Jul 08, 2024 City Commission Budget Workshop

[1. Call to Order]

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>>> I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER. FT. PIERCE OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP. IT IS MONDAY JULY 8TH. PLEASE STAND

FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. >> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD INDIVISIBLE WITH

LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. >> CALL THE ROLL PLEASE PICK

>> OKAY FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE MEDIA

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>> MOTION TO APPROVE >> THERE IS EMOTION AND A

SECOND. >> CALL THE ROLL PLEASE PICK

>> NEXT WE HAVE ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS TO THE AGENDA AND

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APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA. >> ANY ADDITIONS OR DELETIONS?

>> MOTION TO APPROVE >> SECOND

>> CALL THE ROLL PLEASE >> NEXT WE HAVE COMMENTS FROM

THE PUBLIC. >> IS THERE ANY MEMBER OF THE COMET THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION? LEAST COMPORT. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. I SEE -- NO PUBLIC HERE. SO LET'S MOVE ON.

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>> NEXT WE HAVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.

>> ANY DISCUSSION OR EMOTION >> THERE IS EMOTION AND A SECOND. CALL THE ROLL PLEASE PICK

>> OKAY -- UNDER NEW BUSINESS WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION OF

[a. Presentation of Proposed FY 2024-2025 General Fund Budget]

>> MET AMIR INTO THE OF THE COMMISSION TODAY I'M PLEASED TO BRING TO YOU A BALANCED BUDGET FOR FY 2025. THAT IS GOING TO BE PRESENTED TO YOU BY OUR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. THIS AGENDA FOR OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP THIS MORNING SHALL INCLUDE AN OVERALL REVIEW AND PRESENTATION OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET. ALSO A FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL PROJECTION. IN ADDITION WE SHALL GO OVER OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM. AS YOU CAN SEE FROM OUTSIDE AND ALSO FROM THE CIP DOCUMENTATION WE ARE AS BUSY AS WE HAVE EVER BEEN. OUR CIP IS ROBUST AND MR. ANDREWS IS GOING TO EXPLAIN TO YOU ALL OF THE INTRICACIES OF THAT PLAN. THEN WE SHALL HAVE A FIVE-STAR PRESENTATION BY ARCHIE AND HER COMMAND STAFF.

OUR FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE WILL GO OVER THIS EXCESSES OF THE DEPARTMENT AN OVERVIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES AND TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE SHALL ALSO GO OVER OUR PEACE INITIATIVE TO ACCOMPANY THE SUCCESSES OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT TACTICS AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES. THEN WE SHALL DISCUSS A COMPREHENSIVE AND PROACTIVE MARKETING PROGRAM WHICH HAS BEEN REQUESTED BY OUR CITY COMMISSION DURING VARIOUS STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSIONS.

LAST BUT NOT LEAST WE SHALL DISCUSS THE UTILIZATION OF OUR FACILITIES. CITY HALL AND THE SUNRISE CENTER. THE FIRST AND THE FOURTH FLOOR WHICH ARE CURRENTLY VACANT AT THIS TIME.

FINANCES GOING TO GO OVER OUR GENERAL FUND BUDGET WHICH TOTALS OVER $64 MILLION AT THIS TIME. BEING BROUGHT TO YOU BY A -- THE CELL SHALL REMAIN UNCHANGED IN OUR PROPOSAL. IN ADDITION THIS IS FUELED BY AN 11.5 INCREASE IN OUR PROPERTY VALUATION. THERE ARE SEVERAL KEY ISSUES IN THIS GENERAL FUND BUDGET. TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL POSITIONS SALARY INCREASES FOR OUR NONBARGAINING AND BARGAINING EMPLOYEES. AS WELL AS THE ABSORPTION OF HEALTH AND DENTAL INSURANCE INCREASES TO NOT AFFECT THE TAKE-HOME PAY OF OUR EMPLOYEES. SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO I WANT TO TURN THIS OVER TO OUR ILLUSTRIOUS DIRECTOR OF FINANCE JOHN MORRIS.

>> GOOD MORNING MAYOR COMMISSIONERS. MR. MIMS COULD'VE KEPT GOING. HE WAS ALMOST DONE WITH THE ENTIRE BUDGET PRESENTATION. BUT AS HE STATED WE ARE PRESENTING TO YOU A BALANCED BUDGET WITH THE PROPOSED BALANCE OF $63,405,381. IT IS A 4,517,942 DOLLARS INCREASE FOR FROM OUR

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>> BEFORE WE GO TO EXPENDITURES ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?

>> QUESTIONS? >> OUR EXPENDITURES THERE ARE SIX NEW NET POSITIONS THAT ARE GOING TO BE ADDED INTO OUR GENERAL FUND ACCOUNT. YOU WILL SEE A TOTAL I THINK IT WAS UP SEVEN, BUT SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS THEY WERE AT IT THIS FISCAL YEAR. BUT FOR THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR WE ARE ADDING ONE POSITION TO THE CITY MANAGER'S BUDGET. THAT WILL BE AN FPR A POSITION AND FUNDED.

WE'VE GOT THE CITY ATTORNEY POSITION WHERE YOU SEE THAT POSITION. WE'VE GOT ONE HR POSITION THAT IS GOING TO BE ADDED. ONE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE ENFORCEMENT POSITION AND THERE IS AN ENGINEERING POSITION THAT IS GOING TO BE STORM WATER FUNDED. AND THEN THE LEISURE SERVICES POSITION THAT WAS AT AT THIS YEAR BUT IT IS AN ADDITIONAL COUNT ON TO OUR PERSONNEL COUNT. SO THESE ARE THE SIX FUNDED POSITIONS. NEW POSITIONS THAT WILL BE ADDED TO THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET.

>> BUILDING TO THIS BUDGET IS COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT OR INCREASE OF 5% FOR ALL OF OUR BARGAINING AND NONBARGAINING EMPLOYEES. THE COST OF LIVING INCREASES THAT ARE BUILT INTO

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>> AS ALWAYS AS OUR POLICE BUDGET IS 20 MILLION OF THE 63 MILLION THAT WE HAVE BUDGETED THAT IS 32.5% OF THE GENERAL

FUND TOTAL BUDGET. >> IN OUR RETIREMENT CONTRIBUTION THERE IS AN INCREASE FOR OUR GENERAL OF 1 -- 1%. FOR POLICE IT IS ONE POINT TO 4%. OUR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS AS MR. MIMS SAID WE BUILT IT TO WHERE IT IS ABSORBED INTO THE GENERAL FUND. ONLY BECAUSE OF LIKE YOU SAID WE HAD SO MUCH INCREASE IN EXPENSES FOR EVERYBODY. NOT ONLY THE CITY BUT OUR EMPLOYEES AS WELL. AND TO GIVE A 5% INCREASE AND THEN WE EAT IT UP WITH HEALTH INSURANCE INCREASE.

AND ALSO OUR HEALTH INSURANCE WE HAVE BEEN AND DENTAL, HAS BEEN SO GREAT FOR US WHERE THIS INDUSTRY NORM HAS BEEN SEEN INCREASES OF ABOUT 25 TO 30% YEAR OVER YEAR OVER YEAR. PRM HAS PROVEN TO BE THE BEST OF THE BEST FOR US.LAST YEAR WE HAD NO INCREASE AT ALL. THE PRIOR YEAR WE HAD .8% INCREASE.

THE YEAR BEFORE THAT THERE WAS NO INCREASE AT ALL. OTHER MUNICIPALITIES ARE SEEING THESE LARGE INCREASES, WE HAVE NOT REALLY EXPERIENCED . THERE HAS NOT REALLY BEEN ANY INCREASE FOR THE CITY AS IT RELATES TO THESE COSTS AS WELL. SO TO ABSORB THE FOUR-POINT 9% WHICH AGAIN IS A PHENOMENAL FEET INCREASE BASED ON WHAT THE INDUSTRY IS SEEING. WE ABSORBED THAT AS WELL. FOR OUR DENTAL INSURANCE WE ARE DOING A VENDOR CHANGE. FOR OUR EMPLOYEES WE CHANGED FROM THE STANDARD FROM FLORIDA COMBINED LIFE TO THE STANDARD. THAT HAS NOT PROVEN TO BE VERY WELL FOR US. THOUGH THE SERVICE WAS THERE. A LOT OF THE VENDORS DID NOT TAKE THAT INSURANCE. SO WE ARE GOING BACK TO FLORIDA COMBINED LIFE WHO PROVIDED US A GREATER DISCOUNT.

WE WERE GOING TO SEE A DENTAL INCREASED EITHER WAY. BUT FLORIDA COMBINED LIFE IS ONLY GOING TO BE THE 10% PLUS THEY ARE GIVING US WELLNESS DOLLARS TO A TWO-YEAR WELLNESS CAP TOTAL OF $35,000. WE WILL GET $17,000 500 PER YEAR TO GO TO OUR WELLNESS BOND. WE WILL ONLY EXPERIENCE THE 10% . WE ARE GOING BACK TO THE PROVIDER THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE THAT WE KNOW THAT OUR CURRENT EMPLOYEES THEIR DENTIST TAKE AND IT IS ALSO PART OF FLORIDA BLUE OUR CURRENT INSURANCE PROVIDER. IT

WILL WORK OUT BETTER. >> AND ALSO WHILE WE ARE ON HEALTH I WANT TO NOTE ALSO SO OUR EMPLOYEES AND THE PUBLIC WILL KNOW AS WELL. WE CURRENTLY HAVE OR WE PROVIDE WHICH HAS ALSO HELPED BENEFIT WITH OUR INCREASED OUR DECREASES AND INCREASES IN OUR HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUM. BECAUSE WE PROVIDE AN EXTRA HEALTH BENEFIT TO WHERE WE ALLOW OUR EMPLOYEES TO GO TO OUR CURRENT CLINIC. IS IT CARE NOW? MD NOW. IT HAS CHANGED NAMES 1 MILLION TIMES. MD NOW. BUT WE ARE LOOKING TO DO AN RFP OR PIGGYBACK TO CHANGE THAT. WE'VE HAD BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT AND ALL WE HAVE HAD ISSUES. SO WE KNOW IT BENEFIT IT IS A BENEFIT GREAT BECAUSE LIKE GOING ASSESSMENT ALLOWING THE EMPLOYEES ARE PROVIDING THAT SERVICE FOR EMPLOYEES TO GO AND NOT HAVE TO GO TO A GENERAL PRACTITIONER OF THE HOSPITAL, AND IT DOES NOT AFFECT OUR HEALTH INSURANCE. EXPERIENCE. WHICH KEEPS OUR PREMIUM COSTS DOWN. WE BUDGET TO SPEND $100,000 ANNUALLY THERE WHICH WE NEVER CAP WE NEVER REACH THAT CAP. BECAUSE WE PROVIDE THAT SERVICE, IT IS KEPT OUR INSURANCE PREMIUM DOWN. AND COST. BUT WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A CHANGE BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING QUITE A FEW CHALLENGES TO WHERE IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE FREE TO THE EMPLOYEES. AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WHEN THEY GO. SOME ARE BEING CHARGED AND WE ARE HAVING TO GO BACK AND FORTH TRYING TO RECOUP THAT COST. SO WE ARE LOOKING TO CHANGE THAT PROVIDER. THAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING.

>> NEXT AS IT RELATES TO THE OPERATING EXPENDITURES THERE HAVE BEEN WE LOOKED AT ALL OF THOSE LINE ITEMS AND REEVALUATED AND ADJUSTED THOSE AS NEEDED. WE WILL HAVE EIGHT

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>> YOU SAID YOU WANTED 25,000 WHETHER THE TWO MAIN STREETS.

TWO FESTIVALS. DON'T WE ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO SIGHTS AND

SOUNDS? >> IS THAT A DIFFERENT LINE

ITEM? >> THE SAME LINE ITEM BUT THERE WAS NO INCREASE FROM YEAR TO YEAR AS TO WHAT WE FIND.

>> BUT THEY ARE STILL THERE. >> THAT FIREWORKS ALL OF THOSE.

>> JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE. >> AS WE LOOK AT OUR DEBT LIMIT AND OUR CURRENT DEBT SITUATION, WHICH IS PHENOMENAL. WE'VE DONE A GREAT JOB AT DECREASING BAD. YOU WILL SEE WHAT OUR FISCAL YEAR THAT PAYMENT IS AND HOW MUCH OF THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST THAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE REMAINING. OUR TOTAL DEBT THAT IS APPLICABLE TO LIMIT IS $16 MILLION. I SAY WHAT IS APPLICABLE TO THE LIMIT BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THE OTHER FUNDS OUR DEBT WILL GOES TO OUR LIMIT IS OUR GENERAL FUND DEBT. WHAT IS OBLIGATED. OF THE GENERAL FUND DEBT AND WHAT IS APPLICABLE WE ONLY HAVE $16 MILLION. WE HAVE $67 MILLION DEBT LIMIT. OUR AVAILABLE CAPACITY IS $50 MILLION FOR DEBT BUT WE ARE ONLY AT THE 16 WHICH IS AWESOME. AND YOU SEE FPR A THAT IS 25 MILLION. NEXT I AM SHOWING BASED ON 2024 HOUR DEBT BALANCE WAS. AT WHICH WAS 36 MILLION WITH OUR GENERAL AND FPR A. AT 2025 IT GOES DOWN TO 31 MILLION ONCE WE MAKE THOSE.

I PUT OUR TOTAL BALANCE IF YOU SEE FISCAL YEAR 25 FISCAL YEAR 12 WE WERE $95 MILLION. THAT WAS WHAT OUR DEBT LIMIT WAS $95 MILLION. THAT WAS FOR ALL FUNDS. AT FISCAL YEAR 2014 WE ARE AT 47 MILLION. THAT IS FOR ALL OF OUR FUNDS. ALL OF OUR MARINA STORM WATER ALL FUNDS. WE ARE DOWN SO THAT 47 MILLION.

SO WE CONTINUE TO DECREASE THAT BETWEEN THAT TIME WE HAVE DECREASED IT 47.9 MILLION. TO OUR DEBT. SO WE CONTINUED TO DWINDLE THAT DOWN. 2032 RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. IT I'M HOPING MR. MIMS CAN LET YOU STAY OUT OF DEBT SO I CAN FINALLY SAY -- [INAUDIBLE]. I DON'T THINK IT IS GOING TO

HAPPEN. BUT I'M HOPING. >> I DON'T THINK SO EITHER. IT SURE IS A NICE IT IS A VERY VERY DRASTIC REDUCTION. IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY DEBT YOU CAN USE THE MONEY FOR SOMETHING

ELSE. >> EXACTLY. SO BEFORE WE MOVE ON -- BRIEFLY LOOK AT OUR FPR EIGHT, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS

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PROJECTIONS? >> PROCEEDS

>> AS WE LOOK AT OUR FPR EIGHT WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED TOMORROW IT IS A BALANCED BUDGET OF $13,597,537. WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF $1,383,367. YOU SEE THE AD VALOREM INCREASE IS WHAT IS MAKING UP THAT INCREASE. AND THAT IS BY $1.3 MILLION. THERE IS A NEW LINE ITEM THAT IS IN IT IS 1,015,000 AND IT SAYS IT IS ALLOCATED FOR COMMUNITY POLICING. THAT INCLUDES THE SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS, THE DUTY DETAIL THAT IS CURRENTLY IN THERE. BUT THEN MR. MIMS NEW PROJECT THAT HE IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT LATER AS WELL. SOME OF THOSE ALLOCATIONS. SO THE NUMBER LOOKS BIG BUT IT IS REALLY ALLOCATED OUT PROJECT BASED. AND THEN THERE IS TO MILLION DOLLAR TRANSFER TO GENERAL. AS WE TALK ABOUT PAYING DOWN THE DEAD. IN THOSE YEARS THAT WERE SO HARSH FOR US AND GENERAL HAD TO PAY FPR DEBT. FPR DATE IT WAS IN MILLION NONPOINT $4 MILLION BALANCE THAT WAS THERE. WE HAVE ONCE FPR GOT BACK IN A GOOD STATE WE HAVE WORKED TO TRY TO DWINDLE THAT BALANCE DOWN. IT HAS HELPED GENERAL FUND TREMENDOUSLY DURING THE TIMES WHERE WE NEEDED SOME ADDITIONAL REVENUE. AND SO ONCE WE DO THIS TO MILLION DOLLAR TRANSFER IT WILL BRING THE

BALANCE DOWN TO $3.4 MILLION. >> THAT IS WHAT THE FPR A WILL

TO THE CITY. >> YES

>> AND THAT IS OUR FPR A OVERVIEW. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR ANY CONCERNS OR ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DISCUSS AS IT RELATES TO OUR BUDGET OUR FISCAL YEAR ?

>> I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. I WANT THE PUBLIC AND AUDIENCE TO KNOW THAT MAYBE IT IS NO QUESTIONS BECAUSE WE HAD ONEON ONES. WE HAD ONE ON ONES WITH THIS BUDGET BEFORE WE GOT HERE.

I DON'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO THINK WE ARE JUST LISTENING AND NOT ANSWERING QUESTIONS. THEY DON'T KNOW BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T IN THE MEETINGS. ALL OF US HAVE ONE ON ONES. WE

ASKED OUR QUESTIONS -- >> MINE LASTED A WHILE.

>> THAT WAS GREAT TO MAKE THAT KNOWN. COMMISSIONER GAINS.

BECAUSE YOU DID. THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU ALL TO DISCUSS ANYTHING YOU MIGHT WANT TO DISCUSS TOGETHER. BUT WE HAD GREAT ONE ON ONE SESSIONS WITH YOU ALL.

>> QUESTIONS? >> AS WE MOVE ON, WE WILL LOOK

[b. Five (5) Year Financial Projection]

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POSSIBILITY. ANY QUESTIONS? >> QUESTIONS?

>> NONE SO FAR >> AND SO I WILL SHOW OUR FUND BALANCE AND HOW WE CURTAIL THAT . WHICH IS A GOOD THING. OUR FUND BALANCE AT THE PHYSICAL BEGINNING OF FISCAL YEAR 2023 WAS $12.7 MILLION. OF THAT $12.7 MILLION WE HAVE WHAT IS AN SPENDABLE AND WE SAY THEY ARE UNDERSTANDABLE BECAUSE THEY ARE COMMITTED PRETTY MUCH THEY ARE PRE-FUNDED ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WHICH MEANS THEY ARE ALREADY SPENDS WE JUST HAVE NOT WRITTEN THE CHECK. COMMITTED ARE PROJECTS THAT WERE IN THE PRIOR YEAR BUDGET OR IN THIS FISCAL YEAR BUDGET YEAR END THAT WERE PROJECTS THAT WERE COMMITTED BUT HAD NOT STARTED OR STARTED AND ALL OF THE FUNDS HAD NOT BEEN EXPENDED. THOSE WERE THE 4.5 MILLION. WE HAVE THE 10% FUND BALANCE POLICY THAT IS IN PLACE THAT IS 10% OF OUR CURRENT BUDGET. WE RESTRICT AND CANNOT USE UNLESS IT IS EMERGENCY PURPOSES. SO OF THAT 5 MILLION $53 MILLION BUDGET THAT IS WHAT HAD TO BE RESTRICTED. UNASSIGNED WE HAD $3.7 MILLION. THAT WAS UNASSIGNED AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. AND THAT WAS A LARGER NUMBER BUT WE KNEW WE HAD TO USE SOME OF OUR FUNDS FOR THE UNFORESEEN THINGS THAT COME UP. EXAMPLE THE TRUMP TRIAL AND THINGS LIKE THAT. ANY TIME DOES COME UP IF WE DON'T HAVE THOSE ARE NOT BUDGETED EXPENSES. ON FUND BALANCE TO HELP FUND US TO GET THOSE PROJECTS PAID FOR. SO, THAT IS OUR FOR THE FUTURE AT THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 2023 WE HAD 3.7 MILLION IN FUND BALANCE THAT WE WAS UNASSIGNED THAT COULD BE USED. FISCAL 24 WE HAVE WE BROUGHT FORWARD THE 14

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>> MS. MORRIS TELL ME WHAT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN SPENDABLE

AND UNASSIGNED IS. >> ON SPENDABLE IS SO AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEARS AND USUALLY WON'T SEE IT UNTIL WE GET READY WE FINISH OUR AUDIT. THERE ARE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE THE PREPAID SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO DO PREPAYMENTS AT THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. OR THERE IS AN INVOICE THAT WE KNOW WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE NOT PAID AS OF YET. BUT IT IS IN THE BANK SO TO SPEAK. BUT WE KNOW WE HAVE TO PAY THAT INVOICE. IT IS JUST THE TIMING AS TO WHEN IT HAS TO BE PAID. WE PUT THAT AND AN SPENDABLE WE CAN SPEND THAT MONEY BECAUSE IT IS ALREADY

SPENDS. >> ISN'T THAT THE SAME AS

COMMITTED? >> NOT AND [INAUDIBLE].

>> IS DESPERATE >> THIS IS OUTCAST B REQUIREMENT. WE FUSS. IN THIS WORLD WE FUSS ABOUT IT. THE COME UP WITH ALL OF THIS. THIS WAS NOT WHAT WE HAD TO DO ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO. AS OF FIVE YEARS IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING. BUT AS TO TIMING. ON SPENDABLE ARE EXPENSES THAT ARE

DUE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS. >> YOU HAVE ZERO THE REST OF THEM BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW EACH YEAR. OKAY GOT IT.

>> WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WILL BE SO WE KEEP IT AT ZERO.

>> BEGINNING FUND BALANCE HOW COME THAT NUMBER DID NOT

INCREASE? >> BECAUSE WE ARE CURRENTLY IN FISCAL YEAR 24. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BALANCE IS GOING TO BE ROLLING FORWARD. IN 25 AND 26. YOU DON'T SEE A CHANGE UNTIL 26 BECAUSE WE'VE APPROVED THIS BUDGET. WE WON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUND BALANCE INCREASE OR DECREASE WILL BE UNTIL THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. IT COULD CHANGE NEXT YEAR WHEN YOU SEE THIS IT WILL BE DIFFERENT. WE ARE IN 2025 AS WE ARE FORECASTING. WE ARE NOT USING ANY OF OUR FUND BALANCE. THE BALANCE THIS BUDGET IS BALANCED NOT USING ANY FUND BALANCE.

THAT NUMBER IS NOT CHANGING UNTIL IT CHANGES. AND THEN THE SAME FOR THAT 2026 UNTIL WE USE IT THAT ACTUAL YEAR WHEN WE BUILD THAT BUDGET. IT DOES NOT CHANGE BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT USED

ANY OF IT. >> UNTIL WE ACTUALLY AND WE HAVE NOT ROLLED IN THE FORWARD. SO IF WE HAVE ANY WE DON'T HAVE ANY ANTICIPATED OVERAGE OR DECREASE FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR AS OF YET. AND WE ARE NOT USING ANY AND 2025. SO THAT IS WHY

PICK >> ON THE UNASSIGNED COLUMN FOR ACTUAL 2023 THAT 3.7 GET THAT ROW FORWARD ALSO OR DO SOME OF THE USED AND WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO FIGURE OUT?

>> KNOW IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP THE AVAILABLE YEAR END BALANCE THE 14/56. THIS IS THE BREAKDOWN OF THAT THE FUND BALANCE. THAT IS THE BREAKDOWN. IF YOU LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS THAT IS WHAT IS MAKING UP AT 14.

>> THAT MAKES MORE SENSE. >> ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?

>> INTERESTING. >> WE HAVE WITHIN THIS BUDGET I BELIEVE WE HAVE BEEN CONSERVATIVE BUT ALSO WE'VE BEEN FOCUSED ON CONCENTRATED THE FOCUS AND CONCENTRATION IS DEFINITELY TO LOOK FOR THE WELLNESS MENTALLY HOPEFULLY LITTLE BIT FINANCIALLY, FOR OUR EMPLOYEES. OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE GONE THROUGH SOME ROUGH YEARS. WE ALL HAVE AS A SOCIETY. SO WE DEFINITELY BUILT IN THE SALARY INCREASES. WE HAVE THAT INVESTMENT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC. THAT IS GOING TO

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SHE HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN PROTECTING US. WE HAD A COUPLE OF ONE-TIME INFUSIONS WITH THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN. BUT WE KNEW WE WERE GOING TO HAVE TO FACE CHALLENGES WITH OUR REVENUES TO CONTINUE THE SUSTAINABILITY OF KEEPING THE EMPLOYEES AND THE SALARIES AT THAT LEVEL. SHE HAS BEEN VERY PRUDENT IN HER STRATEGIES. AND SHE GOT US TO THIS POINT. I BELIEVE THAT SHE SHOULD BE COMMENDED. BUT WE HAVE SURVIVED WE ARE NOW MOVING FORWARD THE FUTURE DOES LOOK VERY

PROMISING. >> THANK YOU MISS MORRIS.

[c. Proposed FY 2024-2025 Capital Improvement Program Roadway Maintenance Overview]

>> THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS THE PROPOSED FY 2024 AND 25

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. >> ICR ENGINEERING MANAGER AND ART DEPUTY CITY MANAGER. I THINK OUR ENGINEERING MANAGER IS MEANT TO GIVE THE PRESENTATION. I CALL HER SMYLIE. WE WILL TRY TO MAKE HER -- HOPEFULLY SHE WON'T GIGGLE TOO MUCH. WE GOING TO HAVE A STRONG PRESENTATION ON OUR

CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. >> MR. ANDREWS AND MS.

[INAUDIBLE]. >> GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS. AS USUAL WE LIKE TO PRESENT THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED THIS PAST FISCAL YEAR. WHERE WE ARE GOING IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. KIND OF AN OVERALL STATUS OF THE PROJECTS WE HAVE COMPLETED -- WHERE WE ARE HEADING IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT OVER TO MISS TELE AND LET HER GO THROUGH THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.

>> THANK YOU. PROCEED >> GOOD MORNING. THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF OUR CURRENT --

>> FOR YOUR MICROPHONE CLOSER. >> YOU ARE NOT QUIET.

>> WE KNOW THAT. >> I WOULD LIKE TO START OUT WITH OUR COMPLETED PROJECTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 23 AND 24. UNDER OUR TRANSPORTATION HEADING OUR STREET RESURFACING INCLUDED 23RD, 24TH, 26, 27TH AND 28TH STREETS ALONG WITH AVENUE B AND BOSTON AVENUE. TOTAL AMOUNT OF 888,000. OUR OHIO AVENUE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT FROM U.S. ONE 211 STREET WHICH IS CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION , IS ESTIMATED WE COMPLETED EITHER LATE SEPTEMBER OR EARLY OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. AND THAT PROJECT INCLUDED A COMPLETE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION WITH UTILITY UPGRADE STREETLIGHTING CURB SIDEWALKS -- . MOVING ON TO OUR COMPLETED STORMWATER PROJECTS, WE HAVE SOUTH EIGHTH STREET AND HOW WE DRIVE EMERGENCY DRAINAGE REPAIRS. WE UPGRADED TO OUTFALLS THE FERNANDINA STREET AND PORPOISE AVENUE WHICH INCLUDED CHECK VALVES TO PREVENT INFILTRATION

DURING HIGH TIDE EVENTS. >> IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS ON

OUR CURRENT CONSTRUCTION ? >> QUESTIONS?

>> SO OUR CURRENT PROJECTS READY FOR CONSTRUCTION , UNDER OUR TRANSPORTATION WE HAVE AVENUE D FROM U.S. ONE THE 29TH STREET. THAT WILL BE A MILL AND RESURFACING WITH CROSSWALK UPGRADES AND NEW SIGNAGE. THAT IS ESTIMATED TO START CONSTRUCTION IN NOVEMBER OF THIS YEAR. OUR 2024 STREET RESURFACING SHOULD BE GETTING GOING IN A COUPLE MONTHS. WE ARE AWAITING SOME INPUT FROM PUA ON WHAT KIND OF UPGRADES THEY NEED TO DO IN THESE AREAS BEFORE WE DO THE RESURFACING.

>> WE HAVE OUR PARKING FACILITIES. WHICH AVENUE D AND MEANS COURT PARKING LOT. AFTER WAITING ON THE FINAL CONTRACT ON THAT. WE WILL GET GOING WITH THAT PROJECT PROBABLY OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER. AND THEN THE JCPENNEY PARKING LOT THE FINAL PLANS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. AN EXPECTED TO GO OUT TO BID HERE

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>> OUR MARINA PROJECTS INCLUDE THE LITTLE GEM SEPTIC TO SEWER CONVERSION. WE ANTICIPATE STARTING CONSTRUCTION ON THAT IN OCTOBER. AND THEN OUR GOLF COURSE PROJECTS INCLUDE THE PICKLE BALL COURTS AND THE PARKING AREA. WHICH WE ARE HOPEFUL TO GET UNDER CONSTRUCTION ON THAT PROBABLY

IN SEPTEMBER. >> ARE STORMWATER UTILITY PROJECTS INCLUDE FRANCIS AVENUE WHICH IS A DRAINAGE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM PROJECT. WE SHOULD BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION OCTOBER OF

THIS YEAR. >> METAL MAYOR CAN WE GO BACK TO THE THAT ONE. I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT THAT ARE LISTENING AND PROBABLY WON'T READ THIS.

WHAT I WANT TO DO IS REAL QUICK IF WE CAN, NAMED THE STREETS.

BECAUSE I GET THE EMAILS ABOUT ONE OF MY STREET GOING TO BE DONE. ONE IS MY STREET GOING TO BE DONE? I ALSO GET THE EMAILS WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME THEY'RE GOING TO START THE STREET AND CONSTRUCTION. REAL QUICK. WHAT I'M SEEING IS 32ND STREET DELAWARE TO MORRIS CREEK. 31ST STREET OKEECHOBEE ROAD TO NEBRASKA AVENUE. AVENUE E 25TH STREET TO THE 29TH STREET. AVENUE F 25TH STREET THE 29TH STREET. AVENUE G 25TH STREET THE 29TH STREET. THEN WE MOVED TO CITRUS AVENUE 29TH STREET TO 33RD STREET. FLORIDA AVENUE 13TH TO 17TH STREET.

WHICH ONE DID I MISS? >> PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SUNRISE BOULEVARD TO 11TH STREET. QUINCY AVENUE 23RD TO 25TH.

PARKWAY DRIVE U.S. ONE TO THIRD STREET. AND WISTERIA AVENUE HILLS COURT TO THE EAST END. THE REASON I'M DOING THAT IS BECAUSE , THAT IS ALL OVER FT. PIERCE. THAT IS NOT ONE PART OF FT. PIERCE. THAT IS NOT ONE SECTION. IT IS ALL OVER FT.

PIERCE. THIS MONEY HAS BEEN SPENT ALL OVER FT. PIERCE TO FIX THE STREETS. IF YOU'RE NOT HERE AND YOU CAN SEE IT GO ONLINE SO YOU CAN SEE IF YOUR STREET IS AFFECTED GOING TO BE FIXED. SO YOU KNOW HOW TO DRIVE AROUND. BECAUSE DO NOT SEND ME THE EMAILS COMPLAINING I CAN'T GET DOWN MY STREET BECAUSE WE ARE FIXING THE STREET AS HE ASKED US TO DO. SO THANK YOU

FOR THAT. >> THANK YOU.

>> I AGREE. I AGREE IT WAS A GOOD THOUGHT.

>> MAYOR IF I COULD ADD THE STREET RESURFACING WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN YEARS THAT WE HAVE NOT DID ANY STREET RESURFACING. WITH THE MONEY THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET, DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES WE HAVE. WITH CONTINUED TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT WITH RESURFACE EVERY YEAR. WE ARE UP I BELIEVE THIS YEAR WE HAVE 900,000 APPROPRIATED. AND EVERY YEAR IT KEEPS MOVING UP. THE FIVE YEARS WERE OUT TO $1 MILLION. GOING FURTHER OUT. WE ARE INCREASING AND HAPPY TO DO THAT. SO WE ARE MAKING GOOD PROGRESS ON THE AMOUNT OF CORE STREETS WE HAD IN FT. PIERCE. S WE ARE DOING WHAT WE PROMISED WHEN WE ASK PEOPLE TO VOTE FOR THE SURTAX.

>> THANK YOU. >> SO, THESE NEXT SCREENS ILLUSTRATE PROJECTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN DESIGN. UNDER OUR TRANSPORTATION WE HAVE WINDOW ROAD. WHICH EXTENDS TO BLOCKS SEVEN STREET TO EIGHTH STREET. THAT PROJECT IS A COMPLETE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION WITH DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.

SIDEWALKS CURB GUTTER STREETLIGHTING. THE FINAL DESIGNS IS SUPPOSED TO BE COMPLETED NEXT MONTH. WE HAVE INDIAN RIVER DRIVE FROM SEAWAY DRIVE TO MARINA WAY. THAT IS A COMPLETE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. IT INCLUDES REPLACEMENT OF THE BRIDGE ALSO. AT MORRIS CREEK. THE FINAL DESIGN IS SUPPOSED TO BE COMPLETED IN AUGUST OF THIS YEAR. AND PERMITTING WILL BE FINALIZED DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR. 13TH STREET FROM GEORGIA AVENUE TO ORANGE AVENUE. THIS

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DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS, ROADWAY, STREETLIGHTING, SIDEWALKS, CURBS AND GUTTERS. FINAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS SHOULD BE COMPLETED OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. THEN WE GET OUT FOR BID OR WE HAVE SOME MONEY TO DO THAT. THEN WE HAVE 11 STREET PRESTON COURT IN BOSTON AVENUE. THIS IS 11 STREET IS FROM BOSTON TO ORANGE. PRESTON WAS FROM BOSTON TO DELAWARE. AND THEN BOSTON AVENUE FROM 10TH STREET TO 13TH STREET. THIS IS A DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT WITH MILLING AND OVERLAY RESURFACING. DESIGN PLANS ARE 60% RIGHT NOW. THE FINAL DESIGN SHOULD BE COMPLETED DECEMBER OF THIS YEAR.

>> ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ONE ? >> THANK YOU FOR THE 13TH STREET. BECAUSE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO SIT IN THEIR MINDS WHERE IS GEORGIA AND WHERE IS ORANGE AVENUE. THIS 13TH STREET IMPROVEMENTS WANT TO HELP ALL THE KIDS THAT GO TO -- TO WALK UP AND DOWN THE STREET TO GO TO [INAUDIBLE].

IT IS RIGHT BEFORE THE MAIN INTERSECTION RIGHT BEFORE YOU CROSS GETTING ALL THE KIDS GOING TO [INAUDIBLE]. THAT IS A GREAT PROJECT. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

>> STILL UNDER CURRENTLY IN DESIGN UNDER TRANSPORTATION WE HAVE CITRUS AVENUE FROM U.S. ONE TO SEVEN STREET. THIS DESIGN JUST GOT UNDERWAY. CITY STAFF HAS LOOKED AT THE POSSIBILITY OF ELIMINATING THE DUAL ONE DOWN ONE WAY WESTON ONE-WAY LANES IN MAKING THIS SINGULAR ONE-WAY ROADWAY. WITH ON STREET PARKING ON BOTH SIDES. OF THAT SECTION COMPLETE WITH PROBABLY WE LOOKING AT 10 FOOT SIDEWALKS. AND LANDSCAPING FOR THEY ARE. AVENUE D, FROM U.S. ONE TO INDIAN RIVER DRIVE.

THOSE PLANS ARE PROBABLY CURRENTLY ABOUT 90%. WE ARE DOING SOME FINAL TWEAKS ON THOSE. THE FINAL PLANS WILL PROBABLY BE DONE SEPTEMBER OF THIS YEAR. THAT IS A COMPLETE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT.

>> WILL THAT IMPROVE THE STREET COMING THAT THE DIP RIGHT THERE JUST EAST OF THE RAILROAD TRACKS?

>> AVENUE D >> YES -- WE STILL HAVE THE PROBLEM WITH THE ELEVATION THERE. WE ARE GOING TO TRY AND

TAKE OUT AS MUCH AS WE CAN. >> MAKE IT A LITTLE LESS

ABRUPT. >> TRAFFIC CALMING

>> YES RIGHT. >> GRANADA STREET -- THAT IS FROM PORPOISE AVENUE TO NORTH OF GULFSTREAM. THAT IS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THAT UNPAVED DISSECTION OF GRANADA STREET.

SO THAT WILL BE BROUGHT UP TO CITY STANDARDS FOR THAT ROADWAY. DESIGN CONTRACT SHOULD BE AWARDED AUGUST 5TH. THE CITY COMMISSION MEETING WITH FINAL PLANS AND CONTRACT DOCUMENTS COMPLETED BY FEBRUARY OF 2025. THEN WE HAVE NEBRASKA AVENUE SIDEWALK FROM LAWNWOOD CIRCLE TO SELF 13TH STREET. THIS IS THE INSTALLATION OF A SIX FOOT WIDE SIDEWALK ALONG NEBRASKA

AVENUE. >> UNDER OUR PARKS WE HAVE THE SEAPLANE BASE. WHICH IS CURRENTLY DESIGNED IS CURRENTLY COMPLETED AT 60%. FINAL DESIGN AND PERMITTING FOR THE END OF THE YEAR. CALENDAR YEAR. THEN WE HAVE OUR STORMWATER UTILITY PROJECTS. WHICH INCLUDES SURFSIDE DRAINAGE PHASE 4. THE DESIGN CONTRACT IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS UPCOMING CITY COMMISSION MEETING NEXT WEEK. FINAL DESIGN SHOULD BE COMPLETED IN AUGUST OF 2025. THE PHASE 4 SURFSIDE DRAINAGE STREETS IN THIS AREA INCLUDE SURFSIDE CYPRESS MIMOSA JACARANDA COCONUT AND INCLUDES DRAINAGE UPGRADES, VALLEY GUTTERS, MILLING RESURFACING, --

>> IF ANYBODY HAS QUESTIONS. >> AND THEN OUR PROPOSED

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>> UNDER OUR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION WE HAVE THE FUEL CANOPY REPLACEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC WORKS COMPOUND. THE ADOPTION CENTER ANIMAL CLINIC IN PARKING LOT. AND THEN OUR SURFSIDE DRAINAGE PHASE 2 WHICH INCLUDES STREETS OVER THERE BY

JC PARK. >> MELALEUCA CLOVER --

>> THESE NEXT FEW SLIDES WILL PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW ON OUR SURTAX. AS YOU KNOW THE REFERENDUM WAS APPROVED NOVEMBER 6TH OF 2018. AS OF MARCH 27TH OF THIS YEAR, WE HAVE RECEIVED $11.7 MILLION. FROM THAT THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED EITHER MAY HAVE BEEN FUNDED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY THE SURTAX. AND IN 2019 WE HAD TO PROJECTS.

WE HAD SOUTH SEVENTH STREET RECONSTRUCTION WHICH EXTENDED FROM WINDOW TO 10 STREET. WE HAD AVENUE'S LETTER A AND B RECONSTRUCTION WHICH EXTENDED FROM SEVENTH TO EIGHTH STREET.

THEN IN 2021 WE HAD ANOTHER TO PROJECTS. WE HAD 17 STREET EXTENDED FROM ORANGE AVENUE TO AVENUE D. AND THEN WE HAVE THE CITRUS AVENUE OVERPASS BRIDGE REPAIRS. IN 2022 WE HAD EIGHTH STREET RECONSTRUCTION FROM AVENUE D TO AVENUE E. AND THEN WE HAD IN 2024 THE AVENUE B RECONSTRUCTION FROM EIGHTH STREET TO 13TH STREET. AND THEN OUR CURRENT ONGOING CONSTRUCTION PROJECT OHIO AVENUE FROM U.S. ONE TO 11

STREET. >> UNDER STORMWATER COMPLETED PROJECTS WE HAVE GEORGIA AVENUE DRAINAGE BASIN WATER QUALITY IMPROVEMENTS. THAT WAS COMPLETED IN 2023. AND THEN FOR OUR STREET RESURFACING, WE COMPLETED 1 1/2 MILES IN 2020.

2.3 MILES IN 2021. 2.7 MILES IN 2022. AND 3.7 MILES IN 2023.

FOR A TOTAL SURTAX FUNDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF UNDER SEVEN

POINTS HE MILLION DOLLARS. >> SO, WE ARE ON A GOOD PACE.

WHAT DO WE DO TO INCREASE THAT PACE? WE'VE COLLECTED 11.5.

WE'VE ONLY EXPENDED 7.2. HOW DO WE PLAY CATCH UP ON THE MONIES THAT ARE AWAITING EXPENDITURE?

>> YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS CONSTRUCTION FUNDS . WE'VE ALSO HAD DESIGN FUNDS. SO WE HAVE INDIAN RIVER DRIVE IS CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN. THAT IS LITTLE SHY THEY MILLION DOLLARS. WE HAVE -- WHAT IS THE OTHER ONE? WE DID HAVE DESIGN COST 117. THE DESIGN COST IS PRETTY MUCH AS FAR AS WHAT WE HAVE SURPLUS, WE ARE REALLY NOT THAT FAR BEHIND. WE ARE PROBABLY I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER IN FRONT OF ME. I WANT TO SAY WE ARE AT 9 1/2 TO $10 MILLION THAT WE HAVE UTILIZED SO FAR. SO, WE ARE KIND OF ON TRACK FOR OUR PROJECTS. AND

EXPENDING THE SURTAX MONEY. >> I WANT TO MAKE SURE BECAUSE THIS IS A GOOD CONVERSATION THE NEXT TWO YEARS WE WILL BE DISCUSSING IS A COMMUNITY WHETHER OR NOT TO PUT THAT ON THE BALLOT AGAIN. IN YEAR SIX NOW IT IS A 10 YEAR PROGRAM. I

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COMMISSIONER GAINES WE HAVE VARIOUS POINTS OF THE STREET RESURFACING . I'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A NUMBER OF TIMES WITH STAFF IN THE 900,000, 3.7 MILES OF RESURFACING I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS OUR MAGIC NUMBER. IF THAT IS WHERE OUR SWEET SPOT IS WE CAN GET THE FIVE MILES I WOULD LIKE FIVE MILES. I KNOW YOU WOULD TOO. WE KNOW THE MORE WE LET A ROAD SET IDLE OR WE DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO IT THE MORE WE MIGHT HAVE TO LOOK INTO FOR RECONSTRUCTION WHICH COST FOUR TIMES THE COST.

I DON'T WANT TO GET TO THAT POINT. I KNOW YOU GUYS WILL WORK ON IT. BUT IF WE HAVE EXTRA FUNDS AND IF OUR CONTRACT OR SUBCONTRACTS CAN PICK UP THE PACE, ON STREET RESURFACING WHICH I KNOW THERE IS A LOT OF COORDINATION. JUST IN VALVE BOXES AND MANHOLES THERE IS A LOT OF COORDINATION YOU HAVE TO DO. IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT, I DON'T WANT TO SAY IT IS PLAYING CATCH-UP. BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 YEARS THAT WE ARE JUST VERY AGGRESSIVE WITH IT.

BECAUSE IF WE ARE GOING TO ASK AGAIN TO PUT IT ON THE BALLOT, WE'RE GOING TO ASKED THE PUBLIC TO MAKE TO TAKE ON A VOTE IT WAS A 56% APPROVAL. SIX YEARS AGO. AND SO, AS MUCH AS WE CAN MAKE IT A POSITIVE WHICH IS IS A POSITIVE PROGRAM THAN I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT IS A POSITIVE. HOWEVER YOU CAN ADDRESS THAT THAT IS GREAT. IF YOU HAVE IDEAS MAYBE HAVE SOME MAJOR PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE. I'M NOT SURE. IF THERE IS

ANYTHING YOU CAN ADD TO THAT -- >> ONE THING I WOULD SAY IS WE DO HAVE INDIAN RIVER DRIVE COMING UP ONLINE FOR CONSTRUCTION. THERE IS A GOOD EVEN THOUGH WE DID RECEIVE THE TWO MILLION-DOLLAR GRANT FOR THAT , TOTAL CONSTRUCTION COST FOR THAT IS APPROACHING $7 MILLION. WITH THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BRIDGE. A LOT OF THIS SURTAX MONEY WILL GO TOWARDS THAT CONSTRUCTION. AND ALSO YOU HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT WE UTILIZE THIS MONEY AS A MATCH FOR OTHER GRANTS THAT WE -- WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR OTHER GRANTS. IF WE HAVE ALL THE MONEY EXPENDED AND COMMITTED, I DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY. SO WE HAVE TO IT IS A CONSTANT BALANCE ACT THAT WE

HAVE TO CONTINUE TO LOOK AT. >> I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT. I RECALL THAT YOU'VE GOTTEN SOME GRANTS AND SOME MONIES THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO LIKE YOU SAID MATCH. PUSH US FORWARD WITH THE APPROVAL PROCESS OF THAT GRANT COMING IN. INCLUDING THE GOVERNOR FROM DE OH THE 2.7.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> I THINK ALSO WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS THE PUBLIC IT IS A LEARNING PROCESS FOR ME. HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS TO DO 3.7 MILES PER SO, EVEN THOUGH IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF MONEY WE KNOW WE CAN'T STRETCH THAT DOLLAR THAT FAR FOR THIS KIND OF WORK. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CONSTANTLY EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING IN TERMS OF RESURFACING AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS COST A GREAT DEAL OF MONEY. SOME MADAM MAYOR THANK YOU MR. ANDREWS FOR THE UPDATE.

SMITH IS IMPORTANT IN THE FUTURE TO CONTINUE HAVE CONVERSATION WITH YOU TO UNDERSTAND AND LEARN WHAT WE HAVE LEFT TO GO. THERE ARE A LOT OF STREETS AROUND THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE. SOME OF WHICH DON'T BELONG TO US BUT PEOPLE THINK THEY BELONG TO US. BUT I'M MORE INTERESTED IN WHERE DO WE HAVE TO GO IDENTIFYING THOSE STREETS THAT ARE ON YOUR LIST TO BE TARGETED. SO THAT WE CAN PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE. I THINK MY COLLEAGUES BROUGHT UP THE POINT IN A COUPLE YEARS LOOKING AT WHERE WE NEED TO GO. MAYBE BACK TO THE BALLOT WITH A REFERENDUM TO VENTING THE PROGRAM. FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS LEFT OUT THERE IN THE CITY OF FT.

PIERCE. THAT WOULD NEED TO BE ADDRESSED WHEN IT COMES TO RECONSTRUCTION AND PAVING RESURFACING. NEED TO GET MY

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WE NEED TO TRY TO MAKE SURE WE ARE COMMUNICATING TO OUR PUBLIC BECAUSE WE GET THOSE CALLS. WHEN THEY FIND OUT DELAWARE IS REALLY NOT A TOTAL CITY STREET. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE UPDATING ON. WORKING WITH OUR COUNTY PARTNERS TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS. MY CONCERN IS CITY STREETS THAT ARE STILL THERE. NOT TO BE DISCUSSED TODAY. I NEED TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH MORE IS LEFT THAT WE NEED

TO DO. >> I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO LET YOU KNOW THAT WHEN WE WENT TO THE ORIGINAL REFERENDUM AND WE HAD EVERY MUNICIPALITY HAD A LIST OF PROJECTS THAT THEY WANTED TO DO. WE ARE CURRENTLY ON OUR LAST ONE AVENUE D AND INDIAN RIVER DRIVE WILL COMPLETE THAT LIST THE CITY HAD. SO WE ARE STILL CONCENTRATING ON THAT LIST. AND MOVING TOWARDS IT. WE ARE READY TO PROVIDE A NEW LIST FOR THE NEXT ROUND.

>> IF I COULD SHARE ONE MORE THING. I WANT TO REMIND US ALL THAT WHEN WE INITIATED THIS LOOKED AT TOURISM NUMBERS. THIS IS A SHARED TAX. THE FOLKS THAT ARE COMING TO OUR COMMUNITY ARE SHARING WITH US AS RESIDENTS OF THE EXPENSES THAT WE ARE INCURRING. THEY ARE DOING THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE VISITING US.

THEY ARE STAYING FOR 6 OR SEVEN DAYS AT A TIME. IF YOU TALK TO CHARLOTTE AT THE TOURISM COUNCIL. WE LOOK AT THESE NUMBERS QUITE OFTEN. IT IS A SHARED COLLECTION. SO WE ARE NOT BEARING THE BURDEN FULLY AS RESIDENTS. WE ARE SHARING THAT WITH THOSE VISITING OUR COMMUNITY AND SPENDING THEIR MONEY HERE. WE ARE EXCITED THEY ARE SPENDING THEIR MONEY HERE.

AT THE SAME TIME THE ROADS THEY ARE USING USED TO HAVE A FORMULA THAT I HAD THE NUMBER OF HEADS AND BEDS OR NIGHT SUSPENSE HERE IN THE COMMUNITY. IT WAS STAGGERING IF YOU CALCULATE THE NUMBER OF HOW MUCH THEY ARE ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTING TO OUR SERVICING AND OUR SURTAX PROGRAM. IT IS A GOOD NUMBER TO CALCULATE. IT IS A GOOD NUMBER TO REMEMBER AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PROGRAM. IF WE ASK FOR IT AGAIN THAT IS PART OF THE PITCH TO THE COMMUNITY ARE FOLKS THAT ARE JUST VISITING OUR COMMUNITY ARE SHARING THIS WITH US. THEY ARE USING OUR ROADS. WHY NOT LET THEM SHARE AND THE BURDEN QUEST MAXIMUM THE SALE TAX PAID BY VISITORS.

>> RESIDENTS ALIKE. >> THIS IS JUST AN OVERVIEW SHOWING CITYWIDE WHERE THE STREETS WHERE WE TOUCHED ON THE STREETS WITH THE SURTAX PROJECTS. AND THE DIFFERENT YEARS. IT GIVES AN IDEA OF WHAT AREA OF THE CITY WE ARE FOCUSED ON THE RESURFACING. AND THEN THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE COMPLETED. JUST KIND OF A VISUALIZATION OF WHERE THE

PROJECTS ARE. >> SO I'M GLAD YOU PUT THE MAP UP. THE OTHER THING THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. I KNOW YOU HAD A SPREADSHEET YEARS AGO YOUR RATING SHEET. IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. HAVE YOUR RATING SHEET OF ALL THE INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUAL STREETS WITHIN OUR CITY. EVERY ONE OF THEM. COMMISSIONER JOHNSON THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO BE UPDATED INCLUDING ALL OF US TO BE UPDATED ON THAT SPREADSHEET. I THINK THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE SOLUTION IS OR THE CONVERSATION WOULD BE. AND THEN ALSO LOOK AT THE VALUATION OR THE EVALUATION PARAMETERS INCLUDING THE AGE. ARE RESURFACING WE'VE GOT SOME WE HAVE TO BE THAT HAVE TO BE REBUILT. BE THERE IS THE AGE OF THE STREET. BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU, THE CONVERSATION PIECES ARE HOW COME YOU'RE NOT DOING SUNRISE EAST OF SUNRISE OR THERE IS CONVERSATIONS IN THE COMMUNITY. IT IS A CONVERSATION PIECE ABOUT AGE OF AND PROTECTION. THAT IS IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS. WE HAVE SOME OF THESE ROADS WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED FOR 60 YEARS. OR MAYBE 40 YEARS. THEY WERE BUILT IN 1980. THEY ARE ON THE CYCLE THEY ARE ON THE LIST. WE ARE JUST NOT THERE YET. THAT IS JUST IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY WHEN WE HAVE OUR CONVERSATIONS WHERE FOLKS ARE

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EVEN THE TOURISM ELEMENT I TALKED ABOUT A MINUTE AGO. IT IS ABOUT OUR HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS. IT IS ABOUT EASE OF THE CONTRACTORS ALREADY ON SITE. WE ARE LIMITING MOBILIZATION FEES POSSIBLY BY DOING THREE OR FOUR STREETS IN A ROW. THIS CONVERSATION THAT WE HAVE THE PUBLIC IS LOOKING FOR ANSWERS ON. BUT THAT IS PART OF THAT INDIVIDUAL ONE ON ONE ROAD RATING WORKSHEET CONVERSATION.

>> SO THIS SHOWS WE DID A TOTAL OF 10.2 MILES. THE TOTAL COST OF JUST UNDER $2.3 MILLION. IN RESURFACING .

>> SO OUR SURTAX RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS TOTAL LENGTH OF THE TWO MILES AT A TOTAL COST OF 4.9 MILES. THESE WERE COMPLETE ROADWAY OR DRAINAGE STORM WATER QUALITY PROJECTS THAT WERE

COMPLETED USING SURTAX FUNDS. >> AND THEN OUR CURRENT SURTAX FUNDED DESIGN PROJECTS . HAVE A TOTAL OF 2.8 MILES. THIS JUST SHOWS THE STREETS THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDER DESIGN UTILIZING SURTAX FUNDED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

>> AND THEN THIS MAP IS JUST A COMBINATION OF THE PREVIOUS THREE MAPS TO SHOW THEM ALL ON ONE. QUESTIONS?

>> CONVERSATION? >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO REMIND YOU MR. MIMS ASKED ME TO BRING THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION. THE PARKING GARAGE OUR COUNTER SYSTEM. WILL BE INSTALLED THIS WEEK. OUR CONTRACTOR SHOULD BE ON SITE THIS WEEK. WE ARE LOOKING AT HAVING THAT INSTALLED AS LONG ALONG WITH SOME SPEED DETERRENT FACTORS IN THERE. SO WE ARE GOING TO BE PLACING SOME SPEED TABLES IN THE PARKING GARAGE TO KIND OF SLOW THE TRAFFIC DOWN. THEY ARE MORE OF A TEMPORARY I GUESS A MODULAR I SHOULD SAY TO PLACE IN THE GARAGE. THOUGH SHOULD BE COMING IN THIS MONTH AS WELL.

>> SKATEBOARDERS BETTER GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER CHALLENGE.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. LOOK FORWARD TO THE COUNTER IN THE

GARAGE. >> OKAY NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA

[d. Police Annual Report Southwest Substation Update]

IS THE POLICE ANNUAL REPORT. >> MR. MIMS

>> MADAME MAYOR AS YOU SEE, THE CHIEF BROUGHT HALF THE STATION HAVE THE MAIN STATION WITH HER TODAY. I THINK THEY ARE ALL GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE PART IN THIS PRESENTATION. SO, PUT YOUR SEATBELT ON. THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN.

>> WELCOME CHIEF >> GOOD MORNING. IT IS SUCH AN HONOR TO BE BEFORE YOU TODAY. I SAY IT IS AN HONOR BECAUSE IT IS SO WONDERFUL TO SHOWCASE WHAT ALL WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED OVER THE YEARS. I TAKE SUCH PRIDE IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO.

IT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU LOOK AT OUR STAFF MY EXECUTIVE STAFF. I'M SO IMPRESSED EACH PERSON AS A PART OF MY EXECUTIVE STAFF HAVE 25 YEARS , SOME MORE THAN 30 AS OFFICERS.

WE HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE HERE. I TELL YOU WE ARE UTILIZING ALL THAT EXPERIENCE TO SHOWCASE WHAT WE DO AND TAKE US TO THE NEXT LEVEL. I'M EXTREMELY PROUD. BUT ALSO I LOOK AT IT DIVERSITY OF MY EXECUTIVE STAFF. IT IS IMPORTANT THAT OUR COMMUNITY SEES THAT AS WELL. THAT WE ARE IN ALL FACETS AND WE WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT. THE SAME THING WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PERSONNEL. WHEN IT COMES TO MY [INAUDIBLE] AS WELL AS MY SUPPORT STAFF IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT THEY SEE THAT WE ARE REFLECTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY. WE ARE CONTINUING TO BE THAT WAY. AND I'M EXTREMELY PROUD OF THAT. AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT MY SWORN STAFFING WHEN IT COMES TO OUR OFFICERS YOU

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WE WILL CONTINUE THAT. NOW, READY TO BEGIN. EACH ONE OF MY EXECUTIVE STAFF MEMBERS WILL HAVE THEIR OWN PART IN THIS PRESENTATION. WE ARE GOING TO START OFF WITH DEPUTY CHIEF

KENNY MORRIS. >> GOOD MORNING. GIVE ME A

SECOND HERE. >> FIRST AND FOREMOST DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE COMMUNITY POLICE PATROL. DIVISION. I WOULD LIKE TO START BY SAYING ABOUT OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. I'M GOING TO PARAPHRASE EXCUSE ME IF I DON'T QUOTE IT EXACTLY. THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW WHERE I'M TAKING THIS. NOWHERE TO SACRIFICE THE ONE WILLING TO GIVE HIS LIFE FOR OTHERS. THIS STATEMENT IS WHAT OUR OFFICES DO DAILY. A LOT OF TIMES WE LOSE SIGHT OF THAT. THE PATROL DIVISION IN PARTICULAR THEY ARE ANSWERING CALLS CONSTANTLY. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING. BUT THEY GET UP EACH DAY AND THEY'RE WILLING TO SACRIFICE AND GO FORWARD. THE COMMUNITY POLICING BUREAU IS THE LARGEST OF FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THE BUREAU CONSIST OF PATROL OFFICERS AND OUR K-9 UNITS WHICH ARE SUBDIVIDED INTO EIGHT SQUADS. IN 2003 PATROL OFFICERS RESPONDED TO 86,000 CALLS FOR SERVICE. 8000 OF THESE CALLS WERE CITIZEN RELATED 911 CALLS. 22,000 WERE OFFICER INITIATED CALLS. TO EXPLAIN THAT BETTER WITH OFFICER INITIATIVE CALLS WHEN THE OFFICERS WERE PATROLLING AND THEY SEE SOMETHING UNUSUAL OR A CRIME COMMITTED THEY IMMEDIATELY ASKED. THESE CALLS ARE ALSO COUNTED. THIS GRAPH SHOWS THE YEARLY PROGRESSION OF CALLS FOR SERVICE. AS THE CITY EXPERIENCED GROWTH THROUGH ANNEXATION HOUSING EXPANSION POPULATION GROWTH WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEE THESE NUMBERS

INCREASE. >> AS YOU CAN SEE AS FAR AS OUR TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IS CONCERNED , OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IN TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IS TRAFFIC SAFETY. AS YOU CAN AGAIN SEE ON THE CHART ITSELF OUR OFFICES GIVE OUT MORE WARNING CITATIONS THAN THEY DO TRAFFIC CITATION. WHICH IS A GOOD THING. OUR MOTTO UNDER THE CHIEF GUIDE IS TO TEACH OUR PUBLIC ABOUT SAFETY HABITS. WHEN IT COMES TO DRIVING. WE BELIEVE IN EDUCATING AND PROMOTING GOOD SAFETY HABITS FOR DRIVERS. THIS IS OUR WONDERFUL K-9 UNIT. THEN INTEGRAL PART OF THE COMMUNITY POLICING BUREAU. THEY ARE UTILIZING THE VARIETY OF WAYS. FROM SEARCH OPERATIONS TO DETECTING ILLEGAL NARCOTICS. APPREHENDING CRIMINAL OFFENDERS. CONDUCTING ARTICLE SEARCHES. PROVIDING BACKUP FOR OFFICERS IN THE FIELD. THIS NEXT SLIDE WILL BE A BRIEF VIDEO PRESENTATION. HOPEFULLY IT WILL GIVE YOU INSIGHT ON WHAT OUR OFFICERS FACE AT A MOMENTS NOTICE. LET ME GIVE YOU BACKGROUND ON MAY 26TH 2024 OF THIS YEAR RECEIVED 911 CALL REGARDING A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING. SUSPECTS REPORTED DRIVING A WHITE SUV BMW. SUSPECTS WERE LAST SEEN IN THE 2100 BLOCK OF NORTH 22ND STREET. WITHOUT HESITATION OUR OFFICERS IMMEDIATELY RESPONDED TO THE AREA. K-9 OFFICER PULLIAM OBSERVED THE VEHICLE AND ATTEMPTED TO STOP THE VEHICLE.

VEHICLE PURSUIT ENSUED. WHICH WAS CAPTURED ON BODY ONE CAMERA. I WANT TO WARN YOU ABOUT THE CAMERAS. EVEN THOUGH THE IA OUTSTANDING SYSTEM AND HELP US IN OUR TRANSPARENCY, WHILE WATCHING THE VIDEO PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THE BODY ONE CAMERA HAS ITS LIMITATIONS. SYSTEM CANNOT MASTER DEXTERITY AND NATURAL INFORMATION PERCEIVED BY THE NAKED EYE.

PLEASE NOTICE THE OFFICERS CALMNESS IS TREMENDOUS DRIVING DEBILITY -- ARE SOMETHING YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO.

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>>> IT WAS AN ACTUAL DRIVE-BY SHOOTING. ONE OF THE THINGS YOU DID NOT GET TO SEE AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL EVENTS ARE CONCERNED IS THE BAD GUYS WERE ASSEMBLING THEIR FIREARM AND THREW IT OUT THE WINDOW. THE OFFICER WAS ABLE TO SEE THAT AND USE A K-9 TO TRACE WHERE THEY TOOK THE WEAPON RECOVERED THE WEAPON WHICH IS OUTSTANDING. BUT THE FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO REITERATE IS THE SIMPLE FACT THESE GUYS AND WOMEN GO OUT THERE EVERY DAY. THE STORIES YOU VERY RARELY HEAR ABOUT THE WE HEAR ABOUT THE NEGATIVE THINGS. WE KNOW SENSATIONAL ISOLATION DOES FOR NEWS RATINGS. THE BOTTOM LINES IS THESE ARE THE GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPEN WITH OUR OFFICERS. THIS IS JUST A BRIEF K-9 UNIT HOW VALUABLE THEY ARE TO US AND THE OTHER THINGS THEY DO BESIDES CHASE BAD GUYS. THESE ARE SOME OF THE STATISTICS THAT WE ARE PROUD OF. THE MEN AND WOMEN COMMITTED TO THE THINK THE SAFETY OF OUR CITY. ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT PREDICT FUTURE CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR WHEN TRAGIC INCIDENTS WILL OCCUR THEY STAY AT THE READY TO RUN TOWARDS CHAOS AND CONFUSION. HOWEVER WE CANNOT ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION ALONE. WE NEED OUR PARTNERS. THE CITIZENS OF FT. PIERCE TO ASSIST US IN THE ENDEAVOR. IN CLOSING HOUSE DIVIDED WILL NOT STAND. AND IF FT. PIERCE IS TO BE SUCCESSFUL WE MUST BECOME ONE FT. PIERCE. THANK YOU AND

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. >> QUESTIONS OF THE DEPUTY

CHIEF? COMMENTS? >> THAT WAS SEEM TO BE VERY

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CALM AND CONTROL DRIVING. >> THAT CHASE IS SOMETHING THAT THESE OPPOSITES HAVE TO DEAL WITH ALL THE TIME. IF YOU NOTICE HOW CALM THE OFFICER WAS DURING THE COURSE OF IT. AS HE IS CALLING IT OUT THE OTHER OFFICERS ARE COMING IN. THAT IS WHAT WE DO WE LISTEN TO THE RADIO AND WE FOLLOW. THAT IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS BECAUSE BE MINDFUL OF TRAFFIC, THE COMMUNITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WE GO IN CERTAIN AREAS THAT WE ALSO HAVE THE COMMANDER OF THE STREET THAT IS WATCHING OVER THAT. IT JUST GIVES YOU AN IDEA. YOU WENT ON A RIDE MY OFFICERS LIVE EVERY DAY. NEXT UP WILL BE DEPUTY CHIEF ROBERT.

>>

GOOD MORNING. >> THEY SET ME UP FOLLOWING A

VIDEO LIKE THAT. >> I'M ALSO HAVE CAPTAIN -- WHO WILL ASSIST ME. SO TODAY WE WILL TALK A BIT THE ABOUT THE ADMINISTERED OF SERVICES BUREAU. IT COMPRISES OF OUR IT DIVISION OUR RECORDS DIVISION OUR FISCAL MANAGEMENT OUR GRANTS OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION AND OUR CRIME PREVENTION DIVISION. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION SERVICES ALMOST 180 AND USES. TECHNOLOGY IS SPEEDING EVERYWHERE BUT PARTICULARLY WITH POLICE WORK. WE EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY ON A DAILY BASIS AS YOU CAN SEE THE AMOUNT OF APPLICATIONS WE ARE USING AND HARDWARE. RECORDS DIVISION EXCUSE ME INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIVISION IS IN CHARGE OF ADMINISTRATING THE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM EVIDENCE RECOVERY EVIDENCE RECOVERY FROM SURVEILLANCE OF CYBER SECURITY AND MAINTAINING OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION STANDARDS.

ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT OUR IT DIVISION THIS IS A 24/7 ENTITY.

WHEN AN OFFICER CANNOT WRITE AN ARREST AFFIDAVIT AT 3:00 IN THE MORNING CANNOT ACCESS PREPARING A POLO ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON THAT IS A REAL PROBLEM. THAT IS WHEN WE NEED OUR IT PEOPLE TO COME OUT. WE HAVE THREE FULL-TIME STAFFERS. WE ARE HOPING TO IMPROVE OUR CONTINUITY OF SERVICE TO OFFICERS AND ADD THREE MORE PEOPLE TO OUR TEAM. THE CITY RECENTLY COMPLETED A STUDY TO EVALUATE OUR NEEDS AND WHERE OUR SHORTFALLS ARE AND OPPORTUNITIES ARE TO IMPROVE WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY'S IT DEPARTMENT TO FILL THOSE GAPS AND IMPROVE OUR SERVICE. ONE OF THE THINGS OUR IT DEPARTMENT TAKES CARE OF IS OUR AUDIBLE RADIALS. OUR PORTABLE RADIOS AND ARE AND VEHICLE REAR VEHICLES REACH THEIR END OF LIFE. PORT ST. LUCIE HAVE ALREADY CONVERTED TO NEW SYSTEMS. ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT THE NEW RADIOS DO IS THEY HAVE GPS BUILT IN. WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE AN OFFICER IS BASED ON A LAPTOP OR VEHICLE. IF THEY ARE ON A FOOT CHASE THEY MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY ARE AT DISPATCH WILL BE ABLE TO TELL WHAT THE OFFICERS ARE AT AND RELAYED THAT INFORMATION. UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOT AN INEXPENSIVE ITEM. IT IS A VARIABLE NEEDED ITEM. IT IS NUMBER $1.8 MILLION TOTAL.

WE CAN SPREAD THAT OVER SEVEN YEARS. I WANT TO INVITE CAPTAIN

BRAUN TO TALK ABOUT SAFETY. >> CURRENTLY OUR DEPARTMENT HAS 26 STATIONARY LPR'S THROUGHOUT THE CITY. JUST A SNAPSHOT OF HOW WE USE THOSE. JUST 30 DAYS ARE LPR'S HAVE DOCUMENTED OVER 4000 ARE EXCUSE ME 4.7 MILLION PLATE READS IN THE LAST 30 DAYS. WE'VE DONE 1751 SEARCHES. FOR CASE INVESTIGATIONS. AND RECEIVED 164,000 ALERTS. THOSE ALERTS INCLUDE ONE IN PERSONS STOLEN VEHICLES STILL IN PLACE.

MISSING PERSON'S EX-OFFENDERS AND OFFICER SAFETY. ALERTS. WE ARE CURRENTLY AT THE END OF OUR CONTRACT ON THAT. WE WILL BE NEEDING TO RENEW THAT AT A COST OF 81,000. AS OF OCTOBER 1ST.

>> ONE OF THE BIGGEST ADVANTAGES OF THIS IT ALLOWS US TO ACTUALLY PUT DATA INTO THE SYSTEM. THAT WILL ALERT US A POTENTIAL CRIME THAT COULD BE OCCURRING. ONE OF THE MOST NOTABLE CASES WE HAVE IS LAST FALL ONE OF OUR DETECTIVES RECEIVED A TIP THERE WAS GOING TO BE RETALIATION SHOOTING.

THEN TIP INCLUDED CAR VEHICLE DESCRIPTION THE SUSPECT WAS AN AND A PLATE NUMBER. OUR CSU DETECTIVES WERE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE ALERT BASED ON THE FLOCK SYSTEM. THEY STOPPED THE

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UTILIZING THEM TO EXPAND OUR TECHNOLOGY LITTLE MORE. SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE LOOKING AT IS TO IMPLEMENT THE FLOCK OS DELETE SYSTEM WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THE REAL-TIME PRIME CENTER. THAT WILL ALOW OUR OFFICERS IN THE FIELD SUPERVISORS AND OUR CRIME ANALYSIS UNIT TO HAVE A ONE PANE OF GLASS FOR CALLS FOR SERVICE. VIDEO CAMERAS AVAILABLE AT THOSE CALLS FOR SERVICES. AND ALSO PULLED IN ALERTS FROM LPR'S AND THEIR NEW SYSTEM WHICH IS A RAVEN WHICH IS A GUNSHOT DETECTION SYSTEM. WE ARE LOOKING TO ADD 23 ADDITIONAL LPR'S. TO BRING IN FOR MOBILE LPR'S JUDGMENT AT PART OF THE FLOCK OS PACKAGE HAS A THE ABILITY TO IMPLEMENT EXISTING CAMERA INFRASTRUCTURE INTO IT. TRAFFIC CAMERAS AND EXISTING COMMUNITY CAMERAS WE HAVE. ALSO INVITE COMPANIES PRIVATE CITIZENS BUSINESSES TO ALSO SHARE EXTERIOR CAMERAS THAT THEY HAVE. WE ALSO ARE LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT 28 THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. CONDOR CAMERAS WHICH ARE PAN TILT ZOOM CAMERAS. THOSE CAMERAS ARE WILL WORK WITHIN THE SYSTEM. AND THEY USE AN AI TECHNOLOGY TO ACTUALLY DETECT MOTION AND THINGS LIKE THAT. CAN DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN PEOPLE AND OTHER THINGS. AND SEND OUT ALERTS. THE BIGGEST THING IS WE ARE LOOKING TO BRING THIS INTO IS THE FLOCK RAVEN SYSTEM. WHICH IS A GUNSHOT DETECTION SYSTEM. IT HAS A 90 FOOT ACCURACY. AND THEY USE AI TO DIFFERENTIATE THE TYPES OF SOUNDS. THEY ARE ESTIMATING A 95% ACCURACY RATE ON THEIR DETECTION. THE COST IS SETTING UP THE FIRST YEAR OF THAT WOULD BE 410 -- 410,000. WITHIN ANNUAL REOCCURRING COST OF 374,000. WITH THAT WE GET ALL OF OUR LTE DATA FROM ALL THE DEVICES. CLOUD STORAGE ON-SITE SERVICE. AND MAINTENANCE IS ALL INCLUDED IN THAT PRICE. THERE WOULD BE NO ADDITIONAL TAX ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR OUR PERSONNEL. AS FAR AS SERVICING IT. SO THIS IS KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED ADDITIONS RIGHT NOW. AS YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE THE RAVEN SYSTEM IS SHOWING AND THAT GREEN BOX.

THAT WOULD ENCOMPASS AN AREA BETWEEN 13TH STREET, 32ND STREET AVENUE Q TO ORANGE AVENUE. WITH THAT SYSTEM WE ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE NUMBER OF SENSORS. ONCE YOU PAY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IT WHATEVER THE NUMBER OF SENSORS THEY NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL OF GETTING THAT UPPER LEVEL OF ACCURACY, THEY WILL DEPLOY. . THIS IS A HIGHLIGHT OF OUR CURRENT POLICE GRANTS. THIS IS NOT ALL OF THEM. WE HAVE 11 FOUR 2024. WE HAVE THREE MULTIYEAR GRANTS WHICH TOTAL NUMBER $1.4 MILLION. WE USE THESE GRANTS FOR A VARIETY OF THINGS IN COMMUNITIES OR COMMUNITY OUTREACH. TECHNOLOGY AND INVESTIGATIONS. THESE ARE SOME OF THE PENDING GRANTS THAT WE ARE HOPING TO BE AWARDED. WHEN WE ARE GOING TO USE FOR A COMMUNITY OUTREACH MOBILE CLASSROOM. THE SICK CLASSROOM WE WILL TAKE OUT TO THE KIDS AND THE COMMUNITY COMBINE FUN THINGS. THERE'S A BASKETBALL HOOP. THERE WILL BE GAMES.

THERE WILL ALSO BE COMPUTERS AND MONITORS WHERE OFFICERS CAN MENTOR KIDS AND ASSIST THEM WITH DOING HOMEWORK. WE ARE AWAITING AN AWARD OF FDL GRANT FOR HUMAN TRAFFICKING. HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS AN ISSUE MORE AND MORE. DOJ RELEASED INFORMATION OF SOME OTHER INITIATIVES THEY HAVE DONE. I THINK THAT CAME OUT LAST WEEK IT IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON. IT IS SOMETHING WE ARE EXCITED TO GET TECHNOLOGY TO HELP US WITH THOSE INVESTIGATIONS.

>> ARE RECORDS DIVISION -- THESE ARE IN CHARGE OF ALL THE

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GUESS IT IS PRETTY SIZABLE >> OUR DIGITAL EVIDENCE UNIT.

NOW IT CONSISTS OF TWO PEOPLE. THEY PROCESS ALL OF OUR BODY ONE CAMERA VIDEOS PARTICULARLY. PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST. IT IS TIME-CONSUMING. FOR EXAMPLE THEY TAKE ABOUT A CASE THAT TOTALS TWO AND HALF HOURS OF VIDEO WILL TAKE SEVEN AND HALF HOURS OF TIME TO REDACT. A LOT OF TIMES THERE WILL MAY BE H SIMPLE TRAFFIC CRASH. ONE INSURANCE COMPANY WANT TO SEE THE VIDEO OF THE INVESTIGATION. THEY MAY BE THREE OR FOUR OFFICERS. ALL THAT JUST MULTIPLIES THAT THE AMOUNT OF VIDEO THAT HAS TO BE REDACTED THEN PRODUCED FOR AN INSURANCE COMPANY A SECOND INSURANCE COMPANY. THE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE OR WHOEVER ELSE IS INVOLVED. WE EXPERIENCE ABOUT A 40% INCREASE IN OUR REQUESTS FOR BWC VIDEO. BECAUSE OF THAT WE ARE ASKING FOR 2 ADDITIONAL TEXT SO WE CAN KEEP UP WITH THOSE REQUESTS AND PRODUCE THEM IN A TIMELY MANNER. RIVER STATE COLLEGE OF HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH THEIR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY. THEY ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING US WITH A SUBSTATION ON CAMPUS. THEY ARE REPURPOSED IN A BUILDING THAT IS TAKING MORE TIME THAN THEY EXPECTED. I'VE SEEN THE SPACE WE ARE GOING TO OCCUPY. I'M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. AND IT IS MUCH IMPROVED SERVICE TO OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS AND CITIZENS IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE CITY. AS YOU KNOW THAT IS WHERE THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF GROWTH THAT HAS GONE ON. IT IS ALREADY PLANNED AS HE MOVED TO MIDWAY IN 95 JENKINS ROAD CELEBRANTS ROAD AND ALL THOSE AREAS. WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS. OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UNIT. THIS IS THE UNIT THAT WE SAY DOES ALL THE TOUCHY-FEELY THINGS. THEY PROVIDE SOME AMAZING SERVICES. TO OUR COMMUNITY. WE WERE ABLE TO EXPAND FROM 4 TO 6 OFFICERS THIS YEAR. THIS IS WHAT OUR OFFICES DO. RIGHT HERE DEMAND THE MYTH OF THE LEGEND. DAMIEN IS ASSIGNED AS OUR DOWNTOWN LIAISON. HE DOES CRIME PREVENTION AND DOWNTOWN IN DISTRICT 2. SECONDARY ASSIGNMENTS REVIEWS AND IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES -- OFFICER JOSÉ DOES THE SAME THING. EXCEPT FOR HIS PRIME AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY IS SOUTH BEACH. HE ALSO HELPS OUT WITH OUR SPECIALIZED VEHICLE MANAGEMENT. OFFICER ALBERTO DELGADO HE IS OUR PRIMARY HOMELESS LIAISON. HE IS ALSO ASSIGNED TO DISTRICT 2. GARCIA AS MANY OF YOU KNOW HE'S ASSIGNED TO DISTRICT ONE. AND HELPS OUT WITH OUR SPECIALIZED

VEHICLE MANAGEMENT. >> DISTRICTS FT. PIERCE POLICE

DEPARTMENT >> YES

>> REPORTER: GOOD FOR YOU CLARIFYING THAT.

>> CAN YOU DESCRIBE THOSE? >> DISTRICT ONE IS ORANGE AVENUE NORTH AND THE BEACH. DISTRICT 2 IS EVERYTHING SOUTH

ORANGE AVENUE. >> THANK YOU.

>> OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT UNIT. THEY PARTICIPATED AND 126 EVENTS APPROXIMATELY 14,000 PEOPLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS ENJOY.

I THINK THAT NUMBER IS LOW. THERE IS A LOT MORE THAN THAT.

WE ARE PROUD OF THAT NUMBER. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CHIEF TAKES A LOT OF PRIDE IN OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THESE ARE SOME OF THE BIGGEST EVENTS IN THE CITY WITH THE DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY PARADE. THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS A UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY. I WANT TO INVITE YOU ALL TO UNITY IN OUR COMMUNITY NEXT WEEK HELP OUT YOU CAN COOK CAN JUST ATTEND TO WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO. FT. PIERCE RECREATION CENTER. ALSO MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT GROUP OFFICER JORGE WAS ASSIGNED TO SEE A MORE SSR OH AND OFFICER MARY STEVENS WILL BEACH TRANSITIONING HER ROLL TO ROLL PATROL. WE HAVE OFFICER WASHINGTON WHO WILL BE TAKING OVER FOR HER. ALL OF OUR SRO OFFICERS PARTICIPATE AS MENTORS. THEY IDENTIFY KIDS THAT NEED SPECIAL HELP AND THEY GET THOSE KIDS HELP TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL. AND MOVE ON WITH THEIR EDUCATION.

>> SOME OF OUR NEW INITIATIVES WE HAVE A COMMUNITY OUTREACH TRAILER WHICH WE WERE ABLE TO GET OUT THIS YEAR TO SEE A MORE. WE MAY CONTACT WITH KIDS WE ARE ABLE TO OFFER THEM FOOD AND MENTORSHIP. WE ARE GOING TO BE USING IT FOR OPERATION COOL POP THIS SUMMER. WHICH WILL ALSO BE VISITING SOME OF OUR SC SUMMER SCHOOL LOCATIONS. ANOTHER NEW INITIATIVE IS OUR

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BUSINESSES. >> ARE HOMELESS LIAISON PROGRAM. THE HOMELESS SITUATION IN FT. PIERCE HAS BECOME PROBLEMATIC. THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES WE MAY HAVE BEEN MISSING. NOW THAT WE HAVE A HOMELESS LIAISON I LIKE TO THINK WE ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE DID NOT KNOW EXIST. WE WERE ABLE TO COLLABORATE WITH THE HOMELESS SERVICES COUNCIL NEW HORIZONS AND OTHER PROVIDERS TO BRING THESE SERVICES TO OUR HOMELESS POPULATION. WE'VE ALSO BEEN -- THERE IS A VIDEO AT THE BOTTOM WHERE WE ARE USING A TROUNCE IDENTIFY HOMELESS CAMPS. ONCE WE IDENTIFY IS NOT JUST TO GET RID OF THE CAMP. IS TO FIND OUT WHO IS LIVING THERE AND WHERE CAN WE TAKE THEM. WHAT SERVICES CAN WE GET FOR THEM. WE ARE OFFICERS WORKING WITH EDUCATING ALL OF OUR OFFICERS OR HOMELESS LIAISON OFFICERS ARE EDUCATING ALL OFFICERS ON HOW TO GET THESE RESOURCES. TO THE PEOPLE WHO MOST NEED THEM. WE'VE DEVELOPED A RESOURCE GUIDE WHICH IS GIVEN ALL OFFICERS AND THAT CAN BE SHARED WITH THE

HOMELESS. >> THESE ARE SOME OF THE COUNTS THAT THE TREASURE COAST HOMELESS SERVICES COUNCIL HAS COME UP WITH. THESE ARE SOME OF OUR POLICE STATISTICS. THE INDIVIDUALS WE'VE CONTACTED. A FEW OF THE SUCCESSES WE'VE HAD.

I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF OUR SUCCESSES IN A MINUTE. IF YOU LOOK AT THE SLIDE ON THE RIGHT. WE ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT CARD. YOU HAVE NOT SEEN IN A LITTLE WHILE.

>> MISSUS WAS LIVING AT THE CITY MARINA. UNFORTUNATELY SHE RAN TO A SITUATION HER VEHICLE WAS TOWED WHICH DID NOT HELP HER ACCESS SERVICES LIKE FOOD OR WORK OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT COULD KEEP HER FROM BEING HOMELESS. WE WERE ABLE TO PLACE HER LATER THAT MONTH AND SHE IS NOW IN A FEMALE SHELTER. WE WANT TO RUN A VIDEO WITH HER. MS. GADSON THE WOMAN I WAS SPEAKING OF. WE ALSO SAW HER SHE WAS ALL OVER FT. PIERCE AND PORT ST. LUCIE. WE WERE ABLE TO MEET WITH THE TREASURE COAST SERVICES COUNCIL. AND NEW HORIZONS AND COME TOGETHER AND ALL OF US GO TO MS. GADSON AND MEET HER ON THE STREET. WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE CONTACT WITH HER FAMILY IN FORT LAUDERDALE WHO DID NOT THINK SHE WAS ALIVE ANYMORE. WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE HER IN AND WE GET HER THE SERVICES SHE NEEDS. SHE IS BACK WITH HER FAMILY NOW AND DOING WELL.

>>> SO ANOTHER ONE OF OUR INITIATIVES TO STAY SAFE FT.

PIERCE CAMPAIGN. PROVIDESAFETY AND CRIME PREVENTING MESSAGES TO COMMUNITY. DONE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA THIS CAN BE DONE THROUGH MAILERS ENTERED TELEVISIONS AT CITY HALL AND THE FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE STARTED OUT WITH A HURRICANE SEASON REMINDER FOR PEOPLE TO BE PREPARED. OUR JULY MESSAGES ON SUMMER SAFETY. THIS IS ONE OF THE NEW VIDEOS WE PREPARED JUST FOR THAT CAMPAIGN.

>> WILL THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

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>> I'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING. I THINK THERE IS A BENEFIT FOR US TO HAVE SOME SORT OF EDUCATION FOR OUR STAFF TO BE EDUCATED. HOW TO SPOT IT OR WHAT TO DO. THAT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE AWARE SHOULD BE AWARE OF WHAT SIGNS TO LOOK FOR. I'M JUST OFFERING THAT SOMETHING OF INTEREST TO ME.

>> THAT IS EXCELLENT ADVICE AND WE WILL LOOK INTO THAT. I'VE BEEN TO SOME PRESENTATIONS ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND IT WAS

QUITE EDUCATIONAL. >> THANK YOU.

>> PUT DOWN A COUPLE NUMBERS THE RADIO SYSTEM NUMBER 1.8 MILLION OVER SEVEN YEARS IS WHAT YOU REPORTED.

>> I BELIEVE SO. >> AND THEN 81,000 FOR THE LICENSE PLATE READERS. IS THAT PER YEAR OVER A FIVE-YEAR

PERIOD? >> PER YEAR I BELIEVE.

>> THAT WAS ANNUAL. >> THAT IS WHAT I NEED. THANK

YOU. >>> THE TAKE AWAY IS WE WOULD BE EXPANDING OUR CAMERAS INCLUDING DOWNTOWN.

>> THANK YOU. >> OTHER QUESTIONS?

>> ANY OF THOSE INITIATIVES FUNDED THROUGH ANY KIND OF GRANT PROGRAM OR POLICE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR?

>> WISH INITIATIVES? >> WE DON'T HAVE A GRANT FOR FLOCK YET. WE ARE LOOKING AT FUNDING.

>> TRAN02 >> YOU LOOKING TO SECURE MONEY

FOR THAT FROM A GRANT. >> YES

>> NOT JUST GRANTS. THERE MAY BE SOME OTHER REVENUE SOURCES.

>> RADIO SYSTEMS WILL THAT BE COMING FROM THE OPERATING

BUDGET $81,000 ANNUALLY ? >> IS THAT WHAT THAT WAS 81,000

FOR THE RADIO SYSTEM? >> 1.8 MILLION OVER SEVEN

YEARS. >> THAT WOULD BE A CAPITAL EXPENSE. THE CITY WAS RESOURCEFUL FINANCING THAT WE HAD TO DO THE DO OVER OF OUR RADIOS BEFORE.

>> THANK YOU. >> OTHER QUESTIONS?

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION. THANK YOU.

>> NEXT UP IS MAJOR CHAN. MAJOR CHAN WAS A PART OF HOMELAND SECURITY. FOR 28 YEARS. HE WILL BRING A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS HE IS LOOKING INTO WHEN IT COMES TO HIS POSITION AND THE AREAS IN WHICH HE IS IN

COMMAND OF. MAJOR CHAN. >> GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS. MR. MEMS. AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHIEF OVER THE INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES BUREAU. I OVERSEE THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION. THE CRIME SUPPRESSION UNIT THE CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS. EVIDENCE AND VICTIMS ADVOCATES.

THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION IS MADE UP OF DETECTIVES OR CID FOR SHORT. WHO INVESTIGATE A WIDE VARIETY OF CRIMES. THOSE CRIMES CAN BE IN GENERAL BROKEN DOWN INTO TWO CATEGORIES. CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS AND CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY. SOME OF THE CRIMES AGAINST PERSON ROBBERY HOMICIDE SEXUAL ASSAULT CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY BURGLARY THEFT AND FRAUD. EACH DETECTIVE HAS ABOUT 20 NEW CASES A MONTH. THE NEXT SECTION IS THE CRIME SUPPRESSION UNIT. ALSO MADE UP OF DETECTIVES. THEIR MISSION IS TO PROACTIVELY TARGET PROBLEM AREAS OF THE CITY AND AUGMENT ROAD PATROL AND THE K-9 UNITS.

PRIMARILY THEY FOCUS ON THE CRIMINAL ELEMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SAFE THE SALE OF AND DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTICS ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF FIREARMS AND THE STUFF ASSOCIATED WITH THE VIOLENCE WITHIN THE CITY. THE CRIME SUPPRESSION UNIT WORKS CLOSELY WITH OUR STATE LOCAL AND FEDERAL PARTNERS TO LEVERAGE THEIR RESOURCES AND ALSO THEIR AUTHORITY. WE HAVE DETECTIVES ASSIGNED TO VARIOUS TASK FORCES SUCH AS THE U.S.

MARSHALS FUGITIVE TASK FORCE. THE DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION. ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND FIREARMS. AND ALSO HOMELAND SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS. WERE ARE FORMALLY WORKED. IN ADDITION WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ASIDE FROM THE STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE. AS WELL AS THE FBI AND OTHER AGENCIES. WE JUST DON'T HAVE PEOPLE ASSIGNED THERE JUST YET. WE ARE LIMITED WITH OUR PERSONNEL. AND

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TWO AR 15'S, TO AK-47 RIFLES, FOUR HANDGUNS ONE OF WHICH WAS STOLEN. LARGE NUMBER OF MAGAZINES AMMUNITION MARIJUANA AGAIN. AND THEY EVEN GOT THE GUY TO CONFESS TO THE TO ACTUALLY SHOOTING IN THE BACK YARD WHICH LED THEM TO THE LOCATION. ALSO IN THIS CASE SEIZED 59,000 IN DRUG PROCEEDS WHICH WAS FORFEITED BY THE CITY.

>> THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE CRIME STATISTICS FOR CSU. SINCE JUNE OF 2023 I DID NOT GET THERE UNTIL OCTOBER SO I CANNOT TAKE CREDIT. THEY'RE WORKING OUT WORKING HARD OUT THERE. 410 ARREST. 215 CASES INVOLVING SEIZURE OF NARCOTICS. 36 FIREARMS FEES. THAT NUMBER DOES NOT TELL YOU ALL THE WORK THEY ARE DOING. SOME OF THE SEIZURES WERE WITH FEDERAL PARTNERS.

WHEN I GOT HERE IN OCTOBER THEY WERE WORKING WITH THE ATF AND THEY ARRESTED SEIZED FROM A STRAW PURCHASER ABOUT 50 AK-47S. OUR CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATORS. THEY ARE A PIVOTAL PART OF OUR TEAM. JUST LIKE THE SHOW CSI THEY GO OUT AND THEY ARE HIGHLY TRAINED CIVILIANS WHO RESERVED DOCUMENT AND COLLECT EVIDENCE. THEIR TRAINING INCLUDES COLLECTING DNA EVIDENCE PHOTOGRAPHING AND DOCUMENTING CRIME SCENES. THEY ALSO COLLECT LATENT PRINTS AND MAKE COMPARISONS TO IDENTIFY SUSPECTS. RESPONSES SHOOTINGS HOMICIDES AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. 24 ¿ SEVEN ENTITY. AND THEY WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR DETECTIVES. THEY ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE TEAM.

SOMETIMES FORGOTTEN BUT VERY ESSENTIAL. NEXT WE HAVE OUR EVIDENCE UNIT. THIS IS A HIGH LIABILITY AREA THAT IS ALSO OFTEN FORGOTTEN. THE EVIDENCE UNIT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCEPTING A BANDED LOST AND FOUND PROPERTY. EVIDENCE TECH IS CRUCIAL FOR ENSURING THE INTEGRITY OF EVIDENCE. AND THAT IS PROPERLY STORED AND WAS PRESERVED FOR PROSECUTION. NEXT

SLIDE. >> WHAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IN THIS SLIDE IS THE COMPARISON BETWEEN OUR LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS. PORT ST. LUCIE THEY HAVE A SERGEANT OVERSEEING THEIR EVIDENCE. TWO FULL-TIME TECHNICIANS AND A FULL TIME ADMINISTRATIVE PERSON THAT ALSO ASSIST IN HANDLING

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PIERCE WE NOW HAVE A SERGEANT ASSIGNED OVER EVIDENCE.

OVERSEEING ONE FULL-TIME TECHNICIAN. WE AUGMENT THAT BY HAVING A COLLATERAL DUTIES WITH SOME OF OUR PERSONNEL INCLUDING MY ASSISTANT HERE. THAT IS DOING THE POWERPOINT. WE HAVE ABOUT 72,000 PIECES OF EVIDENCE. LAST BUT DEFINITELY NOT LEAST IS OUR VICTIMS ADVOCATE UNIT. VICTIM ADVOCATES PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN PROVIDING SUPPORT GUIDANCE AND ADVOCACY FOR INDIVIDUALS THAT MAY HAVE EXPERIENCED TRAUMA OR VICTIMIZATION. OUR VICTIM ADVOCATES ARE TRAINED MEDICAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. WHO ASSIST VICTIMS THROUGH EVERY STEP OF THE LEGAL PROCESS BOTH DECIMATE AND ASSIST THEM WITH THEIR EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING. THEY ASSURE THEIR VOICES ARE HEARD. THEY OFFER EMOTIONAL SUPPORT HELPING THEM NAVIGATE THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM BY EXPLAINING PROCEDURES AND ACCOMPANYING THEM THROUGH PROCEEDINGS. THEY ALSO ACT AS A LIAISON BETWEEN THE VICTIM AND SERVICES THAT ARE OUT THERE.

THEY ARE AWARE OF THE DIFFERENT SERVICES AND THEY ASSIST THE VICTIMS AND FIND THOSE SERVICES FOR THEM. THEY ALSO CONDUCT OUTREACH TO REPRESENT THE DEPARTMENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS. YOU WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GRANTS EARLIER. SOME OF THE GRANTS THAT ASSIST MY PARTICULAR DIVISION OTHER PROJECTS SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD . LAST FISCAL YEAR WE RECEIVED 111,000 FOR THAT THROUGH THAT GRANT. THAT ASSISTED US IN PURCHASING CAMERAS. THOSE ARE NOT THE CAMERAS THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE. I DON'T WANT TO SHOW YOU THE TYPE OF CAMERAS BECAUSE THEY ARE SENSITIVE. ALSO WITH OVER TIME AND SENDING OUT OUR DETECTIVES AND CRIME SUPPRESSION UNIT. AND WORKING THOSE PROBLEMATIC AREAS. AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS FDLE GRANT. ASSIST US FOR FENTANYL MEDICATIONS OR SAFE YOU GUYS MAY HAVE REMEMBERED THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE WE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE SOFTWARE THAT THIS GRANT PROVIDED FOR US TO BASICALLY ASSIST OUR DETECTIVES IN THEIR INVESTIGATIONS. PIN LINK IS A SOFTWARE THAT HELPS THEM ANALYZE TELEPHONE DATA . SOMETHING THAT WOULD TAKE THEM WEEKS TO DO IT CAN BE DONE WITH JUST A PUSH OF A BUTTON.

NOTEBOOK -- HELPING THEM ORGANIZE DATA SO THAT IT CAN BE USED FOR PERSECUTION AND TO MANAGE THOSE COMPLEX INVESTIGATIONS. LASTLY STILL BRIGHT WHICH IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT HELPS US EXPLOIT ELECTRONIC MEDIA. CURRENTLY WE RELY ON OUR FEDERAL AND LOCAL PARTNERS TO DO THAT. WE ARE STRIVING TO BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THAT AREA AS WELL.

ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO PURCHASE EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION FROM SOURCES. THIS IS OUR REIMBURSABLE GRANT. WE HAVE TO HAVE THE MONEY IN ORDER TO BE REIMBURSED FOR IT. NEXT SLIDE.

>> THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION.

>>> QUESTIONS? >> YOU TALKED ABOUT EVIDENCE AND YOU TALKED ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES TO INCREASE OR ENHANCE FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. WHAT ABOUT THE INFRASTRUCTURE? ARE WE OKAY FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE YOU ARE NEW TO THE GAME. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WITH OUR BUILDINGS OR STORAGE FACILITY -- WHAT DO WE NEED OR ARE WE OKAY?

>> ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. WE MAKE DUE FOR WHAT WE HAVE.

IN COMPARISON TO PORT ST. LUCIE AND THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE THEY ARE MOVING THEIR EVIDENCE ROOMS OFF-SITE. THEY HAVE 12,000 SQUARE SQUARE FEET. WE HAVE 5000 FOR THE SAME AMOUNT.

>> QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? THANK YOU SIR.

>> MAJOR CHAN WAS BEING NICE. WE NEED ADDITIONAL FACILITY WHEN IT COMES TO OUR EVIDENCE. WE ARE CRAMPED THERE. WE KNOW WE ALSO NEED A BUILDING WHEN IT COMES TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS WELL. THAT IS FOR THE FUTURE. BUT WITH OUR EVIDENCE WE HAVE TO TAKE A SERIOUS LOOK AT IT BECAUSE WE ARE COMPLETELY

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YOU FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION. >> NEXT UP IS MAJOR SANDY -- FROM SUPPORT SERVICES. HAS A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE AND WE ARE SO HAPPY TO MAKE HIM A PART OF OUR FAMILY.

>>> THANK YOU CHIEF. GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND COMMISSIONER CITY MANAGER. SUPPORT SERVICES. WHAT YOU JUST HEARD FROM OUR STAFF IS REMARKABLE. TO SAY THE LEAST. OUR OFFICERS ARE PERSONNEL MEN AND WOMEN THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS POLICE DEPARTMENT ARE JUST ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. BUT THAT ALSO HIGHLIGHTS THE TYPE OF WORK THAT WE DO. IT IS NOT JUST A ONE THING , ONE AREA, ONE FUNCTION. IT HIGHLIGHTS HOW DYNAMIC THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS AND HOW MULTILAYERED IT IS.

GOING INTO THE SUPPORT SERVICES BUREAU WHICH IS WHAT THE BUREAU THAT I OVERSEE. IT IS RECRUITMENT TRAINING CRIME ANALYSIS PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND MEDIA RELATIONS. ANYTHING ELSE THE CHIEF ONCE THE GIFT ME IS OKAY. SO UNDERSTANDING THIS IS THE BUREAU THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORTS THE OVERALL FUNCTION.

WE'VE HEARD HOW TECHNOLOGY WE ARE USING TECHNOLOGYTO LEVERAGE SOME OF THE OPERATIONS AND SUPPORT SOME OF THE OPERATIONS WE DO. WE HEAR HOW WE ARE LEVERAGING GRANTS TO FUND SOME OF THE OPERATIONS. NOW WE GET DOWN TO THE NITTY-GRITTY SOME OF THE AREAS THAT SUPPORT THE OVERALL MISSION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. RECRUITMENT. FT.

PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT RECRUITMENT SELECT HIRE THE MOST QUALIFIED AND DIVERSE CANDIDATES TO JOIN THE POLICE FORCE. THE ULTIMATEGOAL IS TO BUILD A TEAM OF DEDICATED AND SKILLED OFFICERS WHO ARE COMMITTED TO SERVING OUR COMMUNITY WITH HONOR AND DISTINCTION. SO, WHEN I GOT HERE A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO JUNE 12TH ACTUALLY. I WAS SITTING IN HERE THIS WAS MY FIRST DAY AS TO THE COMMISSION.

I WAS COMPLETELY TAKEN ABACK. I DID NOT KNOW WHAT I WAS GETTING INTO. I STILL DON'T KNOW BUT WE ARE WORKING THROUGH IT. WE WERE SITTING ON LITTLE OVER 17 VACANCIES WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT AT THE TIME I GOT HERE. THROUGH AGGRESSIVE RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE THAT NUMBER AND WE HAVE CURRENTLY ALLOTTED 141 POSITIONS. WE HAVE SINCE GOTTEN TO WHERE WE ONLY HAVE FOUR VACANCIES AT THIS POINT. WE HAVE FILLED ALMOST ALL OF OUR VACANCIES IN MY ULTIMATE GOAL IS TO GET TO THAT 141 WHICH WE SHOULD BE ATTAINING HERE HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS. MY TEAM HAS PROCESSED 48 INDIVIDUALS SWORN THAT IS OVER THE LAST YEAR. HIRED 19 AND OFFER CONDITIONAL OFFERS TO SEVEN OF THEM. CIVILIAN STAFF WE PROCESSED 100 DECIMATE 128 CIVILIAN STAFF AND HIRED NINE.

AN INTERN AND PART-TIMERS TO FIVE AS WELL. UNDERSTANDING HOW DYNAMIC RECRUITMENT IS WE DEVELOP DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FROM CONDENSING THE FORMS THAT WE USE. REEVALUATING THE PROCESSES AND THE PROCEDURES. DEREGULATING SOME AREAS. AND TRAINING MY INDIVIDUALS TO REALLY IDENTIFY WHAT MAKES A FT. PIERCE POLICE OFFICER AND ACTUALLY GO OUT THERE AND START IDENTIFYING WHO WE CAN BRING IN. WHO WE CAN SOLICIT. THAT IS ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE HAVE IMPROVED THE RECRUITMENT. SOME OF THE THINGS WE CAN USE TO ENHANCE RECRUITING WOULD BE TECHNOLOGY. THE SOFTWARE TO BE ABLE TO FILTER SOME OF THESE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE COMING IN WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO BE BETTER AT WHAT WE DO. ENHANCE COMMUNITY EVENTS GEARED TOWARDS RECRUITMENT INCORPORATING EMPLOYMENT INCENTIVES IN ADDITION TO ESTABLISHED CENTERS. WE CAN ALWAYS USE MORE BUT PURCHASE VEHICLES THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO RECRUITMENT. WE WRAP THEM. WE DO ALL TYPES OF THINGS THAT ATTRACT PEOPLE TO WANT TO COME TO THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

ENHANCE AND RETENTION OF QUALIFIED OFFICERS. PROVIDE FOR BETTER FOR COMPETITIVE SALARIES. MONETARY INCENTIVES AND CREATE LATERAL OPPORTUNITY. THIS ESSENTIALLY MEANS INCREASING THE STAFFING AND SPECIALTY UNITS AND CREATE ADDITIONAL SPECIALTY DISCIPLINES. PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THERE IS GROWTH LATERALLY AS WELL AS THERE IS VERTICALLY. THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEIR GOAL IS. I MENTIONED TRAINING. WE ARE MOVING TO THE TRAINING UNIT.

TRAINING DIVISION IS TO PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE AND PROGRESSIVE TRAINING TO POLICE OFFICERS AND CIVILIAN STAFF TO ENHANCE THEIR SKILLS KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES TO EFFECTIVELY SERVE AND PROTECT THE COMMUNITY. THAT IS TRAINING HAS BEEN ONE OF THE AREAS WHICH WE HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVED UPON.

THEY WERE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB WHEN I GOT HERE. WE WERE ABLE

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WE DO HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS COMING UP THAT IS NOT ONLY FOR TRAINING OUR FOLKS. WE DO TRAIN THE CITIZENS AS WELL. WE HAVE A PROPOSED CITIZENS ACADEMY COMING UP HERE IN SEPTEMBER.

WHICH WILL ENABLE US TO EXPOSE THE CITIZENS OF OUR AREA TO WHAT WE DO INTERNALLY. HOW WE CONDUCT POLICE WORK. GET THEM SOME EXPOSURE SO THEY CAN SEE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE ENCOUNTER AS TIME GOES ON. WE ARE EVEN EXPLORING THE IDEA OF DOING A JUNIOR CITIZENS ACADEMY WHICH ADDRESSES THE YOUTH.

GETTING THEM TO UNDERSTAND SOME THE THINGS THAT WE ENCOUNTER AS WELL. WE'VE DISCUSSED ALREADY WHAT CHANGED INCREASE IN DESIRE FOR INDIVIDUAL TRAINING AND GROWTH. LIMITATION OF A TWO-YEAR TRAINING SYSTEM. THAT TWO-YEAR TRAINING SYSTEM ACTUALLY HELPS OUR FIRST-LINE SUPERVISORS DEVELOP THEIR OFFICERS. HOW THEY SHOULD BE DEVELOPED. WHAT AN OFFICER COMES IN AND THERE'S NO REASON FOR YOU TO GO FOR ADVANCED COURSE IF YOU HAVE NOT TAKEN A BASIC COURSE. WE ARE STARTING TO SEE A DEVELOPMENT THESE INDIVIDUAL OFFICERS. THEY WANT TO GROW BUT THEY WANT TO DO IT THE RIGHT WAY. THE TIERED SYSTEM WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING US TO THAT POINT. ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE HEARD MENTIONED EARLIER WAS DURING THE BUDGET WAS THE TRUMP TRIALS. SOME OF THE THINGS THAT CAME AS A RESULT OF THAT. BIGGEST THINGS I WANT TO MENTION AS FAR AS TRAINING IS CONCERNED IS THE MOMENT WE HEARD THAT WAS COMING TO TOWN. THE PHONE STARTED RINGING. A LOT OF NETWORKING STARTED TO BE DONE. WE WERE ABLE TO GET TRAINING WITH THE BLESSING OF THE CHIEF WE WERE ABLE TO GET TRAINING FROM THE BROWARD SHERIFF'S OFFICE PALM BEACH SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND MONITORED AND AUDITED BY FEMA TO CONDUCT MOBILE FIELD FORCE TRAINING FOR ISSUES THAT ARISE FROM PUBLIC MANAGEMENT. THAT WAS DONE AT NO COST TO US. THEY ACTUALLY CAME INTO OUR AREA SO THAT WE CAN CONDUCT TRAINING. WE TRAINED OVER 100 PERSONNEL FROM FIVE DIFFERENT AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE TREASURE COAST. THAT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE SIGHT TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT FROM THAT ALSO KICKED OFF ANOTHER AREA. THAT WAS A QUICK RESPONSE FORCE TRAINING THAT WAS PROVIDED BY THE BROWN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE AS WELL. THAT TRAINING CONSISTED OF ASCENDING GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT HAD TO PASS CERTAIN QUALIFICATIONS BEFORE THEY COULD MEET THE MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR THE SCHOOL ITSELF. THAT TRAINED THEM TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND AND ADDRESS ANY TYPE OF ACTIVE SITUATION. ANYTHING THAT WAS GOING ON THEY WERE THERE TO RESPOND TO IT. THEY WERE THERE TO RESPOND TO ANY VIOLENCE. ANY TYPE OF CROWD MANAGEMENT PUBLIC ORDER MANAGEMENT. ANY TYPE OF ISSUES OR CHALLENGES THAT WOULD ARISE YOU HAD A UNIQUELY TRAINED GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE NOW WORKING AS A TEAM TO ADDRESS ALL OF THESE CHALLENGES. THAT IS ANOTHER THING THAT CAME FROM THIS PARTICULAR TRAINING AND THE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE GOT FROM THIS YEAR. SO ALL OF THAT WAS PART OF THE STRATEGY WHEN IT CAME TO RECRUITING. NOW COMES TO SOME MONEY THINGS. SO, AS WE TRANSITION WE REALIZE WE NEED CERTAIN THINGS TO MAINTAIN OUR COMPETITIVENESS. AND TO ALSO STAY WITHIN THE AREA THAT WE NEED TO STAY. SO THAT INVOLVES IS TRANSITIONING FROM CERTAIN MATERIALS THAT WE HAVE

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THE CURRENT PISTOLS ARE 10 TO 12 YEARS OLD. THEY REQUIRE MAINTENANCE. MOST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO INCLUDE ST. LUCIE SHERIFF'S OFFICE IN PORT ST. LUCIE PD HAVE TRANSLUCENT TRANSITION TO THE NINE MILLIMETER. THE GLOCK 47 MOS NINE MILLIMETER CALIBER AND THIS IS GETTING VERY TECHNICAL.

I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU THE BRIDGE VERSION. WE HAVE A WEAPON THAT IS NOW IN PLACE THAT ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ARE GOING TOWARDS. IT IS LESS EXPENSIVE AND MORE COST-EFFECTIVE. BUT IT ALSO ALLOWS US TO BE MORE ACCURATE AT THE END OF THE DAY WHEN AN OFFICER IS FORCED TO SHOOT THEIR WEAPON WE HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR EVERY SINGLE ROUND THAT COMES OUT OF THAT GUN. IF WE DON'T HAVE THE WEAPONS PLATFORM TO ASSIST US IN ENSURING THAT WHERE THOSE ROUNDS GO IS WHERE WE WANTED THEM TO GO THEN WE START TO RUN INTO SOME SORT OF ISSUE. WE ÚWANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE OR WE ARE IN LINE WITH EVERYONE ELSE IN THE COUNTY. THE ESTIMATED COST FOR THAT TRANSITION IS APPROXIMATELY $320,000. MOVING ON TO THE CRIME ANALYSIS UNIT. THE MISSION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S CRIME ANALYSIS UNIT AND INTELLIGENCE DIVISION TO SUPPORT THE OPERATIONS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BY PROVIDING A DATA-DRIVEN INSIDE AND ANALYSIS TO INFORM CRIME PREVENTION INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION. SHORT STORY, THE CRIME ANALYSTS ARE INCREDIBLE BECAUSE THEY ARE ABLE TO COLLATE EVALUATE AND DISSEMINATE HIGHLY SENSITIVE INFORMATION TO THEIR RESPECTIVE UNITS SO THEY CAN DO THEIR JOBS EFFECTIVELY. SO IF YOU HAVE CONTROL THEY ARE ABLE TO IDENTIFY PATTERNS AND SPRAYS AND ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT INTO THE PATROL UNIT IF THEY HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS GOING ON WHICH REQUIRES MORE WHETHER IT IS ANALYZING DATA FROM SOCIAL MEDIA OPEN-SOURCE METER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT ANY TYPE OF INTELLIGENCE THE ANALYZE IT AND VERIFY IT IS IN FACT LEGITIMATE. THEY SEND IT OUT TO THE RESPECTIVE UNITS SO THEY CAN ACT UPON IT. THAT IS WHAT WE ARE CALLING CRIME REDUCTION STRATEGY NOW. WE ARE ABLE TO ANALYZE THIS INFORMATION AND GET IT TO THE INDIVIDUAL UNITS SO THEY CAN COME TOGETHER AND ADDRESS ONE PROBLEM. THEY WERE INSTRUMNTAL IN THE CRIME ANALYSIS UNIT WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN DEVELOPING THE CRIME REDUCTION STRATEGY SO WE CAN ACTUALLY GET TO WHERE EVERYBODY IS FOCUSED ON THE PROBLEM. THROUGH INTELLIGENCE LED POLICING. YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THEY'VE HAD. THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT GOES BEHIND ANALYTICAL'S PROCESSES. THEY HAVE TO GET A LOT OF SOURCE INFORMATION. FROM OPEN-SOURCE TO INTELLIGENCE TO CLOSED SOURCE INFORMATION. THEY REALLY DO HAVE TO GET TO THAT LEVEL WHERE WE BECOME MORE EFFICIENT. THE WAY WE DO THAT IS ONCE AGAIN TECHNOLOGY. WE HAVE TO LEVERAGE TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY. STAFF TRAINING ADVANCED TRAINING FOR ANALYSTS. STAFF INCREASES. PERSONNEL. PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS. WE TALK ABOUT SUPPORT SERVICES. WE SPOKE ABOUT RECRUITMENT HIRING. WE SPOKE ABOUT TRAINING OUR OFFICERS. WE LOOK AT THE ACCOUNTABILITY ASPECT. EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.

INTERNAL AFFAIRS PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS UNIT TO ENSURE THE DEPARTMENTS MEMBERS ADHERE TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF INTEGRITY ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM. SOME OF THESE THIS IS WORK SOMETIMES WE CALL IT ACCOMPLISHMENTS. IT IS WORK.

OUTSIDE OF THE NORMAL PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS THAT MAY BE THE RECORDS DIVISION DOES THE KEEPER OF THE DISCIPLINARY FILES IS THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS UNIT. WE HAVE AN ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT THAT HANDLES THE REQUEST. YOU CAN SEE THAT PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS -- ANALYSIS UNIT.

CITIZEN EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS. YOU WILL SEE THAT ON THE CHART.

CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO CITIZEN OR EMPLOYEE COMPLAINTS.

INTERNAL COMPLAINTS GENERATED INTERNALLY THROUGH AUDITS. WE DO HAVE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AUDIT THAT WE DO ON A MONTHLY BASIS. THROUGH THE DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES WITHIN THE AGENCY.

BUT SUPERVISES LINE SUPERVISORS AND MIDDLE MANAGEMENT ALSO DOES THEIR OWN AUDITS. TRACKING IS A PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE THE TRACKS ALL INFORMATION COMING THROUGH WHETHER IT IS USE OF FORCE TRAFFIC CRASHES LOSS OF PROPERTY DAMAGE. ANYTHING THAT INVOLVES A POLICE OFFICER WE TRACK IT THROUGH THE BLUE TEAM TRACKING SYSTEM. FUTURE NEEDS. ADVANCED TRAINING ON CONDUCTING

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HAVE ANYTHING FOR ME? >> YOU TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE TRAINING CONFERENCES AND THE DEMAND FOR OFFICERS SEEKING THESE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES. I'M SURE THAT IS GREAT FOR THEIR FILES AND ELIGIBLE FOR DIFFERENT ASSIGNMENTS OR PROMOTIONS. DO WE -- WE OBVIOUSLY PAY FOR THOSE TRAININGS OR THE DEPARTMENT DOES AT TIMES. IN THOSE TIMES DO WE ALSO USE IT AS A HR ADMINISTRATIVE TOOL TO LOCK OUR EMPLOYEES AND FOR THE TYPE OF INCENTIVE SO WE ARE NOT

TRAINING AND LOSING? >> I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. THERE IS SOMETHING IN PLACE WHICH REQUIRES THESE OFFICERS TO STAY IN PLACE FOR CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME. BUT THE WAY WE DESIGN TRAINING IS TO BENEFIT THE FT. PIERCE THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE.

HOW WE DESIGNED IT WAS LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE THAT TO YOUR SYSTEM. WE ARE BUILDING OFFICERS BUT WE NEED FOR THEM TO STAY HERE. WE CREATE THAT OPPORTUNITY THAT LATERAL OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO USE WHAT THEY WERE TAUGHT. IF WE DON'T HAVE THEM A VENUE TO USE WHAT THEY WERE TAUGHT THEN THE LIKELIHOOD OF THEM LEAVING US IS HIGH. WE ARE TRYING EVERY STRATEGY WE ARE IMPLEMENTING DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO KEEP

OUR OFFICERS. THAT ARE TRAINED. >> THANK YOU.

>> QUESTIONS? >> TO STAY ON TRAINING THANK YOU MAJOR. I'M GOING TO ASKED SPECIFICALLY ON THE LINE ITEM BUDGET WHERE DO YOU HAVE IDENTIFY TRAINING IN YOUR LINE

ITEM BUDGET? >> I THINK THE LINE ITEM I THINK IT WAS 400,000. I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER. I THINK IT WAS 400,000 FOR TRAINING FOR US. WE ARE ALWAYS HAVING TO MOVE THINGS AROUND TO SEND OFFICERS TO THINGS. BECAUSE ALTHOUGH SOME CLASSES WE MIGHT NOT PAY FOR. BUT SOME CLASSES WE GIVE THEM THE ADMIN TIME WHICH CREATES SHORTAGES ON THE STREET THAT WE HAVE TO ADJUST. WHAT WE ALSO THE MONEY THAT WAS ALLOCATED WE HAVE USED UP LAST YEAR. I BELIEVE IT WAS ON MIGHT BE OVER SPEAKING THE 400,000. MIGHT HAVE ADDED AN EXTRA ZERO.

>> AS YOU CAN SEE WHEN IT COMES TO THE ALLOCATED OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE A NUMBER OF 141. AS THE 141 OFFICERS ARE THERE SO HAS THE GROWTH OF THE CITY. AS YOU CAN SEE THE TWO LINES ARE MEETING AND THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN. THEY SHOULD NEVER BE THAT WHERE THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS AND THEIR POPULATIONS ARE ALIGNED. BECAUSE IT PUTS A HORRIBLE STRAIN ON THESE OFFICERS. WHAT IS HAPPENING IS WITH THE CALL VOLUME THAT WE ARE HAVING AT 86,000 PER YEAR THAT WAS LAST YEAR. WHEN YOU AVERAGE IT OUT WE ARE TAKING OVER 81,000 CALLS PER AN AVERAGE OF THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD. THAT EQUATES TO 224 CALLS FOR SERVICE PER DAY. WE HAVE A MEETING EVERY MORNING WHERE WE LOOK AT WHAT HAS OCCURRED OVERNIGHT. EACH TIME WE GO TO THIS, WE SEE THESE OFFICERS ARE HANDLING THAT NUMBER OF CALLS EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. AND THAT IS A STRAIN ON THEM. WHAT WE DID , WE BROKE THE COST DOWN FOR SERVICE. IT IS NOT BY YOUR DISTRICT IT IS BY THE POLICE DISTRICT. NAVY

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YOU SEE THE NUMBER OF CALLS THAT ARE BEING HANDLED AND WHAT CONCENTRATION IS. IN DISTRICT TO YOU SEE HOW HUGE AN AREA IT IS. 25 BY THREE SQUARE MILES. EVEN WITH THE SHORT AMOUNT OF A SQUARE MILEAGE AT THE 5.5 DISTRICT 1 THE VOLUME OF CALL IS STILL EXTREMELY GREAT. THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE ARE GOING TO THE CORRECTION GOING TO HAVE A SUBSTATION IN INDIAN RIVER TO ASSIST US IN THAT WIDE AMOUNT OF AREA IN DISTRICT 2. BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THE OFFICERS ARE HAVING TO RESPOND FROM OKEECHOBEE SOMETIMES THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE BEACH. THAT PUTS A STRAIN ON THE RESPONSE TIME. PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT IT IS PRIORITY CALLS. SOMEONE BROKE IN MY CAR I WANT YOU HERE RIGHT NOW. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE DEALING WITH AND WHAT WE ARE DOING OUR BEST TO ADDRESS. RIGHT NOW THE OFFICERS ARE HANDLING 17,450 CALLS. WE DID A COMPARISON TO PORT ST. LUCIE AND ST. LUCIE COUNTY. WE ARE ANSWERING 40% MORE CALLS WITH THEM. WE ARE COMPARISON TO THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS WE HAVE.

THAT IS A LOT. 17,000. OUR OFFICERS ALTHOUGH THEY ARE UNDER PRESSURE STRAIN TO GET IT DONE THEY CONTINUE TO DO THEIR JOB AND ARE VERY PROUD OF THAT. HOWEVER WITH THE GROWTH OF THE CITY, AS IT CONTINUES TO GROW AND I'M SO HAPPY BECAUSE I FEEL THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN A PART OF THE REASON FOR THE GROWTH BECAUSE WITH OUR CRIME REDUCTION. IN THE THINGS WE HAVE IN PLACE WE ARE INVITING PEOPLE TO COME TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY AND APPRECIATE ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

BUT AS THE NEW DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES SO DOES THE CALL VOLUME. INCREASE. AND WHAT IS TAKING PLACE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS PROPOSE A THIRD DISTRICT. WHERE WE PRESENTLY HAVE TO. WE WANT TO GO TO THREE DISTRICTS WITH THAT THIRD DISTRICT COMPROMISING MOST OF THE OKEECHOBEE CORE DOOR.

BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF THE GROWTH IS HAPPENING. THIS IS WHERE WE NEED TO PUT OUR FOCUS ON. AND THEN IT WILL REDUCE OUR RESPONSE TIME TO A NUMBER OF CALLS. UNFORTUNATELY THIS PROPOSAL HAS TO WAIT BECAUSE QUITE HONESTLY, I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OFFICERS TO ADEQUATELY FILL THE POSITIONS TO DO THIS. BUT THIS IS THE HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT 141 OFFICERS I ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW MANY OFFICERS THAT WE ARE LOSING. AS YOU CAN SEE IT IS AN UP-AND-DOWN SITUATION. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE COMMISSION BECAUSE YOU LEVELED OUT THE SALARIES OF THESE OFFICERS. YOU BROUGHT THEM BACK TO WHERE THEY WERE COMPETITIVE.

AND THAT SAVED A NUMBER OF JOBS. HOWEVER, AS WE CONTINUE TO COMPETITIVENESS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES TO CHANGE. AND -- IS AN EXAMPLE. THE RECRUIT CLASSES WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM ORLANDO. FROM MIAMI. AND THEY ARE COMING TO RECRUIT FROM THIS COLLEGE AS WELL. THEY ARE OFFERING $10,000 BONUSES FOR PEOPLE TO SIGN UP. THEY ARE OFFERING STARTING INDIAN ACADEMY OVER $61,000 . THIS IS WHAT WE ARE COMPETING WITH. IN ONE SITUATION I JUST HAD AN OFFICER TO COME TO ME.

AND THE OFFICERS BECAUSE I SWORE HIM IN. HE TOLD ME HE WOULD REMAIN LOYAL TO US. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND , IT WAS ABOUT HIS FAMILY. HE WAS TAKING ANOTHER JOB WHERE AT THE TIME THAT HE HAD WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HERE HE WAS GOING TO ANOTHER AGENCY MAKING $12,000 MORE PER FIRST DAY. I CAN'T COMPETE WITH THAT. THIS IS WHAT I'M HAVING TO DEAL WITH. AND WHAT BRINGS THIS POINT OUT YOU LOOK AT THE CRIME REDUCTION THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE. THE CRIME REDUCTION IS HUGE. ALTHOUGH WE ARE NOT SEEING IT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THEY ARE NOT SEEING IT IS THEY ARE. WE LIVE IT. I REMEMBER FT. PIERCE WAS WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE. NOW ARE OUR PEOPLE REMEMBER WHAT FORCE PIERCE WAS THIS IS A DIFFERENT FORCE PIERCE. I TAKE PRIDE IN THAT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO PUT THE EFFORTS AND TO CONTINUE TO REDUCE THE CRIME AND KEEP OUR CITY SAFE. I SAY IT WITH SUCH PRIDE. HE ROLLS. WORK AT THE

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THEY ARE THE HEROES AND THEY WILL ALWAYS BE THE HEROES. IT IS NOT ONLY JUST MY OFFICERS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT MY SERGEANTS.

THE SAME THING APPLIES. THAT WAS PAID. WHEN I LOOK AT MY LIEUTENANTS ONCE AGAIN LOWEST PAID. HEROES WORK HERE. AND I'M ONLY ASKING THAT THEY BE PAID A SALARY TO KEEP THEM HERE. MY OFFICERS WANT TO SAY AND MANY OF THEM I'VE TALKED WITH HIM. THE DEDICATION IS THERE BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEIR FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES GO INTO PLAY. WHEN WE HAD A CALLED A RECENT WE HAD MULTIPLE CRIME SCENES. MULTIPLE. ALL OF MY OFFICERS THEY WENT EVERYONE WAS ON THE SAME. WE ALSO HAD ALL OFF DUTY BECAUSE THE OF THEIR WORKING DETAIL THEY KNOW THE DETAIL BECOMES SECONDARY. THEY HAVE TO REPORT TO THE SCENE.

CALLING PEOPLE AND WE HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. BECAUSE IT WAS THAT FAST. IT WAS THAT FAST AND THAT WIDE. THEY REMAINED DEDICATED WITH ALL THEIR EFFORTS. I PLEAD WITH YOU TO JUST LOOK AT THEIR SALARIES.

AND PAID THEM A JUST WAGE. I HAVE TO GO TO THE POSITIVE PART. ARE COURAGEOUS KIDS. WE CALL THEM COURAGEOUS BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE ARE PER TRADE AS THEIR ENEMY. WE ARE SAYING WE WERE ONCE YOU. AND YOU CAN ONE DAY BE US. AND WE GO THERE EVERY TUESDAY AND MAKE A PART AVENUE G -- WE PARTNER WITH SARAH KITCHEN SO WE GIVE THEM A NUTRITIOUS MEAL. WE PLAY GAMES.

WE READ BOOKS. AND ALL THE OFFICERS ARE IN UNIFORM BECAUSE WE WANT THEM TO HAVE THAT TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH US. THIS IS A PRICELESS MOMENT. I WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU A VIDEO OF OUR OWN MAJOR CHAN IN A FOOT RACE. SAMET

>> HAD TO LAUGH ABOUT THAT. CULTURALLY -- WHEN A NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN THAT WERE AT THE PARK THEY TALK TO MAJOR CHAN ABOUT HIS ETHNICITY. WHY ARE YOUR EYES THAT WAY? WE ARE TAKING THEM TO A DIFFERENT LEVEL AND SHOWING THE DIVERSITY OF THIS DEPARTMENT. WE ARE SHOWING THEM THAT. WE ARE GIVING THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE DIFFERENT THINGS. IT COMES TO THE RESOURCES THAT WAS A DREAM THAT FINALLY CAME TRUE.

IT IS ACTUALLY THERE. WE TAKE OUR VICTIM ADVOCATES AND WE PLACED THEM THERE. WE ALSO HAVE AN ASSIGNED OFFICER THERE. THE REASON WE PUT THE VICTIM ADVOCATES THEY ARE IS BECAUSE OF THEIR ABILITY AND THE TRAINING THEY HAVE. SOME OF

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WHAT THIS MEETING WAS ABOUT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FAITH IN THE FUTURE OF FT. PIERCE. WE WANTED TO HEAR THEIR VOICE. HE WANTED THEM TO KNOW THAT WE CARE. REVEREND -- I WANT YOU TO SEE HIM TO LET YOU KNOW WE ARE GROWING OUR FAITH BASE BUT ALSO OUR -- DEPARTMENT WILL BE UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP.

>> GOOD MORNING GOOD AFTERNOON. SENIOR PASTOR FELLOWSHIP CHURCH IN FT. PIERCE. I'VE WORKED IN THE LEADERSHIP CONSULTANT AROUND THE COUNTRY FOR 24 YEARS. I WORKED AS A CHAPLAIN FOR THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE FOR 17 YEARS. I WAS BORN HERE. IN FT. PIERCE. MY MOTHER MOVED TO FORT LAUDERDALE IN 1983. I'M GLAD TO BE HERE. I'M EXCITED ABOUT WORKING WITH THE CHIEF AND THE FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE CAPACITY OF CHAPLAIN. SAMET THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> FROM THIS MEETING WHAT WAS SAID WAS RESPECT WAS LOST WHEN IT CAME TO THE POLICE OFFICERS. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IS A COMMUNITY PROBLEM. IT IS NOT JUST A POLICE PROBLEM. WE ALSO SPOKE OF A LOT OF THINGS COME FROM THE HOME. AND IT WAS VERY TOUCHING TO HEAR THE STORIES ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH. THAT MENTAL HEALTH IS A PROBLEMATIC AREA. THAT WE NEED TO DO MORE WITH WE ARE TAKING THAT INFORMATION. WE ARE GROWING WITH IT. AND WE HOPE TO SEE ADDITIONAL THINGS AS WE TALK ABOUT FAITH IN THE FUTURE OF FT. PIERCE.

>> AND OF COURSE OUR BIGGEST EVENT IS COMING UP UNITY AND OUR COMMUNITY. JULY 17TH. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU OUT THERE. IT IS A HARD -- IT IS A HARD DAY FOR ALL OF US. AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE DEDICATION AND EFFORT TO EVERYONE THAT MAKES THIS POSSIBLE. THAT WILL BE NEXT WEEK. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SHARE OUR DEPARTMENT. WE TAKE SUCH PRIDE IN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. WE ARE THERE AND FOLLOWING OUR MODEL AND WE SERVE. IT IS AN HONOR TO SERVE THE PUBLIC AND WE DO IT EVERY SINGLE DAY. I WOULD OPEN UP TO YOU IF YOU

HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. >> I WANT TO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS I THINK WE NEEDED THIS WE REALLY NEEDED -- I NEEDED TO HEAR ALL THAT I AND ' APPRECIATIVE OF WHAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM DO. I THINK SOMETIMES WE FORGET IT BECAUSE YOU ARE ON U.S. ONE AND WE ARE HERE. THERE IS NOT A LOT OF DAILY INTERACTION. THAT REMOTE LOCATION IS A GOOD THING AND

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THE THINGS THE SPACE NEEDS ? >> IT IS COMPLETELY FULL. IN FACT WE ARE OUT OF SPACE AT THE MAIN STATION. I REALLY WANTED THE -- I'M TRYING TO BRING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT CLOSER. I

PLAYED RIGHT INTO YOUR HANDS. >> THE WE ARE HOPING TO INVEST IN ALL CITY HALL THAT WE CAN BRING PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS IN A NUMBER OF OUR ENTITIES THERE. WE CAN EXPAND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO MEET THE AREAS OF NEED THAT IS TAKING PLACE. ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE RATIO WHEN IT COMES TO THESE OFFICERS. I'M SO PROUD OF THE FACT WE ARE ALMOST FULL. 141 OFFICERS. BUT I SAY TO YOU IS THE CHIEF OF POLICE HUNDRED 41 OFFICERS IS NOT ENOUGH THE FULL NEEDS OF THE CITY. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OFFICES WE NEED TO GROW. WE'VE DONE A NUMBER OF CALCULATIONS AND SUCH. AND HONESTLY IT IS APPROXIMATELY ABOUT 30 TO 40 OFFICERS WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT OVERALL WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF CALLS THAT WE ARE TAKING ON EVERY SINGLE DAY. THAT IS THE REASON A LOT OF OUR OFFICERS ARE LEAVING. THEY ARE BURNT OUT BECAUSE THEY GO TO OTHER AREAS. THEY SAY WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? WHEN I GO TO DIFFERENT EVENTS, IT IS A PROUD MOMENT BUT IT IS A DISAPPOINTING MOMENT. WITH THE NUMBER OF OFFICES THAT HAVE LEFT THE DEPARTMENT WHEN I SEE THEM AT THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. WHEN I SEE THEM IN PORT ST. LUCIE -- THEY ARE ALL IN SOME FORM OF LEADERSHIP ROLE. LEADERSHIP THAT WE LOST. I WANT TO KEEP THAT HERE. WE HAVE TO KEEP THE OFFICERS. THEY ARE DEDICATED TO THE CITY AND WE NEED TO KEEP

THEM HERE. >> THANK YOU.

>> ANYBODY ELSE? >> THANK YOU FOR THIS PRESENTATION. AND ALL OF YOUR DEPARTMENT LEADERSHIP TEAM FOR THIS INFORMATION. I'M TRYING TO GET TO THAT NUMBER. I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY IT. WHAT IS THAT NUMBER BASED BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU ARE HOLDING OFF I'M GOING TO CALL IT THE SOUTHWEST SUBSTATION. WHAT IS THE NUMBER THAT WE NEED TO THAT YOU NEED TO HANDLE CALLS AND EXPAND TO MEET THAT DEMAND THAT

IS HERE? >> IF MY MEMORY IS CORRECT THE WAY WE CAN DELETE IT WITH THE VOLUME OF CALLS IN THE GROWTH OF THE CITY AS IT CONTINUES IS APPROXIMATELY 192 OFFICERS.

>> 200 OFFICERS. OKAY THANK YOU.

>> CHIEF IS THAT A METRIC THAT IS LIKE A NATIONAL DATA POINT WHERE IT IS CALLS FOR SERVICE OR IS IT BASED ON POPULATION?

>> WHAT IS HAPPENING THAT BECOMES OUR ISSUE. WHEN WE DO BY POPULATION, IT IS AN ERROR. WE HAVE TO PUT IN THE CALLS FOR SERVICE. AS I SAY IT SHOWS WE ARE TAKING ON 40% MORE CALLS THAN ANY OTHER ENTITY EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE ADDITIONAL OFFICERS. SO WE ARE COMPACTED AS FAR AS OUR SIZE. THIS IS WHAT WE COME UP WITH. BUT THE DISCLAIMER WHAT IS NEEDED IS A TRUE OVERVIEW WHEN SOMEONE COMES AND GIVES US A TRUE ASSESSMENT OF THIS. BUT THAT IS A VERY EXPENSIVE UNDERTAKING.

SO WE HAVE TRIED ALL THE FORMULAS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ALL THE OTHER ENTITIES. IT IS OUR CALL VOLUMES THAT CREATES THE ISSUE FOR US.

>> I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY THAT AND I APPRECIATE THAT.

DEFINITELY WANT TO TALK ABOUT FURTHER THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS.

SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO ENTERTAIN THAT. AS WE LOOK FORWARD MR. MIMS AND I HAVE HAD CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR BUDGET SPECIFICALLY. AND WE HAVE HAD THAT FOR 8 YEARS. AND HERE I AM IN MY LAST BUDGET SESSION AND TALKING ABOUT IT YET AGAIN. BUT WE'VE MADE GREAT STRIDES AND WE ARE DOING GREAT THINGS. YOU SHOW THE METRICS AND THE DATA TO PROVE THAT. THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THAT. I WANT TO CONTINUE TO ENHANCE THAT. I HEARD A LOT OF NUMBERS TODAY AND PUT DOWN A LOT OF INFORMATION. I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THIS SLIDE INTO THE PACKET. BECAUSE I NEED THAT DATA. I PUT AS MUCH AS I COULD

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BUDGET THIS YEAR? >> NO SIR

>> THOSE ARE IN ADDITION TO YOUR CURRENT BUDGET? ADDITIONAL

ASKS ? >> YES SIR

>> THE CAPITAL PART OF IT WHAT I MEAN BY CAPITAL IF I GET LOST IN CONSTRUCTION SPEAK I APOLOGIZE. CAPITAL BEING INFRASTRUCTURE. I TALKED ABOUT THE EVIDENCE TO ME IS STARTS LOOKING AT EMPLOYEES THE NUMBER OF FTES AND HOW YOU HOUSE YOUR EMPLOYEES. THROUGH SUBSTATIONS. OR WHATEVER MEANS AND METHODS THAT IS. YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT AN INCREASE. WE HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT SQUARE FOOTAGE OTHER THAN IR SC. I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE AN AVAILABLE OPTION THAT IS SECURE. DO I HAVE THAT CORRECT?

>> YES SIR >> HOW MANY SQUARE FEET ROUGHLY? DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH SPACE?

>> DEPUTY CHIEF CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

>> HOW MANY OFFICERS ALSO? >> I DON'T HAVE AN APPROXIMATE SQUARE FOOTAGE. I WOULD COMPARE IT TO A COUPLE OF OFFICES AND A

COMMUNAL AREA. >> OKAY

>> GIVING A SPACE INSIDE OF ONE OF THEIR BUILDINGS EXISTING.

>> CORRECT >> YOU TALKED ABOUT YOUR DISTRICTING IN THE DISTRICT 3 IS NOT GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED TODAY. BECAUSE WE HAVE TO FORECAST WE HAVE TO GROW. AND WE HAVE TO BE STRATEGIC AND HOW WE DO THAT. HOW MANY YEARS DO YOU HAVE SHOULD HAVE ASKED WHEN THE DEPUTY CHIEF WAS UP HERE.

DO YOU HAVE A PLAN FOR HOW LONG YOU WOULD LIKE TO STAY AT THE COLLEGE OR WOULD YOU LIKE SOMETHING IN THE SOUTHWEST

PORTION OF OUR CITY? >> I WOULD RATHER HAVE SOMETHING IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION. WE WENT OUT AND WE WENT TO A NUMBER OF BUSINESSES TO SEE IF WE CAN GET SPACE. THE CHARGE THEY WANTED TO CHARGE A GREATER AMOUNT. WE TALKED ABOUT PARTNERSHIPS. IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE DOLLARS. BUT WITH RSC THEY WERE WILLING TO WORK WITH US AND WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR

THAT. >> THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE WHEN WE LOOK AT DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS THERE IS CONVERSATIONS THAT HAPPEN WITHIN THE ENGINEERING PLANNING DEPARTMENTS. THEY CAN HAVE THOSE REAL-WORLD CONVERSATIONS.

SCHOOL DISTRICT TALKS ABOUT THEM. THE FIRE DISTRICT TALKS ABOUT IT IN LAW ENFORCEMENT SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT IT.

WHETHER THROUGH LAW ENFORCEMENT IMPACT FEES OR IN EXCHANGE IN LIEU OF IMPACT FEES WE SHOULD BE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS.

I THINK AS A CITY IT IS TIME LOOKING AT YOUR MAP THAT YOU PRESENTED EARLIER THAT WE HAVE A REAL CONVERSATION IN THAT REGARD WITH OUR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY. THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME. THE OTHER THING I WOULD LIKE TO ASK A FEW IS IF YOU WOULDN'T IF YOU WOULD PROVIDE FOR US AN ANNUAL BREAKDOWN OF THOSE FEES NOT THE FEES THE REQUEST YOU MADE . WE TALK ABOUT RADIOS. THAT WAS NUMBER 1.8 MILLION OVER SEVEN YEARS.

WE TALKED ABOUT AN ANNUAL FOR THE FLOCK SYSTEM. MAYBE EVEN THE LICENSE PLATE READERS. WE ARE GETTING TO AN ADDITIONAL -- 1 POINT WHATEVER MILLION DOLLARS REALLY QUICKLY.

ADDITIONAL IN YOUR BUDGET. SO, I WOULD LIKE A SUMMARY OF THAT IF WE COULD. IN THIS CONVERSATION PIECE. SINCE YOU HAVE BROUGHT IT FORWARD. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT EFFICIENCIES ARE CREATED BY FUNDING THE SYSTEMS. THAT IS ONE THING THAT MR. MIMS AND I HAVE NOT GOTTEN INTO. SPECIFIC TO THE NUMBERS TODAY. BECAUSE FOR US LOOKING AT IT IT IS A BUDGET. WE ARE LOOKING AT $63 MILLION ANNUAL. WE HAVE TO BREAK IT DOWN INTO THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. AND SEEING THE EFFICIENCIES THAT ARE CREATED. THAT IS WHERE MR. MIMS AND I IF WE NEED TO MEET INDIVIDUALLY THAT IS FINE WITH THE CHIEF. I WANT TO SEE THE EFFICIENCIES CREATED. WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET TO 192 TODAY. WE ALL KNOW THAT. SO, IF WE CAN CREATE EFFICIENCIES BY FUNDING OTHER PROGRAMS OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES THEN I'M INTO THAT. JUST LIKE THE FLEET PROGRAM WE TALKED ABOUT THAT IN 2017 AND 18. WE CAME UP WITH AN IDEA. IT WAS AN IDEA AT THE TIME THAT TO ME HELPED SAVE AND SALVAGE THE VEHICLE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM THAT WAS NONEXISTENT AT THE TIME. WATCHING THAT VIDEO AND WATCHING A CHASE I DON'T KNOW IF THE CROWN VICTORIA WOULD HAVE MADE IT OVER A FEW

OF THOSE BOMBS. >> IT WOULD NOT.

>> IT WOULD'VE BEEN A WHEEL OR TWO LAYING ON THE SIDE OF THE

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AS WE LOOK INTO THE PICTURE THAT IS ON HERE. THERE ARE OTHER PARAMETERS AND PROGRAMS WITHIN THE VEHICLES WHETHER IT IS A RADIO GPS SYSTEMS WHATEVER. THAT IS GOING TO CREATE EFFICIENCIES. THAT IS GOING TO CREATE PROACTIVE POLICING. THAT IS GOING TO CREATE CASES BEING SOLVED. AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT IS WHAT WE ARE LOOKING TO DO. WE ARE LOOKING FOR THAT I'M LOOKING FOR THAT . LITTLE MORE

HOMEWORK. IT IS A BIG ASK. >> NOT FOR ME

>> BUT YOU CAN'T YOU DON'T KNOW UNLESS YOU ASK SO THIS IS A RELEVANT CONVERSATION PIECE FOR ME. IF WE CAN GET OTHER GRANTS WHICH WE ALWAYS ARE SUCCESSFUL IN DOING. THEN I'M OKAY WITH THAT OF COURSE. THE OTHER ELEMENT THAT I PUT DOWN WAS SERVICE WEAPONS. WAS THAT A ONE TIME THAT IS A ONE TIME

PURCHASE? >> YES SIR

>> I'M SURE THERE IS AN EFFICIENCY IN CHANGING OUT ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT IMMEDIATELY. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT ONE SEPARATELY ALSO. THAT IS ALL I HAVE.

>> I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW WHEN IT COMES TO THE FLOCK SYSTEM WE WILL GIVE YOU THE UPDATE. THE NEW CAMERAS WHICH WE ARE ASKING FOR THESE ARE MEANING THAT WE WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THEY ARE THERE. WE UNDERSTAND THE CHALLENGES THAT WILL BRING. EVEN IF THEY TRY TO BREAK THEM OR WHATEVER THE CONTRACT WITH FLOCK THEY WILL REPLACE THEM FOR FREE. THE CAMERAS WILL ALWAYS BE THERE. WE WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THESE OF THE CAMERAS WE ARE WATCHING AND THAT WE ARE LISTENING TO THEM. THIS IS WHAT THEY ASKED FOR AND THIS IS WHAT

WE ARE TRYING TO GO TO PICK >> MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT I'VE ALREADY TALKED TO OUR CHIEF AND OUR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. THE SPECIALIZED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND CAPITAL OUTLAY FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES WILL BE FUNDED. THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE A PROBLEM. ONE TIME INFUSIONS AND CAPITAL PURCHASES THAT IS EASY. WE CAN IDENTIFY THOSE FUNDS. AS WE GET INTO THE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE OPERATIONAL FUNDS THAT IS THE CHALLENGE. AS FAR AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CONCERNED WE'VE USED ONE TIME INFUSIONS AND PURCHASES FOR OUR TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES. THAT HAS GIVEN US THE ABILITY TO RESPOND. AND TO MAKE UP FOR THOSE GAPS IN ACTUAL LABOR RESOURCES. BECAUSE WERE IT NOT FOR OUR TECHNOLOGICAL INVESTMENT, WE WOULD BE LOST AT THIS POINT. I FEEL LIKE WE ARE THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THE TREASURE COAST WITHOUT A DOUBT. WE HAVE TAKEN THAT ANNUAL INVESTMENT WORKING WITH OUR CHIEF TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

WE SHALL CONTINUE TO DO SO. IF YOU WANT THE SUMMARY THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM. I CAN LET YOU KNOW RIGHT NOW THE CAPITAL

INVESTMENT IS FUNDED. >> THAT WAS GOOD TO TALK ABOUT.

ONE OTHER STATEMENT IF I COULD. SPEAKING OF TECHNOLOGY. AGAIN I WILL REITERATE EFFICIENCIES ARE IMPORTANT TO ME. HE AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT DEPARTMENTS. WE TALKED ABOUT IT DEPARTMENTS TODAY. HE HAS COMMITTED I BELIEVE HE HAS COMMITTED TO ADVANCING THE CONVERSATION WE'VE HAD ABOUT WIDENING OUR IT SERVICES. COMBINING I DON'T LIKE BUBBLES. I DON'T LIKE SILOS WHERE YOU ARE DOING THIS CITY OF THE DEPARTMENTS DOING THIS. AND THEY ARE DOING THE SAME FUNCTION WITH TWO DIFFERENT OPERATING PARAMETERS. BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT UNDERSTANDING AS A DEPARTMENT HEAD IS A CHIEF OF POLICE YOU NEED SECURITY IN KNOWING THAT YOUR RESOURCES NEED TO BE AVAILABLE TO YOU. THAT IS THE CONVERSATION HE AND I HAVE HAD.

I BELIEVE HE IS COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE IT OVERLAPS THAT YOUR RESOURCES DO NOT GET WHAT IS EVEN THE WORD ? COMPROMISED.

HAMPERED. THAT YOU ARE NOT SACRIFICING SOMETHING BY COMBINING IT DEPARTMENTS. I BELIEVE WE SHOULD COMBINE IT DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE PUBLIC RECORDS ARE AS WE ALL KNOW CRITICALLY IMPORTANT IN TODAY'S WORLD. IT DEPARTMENT HANDLES THOSE. YOUR GROUP HANDLES THOSE. SHOULD BE A COMBINED EFFORT WHERE YOU HAVE OVERLAPPING RESOURCES TO WHERE IF YOU HAVE A CASE OR SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO ADD ADDITIONAL RESOURCES IT CAN BE QUICKLY ADDED. IT IS ONE DEPARTMENT.

DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU AND ARE YOU COMFY WITH THAT? DO YOU HAVE A LEVEL OF COMFORT. I WANT TO MAKE SURE I HAVE A LEVEL OF

COMFORT FOR THAT. >> THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH MYSELF IS TO MIMS THE IT I'M SORRY I CAN'T

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>> YOU HAVE A LEVEL OF COMFORT. >> YES

>> THANK YOU. >> COMMISSIONER GAIN

>> FIRST JUST FOR THE RECORD MADAME MAYOR AND FOR THE CHIEF BECAUSE I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO BE SAID WHEN SHE CAME UP I WAS IN HERE. I HAD TO TAKE A CALL ABOUT MY DAD. THAT IS WHY I TOOK THE CALL. GOING BACK TO THE WHAT COMMISSIONER JOHNSON SAID AND WHAT CITY MANAGER JUST SAID. I PAID ATTENTION TO THEIR REQUEST YOU ARE ASKING ABOUT -- EXPANSION OF THIS FLOCK SYSTEM AND THE CAMERAS AND EVERYTHING. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND AND WHAT I READ WHEN WE FIRST BROUGHT IT UP ABOUT THE SYSTEM, IT WOULD BE A TREMENDOUS HELP FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT ESPECIALLY I SAW THE MAP THAT YOU JUST PUT ON TODAY. IF WE CAN GET ALL OF THAT AREA ALL OF THAT AREA COVERED. AND SEEN AND YOU SAID IT NOT ME.

YOU WILL LET THE PUBLIC KNOW. THEY ASKED ME FOR THE CAMERAS I SAID I'M NOT TELLING YOU WHAT THEY ARE. IF YOU WANT TO LET THEM KNOW I WILL LET YOU HANDLE THAT SO THEY CAN SEE THEM. MY QUESTION IS THIS. IF WE CAN SOMEHOW GET THE SYSTEM THAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR, DOES THAT REDUCE OR HELP WITH THE NUMBER OF CALLS OR HELP WITH THE INFORMATION THE OFFICER HAVE TO GO WHERE THEY NEED TO GO ? AS FAR AS WHAT COMMISSIONER JOHNSON SAID WE MIGHT CAN'T GET YOU 200 MORE OFFICES. IF I CAN GET YOU SOMETHING TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR THE OFFICERS WE HAVE

DO WE NEED TO START THERE? >> WITH THE SYSTEM IT ASSIST US IN OUR INVESTIGATION. IT ASSIST US BECAUSE WE ARE LISTENING TO WHAT THE PEOPLE HAVE SAID. WITH THE RAVEN SYSTEM IS THE SHOT DETECTION. BECAUSE WHAT NORMALLY OCCURS IS THAT WHEN THEIR SHOTS FIRED THE PUBLIC CALLS US. WHAT WE ARE SEEING A NUMBER OF TIMES THEY'RE NOT CALLING US NOW. WE HAVE TO CHANGE THOSE DYNAMICS. WE ARE DOING TECHNOLOGY TO GIVE US THE SYSTEMS FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR CITY THIS IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO. HERE IS THE OTHER PART OF THIS. ONCE WE GET THE TECHNOLOGY I HAVE TO HAVE THE PEOPLE TO MONITOR AND VIEW THESE THINGS TO ASSIST US IN THOSE CAPACITIES. BUT I FEEL WITH TECHNOLOGY WE HAVE TO CHANGE AS SOCIETY IS CHANGING.

I WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW THAT WHEN THEY WALK DOWN THE STREET THERE IS A CAMERA THERE AND THAT IF YOU HAVE A SITUATION IF WE ARE NOT THERE TO SEE IT WE CAN PULL THE FOOTAGE THAT IS WHY IT IS BE UP IN THE CLOUDS SO WE CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT

IT. >>'S MECH I'M ALL FOR THAT.

ME AND YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT ALREADY. THE MORE CAMERAS TO ME IS A DETERRENCE. PEOPLE DON'T SEE THE CAMERAS. LIKE YOU SAID, WE DO HAVE SOME RESIDENTS WHO MIGHT WANT TO BREAK THE CAMERAS. IT IS THERE BECAUSE THE FIRST THING THEY WILL SAY IS NOW THEY ARE SPYING ON US. I'M JUST TELLING WHAT I HEAR.

I SAID YES WE ARE. I WILL TAKE THAT HIT YES WE ARE. BECAUSE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY EVERY OTHER MEETING COME SITTING HERE AND ASK US FOR MORE CAMERAS. FOR MORE TECHNOLOGY. WE HEARD IT FROM THE PUBLIC. IF ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO PUT THE SYSTEM IN PLACE I KNOW IT IS A BIG TASK. WE ONLY HAVE SO MUCH MONEY. WE REALLY NEED TO LOOK AT PUTTING THAT IN PLACE. FROM THAT MAP IT WILL HELP TREMENDOUSLY. IT WOULD ALLOW THE STUFF WE ARE DEALING WITH NOW. THAT IS JUST MY OPINION IT WOULD HELP. THIRD AND FINAL THING IT IS EASY TO JUMP ON YOUR DEPARTMENT OR TALK ABOUT YOUR DEPARTMENT WHEN TIMES ARE BAD. AND YOU VERY SELDOM HERE THANK YOU CHEAP THANK YOU OFFICERS. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING. BUT IT NEVER FAILS ME SOME OF THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE COMPLAINING WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON TO CALL 911 WHEN THEY NEED YOU GUYS HELP. IT ALWAYS HAPPENS. SO I SEE YOU IN THE PUBLIC HELPING WITH THE KIDS. I SEE YOU GO TO EVENTS. I SEE YOUR OFFICES DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO TRY TO BRIDGE THE GAP. WHAT YOU JUST SAID WITH REVEREND THAT IS A MISTRESS OR WE TURN OUR BACK ON THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE NOT. THERE ARE CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT WANT TO PORTRAY THAT IMAGE. IT IS NOT THERE. THE OFFICERS COME OUT ANYTHING YOU ASK THEM TO DO. ANYTHING YOU ASK THEM TO SHOW UP AND

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THEY WILL BE THERE. THEY WANT TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY.

IMMUNITY IF YOU REALLY WANT TO WORK AND SOLVE THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY TODAY STOP THE NEGATIVITY. SIT DOWN WITH THE CHIEF. YOU HAVE REFERENCED NOW. TRUST ME HE WILL TALK TO YOU AND HE WILL TALK TO YOU AND HE WILL LET YOU TALK BUT HE WILL PUT YOU IN YOUR PLACE AND SAY THAT'S REALLY HAVE A TALK. YOU CAN FUSS AT ME LATER. BUT I KNOW YOU. OTHER REFERENCE IN THE CITY THAT ARE WILLING TO DO THAT. THE ONE THING THAT YOU DID MENTION ABOUT THAT MEETING.

I WAS OUT OF TOWN BUT I HEARD ABOUT THE MEETING. IT WAS JUST NOT A BLACK MINISTER MEETING. IT WAS A MEETING OF MINISTERS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE CITY OF FT. PIERCE. THAT ARE TIRED OF THE NEGATIVITY THAT HAS, AND THEY ARE READY TO WORK WITH THE CITIZENS OF EVERYBODY IN FT. PIERCE. BECAUSE WE ARE TIRED OF THE NEGATIVITY COMING FROM OUR CITY. CHEAP THANK YOU FOR THIS.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SITTING DOWN WITH THE CITY MANAGER TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. I WANT TO CALL MS. MORRIS'S NAME. WHAT WE CAN DO BECAUSE THE MORE WE CAN HELP YOU, HELP US TO BETTER

OUR CITY IS. SO THANK YOU. >> SO CHEAP I JUST HAVE ONE REQUEST WHILE YOU ARE LOOKING AT THAT FOR ME IT IS ALL ABOUT THE NUMBERS. AS I'M SITTING HERE IN MY HEAD WHAT WILL HELP ME IS AND I KNOW YOU HAVE THIS SIMULATED . WE LOOK AT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THE 175. I WILL LOOK AT LIKE TO LOOK AT 200. IT IS SALARIES PATROL CARS. WE HAVE TO GET A GLOBAL IMPACT OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. AND YOU CAN HELP US YOU CAN HELP THIS COMMISSION TO UNDERSTAND THAT.

BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING IT DOES REQUIRE TO OUTFIT ADDITIONAL 30 PEOPLE. WITH THE BUDGET SALARY. YOU MIGHT AS WELL INCLUDE THE STEPS BECAUSE YOU HAVE MORE COMMAND STAFF. AND PROMOTIONS AND ALL OF THAT STUFF. I'M SAYING GLOBALLY LOOKING AT THIS AS I SIT HERE AND THINK ABOUT IT. WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT. WE NEED TO START TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. AND I THINK IT IS 175 WHICH WILL TAKE YOU -- AND THAT THE OTHER 25 ABOUT 200. IF WE GET THOSE MODELS THAT GIVE US AN IDEA AT LEAST ME THAT HELPS TO LOOK AT THIS AND HOW TO FIGURE IT OUT. I'M GLAD TO HEAR THE CAPITAL ACQUISITION OF RADIOS AND WEAPONS AND STUFF SOUNDS LIKE THAT IS GOING TO BE FUNDED. AND THAT IS GREAT IN ADDITION WHEN YOU BRING ON NEW PERSONNEL IT MEANS NEW RADIALS. MORE WEAPONS. MORE CARS. EC.

WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.

>>> REAL QUICK I'M GOING TO FOLLOW-UP ON MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS AND SAY THAT REPORT I BELIEVE IS BASELINE INFORMATION. AT THIS BODY NEEDS TO DEAL WITH THE FUNDING. I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU STAFF BY THE WAY YOU AND YOUR STAFF FOR AN OUTSTANDING COMPREHENSIVE REPORT THIS MORNING. I LEARNED MORE ABOUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE LAST HOUR THAN I HAVE IN A YEAR AND A HALF SITTING HERE. SO THANK YOU AND YOUR STAFF AND YOUR TEAM FOR AN OUTSTANDING JOB. ON THAT FRONT. COMMISSIONER JAY JOHNSON DOVE INTO THE MINUTIA OF THE ANALYSIS. MY QUESTION WAS NOT SIMPLISTIC BUT MORE SIMPLISTIC THAN HIS DETAILED QUESTIONING.

WHAT COMES FIRST THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE PERSONNEL? I GUESS IT IS ALL AT THE SAME TIME. BUT WITH A PLAN IN PLACE AS COMMISSIONER C JOHNSON IS REFERRING TO. THAT PLAN WOULD BE INTERESTING TO SEE A STAGED EFFECT S WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THOSE GOALS. I WOULD BE CURIOUS TO SEE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. TO FOLLOW-UP ON THE SIDE OF THIS.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MY MEETING WITH THE CITY MANAGER TO GET AN EXPLANATION AS TO HOW THAT WILL BE MANAGED MOVING FORWARD. OBVIOUSLY BASELINE STUFF THAT IS NEEDED IN YOUR EFFORTS FOR AND WHAT YOU ARE UNDERTAKING. AND THE EXPANSION OF THE DEPARTMENT I FIND TO BE INTERESTING. GEOGRAPHICALLY PERSONNEL WISE. EQUIPMENT RISE. THAT IS GOING TO BE A CORNERSTONE OR PIVOT MOMENT FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT. LOOKING AT ADDING AN INCREASE OF 40%. OF STAFF EQUIPMENT EVERYTHING.

ACROSS THE BOARD. SO, GETTING TO THAT POINT IS GOING TO BE A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING. SEGMENT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THESE

POINTS UP. >>> WHAT IS HAPPENING WE TALK ABOUT THE CALL VOLUMES WE TALK ABOUT PRETTY MUCH A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT -- ARE PATROL PART. WHAT HAPPENS IS THE CALLS

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SUPPORT. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M GLAD YOU REMINDED ME. WHAT YOU'VE DONE AS CHIEF OF POLICE WITH THIS I REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE WHEN I FIRST BECAME MAYOR.

WHAT YOU HAVE NOW IS AT THE FT. PIERCE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE. I REMEMBER US TALKING AND SAYING IT WAS REBUILT. JUST REBUILD. SO, I WANT -- I THINK IF I THINK THE MAJOR SAID YOU WERE ALMOST AT A FULL COMPLEMENT NOW 141.

>> I THINK WE ARE THREE SHORT. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE BECAUSE WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THE ACADEMY THAT IS LEARNING. THAT IS A SIX MONTH PROCESS. WE PUT THEM ON THE CONTRACT THEY ARE COMMITTED TO US. ONCE THEY GRADUATE AND GET SWORN IN. IT IS A TWO-YEAR COMMITMENT. I WANT IT TO BE MORE. IT IS A TWO-YEAR COMMITMENT. WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT AS WELL.

>> OUR CHALLENGE IS YOU IDENTIFIED IS NOT ONLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE LOSS OF OFFICERS WHEN THEY ARE OFFERED MORE MONEY SOMEPLACE ELSE. PLUS AN INCREASE COMPLEMENT OF OFFICERS. IT IS A CONTINUAL CHALLENGE I THINK.

LIKE YOU SAID WE'VE GOT TO A POINT WHERE WE WERE COMPETITIVE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYBODY ELSE IS GETTING MORE MONEY AND IT JUST SEEMS TO KEEP CLIMBING. I ALSO WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH OF YOUR OFFICES. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH GENERALLY -- YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE CITIZENS OF THIS CITY AND THEIR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. WE WANT OUR OFFICERS TO BE PROTECTED FOR THEIR OWN MENTAL HEALTH. SO I WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT IN TERMS OF STRETCHING THEM TO THEN AND WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT. ALL OF OUR STAFF REALLY.

BUT OUR OFFICERS. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TAKING CARE OF THEM. THEY ARE VERY VALUABLE TO US AS HUMAN BEINGS

AND FOR THE SAFETY OF OUR CITY. >> YES MA'AM

>> THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

>> IS THAT PRESENTATION ON THE DESKTOP? THANK YOU.

>> WE HAVE THREE MORE ITEMS. >> I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A

RECESS. CAN WE DO THAT? >>

[e. Peace & Safety Initiative]

>>> WE TALKED THIS ON COUNTLESS OCCASIONS TODAY AND WE SEE ST.

LUCIA COUNTY, THE STATE NEEDS THAT. IN ADDITION, WE ARE GOING TO EMPLOYEE AND WE HAVE ALREADY ENGAGED A PROFESSIONAL GRANT WRITER THAT'S GOING TO BE DEDICATED FOR THIS PURPOSE.

THIS COMPREHENSIVE MODEL CONTINUES TO BE A FLUID MODEL BUT OUR PROFESSIONAL GRANT WRITER, HOMEGROWN, LOCAL AND ESTEEMED IN THEIR PROFESSION, WILL ASSIST THE CITY WITH SEEKING GRANTS TO ACHIEVE OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES. WE SHALL NOT WORK FOR THE GRANT. WE SHOULD HAVE OUR GRANT'S WORK

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FOR US. THAT IS THE GAME PLAN. >> THE CORE STRATEGIES OF THIS PROGRAM ARE AS FOLLOWS INTERRUPTION. WE NEED VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS. WE NEED OUR COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS TO HAVE VIOLENT INTERRUPTERS AND THERE INTERRUPTERS SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE ME. THEY SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE COMMISSIONER BRODRICK. THEY COULD IT LOOK LIKE COMMISSIONER JEREMIAH JOHNSON. THEY ARE GOING TO BE PEOPLE WITH LIVED EXPERIENCE THAT HAVE BEEN, IN SOME CASES, INCARCERATED. THAT HAVE BEEN, IN SOME CASES, VICTIMS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE. THAT HAVE BOSTON THEIR FAMILY ENVIRONMENT. THEY WILL BE THE ONES THAT GET OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND SIMILAR TO THE GANG INITIATIVE MODEL THAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY WITH THE ROUNDTABLE BUT THIS INITIATIVE IS MUCH MORE COST PROHIBITIVE AND GREATER IN SCOPE. WE ARE SEEKING BEHAVIOR CHANGE. OUR OUTREACH WORKERS AND VIOLENCE INTERRUPTERS AND CONFLICT MEDIATORS WILL BE IN THE COMMUNITY AND HAVE INDIVIDUAL, SPECIALIZED SUPPORT PLANS FOR IDENTIFY THAT ARE IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE. JUST WON'T BE , YOU KNOW, A COUPLE GUYS RUNNING IN THE STREET AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THERE WILL BE INDIVIDUAL SPECIALIZED PLAN THAT WE CAN DOCUMENT AND TRACE MEETING COWARD. YOU SEE NUMBER THREE. A LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS. WE ARE GOING TO PUT OUR PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND CONTACT WITH LICENSE AND MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS BASED RIGHT HERE IN FT. PIERCE THAT CAN ASSIST THEM AND ASSIST THEIR FAMILIES BECAUSE I'M SAYING THE STRESS LEVELS, THE GRIEF LEVELS, THE ANXIETY THAT SOCIETY HAS A STRONGHOLD ON FT. PIERCE RIGHT NOW AND THAT NEEDS TO CHANGE.

WE NEED A CHANGE OF HER CULTURE AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS

PROGRAM SHALL DO. >> WE ARE GOING TO GET CHANGE COMMUNITY NORMS. YOU SEE OUR CHIEF STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THOSE CHILDREN . SHE'S WAY IN THE BACK IF YOU CAN FIND HER.

PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS. WE NEED TO GET OUR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES AWARE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION STRATEGIES AND FOSTER AWARENESS OF THESE STRATEGIES. IN ADDITION, COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION. WE HAVE TO GET OUR PASTORS, OUR COMMUNITY LEADERS, OUR MINISTERS, OUR POLITICIANS.

EVERYONE. EVERYONE WITH A STRONG COMMUNITY FOCUS TO MOBILIZE THIS COMMUNITY AND MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND, WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR CULTURE. WHETHER THEY ARE BUILDERS THAT WANT TO PUT ON A PLAY AND WHETHER THAT'S THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WITH INITIATIVE. WE SHOW GROUP THAT WANT TO PUT ON A MARCH. WE HAVE DONE THAT AND WE SHOW SUPPORT THESE GROUPS TO MOBILIZE THIS COMMUNITY AND MAKE THEM AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. YES, I KNOW. YOU WENT TO SMILE AND LAUGH. SHE'S NOT BACK THERE.

>> SHE'S OVER HERE. >> SHE'S GOING TO LAUGH AT ME ABOUT THIS BUT GUN BUYBACKS. I KNOW WE ARE NOT GOING TO GET THE GUNS THAT WE DESIRE BUT WE ARE GOING TO GET SOME OF WHAT THAT IS, IS GOING TO CREATE AWARENESS, COMMUNITY SAFETY AND REDUCE THE RISK OF GUN VIOLENCE AND WE SHOW HER TO SHUT THEM AND ADMINISTER THEM AND WE SHALL MAKE THIS WORK. GO AHEAD.

>> NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PROGRAMS. THIS IS WONDERFUL, BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT'S NOT ENOUGH. IF YOU LOOK ON THAT RIGHT COLUMN, MADISON CAVE, SAM HILL SHORES, COLIN A CONDOS ASSOCIATION, HI BUSINESS PARK, OCEAN VILLAGE AND PANTRY PART.

THAT'S IT. THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE. THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. WE NEED OUR COMMUNITY TO BE ENGAGED. I WOULD LIKE H1 OF YOU TO LOOK AT YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS ANDPOUR THEM INTO THIS FOLD. WE NEED ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS TO BE ENGAGED. WE CAN'T JUST TALK A GOOD TALK. OUR COMMUNITY HAS THE STANDUP AND BE PART OF THE SOLUTION AND WE WENT TO TRAIN THEM AND WE ARE GOING TO HAVE REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH HIM TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. WE GET INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SECURITY PROGRAM. ENHANCED LIGHTING. IT WILL LOOK AT DARK AREAS AND I BELIEVE THAT COMMISSIONER CURTIS JOHNSON BROUGHT THIS UP.

LOOK AT DARKER AREAS OF OUR CITY THAT WE CAN LOOK AT BRINGING SOME ADDITIONAL LIGHT TO THE AREA TO GIVE PEOPLE A SENSE OF SAFETY AND COMFORT. ALSO, SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS. WE JUST TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE OVER IN COVERT CAMERAS THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE USING THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY AND THERE WILL BE MORE. WE WANT THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING. COMMUNITY PATROLS. 10

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BACKUP. WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU? CLEANLINESS OF OUR COMMUNITY SPARKS COMMUNITY PRIDE. RIGHT? WE NEED COMMUNITY PRIDE IN OUR AREAS. YOU DRIVE DOWN THE STREET AND YOU SEE PEOPLE THROWING STUFF OUT OF THEIR CAR . SICKENING. RIGHT? IT'S HAPPENING EVERY DAY IN OUR COMMUNITY AND WE NEED TO IMPROVE UPON THAT THROUGH THE ACTIONS OF THE SOTHEBY'S ASSOCIATION AND ADOPT THE ROLE PROGRAM AND ADOPTED BY TWO OR

THREE STREET RESOLVE . >> THREE.

>> THIS IS WHAT WE NEED. WE NEED TO SPARK PRIDE IN OUR COMMUNITY. CLEAN IT UP. CUT THE GRASS. MAKE THAT INVESTMENT.

ELIMINATE THE HIDING AREAS THAT SOME FOLKS ARE HIDING, DOPE AND OTHER THINGS, IN. WE NEED TO HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

THEREFORE, WE SHALL ALSO INVEST IN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTERS .

WE ARE GOING TO ESTABLISH THESE RESOURCE CENTERS TO LOOK AT JOB TRAINING, YOUTH ENGAGEMENT, MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT. THERE IS A COMMUNITY CENTER IN THE HEART OF OUR CITY . 13TH STREET AND AVENUE M CALLED THE LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY CENTER AND THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE OWNS THAT COMMUNITY CENTER AND THAT COMMUNITY CENTER IS 5000 SQUARE FEET AND IT'S IN NEED OF REPAIR OR IT'S IN NEED OF DEMOLISHING AND RECONSTRUCTING.

WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. WE NEED TO BRING A HIGH QUALITY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER TO THAT AREA. THAT IS IN THE LINCOLN PARK REGIONAL PARK AND YOU WILL HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT TOMORROW WITH OUR PLAN AND BUDGET. IN ADDITION, OUR ADDRESS PROJECT IS PROGRESSING. WE ARE SEEING CONSTRUCTION ON THE INTERIOR , WHAT'S IT CALLED? WHAT WAS THE BUILDING CODE STUFF? I DON'T KNOW. ANYWAY. THEY ARE GETTING THE BUILDING CONVERTED FOR OCCUPANCY . WHILE THEY HAVE HAD THEIR FINANCIAL CHALLENGES WITH GETTING THE BUILDING PREPARED, THE SERVICES THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PROVIDING THE COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN ASKED ORDINARY. EXCELLENT EDUCATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT HOMEOWNER PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. IT HAS BEEN A GREAT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER AND WE SHALL INVEST IN THE CENTER MOVING FORWARDIN THESE ARE THE TWO OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE INTEND TO BRING TO YOU HERE SHORTLY. IN TALKING TO PARENTS ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN OUR COMMUNITY, THEY TALKED ABOUT AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS AND YOUTH ACTIVITIES. THEY WANT THEIR KIDS TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO AFTER SCHOOL. I DON'T WANT THEM TO BE LIKE WE USED TO BE WHERE WE GOT OFF AND WE HAD A KEY AND WALKED IN THE HOUSE. THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW. THESE KIDS NEEDS MENTORING AND ACTIVITIES. THEY NEED EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. THROUGH OUR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB, WE HAVE THEM AT OUR TEEN CENTER. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB HAS IN SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTERS AND FACILITIES THAT THEY WORK WITH OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER. THE RANCH HOUSE , I THINK, IS JUST FANTASTIC. WE SHALL EXPAND UPON WHAT WE ARE DOING AT THE RANCH HOUSE AND THE CHIEF DOESN'T KNOW THIS YET BUT I'M GOING TO ASK HER TO DO MORE AT THE RICH HOUSE. SOCIALIZATION SKILLS, SELF-ESTEEM BUILDING FROM CHILDREN, PARENTS AND SENIORS.

OF COURSE, YOUTH RECREATION. WERE GOING TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THIS IN THE COMING MONTHS. WE ARE EXPANDING OUR RECREATIONAL PROGRAM. THE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER IS GOING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN AND THERE IS GOING TO BE A LOT ASKED OF HIM AND WE SHALL MAKE INVESTMENT AT THE RECREATION CENTER FOR FACILITIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR ATHLETIC FIELDS AS WELL.

AND THEN WE HAVE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAMS. EQUALLY COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS. THE FOLKS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THE PRISONS, THE COUNTY JAILS, THE DETENTION FACILITIES. WE NEED THEM TO BE ENGAGED IN OUR COMMUNITY. PAYBACK THE COMMUNITY. OKAY? CLEANING OUT PARKS. CLEANING UP OUR RIGHT OF

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PIERCE. WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CITY SPIRIT PROGRAM. IT'S GOING TO INCREASE OUR COMMUNICATION WITH OUR COMMUNITY. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS ALREADY SETTING UP A MEETING. I BELIEVE OUR CHIEF WILL BE SENDING A REPRESENTATIVE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE , ST.

LUCIA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. WE NEED THEIR HELP AS WELL AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO REINVENT THE WHEEL, WE ARE GOING TO UTILIZE THE STRATEGIES THAT HAVE

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>> THIS IS VERY AMBITIOUS. I DO HAVE A COUPLE TECH QUESTIONS.

LINCOLN PARK CENTER, I THOUGHT IT WAS THE COUNTY.

>> IT IS OWNED BY THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE.

>> THE COUNTY STAFF SET. RIGHT?

>> THEY CURRENTLY DO. IT'S ANTIQUATED. AND IT'S IN NEED

OF SOME TENDER LOVING CARE. >> I'VE BEEN THERE.

>> I THINK WE HAVE ALL BEEN INSIDE AND WE HAVE ALL HAD A SUMMER SCHOOL CLASS OR TWO, BUT IT IS TIME. IT'S TIME THAT WE

IN BREAST IN THAT COMMUNITY. >> I THOUGHT THE COUNTY WAS ALREADY STARTING TO IMPROVE THAT BUILDING.

>> NO, MA'AM.I THINK THE COUNTY MAY BE LOOKING TO EXIT THAT FACILITY, BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT THEY WANT TO INVEST IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BEFORE THEY DO . WE ARE WORKING WITH

THE COUNTY IN THAT REGARD. >> WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT. ALL OF THIS IS VERY, VERY AMBITIOUS AND YOU TALKED ABOUT OUTREACH WORKERS, AND I HAD SOME EXPERIENCE WITH THAT AT THE ROUNDTABLE AND THAT IS A CHALLENGING PROJECT.

>> YES, MA'AM. IT IS. >> YEAH. YEAH. THIS IS VERY, VERY AMBITIOUS. I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

I WILL OPEN THE FLOOR FOR OTHERS.

>> MADAM MAYOR, THANK YOU. I THANK YOU FOR THIS. I AGREE WITH THE MADAM MAYOR THAT THIS IS AN AMBITIOUS UNDERTAKING,

BUT IT IS A START. >> YOU GOT IT.

>> LET'S HIT IT FULL FORCE. WHAT OF THE THINGS YOU MENTIONED ABOUT WAS THE BEAUTIFICATION PART AND ADOPT THE SIGN. MADAM MAYOR, WHAT HAPPENED WAS, I GOT A LIST. I ASKED FOR A LIST OF ROADS OR ERRORS THAT NEEDED CLEANING.

THAT WE NEEDED SOMEBODY TO ADOPT THAT AREA AND I ASKED AND I GOT A LIST , AND WHAT I DID WAS, I WENT TO SOME ORGANIZATIONS THAT I'M A PART OF AND I CALLED THEM OUT AND SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU TALK A GOOD GAME, BUT LET'S SEE. PUT YOUR NAME ON THE STREET AND LET'S KEEP IT CLEAN FOUR TIMES A YEAR AND TURN IN THE PAPERWORK AND I THINK WE FILLED ALL OF THEM. I THINK WE FILLED ALL FOUR AND I'M WAITING ON THE NEXT LIST AND I WILL DO THE SAME THING AND I WILL EVEN CALL SOME CHURCHES OUT THAT I KNOW SOME AREAS WHERE WE NEED THEM AND YOU WANT TO TALK A GOOD GAME, BUT YOUR NAME UP ON THE STREET AND WE GO FROM THERE. MADAM %-ÚN THE LINCOLN PARK CENTER, THAT IS MY AREA BUT THAT WHOLE CENTER, EVEN IF WE JUST START THERE, THAT WHOLE CENTER AND THAT WHOLE AREA, IF THE CITY PUTS THEIR FOOTPRINT THERE, IT WOULD CHANGE THE WHOLE AREA OF THAT LINCOLN PARK AREA. THAT WOULD MEAN SO MUCH TO EVERYBODY THAT LIVES THERE. IT WOULD JUST CHANGE IT AND BEFORE SOMEBODY SAYS THEY HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE OF THE FIELDS, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE BASEBALL FIELDS AND THAT'S CENTER, THE CITY MANAGER SAID, ANYBODY WHO GREW UP IN THAT AREA PROBABLY SPENT SOMEDAY IN THEIR PLAN PING-PONG OR POOL OR BUMPER POOL, WE HAD DANCES THERE AND HAD WHATEVER IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT HAS BEEN THERE FOR THE LONGEST AND PEOPLE CHERISH THAT LITTLE BUILDING. THAT LITTLE AREA. I'M JUST BEING HONEST. FOR US TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE WANT TO PUT A FOOTPRINT DOWN AND WE WANT TO SHOW THAT WE ARE SERIOUS ABOUT THE LINCOLN PARK AREA. YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FAR THAT WOULD GO FOR THE RESIDENCE THAT ARE THERE. EVEN SOME OF THE OLDER RESIDENTS WHO PROBABLY BUILT THAT BUILDING AND WAS THERE WHEN THAT BUILDING FINE AND IF YOU CAN OPEN UP THE BUILDING TO GIVE THE SENIOR SUMMER TO GO COMMISSIONER ANOTHER SENIOR DAY JUST TO GO TO THAT BUILDING, IT WOULD BE A GREAT START.

RAMALLAH BOARD ON THIS PROGRAM. YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW I FEEL

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LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS. >> GREAT.

>> THANK YOU FOR THE REPORT. VERY COMPREHENSIVE, AS USUAL. I HAVE NOT BEEN IN THIS FACILITY, SO I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT AND FIGURE OUT IF IT IS SALVAGEABLE AND I THINK A RECREATION CENTER A MULTIPURPOSE TYPE CENTER WOULD BE WELL-SUITED IN THAT AREA AND MOST LIKELY VERY HEAVILY UTILIZED FOR WHAT IT WAS GOING TO BE DESIGNED TO DO. AT SOME POINT IN TIME WE WILL TAKE A TOUR OF THAT AND SEE WHAT CAN BE PUT TOGETHER TO SALVAGE THE EXISTING FACILITY AND YOU CAN TELL WITHIN FIVE MINUTES IF IT IS ELIGIBLE OR NOT.

NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH AND THINGS OF THIS NATURE. I FIND THAT VERY COMPELLING. IT IS PRETTY THIN THROUGHOUT THE CITY. I HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES PRIOR TO MOVING TO FT. PIERCE AND THE CERT PROGRAM, COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM PROGRAM, WHICH HAD A LOT OF COMMONALITIES WITH THIS, AS FAR AS COMMUNITY PATROL IN THE THINGS OF THIS NATURE . IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO LOOK INTO AND IT IS A FORMULAS PROGRAM AND PEOPLE ACTUALLY GET TRAINED AND I WAS TRAINED IN IT AND WAS A TEAM LEADER IN THAT AND FOUND -- IT WAS INSPIRING. IT WAS TRULY AN INSPIRATIONAL THING, BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THE DETAILS ON THIS ENTIRE PROGRAM

BECAUSE IT IS EXPENSIVE. >> MIGHT I ADD, AFTER THAT, BUT I DON'T THINK ONE-SIZE-FITS-AL L. IT'S NOT ABOUT THROWING MONEY ON THIS ISSUE. IT'S ABOUT REACTING AND ADJUSTING AND ADAPTING TO OUR ENVIRONMENT AND TO OUR COMMUNITY. WHAT WORKED IN 2019 DOESN'T WORK NOW. WE CHANGED. I LOWBALLED IS CHANGED AND COVID CHANGED A LOT OF US. OUR CHILDREN ARE DIFFERENT AND EVERY COUPLE YEARS TECHNOLOGY IS DIFFERENT AND THIS IS A FLUID PROGRAM AND WE ARE GOING TO KEEP WORKING ON IT BECAUSE THIS IS IT GOING AWAY BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE THE RESOURCES FOR FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS TO HELP THEMSELVES.

>> VOTING THIS INTO THE INITIATIVES OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, IT'S A WIN-WIN ACROSS THE BOARD. COMMUNITY SUPPORT IN THE POLICING FACTIONS AND WHEN THEY ARE OUT OF LINE, THAT' WHAT THE POLICE IS THERE TO DEAL WITH AND I FUND THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY ARE LOOKING TO INVEST DOLLARS AND TO BE COMPELLING AS WELL, BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO FURTHER DISCUSSIONS ON THIS. I'M A LITTLE OFF MY GAME TODAY. I THINK I'M UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA FROM FRIDAY.

I'M CAFFEINATED ALL MORNING LONG. IT'S JUST NOT KICKING IN. MY APOLOGIES FOR BEING A LITTLE LESS PURCHASE OF TORY

THAT NORMAL. >> I HAVE NO COMMENT BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MOVING THIS FORWARD, WHATEVER IT LOOKS

LIKE. >> YOU OKAY?

>> I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT I WENT TO THE GRAND OPENING OR RIBBON-CUTTING OR WHATEVER OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA TREATMENT CENTERS AND IT'S OVER BY THE HOSPITAL, AND THEY HAVE REALLY GREAT PROGRAMS THERE FOR SUBSTANCEABUSE A VERY IMPRESSIVE AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE CART BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, VERY MUCH, TO BE A HELP TO FT. PIERCE.

>> THAT'S A PRIME EXAMPLE OF ALL OF THESE ENTITIES PROVIDING THESE SERVICES THAT ARE NOT CONNECTED FOR THEIR COMMUNITY

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CONNECTION. >> SOME OF THE THINGS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, ORGANIZATIONS ARE ALREADY DOING AND WE NEED TO PARTNER WITH THEM, AS OPPOSED TO, WE DON'T NEED TO BE THE PROVIDER OF ALL OF THESE, WE NEED A COLLABORATOR.

RIGHT? RIGHT. WE'RE TALKING MORE ABOUT THIS TOMORROW.

[f. Comprehensive Marketing Program]

>> YES, MA'AM. >> OKAY. EVERYBODY GOOD? THANK

YOU VERY MUCH. >> THE NEXT ITEM IS THE COMPETENCE OF MARKETING PROGRAM.

>> ALREADY. MR. MIMS. >> OUR COMMUNICATION MANAGER WILL BE HERE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT OUR MARKETING PROGRAM AND I JUST WANT TO LEAD OFTEN SAY THAT HE -- I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THIS IS SOMETHING -- DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME. THIS IS SOMETHING, YOU ALL, I KNOW THAT WE NEEDED TO CONTINUE TO BUILD AND EXPAND UPON. WE HAVE BEEN THE TARGET OF NEGATIVE PERCEPTION AND NEGATIVE MEDIA FOR I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG BUT I BELIEVE WE HAVE A TEAM IN PLACE AND WE ARE GOING TO EXPAND THAT TEAM IN A WAY THAT THEY WILL SHOW YOU AND TALK ABOUT TO HELP US CREATE A MORE POSITIVE PERCEPTION AND ENHANCE THE VIEW OF THE CITY BY INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL EYES AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE TEAM.

>> GREAT. THANK YOU. MR. JOHNSON.

>> YES, MA'AM. GOOD AFTERNOON, MADAM MAYOR AND COMMISSION.

CAME BEFORE YOU , THIS BODY, WITH A FEW EDITIONS OF THE PAST COUPLE YEARS AND ONE OF THE THINGS I HAVE REITERATED IS, WE HAVE TO OWN OUR STORY. WE'VE LET TOO MANY OTHER ENTITIES AND ORGANIZATIONS IN CITIES, SOME CLOSE TO US AND SOME WAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY TELL OUR STORY AND OFTEN TIMES WE HAVE ALLOWED THAT TO HAPPEN WITHOUT REBUTTAL. WITHOUT A COUNTER.

THOSE DAYS ARE SIMPLY NO MORE. RIGHT? IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AND MY RESPONSIBILITY AS BEING THE DEPARTMENT HEAD OVER THE COMMUNICATION DIVISION TO ENSURE THAT WE OWN IT. IT'S OURS. IT WILL UNEQUIVOCALLY BE HOURS AND NOBODY ELSE SHOULD BE TELLING OUR STORY. AS SUCH, WANTED THE FIRST THINGS WE WANT TO BE SHOWING YOU GUYS AND HOPEFULLY BE ABLE TO CONVEY IS, WE HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE HAS TO BE STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN MISSING IN COMMUNICATIONS . OFTEN TIMES, AND I HAVE HEARD THOSE COMING BEFORE US GIVE PRESENTATIONS, THERE IS A LOT GOING ON BUT BECAUSE THERE IS NO STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT, WITH THE COMMUNICATION AND THAT BEING IS A FLYER OR JUST A POST, INSTEAD OF AN ACTUAL SIT DOWN FROM A THOROUGH CONVERSATION. PUT A MARKETING STRATEGY TOGETHER AND WILL A COUPLE PSA'S AND EXPLAIN WHAT'S HAPPENING AND HOW IT'S GOING TO IMPACT THE CITY AND WHAT THE EXPECTED GOALS ARE AND HOW LONG BEFORE IT TAKES PLACE OR COMES TO FRUITION OR WHAT HAVE YOU.

STRATEGY IS IMPORTANT AND THAT IS WHEN THING THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO DO HERE AND WE HAVE PLACED OURSELVES WITH RESOURCES THAT WE WILL TALK ABOUT IN A LITTLE WHILE AND MAKING THAT HAPPEN WITH THAT STRATEGY COMES THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ALIGNMENT AND SOME OF THE EXTERNAL ALIGNMENT AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT VOLUNTEERS AND OTHER RESOURCES AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CAREER COAST FOR A COUPLE YEARS AND WE ARE GOING INTO THE STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT SESSION AND THAT CHICKEN SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM WILL ACTUALLY OFFER US AN OPPORTUNITY TO EMPLOY FOLKS THAT HAVE CLEARED SECOND CHANCE PARAMETERS WITH AN INSURANCE BENEFIT IF ANYTHING WERE TO HAPPEN AND THEY WILL PAY A PORTION OF THE SALARY AND THERE ARE PROGRAMS OUT THERE BECKONING THAT ALIGNMENT SO IT ALL MAKES SENSE AND GETTING THAT INFORMATION OUT TO THE COMMUNITY BUT SOME OF THE EXTERNAL ALIGNMENT WOULD BE THE COMMUNITY RESOURCES AND WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND YOU ALLUDED IT TO THERE ARE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING SOME OF THESE THINGS AND THE CITY SHOULD HOUSE THEM. WE SHOULD BE COLLABORATIVE WITH THEM, WHETHER THAT BE FROM A MARKETING PERSPECTIVE, CONNECTIVITY PERSPECTIVE, FROM AN UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION PERSPECTIVE AND CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY WITH THE RESOURCES. A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE DON'T NEED TO HOUSE, BEGINNING THE COMMUNICATIONS, THE MARKETING AND GETTING THE COMMUNICATION OUT BECOMES WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW AND THERE'S THE INTERNAL ALIGNMENT. I HEARD OUR DEPUTY CITY MANAGER MR. ANDREWS TALK ABOUT STREET PROJECTS AND THERE ARE ROAD PROJECTS AND COMMISSIONER GATES TALKED ABOUT ADOPTING STREETS AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE ABLE TO

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TO TAKE IT FROM HERE. >> GREAT. MS. BALLARD.

>> IT AFTERNOON, MADAM MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

WE HAVE A PRESENTATION TO GO OVER WHATEVER MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION DOES OFFER AND WE WILL START WITH OUR TEAM. WE ARE LED BY THE WONDERFUL DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, MR. JOHNSON AND THAT INCLUDES MYSELF AND ROBERT LUCIAN, A.K.A. BOBBY. HE'S IN THE BACK RIGHT NOW FILMING US.

>> I DIDN'T KNOW WHO THAT WAS.

>> IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE HIM. DOES IT? OKAY. I'M JUST

JOKING. >> SOME OF OUR CORE FUNCTIONS , BRAND, OVERSIGHT, MARKETING COMMUNITY, ENGAGEMENT, GRAPHIC DESIGN, EVENT COVERAGE, PUBLIC MEETING COVERAGE , PUBLICATION DISTRIBUTION, WEBSITE MANAGEMENT, FB TV MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT. THESE ARE SOME OF OUR CORE FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND BEHIND THE SCENES STUFF THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE BEEN AWARE OF BUT THIS IS WHAT OUR TEAM HANDLES. I WANTED TO GIVE YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT OF AN IDEA OF HOW MUCH YOUR MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION IS WORKING. THINGS YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW BEHIND THE SCENES AND I KNOW YOU SEE US ON EVENT COVERAGE AND THINGS LIKE THAT BUT I WANTED TO GIVE YOU SOME FACTS AND SOME BREAKDOWNS FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR AND THIS INFORMATION, AS OF JULY 1ST, WHEN IT COMES TO OUR COVERAGE WE HAVE PRODUCED 23 VIDEOS IN-HOUSE. WE HAVE PRODUCED 41 GRAPHICS AND WE HAVE PRODUCED 112 PUBLIC MEETINGS. EVENT COVERAGE, WE HAVE 105 HOURS SO FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR OF EVENT COVERAGE. OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, WE CURRENTLY HAVE 134,831 SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS AND THAT IS ACROSS ALL OF OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS FROM ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS. OUR WEBSITE USAGE, WITH ETHERIDGE OR 21,000 VISITS TO THE CITY OF FT.

PIERCE WEBSITE AND GROWING. INTERNAL SUPPORT WHERE WE SUPPORT DIFFERENT DIVISIONS, INITIATIVES WITH MARKETING , FLYERS, PUBLICATIONS, PRESS RELEASES AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT. WE'VE HANDLED 265 INTERNAL REQUESTS FOR SUPPORT.

ALSO WHEN IT COMES TO PRESS COVERAGE AND OUR MEDIA PARTNERS, WE'VE HANDLED OVER 100 INQUIRIES, INTERVIEW REQUEST AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO THE MEDIA. OUR MISSION AND AND OUR VISION IS TO EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE AND PROMOTE THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE THE SERVICE, INITIATIVES, EVENTS AND FOSTERING A WELL INFORMED AND ENGAGED COMMUNITY. OUR VISION IS TO BE TRUSTED AND A INNOVATIVE SOURCE OF INFORMATION INTO THE CITIES TRANSPORTATION AND TO ACHIEVE THAT, SOME OF OUR KEY OBJECTIVES INCLUDE ENHANCING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. SO THROUGH TRANSPARENT AND INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION, WE WENT TO FOSTER AN INFORMED AND ENGAGED COMMUNITY AND PROMOTE CITY INITIATIVES. INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE CITY'S PROJECT, SERVICES AND EVENTS. STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY RELATIONS. WE WANT TO BUILD TRUST AND STRENGTH OF THE CURRENT RELATIONSHIPS WE HAVE WITH RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS AND THE MEDIA.

BRAND AND IDENTITY. WE WANT TO ENHANCE THE CITY'S BRAND AND IDENTITY TO REFLECT OUR VALUES AND OUR VISION. WHO ARE WE? WHAT MAKES THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE GREAT? I KNOW THAT IS A KEY TOPIC. TELLING OUR STORY. RIGHT? WHAT IS OUR STORY?

>> FT. PIERCE, AN AMAZING CITY WITH THE SMALL TOWN FEEL, IS LOCATED ON FLORIDA'S TREASURE COAST. FROM ITS SCENIC WATERFRONT AND BEAUTIFUL BEACHES TO ITS LIVELY RESTAURANTS AND ENGAGING ATTRACTIONS AND FT. PIERCE TRULY OFFER SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. THE CITY'S CHARMING RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS, HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AND THE LINCOLN PARK AREA PROVIDES A UNIQUE SENSE OF COMMUNITY AND ALSO, THE CITY'S MANY PARKS AND NATURE ORIENTED ACTIVITIES GIVE AN ADDED BOOST TO ITS NATURAL APPEAL. FT. PIERCE,

TRULY A MARVELOUS EXPERIENCE. >> THAT'S FT. PIERCE. RIGHT?

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PIERCE IS. WHO WE ARE. WHAT WE ARE ABOUT AND ANOTHER CHALLENGE IS REACHING EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE ARE A DIVERSE COMMUNITY AND BEING ABLE TO TOUCH ON EVERYONE AND GET THE INFORMATION OUT IS A CURRENT CHALLENGE. SOME SOLUTIONS AND ACTION ITEMS TO HELP US WITH THESE CHALLENGES, WE ARE LOOKING AT WORKING WITH THE PUBLIC RELATIONS CONSULTANT SO THEY CAN COME IN AND HELP US UPDATE OUR STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS PLANS, CRISIS CAN MEDICATIONS PLAN AT SOME OF OUR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT WE'VE HAD A LITTLE WHILE THAT WE NEED UPDATED. WE ARE IN 2024. WE NEED SOME UPDATES.

REALLY WORKING WITH A CONSULTANT THAT WORKS WITH OTHER LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES IS SOMETHING WE ARE LOOKING INTO.

>> TO GIVE A LITTLE DEPTH TO THAT AGAIN AND WHAT I SAID EARLIER, MY THING IS , THERE HAS TO BE IN ALIGNMENT. WE ARE NOT JUST LOOKING FOR POLICIES AND PROCEDURES AND HOPING GET THOSE THINGS, BUT HOW DO WE STRATEGICALLY ALIGN WITH ALL THE INITIATIVES AND VISION THAT COMES FROM THIS BODY AND HOW DO WE STRATEGICALLY ALIGN WITH OUR INTERNAL STAFF AND EXTERNAL PARTNERS AND CREATE A FRAMEWORK, AS IT WERE, TO MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE, AGAIN, I'VE BEEN TO THIS POINT, IT'S BEEN A LOT OF, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. WE HAVE AN EVENT GOING ON AND WE MAY SPEAK WITH THE ORGANIZER JUST TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT IT IS AND WE MAKE IT A FLYER OR TWO AND WE PUSH IT OUT AND I'M LOOKING TO DO MORE. I'M LOOKING FOR THAT ENGAGEMENT TO WHERE WE ACTUALLY CAN SPEAK MATTER-OF-FACTLY AND CREATE THAT FRAMEWORK AND AS WE ARE DOING EVENTS, THIS IS THE METHOD IN WHICH WE ENGAGE. THIS IS THE OUTCOME BECAUSE WE NOW HAVE THESE ESTABLISHED PARAMETERS AND I THINK THAT ENHANCES AND WHAT DO I WANT TO SAY? IT GIVES A HIGH PROBABILITY THAT THE ROI INTENDED IS WHAT WE GET.

DIRECTLY >> ABSOLUTELY. ALONG WITH THAT, WE ARE LOOKING AT WORKING WITH OUR INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS TO MAINTAIN BRAND AND MESSAGE CONSISTENCY. I WANT TO WORK WITH THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND MAYBE OFFER TRAINING ON OUR WEBSITE, ON OUR BRAND, SOCIAL MEDIA AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT. WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE AND WORKING IN BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR LOCAL MEDIA PARTNERS, BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS AND RESIDENTS. WE HAVE SO MANY WONDERFUL ORGANIZATIONS. OUR BUSINESS PARTNERS THAT THROUGHOUT THE CITY ARE DOING AMAZING THINGS AND BEING ABLE TO WORK WITH THEM TO HELP DISSEMINATE THE INFORMATION IS VITAL. RIGHT? WE HAVE A GROUP OF BUSINESS OWNERS. WE HAVE A GROUP OF SENIORS AND WE MIGHT HAVE A GROUP OF RESIDENTS THAT ALL USE DIFFERENT VESSELS OF COMMUNICATING OR RECEIVING THEIR INFORMATION AND WORKING WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND THOSE ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY ARE VITALLY IMPORTANT. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED AND ENGAGED IN OUR COMMUNITY AND THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE IN IT. WE WILL CONTINUE TO PROVIDE CONSISTENT, ACCURATE AND FACTUAL INFORMATION . WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH OUR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, OUR LOCAL PRINT AND ADVERTISING, OUR STRATEGIC PARTNERS, OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS AND OUR MEDIA PARTNERS. I HAD TO WRITE AND MORE BECAUSE ADDING ALL OF THEM ON THE LIST, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE SEVERAL SLIDES BUT WE ARE WORKING WITH SO MANY LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS. 501(C)(3) RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, OUR MAIN STREETS. REALLY GETTING OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY AS MUCH AS WE CAN AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO AND STRENGTHEN THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, BUT WITH WORKING WITH OUR MEDIA PARTNERS. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME MISINFORMATION BEING SHARED AND ME STRENGTHENING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR LOCAL MEDIAS AND BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE THEM THE MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION AND BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WHERE I CAN SAY, HEY, HERE IS WHAT WE ARE SAYING AND THEY RECEIVE IT WELL. WORKING ON ALL OF THAT. WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO STAY ENGAGED WITH OUR RESIDENTS. WE TRY TO ATTEND EVERY SINGLE EVENT THAT WE HAD TO REALLY SHOWCASE WHATEVER CITY IS ABOUT. SO MANY -- AGAIN, WE SPONSOR AND PARTNER WITH SO MANY DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND HAVE SO MANY WONDERFUL ACTIVITIES TO OFFER TO OUR

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>> ANY QUESTIONS? >> I DO HAVE A QUESTION. IT MAY SEEM MORE LIKE A COMMENT THAT A QUESTION. I'M NOT A BIG SOCIAL MEDIA PERSON, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS. I GET MY NEWS BY

WATCHING THE NEWS. >> OKAY.

>> IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE TAKES A PRETTY GOOD BASHING ON THE LOCAL NEWS STATIONS, PRINT MEDIA AND NBC, CBS, ET CETERA. THAT'S THE COMMENTARY PORTION OF THE QUESTIONS COMING. IT SEEMS TO ME THAT ALL OF THIS NEGATIVE MEDIA OCCURS AROUND NEGATIVE EVENTS . SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN FT. PIERCE, IT'S INSTANTANEOUS THE TOP STORY ON THE NEWS. AS A MATTER WHAT IT IS. ST. LUCIA COUNTY ISSUE, SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT ISSUE, IT'S ALL BEING BROUGHT HOME TO FT. PIERCE IN SOME FASHION. MY CONCERN IN GETTING TO THE QUESTION IS, DO YOU SUGGEST FROM A COMMUNICATIONS STANDPOINT THAT COMMUNICATIONS TO THE MEDIA BE SOMEHOW CONTROLLED, FUNNELED, CHANNELED THROUGH A SPECIFIC SOURCE BECAUSE INSTANTANEOUSLY, THE FIVE OF US ARE CONTACTED BY PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA THAT WE'VE BEEN INTRODUCED TO ARE MET OVER THE COURSE OF TIME THAT WENT TO COMMENT, ET CETERA, OR ARE WE BETTER OFF HAVING A SPECIFIC SPOKESPERSON THAT HANDLES THIS, STAFF PERSON OR COMMISSION PERSON THAT IS KIND OF IN CHARGE WITH THAT TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH COMMUNICATION EXPERTS OR IN-HOUSE TEAM TO MAKE SURE WE ARE MESSAGING THINGS CORRECTLY AND GETTING FACTUAL INFORMATION OUT , NOT SPECULATION AND, THIS SHOULD HAPPEN AND IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. WHATEVER THE STORY MIGHT BE. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON

THAT? >> CURRENTLY, AND CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG, THE SPOKESPERSON, THE OFFICIAL SPOKESPERSON FOR THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE IS THE COMMUNITY MANAGER, THE MAYOR, THE CITY MANAGER HIMSELF IN THE PIO FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ANYBODY OUTSIDE OF THAT REALM SHOULD NOT BE RESPONDING SHOULD BE FUNNELED THROUGH THOSE ESTABLISHED RESOURCES.

>> I WAS NOT AWARE OF THAT. THAT'S GOOD INFORMATION TO

HAVE. >> HOWEVER, AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, YOU WILL REPRESENT THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE ON THE PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY AND THEY COULD CARE LESS ABOUT WHAT WE SAY. IT'S ALL ABOUT YOU GUYS.

A LOT OF TIMES YOU ARE CAUGHT WITH QUESTIONS OUT OF THE BLUE AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU ARE FACED WITH HAVING TO PROVIDE AN ANSWER. IF WE COULD DO THIS IN A MORE STRUCTURED CAPACITY, WHEREBY WE GO THROUGH OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, SET UP AN INTERVIEW TIME, UNDERSTAND THE CONTENT OF THE QUESTIONING AND THEN YOU ALL CAN BE PREPARED AND YOU WON'T HE CAUGHT OFF GUARD OR IN AN EMOTIONAL SITUATION.

>> WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME, MAN?

>> YES, IF I COULD JUST ELABORATE ON THAT. YES, AS CITY OFFICIALS, YOU ARE ALL SPOKESPEOPLE FOR THE CITY AND RIGHTFULLY SO. LIKE MR. JOHNSON SAID, AFTER THAT, IT WOULD BE OUR CITY MANAGER AND THEN MYSELF AND BE PIO FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND LESS MR. MEN'S DEEMS IT SOMEBODY AS AN EXPERT AND WHATEVER TOPIC IT IS AND HE WOULD LIKE THEM TO SPEAK ON IT. I ENCOURAGE ALL OF OUR INTERNAL DEPARTMENTS THE FINAL ALL OF THEIR MEDIA REQUESTS THROUGH ME. THE MEDIA SHOULDN'T REALLY BE INTERACTING WITH OUR EMPLOYEES 101 LIKE THAT. IT ALL COMES THROUGH ME SO I CAN GIVE THEM THE MOST ACCURATE INFORMATION IN A TIMELY FASHION. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH ALL OF YOU AND I DO WORK WITH THE MAYOR A LOT IN CERTAIN INSTANCES LIKE THIS. IF YOU GET A MEDIA REQUEST, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEND IT OVER TO ME AND I CAN

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>> SOME OF THE FOLKS APPEAR ARE MORE ACTIVE IN THAT ARENA. I'M PRETTY BORING. THEY DON'T REALLY LIKE MY ANSWERS, SO I DON'T MAKE IT ON THE NEWS, FORTUNATELY. SOME ARE MORE

FLAMBOYANT AND THERE'S. >> YOU CAN CALL MY NAME. I

DON'T CARE. >> IT'S ME. I'M GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT THIS QUESTION UP BECAUSE IN ONE OF MY MEETINGS WITH THE TREASURE COACH LOCAL LEAF OF GOVERNMENTS, THIS CAME UP AND WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING IS WHEN SOMETHING COMES UP, THEY HAVE A LITTLE QUICK, I GUESS, MEETING AND WE ALL COME TOGETHER. WE ALL COME TOGETHER THROUGH OUR MEDIA DEPARTMENT AND SAY, THIS IS HOW WE ARE GOING TO RESPOND. THIS IS OUR MESSAGE. THEY DON'T TELL THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WHAT TO SAY, BUT THIS IS WHAT OUR FOCUS IS AND , YOU KNOW, IF WE DID THAT, I WOULD BE THE FIRST TO SIGN UP FOR THE FIRST CLASS AND PUT ME IN THERE BECAUSE THEY LOVE CALLING MY PHONE AND GETTING ME IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. I WOULD PROBABLY BE THE FIRST ONE TO SAY, STEP BACK FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN. I LOVE YOUR IDEA WHERE IF -- I DIDN'T KNOW EITHER. IF I GET A CALL, I SHOULD CONTACT YOU AND LET YOU MAKE AND SET UP EVERYTHING AND THEN WE WILL KNOW WHERE THEY ARE COMING FROM AND GOING FROM AND I CAN DO BOTH OF YOU GUYS AND YOU ARE NOW ON THAT WHEN I GET A CALL OR I GET THE CALL OR GET THE TEXT MESSAGE OR WHATEVER, I WILL LET YOU KNOW, LET YOU SET UP AND MAKE UP THE CONTACT AND THEN WE CAN COME TOGETHER AND THEN YOU CAN KICK ME UNDER THE CHAIR WHEN YOU ARE TELLING ME TO BE QUITE BECAUSE SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, THEY CATCH US RIGHT OUT HERE AND THEY WANT TO CATCH US AT THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT AND WE ARE ALREADY UPSET AND YOU GO BACK AT LOOK AT IT AND I HAVE MADE THAT MISTAKE AND GOING FORWARD, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM AND I THINK THAT IF WE COME THROUGH YOUR OFFICE AND YOUR OFFICE WILL COME OUT BETTER IN THE PUBLIC. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LIKE THAT, BUT WE HAVE TO PROTECT WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IN THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE. I WOULD BE THE FIRST TO SAY, COMMISSIONER BRODERICK, I NEED THAT AND I WILL DO THAT.

>> I'M HAPPY TO DO THAT AND IF YOU SHOOT ME AN EMAIL OVER AND YOU COPY MR. MEN'S -- THE NEWS MEDIA PARTNERS THAT WE WORK WITH, THIS IS A NEW TO THEM. I DO THIS QUITE A BIT AND CONCERNS WITH THE MAYOR WHEN SHE DOES INTERVIEWS. I'M HAPPY TO CONTACT THEM, HEY, WE WOULD LOVE TO SET UP A TIME BUT PLEASE SEND ME YOUR TALKING POINTS AND WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO. I WOULD MUCH RATHER DO THAT FOR YOU GUYS IF THAT SOMETHING THAT I CAN HELP WITH.

>> I DIDN'T WANT TO TRIP YOU WITH THE MICROPHONE LIAR RIGHT

AT THE DOORWAY. >> WE ARE PEOPLE AND DIFFERENT THINGS COME UP, SO I'M HAPPY TO BE THAT BUFFER FOR YOU IF

YOU NEED IT. >> THIS JUST HAPPENED LAST WEDNESDAY. THIS EXACT THING. AT 11:35 I WAS STANDING IN HOME DEPOT AND I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM MAIN STREET AND IT WAS TALKING ABOUT WP TV, CHANNEL NUMBER FIVE, HAD DONE A REPORT WITH TYPICAL BUSINESS PERSON HERE IN DOWNTOWN AND IT WAS NEGATIVE. WE COLLABORATED AND CAME TOGETHER WITH LESS THAN AN HOUR . THERE WAS A MEETING AT MAIN STREET FT. PIERCE IN MY FIRST QUESTION WAS, HAVE YOU TALKED TO CAITLIN? KATELYN WAS ALREADY AWARE AND SITTING IN THE SEAT . WHAT ARE THEY LOOKING FOR? HOW ARE WE RESPONDING? WHAT ARE OUR THREE POINTS OF INTEREST AND BY 12:15, WAS SITTING AT MAIN STREET AND WE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH 15 PEOPLE AND MAJOR SANTIAGO WAS THERE FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT IT WAS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT . CHARLOTTE BARLEY CAME FROM THE TOURISM PERSPECTIVE AND THERE WAS A DBA REPRESENTATION THERE.

MAIN STREET, CITY OF FT. PIERCE. WE WALKED OUT AND WITHIN 25 MINUTES WITH A MECHANISM, THREE POINTS OF INTEREST WERE CONVERSATION AND AT 1:00, I THINK THE INTERVIEW STARTED AT COBB'S LANDING DOWNTOWN AND I WAS ON MY WAY OUT OF TOWN TO SOUTH CAROLINA AND I WENT HOME, HAD TO PACK MY BACKUP I GOT BACK THERE, WE DID AN INTERVIEW REAL QUICK. IT WAS EASY, IT WAS SIMPLE AND IT WAS A CONSISTENT MESSAGE. IT CAN BE DONE. THE POINT OF MY STORY IS THAT THERE WERE JUST A COUPLE RELEVANT QUESTIONS. WHO HAS TALKED TO CAITLIN? IS KATELYN THERE? WHAT IS THE MESSAGE. ACTUALLY WHEN WE GOT IN THE ROOM, WE HAD 10 DIFFERENT IDEAS GOING ON AND WHEN WE WALKED

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THAT'S ALL. THAT'S ALL. >> OKAY. OKAY. OKAY.

>> YOU AREN'T THE ONLY ONES. >> I'LL BE THE FIRST TO, LIKE I SAID, I WON'T DO IT ANYMORE WITHOUT COMING THROUGH YOU,

CARLOS. >> I'M HERE FOR YOU.

>> JUST TO TOUCH ON THAT POINT, IT WAS AMAZING TO SEE LAST WEEK, THERE WAS A NEGATIVE ARTICLE THAT CAME OUT AND A GROUP OF FT. PIERCE BUSINESS OWNERS AND RESIDENTS ROSE UP AND SAID, THIS IS NOT OKAY. THIS IS NOT OUR MESSAGE AND WE WANT TO SHARE OUR ACTUAL MESSAGE, SO YOU KNOW, FROM THE CITY, WE RELEASED A STATEMENT TO IT WP TV. I LIKE TO KEEP YOU GUYS INFORMED OF ALL OF THAT. I DID SEND YOU OUR STATEMENT BECAUSE THAT WASN'T OUR STORY. RIGHT? THAT'S NOT OUR STORY.

THAT WAS AN ACTION OF A STRIKE TO CLEAR UP SOME MISINFORMATION FROM OUR END AND TO SEE THE GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS THAT GOT TOGETHER AND SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT RIGHT WAS PRETTY AMAZING. THAT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE.

>> ACTUALLY TALK TO A BUSINESS OWNER ON SATURDAY WHO WAS REALLY UPSET ABOUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED AND IT CAUGHT EVERYBODY BY SURPRISE, BUT THEY WILL CALL YOU. THEY CALL ME DIRECTLY AND WORKING WITH KATELYN MAYBE PUT SOME OFF THEIR TIMETABLE OR WHATEVER AND WE DON'T WORK ON THEIR TIMETABLE AND I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO BE A COORDINATED MESSAGE AND I HAVE BEEN CAUGHT OFFGUARD TOO . WHEN THERE IS AN AGENDA, OH, WE ARE ONLY GOING TO SAY GOOD THINGS ABOUT FT. PIERCE AND WHEN THEY ARE ASKING YOU, IT'S ALL THE BAD THINGS ABOUT FT. PIERCE. IT'S PART OF THEIR TRADE. THEY HAVE THEIR JOB TO

DO AND WE HAVE OUR JOB TO DO. >> LESSON LEARNED, MADAM MAYOR.

>> FOR ME TOO. FOR ME TOO. FOR ME ALSO . I WANTED TO ASK YOU.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT OUR BRAND AND OUR BRAND IS THE SUNRISE CITY, BUT IS OUR BRAND TOTALLY FLUSHED OUT, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT BEYOND. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE ALL ASSUME WE KNOW WHAT OUR BRAND IS? DO WE KNOW WHAT IT IS? I MEAN, YOU PEOPLE HAVE LOVED BEFORE AND WE HAVE ALL THAT FUN, FUNKY STUFF THAT WE DO EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE AND WE POOR TO BELIEVE THAT IT WHEN SHANE WAS HERE CUT SHE WAS FUN

AND FUNKY. WE ARE. >> WE ARE IS THE GYM OF THE COAST. RIGHT? WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS TO OFFER BUT THAT IS OUR MESSAGE. RIGHT? BECAUSE WE HAVE --

>> I THINK WE ALL NEED TO KNOW THAT. IT SHOULD BE AT THE BOTTOM OF OUR LETTERHEAD OR IT SHOULD BE REINFORCED. THAT'S ANOTHER BRAND THAT WE HAVE. WE HAVE SEVERAL.

>> ABSOLUTELY. >> THEY SHOULD BE REINFORCED WHENEVER WE ARE TALKING TO THE MEDIA OR WHENEVER WE ARE DOING

ANYTHING. >> I WOULD BE HAPPY TO PUT

SOMETHING TOGETHER. >> I WRITE ARTICLES FOR THE FOCUS AND HUTCHINSON ISLAND NEIGHBORS, SO IF YOU SEND ME THE REMINDER OF ALL OF THOSE THINGS, I WILL MAKE SURE BECAUSE WE SHOULD WEAVE THEM IN. I THINK THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, MR. JOHNSON. MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ALWAYS REINFORCING WHAT OUR BRAND IS.

>> A LOT OF TIMES, MADAM MAYOR AND COMMISSION, OUR BRAND IS SOLID. A LOT OF TIMES WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT WE ARE ON

CAMPAIGNS. >> YOU ARE ON CAMPAIGNS?

>> YES. >> WHO IS THAT?

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>> WE PUSH A CERTAIN MESSAGE AND NARRATIVE IN A CERTAIN TIMEFRAME AND WE KNOW COMMISSIONER JOHNSON INTRODUCED US AND THAT IS A CAMPAIGN AND IT'S AN EXCELLENT CAMPAIGN AND WE WILL WORK IT AND MANEUVER IT INTO OUR OVERALL BRANDING SCHEME UNTIL THIS BODY WERE JUST THE NATURAL DYNAMICS OR ORGANICS OF A GOVERNMENTAL BODY SHIFTS INTO THE NEXT CAMPAIGN.

>> SURE. THERE HAS TO BE EMPHASIS AT DIFFERENT TIMES .

WE ARE GOING INTO HURRICANE SEASON, SO THAT IF WE HAVE A HURRICANE ALL OF A SUDDEN WE ARE SENDING OUT THE ALERTS AND WE ARE HELPING OUR RESIDENTS STAY SAFE.

>> YES MA'AM. EXACTLY. THE MACRO QUICK AND BASED ON THAT AND I ASKED THE CITY MANAGERS I KNOW YOU GUYS CAN DO IT. WHEN WE DO THESE VIDEOS LIKE THIS, LET'S REMEMBER OUR HISPANIC AND CREOLE POPULATIONS OF FT. PIERCE BECAUSE TO SHOOT A VIDEO IN THEIR LANGUAGE, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE PART OF FT.

PIERCE. JUST DO WHAT OUT THERE, WHATEVER CAMPAIGN WE ARE ON , IF IT'S ONE FOR FT. PIERCE, LET'S NOT JUST HAVE VIDEO.

LET'S HAVE A VIDEO WHERE WE INCLUDE EVERYBODY IN IT AND IT

MAKES A DIFFERENCE. >> CANNOT COMMENT ON, JUST OF THIS BODY IS AWARE OF SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WE HAVE INTERNALLY WITH THAT. IT'S NOT THE VIDEO, IT'S ANYTHING THAT GOES ON TELEVISION HAS TO BE CAPTIONED SO NOW WE HAVE TO HAVE A SPANISH AND CREOLE CAPTIONING SERVICE, WHICH IS HARD TO FIND IN THIS AREA. SPANISH AND CREOLE IS NOT SO EASY AND THOSE ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WE RUN INTO WITH

THAT ASPECT OF IT. >> THAT'S FAIR AND I GET THAT.

I GET THAT. THERE IS A POPULATION IN OUR CITY THIS SOMETIMES FEEL LEFT OUT. I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE THAT THEY FEEL LEFT OUT AND THEY ARE PART OF OUR CITY. THE DRIVER IN THE CITY AND THEY ARE PART OF OUR CITY. WHATEVER WE CAN DO. I KNOW THAT COMMISSIONER CURTIS JOHNSON AND JAY JOHNSON WITH THE NUMBERS THING, SOME NOT GOING TO PUT ANYTHING ELSE TO THE BUDGET AND THAT WE GO FIND THE SYSTEMS FOR THE CLOSE CAPTIONING. KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN WE ARE DOING STUFF TO TRY AND INCLUDE EVERYBODY AND I'M NOT SAYING YOU DON'T, BUT IT MAKES IT DIFFERENT BECAUSE WHEN WE SAY ONE FT. PIERCE, WE REALLY HAVE TO MEAN ONE FT. PIERCE.

>> WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THAT THEIR GRAPHICS OR ARTS OR VIDEO.

MAYBE NOT NECESSARILY THE LANGUAGE TRANSFER, BECAUSE THAT'S, LIKE YOU SAID, THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY IN-DEPTH AND VERY EXPENSIVE AND VERY TRICKY AND WE ARE GOING TO START

LOOKING AT A.D.A. APPLICATIONS. >> TRANSLATION SERVICES. A.D.A.

CLOSE CAPTIONING. >> IF WE THRIVE PITCHER IN THERE LIKE VIDEOS OR SOMETHING ELSE AND IT INCLUDES EVERYBODY, THAT'S ALL I'M TRYING TO GET TO. GREAT JOB THOUGH.

>> THANK YOU. >> I DO HEAR YOU. WE CAN DEFINITELY INCORPORATE THAT MORE, WHETHER IT IS VIDEO OR PRINT ADVERTISEMENT OR FLYERS OR GRAPHICS. ABSOLUTELY.

>> I WILL BE SENDING YOU SOME EMAILS.

>> I'M GOING TO MAKE A BRIEF COMMENT. WHEN OF THE RECENT CLASSES I TOOK, EMAIL TO AND I ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO DO YOUR ELECTED OFFICIAL CLASSES AND WE HAD A WHOLE SEGMENT IN DEALING WITH THE MEDIA AND I RECOMMENDED THAT PERSON TO MR. MIMS WHO DID THAT WORKSHOP FOR US AND I THOUGHT HE WAS EXCELLENT AND WE HAD ROLE-PLAY SCENARIOS THAT WE DID AND WORKED ON AS A TEAM AND REAL SCENARIOS THAT WERE REAL-LIFE EXAMPLES THAT HE HAD PULLED FROM AROUND THE NATION WHEN IT CAME TO DEALING WITH MEDIA. YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT AS WE LEARN TO GET BETTER AT THIS TOO, I WOULD ENCOURAGE -- I HAVE ENCOURAGED MR. MIMS TO REACH OUT TO HIM TO SEE IF HE COULD AVAIL HIMSELF TO YOU GUYS TO TALK THROUGH SOME STUFF.

>> I HAVE ALREADY REACHED OUT AND HAVE A MEETING SET UP.

>> VERY WELL. THE LAST THING I WOULD SAY, GOOD JOB WITH MARKETING. MARKETING IS A CONSTANT EVOLUTION. I THINK THAT THE NUMBERS THAT YOU PUT HERE ARE WHAT I LOOK FOR AS BENCHMARKS TO START. RIGHT? I'M LOOKING TO GROW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA IMPRESSIONS AND I THINK AS YOU GUYS MOVE FORWARD, MARKETING IS DATA. RIGHT? IT'S ALL DRIVEN BY DATA AND I THINK THAT AS I LOOK TO THESE AS WE MOVE FORWARD, I DEFINITELY WANT TO SEE US BENCHMARK OURSELVES TO GROW THESE AUDIENCES AND TO INCORPORATE THE RICHNESS AND DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE COMMISSIONER GAINES IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT AND WE HAVE A LOT OF THAT AROUND HERE AND DAD IS JUST NOT DIVERSITY AND ETHNICITY. IT'S A DIVERSITY IN PEOPLE LEARNED AND EDUCATIONAL LEVELS. WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT YOU WOULD BE SURPRISED THAT ARE FUNCTIONING RIGHT HERE. WE HAVE A GROWING ASIAN COMMUNITY THIS COMING INTO FT. PIERCE RIGHT NOW. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STAY ON THE METRICS. I THINK THAT METRICS WILL GUIDE US WHERE WE NEED TO GO AND I AGREE. WE HAVE TO PUT SOME RESOURCES HERE TO

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YOU. >> ABSOLUTELY. IF I COULD PIGGYBACK OFF, THEY CAN FOR THAT, COMMISSIONER JOHNSON. WE ARE ON PACE TO EXCEED LAST YEAR'S NUMBERS WHEN IT COMES TO OUR SOCIAL MEDIA FOLLOWERS AND OUR WEBSITE VISITORS, FOR SURE. WE ARE GROWING EXPONENTIALLY, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OUR SISTER CITY AND OTHER LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND WITH THIS, ALTHOUGH WE ARE MIGHTY, YOU KNOW, IT IS BOBBY AND I, PRETTY MUCH. WE ABSOLUTELY ARE CONTINUING THAT FIGHT AND WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN AND WE ARE GOING TO GROW. YOU KNOW? WE HAVE MANAGED TO ACCOMPLISH ALL OF THIS,

BASICALLY, WITH TWO PEOPLE . >> YOU DO A LOT WITH THE

LITTLES. >> WE ABSOLUTELY DO AND WE ARE HAPPY TO DO IT. I AM HAPPY TO SAY THAT WE ARE ON TREND TO HAVE HIGHER NUMBERS THIS YEAR THAN WE DID LAST FISCAL YEAR.

>> OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS? ANYTHING ELSE? THANK YOU, ALL.

[g. Facilities Utilization Old City Hall Sunrise Center (1st Floor) Sunrise Center (4th Floor)]

REPORT. >> MADAM MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION AND THIS IS THE FUN PART WHERE YOU GET TO DECIDE THE FUTURE OF ALL OF THESE FACILITIES IN THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF FT. PIERCE. LET'S TALK ABOUT OLD CITY HALL. OLD CITY HALL IS CURRENTLY BEING USED AS A TEMPORARY STAGING FACILITY FOR OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IN PREPARATION FOR OUR UPCOMING FEDERAL HEARINGS, TRIALS, WHAT HAVE YOU. HOWEVER, WE DON'T KNOW THE FUTURE OF THAT PARTICULAR EVENT, BUT WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT WE DO HAVE A GORGEOUS FACILITY AND IT NEEDS A LITTLE LEAVEN WE JUST PUT A TITLE OVER IT TO KILL THE TERMITES AND IT NEEDS AN EXTERNAL PAINT JOB AND IT NEEDS SOME INTERNAL WORK AS WELL, BUT WE DO HAVE OUTSIDE INTEREST AND WE HAVE INTERNAL INTEREST AND WE NEED TO KNOW FROM YOU WALK WHAT WOULD YOU WILL LIKE TO SEE. WOULD YOU LIKE THIS BUILDING USED FOR COMMUNITY BENEFIT, FOR AN OPERATIONAL BENEFIT? WHAT IS YOUR VISION? LET'S START WITH THE OLDEST CITY HALL FIRST AND WE WILL WORK OUR WAY TO THE SUNRAY

CENTER. MADAM MAYOR . >> YES, SIR.

>> FIRST OF ALL, I LOVE THAT OLD BUILDING, SO WHATEVER GOES IN THERE IS GOING TO BE AN IMPROVEMENT ON WHAT'S NOT THERE NOW. MY QUESTION IS GOING TO BE, YOU AND I HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT POLICE SUBSTATION OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE I BELIEVE AND IN MY CONVERSATION WITH DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNERS, PART OF THE DBA , WE NEED ADDITIONAL PRESENCE WITH THE POLICE DOWNTOWN. NOT THAT WE DON'T HAVE IT NOW. IT WOULD JUST BE HELPFUL, CHIEF, THAT WE HAVE THAT PRESENCE. I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY A DESIRE OF YOURS TOO.

MY QUESTION IS, HOW MANY SQUARE FEET? I HAVE TO COMPARE THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE PARKING GARAGE COMPARED OLD CITY HALL AND USABLE SQUARE FOOTAGE. ARE THEY COMPARABLE?

>> I BELIEVE THAT THE $7000 TOTAL.

>> WITH THE ROOM UPSTAIRS? >> YES. 35 AND 35. I BELIEVE

SO. >> THAT IS HELPFUL. THIS WENT

DOWN HERE? >> 4004TH FLOOR, 9000.

>> 9000 DOESN'T WORK FOR ME. >> WE ARE NOT GIVING THE FOUR

FLOORS TO THE CHIEF ANYWAY. >> WE WERE GOING TO GIVE IT TO

ATF. >> THEY WERE GOING TO PAY SOME MONEY. I NEED TO KNOW THE SQUARE FEET AND THE PRESENCE AND THE AESTHETIC VALUE AND THE VISUAL ASPECT OF WHICH STREET SHOULD WE BE ON. SHOULD WE BE ON AVENUE MARINA WAY? THAT'S ANOTHER PART OF THAT CONVERSATION THAT I HAVE GOT

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AS PART OF OUR TOWN. IT'S HISTORIC. DO WE USE IT AS A VENUE ARE DOING ON AND I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE THE ANSWER TODAY, BUT I KNOW THAT WE NEED TO UTILIZE THAT STRUCTURE. I'M HAPPY THAT WE ARE FINALLY PAYING SOME ATTENTION TO IT BECAUSE WHEN THEY SIT DORMANT, THEY FALL APART AND WE TRY TWO

OR THREE POLICE? >> TWO AND ZERO RESPONSES.

>> OKAY. >> THE EVENT ROOM UPSTAIRS IS BEAUTIFUL, BUT CAVERNOUS. THE ABILITY AND THE SOUND BOUNCES OFF THE WALLS AND IT'S GREAT FOR EVENTS, EXCEPT FOR THE NOISE, IN MY OPINION. I'M LIKE YOU, I WANT IT TO BE USED AND I WANT IT TO BE CARED FOR AND LOVED. YES, RIGHT. I WANT IT TO BE USED AND SO I KNOW THAT DARRELL DRUMMOND TOLD ME THAT HIS FIRST JOB AT THE CITY OF FT. PIERCE, HIS OFFICE WAS IN THAT BUILDING IN PLANNING, SO I DIDN'T KNOW THE HISTORY THAT FAR BACK, BUT I'M GLAD THAT THE COMMUNITY SAVED IT AND I THINK THAT WE NEED TO USE IT. I FEEL LIKE THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE GOOD IN THEIR. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH

THAT. >> YES, MADAM MAYOR. WE HEARD SOME THINGS TODAY AND WHAT OF THE THINGS THAT STUCK OUT IN MY MIND WHEN THE POLICE WAS I'M GOING TO CALL IT INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND WHEN THEY HANDLE THE PRIVATE MATTERS, THEY NEEDED A SPACE THAT IS PRIVATE FOR THE MOST PART THAT THEY CAN CONDUCT INTERVIEWS AND THAT KIND OF THING. YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THERE ARE TWO PARTS OF THAT BUILDING. THAT RESOURCE IS THE RESOURCE OF THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY SPACE FOR EVENTS AND THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF CLASS REUNIONS AND RECEPTIONS AND 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTIES OR WHATEVER AND I WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN THAT FOR THE CITIZENS THAT WE CAN AFFORD THAT TYPE OF VENUE FOR THEM TO PRINTED UP IN A VERY NOMINAL TO BE THAT BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY AND I THINK WE OWE THAT TO THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE BESIDES THAT, WE HAVE VERY FEW OTHER PLACES THAT CAN RENT AND HOLD AND WE MAXIMIZE AND USE THEM ALL OF THESE CRITICAL, RIVERWALK AND WE USE THAT PLACE UPSTAIRS THERE AND I LIKE TO SEE THAT AND I THINK THAT CAN BE A FUNCTION THERE AND AND EVENT SPACE FOR US, WE HAVE HELD TOWN HALL MEETINGS RIGHT UP THERE IN THAT BUILDING AND WE NEED TO MAINTAIN THAT, IF NOT THERE, THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THIS BUILDING. THAT PROVIDES US AS A CITY, AN OPPORTUNITY TO GENERATE REVENUE IT'S A BEAUTIFUL VIEW AND I THINK IF IT IS DONE RIGHT, WE WILL REALIZE THAT SUPPORT OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS CONFERENCE SPACE. THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS THAT DO NOT HAVE CONFERENCE SPACE, FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES, THE SONIC GROUPS THAT WOULD RENT A CONFERENCE SPACE TO ACTUALLY CONDUCT THEIR MEETING. WORKSHOP MEETING OVER THE WEEKEND. WE HAVE NO PLACE, REALLY, IN FT. PIERCE THAT ACCOMMODATES THAT AND ALL OF THESE BUSINESSES ARE COMING HERE . I THINK THAT IS A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY. WITH ALL OF THAT BEING SAID, I LOOKED AT SOME OF THE UNSOLICITED PROPOSALS HERE AND I HAVE CONCERNED ABOUT THAT. I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE POSITION OF HAVING TO PICK OF WHO'S GOING IN HERE HIM AGAIN.

I DON'T WANT THAT PRESSURE. I'M GOING TO TELL YOU UPFRONT AND THAT'S FOR SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY, BUT WHEN WE START HEARING YOU PICK ONE AND I CAN HEAR IT NOW ON WHY DIDN'T YOU

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DEMONSTRATED RIGHT HERE. >> I WILL SHARE RIGHT? CAN I DO WITH THE COMMISSIONERS WANT TO TALK IF I COULD SURE THE HISTORY THAT I'VE GOTTEN OVER 12 YEARS OR MORE IS THAT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT COMPETING WITH OTHER PRIVATE INTERESTS IN THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY. THAT IS WHY WE MADE IT A GOVERNMENT CENTER INSTEAD OF LEASING IT TO PRIVATE ENTITIES FOR STOREFRONT TYPE ACTIVITY. THE ORIGINAL GOAL IN 07, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WAS HOT AND HEAVY INTO RETAIL SPACE FIRST FLOOR, WHATEVER OR HOWEVER YOU WANT TO SAY IT. IT WAS GOING TO BE LEASED AND IT WAS GOING TO BE RETAIL AND IT DOESN'T MATTER. THAT'S WHAT IT WAS GOING TO BE AND THEN YOU GET INTO THIS ROOM AND YOU GO, OH. NOW I HAVE BUSINESS OWNERS WITH REAL ESTATE DOWNTOWN GOING, YOU ARE NOT COMPETING

WITH ME. >> RIGHT. THEY WERE EMPTY. THEY HAD A LOT OF EMPTY SPACE DOWNTOWN.

>> THAT WAS A REAL CONVERSATION AND YOU ARE RIGHT BECAUSE THE FIRST FLOOR OF UNTIL WE MOVED THE CLERK OF COURT INTO THE BUILDING, THAT WAS RETAIL ALSO AND IT SAT AS THERE INTO TWO YEARS AGO AND IT'S AMAZING HOW THAT HAPPENS OVER TIME, BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT MINDSET. ANYWAY. SORRY.

>> COMMISSIONER BRODRICK. >> THIS TOPIC IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART AND IT'S WHAT WE DO FOR A LIVING ALL YEAR LONG EVERY PROMISING BUILDING SUCH AS THIS. I LOOK AT IT AS A CITY-OWNED ASSET AND CITY-OWNED INVENTORY AND WE DEPLOY IT FOR THAT FIRST. I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU ARE GOING WITH THAT DISCUSSION AND I THINK THE SUNRAY CENTER IS BETTER SUITED FOR THAT COMPANY, POTENTIALLY, BUT IT WAS ADMINISTRATIVE SPACE PREVIOUSLY AND WE BRING IT BACK TO THAT ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTION AND I THINK IT WILL BE WILL PURPOSE AND WILL UTILIZE PERMANENTLY. THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM AND I DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO TAKE, OBVIOUSLY, FOR COMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNET AND ALL THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT NEEDS TO GO INTO IT, IT'S GOING TO BE AN INVESTMENT BUT ONCE AN INVESTMENT IS MADE, IT IS THERE AND WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR UTILIZATION BY CITY DEPARTMENTS.

>> IT'S NOT BEING USED NOW. >> IT'S EMPTY NOW AND I GET IT. I HAVE ATTENDED FUNCTIONS THERE. THE ACOUSTICS ARE BAD I THINK THAT THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE FOR THAT PROPERTY IS CITY OFFICE AND SOME CAPACITY IN POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT TO ALLEVIATE THEIR SPACE NEEDS, BUT I'M SURE THERE COULD BE OTHER COMPETING INTERESTS THAT ARE GOING TO BUY FOR SPACE IN THAT BUILDING. THE BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. AS PART OF THE CITY ARE COMPLEX, CANDLING.

>> MADAM MAYOR, I SIT HERE THIS MORNING AND HEARD THE CHIEF OF

POLICE SAY THEY NEEDED SPACE. >> WE HAVE THE SPACE.

>> WE HAVE THE SPACE AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT COMMISSIONER JOHNSON WAS SAYING, AS FAR AS VENUES AND I'VE GONE THERE SEVERAL TIMES TO GO TO PARTIES OR WHATEVER, AND I ACTUALLY HAD PRINTED IT OUT FOR MY SONS GRADUATION THIS YEAR, BUT YOU KNOW, THEY CANCELED ALL THOSE BECAUSE THE POLICE WERE USING THE EVENT. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A KNEE AND THE POLICE HAS SAID THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS A NEED FOR THE SPACE AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO PRESERVE IT IS TO LET OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT USE IT TO DO WHAT THEY ARE DOING FOR THE CITY. I UNDERSTAND. WE DO NEED OTHER VENUES TO HOST THINGS THAT RIGHT NOW THEY ARE USING IT AND LET THEM USE IT, UNLESS WE CAN FIND SOME OTHER SPACE FOR THEM TO GO TO USE OTHER SPACE BUT THEY'VE ASKED US FOR A REQUEST FOR THE SPACE AND IF THEY ARE ALREADY THERE, IT'S

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>> ALL RIGHT, MADAM MAYOR. IT LOOKS LIKE THE POLICE WILL BE AT THE OLD CITY HALL FACILITY. WE WILL COME UP WITH OUR OPERATIONAL PLAN AND WE WILL PUT THE CHIEF TO WORK WITH ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL BUILDING FOR HER TO OCCUPY. NOW WE HAVE THE SUNRAY CENTER. WE HAVE A LETTER IN YOUR BACKUP DOCUMENTATION FROM THE SOLAR ENERGY LOAN FUND AND THAT LETTER BASICALLY STATES, IN ESSENCE , THEY ARE IN NEED OF SPACE. THEY HAVE CAPITAL. I WOULD LIKE TO BUILD IT OUT AND UTILIZE THE FIRST FLOOR. THEY ALSO PUT INTO THEIR PROPOSAL, THE POSSIBILITY OF UTILIZING A PORTION OF THE FOURTH FLOOR, BUT SPECIFICALLY THE FIRST FLOOR, WHICH IS 4000 SQUARE FEET. WE DO NOT HAVE A TENANT THERE. WE HAVE AGGRESSIVELY MARKETED THEIR PROPERTY AND WE UTILZE THE CALLERS INTERNATIONAL AND NOBODY WANTED IT TO BUILD IT OUT AND EVERYBODY WANTS TO USE IT, BUT NOBODY WANTED TO INVEST IN OUR FACILITY. WE NOW HAVE A POTENTIAL INVESTMENT PARTNER IN THIS IS AN EXTERNAL AGENCY AND WHATEVER WE DO WITH AN EXTERNAL AGENCY IS GOING TO REQUIRE A COMPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS. THAT IS THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE SUNRAY CENTER.

>> MADAM MAYOR. >> YES, SIR.

>> I AGREE WITH THAT AND I THINK IT IS A GREAT ENTITY TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH. THERE IS A LARGE PUBLIC ELEMENT THAT SELF ENTERTAINS AND/OR SERVES . ALSO, IT IS BELOW OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT, WHICH GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR IMPROVEMENTS, SO IT MAKES SENSE TO COMBINE THOSE IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO USE IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE, SO THAT IS WHERE I STARTED THE CONVERSATION EARLIER SO THAT WE HAVE DIRECTION OF THE POLICE. I BELIEVE IT IS A GREAT FIT FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. GOING BAFFLES ARE:, WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A CONVERSATION LATER AS WE MOVE THESE THINGS FORWARD ABOUT PARKING. I JUST WANT TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.

>> USUALLY THAT IS COMMISSIONER BRODRICK.

>> WE HAVE TO DO AN RFP. WE JUST CAN'T DO IT WITH SELF AND I THINK OUR COMMISSIONER JOHNSON MAKES GOOD POINTS BUT , YOU KNOW, AT ONE-TIME, THE CHAMBER WAS INTERESTED IN THAT, AS WELL AS THE TAURUS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.

>> THE CHAMBER HAS DOUBLE DOWN ON SEVEN GABLES. THEY WANT TO BE AT SEVEN GABLES, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF THE BEAUTIFUL

LOCATION. >> OKAY. GOOD. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THE FOURTH FLOOR FOR THEM. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY NEED THE FOURTH FLOOR FOR, BUT THE FOURTH FLOOR, TO ME, IS SPECIAL, BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT. I KNOW WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING WITH IT.

IT IS SPECIAL. >> I AGREE.

>> RENT IT. >> OKAY. SIMPLE.

>> THAT'S EASY. >> IT'S $20 AND $25 SPACE .

I'M GOING TO SPECULATE, PLUS COVERING EXPENSES IN THE OPERATION OF THE BUILDING AND WHEN IN DOUBT, RENTED OUT.

>> THAT'S GOOD. >> THE FIRST FLOOR. THE FOURTH FLOOR I FIND TO BE A MORE UNIQUE AREA OF. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DISCUSSION WITH THIS BODY BACK SEVERAL MONTHS AGO ABOUT CONVERTING THAT INTO SOME TYPE OF CONVENTION OR USE TYPE OF SPACE AND I STILL THINK THAT IS A GREAT IDEA. THE BUILDOUT WOULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY LESS IN COST AND WE ARE BEING TOO ASKED TO ANTE UP FOR THE ATF FOLKS AND NO GOLDPLATED FAUCETS AND DOOR KNOBS AND THINGS OF THIS NATURE. IT COULD BE A VERY FUNCTIONAL SPACE. WE ARE NOT REALLY COMPETING WITH ANY ENTITIES DOWNTOWN BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LIKE THIS DOWNTOWN.

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NOTHING LIKE IT. >> I GUESS MY COMMENTS WERE MISGUIDED EARLIER AND I RECENTLY ATTENDED ON RIVIERA AND THEY HAVE SUCH A FACILITY THERE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE VIEW BECAUSE WE ARE OBVIOUSLY ELEVATING ON THE FOURTH FLOOR, BUT THEY HAVE A GREAT FACILITY THERE THAT IS MULTIPURPOSE. IT WAS USED AT THIS POINT FOR A BANQUET. THE ORGANIZATION RENTED IT OUT AND THEY GAVE THE SCHOLAR SHAPE BANQUET AND IT HAD KITCHEN AND THEY THAT COME ACROSS THE HALL FROM THAT, OTHER SMALLER ROOMS THAT ARE SUBDIVIDED AND I THINK SOME OF THE PURPOSE AND WHERE WALLS, YOU CAN HAVE ONE LARGE SPACE IN MULTIPLE SMALL SPACES AND YOU CAN HAVE SPACES THAT IF FRATERNITY AUTHORITIES NEEDED TO RENTED OUT FOR A DISTRICT MEETING DOOR DISTRICT CONFERENCE, WE CAN FACILITATE THAT AND GENERATE THAT AND ALSO BRING ALL OF THOSE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE TO BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN AND FT. PIERCE AND SO OBVIOUSLY WOMEN THAT, THAT IS GOING TO DRIVE REVENUES FOR OUR BUSINESS OWNERS, BUT I SAW A MODEL AND I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK AT 45TH STREET AND RIVIERA AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE WITH THE MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING THERE. I THINK THAT WOULD GIVE US A GOOD THOUGHT AND PLAN AND I DON'T KNOW THE TOTAL SQUARE FOOT, BUT

I LIKE WHAT I SAW THERE. >> YOU GOOD?

>> I THINK I HAVE WONDERFUL DIRECTION. WE SHALL PROCEED.

>> ALL RIGHT. OKAY. SHALL WE MOVE ON?

>> I BELIEVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA MIGHT

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