Alright, looks like if everybody present has a seat, we'll have a quorum.

And we'll get the meeting started.

All right.

I think I have 13 seated.

All right.

I call to order the King Soutell Crossing CRA meeting.

It is Tuesday, May 12th, 401 p.m.

Legislative Service.

Do we have a quorum?

Just tell me yes on the record.

She says yes, we have a quorum.

Yes, we have a quorum.

The first thing we'll do is entertain a motion for the approval of the February 10th, 2026 minutes.

I move the February 10th 2028.

Got a motion and a second from Councilman Arias on the approval of the minutes.

All in favor of the minutes signify by saying aye.

Aye, any opposed say nay.

The minutes pass.

Now the first agenda item is considering of the KSC fiscal year 2026, 2027 preliminary budget.

So is there any public comment here on the King Suitel budget?

Do we have cards?

I see Mr.

Nooney's in the house.

Okay.

So I'm just anticipating that one of those cards says John Nooney.

Let's start the clock for Mr.

Nooney for public comment.

Do we have a motion for the approval?

We have a motion and seconds.

So we'll start the public comment with Mr.

Nooney.

You can restart his clock.

Hello.

I am John J.

Nooney.

Jacksonville City Council Resolution 2023 0819.

I mean City Council District 4 CPAC planning district three school board district three.

And so this is the King Suitel Crossing, and I see on here the uh the budget and public comment prior to the vote.

And with the King Soutell, you know, uh, you know, I'll be supporting it.

And I just want to say, you know, Ernest Smith, the third's in the house, and I'll be you know, uh, you know, talking about this a little bit later, with the biggest thing with these CRAs, and even with this budget, any, even if it's a buck, if there's any waterway components associated with any of this, open or waterways for everyone now the where in the geographical area of this.

I mean, I'll be looking and asking, but with this budget, I want to be on the record for everyone, and that's why, even with leadership, you know, you know, that's right, Colonel Miller, he's the man.

And then with 2025 0867, Duval County Public Schools CID.

That's not part of the C RA, Mr.

Nooney.

Stick to the CRA, CRA.

CR, it encompasses everything.

It really does.

Wendy Kahn.

Classrooms in Pottsburgh.

Well, anyway, uh I know I was diverting.

Okay, I only down to 20 some seconds.

I support it, but just keep in mind with the budget.

If there's any component with the waterway uh part, consider it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Nooney.

That was our last public comment card on that item.

Ms.

Nazarella, do you have any comments before we vote on the budget?

No, sir.

This is preliminary.

I stand before you, Karen Nazarela, OED staff.

Um, I stand before you every May with a preliminary budget.

We don't have our final numbers until we get um the projections from the property appraiser's office.

They're not due to us till June.

But by code, we do have to have a preliminary budget submitted to the budget office the beginning of June.

Um for CRA's view.

When the new numbers are put in, you will get them with the mayor's budget, and you can take them up as they go through city council process and the finance committee.

All right, thank you.

There is no one in the queue.

Please open the ballot, record your vote.

16 yes, zero nays.

By your action, you've approved resolution KSCRA 2026-2.

Is there any new business?

There is new business, but we'll take it up during renew Arlington's new business.

They are the same, and I want to make sure we have enough time to get through the renewed Arlington agenda.

Any old business for King South Tell?

No, sir.

All right.

Do we have to entertain additional public comments?

No additional action items and no additional public comment will be offered.

So we are now going to close out this meeting and we will now open up the renew Arlington CRA meeting.

Legislative services, do we have a quorum?

Okay.

I guess we're doing a roll call.

You want us to do a roll call?

Sure, why not?

We'll go with the flow.

Sixteen present.

All right.

Now that we've established that, I'm asking for a motion on the approval of the minutes for February 10th, 2026.

We've got a motion and a second from Councilmember Arias on the minutes from February 10th, 2026.

All in favor of the minutes, raise your hand.

See how three.

All right.

Any opposed?

Mr.

Salem abstains.

The minutes pass.

All right.

First agenda item is resolution.

RA CRA 2026-2.

Do we have public comment on this item?

What's that?

Oh, your public comment card wasn't accepted due to uh something you can ask legislative services.

You refuse to correct something, so your your public comment.

Sorry about that.

So are you gonna go?

I've been told by legislative services.

Sorry, you're gonna have to sit down.

You didn't fill it out correctly.

So we um do we have any comments from the director, Ms.

Nazarelli?

Ms.

Nazarella, you have the floor.

Okay, same as before, preliminary budget.

I stand before you ever you may, it's required by code.

Um, it will come back to you.

Um you can't make any changes on this one, but you will as it goes through budget process in August.

We're waiting.

We wait um for the um property appraisers' projections which aren't due to us until June, but by code we have to have a preliminary budget every year.

A little premature, but it's required.

All right, I see no one in the queue for questions.

Did Mr.

Nuny correct his card?

Legislative services.

You've been given directions, we do need a motion by the way.

We got a motion second by council member Aries on the budget.

There is public comment on the next item.

Mr.

Nooney, you can take a stab at it then.

Please open the ballot and record your vote.

16 yes, zero nays.

By your action, you've approved.

All right, so the attorneys tell us that the wrong item was reflected on the screen.

So we need to recast the vote for 2026-2.

Is that correct?

Yes.

We've got a motion and a second by Miss Clark Murray for the reconsider.

All in favor of the reconsider signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay.

We have reconsidered 2026-02 of RACRA.

Can we get a motion?

We've got a motion and second to move on that again.

No one in the queue.

Let's get it up on the ballot.

16 yes, 0 nays.

By your action, you've approved RA CRA 2026-2.

Next item is RACRA 2026-3.

We'll entertain a motion.

Got a motion and a second by Mr.

Lennon.

Is there any public comment?

Looks like Mr.

Nooney is going to make this one.

His card is complete.

Thank you, Mr.

Noone.

You have three minutes.

Please start the clock.

Hello.

I am John.

Philanthropic Jelly Roll.

Good boy resiliency Nooney.

Ojo Trace 56, Baskum Road, Jaxville, Florida 32216.

You know, uh Governor DeSantis Pardon Nooney.

2024 0107.

So this is a three.

That's not the item we're that's not the item we're talking about, Mr.

Nuny.

It's 2026-3 for the Arlington CRA.

Stay on that topic, please.

Is this the consideration for inactive M CGP grant applicants?

Resolution R A C R.

Yes, that's the item.

That's it.

Okay.

I don't know how many there are.

But you know, grant applicants.

You know, where does that money falling back into which bucket?

But uh in the program guidelines, and you know, okay, that's that that is another one.

But again, I just want to reiterate if there is any waterway component with any of this, even with these grants, we got grants tomorrow in waterways, especially with JU stuff.

So just uh uh and the reason I say that is that we have the worst public access ever.

And that's in the reports.

So thank you for listening.

Alright, thank you.

No one's in the queue.

Did you want to speak to this, Miss Nazarella?

I have some prepared remarks because this is a um this is a pretty substantial um policy change.

If it pleases the chair.

Go ahead.

Okay.

So for this item, you may want to pull out of your renew Arlington packages page 22.

It is a mandatory compliance grant program process.

It may help you as we go through this item.

Also, I would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Carla LaPera, our Carla's shell, I guess.

Now, our OGC.

She um we owe her a debt of gratitude for the time she spent in the OED conference room, um, beating this to death and in put in putting together a policy for you to review today.

So we're very grateful.

Um, some background on this.

On June 25th, 2020 2019 ordinance 2019-239 was approved by city council creating a zoning overlay with specific design and performance standards for commercial multi-property multi-family properties located within the renew Arlington CRA.

The overlay mandated that all commercial and multifamily properties come into compliance with these new standards as well as for the mandatory components of landscape, signage, and fencing.

It was agreed that the deadline for compliance would be five years and 90 days after a grant program was approved to assist property owners with the cost of coming into compliance.

On January 28th, 2020, the Renew Arlington Agency Board approved the renewed Arlington Mandatory Compliance Grant Program with resolution RACRA 2020-03, solidifying the deadline of compliance as April 28th, 2025.

This grant is provided on a reimbursement basis to those applicants within the CRA boundary whose properties are deemed to be out of compliance with the requirements of the overlay.

It was created to assist them to offset the cost of coming into compliance.

Fast forward to today, here we are over a year past the deadline with many applicants in the program who are not advancing, not responding to staff emails or to phone calls.

Our policy has always been if you're in the program and you're moving forward, even though that deadline has come and gone, we will work with you to get you over the finish line to completion.

And with that, you will not be cited by code enforcement.

However, if you're in the program and you're not being and you're not moving forward, we cannot protect you from code enforcement, and you're putting your grant eligibility at great risk.

You have for your consideration or proposed policy to define active and inactive grant applicants as well as to establish the process for addressing inactive grant applicants, including termination from the program.

Active applicants, those demonstrating a good faith effort to make to move their project forward and to be responsive to staff.

Inactive applicants are those not demonstrating a good faith effort to make progress on their projects and not responding to communications from staff.

Those are the ones we are going to be addressing today as defined in stages with potential termination for failure to act.

The quick highlights of their policy are written in stages as follows.

Stage one, we haven't received any survey quotes.

There are 19 applicants in this category.

What does that mean after submitting an application?

Their next step is to go and get two survey quotes.

The people in this category have not even done this, done that.

The applicant is directed to obtain two survey quotes containing all the properties and property information, such as topography, tree location, ground improvements, etc.

They send those two quotes to Brian Wheeler, our OED Renew Arlington Design Review.

He comes back to them and says, This is the lowest most qualified bid, go with them, hire them, and work on your survey.

This category they have not even done step one.

So at this stage, they will be sent an email as well as a FedEx giving them five business days to submit or be terminated from the program.

If they comply, they will be allowed to stay in the program.

However, from that this point forward, they will no longer be eligible for soft costs.

They will be required to take the to move all the way to conceptual site plan, at which time they will send it to us.

We will get it through the radar process, which is city review, expedited permitting process, and they will we will get them through the grant process.

At this juncture, they will no longer be required for soft costs.

We won't work with them through that point.

They will have to get us a conceptual site plan on their own.

However, we will cover their project costs.

Again, 19 applicants in that category.

Stage two, no survey produced.

There are 10 applicants in that in this category.

So they submitted the two quotes for surveys, but they never hired a company that we recommended to get the survey completed.

In this stage, they will be sent an email and FedEx giving them 10 days to produce a contract from a survey company to produce a survey, or they will be terminated.

Like the other, if they comply, they will be responsible for product from taking it from the survey to a conceptual site plan at which time they can send it to us.

We will get them through the radar process and create a grant agreement for them, however, their soft costs will not be covered, only their project costs.

Stage three, there are 16 applicants in this category.

We have received no quotes for design professionals.

At this stage, staff has created a mutual mutually agreed conceptual site plan.

That was approved through the radar process.

The applicant must now obtain two quotes for design professional to take the conceptual plan and create plan specifications for the permitting process.

If they produce the two quotes for review, they can stay in the program, but again, soft costs will not be allowed as part of their grant agreement.

They can get us a finalized agreement, we'll get it through radar process and create a grant agreement covering just their project costs.

Lastly, stage four, no design contract at all.

There are eight applicants in this category.

They have provided the due quotes for design professional, however, they have not pulled the trigger on the one that we recommended that they hire to move them forward to the next step.

They will have 30 days to hire a design professional and move forward.

Otherwise, they will be terminated from the program.

Once the grant applicants have been terminated from the program, the notice is final and non-appealable.

This is for your consideration to move some of these folks forward.

Um we have to make some changes and and and get those through the process that are that are responding to us in earnest.

With that, I'll open up for any questions you might have.

All right, Councilmember Clark Murray.

Thank you.

Um through the chair to Ms.

Nasrath, good afternoon to you.

Why do you think there has been such a um a lack of progress or lack of, yeah, lack of progress on any of the applicants' part?

It's do you think that they maybe need one uh day or a series of days with personnel who can guide them through these aspects?

What do you think?

Why do you think they haven't responded in the way that they should, and what do you think a solution might be through the chair?

I can only I can only speculate because they're not responding to us.

I think the biggest problem is change is hard for people.

They don't want to change, and they are putting their heads in the ground like an ostrich, and I guess they think if we're not there to um to enforce what we need to enforce, they're not gonna move forward.

We are there as staff every stage of this process.

We walk them through it.

We have emails that give direction, we do zoom calls, we we are there with them from A to Z.

There is no issue with us abandoning any kind of a grant applicant.

We spend an amazing amount of time with each one of those independently.

These that aren't responding, they just don't want to change.

That's my guess.

But because they don't respond to us, I have no way of knowing.

They won't communicate with us.

We have emails that we have sent them over the years.

I mean, this is going on some of them from 2023 to current, that they're just not responding, and we have to move on.

There's a lot of need in Arlington.

There's a lot of things that we need to redirect money and move forward.

If they don't want to participate, so be it.

We can't force them.

Thank you for that.

And and does this have any direct impact on the reason for the bill that would that's gonna be before us today in regards to expanding those boundaries?

Is it related?

Through the chair, we're not not to my knowledge, we're not expanding any boundaries.

I don't, I don't, I'm not.

Oh, the bill for city council?

No, no, no.

In regards to this your CRA.

Oh, for the that's just for advisory board members.

We're not expanding the boundaries for the CRA.

What we are expanding is we're making we're extending out the criteria and the area for which we can have a larger pool for candidates to be considered to serve on the board.

Okay.

Thank you for that.

Dr.

Salem.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Just to respond to Councilmember Clark Murray.

I think at the beginning of this process several years ago, there was an impression that if you got an application in to this process, you'll be okay.

And I think there are people that weren't real supportive of this process that got in an application and they've just sat on it and done nothing since then.

So I I frankly think that's what's going on.

And I think most of these, and uh, Miss Ms.

Ralla were probably very early on in the process, and they've just done nothing since.

Is that correct?

Yes.

Do the chair, yes, sir.

We have it documented of emails that we've sent that have gone, um, they haven't responded to, and we try everything because we want them in the program.

We want them to move forward.

We want to make Arlington better, but we can't force them, and it's now time to either make a decision to remove them or unfortunately, I think they were given bad information that that just getting an application in solves the problem and and that's obviously that's not the case.

Well, through the chair, that bad information wasn't coming from staff because we gave them deadlines of each stage where they needed to be and respond to us.

So I don't know where it came from, but I have my suspicions, but they're they're simply suspicious.

Thank you.

All right, to the district councilman Kennemaro.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Through the chair to uh Miss Nazarola, um, I miss how many members uh how many you've identified in stage three.

Okay, let me go back to my stages.

So we had 19 in stage one.

Yeah, 19, 10, 8, and stage four.

We had 10 in stage two, 16 in stage three, and eight in stage four.

Through the chair, just to give some context as to the uh number of applications that are now pending, and uh and those that you're working on as to why this is an urgent adjustment uh to the program because uh the dollars can best be used going forward if we clean up and that's what I'd call it a cleanup by getting these guys who are not willing to participate, get them getting them out of the program, and if they do decide to stay, then the penalty is a soft cost, they will have to absorb themselves.

Um it seems like a good fix from the different uh conversations we've had, and I would uh encourage us to go ahead and approve it.

Thank you.

Very much.

There's no one else in the queue.

Please open the ballot record your vote.

16 years, zero nays.

By interaction you've approved RA CRA 2026-03.

Next up, we are actually gonna call on the agency board vice chair, Mr.

Ken.

Uh he's gonna come and introduce this agenda item and then we'll entertain a motion and public comment, etc.

Is Ken here.

Ken is not here.

I see what's going on now.

Okay, um to make a motion on this.

No motion.

Uh let's go to council member.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I move approval and and this portion of the uh uh adjustment that's being made is so that we can have uh a more fair process in dealing with the uh uh fencing reimbursement.

Um, Miss Shell uh worked diligently on this, and I will ask her to expound and give uh broader context if if the motion is second, by the way.

Uh thank you.

All right, just a disclaimer to Vice President Howland.

I thought that was somebody else.

Nazarella before these meetings, so that've got a motion and a second.

Anyone else?

Like to speak.

All right, so do we have any public comment on this?

No public comment on this item.

No one's in the queue.

Please open the ballot, record your vote.

Sixteen years, your own's great job, Ken.

By your action, you've passed RACRA twenty twenty-six-four.

Is there any new business?

New business.

There are two items for both King Sootel and Renew Arlington.

We take them up all of the same.

Um, you have elections coming up next week.

Um, for council leadership.

We will need to get with the staff will need to get with the new council um president to set the dates for the next CRA meetings for the upcoming year.

Uh, uh legislative services likes to include the CRA dates with your council schedules, so they're all compacted into one.

So as soon as that election happens, we will be calling you for a quick meeting to set dates for next year's CRA meetings.

All right, any old business.

One more new does.

Oh, one more new.

Go ahead.

So there's something I just want to bring to your attention.

I'm going to ask that I we meet um that I meet with all of you separately on this, but there are two in two ordinances that were introduced by council member Diamond that are really troubling.

Um twenty twenty six three sixty three regarding permit.

If you want to go ahead and meet with us individually, I'd recommend you do that instead of taking the uh podium there to trash one of my colleagues' bills.

So that'll be all any old business.

Any old business?

Um, no old business.

Okay.

Um public comments, we don't have to take those, do we?

We do.

All right.

Any public comments additional?

Okay, we don't.

All right.

Then we are gaving out of renew Arlington.

We are adjourned.

I don't know, and