Welcome to the City of St.

Petersburg City Council meeting.

Your elected officials are Mayor Ken Welch.

District 1, Copley Gurdis, District 2, Brandy Gabbard, District 3, Mike Harding, District 4, and Council Chair, Leseth Hanowitz, District 5, Deborah Fig Sanders.

District 6, Gina Driscoll, District 7, Corey Gibbons Jr.

And District 8 and Council Vice Chair, Richie Floyd.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to May 21st, 2026, City Council meeting.

Claire, can I please have a moral call?

Big Sanders, Sanders.

Frisco.

Gibbons here.

Lawyer.

Curtis, Curtis, Gabbard, Harding, Penowitz.

Here.

Today we're going to have our invitation given by Minister Leo.

Harold from the Panel Community.

Please remain here.

Thank you, everyone.

Please bow your heads.

Heavenly Father, we come humbly before you today, asking you for guidance, for wisdom, for unity, and for clarity as we go forth in these proceedings.

God, I pray for your continued blessings over this city and over every person that is sitting here that has come to do your will and for the betterment of our people.

I thank you for this gathering.

God, I ask you for all your blessings to continue over our city.

I thank you in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it is one nation under God.

Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

You may be seated.

Thank you so much, Minister Harrell, for that beautiful invocation.

Chair, I apologize for the sound.

We worked on this this week, and it's obviously still having an issue.

Did you want to take a few minutes while we try and get someone up here to check on it or what would you like to do?

It sounds like it's working now.

Okay, fingers crossed.

I never heard remixed version of my voice.

But if it happens again, I'll do something.

Thank you for that.

We have agenda before us, adding H2, which is a layer action item for today.

I'll entertain a motion for approval.

Move approval.

We have a motion, a second.

Clerk, if you can open the machine for voting.

Council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted.

Clerk, please tally announce the vote.

We have a consent agenda.

Are there any cards?

No cards for the consent agenda.

Undertain a motion for approval.

Move approval.

Second.

We have a motion and a second.

Clerk, if you can open the machine for voting.

Council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted.

Clerk, please tally announce the vote.

Are there any speakers for open forum?

None in person and nobody on Zoom.

Okay, then we move on to new ordinances.

E1.

This is uh setting June 11th, 2026 as a public hearing date for an ordinance amending city code 26-168 and creating a new section 26-169, title neighborhood resident only parking areas.

Clerk.

Proposed ordinance number 638-H.

In order to the City of St.

Petersburg and meaning amending the city code to revise section 26-168 and create a new section 26-169 to be entitled Neighborhood Resident Only Parking Areas.

Renumbering current section 26 169 to section 26 174, provide for server ability and providing for a fit and effective date.

Public hearing for this item is scheduled for June 11th.

We have one card.

Thank you.

We'll take public comment.

Philip Ingram, approach either podium, state your name and address.

You'll have three minutes to address City Council.

Thank you, Councilmembers, for listening to me today.

Uh I represent Trip Signer.

Addresses 2339, Dr.

Martin Luther, King Street, North.

I've been the owner of TRIPS for a number of years.

We've been establishment since 2012.

I come to you tonight, not only someone concerned about his business, his employees, his customers, but also many other businesses in the community.

I truly do appreciate the city's efforts to address neighborhood parking concerns, and I know there are many.

However, I do urge caution regarding the proposed possibility of expansion of resident-only parking districts throughout our city.

St.

Petersburg commercial corridors are successful because they are accessible.

The restaurants, retail shops, and service businesses that make our neighborhoods vibrant depend on customers and employees to be able to park nearby.

Small businesses potentially will bear the greatest burden of this ordinance.

Unlike large developments, independent restaurants and retailers often rely on shared public parking.

Making parking more difficult could reduce customer visits, hurt employee recruitment and retention, discourage investment, increase city budgets to monitor more parking areas, and ultimately impact local tax revenues.

This is especially true for districts outside of downtown proper.

While walkability, transportation and parking is very accessible in downtown via the Sunrunner, Ferry, Looper, Trolley, parking garages, metered parking.

In our areas outside of downtown, businesses do not have the same built infrastructure.

I might even argue that it would give businesses downtown a distinct advantage, or our big box stores that can afford larger real estate spaces.

I know this to be true because I do actually have a restaurant on Central Avenue about a block from here with zero dedicated parking spots, and it works, but only because of the surrounding infrastructure.

But unfortunately, this is not the case along the MLK Street corridor.

After having street parking removed in front of businesses a little over a decade ago for bike lanes, we now face another potential roadblock for business planning, investment, and success.

I am currently in the process of planning on spending approximately $50,000 this year on our facility for upgrades to make a great new place and updated place in our neighborhood.

But how could I or any other business owner make that decision under the threat of dramatically reduced business accessibility, essentially overnight?

I would love the opportunity to connect and partner with anyone to find solutions for both our residents and businesses and speak on this in more detail.

And I appreciate your time.

Thank you.

I just had one quick question for you, Evan, about this.

Um I think I know the answer, but I want to get clarity.

Uh, if this were to come, it's not going to require entire neighborhood associations to uh sign off.

It's just going to be the areas that want to uh have resident only passes inside of those neighborhoods.

Is that correct?

Um let me answer that in a few ways.

One is uh just to set the framework after today's first reading, then we still have a public hearing June 11th.

That would create room within the code to consider actually implementing these.

So on June 11th, we don't have any areas um by this restaurant or anywhere else that we're proposing to implement right away, and the way that this is set up is that if there were an area by trips or anywhere else that would require separate council action, and so then all of these competing interests that we kind of talked about a little bit in committee could be considered along with the final decision.

So we would require also when there's interest for two-thirds of the residents in an area to be in favor of adding it.

Yeah, I think it's in an area that I'm looking for clarity on defining when you're and then we would also um the code uh calls for us to consult with any active neighborhood association and advise council at a future meeting if they have a position one way or another.

That's fine.

I'm just trying to understand when uh say a neighborhood was interested in getting um, say a not even a neighborhood, forgive my language, and an area for lack of better word, was interested in getting uh resident-only parking passes.

Uh, how would you define that area?

Who would have to be uh who would have to vote to uh get over the threshold?

That those are the clarifying things I'm looking for.

So this would be similar to when we're designating a historic district.

You have to, you know, come together.

There's usually some preliminary meetings to kind of set the boundaries, but once those boundaries are defined, and we do have definitions that they would have to meet for what would be a qualifying residential area, it has to be contiguous of a certain size.

Once those boundaries are set, then it would be the two-thirds of all the residents within that square would have to vote to approve because that's where the signs would be placed, that's where the restrictions would meet.

Okay, yes.

I uh felt pretty confident about this.

Uh, but have had constituents repeatedly ask, like my whole neighborhood's not gonna have to vote for it, right?

And I guess it would be, you know, if your whole neighborhood qualified, ask for it, drum through all the hoops.

They qualified and decided that that was the the area they wish to propose to the department, then that would be the requirement for the two-thirds.

Okay, of course.

All right, but uh that is not uh a requirement uh make the application requirement in the application that it has to be an entire neighborhood.

That's the clarity I'm looking for.

Uh I just wanted to get that out there so that anyone who's watching this could uh understand that that's the case.

That's correct.

Oh, I'll leave it there.

Uh thank you.

I'll leave it there.

And that's a great question.

And just to clarify, there are legal requirements that have to be met to have those residential parking areas, correct?

Yes, there's the um requirement that within a discrete area that's being proposed that enough people are interested, and then there's traffic studies done to make sure that it warrants a placement with outside the area's parking, and that's similar to what we've done in the past.

And then after all those steps have made, then it comes to city council, and then council considers each area before they're placed in code and before an any enforcement would happen.

Okay, thank you.

Uh council member givens.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Um, thank you, uh Vice Chair Floyd for asking some of the questions that I wanted to ask.

I do have another question, it's probably staff directed.

Um, can you kind of explain for those who are listening who are new who may not be aware of how we got here, how this came about?

Was it a staff request?

Was that initiated by staff?

Was it initiated by the residents in the area?

Well, we've talked about this on and off for years, but what got us to committee was a referral from a council member that was approved by this board and referred to committee.

Okay.

Um I heard you mention, Evan, that we're required to consult with neighborhood associations, we're required to consult with residents, but what about businesses?

What is the requirement there?

That would be our intent to um identify any businesses within the area that we feel could be affected and bring that forward uh for each zone.

I appreciate that clarification.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you.

Councilmember Gurdis.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

And Heather, you had said this earlier, but I just want to double down on any of these areas come before council before a decision is made, correct?

Yes, and that's why you'll see at the very end of the ordinance there's just a subsection D permit areas, and then it's blank.

That's where we anticipate that as further areas come through and go through the process, that would be a separate ordinance, and then that would be amending the code to place that area.

When it comes in front of city council, if we thought an area should be limited by a block or two, uh, could we do that?

Because in they had had two-thirds of an area.

So let's say it's 10 blocks and we decided we don't want it to be 10 blocks, we want it to be eight blocks.

Could we do that?

As long as you were making it smaller and everybody who could potentially be affected had proper notice.

Perfect.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, madam chair.

Move approval.

Second.

You have a motion and second.

Clerk, if you can open the machine for voting, council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted.

Clerk, please tell me announced the oh, yeah, please tell me announce the vote.

Thank you.

Thank you, Evan, for being here.

Thank you.

Next up, we have committee reports, H1, Councilmember Gabbard.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Sorry, pulled up the wrong one.

My apologies.

Uh this was from the HERS committee, May 21st.

This is simply a housekeeping item from the referral list.

So we are respectfully requesting city council approval of a motion to combine the following items on the HERS referral list.

One, a discussion on the city's environmental purchasing policy, which was Councilmember Driscoll's, and two, a report from the administration on ISAP energy consumption renewable goals and progress to date.

And that was Councilmember Floyd's.

And with that, I so move.

We have a motion and second.

Clerk, if you can open a machine for voting.

Council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted.

Clerk, please tell me announced the vote.

Madam Chairman to approve agenda H1 passes unanimously with Council Member Driscoll being absent.

We have H2.

That's again Councilmember Gabbard.

All right.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

So this one, this is kind of coming to you from the Lair Committee this morning.

Um so this morning, May 28th, and our legislative affairs and intergovernmental relations committee.

Uh, the committee passed a resolution pending a couple of um changes to some whereas clauses, which you have in front of you now, which is a resolution urging the Florida legislature to carefully consider the impacts of property tax reform.

So you do have the amended resolution here with language as discussed and prepared by legal.

We do have uh Brett Pettigrew here.

If there are any questions about the language, um, but we do have that resolution here, and I so move approval.

Okay, no motion and second.

Council member Gurtes.

Thank you, madam chair.

Councilmember Gabbard just wanted to thank you for bringing this forward.

And I happened to see your Facebook post yesterday, too, and I uh wasn't sure if I could have explained it any better.

So well done.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Yes, Councilmember Gabbard, this is very timely.

I'm so glad that we got it up here from Lear this morning, and um I think it's it's something that we found out information today out there in terms of what the legislature is proposing and the amount of reduction of property taxes that is it's it's not minimal.

Okay, it's the opposite of minimal, it's it's substantial when you're talking about a potential 70-something million dollar hit if you increase it to 250,000 dollars in terms of a property tax exemption for properties in the city of St.

Petersburg, that equates to 70 something million dollars.

What we pay for with our real estate property taxes is police and fire, and it doesn't cover everything.

So when you think about taking a 70 something million dollar hit, that money's gonna have to come from somewhere or something or because they're re telling us we cannot decrease police and fire, and I don't know where they think we come up with 70 something million dollars because they're not providing it.

And we're supposed to provide essential safety services to our public, and that's what the public expects.

So I just want to be clear that when we're talking about the property tax reduction and what the state is doing.

I will tell you at the end of the day, it's police and fire that are looking at this being hit, and if we have to if we have to fund them, then it's gonna have to come from some other pot of money, whether it's parks, whether it's whatever, it could be it could be letting people laid off, and it could also mean frankly, the reality is a shifting of cost, and maybe there is a separate fire fee and a police fee out there to cover these costs because people are gonna still expect police and fire.

So I just want to put that out there.

I know there are other council members that want to speak on this, but this is something that I urge everyone to really get educated about in terms of our budget, and when you look at our full budget amount, there's parts of our budget that are pertain to our capital projects that are pertain to enterprise funds that pertain to our utility systems.

Those funds have nothing to do with our our general uh fund budget and our operating expenses, and so it really is a huge chunk.

And unfortunately, Tom is out because he probably can give us the exact percentage of what we would be looking at in terms of reduction.

But this is not one, this is not two, this is not five percent, it's more than 10 percent.

Um, so anyhow, uh, Councilmember Fake Sanders.

Thank you, Chair.

Um, I just want to um thank Council Member Gabbard for being proactive in getting this done and preparing it, and I do um appreciate the rewording or the rescripting of what you actually um put together on this, so I I just pray that it falls on the ears and on the desk of those that really need to receive this and understand where the city council of the city of St.

Petersburg stand on this, but I just wanted to give my appreciation to you for actually putting this together as well as the very conscious and careful conversation we had um during the lair meeting this morning.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Vice Chair Floyd.

Thank you.

Uh, and thank you, Councilmember Gabbard, for this.

Um, you know, I hope that they listen is what I would say because uh you know, was online a little bit uh before we came back to the meeting, and just seeing a lot of nonsense about uh, you know, tax revenue growth since the pandemic, and it's just junk.

I mean, do people not remember how much inflation went up and how those things hit things like uh construction and materials, things that we buy significantly, like our costs have been impacted uh just the same.

And if you're thinking that you know we can just cut waste out, like if we're wasting things, everybody up here is constantly looking for us to cut things like that.

So it's just an absurd uh implication, and um, you know, I think uh the honest truth though is that you know, property taxes are a wealth tax that disproportionately impact people with more wealth, and that's who the state legislature answers to, unfortunately, quite frequently.

And so I think that does explain a little bit of the uh thought process here.

So I'm frustrated by the rhetoric going around.

I think everybody here is working constantly on being a good fiscal steward and uh doing everything we can to keep costs low.

And so uh this this imp there there's not gonna be a magic wand that we can wave to uh not have to cut services if if this kind of thing were to go through.

Like we will all feel a serious crunch.

And so I just wanted to put that on the record since I have been uh a little disappointed in some of the rhetoric coming from Tallahassee around this.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Again, people think it disappears, it's either a shifting of cost or a reduction of services.

At the end of the day, that's what it's gonna end up being.

With that being said, Clerk, if you can open the machine for voting, council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted, Clerk, please tally announce the vote.

Thank you.

Well, we have a few minutes to uh public hearings at 501.

So we'll take a short break and return for public hearings.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

J four I believe can be taken together directly.

Move approval of J1 through J 4.

Second.

Motion and second.

I think that all present council members have voted.

Clerk, please telling House to vote.

Madam Chair, motion to approve of genanimus J1, J2, J3, and J4 passes unanimously.

Thank you.

It's always great to see you, Joe at 501.

And you go at 502, that's right.

Next up, we have J6 and the ordinance amending city code chapter 4 to designate the city as a bird sanctuary.

Clerk, if you can read the ordinance.

Adding a new section 4-10 designating the city of St.

Petersburg as a bird sanctuary, providing server providing for servability and providing an effective date, and we do not have any cars on this item.

Move approval.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

Clerk, if you can open the machine for voting.

Council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted.

Clerk, please telling that to vote.

Madam Chair, motion to approve agenda J6 passes unanimously.

Thank you.

Oh, Councilmember Driscoll.

Thank you.

And uh thanks to everyone for supporting this item.

It's really exciting.

Um I just wanted to see if uh maybe Heather could explain to us what happens next because we there is still one more step on the state level for this one.

Correct.

So as you see in the effective date language of the ordinance, it's a little different than normal because this the effective date of this language going into the code is dependent on it being approved at the August meeting of FWC.

We have to go and get them to approve the designation of the bird sanctuary.

And so with this being passed today, we're gonna go ahead and submit our completed application because we had to show through ordinance that we um would be setting the area and also placing the signage, and that was part of the application requirement.

So we do have contact at FWC to submit this to.

So as soon as we get any information back from FWC, I would anticipate requesting to come back as a report item to just update everyone on what we have and then go forward from there.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, and thank you for bringing this forward.

Exciting.

Thank you, Heather.

We recess that city council.

Now we're gonna convene as CRA.

We take up CRA two, a resolution recommending the city council authorized the mayor designate to execute an agreement with BCT for the development of five single family affordable homes on the property generally located at 2013-2021, 18th Avenue South, and sell the property to BCT contingent on the affordable homes being sold to qualified home buyers or qualified land trusts catered below 120 and percent AM.

Thank you, good afternoon, chair and council members.

Um so we're here today to talk about two city-owned parcels that are located on 18th Avenue South between the streets of 20 and 21st Street South that were acquired in 2010 during the neighborhood stabilization program.

These are the last lots that are still in the NSP uh program.

The other ones lent a lot disposition.

So the city had received an unsolicited proposal from Bright Community Trust, and we have the CEO Frank Wallace from Bright here.

If you guys have any questions for him, um the proposal consists of building five cottage-style homes uh that would be sold to 120 percent AMI buyers.

Um they would have the two-bedroom, one bath, and they are wanting to use a really innovative technology for 3D printing.

So they have another one right now in a lot disposition in the community, so um, it would be a really cool model.

It really speeds up the um construction timeline.

So they have about 30 months from October 1st to complete construction, which is quite quick for five single family homes, and they'll share kind of like a community garden in the middle.

Um so it's pretty exciting.

Um, so we are we are wishing to enter into a lease with them.

Uh, do you have any questions for Bright or for me?

Okay.

Well, we'll go to public comment, Madam Chair.

We have one speaker, Frank Wells.

Please please go to either podium, state your name, address, or cross street.

And you have three minutes to address city council.

Thank you so much, Frank Wells, president of Bright Community Trust, unfortunately no longer a resident of this fair city, much to my dismay.

Just wanted to say thank you on behalf of Bright Community Trust.

We've been working with the city of St.

Petersburg for years developing single-family homes, particularly through the lot disposition program.

Uh want to point out that this 3D printing technology, we have one under construction now.

The slabs been poured.

So we're about a month out from actually starting the 3D printing.

So we'll send you all an invitation.

I understand it's in your council vacation time.

So maybe those of you who are available can come join us on June 22nd.

For that event, and we can show off what 3D printing is going to look like.

We're really excited about anything that impacts affordability and timelines, and of course, time is money and housing development work.

So thank you so much for that.

Want to point out also about this particular project.

Bright is now working around about half the state of Florida.

We're doing housing development work.

We're also doing a lot of convening around other issues.

Evictions and foreclosures became a big one through the pandemic.

Increasing home ownership rates is a convening process that we're undertaking in Central Florida.

One of the things that we, in partnership with Schimberg Center for Housing Studies at University of Florida, identified was a big gap for starter homes.

And so this represents an opportunity for us to try out building some starter homes here in the city of St.

Petersburg.

When we build, it's mostly three-bedroom homes and occasional four-bedroom home.

We haven't built two-bedroom homes in a long time, and we think that this constitutes an opportunity for folks to get a first step onto that home ownership ladder to get out of the cycle of renting, to get into home ownership to start building up some household equity, and then eventually if they want to graduate into another form of home ownership and a bigger property if that's appropriate.

But we're really excited about one, the 3D printing, but two the opportunity to try out this uh starter homes project here in the city of St.

Pete that's been such a great partnership.

So thank you all so much.

It's so good to see so many old friends.

Nice to be back at this podium after a while.

So thanks very much.

Thank you.

Councilmember Fix Andrews.

Thank you, and good to see you, Mr.

Wells.

I have one quick question in regards to where it says affordable homes being sold to qualified homeowners or qualified land trust.

Explain that qualified land trust part and assure the constituents that that doesn't mean you're not transferring ownership for them to take the AMI up or remove the affordable housing.

What does that mean?

Thanks.

Great question.

So uh Bright operates primarily as a community land trust, meaning we will always hold ownership of the land underneath, or in some cases transfer it back to the city with a similar 99-year renewable ground lease, so that not only we get an affordable home for the first home buyer, but we get an affordable home at the next sale and the next sale and the next sale and the next sale in perpetuity.

We think it's a great way to be good stewards of our relatively scarce public dollars that are invested in these kinds of projects.

So when that says transfer to a land trust, that could mean uh Bright would transfer the land to another land trust to hold these in perpetuity as perpetually affordable, but that affordability restriction at 120% AMI is never gonna go away.

Regardless, okay, thank you for that clarity absolutely.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you.

Councilmember Gavin.

Thank you, madam chair, and uh I don't have any questions.

I just want to say projects like this, just I think they check all the boxes.

First of all, Frank, thank you for you know, even though you are not one of our residents anymore, continuing to uh you know make affordable housing a priority in the city of St.

Petersburg, bringing innovation.

Um, you were, you know, one of the first people to ever speak to me about land trusts many, many years ago.

And so thank you for all of the knowledge that you have bestowed on me.

Um, that you know, certainly to see you here today and this project um, you know, coming forward.

And just to kind of bring in, like, you know, this is why we did the city owned land policy.

Like this is a great example of that work.

Um, and then when you add a community garden on top of it, like sold, done, done, and done.

So very, very excited to push my button yes today.

And please do send um that invite for June 22nd, because some of us might be around, and I would love to come and celebrate with you.

So, all right, very good.

Thank you.

Councilmember Given.

Thank you, Chair.

And Frank, always good to see you.

Uh, way to kill two birds at one stone.

Uh, combating food insecurity and the affordable housing crisis all in one in within my district, so thank you.

Uh, like Council Member Gabbard, I met you probably about 10 years ago.

I don't know if you remember this, but we were on 23rd, and you were giving me a tour of another property, another project that you had endeavored to rehabilitate in the heart of South St.

Peace.

So, this isn't something that you're new to, you're true to it.

So, thank you for not forgetting us here in St.

Petersburg.

Um, did have a quick question for you though.

Are you familiar with um first?

Let me ask you this.

How do you target your prospective applicants?

So at Bright, uh, we get the homes built, and while we're doing that, we start marketing the homes.

We have a realtor that we've been working with for the better part of a decade now, who's very experienced at looking for folks who are income qualified.

So he's our first means of outreach.

Uh we try to put the word out on social media and other kinds of marketing channels.

We also look at opportunities like June 22nd to get some media attention to come out, and when we talk with the media, then we'll be saying, hey, look, this is gonna be five homes.

If this interests you, uh let us know.

Here's our contact info.

So we try to start getting the word out early and market these homes and then go through the formal income qualifying process and make sure that we get income qualified buyers in there.

I appreciate that information.

Um, and thank you for sharing that.

I would recommend that you connect me with whoever this realtor is.

I'm not sure if they're local or not, but uh the St.

Pete Housing Authority has a family self-sufficiency program, and those who complete that program they help connect them to home ownership opportunities very similar to this.

Um, so I think there are some great candidates who are looking for some homes uh to, as you say, kind of get their feet wet, you know, kind of get that first foot in the door.

And this is a great option for that single parent or that senior citizen who is looking to finally make that dream a reality.

So, thank you for not just creating affordable housing opportunities, uh, but thank you for making those opportunities a reality.

I appreciate it, friend.

Thank you so much, council member.

And we have periodically spoken with St.

Pete Housing Authority about this exact program because we love the idea of folks graduating from publicly assisted housing into publicly assisted homeownership.

Like what a what a fantastic way to connect the dots.

So very excited about that.

Thanks.

Minds think alike.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you.

Well, thank you for the great work.

I'll entertain the motion.

Move to approval.

Second.

Well, motion and second.

Clerk, if you can open the machine for voting.

Council members, please enter your votes.

Seeing that all present council members have voted, clerk, please calmly announce the vote.

Madam Chair, motion to approve a genome CRA two passes unanimously.

Great.

Well, thank everyone for your work on the Isabella.

Thank you for joining us on this.

Uh now we adjourn at CRA, and we can be in the city council, and we take up J5.

Approval.

Second.

So motion and second, Clerk, if you could open the machine for vote.

I think it's here's something here.

Okay.

Seeing that all council members have voted, Clerk, please tally announce the vote.

Madam Chair, motion to approve adjourned J5 passes unanimously.

Great.

Thank you.

May I have 30 seconds of personal privilege to take a selfie with y'all?

Absolutely.

Make sure you got me.

You good?

Okay.

Thank you all.

Next up, we have open forum.

Do we have any speakers?

None in person, none in Zoom.

Okay.

Now we move on to announcements.

Any announcements?

Wow, no announcements today.

Um, Councilmember Driscoll, thank you.

And I'm sure that if um Pelicans and ducks and herons and parakeets could talk, they would thank you as well.

I am headed to the Kokineke neighborhood Association meeting this evening, and I can't wait to tell them the good news that this has passed and is on its way to becoming a reality.

Um, some of the residents there were quite passionate about this happening, and um I'm just really excited to be able to share this with them.

And um the Audubon Society was extremely supportive as well, and I appreciate all that they um did to help me with this and for all that they do for our city.

Thank you.

Great, great work, Councilmember Driscoll, very innovative to solve an issue that happened in Coquina Key.

So with that said, uh, it seems like our business is done for the day.

So with that, meeting adjourned.

Thank you all.