Village Community Development District No. 6

Uh, I'm going to ask you to rise and join us in the Pledge of Allegiance, and also a moment of silence. Uh, I just thought real quick, reflection on this day, uh, 44 in 1944 today in memory that many showed great courage and sacrifice, uh, for our nation. Uh, and there have been many in that tradition since then. I would hope that you'll remember them and all, uh, all who have served, uh, in your, your reflection. With that, if you please rise, I'm gonna ask Supervisor Coleman to lead us in the pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance. Thank you. Please be seated. I'd like to, I'd like to welcome all of you who are here today. Uh, we have an extremely, uh, full agenda, uh, probably as full as I've seen in a long time, and we're gonna try to move through it as quickly as possible. So I'll apologize to my colleague, staff and to any members of the audience if I'm more officious and, uh, less loquacious and, and usual. Uh, and the first item on our agenda, uh, would be the approval of the minutes. Everybody's had a copy to take a or a chance to look at 'em. Any additions or corrections to the minutes? Hearing? Seeing none, a motion to approve would be an order I motion. We approve the minutes. Is there support? Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. A stand as, uh, provided. Okay. We have today, uh, the, uh, uh, the duty to fill an open position on, uh, our board, uh, for the seat vacated, uh, by former Supervisor Moeller. Um, the process that we will follow is consistent with, uh, section one three, uh, 0.3 of our, of our, uh, operating, um, policies. Uh, it should be noted that our policies are in strictest compliance with, uh, chapter one 90, chapter one 20 and chapter 1 26, uh, of the Florida statutes. Uh, and also that, uh, the requirements of the, uh, sunshine provisions of the state, uh, law, uh, prohibits, uh, any supervisors from talking, uh, in two or more groups of two or more about any items that on which we would, uh, vote. And, uh, uh, I will ask, uh, have any supervisors had any, uh, discussion with our, our counterparts on this matter? Seeing none, we'll assume that we're in total compliance with the sunshine laws. Um, we have, uh, five candidates, uh, uh, who have applied for the open position, uh, which creates both a, an interesting, and I guess, both a, a great opportunity and, and a difficult decision. Uh, we have five, um, correct, That's correct, five Candidates. Um, because, uh, deciding on, on, on who to select out of a group of very, very qualified. I'd like to thank them for taking the time, the effort, uh, and the energy to, uh, uh, seek this, this position. Uh, just so all of you know, um, the, uh, we have had a chance, uh, and we've had copies of the information that you provided to us. We've had a chance to study it. Uh, and, uh, there will be, uh, uh, possibly some questions that we'll have for any or all of you shortly. Um, we thought that we would start by allowing each of the candidates up to three minutes if they choose to really, to, uh, give us a, a brief, brief overview. Um, perhaps touching on, uh, a couple of key items. Uh, maybe, uh, if you're selected as a member of this board, what would be your number one priority on the things that you would be taking a look at? Uh, secondly, perhaps the, uh, what you feel is the strongest, uh, experience or attribute that you would bring to, uh, help this board do, uh, do the work. And, uh, another interesting question is what, uh, uh, items you, uh, or why you happen to choose to, to move to the villages. Um, I think though all those items would be, uh, interesting to us. In addition to the background information that you have, uh, provided with us. Um, everybody should be aware that, uh, I indicated before the meeting, uh, the order to which to speak is always one that comes up for question. So each of the candidates have randomly selected, uh, and we will proceed in that, uh, uh, uh, process or in that order for you to address this. And then, uh, state anything that you, uh, would like us to know. So I have no idea who's number one. Somebody has number one. Katie has number one. Okay, Katie, please. I don't think it works that way. Obviously one of our candidates in here, so we'll move, right. Moving along quickly, uh, number two, please, if you would step to the, uh, uh, uh, microphone, give us your name, your address, and, uh, we're welcome you, I'm anxious to hear from you. Thank you so much. I'm Randy Weiss. Welcome, Randy. And I live in Caroline, uh, 1192 Thompson Avenue in Caroline. And, uh, the best place to live, by the way. Um, anyway, um, I would like to be part of this because I've got experience relating to this type thing with the company. I was with a Berkshire Hathaway company called Pampered Chef. Um, I was 30 years with them, and I was on the long range planning committee for them, uh, which was a, um, a chosen and a chosen, uh, position too. Um, I came to the Villages. I had no idea I'd ever end up in Florida. Um, it's probably the least place, but I don't live in Florida. I live in the villages, uh, is what I always say, because this place is so beautifully unique. A friend of ours introduced it to us, um, probably five years ago, and we were blown away. Uh, but, you know, I'm from the show me state of Missouri, so we had to be proven how wonderful this place was. So we came down probably four or five years and rented before we decided to come here. Um, and then we chose to live in the best place near Sumter Landing, according to what we thought. Um, one of the reasons that I think I would be good for this position is I, like I said, I've been coming a long time, but at the same time, I'm very interested in everything to do with the villages. My husband is Bill. Uh, we've been going to everything we love. We went to Resident Academy to learn. I actually went to arc, um, for approval, but I also went to learn. We go to the water. We went to the water, um, presentation, the landscaping presentation, everything related to the villages, um, to learn. And we continue to do that too. So I think that I would be a good candidate because I have an interest in all aspects. And I think in terms of the, um, uh, what to do first, I think, you know, to get to know people more in, in our community, district six, um, you know, it's a very large area and we've already been participating in our neighbor things, but I would like to extend it and go to some other neighborhood events and such, so I could learn more about the, uh, specifics to an area. I'm an idea person and I'm a question person, both. I have a lot of ideas that a lot of people don't think of. Um, and I also ask a lot of questions, which is how I learn. So I think that that's an asset, um, that's very strong in my, um, um, you know, as me, as a person. I have a, I'm a very good listener, and I think of things out of the box. So I'm gonna bring some things to the table that maybe haven't been thought about. And, uh, I'm excited about that opportunity. Um, let's see, one minute. Okay. Um, um, um, in terms of budgeting, I was thinking about budgeting when you were talking last month about budgeting. And, and it was interesting to hear the group, uh, converse about it. And I learned a lot from that and realized that, you know, I'm gonna be my own person and have my own ideas related to something like that. And, um, you know, be a good part of that. I'm a team player, but I'm also independent thinking too. So I think you'll enjoy me. I'm fun. I put the fun into things, which I think everyone could use these days, but also the intellect and the heart are combined for me to, um, do my best. So, um, I've been on boards before with Annie's Hope and, um, um, another Carney's kids, both fundraising and such for the companies. Uh, we had lost a child. It's a big part of me. Um, and I think it makes me more, um, understanding of people. I've gotten a lot of, uh, beautiful assets. I think from that quality, you know, what, what I have learned and learned to grow as a person, which will, again, help this committee. So, um, you know, I'm new here in a sense, a year and a half, I would say. But at the same time, um, I, I've learned a lot and know more than many people. Thank you. Thank You, Randy. Um, so did we have one can Oh, please. I'm just checking with staff. Did we have a candidate withdraw? We have a candidate that's not in attendance this morning. Okay. Um, we're Not aware of withdrawing, uh, Ms. Janet Palmer. Okay. Number three. Good morning. You just met Randy. Now you're gonna meet Randall. Randall Edgar. I also live in Caroline. We've been here for about 14 years. We came here in 2011 to live permanently. We bought the house in 2010. Little history with that. I'm from Pennsylvania. I've been in law enforcement for more than 25 years. Um, we got an invitation to try the lifestyle plan back in 2008. So we did enjoy the villages so much that my wife said a year later, Hey, let's go back down to the Villages and enjoy New Year's Eve. So that was 2009 into 2010. Well, little did I know that at the end of New Year's celebration here in the villages, that I would go home with a house, which I did. So we came here in 2011 permanently. It had been here ever since in, excuse me, Caroline. As I said, I have a little bit of background in law enforcement. Um, I'm currently working with Community Watch as a, uh, community watch training. And, um, I've been with Community Watch since 2013. Um, my whole career, my whole life basically has been to serve and protect the residents of where I live. Even when I came here working with Community Watch, part of my job was to serve. I feel it's only a natural step to move to wanting to serve in the, in a role of representation for the residents of Caroline and the other villages associated with District Six. What can I bring to the table? Well, basically, I'm going to bring an open mind, common sense, and a full understanding of rules, policies, and procedures, and my ability to communicate with the residents and people in general. I feel that my goal first, as far as if I am selected for this board, my first goal should be to listen and learn. And after that, I can make informed decisions. I would like to actually serve, continue to serve my residents, and serve the people of the villages in this capacity, which is why I took the time to do so. And I have really just always been this way for my entire life. Thank you very much. I'm Randall Edgar. Thank you, Randall. Okay. Uh, next up is number four. Good morning. My name is, uh, John O'Sullivan. I reside at 1226 Virginia Drive in the, uh, village of Virginia Trace. Um, okay. I, our story about how we came to the Villages was that the, we originally purchased a home in South Carolina in Aiken County. Nice town, beautiful Augusta. And we had it for two years. Used to visit from New York all the time. Um, really enjoyed it. Beautiful. But it was kind of limited in what it had there for us. Um, it had a lot of horse activities. Uh, when I enjoy it, it was just one activity, really that all, all it had. So, we decided to visit, visit the Villages. We immediately fell in love with the quality of life here. We were amazed at how well it was maintained. Um, we literally didn't see a piece of paper, uh, which was amazing till the kids from colleges, uh, visited and they were throwing things around carelessly. Um, what I would bring to the board is I, I worked in New York for 27, uh, 37 years. I, I worked in one BigMan place with, uh, the Rockefellers, the new Yorkes. Um, I was the main man in control of maintenance and everything else. When it came to the, the building back in 1987, then I moved on to managing two, um, high-end buildings in Manhattan. One is at Columbia, next to Columbia University. The building's actually called the Columbia 2 75 West 96th Street. I worked for them for 27 years. I also had a second building. It was on the East side high end building. Um, and I worked at one West 64th Street at Central Park West with Mad Madonna of all people. And, uh, my job was to problem solve. That was my main objective. And there was a lot of problems. We were in older buildings, lots of old pipes, lots of old issues, lots of complaints, minimal complaints. Uh, some of the complaints were very minor. Some of them were large. My what My job was to correct everything that was an issue. I feel if I come on board, I will bring that experience. I like to keep things the quality. I've admired the board and I've snooped on your resumes. And I think that it's very enjoyable to see the quality that's up here on the board. I would like to bring same to the board. I would love to work with the board and learn from the board to see what's actually required to create what you guys have created and keep it up. Budgeting. Another thing I would like to keep an eye on the budgeting model trails. I'm a people person. I like to problem solve. So basically, that's it. The other thing is we've, we've, we've gone to almost all of the meetings, which is extremely impressive. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. In our last candidate. Yes, sir. Welcome. Good morning. My name is Brian Gallagher. I live in, uh, Virginia Trace, 12 96 4 Sacred Drive. I'm very happy to be here with this group this morning. Thank you for accommodating and giving us some time to say a few words. Um, I'm here today because the neighbor suggested that I apply. And, uh, then I suggested I go down and talk to Sally Moss, who was formally on this board about what, what the work entailed and that kind of thing. So I filled out the, the, uh, application, and I have an update, a few updates for the application. Um, I had been here so recently, we had so many renovations going on at the house that I wasn't able to attend meetings. So IWI went to new resident orientation, found it very interesting and, and informative. And I also went to the District nine meetings yesterday, which were extremely interesting and informative, particularly the discussion about some of the updates of things that they're doing and reserves and that type of thing. Um, by way of background, I'm a pharmacist and attorney by training. And, uh, my mother, the Irish wit, when people would ask her what I did for a living, and she didn't particularly want to talk to them, she'd say he's involved with drugs in the law, and that usually killed the conversation instantaneously. But I'm pretty much of a utility infielder. I've had a lot of different experiences. Um, what probably most relevant is I was chair of the Huntington Planning Commission for about six years. I was on the Planning Commission for, uh, 10 years total. I was also in the West Virginia legislature and chaired a number of committees there. General counsel for several organizations. And I was interim dean of the pharmacy school, at and on the faculty of the pharmacy, school and medical school at Marcy University, teaching Law and Ethics. Uh, my number one priority would be, first, seek to understand. You guys have a wealth of experience, and a lot of, you've been on here for a long time. And talking with Sally, I realize there's a lot for me to learn a lot of transferrable skills. But first, seek to understand, keep things on a sound financial footing. Like I said, I found the, the, uh, discussion yesterday, very interesting about the reserves and whether to spend money outta reserves for active, uh, ongoing projects or whether to, uh, return money and, and not make it big as big of an assessment. It's a very interesting discussion amongst other things. Why did we move to the villages? Well, we did our due diligence and went around and found out that there was a lot of nice places to come and visit in Florida, and went to seven or eight places. And this was head and shoulders above everything else. And I like to be busy, and I don't like to be bored. And you're not gonna be bored here if you do, if you are, there's something wrong with you, not with this place. So, uh, I'd like to, why, what do I bring? I think I've got a wealth of experience. Malcolm Gladwell says the only way you get good at anything is to do it for 10,000 hours. The only thing I've done for 10,000 hours is tie a tie. And I'm glad that's not a prerequisite for this position. So I, I, what I would seek to do is fill in gaps that people have in this, in this, uh, that you, I might be able to, uh, supplement what the group has. And in closing, I'd like to say, I think you all are in a really good place with a group of candidates that you've got. I think listening to everybody, I think everybody would make a good candidate. Like I used to tell my students, um, you can't make a bad choice here. I don't think so. I appreciate your consideration. Thank you. Okay. That's all of our candidates, I believe. Um, wow. I dunno whether to thank you or not for making this a difficult job at this point. Um, supervisors, um, if you have any specific questions you would like to, to ask, please go ahead. Well, if I May 1st, before I ask questions, is, is very impressive to hear the four candidates and to hear their, uh, backgrounds and what they've accomplished. I think that it speaks loud to District six and the leadership, John, of District six, uh, this past that they're so eager to be on the board. So that's just first my comment. Okay. Do you have any specific questions? Um, sure. If it, if they are question for all of them, then why don't we reverse the order in which you, uh, you gave your answers. Um, if specifically for you, please step the microphone again, uh, and the question for the respective supervisors. Thank you. Go ahead. Great. Thank you. Thank you, chairman John. Um, one of my favorite committees here is the Project Wide Advisory Board. And that meets, as everybody knows, the second Monday of the, um, month. I'd like to ask the candidates, um, if they've attended number one PA and then number two, uh, how do they think that PA could be improved as a group? Right. Thank you. I have not attended the meeting yesterday, but I've not attended the meeting of PAC specifically, but I did have the opportunity to listen in on what, on how that process works. And also the interaction yesterday, like for trying to make sure that things got passed by several different, um, several different, uh, or all of the districts that are affected by Pew A and, and are members of Pew A. So, and how, how that works. So I, I think one of the things that's important, it's a, it's a real jewel. We had this problem with that Huntington Planning Commission. It's a real jewel to have people working in concerts so that you have uniformity throughout different places. And that it's important to make sure that you have adequate communication while not violating the Sunshine Law. So I would say it'd be important for people to attend other district meetings that are on District six and other district meetings and find out what, where their thinking is going in terms of different things so that you can anticipate and work together so that that process is not cumbersome or difficult and makes the staff's job a lot easier, rather than trying to cram something down your throat or another district's throat. 'cause everybody else wants it. Communication would be all important to me, I think. Thank you, John. I have, uh, not actually, uh, attended one of those meetings. I have attended almost every other meeting that I could in the, between the time that I applied, because I applied late. Um, but I, I am a firm believer in, in, in the whole, uh, uh, P system. And, uh, other than that, I, I really couldn't ask, ask any, add any more to it other than that, I know it's there and I, I just haven't had the chance to attend the meetings. Ready. Oh, I'm sorry. Randall. Randall, I'm sorry. Sorry. Ran. I too have not attended PA meetings. I have learned a little bit about PA with talking with some of the people that I know that have been involved with PA. Uh, I think I am sort of on the fence as to whether or not PA would be a little more expedient on, a little more efficient if in fact they had some authority other than just to recommend and could actually make some decisions for the representation that they do for the district between the 4 66 and below. So that would be my thoughts on PA. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Okay. So when I think of PA, the best description is an octopus. And there's the body, and then there's the legs. And this is one of the legs. Um, and I think it's not till you all come together where you become the body where the growth and the learning is gonna take place. Mostly, uh, to hear what others are doing and such, so that you could improve our district six. I have not attended PA, but I'm looking forward to attending a meeting and being part of the meeting. Okay. Who have we missed? That's, Yes. Okay. Twe, any other questions? Um, yes. Thank you. Um, uh, to the, uh, candidates, uh, how are you involved in your community, uh, that you live in? Are you on any committees or any, any groups to enhance the villages? Randy or, yeah, Randy. Otherwise I'll get confused between 1, 2, 3, 4, and five. Um, socially I'm on a committee. I'm good at that. But in terms of, um, enhancements, the one thing that we're starting in our community is, um, helping neighbors, neighbors, helping neighbors. So I'm part of gonna be part of that group, um, soon. And, um, really, I don't know a lot of other things going on in the area so much related to that. But I will be part of it as I get here, you know, as I'm here longer and experience more of, um, the changes and positive improvements that are needed here. Okay. Uh, again, we just moved here in November. We are, we are basically moving in. We just had our furniture delivered last week. Uh, we are learning about new committees. We're learning about what's out there. We are attending as much as we can. Uh, in between the 6 million classes my wife has me doing on a daily basis, uh, we intend to become probably members of our local, um, I, I forget what the name of the committee is, but it, it helps older people, uh, take 'em to their doctor's appointments and stuff that we were just actually approached on the other day. Again, most of this stuff is new to us. Do we wanna get involved? 100%. That's why we're here. Thank you. Okay. As far as involvement with the community, yes, I do. I work for Community Watch. So I'm involved in not only my own district, but also every other district here in the villages within my own particular district. I'll just say to my neighborhood, we have a very close knit neighborhood. We're on one single street, Lockhart Avenue. There's 11 houses, and pretty much everybody knows everybody. And we do all kinds of things together with respect to the neighborhood, all kinds of driveway parties, neighborhood parties. Uh, I specifically watch a couple of different houses when a couple of our residents go north for the summers. So I try and stay involved with what's going on and, um, I get involved whenever I can. Thank you. Thank John. We're new to the Villages as well. He said he moved in DEC in November. We moved in December and we actually ran into them. So one of our social things we made, we made friends and started, we had a scared share a few beers. Does that qualify us as answers to the question socializing? That's right. Um, I have, I haven't had an opportunity to be involved too much, but I've tried to go to some social things. It was a, a, uh, celebration of Virginia Trace's anniversary, and I was at that. It was a lovely event. Um, and I've also been asked to potentially participate in, lend some legal skills to the seniors, um, who are getting scammed. So I'm, that's under consideration too. Okay. Twe, any other questions? I'll pass Gordon. Okay. Well, uh, you know, we're looking at broad general things here. Let take a look, see if the, uh, I have some questions, but my questions are, uh, I'm trying to find a broad question that you could, uh, talk about here. Um, let's just check one thing for, for how we do. Um, if you understand that as you see your budget every year as it comes by, the thing that we have control over is our maintenance assessment. And yet, uh, a lot of the, uh, functions that you see going around the villages are paid by your amenity fees. Uh, now this, uh, chairman will have to answer this. Would it be, can you explain to me what the difference between those two are? Is that too in depth of a question? I think give, give the candidates a chance to, uh, to address it. Okay. I mean, right. I will do my best, um, amenity fees. This, this body doesn't have very much control over. 'cause the increase amenity fees is based on the, uh, consumer price index. And it goes up or down depending on what, what that is. And, uh, my understanding is the bond, the bonds, uh, put in the infrastructure, the board of supervisors then keep this infrastructure in place and up to date through ma through the maintenance fees. So other things like community watch and that kind of thing are, are, and keeping up the post offices and those type of things are come out of the amenity fees. Whereas the other, the other things like, uh, uh, water retention, uh, rights of way landscape, escaping street lights, those come outta the maintenance fees. That's my understanding of why this works. And I would add something else that it's, this, this is a, you all have a really tough job because as, as Supreme Court Justice in West Virginia, where I'm from once said about being in the legislature, he had been a former legislator. He said, this is a, this is a difficult job. 'cause you're almost never called upon to choose between right and wrong. You're almost always choose called upon to choose between right and right. So do we spend money on this or do we spend money on that? It's a very difficult job and a balancing act, and you're never gonna please everybody with what you try to do, but try to do the best you can to please as many people and make the money go as far as it can. As far as I know, the I amenity fees are for your, uh, tennis courts, your use of the pools and the, and the, and these areas. Um, the rec centers, um, your maintenance fees are basically to maintain the pro, the, the properties themselves, the, the roads, the, uh, and the streets. I believe that we're, we're actually responsible for. That's the best of my knowledge. Well, I believe the other two candidates pretty well covered it. Amenities, golf poles, tennis racket, ball are biggie. And all the other amenities that we're privileged to have are coming out of our amenity fees. The maintenance fees obviously would be to support the infrastructure of the villages itself and within our district. So we have streetlights, light poles, um, sewer, water, et cetera, and landscaping. That has to be maintained. Thank you. I think this is a situation where, um, you guys covered a lot of it actually, but in terms of amenities, it's the fun stuff. Um, versus to me generally versus maintenance is, you know, the stuff that isn't as fun. I'll use that term. Um, and I have to admit, there's more for me to learn. And, uh, I am, I can admit that, but, um, I think that, um, it is a concern because at the last month meeting, I was seeing, you know, that we have to make sure that we're paying things, uh, you know, not, not get in the hole. So, um, it will be my honor and privilege to be part of that decision making. Yeah, just real thing I'd say about, the reason I ask that is, as a supervisor, when you get out there, uh, and you're in with our constituents, a lot of times they can't tell the difference. And that we're the representation of the village government to explain who we are or what we are and why we do what we do and what our limitations are con concerning, uh, what we could do. And normally, uh, a common responses, you're gonna have to talk to, uh, district government because a lot of that is in specialized in the specialist that you usually see around the wall over there that handled whatever their particular complaint is. Did Jeff, thank you. I think, um, between the information that you had provided us, uh, on a written basis, your comments today and the questions, I do have one question that I'd be curious about. Um, What If you had to say your neighbors have one major concern that could be addressed by your community development district, what would that be? Randy, you get to kick that one off. Um, I think the one thing, it's a general concern, but just to make sure that we continue in the way that we've been continuing in terms of taking care of properties, et cetera. I guess I would say I think of, uh, some of the negative comments. I watch it a lot on Facebook, um, and it's interesting to see things change. And, you know, I think of Katie Bells as an example that I always hear about. I wasn't here during the time I was here, but, uh, people are always talking about something like that, and the villages aren't the same and it's not gonna stay the same. And, uh, I think it's keeping things, uh, progressing forward and moving forward at the same time as, um, as they, as they, um, you know, keep, they keep things very, very, keep things the way that they are, keep things progressing in a positive way, I guess is the main thing in terms of the establishment at the same time, um, the needs of the, um, of the people and such. Thank you, Chad. I feel that one of the major issues, and I'd read an article on the other day about the VHA and that was some, uh, they were filing, uh, complaints against this 86-year-old lady, not this district, um, that she wasn't maintaining her property, but it, the biggest issue is elderly people can't, can't maintain their property. I, I, if I was to serve on the board, if it was within my reign, I would see if we could, uh, bring a group of, uh, high school kids or, um, charter kids, you know, that, that, that would volunteer to help the elderly. The second thing is, uh, in cutting their grass or pulling weeds or stuff like that, which would give them some sort of credit, you know, their high school. Second thing is, I think the big thing is that people, even in our district, they, people that moved in there, moved into, mostly in 2005, 2006 on 2005, 2006 pensions and 2005, 2006, uh, social security. They want to make sure that the costs are kept within the range. And I think that's the biggest thing for them. They're afraid they're gonna get priced out the market, and if they lose a sibling, they've automatically reduced their benefits in half. So I think costs, budgeting and quality of life. Thank you. Okay. Um, I, I believe one of the biggest concerns of everyone who lives in the villages is control of the amenity fees and other expenses that we go through, including our maintenance expenses. Uh, and I know, and what the job is of our board is to control as best we can to continue with the high level of service that the residents demand, but yet being able to do so as cost effective as possible, especially when it comes to the maintenance fees. Uh, but amenity fees scares a lot of people. And as it was mentioned, which is a good point, is the fact that the older the population is here, the less likely they are to be able to continue if they're on a fixed income. So it does present a problem, which I'm sure we or you as the board deal with frequently. And so I would say that that would be some of the primary concerns that most all residents have that and the fact of just change in general. 'cause the older some of us get, the less we accept change. And so that becomes something of, of a resistance to the way things, or what's that saying? Well, it used to be that way. Why isn't it that way today? So those are the concerns I think that a lot of villagers do have. Thank you. The number one thing that I've heard in terms of, uh, what my neighbors are concerned about, I think is the biggest issue, is the multimodal trail and congestion and traffic and that type of thing we might have control over. The other thing that you hear about all the time is use of our amenities, like pools and things by outsiders, and not having enough people to check and make sure that the pools are being, are being appropriately used in other amenities. And the, the issue, I think that's, that I think is looming, and I don't know that we have any control over, but we would need to explore this is grow from contiguous non village areas and developments that want to come into the villages and use our amenities. And that the tension that that creates between what residents want and what our businesses want, and the fact those, the, the, the governance of those areas are bifurcated and their, their interests aren't necessarily aligned. And I, I don't know enough about it to say how we could weigh in on that, but I think it's, it's something that's becoming a bigger and bigger concern all the time for our residents. Thank you. Um, any other thoughts, questions from other supervisors? Okay. Um, now we have to face a very, very difficult, very difficult decision. Um, and I, as a preface, I'd like to say, uh, first of all, we will, we will vote here shortly. Uh, we will do that by, uh, by ballot, uh, and, uh, um, which, uh, which will be a public record. And, uh, the, if the candidate who will be selected will be the one who has the, the most votes, um, and with five of you and three of us, uh, that obviously is a potential of a relatively small number. If for some reason we cannot reach, uh, that agreement on our first vote. Um, all the candidates who do receive a vote, which I guess in this case, well, all the candidates who receive vote, would go into a second round of balloting. And if for some reason, uh, at that point we could not reach an agreement, we do have an option of continuing to vote or to, uh, um, carry over the consideration, uh, until the next meeting, uh, at which time there would be at least four of us. Um, so my colleagues, um, it's our turn. And again, I would, I would hope that all of you, um, it, it's good to see you. I hope all of you, some of you who've been around a long time, some of you are relatively new, please stay involved. Um, we, we value, we, we genuinely value input, uh, on the things that we can control, and we value the input on the things we can't control, uh, because, uh, quite frankly, the, the number of things that statutorily we're responsible for is a very limited, um, so time for our difficult decision Chairman, I'd like to say one thing before we do this. Yes, go ahead. Just, um, as I sit here, this is a very shade of gray for me, and it's a difficult decision even to make. I would be completely content with any one of you on the board with me. I think that, uh, your commitment to community is, uh, outstanding and I'd like to see that. So, uh, I believe that I can speak for all of us that this is a difficult thing to do. I'd prefer not to do it, but it's, I totally agree, huh? All of the above is not an option that we have. Yeah, I can't, I can't select all of the above or could we have a rotating position? Chairman? Yes. But, uh, would like to share meeting Katie. It won't take long to count the votes, I don't think Votes. We don't have to go to the supervisor of the elections for this one. Um, supervisor Coleman, uh, nominated Brian Gallagher and Chair Coro and Supervisor Platt have nominated Randall Edgar. So Randall Edgar has two nominations, which is the majority. I would declare that Randall Ner will fill the open seat. Counsel, do we need a motion? We have a motion to appoint Gordon, You wanna make a motion? I have a motion that we approve, uh, Randall Edgar for, uh, uh, to replace Peter Mill's, uh, position. Aye. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Again, thank you to all of you. Uh, I, I, I think with this quality of people, don't be surprised if we call on you for something, because I think there's tremendous amount of experience. We also have some relatively new residents, which I think is, is exciting. Uh, some of us been around a long time and, uh, there is a, a newer generation that, uh, uh, please stay involved. Very, very important. We hope to see a lot of you in the future with that, uh, supervisor, Edgar, you are step forward and we will, you will be sworn in. One of the first things you'll get to do is look at the budget, and you will have all of about five minutes maybe to look at that here. Uh, you, I would hope that somebody will stay because we have a very full budget, including a couple public hearings. Um, a couple of other really important items to get into. So, Madam Clerk, As a citizen of the state of Florida in the United States of America, being employed by an officer, a village community development district number six, and a recipient of public funds, do you hereby solemnly swear or affirm that you support the Constitution of the United States and the state of Florida? I will. Congratulations. Okay. Moving right along into our Next suggestion item, cover my agenda. Yes, I do. In fact, have a paper copy of it here. Congratulations. Thank you. I lost my agenda here. There we go. I got it. Okay. At this point in time, we will hear from staff on our proposed budget. For those of you who, um, are not familiar with this process, uh, there are some statutory requirements for the timing on which our budgets have to be approved. Ultimately, we have been through the, uh, uh, early stages of the budget hearings. Uh, we've, uh, considered the numbers. Uh, we have made some decisions that today will be, uh, uh, will serve as the basis for our budget, which will be approved in September at our September meeting. Uh, which there's a, the path that eventually it goes through the county into the state for overall, uh, concurrence on that budget. So today is, if you would, the first of the final steps of our budget. So please, Good morning, Brandy Cook budget. I'm here today to request adoption of resolution 2025 dash zero seven to approve your fiscal year 20 25 26, proposed budget and accept your public hearing to adopt your 20 25, 26 final budget during your September regular meeting. As the board, uh, of supervisors knows you reviewed your preliminary budget during a workshop review in February. Following that staff brought back additional information during your May budget review at your meeting last month. The attached, uh, proposed operating budget of $4,731,596 is an increase of $108,822 or 3% from the current year amended budget, which is mostly due to increases in utilities. The board of supervisors had, has reviewed the line item budget in detail. Your capital improvement plan and your fund balances going out for the next five fiscal years. The following, um, following the budget reviews, the board discussed and provided direction to staff to include maintenance assessment rates with no change in the current 20 25, 26 fiscal year. And as a reminder, this is the maximum assessment that can be set in the final budget, and it will be provided to the, uh, residents of the district on the annual tax bill that they receive in November. Also, attached are the proposed budgets for the debt service funds. These budgets reflect the interest in principle along with all of the bond related expenditures and the revenue received from the bond assessment. Payment staff will continue to work on finalizing the budget over the next couple of months, and will bring back the final budget during your September regular meeting, following the public hearing where that would be adopted, including your maintenance assessment rate. So at this time, staff recommends adoption of your resolution, 2025 dash zero seven to approve your fiscal year 20 25, 26 proposed budget, and to set your public hearing to adopt your 20 25, 26 final budget and final maintenance assessment rates for your September 5th, 2025 meeting at 10:00 AM at the Sea Breeze Recreation Center. And I'm here if there's any questions. Let me just offer a comment for those, uh, who have not sat through this with us before. Um, and for our new supervisor, we have not in this district raised our maintenance fee now for 11 years. Uh, we were very prudent in the early stages of the, the district to bank money to make sure that we had adequate reserves because we knew that ti time would come with aging infrastructure, that ultimately we would begin to have costs associated with that. Uh, also with the ongoing maintenance costs continuing to go up, uh, after much discussion, it's a mild disagreement. We chose in this budget year not to raise our maintenance fee. However, there will have to be very serious consideration given during the, the upcoming year to take a look at it because we are now beginning to work our way into our reserves. Uh, we have a set, we still are a well reserved district. I will say, having represented a number of different types of government over my, my career in civic involvement, uh, you are living in probably one of the best funded governmental entities that you would ever live in. Uh, but our costs are beginning to exceed our income, and I think we all know what that means. So, uh, with that, a motion to approve the, uh, budget, uh, for carrying forward is, is would be an order. If there's no other questions or comments, we've had a chance to look at it. Um, I, I, my, my problem is we don't have to, um, increase the, um, this is the last time that what we can do is set a ceiling for how much we could increase the amount. No, that'd be set by statute. Yeah, but I'm just saying that if we increase it today, right, we don't have to spend, we don't have to use it. We have to make that decision in September. But if we today say we're not gonna increase our, our budget at all, then we are committed to do that. Is that true? So whatever maintenance assessments you set today, that would be the maximum that you could move forward with in your final budget adoption. So if you move forward with no change today, then you would not be, um, allowed to increase it past that in your final budget. Um, you would only be allowed for a decrease if you approved, let's say a 3% today, then you could still move forward with no change during your final, um, following the notices to the residents and the legal advertisements that are required. So my question is, what does it hurt us particularly? We have a new, uh, a new board member and, uh, supervisor Coleman wasn't here to set a modest price increase between now and then make the final decision in September. That is at the board's direction. Um, one of the items that that would initiate is it would be a notice to residents of a proposed increase, um, but understanding that it would notice them that the final decision would be made at the September meeting. That is, that is the public hearing for adoption of your final budget, at which time you can determine anything lower than what you adopt today. Yeah. And what we know is that we're doing now is not sustainable. That we, you know, I don't want to increase, uh, people's fees any more than, than we have to. I don't know what for we need to go to, and I know this isn't sustainable. I mean, if, if we want to commit today, like the chairman mentioned to, uh, not being able to increase it, then uh, we could certainly do that. But to give us some flexibility between now and September, what we then have in September, we probably would have a few people show up as to concern what the price increases are. But remember we've gone through COVID and all that other stuff since we've had a price increase. Let me see if I understand this. If we propose a 3% increase today, we do not have to necessarily go with that 3% increase in September. That is correct. Any assessment rate that is set today is the ceiling that you would be allowed to set your maintenance assessments to and your final budget. However, um, following that public hearing and, um, public comment, you could still move forward with a lower percentage or even no change. Okay. And the, the one item that I would just wanna put out there is that there is an expense associated with the legal advertising and communication. I would just state that, that if you, if you are considering an increase that you consider that, because if you do a proposed increase, you perform all the notifications and then you don't move forward with it, you've expended the funds with no additional revenue to offset it, and it's, it's not a significant amount or between five and 7,000. Yeah. Um, but just for the board's awareness that, just to take that into consideration within a proposed increase amount, The main reason I bring this up is that for some reason we've had not the full board or, or less for this season with, uh, uh, supervisor Moeller retiring and the supervisor reek has some personal issue he hasn't been through. So we've only had like two or three people here each time. And, uh, I'll go with whatever, you know, the, uh, the board thinks we should do. Oh, I guess my comment is, I thought we had pretty well I thought passed this out at the last meeting. Yeah. I, I thought we had already talked this through. Uh, this horse is already dead, but Guess not. Yeah. If, if it helps, We're looking at income this year between our maintenance fees, uh, projected investment earnings and some miscellaneous earnings of having total operating income of about $3,000,662. And, uh, 731 6, pardon me again, $3,662,731 will be our income projected. Right? Uh, our operating expenses for the year will be about $4,000,731, 4 million 731, 590 $6 our reserve, which we, we have a very, uh, aggressive reserve, uh, is the, uh, about, uh, excuse me, operating reserve is about $10 million. Uh, our required reserve based on our policy is about $1.3 million. So we have 7.7 million 730,988 $89 in our reserve. So the amount of available reserve over and above the required reserve that we've established is almost $3 million. We've had extensive discussion about digging into that reserve. What we've asked staff to do is to provide us a five year projection so we have a better understanding, not of what we think, but what we know we will have to have in order to get ourselves back to the point where our income is equaling our expenses. And that's gonna be a little bit of a swag, but I think before we, we move, and that's why we talked about it at the last meeting, that we were not going to raise our, our, our costs or raise our maintenance fee at this, this year, but we knew we had to go into it on a studied basis during the next, the upcoming fiscal year. So with that regard, I guess the question is, you're certainly welcome, uh, Gordon to make a, make a motion and if you would like, um, but I think the question is that that sets off the need for having another public hearing. Is that correct? The public hearing would be required regardless to adapt to your budget. Okay. Alright. This would just, um, if you don't move forward with any change, you would not be required for that additional expense of the legal advertising, the notices in the newspaper, and then the additional legal expenses. So if you're making a motion, we need a second to that. I, I make a motion that we proceed and do Not raise, is there a second to that motion? I'll second it. Okay. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. We'll proceed as we have discussed in previous meetings, but I think it's important to understand that we know, we know we're sailing into iceberg territory. We wanna make sure that we've got, uh, we've got everything that we need to so that we can go out on a reasonable basis, tell our residents what we're doing, why we're doing it, uh, and that the numbers add up. Thank you. Okay. All right. Moving along. Good morning. Board members. Um, the next item for con uh, consideration is adoption of joint resolution 2025 dash six amending the Exhibit A to the third amendment and restated interlocal agreement for maintenance of project wide improvement. Essentially what this accomplishes is removal of the landing on Lake Sumter, um, as a responsibility of the project wide fund. Um, so currently all participating project wide members, um, through your maintenance assessments are supporting everything on exhibit A, including the landing, what has been proposed to, uh, the project wide advisory committee. And they have, um, recommended approval of is a, a rebuild of that area, which really changes the functional use from a passive area to a recreational amenity. Um, it would include, um, the tour boats, kayaking, dragon boat launches, um, the pontoon boats. All of those activities would be centered on the rebuild, um, of that, uh, dock system. And the presentation was included in the package, which provides the conceptual overview. Um, but in order to accomplish that, um, and for that to be funded through amenities moving forward, we would need to remove it from Exhibit A. It does not change anyone's accessible, um, acreage contribution. So Sumter Landing would continue to pay their same rate. It just removes the item, um, from maintenance responsibility of all parties. Yes, oversimplification. It would then become the responsibilities out of the amenities to take care of that amenity versus the districts, the number of districts which are really responsible for infrastructure. Any further discussion? If not, a motion to approve would be an order. Okay. I motion that we approve the, uh, uh, the resolution 25 uh, dash zero six. I second it. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. That was the right decision on our part. I applaud PW of for pushing for that. Okay. Metal roof, sun Villas. Good morning board. Shannon Boyd. Community standards. Today I'm here to discuss with you metal roof and courtyard villa roofs. So as the community continues to age, excuse me, construction materials used at the time of original construction have become increasingly difficult to find or are unavailable, and alternatives are required to perform general maintenance or replacements. This has become evident for courtyard, Villa roofs, colors and material grades that were available have been discontinued by manufacturers. This creates various concerns. Roof inconsistency and compliance issues. When homeowners need to replace or repair portions of their roof, they can't match the original color. It creates visual, visual patchwork, that would be a violation. Discontinued colors has also caused a RC compliance issues where the original color is no longer manufactured in selections that must match as close to the possible original color are not being selected. There are also supplier concerns. Roofing contractors may not carry all manufactured shingle collections, limiting contractors' ability to perform necessary roof replacements or repairs to existing roof. Current courtyard villa roof colors have slowly changed over time to create a coexistence of various colors within the hue range of the original color. And we have some aerial photos of a couple, couple villas, Richmond Villas and Carlton Villas both located in District six. Just to show you over the years. The one, uh, the upper photo is from a Google picture, Google aerial view from 2016. And then the other one below is from a current 2004, uh, excuse me, 2020. Uh, four. Um, so a more current. So you can see over time the shades of the colors, um, have changed and also quality issues. Many homeowners wanna go with a higher quality shingle. Higher quality shingles often don't offer the exact original color, but similar colors within the original hue range are available in that, um, higher quality shingle. The deed restrictions do not govern color selections for Courtyard Villa roofs. The only requirement is that a substantial change requires a RC approval. This, uh, has also become evident with increasing requests for standing sea metal roofs. Homeowners are requesting to install standing sea metal roofs on their homes due the dur due to the durability and longevity of the roof. The current a RC manual does not address standing sea metal roofs and the deed restrictions do not govern a specific material that has to be used. It just states in home units that all roofing materials shall be approved. Um, and then in the villas it just says that any substantial change requires architectural approval. So the Community Standard staff are requesting the Board of Supervisors review the opportunity to amend the Architectural Review manual for Courtyard Villa Res Shingling to allow for colors that closely resemble the original color and are within the hue range of the original color. And also to provide guidance to the Architectural Review Committee regarding whether to allow standing Sea metal roof and update the Architectural review manual accordingly. So, staff recommendation of staff request the Board of Supervisors discuss these concerns and provide direction to staff if they would like to see these changes to the Architectural Review manual to be brought back at your July 18th board meeting to discuss those proposed changes and or for adoption. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Supervisors, I just had one question. Did you, you include the metal roofs on this when you were talking about that? Yes. There should be two, uh, examples of homes with metal roofs on them. And if the metal roofs we approve here, uh, would that affect, uh, regular houses? Uh, uh, not at Courtyard Village? Yes. The metal roofs are for area general, they're for our homes villas. It's just metal roofs in general. The issue with that is your current manual does allow for metal roofs, but what's been approved in the past has been metal shingles. So it gives the look of shingles. We're getting more requests for this look, which is the standing seam in the Architectural Review Committee is, wants to be sure the board wants to allow those type of roofs within their district. So as of right now, the Architectural Review Committee doesn't know whether or not to approve them. So this would be to provide guidance to them in district six, whether to not to allow, um, the standing seam style. This style of metal roof is already approved for designer homes and single homes. Well, your, um, your current manual states that metal roofs are permitted, but the only ones that have been approved in the past have been the metal shingles to where it looks like a shingle appearance. Yes. But now we're starting to get requests for this style, the standing seam. And so the Architectural Review Committee is undecided. They're having an issue. They're denying them because they're unsure whether the boards want to allow this style roof because it does look different than the typical shingled roof. I have to assume the catch 22 is if we say yes on villas, what's the logic for saying no on homes? Yeah. And just we do have these type of standing theme roofs on the commercial properties in the villages, do we not? Yes, that Is correct. And actually these two harms are located in District six as well. I was gonna say, I actually have seen metal roos in my village on houses. Yeah. So there's really two questions before us is one is to approve the change, uh, in the ARC manual for the villas and to advise staff on recommendations relative to the the homes. Correct. And we would bring back the verbiage at your next board Meeting. So there's only one motion that's required in one direction. So is there a motion? Nope, There's no motion required. Just concurrence from the board if you, if if you agree with the proposed changes, staff will work to incorporate them in the manual and bring back the manual for formal approval next month That require public hearing. No. Okay. So it's just a board decision. You have your direction. Give us a pros and the cons and, uh, at our next meeting. Okay. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. Moving right along. Okay. Okay. One of the responsibilities that we have as supervisors is that, uh, that we adopted a few years ago was enforcements of our, or excuse me, of the, the enforcement of the deed, external deed compliances within, uh, the, within our district, any complaints that, uh, are filed with staff are looked at by staff. They go out to determine whether or not in fact there are any violations of the external deed restrictions. Uh, about 97 90 8% of the problems get resolved by staff at that level. However, there are times when the problems cannot be resolved by staff. And ultimately this board becomes the final, um, enforcer, if you would, of the deed restrictions. It's important to understand, for those of you who this might be new to this, we are not here to say whether or not we'd like or dislike something. Our responsibility as a quasi judicial one where we simply determine whether or not the violation is a violation of the restrictions or not. And that, uh, if they are, then it sets off a timeframe in which the corrections have to be made. Generally by the time they reach this point, we've fairly well exhausted it and are looking at potential legal actions. Um, and while limited, uh, we are far more aggressive today with that than we were even a few years ago. So with that, we will hold public hearings on two different, uh, uh, VI violations today. And with that we'll turn staff over for case six D 6 0 4 dash 25. Uh, and uh, let's see. I opened also a good Overview. I don't need to add anything other than Oh, good. If there's anyone here, well, I get part of your salary for today's. You did it all For me. I appreciate it. Anybody here that's gonna testify? If you please stand and raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear affirm that the testimony and evidence you're about to Yes, I do. I will call, I'll call to order the public hearing. Good morning board Shannon Boyd Community Standards. Today I have before you case number D six dash zero four dash 25 Village Community Development District number six versus Jack F Condor. 1 7 3 4 way unit 1, 2 7, lot 1 8 4. Violation of the district's rule to bring about deed compliance and specifically the rule that states owners shall keep their home sites meet and clean and the grass cut, irrigated and edged at all times. The home site owners shall have the obligation to mowat and maintain the unpaid area between an adjacent roadway or walkway located in the road right of way in the owner's home site. If an owner does not adhere to the above regulation, then the work may be performed on behalf of the owner and the cost shall be charged to the owner. As stated in the village Community Development District number six, external deed restriction standards maintenance shall mean the exercise of reasonable care to keep buildings, landscape, lighting, lawns, and other related improvements in fixtures in good condition. On February 14th, 2025, a complaint was received regarding overgrown grass, weeds and overgrown trees. Staff inspected the property and verified the weeds and tree branches touching the eaves of the home were in violation, but the grass was not a deed restriction. Reminder was written on February 20th. The initial and second letters were sent on March 12th and March 24th. And after following the procedures of compliance of external deed restrictions, a notice of public hearing was sent by regular and certified mail on April 10th and again on May 23rd. The homeowner has been in contact with staff and indicated he was attempting to bring the property into compliance by doing the work himself. But due to medical and financial hardships, he has been unable to maintain the property. During staff's inspection of the property on June 5th, it was determined that the property does remain out of compliance.