The Citizen Advisory Board met on June 17, 2026, primarily to receive a presentation on the city's website redesign project. The board heard survey results, a proposal from Granicus, and discussed future tasks including the parks master plan, bicycle level, and a park renaming policy.
And if I may use the prerogative of the seat to start the meeting off with just a few announcements. I had the opportunity to go Monday. And you were there, you were there to this Northeast Park. And I was involved in it previously when I was chair of the park advisory commission. Get there, my advice. It's absolutely wonderful. Mr. Clinch and your team. Well designed uh park. And um I went there Monday and then yesterday I I took Mrs. Ephren over there, and it was packed with children and their moms and dads. And uh uh that is great. Uh the pickleball courts are filled. I I don't know how they argue who gets next and all of that. And I know that uh we may want to have an orthopedic surgeon sponsor them because I've heard of friends who have done those things, uh fallen, and uh I wanted to um say uh this park is great. Secondly hurricane guy, and if anyone in the audience doesn't have one, um I will give you one. If the committee wants one, uh take them. These are excellent. I applaud you, Lorraine, for putting this together. People I've given to, it's uh fresh, it's uh the pictures are great. It's a reality of what we have been going through. It's an easy read. This looks professional, people love it. Uh fortunately, um they um have uh printed this f and it reinforces your hard work. Um because one of the things that I've talked up here and you've thought is don't put them just up in police departments and fire departments and uh hope that people go there. Um guess what? They're all over. And uh you were at the meeting the other day, or saw me. Uh you know, you tried to dodge me. I still had them. You took these for what communities do you remember? Uh Windwood Water Windwood, Waterford, uh Sawgrass and and um Brooks. And so we've had the traditional locations, but then the untraditional. Uh team for my community is going to be staff uh the farmers market on Saturday to pass these out. The cooperation that we've received from Brianne who is not here today has been tremendous. And I give you a lot of credit for leading the process and the rest of the committee uh for last year's hurricane. The city has addressed what we have talked about, and please tell your staff how much we appreciate it. If you want some, just raise your hand and we'll pass them down. Uh the next thing I wanted to say, um, and I don't know if all the appropriateness is is here, but uh we appreciate the media and we appreciate Mr. Mudge who received a lot of honors and awards recently, and from the uh chair and the committee, we applaud you for receiving many of these awards. Okay. And uh one other thing, we have a new member of our uh team, and her name is Lily, and um Lily, uh welcome. Do you want to tell us a little bit about yourself? There's no reason not to. We want to find out who you are or a little bit. He'll help you. Hi, I'm Lily. Um, I'm an upcoming senior at Venice, and I'm the drum major of the Venice Marching Indians. I'm also a part of the track team, and I'm also on the board of directors for the Jack Rand up Public Library. Yeah, it's a little dummy.