Village Community Development District No. 11

Call the order of the meeting for the, uh, community Development District 11, uh, for November 18th, 2025. All supervisors here are present, so if you please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Follow by a moment of silence. Pledge allegiance, United States Mayor to the Republic for One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I wanna welcome our attendees for today's meeting, and, um, if you would, uh, if you have, uh, something to address to the board, uh, I'd like you to come up and state your name and your address, and you have three minutes to speak to the board. So, uh, if any anyone has anything to say, this would be an opportunity to do something that's not on the agenda for today. So, yes, you're talking to the microphone. Make sure we can hear It. Okay. I'm Rhonda Hansen. The address is 32 76 Webster Way. Uh, this is in reference to, um, lighting, yard lighting and decorations at 32 68 Webster Way. I know many of us have called. I was probably tired of hearing of it. Oh, closer. Okay. Yeah, try to, you're probably tired of hearing about it, but, but it is a, an issue in our neighborhood. Um, I do have a letter I'd like to read, if you don't mind. Sure. One of the things that drew us and many others to the villages is the appearance of the common ground and the individual homes. We were so grateful for HOA guidelines that would keep our neighborhoods looking well kept and tasteful in the last few months. One of the homes on Webster Way has added excessive solar lining in the front yard. At one point there were over 100 solar lights of various style colors, sizes, and heights. There were 45 lights lining the driveway. The rest were scattered throughout the yard, sidewalk and landscaping. Although this changes every few days, they're always in the excess of lighting and decorations at any given time. Currently, as two days ago, there were at least 80 lights throughout the yard. This is just the front yard. Um, that does not include the 10, uh, five or six foot tall post that lined the sidewalk from the driveway to the front porch with strings of light hanging from them. The appearance of so many lights and decorations is very noticeable. Even during the daylight hours, we realized that many residents enjoy decorating their homes for holidays. There probably would not be any concern if this occurred a couple of times throughout the year and was tastefully done. The concern is that this is not going to be the case, and that the yard will be continuously lit and decorated as has been in the past few months. We were all made aware of the HOA guidelines when we purchased our homes. It is not seen to most of us that the house on 32 6 32 68 Webster Way is in compliance. The immediate neighbors are not the only ones bothered by the appearance of this property. All of us have received unbecoming comments about the lighting and decorations from others in Pine Ridge and surrounding villages. They have concerns that this might set a precedent and for their neighborhoods. The value of our homes may also be affected. When the lighting started to be installed, my husband and I began looking for other homes to move to when our village's realtor came to give us an estimate, an estimated sale price for our current home. She stated the home might be difficult to sell because potential home buyers may not want to purchase a house next to one with such extensive lighting and decorations. They might also put off the amount, they might also be put put off by the amount of storage that is currently visible on the lanai. We are in hopes that the property appearance will be reviewed and re and they will be required to be kept up to standards. Um, I can leave this as you would like to have it. Sure. Thank you. I assume the rest of the group is supporting the individual. Anything different? Okay. Back here. My name is Peggy Coven. I'm a licensed real estate agent here with the Village. Would You do me a favor and speak of me? Right. Speak into, is that better? Yes. Better. Peggy Coven, a licensed real estate agent with the villages, but I've been a realtor 26 years in Lake County. Um, the Hansons, I sold them that home. And when they had me back over, I can just tell you that every one of these people that border, that man's well lit home 365 days a year, especially the lady here with the pictures. If I brought a buyer and parked in her drive and they got out and turned around and saw what the neighbor was like, they would say, no, I'm not interested in this. And I think it is devalued all of their homes. And I think every one of them would have a very difficult time finding a buyer next to somebody who obviously has got an obsession with lighting. And that's just my opinion, but I have seen it for 26 years. If it's garbage in the yard, excessive landscaping, it turns off fires. Thank you. Has this, has this been brought up to, um, community standards? Can can you speak to that? Well, excuse me. Only let, let Good afternoon board Shannon Boyd Community standards. Yes, as was brought up to community standards, um, we did go out, um, I would say it was probably maybe a month, maybe six weeks ago. And when we did go out, there was a lot of lights, but they are all landscape lights. So there was nothing that we could do because there's not a, an amount of landscape lightings that you're allowed to have. The guidelines says that the architectural review manual does not review applications for landscape lighting, low voltage landscape lighting is permitted, but their positioning may not result in light shining or glaring into an adjacent residence. So based on what staff had seen at that time, it didn't look like it was doing any of that. So it sounds like it's different though, from what the experiences We can send somebody back out again. Absolutely. Um, yeah. Is there anything that we need to do different, uh, uh, from our legal perspective on the, on the guidelines on this mark? It doesn't seem like for these lights, but we are having a bunch of, um, complaints about other lighting and we are sort of looking into that for other districts. Yeah. And that is the, um, shining and moving lights and things like that. Yeah. Um, that seems to be different than what you already went out to this property for. We're talking about liquid lights and the dancing lights and the bright lights mm-hmm. And those kind of things. Um, we are looking into that. Uh, those are not permitted under your ARC manual, but we have received, um, complaints in other districts about 'em. So we're looking into how we can address those issues. Mm-hmm. Any other comments from the board on, on this so far? Is it a holiday thing or is it something all the time? I guess I, there's a difference between a dancing line for holidays versus what you all saying. Actually, You not on microphone. I need my microphone. Well, well, the, the issue what I'm hearing is this is a 3, 365 day issue. Right. Versus, versus an occasional thing during the holiday seasons that you have. And I think that's what I'm hearing here. Right? Go ahead, Jen. Would you wanna say that? Um, if I'm not mistaken, and these neighbors can affirm this, this person does have liquid lights, or there was a liquid lights truck there that installed liquid lights. Um, and in the covenants, the liquid lights are not permitted. So the ARC manual doesn't allow for the liquid lights, the deed restrictions say that lighting must be covered, Must be shaded, Must Be shaded, and not pose a nuisance. A nuisance. So that's the issue here. Um, we are working on a definition for nuisance so that we can enforce going forward, but at this time, we don't have anything we can do about the liquid lights. So, well go ahead, Peter. So I, I, I, I went down Webster way the other day to see if which one of those houses might be out of compliance. And it was fairly, you, you, you found it, right? It became obvious. I said, well, I guess that's it. Um, and, and it's, I don't think it's only the lights. I think that it's all of the other ornaments that are in that front yard, that that's what I saw. That's what I saw. Uh, multiple flags and other things. Um, and, and there's, you can find a holiday every day of the year, uh, and if this guy has enough money to keep buying stuff for every holiday, for every day of the year, I, I can understand their, their problem. Mm-hmm. Um, and I think that we somehow, we should address the number of light of, of landscape lights that, that you need to have in a yard. I mean, this is not a, this is not a, uh, a premier home that has 10,000 square feet. This is, uh, this, this is much smaller than that. And, uh mm-hmm. I think that we ought to try to figure that out. Yeah. So we are working on the, um, language for the season displays as well. Uh, we are working on that, and we are working on the language for the nuisance for the liquid lights. As far as the number of lights someone can have for landscaping. I don't, I mean, I don't know how we would do that, um, what number that would be. I think as long as it's not causing, which is what we're, um, you know, I think that's a starting point. But these are complaints that I'm aware of and, and we're working on addressing those. Well, I mean, I've seen that too. And it's, it's more than just the lights. It's all the other stuff that's there. It's all the, you know, the, the poles and, and I mean, there's, it just seems like to me from a deed and compliance, there should be an issue here that we would see inside the deed that we have. And that, Shannon, isn't that something that would be in violation of the deed anyway? It depends on what it is. I mean, we'll send staff back out, we'll put the complaint in and have staff go back out to the residents to get updated photos. But I know previously it was, I remember seeing a photo and it was a bunch of landscape lights. So, I mean, I saw it in the driveway and it's, it's like everywhere. It's, it's, and I can understand that, that a concern that the residents have. I really do. Yeah. So I know when it came to the landscape lights, there was nothing that we were able to do. Yeah. But if there is something regarding lawn ornaments or poles that are up somewhere, we'll definitely send staff back out there to, to get updated photos and see what we can do. Okay. And if, go ahead, Peter. You were, so do, do we have some sense of when, uh, the language might be, might be adjusted? The season's display isn't, I don't think until January. January or February. Yeah. January or February for the definitions of and description of the seasons that we observe and allow, um, decorations or things like that. Um, with regard to nuisance, no, I mean, that shouldn't take long, but it's gonna be an amendment to your rule, which would require that you have a public hearing. So, um, I'm not Until the new year, Amen. To Not, not until the new year. After the new year before. Okay. Okay. Thanks. Well, so what I think from an action out of this, can you go out and your staff can go out there and take a look at this and we can capture all the information and bring it back to the board to see what we need to make as a way of adjustments to, to the rules to be in compliance with, I mean, not so much in compliance, but also from the standpoint of what should be and what shouldn't be so that people understand the compliance issue. Okay. Mm-hmm. Because I, I think that's what's, what's lacking here. We're kind of in the middle here, not knowing that this is compliant or not, but when, and just as a casual observer, when you go through it, it looks like there's a problem here. I mean, I just driving by. Mm-hmm. So, and I think that's reflective of what, what the residents are saying here too. Can I suggest that you go out in the evening so that, because these lights are, I, I have videos and they're flashing and, and circulating and Yeah. Well, I'm wondering, hold on, hold on. How many of these people are annoyed off nuisance by these lights shining in their homes? And I think it's more of a problem than we think. Okay. Mr. Chairman, I have two Questions. Yeah, go ahead. Well, Actually, a question for you. When you send staff out there, could they invite all of these folks? Maybe about 10 o'clock at night? Flashlights, Mr. Chairman? Yes. Go ahead. Well, I have another question. Oh, I apologize. A little more serious question. Go ahead. Go, go ahead. Go Ahead. So what are we able to do, if anything, this body, other than cheer for their cause? Well, if, if we could, if it sounds like if we have to bite, uh, button down some of the language there so that they can enforce it, then that's what we have jurisdiction over. We can make those changes. Right. So this body has that, or a RC Well, we would be able, go ahead. Yes. This board would set the policy or any policy change or adjustment, and that would be either followed by arc if a, um, application was submitted or enforced through the deed compliance aspect. Um, so as Mr. Briana stated, it's going to take a rule amendment. So once that is developed, we'll request that this board advertise for the rule for an amendment and restatement. Um, that would then be in effect The next meeting, which, January. January. So on your January agenda, we can go ahead and include the request to advertise, and that will cut down on that timing so that your following meeting, you would be able to adopt any type of amendment. Um, I was gonna ask Ms. Boyd, did the complaint come in initially just as lighting? Um, I'm not, I'm not sure how it came in. It just sounds like, you know, based on the complaint driven process, just for the benefit of the audience too, when staff goes out, if it's not within the neat and clean aspect from a maintenance standpoint, it's going to be item content specific to, you know, based on what the complaint came in as. So it sounds like what we've heard today is it needs to be an expanded complaint for the officer to go out and review the property. So question could, could we recommend to the audience that they find out what the neat and clean part of this is so that they can, they can, uh, file a complaint that is in that that is all encompassing so that they know they know what the complaint about Has heard. Yeah. If the complaints' about the lighting, then that's what we'll go out and We'll, Well, I, but I, I don't think it's only lighting. That's right. I think it's all the other stuff. The lawn ordinance, right? Like posts or lawn ordinance. Yeah. Everything that they've Mentioned, I think that falls under the neat and clean aspect of the, uh, of the ordinance. Does it? We'll have to take a look and see, okay. What's there in order for me to tell you whether or not it's, So I just wanna make it clear to those folks that are going to file the complaint exactly what they should be complaining about. Well, I'm gonna take the complaint today based on the testimony that we've heard, and I'll, um, we will send staff out. Okay. And go ahead and go from there. So they don't, they don't need to file it. They don't have to mm-hmm. They don't need to file another complaint. No, sir. Okay. Okay. So there's really two aspects we're dealing with. One is the neat and clean issue, and the other one is the lighting issue. Correct. Those are the two things we've gotta address. Correct. Okay. Mm-hmm. Okay. And, and just to clarify, the audience should know that we will, we don't meet until January 6th. Correct. So nothing is going to happen from, from anything, from any, and for us to amend any, any of the language until January 6th. Well, if we're gonna, if we're gonna make some changes, we have to in January 6th meeting, then we have to agree to, to go to a, to a public hearing, uh, or a public, um, I think we've gotta have to make this thing from a, from a public hearing for a, the compliance change. Okay. And then that would be the next meeting that we would have that we could vote on that to make that change if there's any change needed. When would that next meeting be? That that next meeting would be March 10th. Okay. And, and honestly, that matches the, just for the benefit of the audience, it's a a 45 day advertisement period to amend and restate any rule. So even if you, you know, when you authorize to, uh, amend and restate, you still have to wait your 45 days to do your proper advertising and then hold the hearing. So the date from January to March is going to match up with that timeline. It's not going to delay anything. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. But, but if there's some issues that you're finding out right away when you look at it, those can be addressed. Oh, Yeah. We'll address if There's, okay. Yes, absolutely. Okay. Okay. Mr. You wanna come up to the podium? My name is Sanford Cohen, and I live at, uh, on Kranz Avenue, right around the corner from Webster. Seems, from what I've heard, just a little while ago, what she stated just now is they have landscape lighting to me, landscape lighting lights, your landscape, not the entire yard. So I think one of the things you need to do is define what landscape lighting is. It can't come down like a, uh, like a airport runway. Mm-hmm. And across and everywhere else. And also, when you get into the holiday definitions, hol like they said, holidays can't last 365 days a year. Um, there is specifically, uh, things that say Christmas lighting go up at a certain point, people are already putting trees up, you know, and we're a little ways from Christmas yet. And, um, and not to throw any holidays out out of it, but they're supposed to be taken down by a certain date. Mm-hmm. So you can't have 'em up for weeks and weeks after the holiday and before the holiday and everything else. The, we've moved into this, uh, area for a specific reason for, you know, it was a planned community, right. That there is hoa, there is restrictions, but the definition of a landscape light sounds very important to the compliance people, you know? Oh, yes. Landscape lights. So I think that should be addressed in the January meeting and also defined in the rules exactly what a landscape light is. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Thank you. Sure. Hi, my name is Wayne Bryant. Uh, I live at 32 61, uh, Webster Way, which is really ground zero. We are right across the street from all this. I have remarks prepared. I'm not gonna read them because a lot of this was just covered. I'm not gonna be redundant, but I just want to address a couple of things that we just heard a couple of minutes ago. Um, the young lady that was talking about, um, coming back and, and viewing it again, just wanna let you know, this thing is a, like an amoeba. It moves and it changes, and the light numbers grow, and then they wane and then they grow again. The, the homeowner has told us more than once, if people complain, I'm just gonna add more. And that's just what's been happening. When we go to bed at 11 o'clock, I look out our, by the way, we see this out our front door, our front windows, our front porch, our garage, our lawn, and our driveway. We can't escape that when I look out at night at 11 o'clock to go to bed. No kidding. It looks like the union and Confederate armies have camped across the street with these flickering bonfires, is what it looks like to us. So, uh, my wife Judy, has some pictures here. Oh, you turn. Okay. Okay, good. Uh, and, um, so you can see what we're seeing, uh, jinx. Do you want me to say it or you gonna come up? You go ahead. Okay. This is our neighbor Jink Spaghetti. She lives across the street from us. Yeah. Truly across the street. She has two points to make, so I think are worth hearing. One is that when it's windy out, this stuff can become projectiles and fly around the neighborhood. And, uh, what was your other one? J uh, excuse me. Excuse me. Oh, oh, okay. During Halloween, there was a stop sign out there, a stop traffic. And, and yes, people are gonna come, we know Oracle. You've seen the great Halloween decorations down there. We get that. Okay. We understand that. Uh, but there was, there were golf carts back right up around the corner in Webster Way, they're out into Hallmark. That's a little bit of a, a safety concern. So those two issues there, I think are very relevant. Um, I had one more point. Do you think I can remember it now? Of course not. Um, but I think the bottom line is you get our message that we think we need rules in place to address this issue. Great. Judy, you wanna say anything on those or no? Yes. Okay. Wait, wait. You can't talk from there. You have, we can't capture, yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna sit down and somebody else is gonna come up. Alright. Okay. I do have notes of what I was going to say. I, I brought five copies, so if you want them, I can drop them off to you. Mm-hmm. Alright. And thank you very much. Really appreciate your consideration Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Yes. If I can just add that, um, Mr. Brianne and Ms. Boyd did review, um, just now and did identify a section that references nuisance that is included within your current adopted rules. Um, so that is going to provide community standards, the ability to go ahead and take some action now, um, with the understanding that we need to further define nuisance in a future rule amendment, but it is included within your current matrix, um, for community standards to go ahead and move forward from that perspective as well. Well, and that, and that's what I suspected, that there should be some things that could be addressed now, and then there's some other things we can, we could catch up on on the next, next go around, right? Yes. Yes. Okay. Yep. Go ahead. Okay. I'm Judy Bryant and I live across the street, uh, from 32 68 Webster Way. Currently, we are unable to enjoy the full use of our property. The excessive lights at 32 68 Webster Way create light pollution when we sit on our porch. Not only do we have to put up with blinking chasing and flickering lights, but also very bright red, white and blue solar lights. In addition to the multitude of solar lights. Many of them are hung on four, five and six foot garden hooks and poles. We are also subjected to multicolored liquid lights under the eaves and around the peaks of the home, as well as colored rope lights outlining the garage door. We have driven all around Pine Ridge and Pine Hills and cannot find another property that looks like 32 68 Webster Way. We feel community standards has not fairly enforced the rules, particularly on solar landscape lighting. Therefore, we are asking you as board members to help us to get community standards to revisit the property which is happening, and bringing up to the standards that residents expect when purchasing a home in the villages. I am quoting from the deed compliance section of the District 11 Architectural Review manual quote. When you signed the Declaration of Covenants and restrictions, you agreed to adhere to the high standards of maintenance and aesthetic values expected in a first class community like the Villages end quote. Clearly this property does not adhere to the aesthetic values of our district. We are here to ask for your help in issuing some rule clarifications and amendments in three different areas. Some suggestions to consider are, number one, the solar landscape lights can only be used in landscaping beds alongside the driveway, a walkway. And to illuminate the American flag that no garden hooks or poles can be used to hang or string lights that the top of a solar light may not be any higher than like 16 inches off the ground. Lights cannot be randomly placed around the property and be classified as decorating. Excessive lights should be determined to leave the solar light category and become exterior lighting, which is prohibited under, unless attached to the exterior of the home. As far as holidays and celebrations, I think we need to determine which holidays can have decorations for 30 days. And I would suggest the Halloween, which is not actually a holiday, but it seems to be in the villages and, uh, the winter holiday and one patriotic holiday, perhaps either Memorial Day or the 4th of July. All other holidays would have a seven day limit, and you can only decorate for one holiday at a time. He is decorated for three holidays at once. Also for flags to allow one flag attached to the home, and one flag either on a permanent or portable pole on the property. The exception to this would be on patriotic holidays with a 12 to 18 inch patriotic small flags. It's unfortunate to have to micromanage, but when a property is so out of control, I see no other solutions. Thank you for your time and for listening to the many comments that have been made. Please help us. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so we've got a couple action items. I think we we're all agreeing that that one is, they're gonna, we're gonna go ahead. Community standards, gonna take a look at where the nuisance problems are right now to give remedy. And then, then we will take a look at what are the other things we need to button up on on the policy to make sure that it's not intrusive to, to the neighborhood and, and, and the neighbors, right? Correct. Okay. Good. So, just, just in defense of a RC, when, when, when they went to, to look at the property, they were going there to look at, uh, landscape lighting, and that was, that was the issue that was brought to them. Is that correct? I know lighting was, I don't know if it was specific to landscape, But so, so when you went and did, you did your job, you looked at, at what was there, and it was, and it fell underneath the purview of, of our rules and regulations. So, so therefore no action was taken. Correct? Correct. So, so now that you understand and we all understand the magnitude of the problem, now we can move forward to Correct. Try to rectify the situation. Right. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Okay. Any other comments other than Okay, I'll make one quick. Okay. My name is Stephanie Cohen. I don't live in Pine Ridge. I live in Pine Hills on 1 0 9 6 Lane Terrace. Um, question and then a comment, um, hasn't he's been addressed, I guess you, you guys are obviously saying someone's talked to him. I don't know if you can tell us, is he willing to somehow work with us? It seems like. No, um, my other comment would be, went to lunch with, uh, several of my neighbors. I hadn't seen him in a few months, been outta town. And, uh, it was brought up, did you see that house on Webster Way? And, uh, one lady said, yeah, we had a friend that was in town. Her and her husband were going down that street to look at a different house to purchase. And they said, Nope, don't even wanna be near that. And it became a joke at lunch. And it's not a joke to these people. These are our friends. We do know several of them. I'm looking forward to meeting the rest of you, but we do know several of them. And it is heart wre heartbreaking that they have beautiful homes and that's what they turn into. Sure. And then my neighbor just the other day said, oh, my sister's looking in the villages. She wants to live by us. She won't go near that area. So it is obvious as the real estate agent has spoken, it is true. People are going to avoid, avoid that area, and then what happens. Okay. So, thank you. Thank you. Okay. Yes. I, I just, just so that you have the message, we understand the problem here, and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna get into that. So go ahead. Okay. I'm Robin Cohen. I live on Crans Avenue near, uh, the Webster House. Um, you know, we said it in the Pledge of Allegiance, justice for all. We're all here to enjoy a beautiful community. We all moved here for the same reason. Mm-hmm. And it's heartbreaking for the people that live near this house. Mm-hmm. And for us, even passing by it Right. To see that it's such an amusement park. I think the issue more is if he is allowed to continue this way, what is gonna stop any one of us from creating the same mess on our lawns? Mm-hmm. And then it really gets out of control. Right. So, thank you for listening and I hope some changes occur. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. I'm Cheryl Brown. I live on Tressler Terrace, a block over from this, this home. And his lights shine between the houses across the street from me in my front door window. So when I'm sitting, sitting watching TV in the evening, I started seeing this strobe light going by and I thought, oh, somebody on the street must have an emergency. There must be emergency vehicles. And what it was, was every time a car would go by, I would get the strobe light effect from all the lighting coming from his house. Mm-hmm. So it's, uh, it's like it's not just affecting their houses and their neighborhood. Yeah. It's, it's snowballing. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Any other, um, points of business other than this? 'cause I think we've got, we've got an action item on that. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Okay. Um, do we, are we gonna have, um, law enforcement update? I don't see anybody. We have a law enforcement update. I don't see law enforcement here. Okay. Okay. We'll contact them and do that. We'll contact them. Okay. Okay. The next is, um, new business on, uh, on approval of minutes. Do we have, uh, a motion to, uh, approve the minutes? Move to approve. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? And none opposed. Okay. The next is the adoption of resolution 20 26 0 1, 24 25. Budget Amendment. Good afternoon everyone. Sean Boyle Finance, it's my pleasure to introduce, um, item three B. I think it's something you said, respect for you all. Do you want us to Stay or do you want No, At the end? I, you're, you're, you're, you're welcome to stay, you're welcome to leave whatever you'd like to do. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, go ahead. So I'm introducing, um, resolution 2026 dash oh one, amending fiscal year budget 24 25. What we're requesting no gift cards. Go ahead. Just Kidding. Um, so what we're, what we're requesting is a modification to the budget. Now these are balance sheet accounts. So we're requesting modification to the budget for the 2014 debt service fund by $159,920, and a corresponding, uh, adjustment to the 2014 capital fund of $174,904. These are what I call net neutral transactions. They're gonna, they're gonna net to zero. And what we're doing is we're reducing a liability. Uh, we have a deferred cost liability on the books that was incurred at the, uh, construction of the district. And we're gonna correspondingly reduce the assets, primarily cash to meet those, those costs that we're paying, we're paying down the transaction is very controlled through, uh, the, uh, the bond covenants. Mm-hmm. And so it's very controlled how we do this. And so we are just, uh, here to ask for permission to approve relu or adopt resolution 20 26 0 1. Um, with that in mind, with these dollar amounts in mind, Any comments or questions from the board? Anything I'd make a motion to adopt resolution 22 20 26 0 1, uh, fiscal year 20 24, 25, budget amendment. Nothing. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. None opposed. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, sir. You all done? I'm also here to represent, uh, three C. Oh, you're, you're, you're going to do the next one too. Yeah, go ahead. It's a one stop shop. Oh, you're the one shop. Yes, sir. So, introducing, uh, item three C, which is a simple renewal of a contract. Right. District 11 entered into a contract back in September of 2022 with down to earth for their irrigation and landscaping needs. Uh, that contract included a renewal at the end of the initial, uh, period of three years, and that renewal would be for two years. The only addition that, uh, they requested was an escalation in the cost, which is approximately $3,100. Keeping in mind the first three years was fixed in firm, and this $3,100 will be fixed in firm, uh, going out for the next two years. So that increment will carry for the next two years. With that said, if agreed, um, and there are no questions, we're looking for a motion to approve amendment one of agreement RFP 22, uh, RFP 22 P dash zero 20 group C with Fs down to earth, um, with a 5% escalator on their current contract. Any comments or questions? Yep. You have something, Jan? Go ahead. Yeah, the 5%, is that the 3,100? Is that Yes. 5% increase. I didn't hear the first part. I apologize. I'm sorry. The, um, increase that you're talking about there, $3,100? Mm-hmm. Is that the 5%? Yes, ma'am. That's the incremental difference. The total contract's gone from 62 to $65,000 and it was incorporated into the budget with that increase. Mm-hmm. That's reasonable. Okay. I make a motion to approve. Um, RFP number 22 P dash oh two oh. Group C second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any nays? No nays. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um, the next item is, uh, resolution 20 26 0 2 amending the rule to bring about deed compliance. Yes, Ms. Boyd will handle this presentation. Good afternoon board. Yes, I am. Good afternoon, Shannon Void. Community Standards. At its September 4th, 2025 meeting, the board of supervisors authorized the publication of its district's intent to amend and restate chapter one of its rule to bring about deed compliance. This amendment serves as two main purposes. One, this amendment adds the cleanup of miscellaneous landscaping debris and the spraying of rogue vine growth to appendix fee, the standards and the matrix and the fine schedule. And number two is to establish a clear, systematic and consistent process regarding any violation of the general provisions of the neat and clean requirements. When a complaint is filed regarding any violation of any part of the general provisions of the neat and clean a requirement, staff will conduct a complete review of the property's compliance with all related provisions. This will result in a comprehensive review of the property's compliance. With the entirety of these provisions, district staff will inspect all applicable maintenance standards during their site visit. Regardless of the specific nature of the original complaint. The budget impact will be dependent on the number of decompliance concerns received, a RC applications received and process, and the number of public hearings conducted staff recommends the board adopt resolution 2026 dash zero two amending and restating chapter one of its rule to break of its rule to bring about deep compliance as provided herein and in accordance with the documents included with this agenda item. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Any questions? I do. I have a question. Who's the compliance officer? You refer to a compliance officer in this and I, I I'm just curious who that is. We have, I that would be Jackie Ogden is a decompliance officer for District 11 right now. Okay. And another question is, has anything ever gone to court? Have we, have we sent anything to court from this district To court? No. No, No. Well, because in this, I mean, it, one of the, one of the final, final things is that you, you can take the person to court if they, if they don't come into compliance. I'm just curious, has anybody ever have, have we ever taken anybody to court? Other districts? Yes. Other district, but not, your district is still somewhat in its infancy, uh, uh, with deed compliance. So your caseload, um, you have not had any that have gone to that extent. Okay. But we, I thought we had one that was, um, in front of, uh, adjudication, internal adjudication. Right, Right in front of the hearing officer, the hearing officer. Yes. But not actually go on to, To, uh, to, to the court. Yes. Yes. And I, and I had another question and, and I'm sorry for bringing this up, but, uh, under inspection on step two mm-hmm. It refers to the complainant, if known. So, uh, I, I guess, could you explain that to me? Why would, why would we not know who the complainant was? You allow for anonymous complaints. So a lot of times we don't know the information when somebody calls in a complaint. So I, I guess we could, we could, theoretically we could end up in front of a compliance officer and in fact, court and never know who the complainant was. Is that correct? Well, technically the complainant would be your department. Correct. Those anonymous go in and they represent So they're the complaint, correct? Yes. They filed the, on our behalf. Okay. Okay. Even if a complaint comes in, it may not be valid, staff may go out, or the compliance officer may go out and determine that it's a non-issue. If it is an issue, then staff, the district is taking action and becomes the complainant. See, that was a whole premise, fundamental premise of the anonymous complaint versus the person. 'cause they say, well, I have a right to know who my accuser are. Well, the accuser is correct. Compliant. The compliance department, they're the accuser. Okay. They become the, they become, they become it. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And that takes, just as an aside, that also takes then the neighbors from pitting one neighbor against the other. And that, that was the whole philosophy of the anonymous, then it's, it's really the, the organization that's against them. So everything that we're voting on here today, does that sort of bring us into the same realm that all the other cdd between 4 66 and, or is this, are we totally, totally flying by, by the seat, by, are we totally different drummers here in the steel or? No, the neat and clean aspect has been adopted by all districts. Mm-hmm. All districts that have, that are eligible to enforce external deed restrictions have adopted this into their rule. Okay. With the exception of 11, Because you're hearing it today? Yes. Okay. Okay. Yes. So district six and 11, if you are on an abbreviated meeting schedule Yes. You're hearing it this month. So there's a handful, I think four districts that heard it this month. Okay. Thank you. And, and, and my understanding on this too is if you get called by a specific incident at the, at the residence, like whether it be overgrown shrubs or whatever that is, and we're giving you the latitude to look around to see what other things you find in that proximity. Correct. It when it's in regards to the general maintenance, the neat and clean Yes. Yes. So yes. If it, you know, we get a call for overgrown shrubs. We're gonna look for grass, overgrown grass. We're gonna look for weeds. We're gonna look for mold. Yeah. We're gonna look for landscaping debris and, uh, rogue vine growth. So yes, we're gonna look at all of that, and that way we can, um, start off with everything, all the violations. We're trying to eliminate it to where we get the call for the overgrown shrubs. Two weeks later, a neighbor calls in and says there's mold on the home. We just wanna address it all within that, that one, that first visit. It doesn't go as broad as what we just talked about on the lighting. 'cause this is, this is neat and clean. This is different. Correct. Correct. Although it would seem to be that if, if you went in and looked at the lighting, you found something else in there, you're saying you wouldn't be able to address that. Correct. Because the original complaint wasn't something under the neat and clean, However, so it's, it's, it's interesting that the deton clean encompasses the entire property and the landscape lighting does not. So when you go to, when you go to inspect the landscape lighting period, that's it. That's, that's the only thing you look at. And I, and I'm not, I mean, this is, I don't have a problem with that. I'm just trying to, trying to work through how the whole thing Yeah. The process works. And, and, and it'd be like if somebody had a statue that you went in and looked at and it was, it was, it was quite, and then you had tripped over all this other stuff, you say, well, I can't do anything about the stuff I just tripped over. I can only deal with the statute. Right. Is that the way that would work? Yeah. Yes. If say it was called in for lawn and ornaments, then they would just be addressing lawn ornaments. Yeah. Particular one, not, Not correct. They wouldn't be addressing the overgrown grass in the we. Yeah. I think it should be more broader, but, And is that the best way to have it? Otherwise the person inspecting Yes. Could kind of go Crazy, maybe open it up to abuse? Or do we want them to have the authority to Yeah, I don't know. To me, it, it seems control. If there's other things that are violating right there that, you know, why wouldn't you just bring it up and say, there's some other violations on this thing, but you don't run into that by Shannon? I mean, It's a new rule. We just passed, so we've just started Okay. With it, with the other district. So as of right now, we haven't received any type of issues. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, um, any other questions here? And then I've gotta open up the public hearing. Okay. No questions. So, so we're gonna, we're gonna open it up to, uh, um, formally for an open public hearing. And, uh, and there's none noted. So we will close the public hearing, and, uh, now we have to look for an, uh, a motion to adoption of 20 26 0 2, amending and restating the district rule to bring about deed compliance. I make a motion that we adopt 26 0, 20 26 0 2, restating the district's rule to bring the vote compliance. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any nays? Okay. No nay. Thank you. Board. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Anything on old business? Um, yes. There were two items on old business. Um, one was pertaining to if district vendors are maintaining any preserve areas through spraying or other maintenance. Um, only our environmental contractor, which is Breedlove Dentist and Associates, or BDA, is their acronym. Um, they're allowed to spray nuisance and invasive vegetation per state permit. So that's the only action that's being taken, uh, in the preserve areas. Okay. The other item on old business is that, um, at this meeting, Mr. Brianna was gonna follow up pertaining to enforcement of age related deed restrictions. Um, I'll defer to the board if you'd like to hear that information. I'll tell you that all the, uh, all the other boards throughout the community have declined to, um, take any action pertaining to that. And we agreed to talk about it. Which, which all the, the districts agreed to do that, and then make a decision on that. I mean, I think that's what the process was. I think they agreed to most agreed to hear it. Yeah. That's not really talk about it's you said that's exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah. Yeah. Because we agreed to hear it, but we wanted, and everybody else has declined to Yeah. Take action. The issue right now, it's, it's under the, under the auspice of the, of the developer to, to, to basically address it Or individual property owners as a party to the contract Or the individual property owners, right? Yes. Versus versus the district. Yes. So how do you guys feel about that? Why do we want to be in that game? That that's the point. Yeah. Second. Okay. So I would urge not to be in that game if, if, if we're looking for something to, well, yeah, and I think that's, I wanted to make sure we're all aligned on that. Okay. So we have to have a motion on that or what? No, No. We'll remove that from old Division. So just remove, remove that. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anything else on old business? No, that Concludes old. So next month on old business, we'll have, we'll have what we just talked about today on the old business for January. Well, you'll actually have a new business item, which will be to authorize the amendment and restatement and to discuss what that content would look like. Okay. Good. Good. Okay. Good. So I guess that's a good time to talk about whether we even want to do that after finding out that the matrix does have language in there to permit the enforcement of these lights, if they're causing a nuisance. What would happen, or what's gonna happen now is deed compliance will send somebody out there to verify this is happening. If it is, they'll start the deed compliance process. They'll end up in front of Judge Neal if they don't stop using the lights in that manner. And Judge Neal will have to decide whether the lights the way they're being used are a nuisance or not. Um, I think she's fully capable of making that decision. She was a judge. Um, so that's one way we can just leave it the way it is. Or if you'd like, we can create a definition of what a nuisance is, and then amend the standards, I believe are what define certain terms like law ornaments and things like that. We can define nuisance and give it to Judge Neil and say, this is what we find as nuisance. Do the lights as they're being used, meet that definition or not? So those are the two different ways we can handle it. We can do nothing and let her deal with it, or we can give her a definition and say, this is, um, what we've decided is a nuisance. Look at the evidence and let us know what you think. What's the thoughts? Can we, as the board, I'm sorry. No, go ahead. Go ahead. Can we as a board make the definition of nuisance or does it have to be community? You know? Oh, we can make it, we can make that. Okay. We can do it in, in most cases, if we do it, other districts will follow the same way we just did with this other rule. Well, I, I think we've got a couple things in play right now. We know they're gonna go out and, and review the property and, and then by January we'll know what issues have been raised and, and where they're having difficulty with, or they're making a lot of success. Then we'll come in and bring it back to the table. If we've gotta put some further definitions on it, then we can talk about that in the January meeting and then create the public, uh, meeting. And then we'll get it kind of memorialized. So We can go ahead and add that then to the agenda, and then we can decide in January whether you want to make the change or not. Yeah, I think we should do that. Yeah, I like that. Okay. Okay. Should, should we give, uh, uh, decompliance one of these, uh, packets if of photos? Because they don't, I mean, these are nighttime photos that, that somebody took. Yes. If I'll take a packet and scan 'em in so that the board has a copy, but we'll give those to the clerk and to community standards. Okay. Okay. Great. Thank you. You have extras. I just give, can give this to more than what? I don't, I don't need them because I don't need mine. I just, okay. More pictures. Okay. Um, the, the next item is, uh, I am, uh, the next item is for informational only. Any questions or comments on the, uh, on, on the financials or the DPM report or, um, or, um, or the deed? There's a, a, a comp, uh, the deed compliance statistics that were there. And then, um, the other one was village, uh, uh, is District 11 public hearing updates. Is there any questions or comments on that that we need to cover? Okay. All right. Okay. Then we'll go to, uh, district management report. Uh, manager reports, community standards. Yes. Good afternoon. Board members. So I do have two items today. Um, the first is to introduce Mr. Johnny Bishop, who's sitting at the back table. Welcome. Um, Mr. Bishop, um, joined our team as the Executive director of support services. Um, so district property management, fleet and asset management all fall under his portfolio. Um, he comes with a wealth of experience from the Sumter, or excuse me, the Citrus County School Board as the, um, executive director and also serving in the role of, um, deputy superintendent. So we're happy to have him on the team and you'll see more of him moving forward. Um, the next item is I'll invite Ms. Boyd, um, back up to the podium to provide an overview of a new software platform that we're implementing. Okay. Good afternoon again, Shannon Boyd. Community Standards. Um, so I'm gonna tell you a little bit about Gov Built, which is gonna be our new system that Community Standards is getting. So what, excuse me, what Gov builts going to do is it's going to make it modern a digital system. Right now everything is paper. All our a RC applications are paper, that's 13,000 applications. We process a year paper applications. So this is going to allow residents to, uh, submit their applications online along with their documents, and then they're actually able to follow along with it to see where it is in the process. They can see it's submitted, they can see it's reviewed, they're gonna know what date it was reviewed. They're gonna get it emailed to them as soon as it was either approved or denied. It's gonna get sent immediately to them. Um, so when a resident does go on the website and wants to fill out the An A RC application, it's gonna look just like our paper application. So it's gonna look exactly the same, just they'll be able to fill it out online. It's gonna offer better communication, um, between residents, contractors and staff because they will be able to follow along with and see where the status of their application is. Um, it'll be centralized violation management, 'cause it does incorporate deed compliance and architectural review deed compliance. It helps us more on the backend, um, with our letter generating and our processes as well. There's a step-by-step system there. Um, so this will unify the tracking of all complaints, inspections and resolutions within one platform. Um, right now we use separate files, folders, multiple Microsoft platforms, so this is all gonna be in one. So we're really looking forward to that. So it's gonna reduce technology fragmentation by consolidating our needs all into one system. And, and we hope it'll strengthen the internal efficiency while improving service delivery to the community. So we finished our training up about two weeks ago and we plan on going live on December 1st. So we are very excited for the software. Um, we've been looking for software for quite a few years now, so we're glad to be able to, to be getting this rolling out soon. So we'll be, um, obviously staff will be there to help residents. If there are any residents that maybe aren't that good with the computer and need help filling out an application, you know, they're more than welcome to come in. Staff will help 'em walk 'em through, fill out the application process with them. So we'll still be there to help the residents. And that system will handle attachments because those are something you need. Correct. It'll handle attachments and that's one thing it'll make sure, dependent on what your, uh, modification is, if say a site plan is required or elevation drawing is required, it's gonna require that you submit that. So we're not gonna get incomplete applications as well. So it's gonna be nice. And there is actually a mobile app for it to where people can say they take pictures with their phone, they could do the application and then take the pictures that they took on their phone and upload it there. Okay. So I think that'll be very helpful as well. Okay. So we're looking forward to it. Okay. Okay. Thank You. Thank you. Maybe when you get this, um, up and running, you can show a little demo for us. Okay. I'd like to see that. Two weeks in two weeks. She said December 1st. Okay. Um, anything else? No, that concludes Management report. Mark, you have something? Just eight B We already went over eight A. Eight B is, uh, just to let you know that we're going to be adding some, uh, paragraph to our orders of enforcement going forward that will give the, I guess in this case, the hearing master, the ability to rehear a case if this board finds out, or community standards finds out that some testimony or evidence that was provided at a, at a hearing in front of the special, uh, magistrate was incorrect, wrong, or, uh, flat out a lie. Um, there's gonna be a process and the new order of enforcement where the judge can rehear that case and, um, exclude that evidence and testimony to possibly change the outcome of that hearing. Is that something we have to approve that change mark, or is that just Part the process? No, it's just something that we're gonna start putting in the order of enforcement going forward. Okay. Okay. Anything else? That's it. That's it. Okay. Alright. Um, I can give you, uh, a quick update before we go around to the supervisory comments just of, uh, a project wide committee. The biggest issue over the last couple months was the gates. And, uh, as you probably all know, uh, there was a joint meeting. I'm trying to think about when, when I, when we last updated you. I think the joint meeting was in September. So, uh, we haven't, we did meet in October. I think we met after that. So you understand what happened? It was a, a c and PA got together. There was a, there was a, a, uh, proposal to spend three, $3 million to change to long range readers. And, um, both groups rejected that. And as a result of that, there was other consideration being expressed about changing the gates to go to construction mode, automatically opening. Um, that there was two facets, that's one facet of it. And the other one was to get that, uh, there was concerned about what was happening at the pools on people coming in and using the pools that weren't residents and that was all kind of tied into that long range reader project that would've been, but the bottom line on all of that, and we've had different, a couple meetings. We've had people speak out on that one way or the other on both of those, those avenues. But where, where we ended up with it was the recommendation by the committee was to have, um, construction mode, which is really a safety violation and, um, both, uh, risk management and, um, and also, um, the, the, the police, um, the sheriff's office was against that because of the safety aspects of that. And I can tell you that I spent time, and I, I mentioned this in the meetings too, I spent time at, at, at, uh, Sawgrass when they put it on construction mode. And it was a hazard down there for people just trying to get through that, uh, as a golf cart across the road with, with it being on construction mode. 'cause the cars were just flying right through it. And that's, there's a whole purpose of that and it's part of the deed. And the attorneys were very, um, Kevin Stone, the attorney on the project wide said, you know, you, you bought into this thing in this kind of structure when you did this decompliance and it would be kind of a, a violation of what we had agreed to do. So bottom line is, is, um, uh, we talked about that again and the construction mode was, was knocked out and said we can't do the construction mode. And, um, and then, then the other idea is, well, can you do the timing of this thing and time it, and they, and you get kind of into that quasi, whether it's construction modes. Well, the bottom line is, after all these discussions we've had in the last two meetings about this is we're, we're not gonna do anything relating to changing the gates. We spent a lot of money already in the gates already. So it's not like we didn't put money into that investment into it. Um, the other thing was, um, the, the recreation department is going to be doing some checking on, on the pools to try to get some data together on any violations in those areas and report back to the project wide committee on what their findings are. Um, but they're trying to do some random spot checks on, on selected pools, not letting people know when they're doing it to get some data. 'cause we didn't have any data to support one way or the other, to be honest with you. So, so I mean, those, those were the, the big, the big items, I mean, other than agreeing on different contracts and everything, but I think that was probably the slate of, um, of, uh, what we talked about there. And one other thing that we had was, um, the, um, uh, the, the contractor who does the, the, um, weed eradications around the pools and area, we entered into a contractor with some concern that the contractor that we entered into was one that we, we rejected in the past only because of the price. And now we found out the people that we had before couldn't, couldn't do the job. So we went back to them. They're kind of a nationwide thing. So it's the idea they're gonna report back to us in March on the performance of that organization. So we're just trying to keep on top of that to make sure they're doing the, the job correctly. So that was one of the other items that came out on this thing. But, uh, other than that, um, those were kind of the things were mentioned. Um, I mean, other people were complaining about, um, about golf cart speeding golf carts through the, through the modal intermodal path. Wanted to, wanted to use different mechanisms to, to restrict that. But that's, that doesn't seem to be, didn't gimme any, any traction on that. So, but those, those are kind of some of the things I just try to summarize a couple months worth of PW They were long meetings, but it's not like this. Yeah. Any questions or comments from anybody? Okay. None. Okay. Yeah, for once, I do have a comment. Um, I was waiting for the mob to leave because I didn't wanna stir that pot anymore. Um, I get the sense that they're skeptical as to our sincere interest in this. And if I were them, I might sympathize with that. Mm-hmm. And I know the wheels of the mechanics of all this process turn slowly, but I sense that it could turn ugly uglier than the house that we want to address. But, you know, people get desperate and they're gonna do stupid things. Yeah. Um, and you might have combat on the street or between homes and they're gonna take matters in their own hands. So I hope staff and this board and whatever authorities we have, I hope we can move as quickly as possible and maybe communicate to any key people that reach out and reassure 'em, we're gonna do this as quickly as we can, but we've got things like a 45 day, uh, announcement period Alright. For the hearing and so on. But, um, not to take our foot off the gas. 'cause if I was on that street, I'd feel exactly the same way. Yeah. I I, I have a lot of sympathy for what they they're going through right now. Right. And if someone's, you know, gonna list their home Yeah. They're screwed. Right. So, uh, as their neighbors mm-hmm. I wanna help 'em. Yeah. Well I think we, we've all agreed to do that. I know they, I think everybody wanted to get their 2 cents in on the thing, even though we covered it once. But that's okay. I mean, they's, they wanted to get it off their Chest. I'm glad you let them all speak so that they know they were Heard. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay. And now I know I was heard. Alright. Peter, do you have anything else? Uh, you know, there's another, we have another one of those issues and that's on Costco and it's what the guy with the multiple flags that, uh, uh, during the past election cycle, Uhhuh, uh, was, was really offensive. And, and I know that, uh, that, uh, district government went there and inspected his house and, and said there's nothing you can do. But I, you know, this is, this, this is a one off on Webster. It happens to be a holiday flag in lighting thing, but we've got this other guy and he's a whack all over him, I think, uh, because he's threatened some people, you know, and I can't imagine having to live across the street or next door to him. I Yeah, that would be horrible. Yeah. But anyway, that should be something that, that we're aware of as we, as we move forward with these rules and regulations. Mm-hmm. And the enforcement side of it. I don't want to enforce anything, quite frankly. I don't think we should have to, but, but we should have rules in place that will Right. That will cover us if we need to. I agree. And another, uh,