The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) held its regular meeting on September 18, 2025, at 4:30 PM in City Hall, 737 Louden Ave. Chair Maureen "Moe" Freaney presided. All CRA members were present. The meeting covered approval of minutes, annual audit, budget adoption and amendment, an advisory committee resolution, membership changes, committee and director reports, and extensive discussion on the parking garage procurement process and the Old City Hall Park project. All votes were unanimous.
Good afternoon. Welcome to September eighteenth, twenty twenty-five community redevelopment agency meeting. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Carolyn, you're in the seat today, so the hot seat. So okay. Um, before we start, uh, time for citizen input. Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak on a topic that is not on the agenda? Okay. Seeing no one, I will close citizen input, and we'll move to uh business. Uh, and that'll be draft minutes from the May 2nd, 2025 community redevelopment agency. And I think there's some changes that Carolyn might have before I ask the rest of you. Just page two, Bob had mentioned the old City Hall Park, the budget for the restrooms, it's five hundred thousand, and the minutes say five thousand, which I'd love for that to be correct. I would too. But yeah, okay. All right, and are there any other um changes to the minutes or corrections? Okay, seeing none, um, can I have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved. Second. Okay, motion and second, and uh all in favor. Aye, any opposed? Okay, motion passes unanimously. Okay, then we'll go to community redevelopment agency annual independent audit on the staff presentation. So I'll ask uh Jeff with actually less with Jeff to come forward. Good afternoon, uh, mayor of Vice Mayor Commissioners, uh Less tire, the finance director. I'd like to just make a few general comments, and I'll turn it over to Jeff, our uh our auditor. This is our twenty-four uh redevelopment agency audit uh for the city. Uh, just want to mention that uh back in twenty twenty there was uh federal statute, statute one six three three eight seven that required that each each CRA fund have a separate audit. So we're following that guideline since then. Uh the attached uh audit is in your in your staffing today for the twenty-four audit out, and Jeff Wolf, a partner with the firm is with us, and I'll turn it over to Jeff to go over the highlights. Okay, Jeff. Thank you. Good uh good afternoon. Good to see everybody again. Um I will be pretty brief because you may or may not be aware. Um, these financial information is already included in your ACFAR, but um, as last mentioned, uh uh state requirement now requires standalone audit and standalone financial statements. But really, this audit is really about compliance, not so much the the financial numbers. It's it's really about is the revenue the TIFF being calculated correctly and deposited timely to the bank. Then ultimately, are those uh expenses allowed under your your policies and your your um CRA plans. That's really what it's about. It's about compliance, and you'll see as I go through the reports. I really won't touch on the financial information that um this was a clean audit, and there's really no compliance issues with with the city of CRA. So, first is our um independent R's report, and that's on page one of the financial statements. Um this is a report on whether those financial statements are materially correct. Um and again, you had an unmodified opinion, so that is the highest level of assurance you can receive that the financial information is correct. Um our next report is our internal report uh uh report on internal control over financial reporting and compliance. Now we don't test internal controls to render an opinion. However, we do test controls as part of our audit just to um you know modify our audit plan if necessary. If we saw any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in those controls, we would comment in this letter. But um, as you can see, this is a a clean report, no findings, no issues noted. Um our next report is really the probably the most significant one, the independent accounts report, and this is really on compliance on as it relates to Florida statutes for investments and more importantly, compliance on the laws that govern um CRAs.