Village Community Development District No. 13

I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous. And we bought this house because of that, the wall, the separate. But my husband here, he's been battling cancer for three years. My other neighbor also. Am I finished? Your time, we'll give you just a little bit. Okay. Anyway. 30 seconds. All right. I just don't want to keep battling this issue of RVs. We're battling cancer and it's tough, but as far as I see, and everything in writing, is that the RV can be parked in the driveway for the 72 hours, not on a plat. I would hope the developer could help me with this situation, that we can finally put it to rest. Okay. Ms. Duckett. Is the RV being parked on the street or is it on- It is the street. Okay. That is the end of the street, which is the dead end, my wall, the dead end, and it's called a plat. Yep. Well, the plat designates what the usage of that is for. Right. So the developer, just like all of the other residential districts, allows for RVs to be parked in the driveway and typically in the street, as long as it is not impeding any type of emergency traffic or blocking somebody's driveway, as long as it's within that 72 hours. You're not going to see that written down because it's up to the developer for District 13. They have directed us to be consistent with the other residential districts- Right ... which is where you'll see it in the standards for the other districts, but we're not to that point yet. We did confirm with the developer based on the conversation, and they reiterated that they wanted us to treat this situation just like we do all of the other ones on their behalf, and that if somebody is violating that 72 hours or taking advantage of it, then certainly we'll do our best to try to enforce based on that. But we do need some help from the property owners because we can't be out there all of the time. We can't be out there on the different nights, and it takes us some time, just due to the volume of calls, some time to get out there. So certainly if this individual is parking more than 72 hours, the developer has indicated they will enforce just like they do everywhere else. But we will need some help when it comes to the pictures for that. Now, if this is a street, then it's not a district property. There's nothing that you as a district board, unfortunately, can do. And we do have a representative here from Wildwood. If they are impeding traffic or emergency vehicles can't get through, then they may be able to have some options on their standpoint, but unfortunately, if it's not district property, there's nothing that you can do. Okay. So this is a street, it's a dead-end street, and like I said, in the deed restriction, it's called the plat. So there's no parking. It's for guests, not RVs. So, yeah, they could park. Hey, their driveway would be fine. I don't know why there would be five on this little... Five different pictures. So, you could live down here. Why aren't you parking on your own street or in your own driveway? Can I say- Well, that, and also- An RV is costing you- Yeah. My husband- ... money out of your window. My husband. Okay. Well, you can't. Sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah, you have to get up. You can't stay. Sorry. So really, I understand driveway, believe me, and in front, in his street, that would be... But why is everybody parking, and it specifically says that in the deed restriction. It's called the plat, and it's there for their guests. And when you say five, are you saying there's five RVs- Yeah ... that have been parking there? Yeah. As far as I see right now, and there could be... There was two white ones. And we cannot go over, because people have gotten very upset, even though we're on public property, very upset, and sent the police over- Mm-hmm ... to Whittington and saying that we're... We need to resolve or figure out. If it says in the deed restriction it's a plat and it's parking for your guests. So, hey, look, I see it all over Deluna Park. They park in front, in their driveway- Mm-hmm ... backing in or whatever, or in front of their house in the street- Right ... and put everything they need in, and then they're gone. So has anything been sent to community? Have these pictures been sent to community standards? I don't recall seeing them, but. We have some. Unfortunately, the main person that is parking there lives right there, and we have not caught them in violation of that 72-hour rule. No, he's gone. He knows he's gone by 72 hours, but it's not his street. It's the plat. It's another street for somebody else. You know what I mean? I don't get it. I don't understand. Is that parking area considered part of the district, or is that Wildwood? I'm trying to pull up the property appraisers. If it's the street, which I believe it is, most of the areas have where it goes into a dead end before you hit the wall. Right. If it's the street, then that would be through the city of Wildwood. So then there's no overnight parking on the street in the city of Wildwood. That I don't know. Well, I did find that out. Oh. I went to the township. I've been all over trying to figure this out, but it comes back here to the developer, I was told. So Ms. Duckett, we're trying to figure out if it's a plat. What's the plat verbatim? What the plat does is indicates what the area has been designated for. And typically, you find that in areas, for example, with villas, you have the overflow parking area. Right. And you'll look on the plat, and it'll say that this has been for owners and invitees and guests, or it depends on the district. Right. But if this is a street, then it's not for owners and guest parking at all. It's a street. Right. I understand that. So if it's a plat, would that be under the- It would depend on what it says, and I don't have an- Can you find that? I can. Well, I'd have the deed restrictions that would apply to it, but- No, the deed restrictions apply to your property. The deed restrictions refer to the plat, and then we have to read the plat to determine how it has been designated. So if I'm correct, it's over 72 hours, that thing needs to be moved regardless. Right. And there's no overnight parking by the city of Wildwood, right? So this is what I suggest. Put up a Ring camera. They're very inexpensive. You can have them sent to you overnight. Very quick to set up. You can set it in your window, plug it right in. It'll go out. You can set a motion detector on your phone, and it will record for you. Okay? And there you'll have, is he moving it, not moving it? Is he bringing it back? No. A very inexpensive way to go about it if we need evidence. No, the gentleman knows, him and everybody else knows to move it. Right. So that's not my issue. My issue is I go sit in my backyard. I can't even sit there because they start it up, there's fumes. Mm-hmm. There's diesel fumes, and he has cancer. So does the other gentleman. And we have to look at this. You have to see this. The wall, I believe it's eight foot. It says 10 here. And then it may be another, what, five on top of it. It's RVs. Isn't that the aesthetic? I guess the decision needs to be made on that. Is that a plat? Right. Let's let Ms. Duckett and her staff look at that and see what the plat says and see if there is anything that can be done other than the pictures. But again- Right. Could we have pictures? Ms. Duckett said that they've not seen anything where... And you're saying they're not extending the 72 hours. No, I have to say that, that they know exactly. But I don't understand why there's five. There's one house in front of me. I know it's that gentleman with the big brown one. I understand that. Yeah. But then where are all these o- We don't even know if they're owners there or not. One was gone the next day. We saw the jacks down. We know somebody stayed in it. Mm-hmm. But we don't know. We don't know where they are. And we cannot go over there anymore because we don't need anybody visiting us. I understand. Thank you, and let's see what the- May I ask how we would find out the results? If you'll provide your contact information to Mr. Armstrong over at the table, we'll make sure that we follow up with you. Okay. I'll do that. And we'll put it on your old business. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. Can we put that address of that house on... That'll be the address and everything on old business, so I can drive by and look at it myself? Yes. Thank you. Okay. My understanding was that they weren't allowed to run their generators, and they weren't allowed to stay in them either, and that was when I talked with the district. So I don't understand why they're, or not the district, but the builder. I don't understand why they're not taking action on this. Thank you. Let me do some research, and we'll come back to you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other resident comments? I know we had a couple of additional people walk in. Does anyone want to make a comment? No? Okay. We were just here to hear about the grass, the disposition. We were going to do something about the grass. Okay. We heard that they were going to do something at this meeting. We have some things on old business. I'm not sure there's an update on that, but there is a point on old business, so. All right, so now we'll go for our law enforcement quarterly update. Thank you. Good afternoon. Captain Kinder, Wildwood Police Department. So last week, Wildwood Police Department assisted with President of the United States coming. We worked with Secret Service and also other local law enforcement to make sure that it was a secured and safe event for everybody involved. We're happy to say that it was. He got here, left safely, and it was safe for all residents and everybody that attended. We do have a couple of upcoming events, but they are pretty far into the year. We'll be sure to pass those on to you as they get closer. Other than that, I don't have any updates for the law enforcement quarter at this time. Any questions from the- I had called the City of Wildwood and asked them about parking on the street, and nobody said that you could not park overnight, because we had a couple of cars that parked right on a curve. Made it difficult for people to traverse that area, but is that correct, that there is no law against overnight? So we're taking it on a case-by-case basis. So there is different areas, but our recommendation on every single one of them is whenever you see a violation, is to give dispatch a call, the non-emergency line. We send an officer out there, we make sure, we take a look at it. We'll have them move that vehicle, especially if it's blocking a curve or anything that's going to be like that. But we're trying to make sure that every single one of them is looked at individually. But is there an overnight law? Because I know a lot of people park their cars overnight on the street in Wildwood. So as far as the city ordinance, we'd want to get a copy of that. I know that they've been looking at specific areas, and I don't want to speak out of turn without looking at those specific areas. That's why we're looking at each violation individually, ensuring it falls right in line with what we're able to do with either a Florida state statute or with the city ordinance. Okay. I know you guys did a good job on a lot of the block parties where they were blocking emergency entrances and came by. Were very professional and moved people, so that's a good thing. Thank you. Absolutely. Yes, sir. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So now to new business. We have the approval of the minutes. Are there any questions on the minutes, or... Can we get a motion then? I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes of April 6th. Second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carried. Brandy. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Karen Cleary will be presenting your 26-27 budget review. I do want to call attention, just as an item on your old business comes into this review, and that part of this discussion will be on the Villa Lighting Project. We have included it so that you can see what your budget would be if you moved forward with it, but knowing that that was a discussion that the board wanted to have before approving the budget. Ms. Cleary? Yes. Thank you, Kerry. Good afternoon, board. Karen Cleary, assistant budget director. Do you have to give me just a minute? Yep. Thank you. We're here today to review the fiscal year 26-27 proposed budget for District 13, and my goal is to walk through the major components of this budget, highlight key changes, and provide pertinent context. We'll conclude with next steps ahead of your June 8th regular meeting. Let's begin with revenues. For fiscal year 26-27, maintenance assessments remain unchanged at $4,625,208. Interest income increases modestly by $1,600, bringing total operating revenue to $4,733,808. As the slide shows, this is essentially a flat year-over-year operating revenue. We do see a significant reduction in developer contributions, decreasing from $27,269 to $9,172, a 66% decrease. This reflects the natural phase-down of developer involvement directly related to your deed compliance services as the district matures. We're also reducing your addition to working capital. Last year, we added $288,584 to your working capital, while this year we anticipate adding $84,367, which is a shift of just over $200,000. Overall, total revenue increases by $187,720 or 4%. The pie chart provides a clear snapshot of how District 13 allocates its budget across its major service areas. Project-wide fees make up the largest share, reflecting the shared infrastructure that benefits all residents. Repairs and maintenance represent the next significant portion, highlighting our commitment to preserving district assets. And your remaining categories of professional services, utility services, personnel, and transfers support your day-to-day operations that keep the district running smoothly. Turning to appropriations, the total expenditures also increased by 4%, corresponding to your revenues at $4,658,613. Most categories remain stable or show slight decreases. Personnel and operating decreased by 2%, professional services decreased by 1%, and utility services also decreased by 2%. The most notable change is your repairs and maintenance, which increases by $139,767 or 26%. We'll explain the drivers behind that variance in another slide. Project-wide fees increased by 2%, consistent across all districts, and your transfers remain unchanged at $250,000. Major variances contributing to the changes in appropriations include building and structure maintenance increasing by $42,200 or 112%, and this is due to the Villa Lighting Project that Kerry mentioned earlier. Elora, Alyssa, Austin, Boaz, and Branham Villas are what are on the docket to be done. Landscape maintenance, non-recurring, increases just over $39,000 or 75%, reflecting planned plant replacements and expanded tree trimming services. Other maintenance increases by $56,000 or 361%, which is tied to contract expiration and your biannual pressure washing expense. Project-wide fees increase $59,365 or 2%, which is consistent across all other participating districts. Our project-wide allocation is based on assessable acreage, the same methodology used for maintenance and bond assessments. For fiscal year 2026-27, District 13's allocation is $3,027,611, an increase of 2%, and District 13 represents 14.23% of the total project-wide acreage. This 2% increase is driven by the capital improvement plan. The CIP for the current fiscal year totals $1.05 million, increasing to $1.77 million in fiscal year 26-27. The majority of next year's costs relate to fence replacements, multimodal path mill and overlay, and the repainting of some entry features. Costs moderate in later years with projections of $350,000 in fiscal year 27-28, $322,000 in fiscal year 28-29, and $980,000 in fiscal year 30-31. Looking ahead, our five-year projections show stable revenues and predictable expenditure growth. Maintenance assessments remain constant at $4,625,208 annually. Miscellaneous revenue also remains steady. Working capital usage varies depending on needs, ranging from an addition of $84,000 this year to increased usage in later years. On the appropriation side, we see modest increases in utilities, professional services, and repairs and maintenance, reflecting inflation and scheduled maintenance work.Your project-wide fees are budgeted at a 2% annual increase, and transfers remain steady at $250,000 annually. By fiscal year 30-31, total appropriations are projected to reach $5,071,275. Moving on to your working capital and reserves, we see the balance of your working capital budgeted to decline approximately $850,000 over the five-year period, while your general reserve fund grows from 500,000 to 1.5 million during the same timeframe. Overall, your fund balance grows from $3,084,861 in fiscal year 26-27 to a peak of $3,327,149 in fiscal year 29-30, before moderating slightly in fiscal year 30-31. Your reserve policy requires maintaining a minimum combined balance equal to 35% of revenues plus four months of operating expenses. As you can see, based on current budgeted revenues and appropriations, by fiscal year 30-31, you are projected to fall below that target minimum. This does mean an increase in maintenance assessments will likely be required during this five-year period. Looking at your fund balance forecast, your revenues stay just above your expenditures through fiscal year 28-29. However, this trend reverses by fiscal year 30-31, with expenditures exceeding revenues slightly. Making sure your operating expenses are covered by your operating revenues on an annual basis puts the district on stable financial ground. And as you can see, the fund balance does begin to decline in that fifth year. Although we are not bringing a formal recommendation for a maintenance assessment increase in fiscal year 26-27, we did want to provide some information relevant to any increases that may be necessary in the out years. A 1% change in maintenance assessment brings in $46,252 in additional revenue. There is also $964 in additional tax collector fees and approximately $5,000 in other expenses related to the mailing. So at this time, we'd like to request the board give us direction for your maintenance assessments, even if that is to keep them flat with no increase. Please keep in mind that when you adopt your proposed budget in June, no further increases can be made to your maintenance assessment rates. That preliminary approval will include the maximum your maintenance assessment rates can be set, so you can decide on a lower rate before final budget adoption. So at this time, if you'd like to discuss options or any things you would like us to bring back in June, we're happy to hear them. I have several concerns. The 2% increase to PWAC is to cover the Brownwood entry mainly and the fences, and those were in the budget. So I don't understand why all of a sudden that's an overage. And the reason why I say this is because we're looking into some of the budget items, and they're going to be replacing doors on our pools at two different locations, and they want $7,400 to replace a standard door. And that estimate was $40,000 over, and they presented it like it was no big deal. And to me, spending, again, $400,000 on lights going into the different villas and stuff like that, that more than covers our reserves, and it's not a safety feature, and it's not something that benefits anybody except for the people in those villas. So I think we have a lot of work to be done on our budgets before we start increasing taxes and increasing the amount of money we send to PWAC. So just to clarify, the door project at PWAC has nothing to do with the maintenance assessments. That's on the flag side of things. So nothing that is spent through the amenity division impacts the residential districts as far as your contribution or your assessment. I understand that, but it's one of many things that we're paying a ridiculous amount of money to do things that shouldn't cost that much. And it would seem if we take a closer look at those and cut back on the expenses that we're doing, we wouldn't have to make all these increases. So when it comes to the project-wide, the 2%, that is the 2% that is required. As you know, we've been able to hold it steady, but based on project-wide budget that was presented to them, there is going to be a 2% increase to all of the residential districts. And it's not just for those two items. It is just in general, costs have been going up, and they have not been increasing the contribution from the residential districts. When it comes to your budget, when it comes to the villa entry lighting, that is a complete policy decision on the board, and if you tell us to take it out of the budget, we'll take it out of the budget. I just wanted to make sure that since you said it would be discussed here, that you saw the cost associated with them. But there's not a recommendation at this point to provide any type of maintenance increase to any of your residents. That 2% is if it's approved by PWAC, correct? Correct. Well, yes. If PWAC funds the budget that was presented to them, it would require a 2% increase on the residential districts to fund the budget. PWAC indicated very early on when it was established that they did not want to hold any type of reserves. So they did not want to have reserves in PWAC for the fluctuations. They would rather come back and get increases from the residential districts and have all of the reserves lie with the residential districts. I understand that, but being in business for 40 years, typically what we did was instead of raising prices, we would reduce our costs in order to meet our needs, and we don't seem to be doing that. And that would be a policy decision on PWAC as to how they wanted to proceed. Yeah, I'd like to segue off of that, too. And bring up the question of repairs and maintenance. We had a 26% increase. Is this a one-time event? Let me get back to that slide. Repairs and maintenance. 547, recommended budget 687, change of 139. That's our biggest increase, was 26%. Yes, it is. And that is due to... Of course, we didn't put that one in there. I think part of it is there is contract expiration for your landscaping coming up. Okay. So we budget an increase in that because we don't know what the new contract is going to be. We base that off of current pricing. So that's probably a large part of it, but I can get you the details of exactly what line items increased. That'd be great, because I'm on the same page as Supervisor Carrigan. We need to learn how to cut before we learn how to keep increasing. And I know this is old, but I know we have a new board member. So in the last meeting, I missed the meeting before that, it was stated clearly on the mic that this whole sod replacement deal would not have cost this board any funds. Well, to date, according to Mr. Harris, who's standing up there, it is truly, we are being charged to replace that sod. Okay? And now that the sod issue has been raised up, I know from my neighbors, and I know from the water restrictions, which we'll be bringing up later, and I know the sod types. This has been an ongoing discussion with this board for a while. My one neighbor reported he had to replace some of the sod, and it cost him over $7,000 to replace the sod in his lawn. And now under water restrictions, so this thing has really morphed into not just a small thing. And just so I can be clear on the mic, I don't care if we go back to all Florida natural. I really don't. You can turn the whole esplanades back into Florida natural. But when this board sits here and says, "Okay, we're paying Seppra," which is coming up for contract, too, and I know when I was the chair, and I went up two district to talk to Mr. Harris, and then we were flying drones over ponds and all this craziness was going on. We still are paying $2.7 million to maintain that sod. And I know, and I'm making a request that we go back through the records. I want to know back through the public records, as I know as it's stated, that it wouldn't cost this district a dime. All I know, I want to know in this budget is this 26%, out of that repairs and maintenances, is that to replace sod? And if it was, I want to know the exact cost and where it is. And I don't expect you to do it all at once. I just want this board aware of it before we go into the budget. And Seppra is under contract, and if Seppra is under contract, it's been an ongoing issue, just so you know, Chuck, and because you're new on the board. And like, and I agree with Supervisor Carrigan, we need to assess. And the lighting thing, I thought that was crazy, too. What are we doing, paying $10,000 for this lighting or something? Is that- 400,000 to complete the project. Yeah. For solar lighting. And I do not want to not say that these people can't light up their signs or do whatever they want, but why don't you do that within your own neighborhood? Why are you coming back and asking the whole district, which we're a huge district, almost 200 homes, to pay for that? So anyway, I'll be quiet at this point, but I really think it's something we need to dig into as a board, and we need to have a workshop on it, and we need to go through line item, line item, line item, exactly what we're spending, why are we spending it, and can we do other avenues? And including when I first got hired, I talked to Ms. Duckett and to Kenny, and I'm like, "Would it be more beneficial just to yank us out of PWAT? Can we maintain our own budget? Can we seclude ourselves and do it? And are we required to?" And I don't want an answer now on it, but it's just something for us to think about, and this is what I think about all the time. So I know we have the sod replacement coming up and that. So I'm on board with Supervisor Carrigan, and I think we really need to dive into this budget deep before we approve anything. So my comments on the project wide, we don't have a say on whether or not they go up 2%. You as a residential district- No ... you have a representative there, and then they as a board approve the budget, and then it would be cost allocated based on the agreement. Right. But this board can't say we're not going to pay the 2%. Correct. You would be in violation of your agreement. And as far as the lighting, is it appropriate now that we discuss that and either decide we're going forward or we're not? Sure. If you would like to direct us to remove it out of the budget, that doesn't mean down the road if residents come back, you can allocate it for different years. But if you direct us to take it out of the budget, then we'll take it out of it moving forward. Well, and I believe, if my memory is correct, that we only had one time that residents came and asked for it, and they asked for theirs to be moved up, and that's when we became aware it was even a project. And that was just one time that that's happened. So I don't think we've had a lot of other villa neighborhoods coming and saying, "Let's do this." And I know I've spoke personally. I live in a veranda neighborhood. I'm not asking. We have solar lights lighting ours up that we paid for. So is there anyone that feels that we should be doing this lighting project? Nope. I would say no. The amount of money is going to guarantee over the next four or five years that we don't have to raise taxes to our residents. And I think that's the major point. If we were swimming in money and it didn't matter, that would be a different story. But if our reserves are going to go down and we need... And we're not talking about, we're talking much less than 400,000 to keep going for the next several years. So it doesn't seem like a wise choice to spend that much money. I agree. So does anybody feel like we should be doing it? I guess maybe that was a better way to say it. Anybody want to speak that we should be doing it? Okay. So we're taking it out. Understood. Thank you. So as it pertains to maintenance assessments, are you accepting staff's recommendation and we will bring you a proposed preliminary budget next month with a 0% increase, or would you like to see some options of what you can do to stabilize it a little bit more? It's not necessary this year. You can certainly address it next year, but if you would like options, what you approve at your June meeting is the highest that you can go. You can always nix it completely or reduce it, but what you approve in June, you cannot go higher. So I don't want to create work for anybody else, but I'm not going to vote for anything other than a 0% increase. I'll too be on a 0% increase. Well, it makes sense. Yeah. I mean, the numbers support not having an increase. We may have to have one in later years, but we should be good. And that if we remember when we did have the increase, staff's recommendation was that we don't do this every year. Hopefully, it's every three to five years. So we're kind of on that plan. So we're doing exactly, I mean- Yep ... it's happening just the way y'all said it would. And if we were just looking at next year or even the next couple of years, you wouldn't see that fall off, and with the removal of the lighting project, that will take care of that fifth year, at least in this time. So, we'll bring back study maintenance assessments, and if something changes and we need to see options later down the road for the following year, we're happy to do that. Okay. And the increase was for our reserves, which is a logical and correct thing to do. So that was something we- Well, that was part of it. Yeah, that- That was part of it. Right. Part of it was PWAC, too, but it was part of it. Now that 2% for PWAC, has that already been voted on or- No. No, that comes up, June is our vote on that? Yes, June. And they would be under the same thing after they do that in June. They can't go higher. They could go lower, right? So my vote to the 2% increase is going to be no. I mean, is that okay with the board or- Absolutely ... any rethinking on that? I mean, I'll be speaking for our board, so... Well, I'll be honest with you, John, when you tell me that a door's going to cost $7,000, and where are we getting these bids, and how are we paying for all this stuff, and I know this came up with the board before, the Click thing from Mr. Mellinger when he was over there, and I know both you and I, John, and Chuck wasn't here, I think all of us felt like that's quite a shock that it goes through. And I would like to add to this is I've been present going up to the Citywide and the SeeClickFix meetings, and to staff's credit, we're moving fast ahead of that. And, from what I understand it, there'll be a dashboard now. So we'll be able to click on everything, and then that will be able to follow through and show us exactly where the line item is. But because I don't know about you guys, this is what I dig through. I'm going through. So these questions that we're asking, it's going to be so nice if we can just say, "Click. Okay, where did this come from? Where is the money going? Why?" And we can answer the residents much easier with the multiple questions that I get. So that's moving forward very quickly. I plan on having a meeting with them again next month and just see where we're going, but I'd like to ask the board that, too. If you were board members, would you want to see a dashboard versus a webpage so you could be able to easily dig through stuff? Yeah. But next decade, are we going to be able to do that? That is more on the back end for staff to be able to monitor. But if requested, we will be able to provide the board with any reports or overviews on any of those items. That's fine. Whenever I go into a computer, I mess it up, so I'm happy with somebody else doing it. The other thing is, the last of my report for PWAC, since we're into 90% of it, the entire budget is in the PWAC meeting. So if you're interested in what all the costs are and where the 2% is coming from and all that, just go to that and you can see all the data. Well, I personally have not looked at the PWAC budget. I did look at your agenda, but I didn't look at the budget itself. So before I would say, "Yes, I agree to vote no increase," I would want an opportunity to review that. So perhaps staff could send out an email later on in the month before they meet in June polling us. We can't. That has to be done in a public meeting. We can't poll you. Okay. Individually, you can. Mm-mm. Okay. Not and then present it to a board member. So you keep in mind when PWAC is going to be voting on it, make sure that you're focused on the project-wide fund when you're considering the 2%. And then they don't ask for a vote of approving a 2%. It's do you approve the budget that includes that 2%? So if not, then if you have an opportunity to look through that agenda and the budget and you see items that you don't feel are necessary and you'd like to see them removed so that there isn't a 2% increase, then it would be appropriate for you to go to the PWAC meeting. Because a lot of times discussion happens and Mr. Carrigan may have gotten a consensus here to say no, but in the meeting, it makes sense of why those items are in there or why they have to be in there. So really that's why you have to defer to his judgment as to him approving that budget along with the rest of the group, or the appropriate thing would be, and we have a lot of supervisors that attend the meetings, if there's going to be something on the agenda that they feel strongly about And also, Ms. Williams, I know on the financial committee, I'll meet with anybody on staff, and if you go sit with anybody, they'll make time for you, and they'll sit down and explain anybody on the board. They'll go through it in detail because I don't have an accounting degree. Oh, I completely agree. I've done it too. Yeah. That's really a helpful thing from staff too. Yes, it is. Yeah. I plan on meeting with the budget staff before- Sure ... the next meeting. I think it's healthy for everyone. There's a couple of things I don't understand. Yeah. But John was asking for direction from us, and I was saying maybe I'm the only one, and so if four of you say no, then John has that direction. I have not looked at the budget, so. No, I think- I haven't either. That's fine. If you find something different, come to the PWAC meeting. I'll be happy to. And I thought previously we were encouraged not to go to the PWAC meeting because we had the representative. So I know that when I was on the PWAC, that occurred a couple of times, and sure. And generally speaking, you have a representative for that, but you are also a taxpayer, and if you have issues, then you certainly are welcome to attend that and express them. And again, my point in saying that was mainly that we have supervisors not on this board who will encourage residents to come to their residential district instead of PWAC. Well, that's not where it's noticed. It's not where it's on the agenda. So just making sure that most of the conversation that impacts it happens at that meeting. I just have a quick question. I want to clear something up out of my own head for Mr. Briones. If, in fact, John is at the PWAC meeting, and he is there, and then one of us shows up, or more than one of us shows up and makes comment, isn't that running afoul of the- It depends on what the comment is, and keep in mind that the Sunshine Law applies to discussions for an item that may foreseeably come before this board for action. So the question will be, is there any action that this board will take concerning PWAC and the discussion that's taking place? Okay. So generally, I would say no, because you really have no authority over PWAC. They're going to do what they're going to do. You have a representative there to let them know whatever it is you want them to do, but they're going to do it regardless. They have their own board. So generally, the answer to that is no, but keep in mind, again, if for some odd reason there's something that they're considering that's also going to come before this board for a vote, don't talk about it. Okay. Thank you. And then on the one statement about the repair and maintenance, it sounds like Mr. Lau is asking for some information, so. And if you look at your actual budget packet, all of the line items are there line by line, but we will let you know which one of those line items are in that repair and maintenance. Because if you look, it has landscape replacement, landscape reoccurring. So you do have the line by line on there. If you have any questions about specific line items, just let us know, and we can delve into it deeper with you. But as a follow-up, we will send an email with which one of those line items is in that repair and maintenance. But Mr. Lau is specifically saying that Mr. Harris said we would not have to pay for that. I don't personally recall that because it's past the developer and everything, but so I think Mr. Lau is asking for some very specific information, and so I just want to be clear. Yeah, I'm just looking for the minutes to be drawn up, go back, and it's going to take a while to go back. But the homeowner, unfortunately, has left that approached me with it. And he says he was at the meeting, and he clearly remembers hearing that no, it would not cost our district anything that was under separate contract. He got paid $2.7 million. We needed fertilizer schedules. We just got nematodes, all kinds of crazy stuff. But anyway, I know it was in there, and I know it was stated again, and I just want clarification on that as we move forward because I don't think this board, and I don't think we should be paying for any of it, but that's just where I stand. Okay? I've said it before, and again, I don't care for Florida Natural. And I know that it's been discussed in this board, come by my house. Anybody is free to come by my yard. It has been fertilized exactly the way it should be, and because of this drought right now, if you look it up, that grass is made to withstand drought. And it only needs to be watered once a week. And my heart goes out to the homeowners, and I'm seeing it because I was up getting a tooth repaired, and somebody questioned me as a district supervisor, said, "They're replacing my sod." I said, "Don't replace the sod right now because you need to water it, and we're under water restriction. We have no idea when that's going to come true." And it's really starting to affect the homeowners. So again, transparency, transparency, transparency. And I know that homeowner actually left Saturday. And Tina and Mike both know him. And it was there. It was clearly stated. And I couldn't remember, but I really going to be honest with you, I don't have time to go back and dig through the minutes from three years ago. But I'm sure if we dig back, we'll see where that was stated. Thank you. So, the clerk's office will go through and run a search to see if we can find that. I don't recall that specifically being said other than there was a certain time that they were going to repair, and anything up until that point wasn't going to be charged to the district. Moving forward after that, then yes, District 13 was going to be responsible for it. That's the conversation that I recall, but we can do a run through the minutes. We can't go and listen to every single meeting for the last three years and try to determine it, but we'll do our best to do a search. That's why I'm so excited for this whole ticket system that I've been talking about because we would've already seen it on there, it would've already connected to the minutes, and we would've already been to verify that. So again, I'm grateful to staff and that we're moving forward Click with the SeeClickFix and the CityFire. Thank you. Okay. So I understand the direction is to bring back a flat, no increase for your maintenance assessments. We just have a couple more quick slides. We have your debt service fund, and looking at your three phases for the debt service fund, you are meeting the amortization schedules, and all have a healthy reserve balance at this time. Nothing noteworthy to speak of. This concludes the overview of your fiscal year '26-'27 proposed budget. And at this time, if there's questions, comments further than what we've had, I'm happy to answer them. Otherwise, the next step is to bring your proposed budget back to your regular June 8th meeting and look for your approval. Any additional comment? No. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, next on the agenda is old business. Yes, ma'am. The first item on old business will be removed. It is the villa entry lighting. The second item is one that the board has asked us to remain on, which is the FEMA reimbursement update, and as soon as we have an update, we will provide it. Number one on non-District 13 items is the sod concerns, and as I said, we'll go through and try to find out as much as we can for Supervisor Law. And then finally, it was to determine if a cement post can be installed to protect the fire hydrant, and that has been completed. Looks very nice, by the way. Thanks. Great improvement. Yeah. It's better get someone to watch that fire hydrant again. Okay, next on our agenda is our informational items with financial statements. Are there any questions or comments through the financial statements? No. And registered voter information was included. VPM monthly reports. District manager report. Yes, ma'am. The only item I have is for Ms. Allison Brennan, who's our community relations coordinator, to give you an update on an exciting new enhancement that we have coming to our existing e-notification system. Good afternoon. My name is Allison Brennan. I am the community relations coordinator, and I'm really excited to present to you today a significant step forward in how we communicate with our residents, the launch of our SailThru e-notification platform. I'd like to start with a quick overview of what this platform does. At its core, SailThru allows us to centralize communication across all district departments into one system. This creates consistency, improves coordination, and ensures residents receive clear and timely information. One of the key benefits is targeted outreach. We can send messages to specific groups by district, service area, or impacted residents rather than sending broad, one-size-fits-all communication. It supports both scheduled and real-time notifications, such as boiled water notices, while giving us engagement data so we can continually improve how we communicate. To make sure this was implemented effectively, we followed a structured rollout approach. We approached implementation in phases, starting with defining requirements and building workflows, then moving into data preparation, testing, and staff training. From there, we will conduct a limited rollout, which will start next week on Monday, to monitor performance, address any early issues, and refine the system before full implementation. This phased approach ensures stability and long-term success. With the system in place, our focus shifts to what we want to achieve with it. Our objectives are straightforward. First, improve clarity and consistency so residents can easily understand and act on information. Second, shift to a more proactive communication, making sure residents are informed ahead of time rather than after the fact. And third, establish a modern, scalable communications framework that supports long-term growth. In order to support this, we've also introduced a more structured communication cadence. We've created a predictable rhythm for communication. Residents will receive a what's happening update on Mondays focused on events and community activity. On Thursday, the district bulletin will provide more targeted operational updates. In addition, quarterly publications will highlight key departments such as district property management, public safety, community watch, and golf operations. This consistency helps set expectations and builds trust with residents. Beyond delivery, this platform also gives us valuable insight into performance. SailThru provides visibility into engagement such as open rates, click-through rates, and audience trends over time. It also ensures consistent communication across all districts and improves coordination during routine updates in emergency situations. From a governance perspective, this allows us to provide standardized reporting to leadership and boards, supporting transparency and informed decision-making. And ultimately, this leads to long-term value for the organization. This platform strengthens trust by delivering clear, consistent communication while supporting scalable growth as the district continues to grow and provides the data needed to guide strategic decision-making. In short, this is about building a more efficient, transparent, and trusted communication system for the future. Thank you for your time today, and I'd be happy to answer any questions. Are these emails just going to go to people who have already signed up for the-District news or? You mean the emails next week? Yeah. Yes. So if you've already signed up for any of the district e-notifications, everything's going to be transferred over to SailThru, and we're going to be phasing out emails starting next week. So we'll start on Monday with a select group and see how that goes and analyze the data and then proceed from there, whether we need to increase or slow down, because we want to make sure that everything's going well each day. So- Keep a close eye ... we're not going to get emails? You will, but it's a two-week rollout. So it's going to be within the next two weeks. Okay. So it'll be a certain amount of people each day, depending on what list that you're signed up for. Are we going to advertise this? How many residents are signed up for the e-notifications now? I would have to get you a specific number, but I can get that back to you. We've been consolidating some of the lists because some of them did have some duplications and such, so we were working on getting all of those aligned appropriately. Good. I know, because people that I talk to, I say, "You can get email notifications." They go, "What?" Mm-hmm. Yeah. So there's probably a lot of people out there that don't know. So with a more sophisticated system like this, we might want to do something to- Correct ... let the residents know that this is available. Yep. So we do have a plan to start pushing out information to residents after our board presentation. So. Great. And we just wanted to get everything over first because you have to be very careful, and as Allison stated, we're only doing small amounts at a time, or you get blacklisted. And then trying to get un-blacklisted is a nightmare. So once we get everything and we get our email addresses and we were confirmed that we're good, that's when you'll start seeing a huge communication push to get residents to sign up. Okay, good. Any other questions? Thank you. Well, all that's very good information, too, because when people ask me questions, I can usually answer them by the email that I've got, so . Good. Anything else from the second? No, ma'am. District council reports? No reports. Supervisor comments? Kerrigan, you have anything else? Something that- There's one more. They reemphasized the golf rules for golf carts. For the championship courses, it's two carts on the course. If you are not a member of the group that's signed in, if you signed into a group and you are outside of it, then they'll allow three carts. And that's true for all the courses, including the executive courses. There's only one deviation to that, is if the course has continuous golf paths, including the par fours, then they will allow four carts regardless of how you signed up. And there seems to still be a little bit of confusion about that, but Dave said that he was definitely going to make sure all his staff understand that for a continuous golf cart course, that four carts will be allowed, no questions asked. Now, when it is and you're on a par four, you'll only allow it to be two carts off the golf path. So if you're on a continuous executive course with four carts, when you get to a par four, only two will be allowed to leave the cart path. And if you want the full information on that, it's also provided in the PWAC package. It's about a four-page thing. We asked them to readjust it a little bit because it gives you all the things, and then at the very bottom, it gives an exception, and most of us didn't read that exception, which is for the four carts allowed in the executive course with continuous paths. That's it. Supervisor Grubbs? I'm good. Law? Water restrictions. I don't know if anybody else is hearing it on the board, but no matter where I'm at, I'm hearing about when can I water, when can't I water, what time is it? And I was actually on my computer doing my little stock stuff, and my neighbor goes, "Whoa, you just got caught." I'm like, "What are you talking about?" And he goes, "Community Watch was out here, and you watered after 8:00 on Monday day." And I'm like, "What?" So I was even a little confused. So I would like to see somehow the clarity. A lot of people are going back to snowbirds now. We don't know how to set our controllers. It's just out there. Another question that I had that I don't know if we can get to, I dug in with the one supervisor a little bit about the different aquifers, which one we're pulling from, what not. I don't know if you guys are getting the same questions I'm getting. How are these ponds full and these are empty, and why is this this way? I don't have a clue of seeing it. So anything that we could do to help us or any information you could give us as a staff, like to answer any of these questions, or just I got to come and spend a little more time with you about that, because I know at one point he stated we are not sucking water from pond to pond. And then my one neighbor's like, "They are, because I watch it go up and down." And I'm like, "Well, that's all part of your watering system." And so, I'd like to see a little more clarity on that. Come to the June PWAC meeting. The organization that handles all the transfers of water and how they control it is going to give a presentation to PWAC. Can you send me the cliff notes? I can. That'll be in my report, if you want to wait for that. I might come and hear that. Yeah, that'd be great. So anything that we could clarify where to go, not go, something they could go look at. Something just make residents more easy to go figure it out. I know my neighbors have said, "Go into your control box, watch this, make it Monday. You can water between these two times." And I don't know, something that we can maybe put out, especially when people are leaving, because their system's going to be going off, and I don't think we got any rain coming soon. That's it. Thank you. I've got it on. I agree with the water restrictions, because when I get questions, I have to go back and try to figure out where am I going to find it to tell someone what day they're supposed to be watering. But I don't know how we solve that. I don't know how we solve it. I'm not sure how the district solves it, because most of us, either we're in touch and we want to get the emails, or we don't. And people that don't are not going to do anything, and I don't know. So you got reported. Did you get an- Didn't get anything yet ... additional notice? No. The community watch is looking, and they'll report it to, I forget which group they report it to, but they will send a letter. But the letter, it just says, "There's a water shortage. Please only water..." And they'll give you the instructions for what to do. I don't think it goes any further than that, does it, Carrie? We have to report it to Swiftbud- Yeah ... but I'm not aware if they do anything with it. Yeah. It's more of an awareness thing to keep people. I know it'd be kind of redundant, but maybe in the weekly bulletin, we need to put it in there every week, so don't have to go back five, six, eight, ten weeks, however long, whenever it changed last. Allison is responsible for that wonderful weekly bulletin that you get- Yeah ... so I'm sure she's taking a note. Yeah. I'm also right now sending an email to the clerk with all of the information on a link to get, so you'll have that this afternoon. Thank you. Wasn't there something the district had already put out about what days you can water and what times you can water? Because I know I read something. I'm resending it to you, just so you have it at the top of your- Okay ... your mailbox. Okay. Yeah, it's been put out a lot, but like the gentleman that came to our meeting a number of months ago and wondering why nobody comes to our meetings, a lot of people don't read the newspaper or don't read those parts. So I don't know what, unless you're driving down the street with a megaphone and telling everybody what the water restrictions are, it's really hard to get to everybody. Yeah, a lot of people, they don't use their phones, or they're not tech-savvy or anything. They're not reading it. They're out enjoying their day. When it comes to government, though, if you don't have people in your meetings, that means you're doing something right. Mm. Typically with government meetings, if you have a room full of people, then they do not like something that you are doing. I agree. We've been there before. That's very true. We've been there before. Okay, I don't have any additional comments either. There's a lady who would like to say something. Oh, I'm sorry. You'll have to come up here. State your name and your address again, please. Kathleen Conte again, 4437 Winnington Circle. It's a little confusing about the time of the meeting, the Monday before the second Friday or something. Very confusing. Why can't you just put a date up? Monday, like today. So we do have all of the dates listed on the website- Oh ... but for advertising purposes. Unfortunately, the second Monday of the month is not always the Monday before the second Friday. Yeah. It is very confusing. But in order for it always to be the same time as the other meetings every month... Again, we're government, we like to make it confusing. But the dates are on the website, and our clerk's office can verify as well. Fortunately, you guys send us an email so we know when to be here, otherwise... Yes. We like to remind you to be here. We can't get work done if you don't. Okay. Can we get a motion? I'd like to make a motion that the meeting adjourns. I'll second that. All in favor? Aye. That ends our meeting.