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The Winter Park City Commission held a regular meeting on May 27, 2026, at 3:30 PM in City Hall. The meeting began with an invocation, Pledge of Allegiance, and presentations from the Winter Park Housing Authority and Habitat for Humanity. Mayor DeCiccio proclaimed May 27 as David Zusi Day, recognizing his 29 years of service and an $89 million capital improvement program. The City Manager confirmed Kim Breland as City Clerk. Consent agenda was approved. Major discussions included historic preservation direction, a $2.1 million nanobubble grant partnership with Rollins College, conditional use approvals, and a Waste Pro franchise extension.
Meeting adjourned at 6:05 PM.
First invocation by Pastor Bruce Mayhu. Gateway Church followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Please stand in everyone. Thank you so much for that wonderful welcome and introduction. We'll bow together in prayer at this time. Our Father in Heaven, I come before you to give you praise and thank you for the fact that you are our Father in Heaven, that you look down upon us. As we come before you today, I want to thank you for your care. And during this during this Memorial Day week, give thanks for all of those who have given their lives on behalf of our country. We ask you to bless their legacies and their families and loved ones. And we pray for our country. That we would protect the freedoms and rights that have been fought for and died for. We're so blessed to be such a part of a world-changing movement as the formation of the United States of America. We've experienced freedoms, rights, and prosperities unlike any other country in history, and have been able to open the doors to liberty, justice, and prosperity to so many people around the world. I pray that we'll be faithful to the heritage we have received and the responsibilities to which we have been called. The delegates were at an impasse. Human reason and political debates had failed them, and he called upon the convention to turn to the Lord in prayer. He made the motion. Amen. Okay, Joey. Is there anything you would like to add as mayor of the day? Summer is coming up. And I assume that no one will be grounded. That's a good one. And that for the next um eight weeks, um, you have a good summer, okay. Okay, we'll take some photos now. Thank you, everyone, for being here. Hi, next we have the cultural presentation with Mr. Hal George, Winter Park Housing Authority. The podium is yours. Good afternoon, Madam Mayor and Mr. Mayor, Commissioners. I find it a little interesting that the commissioner who asked me to be here today is not here. So anyway, what we thought we would do is I see the pro, I mean the uh yeah, the program shows that we're talking about the housing authority. I'm gonna take just a couple of quick minutes to run through our habitat program, um, which um Commissioner Lindsay had asked me about speaking to uh as well. Um many of you were at our ground, I mean, excuse me, our dedication that we had, and thank you all for coming. Um you see what you probably could see why we do what we do. Um when you see these families attain an affordable house that they own, it's a wonderful event for us. We have built 61 houses since our inception. We're an all-volunteer organization. One of the most unique things that um we find with our organization versus some of the other habitat affiliates is the fact that we embrace um high school and college students, and that's just a huge part of what we do. Um on any given Saturday, we've got 30 high school kids out there or Rollins students, and um it's just a wonderful way to not only introduce them to the community, but to how help let them feel like they're giving back and understand that there are families because a lot of them come from homes that their families own, that that is a privilege that not everybody shares. Um affordable housing in Winter Park has gotten very, very difficult in the last 10, 20 years. Uh when we first started buying habitat lots, I was paying five thousand dollars, three thousand dollars for a lot. Our most recent lot cost three hundred thousand dollars.