Village Community Development District No. 1 (2026-01-09)

Okay. My, uh, my clock says 8:00 AM So we'll call the, uh, meeting of community development District one to order. I see we have all supervisors present here. Thank you for attending. This time we'll have our pledge, pledge of allegiance, followed by an observation of a moment of, so I pledge Allegiance, United States of America Republic Combination. Thank you. Okay. At this time, we'd like to welcome our meeting attendees. If you have something to address the board with, please come to the podium, give us your name and address for the record, and give us your comments. And if you can hold them to around three minutes, please. Thank you. Anyone have any comments? Come on. Morning, Jim Bacaro dealer, Vista West. Um, oh, I came, uh, because it, you know, it kinda like, I come frequently to talk about North Morris Boulevard, um, and at the intersection of G***o and Ortiz. And the last two years, there's been two more good accidents there, where I thought the county may at some point in time, you know, it was looked at in the past, but that traffic light at G***o and ort in my mind might be something the county is willing to move on at this point in time. And I was hoping that maybe you could put a committee together and approach them or ask the county to take another look at that particular intersection. It's a very busy intersection. You know, people get, you know, you're in a golf cart and you get jammed there. You're unfortunately, uh, stuck for life with the injuries that come from it. And Sherry hire, I guess one of the, the last person that got hit, she started a petition in 2017 trying to get something done on that particular intersection and make life a little safer on North Morris Boulevard. Um, you know, but to me, if you could get a light there, in my mind, the traffic light at that intersection, I think a lot of things could happen to make safety better on North Morris Boulevard. Once you got that light, uh, you could put the multimodal path on East side of Morrise and take it to the gate so people don't have to cross in front of the gate any longer. You know, figuring out how to pay for the multimodal path is something different. I'm sure that there's ways we can get that done. Um, but trying get back to the county, I know that they have their reasons why they didn't, but I know the last time I saw one of their reports, there was a little tick to, Hey, you might be able to put something here. So we've had two accidents since that evaluation. That would be really nice if we could kind of like push that topic one more time. I'd be more than glad to get on a board or put a committee together, you know, my neighborhood, which is across the street from there, I spent thousands of dollars putting videos. We got websites, we got suggestions. We've spent thousands of dollars trying to get some activity in that particular road. And we would appreciate anything that this group can do to kind of move the issue forward or keep it alive. Don't let it, you know, dwindle until there's someone else gets hit. Thank you. Thanks, Jim. As some board may, members may remember, um, I tried to, uh, to work on that particular subject, uh, with Sumter County on several occasions. And at this point I feel like that, um, they probably heard all from me that they want to hear. So if there's another, uh, board member that wants to look at something like that, maybe work with the, uh, the sheriff's department, see if, if they actually have, uh, information that would contribute toward a, uh, successful, um, venture there, uh, then certainly that's something we may want to do. But again, I just don't feel like I'm the person to lead that charge anymore. Okay. Yes, ma'am. Pat the O 1 5 2 4 CTI's place. As much as I hate myself for standing up here right now, I'm going to do it. As you know, when I was on CDD one, I had created the charter that was to approach Sumter County and look for alternatives. I would volunteer to, um, on your behalf and in accordance with the charter that we had approved originally meet with Sumter County and see their willingness to look at alternatives. And specifically, um, with the question that, uh, Jim brings. Um, I just put it out there. Okay, Thank you. So I'll give the board members a little time to, uh, consider That and that's certainly a good option For us. Alright, thank you. Thank you for volunteering, Ms. Er. Any further? Audience comments? Seeing none, we'll move along. Next is our law enforcement quarterly update. I think we have Sergeant West here with us today. Good. Good morning, sir. Good morning. My name's Sergeant Adam, Doug with the Sun County Sheriff's Office. I'm here on behalf of the Sheriff's Office. I'm here on behalf of the sheriff, pat free to provide you with a quarterly law enforcement update. I wanna share with you, uh, statistics on motor vehicle crashes and citations, as well as update you on, uh, some recent criminal activity here within our area. Over the past quarter, the Sumter County Sheriff's Office responded to 334 motor vehicle crashes, as well as 39 golf cart crashes. We issued in that period 1030 uniform traffic citation, uh, citations to the motorist, as well as 34 tickets to golf cart operators. The, uh, criminal situation I wanna make you aware of is a, a rash of recent vehicle theft that have occurred up here, especially in, uh, district one and two north of 4 66 here in your area. Um, over the past several months, we had multiple vehicles stolen from residences. Um, the vehicles were stolen and were almost all known to have been left unsecured with keys inside. While the sheriff's office is not in the business of blaming victims for being victims, we do ask for assistance of the community to keep from becoming a victim of a crime like this. Uh, small smart decisions like, uh, locking your vehicles left outside or not leaving the keys inside the vehicles would certainly help to, uh, uh, alleviate these issues. But the Sheriff's office in our investigation, uh, we were able to determine that all the motor vehicle theft were perpetrated by one individual. His name's Earl Dorry and he's someone that, uh, several law enforcement officers from the area are familiar with. Uh, Mr. Gorley. Mr. Dorry is currently, uh, being held in Volusia County. He fled from a stolen vehicle in their jurisdiction, uh, hi the swamp for several days and it was apprehended, he'll answer for his crimes there. And then the, uh, returned to Sumter County, uh, at what, which time has warrants, uh, issued here in this jurisdiction will be served. Uh, we believe we have the issue 12 for now. Uh, but again, we'd ask you to please encourage your constituents to make sure vehicles left outside or are left secure. We really would, uh, help us. I wanna make you also aware, we've had a recent number of burglaries to amenity box, uh, at postal stations, amenity boxes were forcibly entered, uh, and gone through, uh, the sheriff's office that is still currently investigating that matter. We have identified a suspect. I can't provide you with any further information right now 'cause it's an active investigation. I look forward, hopefully at the next quarterly update to, uh, uh, tell you, uh, how that's been resolved once a warrant has been, uh, issued, and hopefully an arrest has been made at that point. So, uh, that's all the information I have. Do you have any questions? I'd be more than happy to, to answer 'em for you Now. Alright. I just have one question. What is the speed limit for a non LSV golf cart? In Sumter County? Golf carts are limited to 20 miles per hour. Non LSV, uh, per Florida statute and how they're defined under three 20 dash zero one subsection 22, I define, uh, golf cart and limiting them at 20 miles. Thank you. Further questions for Sergeant Dodge. I'm sorry about getting your name wrong earlier, sir. I'm, I took it as a Batman reference. My first name's Adam, if you called me Sergeant West, Adam, Adam West. I said that that's probably how my mind works, sir. I'm okay with that. That's alright. Okay. Adam, I'm just curious why people would want to rip off amenity boxes. Do they think that we put our receipting from there? I I don't want to speculate as to, uh, someone's thought process in committing an offense. I will tell you that there's a potential for checks to be, uh, washed or information to be gathered from the checks. Ah, ah, yes ma'am. So we know that's a, that's a potential. Alright. Thank you sir. I appreciate your report. Thank you. Okay. Moving along to new business. We have the approval of our minutes from our last meeting. Motion to approve the No questions. No questions. Alright. We have a motion on the floor to approve a second. Have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Alright, the motion carries. And now we're moving on to the, uh, audit report. I think we have Jennifer Lenore here to introduce our guest. Good morning board. Jennifer Lenore Finance here to request your acceptance of the audit report ending in September 30th, 2025. As in past years, you've been required to have external auditors, uh, review the report and to give an opinion on how the statements have been presented. Uh, I'll introduce to you Purvis Gray here in just a little bit, but I just wanted to go over the report, um, just a little bit. Uh, this report is your year, year end snapshot. It's a process that started early in 2024, uh, with your budget planning, uh, to the final adoption of that budget in September of 2024. The report provides you with a budget to actual comparison that you're used to on a monthly basis and gives you that near focus or one year look. It also provides you with the reports that conform to generally accepted accounting principles, giving you a more long-term focus in providing you with your capital assets and your depreciation expense for the year. So, if I just need to go over some, um, you know, budgetary on your budgetary statements, um, your total revenues were 1.5 million for the year. That was pretty much on target. Happy to say that the district stayed within budgeted budgeted expenditures and actually was under budget by, uh, 445,000. And that was partly due to the San Marina. We are project being pushed to this fiscal year and some, and then some additional contingency dollars or dollars that were like, um, not needed for like geological anomalies and pipe repair. Uh, the total fund balance reserves, which included the unassigned and committed reserves total 2.6 for the year. Um, as, as a measure of liquidity, we compare the, um, unassigned fund balance as it relates to your actual expenditures for the year. The unassigned amount, um, was 1.5, and that ratio calculation came to about 126%. So if you look at it, your current savings and your unassigned reserve fund balance, you're covering your expenses more than a hundred percent. And you can use the reserves for any unexpected expenses that might happen. So your depreciation expense for the year, which we don't normally, um, report to you on a monthly basis, was 717,000. And that's a non-cash transaction, providing you with some your, your gradual expense for the capital assets over, um, time. So in addition, the district didn't have any long-term debt, which is great, and you met your reserve policy for the years. So I wanted to wrap up and say, uh, thanks to the District department, uh, for their part. They're approving your, um, invoices, reviewing your contracts, uh, making sure you get the best contract pricing without sacrificing quality. The budget department works with the, um, the DPM department to understand your needs and for upcoming projects and puts that plan together. My team records those transactions, collects your assessments, make sure that your invoices get paid, and we report that on a monthly basis. And I always like to thank our district clerk because they're awesome and putting, uh, together, um, you know, your, your agendas for the, for the each month. And then, um, putting our, our reports up there for us. So, and then also, um, without, uh, district managers management support and giving us the tools that we need, um, we wouldn't be able to do our job. So it is a cooperative effort in putting all these, and that's what's behind your numbers. So with that, I will, uh, step aside and introduce to you, uh, Helen Painter from Perfect Gray. Thank you. Good morning, Ms. Painter. Uh, good morning. Helen Painter, Purvis Spraying Company. And with me is Katie Eno as part of your audit team. Uh, and we're here to present the September 30th 25, uh, audit report for district one. Uh, so we have a PowerPoint presentation we thought that we would run through real quickly. Uh, so, uh, with an audit you have, uh, required by the state of Florida all special districts of which, uh, the district is a special district. And, uh, it follows governmental accounting standards. And we have to audit it in accordance with government auditing standards. So the reporting package that you have, uh, this document here, it's in your board package, uh, consists of the independent auditor's report, report on internal control. Uh, the financial statements and notes are were prepared by your management team. They have special software that, uh, they utilize to produce this report. It's 44 pages. Um, and our responsibility is to issue the reports. And we have issued, uh, an unmodified opinion, meaning that we believe that these financial statements and notes prepared by management, uh, is fairly stated in all material respects based on the results of our audit testing. Uh, we also would need to report to you if we found any internal control problems. Uh, if there were any problems during the audit, if it was delayed or if the accounting records were not properly reconciled, we would need to report that to you. And we're happy to say that, that we had no issues. We also have to look at the investments to make sure they're in compliance with the Florida statutes and that your management team, uh, receives their investment CPE credits every year. So there's a lot that, uh, management is responsible for. Um, and then of course, there is the governance letter, which is separate, and it would require if we had to make a lot of adjustments, and we have to point out any estimates in the financial statement. So there's a lot of reporting and, uh, we're responsible to the board of supervisors. So, uh, this is the, uh, formal presentation. Uh, so these are, uh, different aspects of the audit report that we discussed. A non-modified or clean opinion was given. Uh, there were no issues with internal controls. There were no issues with the investments. There's no, uh, audit findings that we had, uh, in the back. Uh, the state of Florida requires special districts to have special reporting requirements to even further transparency. So any special assessments or any debt outstanding, all your construction projects greater than 65,000 has to be reported. And so all of that is included. Uh, the estimates that we see in the financial statements, of course, are the fair value of investments. If there were any, uh, capital assets donated, uh, that would be an estimate based on current market conditions. And then of course, the useful life of assets. Um, again, we had no problems in performing the audit, no disagreements. Uh, some of the financial highlights, of course, was the San Marina rear project that, uh, started during the year. Uh, the investment earnings still did well, of course, the market changed quite a bit this past year, but you still, um, had, uh, a good rate of return on your investments. Uh, there are also the reserve policy if you wanna discuss that. Um, that has been set by management, uh, excuse me, and approved by the board. And, uh, that is you're well, um, over that reserve policy. So you do have reserves set aside, both committed for future replacement of your capital and also, uh, for unexpected expenditures that may occur. And this is, uh, just a snapshot of your budget to actual, you'll see in the first column was the original budget that was approved by the board. Uh, and then there was an amendment, uh, primarily on the revenue side. That other income was for some FEMA money that's expected to come in. Uh, so you'll see how close you were. The FEMA money did not come in yet. It's expected to come in in the 25, 26 year. Uh, so you'll see that, uh, you received greater than expected and special assessment investment earnings. And then of course you were under budget with your expenditures, uh, quite a bit by 445,000. So, you know, your budget is your control over the expenditures and you well exceeded that. Capital projects sometimes tend to float over to the following year. Uh, but overall, you'll see that you had a good year for your district. And again, we'd like to thank, uh, the finance team for being prepared. And this is a month earlier than usual. So, uh, we appreciate, uh, the expertise in your finance department and with management and, uh, we're happy to answer any questions that, uh, the governing board may have. Yes, sir. Mr. Gerwin, what is the reserve re reserve policy? Let's Quick, quickly. Yes. Uh, it's 35% of your revenues and then, and then a portion of your expenditures too, 25%. And so those two together, then you add you're committed and you're unassigned. And then that should exceed that calculation and it does. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Any further? I have a little question about depreciation, because that's something that we see we're one of the, uh, original or early districts. Yes. Mm-hmm. So we're gonna have depreciation. We understand that, uh, our infrastructure's aging. Uh, some of it's 30 years old. Yes. Uh, so last year in round numbers we had about $700,000 in depreciation of the, uh, the capital assets that we own. Storm water collection systems, things like that. Um, what percentage of our budget is normal, um, to, to offset the depreciation? Because ideally depreciation is, is, uh, an estimate of future expenditures to replace or repair, uh, those infrastructure assets. So of that 700,000, what would be the proper or the, the average, um, budgetary expenditure to, to, uh, offset the $700,000 in, in depreciation? So I believe your question is regarding to, uh, the amount that you have set aside as committed to for r and r. That's what you've got right now and how that relates to depreciation expense. Yes. You know, that is, uh, uh, a good question in the, because it's difficult to determine, uh, this is your depreciation expense, but what is it gonna cost you to replace it? And the majority of your infrastructure is not like a car that's going to wear out. You're gonna have to get rid of that car, get a new one. Yours is primarily roads. And, uh, so what you all do for that is the accounting function of depreciation, uh, doesn't directly correlate to the cost of replacing those roads. Okay. Um, those were based on the original cost. So what you all do is you forward look to when you think there's going to be needed repairs, uh, and how far out into the future those needed repairs are going to occur and what it's gonna cost based on inflation. So you all budget to put money aside, uh, each year for the estimate of the future repair replacement cost. Mm-hmm. So that's how you do it. So really you cannot compare depreciation expense with what is really going to cost you in the future. 'cause that's based on the original historical cost. Okay. Thank you for that explanation, that that helps. So what you're saying is, is basically our capital improvement plan Yes. Should be robust and very accurate for us to really have a good handle on, on what our future expenses would be to repair and replace the infrastructure that we have. Yes. And, and like you said, it's uh, 30 years old, you've already done quite a bit of, um, overlay and millwork on some of those roads and you know, you're continually having your uh, DPM team look at the roads and determine when you think you're going to need to, you know, maintain the roads and improve them into the future. Alright, so you've got that money set aside. Thank you very much. You're welcome. I appreciate your time. Any further questions? Alright, thanks so much. Thank you very much, Jennifer. So we'll just need a, a motion to accept the audit report. Alright. I move acceptance of the audit report. Second, we have a motion and a second on the floor. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, Jennifer. Okay, we will move along to public hearings and I'll turn first case over to, uh, district Attorney. Um, yes sir. Just a quick overview of the public hearing process. In public hearings, the board acts as both the judge and jury. In that capacity, the board will consider evidence, make findings of fact, and draw conclusions of law. During the hearing, the board may only receive evidence from district staff, the property owner, and those that will be substantially and directly affected by the outcome of the board's decision. At the conclusion of the public hearing, the board will determine whether staff present competent, substantial evidence to support a finding of the alleged violation. And if so, the board must enter an order of enforcement against the property owner. Our first case today is case number D one dash zero three dash 26. If there's anyone here to address the board, if you please stand and raise your right hand for affirm the evidence testimony. You Yes, We can now open the public hearing. We are currently in public hearing for case number D one dash zero three dash 26. Mr. Armstrong, good Morning Board. Matt Armstrong, director of Community Standards. So before each day we have case number D 1 0 3 2 6 Village Community Development District number one versus Patricia Spinner and co comp Emily Winters at 2 6 1 Montoya Drive, unit 6, 8 7 lot eight six. Violation of the district's rule to bring about the compliance, specifically the rule that states each owner shall keep his his lot meat and clean and the grass cut and edged at all At all times, and shall maintain the unpaved area between the adjacent roadway and the owner's front sidelines. If an owner does not adhere to the above regulations, then the work may be performed on behalf of them and the cost shall be charged to the owner. I stated, in your external de restriction standards, maintenance shall mean the exercise of reasonable care to keep buildings, landscaping, lighting lawns, and other related improvements and fixtures in good condition. We received, uh, concerns regarding this property for overgrown grass. Weeds, vines growing up into the eaves of the home staff did verify those concerns. Uh, we've been in contact with the daughter. Uh, she has the, um, caregiver over her mother, her daughter is outta state. Um, she's been working distance, uh, to remedy the situation. Everything has been taken care of except for the weeds in the front landscaping beds. And she's, uh, as of yesterday, she reached out to us and requested, um, that she be be given granted additional time to remedy that last little bit of, uh, concern. And we asked, well, how much time are you specifically asking for? And she said, 45 days. We said that we would present that information to the board during the public hearing process and ultimately it'd be up to them. But our standard time is seven days to remedy that type of situation. And she understood. She actually said, could she prepay the fines in advance? We said, well, we don't know how long it's gonna take for you to, to bring the property into compliance, so we wouldn't have a number for you for that. So, but it is staff's recommendation to find the owners in violation of the district's Decompliance rule aside by Decompliance, staff owners have seven days to remove the weeds to bring the property into compliance. That the weeds are removed within seven days of the order of enforcement. Case number D 1 0 3 2 6 shall be closed. The weeds are not removed in the property is not brought into compliance within seven days of the order of enforcement authorized the district to maintain the property and impose a minimum of $250 fine or the actual cost of maintenance, whichever is more to be paid within 10 days of the invoice. Authorize the district to maintain the property twice a month in the summer and once a month in the winter as needed. And impose a $250 FiNet each time the district maintains the property. The owners prohibit the district from maintaining the property, then the owner shall be fined an initial $150, an additional $50 daily fine until the property's brought into compliance. The property's not brought into compliance as required Here and staff shall record this Order of Enforcement claim of lie public records of subject county Florida. It is the property owner's responsibility to contact Community Standards Department to request a decompliance officer revisit the property to confirm compliance. The fines reached $1,500, a case shall be turned over to the district council to seek all available remedies, which may include initiating a lawsuit, seeking an injunction against the property owners. The property owners are responsible for reimbursing of the district for all attorney's fees, costs and expenses associated with are related to this Order of enforcement claim of lien. If the property is brought into compliance and all fines are paid, the chairman authorize the staff to execute and record it Satisfaction release claim of lien chairman to execute the order of enforcement. Any questions for staff? Okay. Alright, I'll give one more opportunity for anyone representing the owner or interested party hearing, then we'll close the public hearing. What's the pleasure of the board? I, uh, I think we should go with the staff's recommendation. Okay. We just need a motion to approve staff's recommendation. I will make a motion to approve staff's recommendation. We don't have any question Further discussion there, Mr. To have been cooperative and, uh, there's quite a, a bit of improvement as I would see the sequential photograph. So I would tend to be union with this case. See resident, I, I tend to agree with you Ms. Cora, that, that, uh, because she's working, uh, from out of town there, there can be a little time lapse there, but 45 days seems extreme, um, to, to request that, uh, to, to have weeds pulled. So, um, I I wouldn't necessarily be inclined to support that. But, um, if, if there are some additional days that some board members feel like we should add to it, then, then I'm certainly willing to, uh, consider that. Um, Well, again, I understand that the, the, um, order that would be entered, the claim lien just gives us a tool, gives the, uh, staff the tool and, and the district the tool. And it's not necessarily gonna say, we're gonna, we're gonna ding you for every dollar that's in here. Um, as long as they're working with you. I mean, if they got it done in two weeks, then um, I I, again, I, as I understand it, it's, it's a tool and we don't have to, uh, it's, it's something to support our position here so that they can't say, okay, we'll give you 45 days, we won't enter anything. And then they let it go for 45 days and, you know, we're in the same spot again. So I, I think we go ahead and have the order entered and, um, and then that gives, uh, Matt's group a chance to work with this person to, uh, make sure it's in compliant. Okay. Uh, is my understanding correct on that, that it's basically a framework for us to work through, but it gives us Well, Well if you, if you give them seven days, then what will happen is if it doesn't happen on day seven, then staff is going to go out and do it on day eight or nine. Okay. And the fines will begin at that point and they'll continue until it's brought into full compliance. If you think that maybe 45 days is too much, but 30 days is more appropriate, or two weeks is more appropriate, then what you can do is accept staff's recommendation or the exception of giving them 14 days. Everything will still start, but instead of starting in seven days, it will start on 14 days. We'll still go out and maintain it on day 15 or 16. If it hasn't been maintained, we'll still file the lien once it gets to that point. It's just, instead of giving them seven days before the clock starts ticking, it would be 14 or 30 or whatever you determined It actually is to the, uh, daughter's advantage to have it cleaned up in time because I'm assuming they're gonna want to sell the property and if the property is messy, it would deter sale. From my perspective, um, I look at this a little differently. Um, right now, uh, the expense and the coordination of the weed removal is the responsibility of the daughter. Uh, if we enter a, um, an enforcement order that only gives seven days, then that on day eight that puts it on us and the expense is on us as well. Mm-hmm. So my consideration would be that, uh, it may be more advantageous for us as the district to give 14 days or something like that in order to have the property remedied by the property owner instead of getting us involved in it, uh, in that situation. So that's, that's my take on, on the issue. We share a brain on that one. Okay. That I, I think that makes sense that At least give a little More time. Not 45, but I think fourteen's pretty reasonable too. Okay. So if we have a consensus, would you be willing to modify your motion, sir? Yes. I'd like to modify my motion to accept the, uh, recommendation by a staff, uh, with the timeframe extending to 14 days versus the seven. Okay. We have a motion on the floor. I second we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. Our next case, Mr. Chair is D one dash zero four dash 26. If there's anyone here to address the board other than Mr. Armstrong who's already been sworn, if you please stand and raise your right hand, we can now open the public hearing. Okay. We'll open the public hearing for case number D one dash zero four dash 26. Mr. Armstrong, Well Board Matter Armstrong Community Standards. So we'd have case number D 1 0 4 26 Village Community Development District number one versus Adam W. Barrett of 6 4 1 San Marino Drive. Unit 14, lot 23 violation of the district's rule to bring about deep compliance. Specifically the rule of states shall be the responsibility owners to keep their lots neat and clean and the grass cut and etched at all times. The owners do not adhere to their regulation that the work may be performed on behalf of the owner and the cost shall be charged to the owner as stated in your deed restrictions. External deed standards maintenance shall mean the exercise of rebal care to keep building landscaping, lighting lines, and other related improvements of fixtures and good condition. We received concerns for this property for ODing grass, weeds, shrubs, and mold staff did go out and verify. We were able to make initial contact with the homeowner. Um, we've noticed that work has been done on the property, but the property remains out of compliance due to weeds and, uh, still some mold on the house. Staff has attempted to reach back out to the homeowner and we have not received return communication from him. Um, emails I believe had been sent and also phone calls and nothing to date has been, um, communicated back. So don't know why he stopped communication after the initial time. But we did see that work has, is slowly being performed on the property during our inspections, except for the last bit of weeds and mold on the property. So it's staff's recommendation to find the owner in violation. The owner has seven days to remove the mold from the home site and bring that portion of the property into compliance. The mold is removed from the home site within seven days of the order of enforcement. That portion of case number D 1 0 4 2 6 shall be closed. The mold is not removed from the home site and the property is not brought into compliance within seven days of the order of enforcement. Authorize the district to maintain the property, impose a $150 per maintenance hour fine, plus a $100 administrative fee to be paid within 10 days of the invoice. Your Honor has seven days to remove the weeds to bring that portion of the property into compliance. The weeds are not removed within, the weeds are not removed, and that portion of the property is not brought into compliance within seven days of the Order of enforcement. Authorize the district to maintain the property and impose a minimum of a $250 fine or the actual cost of maintenance, whichever is more to be paid within 10 days of the invoice. Authorize the district to maintain the property twice a month in the summer and once a month in the winter as needed. And impose a $250 fine each time the district maintains the property. The owner prohibits the district from maintaining the property, then the owner shall be fined in additional $150 and an additional $50 daily fine until the property is brought into compliance. The mold is removed from the home site and the weeds are removed from the property is brought into compliance within seven days of the Order of enforcement. Case number D 1 0 4 26 shall be closed. The property is not brought into compliance as required. Here in staff shall record this Order of Enforcement claim of lien into public records of Sumter County. Florida's the property owner's responsibility to contact Community Standards Department to request a decompliance officer revisit the property to confirm compliance. The fines reached $1,500. The case shall be turned over to district counsel to seek all available remedies, which may include initiating a lawsuit and sinking an injunction against the property owner. Property owners are responsible for reimbursing the district for all attorney's fees, costs and expenses associated with it related to this Order of Enforcement claim of lien. Property is brought to compliance, all fines are paid in. The chairman authorized the staff to execute and record a satisfaction release claim of Lien Chairman to execute the order of Enforcement. Okay, at this time we'll give one final opportunity for, uh, any owner or interested party to, uh, to address the board and be sworn in scene none will close the public hearing. Okay. What's the board's pleasure? Do you have questions for Mr. Armstrong? I know it's obvious we want to confirm this. The owner is living in the home now. Yes, sir. That I would recommend following staff's recommendation on that. Okay. We have a motion. Second that we have a motion and a second further discussion. Hearing none. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you ma'am. Thank you. Board. Okay. Moving along to old business. Yes sir. You only have one outstanding item on old business, which is the postal box numbers that Tierra Del. So they have been ordered, um, as of yesterday. We have not received them yet, but as soon as we do, they'll be installed and we will update the board. Alright, thank you. Um, just as, as a matter of of future, I would like a, an update on the, uh, the Weir project next month if you can possibly do that. Yes, sir. Uh, this project's been going on for a while and the longer a project lingers, the more expensive it gets in a lot of cases. So I'd like to see where we're at on that. Yes Sir. We will have that on all business. Thank you. Um, informational items, um, any board questions about our financial statements or the property management monthly report? The San Antonio Villas are next in line for the service line replacement. So just make sure you're aware of that. We may hear from some of those residents. Okay. District manager reports, The only report that I have is the Amenity Authority Committee after agenda, which is attached to your agenda for your convenience. Um, one item I would like to call attention to is the pool ID compliance follow up. And this item at Recreation took four different pools in the RAD service territory north of 4 66 and four south of 4 66, and staffed those pools from open to close and checked the ID of every individual entering the pool. What they found from that, um, study was that although we had items of non-compliance and situations of non-compliance, that non-compliance was either a resident forgot their id, but they had their ID number. So we could still verify or the guest forgot their guest ID but still had a valid picture ID so we could go back and verify that they did in fact have a valid guest id. So in those instances, there were no, um, occasions of outsiders or somebody who wasn't supposed to be using the pool. Um, utilizing it, both the a a C and project wide have authorized community watch to begin doing additional patrols at the pools. And Id checking it is a very nominal cost, just the cost of purchasing the actual scanners and then community watch as part of their normal patrolling will be stopping at a minimum of two times additionally to what REC already checks and checking the IDs, um, over the next six months. So after six months, the A A C asked that community watch come back with recreation and provide an update of the findings. So at that point they can determine whether to continue on with that practice or whether some other alternative needs to be looked at. So, um, we did it through holiday season, which was a great opportunity to get data through that. And then as we enter the spring and into the summer, we will also be gaining additional data as far as the warmer summer months and see what happens with the findings at that point. All of the other items, um, again, are on your agenda, your after agenda. There was a date change for the workshop in which commu the A A C is going to discuss community watch efficiencies. So you will see that updated date in your, um, agenda. It's on, it's now in March, on March 19th. So if you are interested in attending or participating in that workshop, just make sure that you change the date from the February 18th to the March 19th. And other than Happy New Year's, that concludes District Manager Reports. Alright, thank you. District council. No reports. Okay. Alright. Supervisor comments. I'll start with Mr. Miller. I have nothing. Alright. Mr. Goodman, do you want to, uh, I noticed you had a, um, Another question and answer session. We had a, I hope that was well attended. Yeah, we had a district form on, uh, on Monday. Um, Jim Bacaro from the A HC and my neighbor, we, uh, were both there. Morris Boulevard was an issue, uh, again, and also there was, uh, some issues with some residents who are subject to a homeowner's association, which was kind of new for me. And I don't know whether we can provide information, um, either on our, our website that maybe points people to information about, um, how they deal with their homeowners association or the inter interplay between the two. I don't know if there's information available, but, uh, but they were quite confused about who to call. And so, um, uh, at first it was directed at the CDD and well that we don't govern that. And so, um, but anyway, that, that, uh, came up as an issue. But, um, but then we, we talked about, uh, Morse as well. And I think we're gonna, at least we've got a, some, uh, momentum now to maybe go and explore that a little bit more. But it was, there was probably 25 people that came. Uh, as I said, the first time in October we said, you wanna do this monthly? No. Okay. So our next one is scheduled for, um, uh, April the week of the Meeting. Mr. Gerwin. Well, I noticed that, uh, in our community they were cleaning the sanitary sews, which I'm probably the only guy that even knew what they were doing. That's where I came from. But that's The mark of a really high end utility to doing proactive sanitary sew cleaning. So thanks for that. And we're in the process of getting the pond repaired in Hacienda East and the staff has been great responding, but I wonder if we could get a formal report next month. They had planned on doing the work late January or February, but, uh, staff's been great, but everybody's waiting for the repair. You said Hacienda East? Yeah, this is the pond. It's right, it's in Hacienda East. Yes, sir. We'll, um, put together an email update and then also put it on old business. So if you have questions from that update, staff will be available. Great. Thank you. Alright, Ms. Cora, Um, I think it was great Brian, that, I mean that you, um, put this meeting together. There are all questions even from long time residents that start rumor when, um, they talk about sending things get out of hand. So this is the horses mouth and they find out. Thank you Ellen. I mean, miss Cora. Alright. Um, one item, the, the HOA, um, issue is actually addressed on our website. You can find most of the, uh, the founding documents and, and things like that. The agreements that were originally, um, designed by the developer, uh, to start the HOAs and things like that. Uh, so that's, that's all on the website. Uh, under community development. District one, if you'll, you'll look up your neighborhood. They have those office. I didn't dig, dig, I didn't Dig deep enough. Well, that that's okay unless you're involved in it. But what most people don't understand is district one has several HOAs that involve the villa communities and it's, most of it is surrounding the maintenance of the wall that, uh, is along the exterior of the, uh, the villa community. That's, that's the, the real purpose of it. There's also some guest parking areas that have to be maintained by the, uh, the residents, uh, area. So they expect the residents to pay for pressure washing and painting and, and, uh, maintaining those areas. And that's why they have an HOA as the, uh, the villages moved further south, uh, that was not necessarily very common at all. You don't find that at all anymore. The, uh, the maintenance of the, uh, the wall is the responsibility of the residence on either side of it in some circumstances. So, uh, that's the difference. And the reason I, I know about that is a couple of those ladies that went to your meeting, um, are in my neighborhood and, and they let the entire neighborhood know that they were, they were going to, uh, protest, uh, the, uh, what they considered the HOAs influence. It was actually, um, violations on their property. Oh no. That community standards found. But like you say, there's a lot of confusion there and people think that HOA does it and when that, that's not there, but, uh, uh, that's, that's what's going on in those circumstances. Okay. Uh, and, uh, I, I think your efforts to educate our community are, are, they're certainly appreciated by me and I, uh, I think you're doing a great job trying to, uh, engage our community and, and make sure that we're listening to what their concerns are, uh, as well as, uh, helping them understand how this com particular community works because it's very different, uh, than any place that I've ever lived for sure. Alright, any further comments from the board? If not, we'll inter turn, entertain a motion to adjourn. Oh, wait, wait. Ms. Osburn has another comment for us. Kathy Oberg, 1 5 2 4 Cervantes Place. Um, just a piece of information on the sewer cleaning. We had several residents, including myself, who had blow back. Um, that came up into our, uh, bathrooms. Mine was very minor. None of it was sewer, but it was gas and it was water from the toilets. Um, I sent an email and got information immediately, which I provided, so I think I calmed that down. Um, but just a piece of information that, that did happen. And I'm, I'm understanding because there was a blockage Okay. Okay. That they were trying to do. So if we're gonna do that in the future, it might be something, I don't know. I don't know if it's better to let residents know proactively or not, especially if they're working a blockage. Uh, because the one gal, it got her towels, it Yeah. So she, she was definitely not a happy camper. Okay. The other thing, um, little extra information on what was put out at the a c that I found. Hmm. I'll say exciting and leaning forward with technology. Uh, Terry brought up and she explained the difference in the card readers. Um, and I won't get this right, but there were, and I'm gonna use my terms, the regular card readers that are not encrypted. And then she explained the diff what you can copy on your phone. Like somebody could have a picture. And then she explained that there are the encrypted and so they could be used. And what I heard out of this, and I could be wrong, um, and I know she'll, she'll fix me if I am, but was exciting to me, we are the only resort community development lifestyle in the world like we are. We should be absolutely 21st century. Okay. She explained the capability to do this with these card readers and that could work pools, pickleball, courts, rec centers, every place that we're having something monitored by an individual including the gate. Okay. With the type of technology that she was talking about. So I just wanted to bring that up because I think we should be leaning forward if we're gonna invest money in solutions. I'd like to see that money leaning forward to the future. Um, and I know, and I'm, I'm glad they're doing, you know, the, the trial with the community watch and everything, but we're back again to a labor situation. And I'm also looking at the newer residents who are coming in who are younger and who use their smartphones, you know, for a lot of things. And so, you know, you go on any cruise ship anymore, I walk up to a door and it knows I'm coming. Okay. I think the village is, is is a, um, the type of environment and the quality of living here that we deserve that as well. So that's just my 2 cents. I wanted you to know that that conversation happened and I was really just tickled pink that she had done the extra research to provide that information. Thank you. It sounds like something they should have discussed at their March meeting. Sure. Enough to, uh, to integrate some technology in into that. The technology that I discussed was actually presented at a joint workshop between or, um, a a c and project wide. As part of the long range readers, there is an opportunity to change out the reader system at all of the gates that allows for long range readers as well as encrypted cards, which is what Mrs. Over, uh, was referring to as part of that proposal that we did to a a C and project wide. If they chose, they also had the ability to put readers. Um, initially the discussion was that every neighborhood pool where there is not staff close by to monitor people coming in and out. If we did that encrypted reader, then it would require an opportunity for us to replace every resident's ID card. We could have an all in one card where your ID card was also your GATE card. Certainly many residents want additional gate cards, so we would have that available as well. It wouldn't be the ID card, you can only have one, but we would design it differently to where it could also service as additional gate cards as well as the opportunity to put the barcode on the exterior of your car. So you would just drive up and stop and the gate would open. Um, at this point and during that joint workshop, both at a a C and Project wine declined to move forward with that. But the technology remains out there. Um, and it's something that continues to be brought up. So as a a C and project wide, if they become interested in exploring it again, then certainly staff has all of the figures and and quotes and um, information available to represent that at any time. Okay. And would this be a project that they both had to adopt at the same time or would, would a a c be able to adopt it separately? They would have to do it at the same time because if they put readers on the outside of their, um, neighborhood pools and Project Y did not do it on the exterior of their pools or reissue the new cards, then residents south of 4 66 would not have access to any of the facilities north. Gotcha. Mr. Vaccaro, I think I saw your hand. There you go. Unfortunately, Jim Vaccaro 5 0 2 Herrera Court dealer, Vista West, um, you know, the long range readers, it, it's kind of like an automatic, in my mind, it's really hard to comprehend how PA and, and the committees didn't go for at least the long range readers at the gate. But in the March 19th meeting, we are gonna move forward and bring that topic back up. Uh, and we hope that we can get like a consensus of the people. And I'm not particularly comfortable with Carrie's decision that they have to have it down there. And we, in order for us to have it up here, because right now there's a dual system out there. People got the ones that they took off their card and put on their mirror, you know, and the rest of us are opening up our window 'cause we don't want to go out and use this system that someone has on the side. I'd rather have a nice legitimate system and that tag, and we had an opportunity to use the tag. It works perfectly on the long range reader to go through a gate and, you know, when you go through a gate, I don't really need to go and, you know, let the, uh, the gate attendant open up the gate. If I got a long range reader, if I don't wanna put my window down, whether it's inclement weather or I'm tired of hitting the button, it is, I've got something there. So it's so logical and so reasonably priced. And if we could put it in on our gates, people down the south, they don't have to put it in on their gates. We had it on a, a specific amount of gates to test it. We could put it in and we could sell it. And I think that's, that's what you would have to do to recoup the cost. And that's my theory on that is that hey, at $20 x amount of people, boom, you paid the cost of it. Um, so I'm not sure I'm, you know, I don't really agree with Carrie on that particular topic. I think that we can install 'em and if you want to buy it, you buy it. And if you don't put your window down. So you're, you're proposing it more as an upgrade to the current Services that you would pay for, right. Uh, rather than just as a system wide type thing. So it's more of a phased in approach is what I'm saying. Well, I'm just saying that, you know, I, I'm thinking then if you're gonna put the long range readers in and you're gonna put 'em at the pools and all the rest of that, which is a lot more expensive than putting 'em at the gates. You know, if we sold it, we would at least start recouping the cost. Mm-hmm. But I've never been to a, a, a country club or a a, a private community where they don't have long range readers for the residents coming through the gate. You know, and we certainly can step up and it's not that expensive to do it here. So. Alright. I, I hope it does come up on the March 19th meeting and I hope people attend and express their opinions. Thank you sir. You welcome. Alright, further comments from the board. Alright, we'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Gosh, we've gone almost an hour. This is a marathon meeting. We for us District one. This is long. Yes, it's, I move, we adjourn this marathon. What motion on the floor? Do we have a second? All right. Motion in a second. All pro. Uh, all of in in favor? Aye. This meeting's been so long, I can't even talk anymore. Alright, motion carries.