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CC05-15-17MinLONGWOOD CITY COMMISSION Longwood City Commission Chambers 175 West Warren Avenue Longwood, Florida MINUTES May 15, 2017 6:00 P.M. Present: Mayor Joe Durso Deputy Mayor Brian D. Sackett Commissioner John C. Maingot Commissioner Ben Paris Commissioner Mark Weller Dan Langley, City Attorney Jon C. Williams, City Manager Michelle Longo, City Clerk Troy Hickson, Director of Public Safety David Dowda, Interim Police Chief Chris Kintner, Community Development Director Chris Capizzi, Leisure Services Director Lee Ricci, Human Resources Director Lisa Snead, Financial Services Director Richard Kornbluh, Division Manager Utilities 1. CALL TO ORDER. Mayor Durso called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. 2. OPENING INVOCATION. Elder Cynthia Jackson with Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church gave the invocation. 3. THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 4. COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS. Ms. Longo read the following announcement. A. Senior Matinee Movie will be held on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 1:30 p.m. until 3:30 p.m., Longwood City Hall (Chambers), 175 West Warren Avenue. This month's feature is La La Land 5. PROCLAMATIONS / RECOGNITIONS A. District #4 Presentation of the Business Person of the Month Award for May 2017 to Michael L. Dodane, PE, President of CC 05-15-17/1 MiGre Engineers, LLC, located at 1200 West State Road 434, Suite 301. Commissioner Weller read a brief biography on Mr. Michael L. Dodane and then presented him with the Business person of the Month Award for May 2017. Photographs were then taken. 6. BOARD APPOINTMENTS A. City Commission Nomination of resident to the Board of Trustees for the City of Longwood Police Officers' and Firefighters' Pension Trust Fund. Nomination was deferred to the next meeting. 7. PUBLIC INPUT A. Presentation: McDirmit, Davis & Company, LLC will be giving a presentation on the Annual Audit for the Fiscal Year Ended September 30, 2016. Kelly Legg with McDirmit, Davis & Company, LLC gave a presentation on the highlights of the audit. She noted the management letter states there are no current year recommendations which management needs to implement, and the City received the Certificate of Achievement for their 2015 audit report. She said the City maintained good controls, and there weren't any recommendations. Questions were asked and answered. B. Public Participation. Kathryn Townsend, Seminole County GOP said in December she was elected Chairman of the GOP, and we have not stopped since. She said we are growing and would like to see all the Commissioners come to our meetings. She said your Mayor comes from time to time, and Commissioner Paris is very active with the Young Republicans. She said we meet on the third Thursday of each month and Senator David Simmons will be there to give our legislative update on what is going on in Tallahassee; and our new Sheriff, Dennis Lemma will be there also to give us an overview of the Sheriff's office. She said the Seminole County GOP is now a certified third party voter registration organization. She said the statutes changed a few years ago, and you cannot just put up a table and start registering people. You have to be certified and on record with Tallahassee. She said we will be at a lot of events in Longwood and throughout the County with our table to register all parties and training people as we move forward to our victory next year in 2018. She said locally, we have had a lot of CC 05-15-17/2 separation and division between neighbors and families, but we are all about the unity of our party and our people. She said we are about moving forward and working together to keep Seminole County and Florida "red" in 2018. She asked for everyone's support to do that. Rex Anderson, Longwood said he had a packet to pass out. He said the packet he passed out contains a little history of what the voters of this City have acted on as far as the Public Safety Director position. He said he noticed that one of the requests in the budget is that this position is still there. He stated he thought this position was on a trial basis and would be over by now. He said the voters, by 84%, voted to eliminate that position, then the City re -instituted that position. He said that is beyond him as far as cost goes. He has not seen any cost savings, which what it was intended to do. He asked how many residents there are now in the City. Mayor Durso said it is close to 15,000 now. Mr. Anderson said, according to the Charter we should have 2.2 police officers per 1,000 people. He asked how many officers we have now. Mayor Durso said it is 40 police officers. Mr. Anderson mentioned Item 12B on the agenda, that there might be a conflict of interest regarding contributions from Mr. Towers as far as Mayor Durso' s anticipation on running for County Commission. Mr. Langley said there are at least two Commission on Ethics opinions directly on that point. He said in regard to the receipt of a campaign contribution, which is disclosed on campaign finance reports, the Commission on Ethics has found in the 1970s has found such a contribution does not create a voting conflict because the campaign contribution is not considered a special private benefit of gain to the elected official. He said one who sits on the Commission that votes must vote on the matter they don't have a voting conflict or for which they don't have a perceived bias where they could not be fair to the applicant. He said if you receive a campaign contribution that does not result in a voting conflict as a matter of law. Mayor Durso said there are a number of people in this City who have been supportive of me of the past ten (10) years. He said he has voted with them and voted against them on multiple occasions. He is not going to shy away from a vote because someone gave CC 05-15-17/3 him a campaign contribution which is public record and not hidden, and it is not used for anything other than what the regulated purpose of a campaign account is for. He said the second thing is that most of us, and most elected officials, if you did not vote on every single issue that came before you where someone was opposed to you or supportive of you, you would not be able to discharge your duties. He said he is not an owner and not receiving any benefit and not receiving any inurement from anything that Mr. Towers is doing. He stated he is happy to talk to anyone including the press. He is willing to answer anyone's question about this or any other situation related to it. Mr. Langley gave the citations, Commission on Ethics Opinion 75 -181 and 78-20. Patti Choate, 118 Sheridan Court, Longwood said she has been a member of Christ Church for thirty (30) years, and we have been involved with the Longwood Craft Festival for over forty (40) years. She said it is our only fundraiser that helps our Church because our Church is small, so we depend on that money. She said if they move the festival to another area, it is going to hurt us. She said we put on a Bar-B-Q and vendors pay to park in our parking lot and all of that goes back into our Church. It helps to pay for maintenance and lighting, and any type of maintenance. She said she is concerned that this will hurt us if you move it to another location. Mayor Durso suggested she get with the City Manager to talk about the bigger plans the City is looking into with the Historic Society to develop a plan to determine who is running the festival, but how it should operate. The goal is to expand it to draw more people into the area. Sandra V. Erickson, 410 Santa Maria Way, Longwood said in' order to stay afloat, we depend on the fall festival for our Church. All the food is donated by the parishioners, as well as crafts that are made. She said everything sold there goes back into the Church. Dr. Flora Pinder, 218 Slade Drive, Longwood said this is in regard to the Church and the festival. She said the Historic Society worked with us over the years. They allowed us to have the only Bar-B-Q at the fall festival, which gave us very good income. She said we don't know if this new group will give us any consideration or not. She read the agreement, and there is nothing in there about our Church. She said we want to be included in the arrangements and be given consideration. We are a special, CC 05-15-17/4 Historic Church in Seminole County. She said we were given short notice regarding this change. Donna Bundy, 505 Seminole Avenue, Longwood said she is here representing the Central Florida Society for Historic Preservation, and wanted to say thank you for our recently negotiated agreement, and we are in favor of the City doing this. She said it was our understanding the festival is staying in the District if the City takes it. Elizabeth Saunders, 529 Westport Drive, Longwood said she mimics everything everyone else has said regarding Christ Church, and we are happy you are going to allow the festival to remain in Longwood. Andrea Elukovich, 164 Sheridan Avenue, Longwood said she had some questions regarding grants for improvements. Mayor Durso said the City Manager will be happy to get you that information. Ms. Elukovich asked about foliage on State Road 434. Mayor Durso said we are working on that with the Florida Department of Transportation. Ms. Elukovich said we have been dealing with patched streets for a long time in Winsor Manor. She said as you come into the entrance, that is one of the first things you notice. She said we have raised money for the upgrade at the entrance, but we are now concerned about the streets that haven't been repaved for a long time. Mr. Williams said we have a stormwater project ongoing in Winsor Manor, so you will see from the entrance back to Dellwood repaved and then the entire eastern section of the subdivision will be repaved as a result of that project. Ms. Elukovich asked about adding a line item to the utility bill asking people to donate an amount for the beautification of Longwood. Mayor Durso said we would certainly entertain that. He said if the citizens would be willing to give us a dollar ($1.00), we would be happy to take it and use it to improve many things throughout the City. He thanked her for the suggestion. 38:45 CC 05-15-17/5 8. MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS' REPORT District #2. Mayor Durso said he wanted to commend city staff and our partners at Cathcart for their tremendous work on the sewer project that is happening in Wildmere Sub Plat. He said they are a month and a half ahead of schedule and under budget. He said they have minimized disruptions in traffic and to the road. He said there was a community meeting related to the sewer project that is happening off of North Street, the new development that was annexed. He said there were approximately 120 people who attended, and the conversation revolved around two major issues. The first was annexation and the second issue was sewer. He said the general tone of the room was opposed to City annexation, but was very much pro sewer. He said that benefits the citizens of Longwood because it expands our sewer system, which allows us the opportunity to create revenue and build a package plan so we can stop sending our stuff to Seminole County. He said we will be able to treat it and to control the cost of treating it which is ultimately the goal. He said we want to control the cost of treating sewage and right now we are at the whim of Seminole County and whatever they want to charge us. This is a good, long-term goal for the City. He said as a result of that meeting we will be sending a ballot to those affected homes in that area, asking two questions: "Do you want sewer — Yes or No" and "Are you interested in annexation — Yes or No". He said those two answers will determine the forward path of that project. He said it has been suggested by folks at Wendover and the Apartments that we consider a public bicycle program similar to the one downtown where you can rent the bikes and cruise around the area. He said there is a lot of technology infrastructure that goes into the project that makes it safe and cost effective for the City. He said there is very little investment on our end. He said a lot of the cost is borne on people who rent the bicycles. He said they have to provide a credit card, so if bikes are damaged or don't get returned, their credit cards would be charged to replace the bikes, holding the City harmless. He would like to look into this and see if the City can do this and perhaps operate it from Reiter Park or the Apartment Community. Deputy Mayor Sackett said the bicycle idea was in the original plans after the completion -of Church Avenue. Mayor Durso commented on the program FUEL (Fueling Understanding of Energy Locally), which is a pipeline program he is working with teachers at Milwee Middle School and Lyman High School. He said it will create a program that will give students access to businesses in the STEM field in middle school. He said it will help them get internships in high school, help them get apprenticeships when they go to either Seminole State, Valencia or University of Central Florida. He said hopefully it will keep them here working at those companies in Longwood after they graduate from school. The point is to start them early. He said there has been a focus on female students because females are generally underrepresented in STEM fields, (STEM being science technology, CC 05-15-17/6 engineering and math fields). He said one of the projects that has come from this, is we have started taking a series of trips with students. On May 19t', we have a group of young ladies leaving from Milwee Middle School and taking a tour of several businesses, including the Duke Energy facility next to the school, having lunch. He said Marie Regan, who works in our Planning Department, will be talking to them as well. District #3. Commissioner Paris said he visited the Longwood Food Truck event last Thursday, which was very well attended. He also attended our last Farmer's Market for the summer, which is shutting down for a few months and coming back when the weather gets more reasonable. He said we need more support for this event. District #4. Commissioner Weller said he attended the Island Lake Septic and Sewer Meeting, and when it was explained to the residents how much it cost to replace a septic tank and the issues that were going to start happening with permitting, he felt the attitude in the room change. He said between replacing the septic tanks cost or when you pump out a septic tank, it is very expensive. He wanted to make sure the City goes after grants in other parts of the City and keep an eye on areas that we could get additional growth and tax revenues by providing sewer. He said a resident contacted him about Reiter Park and the lake expansion and being concerned it would be stagnant water. He said he talked with the City Manager about it, and found out there will be four fountains in that area (A drawing of this area was displayed). He said during the one cent sales tax debate in 2015, he read Longwood Hills Road was on the list to get sidewalks installed. Mr. Williams said Seminole County advised it is under design right now and going under construction in 2018 and finishing in 2019. District #5. Deputy Mayor Sackett said Woodlands Elementary is going to be converted into a STEM school. He said this year he is teaching forty-five (45) kids the STEM Projects. He said girls are quite involved in the program. He took seventy-five (75) kids to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for their STEM Project. He said science and engineering is big in Longwood, and is going to be big at Longwood Elementary as well. He mentioned the Honor Flight Program where a lot of the volunteers fly with Vets to Washington D.C. to see that the Country cares about them. He would like some recognition to appear in some way in a future meeting and asked if we can coordinate with them. He thinks they are doing a superior job. Mayor Durso asked him if he would like to coordinate this. Deputy Mayor Sackett said he would. CC 05-15-17/7 District #1. Commissioner Maingot spoke in agreement with Mayor Durso about donations and speaking for and against people on certain issues. He noted we vote for and against the situation as it is in the best interests of the City. He said regarding the Wayman Project, there are four portables brought from Seminole County Schools being installed on Wayman and will provide accommodation for many people in our City. He said Citizens on Patrol and others, who were formerly housed in the Longwood Elementary School. He is involved, along with Public Works, in doing the landscaping at those locations, as well as the Fire Station. He said regarding comments about landscaping on State Road 434, that project has been dealt with for almost a year. He said we keep discovering many obstacles we have to deal with and Florida Department of Transportation has made many changes all along. He said, regarding the sewer project, he will not support any installation of a sewer project there without coming into the City. He said charity begins at home, and those who pay our taxes are the ones we look for first. Those who want us to overreach and extend a hand to help, we will help you and go through the investment, but you will come into the City like many others have done. He said let us expand wisely where the investment is worth the return on the investment. 9. ANY ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS TO THE AGENDA Mayor Durso stated the City Manager requests that Item 1 OH be added to the Consent Agenda. He went over the Item stating it is a proposal from the City of Longwood to the Central Florida Society for Historical Preservation (CFSHP) regarding the Arts and Crafts Festival. He stated the Item includes the following: The City estimates that there will be approximately 200 vendors which will generate an estimated $30,000 in booth fees. Term of Initial Agreement — 7 years with an option to extend for an additional 5 years. Payment — provide a onetime fixed payment of $10,000 in the first year. CFSHP agrees to refund or work with the City in providing a transfer of preregistered exhibitors, sponsors and or vendors. Years 2 -7 profit sharing of 50% on booth fees for a maximum payment of $15,000 per year. If the City decides to not continue with the festival, then all things related to the festival including coordination, execution, etc. will revert back to the CFSHP on the allotted annual date for this particular event. Mayor Durso stated the above is a proposal and any agreement concerning this matter would need City Commission review and approval. He stated the proposal is subject to the drafting and execution of a contract with CC 05-15-17/8 1 1 1 terms and conditions acceptable to the City of Longwood and the Central Florida Society of Historical Preservation. Mayor Durso moved to add Item 1 OH to the Consent Agenda. Seconded by Deputy Mayor Sacket and Item 1 OH was added by a four -to -one (4-1) voice vote with Commissioner Maingot voting nay. 10. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approve Minutes of the May 1, 2017 Regular Meeting. B. Approve the Monthly Expenditures for April 2017. C. Approve the Monthly Financial Report for April 2017. D. Approve a change order in the amount of $60,000 to purchase order #170256 for Sunstate Meter & Supply Inc. as suppliers of citywide meters and related materials. E. Approve a contract with WTDI, LLC to solicit and register arts and crafts vendors for an event to be held on Saturday November 18, 2017 and Sunday November 19, 2017. F. Approve a Letter of Intent with Potapas Concessions Inc. to provide carnival rides and carnival food concessions for an event to be held on Saturday November 18, 2017 and Sunday November 19, 2017. G. Approve a purchase order in the amount of $27,250 to Public Resource Management Group (PRMG) to provide utility financial consulting services for the State Revolving Fund (SRF) Loan Procurement Assistance for the City's Phase 2 Wastewater System Expansion and Improvements Project. Added on. H. Proposal from the City of Longwood to the Central Florida Society for Historical Preservation (CFSHP) regarding the Arts and Crafts Festival. Deputy Mayor Sackett moved to approve Items I OA through 1 OH as presented. Seconded by Commissioner Paris and carried by a four -to -one (4-1) roll call vote with Commissioner Maingot voting nay. 11. PUBLIC HEARINGS. None. 12. REGULAR BUSINESS A. Read by title only, set June 5, 2017 as the public hearing date, approve the Annexation Agreement and first reading of CC 05-15-17/9 Ordinance No. 17-2114, a Voluntary Annexation of Properties at 1015 U.S. Highway 17-92, 904 Lake Irene Road and 898 Lake Irene Road. Mr. Langley read Ordinance No. 17-2114 by title only. Mr. Kintner presented the Item. Deputy Mayor Sackett moved to approve the annexation agreement and first reading of Ordinance No. 17-2114 and set June 5, 2017 as the public hearing date. Seconded by Commissioner Maingot and carried by a unanimous roll call vote. B. Hear a request from Oakwood Construction for a lot split application (SD 04-17) at 163 West Bay Avenue (Historic District). Mr. Kintner presented the Item and answered questions. Commissioner Paris moved to approve Item 12B as presented. Seconded by Commissioner Maingot and carried by a unanimous roll call vote. C. Read by title only, set June 5, 2017 as the public hearing date, approve the Annexation Agreement and first reading of Ordinance No. 17-2118, a Voluntary Annexation of 450 Longwood Hills Road. Mr. Langley read Ordinance No. 17-2118 by title only. Mr. Kintner presented the Item. Commissioner Maingot moved to approve the annexation agreement and first reading of Ordinance No. 17-2118 and set June 5, 2017 as the public hearing date. Seconded by Deputy Mayor Sackett and Commissioner Paris and carried by a unanimous roll call vote. 13. CITY MANAGER'S REPORT Mr. Williams said he has been asked to solicit proposals for solid waste collection services. He wanted to bring that to the Commission's attention to get your permission to begin that process and provide the necessary notifications to our service providers, which will include residential and commercial non-exclusive. He said we will look into converting that to an exclusive franchise agreement and bid that as one package. CC 05-15-17/10 L 1 There were no objections. 14. CITY ATTORNEY' S REPORT. No report. 15. CITY CLERK'S REPORT. No report. 16. ADJOURN. Mayor Durso adjourned the meeting at 7:13 p.m. ATTEST: Miche a on W, C, , City Clerk CC 05-15-17/11 1 This Page Left Blank Intentionally. CC 05-15-17/12