The City Council held a comprehensive meeting focused on the presentation and discussion of the new Watershed Management Plan (WMP) by Advanced Engineering. The presentation detailed the city's stormwater infrastructure challenges, modeling findings, and a proposal for six capital improvement projects to address flooding. While no immediate votes were cast on the WMP recommendations, the Council agreed to a workshop to review the data in depth. The meeting also covered routine updates, code enforcement progress, e-bike safety ordinances, and upcoming legislative priorities regarding property taxes.
It's always so weird sitting here waiting until it hits exactly six o'clock. If there's any chance that you haven't remembered to turn your phone off, please do it now. We got another action packed meeting, so I prefer not to have phones ringing. Um so welcome to the November 18th meeting. Thanks for coming out. I do like seeing that there's quite a few new faces in here today tonight, and I appreciate that. So we're gonna go ahead and get started. Um the invocation tonight will be given by Vice Mayor uh Thanos, and then it'll be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. So please stand if you will. I have to say I kind of had fun with this one. But um so it was about thankfulness. Let us rise up and be thankful. For if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little. If we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick. And if we didn't get sick, at least we didn't die. And that's from Buddha. And there was another one. Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others, and that's from Cicero. All righty, roll call if you will. Present. Council Member Jackson? Here. Council Member Early. Here. City Attorney Salzman. Here. City Manager O'Reilly. Present. City Clerk Keriko is present. Very good. So I can only imagine that the faces that I don't recognize are here for the presentation tonight. Um I know many of us have been waiting on this and we're very anxious to hear what you have to say. So with that in mind, please, Mr. Justin Keller. Justin Keller with Advanced Engineering. Um I'm here with uh Rafkae with advanced engineering as well. Um we are here to present on our findings for the watershed management plan. All right, I've told I was told to be very careful with this, so all right. Uh we're gonna talk about our big picture findings, uh get into a little bit of the weeds and talk about uh nerd nerd out a bit and talk about the model. Uh we're gonna share the results or the floodplains with you. Uh discuss level service, more or less how do we determine success when it comes to stormwater management. Uh we're gonna talk about our project recommendations, provide some program recommendations, then obviously, um whether it's at the end or intimidately, please feel free to ask questions. I want to make sure everybody um, you know, I'm I'm not losing anybody as I talk. Um so starting with kind of what is flooding. Uh you know, a lot of times uh, you know, we have or you know, just not golf port specific, but you know, you see standing water in the road after after uh a rain event. Um and maybe it's like some curb flooding. Um that's not the kind of flooding we're talking about here. Or um, you know, if you have a uh, you know, if you have a structure that or a collection structure has a palm front in front of it, that's really not the type of flooding that we're talking about here. Uh today we're here to really hit on the um, you know, let's say your your stormwater infrastructure, which is your pipes, your ponds, um, you know, your ditches and your inlets, and talk about how they function uh during specific design storms and then where those inefficiencies are and how we can make them better. Um, and then also too, um I I have a note here that also you know um golf port experiences tidal flooding.