good morning everyone welcome to the monday april 20th 2026 neighborhoods meeting i call the meeting to order and we'll start with introductions to my left with mr delaney good morning bill delaney with the mayor's office brandon russell council research mary stephopoulos office of general council philip peterson councillor's office good morning michael boylan district six tomorrow city council district one randy white district 12. mike gay district two good morning chris miller at large group five ron salem group two at large all right thank you everyone uh we'll go ahead and uh open up for public comment i've got two speaker cards at the moment uh i'll start with belinda carter uh you'll be given three minutes uh i know you listed on here items that are not on the agenda but since you've gotten up come early this morning we'll let you go ahead and speak so miss carter you'll have three minutes don't see miss carter we'll go ahead and go to the next one mr carnell oliver come on up and you'll have three minutes give your name and address for the record and speak to the items you have on your card thank you sir uh yes my name is carnell address is on file i want to speak to a couple of different bills um i'm gonna have to wing it because i can't get my phone that right but there's a couple of economic development projects dealing with downtown urban core and what i want to do is i want to codify language within it that enforces the 1866 civil rights act right now we living underneath the black code still to this very day because we've been buried black americans have been buried underneath the 1964 act oppression economic development there are not a lot of key elements in the structure of this city that needs to be addressed and i think there may be needed for an ordinance on the books that puts the 1866 civil rights act at the forefront because as i'm looking at a number of these projects from 2026 0223 any amount of projects that are out there has money tied to it so that brings black americans to the table to take take in on some of these developments that are happening in our community i think it's about time that we have those discussions because we've been overlooked we've been deprived of our economic freedom and we have been bending the knee to other people to take advantage of the things that we establish in this country i've said this before black americans are america first outside of us this country wouldn't be what it is now and it's time that we reap the benefits of a country we built first and i want to say that with real sincerity this is an opportunity to justify a lot of wrongs that have been done to my lineage and i'm asking once again that y'all consider these particular economic bills and crime stop how do you plan on benefiting black american communities how could you codify this into the neighborhood bill of rights and i give my time all right thank you all right so we'll go to miss belinda carter your name and address for the record please good morning city council i am belinda francine carter at 3627 basal road representing pine forest last san marco community uh we have many issues that needs to be addressed in regards to our community but one at first hand i want to acknowledge is um the property located at 3616 freeman road is disguised as an airbnb but it's a halfway house which is owned by the state of florida from our understanding there are 10 people living in this house there is a possibility of another uh airbnb disguised in our community but it's also a halfway house we need further investigation to find out what's going on community residents have noticed ankle monitors on people who live in that house there is approximately 10 people living in this house how did it get there number one number two there's constant police activity uh people running through in and out of the community cut up with blood ambulance police it's just been a disarray of things going on since that was put in the community they have been lurking or walking around in the community it's a neighborhood that we're accustomed to not even having our doors locked we don't have locks on our mailboxes because that's something we never had to endure please understand this is a neighborhood from world war ii black veterans since 1950 and we're not getting the just that we so deserve as far as living in a peaceful and harmonious environment property values are being decreased due to a halfway house we also have to consider um that our community is one way in and one way out we concern with our property being devalued because of a halfway house we have elderlies from world war ii veterans so they're 95 up until 100 and something still living in this community they deserve better and so do we we we are descendants of these world war ii veterans additionally we have multiple issues such as jea facility that has been thrust upon us for many many years with loud noises people unable to sleep at night we have several of my neighbors that have had strokes and for the record i am a clinician my specialty is community health and i have a master's degree in nursing that's a sick community my husband for example vietnam veteran he's been doing well now he needs a pacemaker or has been inserted we have problems with septic tanks that need to be addressed we can't even get garbage cans in our community but we've been paying taxes since 1950 we have water runoff from the jea facility miss carter your your time's up so okay but i i do uh miss clark murray which i want to recognize is here now uh so she she wants to speak with you in the green room next door right here thank thank you for coming down thank you our next speaker uh is john jay nooney you'll get three minutes sir and please speak to items on the agenda hello i am john philanthropic jelly roll good boy resiliency nooney auto trace cinco cities bascom road jacksonville florida uh three two two one six i'm in city council district four caracos he pack three rosemary weselowski raymond day school board district three cindy pearson twenty twenty five zero eight six seven charter school public school field trip first responder park on potsberg creek it's a true fine twenty twenty five zero zero one nine i'll be it uh going on agenda items one two number eleven twenty twenty six zero two two two how many acreage in perpetuity number twelve twenty twenty six zero two two three that's uh dia you know downtown includes alcohol dia downtown includes anglers now uh where's the urban core cpac vote on this you know at that urban core cpac meeting they wanted to make it to city wide so uh is this an emergency may want to defer it maybe there's someone here from uh the urban core cpac that'll be speaking on it but here's the big one number 18 gosh you know uh twenty twenty six zero two three seven that's down to a minute 48 but we're going to be uh uh approving certain revisions to the city of jacksonville comprehensive emergency management plan you know originally adopted by resolutions we're going back to 2004 to 277a and you know this is florida statute stuff chapter 674 ordinance code provided by oversight by jfrd you know this is fema stuff you know 2024 0034 you know what and you know i'm next to a fema house you know i'll always remember uh steve widder then we had todd smith and we had andre ayub now we have no array and you know uh the the thing about this one you know this is an opportunity you want to talk about training and everything else my gosh you know it's teed it right up for us and uh let me just get back to uh you know oed the office of economic development wendy khan cip you know 2025 0867 you know that was uh that joint meeting with the duval county public schools in the city of jacksonville you know what an opportunity you know to partner with all these agencies so yeah you've got first responder jea jta jfrd park on potsburg creek you know i'm just down to 25 seconds but you know what that legislation it's only in neighborhoods rules it's not in finance teu and waterways i mean this is big massive stuff and right here strike project and insert plan the plan is tourism and to tell the world visit first responder park on potsburg creek thank you for listening thank you sir uh i've got a couple more cards here the next speaker be frank marine if you come on down and uh please address uh speak to an item that we have on the agenda and give your name and address or say it's on your address is on file good morning my name is frank marine i reside at 3950 o'reilly drive west uh three two two ten um i've been living there for 30 years now and the um eight months ago they planted 22 trees um this is the main thing that i wanted to find out about they planted 22 three trees uh we just saw the markers put down for them to do whatever we thought it was the laying pipe but they brought 22 trees we have a very nice lake across the street from my home i don't have a pretty good view but i have several neighbors that do but i was just curious as to why they planted trees there and we had not uh required any i've been trying to uh get humps or bumps put in the street for the last two years and uh the problem one of my neighbors said with the lighting that they had in the area but uh the thing about the trees is uh four years ago i cut down a sycamore tree because it had uh one thing my number my neighbors were complaining about the large leaves at the sycamore tree and they they shed three maybe four times a year these trees drop big leaves plate-sized leaves anyway um that tree down because of the problem and just recently one of my other neighbors cut the sycamore tree down they planted 10 of the 22 trees that i'm talking about across from our home uh at this lake on o'reilly i just would like to know why this this tree also has a bug and it's not a bug it's a it's a caterpillar and it's called the sycamore caterpillar and this caterpillar uh they're everywhere uh they're attaching to everything it's a problem and i know these trees are young now and they're going to get larger and it's going to be more of a problem i don't know what to do about it uh somebody can direct me and uh i'm sorry anyway that's uh that's my problem all right thank you sir uh miss sickler with public works can you uh get with him and see see what kind of direction help you can give him as well thank you so much all right next uh uh speaker uh if i pronounce your name wrong i apologize uh charla uh that vestlin come on down and you'll be given uh three minutes to speak i see uh some of your comment here is not really what we have on the agenda uh but you you do uh well i apologize i see now you see you do not i didn't want to speak but i'll just say that um uh we would name an address for the record oh yes charla valeski 1311 campbell avenue and um i'm in an art center and they spend a lot of money just to fix it up and we have a problem with homeless people defecating not just by our building but on our actual building um i realize there are toilets during the day a salt spocker but there are no toilets at night so something to consider would be a restroom for the community at night and that's all i have to say thank you all right thank you for coming down so we have no more speaker cards we'll go ahead to our agenda our next uh item will be a ada presentation by miss teresa eichner good morning teresa eichner jacksonville city council um through the chair to the committee i just wanted to briefly give you guys a quick update back in february the administration held a um teams call with about 150 people or so across every department in the city we're giving an update that our city website needed to be ada compliant and all the documents attached to all of those pages on our website needed to be ada compliant and since then we've painstakingly looked at all of those pages and all of those documents we've been making lots of changes to our website i'm here today to talk a little bit about two sides of our website one which we maintain manually that we update your district pages and several others special committees and some things that you ask us to post to those pages those are all being updated now you should see lots of changes to those pages we've maintained five years worth of information going backwards they're being archived in areas within each of those special committees and in addition to that we have legislative gateway which are documents required by code since we're the official record keeper of the county and those are all maintained inside legislative services division those are all legislation exhibits attached to legislation on file documents all of those things anything that you would find again in legislative services inside that legislative gateway that side of our website is going to come down off of the internet so that we can find a way to bring those into compliance and then bring it back up so i'm here today to kind of let you know as well as members of the public that there will be a way for them to request those documents for the time being while those are down agendas and minutes will be available on our site but pieces of legislation and exhibits attached to those we will have to be requested in this time and so um internally we have a mechanism for that to be available for staff um there will be a login that's required i will be circulating training material and the information for everyone to be um how to access that um but during this time we'll ask everybody for a little bit of patience i do have a very small staff so we will try to get back to everybody as quickly as possible um but they will be have to records request those pieces of legislation and so i'll open it up for questions um if there are any right i don't see any any speakers in the queue i appreciate you coming down and giving us the update all right so we'll go ahead into our agenda uh like to recognize council member peluso joining us uh with that we'll go ahead and go to item number 12 and take that that one up first and then we'll go to item number 17 and then take up uh mr peluso's other uh bill so item number 12 2026 0223 can i get a motion i've got a motion and a second on the bill um mr peluso peluso you want to kind of give us an overview thank you chair uh and i appreciate you moving my bill up um basically when we did the the 3am uh uh extension for downtown there were two amendments one of which i believe came out of this committee another amendment came out of the rules committee and i think we moved to the one amendment that did not include the brooklyn neighborhood um the brooklyn neighborhood uh uh should be included in this the downtown investment authority board um concurred with it the sponsor of the bill concurred with it he wasn't here the evening uh that we voted on it and to my own ignorance i didn't realize that the amendment that we moved did not have brooklyn in it um and i'll tell you why it's important there's the brooklyn neighborhood uh is not one that has a lot of late night establishments to begin with nor do i believe that it will so i think the main purpose of the bill was to make sure we had um bay street kind of becoming this this late night entertainment area um and so that main purpose was achieved and that's great that we're doing that i think that's a wise thing but there is one long-standing establishment in the brooklyn community that is a late night establishment it's a nightclub it's called in cahoots and the owner of in cahoots uh she came to me and she was the main proponent for hey you know if we've been i've been a small business owner for for decades now and and it just seems like new business owners downtown are kind of requesting this 3 a.m extension what why wouldn't we get it as well um the brooklyn neighborhood is a part of the downtown investment authority overlay um if you go on the downtown jacksonville website and cahoots you know pops up um so so the extension is really to make sure that we are helping a small business owner who's been doing this for many many years has been putting her time energy and and uh livelihood on the line for a few decades working in this business and so it was really hard for me to to push back on that um i have constituents who don't always ask a ton and especially in the brooklyn area and so it just kind of made perfect sense especially once we saw downtown investment authority and the sponsor get on board with it and so i'm just asking you guys if we can kind of correct that um we want to make sure that that establishments that have been doing the good work in these communities um you know continue to be able to do so uh this is where it ends though i'll tell you that this is not going to riverside i think myself and council member um miller uh appreciate that probably a lot i think we know that neighbors would be very upset if 3am went well beyond the scope of the downtown area because of how many single-family homes and residences there are um but brooklyn is not that this where this property is and where most of the bars are in brooklyn or soon-to-be bars they're all pretty embedded in more you know commercial areas so places that don't have uh residents right next door and in cahoots is among them so just asking for for for this bill to be approved i don't know if stacy's in the audience um i'm assuming that last late last night they they worked until late um i'll make sure she's here for the next committee thank you all right thank you so let me go to the speakers in the queue dr salem thank you chair through the chair to uh miss mary or somebody over there the downtown part we passed has that been implemented and how long has that been in place uh to through the chair to council member salem mr reingold is here and i think he's has he worked on both pieces of legislation the best one to address that thank you thank you very much through the chair to council member salem so yes the downtown uh bill 2026-63 which was the initial ordinance uh was amended and approved uh and february 24th mayor signed it and is it is it in place and how long has it been in place do we know the mayor did sign that bill uh about a week or so later so it's been in place since then so at some point the beginning of march six weeks or so okay i i had great concerns about going from 2 a.m to 3 a.m i i grew up in an environment where nothing good happens after midnight as i said at that time but understanding we've got ubers and all sorts of other ways for people to get home i know councilman areas wanted to go to 5 a.m at that time but compromised with 3 a.m to try to gain some experience with a 3 a.m and to see how it worked before we expanded it in my mind six weeks is not enough time to see how this is working uh talking to jso and others that are impacted by this i i would rather wait a period of time before we expand it uh in terms of geographical area and or time wise so um i will not be voting for this thank you all right thank you let's go to councilmember clark murray thank you chair um to the chair to mr lyangold the process i know we talked a lot about the process for the initial bill not the initial bill but the bill that is very similar to this one what is there any need to contact the those who live in the multiple apartment complexes that are in this area in the brooklyn area the council member talked about the residential aspects of riverside which are very very true you have more single family homes there in this particular area you have more mdr multiple multiple family homes so what what would be the procedure if we needed to contact them or if is if it's needed or necessary through the chair to councilman clark murray so there was no requirement that uh there be any particular group or residential group uh notified this traveled under the traditional ordinance code process uh for ordinance code changes uh so in that regards uh to my knowledge no additional notice was provided nor required all right thank you for that um i'm gonna say through the chair to mr ryan gold as well i'm looking in the exhibits for the bill i see where there is a map that outlines the current um areas that have the extended hours for um alcohol sales but i do not see a map for exactly what's going to what area in brooklyn is going to be covered is it all of brooklyn is it a portion of brooklyn i don't see a map um corresponds to the bill is there going to be a map later uh through the chair to councilman clark murray the map is actually embedded in the ordinance itself so if you go to page uh two of the ordinance you will see the map which includes the entire brooklyn area as part of um i'm sorry i'm seeing your screen yeah so that's actually the map that was contained in 2026-63 so uh through the chair to uh councilman clark murray if you click on the bill itself as opposed to the amend the exhibit you will see it and i'm happy to hand you a copy of it thank you i will click on that and maybe i do the chair actually to the chair is there anyone else in the queue while i get a chance to look at the map that's in the bill go to the next speaker uh so let's go ahead to uh councilmember peluso right thank you thank you chair and i just kind of want to reiterate that you know when when the business owner kind of approached me um it was while we were in the midst of the debate under the last uh bill they are this business is right behind the new hub um right behind the the whiskey and bourbon distillery that's right there and then there's there's there's a whole bunch of um light industrial and commercial properties and soon to be the new headquarters for jso so i fully don't expect this to be some kind of raucous late night uh debaucherous group um i just don't and they haven't been in the in the past you know 40 years that they've been in existence in that space so so it's just a matter of you know i i trust what's been there we've seen that up until 2 a.m they've been able to function quite well there's been no major activities or or or you know criminal intent or anything like that um and yeah i fully expect with the amount of jso vehicles in the area that uh that we're not going to see some sort of you know degrading of the community or the neighborhood not to mention all the housing that is there is all pretty much mixed use so it's mixed use medium density as you you just mentioned councilwoman um and so i i think this is i mean it's an urban environment it's it's meant to be one that's why it's a part of the downtown overlay um and so we we kind of expect to see that mix of um you know office retail and housing and to me this is you know just a natural fit um and when i had the business owner tell me you know this this is an embarrassment to me i i expected that this was going to happen and now now it it looks it looks bad upon me because i i felt like this was something that that was going to move forward and you know this this she just didn't understand the process right she didn't understand what had happened on council night and and that really spoke to me i it's really hard for me to look at a business owner who's put in so much time and effort into doing something um especially a late night establishment and i i i told her that i would do this bill immediately um to try to make it right and so i would i would just kind of appreciate that you you recognize that as well and again i'll make sure she's at the next committee meeting all right thank you murray did you want to follow up thank you chair i do see the map and i do see where the boundaries are in regards to this um additional area for the entertainment and the extension of the um of liquor sales so um through the chair to council member peluso thank you so much for bringing this bill i do recall where that particular business owner did come and share her concerns and i will be supporting your bill today thank you chair all right thank you let me go to colonel miller thank you mr chair um i will be supporting this bill but i'll be watching that area closely and listening to the people in that area closely because whereas this may only affect one business right now which as was stated is in a commercial area uh i just pulled it up again on on my map uh search here just to confirm that um given we have a boundary now that's included it could include one in the future that is is closer to a residential area and um and i know that could maybe support the reason for not supporting this request um but where we are right now and how this is the area is laid out um and it's a one hour change is that correct one hour change i'm willing to support this but as i said i will be willing to bring this back and revisit it if there is a substantial residential concern with noise or other matters in the future um so i just want folks to know that as well on the record even though i'll be supporting this now um i'll i'll be paying attention to what the folks in the area are saying thank you mr chair all right thank you no other speakers in the queue i just want to weigh in on this i originally uh did not support this bill and and looking at it uh i still feel like uh it's something that really is not needed uh we're looking at the right right now and but we're not looking at the future and that's what's concerned with me is the future and to say that this won't go into another area that's we we can't say that you know that there's there's that possibility that's before us so uh with it as it is i i'll stay consistent and will not be supporting this so with that we'll open the ballots and record your vote five yays two nays all right by your action you've approved 20 26 0 2 2 3 the next item we'll go to be item number 17 20 26 0 2 3 1 okay get a motion on the bill i've got a motion a second on the bill i don't see any speakers in the queue let's open a ballot record your vote seven yays zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0 2 3 1 all right thank you council member peluso for being here this morning all right that takes us back to the beginning of our agenda item number one 20 24 0 9 6 6 is deferred deferred at the request of council president carico item number two 20 25 0 3 6 1 is deferred at the request of council member white item number three 20 26 0 1 8 5 can i get a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill there's no speakers in the queue open the ballot record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0 1 8 5 that takes us to item number 4 20 26 0 1 8 7 can i get a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill council member clark murray recognized thank you chair i simply want to be added as a co-sponsor for the bill thank you all right thank you colonel miller thank you mr chair this will be quick um i just want to say i've i've known this program and uh it's leaders for for many years um great programs great leadership and um anything anything that is done to support um this population of important uh people in our community i'm happy to support and i thank council member um amaro for doing this thank you all right no other speakers in the queue open the ballot record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0 1 8 7 item number 5 20 26 0 2 1 4 get a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill those speakers in the queue open the ballot record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action you approve 20 26 0 2 1 4 item number 6 20 26 0 2 1 5 get a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill those speakers in the queue open the ballot record your vote oh let me hold up council member morrow thank you mr chair uh is will in the audience i don't see i see mr fuller and richard out of curiosity through the chair i i just wanted to know how much how far does this go for uh street cleaning uh sweeping trash that's become the bane of of our communities uh complaints uh driving uh some of these uh arterial roadways and there's trash every way through the neighborhoods richard reichert administrative services we partnered with public works on this i'll let uh director sickler speak on that good morning nina sickler public works so this uh this money that's coming from the solid waste uh we really appreciate the partnership this will give us an additional 70 plus segments and just about that many miles in terms of street sweeping eight cycles uh for this amount of money it includes several roads many roads that were not included in the original list that are curb and gutter and so um i think it's going to have a significant impact right thank you so i've got a motion and a second on the bill open a ballot record your vote seven yes zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0215 item number seven 20 26 0216 and a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill those speakers in the queue open a ballot record your vote seven yes zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0216 item number eight 20 26 0217 get a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill councilmember bowlin you recognize thank you mr chair mr clement if you wouldn't mind coming down uh through the chair to mr clement did you speak to uh does jso require any sort of reporting details of the program number of participants any outcomes i'm just curious to know is there a reporting process and what does it entail good morning bill clement jacksonville sheriff's office for the chair to councilman bowlin uh yes there is a reporting requirement there's a contract that first codes crime stoppers will have to sign and there's a uh there's a two reports that are due within one year i'm thank you uh additional questions through the chair again some details as to what that report entails so the first course crime stoppers will have to report on what they spent the money on and this is going to be used for operational expenses and gun bounty tips all right let's go to council member clark murray thank you chair i just want to be added as a co-sponsor all right thank you let's go to council member morrow thank you to miss uh through the chair to mr clement what's the size of the total budget for crime stoppers and and this fits where to the charity councilman morrow i'll have to get you that information i don't have crime stoppers budget that they're not a jso organization but i can i can reach out and get that for you so in effect you're just supporting this this is a vehicle to support the work they do and uh eliciting um tips and things of that nature through the chair yes that's correct historically the sheriff has supported crime stoppers using the special law enforcement trust fund on an annual basis over the past several years we have diverted most of the funding to the homeward bound program so there was some available this year to contribute towards crime stoppers all right thank you let's go to colonel miller thank you mr chair just like to be added as a co-sponsor thank you all right no other speakers in the queue please add me as a co-sponsor and oh okay anybody else all right right thank you so let's open the ballot record your vote seven yays zero nays by your action you've approved 2026 0217 item number nine 2026 0218 can i get a motion on amendment i've got a motion and a second on the amendment any discussion on the amendment mr peterson please explain it through the chair to the committee the amendment will place a revised redevelopment agreement on file to correct the minimum construction cost required of this project reflect the acquisition cost of the parcel within the total development cost that's a factor in determining what they qualify for and then also update various code section references throughout the agreement all right any discussion on the amendment mr clark murray thank you chair through the chair to mr peterson so i think what you said may help me with understanding a portion of this so the part that i'm curious about has to do with the fact that a certain amount can be forgiven and then there's a certain amount that will be repaid with with interest how i i think you touched on it just a moment ago but how does dia how do they determine what the repayment amount is through the chair to councilman clark murray so the downtown preservation revitalization and revitalization program has a set of policies that were adopted by council proposed by the dia my recollection is in 2022 that program identifies the percent of funding that can qualify for various components in bringing a property back into i guess today's world if you will for a historic property there are three components of that dprp program the first is historic preservation which is a forgivable component the second is code compliance because historically older properties are not up to code up to code that part is forgivable and then the third is what is called the deferred deferred principal loan component which that is not forgivable but all three of those play together as it relates to the total percentage of funding that they would qualify for in relation to the total construction cost to bring that property back into compliance that third element the deferred principal loan the policies allow for a 10-year repayment they cannot pay it off early and it's identified the interest rate is whatever the treasury yield rate is at the time of contract execution so that's a varying component but three to four percent usually is what that falls into okay thank you for the explanation one last question well i can't say one last question but another question so the the roi is that determined by or influenced by what they qualify for as far as repaying or being forgiven is that determined by any of those factors that you just mentioned through the chair to councilman clark murray um the amount that is forgiven um does play into the roi because we account for the dollars that come back to the city for the one uh the one component that is a loan and the interest that is received by the city because ultimately we receive the full amount that we give to them plus the interest that does factor into the roi however this program has an roi less than one because almost never will you be able to bring a historic property into compliance under historic preservation guidelines due to the amount of money that is required to be invested into a type property like that but the the program does require an roi to be greater than point five zero thank you for that thank you chair thank thank you let me go to uh councilmember morrow thank you mr chair is there someone from dia i had a question that's a little beyond the scope if you can give me a little leeway um uh good morning alan debalt dia staff alan um through the chair to alan just a quick question that's kind of a little beyond the scope of the amendment but uh just for my edification um this project what's the timeline for starting and completion uh through the chair to councilman amara um the construction will must commence within six months of if if approved here at city council and then they have 18 months to uh finish with the construction right thank you let me go to uh dr salem thank you chair uh mr peterson mentioned what i wanted to say right at the very end of his comments for projects such as this we look for an roi of 0.5 or above we traditionally look at one but for these types of projects 0.5 is the standard and this one is above 0.5 thank you okay right now we're on the on the amendment okay so let's go ahead and uh all in favor of the amendment say yay yay any opposed likewise none the amendment carries can i get a motion and second on the bill as amended all right i've got a motion and a second on the bill as amended colonel miller thank you mr chair through the chair to mr peterson um had we already voted on this um financial structure previously uh to include the 80 percent possible forgivable part of of the funding had we already approved that that structure that financial structure through the charity councilman miller uh the council as a whole approved this program which does include that for that's forgivable elements and then the repayment elements and my recollection is in 2022 so prior to the first term council members arriving it is a program that is operated by dia if you wanted to make changes it would just be revising the terms of this program thank you and through the chair uh mr peterson again but on this specific project uh this sounds familiar and i just i just was trying to remember had we already approved the structure and there was just an amendment to it through the chair to councilman miller this is a totally new project however it is adjacent you might recall the juliet balcony discussion that we had probably within the last six months this property is directly adjacent to that program and one of the contractors i believe is also performing the work at juliet balcony so it is a very similar structure similar size some more dollar amount um one thing i will point out it's noted on your agenda is this normally you would see the dia commitment tracking sheet distributed as it relates to these projects however these two are being funded out of the north bank cra dollars were budgeted in the current year council requested dia to go and try to find funding to fund this program moving forward so we don't have that sheet because there's no future general fund commitment for these projects okay that's helpful thank you very much thank you mr chair all right thank you let's go to councilmember boland thank you mr chair mr default would you mind coming forward um look i have some real angst with this one and the next to be honest with you sixty per sixty four percent of the cost we are absorbing sixty four percent of the construction cost but first before you speak to that with all due respect this building is pretty unremarkable could you help me understand why you know i would certainly not characterize it as iconic but so why does it fall under the ddrb component through the chair to councilman boylan one of the components of the dprp is a requirement that it get landmarked through the historic preservation section and so that's kind of the litmus test for us as to whether they feel it's worthy of being landmarked and in this case as well as the building uh will be under 2 2 2 19 we're both landmarked or in the process of and approved by council they've got they've got the stamp in other words i'm sorry they've got the stamp yes here uh again uh the investment of you know that we're covering two-thirds of the cost of probably more or less than i suspect it's going to be more than they anticipate but uh that seems awfully high both of this one and the next we're looking at why not the city just acquired and i i'm just i'm a little and i get this is we're not using we're using CRA dollars i i get that yes sir uh but i i just have a hard time with this one and the next one when we're looking at a major investment on the part of the city just because they can't do it on their own so i'm i don't think i can be supporting this today thank you so i have no other speakers in the queue um i appreciate everyone's comments and just looking at this for myself just uh the forgivable part that's just i got a lot of uh a lot of reservation with that and it's just not i feel like it's in the best interest of the city uh council member miller you recognize i'm sorry for the late uh cue request mr chair but i but i just to that point the way this is written uh through the chair i guess to mr peterson again can be forgiven can someone explain um that part can be forgiven through the chair to council member miller and the committee so if the developer meets all of the requirements of them in the contract the two components that are roughly two-thirds so maybe a little bit more of the funding is forgiven over a five-year time period so if they stay in compliance with the agreement it's forgiven 20 each year over that five-year time period so that can be as if they do their part it will be forgiven but if they for whatever reason fall out of compliance that becomes owed to the city whatever unamortized portion remains uh mr peterson with the un let me go ahead to council member morrow thank you mr chair to mr peterson that twenty percent is that how we got to the dollar amount because the the the the raw numbers by themselves is what is eye glearing eye opening if you will but that that percentage ratio that you mentioned over an extended period of time is that how we got to um on this particular bill 1.2 of the 1.6 through the chair to council member morrow so um two two answers to your question the 20 percent forgiveness by year over a five-year time period is in the dprp policies so a developer who comes to the dia is aware that that is how the program functions as to how the dollar amounts are arrived at they have to submit a very very detailed construction budget to the dia of what is necessary to bring the property up to code into compliance with historic preservation standards dia then applies the policies in reviewing the construction budget as it relates to the total budget and there are percentages that have to be met to qualify and the city will only reimburse up to certain percentages based on the type of work that is being done and so based on the back and forth that dia does with the developer which my understanding is this one has gone on for six plus months um that's how they arrive at the dollar amounts based on what they submit and what they qualify for right so let's go ahead and open a balance record your vote three a's four nays okay by your action this bill has failed twenty twenty six zero two one eight that's next item number ten twenty twenty six zero two one nine can get a motion on amendment can get a second all right i've got a motion second on the amendment those speakers in the queue all in favor of the amendment say aye aye any opposed likewise none the amendment carries can get a motion of the bill as amended i've got a motion a second on the bill as amended those speakers in the queue open the ballot and record your vote three a's four nays all right by your by your action you have denied bill twenty twenty six zero two one nine item number eleven twenty twenty six zero two two two can i go i've got a motion a second on the bill those speakers in the queue open the ballot record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action you've approved twenty twenty six zero two two two well we've already taken action on item number thirteen twenty twenty six zero two two i'm sorry mr chair i did have a question for ms sickler i'm fine with the vote on it i just need some clarification ms sickler if you wouldn't mind coming down on two on zero two two two i just i mean obviously there's multi-family development around it are we just talking about the street itself mr fuller maybe you want to speak to it i just didn't understand what this i mean it seems like a harmless enough bill but what's the impetus for it are you trying to protect the street or good morning eric fuller city of jacksonville administrative services the purpose of this legislation is to allow the placement of a restrictive covenant restricting the use of groundwater and portions of the right-of-way of bishopgate lane and lomax street so that they can achieve regulatory closure through the florida department of environmental protection the adjacent properties on either side of bishopgate are also going to be entering into a restrictive covenant the purpose of it is to achieve regulatory closure they remediated the site by removing over 15 000 tons of contaminated soil so all the soils are gone but there are some residual groundwater impacts that was my concern are the neighbors the people that residents of both of those buildings are they impacted by this or are they uh exposed to any some any concerns as a result of not because of the bill but because why you're doing what you're doing right through the chair of councilman boylan uh no there's not impacts uh that's the reason for the restriction so you couldn't put like a potable well for drinking water there and so that's you're basically capping the ground so that nothing can happen and all this is done through the oversight of the florida department of environmental protection they've been monitoring the groundwater for over five years the plume is stable and shrinking and um this is just allowing regulatory closure of the site it won't affect our use our ability to repair the road or anything like that thank you mr chair i appreciate your accommodating me on this i was just a little confused as the impetus for this all right thank you all all right this takes us to item number thirteen twenty twenty six zero two two four i've got a motion a second on the bill no speakers in the queue open the ballot record your vote seven yays zero nays by your action you've approved twenty twenty six zero two two four item number fourteen twenty twenty six zero two two five can get a motion on the bill i've got a i got a motion and a second on the bill miss council member clark murray recognized thank you chair is there anyone here to speak to this thank you while you're coming forward a couple of things first of all what is this the total cost from for removing all of those vehicles or is this just like a fund that you have just in case there are additional um vessels i said vehicles vessels that need to be removed and is the are the owners of the of the vessels going to be um somehow taxed or or charged a fee for this removal that that we're using city um taxpayer dollars to melissa long chief of the environmental quality division and through the chair to miss clark murray um the we did at we do have a bid that actually came in slightly less than this this is a grant that we apply for specifically for these four vessels uh that uh fish and wildlife uh will reimburse us the cost that we'll have um for that uh all that there are four vessels three of them the owners were identified followed through the derelict vessel process and they will not be able to register a car any kind of vehicle vessel in the state of florida if they do not pay the fine so that it's kind of like a lien they'll have to pay it back it will go to the state though it'll go to the fish and wildlife to reimburse the funds for this this grant the fourth one the owner was unable to be identified they uh they being uh fish and wildlife officers went through the process needed for that they put it in local papers um anywhere the person or if the i guess it's just local papers that they i'm not real familiar with it but they put it out there in case it is owned by somebody that they don't identify that their boat's about to be removed um so that one won't likely be repaid but the other three should be thank you for that thank you chair all right dr salem thank you chair through the chair seems like we did this in the ortega area a few years ago is my brain correct it's correct yes we've had a couple out of the ortega river okay do we have an inventory of vehicles such as this that are in our waterways at all um as if the process has been started there is a map that the florida fish and wildlife commission keeps and so we can look that up and you can find out where in the process they are that's the only map i'm familiar with can you give me some estimate of the number of vehicle uh vessels that are out there i i don't know uh captain super might have a better idea of that but i really i don't know i'm only made aware once the derelict vessel process is complete and these vessels are are seen above water or are these below water um there are a couple that uh have sunk to the bottom and they're sailboats so you can kind of see the mast at the top um the other two are on the two of them are two of them are sailboats and two of them are regular like speed boats fishing boats and those are on the banks so you can't see they're not completely um sunk i'd be interested if you could follow up with me i'm just curious to how many vehicle vehicles how many vessels we she said vehicles she's got me saying how many how many we have out there okay thank you yes all right everyone listen i've got a motion a second on the bill let's open the ballot record your vote 68 0 nice by your action you've approved 20 26 0 2 2 6 takes us to item number 16 20 26 0 2 2 7 at the request of council member diamond this will be deferred item number 17 we've already yes go ahead miss miss clara murray through the chair to the committee one thing i hope is that the introducer of the bill does not drag this bill out forever and ever and ever with whatever intent i'm not sure so that we can go ahead and move forward on it and that's pretty much what i want to say about it because i don't know what the impetus is it's a very simple bill yet it is a is a complicated matter so i would hope that the um introducer would not continue to drag the bill out with the intent of i don't know but thank you chair for allowing me just to say that thank you let me go to councilmember boyen thank you mr chair earlier last week when i saw this bill was coming up he sent an email to mr fopolis saying that in principle i supported the bill but i'm very much concerned of the fact that there's no clear delineation of what related expenses are and in my mind if we can't clearly delineate that this makes this a very dangerous bill in that respect again i support the idea uh i'd love to know if there's evidence as to why this there is even a need for this bill that's number one but number two specifically i think if we don't delineate what the related expenses are in detail then this could become a very uh huge obstruction to the health and well-being of the ladies in our community all right thank you as mentioned before this is deferred uh so item number 17 we've already taken action it takes item 18 20 26 0 2 3 7 okay motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill councilmember boland you recognized thank you mr chair and i apologize for being a little vocal today i want to invite miss rate mr ray down noah uh i really uh i don't know that we have an appreciation of the work that goes into uh putting together this comprehensive comprehensive emergency management plan i was in those no hopefully well recalls i was actively involved during my time on the ltro and this work back in 2017 when we put the plan through again so two things like if you just take a minute to talk about how comprehensive the work that you you do to to get this plan completed and then secondly what material differences are there in this updated plan thank you through the chair yes good morning uh through the chair um yeah so first i just like to i appreciate the uh vote of confidence there and recognizing our work the comprehensive emergency management plan is what we consider the base plan for all emergency management activities and operations within the city typically those are associated when there's a declared state of emergency sometimes there's more limited emergencies but typically the city will reorganize under the incident command system so therefore different departments agencies will take on a different role specifically to address those uh what have you emergency whatever the situation may be uh this this plan itself there's not a whole lot of latitude to make changes to it because we follow a standardized national model the national incident management system this plan itself the base plan we have 70 annexes to that and those are all the different types of emergency operations that occur such as sheltering search and rescue firefighting so those plans are more operational in nature this plan essentially is just the outline for the city how we respond to emergencies whether those are the large scale that i mentioned most often it's a hurricane that we're familiar with here that's our number one hazard the the winds and storm surge from hurricanes and every four years some of the updates that do take place are updates to demographic information updates to the frequency of natural hazards or technological hazards that we've observed so just points of data essentially some of the other things would be training requirements that we we ask anyone who's going to have a role in emergency operations especially from the management side we update those training recommendations just to make sure they're up to up to date with the most uh current recommendations from fema and state of florida uh councilman any additional no i i appreciate that through the chair uh i people you know it's kind of something that's subterranean until we need it yes sir and to know the work that you and others the jfrd and emergency management have done and the agencies jea the school system a variety of different entities a lot of uh and uh non-profit organizations are involved in this process i think uh as a council we i i i think it's great for us to be able to recognize the importance of this work how comprehensive it is and and thank you for your leadership on it thank you mr chair all right thank you no other speakers in the queue let's open a ballot record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0 2 3 7 takes us to item number 19 20 26 0 2 4 8 and a motion on the bill i've got a motion and a second on the bill no speakers in the queue open the ballot and record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0 2 4 8 item number 20 20 26 0 2 4 9 can i get a motion on amendment i've got a motion second on the amendment mr peterson to the chair of the committee the amendment will just attach a revised exhibit one to place the funds into a separate activity these dollars are proposed to carry over into next year's budget uh so in order to be able to track them easily we need to put them in a separate activity all right mr delaney you're recognized sorry we're still on the amendment i can talk on the bill on the amendment i'll wait thank you all right no other speakers on the amendment so all in favor of the amendment say aye aye any opposed likewise none the amendment carries get a motion on second on the bill is amended i've got a motion and a second and we'll go first to mr delaney thank you uh through the chair to the body i just want to clarify that this bill is not something that the administration asked for and we don't support it um if it's the will of this committee to put the money into jseb then we will explore how and uh if we can move the dollars forward uh but the reality is um you know we've started preliminarily looking at it and jseb is already robustly funded they already have a ton of work it's a major priority for the mayor is jseb and small business development um and we're not going to be able to commit to doing anything that especially if it might put any of our other crucial programs at risk thanks all right thank you council member bowling i promise this will be the last one uh as you recall a couple weeks ago uh when we approved uh 2026 0138 which is the categories within the most part the mpv the most powerful most vulnerable thank you persons category we moved one percent across the board into the micro grant program for next year uh that in the view of the psg and the psg council was at the expense of supporting the psg work number one i'm going to support this today because i recognize that i'll probably have supposed to get it done but i want to be on the record i wish councilmember freeman was here the introduction or introducer of the bill to affirm for the record his commitment to work with me and the administration increasing the funding for psgs next year so they can stay at seven hundred thousand dollars in terms of what they just distribute seven million i'm sorry thank you and the two hundred thousand dollars for the continuation of the micro grant program for the coming year that's all i need to say thank you sir all right let's go to dr salem thank you chair councilmember boylan kind of stole my thunder this has been a a project of council member freeman from way back i wish he was here he'll be i'm sure he'll be at finance he serves on that committee i'm going to support it today but want to hear from him on how all this is going to work we had a long discussion about this in committee of just a few weeks ago so i i i'm hopeful he's worked some things out thank you all right thank you let's go thank you mr chair i too will be supporting this because of how long councilmember freeman has been involved in this and i i think uh from the discussions we had previously out of his frustration um that the micro grant part of this program was going to be delayed another year because of uh i think what i understand is the staffing ability to handle um during this year deferring it for another year or into the next year um so um that funding definitely in the j seb arena can be used and uh i want to support the introducing council member on this one so i will be voting in favor of this thank you all right no other speakers in the queue i'd like to be added as a co-sponsor on this and i fully understand what director grant is uh faced with with uh the the the department and the group that uh he uh is working with and i fully trust him in his ability with his department to get this out as it's he sees it's it's the criticalness of the need and so there's no i feel like there's no better uh person department that can can orchestrate and administer this than the actual department that's working with the community in this uh so so before we go to a vote mr laney you're back in the queue again sir yeah again uh to the for the chair to the body again i want to make clear that moving the money here is not necessarily going to result in this money going forward and these dollars going out so uh measure expectations i just wanted to make that clear thanks all right thank you so with that i fully support this and uh let's open the ballot and record your vote seven yays zero nays by your action you've approved 2026 zero two four nine as amended that takes us to item number 21 it is on second reading the following items are on second reading 20 26 0 2 5 8 0 2 5 9 0 2 6 0 and that takes us to item number 24 20 26 0 2 6 1 get a motion on the emergency i've got a motion second on the emergency mr peterson yes sir through the chair to the committee the nature of the emergency is in order for the city to participate in this settlement agreement uh we have to send notification by may 4th so this is the last cycle be before being able to do so all right i have no speakers on the emergency all in favor of emergency say aye aye opposed likewise none the emergency carries get a motion a second on the bill as an emergency i've got a motion and a second on the bill as an emergency no speakers in the queue let's open a ballot record your vote seven yay zero nays by your action approved 20 26 0 2 6 1 item number 25 20 26 0 2 6 3 can i get a motion on emergency i've got a motion a second okay all right i've got a motion a second on the emergency mr peterson through the chair of the committee the nature of the emergency is the council member wishes to get these dollars available to the organization as soon as possible the event that is proposed to be funded happened this past weekend the council member had been working on this for some time but just due to other delays it wasn't able to get introduced prior to the event occurring all right those speakers on emergency all in favor of emergency say aye aye any opposed likewise none emergency carries and get a motion a second on the bill as amended on the amendment i've got most second on the amendment excuse me all right mr peterson that was about the amendment through the chair of the committee the amendment was amending the cip uh council member gaffney jr is proposing to take 25 000 out of a council district 8 traffic calming project and move it towards these so it's a reduction in the funding for that project so we'll attach a cip sheet and amend the cip as a result and then we also need to attach a revised exhibit 2 which is the term sheet and budget there was a formula error that basically had an incorrect amount shown on their budget schedule and so just need to get that corrected all right no speakers on the emergency all in favor of emergency say aye i mean the amendment say aye aye any opposed likewise none so the amendment carries now can i get a motion a second on the bill as amended all right so i've got i've got a motion and a second on the bill as an emergency as amended all no speakers in the queue open the ballot and record your vote seven yays zero nays by your action you've approved 20 26 0 2 6 3 so then item number 26 20 26 0 2 6 4 is on second and the following items are on second 0 2 6 5 0 2 6 7 0 2 8 6 and 0 2 8 7 and that takes us to the end of our agenda no final comments we are adjourned