We can now get started with our workshop agenda.

This is your book of its own city council.

For our workshop meeting today is still Tuesday, October thirteenth, twenty twenty-six.

The time is eleven in the A.

M.

First item on our agenda is board interviews, for which we have none.

So we can move on to proclamations and presentations.

I appreciate you being here as well.

Most folks are familiar last March.

Since then, we evaluated all the different operational aspects, some alternatives cost, and we got a lot of community feedback.

And then we we put some revised concepts out there, reduced the size and scope from folks who remember 165,000 square feet.

We reduced that down to 100,000 square feet.

And then we put a couple different location ideas out there so we could get community feedback to get us to this point.

And then eventually we took a look at funding methodology and some of that methodology was a bond here.

We took that to the Financial Advisory Board uh last week, and then they recommend up to 125 million dollar bond referendum for this March.

And then uh and now here we are with uh proposed ballot uh language.

And big picture uh we just we have we have to have the ballot language in by December 4th.

Um so we're ahead of schedule.

Uh and with the workshop today, we can discuss that ballot language uh and then if council uh decides on appropriate ballot language today or throughout next week, uh we can make that a resolution uh to go for a vote on October 27th.

Uh in the event that uh we don't have the language identified by then, we still have uh a couple more council meetings in November.

So we have a little bit of time uh to get this done, but I just wanted to be ahead of schedule uh because we've got a lot of other business coming up uh in the city.

So big picture here.

Um I'm gonna show you four different options.

And the first one is without a specific location.

Uh and and you're gonna see through these summaries that it's they're all gonna say 125 million dollars, uh, and this particular option is no location specific.

And the thought process is if council wants to go in this direction, uh I recommend that we have a dedicated workshop on April 12th and April 13th uh with public comment to decide on the location if the referendum passes on March 9th.

That's when that location discussion would occur.

Uh the next one is uh we put together uh basically two different locations to make sure that's included uh into the bond language.

And specifically uh the locations are near Spanish River Boulevard and I-95, and a new downtown police station near 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue.

Um that's the difference there is two locations.

Uh and then option three is just the downtown specific.

There's no other uh location, uh Spanish River or I-95.

And having spent the last two weeks with a lot of residents uh and a lot of council members, uh this last option is my recommendation.

Uh and this last option is basically very similar to the first one, but you'll notice after evidence storage and related facilities and equipment, there's the verbiage a dedicated downtown police facility.

Um this is just ensuring that uh if the referendum passes uh the residents can be rest assured that uh we are uh focused on a dedicated downtown police facility.

Uh and that doesn't mean we can't have two facilities, right?

One at Spanish River and one at downtown, but this just ensures uh that there's a downtown police facility uh for option four.

So really, you know, with that uh is ideally we we the council uh settles on ballot language today or throughout the week, and then we come back, as I said, October 27th for a resolution, uh, and then we're ahead of schedule.

Uh and then, of course, on March 9th, uh we'll take that to the voters uh and they'll decide.

Uh and then we we would we'd be continue the work effort as we go forward on April 12th.

We'll workshop uh what the fallout was uh on the referendum and how to go forward and put those alternatives to council and then have a public hearing on April 13th.

So with that, I will uh turn it over uh and this is the timeline here.

Uh and this is a broad timeline.

Uh obviously we don't have a design or a location.

Uh it's like buying a house.

Uh we don't even have a budget approved, let alone a location, let alone a design.

So the point is it's very difficult to put a timeline of accuracy, but this is an approximate timeline uh if we were moving forward would be uh as we kick off quarter one of 2029, we'd have a new police department uh headquarters where where wherever that may be.

And with that, I'll turn it over to the mayor uh to begin the uh discussion.

Okay, Mr.

Sohaney, thank you for that.

Uh just to clarify, it would seem that is it staff's recommendation that we adopt the language number four, option number four, is that your preferred language?

That's correct.

Okay.

Uh this is uh I I'm gonna just give my sense, my two cents on this first, and then oh, do you have a question, Mr.

Rucker?

Go ahead.

So just because I read the two and then uh yeah, I saw there was no downtown on option one.

On the out one, is there a reason we left slowly out of the language?

Like so if you go like shall the city issue general on L on option number one, it's uh uh it says solely to finance a replacement, but on option number four, it doesn't say that before.

So I just want to make sure like they're identical.