Village Community Development District No. 11 (2026-03-10)

Order the meeting from the, for the, um, district 11 for, uh, this February, or I'm sorry, March. March the ninth, 2000. And, and, uh, 26, if you please rise for this Pledge of Allegiance, all my mode and silence, Pledge of allegiance to the United States of America and one Nation under God, the individual with liberty. Thank you. At this time, I wanna, uh, welcome our, our attendees today. Thank you for taking the time outta your schedule to attend our meeting, and we appreciate it very much. And at this point, if there are any audience comments, uh, please raise your hand and we'll recognize you. And you'll have to come up to the podium to speak if you'd like to speak. Did you? Yes. You can do that now if you like. You have to come out to the, the podium and you, you come up to the podium and state your name, address, and, uh, you have three minutes. Hi, I am Robin Cohen. We live on Kranz Avenue, and I'm here as are all the others in the neighborhood about the, the house on, um, mm-hmm. I forget the name Of the street. Webster. Webster. Thanks. Um, you know, It's, it's beyond. It's just beyond. Mm-hmm. And it's hard for all of us to go past that and see that that's allowed when none of us are allowed to do the same thing. And I had inquired about that. What if all the neighbors on our street decided to put up inflatables all year round and lights all over the place? And I was told no, that would not be acceptable. Mm-hmm. So I think this really needs to be dealt with and as soon as possible. Okay. Because it's out of control and it's really, I have friends that come and visit and say, what is going on at that house? Mm-hmm. It's disgusting. So, thank you for listening. Thank you. I A procedural question. Yes. Uh, since this is this, since this is on the agenda. Yes. Is this part of the public hearing? No, this is not, no, this is separate from that. We're gonna take those questions, then we're gonna get into the public hearing about the specific issue that we're gonna be dealing with, which will cascade into this. So that's why I was opening it up to that. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Steve Waterhouse from also same issue. I think we've got somebody here who, um, doesn't understand that you're in a planned community. That doesn't mean you get to plan in the community. Mm-hmm. Um, and I think, I think some people just don't fit into some organ, uh, some places because they don't understand. I don't think he's trying to tick everybody off. I think he maybe probably thinks he's decorating the neighborhood. Um, but somehow we need to get across to, to him that we'd love to have him be part of our community, uh mm-hmm. But that, uh, that means he needs to operate, uh, like the house on the left and the house on the right. The house across the street. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody Else? Back there is blue. I think I have the same complaints as everybody else, uh, with the Lights Street name. Uh, Linda Stevenson, 32 92 Webster Way. Thank you. Okay. And my complaints are the same, but I would also add the noise, uh, of his, uh, speakers and his music, and also his profane language that he uses with people that, uh, go by and try to talk to him about this. Then it's completely unacceptable. Mm-hmm. Thank you. In the back, Robert Lowell, following my wife. 3, 2 9, 2 Webster Way. And I just wanted, um, Dennis, I don't moved in a few months ago, and, um, I want to be his friend. I think most of these people want to be his friend, but he is, um, when we say approach him about his lights or something, you're all, he his biggest, I am a veteran. I'm an American, I'm a whatever. It's my right. Oh. And I'm a Christian. And we, and I'll say there are other Christians on the street. He says, they're not Christians. They're communists, they're hateful. He has a sign in front of his house that says, hate does not live here. Mm-hmm. But there is no reasoning. These people are reasonable people. Um, I don't know if he's compliant or not, but he's just over the top. The other part is, I think we could, you know, um, uh, go with it for, you know, Christmas or something. But he's good. He's out there decorating for Easter. Isn't there a limit to how far in the inflatables are over the top? Thank you for listening to me. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm, uh, Donna Burns. I live on De Drive and a couple of my neighbors are with me. We don't live on Webster, but we live two streets over. But we're here to support our friends on Webster because what happens to our neighborhood, what happens to them happens to us next. Uh, for seven months, our normally quiet and compliant neighborhoods has fixed, had to endure what can only be described as a surface wide. Um, during this time, their property's been covered with dozens of bright and flashing light, um, inflatable yard art, holiday decorations, banners, rows of these double armed shepherds hooks. Dozens of them that contain hot air balloons, lantern, uh, today it's potted plants. Tomorrow it maybe Easter Bunny stuff, who knows? But this has been an ongoing disruption for seven months. And it has been frustrating not only for the neighbors community standards and you guys, the board, because you've had to deal with this for months on end. Beyond the obvious visual impact of this, there has also been real consequences. I understand a real estate agent spoke to you about one of the neighbors. They can't list their houses. Mm-hmm. Who wants to live next to that? It's a dumpster fire. Nobody in their right mind, unless they Google it online, is gonna go move into a house on Webster Women, their property values have taped. Um, our neighborhood has always been one that has followed the rules and the de restrictions. We've been good about that. Uh, and they are there for a purpose to protect our property values. So I respectfully ask implore the board, bring this nightmare to an end. Please do whatever it takes. Put this dude on notice today that he's got to get in compliance like the rest of us. 'cause what's happening now on my street, a lady who had been warned about community standards to take down two years ago, her giant blue crane, she's now put out two giant pink flamingos in her front yard. And you know why? I bet she's seen nothing has happened to 32 68 Webster Way. She's seen the dumpster fire. Nothing's happened. So who's gonna say anything about my pink flamingo? So this is a present setting thing, and please, please stop it. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Maria Chalin. I live at 2 3 2 8, 4 away, two doors down from lovely Dennis, who by the way, I had never met. I think it's really a shame that this has gone on this long, that when I had friends that moved here 10 years ago, and they were told they had to take their nice white, Christian Catholic course down. Mm-hmm. Now, if you tell me I have to take a course down and you allow this junk, which makes it look like a ghetto scene, okay, if I wanna live in a ghetto, I wouldn't live in the villages. And people have come to visit me and they said, what is going on here? You've told us how beautiful it is here. How could you live next to this? It's really disgusting. And it's also not safe. If the fire department came in and they had to run into that house for the, for a fire. Mm-hmm. Okay. They'd be tripping over wires on the grass to get in. They were lucky if they could see the door. And when they get inside you, besides ordering and everything else, the whole thing is a disaster inside, outside. But the main thing is he's very, very nasty. He curses at people. He makes his music loud. The police have been called already three times because of the loud music. And whenever he, anyone makes a comment to him, the next day an Amazon truck comes and he gets more garbage. So if that's how we're supposed to be allowed, so this is supposed to be allowed to keep going on, then why can't we just all go buy a bunch of junk and throw it on our lawns? And what are you gonna do? Tell us to take it away. You know, you're setting a precedent here. And it's not a good president in the villages. That's not why I bought a house here. I bought a house because everything is clean, but not in that house. Mm-hmm. So they really need to, like that lady said, end this and end it soon. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name's Michelle Gayner. I live on Coleman. And so I passed that out both times. When he first moved in, my friend and I went over to Dennis for Christmas thing. They said, oh, how pretty. And he was going on and on again about how he's a veteran and he's a this and lost his partner. And on and on and on. And my friends recently before this meeting went to talk him and said, Dennis, this is ridiculous. Um, and he said, oh, I took what you said to heart. His thing is, I was sick my whole life. I had this surgery, this surgery, this surgery, um, spreading joy. I think how you approach him is really, really critical. Um, I'd like it to end totally. He's very, very defensive. And I don't know, I haven't heard a curse, but he's very defensive. And I think how you approach it is really critical. He has to be known that he moves into a neighborhood that didn't look like that. He wants that let him move somewhere else where they can do that. He moves into a neighborhood that has certain qualifications, certain beauty around it. That's what he should want. He says he wants to spread joy. He's not spreading joy at all. He needs to know that Somehow to approach him without getting the defenses up may be helpful. I don't know how you do it. I'm not the expert, but I think you have to be careful of how you do it. And it's gotta end. I mean, he said, oh, I took down some of the, uh, those, what do you call the shepherd talk. I listened to you, but now there's some more up. And those things on the ground are just disgusting. It, it's just, it's crazy. This is not what the village is, is supposed to be. And I don't mind an occasional cross on occasional swan. I think it's beautiful. But this is crazy. And as I said, I just think you have to be careful when you go in there. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Yes, Sir. Sandy Cone. 32 56 Crans Avenue, around the corner. And I'm here for our neighbors. But also, we talked about this last time, what defines a landscape light? You know, we all know that people put landscape lights around their trees around the house wa through some wash lights around the house and everything. This is a landing pattern for an aircraft. Mm-hmm. You know, and I noticed he moved him back about eight, 10 feet. But he, and then he just put a bunch of 'em all over. So he's gonna do whatever you tell him, oh, you can't do this, but well, I'll do this. Mm-hmm. You know, he's gotta basically come to a point where it stops. Also, he put like a thousand stickers on his garage door. I mean, which is fine for a holiday, and then when that holiday's over, but there's a holiday, 365 days in his mind. Mm-hmm. You know, and also in his garage, he has like a hundred boxes in there with every holiday thing you could possibly, possibly pull out. So they've all talked about his sensitive, he all that. He's nuts. You've gotta be very careful how you do deal with him. Um, the man has definitely some problems and, uh, he's not gonna listen. Yeah. Yeah. So that's where we are. Thank you. Anybody Else? Yes, Car. Hi Gary. 3, 2, 7, 5 Dressen Norford Drive. Dennis lives behind me, uh, that it's, uh, obviously a problem for all of us, uh, including a neighbor myself, abuts him. He has a lot of debris in the backyard on the landing. There's a lot of debris in the lanai. I know that's inside of his home, but he has debris on the landing as well. And he has a lot of yard waste, uh, in that area. So, uh, I approached him one day when he was blasting his music. He had speakers in the driveway. And I approached him. I'd never met him before. And he said it was a retaliatory, uh, move because people were complaining about him. And he said he was going to play the music loud for three hours a day, for two weeks to teach everybody a lesson. Uh, so I asked him, first of all, he talked about being a veteran and whatnot. And I am also a veteran. So I try to appeal to him that a veteran to a veteran, why don't we take care of each other, neighbor to neighbor, take care of each other. We live in a very confined area. And, uh, I told him that, and I said, we need to take care of each other. So he said, because you asked me nice, I'll turn the music down. This is the middle, this is the afternoon. So, uh, he did, then I saw him a couple days later and he said, well, I decided not to play music anymore because you asked me. Nice. So the concern is, I, I have two, I have a lot of concerns. That's what my fellow neighbors do, but abutting him is this debris in the backyard. And I've got to believe that's a, it's a covenant violation, but outside the yard and on the landing, uh, as far as the landscape, uh, yard waste, I asked him if I could, I have, pay my landscape and have it removed. Can I have permission to enter your property? He said, yes. So I paid my landscaper to remove the debris. It was for my benefits. I don't have to look at it anymore. 'cause who knows how long, you know, would've remained there. Uh, the other concern is, is that any, uh, anything that we do to address this issue, we have to be prepared for retaliation. Uh, that's, that's a very, very big concern. So I try to befriend him the best I can and take a, a positive approach. Uh, and so far it's worked for me as far as having debris removed. Uh, and the music turned down that given day. But, uh, also they pulled, I called the police prior to talking to him and they said he can play his music till 10 o'clock at night. There's nothing we can do about it. To me, that's ridiculous, you know, disturbing the piece. So, anyway, uh, my biggest concern is, and I'm glad everyone was here to support this issue, is that property values, of course, uh, are affected. And that, uh, retaliation is definitely something that we need to be aware of and concerned about. Thank you. Anybody else? Well, I, I just wanna let you know I share your concern. I I, I've been by that place several times when we first talked about it, even before we talked about it in the last meeting with going back. I've never seen anything like that. I mean, it's just, I, I can really sympathize with what you're going through. So what we're gonna do today in the meeting is, um, we're gonna come back into the public hearing. We've got a couple of steps we want to take on this thing. And we're gonna open that up for public hearing too, to hear some of the changes that we're gonna try to make on this to put some teeth into this so that we can actually get this addressed. 'cause I know there's been frustration on all parties, from what I'm hearing, even in the compliance, they can only go so far. They need some direction. So we want to try to give them the direction too, to be able to address some of these things. And some of it may not happen right away, but if we can get some of that stuff done today, we can start moving forward on this. But I, I really, I, I really feel for all of you, there're going through this. 'cause I, I, I could just imagine if I was living next door to that, what that would be like. So we're gonna try to do that today. Okay. Um, the next item, and we're gonna go into public right next door, but I wanna approve the minutes from the last meeting. We have a motion to approve the minutes. I move Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Pays opposed. Okay. The next item is the exception of the audit report for the fiscal year 24, 25. Yes, sir. Good Afternoon, board. My name is Sean Boyle with the finance department, and I'm, I'm really happy that you have an audience today 'cause I can brag about how well you run the district financially. So before I introduce the, uh, auditors, uh, I'd like to give you kind of a rundown on how well you performed last year. And you did it perform exceptionally, uh, your revenue came in $126,000 over budget, primarily because of investment returns mm-hmm. That you, decisions that you made during the year and your expenditures came in $66,000, um, under budget. Mm-hmm. So we had planned to take about $47,000 outta savings or your fund balance. We added $145,000 back instead. That's a big turnaround. Yeah. Um, and you should all be, uh, very happy with those, with those, uh, outcomes. Um, with that said, I would like to introduce Helen Painter, uh, with Purpose Gray. And she is a, uh, uh, audit partner with that firm. Wanna remind you and the audience that the auditors are selected through an independent process determined by the state of Florida and that these auditors work for you. Mm-hmm. And they report and are accountable to you. Right. Um, we do have a great working relationship with 'em. Um, they're tough on us, but, uh, we have a great relationship with them. And Ms. Uh, Helen's gonna go over your, uh, financial report for last year. Okay. Thank you. So are you flagging A little bit earlier than when we get into the, um, budget for next year? That we're gonna be able to keep our maintenance fee the same as what we did since the very beginning? And that doesn't happen in all districts. I'll let you know. They've increased them by 10%. We've kept them since the very beginning. Go ahead. Well, good afternoon, Helen Painter, Purvis Gray Company. Uh, thank you Mr. Chair and Board of Supervisors for having us here today. Uh, also with me is Catherine Eno, your audit director. We had a large team of, of audit staff that, uh, performed the audit for, uh, district 11. Now we come in the summer for a few days. We spend, uh, some time looking at the internal controls and do the planning. Uh, and then we start the audit field work in December. Your year end is September 30th. Uh, and, uh, all the accounting records are closed. Uh, your finance team, beginning with your CFO, Mr. Boyle, who, uh, introduced me along with, uh, Jennifer Leon Norris and your, who, your, is your finance director. And then you have an assistant finance director along with the team. And so their responsibility is to, um, have all the accounting records ready for us. Uh, and they did, they had all the accounting records closed. They give us full access to the general ledger, uh, and we performed our audit procedures. So after all that is done, this is when we report back to the board of supervisors and we give you, uh, an opinion on the financial statements, which is in your board agenda packet. Uh, and it's up here on the, um, on your screen. Uh, and so this is our audit report addressed to the board of supervisors. Yes. We do answer to, uh, the board. We are engaged by the board, and we're saying here that, um, it goes on to describe our audit procedures, the scope of an audit, and, uh, our opinion. And so we are saying that these financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects. So that is an modified clean opinion. Uh, so this document that's in your agenda packet is also on the website. There's bound copies of it. Uh, it's also sent to the State of Florida Auditor General's office. Uh, they do a desk review to make sure that you're doing all of the accounting and reporting, uh, in accordance with, um, government accounting standards and also with the state of Florida. So we also are required to look at your internal controls, uh, to make sure that you've got proper controls over all of the accounting transactions. Uh, we are also required to look at your investment. So with all your excess reserves, you have an investment committee and you invest those funds in, um, funds that are, uh, authorized investment securities that are authorized by the state of Florida, the statutes. And, uh, make sure that you are, you know, uh, earning enough earnings off of your investments so that you can put that right back into your fund balance. And so we are required to look at that and make sure you're within that, um, perimeter of those policies. So we, we had no issues and we had full cooperation from, uh, all of the accounting staff and, uh, we're very happy with the outcome. Thank you. So we're, uh, happy to answer any questions you might have. But, uh, this, uh, tells the story of District 11 and, and its operations. And yes, I'm happy for you that you didn't have to raise your maintenance assessment. I had a question for you on the, uh, internal controls. Any minor or major areas that you've identified in there need improvement? No, uh, you know, there's, uh, separate departments for purchasing. Yeah. Uh, for budget, uh, for accounts payable mm-hmm. For receipting. And we interview and review all those different areas. And, uh, we found no exceptions when we looked at that. Okay. Of course, there's always a large volume. We also, you know, make sure that the expenses for district 11 are charged to district 11. Mm-hmm. Your biggest control, I would say is your budget process stating, you know, this is what we're going to spend and, uh, if you need to spend more than what's in your budget, then you have to be brought back to you all and you all have to approve, you know, why you have to spend additional money on a contract, you know, if there was a change order and such. So that keeps your expenses under Control. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from any of the board members? No, it's good. Yeah. Thank you very much for the report. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Now we do have, have to have a motion here for approval. I make a motion to accept that. Okay. Okay. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay. Any nays? Okay. Motion. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. The next item of business is, um, uh, public hearing for resolution 20 26 0 3. Amending and restating the rule to bring about the compliance. Good afternoon board, Shannon Boyd Community Standards. At your January 6th, 2026 meeting, the board of Super advisors authorized the publication of the District 10 to amend and restate chapter one of its rule to bring about deed compliance. The purpose of this amendment is to adopt and add the definition of nuisance in regard to exterior lighting. Establishing a clear definition provides consistent standards for all property owners, insured's, predictable enforcement, and helps prevent light related conflicts before they occur. By clarifying what constitutes excessive glare, light trespass, or improperly directed lighting. The amendment supports a fair and uniform application of the rule and encourages residents to make lighting choices that avoid unintentional impact on neighboring properties. The impact on the budget would be dependent on the number of deed compliance concerns received and public hearings held for the decompliance violations. Staff's recommendation is staff recommends the board adopt resolution 2026 dash zero three amending and restating chapter one of the district's rule to bring about decompliance as provided hearing and in accordance with the documents, including in with this agenda item. And I'm here to answer any questions that you may have. Object, Ms. Boy, do you have many lighting complaints within our district, or is this the only one? I can't, I don't know the number off of my head, but I can't say that lighting is a, is a main concern that we receive a lot of. Thank you. Anything else from the board here on question? I I have a question about, uh, I, I realize that this thing addresses, this nuisance addresses a lot of stuff, but I was, uh, questioning whether or not, uh, uh, liquid lights and, and I'm not the brand name liquid lights, but that type of light is, is required by arc review. And when I go down through the next part of the packet that I received, I see that exterior strip lighting, liquid lights, and similar light sources are prohibited, has been crossed out. Correct. Okay. And I guess, And that will be, that will be another, um, agenda item after this public hearing will be for the architectural review manual change. Okay. That you see there. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. So let's open the public hearing at this point. Yeah. We'll, we're gonna, we're gonna open it up for public, for public hearing. Any, uh, comments? You come up to the podium, state your name and, and address and comments. Yes. Lighting is lighting, But please, please, ma'am, please talk. Excuse me. Take your name and then talk into the microphone so we can Record it. Lighting is lighting. So why is, why would they cross out about the, all those other lights he had, like, that's on the house? In other words, there's just certain ones that he shouldn't have and you can still have those bright lights all around the entire house. That's why I'm a little confused. Ma'am, if, for for the record, can you, um, include your name and address? My name again? Maria Cha. 3 2 8 4 Webster Way. Thank you. Um, so the rule that's before the board right now is to adopt the definition of a nuisance. Okay. And that does contain elements of what is considered nuisance lighting. Um, so there is a, a, um, a description of that included within this amended rule. Um, the information that supervisor Russell mentioned is a second item further down on the agenda. Um, but essentially it would eliminate discussion of lighting approval in there, but rely on the nuisance definition. Okay. So, And again, go ahead. Could, could we, so that this group knows that we know what nuisance means. Could someone please read this, read the nuisance definition for this group so they know exactly what we're talking about? Okay. Thank you. You wanna do that? Okay. So the definition for nuisance definition is nuisance means any use of exterior lighting on a property that unreasonably interferes with the use and enjoyment of neighboring properties or adversely affects the public health, safety, or welfare. Exterior lighting constitutes a nuisance when it produces excessive glare, brightness, or light trespass beyond the boundaries of the property, such as it causes discomfort, distraction, or loss of visibility to adjoining property owners, occupants or motorists. A nuisance may be found where lighting is improperly directed unshielded or of such intensity or duration that it disrupts normal nighttime use of adjacent properties in truth into residential dwellings or alters the character of the surrounding area beyond what is, uh, reasonable under the circumstances. But that addresses the issue that came up from the last meeting, from the, from the folks that were bringing this up. That's why we were putting that Correct. And Mr. Chairman, this will allow staff, if a complaint comes in, this will allow them to rely on the definition of what nuisance, what is a nuisance, to move forward with that complaint And verify. Right. Which, which you couldn't do before. And that's, that's the big Change. It was very subjective. Yes. It was too subjective. Now, now it kind of gives you teeth to go after something like this. Correct. Right. Yeah. Okay. Uh, you have a comment? Yes. Come on. Hi, my name is Wayne Bryant. I live at 32 61 Webster Way. And I just have a Question. Does the CDD come out at night to examine property? But that's when this is all happening. Okay. Wait a minute. Wait. Right. You, you, you wanna answer that, Shannon? Thank you. Thank you. Yes. If needed, under certain circumstances, staff, we will go out to look at, um, to address lighting. But usually when we receive a complaint, we need a picture or a photograph to show what it looks like. And then we'll, staff will go out and check ourselves. Okay. And verify. Okay. So, Yeah, Uh, just a just a point of clarification. When the folks were here before they had pictures and, and none of this was, none of this was covered under that nuisance factor. So therefore the pictures, you couldn't, you could not address those pictures because there was, there were no rules to prohibit what the pictures were showing. So with, with those same pictures today, the nuisance factor weighs in on that, which will allow you to, uh, take action. Is that Correct? Yes, sir. Okay. Yes. Yes, sir. I'm Judy Bryant, 32 61 Webster Way. My question is, um, the liquid lights across the street from us, he can vary the intensity of those. And so if he's retaliating, the lights go very bright one night, but he can mute them. And I don't know how you can control that if he's allowed to keep the lights, because it's whatever his mood is determines how bright the lights are gonna be. You wanna go ahead answer. Do you wanna respond to that? Sure. I'll, I'll address that. So one of the reasons why the, the board is addressing it in this manner, and please interrupt if I misspeak, is that allowing the def there are lights that exist, such as that's a brand name of a particular type. But, um, generally speaking, people are using them, um, to enhance their, um, landscaping installations. They're very tastefully done. Um, because there was no definition of a nuisance, it was very subjective on how to differentiate between what is acceptable and what is distracting or impeding your ability to enjoy the, the use of your home. Um, so this, the, the board will rely on this definition to determine whether it is acceptable or unacceptable based on the nuisance definition. The, the biggest issue that I see is, and you look around the villages now, a lot of people are putting security lights on around their house, which is, which is not intrusive. But if they turn those things outward, it's intrusive. And that's what the nuisance hits and says, you can't do that. But you can still keep security in your home and you can still light up the areas. Like some people do it for plants, some people do it around the, the dark areas of their house be, you know, and just for more of a security perspective. That's the distinction here. And so we didn't want to, um, at least from my perspective, I didn't think we wanted to do up car blanc because we'd have to wipe out everybody that put these lights in the house and it would be a, it'd be a chaos. It's only when it's a nuisance issue and it's causing a problem with the neighbors. Okay. And that, you see that, I just have a question. So in this case, if he, if this person continually puts his lights on bright when he's upset, would they force him to take down the lights Or, or strobe lights or anything like that? Well, he Does. Yeah. Well, he has the flickering lights anyway. Yeah. I mean, yeah. But, uh, but on his liquid lights, they go, if he's upset, they're bright, but other nights they're normal. But he has like double strands of all these lights to it. It's not just one thing. Everything is excessive. And I just don't know if they would have the ability to say, you can't have those kind of lights because you turn them up. You Okay. You wanna address that, Brittany, how you would handle that? Sure. So when a complaint comes in, um, to the deep compliance office, um, they first have to determine if it is a valid complaint, if it is a valid complaint. Um, generally speaking, it starts with an educational effort to the resident to come into compliance. Their goal is always gonna be voluntary compliance. If they do not come into compliance and they go through the notice process, um, this board does use a hearing officer, a special magistrate for their, their public hearing. Um, if they don't come into compliance, ultimately they will get notice for a public hearing that will go before Judge Neal. Um, at that time, um, the property owner and any, um, impacted residence have the ability to give evidence and testimony during that public hearing. Um, and that will allow her to make a ruling and potentially impose fines if needed. Thank you. I I think it's similar to the fact that, um, we have indeed compliance related to an rv and there's a restriction on how many, how, I think it's what, 48 72 hours? Something like. Yeah. That you, that you have, you can only keep the RV there. So when they get, if they exceed that, then Decompliance would go and say, you can't, you have to, you have to remove that. And they do, and then they come back and it comes back after another two weeks, they bring it back. That's when the, the hammer gets Correct. You, there's a reoccurring problem. There's A reoccurring problem, and that and that. And they get dinged for that one. Correct. When it's reoccurring, they don't get the three letters. They go directly to public hearing. So they get one letter. Right. Um, even if they bring the property into compliance prior to that, they still go to that public hearing. And then if they do it again, it's considered a repeat violation where they can be, um, ordered to pay $500 and $500 a day until the property's brought into compliance. Yeah. So this, this nuisance will allow you to do that because you have a complaint, you go in and say it, and you better fix that complaint. If it happens again, then, then you start levering the fines on the person. Right? Well, well it goes into the magistrate and then the fines would be lever. Correct. But yes, it goes a reoccurring and repeat goes straight to public hearing. Yep. So you do have that. Okay. Thank you. Steve Waterhouse 32 63 Kranz app. I think it's both amazing and stunning that we haven't had this yet and that we've gotten this far in, in this section of the villages without having to have this kind of a, of a rule. So I hope that you'll take this forward. I hope you take it very seriously and hopefully it does not become something you have to use a lot. Right. Um, but it's, it's, uh, nice that you've taken control of it. Now we just have to enforce it. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Question, uh, Donna Burns de drive, um, I was agreeing with him this exterior strip lighting, liquid lights and similar light sources are prohibited. That's pretty crystal clear to me. Is there no way you can keep that language in here? Because this is legally, and you know, but when you read this, it clearly says you can't have strip lighting, you can't have liquid lights, you can't have this. Can this, that language is very clear that, uh, and maybe I'm missing something here, but, uh, I think I was missing something, ma'am. Uh, I, I, I think that, uh, that, that, that may well have been Xed out in something that I have in front of me, but it's being brought up again someplace else. Alright. So this language is reappear was error somewhere else. I I was in error. Okay. It's gonna be written Hearing right now. We're, we're dealing with the nuisance piece of that mes. Okay. Okay. So any other Yes, sir. Just Sandy Cone. 32 56 Crans Avenue. So just to continue on with that, so that language is going to go into the architectural, uh, review board. That's something that they would have to deal with. Well, no. So where, why are we taking that language out of, of that? And Mr. Chairman, so this public hearing is specifically for the nuisance definitions. The ance, we're, we're getting sidetracked on it because we're trying, It's going to be item D. Where is this? Yes, it's D Oh, that's another one. Yeah. Different one. Okay. Yep. Under Old business item B. Yes. Okay. Under D Then, um, the last thing I'll, I'll bring up is we all know about the $170,000 cost for the cross and the guy got sued and everything else. This guy's not gonna go piloting and he'll probably lawyer up and do all the things he does mm-hmm. And everything else. So we don't want to get into $170,000 fight with this person. Um, it's almost worth buying his house out and, uh, getting him outta here. But, uh, So just, uh, just those thoughts, uh, on that Side. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anything else from public hearing on the nuisance? Okay. So I'm gonna close the public hearing at this point. So the public hearing is closed. And then we will discuss this with the board for the resolution of, of the, you wanna repeat the, uh, again, what we're, uh, the Nuisance? Yes. So staff's recommendation of staff recommends that the board adopt the resolution 2026 dash zero three amending and restating chapter one of the district's rule to bring about deed compliance as provided herein and in accordance with the documents included within this agenda item. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve that? So moved. Oh, yeah. You have a question? We have discussion After the Motion or No, no. We'll have a discussion right now if you wanna a discussion. So, uh, there were three, three key items that were brought up in the, in the, uh, conversation prior to this mm-hmm. Hearing one was education, Right. Uh, Another one was approach. Right. And the Other is retaliation. Right. And those are all fears Correct. That Our, that Our Exactly. Residents have. And I think the education part of that, uh, compliment for, uh, for thinking about that education part. And I, I think that, that the approach factor here is, uh, is paramount because mm-hmm. Because if we're dealing with a loose cannon, we're dealing with a loose cannon. Right. Um, and I think that the retaliation is also something that's, uh, that is significant. And I think that we just simply need to be aware of that. Uh, I can tell you that I've been approached by a member of the CDD team board who happens to live between two houses that, that have these lights that work, uh, drives her nuts. And, uh, she's waiting for this vote from this board so that they can bring it to the court team board to, uh, also include this language in their, uh, in what they're doing. But, but I just, uh, I think that it's incredibly important that we fix this problem, but I think we need to be aware of, of, of those three, three things That, okay. Any other comments or questions before we You were gonna say something? Of course. Go ahead. I don't see as respectfully that we treat anybody any differently than mm-hmm. In the villages. We are not here to baby somebody That could be a loose cannon. We, these rules have been in place since 1979, 2014 here, and we've all gotta be treated the same. Exactly. So that's Mm-hmm. My opinion for What it's worth. Any other comments? Okay. Do we have motion to approve this resolution? So moved. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. And a nays. Okay. Motion carries. Thank you. You, You, Shannon. Okay. And Ms. Boyd's gonna remain at the podium. We're talking about the architectural. So both of your, both of your old business items on your tracking sheet are the items that are included on the agenda. Um, so we will move to the architectural review, uh, manual revision, and I'll let Ms. Boyd, um, review those proposed changes. Yes. Good afternoon. Shannon Boyd. Community standards. So at your January 6th Board of supervisors meeting staff presented information regarding a proposed definition for nuisance lighting. During the discussion, the board considered adding the nuisance lighting definition to the standards and removing the prohibition on exterior strip lighting, liquid lights, and similar light sources. From the architectural review manual, the board of supervisors directed staff to prepare and present a proposed a RC manual revision at the March 10th board meeting for consideration staff's recommendation of staff recommends the board of supervisors review the proposed a RC manual change, provide any feedback, and if no recommendations or changes are requested, approve the a RC manual revision as presented and to take effect March 10th, 2026. So as you'll see on the A RC manual under exterior lights, uh, if you did want to remove that section, we would just remove the last sentence, which is exterior strip lighting, liquid lights, and similar light sources are prohibited. So we would remove that mm-hmm. Sentence. Why are we taking that out? Well, go ahead. Well, that would be, again, that's board decision. Um, but because you have the nuisance lighting, this would permit people to still have those lights. But if they use it in a way that is a nuisance, then we could address it with the nuisance lighting definition that you just approved. This is too, this, this too prescriptive because this, this could fall into the area of the architectural lights that you have or, or your, you know, you put in your shrubs and stuff like that. The nuisance covers it more broad. It basically covers what we're trying to get. So that's not necessarily, I don't think it's necessary in there. 'cause the nuisance covers it all. I move, we approve. Um, if you'd like, I got a motion. Let's get a second and then you can discuss. Okay. Second. Okay, go ahead. Uh, does somebody want to comment on Yes. Can I just honor Just understanding the process? Thank you so much everybody for coming 'cause I'm always here alone. Maria Marana 31 64 low court. Just wanna make sure you are doing the nuisance ordinance for District 11 only. That's correct. Okay. The arc motion now is for the villages? No, No. Oh, you're doing that District 11 for District 11. Yes. So then what happens? Now, you are going to take this to every district or no, you're just gonna leave it. Well, Well we, we should, we should clarify something and I don't know, but um, maybe we should clarify some of the discussion I had with, uh, uh, earlier that we had before about why don't we, why don't we throw this other stuff on the table so that everybody understands where this is going. My other question is, when we started talking about this in January, you brought up, you know, 30 days times 18 holidays. Um, and we can't change that you said That. No, no. We're gonna talk about that right now. Okay. That's what I'm trying to Understand. We're we're gonna, that's what I want to get clarified right now. Thank you. Okay. Matt, you wanna, you wanna explain what, where this is going and how this is broader than the District 11? 'cause this is going broader than District 11 we're gonna talk about next. Absolutely. So we're gonna be bringing this back to many of the district boards in the form of public hearings in the future. When it comes to, um, these, these available topics, seasonal displays is one of them. Landscape lighting is gonna be another one. So in order to do this, we're working with legal counsel for various districts so that we're all on the same page. And so we're gonna be presenting these rule changes at hopefully your May meetings for a July adoption as far as public hearings to amend the rules specific to those two types of concerns. Yeah. And, and to also add, when it comes to the architectural review manual, it cannot contradict your deed restrictions. It can't be more restrictive than your deed restrictions go. And your deed restrictions state that exterior lighting much be attached to the home and not cause a nuisance. It doesn't go into types. And in here, when we had amended your arc manuals a couple years ago, we had inadvertently created an restriction that is not supported by your deed restrictions. Therefore, we have to take it out. And we're hoping that the defining what you can define a term nuisance covers this now versus being restricted in the type of lights we're now covering nuisance. So we exactly. We're, we're trying to clean up something that we erred on. Yeah. And, and to put clarification on this thing, because this is the thing that the residents have been concerned about. There's 365 days of holidays in the villages. So what you're gonna be doing next is trying to get this focused that you're only allowed X for St. Patrick's Day X for this, and it's gotta be broader than District 11. And that's why we're in a little bit of a quagmire on this. We can't expand it until you get the legal counsel from all the other districts to agree on it. And then we can put this into District 11. Correct. 'cause we're looking at, again, the, the language that is in the deed restrictions and making sure that we don't Correct. Inadvertently Create Yeah. We don't want violate the deed restrictions. Okay. Does that, that makes sense everybody. When I read the deed restrictions, I thought that we were limited to seven holidays a year. No, ma'am. There's nothing restricting the number of holidays. It just says seasonal displays not to exceed 30 days in duration so you can decorate for 30 days on a seasons display. So we're working on the seasons aspect of what that means. So we're trying to tighten it up. It it, there, there was a hole in this thing and it needed to get tightened up. And we're the ones that are tripped over it than any, any of the other districts at this point. Right. As you pointed out what was intended 30 years ago is now we, we've reached a point where things have just kind of progressed and we're at that point in their history where we need to tighten things up to find things better. And that's what we're doing. I know I read that there was seven holidays and St. Patrick's Day was not one of them. So you may be referring to the, um, holiday decoration policy when it comes to entryways entry and gate houses and Yes, I apologize. Okay. So with this new nuisance law Yes. Residents can now complain Yes. Issue a nuisance complaint about liquid lights Or any whatever lights that not be liquid. Right. Well, I'm just saying 'cause they're, everybody seems concerned about liquid lights being removed, but people can have liquid lights and if they don't get a nuisance complaint against them, they can keep 'em. Correct. I mean, as long as it's not a nuisance law on somebody else's house, like say my neighbor's got it, but they're not extremely, you know, landing a plane on the driveway and there's no nuisance complaint. They can have 'em, but if they have a complaint because they're, It's a nuisance to the neighborhood, they can bring it up now. They can. Yeah. It doesn't matter if the liquid lights or Landscaping doesn't matter. Lights or doesn't matter, Whatever. Right. So they can issue a nuisance complaint against this person. Correct. Yeah. Correct. Okay. We have a motion and Yeah, we have a motion. And we had a second. I Seconded. Yeah. So, okay. Um, I know Jim just stepped out, but do we want to go ahead and vote on this right now? Well, he started it. He, he started it, so, yeah. Does it matter Or do you need a full Board? We can vote. We can vote. Okay. So all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? None opposed. Thank you. Thank you. Board. Thank you. Thank you. Thank Shannon. Okay. Um, now, uh, move on to old business, anything of the old business That, that concludes all That concludes it too. Okay. And we already did the, uh, uh, architectural review manual. We've already done that as old business, so we've covered that. So the next is informational item. Any questions or anything on the financials? Okay. Uh, district manager reports. Yes. So I do have two reports today. Um, and for the benefit of the audience as well, we have two events coming up. Uh, the first one is the Water Matters event. Um, that will be held on Saturday, April 11th from nine to noon at the Lake Sumter Landing Square. Um, it's an expo style event that the district hosts. Um, we will have US iis extension in attendance as well as Jacobs, who is our utility o and m provider, and our water engineer who is water, they will all be in attendance with the raffle announcements and prize drawings. And there's, there's a lot of good information that's provided there. Okay. Um, the second event is the Earth Day event. Yes. So April 17th from eight 30 to 11:30 AM um, staff is convening in the Lake Central Landing parking lot across from Wilkerson Park. Um, we will be out in the community, um, being good stewards and cleaning up any trash that's out there. Um, we understand time constraints and board members may not be able to attend. Um, so if you would like to participate in your own way for Earth Day, uh, snap a selfie and send it to us. Uh, we will include it in the bulletin as well as the newsletter. Okay. Anything else? That concludes our Report. Okay. District Ion Counsel. Yes, sir. We have the, uh, upcoming dates for the Ethics and public records training. And those are March 24 at 9:00 AM and that's at Laurel Manor Rec Center. If you're interested in attending, you can sign up for the clerk's office. The additional two dates, March 24 at 9:00 AM August, 2026. October 29th, 2026. The one in August is at 9:00 AM at Everglades. And the October 29 date is at the district office. If you can't make one, maybe you can make one of the others. Um, what Was the August date again? The August date is August 20, and that will be at 9:00 AM at Everglades. Everglades. Okay. Anything else, mark? No, sir. That's it. Thanks. Okay. Um, I'll cover my portion of the supervisory comments and then we'll go around the room and see if you, if you have any other comments or anything like that. Um, in the, the project wide committee meeting on Monday, uh, a couple of things came up and I'll just go over in the things pretty quickly. Um, first of all, uh, we had some sad news and I, I mentioned in the meeting, uh, I don't know if many of you know, Steve Brown. He was a, he was a district supervisor of, of district 11 at nine. And, uh, he also sat on our project wide committee. He passed away, so it was very suddenly, uh, a couple weeks ago. So, uh, I just, um, it was, um, he, he was a great guy. He is helped, helped the community a lot. So, uh, the other thing is we had a, a resident complain about, uh, in Lake Miona Black Lake Walking Path, that there were dogs, people were taking dogs on it. They're not allowed to have to take dogs on it. So, um, the district, um, uh, recreation department's gonna look into that. Uh, there is signage, but they're gonna try to get more reinforcement around that thing. But there's, it's, it's always a tricky situation on that. But they said they were gonna report, they're gonna report back to the monthly meeting next month to see what corrective actions being done on that one. We also had an up update from Don Wiley, who's the chairman of, um, the Sumter County Commission on all the services they provide. Um, and, uh, it's in conjunction of Lake County too on the 9 1 1, how they're wrapping everything together and more of a cost effective. But he showed a lot of different cost elements of what this whole project was from, from, uh, from Sumter Sumter County's perspective of what they, they've put into it. But it's just basically he wanted to give everybody an update on how the 9 1 1, how the, how the a ED program works with, with it. It's in conjunction of that, that even though it's Sumter, it TAs into Lake County and some aspects of that too. So, so it does affect us to some degree. Um, also, um, we had a couple of, um, items that we approved. We approved a sole source for the Suncoast furniture, for all the pool full, uh, equipment. And that was about $805,000 trying to keep the standardization. We, we went with a sole source company that's been doing it before. And, uh, that was approved. Uh, then we also approved the, uh, the H-H-V-A-C replacement at Coconut Grove, and that's about $300,000. That's about 200,000 under budget from, from what we had in the budget for that to, to replace the HVAC, uh, the three golf courses. Um, there was a, uh, additional cost on the, in the three golf courses, the Turtle Mound, r Roosevelt, and Redfish. Um, on the average, it's about 1.7 million each to refurbish. But when they got into it, they, the reason why it cost more is because what they did originally, a lot of the greens were shrinking and those weren't factored in, in the design. So they're going back and since they're gonna remodel it, might as well do it. Right. And for longer term longevity of that. So, so those three golf courses, we had approved those budgets for that. Uh, let's see, the, the last thing that came up here, um, well, those last two things. The other one was, was the, um, at the post office we have the amenity boxes where people will put in their, um, their amenity bills. And what happened was, uh, they found that somebody had broken into it and stole some of the checks. Oh. So the question came to the board is, do we really want to have people drop it in that box? You can use the postal box, you can, there's like five or six different ways you can do it. You can do automatic, there's different ways electronically, you can get your amenity fees paid. So we approve that, that movement, that we would eliminate the amenity box at the postal station. So I just want everybody to know we wanna phase it in. So some people are using it maybe through April or October by, by October, uh, to phase it in so that, that will be removed by October. So it's, it's, it's more of a security issue anymore. They did apprehend the person that stole the checks, so that was good news, but it does leave an exposure to that. So it was, it was, it felt, it was, uh, it was, it was a corrective thing to do. And that was a recommendation by the rec department too. So, and then the last thing was, um, there's a stretch on the, on the intermodal, uh, roadway near the fire station on Buena Vista as you go down across from Eisenhower. And, uh, and they wanted to put in, um, the RPMs in that area that's real dark around the corner. We tend, we as the board, we said we weren't gonna put RPMs across the villages. Um, because, and the basis, and a lot of residents probably don't know this, but the Kimberly Horne report came out and they basically said it was not appropriate for us to do it because of safety reasons and so forth. You have bikers and other things just carte blanche it. But what we, what we've done is put these reflectors in key areas where like you come up to, um, our island or if there's a curve so that you can see that. And then this one fell into that category. So we approved to go ahead and do that small stretch right in that corner. But it's not parked blanc that we're doing it all up the, uh, multi road motor path. So, so that's the other thing that came out of the project Quad committee meeting. Okay. Anything else? Any, any, you have two things. I got a Question. Um, Brittany, I'm wondering, you know, the police police department gave a report last, uh, last month. Yeah. They do a quarterly report trust last time We were here, and it includes, our district includes, uh, all of Brooklyn Park, evidently and 4 66 A and, and, and the, the numbers that we were getting, They were, they were Fruitland Park numbers too. They were skiing point Where it didn't make any sense. It would be like getting a report for Leesburg. Uh, so I'm wondering if Chief Wolf could work with the, with the Fruitland Park Police Department and redistrict our Pine Hills Pine Ridge so that when we get that report, we know what's going on in, in Pine Hills. Pine Ridge and, and not what's going on in Colony or, or wherever. So I'm just, I'm, I I just would like to have that. Mm-hmm. I, I like the information. I would just like to have our information and not what's going on next Week. Yes. I'll have Chief Wolf work with the Fruitland Park Police Department to, uh, refine those statistics and really narrow down into the District 11 area with Peter. That was the first time that's happened. The other times he was, it was very focused on the villages, pine Hills, pine Ridge, that one, when he came out, he, when he gave those numbers, I knew those were wrong because they, they were talking about things were happening up in Fruitland Park and up in 4 41. I mean that, that, that, that has no bearing on what we were looking at. So, And, and the second good point question I have, you know, we've got, we've had, uh, five freezes this winter. And I'm wondering what percentage of our plants that we have are responsible for our native plants that can withstand that cross. Uh, and wonder whether or not when we get ready to replace ones that have been killed, if it wouldn't be wise to think about a native plant replacement for a couple reasons. One is they're not gonna get destroyed at freeze five times during the winter, and the other is they use much less water. Uh, so, so maybe, you know, we're in a drug situation. Mm-hmm. So let's, and by frost. So let's just think about that on the way through, uh, down the road. It may save us some money. Sure. So district property management is going through that assessment es essentially now to determine, um, you know, what has survived. And then directing any plant replacement costs towards the replacement from the freeze. Generally they, they stick to original design intent from, you know, what was planted within the community. Um, but if we can let them proceed with their evaluation and then determine if there is any room for adjustment in those areas. But I think that maybe the question should be asked of whether or not design could accept a native species as opposed to something that is not. Just We can review that. I know Herschel heard that. Jim, is there anything else, Peter? No, I'm all thank Jim. Well Said Peter. Uh, thank you to our neighbors for, uh, coming and speaking your mind. Um, and I hope you can see that this board empathizes with, uh, each of you, um, Mr. Chairman, let the record show that I would vote on the motion that I made to modify Your Call. Your colleague over here already. Yeah. I know it passed, but I want the record to show that I voted yes on that. So that's it. Thank you. Thank you. I'm good. Well, here I am. Thank you all for coming and as you all know, if you have any problems, I'm always available to of hear it out. I have, I have gotten a complaint about the striping on the roads in, in Pine Hills and Pine Ridge. And I know it's Fruitland Parks are no Lake County responsibilities. The Road, I'm sorry, the one striking Strip on the road, you know, where you come to a stop. Yeah. You're supposed to have the wife. There's no striking, they're all, they're gone. They, they're all gone. Yeah. Warren, yes. You know his responsibility, you know, it's for one park. It, they Have the road And so can I make that call? Or I I can communicate to their, uh, city manager on behalf of the District 11 board. Yeah, that would be, that'd be more. It Probably hasn't been done since we were developed. Well, yeah, because that's, yeah. And they've never been, And Brittany, just, just to extend that, I don't know who, who runs the road between, uh, between uh, Moyer and 4 66 A by the Walmart neighborhood, Marco. But those are non-existent. That's Sumter County. Sumter County Sum Sumter. Yeah. Just where the dump is. That's all Sumter County. That dump is Sumter County. Go around the corner and you go around the corner around the course. There, there are no fines there. So It's, yeah. Hey Jan, when you speak to Fruitland Park about the stripes, if they give you any hard time, tell 'em we can take all these people, we'll all meet at City Hall. But you're gonna, you're gonna follow up on that. Yeah. Okay. Do you want us off and come with you? Any anything else, Jan, you have No. Okay. Alright. Do we have a motion to adjourn? Motion To adjourn? What? Go ahead. I, a question. I'm sorry. Okay, I'm to this. Okay. I'm slow. Whatever. Tell me what, starting today, going forward, Matt, Shannon, whoever with 32 68 Webster Drive, are we waiting on seasonal stuff or all these other boards? You gotta vote or are you gonna take some action now? That's what I want To know. Thank you. Well, you want, you wanna comment? So the process still remains a complaint driven process. Um, so if, if there are ongoing concerns, I would suggest that the complaints be filed to community standards, um, so that they can assess using this new criteria. It's an effective today. Today It's effective. Today it's effective. Right now we have 30 People that are willing to do it right now. Can we put Our