Good morning, everyone.

We'll go ahead and get started with the May 5th meeting of the Transportation Energy and Utilities Committee.

Let's start off with introductions, starting with uh Mr.

Delaney.

Morning, Bill Delaney with the Mayor's Office.

Stephen Libby, Council Research.

Carla Schell, Office of General Counsel.

Edward Lindsky, Council Auditor's Office.

Canamar, City Council, District 1.

Reggie Gaffney, Julia, City Council District 8.

Jacobi Pittman, District 10.

Will Lane and District 3.

Matt Carlucci at large group 4.

All right.

Good morning, everyone.

We only have three action items today.

So what we're gonna do is uh we also have a presentation by the Northeast Florida Regional Council.

I'm gonna have public comment first.

We're gonna do the uh three action items so our uh city staff can uh can get out of here ahead of that presentation, or they're welcome to watch it as well.

And then after those action items, we will uh do the presentation, which uh they're gonna have 10 minutes to present and then five minutes for uh any questions, but we can be fairly lenient on that too as well since we don't have a loaded agenda.

Uh so going through the agenda item one 2026 267, we'll have a public hearing open and closed, move an amendment and take final action on that.

Item two, 2026-286 will take action on as well as 2026-287.

I don't expect a lot of conversation on any of those three items.

So if you'll notice they've already been through other committees and all have been unanimous votes up to this point.

As far as second reads, item four, 2026-317, item five, three two five, item six, three two seven, item seven, three two eight, items eight, nine, and ten, which are 329, 330, and 358 are also on second read.

So with that, uh do I have any public comment cards?

Okay, Mr.

John Nooney, come on down.

We'll have two minutes and speak to an item on the agenda.

All right, two, not three minutes.

Okay.

All right.

I am here.

Okay, RD, the real doge, Ron Davis, 600 W B O B.

I am John Philanthropic Jelly Roll, good boy, resiliency nooney, 8356, Baskum Road, Jacksonville, Florida, 32216, District 4, Carico, CPAC 3, Rosemary Wiselowski, School Board, Charter School, Public School, Field Trip, 2025, 0867, Wendy Con, CIP, OED Park on Pottsburg Creek, uh, State of Florida, that's a news story.

All right, uh, agenda items number one, public hearing, 2026, 0267.

Number two, you know, it's not in waterways, Office of Administrative Services.

Number three, not in waterways, Office of Administrative Services.

Number 10.

All right, now this storage of vessels, neighborhoods, rules, TEU, but not in waterways.

Now this is massive.

And then number 10, follow the Emerald Trail.

Hogan's Creek, you know, it's 2026, 0327.

You know, I've got my uh KEH, JWJ, you know, uh Groundwork Jacks.

Anyone remember uh Don Emmerich?

Um but yesterday, you know, I'm only down to 40 seconds.

You know, yesterday went to the Urban Core CPAC meeting, and you know, on my way over to the library, I fell.

And you know, at 1030, you know, you got the mayor's disability council.

So anyway, you know, DIA.

You know, downtown includes accidents.

You know, I'm on the ground, I see Guy Parola.

And then right behind them, DIA, downtown includes alcohol.

I see Alan De Vault.

So, but anyway, the big key is, and here is we're gonna have the Northeast Florida Regional Council.

You know what?

Seven counties, public access, resiliency.

Open our waterways.

Thank you for the first time.

Thank you, Mr.

Nuny.

With that, we'll go to item one 2026 267.

I'm going to open this public hearing and one speaker card, John Nooney.

Come back, Mr.

Nuny.

To the bill specifically, Mr.

Nuny.

I will try.

I am John J.

Nooney, Jacksonville City Council Resolution 2023 0819.

When City Council District 4, CPAC, Planning District 3, School Board, District 3.

You know, 2026 uh 8356, Baskam Road, Jacksonville, Florida.

Uh I'm in full support.

You know, this is you know, Randy White.

And you know, the reason there's a couple reasons why I want to speak to this.

First, it's a public hearing by Florida statute, three minutes.

You know, you gotta love it.

And the one thing with the 67 counties in the state of Florida, you go to other places.

Mr.

Nene to the bill now, please.

Okay, well, with the chair, okay.

Well, subject roadways anticipated to be extended to Normandy Boulevard through the site of the new Jacksonville fairgrounds.

Okay.

And uh, you know, you know, with the fairgrounds.

I mean, that's is another part of Jacksonville that is going to have its own, you know, uh entertainment and really be thriving in its own way.

But but with Randy White, FWC, the Fish White Challenge.

I mean, you know, that man, I'll I'll tell you the accolades.

I can't even begin to tell you.

Mr.

Nini, you're talking about a person, not this bill.

I'm about to cut you off.

Okay, okay.

Well, he it's he's the sponsor.

I mean, you know, uh, with what he's doing.

I I'm I'm in.

And you know, uh so anyway, uh, it's positive.

And no, uh, Councilman White and the bill and what they're doing, and again, it's the site of the new Jacksonville Fairgrounds.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you.

This public hearing is closed.

I'd like to welcome council members Clark Murray and Johnson with us here this morning.

Good morning.

Uh, can I get a motion on the amendment?

Got a motion to second on the amendment.

Mr.

Linsky, please explain the amendment to us.

Through the chair of the committee, the amendment removes a waiver that was included in the bill as introduced pertaining to the noticing requirements.

Um there are no affected property owners along the designated roadway, so the uh waiver is no longer needed, and then also corrects a scribbner's item.

Thank you, Mr.

Linsky.

No one in the queue, all those favorite the amendment, please say aye.

Any opposed say nay amendment passes.

Got a motion second on the bill as amended, no in the queue.

Open the ballot, record your vote.

Seven yay, zero nays.

Our actions we pass 2026-267.

Item two on the next page, 2026-286.

Can I get a motion?

Got motion second on the bill.

I have no in the queue.

Open the ballot, record your vote.

Seven Yay's zero nays.

Our actions we pass 2026-286.

I'm three, twenty twenty-six two eight seven.

Can I get a motion?

Got a motion a second on the bill.

I have no in the queue.

Open the ballot, record your vote.

Seven Yay's zero nays.

By our actions, we have passed 2026 287.

I already read all the items that are on second read.

So with that, we're gonna go into our presentation by the Northeast Florida Regional Council on military projects in the region.

So, Ms.

Payne, thank you uh for you and Tyler to coming out uh and brief us on this this morning.

Of course, it's great to see you.

Um, my name is Beth Payne.

I'm the chief executive officer of the Northeast Florida Regional Council, and hopefully some of you have heard about this project, but if not, I'm really excited to share our progress.

It's called the Northeast Florida Military Installation Readiness Review.

Um we have a team of folks working on this at our office.

Um, Tyler Nolan is with me today, and Faralami, because uh as our resiliency manager, there's a huge resiliency component to this project.

It used to be called a military installation resiliency review, but actually was changed by the federal government about halfway into our project.

So, what is we call it an MIRR?

So, what is um this type of project?

Um, this is a really unique project in that it it focuses on the communities and the local governments that surround our installation.

So, what is the support that these communities provide to our installation?

What is the infrastructure?

How do they support the really the mission of the installation?

So we're taking a look at that.

This is about work and projects and infrastructure that happen outside the fence line.

So, as you can imagine, there's a really robust set of stakeholders that are involved in something like this because it involves the military, uh, commanding officers and folks themselves, along with all sorts of supporting local government agencies, um utilities, conservation.

So there's a really huge set of stakeholders.

Um we did get this grant from the Department of War.

Um it's an office called the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, old CC, um, for about a million dollars, and then the regional council put up the match of 113,000 dollars.

So a final product includes a variety of reports, but really the crux of it is a prioritized project list.

And remember, these projects are all in the community.

So they're all in Jacksonville, they're all in Clay County.

That really unlocks a new set of funding opportunities because they're listed in this in this project list.

And I do need to point out that we're the last region in the state of Florida to have a military installation readiness review completed as a priority of the DeSantis administration to take advantage of these grants.

And so the entire state of Florida, every installation in the state from South Florida to Tampa to the panhandle, are all covered by these, which is very powerful for the state of Florida as they work together to protect the military and its mission.

So in this project, we're including those that you see on the screen.

So that's certainly the majority in Jacksonville with Blen Island, Mayport, NAS Jackson, as well as the Camp Landing Joint Training Center in Clay County.

So how are we implementing this project?

Some of you may have been, maybe not at our kickoff meeting that we held out at the beach.

But we really have two committees that are guiding this forward.

So we have a steering committee, as that you can imagine meets less often and is higher level policy and a review component, and then we also have a technical advisory committee.

So the steering committee, like I said, there's the mission, it's about building consensus and providing that high-level direction.

We have fantastic engagement in this project.

You all know when you set the precedent that the city of Jacksonville is a military-friendly town, and it absolutely shows when you do a military project in this region.

So we have all the commanding officers from all the installations.

Council Vice President Howland sits and attends.

We have Clay County representation, elected officials.

I mean, it really runs a gamut.

So we have a really robust set of folks that add value to this to this work.

We also have the technical advisory committee.

So they meet monthly, and they are the subject matter experts in all the things that we're talking about.

So that is public works and utilities, environment, conservation, local government staff.

So we've got people, I don't know, 30 or 40 people attend virtually these meetings every single month, and they're really kind of the boots on the ground, sharing the data, fact-checking, and making sure we're getting it right.

So this is what's been done to date.

This is an 18-month project, and you'll you'll see a timeline here on the next slide.

But we've done installation tours, uh, specific stakeholder meetings with all the commanding officers and their staff.

We've had ongoing committee meetings, and we've completed the vulnerability assessment, which is different because it has a military-focused lens.

So taking all the good data that everyone has put together, um, your chief resiliency officer and her staff sit on the committee, so no duplication of efforts, just taking what's been done and using it for this purpose.

So here we are in the project timeline.

We started in March, we'll be done in September of this year.

So we're really kind of ramping up the efforts.

Our consultant is Jacobs and is doing a fantastic job putting this together.

Um I'm gonna talk you through a little a little bit about the parts that make up kind of where we are and where we're going.

Uh the first is a vulnerability assessment, and I'll be the first one to admit if you have a very technical question, I'll have to pass it on and get the answer.

But I certainly understand it from a high level.

So, like I said, we take a lot of that data that's been done by the city.

You guys have an extremely robust vulnerability assessment and set of data, so we've used that, and we really take a look at how that impacts the mission.

As you can imagine, Camp Landing has very different hazards and things that they worry about the impacts than a place like Mayport, right?

There's a lot of wildfire conservation issues at Camp Landing, where at Mayport, as you can imagine, there's erosion and sea level rise and things like that.

So then we look at how it impacts the mission.

So is it about assets?

Is it about critical infrastructure?

Um, and and they then break down that critical infrastructure based on primary and secondary.

So there's a very specific focus on the mission of the installation, which we spent a whole meeting defining with the commanding officers, and then looking at the vulnerabilities and the hazards as they relate to those specific missions.

Um a good example that we probably wouldn't have thought of necessarily is all of the fuel farms that Mayport owns on Hexure Drive.

That's really important to them.

That's really critical to their mission, so we had to make sure that that was well defined and we understood the impacts and the hazards that may impact that that big fuel farm.

So there we go.

I don't think any of these are surprised to you all who live in Florida, or these are the hazards that we're concerned with.

These are the hazards that we're concerned with.

I think you guys just heard a presentation on compound flooding from your city.

So it's all of those types of things that again that we're also thinking about.

But I think more importantly, we're thinking about other hazards that go along with this.

So as you can see on this list, there's things like encroachment, light pollution, land development, airspace congestion, threatening endangered species.

There's all this kind of other sets of threats that maybe don't have a very specific project associated, but are policy issues that we want documented so those can be discussed as well.

Certainly things like lack of attainable housing, lack of child care, you know, the different regulatory requirements, you know, drone issues, school transportation, you know, those are things that we're not going to solve with funding from the Department of Defense, but people like you all, as you understand this and it's documented, it can help you in your policy decisions as you think about the military's impact in Jacksonville.

Another big component of this is mutual support.

So while we talk about how the city of Jacksonville and how the beaches communities and how Clay County and those municipalities support our installation, what does that really mean?

A lot of it is mutual support agreements.

You know, we've all heard, or you guys are all familiar with you know, a lot of the mutual support agreements that go on between fire departments and how we would support across counties.

The same is for our military installations.

There is a lot of mutual support agreements documented that have the city and the county, Clay County, support our installations.

So part of this process was to identify what those were, but then also look at the gaps.

Is there something that doesn't exist that should exist?

Is there something that happens but it's not documented and written down and put on paper?

So we went through this big exercise in identifying those.

So as you can see, this is what that looks like.

There's, I mean, obviously it's it's fire and emergency services centric with you know law enforcement, we have land use and resiliency issues and utility.

So there are quite a few that exist.

But as you go through this, there's always room for more.

So there are some recommendations about some additional partnerships that could be formed.

Um those are the basis for some of our recommendations moving forward.

So that was a really interesting exercise for everyone to kind of dig deep, scratch our heads, pull out their files, and really look like what look for what's actually been documented versus what we know people do.

So then we get to kind of the recommendations section.

So this is done through adaptation planning, uh, infrastructure projects, and they have a very detailed approach, our consultants and our technical advisory committee on really how to get that done.

But I will tell you, you know, it's part innovation on what new projects can be discussed and can be put together based on the findings, but it's also combing through existing plans and existing CIPs and looking at projects that support these missions and pulling those out and putting them on our project list.

So it's not just the development of new projects, so that's important.

It's also about how do we take things that are existing priorities for the city of Jacksonville, for the beaches for Clay County, and then elevate those projects.

So we've been working on that, but we're also having partner conversations about projects that would go on this list.

So as you can see, we're working with a great deal of folks in the city.

Um, certainly JEA, as you know, plays a huge role in supporting our military installations through their infrastructure.

So those have been robust conversations.

So and we're continuing the same with Clay County and continuing our work with the installations to understand what they might be interested in in putting in.

I will tell you there's some really kind of innovative ideas that are coming from the military sector that maybe we wouldn't have thought that they would be interested in, but but they're getting uh vetted and thought out.

So that's an exciting opportunity.

So this is where we are now.

We've we're kind of finalizing our mutual support agreements and our recommendations.

We're really working through this project priority list.

This is uh time consuming and takes a lot of conversations to make sure projects are vetted because once they're vetted and they go on the list, we're also gonna do some research into some funding opportunities and kind of a funding package that goes along with some of those projects.

So to really kind of take this from it being a list to then figuring out how to move them forward and actually get them funded.

Then we'll have a final report, and then we are working currently at the council to try to understand the best way to turn this great coordination collaboration into something ongoing that can work towards implementation.

So not finish the document and put it aside and then everybody goes about their business.

But how do we stay engaged and making sure there are champions for these projects to get them funded?

So that is is on the council.

Um so, like I said, it'll be done in September.

We're figuring out the the project implementation side.

Um, and you'll certainly hear more about this um in the next in the coming months as we close it out and we move towards kind of action-oriented um project implementation.

Everything's available on our website.

We're gonna have a big presentation in September at the statewide defense support task force meeting that's being held up at the airport.

So that'll be exciting and get a lot of the right people in the room to hear about this.

So happy to answer any questions or share more information that you might want.

Thank you very much.

Uh great update.

We appreciate that.

Uh, I don't have anyone in the queue.

I have some questions.

Uh Ms.

Pittman, you're in the queue and you are recognized.

Thank you.

To the chair, thank you so much.

Very exciting to hear about this project.

Um, especially here in Duval County and surrounding counties.

One of my questions um regarding the threats in hazards are um our bridges, you know, when I think about our military base, we are connected by bridges.

Um have there been any thought or any um assessments regarding our bridges at the beach as it connects to Duval?

Same on the west side as well.

And also the equipment, major equipment like ships.

Um how is that included in this process?

So there have been multiple conversations about specifically if we talked about at the beaches in Mayport and Blunt Island, kind of the vulnerability of that part of the transportation network.

So there has been a great deal, and and luckily that is a well-studied area.

Um the TPO has done work out there, the University of Georgia has done work on that.

So we have taken a lot of that work, um, and I know that we've worked with your parks department.

There's a lot going on out there about protecting a lot of the flood weight.

So that has been included.

I don't think the bridges are as um big of an issue out there.

It's an understanding of it is a vulnerability, um, but that's only in a specific kind of operational when there's a hurricane coming and the bridges are closed.

Um, we do have done a lot of work on 17 on Route 17 by NAS Jacksonville because of the traffic and those kinds of things.

So transportation has been included wholesale, and there'll be, of course, some recommendations about strengthening and some alternatives to try to relieve some of it.

Okay.

And including the ships as well.

Yes, we've done a lot of work.

Um, the port sits on our steering committee, so we've done a lot of conversations about conversations about dredging and about how they um keep their facilities ready and operational.

Um but you know what's interesting, we talk about equipment.

One of the biggest uh I think things that we'll find is uh it's the railroad that is even almost not more critical, but of equal importance because they do transport so much equipment via rail.

So there also will be some recommendations, I believe, about about the railway as well.

So, yes, equipment kind of from all sides.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Councilman Johnson.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

And Beth, thank you for the chair.

Thank you for the work that you do uh with the regional council.

I know I've worked with you extensively.

Um the question that I have, I know in my district, I'm one of the only two districts in the on the council that has a military installation in it, which is NAS Jacks.

Um, one of the things we were able to do under the last command, and I'm just kind of putting it forward and wondering if there are more things that we can do in this space.

But we were able to take over the uh the city of Jacksonville, the uh maintenance of the traffic lights that are throughout the base, which is a good thing for the Pentagon, but it also brings a money generator for the city of Jacksonville.

Are there other opportunities?

And if not, if that hasn't been explored, I hope that uh I do hope to attend at least one of your meetings coming up soon, but um that we explore those other possibilities that are revenue generators for the city, but also allows them to focus on keeping us safe and we kind of handle the things that we do good, like municipal governance or handling traffic lights.

Correct.

I do think that those conversations are ongoing.

Um I think a lot of that was a little bit with the JEA about some of the maintenance of some things.

Um so yes, those things are absolutely included because right, it only makes sense to tag along with your, especially in the city, which is such a you know a large city with so many resources, so it absolutely does make sense.

So that is a part of the conversation, yes, sir.

Thank you.

Uh no one else in the queue.

I I had one question.

I noticed Kings Bay, obviously Kings Bay is in Georgia, but that's not part of this study.

Was there any thought into considering it?

And I'll use the example.

I was stationed at both NAS Jacks and Kings Bay while living in the same house.

So a lot of our citizens are stationed up there but still live in Duval County.

And I know the Navy, I mean the Navy calls it the tri-base area.

So just wondering, and again, I realize it's in a different state, but just wondering if that was uh part of the conversation or still.

Um but right it is a kind of a little hinky with what the Department of Defense, how they kind of classify.

Similarly, we couldn't cover the Coast Guard um sector that's so important here because they're under Homeland Security and not the Department of Defense.

But we've kind of done our best to still incorporate some of those items.

Um but certainly it it does bear mentioning that we should be at least looking at the Kings Bay Military Installation Readiness Review to see if there's any things that we can glean from from that to apply to ours.

So yeah, I I know the base commanders work together well.

Uh but it makes sense that uh we have to keep the stay within the state, I guess.

Right, right.

I mean, we're gonna do our best to try to now collectively, once uh we finish here in Northeast Florida, the final pieces are um being done for the Pine Castle bombing complex range, which is in like Ocala, Putnam, um, Lake County, and also Bug Spring, which is a a spring that's used to calibrate uh Navy sonar.

So once that wraps up, we'll we'll have a this statewide initiative and we're gonna try to work together to have the state prioritize for their funding the projects that are listed in military installation readiness reviews.

So we collectively as regional councils, all the regional councils in the state are the ones that have done all these MIRRs.

So we're gonna kind of keep pushing and keep working um to keep getting these things funded, whether locally or uh state or federal government.

All right, thank you.

I have no one else in the queue.

Uh so thank you for coming out today.

We look forward to seeing that uh final report later in the year.

Yeah, thank you.

Thank you.

Uh to my colleagues, anybody else have anything before we adjourn?

Then we are adjourned.

Thank you.