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The Deltona City Commission met on Monday, July 20, 2026, at 6:30 PM in the Commission Chambers. The meeting included a proclamation for Parks and Recreation Month, a resolution honoring First Lieutenant Colton Doherty, and consideration of consent agenda items, ordinances, and action items. Key topics included setting maximum assessment rates for various services, a proposed fire rescue services assessment that was denied, adoption of a micromobility ordinance, enhanced animal abandonment penalties, setting the maximum millage rate at the roll-back rate, and authorization to pursue conservation property acquisitions.
Please have the city clerk call the role. Commissioner Calwell. Here. Commissioner Harriet. Here. Commissioner Howington? Here. Commissioner Navik. Commissioner Santiago. Here. Vice Mayor Villa Vasquez. President. Mayor Vila? Here. All right. At this time, we're going to do the invocation and the pledge. If we can please stand, and then Commissioner Harriet, you can lead us in the pledge. For one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. So Commissioner Harriet has a person that he wants to recognize as a veteran. So I'm going to go down to to pull that information because he has the Commissioner Harry. You have a something you left with the with the clerk, correct? No, I think we were going to recognize some other individuals this morning, this evening. Got it. So I'm going to read this. This is a recognition of honor. Dated today, July twentieth, twenty twenty-six, honoring the service of First Lieutenant Colton Doherty. We're asked Lieutenant Doherty is a resident of the city of Daltona, Florida. And we're asked Lieutenant Doherty graduated with honors from the United States military at West Point. And we're asked Lieutenant Doherty is currently based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he is serving the nation as an army officer with the Air Air Defense Artillery ADA branch, sorry, responsible for protecting ground forces, geopolitical assets, and civilian populations from aerial attacks, including airplanes, helicopters, ballistic missiles, mortars, and drone and drones. And whereas Lieutenant Doherty served our country, our state, and our city proudly in 2026, Iran Iranian War serving the con the code named Operation Epic Fury. And whereas Lieutenant Dockerty served 375 days in the Middle East from June 2025 to July 2026. He led his team of ADA specialists for a total of exactly 350 consecutive daily shifts. And whereas Lieutenant Doherty was recognized with the Rare Combat Action Badge for his work in the Middle East, which is awarded to soldiers who are personally present under fire and actively engaging with the enemy. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the City of Daltona, Florida thanks First Lieutenant Colton Doherty for his service and recognizes him as a hometown hero. Thank you. It would be great. Mark Manning, all your whole staff, if they can please come forward. Sir coming up, we're gonna do a parks and recreation month uh proclamation. Whereas since eight nineteen eighty-five, America has celebrated July as a nation's official parks and recreation month, and the United States House of Representatives officially mandated July as Parks and Recreation Month in two thousand and nine. And whereas Parks and Recreation promotes physical, emotional, and mental health and wellness through organized and self-directed fitness, play and activity. And we're as parks and recreation facilities foster social cohesiveness in communities by celebrating diversity, providing spaces to come together peacefully, promoting social equal equity, and ensuring people of all ages have access to its benefits.