Bay Park Improvement Board

I think call this meeting to order. We have a I say we have pledge, a public contact. We disagree, but we will be respectful of one. Another will retract her comments, tall issues. And we will not engage in personal attacks until after the meeting. I just feel that last one that's so on our agenda here today. Well, I should say missing mayor, warmer. All right. We have our guests happy founding chief executive officer of the Bank Point Conservancy whose? us with an update here. I'm sorry. You have any citizens and put Does use and less? We have any citizen comments, OK? All right, then we'll have the approval of the minutes. You'll get a chance to read the minutes. I move approval. All right. Isn't a second. Second. All right. Miles in favor say Aye. I I very good. They passed unanimously. All right. Now have an update in face Tim Sargeant ahead of >> Well, it proves we need to point >> So I'm looking this one here. first step reappoint the community men ? I apologize. Alright? Apartment or employment of the BB I B P community members. >> Member. There isn't just one tell you why. I thought you're a slam dunk and a real as we go through All right. this nomination, are >> Well, yeah, I I would be very happy to nominate John I not aware of anybody who has stepped forward, but I believe that John is an excellent committee member. So I want to nominate him. All right. >> I think of second that nomination. I will go along with. >> You can you can not to make it easy on >> Haha >> hardly great. That Johnson, some representative. And I favor say Aye. There are urine again, sir. Thank you. All right, then and now an update on the par off. >> I'm great. I'm going to hand it over Emily Walsh who is whenever our executive officers on the border secretary and the head of the Conference committee to start >> meeting today. Well, thank G good afternoon. Commissioners and mister Thaksin. As you mentioned, I'm Emily Walsh, secretary of the Bay Park Conservancy Board of directors. And I would like to thank you for your leadership and vision for the Bay Park projects like this aren't very easy to get off the ground. But because of your foresight and the collaboration of many community partners that they part is truly a success story on behalf of the Bay Park Conservancy in our entire community. Thank you. This past weekend I visited the Saint Pete Pier and I was struck by how many people were using and enjoying what is in essence a 26 acre concrete attraction. But it is a great example of how thoughtful design and activation can transform a downtown and create a place for people to gather. But that visit may be even more proud and even more excited about the Bay Park. Proud because our 10 acre phase one park welcomes more than 300,000 visitors every year. And we'll likely see. 35 to 40,000 more at her upcoming 3rd anniversary celebration and excited. Because just imagine what's ahead. I went hat when the full park 53 acres will be completed realize just how many people will be there to enjoy and explore. Together, building something lasting, not just a park, but a place where people can gather for many generations and will and enrich our community. So I want to thank you for your support and your partnership. And I will turn it back over to our founding CEO AG Lafley. Thank you, Emily. You all know me. >> And a sheen is with us. She is the chief operating officer of the park. She manages operates. Programs with teams, the park and she's an important part of the design and planning team. I think, you know, Phillip Di Maria, he's been with us since the beginning and you cannot see, but I'm told Adam Dell Turner, our manager of all things, implementation design and planning is also on the line and he can speak, he can't be seen. You know, the wonders of modern I do want to say a word about Adam because when Bill, when Bill Wendell moved on to teasing him. The bright lights and big performing arts centers. We went through a process thinking about, you place him in. What do we need in the way of? Implementation management going forward without going into all the details. We were pretty lucky. The First 10 acres ended up being. much a Greenfield ended up being pretty much park. we didn't have to weave our way around bunch of other site partners or get too involved with the infrastructure, get into the business of assessing and rehabilitating historic buildings that have been around for decades. Some nearly 100 years. So I turned to the gang that I've worked with for about a decade up in Cincinnati in center city development. And we got incredibly lucky because Adam was finishing up a convention park and hotel project downtown and he decided to spin out and start his own planning and development company. So. He's a Vanderbilt, urban planning graduate. He's a post-grad of Cincinnati. UM, School of Architecture, Design, architecture and planning. He spent 20 years at center City Development. We're really happy to have them because they've done over 200 old buildings that they had to work through the rehab that the delegation restoration and renovation of. We're in the parking business. Now he's done multiple parking garages, including 3 underground garages to under parks. Were in the restaurant and food and beverage business. Now. He worked on over 50 in downtown all the way down to the waterfront park. And we're working closely with our colleagues from the City Sarasota performing Arts Foundation and he worked on the renovation of Music Hall and on the renovation Memorial Hall, which are 2 principal performance spaces in Cincinnati. So glad to have him on board. I embarrassed you, but you can't blush if we can see Haha. We were talking a bit about this before hand and it's a great introduction to the hole you know, the proposal today. From the beginning, we've been focused on conserving this 53 acres for the benefit of the community meeting. City County, other counties region and visitors. And conservation comes first conservation preservation and restoration restoration of all the waterways, restoration of green space that used to be there. That. Got replaced over the years. Right? And then the second step in boy was this underlined last year is resilience. We talk about coastal resilience. But when you think about the site, you have to think about the resilience of the entire site. We'll talk about it a bit more. It's not an easy sight to work with because of it where it's located, how it's configured, et cetera, et cetera. But resilience is incredibly important. And then we moved to stormwater management. One of the things we're most proud of in the first phase is we do treat 70 million gallons of runoff that comes through the site over 300 million gallons do come through the site still. So we have 230 mundt million gallons when the 2 projects we talk about the day put put a big dent in that in that workload in our storm treatment, trains are pretty sophisticated. We presented to Florida Aslan American Association of Landscape last year. Our team just presented at the National Conference this year. We presented the NOAA National She and I can. I can't remember the esta rest of it and we don't bunting here to correct me. But people are very interested across Florida around Florida and across the nation about this whole notion of resilience and stormwater treatment. And then and only then we start looking at who are the users of the site. What do they do when they come to the site? How can we make their experience better than it is today? And then we start designing the park pieces and amenities and features, but that's how we work. It's like a layer cake. Okay. And I think it's him important to understand that. Too long. The preamble we're going to cover 3 things. sorry, 3 things. We're going to update you on the progress of the park in the phase. 2 projects. We're going to recommend approval of one phase 3 project and continued to design and plan a second phase 3 We're going to give you a preview of phase 4 and invite you to come to the anniversary. I'll do the first few slides than Diana jump in and take us through phase 2. And then I'll come back. You know, we just curtsy through the slide. But if you really think about what's happened in our community. The county parks of improved, we have Nathan Benderson Park City parks. Keep improving. Paine Park Bayfront Park. Since Saint Armands yesterday. I couldn't believe how good it looked when all of a replanting after the the storms. So parks are important. We used to be known for beaches. You know, our parks and Green Space Center in our blue space is just as important. This is I mean, we start we start with guiding principles and everything. I'm going to mention a few things because they're so important. We really are going for transformation. Environmental restoration transformation and the transformation in every way resilience stormwater, water, quality. Park place. A great place for users we are living learning laboratory. I can tell you not a week or a month and I'm not just talking about the weather and the climate. I mean, we do every time we put a shovel in the ground, we discover something that we work. We didn't know was there. That wasn't drawings that nobody else knew. Was there and we get on with that, OK, >> We do think hard and long about the first and best use of every acre of land on that And it's really important. And I think it shows and our 3 a proposal we're we're delivering on one park for all if you just come out some of the events, you will see that with your own eyes. And we become a gatherings place. Yes, we work in environmental sustainability, but we also work really hard and financial sustainability and we work really hard and operation sustainability because if you don't have all of that. It's just it's not going to last. we are the epitome of a community partnerships. We have I don't know. We have a slide that will show you how many partners yet. We have a lot of This is another slide that we share with you. We ran out of space so we only updated at 2 men face to construction begins. this just reminds us that this is an 11 year old problem. Well, 12 year-old project from inception and 9 year-old project from the planning phase of the master plan and seven-year-old project from the beginning the Park Conservancy. This is probably easier to track and more relevant to the meeting today. this you know, once the master plan was proved in the Park Conservancy was put in place. We've been proceeding step by step. With phase 2. For the first time we were able to accelerate We have the capacity. We had the resources. With the people and with the experience and the talent. So we can do 2, 3, 4 projects at a time, which is what we're doing now. And we're recommending that we continue that the advantages of that are it's obviously financially more affordable. We do more things sooner. We do more things at the same time. We don't disband teams. We keep construction teams in place to keep engineering teams in place. So it's more effective and more efficient that way. But I'm frankly it's e it's a win for the community. You know, they they get more park to enjoy. and it's a win for all the site users because half of the site users world as well showing the moment our park has. But half of site users come for another reason for another purpose. I think this is important. This is our roles and We tried player position and do our job. It was so tired of me saying they're it player position. Do your job, you know, make the team better. but it works. And and so we know, you know, we we know what swim lanes were supposed to be n we are responsible for keeping the master plan up to date. We do design plan and develop each phase in partnership with the Park Improvement board and city and County Commission. We manage operate, maintain what we what we build. And we raise funds and we'll show you in the next slide from private and government sources other than the city in the county. So these are side by side pie charts. The one on the left shows all the spending through August 31st. 2025 73.4 million dollars. and the one on the right shows only the implementations pending. So only this money improve start in the right to do this Japanese style. On the we spent 63.4 million and forty-nine percent of that has come come mostly from private donations. A sliver from a few government grants. The county all paid through that F thank you for that is 23% and city share is a bit more because in addition the TIF money they put in 3 million in capital to begin with. And there's a little rounding here and they give us 200 plus 1000 the last 2 years to help with some of the maintenance and and a peep which is on the slide on the left. All the slide on the left does is add the 10 million dollars that we've spent from the beginning for over 7 years, too manage operate maintain program park. We said from the beginning. The private sector would be in. We said from the beginning, you know, we can do. And we also said from the beginning when we're done, we should end up in about 50, 50 government and private side on the funding side. ? I mentioned this the slide earlier. it's another one that hangs in the lobby that I stare at a lot. This is. I'm not going to bore you with everything you can glean from the slide. But a significant part of the site was under water. Right? So it's Phil. More than two-thirds of phase one was Phil. Van Wezel forming parcel sits is felt. Interestingly, the original site, the most developed piece was the fishing in the voting area, which is been there continuously from the beginning to around a bit. But we have a very active. And I'm very boating community. That is not a magic. This. Their commercial voters there, recreational boaters, their boaters that want to launch from a public boat launch. They're boaters that want to bring their boats in and doc in a public boat launch area so they can use what's available on that site. So getting 5 voters to agree on exactly the same thing is is always a challenge. But we've done a lot of engagement with them over the years and an incredible amount of engagement in the last 6 months in their input chosen recommendation for 3 a interestingly, there's a fair amount of Parkland back in 1930's. There was a private lawn bowling club which has since moved to Bobby Jones. There were public tennis courts and that was our first community center and performing arts. All. And you'll notice that building was located pretty close to 41 and retreated as far away as it could from the water. That was that was a good move. Next slide. the existing condition. When we started he was mostly gray space. At least for those buildings were abandoned. To have come down to rehabilitating and on the right was the edition of the master plan that was formally approved by the City Commission. In November of 2023. And now I'm turning it to. 2 more. Yeah, she says you're making me work I think this one's self the acres are there. 53? I will say it is one of the most diverse mix of uses you. You know, I cannot find another park in America that has all of these different uses. In it and their many parks that are a lot bigger and have fewer fewer uses. We will get it done. We believe we can get it done to an 8 to 10 years. If we get it done in 8 to 10 years, we believe we can do it for 200 million dollars, which was. 15200 million was the original. Number. And we can do it in 4 phases. And we'll talk more about the 4 buildings in the National Register. we sharpen our pencils and we work with this, our site partners and we came up with an estimate of about 700,000 users using the site in 2023, 2020 forgot all gummed up by the. The hurricane. So let's say we're still at about 700,000 users, about half of them. Our part gas and the other. The other. Big chunks of users, of course, our of the Van Wezel performing Arts Hall. The orchestra, the Municipal Auditorium, the the public Boat Basin and the Art Center welcomes over 50,000 a year. And then we have the Garden Club and on and on. Yeah. Okay. Now to over to this is slide captures. >> The awards we've received to date. But I want you to understand we're not doing this to receive awards. That's not what this park is about. But you can see that even our very talented implementation and design partners are being recognized. They were recognized as part of design and now that their designs are becoming a reality, they're getting recognized locally regionally nationally and we actually made the shortlist for both architecture and on landscape design internationally, which is pretty amazing for phase one. And on the right side, these are just sources of pride for our team. We get best jobs from local readers. Our team was delighted by this year. We won the Sarasota Chamber Community Impact Award which we take great pride in because we care about making sure our park guests have an incredible experience. I'm not going to spend more time on it. Just letting you know that there are real proud moment. So I'm an engineer by training. So numbers matter to me and we pulled the slide together because we're celebrating our 3 years. And we just want to summarize for you. What happened for our community? I'm not going to read you all the numbers, but we've had as of yesterday we had 920,000 people who have walked made a visit to that park. We're going to celebrate the millionth. And if you want it, you know, we're not going to give you any insider information for when that is because I know John Saxon would probably run back and forth past my sensors to get there. But we are that we that we are going to celebrate the millions visitor. It be great if we got it this year. If it's not this year, it will be early next year. We've had without 180,000 people attend a free event so far, actually, our friends of the Bay is about and why that's important is one. It shows community engagement and support of the park throughout our community and our region. But to a house catalyze. Funding, write grants, government Grants, Foundation grants Lee donors will ask. So are you having people supporting? Yes, we are. And we work like crazy and that toward the end of the year, we'll continue our friends of the Bay Campaign to drive that we have about volunteers who work their tails off to make sure the parks looks like great to have a dog patrols. You're interested on Sunday mornings. We have the Dawn patrol comes in, cleans the park every Sunday morning. We have many opportunities, including some openings for 30 anniversary. If you want to help pull some trash for taste of the bay or something else. Just, you know, after the meeting what age you just mentioning was we have partners again. Our team is 12 people. We're not a big team. So we have to have a strong network of partners. We've got more than 200 partners who help us design and build and maintain the park. So it looks like as good on good now as it did on day one. It's a standard. We keep we have 150 people plus to show their talents as part of our free programming. And we have 100 plus business partners who pool their funds together to pay for that free park programming that our community enjoys every day. And then we've got 60 plus part nonprofit partners. And that's a cool thing we do on our site. We bring nonprofits together who have a mission, which is common in aligned with ours. And we help amplify what they're trying to do with what the bay is capable doing. And so we've brought at least 60 of them on the site and then all the other stuff, you know, and I'm not going to go through, but there are a lot of numbers to be excited about. As AG said, we've kind of I always forget if it's coded fighter codified our approach. What is it is a coat, a fighter codified. you know, I don't one using both. No tomato. Okay. But I do but how we approach each phase of this project is we look at what's possible. So it's a new space. When we talk about 3 a we look at everything that's possible. Then we go, OK, what is feasible? What can we really do? What do the users really want from this? We don't just. Dream in the sky. We actually talked to our users and then we start to build and then figure out what we can program and build amenities for. So this this 5 step process we clean up so phase one. If you think about we clean up the by you for the first time in who knows how long and we dredge we've window we get rid of the invasive plants. Then we go. We clean up. We improve storm water management because we know next to the bay, we have to improve water quality. That is one of our important jobs. Then we go, OK, how are we going to make this area more resilient again, understanding its 5 foot elevation at the bay shoreline and we need to build up. And then we as AG said, we restore, preserve, conserve and as much green spaces we can for people to enjoy and then lastly, that's when we had fancy Park features a nice shade structure, some beautiful shares. Great lighting. A great led screen that you can watch great Bucks football game or come see the movie tonight. And amenities as well as program. Okay. But we do that after we did in those first steps and we that's what our conversations are about. One. We had a right. I shared this slide with you last time. I'm not. We play to essential roles. We're going to protect the Sarasota Bay from the city through our storm. Water excellence plan that helps us improve water quality and capture every drop of water that's passing through the site and then the other direction. And that was as we talked last time, extremely important. They making the site resilience so that we protect the city from the Bay. This is just a snapshot of improving water quality in our First 10 Acres, Ag talked about 70 million gallons polluted stormwater. We're treating every single year we use in our treatment train. It's called best management practices. We use a combination of natural. So like how can we capture the water? Bring it into the ground and or have passed through plants or bias whales. So it gets clans before it heads to the bay. But we also have baffle boxes just months above the ground. You have we have them throughout the county, the capture and treat the water and we use built items as well above and below the ground. You know, we use the same old 2 to 3 feet of polluted cell with debris was actually removed from that by you mangrove. I told you last time from the canal district, which is really a basin. It's not a canal north of 10 street. And I know that we extracted 3,000 square feet of toxic toxic scrap from there. This is you're not going to be tested on the slide. I promise. This is what we call our storm. Water excellence master plan. Collectively from day one. This team has prioritized storm water excellence as part of everything we do and what this is intended to show you is we have intentionality for every acre of the 53 Acres. 2 use it as a way to improve water quality I want to pass and he's really fast. But they are important. You saw these last time. But I'm reminding you of this because you've seen a lot of things since then. Well, after the storms hit, we were open. We never closed. We did suffer a million plus damages. And we learned the site had 2 different outcomes. The left was the resilient shoreline. It's in phase one that was intentionally designed to be resilient and to allow the water to flow back after storm surge, 200 yards north, you'll see near the van Wezel and all the overlooks. You know, they were devastated. But again, if you intentionally designed for to be resilient. Versus not intentionally designed. Native a natural always works better than manmade. We again learned our lesson to one column on the right. Those are our matchups. Those our learnings. we are doing that again. We're not building manmade things near the water that can self destruct. This is a great chart that shows this is the site. From above. The blue shows use of vulnerability for flooding that's below 6 feet. My eyes tell me that a lot of its blue. so we're going to keep not keep taking you through what we're looking at. AG will take you through for phase 3. This is and again there you won't have a test on this. The left side is how we are approaching resilience as part of the phase, 2 resilient shoreline that we have shown you. I'm Jennifer Jorgensen will join us in a minute. As we talk that project in more detail. But the left side is north of Van Wezel up through 10 street where we're adding rain gardens and vetements and will tell you more in a minute. The right side is after Milton. We said we better improve the resiliency of area next to just west of Centennial Park. So we call that north resilient shoreline on the right. From the beginning. We have looked at the elevations of the site. This is the original master plan drawing. And as you can see that the numbers in parentheses are what the current elevation is at that location on the site today. It gets higher as we get closer Tamiami overall low. So let me point out in the middle, there's a plus. And then there's Apprentice c 6. That's the Van Ways Center of the Van Wezel parking lot today. At this point in time we said we go to 18 feet. Ag is going to show you a plan. We think 20 feet is as good. If not better and help. Explain in a minute. Why? But we have always had elevations on the site. Front and center in terms of our design. This is another more elevation that shows that we've moved it up a little to be about 20 feet in the middle. I'm going to face to and how we're doing approaching some of that and then ages going going 3. Here's the update. So phase 2 was about let's. Let's make a ring. Let's do as much green space as we can without knowing certain things that are other initiatives are going on. The site. So we went north of Van Wezel across 10 street and down Tamiami, so resilient Shoreline Canal District, cultural district. And we're going we La Tate and repurpose historic buildings on the Give you an update on that. OK? We say we're going to do we do it and we're very disciplined. That doesn't mean we are perfect and we learn a time. But we are on plan on budget and on schedule it how we run. If we're off budget, we make choices and we make priority calls to stay in budget. This is a slide. The AG and I showed you last time in March we had a column for October 2025, here's what you need to know. We're still at the 65 million dollar target. Yes, there are few $100,000 here or there that's gone up or down. But we're still within the 65 million dollars. Target. questions on this one take you one by on the canal district we're almost done. We are going to open up docks on the South side of the canal district in the next few weeks before we did that, we rehabilitated the sea wall. That is along the south side of the canal. And some of that had been there from the 1930's. So we rehabilitated that. And then we've added floating day docks, which are now a new standard for storm surge and sea level rise. In listening to voters in getting their feedback in in outreach discussions. We did not put any cleats immediately across from where the ramps are. Commissioner tries asked how wide is that? It's about 100 feet wide. Which enables at least 2 boat lengths to pull out from the ramps, turn around and go out. What I told Commissioner Trice. Usually people who are piloting 50 foot long boats know what they're doing. And so they probably don't even need that much space. But out of respect for the concerns we didn't put cleats directly across. So there won't be any in the short term. Boat stocking on the bottom. Why is this initiative important? Because it gives people from throughout the region access to the park. By water we can and we can reduce over time. We can reduce, you know, road traffic, but allows people to come spend the day in the park. They can come and spend the day in the city. They could go to a show Van Wezel. It allows them access by water. So that's often up in the next few weeks. The other circle which I'll get into in a minute, we as you remember last time we are moving forward with the first restaurant along Bay as we know collectively, there aren't enough water for restaurants and the community really wants that. And so in the initial phases of design of that. Okay, cultural district. This is the area along Tamiami as you recall. It didn't look like park look like a bunch of buildings, but some blacktop. Okay. So now we just opened up. And for those of you who are on the 24th, we're going to an official ribbon cutting. This is phase 2, a of the cultural district. It is a 16 foot wide shelved. Concrete walkway similar to what if you walk along Boulevard of the arts, it's got 40 royal palms that are majestic and line the park and on the left side, we are have planted canopy trees that over the next several years will then enable shade to happen over this small way. In addition, what you don't see him, please come and see it. If you haven't driven by a go up to 10 street roundabout come down. We also have on the east side along Tamiami a multi use trail that's also shelled concrete that you can walk or use your and people are using its amazing how quickly they've used Next phase, which we will start in the spring is phase 2 B, which includes the town square, which is will be a new gathering place for people in the community. We're very excited about it will have a shade structure on steroids said about 500 people can sit stand, enjoy a concert. You can see the stage will be about 20 by. 24. But this is to be another gathering place and place where people can come together. It provides green space. It celebrates the Banyan tree that's been there for who knows how long our intent is, will start construction March April and then have it open by next year's 4th anniversary. Okay. And here's a close-up of the shade structure. In addition, we are rehabilitating the historic buildings that are on the site. The Garden clubs now done. Last time we talked to you so the lawn got trashed by Helene, the salt water damage. We have totally redone that we put the butterfly gardens and a huge pots. So therefore, if their storm surge again, it won't touch and kill the plants. And we native natural and salt tolerant plantings there can be used to great. So the garden clubs now done should see we officially moved into a July 15th. Again, if you come on the 24th or if you want to come just let us know. Very proud of our new global headquarters for the park it's fantastic. That structure was shored up. So it started from the bottom pay. repurpose rehabilitated and preserved as much as we can. So has the original trato floor. It has most of the original class blocks and has brick walls. It's it's fabulous. So we're proud of it. They from community center, which is located on the backside of the it's completely under construction. We hope that will be open by March. We're renovating that. It is a rental menu and a park programming space. It needed some love and we're giving it some love and then the next one on the docket is Municipal Auditorium, effective October. First, taking over management of Municipal Auditorium for the city. We are running it for about 6 months and then we're going to shut it down and renovated it to need some love. And so we're going to renovate it because it's a fantastic space for the community that can be used for so many uses. And we really want to make that a place that people know they they can rent for community meetings, things like that. And then blew pagodas next on our list as well to do a a little remodeling. It was done in 2018 high, 17, 18 likely clean it up and now we're going to remodel to be a rental venue. And as I said, the bottom right is just a sketch of a concept for the Bay Front restaurant that will be where that Coast Guard was. Jen, you want to come up and talk sure why Jens coming because the resilient shoreline is funded, two-thirds or maybe more. If we're lucky. >> grants from other government through than the city and the county, the city is managing the project. Thank you, Mister. Awfully. >> Chair Smith board members, Jennifer Jorgensen, City of Sarasota, Governmental Affairs director. And as Mister Awfully just the city is actually taking the initiative to put the solicitation together and managed to slip station for the resilience shoreline and the main purpose for that is is we received multiple grants for this project. The Big 10 Million Dollar Grant, which cdbg met federal grant. That's actually coming to the city through the Florida Department of comes to the state and then comes to us. And that was applied for and then provided to the city. And so since the majority of that that funding is through the city, we're taking the initiative to do the competitive solicitation. So it goes through our procurement department follows all of our procurement codes and is managed by or general manager procurement. So we work very closely with Bay Park Conservancy team on creating the scope for the resilient shoreline. They have done the design, work on that and then worked with our procurement department to put together that solicitation because there are 2 big grants are really 3 big grants. The 10 million dollars cdbg. And then there's 2 smaller state that we're using. We have a lot of different steps that we have to go to before we can post the So the first one was actually getting the solicitation put together. That has now been sent to the Department Commerce with the state of Florida. They now take the time to review that make sure all of the cdbg requirements are in that solicitation before we can post So that is with them. And they're doing that review right now. There are also 2 other requirements that have been completed that we needed to do before we post that solicitation. And I have to look say only know the acronyms and not allow these but there is a funding of no significant impact that needed to be done. And that's because an environmental review was was owed on this. And so we need to post that for specific period of time to show that there was no environmental of significant importance for this project that has now been posted by the city auditor and clerk's office. And that is one of the requirements and the second posting that we had to do for notice to request funds. And so that posted at the exact same time on that than no significant impact was posted. Those 2 things have to be for a set number of days, which again has been completed. That allows us to post the solicitation. As soon as we get the OK from the Florida commerce. So once we have everybody is OK, we will go ahead and post that, which we're hoping to do prior to Thanksgiving. We'll have solicitation posted for 30 days taken all of respondents and have an evaluation committee, then that pick the lowest bid since it's an invitation to So that's where we're at with the solicitation. Once this list stations done, the city will work closely with the paper Conservancy to project the project as it goes through. >> Questions resuming meant Mister Chairman. I'm assuming it's the same standard that the some lowest qualified bid. It's an invitation to bid to the it's actually the lowest price. So there's not and there's not multiple evaluation criteria like you would for a request for proposal. >> Thank Thanks, Jen. The media, the me just give you a few top lines on resilient shoreline right now. If you look at the left of this slide. You're at 5 feet. If you walk north of Van Wezel by the time you get to the right slot, it destroyed the left side. But the right side of it, which we're going in one and a half days of the Van Wezel parking lot. It will go up to 9 and a half feet. So that is the start of building toward are 18 to 20 feet. This is and also there's going to be rain gardens again. So water can go flow into that guy. Cleanse by Nash, natural native plants before it ever goes out into the bay. We will have walkways and going back in the switch back to a slide. The version of this I showed you last time had overlook Senate. We Photoshop the overlooks out because we're not building overlooks over water. Now based on what we learn from So you'll see there are no overlooks. But there are moments you can look out and it will be beautiful for sun for sunset. We're doing. We're going to 6 on the right side of the coin. They got. Demolish not demolished but got damaged significantly during last year's storms. We're going to add to light walls and access to beach area, if you will, and sell that back in and make this area more resilient. So as storms go up to the Centennial Park parking lot, they can then scroll back down and clinch the water. >> Okay. All all of phase 2 will be. Completed by the end of 27. Everything Kelly Stricklin reminds us that we need to have as much as possible expense by May of 26, you know, to take full benefit of the city's pond terms, which were also working on. the the western half of the cultural district will be done next fall and of waterfront restaurant and the resilient shoreline will be done the fall afterwards. Right? So that's the timeline moving to phase 3 the theme is the same. We start with resilience we build in stormwater. We didn't mention but under the piece of cultural district that we've just opened, there are huge infiltration chambers underneath that parking lot. That capture stormy order as west. Yes, our engineers actually did for that parking lot. That's new as part of >> We reduce runoff into Tammy into North Tamiami by 90%. And so we actually captured the water, bring it out. And cleanse it and take it out to the bay. Pretty significant. It's kind of like director Cent above ground. You have an erector set below ground and it's all going to connect together >> so we'll move to the first slide. again building on site resiliency. is essentially Centennial Park. It's the piece of Centennial Park. That's not. Part of the resilient shortland scope. So 10 acres, 9 or 10 acres we have a lot of feedback from site users. We talked about the feedback from the boating community. And when I get to 3 be will be talking about the evolving needs of in ways a little and the future design and planning new performing arts center. why next? Why Centennial Park is a relatively discreet piece the site. Where we can demonstrate the proof of park concepts and frankly improve the user experience dramatically for the primary users of that area. Who are the the voters who who? Launch from there and now will be able to come in there. Create will continue to extend the ring of Park. A green space around the site. as I said, we'll will dramatically improve the experience for site users. The project we're recommending is the 16 Million Dollar project about 13 and a half to 14 million dollars of that is hard costs. The rest is design and planning costs and contingency. We can complete the design. 3.60%, by the end of the year and begin to permit. And we could build the first phase of that, which would be the upland phase, the parking lot, the walkways, the green space in 2026 and come back and do all of the infrastructure the seawalls additional boat launches and fixing the boat launch phase. And the day docks in 27. We're also asking for 4 million dollars to continue the design and planning the center of the Bay Park 12 come to after 3 a we're recommending because, listen, we totally understand funding sources are a challenge for everyone these days. The city has 50 plus million. And hurricane recovery and repair work that they're doing. >> I was talking to the county pick a number on how many hundreds of millions are going to be invested in storm water alone and resilience across our county. So our proposal is we fund this a 3rd, a 3rd, a 3rd. Each partner chooses its source of funds. Yeah, we have a point of view that it could be there and the current TIF trust fund. And each party city and county made their normal full deposits for 3.27. But in in the end, the county chooses if they choose to go ahead with the project. If they approve the project, how to fund and the city does the same. Our proposal for our 6 and a half to 7 million right now and that we use all of the available penny surtax, which was 6 million dollars over 5 years. So this is 3 years. 25 26 27 portion of the penny surtax. We will apply for grants from the same sources that gave us 2 million dollars worth of grants for the south side of the Boat Basin for the seawall on the day tax maybe we're conservative. Maybe we're not going to see. I and II just opened their the grant application season. They generally don't grant more than half a million. So if we get one and a half million will get half a million from WC. I and II will get a million from. Florida Fish and wildlife and then we've we have or will raise at least 2 million, 2 from private sources for resilience and storm water management in park amenities. Here's what the project looks like. Yeah, you know, the first question you always have to ask designer plan is what did you not put in? What did you leave out and we left and of course, this was a decision that the the Sarasota Performing Arts Foundation in City made together, but they've decided to move any location of the Sarasota of any future performing arts centers south of the Boat Basin we had initially had a 2 restaurants there in the master plan. As you saw, if you go back, it's unbelievable. We had 4, 5, 6, restaurants ringing that base and it just doesn't work. You know, doesn't work. And so we pulled the restaurant's out. We move them south they're actually in a better location. They're more resilient. We can build them for last. The last longer we pulled the pedestrian bridge. It looked great. It was a great design idea. But in the end, it became a bridge to nowhere. When the restaurant's move south. and we took out the overlook, there's an overlook up up there that cat pretty damaged by the hurricanes. So what did we leave in? We're improving resiliency everywhere we can. Diana describe that up to the edge of the parking lot through elevation. Prevent men's rip rap. All of the natural and and manmade techniques and best management practices we can use. We're adding stormwater management so we can treat every drop water that goes across the parking lot. And through that site. And that what color is at green. Okay. That greenish blue collar. That is a you know, drive time went On the West side there that serves as a rain garden and serves as a holding pond for water as we treat it. And as it flows into the ground week will install chambers in the green spots in the parking lot to capture a storm water and will funnel all that storm water north and west. And eventually into the bay after it's been treated. We will Hog Creek the mangroves and not in good shape up there. It's going to need to be when do need to be repaired and will add as much green spaces we can and relatively limited area. >> increase the trailer parking capacity, which is the major shortfall. It's by almost 50%. So we pretty much if we if we had a square foot that we could put a trailer, a truck or a car on it. We. We reserve that for a vote parking expanding the number boat launches reading one more Bay, which is 2 more launch lanes. So that's a 33% 50 1% increase in parking capacity for boat trailers. 33% increase in boat launch capacity. And then we're we're getting after the infrastructure. So will replace the East Wall, which is the wall over by North Tamiami trail, which is in disrepair, will replace the North East Wall, which you can a little better repair, but we think it's wise to go ahead and replace it now and we will repair the northwest wall. The city repairing those. They docks as we speak. We're going to stay with pix stocks on the West side of the boat launch phase. And we're going to put in floating day on the right side, the restroom. If you've ever tried to use, it will also be significantly updated and brought to park standards. Next one. So whether I'm going to pause there, any questions about Centennial Park and questions about the resilient storm water or the infrastructure improvements were trying to make for the boating community. Yes. >> So how in the timing how does the reconfiguration of this parking timing compared to the creation of the parking in 3 D yeah. >> Staggered. This will weaken start this next year, right? And the only thing we can put all this parking in place next year, OK? And the only thing that will manage Jason Swift and Haskell will manage as they did in the cultural district with the Art Center in the orchestra and ICE in the Garden Club, you know, will do half of the parking lot keep it open. So voters have access to the lanes, right? And then we'll do the other half of the parking. So they'll be will be a reduction in capacity when we're building parking lot hours, but it will stay open. >> How about the number of car parking place? Ours heart go down slightly. But over full over cars May Park overflow South. >> Okay. Romney have both we and yet we have a parking lot that's north of we've surface parking lot. That's north we worked this in a fair amount of detail was Steve Cove are in and There's an 80 plus space, approximately 80 space north of the community center. And they're also they've been back and forth. But I think >> You know, correct me if I'm wrong here, Jennifer I think city is now open to allowing overflow of trucks and cars so-called been was a surface parking lot, which is open everyone. The issues, the trailers, exactly where the issue is. So we maximize the trailer parking and that's been the complex of 4. Is the cars from guides having their customers park their cars there. >> And the overflow of the cars and the trucks. Consume the trailer parking areas. So you effectively had less. So if you can cue those cars on the south side, that's exactly the then you just optimize the trailer park Now that war, it will be more than 50% of a probably upwards of 60% want your time. yeah, it's 50 plus an and 333. >> Yeah. And John with the with enforcement, meaning you can't park truck and a trailer space. Okay. >> All of a sudden one or 2 tickets later. You understand you can't park your truck, the car and trailer space. And so. So we maximize that. We put in more longer trailer spaces, which, you know, they double and triple up to spend their 3 different least 3 different lines of trailers that we have to accommodate. So we went around and around and this and this was the only the only thing we could have done to squeeze a few car spaces and would have taken away from the storm water treatment. And we didn't want to do that. >> that worth it actually in Seoul just reminded me as part of resilient Shoreline Project of phase 2. We are adding parking spaces along 10th Street were actually take to keep the van Wezel number hole. So we're actually when you pull into 10th Street, there will be spots there, too. That will be more conveniently located for people who are at the using Centennial Park. So it's constantly evolving. We're balancing. >> Parking spaces across the site. >> Yeah, several things. you're you're moving the restaurants, which clear the right idea. parking is an issue anyway, right? So you getting out there. But where are the new restaurants going? >> I'll show you in a Okay. One is on. One is in on the south side of the Boat Basin. On the point, there's rusty anchor that sits out there early Those guard already building used to be okay. That's the one we're we're doing right now. Right? The other 2 will be up that 18 to 20 elevation in the center of the park. You know, so they'll have an incredible panoramic view. They'll have like a 250 degree view from over the boat launch. All the way up. Sarasota Bay across to the barrier islands. >> Love it. that helps the one that's under way. You said it's. In design design. I know you always ask me, can I get the restaurant faster? Huge I mean, that's where the money we have. The architect. We have restaurateur. We have Adam and the team together and we have started and those are we've done concept plans. We know it's going to be at approximately 12 feet for resiliency and storm water management. We know the size will not exceed 5,000 square feet inside and what we can do when and in the exterior. We know what the logistics have to be. So the pieces and parts are coming together. The that will be open in by 27 at the latest. That's great. And soon you have any word, we said, you know, do way with them. you keep to It's it's going to be good. >> Several things about the parking here and and the new design. First of all, on the floating docks. >> I'm just wondering, is there are there is it is an unregulated issue, wherever, you know, like parking at on which of somebody comes and they parked their both their can they leave? They're both there all day. Here's oh, okay. I mean. >> So we've been working auction Harvey traffic general manager of the city. He will put just like he does on the north side is going to Park Mobile equivalent. So you come there, you pay for so long and he will do some like saying you just >> Saint Pete, go to the day docks. There you pay and you can. You can only dock for certain a minute. I'm sorry. >> Yeah, and overnight. So one of the things he has for Centennial Park is if you want to park overnight, you get you have to ask for advanced access by him. And he said it rarely happens. So there will be enforcement that you pay and no, you're not to be able to park a boat overnight. >> Thank you. Didn't dissipate. These are just going to be complete for all the time all day long because, you know. >> Yeah, we have. We'll at the pier where Emily visited. I think they have a dozen. That's it. Okay at Saint Pete right at the end here and they're mostly fall. And in terms of in terms of the spaces that they have to navigate in. It is and 40 feet. That limits the size of the votes that come come in and out. But yeah, I will have. Well what we 18 to 20 on the south minus some in the middle. So say 15 plus. >> And we'll probably have another 8 to 10 of the north swell around. 25. >> That's right. A tax and the additional bay. that's obviously the shuttle days. Huge because they can load their votes in a lot faster. The queues are and holidays you know, holiday weekends, it's maybe not an appropriate question for this menu. But >> of the things we've been struggling with is the as the commercial use of these were for. Charters are using our park spaces has that been discussed and yes, not about how that will go because I can see this is going. I was going to make a comment on this. >> We can. We can design and plan and build. But there's another separate discussion that's going on. I think it's a healthy one and it's good when it's not resolve. >> Between the boating community we're sort of. The catalyst, but mostly with the city in the city's been engaged parks and rec. Brock stand. You know, Jen had etcetera. But there are a whole bunch of management and operational things that. Candy. Put in place here that would make things work. A little bit better. I mean, 5 or 6 of them that have come out dedicated lanes. Small boats. Shorter boats. They launch closest to the bay bigger boats launch in the lanes farthest from the day with a bigger turning radius. The dock master and busy, you know, volunteer and or paid and holidays and weekends. There's even been discussion. I don't really want to get into it, but I'll mention it because it's been discussed of, you know, where and when jet skis should be. People to be launched. >> All good questions. And we're doing with those issues. One of the things right now, he was a, you know, was at least part of the discussion was, if you think of City island across the way. That's much more amenable and fits, you know, Jetski launch in smaller boat, launches its its wide. It's a it's gentle grade. And the water is shallow. It's not as deep so that could accommodate. You know, smaller craft and that could accommodate jet skis. And maybe it's not all the time. But it is on holiday weekends and busy weekends the city is also working 10 to they had a concession with for hearts landing to provide a mobile, a chap inconvenience store there, which they want. It would be think any air stream. That your bait shop with ice and water and all the other cities that would kind of pull up in just park. You know, park. But if we had a storm or whatever it could pull right. So we're trying to we're trying to find ways to keep as much of the space open. The park community that are recreational boaters, right? But it does get used by commercial voters, too. And it's the whole gamut. Its people delivering new boats to. John Thaksin, just bought a 50 foot or a kayak Yeah. >> My sentiments exactly. But, you know, they're the fishing charters are the tourists charters there. There are all kinds. But they make a living, you know, they need to make a living. >> It's discussion that needs to be had. And so I know as you move that's something I I don't know. Maybe. And that's something the county and city may want to try to come to some common. You know, set of kind of rules of the road down. I think you'd be good idea. This is far and away. The biggest boat launch within a 20 mile radius. I mean, that's that's the issue we've got. The biggest play will be well used And not great. And I think 11% of county residents have at least one boat registered. >> We are a boating community. Are. And so on. >> I think you know, you mentioned the bait shop and supplies. It was going to ask about that because in the previous iteration, you know, you had a space for that. are you finding that the voters don't want or you're you're providing it with this mobile >> unit. And if want to build another fix building and a more space all of that, the elevation here is approximately 6 feet. >> So it's in a flood. We have a category 2. yeah, I think I think the the many Airstream mobile solution is really good. One. It gets the now all the voting, you know, a lot of the recreational boaters are fishing the bay and they don't need Okay. But there are a lot of recreational boaters that do want to fish and then there are others that want to. >> So and people it's a convenient place to get water. It's convenient place to get ice. It's a convenient place to get soft drinks and beer or whatever. So it's definitely a service in an amenity and hearts landing was popular and well used all right, that it will be there. You know, that that's the city is working on that concession we're just providing it would be located where those flooding day docks are. Madam Mayor east of? I I think they'll get as close to the water's they possibly can. Yeah, because I did wonder about that because, you know, >> When you bring your vote may be, you know, you do want to get some ice, get some water, get some drinks, things like that that you may have forgotten to get or just, you know, want to get the ice too soon before you go way more convenient there, then hauling it across the street. >> During construction, will there be any time when there is no ability to launch a vote? >> I don't know when there might okay. I mean, I would really need to talk to. >> Jason Swift and his team we work. What we'll do is exactly what we in the cultural district will sit down and we'll work through all the logistics for. You know, but what I can say is will there be a day or 2 or a week when we have to move equipment or get supplies and when you couldn't launch right. And and also when we're doing the infrastructure. I'm sure they'll sequence the ramps. But obviously when we're doing one ramp, I'm going to guess there's going to be equipment blocking at least one other ramp. But in our conversations, the thought go ahead. yeah, yeah, we do these >> Women he talk again. Talk louder. >> For some reason you're not on. Adam, can You? I didn't do anything. can you hear me? other end? Can come back. >> All right. All right. so I guess I'm assuming you will coordinate with the city to make sure City Island is able to accommodate, you know, their boat launch there. Yeah. >> And I'm going head to head out and talk. you Larry. >> there we Yeah, other than a few hours. mean, it >> No, you're not. And it can go talk. >> And >> It's an 30 seconds ago. >> How is that? For me from a cane. >> Calling to one. Scary with warm home, maybe have him tell you. And then you can. And I'm not going just go >> can could you cut your computers. ? Go ahead and talk >> I think he's saying other than a few hours and facing process, they will do their best to leave it open. >> But your point a good one. There's coordinating the site and then there's coordinating other sites that they can launch. And that's a matter of communication. But yeah, it's it's it's and and and and and letting the voters say action. That's an important point. We did a survey among voters both commercial and recreational over the last few months and one of the most important things for them was communications because I feel, but they said is if we keep them informed and we give them ample time and there are more than enough ways to communicate these days. Well, they'll work with us because they know they're getting an improvement. So we will definitely do that. Thank you. >> 5 mail out a little bit of commentary to that. You know, one of our as AG mentioned, have been involved in this project for over 8 years. And, you know, we've had several points of communication with the boating community voters working group, multiple iterations these past 6 months. I think this team along with Adam spent a lot of time sitting listening, listening more and more and getting a firmer understanding what's important to the recreational boaters as well as the commercial voters in the community. So I think trust is Bentonville. And that's why you see this plan that's markedly different from the initial phases of are the initial iterations of the master plan. And I think that trust will be carried through as we look towards implementation. You have to walk a fine line here, right? It's still a public park. It's Centennial Park and there will be people who there are people. >> Who walked those walkways bicycle bows bikeways come to just frankly, hang out and watch people launch their boats or hang out and be by the day right? And there will be opportunities to even though we move the restaurant south will be opportunities to picnic and do things and they will do that, OK? Primarily a public boat launch and a public vote pace. And so we need to make sure that we need that set of needs. And as a couple of you touched on there is there are these pinch points. One of the big pinch points is with the. With the jet skis and the jet skis are a business that goes like this spring break. 4th of July weekend. Memorial Day weekend, Labor Day weekend. Having watched them launch. They are not the safest sailors out there. Okay. And we don't want kayaks. You know, we set we purposely set up. The whole system on the south side to accommodate paddle boats, right? So if you if you have a canoe or you have a kayak or you want to Pavel Board, you should be south. You should be nowhere near that boat basin. But it's hard. You know, and you get people from, as Diana mentioned earlier, we don't worry about the people that have 30, 40, 50 that vote who are who are accomplished. Yeah. A couple pilots and captains. We you worry about the person that's going out once every 5 years and had a case of beer before they have that, you know, before they hit the boat launch. That's that's kind of where the craziness starts right? So. But I do feel given the limitations of