut or put below the line, however you want to. Agreed. You know, that's really, and I think that's probably a good way to handle it. Yeah. I think it might be the only way to handle it. It would be irresponsible not to handle it. Oh, no. You've got to take it out of the budget, in my mind. Yeah. What dollar amount, I think we can debate. Exactly. But I think $50 would be the minimum. Yeah. Agreed. That you need to pull out. Yeah. And I think it can be done. Yeah. It's tough, but it can be done. You know, we took, through those, 2%. Yeah. Which ended up being about $3.8 million. Yeah. Right. And the only department that's come forward was the Inspector General. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So. Yeah. Noted. So whether you go up to 5% or something like that, I think that's worth considering as well. It's definitely a strategy. Yeah. So with that, you know, you'd hate to stop downtown development because you don't have the money. So you've got to start thinking about creative ways to fund those projects. I heard your comments. Yeah. Yeah. On First Coast Connect. Yeah. And yeah. The one that everyone's talking about is the publics. Right. And that being a catalyst for everything else. Yep. But it's $28 million, if I recall correctly. Exactly. And that's a lot of money. Yep. It's a lot of money. And I agree it would be transformational for the downtown. It's a matter of do we have the money to support it. Yeah. And that's a tough call. And they'll tell you that it'll be a catalyst for everything around it. It'll pay for itself. Yeah. I think we need to have that debate to figure that out. Yeah. Agreed. And there have to be more funding options than just what has constituted the debate so far. Completion grants, low interest loans, rev grants. There's got to be other ideas for funding some of those. Well, someone suggested to me that we treat some of these loans like a mortgage. Yeah. A low interest mortgage. Yeah. Where if we give them $10 million over 20 years, they pay $500,000 back each year, plus a little bit of interest. Yeah. Right. As an example. I don't know if that works for developers. Right. But it's an idea. Or there's ideas that there's equity. You can take an equity stake in the development or something like that. But that doesn't help. What the problem is right now is availability of cash. Because, as you know, when we started budgeting the completion grants, there's a lot of red in the five-year plan in the Schedule B-3. And we've cleared up a lot of that red, as you mentioned earlier in this meeting. But we're about to get our knees cut off with revenue coming in. And that means we don't have the cash for things outside of the core, which is how it should be designed. And you can't use reserve funds for things like completion grants, because reserve funds are what we use to maintain the core, to pay for the police, to pay for the firefighters, to pay for trash pickup. Or the hurricane. Or hurricanes. Or parks. You know, if we are running out of money, that's what reserves were intended for. And they're not intended for new projects like this. So we've got to find alternative revenue sources. Yep. I hear you. So those are my thoughts. Noted. It'll be an interesting year. Yep. We're all here to help you. Thank you. I appreciate that. And congrats again on approaching your final year and the amazing impact you've had on our city. Well, I appreciate that. Very nice of you, Nick. All right. And with that, we are adjourned. All right.