The Dunedin City Commission convened for its Regular Meeting on August 6, 2026, at City Hall. Commissioners addressed a city-initiated land use amendment for the San Christopher Drive property, adopted comprehensive updates to the historic preservation code, accepted the FY 2025 audit with an unmodified opinion, and approved a critically important Letter of Agreement for the Main Street Exchange and Douglas Avenue Parking Garage project. All official actions passed unanimously 4-0, with Commissioner Sandbergen absent and excused.
Hey, good evening. Welcome to the August 6th, 2026 City Commission meeting. Want to call this meeting to order. And we're going to start with invitation and pledge of allegiance from our city attorney, Jen. Please stand. Let us begin this meeting by taking a brief moment of silence and reflection. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the United States. And to the Republic. Individual. Liberty and Justice. Okay. We have an absence tonight, Commissioner Samberg, and I think he's at a wedding. Family wedding or something. Anyway, he's out of town. And we need to get an excused absence for him. So I have a motion. Second. Okay, all in favor? Aye. Okay, aye. And motion passes unanimously. Okay, presentations, artist recognition, Leland Chase Outdoor Gallery, Public Art Project, Phase Two and Three. So I have Nicole and Elizabeth Brinklow. Whoever wants to take the charge. Perfect. Good evening, Mayor and Commission. Nicole Delfino, Strategy and Sustainability Manager, here with you this evening with Elizabeth Brinklow, the city's art consultant, to recognize a project that has been ongoing for a few years now and completed with phase three to recognize the artist that contributed to both phase two and phase three. So I'm going to pass it to Elizabeth, and she'll go through our artists and have a recognition here. So good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, and Staff. Welcome and thank you. Thanks for having me. Leland Chase Outdoor Gallery is a project of the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee and appointed a subcommittee whose members we thank, including Simeon Liebman. It was his idea originally for the Leland Chase Outdoor Gallery. David Shankweiler, Scott Salyards, Ada Lubunchik, Brian Antonian, Supervisor of the Wastewater Treatment Plant, where the gallery is located. Cindy Gorshi Coleman, Chair of Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, and Karen Clough, presiding as committee chair, with staff Nicole Delfino as our liaison. Thank you, Nicole. Dunedin Wastewater Treatment Plant is located at 1140 Martin Luther King Junior Avenue in Dunedin. It is championed in those two names, Leland and Chase, by Almira Chase and Lorraine Leland, who collaborated together on education in the early late 1950s and early 1960s. The product that we used on the Leland Chase Outdoor Gallery includes 3M control tack graphic film with a 3M gloss over laminate. I bring that to your attention because the artworks are licensed images by the artists. So on behalf of the Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, I'm pleased to welcome and introduce the artists who were selected for rounds and two and three of the project. As we go through the images, I'll read brief bios on each of the artists, and then I'll ask the artists who are here with us this evening to come up for your recognition. Addie Rodriguez, Melody of Unexpected Bonds. She's in round three. Addie Rodriguez is an emerging mixed media artist whose works combine 2D collage and 3D assemblage with a strong emphasis on texture and craftsmanship. Drawing on her background in fashion illustration and design, she creates tactile works by hand, thoughtfully layering materials into expressive compositions. Her work has been exhibited throughout Florida, including Florida Craft Art and the Gasparilla Festival of the Arts. Cherie Wolf, Raising the World of Tomorrow, also round three. She's a Tampa Bay multimedia artist whose bold, colorful works spans pixel pop art, abstract expressionism, graphic design, and mixed media.