Stand by for realtime  captioning.  >> Good  morning. We will begin in a minute.  Please turn off your electric devices  such as  cell phones. Good morning. This is the  public  participation portion this 17th  of  September 2019. Those who have filled  out a card and wish to speak, I  have  them here. Please direct your comments  to me. We will not respond  to comments but if you wish to  have discussion please  do so. Be courteous  and respectful and direct your comments  to me. First speaker is  Janet that. Will be followed  by Roger. My name is  Janet that. I would like  to address those  individuals are keen to force  out  residents -- they  pretend to be doing this for protection  of the environment. They refer to  the aquatic environment of the basin.  They are doing this with no evidence  the current condition has anything  to do with the  septic system. I would like to remind  these people that this is our  living environment. 

Next speaker,  Roger not.  

 Good morning. My name is  Roger not. I have  a degree in physics from the uterus  the of Manchester. I spent the last  seven years as a  physicist. This includes understanding how fluids  moved to porous formations. The  main justification be given to except  the sewage system is  conclusions reached and report  of collection in Volulsa   Florida. This comes to be objective  and scientific. It  is neither. Is not  objective because the formally used  seems to be carefully designed so  the report would  reach the published conclusions.  It is not scientific for  several reasons. Is no evidence  the individual  index is used actually represent  the effects of the  index on environmental health or  public safety. Some have been  arbitrarily adjusted to improve  the final index score of an area.  At least one is irrelevant and should  be discarded. Another extremely  important index missed out. There's  no evidence the published results  accurately reflect what the report  was supposed to  be about. Finally, as a result of this seriously  flawed approach, several areas in  which septic sewer systems should  never have been built are classified  in this report as  ideal for septic  system use. Is pretty obvious no  real science has been used to write  this report. The authors repeatedly  told what conclusions  to reach and prepare a believable  document which would appear to justify  those results. Please  stop quoting the scarves to us as  though it means something.  It doesn't. The county's latest  water quality planning includes  removal of the six lots of sanitary  sewer exemption from the copper  has a plan. This would include homes  in Orman by the sea. And adopting  environmental minimum standard to  require homes and businesses to  connect to sewer  if available. Without  any justification, you  plan to provide the citizens of  Orman by the sea with a sewage system  they don't want to make them pay  for, pay again to hook up to whether  what they want to or not. The  to mocha basin is  apparently polluted by nitrates.  Where is this pollution coming from?  It seems to be blamed on the septic  tanks. But is  that true? The residence don't believe  the septic systems have any  effect whatsoever on the  water quality  of the river in the  basin.  

Thank you, you're three minutes  are up. We have a significant number  of people who wish  to speak. 

Thank you. I live  at 46 ocean shore Drive in  Ormond Beach. I happen to be the  president of the men by the  sea Association. I want to tell  the county counsel and ask them  to be aware  the homeowners would like  it the latest. We do  not want the city  of Orman Beach to extend its  sewer line into our community on  our streets. Where the property  owners. We should have a say in  that matter. We've been told there's  utility service agreement so they  could do whatever  they want. They can come to our  streets. We don't want that. We  don't want, in addition we do not  want to pay  the cost. I studied extensively  what's happened in other Florida  communities and there are costs  that are often imposed on the property  owners and that  would be liens would be imposed,  assessments to pay for infrastructure  which have been 15-$20,000 per home,  our people cannot afford that even  if it's spread over 20 years. That  will be an additional to  property taxes. People don't  want to pay the additional monthly  sewer fees they are currently  not paying. A lot of people on fixed  incomes can't afford those. In addition,  we have been told by people in  the commission that we would have  to pay impact fees which I understand  this or new construction and new  developers to pay for the impact  on roads and schools, where  they telling us we would have to  pay impact  fees of $2720. That doesn't make  sense? In addition we have been  told he would have to pay for our  own sewer connections, paying plumbing  companies, a couple thousand dollars,  septic company to fill in septic  tanks the  cost keep adding up. We  are asking on behalf of the property  owners, we vote for the county counsel,  we don't  vote for Ormond Beach syndication.  We think that's wrong. We are not  being asked our opinions. On behalf  of the property owners, we are  asking you the county  counsel, your represent us. You're  the only hope we have to take our  side and really look at our position  and negotiate on our  behalf with Ormond Beach  or just planning to move in and  do whatever they want. That is what  we objective.  

Thank  you.  

Marianne  Connors. I'm here to speak in support  of the septic project generally  where they have been identified  for priority conversion  and specifically for the North Peninsula.  I am a volunteer working with this  project and have been involved in  such projects in the past when I  was working with the  county. The elimination of septic  systems in areas and conditions  where the environment is threatened  is a Florida  problem and Volulsa County problem.  All the members  represent some  area that will be  retrofitted appropriately. As  identified by the health department,  these priority areas have  been identified based on water table  density, age of system, source of  drinking water, and  so conditions. The North Penn has  three of the five worst areas attended  by. Other than drinking water, it  has all the contraindications for  septic systems. The septic problem  is not new.  That is the DOH report which was  originally provided in  the 1990s. When  there isn't a state contribution  to offset costs, this discussion  goes away it goes away for a  long time. While the problem is  not new, discussion of fixing septic  tanks are  now revived because the first time  in a long time, the state is talking  about contributing to  the solution. The state of for Florida  is paying attention. The  degradation of  water quality  all have identified septic systems  as introverted. The conversion  is expensive  and the ability to allocate the  cost is essential. Potential  partners include federal and  state governments,  governing justice jurisdiction and  property owner. Affordability is  key and is recognized as such. Some  property owners will need substantial  assistance. In conclusion, this  is not about annexation  and should not be on the menu when  redevelopment  is involved. Plans are meant  for developer agreements. We need  to have substantive discussions  about why these projects are necessary  and what is their importance to  the environment and community. We  need to  be informed, not in flames. We need  to set  regulatory standards. Beyond what  the health department has done.  We need to pursue funding from the  state and federal programs we all  support with tax dollars, we should  be receivers, not donors. We should  ask the state delegation for  program funding. This is a 20 year  initiative and needs a program to  support it. Ultimately we need to  be good partners.  Volulsa County has always made the  environment a priority  in the homeowners  will thank  you.  

Good  morning. Welcome . I had the opportunity to  work with Suzanne on other projects  earlier in my career and it's exciting  to see her here I'm here because  I cannot be here tonight when you  do your public hearing for the approval  of the budget and tax rates. Here  to tell you as member of the St.  John's  loop alliance revisiting them that  we are fully in support of your  efforts on the budget. We encourage  you to keep it where it is now.  We believe it's a good budget that  has been prioritized correctly and  it will serve Volulsa County  well.  Trails, you've  always taken care of trails that  we continue to ask that you continue  to  do that. We appreciate that  you have always  done that. We appreciate all you  have done for Volulsa County and  the budget  and trails in particular  on behalf of of the  loop alliance. As a  board member I truly appreciate  the opportunity to serve this county  as a board member. To ask you to  please stay the course on echo,  I understand there are reserves  that are healthy but  I would encourage you as  a counsel to go out and do listening sessions  at each of the districts. We did  that once before we came up on an  issue where we had done everything  we said we would do in we went back  out to the voters and said what  is it you want us to do now. I would  encourage you to do that, listening  sessions are a terrific way to hear  what the voters want, how they want  us to spend the money. That  echo program, those echo  projects have changed the quality  of life here in Volulsa County and  we should all be very proud of that  program . Encourage you to keep  that tax the same as it has been  and I promise you as an echo  board member we will do our best  to follow  your lead and how you would like  to see those funds allocated. Finally,  thank you for what you do for Volulsa  County. It's not easy right  now.  I applaud all of you for standing  up and  taking heat . I'm here to give you kudos and  say thank you. We appreciate all  you do and we appreciate  the budget and we are here to support  that.  

Thank you.  

You have looked at a few  budget  yourself.  >> This letter is in reference to  property on 31 Village Drive and  Ormond Beach  Florida . There is a lien of  over 14,000 dollars due to demolition.  I would like to explain the situation  at hand.  My dad had dementia at the time.  The house cup higher  due to dementia. He had not paid  any of the insurance on the house.  We  lost everything. We had many family  heirlooms as well as extremely expensive  household items as well as  personal property. I lost thousands  of dollars of personal property  for the artwork I stored at my  parents house. Because of the fire,  we are left with nothing in the  bank. This devastated  the family not only the loss of  the house but loss of years worth  of memories and family pictures  and such. Due to this tragedy,  exasperated my dads illness and  until his death  in 2013. By this time I mother was  seriously ill and needed around-the-clock  care. She died in  2015. Which furthered our family  loss. To make matters worse, my  younger sister Pam died three days  later. That left my two sisters  and  me. Last year, my older sister Kay  died in a horrific car accident.  My sister Patty, my only  living family was critically injured.  In the  same accident. Three funerals later,  these tragedies have  bankrupted me and I threw myself  at your mercy to reduce interest  on the demolition. I father and  mother left the current house in  complete despair due to the illness  as well as our Florida room ceiling  came in from the  hurricane damage in the small house.  I truly need this money to repair  my home as this is my only asset  left. Thank you for  your consideration. I have been  diligent and patient in this matter  I have submitted  this proposal to the administration  here at the County last December.  And now I am finally getting able  to speak. Thank  you for your  time.  >> 

 Good morning. On behalf of our patients  and caregivers, I want to complement  and commence your staff for the  hurricane Dorian response. Thank  you.  Specifically Joe Pozo and Jim judge  were a huge help in getting us the  information we needed to make good  decisions for  our caregivers. There was a lot going on and it  was wonderful to have a seat at  the table and have that information.  I also want to think Mark Bowers  for his help getting our buildings  ready.  That's it. Thank you, job well done. We have  been one for 91 years and with your  help and partnership, will be here  for another  91.  

John  Nicholson.  >> There was a meeting  last night of the first  up shelter. You will have an interest  in the first step shelter. I had  a meeting last week with city manager  who assured me the CO certificate  of Abba can see would be  issued yesterday. We go to the meeting  and find out it will be issued in  two months time. To  go from one week away to two  months away that raises the question  with me, why. I raised  it last night and couldn't get an  answer.  Some speculated they had to put  paving in, they had to paint. And  most  normal businesses, when you go  into construction, there is a set  series. Once they start painting  and putting in a drop ceiling which  they did three weeks ago, they are  close to ending. Sit there and say  we need an additional two more months,  I think you ought to ask  them specifically, will it open  on November 11? As you realize,  it was last year they said it  would open and that it would actually  positively be done by April. We  can move in maybe  in May and then it  keeps changing. It's your obligation  because you gave a considerable  amount  of money at two and half million dollars,  that's real money. Please find out  what's going on. Thank you.  

We will probably run out of time  because it's a set aside 30  minutes. There are four people left  in their yard 10 minutes. If you're  in support of an issue and you  wish  to stand, you  can speak.  Go ahead. State your  name.  

I'm  a professor and chair of health  sciences at Stetson University.  I have a keen interest in the central  nervous loop, its impact on health  and the environment and other benefits.  I'm representing the alliance. Is  a 260 mile multi  use trail. Part of the Florida sun  trail  that runs from Titusville to Deberry  to East Palatka to Saint Augustine  and back. Over the loop  come over half  is in Volulsa County. That feature  will be a game changer for the county.  We have made great progress  on  the loop and it's vital we  keep connecting disconnected parts  to close it.  

The value of the trail is and  what it connects. The goal is to  ride all of Volulsa County with  no gaps. Last year   in December we open the  critical segment from the Boulevard  to connect with the spring eliminating  that  dangerous stretch . You can witness that success every  day and people who are adversaries  of the trail have become advocates  that's generally how trails work.  

We held a spring right featuring  the segment that over 80 people  enjoyed in the right will be even  bigger this coming spring.  

People are  writing from Titusville to Edgewater  to stay overnight. We  have attracted bike Florida bringing  hundreds  of writers. Is not just tourism the benefits  from the trail. We are seeing trail  oriented developments with more  to come. The loop is a  game changer attracting more desirable  travelers, residences and businesses.  Bicycling  is the fastest growing form of transportation  positive impact on health, fitness,  community  building, mobility, there's no downside  to the trail so thank you for the  time.  >> 

I'm  Tanner Andrews. Unfortunately I  am in a rough position  here because under our form of charter  government, you all or more  or less decorative. It's actually  the County manager gets to make  the decisions. Right now, we  have a department that is  solid waste. They are intended among  other things to  pick up the yard trimmings. I have  a demonstrative to add to the record.  

I will not accept that. That  should have been left  outside. Is no reason to bring in  a week. This is a place  of  business.  

I wouldn't have  at my house, nor which you.  

Add that to the public record.  

Before Dorian came in, we did  a bunch of cleaning and trimming  to make sure the storm didn't come  to our County. That was successful.  Unfortunately, solid waste skipped  the pickup. The next week,  with more, including stuff I picked  up off the street  for you, since it's a  county roads, the still not picking  it up. The  claim is there supposed to  pick up up to 4 yards  a week. If you skip a  week and then it amounts  to what is still less than 4 yards,  you cannot use the increased volume  as an excuse. Your raising  the taxes and not providing  the service. Please ask your  County manager to find out why  the department of  solid waste is so useless. Thank  you.  >> I want  to  thank everyone  for taking the to seriously. Heather  has taken a lot of heat for listening  to us. We asked for her help on  our potential forced  annexation and sewer line from Ormond  Beach.  She has been criticized  for not handing our  town hall meeting to the Commissioner  to  explain away the city cover has  a plan and attention. She has been  accused of fanning the flames of  suspicion we may be in next with  no vote. We have been told that  we have misunderstood the  verbiage of Ormond Beach plan viewable  on their website. The plan reads,  the city provides utility service  beyond its municipal limit and shall  require any connection to the city  utility system annexed in the city  or enter into an  annexation agreement if not contiguous  for utility service. They  also have their annexation agreement  explained on  their websites. It says according to land development  code chapter 3, article 5 section  3:61B, of the city's land development  code requires  annexation or annexation agreement  if the property is  not contiguous to Ormond Beach  corporate boundaries.  

The language is clear and they  have been requiring  a Ormond by  the  Sea  property owners for years.  Now we are told that's illegal.  Hopefully this will be cleared up  soon. Thank you for helping us find  adverse  answers.  

I am Patricia Sparks  I live  at a Ormond by the Sea as well.  After many years of researching  Loretta and East and West Coast,  we  settled on Ormond by the  Sea because it was the type of committee  we want to live in. I have a handicapped  daughter and  we want to retire.  I transferred to hospice down here,  we bought a house and move down  here. Now they want  to put a sewer in front of  my house. I've looked and I do not  see where there has been any real  research done to determine Ormond  by the Sea   septic tanks are affecting the river  any more than those  of Ormond Beach.  Or Ormond  Beach   sewer system  which runs under the Halifax River.  I would like to see some research,  testing done to assure me this is  the only way to go. Ormond  Beach is a community of 4000 homes  . The proposed amount of money  they want to spend as much a $20  million. That many could be put  to better  use determining what is the real  problem in fixing  it. If  necessary, maybe Ormond by the Sea residents may  have to have their septic tanks  inspected on a regular basis.  To  make sure we are not doing anything  to contaminate the river more than  the  other people. I don't want sewer  systems. Thank  you.  

Thank you. With that, we will  close the public participation portion  and see you back here in one minute  at  10 o'clock. 

It's 10 o'clock.  Please make your way to where you  want to sit or stand. We have a  long meeting today. I will call  the meeting  to order. We have a application today  given by lent Church of  the Nazarene. Which will be followed  by the pledge.  

Please  stand.  

Our God, our  Creator, our father, we thank you  for the privilege of having another  day of life here. We  are thankful for sparing us this  recent storm. We pray for those  in the Bahamas still an effort of  our fellow citizens try to help  those were very disadvantaged. Today  we  pray for our county counsel in the  business and agenda at  hand. Is given by you to govern.  May we do it your way with your  wisdom and with your understanding  for the benefits of the  majority of our citizens. Please  give this counsel today that wisdom  they need to discern,  make judgments, pass boats and do  the things be most  beneficial to Volulsa County.  We  pray for your gaze and  your  grace.  Amen.  >>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  May we have  the rollcall. Fred Lowery is not  here, is in the hospital. He's very  sick. He has pneumonia. Please  remember him those of you who  wish to remember him. He will not  be in the meeting today. He is in  the hospital. Go ahead and do the  rollcall.  >>[ Roll call  taken ]  Everyone is  here except Dr. Lowery. We will  move on to the consent agenda. Staff  has asked to make a comment on item  K. Is there anyone who wishes to  comment on any consent agenda item.  

Yes. For the session  only, I have discussed this with  staff in my briefing, Q I  double I and  double R. 

We have a motion for consent  agenda.  

Motion made by Wheeler  and seconded by Ben  Johnson.  

That beard fooled me  for second.  

We have a motion and a second  for the consent agenda.  Any  objection? Hearing then, the motion  passes unanimous and we will go  to George on  item K. 

 Last night, as part of this agreement  we had  to have a county a little bit  out of sync with us because of the  storm. Last night they passed agreement  for communications for location of the tower. I just  wanted to update counsel on that.  

Okay. We will go to  item RR. 

Let's do Q first.  

Okay. Q first.  

The reason I asked  this, this is a big deal and I have  a feeling if we  didn't have a calendar today, this  would have been a separate agenda  item. This is one  of the great things we do in the  community and supporting our community  through our cultural grants. Let's  talk about this a  little  bit.  

I am  parks recreation and culture director.  Before you today for approval is  the fiscal year 2019  2020 cultural grants  as recommended by  the cultural counsel advisory board.  There 30 applicants, two new organizations  who applied this year and had not  applied in years past. They include  the land naval air station in  the stage at thank you five. There  are three organizations I did not  apply this year who have applied  in years past. They are the land  fall Festival which is now being  operated by the Museum of Art, there's  the enterprise preservation Society  which did not attend either of the  mandatory workshops in the Halifax  historical Society also did  not attend the mandatory workshop.  We believe those two organizations  will apply in the  future.  

Thank  you.  

Y. This agenda  item, Y is affordable  housing.  

Good morning.  One of the programs the County undertakes  the growth and resource  management division working in concert  with committee services per department  reviews properties that have been  given back to the county because  property taxes. We reviewed that  to determine if there any of these  properties are suitable for use  with affordable housing. The  county staff reviews all of these,  identifies and keeps this list going  so  that way with our partners as well  as ourselves if there's any opportunities  to utilize these for affordable  housing we can take advantage of  it. What you see today, we are adding  a new property in  the area of orange city to list  which would bring up to 21 properties  that meet the criteria for zoning  and are permitted for residential  development. That way we can partner  with those who  are buying affordable housing in  an  efficient way. If there any questions  about any of the properties or the  one we are at, we be happy to  answer.  

We keep talking about affordable  housing. It should be stated that  we have 21  properties currently available  for affordable housing and we can  partner with Habitat  for Humanity, is that correct? There's  other organizations we partnered  with in the past available  now. This, we do this in the background.  I didn't want this to stay in the  background because it's something  we continually do.  

This is one of the many programs  for affordable  housing.  

We will go to  II.  

This is important because this  is the one we received hundred thousand  dollar grant from the Indian River  Lagoon counsel and it's in a  reasonable  assurance plan that we just  officially signed. Congratulations  to staff. It was presented and now  we are official  which means we have a reasonable  assurance that our planning  will  meet standards required.  That's huge. This is part  of that. If you could explain a  little bit about why this is important  down  there.  

 This project is for the design of  the canal which is a  water treatment  project located on property we were  able to acquire  along with  widening improvements in our consultant  and staff will be working together  to  make sure we get a good project  going that treats  the water, pulls water out of the  canal, treats it, removes nutrients  and puts it back in which  is something  that will greatly improve the water  quality.  

Our studies have shown when they  did  the work, there was a  major  contributor. The canal  is historic. It does serve as drainage  for large  basin around the beach  in Edgewater. This is a very  important project. We get a lot  of bang for our buck with this project.  When we talked about the  plan, they gave the tonnage of nitrogen  this project would  be expected to clean out.  This is a big one. One of the biggest  in the area. We are very happy to  have it.  

This was a priority of the residence.  

This will impact over 4000  acres.  

It serves  a very large basin. A large portion  of Edgewater. There is a lot of  water going through untreated currently  that we will remove a lot  of.  

You said two things that are  important.  Nitrogen and phosphorus. Those of  the two things we need to remove  in this water quality matter where  we are, those are  the nutrients. You also said  in conjunction with the  10th Street. You mean when we do  and if a structure project  like roads we are fixing water quality  at the same time?  

Yes. Any time  you do a road widening project you're  treating storm water coming off  that road in this, you're getting  a double bang for the buck because  we are also including water quality  project on the same property they're  doing their  treatments.  

Is the point I was trying to  get to. All of our  projects, every road project we  work on, what impact  water quality. Water quality and  infrastructure roads,  bridges, canals, nutrient loads,  they are  all connected. They are not separated.  Thank you.  

I would like to add,  you mentioned the Lagoon  was executed by the secretary and  I would like to say, the leadership  getting this  project through and all the stakeholders  was important. I wish  the storm push this meeting back  and I wish they could be here today.  She's already on the road. And enjoying  retirement.  

Thank you for  mentioning her. She has done a fantastic  job all these years and made this  happen.  

Thank you and Billy for your  dedication and work on water  quality and pouring out this issue.  Maybe she would we should widen  all  the roads. We had the option we said and  other issues  with the road construction. You  have to take care of those things  and some people misconstrued and  didn't realize the benefits.  Thank you for pointing that out.  Now we will go  to our RR.  

 This is, if you're going to  read everything, you could just  leave that there.  

Good  morning.  

RR's request to increase  our  license plate  reader system. It will bolster what  we already have.  

State your  name.  

Sheriff's  office.  

It will bolster what  we are have out there. The majority  of Eastside cities have camera systems,  they're all fit into our regional  center in Daytona Beach.  We are required requesting to round  out systems bolstering  the Westside. There is  a couple cameras you want to put  up on Ormond by the Sea.  

And talking about this, this  is important . Tell us what  it  does and what it doesn't do. What  are you looking for and what are  you not looking for. I don't want  the public to think we are out there  scanning every plates, looking for  everything if you have an overdue  library book.  

What happens, if we enter a tag  into the system, which would  be for a felony or  similar alerts, a silver  alerts or amber alerts, any kind  of vehicle we enter into the system,  those temperatures will notify us  if those tax passed through  the system. It has been very helpful  for us. We made 103 arrests just  in Volulsa County alone.  It doesn't  count all the arrests made in the  jurisdictions of Daytona Beach.  After about 100 20 days,  all tags in the system  are purged. It  targets vehicles we are specifically  looking  for.  

Zero looking for focused environments,  not  a broad-spectrum of you left your  dog out too late.  

Specifically for vehicles we  are looking for. If  a car,  the thing was stolen car's nest  majority but we catch with these,  people will steal  cars become does it want to do  bad things. The second they entered  Volulsa County, if they are in a  stolen car and that has been reported  stolen, the jurisdiction  the report  that car stolen will enter that  tag. What will happen, if they  pass through our intersections we  have cameras up, they will  notify us a stolen car just came  and we know what we are looking  for, we will target that area and  look for the stolen car so we can  stop crimes before they happen.  

I think this serves our citizens  well. We appreciate what you  do.  

This is for criminals to catch  criminals and protect  endangered  peoples. We started years ago and  it has gone on to the next level  and that's where needs to go. Were  not looking for the big brother  is  watching you. If you haven't done  anything wrong or you're not in  danger, it doesn't matter what you're  driving because nobody cares, they  are not looking  for that. It's a great crime-fighting  tool and the Savior of people. Especially  in amber alerts. Or  silver alerts. I support.  

 Thank you. Just echo what Ben said, we are  happy to be a part of this and supply  taxpayer funds which I'm sure they  are happy to because you're taking  a criminal element off  the streets and often before they  can be, before they can do more  criminal damage.  

Thank you. We will now move to  item  number two. I guess we have  Joe Gallagher and  captive Dave ran and  retired.  

We appreciate  you  coming in. Taken the time. This  was scheduled earlier and you've  had time to reflect  and maybe there is a rehab sign  somewhere.  

[  Laughter ] Joe Gallagher with the  Sheriff's office. We are here  celebrating captive  Captain Dave ran in retirement.  45 years of service. He retired  life  five 2019. Just a little history,  Dave was hired by Sheriff Robert  as a deputy on October  18, 1993. Previously, Dave  was with Coco Beach Police Department  asked medication officer. He was  promoted to Sergeant on September  4 1999. Promoted to  lieutenant March 29 2003. Promoted  to Captain June  3 2006. Some of the  work areas with  the agency, he was assigned to law  enforcement services, criminal  investigations, judicial services  communications, support  services, civil. Collateral assignments  that crisis intervention team field  training officer,  he was part of the charity  committee, Bruce Ross Meyer Daytona  motorcycle skills challenge, battle  of badges, national night  out and also  extremely important with hurricane  Charlie, Matthew  and Irma. Some of the recognitions  Dave  has received, 50 letters of accommodation.  Community service award  in September 2019 by the  charity committee. Special events  award 2018 for  hurricane Irma. Unit  accommodation 2017  for Bruce Ross Meyer destination  Daytona, motorcycle challenge and  also another unit citation for the  same thing in 2015.  

Unit accommodation  in 2015 for violent armed robbery  investigation. Commissioners accommodation  from the city of  Deltona November 12, 2012.  And also indication  from Florida  sheriffs Association. In 2006 and  unit  accommodation 2003  from burglary suspects and also  in 2019 96 from  shots fired possible suicide call.  

Some of the examples of  Dave's evaluation and accommodations  include 1994 exceptional  first-year deputy. 2002 a go to  person to evaluate new ideas and  problem areas. 2005,  self-motivated professional. 2011,  leads by example.  In 2018 administrator respect towards  employees and  citizens.  

I can say in working over the  years with Dave, the first thing  you take away from him is his passionate  commitments he has for the job and  also the community served and  a lot, especially the people that  serve underneath him and  serves districts he ran. I wish  you well in this  next chapter. We congratulate you  on a job well done, 25 years of  service.  >>[  Applause ]  

 I appreciate the opportunity to  be here. We have expectations in  life, dreams and goals. The 25 years  plus I've had here with the county  have certainly fulfilled many of  those for me.  I couldn't be here without the support  of my family, my beautiful wife  who would have been  here but Dorian screw that up. She  couldn't get out of surgery today  and has to be  at work. With the support of my  kids, my extended family and most  importantly the men and  women of the Sheriff's office. This  is a great agency full of amazing  talent and wonderful people with  similar passions that I  have. Volulsa County is a blessed  to have these men and women working  for them . It has been my  honor to serve here. Thank you all  very much.  

I believe you have an interest  in law enforcement at a very early  age when you are a member of the  auxiliary.  

I was a member of the Explorer  program with the  Police Department. I started my  interest in this career at age 14.  I'm 48  now. It has been a dream  come true.  

If you look at him backward he  worked traffic, if he came up to  me, the first thing he does  is respect him for no other reason  than the  fact that his size and way he looks  at you. After he starts talking  to you, you'll be relaxed because  of his demeanor and the way he handles  himself. In a very polite manner  and at times, we've had conversations  years ago,  I've seen the same thing. Used  to live by that we  appreciate that. Sorry  your founder couldn't be here today.  They would've liked to have  been here. 

I watched as he was married and  raised a family. I watched his babies  to where they are now almost full  grown. And very polite,  wonderful kids. One of the things  I have  to stay  and say, his love for the children.  He excelled in the  charity work in the sheriff's office  for raising money  for the youth Ranch is another notable  organization. He came up with ideas  that sometimes scared me  to death. We went through the  bus races which was a favorite thing.  The fishing tournament were  statewide known and known as the  best read this  redfish tournament in the state.  On one of the cleanups, one of  the four wheelers got loose.  They chased it for a couple blocks  before ran into something.  Someone through a trashcan amidst the bad and hit  the gas pedal in a way it went.  They came up one  time with Larry the cable Guy idea  and that scared me to death it was  going to cost $150,000 to get Larry  the cable Guy here. It was over  with we raised $63,000 on  top of paying for  the concert. Dave headed up all  that. He was always there. When  it  came time to get a  food trailer which we were  steadily in need of for emergencies  in the community because it couldn't  feed our people. That happened  Christmas Day one year and two months  later, during Groundhog  Day tornadoes. We were starting  to raise money and I think you're  the one that got the Rotary involved  in the next thing, we had  a cook trailer we didn't have to  pay anything for between Rotary  clubs and  other donors. These are things Dave  went out and worked on and was very  successful that. He's had  a good career, a long career and  now it's time for him to start another  chapter of his life. We know Dave  is not going anywhere. Like most  of us around here, we will still  see him. Congratulations on a great  career. Congratulations on  your next chapter of  your life and we will see you  around.  

I just want to say thank you  for your work within the community.  I met you in the community in your  heart is for  the people. As a fellow Rotarian,  I want to say thank you  and congratulations. I know there  are great things ahead for you and  thank you for the seeds you  have sown.  

From all of us, we  appreciate it and Jeff is waiting  anxiously to get a photo so we can  remember this. 

With that wheel moved to item  3. The item before you is a confirmation  of the fire chief and fire  services director Howard Bailey.  At this time I would like to ask  her to come forward and starting  off our comments as public protection  director.  

This item asks that you confirm  Howard Bailey as the  Fire Chief of Volulsa County fire  rescue services.  A few things about  chief  Bailey. First, like many of us he  started as a volunteer 31  years ago he served  27 years with the fire services  and worked his way to Deputy chief  of operations. He has been the interim  Fire Chief since June  14 when she Smith returned. We  ran a  national process had a several round  of interviews for  this position didn't produce  a candidate that fits the time  and  place today. Chief  Bailey has been serving has  consistently shown he is the right  person at the  right time. I had a discussion  with County manager and asked that  we appoint chief Bailey  to this position.  He agreed. Is very  active  educating firefighters new and career current  for many years at Daytona State  College. He works closely  with his staff, with the  county, musical fire chiefs and  with  the IFF. He is the right person  at this time and we just ask manager  and I that you approve this  confirmation.  >> 
     A discussion?  

I was a say how much I appreciate  you jumping in their and getting  them moving forward responding to  their concerns  and questions. I am in support of  you in that role.  

 Any objections? Motion passes unanimous  and congratulations. You got  under fire  with Dorian. You did an excellent  job working together  on that. I guess you  would serve in one or two before.  Thank you for your leadership during  that storm and we  are happy to confirm you now  today.  

I want to thank you for the  appointments and also reach out  and  mention director, I'm  very pleased  and appreciative of his confidence  in me along with the manager and  some staff involved with this vision.  I think we have one of the best  groups in public protection. We  meet regularly  as directors he is a  high-performance organization and  we know it  every week. I get an  excellent opportunity to work at  that level with fellow directors  and obviously folks on the fire  truck and support staff that make  the  job easy. As things come up,  as we know we tackle those but it's  the people that make  the difference above and below me.  I really appreciate it. Every day  I come to work and I will continue  to  do that. Thank you.  

We hope there will be many more  days you can do that.  

Thank you. [  Applause ]  

 Will move to item 4. We will open  the public  hearing session. 

Good morning. County engineer.  This item is  petition requested by Mr.  Palmieri regarding alleyway between  two offices he  owns. The northwest quadrant of  Orange city. The 25 foot alleyway  was never opened. The utilities  have been placed in that location  with no objections from the neighbors  and we recommend  approval.  

 So moved.  

I have no one wishing to speak  from the publics will close the  public hearing. Second by Wheeler.  Any discussion?  

I'm highly distracted by your  new addition. I second  the motion.  

Is  this better? 

Any objection?  Hearing none, the motion passes  unanimous. We will move to  item 5. This is at the public hearing  also. Will open the  public hearing.  

This is a request to vacate the  easement on their property. This  is located in additional one up  in the Ormond Beach  area . Request is for  90 feet on the five foot wide utility  easement along the eastern boundary.  We have instructed structures on  the easement  utility companies have  received no objections and we  recommend  approval.  

I have no one wishing to speak  from  the public.  Motion made, second, 80 for  the discussion?  Any objection? Hearing on, the motion  passes unanimous and will move to  item 6. Will open  the  public hearing.  

This is a request by the petitioner,  the property owner to vacate portions  of two plots.  The subdivision and track  subdivision. This is 225  acres approximately 6.7 acres  of which  are right-of-way. This is located  in the scene area. We have not received  any objections from utility companies  are property  owners.  

No one wishing to speak from  the public. We will close the public  hearing counsel. Motion  made to approve, second,  any objection? Motion  passes unanimous. Item  number 7. This is also a  public hearing.  To think we have a few of these  today. We will move through them.  

 On Friday, where to  defy concerns of proposed language  contained in the ordinance in front  of you today. We  reviewed that, we believe we can  resolve issues but we request a  time to continue so we  can meet with the staff and go  over  their concerns and make sure they're  utilizing this new language it's  already in the code.  

Have no one wishing to speak  from the public. You want to make  that motion?  

Is there a  time?  

Because it's an  ordinance, it's on October  15.  

She will bring  up.  

That is  October 15. That is the workshop.  

That's the day we slated for  a  workshop.  

Start  

Motion made to continue. Has  to be a time we can do it  at  135.  

The Council has to discuss what  you want  the workshop as you did last time  or rather have it in the afternoon.  We can adjust  the time to the morning if you want  to have an  afternoon workshop. I would rather  they have in the  morning.  

The 135 times certain would  be appropriate.  

I'm lost on what we are  doing.  

Should have had that. I  wasn't  sure, it wasn't set in granite.  We need to resolve that.  

I don't think we have to have  a time certain for a workshop. We  can make the motion to continue.  

The motion to continue has to  be for the ordinance.  

Not to a workshop.  

Correct. But you have to pick  a time for  the ordinance. 

When we have  the workshop?  

It's not  on this. So this has to go to agenda.  

On that day, you  previously said that be the day  you want to have  a  workshop.  

The motion to continue October  15 at time of 135. Is there a  second?  

Now we have it.  Any discussion?  

When we determine about  the workshop? That will be a  challenging day. Any objection to the motion?  Hearing none, the motion passes.  Will have this item continued  October 15 at time of  1:35 PM. Now item number 8.  Related  item.  

This is the amendment to fee  schedule that would implement the  fee associated with the beaches  and dunes ordinance. We also ask  this be continued to the same meeting  after the hearing on the  proposed changes.  

Motion  to continue. At the time  of 1:40. Johnson will continue  this item at a time of  1:40  PM.  

I would like to have the  last two be in the morning and not  in the afternoon. Kos of  the challenge on  the 13. 

We can't go back and put this  on.  

Okay.  

Can  we? Can we make  a change? 

We can  just pay to advertise  his ordinance. What they were trying  to do is be efficient and give it  a time  it's been advertise  in P and  people follow along. We go to the  talk later about how you want to  do your workshop, if it's a desire  to have it in conflicts  with this, we just pay to we advertise  that  particular item. Is  not critical you know that right  now. Would have been nice to have  the order differently but it came  the way it came. Because  of the letter coming at the  last minute and we try to work with  the cities and not ignore their  concerns. This was our option to  do that. 

We advertise an ordinance and  we're going to continue it, you  can do it too late to ways. You  can continue it to a time certain  we don't we advertise for you  will continue this item  and then staff will we advertise  in the newspaper and meet this  requirement.  

We already  knew that. We  will continue the item to  be continued and we picked them  up and do them whatever. Someone  wanted this on the 15th of you  do it you do a time certain so can  we advertise. That's what disrupted  it and I don't know why the  workshop had to interfere with us  making this discussion. If were  having it workshop in the  morning, I don't know  that's inside. If we are having  it, this couldn't be in the morning,  this would have to be after the  workshop.  

The motion would be to  we advertise in the future.  

We have done the first one. I  suggest we make a motion  to continue on the 15. If it  doesn't work, bite the bullet and  redo it. We  have a motion, any  other discussion on item 8? Motion  is to continue to October 15 at  1:40 PM. Any  other discussion? Hearing on, the  motion passes unanimous and we will  deal with the workshop and timing  thereof later. 

Before you today is  the amendment to zoning ordinance  to address the conditions identified  by our policy  review committee as part of the  review of development standards.  Was  identified current standards for  accessory structures was too  restrictive for some of the changing  trends we see.  The code restricts the height to  15 feet. Recommendation from  that group was to take a 25 feet.  This has been presented to land  development commission with recommendation  for approval to you. There's any  questions regarding these, I'll  be glad to  answer.  

I have no one wishing to speak  from the public. We will close public  participation in  the counsel. This is only  regarding structures.  

Yes. Going from  15-25 feet in the residential single-family  zoning district. 

We talked about it, can you  discuss briefly what led  to this? They  went through and reviewed a variety  of different things all the way  into imitation aspects of it. When  they went through the sunny aspects,  they identified this was a trend  coming in that  our standards were educated based  on current demands what we see.  This applies if you want to  patch structures for Arby's listings,  you could not do that because the  15 feet was limiting. They  felt it would provide greater flexibility  met all the  other criteria. 

In  this discussion, this  customer request from citizens  to accommodate  larger trailers, boats  and toys and whatever they choose  to use. This is  good  because it wasn't the citizens and  with it asked for to utilize  the property. We responded to that.  This is a very  good thing.  

Is there a motion to amend  the ordinance?  

Any further discussion?  Any objection? The motion  passes unanimous and  we would  item 10. 

This is a request  by the city of Ormond Beach  pertaining  to a a boundary agreement.  We have five of these  agreements throughout the  county now. 
     The original area identified was  a quarter along U.S. one along  the boundary. There is an annex in the plantation  Oaks project. This the large development  the Northeast quadrant of the county,  part of the national Gardens  DI, it has been on the books since  the early 2000 as part of that development,  they have connected to city water  and sewer  which is up on the U.S. one quarter.  When we reviewed your request for  annexation we determine he could  not conceive because it would create  enclave. Even  though plantation owns a considerable  amount, there are other property  owners in there who would be impacted  by the  potential annexation. By stating  that we are not allowed annex property  if it creates enclave. The one exception,  if the city and County  agreed to service boundary agreement.  This is basically an understanding  we will jointly plan for this area  and identify this is ultimately  going to become part of that service  area. Therefore, we review this  with the city staff. They went forward  and followed the process in which  the implemented  and amendment, met with the property  owners, had the hearing, there is  no objection to expansion of the  boundary of existing ISP.  All other terms and conditions identified  remain as they were  originally drafted. Were talking  about is expanding the area. As  such, we reviewed it to ensure we  were generally consistent with the  conference a plan making sure we  were compliant with state law. You  see before you is expansion. This  would be the final action for  expansion which, once it's approved  the city could finalize the annexation  of  the subject property. If there's  any questions, I'll be glad to answer  them.  

We will close a  public hearing.  

Can you speak to notification  at the meetings with the public  on this?  

Yes. What happens is responsibility  of the city requesting the SBA.  All puppy owners impacted by  potential expansion are contacted  and given medication there be a  public hearing.  

Do we know what that was or how  it was done?  

There is in your packet a copy  of the property owners contacted.  They met the minimum  requirements contacting the state  statute. Believe it seven days prior  to the hearing. They had to have  the notice but I would  verify that. Is a copy of the list of owners  contacted as part of  this hearing. On 10 --  10 and 10:11, it's  a  letter talking from the city manager  they added by the process and going  to go forward with this.  

To know how they were contacted?  

 Certified mail. 

I am  looking at at least  over 50. 

Is  there motion? 

[ Participant comment/question  off-mic ] 

Motion made by Johnson. Seconded  by Wheeler. Any  further discussion?  Any objection?  Hearing then, the motion  passes unanimous. 

This is a special exception for  garage  apartment. Is going out 2.5  acre parcel. This is generally located  at the northeast corner of Taylor  and Hall Road  near the city of Deland. There  is an existing home and they wish  to expand the  opportunity per to provide for garage  apartment. Their specific criteria  in regards to size and location.  They have met all the criteria.  Was presented to  PLD RC review this. There's no public  comment at  that meeting. They made a recommendation  of approval.  It's coming to stay with a recommendation  of approval from staff and PLD RC.  The applicant is aware of the criteria  applicable and they are willing  to comply with conditions identified  by staff and incorporated  in recommendation. 

I have gone from the public wishing  to comment so we will close the  public hearing.  

I moved  to approve. 

Motion made, seconded  by Wheeler. Any for  the discussion?  Any objection? Hearing then, the  motion passes unanimous and we moved  to 12. 

The item before you this morning  as our annual renewal of workman  compensation liability policy and  also covers trend. This year we  add an additional policy for this  is a new  policy for 500 cancer and  accidental death insurance policy.  We need that in the dispatch  of 112 .186. We  added that  we added a decrease from  last year. We asked for your  approval.  

Moved to  approve.  

Is there  a second?  Any discussion?  Hearing then, the motion  passes unanimously. We will take  a seven minute  break. Will  be back  at 11:05. 
     >> We will  reconvene the Council meeting  at  1108. Will move to item number 13.  As matter of housekeeping, when  we make a motion, we will need to  read it. Shane summer with the  Sheriff's office. What I  have is  the Sheriff's office requested to  purchase an enterprise resource  planning system. From the American  data group. And cries  of modules,  about accounts payable, human resources  and  fixed asset. 
     The prevaccination, to assist us  in the higher to retire the entire  business process for new hire in  retirement. And all the employee  related process  in between. Requisition, the entire  business process for vindication  of need for goods and services in  the form of purchase requisition  to the actual payment to vendors  of goods and services.  Time entry and capturing to direct  deposit into play bank  accounts and filing with the Internal  Revenue Service along  with financial HR reporting and  process monitoring to ensure  strict compliance with government  laws relations or proper use of  public fund period equal treatment  of our potential current and  past  employees.  

Slides was more  detailed expedition of what the  system will provide the  Sheriff's office. The  project timeline is October 1 of  2019 through September 30, 2020.  Shall be the project in  fermentation time. From October  1-20 20 to January 5 the 2021,  we will Beta test the project to  make sure  is  operating optimally. The new  system in Easton County system will  run concurrent to ensure project  accuracy. Beta test time is important  to make sure all the employees get  their paychecks and  they all have and maintain their  benefits.  

 The system is custom tailored to  sheriff's office is. As you  can see,  there's a list of offices in the  state of Florida that used this  as the system. The top group which  is seminal County,  Indian River, Marion County and  Osceola County are  counties that are joining to us  or in close proximity  to us. Involve  the Sheriff's offices  that have this currently, they are  retaining. They're very happy with  the product.  Installment payments will be made  according to the list the table  here on page 6. These milestones  are  based on implementation of various  software  and training as you can see, the  first six months will  primarily be the installation of  software and data into  the system on the seventh month,  there's a second conversion and  that's when the majority of  the training and human factors come  into play.  

The entire amount is not due  of front. It's due in installments  as you can see here.  That way, it's over a period of  the  year.  

We were able  to get an amendment 10 clause placed  into this project. Amendment  10 clause allows for 100% refund  on software purchase and unused  maintenance fees. If the court decides  not to apply amendment 10 to the  County of Volulsa County they should  have unfettered right to terminate  this agreement and be refunded any  prepaid fees or licenses in support  in  minutes these paid annually and  received a refund concluded by dividing  unused expired time remaining each  such license by 12  months.  

That's a presentation.  I'll be happy to answer  any questions. 

Motion  made, seconded, any  other discussion? 

We have developed a  budget. As I asked you  and thank you, Sheriff for  clarifying  that and built it into the  current budget, you're not asking  for  more funds, you have worked this  into your current budget.  

That is correct.  That address of where the findings  come  from, this is a good program. I  understand why you need this. I  was reading through all  the protocols and  computing security procedures and  are then it goes with it. Is very  technical. This is weighty the extra  six positions because  of this. You are building  your framework.  This is a solid piece to that.  

Thank you for recognizing that.  

It's a  great project. That's all I have.  

Any other discussion? Any objection  to  the motion? Hearing then, the motion  passes unanimous thank you for working  with us on concerns I had that  you answered and echo what  was said as far as working it's  into this year's budget.  

Legal  and purchasing were the  catalyst for this.  

 Thank you. We will move to  item 14. Sheriff, Europe.  

This is our renewal contract  with the city of Deltona. This year,  they  are requesting four more deputies  to be assigned to them. They're  paying for that. That is reflected  in increase because  of the anticipated growth of the  city. Other than  than that, the contract remains  exactly as it has been.  

I will make a motion to approve.  Motion to approve the fiscal  year 2019 local agreement for provision  of law enforcement services to the  city of Deltona  and seconded.  A discussion?  Any objection? The motion  passes unanimous. We will move to  item 15.  

This is a renewal of contracts  city  and reflects they're not asking  for anything extra. Reflects the  increase that will be incurred  for this  coming contract. 

Motion  made, seconded  for provision of law enforcement  services through the city of Deberry,  any discussion? Any  objection? Hearing on, the motion  passes and will move to  item 16. 

Public protection director. This  item is  asking approval of the contract  the medical examiner. With  the option of a  five-year renewal. It's approximately  $2.5 million of which 1.9 million  of that has  been salary for  professional staff. We can get  that slide  put it. All the positions are filled  this time with exception  of two associate medical examiners  of  which one is very close  to filling. 

Have a  question associate  medical examiners. Both of those  are still vacant.  

Unfortunately it takes several  months to get a Florida Florida  medical license. The history of  the County a medical examiner  is more of a challenge to what originally  thought. I have advertised heavily  going to the national Association  examiners meeting in October. I  have a colleague I  know from residency who is extremely  interested in the second in command  position. He is already a  deputy chief in a very large  metropolitan area that would fit  the office  quite nicely. . There wonderful people and  their personality means a lot to  me.  

I want to make sure you have  the resources  you need to perform her job to the  best of your ability. Please feel  free to reach out. The second thing  I want to point out. I love you  have this up there, you want to  make sure the public fully understood  this contract  is for the services of the medical  examiner's office for this fiscal  year  and not for medical examiner himself.  

That is correct. This pays all  expenses. The  entire investigative work staff  in every  day.  >> 

Will be associate medical examiner  be contract or full-time employees?  

They'll be  my employees. It will be under me  directly.  

Thank you.  

Is there a motion?  

Move approval. The contract  would stay for  medical examiner five-year term  to begin FY 2019 2020.  

Second.  Motion made. We appreciate you on  board and you will note there has  been no lack of performing the  duties necessary with the shortage  of one assistant. There is  no issue performing everything.  Everything is on schedule.  Probably ahead of schedule. Dustin  Wyatt is upset he's  not here. He  is in South Carolina visiting family.  He didn't get to share in this moment  of  South  Carolinian coming. Any  other discussion.  

To  clarify, he does not have those  positions fill. There's quite  a network of associates  the use.  He uses them as well. There's no  performance issue. His  desire and our desire is to bring  people in and base in our office and stay  here so that is what he is attempting  to do. In the meantime, we have  been doing the same all along, a  lot of the associates come in  and travel and work for us to  make sure he's on top of the load.  Where final performance.  

My average turnaround time is  probably  2.5-3 weeks. I am sending  out cases. Is not a problem.  

Go ahead and finish with your  statement.  

The national guidelines between  60 and 90 days.  Is 1/3 to 1/4 what other people  are doing for turnaround.  

Any objection to the  motion? Hearing then, the motion  passes unanimous and we will  move now  to  item 17. This is  to apply and accept grant funds  for budget evolution. Their seven  projects listed. The first two are  increases due to engineer estimates.  The third display system  and clearing our new projects.  The third is  a replacement for  firefighting vehicle. Our emergency  generator projects, these  revolutions are valid for three  years with an expiration being  renewed. Last is the  airfield access from the station  from the fire station that  allows direct access and that is  a change of funding  sources.  

 Any questions? 

I moved to approve the federal  and  state grant aid for capital projects.  Budget resolutions to initially  appropriate to  re-appropriate or  traditionally appropriate. Airport  capital  improvement funding. 
     Motion made, budget resolution  to appropriate we appropriate or  traditionally appropriate airport  capital  improvement funding. Is there  any discussion? Any objection  or motion? Hearing then, the motion  passes unanimous and we will move  to  item 18. 

 Good morning. It's always good news we can come  before you and talk about affordable  housing funds coming our way. Maybe  not as many as we would like we  are happy  with the money from the state  to fund. As I shared with  you, 880 thousand dollars  for asking from program income.  I have an extra news which is exciting.  We have received  we assume that  HR needs. We have  received $285,000.  Just assume that is a quarter  and multiply by four, it's $1.1  million. Webby looking at more than  we had anticipated which are very  excited about  and if you have any questions, I'll  be happy to answer  them.  

Thank you. This is good news.  Were talking about affordable housing  today. It was obviously a big piece.  When we did  that ribbon-cutting, we partnered  with the city  housing authority. When we put that  grant application out, how many  applicants did  we get? How many cities offer to  participate?  

 Just one. How many attorneys  do have County why?  

45? For the business  of actually owning property.  

That's the other piece when we  talk about  affordable housing and we want to  address the issue, we  have funds, we put a program out  there. The for housing authorities,  only one applied? That's a pretty  big deal. That  is sad. It's  a great program, I will thank  you for that. The other  three don't want to apply, we will  gladly appropriate  those dollars to affordable  housing in our area and I tend to  do everything to encourage that  growth. With that, I will  move approval a budget resolution  in preparation state housing initiative  partnerships program  for revenue .  

Motion made, seconded by  Wheeler. Any discussion? Any objection  to  the motion? Hearing on, the motion  passes.  Item 19. 

Public protection doctor. This  item is asking for approval  of renewal to the  Aramark contract  which provides services for  correctional facility. A couple  of notes, this is the second  two-year renewal. The cost  of meals is increasing with this  contract renewal of about four  cents  per meal. Everybody knows this but it's such  a large item, I want to comment  this is all based on  inmate population. The date the  average about 1372  a day.  You have what we spent so far this  year through July which is  $1.4 million. We targeted at $1.7  million this year. With  the increase, and specialty meals  estimated 1.8 million  dollars expenditure in the next  two years.  

Need a motion  to approve with correctional services.  

Motion to approve the renewal  of agreement with Aramark correctional  services LLC for inmate  food services, 14 -- P  -- 103 PW.  

Second.  

Motion  made, seconded. A  discussion?  

You're talking about specialty  meals. What is that?  

Kosher meals.  

Okay. Any  further discussion?  Any objection? Can you give us a  basic cost per  meal.  

The regular meals, about  a dollar and some change  per meal. Kosher  meals, 4:19.  

Thank you.  Any objection, motion passes unanimous  and will move to item number 20.  [ Captioners  Transitioning ]  

I don't know if I  will approve this  or not.. Good morning,  Chairman.  

We will move approval of the  contracts with the electric  and traffic control  devices rehabilitation and emergency  repairs.  

 Motion made and seconded. Any discussion?  I hope they can come to  some conclusion. Again this morning  the lights at Woodland and 1792  had switched and it drives me nuts  when they adjust him for the estimated  flow  of traffic and sometimes they change  them back. Either the storm caused  it but I  know they go out and tell you the  issues but they are  there and I cannot help it. Speak  to the man in charge and let  him know. Any further discussion?  Any objection to the motion?  Hearing  on the motion pashas unanimous.  We will move to item  number 21.  

 Good morning. I am Brian walk well. I have four  different items. The first one would  be for sponsorship request for community  foundation of the flag at 27 and  Herber  and Davidson. On October third for  the amount of  $1500.  

Council.  

Motion to approve the sponsorship  request  of the flag and  the 27th annual Herbert and Davidson  award for outstanding community  service in the amount of $1500.  

Motion made by Wheeler and seconded  by   - - 
     Denys.  

 [Indiscernible]  Corporation change the first five  years and auction that will happen  on this Friday in the amount of  $1500.  

I would like  to make a motion to approve the  sponsorship request from early learning  coalition of  flag in Volusia counties and can  change the first five years and  silent auction in the amount of  $1500.  

 Motion made by Wheeler and seconded  by  Post. Any discussion or objection  quenched the motion  passes unanimously.  We will go to item 23.  

The next request is  for the domestic abuse counsel for unity  which will happen on October first  and the amount of $1500.  

Council.  

  I will make a motion to approve  sponsorship request from domestic  abuse counsel for unity Day breakfast.  In the amount of $1500.  

Motion  made by Girtman and seconded by  Wheeler . Motion is made and seconded  any discussion?   

Yaks - -  yes. For the sake  of unity and what we are sponsoring  as a County Counsel day just see  you know.  It is. I looked at that as well because  it is 7:30 until 9:00. I am going.  I go every year. I think we can  aptly make it from  7:30 two 8:30 and still make it  here in plenty of time.  

Not that the whole county can't.  I'm just  saying that -  -  

We will talk to them about it.  Going forward, when  they have them on that day - -  

Make sure it's not on the Council  day period  

That would be nice.  

Any other discussion?   >> Any objection to the sponsorship  request for the domestic abuse counsel  for unity today breakfast on October  first? Hearing on  the motion passes unanimous and  we will go to item 24.  

The last one for today's the  sponsorship request for the Museum  of aunts - - arts and science which  will happen on October  27.  

Council.  

I will make the motion.  

The sponsorship request for the  Museum of arts and sciences  ninth  annual gala for 1200.  

Is there a second?   

Second Wheeler.  Any discussion?  Any objection to  the motion?   >> 
     Hearing on the sponsorship of the  request from the Zima of arts and  sciences ninth annual passport Geller  on September 27 the amount of $1200  passes unanimously. Thank  you.  >> Mr. Chair but I  think we can do is   is the desire of the Council I know  Jim judges back  there . You have  the update.  

Let's move to item 27.  

And also the community event.  If it's your desire - -  

These presentations  were discovered to come in  the afternoon, is that right George?  

If there's no time certain we  can go in order. If everyone is  ready we could do it that way as  well.  

Donna is here.  

Wait she said something to me  about the afternoon. Can you do  this now?   

Okay. Item 25.  

 Good morning.  Donna Butler community services  director. Today we have two folks  from the health department in Volusia  County.  Holly Smith and Patricia Boswell.  Holly Smith is the communications  manager and Patricia Boswell is  the administrator. Holly will speak  on hepatitis A. It's been a growing  concern that she will give you as  much up-to-date information as possible  and that will be followed by Patricia  Boswell speaking about  HIV.  >> 
     Good morning. Dr. Holly Smith communications  manager  for the Florida Department of Health  and Volusia County. We are pleased  to give you an update on the hepatitis  outbreak.  The presentation before  you is designed to be delivered  in about 30 minutes. I will be  trimming that drastically to about  10 minutes given the long schedule.  It will be a high-level overview  that  talks about hepatitis A specifically to Volusia  County and the numbers we see and  how it spread and what hepatitis  A is. We are seeing it in and what  the health department is doing.  
     Of course the prevention measures.  It's a high level view of hepatitis  A. If you have any questions I don't  cover at the end ask me the detailed  questions I will do my best to fill  in the blanks.  

On August first the new  Surgeon General issued a declaration of public  health about hepatitis A here in  Volusia County. The reason he did  that was to draw attention and bring  it to the forefront in the news  media and in the eyes of people  other than public health practitioners.  He addressed  the specific issues  confronted by hospitals and medical  providers and a little bit about  public responders and public and  private agencies and of course who  should be vaccinated. I will touch  briefly on those things.  

This is a map from July  26th of '90. Show the overall  outbreak nationwide. The darker  the blue the higher the number  of cases. Of course Florida is not  the darkest blue in this map. I  get it is from July. You see California  and Utah are great. That means the  hepatitis A outbreaks are  declared over. Just  as an FYI California's outbreak  lasted about two years. These are  not things that start and end  quickly.  

This map is now outdated about  an hour ago I got the latest map  of hepatitis A cases across the  state. This map is not the number  of people with hepatitis A in the  individual counties. It is the rate.  What the rate does is equalizes  high  population counties with smaller  counties to show how much is being  affected. The darker the red the  higher the rate in  this map. Volusia  is not the darkest rep but  in this  map it is. In the  state Volusia is number two.  It's  not one of the highest populated  counties in Florida but we are now  number three for the number of cases  of hepatitis A we have in  the county. Just to give you an  idea of how many cases we normally  have  here in Volusia County and everything  else will be specific to Volusia.  We normally have a handful of cases  it could be two or  three.  Five or seven would  be a high year for us and out of  the skew of things. Normally those  cases are in a single household.  This is a  disease of poor sanitation and close  contact. If we live together or  sharing things in a household you  will usually see the cases in the  same household. From  2018 from January one until the  end of June, we had no cases of  hepatitis A. That's not out  of the realm of normalcy because  normally we have a couple. In the  last six months we had five cases.  Those five cases were not in the  same household. From January one  until today and we are not even  add a full 12 months. We are normally  looking at a handful, today we  have 232 cases of hepatitis  A in  Volusia County. They are positive  cases. Here's what that looks like  on a bar graph to show you new cases  by  month . You can see where it starts  slowly in August with one case.  There were two cases in a household  and it really jumps up in May, and  June and July. This is not the most  updated one. August had a little  bit of a takedown. August the bargraph  makes it look like we are on the  backside are getting ahead of it.  We  are backup statewide and we don't  want to get ahead of ourselves and  think we are on the backside of  the outbreak and could be a  normal variation  so far in September we had six and  we are now averaging in a week what  we would normally average in 12  months. That is down. That is down  in May June  and July we were seeing 16 or 18  cases a week. We would normally  see a handful in  a year. 

With that said, what is hepatitis  A? It means inflammation of the  liver pick in this case is caused  by a virus called hepatitis A. It's  different from the virus hepatitis  B and C by the way it's transmitted.  They are transmitted by blood and  bodily fluids and BNC are chronic  illnesses which means once you get  them you have them for life. C can  be treated with long-term and rather  expensive medications but B  is  permanent. Hepatitis A is different  in that it is an acute illness.  You get it and get  very ill but assuming you survive  and come out the other side you  are immune for life. You don't get  it again. It does not stay in your  body.  

The mode of transmission of hepatitis  A is different from B  and C  is that of fecal/oral transmission.  The disease transmitted because  of poor sanitation and close contact.  What that means is if someone goes  to the bathroom and they don't wash  their hands well, they come out  of the bathroom and touch items  and household the TV remote, refrigerator  handle whatever it  may be, I'm sorry it's right  before lunch. Someone  touches the items they pick up the  virus on their hands and they either  use their hands to put food in their  mouths or put their fingers in their  mouth and therefore that is how  the virus is transmitted.  

The virus - - we are seeing  it in primarily three high-risk  populations here in Volusia County.  The Centers for Disease Control  and Prevention says there are four  high risk group.  Three are here.  The first one is our majority group  which are  drug users. In Volusia County,  a little more than 60 percent of  our cases are among drug users who  either use IV drugs  or other drugs.  It is just about split evenly. Other  drugs would include things like  opiates, pills, or marijuana  is considered a non-IV drug. At  63 percent which are  drug users. The second category  is people who are recently incarcerated  or currently incarcerated. Again  close contact. The third group  is homelessness. That would be sanitation  would be an  issue.  

This  slide reiterates the top three high-risk  groups against street drug users  and incarcerated people and  homeless people. The fourth group  cited by the CDC is MSM. That is  men who have sex  with men.  We are not seeing that here in Volusia  County. We have had a handful of  cases. They also could be in those  other categories as well.  They  could be incarcerated or drug users  and then they also self declare  as a man who has sex  with men.  

The last bullet is important  and we talk about it a lot in the  outreach presentation. That's people  who have close contact with people  in those groups. Whether they live  with them or hang out or whether  they are caring for them in some capacity.  Those people are at increased risk  of contracting hepatitis A. It is  spread by close contact.  

What does it look like?  The  hepatitis A virus looks somewhat  like -  - are you using hand sanitizer?  

That's a good point. Hepatitis  a is not  affected  by sanitizer. Hepatitis A virus  when you get it looks a lot like  a stomach virus. It's  much worse. You get the nausea, vomiting, the  stomach cramps, fever, achiness,  malaise you would get similar to  a stomach virus. Most people get  jaundice which is a sign that your  liver is not working correctly.  The whites of your eyes turn yellow,  your skin turns yellow. That is  usually assigned of some form of  liver involvement which a physician  would look  at as being some form of hepatitis.  

The other thing different than  this  disease and a normal stomach virus is that  about 80 percent according to the  CDC of people who get hepatitis  A and up hospitalized. You don't  see that with the stomach virus.  You don't see that high number of  people admitted to the hospital.  A challenging thing for the  health department with the symptoms  is how long it takes you to start  showing the symptoms once you  are  infected. If I were to pick up hepatitis  A virus today could be 15 days or  50 days before I start showing the  symptoms. Anywhere from two weeks  until two months. From a epidemiological  standpoint we investigate cases  - -  

May I ask a question while she  is going  through this?  You are saying incubation.  15 days to 50 days once  they are - - are they contagious?  

 Yes.  

Yes. Without even knowing they  are going to work and doing normal  activities. That is one of  the challenges. The average incubation  period is about one month. This  comes up on  another slide. If you come down  with symptoms in a month, for two  weeks prior to that, you are going  about your normal activities knowing  - - not knowing you are shutting  the virus to others. Once  you get this illness, it's not a  pleasant illness it's gastrointestinal  and pretty severe. You could  be hospitalized. Those people have  symptoms for about  two months. A lot longer than a  stomach virus. Some people can have  it up to  six months. There are people who  can be affected more so than others.  They can have serious outcomes from  the disease. This goes back to your  question, Ms.  Wheeler about 
     the shedding of the virus prior  to showing symptoms. It could be  two weeks prior to the onset of  ever knowing you are sick and up  to one week after showing symptoms.  There is no cure for hepatitis A.  Once you get it you have to go through  the symptoms. Doctors can do supportive  care which  is just addressing the symptoms,  the nausea, vomiting, fever, and  aching but the body has to go through  the process of eliminating the virus.  As I said, certain people can have  serious complications. These are  people who are usually already have  some other type of liver involvement  like chronic liver disease. Some  types of  blood disorders like clotting factor disorders  or immunological challenges or people  who are over age 60 and have  cardiovascular illnesses have more  severe complications. The Centers  for Disease Control says 1 to 2  percent of people are expected  or do pass or die from  hepatitis A. Some literature says  1 to 3 percent. We are seeing that  here in Volusia County.  

 From a financial impact if we  use that CDC number of 80 percent  of positive cases are hospitalized,  here in Volusia County that number  is down into the   65 percent and Florida is 70  percent. It bounces around depending  on what happens. If you consider  80 percent are hospitalized and  each one when they are hospitalized  cost $75,000 for that supportive  care it's not treatment, the hospitals  need to recoup that investment or those  costs from the care of those patients.  If you look at the high risk groups  they may not be as able to pay that  hospital bill or have the insurance  that will cover the cost  of it. If you look at  the cost of the vaccination and  it varies by the provider that's  providing the vaccine. If you were  to pay full cost for the high risk  groups we do provide free vaccinations  or no cost the cost is  $62.50. It's a big difference. The  ounce of prevention  and this is that prevention. The  health department has been working  closely with Dr. Springer on looking  at having  the paramedics and the EMFs run  on these patients all the time and  they know who they are and they  can tell from the history and their  lifestyle risk factors and they  can offer them the vaccines right  there. We are also working with  the hospitals not only in the  emergency department to offer the  vaccine to people in the high risk  groups but people who  are already have hepatitis B, CE, other  liver challenges or are in that  population with cardiovascular disease.  To vaccinate them because they are  at high risk of serious complications  or death if they get it. The hospitals  are now on board and working through  that process.  

Ms. Girtman.  

How effective is the  vaccine  ?  

That's a good question. It's  a two-part. One now and one in the  first six months. If you get the  first one is 93 to 100 percent effective.  93 percent of the population up  to 100 percent  will receive coverage from that  vaccine. It lasts a minimum of 10  years. They don't have much data  beyond that to show how long it  lasts. If you get the second shot,  at least six months later that is  the best window. The estimate for  how long that lasts in your lifetime  is at least 20 years if not 40 or  longer. Again the effectiveness  is 93 to 100 percent of the population.  Not everyone does but that is with  any vaccine.  

Moving  along quickly. Prevention we have two messages.  They are equally important. The  first one is vaccination because  it's that 93 to 100 percent preventative  to keep the virus  from spreading. The second is wash  your hand. We are going into flu  season. With this virus  it is a disease  that is spread by poor sanitation.  The messages when you use the bathroom  please wash your hands for 20 seconds  under warm running water. Especially  wash your  hands before you prepare food for  someone else or before you eat food  yourself because your hands are  on that food and you are putting  it in your mouth. That is  the mode of transmission. We want  you to wash your hands all the time  but they are time specific to  those diseases.  

The Surgeon General's declaration  addresses who should be vaccinated.  The groups that are at high risks  of serious outcomes  or death. They also mention people  who work closely with these  high risk groups outside of a healthcare  setting. People who work with the  homeless or drug users. They should  also be vaccinated. They are at  increased risk. He mentioned  first responders in his declaration.  The last bullet said anyone who  wants to be immune to hepatitis  A should get the vaccine. The CDC  has used this as a recommended vaccine  since the early 2000.  

You have the one there on clotting  for people who are on blood thinners?  

No. That's a different cascade.  

It still an effect.  

Correct. But not the same. One  of the things that  we take advantage of the health  department is the fact that if someone  gets infected today with hepatitis  A, if we can get them that vaccine  within the first two weeks of them  being exposed, we can prevent them  coming down with the symptoms  and spreading the virus. We have  to get them in that tight two-week  window which you  will see and I will explain the  process coming up it is a challenge  for us to first get the positive  lab back and reach out and contact  all of those people in the two-week  window.  

Another thing the declaration  addressed was appropriate ways to  disinfect against the virus. As  I mentioned, hand sanitizer's are  ineffective.  He addressed public agencies and  private agencies that have restrooms  or showers used by  the public, especially if you think  about where your facilities are  and they are used by high  risk groups. We have spent quite  a bit of time doing presentations  and having  conversations with Volusia County  government and with the municipalities  about  having the same presentation  in providing information on disinfection  to know how to take care of those  facilities.  

What does the health  department to? 

When we received the results  of a positive test we reach out  to the person who is the positive  case. We try to figure out what  the history was?  What is the source  of it and where does it  come from ? You could almost always tell if  it's a close contact and what the  risk factors are. Then we ask for  who they are because we want to  reach out to those in the family  or whoever they are close with and  give them the prevention education  and get them the vaccine to stop  the spread of  the virus. It's a challenge sometimes  to reach people within the two week  window or to reach the cases at  all because of the risk factors.  The barriers we have had to respond  to this and we have  been activating in an incident management team  since about March which is a disaster  type team to address the out rake.  The first is  privacy concerns and drug treatment  facilities being able to meet  with those people  and get them the vaccination. The  homeless population they are  widely dispersed. When we are able  to get a hold of these groups they  are not always amendable to being  vaccinated. Some just don't see  the urgency. These are barriers  we have come up against with access.  We  have had  staffing shortages. It takes an  are in to deliver the vaccine and  a clerical person to do the paperwork  and the medical records entry after  the vaccine. There's a lot of paperwork  associated. We have a team and  a person  literally walking the streets in Volusia County were  law enforcement told us we can encounter  the high risk populations. Offering  vaccines on the streets. We are  at  that point. And  then funding is a challenge. There  is no dedicated funding for this.  We are funding it out of our  general revenue. Staffing to put  that in perspective the clinical  year begins July one. In July and  August we spent more than $37,000  on staffing. We are at reduced staffing.  We are fully staffed and that number  would be higher. The vaccine is  not included in medical supplies.  We are  funding medical supplies. The incentive  to try to encourage people to get  the vaccination. The and also for  marketing and the printing of materials.  I provided materials to Marcy. It's  an overview  of  the hepatitis A and what it is and  how it is spread that she will pass  out  later.  

The health department has been  trying to get into the drug treatment  facilities. We worked  closely with  Volusia County correction. We started  by going in the facilities and vaccinating  people in the facilities. We worked  with corrections to become a vaccine  provider.  They can order and administer  the vaccine. We are now meeting  with them to enhance the efforts.  We work with organizations who work  with the homeless. That could be  churches doing  feedings and we know where they  tend to show up at different times.  We send the outreach teams there.  We have worked with local governments.  We are reaching out and having  conversations with the Volusia County  drug court to figure out how we  get the information and vaccines  to those clients as well.  

Finally, I would  say in April we started having conversations  with county and municipal law enforcement,  fire department, EMS. We met with  all the supervisors and beach patrol  and recently with the [Indiscernible]  supervisors and some drivers to  provide them  this card. What this is is a fast  path to a hepatitis A vaccination.  They don't give them out to everyone.  Law  enforcement, fire,  and [Indiscernible] are coming across  our high risk populations every  day. They are riding the buses to  get to and from oral law enforcement  are running on these people. They  are helping us to spread the word  by passing out this card. If people  who get the card come into the health  department and show it or say I  got it from a beach  patrol officer.  They told me to come here we know  to fast-track them through the process  and they are in the high risk  group.  

That's the high level overview.  

Would you cover again how easy  - - I know it can beat transferred  by somethings. If they touch a door  handle and you touch a door handle,  then they have had it is it dispersed  that way?   

Theoretically yes. Anything they  touch they  can leave microscopic pieces of  feces which carry the virus. The  next hand can pick it up and you  put your hands in your mouth or  you grab a sandwich and put that  in your mouth. Theoretically that  can happen. The neural virus on  cruise ships is spread the same  way. It's important to say here  in Volusia County we are seeing  this is a close contact. We are  not seeing it  spread by - - it spread by close contact.  Not just random. We can trace it  back to other people. They party  or live together pick we have had  less than 20 percent of the cases  that we have not been able to identify  the  risk factor or how  they came it. That's because maybe  people don't want to self identify  with one of those groups. Sometimes  we don't know where they got it.  They could be associated with someone  in that group and they don't know  it.  

If someone has it, and they shake  hands with somebody and I shake  hands with that person.  

Theoretically,  yes, if they don't wash their hands  and you don't wash your hands and  it makes it to your mouth - -  

People get mad at me in church  because a fist bump - -  

Just remember hand sanitizer's  don't work. They just dry out the  virus.  

Ms. Wheeler PICC I was going  to ask  a question. Thank you so much. You  know health issues are a big priority  of  mine. They know we have been working  on trying to get ahead of a lot  of these things. How about children?  I mean so the parent who  is affected, hugs and kisses all  over the children. Those children  go to the schools. We know  kids normally -  -  

Yes they are little Petri dishes.  

Are we educating the schools  and what are we doing there? I did  probably an hour-long presentation  I met with all of the  bus drivers at the annual kickoff  event for Volusia County schools.  We reached out and offered the presentations  to  the school  nurse who said she will be handling  them and educating the teachers  and the other staff on their own.  Transportation asked us to come  in. There are two things. The children  age 6  and younger can have hepatitis A  and show no symptoms and spread  the virus. Secondly, as I mentioned it's been  a recommended shot to the centers  of disease control and prevention  for kids age 1 and up since 2006.  It's not required to enter Volusia  County  schools.  When they come to the  health department to get the annual  school vaccinations we recommend  it to them. Often parents will opt  for only the required vaccinations.  

Ms. Girtman  .  

How long does it stay active  in the air or on an item once  it's formed?   How long ?  

Up to three months on a surface.  

Wow.  

Hence back to disinfection and  sanitation being one of the top  items in that declaration and the  use of bleach-based sanitizers or  sanitizers some agencies  cannot use bleach. It  has to have a kill factor hepatitis  A. That can be found on the material  data safety sheet.  

Thank you. I think we can have  a bunch more question. I  want to thank Ms. Girtman for asking  for this to be  on.  I asked George and I  didn't recall that we had it. Now  I can see the massive numbers you  read. Normally I think you said  five  or six years annually. Now we are  having one  month periods.  

Right now we have more than a  handful a week and we have slowed  down.  

 We are -  -  

Today and Volusia County as of  today we have 232 cases and we are  only halfway through month nine.  

 So 232 and we normally have  five or six or handful. It's an  alarming thing. I just texted my  wife to make sure  we have our hepatitis A vaccination.  

Most people that have health  insurance with preventative care  can get the vaccination at no  cost.  Locally here in Volusia   all pharmacies  are offering the vaccination.  

If I don't have mine I will have  it before the next meeting.  

Is there a  list of cleansers  other than bleach and ammonia. Like  you said a lot of people cannot  use those. Can we  post something on  our website?  

We don't have a list. What we  did was because there are so many  is telling people to go to EPA.gov.  You can type in the one you are  using, Lysol bathroom cleaner. I  know some of the older cans as I've  been doing these presentations I  will go  and the restroom to see what they  are using. Early on I was finding  cans of the spray that did not have  listed on the can a kill factor  hepatitis A. We are assuming it's  because it's not an issue when you  only have a handful of cases every  year. Now if you look it is online  and on the new cans.  

Is there a link to that on any  of our information sites?   

Thank  you.  

You said we have about 232 cases  in the last nine months.  

 Yes.  

Do  you know how many deaths we have  had quite  

As of today we have had seven  people die with hepatitis A associated  illnesses.  

Thank you.  

Ms. Wheeler.  

If I am looking at  sanitizers,, bleach, and I will  be reading the backs of everything  now. It would specifically say hepatitis?  

Remember A is different  from BC. The material data  safety sheet which you  probably the don't get with your  household cleaner and you would  have to go online. Normally on the  back of the can it's not listed  because it's about space. Hepatitis  A usually isn't an issue. The easiest  thing to do is 1 2/3 cup of bleach  and a gallon of water. Sprayed on  leave it on white for two minutes  and wipe it up. I believe that's  on the handout. You do need to make  it fresh you can't make  it today. You can't make it and  use it next week. You need to make  it, use it, and  discarded.  

Are their side effects with the  vaccine?   

Side effects of the vaccine are  similar to any other vaccine you  may get. Arm soreness, nothing specific  for hepatitis A.  

Okay.  I think we could probably go on  and on. My wife just texted back  and said I'm listening. It's scary.  I thank you. You've got everyone's  attention. Thank you for making  sure -  -  

Patricia Boswell will address  HIV.  

You have another one.  

Much  shorter.  >> Lunches  there.  >> Great job. You couldn't  squeeze that. You did a great job.  If it's five, it's five. If it's  five in 15 or 20 then -  -  

If you would like me to come  back after lunch I can come back.  

Good morning, everyone. Thank  you for  the opportunity. I am Patricia Boswell. I am pleased  to give you an overview on how we  are trying to eliminate  the transmission of HIV and reduce  any HIV related deaths here and  Volusia County.  The challenge is  when you think about the fact that  South Florida has the highest number  of HIV cases in the country.  Our rate is 10th in  the state. Our cases are throughout  the county both east  and west. In Volusia County we have  almost 2000 people living with HIV.  Annually the rate remains  around 16. That means about  86 people  in 2018 were diagnosed with HIV  in Volusia County. There is a  racial disparity. 42 percent and  21 percent of the new cases were  among black  and Hispanic's who only represent 11 and 14 percent  of the county's total population  respectively.  

Here other risk factors associated  with it. We are focused  on prevention, patient care, treatment,  disease  surveillance, and HIV testing. Our collaboration  is with those people living with  HIV and the community-based  organizations. It's very essential.  The goal of the HIV program is  routine testing. Everyone should  know their status. Access to treatment  and ensure the retention  into care, improved access  to [Indiscernible] and increased  awareness. Outreach, engagement,  and messaging. We work  to reduce the barriers  to access both prevention, care,  and  treatment. We educate the providers  on the importance of routine screening  for HIV. CDC recommends everyone  between the  ages of 13 to 65 should be screened  for HIV at  least once. This is key to diagnosing  HIV and providing timely access  to treatment. We provide support  to the community-based organizations  to provide HIV prevention activities  as well as treatment and support  services.  

We want to reduce the number  of new  HIV cases. Increase the proportion  of people living with HIV who know  their status and link them to  care.  

Prep. This involves taking daily  medication to reduce the risk of  an HIV  and kit infection.  The first effective prevention strategy  shown to decrease new cases in high  risk populations. We are partnering  with the local agencies to  develop additional sites and we  are ensuring the prep  messaging is delivered to at  risk populations. We have  a high impact prevention program  which includes testing and linkage  and retention and re-engagement  and care. It's essential people  living with HIV are retaining care  and they had their labs done regularly  and take  their medications. So why are some  of the reasons why people do not  stay in care?  It includes  moving around and now that  they are receiving private insurance  maybe it's not covered adequately.  The  stigma, denial, underestimating  the severity of the illness and  how fast the health may decline.  An unstable environment and  medication burnout.  Our agency serves as the HIV program  coordinator responsible  for the Volusia area 12.  Includes program planning, development,  and  evaluation.  We receive federal and state funding,  last year we spent approximately  $350,000 on prevention and $3.2  million  on care.  

Medication is the key.  We have ADAP services which provide  access to medications for the treatment  for low income and underinsured  and  uninsured individuals. Medications  are provided directly to  those clients with no insurance  or through assistance with insurance  premiums. Medication copayment or  the deductibles. 

One of the main responsibilities  are to increase the number of people  living with HIV who are virally  suppressed through linkage and retention  to care. We see 80 clients in our  health department. Other  clients have private insurance.  They also may receive treatment  outside of our  county.  

We have housing opportunities  for persons with AIDS. A program  funded by HUD. It provides assistance  and related housing services for  low income persons living with HIV  and  their families. With that, I wanted  to share the message. We are working  hard to eliminate the transmission  of new HIV infections in Volusia  County. Thank you.  

Thank  you.  I think it was interesting  to see that there is a drug now  that people who could take that  may possibly help. I hope it doesn't  make them think they have to have  it get out of jail free card. If  it helps. And they are not encouraged  to continue, I think it's a good  thing. It's better than what we  have had before. Any questions?  If not we  will recess  until 1:05  or 1:attend. We will  recess until 1:10  or  1:15.  >> [ Council meeting is on lunch recess.  The meeting will resume at 1:15 E.T.  Captioner is  on standby.] 
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We'll go ahead and reconvene  the meeting at  1:15 today, and we have  item  26. Tom?  Good afternoon. Human  resources director. 

We are here to give you an update  on a diversity inclusion initiative.  We began this initiative in 2015,  and the purpose was to complement  the recruitment and deployment section,  and this arm actually does the educational  component, and the purpose was  to educate our employees, managers,  and employees  on hiring panels about diversity, inclusion,  unconscious biases, and identifying  other barriers that may be impeding  our diversity. So today, I am with  me Jamie Edmondson, our diversity  specialist and inclusion specialist,  and Sharranda regarding  our project director.  We have a  vacancy, so she's also doing that,  and she will give you a brief update,  a little bit on what they have been  doing. For this point, I will turn  it over  to Jamie.  

All right  thank you. I'm the diversity and  inclusion specialist for the county.  Great to be with you all again.  I am happy to be here to be presenting  the annual update on  diversity and inclusion program, letting you  some of the things that have happened  in some of the things we can look  forward to. I thought what would  be helpful if we just do a quick  recap of 2017 again. We will be  right up . Got it. Okay. So in  2017, we began the large initiative  to have every employee in the county  trained on our fundamental diversity  workshop that  we give .  As you can imagine, is a huge undertaking.  

If you can maintain your vice  in between the microphone?  

Thank you.  

That way we can  all here. Will they move closer to you?  

Good?  

The whole thing will move toward  your little bit more.  

Is that good. Yet? Thank you.  Appreciate that.'s so with  the complexity of the dynamics of  how our organization is set up,  it was a huge undertaking. There  were hundreds of classes enrolled.  I will talk about our 2018 recap  we do, but I wanted to let you know  that was a bigger compass when in  2017. We added diversity trying  to argue higher orientation, and  that happens every single Monday.  It happens on Monday. We  do about 52 presentations to all  of our new hires, letting them know  we have this program, they are going  to get training, what's it about,  what our company cultures about  because again, this is the committee  culture. This is  about who we want to be as an organization,  everybody putting their shoulder  on the wheel and pushing the same  direction knowing that there's less  of the goes on in the world, but  as we come here as an organization  we want to be united as many as  one, we say. That is what that is  about. We tell them about that at  new hire orientation. We extend  our outreach recruitment initiative  and hiring analysis, and we did  some assistance for the divisions  provided them snapshots of their  divisions so they can understand  where there are some opportunities  to diversify. I did a formal diversity  in inclusion master plan  which I presented to you while. Continues  to be our road map. We want to make  some update., But that continues  to be the pond that we are working  on with that strategy  accountability  mechanisms, so we are still using  that as a roadmap of where we are  going. Again, as we want to  serve the employee base, be an employee  of George, that needs to involve  to continually support this company  culture initiative about who we  want to be, and that  will change as I work for soulfully gets more  and more diverse moving forward.  We created the diversity and inclusion  champions team, which are point  person for each divisions. They  are liaisons. We work with them.  We have additional training opportunities  and higher learning exercises that  we do. They let me know what will  work for the field. They give me  input. And I really think they are  a great, dynamic team, and I look  forward to working with  them again as we go into next year.  We held our first diversity and  inclusion  leadership meeting on August  9, 2017 at the Ocean Center. We  brought in an inspirational and  educational speaker who the subject  matter expert in diversity and inclusion,  and that went over very well, so  I was very pleased with the attendance,  and leadership flying in to  attend that. In 2018, we did accomplish  our goal of training the entire  workforce. Like I said, this was  hundreds and hundreds  of classes , over 750 man hours to get that  accomplished, and we were super  proud of that. I got great feedback  on that workshop. We are continuing  to receive good feedback on our  basic workshop. We focused on again  on our outreach initiative. Based  on data workforce analysis, that  was providing workforce  availability data to the employment area at the time  so they could work with the divisions,  having just a little bit more information  for  recruitment strategies. We kind of updated the DNI webpages  and the human resources section  of the website, and each month we  try to put diversity -related events  there that are going on in our community  and it surrounding areas, inspirational  things. We did something for Pride  Month, so that was kind of fun to  upgrade that. We try to  post inspirational and educational  videos regularly, and I think it's  a good place to house our diversity  and inclusion resources and library  for now. In  2018, we held our second annual  diversity and inclusion leadership  meeting on September 19 at the Ocean  Center, and again received great  feedback  ,  and it's been a good opportunity  for everybody to get together, and  I think it's in the resounding message.  There's not much else that everybody,  although leadership in the county  get together for, to say we are  going to support this initiative,  and it sets the tone for how important  diversity and inclusion is in the  organization, so it's not only important  what they get out of the but important  we are sending that message to the  entire organization into the community  about what we think about diversity  and inclusion and where it stands  in our organization as far as priorities  go. We  added a second annual cultural  celebration, diversity celebration  lunch. It's on the west side and  east side now. We done it. It's  a great tradition, but we were missing  some of our employees that were  on the  east side, and  so we want to make sure that they  understand that this is an area  entire organizational celebration,  all employees are invited. We had  great turnout to that one over there  at each headquarters. We thank them  for having us there to do that,  so we will be doing that again this  year. We're looking forward to that.  We've expanded that. I want to turn  to  2019 now. And  begin with -- we talked, and Mr. Motes did  very well about how there are two  tracks that we have here, the outreach  and recruitment  employment piece,  and there's the company culture  and training and development and  that piece, so I am working on that.  He  said Chandra , heads  up, our employment area, and I'm  glad because she is here with us  today just to give you a brief overview,  and she's going to toss it back  to me and  continue. Thank you. I will bring  up child recording.  

Good morning, everyone. I am  Chander Gordon, I am just hop in,  how about real quick. I just want  to give a little background on the  recruitment part. I really like  this program that we have with diversity.  The first part of this as Jamie  had said is  very important. Probably back in  2010, 2012, we actually tried and  put together a  diverse city piece. What we did  is we put the cart before the horse.  We did not look at the cultural  of our our organization and start  to change the mindset of it. I remember  when I came on board, George came  to us and we were in human resources,  and he said you know what? We are  missing a piece, and we are missing  some of our folks, so he said why  don't you look out there and DeLeon  and Pearson and let's try to be  more inclusive. It was even way  back then. I won't say when, but  even when I  first started.  

[ Laughter  ]  

So  we put together a couple of programs,  and the first program that we put  together, the second Tom when came  on board, and we presented it, and  it did not go well that well because  what people were looking at is oh  , it is more of a race factor, so  that told us again we needed to  change our culture. So in recruitment,  now I can start to see  a change in our recruitment, especially  from 16, 17, 17 to 18. I'm starting  to see an increase in our applications.  Will not the applications we received,  but an increase  in our requisitions. We are starting to  see an increase in our hiring, and  I do have to contribute that to  this program that we do have. What  we're doing in recruitment, that  we are reaching out, we are working  with our department. I'm sorry to  see the department coming together.  He is looking at all of the positions,  and he's looking at them prior to  the selection process. Again, he's  including what he has learned and  what public works have learned from  this program that  we have been a public protection, I give  Joe Pozzo a lot of credit and his  team because the recruitment efforts  that they are putting forth, and  the things that they are putting  forth is what we are getting from  the program  that they are putting  together. Community services. I  give Dona a lot of credit. I remember  when we first rolled this out, it  was a little  different  , and just to see the change in  thought process has come across  and everyone. We are reaching out  to chambers like the Hispanic chamber.  We are actually having a logo and  link on our  page were applicants or visitors  that go to the page will be able  to see us out there. We are working  with colleges and universities.  We are participating with the NAACP.  We had meetings with them. I sent  them a  couple of positions that we posted, and I  said hey, help us get the word out,  put it out there. Again, we are  reaching out. We're going back to  the grassroots recruiting with the  churches and local organizations.  We are working on the organization.  We will be putting together some  plans are to increase our recruitment  and hiring process. Our  applications have seen  a decline. We do have an increase  in requisitions, and we  also have an increase, like I said, and I  our hollering that I can see from  17 to 18, 218 to 19, and that does  include some or help that we do  have. We Also have an income program that  has with our diversity initiative  as well. We have 14 interns, seven  of them with our emergency operation  center. They and that the students  come from Amarillo University .  We also had five or the Sheriff's  Office. One came from Stetson, three  from Daytona State.  We had to and mosquito control.  One from the University of Miami.  I won't hold that against anybody.  And Daytona State College. We work  with the universities, and one of  our  plans is to assign an HR officer  to help in that recruitment to help  leave that up a little bit more  as well. As far as our job fairs,  we are also doing that  as well. Some of the places we have  gone to,  Hispanic chamber, EMS military,  Stetson University, Daytona  State, 15 Cookman College, and some  of the ones we have coming  up again. We  just attended an annual  Spring Hill festival which is right  here in  our neighborhood, and we had representatives  from public protection or EMS division  or correction, and  we were really glad that we were  able to get some names, and hopefully  follow-up. We will be following  up on those,  those that were considered are enough  to come by in leave their names  and were interested in  the EMS , as well as corrections position,  so that is just a little bit of  me jumping in and jumping out to  let you know where we are in our  employment section.  

 Thank you, 
     Chandra. Appreciate you and your  support always. They have a big  job, recruitment, outreach, getting  our word out and employing. Once  we are onboarded, we need to make  sure that that culture reflects  what we say about being an inclusive  environment. We are working on that  from a training standpoint.  This year, we developed our new cultural competency  seminar. We're going to have a series  of these that this particular one  is LGBTQ, and we are and as we rolled  it out, and it's been very well  received. I enjoy teaching it, and  I think  it's very important, representing all the  important segments of our workforce.  We are also going to roll a multigenerational  workforce because we don't just  have a few generations working here,  we have a lot of generations working  here, and sometimes it's him like  we're talking different languages,  so we need to be respectful and  understand each other's position  and figure out ways to communicate  effectively with each other, valuing  those relationships, and also disabilities  in the workplace. A fit of our population  worldwide has either a visible or  invisible disability they deal with,  so we want to make sure we are cognizant  of that and raise our level of consciousness  about that, so we're going to teach  that, and does occur in the endowment,  but we've only role that  other one out.  The DNI champions team, we've met,  talked about future projects. and  most recently, we went over second  one of what will be out were supervisor  training   on inclusion for the inclusion workshop.  I wrote out segment one of that  to the champions to get their feedback  at the last meeting, for instance.  I appreciate their feedback, and  hope to work with them a lot more  in the  coming years. 
     We -- with updating the fundamental  class materials and content. We  need to ensure new hires get that  that everybody gets it every two  to three years. We are working on  a better system. We are tracking  that, maintaining that, ensuring  everybody gets in, thinking that  using the champions. We were thinking  of a better way to better facilitate  that process. We knew there would  be things we learned along the way  about how to be effective in not  only build this but maintain it  and sustain it, and so I am looking  at those processes now. The website  continues to be updated. I think  that is important, and not only  to continue to do what we were posting,  but to post things about what we're  doing because sometimes we are doing  cool things with the diversity program,  but we don't say, so yeah. We need  to make sure we're making that visible  to the employee population. And  we are going to hold the  third annual  leadership meeting . Hurricane Dorian  had something to say about that,  and so we're going to be rescheduling  that, and I'm looking at that there  are a lot of parties involved when  you do something on that level,  so I am trying to get that rescheduled  as we speak, and then we are having  those diversity luncheons. Again,  the culture of  celebration luncheons .  Each year,  we're going to have that on October  10th and October 16th this year.  East and West respectively or Westin  is respectively, and I hope to see  some of you all there. I said we  have a new dynamic speaker that  we were bringing into that conference  . The leadership meeting. You can  see her name is Dr. Shirley Davis,  and she speaks in more than 30 countries  and can five continents because  she's dynamic and fabulous, and  I'm looking forward to everybody  hearing her speak. We had upgraded  the leadership meeting this year  to include a workshop for  directors only after the  meeting, and so hopefully we'll  still continue on with that as an  enhancement to that  leadership meeting.  Our next item here gives  you a breakdown of Volusia County  population. This is based on the  Census Bureau estimate for 2018.  You get a snapshot of our  population here. And again, that  includes our retirees and kids and  everyone who lives here. We want  to keep that in mind. This next  slide gives a breakdown that we  took in July of  our workforce , and exactly what that snapshot  was at that time, so you can kind  of do a comfortable back and forth  between population. Again, this  is not availability. Availability  is different. Where we look at workforce  availability numbers, we are dropping  out retirees and kids, so those  numbers will change a little bit.  And that we have our  year-to-year comparison here, which we like to do  for everybody, and it gives you  a snapshot. One thing I want you  guys to know because I know you  guys can look at these numbers and  receive them in advance. A couple  notes at the bottom. The bottom  note, this increase, the increase  in the actual number of employees  with 455, looking at that snapshot  again, May 2019, it was 604 comes  of this equates to a measured growth of  32.75% in the number, so I think  that a significant and something  to  be celebrated as Chandra was saying.  She is seen that measurable year-over-year  growth. Is a combination of effort,  but I do think that this program  is super important, creating the  environment that makes it possible  for us to have effective  diversification efforts. 

Thank you for allowing me to  do that. I'm super proud of it.  I'm also proud of the diversity  and inclusion efforts ago   on in the organization, and that's  it, Donna Butler is here to present  you up a  terrific program, and she's going  to present that at the time, and  I am happy to support her and promote  it.  

I think someone has a question  for you.  

Yes.  

I'm sorry, but you are talking  about the internships? And I did  not hear you say don't we have an  internship at Bethune? I didn't  hear that in the list of ones you  had said.  

 We have 
     an intern currently working for  us, or are we participating --  

We have an internship program  that they can apply to, right, at  Bethune?  

We have an internship  program that Bethune students can  apply to.  

Right, but we don't have anyone?  

Not currently.  

For the record, state your name  so when they transcribe it, you  will be given credit.  

My name is Charter Oak Gordon,  project manager.  

Thank you. She the one that has  to do that. She gets mad at me if  I don't do  that, and she's one of the people I don't  want mad  at me. Dona, we're  not ready for you  yet , I don't think.  

I just have  a question. Where the percentages  are, do we have any idea  of entry-level staff, mid-management,  upper management, as far as  the chain change  in percentages ,  as far as the program?  

I don't have that broken down.  I feel as though we might be able  to work with those numbers. I'm  not sure how the data is in the  system to help people that out,  but I do think that is a  great question. I think we do need  to look at where everything is and  other levels of the organization.  We talk about that all the time,  but I don't have that in dataform  or report format right now broken  down that way. It's just an overall  snapshot.  

Okay, so what would it take for  us to get to that? Because I would  think that that would certainly  be of  considerable question? So I went to orientation, and I  was introduced to 40 units.  

Yes.  

And through those 40 units, there  was minimal to no diversity in  that presentation other than gender  diversity, so I think it  would be important to have a better  understanding how we are trying  to enhance  either from in, inside that we are  trying to groom and train, and I  know that Dona's program is part  of that, or how are we trying to  recruit and be more inclusive in  our  recruitment .  

Right. I think with the recruitment  efforts, we're trying to do a good  job of getting a diverse pool of  candidates for the international  search or local search, then ensuring  fairness in hiring practices, ensuring  that the most qualified candidates  are selected. Of course you've got  diverse pool, you will grow your  diversity. Probably  that mirrors  our selection, and our selectable  members of our community. I know  we are working towards that, but  that is our goal. But  we need performance management, opportunity  for growth, and we hope every single  person in the organization, and  that go straight to culture, is  being provided  with mentorship and proper leadership, and they  have an opportunity to make this  the career of their choice and grow  just as anybody else would. That  we're going to start to see more  and more diversity of levels in  the organization. It's a struggles  all organizations face,  and we're no different in that,  but we definitely need to and that  we are doing great in measuring  what we are measuring, but we can  measure in more ways. I think you  are right.  

Yeah.  

Chandra Gordon. Just to follow  up on what you were asking,  we also  take a look at the position, and  I give a couple examples. What we  were looking at the fire chief,  and again I refer to Joe Pozzo .  There's a couple of  areas that we actually targeted  to go into. I know one of the things  that Mr. Pozzo was looking in was  certain areas  that are concentrated  in minorities recruitment. Also,  we look at different  agencies that we can post our  positions in. Even with the accounting  director, we actually posted the  position in several diverse areas  in order to increase  the visibility 
     so we actually go out and try to  see if there are any minority associations  with the  particular position, and also look  at targeting recruitment. I mean,  that's what social media does a  lot of now, and we are out there  with social media as well. We can  more so direct  our recruitment  efforts more so than we have been  able to do before.  

Okay. And I appreciate that,  and I think I recognize too that  it's also very competitive if you  have a smaller pool of people, a  smaller pool of qualified people,  and a  high demand and interest because everybody  wants a diverse environment or should  want a diverse environment so we  match the culture that we serve,  so I think it's really important  to document  our effort  because if we're not able to make  the change, it's not because the  effort is not there, so that is  what I would love  to see, you  know, what are we putting in compared  to what we are getting else, and  if not, what are we looking at to  have a better understanding of the  why because I think that matters.  Just  many times our maybe salary base may not  be as competitive with Orlando another  areas, so, you know, there's higher  competition, but if we have people  inside, are we providing the training  opportunities for people to be trained  and groomed for  positions, or what are we doing  to network and  make that broader opportunity? So  I thank you for the effort, but  I would really like to see  the numbers in that approach, especially  middle management and management.  

I would like to just dive in  your a little bit to say  one of the things we are learning  to and is very good point,  is they are doing a good job on  casting a  wider net, but when it comes to  some of the management positions  we worked  on lately,  we've gotten candidates, we've made  offers, but to your point, it's  a competitive market out there,  and we lost three major cases three  directors actually  that basically, you know, we  lost a large urban area, and  they have better opportunity,  and those areas, and that was something  we're up against, but that's also  enlisting more people in the community  to help us when we have  a candidate. We have a finalist  to help us maybe sell, you know,  the community, and to their point  what we're trying to do is build  what they're saying  is a place of choice, and we're  not just going to rely on that because  we're going to rely on building  from within as well. When we are  out there competing for all of our  employees, we have to  show things like why Volusia County  is a great place, and we're going  to do that for all of our employees,  certainly when you get into minority  aspects. I think we need groups  to help us because the competition  is fierce.  

I  agree.  

And I think the more we work  to change our culture and be more  open and inclusive, then that will  help as well, so I appreciate all  of  your efforts.  

What I'd like to say also is  one of the things that you said  on planning, and that would be a  good thing to do as well.  We actually had George Baker at  one point who did have something  like that in place, so that  would be a good process for us to  look at .  

So we do not have succession  planning in place?  

Every division does. You may  have some that have --  

Subdivisions have -- again, we  have not been able to hire many  people in some time, so the reality  of it is you have gaps, but certainly  most divisions have people that  are in the plan to  go forward. Not all of them  make it. Some of them get stolen.  They leave went other areas pose,  so that's all part of it, and we  have people  lining up in areas, but there are a few holes,  and we are looking at that. I just  want to touch because I know was  getting a little late, but Chandra  has done some work on the inclusion  area part because that is the other  part. We get them here, and how  can we include them  in our  leadership? So if we can show  that for a few minutes, I think  that would answer some of the other  questions.  

A quick question.  

Go back  to the slide, the  year-to-year comparison of workforce  demographic,  the percentage. 

Starting at 15 I'm guessing.  

There is no -- I don't see a  number on it.  

26  nine. 26-9.  

Keep going.  

Keep going back. There  it is.  What struck me at looking at  this is the black  percentage is 9.35, the Hispanic  is 6.96,  but in  population, the last population  is 11.4, and the Hispanic  is 14.5. There's a 100% increase  that  appears that when you recruit, I heard once  Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, but  I've read Bethune Cookman, and Dublin's  AP multiple  times. I think, I don't know what  your  outreach is in the Hispanic community,  but clearly, according to these  numbers and our graph, the Hispanic  community that we need some  growth, and it's under --  

Under representative.  

Really, it's the Hispanic community  that we need to make a larger impact  with and get into those  communities,  so -- it's  clear.  

We agree. We're looking and following  the numbers, and I think to what  Ms. Gordon was pointing out little  while ago, we've identified certain  areas of accounting that we know  we're not getting into, and we're  improving that now because of exactly  those numbers that you are  describing. Certainly , to the areas to the north of us,  down and Altona where we have very  large population centers, we need  to do a better job of recruiting  in those areas and pick  up those, those other people, so  we're in a great situation where  we've got a program, and part of  this  is getting entire organization  thinking that way. They are, and  now we are moving into,  you know -- we are seeing results,  and other parts to keep them, you  know? We have to get folks here  and be successful in all of  our areas, and that's definitely  an area, the Hispanic area is something  that we are pushing very hard into  now.  

Yes, Councilman, I agree. Making  a note  on that --  

Name? Oh Jamie and Vincent, diversity  and inclusion  specialist. Yes, speaking to availability,  we have approximately 70% availability  in our black population for work,  as opposed to who live here, and  --  

I got all the.  

Yeah, and that's always been  our biggest target and  our highest, our biggest opportunity  is an hour Hispanic operation.  

So we need to focus more assets  in that  weak area, and like a  swot analysis if that is our weakness,  that we use that as an opportunity  there  to strengthen , so it's clear to  me. Even if you look here in the  department, I don't see many Hispanic  represented here at all. So if we're  really going for diversity and inclusion,  we need to identify those areas  on purpose and focus that on --  because there's many  Hispanic organizations, and that  is the Chamber of Commerce.  

Right.  

Need to go to some -- and I'd  be happy to make  recommendations of individuals involved  in the Hispanic humidity perhaps  you could speak  with or perhaps we could reach out to or  help change and expand that culture  because I understand. I get it,  but it's clear that that is an area  that needs to be strengthened.  

Absolutely. We be happy to follow  up with you on that, absolutely.  

Okay, Dona?   

Good afternoon. Again, Mr. chair,  members of council, Dona  Butler.  A little over two  years ago I sat  around with  Carmen Hall, another division director,  and talked about the fact that we  felt like our stepping was in developing.  I have the blessing to work with  every manager  except George ,  who I was with another way, but  I learned a lot by observing, watching  their leadership and communication  styles. We knew we needed to invest  in them. Right at that time, HR  put on the firstworkshop with Dr.  Glenn Brown, and the lightbulb went  off, and it reminded me of our dear  friend, Joyce  Q Sekou always that  it's one thing to invite somebody  to party. It's another  thing to ask them to dance. If you  are not asking them to dance, you  are not  being inclusionary, so we decided  to come by the team and have a leadership  compartment and have an inclusion  area component. So I'm going to  share a little bit about what we  have been doing and where we  are going. So in  2018, we had about 12 county employees,  including the  health department , and  a pilot. We specifically chose these  folks. They applied, so we're very  clear about choosing people that  would be really honest and open  and give us feedback on how we can  make the program better, and they  did, and so this year,  we have  15 students, and about nine of them  are sitting right here, all very  excited here sitting to a Council  meeting, and  due to the program's  success, Dr. Recktenwald is letting  us take  it  Kelley why January.  So we have a cannula committee that's  working together with the employees.  We're going to have to trucks this  year . In the coming year, we're  going to have one up to I believe  admin coordinator and  the second track which is where  we are primarily talking about the  coordinator and activity manager,  making sure people are more  opportunity  to learn. I think I  might've gone too far.  Change  and there. 
     So what is the overall goal? Maximize  employee growth.  Thinking, acting in an inclusionary  manner. I always tell them,  all of them and repeat it over again,  it's not about growing  up, but --  

Growing up.  

-- growing out. It's about learning  to be the best that you can be.  Irrespective of whether or not you're  going to get a promotion, and so  some of them have been promoted  from the first class. Some of these  folks in their positions have been  promoted, but they are all fabulous,  and they are learning incredible  amounts about themselves, about  others, how they communicate, and  what it really, truly need to  be inclusionary. So the  components. We have monthly group  activities. We take turns and test  the first few months are really  doing some basic getting to know  you kind of things, doing some communication  style training , so of course they have monthly  group activities with the division  for half the day, and then they  go into leadership training for  the second half. They do public  speaking and presentations. They  all have a mentor, and I'd wager  that probably one of their favorite  things about the program is being  in a mentorship relationship. They  have job shadowing opportunities.  They shatter four different folks  within  the organization. Is a good advisory  board, and they have to sit through  two of your County Council meetings.  The all of that, they have to write  up a review after every single one  of those about what lessons they  have learned, and there is targeted  question for each of the different  activities, so they are forced to  really think about what they are  learning, and we talk about it.  So we have a capstone project, which  they completed, which was really  great. They provided, they did a  huge backpack and food -- not food,  school supply drive and took it  to children that were part of Parks  and Recreation's  and community assistance, kids that  were on  scholarship, site they deliver that  to key places where we are doing  the weekend bags of food. So I talked  about some of this.  They had lunch with the  division senior management, now  the Department of the go countywide,  and then I was remiss in the very  very beginning of not giving credit  to Leah my Tia. Leah  my Tia is  our expert and extraordinary training  person from HRP that she's been  our partner all the way through,  and I say us, it's Carmen and I,  and it's a much bigger group that's  going countywide, but she's been  phenomenal, and she does an incredible  job of creating these. So that's  that in a nutshell. We'll be kicking  off in January, so we will be going  to end as we will have kickoff meetings  late October, we'll interview for  it. we'll have graduates of the  program actually part of their panel  to interview  with them, and I'm really  excited. It's kind of a really brief  overview, but if you have any question,  I would be happy to meet with you  about them. Or  answer them. And Ms.  Goodman attended last months meeting,  so we were thrilled to have her,  she shared some of her insights  as well.  

Okay. Thank you. So no action  on this item, so you can hold it  till later.  

We will moved to item number  27. Joe, I'm guessing it is  you . 
     Oh, we even have Mr. judge here.  [ Laughter ]  

Good afternoon. Chairman Kelley,  Joe puzzle, Paula protection director.  This item is an informational item  . It is to give sort of a recap  of hurricane Dorian, and our County  emergency manager, Jim will be  doing that.  

Thank  you, sir. Jim judge  with Volusia County emergency management,  and we are luckily hurricane Dorian  is in the rearview mirror. We were  very fortunate to have our new county  manager, Assistant County manager  join us in the operation center  for quite a bit of the activities  around the storm. Of course,  we always are watching the tropics. We  are of course monitoring it very  closely right now, and on Friday  the 23rd is when we would really  pay close attention to what would  become hurricane Dorian  worked  Dorian developed into a tropical  storm on a likely path  of Florida. The cone of uncertainty was quite  large, and we began situational  briefings on the 27th which was  Tuesday, not only twice daily with  the Florida division of emergency  management, but also with a weather  service and with our regional partners  , Florida region five counties of  Volusia Dr. Martin and of course  likely to our north. Is and of course  as things began to continue to move  to the north northwest, and  we saw that definitely Florida was  going to be in the cone, the Governor  went ahead and declared a local  State of Emergency for the state  of Florida at  2:00 PM. Also on Wednesday the 20th,  then of course the 29th, conditions  continue to deteriorate as the storm  was moving toward us that we knew  we needed to take the  protective actions and go ahead and get the county  in the swing of things, so we did  activate the emergency operations  center to a level two, which is  a partial activation going 12 hours  a day. We did bring in  hours Citizen information Center  open for some 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM,  and of course Dorian was now a hurricane  forecasted to reach category three  or category four. Our chairman was  there for the entire event  with us and also declared a local  State of Emergency at  2:50 p.m.. Sandbag distribution  begin at locations throughout the  county. Certainly with  more flowers.  Conference calls with the dementias  convened every day at 1:00, and  each  day thereafter. And literally,  it was a remnant low, and I went into  a tropical storm and three days,  and of course you can see that cone  of uncertainty on the right side.  It was quite large, but the one  thing we kept getting on every briefing  we got was kind of how close this  was going to come to the coast.  We knew it was a large storm gaining  strength, and certainly had us on  the edge of our seats, along  with the meteorologists from the  National Weather Service as we began  to monitor the activities. Of course,  we did then bring in the managers  advisory group and had three things  related to that, and also looking  at protective actions such  as curfews, putting at the  evacuation order, mandatory evacuation  for the east side of the county,  mobile homes, low-lying areas, and  RV parks, that we had some curfews  overnight on a couple of  the  nights. And then of course, we skipped  a few  days because there for  a while, there wasn't much going  on other than the briefings, as  the storm stalled over the Bahamas  as a category five, and I know we've  all seen  the results of that on the news,  and of course it began to move about  one mile an hour, so there are a  few days there are we had to watch  and wait to see exactly what was  going to unfold. We know that the  National Weather Service  out of Melbourne, our local regional  weather center, was really doing  a wonderful gob doing their best  to track the storm, so again, on  the second, it was a Monday, we  had to keep a calendar out because  we started to lose track what day  it was, and we did start that mandatory  evacuation at 10:00 AM, and again  that was coastal Volusia, Barry Island,  RV parks, mobile homes, manufactured  areas, low-lying areas, working  with our school district. We did  open 14 schools, including the Volusia  County Fairgrounds. Beach and County  parks are close, and lots of work  being done throughout the county  not only from our beach services  folks getting all the assets secured  , but then also being able to  assist us at the fairgrounds and  other shelters. Airport closed at  6:00 PM, less flight leaving at  4:15 was Delta. We went to a level  one activation, which was everybody  in the room. We did have a power  companies, FEMA, the state management  office, National Guard, FDOT, we  had everybody in the room that needed  to be in the room to make any decision  on behalf of the county to make  sure that we are ready to handle  whatever  came toward Volusia County.  Citizen information Center 1 to  24 hours. The curfew was mandated  from 6:00 PM today 90  6:00 Wednesday.  

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TO THE MINUTE IN FROM 6  PM TO 6 AM WEDNESDAY, AGAIN FOR  THE AREAS WIEST OF THE INTERCOASTAL  LAW ENFORCEMENT DID A GREAT JOB  MEDICATING WITH EACH OTHER ON THOSE  CURFEWS TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY  WAS OUT NEEDED TO BE OUT TO BE ABLE  TO BE SURE THAT THEY WERE ABLE TO  GO WITH YOU TO.  ALL RIGHT. SO WE GOT AN EEOC, FULL ACTIVATION,  EVERYBODY WAS IN THERE, QUITE A  BIT OF WORK GOING ON, QUITE A BIT  OF COMMUNICATION TAKING PLACE we  held briefings in the operation  center as well as continuing to  have daily briefings and the managers  advisory  group meeting. 
     Overall we were fortunate with this  storm that if it shifted to the  east and then shift to  the west and we have some good news  and not so good news. Overall, we  did experience approximately 22  mile-per-hour sustained wind very  fortunate. 60 mile an hour, 69 mile  an hour gust  in the ditch and 55 mile per hour  gust in Daytona, and we had power  outages left at about 5000 homes  for the power, literally within  a couple  of hours, I knew a report about  3200 without power, about an hour  later they reported seven without  power and cripple job with  them. Ultimately, the hurricane was a category five  at 180 mile-per-hour sustained wind.  Ever gust up to 195 mile-per-hour  and for a period of time Volusia  County was under her can warning.  And also a storm surge warning as  we continue  and again, we just continue to tell  us that in the shift in  the East could be in these catastrophic  conditions over Volusia County.  One thing we did monitor was the  track that we had  with Matthew. And we knew if it  shifted more to the east, I'm sorry,  to the west, and followed the Matthew  track we knew what the type of situations  that would bring to  Volusia County and if  it brought to the West it would  be much greater. Luckily as we  got into the Wednesday daytime hours,  the system was  able to move out, we were prepared  to go overnight in our shelters  Wednesday night and Thursday but  luckily we were able to  go ahead and close  everything up right after the afternoon  on Wednesday which was  good news. Just some statistical  information, it distributed over  100,000 sandbags I need to bring up there was one  emergency purchase order that we  issued that was for  sandbags, corrections, and it was basically $600 to add  to the amount of sandbags that we  have available to be able to distribute  school district to get terrific  job, had  14 shelters they still had time, consolidated  several of those shelters because  we had a handful of people  in several and house over 1200 evacuees pick  a lot of great comments in the news  Journal reference to the people  who do shelter so that was a positive  for everyone involved. 144 individuals  with special needs, we had 206 pets,  our animal control director did  an incredible job working with the  city's who also helped out at the  pet friendly shelters and damage  assessment by our property appraiser  was about 469,000 and damage  in coastal reported minimal damage  to the beaches and the power  companies reported minor power outages  for a short period of time. A few  things of the public  information side joy and her team  did an incredible job with over  37 news releases and eight press  conferences and quite a few television  stations involved including CNN  and the weather Channel. We had  a 200, probably 212,000 views to  the website and that averaged  over 35,000 per day. We even had  some free PSA's on some billboards  around the  county and we had 28, almost 30,000  followers on the emergency management  Facebook page and total reach was  1,145,000, 863 number of people  who saw the post in the news  and newsfeeds. With that, I will  be more than happy to answer  any questions.  

Thank you Jim.  

Just going to make a  comment, as Joni was here this morning  with the health  box she did call  me after and was so appreciative  about the urgency of the sandbags  that the hospital needed  and Mark, you know you helped so  much, you provided access, sandbags  are Halifax, she  was really appreciative of that.  That could  have been and she got more than  enough support. She was very  grateful.  >> Folks doing an incredible job,  not only with the sandbags but the  OCS correction provide, the food  did not have any complaints, we  thought everyone was happy with  that. Just a quick reminder, we  did have tropical depression number  10 out there. A very large code  of uncertainty. We have 75 more  days of hurricane season  that we will continue to monitor  and keep  everyone updated.  

I will keep saying  nope, nope. Mr. Judge, you  know I was thinking when storms  come, you know how severe it is  because people try to locate Jim  can tour. We have a  gym and it is Jim judge. You have  become the face  of reason,  of columnists during a time, during  a storm,  you were the calm in the storm.  

Thank you.  

It's your presence, it's your  knowledge, it is your ability to  answer questions and talk to the  group and I know from behind the  scenes, staff has  told me, you  have a presence as a good thing,  not a negative thing. They are like,  you should hear what he says, back  here, he really is all that. And  I say that very honestly because  during tough times we usually bring  out the best of people or the worst  in times we  bring out and you are the best. And I me  that very genuinely. All that to  say, now, I stopped out at the fairgrounds  just to see what was going on  out there.  

We have done  the  population.  

Yes. We are talking and  on the other building is the  one that we were housing those with  animals,  the pets. So I'm talking to him,  this lady pulls up, this older lady  right to the door of her vehicle  and instead, comes out with a loading  cart like  concierge service. I literally stood  there and watched the volunteer  help this older  lady take everything out of her  car and she had everything. She  had everything. Including the cutest  little cat in a  little crate, everything else was  for the experience. But,  they helped her immediately, they  unloaded her. They took  her in. Set her up, and came back  out and I just stood there and watched,  standing outside the buildings,  watched what just  happened, whether, anybody what  they did, it's what we do and how  the training works and then I saw  it I didn't  know this,  we didn't do it before but I think  we do it now, we keep an ambulance  E back stationed at each set up.  So I see them bringing this gentleman  out on  a cart and he's got  a surgical pad on the bottom of  his foot. He wasn't that old, maybe  in his late 30s. Maybe early 40s.  So when the guys put them in an  ambulance and take him off, they  came over and said, we just ate  his life. I said what happened and  they said he had had an injury before  he got  here, obviously. And was on strong  antibiotics. He decided not to take  them, he was just going to write  it out but he was septic. He was  a septic. Literally we did say Benjamin's  life, but without also told me,  our screening process  is really top-notch because every  time somebody comes into one of  our shelters, they screened them  for drugs, they screened them for  all of these things,  for weapons. You can't mix these populations,  for everybody's sake.  It was an amazing process to watch  just to stand and watch how  well executed and the way we  serve our citizen in a time, because  we did not know at that stage what  it was going to come to. But I will  tell  you what,  it was really an eye-opening experience  for me to just stand there and watch  everybody do what  they do. Smack at the wonderful  community, we were  so fortunate, someone came to me  and said we need to put those Hummers  in another part of the building.  It worked, it was a great idea.  Arsenal to department, what they  do, but for me and my job, having  the support of the County Counsel,  having Mr. Pozo's  support, yours, Giordano's, knowing  that you are all there and support  makes my job easy. Then all I have  to do is handle it and deal with  the issues. And do my best  

The last thing I'm going to share,  we have a couple hotspots in new  Smyrna Beach, or things were getting  heated and I want to talk about  sandbags  a little. You have to show an ID to get a  sandbag? I'm just saying, you want  to talk about ideas? You have to  show an ID to get a sandbag in your  city during a hurricane. Okay, let  that sink in. So now, in my city,  my mirror is calling and I had already  had  two other callouts from some individuals,  people would work during the day,  they don't necessarily live and  Samara beach but they are  going home or they are going wherever  or they live in the unincorporated  part of the county, they stand in  line or drive to the line and by  the time they get there the response  is they look at  the ID like well, that's new Smyrna  but you are in the unincorporated  county, you don't qualify for a  sandbag. That has got to stop. So,  we had a really hot spot so I  called Jim and  he put Dawn and Julie, I forgot.  

 We provided dirtbags, we provided  and got the job done. It's a good  lesson learned going forward.  

Yes, but it has got to be  more  than that. The swot analysis we  talked about this, because here's  the thing, our citizens might live in the  city but work over there. They are  under stress enough. They just want  to get there sandbags and go home  and protect their property or seniors  who don't know any different and  now they have sat in mind and now  they have to go somewhere else.  This is just wrong. We have any  OC we need to eat OCD sandbags.  For goodness sakes for the citizens.  So what you agreed to do, and John  says and Julie says, I forgot  who, coffee and Samara, tell them  to use the sandbags. We are  bringing supplies. We brought  a whole truck so I called the mayor  and I said, tell everyone to get  ready, my staff is going to be contacting  your staff and just fill everybody's  sandbags, no questions asked. Just  fill there sandbags.  That is is something we, is not  that big a ticket item and in  an event like this, we need to streamline  that and work with  our cities that needed the help, not all of  them needed or wanted but there  are certainly locations we have  already identified that we need  to streamline. Because  the ID, that's not right.  I'm sorry. That's just  not right.  

Researcher, members of the Council,  I have got to clear this  up for everybody, especially the  ones listening those  areas that were asking for IDs were  operated by the city.  

 I know. 

The county site that the inmates  were as delivering, we didn't care  where you live, if you needed sand,  you came and got it. I didn't want  the listeners thinking it was the  inmates or the county that was asking  the ideas. It was the city locations  because we ran into the same  thing here as well. They were asking  for IDs and when you got into  the lines , the corrections division was responsible  for, we didn't care who you were,  where you were at, we didn't need  to see any of that, you needed sand,  we loaded it for you.  

Thank you for bringing up Mr.  Chair.  

I was going to bring it up.  

May be, that would be the time  to have this conversation before  our next event happens, because  you are right. We have been a good  partner and have worked very well  with our cities.  

We will start that  conversation somehow with the emergency  managers and with the public works  director's. To get that a better  base plan. Again, we  put out over  100,000 sandbags. Probably closer  to 150. And just  the county. They are out there in  the community. I don't want to  gloss over what Jim reported because  I have to report to you, there  was an emergency purchase order,  the number  was 57, do you have  that again? To make that number was 57,600  for the emergency purchase order.  And that wanted to quit the bank  company  

Right, and I have to report that  you as a duty of the manager, that  is over my authority. It was over,  during the hurricane and I have  to do that and report, so let's  consider that complete. But, we  will work on  a little bit more correlated effort  with the cities and, we have put  it  out there, it is money. And people  should  really consider saving their bags  through  the season. And should  consider recycling those bags. We  have talked about that. There is  nothing that hurts at the end of  the season, they can remove the  dirt and store the bag in  their garage and come back at it  next season if they choose to do  that because the amount we have  put out from the 20  years  plus I have been doing this, it  has grown from 78, 9000 200  of thousands and that's okay. We  want people to be  protected and heating these warnings and they  are doing that we are happy to help  but I think something that people  can also help themselves a little  bit because I wouldn't want to be  in some of those lines that were  out there trying to get sandbags.  So, just a word for everybody out  there, a season like you said is  75 days. I keep my  bag handy. And then, I have  been with the county basically since  1971.  

Except for short period of time.  I have watch how our emergency management  gross into what it is today. And  we  have had, always had some pretty  good emergency management directors  but I've got to give you an A+ on  all of them. The job you  have done and how you work with  the people at work with all of us,  I just want to say we appreciate  it very much, thank you.  

Thank you.  

We were talking about sandbags  and that was definitely on my list  as well. Sandbags obviously are  an area that the public can actually  take action because we are talking  about emergency response and disaster,  the public I think is feeling very  helpless and not really knowing  what to do and where to turn and  that is an area they can take control  of. They have some sort of control  of their  destiny in an impending storm, we  are getting prepared and we can  get sandbags. The issue here I think  as  we had so long for people to prepare that  it was a weeklong of that but also,  expecting a lot of rain from a category  five that would be very slowly at  three or four miles an hour along  the coastline. So, the  sandbags, I know that we had some  issues in Ormond as well with  the city running out of  sandbags and everybody ran up to  the Peninsula and took all of those  sandbags so we had a lot of people  that were out. So I called Joe  and Mark as well and they immediately  made sure that we had sandbags up  there and took care of that  and that was truckload after truckload  after truckload and that was really  good. Thank you Mark.  In terms  of the elected officials Roundtable  that was  brought up, I know that Ida had  actually mentioned that in our last  Roundtable meeting. She wanted  some discussion as  well with between the cities,  the school board and the county,  as to some sort of  standard SOP and a little bit more  collaboration and discussion amongst  us all. I ran into her at  one of  the shelters and of course with  the school board she is very focused  on the  shelters but I think a number of  issues like the sandbags, she had  some things that the shelters, the  bridge openings,  there was a little off of there  with a  bridge opening with people not quite  sure of what was opening and why  and how all of that was coming about,  but perhaps in the  future we can work on that better  coordination with  the cities. But as far as the  county operations, I  was  following everything along and then  write to the date that the storm  was coming and I ran over to the  EEOC to make sure I had my contacts  in place for impending aftermath  and everybody was working very  in sync. George, I have  to  tell you, your first bay, I know  you have been here a long time but  your first big hurricane in your  role and I think you did an amazing  job. Thank you  for that. I am glad that we had  a  nice flow of time to figure out  everything and move forward. So  thank you.  

 Thank you.  

One of the things that is worked  so smoothly is does not sit around  350 days a year waiting for 10 or  11 storms  and I think their practice or had  meetings with us, up close and personal  in your  relationship, with the meetings  and with it the way that everyone  works together the work  between all of the  different departments everybody was  fantastically coordinated. Everybody  was in the loop on what your part  was. I would give it a 95 at the  worst grade  of everything.  You can almost give it 100 but it  was just fantastic the way that  everything worked. Like staying  calm for that  many days,  I'm sitting there going it will  go one mile an hour, it will sit  there and then it will turn and  speed up, it's got to hurry up and  do something. And, some of their  forecast actually  came true. I don't know what was expected,  but you church to the east, that  is an extra 40 miles or 60 miles  or whatever it was. It certainly  saved us a  bunch. I don't think people will  take it lightly, I think they understand,  if this depression tends, I got  my generator  ordered and still have three boards,  one is boarded up. Unless he has  taken them down at 4 o'clock, they  are still up. How  much time do we have for the next  one? A  few weeks?  

Probably about 7 to  10 days.  

All right, we will be in the  dark again.  

I haven't lost the weight for  the first  hurricane.  

I want to complement to JoAnn,  all of the work that was done,  I think the page that were used  to do the Volusia County page were  you did the live update and  so forth, that's fantastic and  it gives us a tool in the toolbox  that can be used for a lot of things.  I don't think we had you said that  efficiently before. You can see  and look and see the number  of people  that were watching and getting information  for those updates, the numbers were  there. People could say that they  were there. That was huge and when  I wasn't at the EEOC I was watching  it as  well. Great job there. With that,  unless you have something  very important.  

Mr. Judge, in preparation, I  seem to hear and I might be  wrong, but assisted  living facilities, do you do  a well-being check?  

Absolutely.  

We make contact with every single  one of  those facilities. One  of our staff members, Lauren, that  is her job, to not only update and  review their plans, not only their  emergency plans but also their power  plants and we make contact with  every  single one. And there were three that we had  trouble contacting so we sent the  fire department out immediately  to check that they were okay. We  had about five self evacuated. Their  plans were solid and they left the  area, came back, no fanfare. Did  not need anything from the county  and I think that was a big part  of their planning. We work closely  with environmental with the health  department so we are both tag teaming  that. To make sure also, a lot of  community presentations. Both during  Matthew and Irma we had issues at  the to obtain a beach Housing Authority.  Out this year. We worked very closely  with them and put on  multiple programs and those folks  worked very closely with us so we  were pleased with that.  

That is another  big tool, we see the schools and  everything but there are so many  more things that happen, folks in  this wheel to keep it moving. So  thank you.  

Thank you all.  

JoAnn,  your update? 

JoAnn Maggie, communicate information  director and we have two events  on the list at this we, speaking  of Dorian, Dorian interrupted the  40th anniversary schedule that was  scheduled for  September 6. That has been rescheduled  to this Friday, September 20 and  it will be from 1:30 PM to  2:30 PM by the Delta ticket counter.  There will be a drawing  to win two round-trip airline tickets  on Delta, complete with seven days  of free parking  at DAB. And two of those price packages  will be awarded and the winner will  be drawn at to 130 and the winner  needs to be present. Also at the  airport, TSA will hold a pre-trick  enrollment event Monday through  Friday,  October 14 through the 18th, also at the Taino  Beach international airport in the  baggage claim area, times for the  event are 8 AM to noon and again,  1 PM to 5 PM on those days. Passengers  who have pre-checks, the benefits  of having project, to leave their  shoes on, they can leave their light  jacket on, belts, leave their laptops  and liquids in their  carry-on bag. If you want to apply  for protect you first need to pre-enroll  and that is at ident  to go.com/protect. Once  you fill out the form you type in  Daytona Beach and choose Daytona  Beach international Airport and  there is also a banner on the airport's  webpage and you can just click it  and it will take you right to the  page. That is it for the update,  any questions?  

Thank you.  

I don't 28, appointment human  services advisory board. I guess  we need five two-year terms.  Any elected person can make these  or  not. So. What is  your poison?  

I will appointed Phyllis Terry  Moll Yahoo is going  to serve on  the board.  

I  will appoint Waylon Neese,  incumbent.  

I will appoint  Peter Meitner. Incumbent.  

That takes care of three perks  

I will appoint Ariel McCann.  

Okay, that's 4. That is the only  for that I would suggest. We have  those for that are nominated to  be appointed.  Any discussion? Any objections to  those appointments? Hearing none,  the four that are listed  are appointed to the human services  advisory board  

There is another one  listed York  

But, Marjorie would need to resign.  She is already serving on two boards.  

Has she resigned?  

She is already on to. I  would say, I don't know  that she has applied for this one  but  she must have.  

I guess that's the question,  did she resign, because that is  what it  says here, that she had to resign.  

No, I wrote her a letter and  tried calling her but did not have  any return calls be expected and  no, thank you.  

So we have that for and we will  have one left if anyone can think  of anything or, Marjorie  can say she is willing to resign as  she could be considered at the next  meeting perks  

I just want to make sure it was  being addressed.  

Okay, with that we will moved  item 29. With the GMC.  

I would like to appoint  John Green  

John Green has been appointed  to the  VGMC  any objections to his apartment?  Hearing none, John Green is appointed  to  the VGMC. We only need one,  is that correct? Okay. We will move  to public participation portion.  John Nicholson. 

 John Nicholson, 13, West Grandview  Avenue. I wanted to talk to this  on item 26, I spent my first  27 years not being a white man.  I wasn't legally entitled to be  discriminated against and where  I lived with jobs I held right could  go to school, where I  could eat, where I could vacation.  In the 70s, a judge  in Atlanta in a  discrimination case ruled that there  needed to be more black teachers  in the  school system. 
     And in doing so, he made all Catholics  and as white people. Prior to that,  you could discriminate against all  Catholics and  and all kinds of  things. When he did that, I went  to apply for a job in the  first thing the principal said was,  we are not hiring white men. We  need Blacks. I got that three times.  One time,  my principal of the  high school that I went to when  I applied for a job that they needed,  math teachers were very in demand.  The secretary said, what do I do  with  the application? He said, put it  in the circular file. We can't have  any applications from white men.  When you do your thing,  no history because I heard the presentation  and nowhere in their history that  we understand that 30 years ago  there was a gentleman that  just retired, do you know what color  you want? White male. It was a  baby boom and some of you if you  understand history, it was a big  birth right after World War II.  We are now  ending that. But that is the reason why you  have so many white people, plus,  white people were a majority. Some  of you remember the Korean War or  have heard of it. The Vietnamese  war. We got tremendous loads of  Asians after  that war. Men were coming back with  Asian wives. That is why we have  so many Asians. The Hispanic population  starting with Castro and all of  the evidence, that is why the Hispanic  population grew as it did. And then,  about eight years ago with Obama,  they opened the  southern borders so what do you  do when you have all of these people  that work for  the county for 10 to 15 to 20 years,  and now we have all of these Hispanic?  Do you  fire them? That is what Scarlet golden data  Daytona Beach. We did not have enough  department heads so he fired nine  department had to replace the mall  with Blacks. I don't recommend that.  But realize that diversity is going  to take time. Right now, we are  still in that baby boomer. We still  have people that have had jobs here  for years. They don't  vanish overnight. Population -wise,  the black population for  several reasons will be  at 7%. You should be happy  with 7%. With  the college. The county  population was 80% they had 17 black  enrollment and they were worried  that it was too low. Watch what  you ask for and be very cautious  of what numbers really say,  thank you.  

 Erin Clarke. 

Hello everybody, Karen Clark  from 1855, Grandview. I want to say I don't  represent an organization, it is  myself but everybody knows me England  would. We want to thank you guys  for taking care of our end of the  county and mostly it's because of  trees coming down on something or  the Bears.  We would like to say thank you because  you need that now and then because  you  deserve it. The other thing is,  we have a lot of slobs and cars  and selling things out of the window.  Well, you have county employees  that pass these favorite sites on Glenwood  Road were everybody seems to ditch  it, but does anybody ever call it  end? To someplace in the county  when you get to work saying, in  front of the big blue mansion that  is on Glenwood Road between  15 A and grand Avenue is a garbage  dump site and that somebody could  go out and pick them up. I don't  know if you have a section for  that. Or somebody driving on 44  coming back and forth to work, you  see this everyday. Oh, that that  has been out there for three weeks.  It is an eyesore. So, who can complain  when you have thousands of workers  from the County and the  cities that could easily say, I  passes every day. Can somebody address  that? And I think that it would  save a lot of time and regular  people, citizens calling in and  getting it  done when you have the best site,  you have people coming to work  every day. That could at least throw  an email, give them 10 seconds to  write an email to garbage  or wherever. That is about it. And  your code enforcement is really  good because we are probably going  to get rid of that locksmith with  the method that he had at the other  end of what, and you know what that  houses. So thank you. And I want  to thank poser, is that his name?  Is that how you pronounce his name?  Poser. For listening to  an issue that is being done at the  moment in the county. Not mentioning  the moment.  

Thank you Karen.  

We will move  to George. 

Just a little bit has already  been set, but unfortunately due  to the movement of  the meetings, Judy Graham was going  to be honored at the  last meeting but she had a trip  planned and I tried to see if maybe  she would delay it a few days and  be here today, she is on the road.  At I would like to for the record  say thank you to Judy, I know  she will hear about it when she  gets back and she gave us  11 years of her career. She was  before that a public works director  for the city  of Orman, and Road and  Bridget director and she has done  a lot of great work at road and  bridge and I know Ben Bartlett will  step into and there is a case of  succession, Ben was hired to do  that job and  had  been pruned and ready to take that  on. But as  far as her work up there, she consolidated  a lot of operations when we had  to downsize during some of  the downturn. Her work and stormwater  is probably second to none. She  is a big member of the Florida stormwater  Association, she was the president  of the Florida chapter  in 2018 at her work as  a stormwater engineer, we will reap  the benefits of for years to come  because of the work she did  with the reasonable  insurance plan and some of the projects  that will be coming in the next  few years were a lot of her work  securing grants and I just wanted  to publicly  thank her and I know she is  not worried about it right now but  when she gets back, at least able  to show her that we did  do acknowledge that, so thank you  for acknowledging me. On  that, and with that, that's all  I have.  

Are you not going to bring up  the workshop time?  

Well,  I figured if you weren't going to,  I can go back into that. But yes,  we have you guys have said October  15 was the date that you wanted  to do the workshop. We can  move that day to another day, we  can have it as you wanted to have  it last time you did it, you did  start  at 8:30. You had  public part of the patient and council  chambers and removed down to the  training room at nine and then I  think we went to lunch at that point  and we came back. And then the meeting  in the afternoon. That is the route  you would like to take. Find. I  do think you have some members that  may have some other activities that  they would be doing later that afternoon  or in the evening. I can  say at this time how big of  an agenda we have but I will try  to keep it light, so you  can have your  workshop and still have plenty of  time to get done and  have people make it after their  event.  

I was looking  to see . I don't have anything  on mine for after  the 15th. My thing is, the way we  did it before, having it in  the morning, the only thing I  don't like is 8:30 public participation  for 30 minutes and then going to  meeting. We want to have public  participation at the end, that would  be fine. But, I would go ahead and  let's start the meeting at 8:30  or nine and be done with it  and we before we have the other  two items coming up  that  afternoon. So.  

Staff will do and arrange it  however you like it. So we are  standing ready.  

The meeting will start  at 1. And that we will  break for lunch and the meeting  starts at 1 and goes until  whenever. Unless, I wouldn't worry  about  anything else. When we  set the tactics  

Of course, there may not have  been something else at that  time. But, I have actually scheduled  some travel that I am going to  represent the  county anticipating that we would  be finished by a certain time. So,  if it is not  a concern to shifted the day of  the workshop, I would request that  convenience and  that consideration. That we do it  perhaps the next meeting. So that  way  it can not be a conflict with the  travel.  

Representing for where? Is it  some border situation  with County?  

Yes. 

Are you going to?  

I think we are all aware that  the Florida Association of Counties  is having their federal fly in that  weekend we have all been invited  to the White House on that Thursday.  I think we are all aware of that.  

 Yes,  

I'm on the federal committee,  let's not  do this. 

What is the workshop even? What  are we going to be discussing?  

Anything we  want to. It's one of those workshop.  

So, considering that there are  a number of us that are going up,  to represent the county, and we  all know that we are headed out  that evening, I don't  understand why  we are scheduling a workshop on  that day.  

Well, the meeting, the workshop  was scheduled beginning of  the year.. 

I'm just saying is it inconvenient  to change the day?  

Let's change the workshop. That  is something that can be done without  any real problems have a meeting  and change the workshop to another  day because there seems to be a  whole lot of uncertainty and is  a problem. Let's just  do it. 

 I'm fine. The workshop was done because the  request from all of us.  

I agree. I'm not challenging  that.  

Is not casting one stone  

I respect us having  the workshop and I'm certainly in  full support of it.  

Here is what we will do. We will  cancel the workshop until further  notice. How about that?  

I would like to have  one set.  

We will cancel the workshop until  another one is set.  

Thank you, I  appreciate that. And we can look  at calendars at the next meeting  and see when we want to have one.  And we don't have to have a long  lead time on it. I have got half  a dozen items that I wanted to  bring forward going into and  it might even be better because  some things might be in a different  state at that time.  

I appreciate that.  Thank you.  

In light of that, if we are going  to do that, how about  this? How about since we are still  in session, we passed  two items for time, how about someone  who is willing to make a motion  to bring those forward for time  certain that at 10:05 on the 15th,  George? Or Dan?  

I will make that motion.  

We got to use the right procedures  to do that. We have two  items, item 14 and 15 or whatever  the numbers were that were on  the inlet.  

I think you could move to reconsider  your earlier motion and bring emotion  back on the floor.  

Okay, let's get those items,  you had them, right?  

 Claire and direct resource management,  they were items number seven  and eight. 

Seven and eight, any one of you  can ask to bring item 7 which was  the board up to 19, replacing standards  for reach and unit protection to  be continued and bring that  item up for  reconsideration than.  

Yes.  

Motion is made it to reconsider  item seven. Would anybody like to  amend  that item? To be time certain  to  be 10 or 10:05 or 10:15.  

10:05.  

10:05.  

We are doing individually. The  item ordinance 20 1914 repeating  the place in division 15 has  been amended to be time certain  at 10:05 on the 15th. Any objections  that motion? And second? Hearing  none, that motion to amend  passes unanimously. Now can we have  a vote on the amendment on the item  as amended? That would be the same  ordinance as amended.  Did a motion for that.  

I will make  a motion.  

Motion is made to approve the  item as amended, is there a second?  Any objection to  that motion? Hearing none the  motion passes unanimous. To clear  everything up, item is 2019-14 repealing  replacing division 15 by mental  standards for beach and do protection  article 3 chapter 27 will be  amended and heard time certain time:  05  October 15.  

Mr. Chair, my recollection is  that you adopted the  resolution  of amending your regular meeting  schedule to accommodate  the workshop.  

Let's get the second one  done.  

Mr. Johnson D reconsider  the resolution? 

Is there a second? Second by  Wheeler made by Johnson to reconsider  it. And you would like to reconsider  and you would like to have that  time certain be at 10:10. On October  15.  

Time certain  

Time certain, 10:  10 AM.  

On October 18.  

I will make a motion gets  

 You can't. Okay, so, any  objection to the amendment? To motion?  Hearing none, the  amendment passes. Now, the motion  as amended  Mr. Johnson is to have a hearing  as amended at 10:10 on October 15,  2000 19  2019 at 10:10. You made that motion  and Ms. Wheeler seconded it. Is  that correct?  

That's correct.  

Hearing and no objection it passes  and that will be on the edge of  that tentacle intent on October  15. Now than. Since we had in the  annual schedule for a workshop on  the 15th, to begin at 8:30, we will  now  cancel that.  

If you could move it amendment  to the resolution for the regular  meeting scheduled to restore your  regular  meeting time, and  public participation time of 9:30,  well, 10 and 930 respectively.  

I will make  a motion that we have public participation  at 9:30 and we start the meeting  at 10 o'clock.  

On October 15.  

October 15.  

Right. 

Any objection to that motion?  Hearing none, the motion passed  unanimous and we will have our regular  scheduled meeting to be  scheduled now beginning  at 9:30 on October 15. So, that  should affect our agenda and everything  should  be good and we can advertise and  be done with it. Thank  you George. 

Dan, you have anything else?  

No sir.  

Okay, we will go to Mr. Post.  

 I'm good.  

And we will go missa  WHEELER.  
     Ms. tran07  

Good news, this is national  estuaries week.  

And Constitution Day  

You're right. For national  estuaries week,  we talk about water quality and  we talk about nutrient loads in  all  of this. So there is an association  of national estuary program, 28  national estuary programs and the  entire nation. The state of Florida  has five. We are one in five in  the state of Florida. And I think  what is very important about this  and we talk  about the council but what gets  lost in that is that it's part of  the NAP and the NAP are nonregulatory  and they are locally driven, they  promote efficient public-private  partnerships which  is growing, the NAP supports that  the EPA's Clean Water Act. We  were actually penned under the Clean  Water Act and  NAP's are results oriented and have  proven  successful for protecting and managing  all types of our  coastal watersheds. And  since 2000, NAP has restored and  protected more than 2 million  acres of vital coastal habitats.  What I gave you is  a handout that is going to be coming  out of our next Council meeting  and what I like about  it is it has the stakeholders in  there with how much they bring to  the table for  our particular NAP, is actually  the I RL and AP. And if you look  on the right side from 2016 is one  we joined the  I RL the 2020,  Volusia County has had 14 projects  funded for a total of just under  $1.6 billion. What is critical to us, you talk  about collaboration, we only put  50,000 a year, that is our portion,  to join the I RL. So, for four years,  we have invested 200,000 and we  brought back at the stage I point  $6 million and that does not include  the other projects that have yet  to be identified and given and it  does not include local grants that  we just received. So, this is very  effective and I  like division and where they go  with leaderships because it is shared  leadership, shared funding and shared  responsibility. There are five counties  within the river Lagoon, both water  management districts in South Florida  and the St. Johns River management  District and the DEP is a voting  member on  our board. So when we talk about  these issues, nobody can do  it alone. Police can't do it alone,  city scheduled alone, counties can't  do it alone. Our project come in  like a reasonable assurance program,  planning and when these projects  come and at a clip of seven,  eight, $20 million I'm not talking  about septic, I'm talking about  cleaning up the lagoons and putting  basic infrastructure in around the  county, we don't have those dollars.  So the only way to accomplish that  is to work regionally, to work collegially  and to  build collaboration  within all of our organizations  and our cities. And our county.  I have been asked by  two organizations to do meetings.  We canceled the one because of  the hurricane that  we were going to do with a reasonable  assurance plan and our stakeholders  down in Southeast Volusia, we were  going to schedule that at the end  of the year at the request of the  funding, not the funding partners,  but the DEP and a  couple other partners because this  is going to be a pretty big one  but I had a request from two more  areas within Volusia County that  I am going to take this to the  Lagoon Council and bring that same  format to  different districts. So, this is  going. It is real, it's tangible  and  we are talked about return on investment.  We invested 200,000 and we brought  in just $1.6 million. That is a  pretty good return on investment.  So I want to continue to strengthen  that with our  funding partners and cities are  now requesting trying to figure  out how they can get on the list  to get some of this funding and  I have been working with of them  actually met with Dwight Shelby  two weeks ago and he came in to  the county and wanted  to know how their city could work  with the I RL and take advantage  of some of the grant opportunities  and I said I would be happy to introduce  him to how that  process works and how to go down  for those grant opportunities. So  I will do what I can to help the  city of Warman get off the ground  with the request and  any city in any location, because  this is a Volusia  County effort and Billy Wheeler,  Billy serves as the alternates.  On the IL. This is a  big deal.  National estuary week Mr. Chair  so that is why I thought it was  important that we talk about the  NAP's and not just the I RL because  we are part of a bigger  thing and Volusia is bringing home,  not just the stable,  we are at the head of the table  and we are making things happen  and we are connecting some dots  for a lot  of cities. That is all I have. Thank  you.  

I think that is very important  to show how working together with  those can bring home the money.  Because we don't  have enough from our taxpayers to  do it all and we might as well  take advantage of those issues where  we can and work collaboratively  with others.  

Thank you chair. I wanted  to thank all of the departments  and staff that participated  in the spring health Festival. I  think we were well represented and  it's great to see  the county having a face in that  unincorporated area, like I have  not seen in past times. I wanted  to mention also the census  kick off with my  cochair, Billy. And  there has been a number of presentations  since that time so I think we  are often running with it, it  wasn't during  my conversation on Mark Bernier,  I was able to bring that  issue out and I think that we can  keep it out of the public and really  hit hard on the issues, especially  the  fact that it is a census track I  think is very important, but, I  think also that the  hurricane, the reestablishment of  your personal  information, right? It can be established  through census and through Katrina,  I'm sure after Michael  that is how people are able to get  reestablished once they lose their  documentation. No one can request  your information but you can request  it personally and that can be used  to get reestablished and  I think if nothing else is critical, especially  in our environment in Florida, I  think that is key to get you motivated  because you just  don't know when you will be impacted or if  you will be impacted. The other,  only other thing I wanted to mention  of course is about fun rail and  I have not heard the  latest updates.  

You will in two minutes.  

That is after  I say  

I will allow everyone to comment  on that.  

I will say  this first. That is, that I want  us to stay at the table, stay connected  to  central Florida because to me, it  is important to West Volusia because  that is our main workforce  and, how we  come in. I wanted to  be assured that the Barry station  will remain and I want on  the table conversation about investment.  And the rest of the West Volusia  if we are not able, if this current  contract changes. 
     So, I know we are in the middle  of things, I know when that was  originally negotiated, a lot of  the current initiatives weren't  even available. There wasn't Uber  or Lyft 
     or autonomous car are some of the  other alternatives I want to be  sure that we are still going to  have conversations about how to  invest in West Volusia transportation  and again, stay engaged because  Central Florida is connected to  West Volusia more so than other  areas of Volusia. I don't want to  lose that  communication connection and keep  a positive relationship with her  that environment.  Thank you.  

Mr.  Johnson. Nothing? Okay. I will go  ahead and start, here is where we  are, had it not been for  the hurricane, I would  have had a detailed report, I don't  know that much more other than right  now, Mike Shannon who is a district  5 Secretary of FDO T,  is also the chairman of the sun  rail commission and everything is  in their hands  right now on where to go and they  don't have the answers to everything.  There was a concept that was put  out to us,  we expressed a concern in May and  then again in the last meeting  we had, if the funds could be  used better, the $34 million that  they were getting, if they could  be used better and in other areas,  we would be willing to not extend  the line to the land.  All of it right now  is here. Up in  the air. Because you need to look at the  partners, the five partners that  are in there and of course, we are  at the table. And they don't know  the answers of whether the money  will be used to improve sun rail  but what was conceptually presented  to us as a thought by the  secretary at the board  was that the Barry station would stay open  and we would be responsible for  its operation there. And, if  they can bring the other four  partners together then we would  not at this time extend the line  to the land. We would not have a  seat at  the table but we would be a part  of him that we would  be operating the DeBeers station.  We would not need to pay for three  to $7 million  a year and would not pay the $20  million of the hundred million dollars  for the extension of the line at  the time. And so we don't know where  it's going  to be. I am anticipating we will  have an answer as to whatever the  meeting with John Booker and the  legal eagles at lunch right  after lunch to see where they are.  The workgroup is trying to put everything  together to see what it  is before any of this is done, it  will come back to this Council for  approval. And I  know that Ms. GIRTMAN was concerned  about me being the one to be  involved  I am the  messenger. Of this Council says  to me we want you to take the  $34 million and have  it accented to the land even though  I don't want it, I would support.  And I would negotiated that way.  They came to us with  an offer. And whether or not you  think that that is right, that's  exactly the way I am. I supported  an issue today on  almost half $1 million on a heart  transplant when I don't believe  that you can automatically assume  that that is the reason for the  heart transplant one heart  disease is the number one killer  of being  in America. But I supported it.  I support it because it's the law.  I support as we all should that  any board we serve, the feeling  of the Council and so I will  do that. Right now  the Council has said if we don't  need to take the money, if we don't  need to be involved in the future  expenses, we are happy with that.  If the Council changes its mind  or has changed its mind from that,  I know Brett is not here but he  expressed that that same concern  in May and I thought that  at least five, and also kept  open the possibility of it coming  at some point in time to the  land. So, I think $100 million,  if counsel wants to direct  me otherwise, we will have something  back from them which we can vote  against at that time. And we can  go from there. That's where  I am. 

I know but the response is going  to be. I want you  to respond, if you want to respond,  you are given what you're feeling  is, I gave my feeling is that I  represent what the Council says.  

 Yes there.  

So if there is any difference  in that, we will find out, Mike,  you said that we hope that you and  Jonathan Booker you so that you  hope to have something, Mike has  directed the workgroup to have something  to be presented to the meeting  on Halloween,  October 31. So either the  first or the 15th, I don't think  it will be the first but by the  15th, if not the 15th, we may need  to have a special Council meeting  when we get that information for  Council to consider before I go  to the meeting. Fair enough  on that one? That  takes care of some rail. That was  a  hard one. Most  of you write the Roundtable on the  fire study and smart growth.  I thought the fire study was what  it was. At  one point, I thought was missed,  if we had a blank slate, would you  lay it out the way it is? And I  don't think we would. I think that  there is a better way to laid out.  And, I asked, I  think you asked for a copy of  that which you got that  right okay. I got an  extra copy of the fire study, I  thought it was outdated, it was  also a question of concern, should  we redo that study that was done  in 2011? As I recall from maybe  even earlier or longer, that was  the one that  was produced. At this Council does  not want to  go forward with looking  at merging up the operation I think  a lot of what you have done on the  fire service is good. I just think  that the one example of having 3000  feet apart, makes  zero sense. And anyway we can try  to work, that was  a  workshop thing. All right, here  is another workshop item I guess.  

George, on the south checked  subject like that, we  will continue to  work with these fire departments.  We have talked to the city, that  particular station was  actually built with the idea that  we could  to occupy that and the  deal changed in  the  11th hour. So we just wanted to  make sure, we will continue to work  and maybe we will get  more efficiencies as we  go forward.  And if it's this Council's desire  to continue to look at supporting  the study, prepared to do that  as well.  

This is one that I was going  to bring for a workshop but this  would be one that you could be thinking  about it. In advance. So to give  you one item, many counties have  no meeting or one meeting in the  month of July. You may have  learned that from some of the meetings  we attended, I think Brower has  no meetings in the month, through  July.  

 I'm in. 

What I am going to propose for  us to look at is that one meeting  in July and one meeting in December.  That will eliminate a lot of things,  I ran it by George and Donna was  jumping up and down. George said,  I'm in. We  see what we could do, I would rather  have one long meeting in July, maybe  the middle of July then have the  same thing, maybe one meeting in  December and that takes away a lot  of pressure but we do  not need to go to a charter to do  that. I would suggest that we look  at that even just through December  and then we can adopted  next January. 

That's not the way I was looking  at it.  

Mr. Chair, we will go prepared  to talk about the ramifications.  There are a few,  just because of making sure we can do what we  need to do with the trim notices  pics  

I know there was something on  the budget, look at it and  see and I think the consensus here  was everybody was like okay. Let's  look at it. Let's make it work.  Kind of  sort of.  

The next thing is, I would like  to have the Council send a letter  to our delegation requesting some  type of funding for the census from  the  state level. California is a  spending and, you should  remember that, we need to find out  the number that was presented to  us at the conference, it was  in  the millions, maybe close to it,  it wasn't millions but it was close  to it, hundreds of millions in the  state of California is spending  to get their census numbers. So,  I would like us  to just , and I will send it with  all of us come all of our names  on it, or I will send it with just  my name, I would love to send it  with everybody, requesting that  they see what they could do, I don't  know whether they could do anything  at this time, they are starting  their preliminary meetings,  the boards have somewhat, but just  a letter to put that on, they might  not even be aware of it. How much  money, I doubt that they are.  

47 1/2 million.  

47 1/2 million dollars.  

California is putting 47  1/2 million into their census pics  

I asked the number of the representatives  yesterday when we were at the  ribbon cutting for the groundbreaking  and they said they are fully aware  of it and the governor decided  against it,  they're not doing it this year,  they did not do it in 2010. So.  

I did talk to Tom, he is the  only one I talked to.  The governor's, I should have got  him while he was there. He probably  would have said the  same thing. I think  if we as a commission or a counsel  do that, it shows that we  are aware of it  in a  letter.  

Yes. That is a summons,  all of them. Will do a letter and  report that and I requested that  they see what they do, they said  on notice. The  other one was, I don't know if we  can do any thing about this now  because I'm not sure we can, it  was brought up that the district  4 of the school board and the district  for of Volusia County Council  is different. Select district one  is different.  

I just use that as an example,  as for example. None of them are  the same.  I know. And they  do there's, the cities  do there's. I don't know that we  can do anything about that. Because  what Ormond Beach has to do, they  have people in  Ormond Beach across the street are  in different zones.  

And we ask  Lisa Lewis her recommendation? Because  she was at the roundtable. She was  the one that brought about concern  

If I may, in the 1991, in 2001,  after the census, the  Council and school  board adopted zones that were the  same. Each by their independent  actions.  In 2011, the county council and  school board began together  but they did not finish together,  the school board elected it  to have the county counsel did,  the water variation  of population. So it will be up  to the Council and the school board  at the time to decide whether or  not they want to attempt to  make  another attempt to have a reapportionment  that results in  the same industries of the same  boundaries pics  

I guess we had two years for  that to happen.  

Yes  or. You  have a district within six months  of the time of the final census  results are ordered.  To try to provide pics  

Welcome Lisa Lewis shared, like  Helen house, 2400 residents and  they have a 12 way  split from federal, state and  local municipalities. So, I don't know what can help  that. But, I think it is an impact  on our citizens and their vote in  the confusion. So, I don't know  how to help but I  think that we should, if we can.  

To  that goal, counsel may wish at the  time to renew that effort, but that  is where  we come.  

I took notice of it and said  that I would mention it from the  roundtable, that the fire of the  smart growth, some people put  took offense into the smart  growth report and I thought, Mr.  Irving did a great job on reporting  where  we are and on how much undeveloped  land we actually have in Volusia  County. And, just because you see  a building going up  doesn't mean that it is against  smart growth.  So. But we know that that is  the reason. And we will get out  of here earlier than I ever  thought. 3:11. The meeting is  recessed, right? Meeting is  recessed until 6  o'clock. Right?  That's  right. No.  

You will set that and I think  you can talk about it now but you  can set  it tonight.