Village Community Development District No. 8

The board meeting of the Community Development District Number 8 on April 7th, 2026. Yeah, right. 2026. Still working. Roll call. All of the supervisors are here. Glad to see everyone, and we'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance with a moment of silence after. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Welcome, everyone. I'm glad to see everyone today. Is there anyone that has anything they'd like to bring forth to the board, other-- If it's not on the agenda. If it's on the agenda already, but anything additional, please come up to the podium. Seeing no one, we'll move on. Under new business, approval of the minutes from last month. Somebody would make a motion to approve those? I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. Okay. I'll second that. I hear a second. All in favor? Aye. Approved. Being that there will be discussion and voting, I'd like to move the next item so that we have Mr. Johnson involved with different things. So we'll do that at the end of the meeting as far as accepting his resignation. Moving on to public hearing. Mr. Armstrong will present item 3A. Good morning, board. Matt Armstrong, Community Standards. So before you today, you have a request to amend and restate your rule to bring about decompliance your Chapter 2 rule. At your January meeting, you did authorize for the publication to amend and restate your rule. The purpose of this rule amendment is to change how you accept complaints within District 8. So you currently, right now, you have it to where you could be anonymous and reside in any district to have anyone file a concern of a possible violation within your district, and you would like to change it to where only residents of District 8 can file the concern, and you cannot be anonymous. So for that process, we would require the homeowner provide their name, unit, and lot, which is equivalent to an address, and their phone number. And staff would verify that the homeowner is indeed a resident of District 8. If they are not, the complaint is cleared. If we do verify that the information is accurate, they are a resident of District 8, then we will move forward with the review process. In the event that any individual requests who submitted the concern, we would legally turn over that information to that individual. So with that, I would state that I leave it open to you guys as to how you would like to proceed. Having heard the change that the board has asked to be looked at and possibly go with, anyone from the residents here like to- Let's officially open the public hearing. Better get that open. Hearing is now open. Do I hear anyone that would like to step forward and make any remarks at all? If not, the- Name and address, if you would. Oliver Bresden, Duvall Village, 2354 West Chestnut. I'm sorry, Chestnut Terrace. I just want to mention one thing. In one of my previous occupations, I used to run a surgery suite with 80 people, and one of the things I used to do when they used to come and complain to me about another employee, I'd tell them, "Well, let me bring the other employee in." "Well, no, that's okay." So you're going to find out by really putting the person out there, in the should be District A, you're going to have less complaints because when the person has to face the other person or now tell you who they are, it opens up a little bit more of a two-and-two way of discussing the issue. That was just my comment. Thank you. In this, there is that opportunity as we see how it progresses, if there are concerns or problems, it can be looked at again, and any changes discussed and maybe made at that point to improve it. So, it's not forever deal, but it can be looked at again, but after some time, we need to let it work. So there are pros and cons both ways, and I think everybody has heard a lot of those. So anyone else liking to make any comments? Appreciate that. If there are no further public comments, we can close the public hearing, and you can proceed with discussion amongst yourselves. Oh, there's a lady here. Sherry Case. Oh, pull the mic down to you if you would. Thank you. Can you hear me now? Oh, perfect. Sherry Case. I live at 1112 Tall Pine Lane in the village of Creekside Landing. I would like it further restricted to complaints from your village as opposed to another villager coming into the village and making complaints. I find each village is very unique and individual, and I think as neighbors, we deal with things in a different way than someone coming from a different neighborhood might. So you're saying you want- I would like it to be- ... the Creekside Landing area? ... complaints from your neighbors, not someone from another neighborhood. So if someone from Tamarack Grove or someone else, that's not- Right. I don't want someone from Charlotte coming in and using my pool and going, "Well, we don't like this about what's going on here." Why do they care? It's not even their neighborhood. If we accept it as a neighborhood, it should be accepted by the community, not by outsiders. That's what I'm saying. So I don't want someone, even if they're in District 8, coming to my neighbor and saying, "We don't like the plants you put out in front." My neighbors don't mind, so why would they? That's my comment. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Another perspective. Very well. Any others? Any comments back, your lady? No? Okay. And did you close? No, you can close the public hearing. The public hearing is now closed. And discussion amongst board members or a motion which has been provided in the agenda packet for you. Anyone, would you like to bring anything up and discuss them in any way? I just might want to... Over the last number of years, the board each year brought date compliance up. It has been discussed. And there are districts that have changed to a very similar restriction, and it's working. And so, the trolls were the problem, and that's being addressed with this, controlled a little bit more, and that's why I mentioned about that if those trolls find a way in which they still can do what they're doing, then that needs to be addressed down the road. But right now, this is working in a number of districts. Comments from any of the members? Mr. Chair? Yep. The issue, of course, is not who sent Community Standards out to make a determination of whether or not there was a compliance issue. The issue is, is there a violation? And in the process, that's determined by the experts, the people in Community Standards. So, changing the reporting methodology has nothing to do with fixing the problem. The problem is, is there a deed violation? Now, the deed restrictions are here to help ensure our property values. That's why they're here. It's very unpleasant to have somebody come to you. I personally experienced it because I had a violation. Had several neighbors who came forward and let me know about it. I didn't like it, but they were right, and I had to fix the violation. So just for the record, the issue is not how we determine whether or not there's a violation. The issue is, is there a violation or not? The biggest problem I think we have in the villages is that the front door's wide open. You can buy a property in the villages that is not in compliance with the deed restrictions, and it would be a problem, typically with landscaping, that could cost you tens of thousands of dollars to repair. Looks very attractive. If you're a neighbor or if you go through the neighborhood, you look at it, it looks gorgeous. But it's in violation of the setback restrictions. It doesn't meet the requirements of the deed restrictions. So as a supervisor, one of our jobs is to enforce deed restrictions. We have an agreement with the developer, the Morse family, that we'll do that. And it's an unusual part of the job. The job is pretty mundane, other than that piece. We can deal with deed restrictions here, but when you have a process where you can buy a home and the burden, the onus is on you, it's a buyer beware situation. It says to me, "Hey, the front door's wide open. You can buy a property and all of a sudden have a $30,000- ... problem to go fix. I'd love to see something done about the front door. I don't think it's going to happen, because it would probably slow down sales, and I don't think there's anybody in marketing interested in slowing down sales. The other piece of this is, last month we had a visitor, a Gary Cadow, very accomplished gentleman, been many years a supervisor in District Five. Mm-hmm. And he pointed out to us that they had abandoned the anonymous system. And yeah, there were fewer complaints, but the complaints turned out to be more genuine than otherwise. So he had a very convincing testimony. I think some of the complaints might come from real estate agents. They're trying to sell a property, and they look around and they see something that might not look good from a sales perspective, and they'll submit a complaint. I really don't know. But, "Hey, my neighbors are happy with it," doesn't mean that it's consistent with the deed restrictions, and we should acknowledge that. Thank you. Any other comments from remaining supervisors? I have some comments. And I just want to say the idea of changing our protocol for complaints, I think, is long, long overdue. Since my first term on this board several years back, I was taken back, I was shocked that we allowed anonymous complaining. I couldn't understand why the district was set up for anonymous complaints only. And then as time went on, we started having people issuing six or eight or 10 complaints in one crack, and that's, of course, the whole issue with regard to, I guess, trolling. The ladies in the golf cart, one with a clipboard and the other one driving through, rattling off addresses. So my point is, it's long overdue in my opinion, that we make this change, and the reason we didn't make the change is because we were in the midst of a lawsuit for the last five and a half years. We would've had this taken care of years ago but for the situation we had with the Anderson lawsuit on our attorney's advice. So you can tell by the tenor of my voice, I'm going to vote for this. And we can go back and look at it a year from now. Gary, the situation, I think is classic in that they had a couple of issues up front, but it was taken care of, and it's been pretty much normal, correct me if I'm wrong, since then. And that's probably what's going to happen here. We're going to have people upset because... And they'll find out who the complainer is. But the point is, if it's a legitimate complaint, it's a legitimate complaint. That's how I look at it. So I'm glad to see this happening. I was hoping we'd have more public input. I think that's critical. And to me, I want to make sure the decision is made in the best interest of the people of District 8, not the five of us. But I've been reading and hearing from people that it's time to make that change. So I'm making a huge assumption here that we're doing the right thing. But I'm going to vote for this. Okay. Any other comments? My only comment on it is that we make sure that we go back and look at this. I'm kind of a data-driven person. I went back and looked at 2025. The number of complaints that were actually put in, and if I got it right, it was, like, 160 or something, and 60% of them were out of compliance. So that's a big number. So people are not putting in frivolous things. And the other thing, when you look at the other data, the number of complaints by a single person, I think there was only one that was over five. So I think the troll issue kind of went away on its own. So I'll go along with this at this point- Mm-hmm ... but I want to make sure we go back and review it and see. I'm worried about people are not going to complain when there are really issues out there because they're nervous about a reaction from their neighbors and so on. That would make me more nervous than anything else. I know I've talked to some of our neighbors, and they said that no way would they ever make a complaint now, because they don't want to end up having an issue in the neighborhood. But as long as we go back and look at it, I'm okay for now. Okay. Yes, Mr. Chairman. I think that Larry and Ray make some very good points about the argument for the anonymous complaint. And there is going to be no perfect solution here, but there can be, as Lincoln said, a more perfect union. We can try for that And then I'm going to join Dwayne, of course, in voting to eliminate the anonymous complaint. Now, he also referenced the Anderson suit, which was my wife and I and a team, Team Cross, we called it. And I wish that suit had never happened. I worked very hard in the beginning that it would not happen. I don't know what else I could have done to just say, "Can't we get together and work this thing out and come to some compromise, some agreement, something to keep it out of the court system?" Doesn't need to be there, in my opinion, in the beginning. But, we had to submit to the summons and as defendants, here we go for five and a half years. So I hope that the neighbors will work together with one another, try to work this thing out before we take it to the next level up and get all bogged down in anger, dispute, argument. Of course, there are rules. We don't know that any rule was ever violated. It didn't get that far. We just agreed to settle to end it. I wish we would have, because it would've been good for the community to have a judge rule on this matter. But I didn't get that either. But I'm just wanting to work things out privately. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. The lady that brought up about the villa and maybe having your own input within your villa as far as... You still can have that. In fact, you are, and most villas are very tight-knit. You have driveway parties, you have emails and so forth, back and forth. And that can be talked about, the problem can be talked about and really solved or shared amongst those in your villa, and I hope that all the other villas, and I'm sure they are the same, would look at it the same way. But code compliance, when they go out, they know that a villa is separate than a freestanding home. The atmosphere and everything is totally different in the camaraderie that's there. So, I'm sure it'll be done properly. If not, we've got your name and address. Come back and see us. Okay. Do I hear a motion? Well, I have some other questions, I guess, before we move this thing. Okay. Perfect. And it has to do with the number of complaints an individual can submit. I don't see anything in this proposal that would limit the number, and I don't know if you feel that's reasonable or necessary. I thought there was. Whereas in the past, we've had one complaint issue, one complainant issue on any number of complaints. So I don't know what the record is, but I know it's more than five, more than 10. So is this something we need to be concerned about? And if so, we should probably have that in the language. You want to start? So the direction from the board, based on your last meeting, did not include a restriction on the number of complaints. We do have one other district that imposes a one complaint per method structure within their rule. So you could still require name, address, unit lot, and verification that they are a District 8 resident, but it's whether or not you would want to restrict the number of complaints per individual. So what that means to me is if you have a person who's making a complaint, he can make a complaint one at a time. That's correct. One per method. Yeah, one per method of communication. So if someone sends us an email with five addresses on it, we only take the first one that's provided, and we let them know we can't move forward with the other four. He could send you five separate emails. He could send five separate emails on five separate occasions. And to that point, historically, if you're looking over the previous fiscal years, in '23, '24, you had three instances where someone submitted more than two complaints. Yeah. And last year you had five instances. Yeah. So in the scheme, it's very, very small. It's not a problem, and that's the reason I'm questioning it. You can always add it later. You can always amend this thing again. I'm just bringing it up now. Now's the time. Yeah. Is this something we want to incorporate into the rule? Is my question, and I'm asking maybe for some advice. So I would say if you wanted to start off Here today with the acceptance of this particular motion, and we have your mid-year statistics in the informational items. If you want to, we can review that information now, or we can wait till our informational items to help guide your decision on this one today. But kind of like what District 13 did, give it some time to see how the new process would work out. And if you need to make a modification in November, we're going to give you the full end of year statistics, and you can see for, again, this year so far, six months, you've only had one instance where someone submitted more than one property. Come November, did it blow up to 50? No, I doubt it's going to do that. But you can take a look at the statistics, and as Mr. Limon says, data-driven, what is it showing, and then do we need to make a tweak here and there? But I would say at least give it six months to a year, and then see how you like it. Based on the statistic right now, now they have to put their name on it, I don't think you're going to have that issue, where you're going to have people sending in- As of now- We've only had one so far. I know. As of now, people don't have to, and it's only one- Right ... so it's not an issue with the anonymous process. Well, I'll tell you one thing. If one person submits 25 requests, they're going to get run out of the district. That has not happened. That column shows zero. Darn tooting. Comment from the resident? We're closed. No. Mr. Chairman, you closed the public hearing. Oh, I did. Yes. Okay. Yep. So then, with that being said, wait and see how it works from this being, do not add that restriction to it at this point in time? Well, I'm just throwing it out there for the rest. don't have to do that. I'm just saying that it would be something to add now instead of going through this public hearing process in the future, which provides staff with a lot of work. That's all I'm saying. And I would agree. I don't see why we should not add it now. So modify the motion to... Yeah. You'll want to include the exact language that you're going to add and where you're going to add it. Okay. So it would go underneath, again, the same section that you're going to have the complaint process, and it would read that we would only accept complaints with one method per commun... One complaint per method of communication. Mm-hmm. One complaint per method of communication. And where would that go? That would go underneath the complaint process. That would still go underneath step one. After the last sentence- ... of the highlighted area? Yes. Okay. All right. So then if you want to add that, and that's the decision of the board, then you would move to adopt as amended. Let's see what the motion says. I'll pull up the... I will read the exact language for you. Thank you. I'm pulling up a document right now. Adopting this amendment, that won't prevent any voting from happening today? No. Okay. We can still vote on it as amended. And I should ask while they're looking, any of the other board members have a comment on this? Like say, not do it? I agree. Dwayne's right. We should do business right now. Right now. Okay. Hearing none, we're moving ahead. I believe Mr. Armstrong is going to read the amended section into the record. Okay. Is that under procedure, step one? Yes, sir. Step one, complaints. It should be added under the second highlighted paragraph there. Thank you. Okay. All right. Pulling it up. All right. So under step one, complaints. "Complaints of possible rule violations may be made by a homeowner of District 8 only. Complaints may be received by phone, mail, electronic mail, online, or in person. When a complaint is received, there will be a limit to the number of complaints being reported. Staff will only accept complaints on one property per method of communication, phone call, mail, electronic mail, online, or in person. The complaint shall provide their name, unit and lot, and phone number, which shall be logged and retained for future follow-up and becomes part of the case record, which may become public record. The complainant's name, unit and lot, and phone number will be verified to ensure the complainant is a homeowner of District 8. If the complainant does not provide his or her name, unit and lot, and phone number, or is not a homeowner of District 8, the complaint shall be logged. However, staff will not inspect the property to verify the complaint and the decompliance process ends." And that is the highlighted section. So what we would need is a motion to adopt Resolution 2026-06, amending and restating Chapter 2 of the district's rule to bring about deed compliance as amended. Okay. Do I hear that motion? Mr. Chair, I would like to make that motion as our attorney has stated. Yeah, but you've got to say it. No, he doesn't have to read it. That's good enough. Make another motion. Don't you need to say- That's good enough. Okay. I read it in, he's moving it. Yeah, okay. So that's my motion. Okay. Second? I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Approved. Thank you, Board. Thank you. And Ms. Bessoni is approaching the podium to present item 3B, which is another rule adoption. Good morning, board. Kaitlyn Bessoni with district administration. Before you today is the public hearing for the adoption of Resolution 2026-05, establishing a Chapter 3 rule for the towing of improperly parked vehicles and vessels. As a reminder, this item was previously discussed and authorized for advertisement at your February board meeting. If you've gone through the attachments for the District 3 rule, it goes into the purpose of the towing and removal of improperly parked vehicles and vessels, temporary parking areas, and even provisions for repeat offenders. What this will solve is people who leave their vehicles parked in those temporary parking areas or the district-owned roadways on a permanent basis and allow us to start the process to remove those vehicles. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. If no questions, we can open the public hearing. Yep. Public hearing now open. Any comments from the residents on towing? Yeah. On the towing? You have- Yeah, on the towing. Yeah. Okay. I guess I'm the guy that brought this up. Give me my name. Yeah. Name and address. J-O-N, John. No H. It's a J out there. Salemi, S-A-L-E-M-I. 1997 Old Mont Way Village. And move the mic up to you. Bring the mic up to you. Bring the mic up to me. There you go. How's that? Doesn't sound like it's on. It looks like it's on to me. Yeah. Okay. It's on. Okay. Yeah, I'm the one that brought this up a couple of months ago, and I guess, I'm not familiar with the protocols, but I guess so today you're voting on it, yes, no? Yes. Okay. And I guess my only words are, I hope it's the right way. It was a hassle. The situation that we had where we were at, literally the car was a junker, and it took four months to move it. And it was one of our residents in the house, the house is outside of the villas, that had it parked there. And I don't know what the ruling is on that, where people that live in the house section versus the villa section, if they can park cars in that area. I assume you cannot. And I'd like to know that so that I can tell people, "Hey, you can't park there." Because we had 12 cars that were parked on the street during Christmas and New Year's, and it's unsafe. So does anybody know whether the house people can park their cars in that spot or not? Well, first of all, if it's a house, a house house, not a villa- Yeah. House house ... those streets are county streets. Yeah, but they're taking their car from their thing, and they're parking it- Yeah. I know ... in our four parking spots, which I think is incorrect as well. So the way I see it, they'd be subject to a tow, right? So what this rule says is that temporary parking in the villas listed are for the owners within the villa- Okay ... their tenants, invitees, and guests for temporary vehicular parking. Thanks. Yeah, because the question was coming to me, and I didn't know, so I just wanted to find out. Okay. That's it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. For the other resident, this gentleman brought up his situation in his villa. We've had other villas that signs have been placed in that parking area to alert people who park there. So-called it worked to an extent. Sometimes it doesn't. with the towing rule, it goes to the extent that something can be done about it to, in a way, really make the point there's no parking there. So, okay. Any comments? If no further public... We have additional public comment. Hi, Sherry Soper, 1103 Creekside. We have the same situation happening because we're limited parking at Creekside, our little villa area. We have had a car abandoned almost, it's probably been a year. So I went down to the CDC to ask what we could do about it because we didn't know the owner. The owner no longer lives in our neighborhood. And we don't know how to get ahold of them. So, I took some pictures, and I went down to the CDC, and they told me I needed to go to Sumter County Sheriff. So I went to the sheriff, and the sheriff said they can't do anything about it because it's not an abandoned vehicle in a roadway. It's an abandoned vehicle in a restricted parking area. So then I went back down to CDC, and they sent me to Kaitlyn, I believe. I don't know if you got my email with the pictures or not. think I sent them to you, of this abandoned vehicle. So it's an issue happening for us, and we don't know how to get that vehicle out of there other than to have you tow it. Does that make sense? Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Yeah. This would solve that problem. Correct? So what is the procedure then so they know that needs to take place, and who do they notify to make it happen? So that process will still come through district management. And Kaitlyn, in particular, Ms. Bessoni, works through that process and the notification and the notice on vehicles. So this would enable the towing to occur, which right now, as Ms. Soper indicated, this is the circumstances that can arise without the ability to tow. Yeah. This is something we really need So when it goes into the impound, when it's impounded, there is a charge for that. That individual needs to pay that- To get the car back. Correct ... go for it. So just so people are aware of the offenders, the repeat offenders, you're talking about a guy that's been sitting there for what, a year? Yeah. Assuming that they would issue a ticket, then he's got 48 hours of that. There's a 48-hour timeframe and if that's gone, then it's reduced down to 24 hours. And then there's administrative fines along with that, and certainly notwithstanding the towing charge. So, it does get costly under this new law and this new rule. So it should create something to happen, I guess. So just for clarification, there's not a ticket. There's going to be a notice that's posted on that vehicle, and if the vehicle isn't moved, it gets towed. The repeat offender is for someone who gets towed and then goes back there again. Yeah. The second time, that's when that process kicks in. Okay. My guess is if it gets towed and it's been there a year, it's probably going to stay at the- Yeah ... storage or wherever they take it. I don't think anybody's going to go claim it, but if they do, as long as we follow our rule, it's their responsibility to pay for it to get it back. The point is that if there's a problem, it's not going to go away. They're going to keep notifying the owner of that vehicle. The owner gets notified once and gets towed if they don't move it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Along with this rule, that will require signage in all of these- No signage. Oh, okay. It's going to be a surprise then. No. There's a rule that's being adopted by this district, and there'll be a notice pursuant to that rule, so it shouldn't be a surprise, but you know. I see. Thank you. Hi, guys. Cliff Winder, I live on Duval Lane in the District 4. I'm chairman of District 4 Board of Supervisors. We have had this in place for, I believe we were the second district to approve it right after District 3. We have had cars towed. It works, and it works well. You guys need to pass it so that your residents that live in the villas, this is a problem that's been going on in the 24 years I've been here in every villa complex in the villages. All districts should adopt the towing rule. Please do it for your residents. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, do you have anything else? No. If the board doesn't have any further questions, I'll- Do I need to close the- Yes, sir. Close the public hearing ... public hearing and move on to the discussion. Does the board have anything they'd like to bring up? It's pretty much a no-brainer. Yeah. Now this also would enable our recreation centers to tow vehicles, right? So the commercial districts, Village Center, Sumter Landing, Brownwood, they already have towing rules in effect. They already? Yeah. Okay. So we just need a motion to adopt resolution 2026-05. Do I hear that motion? I'll move that we adopt resolution 2026-06. 05. I'm sorry, 05. I'll second the motion. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? It's approved. Thank you. Approved. Well, moving on to old business. Yes, I'll go through your old business status sheet first, and then we'll move on to the next item. So you advertised for the public hearing for the towing rule today. So that is complete. There will be a discussion pertaining to the drawdown of reserves during your budget review, and your budget review meeting will be kicked off in May. The number of villas that was addressed in the towing rule, and then as with item number four as well. So those are all complete. The last item is we will be doing a presentation on the status of City Works at the July board meeting. And the next item, I'll ask Mr. Armstrong to come back to the podium. This is a revision to your architectural review manual pertaining to the patio villa golf cart garages. Hello again, board. Matt Armstrong, Community Standards. So yes, Ms. Wilson said, you requested a modification to your arc manual specific to patio villas. This would only be for patio villas not burdened by side yard easements. So this will not be for everybody, but just only the select few that have that notation within their units. And it would permit to construct a golf cart garage additions, so long as the addition does not encroach into any easements. All structure building additions must be attached to the existing dwelling, including being attached by a roof of the same materials, design, and roof pitch consistent with the existing home. All building addition materials and design, including roof pitch, shall be consistent with the existing home. No building addition roof shall be higher than the roof of the existing home. So essentially, it must be attached to the house, and it must match exactly as your house looks, including the roof. Attached to the house? Mm-hmm. It cannot be a freestanding building. I thought in the illustration we had, it stood alone. No. No, it was connected to the home site. Oh. On the corners, they found a way to merge the corners of their- Oh ... properties of the two buildings together. So it looks like less of a work than I thought it would. Okay. We don't have a number of how many lots would accept or... It would just be a handful. There's not many. I don't think it's much of a... It's not going to have much of an impact. It's pretty much if you've got the buildable area, which is the term I like to use, it may allow you to put in that golf cart garage. That's the bottom line. That's probably the consensus. Yeah. And I have no issue with that. Okay. Any other discussion? Or if not, do I hear a motion to approve the revisions? Well, I would like to make the motion that staff recommends to the board of supervisors... I'm sorry, motion to approve the ARC manual revisions as presented and to take effect on April 7, 2026. Do I hear a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Approved. Thank you, board. Okay. Informational items next. Yes. Items 5A through D are all included as information. If you have any questions, we're happy to address them. So was there any questions on the financial documents that you received or hearing updates or anything? If not, we'll move on the district manager report. No specific report on the agenda other than we did leave a printed copy of the annual report at each of your seats. So if you have an opportunity to take a look at that, we were really proud to put that together for this year to highlight all of the board activities and all the departments within the district as well. Okay. Now, is this a public item? Yes. It is available on our website as well, the districtgov.org website. Okay. Very good. District council. No reports. Supervisor comments on Project White. On what? Is that you? Project White, is that your report? Yeah. That's me. Okay. First of all, I want to thank the staff for getting this information out. The meeting was yesterday, and so thank you. I appreciate having it in front of me. May I ask, how do they receive all of that? Do you submit anything or that's just pretty much- I do nothing. I just sit there and... Perfect. I ask that question- They do all the work ... I ask that question, when you're not able to put that together, is it still going to continue as well as it is? Absolutely. Okay. They won't miss a beat. Okay. So, a resident recommended the committee review long-term plans for amenity enhancements for aging residents. I'll touch on that later. These are people that come up before we get into the formal agenda. A resident recommended additional signage to be installed behind the pickleball courts be installed at Lake Miona Regional Rec Center, the Black Lake Park walking trail. Staff advised that the existing signage could not be relocated if necessary. This has to do, if any of you have been on the walking trail, there's a sign now that prohibits smoking, it prohibits dogs, and something else. What else is it? Bicycles. Bicycles? Yeah. Okay. So there's been dogs on the trail, which is not allowed. So they put a sign out there to give people a visual idea that they're prohibited from bringing their pets on that trail. So we'll see how that works. I understand that in the paper it said temporary. Well... So is there plans to do something- No ... larger? No. Apparently, that's it for now. Well, what happened was there was a little one there. Yeah. Only about that big. Yeah. They put a bigger one. Okay. This is a sign they can move around if need be. Yeah. That's the way I understand it. There's two or three of them. Well, as she said, people were skipping that. They didn't start at the trail at the beginning. Yeah. They would come back off the pickleball courts and down to the trail. So moved the sign over there. Well, it's just before the bridge, so they've got to cross the bridge. So the idea is to keep people from smoking and keep their pets off of the trail. Okay. Moving on. We had a discussion on this spending more money on the Solitude Lake management for weed control, and specifically, they include now, have or have included now Lake Sumter, which is the largestIf you will, of all of the ponds in the villages, the largest, 133 some acres. I don't know why they hadn't included it before, but they did now to the tune of $321,000. Say that again for me. I just got slapped in the head. Say that again. You're going to get slapped in the head more as I go on here. Because we spend a lot of money. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah. For maintenance and everything else. This is for weed control, and I might add, I'm going to make a guess, there's probably 150, 200 ponds, and there's three pages in small print of basins throughout the villages. Now, you got to realize, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it's so much an acre, and most of these ponds run anywhere from a half an acre to 10, 20, 30 acres. Lake Sumpter's 133 acres, so it's- Yeah ... a lot of money- Yeah ... per acre. And they do this- And we don't own it. Pardon? We don't own it. You own all the other ones. You don't own this one. Why are you spending money on the developer's lake? It's a district-owned lake. So the district is responsible for- I go on that lake, I get arrested Well, those are in the rules. Those are in the district rules about activities on Lake Sumpter. But the maintenance of the lake has been being performed through BDA, who's our environmental consultant. Okay. And we are moving the maintenance from BDA under the Solitude contract- Under this contract ... to actually achieve a savings- Yeah ... by moving that into the Solitude contract versus doing it through our environmental consultant. So really there's been weed control on Lake Sumpter in the past. It was on an as-needed basis- Yeah ... but the as-needed was actually more expensive than the proactive treatment- Okay ... which is why we recommended the change. So just to be clear, it's a cost savings to do this, if you will, because instead of as needed, that's kind of fuzzy math for our budgeting process. Now it's part of the contract, so we know exactly what it's going to cost. Does that make sense? Perfect. Okay. Larry? I have struggled for this in all the years I've been here. The developer owns that lake, Cherry Lake. He owns that lake. This is Lake Sumpter, where the Lake Sumpter tour boats and everything go out of, and that's- That's Cherry Lake, right? Lake Sumpter. Well, nowadays, but... No, but it's under the purview of the district and the management and ownership of the district. Now, there might be various portions of the shoreline on the fourth side of the lake that abut private property, but for the majority of the lake, it's going to be district controlled and maintained. Well, I sure hear the maintained part and see those expenses, but I can't fish there unless I go rent one of the developer's boats. I can't. Those are district boats. Those are district-owned boats. You're kidding. No, I'm not kidding. So we're maintaining those, too. Well- Who's getting that money? Wait till you hear about the $3 million improvement they want to make to the lakefront. All right. I'm sorry. Okay. I'll circle back. All right. So let me move on, if I may. Also, there was discussion on the... And I really think this is going to be... Larry, you're not going to like this, but I think you will. The idea of a gate access control options with long-distance readers was brought up yesterday by Brittany Wilson. She did a wonderful job with the discussion, and to the fact that PWAC wants to move ahead with this process, where we would not only have the card readers on the gates, but also then another extra device, a long-range reader. In other words, this is something you'd put on your headlight, and as you'd come into the gate, it would open automatically. So that's basically what we're... 1.2 million is what it's going to cost. And part of that money is coming out of our amenity fee, part of it's coming out of the AAC, which is north of 466, and part of it's coming out of the developer's pocket. Now, Brittany, help me with this, but as we progress and actually get into the implementation, people are being asked to pay $20 for the... What is the $20 for? The enhanced access is the headlight sticker. Okay. So yes, the installation of the long-range readers, and we would run dual systems. So we'd run the long-range readers. We would also keep the existing gate card system in place. But if residents want the enhanced access, option one, split between all entities, is 1.11 million. So for SLAD, it's 677,000. However, we ran revenue projections, and 30% of the existing... cards that are out there. We factored in 30% buy-in into this. It's revenue generating. So Sumter Landing is slated at 30% for 732,000 in revenue, which actually exceeds the installation cost. I think the other important point that I've picked up on is the technology that's out there currently with these gates goes back 30-some years. Yep. It's never been changed. It's never been updated. So it's time to have something like this done, and it might be the first step of something even longer term, but we're not going to talk about that now because that's more money again. But the point is it may happen eventually, within the next five years, something in addition to what we're doing now. Well, presumably there was a study associated with this and of course, the thing I think we're all interested in hearing is that the driver just can't keep rolling. He has to come to a full stop. Well, there's some concern about safety because this automatically opens the gate from a longer distance, so the gates are going to have to be- And we can build that delay in, just as the system is now with any type of credentialing system. You narrow the read range to a very narrow scope and a very one directional scope, and you build in your delay. Mm-hmm. And we work with our risk management team regularly, even now, to have a delay built into from the time that it reads the card to the time that it actually opens the gate. That would be the key. Yes. Yeah, you don't want people just rolling right on through there without a stop. No. They'll be killing golf cart boys. Staff would never recommend anything that would generate safety issues. So I guess the point, one of the gentlemen on the board made this comment and I think it really strikes to the heart of... Money is spent throughout the villages for improvements through our amenity fund. This is going to impact every resident who lives here directly, and that's why I think it's a good investment. Excuse me. There's many of the, I'm going to just refer to it as a tag, that's been put on the mirror that is being used- Yeah ... and I understand they are illegal. And so are they going to be unusable when we go to the other one so that it is okay? Unfortunately, not necessarily. So if a card is cloned from a valid card in the system, it will still continue to operate. However, it's not, number one, we don't condone cloning cards. It's number two, the existing technology is proximity readers, which means that at most, you can maybe get 18 inches away from it and get it to read. So individuals that have put that in their mirror have to get their mirror very close to the reader and the curb stop in order to operate the gate. We're looking to put in a solution that's done the right way and still achieves the same result. Okay. Thank you. I got a question, please. We're spending a lot of money for what? I mean, what's the real problem? Rolling down your window in the rain. Huh? Rolling down your window in the rain. You're going to spend all this money to not get wet in Florida? Yep. No. Well, that's what's been determined. Mm-mm. I think part of it, though, because I was actually at that meeting yesterday also, is to upgrade the technology. Right. This comes from the 1950s, what we have out there. It gives us the ability, two years from now, where we already have base technology in place to upgrade it, to get rid of those cards. Yes. And some of the other things we do. It was even brought up that can be used to activate pool entry, pickleball entry, and so on, if we take that next step. But you need to take this one to begin with. Right. And people, I'm going to hear it all the time about this. And like I said, if we spend millions on golf courses, we spend millions on all these other amenities, why not get this first? And bottom line, it's not going to cost us any, this first step. It's a revenue generator. No, we've projected that the revenue will offset the cost. And in order to get to a truly encrypted system where cards cannot be cloned, you have to use the new technology, which this supports, but this is the first step- Uh-huh ... in doing that. Uh-huh. Okay. Thank you. Okay. We had some old business we had to talk about. I don't need to go into all of that unless there's a question. I want to talk about the janitorial service and maintenance, because there's some serious money being spent on that. I don't have that number here, Brittany. We're talking one point something million for the new janitorial contract, and that includes all of the portal, in other words, the bathroom facilities, all the facilities on the golf courses. Does that include all golf courses or just the executives? The executive starter facilities, I'm pulling that item up. I can give you the details. Anyway, the golf course bathrooms, the rec center bathrooms, the postal stations, there are a lot of bathrooms out there. So this is for cleaning and maintenance, and it's a yearly contract. The Villages is a huge place, so these numbers get hard to digest, but they break them down. It's so much per bathroom, and they have a GPS tracking these folks, how much time they spend in one place and then move to the next, that sort of thing. So they're trying their very best to keep the cost reasonable, but it's 30 bucks an hour, is what they're being charged, or what we're being charged, and there's a ton of bathrooms to maintain. So I'm just saying, it's over one and a half million dollars for this contract per year. It's in the Sumter Landing area. It's the regional recreation centers, village recs, the pools, the neighborhood pools, and the executive restrooms- Thank you ... at the golf facility. Yeah. Any questions on that? The only observation that I've seen is that you go into the restroom, late in the day or even in the early evening, and they're out of whatever, soap and so forth. And when they do the cleaning the first thing in the morning, it's going to run out by night. So it'd be nice if they could work a schedule to come later in the day and keep everything up, and then the next morning they'll still be refreshed. So just an observation. Yeah. Don't look at me when you say that, you look at staff. Yeah. Well, they're hearing it now. Okay. All right. But the comment yesterday also said that if you tell the starter, they have a number to call. There's an on-call team- There's a porter, yes ... that they can send out if there's an issue. But somebody's got to tell them. Yeah. You know? He's right. Yeah. And I don't tell them. You don't. Part-time job coming. Yeah. Okay, the next order of business was to review and approval to make recommendations to the Lake Sumter Community Development District to issue a purchase order on the golf cart path repairs for Heron Executive Golf Course. As you know, Heron is under reconstruction, and they apparently decided that the path was in such bad shape they needed to go in and make wholesale repairs to it. And we had to approve an additional $168,555 to do that. So that was one thing that was on our agenda. And the money's coming from another fund somewhere. The money's there. We had to authorize its expenditure, I guess. Okay. Supervisor comments. Let's see, where are we at? We had a comment earlier in the meeting, and I mentioned it, that a resident commented the committee review long-term plans for amenities enhancement for, he said, aging residents. Well, my comment back to that was, we need to take a long-term look at amenities, period. We look at capital improvements programs five and 10 years out. We, at this level, don't have a chance to do any long-range planning for amenities. Typically, that's done through the developer, and I think it needs to change. I think we need to have five, 10, 20-year long-range plans for amenities, and that was my response to this fella. So I'm hoping that something like that would actually get some traction. That's all I'm saying. I think Peter brought it out, and I think he was right on target with that, and I think that we need to continue to look into ways of creating that opportunity. The path along Black Lake is a good example of that. Peter Mueller is really the guy who pushed for that. Now, it cost over 900,000 to build it, but the point is, we're not looking to spend money, we're looking at where we need to also then encourage amenities for, in his case, he said aging people. Well, that's fine. But we need to look at what we can do with what we have. Okay? That's my report. Thank you. Under supervisor comments, any other comments board members would like to make? Hearing none. I have one. Let's go back up and revisit the letter that Mr. Johnson gave to the board. Would it do me any good to object to his reading that? I just want to bring that up, and you may, yeah. There's still some cookies over there. Mm-hmm. I would like to, we're going to consider this at some point. But this board, Duane's been on the board for some time, and he stated in the letter about his resignation, and that's what we're talking about. He has given the board and the district a resignation letter effective the end of this week, I believe. Tomorrow. Tomorrow? And he stated that it was-- I don't know what thunder everybody's going to have, but he stated that it was his honor and privilege to serve the residents of District 8. And I and many others have served on this board with you, Duane, and it has been our honor and privilege to be working with you and alongside you- Thank you ... for these number of years. Knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities that you have and what the board has is a strength. And then you are involved in the discussion and the decision when it needs to happen. You have always a solid opinion, and always people don't agree, but you do offer an opinion which is valued. But that was my response to you, Mr. Johnson, the supervisor. Duane has been a friend for a number of years, since I've been in the villages. And I've had an opportunity to work with him on many other endeavors outside of this board. And some of the projects, you have brought your talents, and they've been valuable in every aspect. And I think that you're going to find that you're going to be a little bit more relaxed atmosphere, hopefully. And I know you'll put it to good use. And if you have other endeavors, you'll be involved and do those well. You'll be missed. Thank you. Board members, any other comments for this young man? Well, I'd like to present to Duane, if you would come over my way, sir. Sure. The board and the district, we have a challenge coin in which your outstanding contribution to this board and to the community for all these years, and good luck to you. Thank you. I appreciate it. Well, I don't know. There's not much more to say. First of all, I want to thank staff. We couldn't do without you folks, and I truly mean that. And Galen over here. So besides that, working with the board members that I worked with in the past and today's members has always been a pleasure. And I truly mean that because we don't always agree, and nor should we, but yet we seem to get the job done. And that's the most important thing. Yeah. You'll be just fine. I also want to point out there's a gentleman here today who I'm recommending as a replacement. And it would certainly be, in my humble opinion, not humble, in my opinion, Galen Thompson. And maybe Galen, could I have you stand up so they've seen you before. Mm-hmm. And Galen has offered to be on the board in the past. So I think it's an opportunity for you to get a really strong individual who's very knowledgeable, follows the district, and things like PWAC very closely. I have in front of me information on his background. I won't get into that right now. I'll wait for him to save that. But I would recommend that you consider him as an appointment at your, I think, next meeting. Is it the May meeting? Yes. Well- If you'd cover what process will happen and- Yes. So on, just from staff's perspective, I would like to just offer, I know Supervisor Johnson's been involved with the district for much of my career, and I've always appreciated the support that he's provided, but to the entire team as well. So we're certainly going to miss you on the board. But you now have the opportunity to come and speak from the podium. That's right. Now I can tell these guys anything I want. From a process perspective, though, we do need the board to formally accept the resignation of Supervisor Johnson, effective April 8th, which is tomorrow.And that will need to be in the form of a motion. And your policies and procedures do provide that you advertise for a vacant seat and take applications for it. You could do it at your May meeting. I understand Chairman Walker's not going to be in attendance at your May meeting, though, so we do need to ensure we have a quorum for that meeting, or move the interview process to June to ensure you have at least four members present. So any comment on what Brittany just spelled out for us? So we are going to move forward to advertise? Your policies and procedures do provide that you advertise. Is that something we could do today? Yes. Well, yeah. We need to approve the advertising, you mean? Yeah. Yes. Yeah. To get resumes and- Yeah ... schedule. That will be in the motion. We have to have a motion to accept the resignation first, right? Let's accept the resignation and then- Yeah ... move on with the replacement. Okay. Do you have a female on the board? Well, if someone would like to put in. Ah. Yes. That's very acceptable. Well, that would be a dynasty, the start of a dynasty. I think it is. Okay. Do I hear a motion to accept the resignation letter that's been presented? Well, I reluctantly move to accept the resignation. Do I hear a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Reluctantly also. Approved. Duane? I want to thank some of my friends and neighbors for coming here today. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, would it be appropriate to hear a word or two of Duane's recommendation at this time since the person is here? I don't know this person. No. I would not. That's not procedure. Okay. That will happen in the campaigning. Okay. Duane serves on the PWAC board, and Mr. Lemme is... backup on that. That's not the right term, but- Alternate. And would you consider and accept the opportunity to continue till we get a full board to decide what positions each one's going to have- Absolutely ... and do it at this point? Do you accept? I accept. Okay, very good. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anything else due? So we do need direction on whether to hold the interview process at your May meeting or in June when I presume the four board members will be in attendance. Well, along with if we have the advertising and the interviews, we're also looking at the first phase of the budget. And that will be discussed in May, correct? Your initial preliminary presentation will be in May, and your proposed budget adoption will be in June. And consider that there's going to be only three people here for those two processes. So if by June, we would have a full plate, correct? You'll be in attendance in June? Yeah. Then I would recommend you conduct the interviews at your June meeting. I agree. Sure. And so stated in the agenda. the finances will be discussed at that time, or do they need to be done in May? The preliminary budget presentation will be in May, but we can meet with you when you get back in advance of the June meeting. Yeah, if you want to stay on schedule. Yeah. Okay. Any other things to be brought forth by the supervisors? If not- Mr. Chair, are we going to meet in May? Oh, yeah. You'll be in in May. Okay. Yeah, there'll be three of you. Okay. Lord willing. Yep. So do I hear a motion to adjourn? Aye. I move to adjourn. I second. So accepted.