Jacksonville Waterways Commission

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 9:30 AM City of Jacksonville 117 W. Duval Street Jacksonville, FL 32202 Agenda - Marked Council Chamber, 1st Floor, City Hall Jacksonville Waterways Commission CM Ken Amaro, Chair CM Mike Gay, Vice Chair CM Jimmy Peluso CM Matt Carlucci, Alternate Jon Michael Barker Robert Birtalan Representative Dean Black Mark Devereaux Marc Hardesty Richard Hartley J. Hobson Matt Jones General Public Rep - Vacant D. R. Repass, Planning Commission Adam Hoyles, Environmental Protection Board Barbara Ireland Hobson, Legislative Assistant II Shannon MacGillis, Office of General Counsel Dr. Gerard Pinto, Jacksonville University Steven Libby, Council Research Jim Suber, Waterways Coordinator

Jacksonville Waterways Commission Agenda - Marked June 10, 2026 COUNCIL RULE 4.505 DISRUPTION OF MEETING Any person who disrupts a regular meeting of the City Council, standing committees, special or select committees, sub-committees or any other public meeting presided over by a City Council Member may be forthwith barred, removed, or otherwise ejected, in the discretion of the presiding officer, from further attendance at that meeting. If necessary, due to the nature of the disruption, the audience may be cleared from the Council Chambers or meeting location in the discretion of the presiding officer. Any person who refuses to leave the City Council Chamber may be subject to arrest. Disruption of a meeting includes the following types of behaviors: 1) Any form of political campaigning or electioneering regarding a specific candidate or group of candidates in City elections; 2) Impeding the orderly progress of the meeting by shouting, yelling, whistling, chanting, singing, dancing, clapping, foot stomping, snapping fingers, cheering, jeering, using artificial noise makers or musical instruments, waving signs of any size, or engaging in any other display of excessive noise, sounds, or movement; 3) Displaying or waving signs of any sort, except where used to support the speaker’s presentation at the podium, and only where the sign is 21 inches by 21 inches or smaller in size and cannot be displayed in a manner which unreasonably obstructs the view of the dais for any member of the audience, regardless of message; 4) Audible noise from cellphones or other electronic devices; 5) Consumption of alcohol or controlled substances; 6) Making vulgar or offensive remarks or gestures, or using threatening language or gestures, including but not limited to pantomiming discharging a firearm, choking, or throat-cutting; 7) Refusing to stop speaking when his or her time has expired or is otherwise directed by the presiding officer to do so due to disruptive behavior as described herein; 8) Returning to the meeting after having been removed or ejected, or attempting to do so. Page 1 of 3

Jacksonville Waterways Commission Agenda - Marked June 10, 2026 1. Meeting Convened: Meeting Adjourned: 2. Attendance 3. Pledge of Allegiance 4. Approval of Minutes May 13, 2026, JWC Meeting Minutes 5. St. Johns River Status Report on Water Quality & Manatees Contact: Dr. Gerard Pinto Jacksonville University 6. Public Comment 7. New Business 2026-0475 Contact: Ed Lukacovic Senior Environmental Planner ORD Adopting a Small-Scale Amendmnt to the FLUM Series of the 2045 Comp Plan at 0 Granite Pl, Btwn New Berlin Rd & I-295 - (1.91± Acres) - WD-WR to LI - Bird Dog Land Holdings, LLC (R.E. # 108820-0050) (Appl # L-6120-26C) (Dist. 2-Gay) (Tremante) (LUZ)(Rezoning 2026-476) 6/9/26 CO Introduced: LUZ, JWC LUZ PH: 8/4/26 Public Hearing Pursuant to Sec 163.3187, F.S. & Ch 650, Pt 4, Ord Code - 7/28/26 & 8/11/26 8. Other New Business Discussion: Receipt of FIND Letter of Support for a Comprehensive Watershed Analysis of Hogpen Creek Discussion: Fort George River Sandbar Boating Hazard Issue Contact: Commissioner Matt Jones 9. Old Business Shad Creek Resolution - Update Page 2 of 3

Jacksonville Waterways Commission Agenda - Marked June 10, 2026 Contact: Council Member Mike Gay George Crady Bridge Update Contact: Council Member Mike Gay 10. Adjournment Pursuant to the American with Disabilities Act, accommodations for persons with disabilities are available upon request. Please allow 1-2 business days notification to process; last minute requests will be accepted; but may not be possible to fulfill. Please contact Disabled Services Division at: V 904-255-5466, TTY-904-255-5476, or email your request to KaraT@coj.net. Page 3 of 3

Good morning, everyone. It's 9.31, I'll call to water. The Jags will waterways Commission is meeting for JUNE 10th. >> 2026. Let's begin with introductions from my left. Good Morning, Gerri Pinto, Jacksonville University. >> Dallas office of General Counsel. >> Yes, always coordinator. >> The black Florida House of Representatives District 15. And are afraid and waterways Commission. Our cars, the Waterways Commission, Rick Hartley waterways Commission. I district 2 our city Council district one Carlucci alternate at large group for. Like Parker Waterways Commission. To help someone commission. Our Waterways Commission. Matt Jones, Waterways Commission. Adam oils, Environmental Protection Board. >> Thank you, gentleman. And ladies, let's rise for Pledge of Allegiance. >> But actually tends of the United States of America. One nation under GOD. >> Thank you. Our first action is approval of minutes. Going to get a motion a second, please. Thank Are there any notation corrections? The and in the minutes that needed to be done at this time. All in favor. Any oppose. Minutes of proof. Next item action in Saint Johns River status report on water, quality and manatees being delivered by doctor up into a dock up into. Thank >> So as most of you know, our rainfall has increased again. So our salute, these are starting to drop, although there's still high. If you look at the box in the middle but for the Buckman Bridge, we should be close to one or lower. You can see the salinities still prove fairly high. There. Water temperatures running around 80 to 82 degrees. So everything has warmed up quite a lot. Incidentally, with the increase rainfall now and this high temperature, we might start to see more algae blooms. And if I jump across to Page 3 where we talk about algae blooms, we have a lot of mixed algae in the area. It's sort of normal. But there are no toxins really to report. So things are looking good in terms of no home. Full algae blooms yet. We're still at a deficit for rainfall of about 5 inches. Although we've had close to 5 to 6 inches in MAY. Somewhat of an issue on mount on the manatee mortality side of things. You can see that we've had is a little bit of a jump up in manatee mortalities. We have 5, 4, a additional mortality since the last meeting in MAY, 3 of watercraft mortalities that occurred out a port. He cannot park and sisters Creek again. What was suspected is that the they 18 group got hit by some large vessel and and and rolled rather than cut my props. So that's preliminary data right now. So we're still trying to find out more about those. And in addition, we've had a couple another death the lock Queens Harbor. And so that comes to 3 so far this year, which is sort of unusual. We haven't had that happened in a while. So so since MARCH, you know, it's been one month MARCH, APRIL and MAY the these these 3 deaths have occurred there. So that is a situation that's with the watching looking at. I think management company over there is in discussion the state and the federal agencies about that lock and what can be done to improve conditions. There. You'll notice that there's a map there showing you the latest aerial sightings in the area where there's a couple of maps. The first one is the official map for the site of the aerial sightings that I fly. We have about 71 manatees in the area and then the last page shows you the public sightings map. So this is a new app that we implemented. There's the qr code for accessing the form and you can see that people in the community have been reporting sightings and so that's that's great that allows people to be more aware about manatees, which is something we want to achieve with the Manatee Protection plan and they can also feel involved this process. With that, I'll be happy to take any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Doctor. Pan to I'd like to recognize Commissioner Jones. Good morning, everybody through the chair. I I'm curious with the frequency, the lock issues. >> Is there anything we as a commission can do because it clearly sounds like there's something going on there. I know you mentioned that talking with the state and federal agencies. It have they narrowed it down to a sensor issue or do we not have an answer for Thank you. So at this I haven't been involved as much as I'd like to be. Partly because I think that they're dealing with the state in the Fed agencies. Our plan is is a state and federally approved. So they have been liaising with me about what's going on there. >> I'm not sure it's a sensor issue. It could simply be sometimes manatees win. Then on the bottom. Are difficult to see in the past. The tenders over there have let the animals in and you know, and kept an eye on that pretty well and had very good success with that. If they're right on the bottom, sometimes you can see them. They could be behind a door when it when it closes and get crushed that way. And then, of course, once the doors moving and the water is rushing through them, sometimes there's a period of time there where you can stop the door and if something gets in you know, ups trucks the door. When that happens, it's it's difficult to do anything about, but definitely 3. You know, month in the few months has been a problem. So they're looking at it. It MAY be a sensor issue. It it MAY be that they need to employ something like a the hydro phone or something to to listen for. You know, vocalizations that these animals make some time so that they can then be aware we can't see it. But it's there. We need to just wait. Thank you. Appreciate it. Just want to make sure that we if there was anything that we could do on our end to help assist. >> Preventing that in it any time. >> Thank Any any Go ahead. You're not on to this. It's not working. >> Doctor hate to 2 things. When you used a term rolled when you talked about the manatee and I'm not familiar with that rather than cut. Did I get that? And then the second thing is would be around that lock. Rather than listening. Excuse me. Is there a sound? That could be broadcast on to the water? Maybe that would kind of. Skews me again. It would speed the manatees away from the lack something like that. Great and interesting points we've we've looked at putting sound into the environment. >> Which apparently is against the law for civilians anyway, so that that's not allowed by federal restrictions. Unfortunately. But the idea of having sort of like a deer whistle type thing that would light up an area to to let manatees know that there's that there's water craft in the area or there's something moving has been has been looked at in the past. Without great success. I would I might add because in shallow water environments because of the way sound bounces off of these various things. And you get a lot of interference and it's not the same as being out in deep water in the ocean. And and, you know, for example, the right issue there. It's it's a little bit different. I think it was. Your first question rolled or cut. So some manatees remembers get prop cuts and I from those profits and you can tell from the size of the prop. Okay. It was a commercial wrestler was a recreational vessel or likely to be, you know, this size vessel. But sometimes as blunt force trauma that's caused. And so you can get and can get hit by a boat and not exhibit any of those signs of of cutting from the prop with a scathing them on the on the motor, the engine unit. But the bones are broken and invariably they have punctured various organs and killed the animal that way. And so typically like a tug or abroad barge that might run over something and not cut it up. That that's the type thing I'm talking about being rolled and and with bones being broken and that kind of thing. Thank you. Commissioner Barker Commission hoiles MR. Point. >> Through the chair. Thank It seems like government now makes forward facing sonar. That's to rubble. For fisherman. Could drop one of those into the locking literally look around something the size of a manatee would show up brightly on a sonar like that. That's not expensive or exotic technology nowadays. It seems like that would be an easy solution. You could just see if there's a manatee in the way. >> And I would agree. And and hopefully that's being proposed by the state and feds that they do some you know. Quickly because it's quite simple and cheap to do that. I that sounds like a great research project actually for first and students to get out there and do >> Yeah, I mean, it's it's amazing. You can literally see fish. You know, cast to them. And you if you've ever very bizarre watch that bass fishing tournament, you'll see the best fishermen will do that. They'll have a steerable forward-looking sonar and they just look for the bason cast right to them. Manatee would be easy anyway. I hope they're out there looking at that because that would be a simple. Commercially available. You could you could buy at West Marine and, you Bass pro shops me he get it on Amazon. You could have it delivered tomorrow. Its, you know, not hard. >> That's an excellent idea. Thank just to follow up on that, doctor Pinto of who would incur the cost of that Queens Harbor or the cost of employing equipment would be incurred by the management company Queens Harbor and invariably would be passed on through association fees or whatever, through to to their constituents. Just want to get that on the record. So when you're pitching ideas, you know who's going to pay for it? >> Moving on. Thank Commissioner Hopson. Chair, Dr Patel. Just curious when we have the manatee deaths too. >> Collects the manatees. Some its not you guys as the fwc. It's at the zoo who's collecting amenities and then starting to see what they've been a cause. Thank you. So the the fwc has a marine mammal recovery team. >> deals with all the recovery's assists releases that kind of thing. Mizzou takes part in some of those releases and rehab of animals that they collect. But most of the time when they're dealing with caucuses, they will go out and do the necropsies either in the field or take them. But to the path of biology lab in St. Petersburg. And and so the fact that we see handles all that. >> Thank you, gentleman. Moving on to agenda. Public comment, Mrs Thompson that we have any cards. MR. Oliver. I can hear you, that's all of our name and address. You know, the routine. >> What are ways is economic engine for the city as a whole. But for black Americans who live on the east side don't wear it. I just feel ports authority does a lot economic engine that could focus all Creighton community trust far. If we can date this city back to its original city limits. >> Because the opportunity zone, 2 point There's a lot investment that is coming down the pipeline 2020 set. And where there's a lot of land. That caters our and the state compact, not commerce. Our Mac maximize every opportunity. There's undeveloped land jet Jacksonville, Porta door has acquired. A lot land along the waterways. Has a lot of rich potential. But I want my people, black Americans who are division is to America. The reach of the rewards. It just like and what they do in the last that the people of Alaska. >> Gaetz royalty. From >> And the little without port, I believe that we can create automated port. What black developers. >> Black engineers. >> Contracts. We create our own trust. We create our own economic empowerment. One day is not dependent on government. So so that's fun. But we get the initial investment. The dollars are already there. It's just opportunity has not been given to black Americans. You cannot say that. I don't know. What I know. Been in this building and I how that money flows. And one of things I want to do is create a economic engine for self determination. And that's one of the key talking points that really resonates with the culture of this. It. You let me do me. And that statue business. And this is the opportunity down trying to curry and one of the things I want to know is do without waterways. How many state parks associate with Jack Paul associated black Americans, how many local property associated with Jackson Because my ultimate goal is we keep the framework of consolidation, but we'll go back to the original city limits and we get a black American freedom >> thank you. MISS Oliver message on the money. >> I am John Jay new name and addresses on file r I where my fwc hat. Culinary Institute of America. And fwc. It's a play on the Fish and Wildlife Commission. And, you fwc fishing with creating. I hope you're going to be talking about the JUNE 22nd is probably rate before the day before the next city Council meeting is going to be one of the biggest events you can imagine, you know, for Nassau, Duval County, fwc so fishing with Brady fishing with crabs. These are some fiddler crabs just gone from the backyard. Just now. Phishing with credit. Fwc fission with cash. Fwc fishing with the commissioners. Phishing with council fishing with Chris Fishing with Carlucci fishing with Congress. You know, I'm 2 minutes. But right now what I want to share with you at last night Jacksonville City Council meeting. We're making a movie. It's real. 2026, 0, 3, 9, 6, Sot on Ruben rate of sight. You know what? I have my total room and sure underneath this. And this is Brooks rehabilitation. They are going to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of this potential park and parts per tree. And I'm just down a minute. 20. But also what this waterways commission needs to understand. Is that we just created 3 trust funds. 2026, 0, 0, 0, 4, Parks Trust fund. 2025, 0, 4, 6, 3, It's a better it's. Trust fund. 2009 for 40 Tuesday Artificial Reef Trust fund. That goes back a ways. And now we're going to have 2026, 0, 3, 9, 6, which is for movies marketing to the world. It's real. It's not pay. Dana, 40 some seconds. You know, is that Saint John's, the board of County commissioners? You know, right here, JUNE 2nd. Here is the Northeast, Florida Regional Council, 7 counties. No, you're gonna be talking about find, you know, have a super you're in the movie. You know, you all are. This is huge. Ways fine. Commissioner, I was on that trip. Super props. Daryl Joseph Jail and is Brian Burton. You our waterways. It is tourism. So going up, here's the donation. 2025, 0, 4, 6, 3, for the veterans. Thank you, MR. Knowning and here's the other 3. Thank you. All right. Any questions? It's unknown have a safe place. >> It's what recent Bell. Richards avail. >> My address is on for now. >> We visit. George Kerr debris. It. So on Friday. We stopped different businesses. To let everyone know that the mayor we'll be visiting in this opiate. Jorge grated breeze This month. 22nd and then 30. We invite you all to come out and >> Take a tour with problem, too, with the mayor and >> we want you to see what's going on down there. Also. >> I don't know if you all knew know our concern about really haven't actions that. >> The >> someone dp the fdot taken over their whole whole picture they're taking over everything that. And I felt we Duval at par today and was out of and to come find out people that are in charge of it and where I gotta say honesty is the best policy. To be honest and be fair and transparent because a lot going on. Yeah. They're developing a lot to take in a lot. And somebody know about it. Now that's open breeze. The Thai man take that he's taken a And that didn't just happen yesterday. The community do not know wet. We know anything signed, sealed and delivered. Some sneaky been is is going on and that's not fair. Yell. We should know something that boat ramp was built. We didn't even know nobody was going be a noble They could lose their memory to kick this off. They will care nothing about Everybody made it can be but a backless reroute it to sure you from old bridge to new one. They took take those off the bridge. And when I say us, rid yellow, black, white, green, purple, we all GOD's children. They keep does That really? It? We need to be on that region. We need to We need to fish for We need the children for all of us to come Everyone do have a bold. They don't water in the Beit Ur. We can get a cane pole and we aren't being caged beast. When you we get ready. We're not fortunate enough to have to taken everything away from downtown. We can't go downtown and fish. There's nowhere for us to roll. We him. Yeah, what's going on? And it's not fair that you don't let the community Thank you. >> Thank you, MISS Bill. I would encourage you to remain persistent on on this matter. Moving down the gender. Going to flip-flop of some of the new business because of an updated technical update. So when moved to the discussion? Of the fine letter of support for a comprehensive water shed analysis. The pomp and creek. Ms McGillis. Would you put in the proper posture there? Is this a Brian thing who I have not seen? >> That was can't MISS Barker, It's on >> The reason that I asked for that to go in as I've been serving CHAIRMAN Of the Finance subcommittee for the last number of years become up again shortly the folks supporting up and had gotten in touch with find will find was here and got a letter support from them. And so what suggested? The e-mail to one of the sport's e-mail we had received. Was it maybe we could Some money and asked for some money in the in the next find budget. Put on the list for consideration when we go through the process, which is coming up fairly soon. So in other words, put it officially on the list of of projects to consider. So there will be at least start to that's a long process. But we're least be a start. To provide some kind of funding at some level for this. It if you couldn't get anything started any sooner. Find is very slow. You're not going to get any money for probably 2, 3 years because these things charted out pretty carefully. And construction and design is already done. Money's kind of. Committed, but at least this will give start too. Something solid as far as addressing the problem. But I just wanted throw it in front of MISS The Barker waterways dollars. Are we talking about? >> Well, they need to come up and making ask is typically what they do. But what we typically do with waterways as we just have an idea, she's with the find subcommittee is put an idea on the list of projects to be considered. >> unless there's some sort of objection. Hear anybody thinks it's inappropriate. I just thought it would be a good idea to put on that list for consideration. And then what we can do is we can discourse back with them and find out. What they're asking for. Don't even think we know the cost of the soils examination that they're asking for would be at this point. Do we anybody know that? Yeah, I don't so. But at least I think we need to go and put on the list. Find is interested. So let's put it on our list. Least it's it's it's out there. And that's something tangible that they can work on. In addition to other things that might hit sooner. >> there any conversation for many of the commission? Mr? Cherry, should we asked MISTER Burkett? To discuss the application of this idea? Thank you, hardly. At first thought he was a prop of Oi Brian, go ahead. >> Good morning, Brian Burke, Parks department I was at that fine meeting when they're in town a couple weeks ago did hear the gentleman speak to them and they had receptive voice. >> So I think that's what generated this that was in your packets. I did reach out to the executive director finds I want some clarity on what her letter said and what she's recommending, what would be Grant eligible. So the letter is suggesting a first step would be a comprehensive watershed analysis study which would help identify the cause of the sedimentation within that. Within that channel. What she does, what you did clarify to me, that study would not be find eligible. They would not provide any dollars for that study. But the recommendations that come from that study could be fined eligible if their support from the from this body in the City council. But since it that since there is no public water access facility along that water body. It would not be eligible at the 50% reimbursement. This would only be eligible for. A 25% reimbursement. And it also stipulates their grant rules say that for this type of project, the 50%. 50% of the match dollars would have to come through general taxes or assessment of the benefiting properties. So it's different. Then this would toy different. It could still be if it's big. The recommendations from the a backup, the recommendations that come from this study which still would need to be funded by the city or elsewhere, but not find apparently you know that I assume that would take a whole year to to to identify the recommendations. But whatever those recommendations are identified, we could add those projects to our finalists for consideration, but just know that the the reimbursement level is significant is half of what we typically get. And the match dollars. Half of those matches ours have to come from the benefiting properties. So I don't know if that's already set up as a taxing district. I know there was some discussion over that in the past. So that's a little light on the subject that makes it a little more unique than the typical project that we would. Thank you. Option, if we did put public facility there, a boat ramp in the eye, look, there's really minimal opportunities if we did have a public access facility, then that would make it eligible for the 50%. >> Thank you, MR. Birkett MISTER Carlucci and missed the Barker after misconduct. Thank you. MISTER Chair. Most of those studies generally cost to Missouri number. You can put on that the size of that one right there. I mean, up, I've looked at it, you know, from Google Earth that area. And met with some of constituents out there talked to him over the phone, I should say. That city is not inclined to pay for that. And now Amber looming in that. Referendum on. You know, those kind of the property tax cuts. That makes it likely. We're not. We're going to be further less inclined to spend money on that. But you have no idea what this costs or maybe commissioner oil's over there. That nose with. That are classes with no, but I'm just curious. MAY know the cause of 100,300 1050 1000 guests. And if I was to take a that we would. >> Yeah, you have to hire engineer or consulting firm to do that. Study, MR. Barker. >> Grateful that you're here didn't know you'd be able to be here. So just as for this be put on a day or 2 ago, my thought on this was that analysis would be kind of a one to 2 year process and then it would dredging be a better match if we got an analysis that said go ahead and read gender these conditions so that we can dredge in the in the main body. But would this be eligible for the regular match? Dredging portion. >> The dredging project is certainly eligible. But again, would be only be at the 25% because there's no public access facility on this water body just all privately benefit the benefit property properties. We need to contribute. According to the grant rule. But I think find also wants to know It's obviously there. There seems to be some kind of the cause. Effect here. So. If we win or we asked for a dredge funding, they want to know. Do we look at what's the cause of the sedimentation and is there a mitigating design factors that can be contributed to this project. So it would not coming back and doing this and regular frequency because they don't want to spend their dollars on a project that's going to fill short time because we didn't due diligence and figure out the cause and mitigate. The source of that. >> I didn't think fund was necessarily gonna be able to solve their problem. But if it's even up to 25% match, we start fund funding from other sources and find is going to be I mean, the earliest that I could see having dealt w