Good morning, everyone. We'll go ahead and get started with the Tuesday, June 2nd meeting of the Transportation, Energy, and Utilities Committee. We'll go ahead and get started with introductions to my left. Good morning, Bill Delaney, Mayor's Office. Stephen Libby, Council Research. Carla Schell, Office of General Counsel. Edward Linsky, Council Auditor's Office. Ken Amara, City Council, District 1. President Gaffney, Junior, District 8. Delaney, District 3. Carl Luchy, City Councilman, District, or at-large, Group 4. Good morning, Tyrona Clark-Murray, District 9. And happy summer to all the teachers, because it has started. All right. Congratulations on another successful school year for all involved. Fairly light agenda today. I'll go through it real quick. Item 1 is 2026-0358. That has been deferred. 2026-379, we'll have a public hearing open and closed and then take action on that. I know Ms. Hunter, as well as planning and a representative of the church are in the audience. If we have questions on that one. Item 3, Council Member Mara's bill, 2026-0389. Item 4, 2026-0390, we'll amend and then take action on that. Items 5 and 6, 2026-0391 and 0393, we will take action on 5. Then we'll amend and take action on item 6. And item 7, 2026-0394, we'll take action on that. I will note, we actually have no items on second read. So our next meeting, we will either meet to further defer 2026 or 0358 or to take action on that one. With that, do I have any public comment cards? Okay. Our first public comment card is Cornell Oliver. And you have two minutes. Please come and speak to an item on the agenda. Yes. My name is Connor Oliver. Address is on file. What I'm going to speak to, as a summary, is to 2026-0390. That's the first issue. And the other bill is Mr. Ken Romero's bill dealing with mobility fees. In the direction of this city, I believe that infrastructure should be represented by the people of specific neighborhoods and community. And that's where the failures of consolidation has failed a lot of people. For example, the jurisdiction of those scooters, the parking lots, stay within the jurisdictions of downtown. Why can't we not bring back the old city limits? Why don't we bring back the power to the people? Because I'm going to tell you something. Underneath this system, it has not served black American communities very fairly. I'm giving you the evidence and the exhibits so that you can understand my point. We have mobility fees that are isolated to downtown. But we have road comming, traffic, countywide. But y'all fight for resources for your individual districts. And the ones that are foundational to this country are the ones that get left behind. We get the crumbs off the table. And as an indigenous black American, I am written in the Constitution. I feel like we need our own impact fee for all the damage that we went through. From 1965 dealing with immigration, we have not gotten the investments in human capital within my own community. Infrastructure. Will y'all take accountability for that? Thank you, Mr. Oliver. I have one other speaker card who does not wish to speak. Matthew Marshall and his comments were third-party water billing, lack of clear state and local regulations. Sir, you do wish to speak. Are you Matthew Marshall? Okay, you did check. I do not wish to speak. Come on up. You get two minutes. And ideally, it is on something that is on our agenda somewhere. I specifically asked the lady that I spoke to that it wasn't specifically on the agenda. And I do apologize. Okay, we'll give you your two minutes. We've got a pretty light agenda. Go ahead, sir. My concern is third-party billing by landlords specifically. And, sir, I'm sorry. Can you start with your name and address just so we have it on the record? Okay, my name is Matthew Marshall. I live at 754 Henley Court, Jacksonville, Florida. Thank you. And my concern is third-party billing by, like, conservatives and landlords. I'm currently – there's no real regulation based on this. It's really a vague area. And can you guys actually implement some laws that help the citizens of Jacksonville better have a, you know, way to get retribution for illegal billing? Sorry, it's not clear, but I didn't expect to be speaking so quickly. Because, like, right now, I received – a year ago, I received a water bill for almost $1,200 out of nowhere. And I still haven't got it resolved. And I went through every avenue I could. So that is why I'm here. So that's all I have to say. But it's just not fair. Okay, thank you, sir. With that, no more public comment. We do have a public hearing card when we get to that item. We'll start at the top of the agenda. And I'm sorry, I'd like to recognize Ms. Jacoby Pittman has joined us here this morning. Good morning, Jacoby. Item 1-2026-0358. That item is deferred. Item 2-2026-379. I'm going to open the public hearing. I do have one speaker card, Reverend Charlie Holt. Come on up, sir, if you wish to speak. Good morning, Charlie Holt. I'm the rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. And we're proposing to abandon a section of Ionic Avenue in Ortega. And the primary reason is we own both sides of that section of Ionic. And we're wanting to work on our master planning and make our campus safe, primarily for children and youth. And having roads running through a campus creates an unsafe environment. It's a, there's a precedent for closing roads on our campus. We've had the Oxford Avenue abandoned, as well as Doric Avenue, even before that. And so this, this is just part of that same master planning for our campus. I'm available for questions, too. Thank you, sir. I'm going to close the public hearing. Can I get a motion on the bill? I got a motion, second on the bill. Council Member Mario, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Reverend Holt. Reverend Holt, would you please come back to, through the chair to Reverend Holt. There are a couple of adjacent businesses next to the school. How will this closing impact them? They have, you're talking about Ortega Village? Yeah. And their primary access for Ortega Village is through Corinthian. Correct. And we really do not want business traffic going through the church and school campus. So the question is, they're not going to be impacted through the chair? Correct. Okay. The school and the adjacent business, I mean, they've been there forever and a day, so they've kind of coexisted. The traffic has been ongoing. I presume that, based on your earlier remarks through the chair, that there's going to be some work done to expand the campus and justifies the needs for this road closing. That's correct. We have a multi-phase master plan that we're working on, and this gives us the flexibility to have that canvas to be able to create buildings that are more adjacent to our existing buildings so that we don't have pedestrian traffic having to cross a vehicular traffic road in order to get to various buildings on our campus. And trying to keep cars and people separate from one another is the main goal here. But we do want to maintain the look and feel of the neighborhood. We are part of the historic nature of the neighborhood and 100-year-old church. So everything that we do is in keeping with the heart of that. Ms. Pittman, you're recognized. Good morning, and thank you for being here. I just wanted to confirm regarding a safety issue as well, if you can talk just a little bit more about that and what type of support that you have from the community if this master plan is implemented. Yes, we are a campus that has active youth program and a campus that has an elementary school on our campus. And so a prior example is the Oxford Avenue abandonment that basically unified the school and the church buildings so that there could be green space instead of a road going through. We have the same situation with our youth center and our existing buildings and then the desire to bring more supporting children's and youth buildings and structures closer to the adult programming space. And so we have the support of our, you know, the school, the church, and the families to do this. And I just want to, what phase of this, of your master plan, is this the last part or the first part? Where are you all in the completion of your master plan? We are in early stages of phase one. Okay. What we're contemplating at the moment will not actually change Ionic Road. So that would be a future phase. The decision of the city on whether we have the right to, you know, the right to that abandonment will help us in planning those second and third phases. But right now we don't have the ability to plan. Got it. Okay. So it would definitely help in terms of continuity of both sides of the property and align with the bigger vision that you all and your members would like to do. That's correct. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Council Member Carly-Gee. Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just wanted to say that I received a text from, well, I got a call from former Council Member DeFore yesterday and I couldn't take the call because I was on another call. And so she sent me a text and said that she knew that we would be concerned about neighborhood support and so forth. And the neighborhood was fully supportive. There was one person that was not for a particular reason and I knew what that reason was. And it really wasn't, as far as I can tell, it was more for another reason than the actual reason. I've watched this church, by the way, because I had some family that was a member of the church there. I've watched them grow and so I'm a little familiar with this and I think it's going to be a good move for the church and I fully support it. But when Council Member DeFore called me, you know, she just wanted me to know what the feeling was in the neighborhood because her being a district council person, she knew that we would be sensitive to, want to know what that might, temperature might be there. And we all, whether we always agreed with Council Member DeFore, we never ever had any reason to doubt her honesty and her integrity. And so I appreciated what she communicated to me yesterday. And so I fully support this 100%. And St. Mark's has been, that church has been like, it's an iconic church in this community, particularly on that part of town. And the family, our family, that was actually my mother's late husband, Major McCrate, his family was members there. And so at any rate, it's been a wonderful contributor to Jacksonville. I appreciate the minister being here today. I just want to let my colleagues know on the council what I had heard from our former colleague, Council Member DeFore. Thank you. Thank you. And I fully plan on supporting this as well. I did want to, since it's on the agenda, note that the Planning Development Department discourages the closure due to its location within the boundaries of Old Ortea National Register Historical District. But my assumption is that if this was in any other part of town that was not a historic district, we would not have that there. And again, it sounds like we have the community support. This is going to help the church grow and expand. So I will be supporting this as well. I have no one in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays. You're on it. By our actions, we have passed 2026-0379. Thank you, Reverend, for joining us this morning. Item 3, 2026-0389. 2026-0389. Can I get a motion? I've got a motion second. Council Member Marr, do you want to speak to your bill? No, sir. I have no in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays. Zero nays. By our actions, we have passed 2026-0389. Item 4, 2026-0390. Can I get a motion on the amendment? I've got a motion second on the amendment. Mr. Linsky, please explain it to us. Thank you, Chair, to the committee. The amendment before you today is technical in nature and just attaches revised CIP sheets and then also corrects Scrivener's items within the bill. Thank you. All those in favor of the amendment, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, say nay. Amendment passes. Guy motion second on the bill as amended. Known in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays. Zero nays. By our actions, we have passed 2026-0390. And for those in the audience who are watching, I did want to point out every bill we're taking up until the end of the agenda has already gone through at least one other committee and has been a unanimous vote. So that is why there's been limited discussion on these here today. Item 5, 2026-0391. Got a motion second on the bill. Known in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays. Zero nays. By our actions, we have passed 2026-0391. Item 6, 2026-393. Got a motion and a second on the amendment. On the amendment, Mr. Linsky, please explain it. Through the chair to the committee, the amendment attaches the, amended contract agreement that expresses the increase in the amount that's going to be delivered to the city. This just checks the box for the municipal code. Thank you, Mr. Linsky. All those in favor of the amendment, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed to say nay. Amendment passes. Got a motion and a second on the bill. As amended. Known in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays. Zero nays. By our actions, we have passed 2026-393. Item 7, 2026-394. Got a motion and a second on the bill. Known in the queue. Open the ballot. Record your vote. Six yays. Zero nays. By our actions, we have passed 2026-0394. No other items on the agenda. Nothing on second read. Your motivation to come here in two weeks is to get your end-of-year chairs gifts. If nothing else, anyone on the committee have anything? All right. We are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.