MINUTES OF MEETING VIERA EAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Viera East Community Development District was held on Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, 5550 Faith Drive, Viera, Florida. Present and constituting a quorum were: Rob Dale Chairman Jennifer DeVries Vice Chairman Ron Rysztogi Assistant Secretary Bill Macheras Assistant Secretary Denise Yelvington Also present were: Jason Showe District Manager Jeremy LeBrun GMS Jim Moller Golf Maintenance Superintendent Michelle Webb Lifestyle/Marketing Director Residents FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS Roll Call Mr. Showe called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. All Supervisors were present. SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS Pledge of Allegiance The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS Public Comment Period Mr. Showe: We will open it up for any members of the audience who would like to provide public comments. I will note for purposes of the recording, we did have a resident that was here earlier who submitted a Request to Speak Form. We did talk to her and she no longer needed to speak. But we can open it up for any members of the public who would like to make a comment at this point. Hearing none, we can proceed with the agenda. FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Organizational Matters A. Acceptance of Resignation of Steve Colasinski, Seat 4 Mr. Showe: We have organizational matters. The first item is the acceptance of the resignation of Mr. Colasinski in Seat #4. That letter of resignation was provided to the Board when it was received. We also provided some backup per the Board's request as well. So, we can take a motion to approve or accept that resignation at this time. Mr. Dale: Okay. I am going to entertain any motion. Mr. Macheras MOVED to accept the resignation of Mr. Steve Colasinski in Seat #4 and Mr. Rysztogi seconded the motion. Mr. Dale. Is there any further discussion? On VOICE VOTE with all in favor the resignation of Mr. Steve Colasinski in Seat #4 was approved. Mr. Dale: I don't want to dwell on the issue, but the only other component of that, and one of the things that I do want to discuss really quickly, is to emphasize again something that we talked about at the workshop. The way that this transpired, as we discussed at the workshop, I did not feel was fair to our staff and especially to our General Manager. So, what I want to do at this time, again, and we included this, for anybody that needs to see any of what transpired through all of this, it's all at vieraecdd.com, under the minutes for this meeting. But the part that I want to do personally, is apologize again as Chairman of the Board, to our General Manager, for the way that he was treated. Jim, you're a valued member of the team and we appreciate you. Thank you. Ms. DeVries: I second that. Mr. Moller: Thank you. Mr. Dale: Jen, did you want to add anything? Ms. DeVries: No. I just want to make it clear that it's not just Jim. There are several staff members who could be affected in this, as well as a contractor. So, I want to make sure that we've apologized to all of them for how this went down. Mr. Dale: Yes. That's why I kind of singled Jim out as the chief recipient here. But, yes, you're right. Ms. DeVries: Specifically, I want to apologize to Michelle for how this went down, as well as Jen in the restaurant, I believe was also mentioned in the letter. I want to make sure that she knows that we appreciate all of her hard work and diligence in keeping the restaurant running. Mr. Dale: Thank you to all of you. B. Review of Resume of Interest Mr. Dale: Then as a result of all of this, we received a wonderful resume of a potential Board Member that was included in the agenda packet. One of our residents, Ms. Denise Yelvington, who is a Certified Public Accountant, that lives in the District and expressed interest in applying for the seat for an appointment for the remainder of this term. So, at this time, I would like to open up the floor for other names that other Board Members would like to inject. I know I'm not exactly following Robert's Rules here with the discussion, but… Mr. Macheras: I don't have anybody. I think when I came on Board a few months ago, Jim made a comment that this is somebody that lives in a different area. So, again, trying to represent geographically and then with a professional background, we all have different backgrounds and are just trying to get a melting pot, so to speak, of different backgrounds, again, to represent our 10,000 plus residents. I like what I see on her resume. Mr. Rysztogi: I reviewed the resume. As a matter of fact, I have it right here in front of me now. I'm very impressed. It sounds like it’s the kind of background that we need. I apologize. I do not know where Harmony Farms is. Mr. Macheras: If you're traveling south past Lowe's on Fiske, it used to be on the right. I think now, it's in Cocoa up towards 524. They do the horses and they work with disabled children. It's a great facility. Mr. Dale: Right. You bring up a wonderful point. I focus mainly on the business experience that was on the resume, but the amount of public service that is on there, was exemplary and indicative of the kind of person, I think, that Denise is. On a personal level, I have known Denise in the business community, off and on for a few years, and I've always found her to be of exceptional character and I think would be a prize to have on this Board. Jen, do you want to add anything? Ms. DeVries: No, I think her resume looks good and I agree. It's well rounded and adds an expertise to this Board with the financial and accounting expertise that I think would be great to have, as well as all of the public service and nonprofit experience. I think it looks great. C. Appointment of Individual to Fulfill the Board Vacancy of Seat 4 Mr. Dale: Then at this time, if anybody would like to make a motion. Jason, I don't want to get wordy on this one. Mr. Showe: It would be a motion to appoint Ms. Yelvington to Seat #4, if that’s the Board’s direction. Mr. Dale: Okay. I didn't know if there was any Florida Statute that we had to follow. Ms. DeVries MOVED to appoint Ms. Denise Yelvington to fill Seat 4 with a term ending November 2024 and Mr. Macheras seconded the motion. Mr. Dale: I assume that we have no further discussion, because we put the cart before the horse earlier. On VOICE VOTE with all in favor the appointment of Ms. Denise Yelvington to fill Seat 4 with a term ending November 2024 was approved. Mr. Dale: Welcome aboard. Denise. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. D. Administration of Oath of Office to Newly Appointed Supervisor Mr. Showe, a Notary of the State of Florida and duly authorized, administered the Oath of Office to Ms. Yelvington. Mr. Showe: Okay, perfect. Welcome aboard. If you just want to print your name and sign it, I can do the oath as a notary. The next form is for your personal information. What we're really looking here for is just your name, home address, phone number and maybe an email address. As a Board Member, you are eligible to receive up to $200 compensation per meeting. In order to get that, this is the employee packet you have to fill out, which goes to Inez. You are required to fill out Form 1, which is a Financial Disclosure Form. Mr. Dale: It's the abbreviated version. Mr. Showe: Yes. It is not the exhaustive Form 6, but these are directions. They've gone to an online filing system now, so these will walk you through how to get those online. Once we have your email address, we'll put you in the system, so you can register on the site from there. We also provided you directions for Form 1F, in the event you ever leave the Board 1. This just tells you how to do that. We provide that to you for information at this point. Mr. Dale: Believe me, you're not going to get rich in this gig. Mr. Showe: This is the Memorandum of Voting Conflict, so, if there is something that would come up before the Board, that you feel like you have a conflict on, and generally a conflict, it is specified in Florida Statutes. It has to be something where you directly benefit or a family member directly benefits. So always ask if you're not sure. But if you do qualify, this is the only way that you can abstain from voting on an item is if you have one of these. Then finally, you have the Florida Commission on Ethics Guide to the Sunshine Amendment. So, you are now a public official, and just like City or County Commissioners, we operate in the Sunshine under the Florida Statutes, you are not allowed to speak to other Board Members, about things that might come up before a vote of the Board, outside of a meeting. That includes all forms of communication, such as text messages, emails, especially social media postings, as it relates to the CDD. Your personal items are totally fine, but if you're posting about the CDD and another Board Member sees it, it could be a Sunshine violation, especially if you're saying, “I think this is a good budget.” Even if it's just a general comment, it could be perceived that way. Also, you're not required to keep any records of any of these meetings. That's our job as the District Manager, but if you choose to keep records, it's always our recommendation that you keep them in a separate file. Just create a CDD file, if you want. That way your personal files aren't intermingled, and if we have a public records request, you don't have any personal things in there. The same applies to your email. Some folks create a CDD specific email. If you don't want to do that, we just recommend you create a folder and put all of your CDD email in one folder. It is kind of the same principle. You just don't want personal emails intermingled in there, just in case. Other than that, that's kind of the nuts and bolts of it. Certainly, we're all here if you have any questions. I'll give you my card so you can get a hold of me at any time, if there's something you're not sure about. One thing that some Board Members ask, if there's something you think the rest of the Board should know, that's just general information, you can send that to me, and I'll distribute it to the Board. That way, it keeps the Sunshine clear. But that's typically just for, “Hey, this event is going on and I just want the Board to be aware.” Something along those lines. As long as it's not something that's coming up before a vote of the Board, that's totally fine. Ms. Yelvington: Okay. Mr. Showe: And obviously, we're all here to help. Mr. Dale: It doesn't mean that we can't talk to each other. It doesn't mean we can't go to karaoke and sing. Mr. Showe: Correct. Mr. Dale: It does get misinterpreted a lot. I will say that. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. Mr. Showe: And with that, you have fully been oathed onto the Board. E. Consideration of Resolution 2024-03 Appointing Officers Mr. Showe: The next item is, since we've had some changes, we've gone ahead and put a resolution on there for you. We put it in draft form, and we fill the names out based on the workshop. Obviously, we can put Ms. Denise Yelvington’s name in there as an Assistant Secretary, where that blank is, and we can make any changes to that resolution that's on Page 23 of your iPad or you can make a motion to approve it as presented, and we'll get it finalized. Mr. Dale: Having somebody on as an Assistant Secretary helps. Mr. Showe: An Assistant Secretary is for signing documents, essentially. If there's a document that requires an additional signature from the Board, that's really the only role that they would have. Mr. Dale: So, we can vote on, if we want to add Denise as another backup. Mr. Showe: I recommend putting her in there. I just left that line blank. Mr. Dale: That's where I'm going with it. Yes. I would recommend that. It's just nice to have all these backups, and that's pretty much what we discussed at the last meeting and then everything changed. Thank goodness we did, because then we had backups. Mr. Showe: Yes. Ms. DeVries: Can Ron have two positions? Mr. Showe: Yes. Ms. DeVries: He can. Good for you, Ron. Mr. Dale: Ron actually got a couple more. He's also on the wall issue. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Showe: Bill’s on both too. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Dale: Then I'll entertain a motion to accept Resolution 2024-03. Mr. Showe: Adding Denise under Assistant Secretary. Mr. Macheras MOVED to elect Ms. Denise Yelvington as Assistant Secretary as evidenced by Resolution 2024-03 and Mr. Rysztogi seconded the motion. Mr. Dale. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, On VOICE VOTE with all in favor electing Ms. Denise Yelvington as Assistant Secretary as evidenced by Resolution 2024-03 was adopted. FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Approval of Minutes of the January 25, 2024 Board of Supervisors Meeting Mr. Showe: Behind that, are the minutes from the January 25th meeting. Those minutes are presented with all of the corrections that we've received. With that, we can take a motion to approve or take any other changes or comments to those. Mr. Dale: I emailed Jason with a couple of small issues, but you managed to get those in there. So, we need a motion to approve. Mr. Macheras MOVED to approve the Minutes of the January 25, 2024 Board of Supervisors Meeting as amended and Mr. Rysztogi seconded the motion. Mr. Dale: Is there any discussion? Hearing none, On VOICE VOTE with all in favor the Minutes of the January 25, 2024 Board of Supervisors Meeting as amended were approved. SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS New Business A. Consideration of Resolution 2024-03 Relating to the General Election & Qualifying Period Procedures Mr. Showe: Behind that, we have another housekeeping resolution. Resolution 2024-03 is just outlining and clarifying the purpose of the upcoming General Election. We are presenting this resolution these to all of our Districts that have General Elections, just to put on record the process and how it is. So, currently, Seat #3 held by Bill, Seat #4 held by Denise and Seat #5 held by Rob, are all scheduled to be in the November 2024 General Election. We're going to notify the Supervisor of Elections that this is the process. In order to qualify, you have to be at least 18 years of age, a US citizen, legal resident of the State of Florida and the District and registered to vote in Brevard County. The terms of the office would be four years. The Supervisor of Elections handles the entire process from beginning to end. So, that's where you would have to go for any questions about how to register. The official qualifying period is from Noon on June 10th to Noon on June 14th. Most Supervisor of Elections, I won't say all of them, but most of them, if you want to qualify now, will go ahead and take your information now. They just hold it until that first official qualifying day. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Showe: I believe there is a $25 fee or you have to submit 25 signatures. Mr. Dale: That’s it? Mr. Showe: I think it is one or the other. So, again, it's more of just a housekeeping notice, so that we put on record that that's coming up and anyone who's interested and knows the process, can walk you through that. Mr. Dale: I believe we already have a candidate, too. Mr. Showe: There you go. We would look to have a motion to approve. Mr. Rysztogi MOVED to adopt Resolution 2024-04 Relating to the General Election and Qualifying Period Procedures and Ms. DeVries seconded the motion. Mr. Dale. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, On VOICE VOTE with all in favor Resolution 2024-04 Relating to the General Election and Qualifying Period Procedures was adopted. B. Discussion of Reserve Study Proposal Mr. Showe: Per the Board's request, we have a Reserve Study proposal. The other firm did not provide a proposal in time. Mr. Dale: It's not a formal RFP. Mr. Showe: No. We can take it. So, I just wanted to provide it while we had it. They are proposing $9,500. This is the newer of the two companies, so we haven't worked with them quite as often yet. But again, it's mostly a formulaic kind of thing that they do. So, what my intent was, was to wait until I get that other proposal and then we'll bring them both to a workshop. That way we can have a lot of discussion on both of them, and you can decide which, if any, you would like to proceed with or we can take any questions or comments on it now. Mr. Macheras: I went through it, and it's pretty impressive. Again, I don't have anything to compare it to, but when I saw the price and I looked at everything, that these types of companies do, it’s pretty impressive. I know that you all discussed something like this before I came on the Board. Again, I know we have another possible bid coming. Does it cover all of the things you were hoping it would? Mr. Dale: I think it's going to. I think my chief questions are going to be the time value, money calculations and assumptions that they make, in the way of rates of return. Because obviously, if you're talking over a 20-year time frame on a roof or an irrigation system or anything like that, if you get 6% on your money, you just cut the time frame that it takes for it to double, versus 3%. Mr. Showe: That is one of the reasons why I want to wait for the other proposal from Reserve Advisors. We've done a lot more of their studies. What they've started including, is actually an entire database that they put together, with those assumptions in an Excel format, so if in two years, you want to just tweak, like you said, if the interest rates go bonkers one way or another, you can actually go in and adjust that manually and then see what that does to the rest of your study. These guys don't really give you that product just now. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Showe: But they do come in a little cheaper, typically. So, what I can do, like I said, when I get that other proposal, I'll bring it back, and we should, by that point, hopefully have samples from other Districts, of what the final product looks like. Mr. Dale: Well, and I think also one of the things I would want to see, especially for the longer duration issues, at least in the original plan, because that's basically what this is, it’s a financial plan, to be able to see at least two different rates of return and what the scenario looks like, whatever the Board wants, I don't care, 3% or 4%, versus 6% or 7% or something like that. Then that helps give us a better idea of what we're going to want to target, because there are going to be all of these different components. Now, I guess the third question that I have is, who is providing the component list? Is Jim coordinating all of that? Mr. Showe: Actually, both of the companies will come out. They send somebody out who has some kind of engineering. They all have some kind of engineering background. So, he will probably spend a day with Jim and go around the entire course. Mr. Dale: Awesome. Mr. Showe: Jim will take him to the parks and the conservation areas. Anything that might come up, regarding's our infrastructure, they are going to want to look at. They are going to assess. You can see in here, where at least they will just sample one. They go to every piece of infrastructure and take pictures of it. They assess the condition of it. They will also look at, if your irrigation system was replaced in 2021, that is typically a 30-year thing. This was the cost that you replaced it at. So, they consider all of those factors based on as many real numbers as possible. Mr. Dale: Alright. Good. Mr. Showe: Again, I think the fact that we are kind of starting from scratch up there at the Clubhouse, on a lot of new stuff, is going to be helpful. Mr. Dale: Well, at the park, we just put the new irrigation in. Mr. Showe: All of those numbers, to start with. Mr. Dale: Yeah. We're starting out brand new and shiny with pretty much everything. Mr. Showe: Yeah. So, again, that's kind of the big difference. The other company we've worked with, I know for sure, that they provide the electronic file, that shows the table, all of the assumptions. You can just go in and change one assumption, and it changes the whole table for you. So, you can kind of do a little more live editing of the data. Mr. Dale: How long does it take them to get a study like this done? A month? Mr. Showe: That's probably fair. I mean, that's typically what they turned them around for in a couple of weeks for smaller Districts. Again, you guys have a lot, so I'd probably say a month, 45 days. We should be good in line for the budget process. Mr. LeBrun: This is a process, so that in the next 20 years, they come in and tell us what may need to have done and when, and then we can look financially where we need to be, at those points in time. Mr. Dale: Right. We essentially can figure out what our reserve requirement is going to be, present day. I know some of the stuff is 20 years down the road and everything, but if we make a decent rate of return on our investments, for the longer-term stuff, and let's be blunt, I mean, that's where the big expense is. The irrigation system was $2.5 million. What are irrigation systems going for now, Jim? $3 million? Mr. Moller: It is well over $3 million now. Mr. Dale: Well over $3 million. So, in 20 to 25 years, we need to have the present value of $3 million available. 20 years, is that what you would say the lifetime is or maybe 25 years? Mr. Moller: The system that we have, for pipe, is probably what we got for pipe, is probably going to be more 30 plus, because it is a new HDPE pipe. Controllers and things like that, will probably have to be in that 20-year range. But the majority of our cost was pipe and installation. Mr. Dale: Okay. Mr. Moller: The hardware, the satellites, the components like that. They were expensive, but they weren't near the cost of the miles of pipe that we installed. Mr. Dale: We'll lay the groundwork, but that's not something I'm ever going to see, I think. Mr. Showe: I just would prefer we have another quote. But if you look at Page 140, just as the sample plan, they're recommending your starting reserve in 2021 at about $300,000, and then it goes up by 10% essentially every year. What we try to do, is use a 10-year figure and smooth out that, so you're not increasing your assessments every year to balance that out. So, we look at a ten-year range, when we're trying to levy assessments for reserves, if you're going that way. Mr. Dale: And then I assume they can add in anything that we would want to, i.e.. culverts. Mr. Showe: Absolutely. Mr. Dale: And whatever we'd want to call it, “Culvert Emergency Fund.” Mr. Showe: Yes. All of them do. So, I don't want you to think that they're just going to come out and hand you a report and walk away. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Showe: Both of them will give you a report. It's in draft form. You have got time to digest it. Typically, they will give you six months to a few months to make a one-time change that they'll just make to the report. So again, it's going to be a collaborative process. They're not just going to hand it to you and walk away. Mr. Dale: I was just going to say that I would imagine that's something, once they have all of the infrastructure, they needed, then there is an update of our account balance. Mr. Showe: Yeah. Mr. Dale: And we can figure out whether we're on track. It's something that we can do every couple of years. Mr. Showe: You can do that yourself going forward. Mr. Dale: Okay. Mr. Showe: But what they do, is they will give you a draft study, when they finish it, and you guys can review it. We can collect all of the changes that you guys would like to see and then they'll finalize it with all of those changes. Mr. Dale: Okay. And that would be the benefit of the other firm that you're talking about, that has the Excel input? Mr. Showe: The other firm offers an interactive file, so, in the future, again, if interest rates go much higher, much lower, you don't have to go back to them to redo the study. Again, you have it in an Excel table and you can make those changes. Mr. Dale: Yeah. Mr. Showe: It's a matter of how much more. Mr. Dale: That's appealing. We'll take a look. Mr. Showe: Absolutely. Mr. Dale: I’m very interested in this. Mr. Showe: Again, they both kind of do the same thing. They just lay them out differently. Mr. Dale: Okay. Mr. Moller: These are all Civil Engineers? Mr. Showe: Yes. Mr. Dale: Alright. And then by then, we probably should have something a little better from Robb. He is our District Engineer in Somerville, that came out and had the problem fixed in a day. He's currently working on a study for the culverts. We have, how many lakes, Jim, 84? Mr. Moller: Yeah. Mr. Dale: 84 in the District. All of them have culverts. To put things into perspective, we had two of them go out over at the golf course, on Hole 7, and it cost us, I think a little over a $25 million. Ms. DeVries: Wow. Mr. Dale: So, culverts are kind of a big deal if something goes out. Yeah, we got some money in the bank, but all you need is a few of those to go out. And we're in trouble. Ms. Yelvington: Yeah. SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Old Business A. Action Items List Mr. Showe: Behind that, we have the Action Items List. It is kind of similar. Again, we are waiting for that final plan from the engineer. I know we're targeting April, for the annual newsletter. The driving range parking lot, we submitted some information to the county, and I know Rob's having some internal conversations with them, just to see how that's going to progress through and what they're going to allow. Also, I did speak to the Water Management District earlier yesterday. They're still trying to assess that implication of the withdrawal from the lake that we talked about a couple of meetings ago. So, they're not prepared yet to give me any information or come to me just yet, which means I think they're trying to review everything and have a process. Mr. Dale: Yeah. They realized they weren't in the right on that one, and they stepped on some toes. Mr. Showe: That’s the indication I'm getting. Mr. Dale: Yeah. Mr. Showe: We're just going to let them go through their process. Mr. Dale: Could you give a 30 second summary for Denise, please, to catch her up on that issue? Mr. Showe: Sure. The Viera East Golf District Association was granted a permit to withdraw from ponds that are owned by the CDD, for their irrigation purposes. We don't allow them to do that. It's our property. They would have to enter into some kind of agreement with us. The District maintains all of those ponds, as Rob was saying. So, we have a role in making sure that not just that area is taken care of, but the District as a whole, because all of the water that comes through us, passes out to the St. Johns River, so we have to make sure this entire area operates properly, which is one of the main functions of the District. So, we just want to make sure that if they are allowed to withdraw that amount of water, there's not a negative impact on our ability to maintain the stormwater system somewhere else. Mr. Dale: Well, it's stormwater, and the other component of it is what impact does it have on wildlife? In the past, we had other communities that, especially over the summer, have had fish kills. Bayhill is a big one that comes to mind. It became a huge issue, because there was thousands of rotting fish on the shoreline, and it doesn't make people very happy. Then you have all the critters that eat the fish. However, we are going to be killing off herons and all sorts of wildlife, so we would want to make sure we're not having a negative impact from that perspective, too. Mr. Showe: And with that, that's all I have. We'll turn it over to Jim. EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Staff Reports A. General Manager’s Report Mr. Moller: Alright. I'll start with CDD maintenance. Ed's guys went out and took a look at some of the fire lines. He feels some areas are still a little too wet to safely put the Fecon out there. Mr. Dale: What is the Fecon? Mr. Moller: The Fecon is our macro mulcher. Basically, it's a Caterpillar track machine that has a mulching head. It's a spinning drum that spins at high revolutions. Basically, they just go through and clear vegetation all the way to the ground. So, we just cut fire breaks in between the preserves. Mr. Dale: It takes out small trees. Mr. Moller: It's cool. Mr. Showe: It's an impressive piece of machine. Mr. Moller: They're basically just going through the wetlands and the preserves and spot treating the exotics right now, so we can safely get that Fecon out there. Mr. Dale: I know that I keep injecting here, but this is good background information for some of the newer Board Members. I don't think even Ron has heard of this. In the past, we used to have allocated, I believe $20,000 to $30,000 a year, Jason, for fire clearing. Mr. Showe: Right. We were clearing a third of it every year. Mr. Dale: Right. What was happening, is a lot of years, we weren't even able to do it, because the wind conditions have to be just right in order to do a controlled burn. Well, one of the decisions, in the last rotation of Board Members that we made, was to purchase the Fecon, which enables us to go in and manually clear out those areas. The money that we were putting into controlled burns, we no longer have to put into controlled burns, that $20,000 a year. We have this great piece of equipment. So, it was a fiscally smart move for us to make. Ms. DeVries: For safer air quality. That is also one of the primary functions of the District, which is to manage the ponds and clear the fire lines. Mr. Dale: Correct. It's actually the issue that got me on the Board years ago, the whole fire break issue, because we had half of East Viera that almost burned down, had the wind shifted. Mr. Macheras: So, do we still do a third a year with the machine? Mr. Showe: We’re actually doing the whole thing. Mr. Dale: We're doing the whole thing. In fact, with the fire breaks, now what we're talking about specifically there, is we have many, many acres that aren't connected to homes. Mr. Rysztogi: Right. Mr. Dale: So, that's a lot of the area that we're talking about there, where they go out and manually clear the stuff. The other thing that this piece of equipment enables us to do, is the fire breaks in between the homes. We used to do it every three years, but we got to thinking about it and it wound up being more efficient to do it on an annual basis. It's sort of like mowing your lawn. Mr. Rysztogi: Right. Mr. Dale: You could mow it once a month, but it's going to be super tall and it's a lot harder to do. Mr. Rysztogi: That makes sense. Mr. Dale: Whereas if you just go out and mow it every week, it's a lot easier to maintain. Mr. Rysztogi: Is it just a regular staff person or is there a team that's assigned to that? Mr. Moller: There are a couple of guys on Ed's crew that are trained. Mr. Rysztogi: Cool. Mr. Dale: Sorry about that. I thought that was kind of important. Mr. Moller: Yes. Of course. The American Shoreline Project, they finished up cutting the tree the other week. Right now, Grand Isle, Lake #37 is in progress. I went out there with Ed today and I took some drone footage. We flew the drone down the entire lake bank, so we could get an idea of how long of a run the Grand Isle one is. We kind of played around. We zoomed in close to where the actual dredge boat is actually pumping the sand and water into the tubes, and you can actually see the tube spilling and overflowing. Mr. Dale: We're getting good pictures. Mr. Moller: Yeah. I have the flash drive, because the drone videos are way too big to email. Mr. Dale: I understand. Mr. Moller: I will provide the flash drive to Michelle, so she can put them on social media for the CDD, so everyone can see what's going on. Other than that, for Woodside park, we did order the artificial turf for both the large and the small dog mounds. Those should be delivered next Thursday. I sent you an email earlier today, Michelle. We're also going to put signs up. So, we're going to do the small dog park on March 11th, Monday. We'll have to close dog park for the day, because we'll have tractors in there, as we have to lay a base aggregate sub layer, before we lay the turf down and a layer of sand. We'll lay the turf and then we'll top dress the turf in with more sand. So, this way, we don't have to worry about the sides eroding anymore and the dog was wearing off all of the grass like that. Mr. Dale: Is that enough time for you to get everything done in one day? Mr. Moller: It takes one day for one. We'll do the small mound first, so we can do our trial and error. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: We'll do that on Monday. Then on Tuesday, March 12th, we'll do the large dog area. Mr. Dale: Wonderful. I think that's going to look really nice when it's done. Mr. Moller: We’re still waiting on the concrete company to do the sidewalk repair on the other side of Murrell Road. I know that last week, I also said that we contacted the county to come take a look and assess the west side of Murrell Road, right by the 14th green area, where it's Clubhouse Drive and Murrell Road. There's a culvert that goes under the road and there's an Oak tree right there. So, that concrete is really popping up and broken. But actually, that area there is Brevard County. So, hopefully they can get out there and repair it. The culvert that had separated in Bayhill, has been completed. It turned out pretty good. Probably a couple months ago, I brought to you guys a project with Marine Resource Council for wave breaks, the pyramids. So, I got an update on that. The Florida Institute of Technology students were just finishing up the final touches on the mold. They're waiting to get approval for that, so they can build the cut sheet. So, as soon as we get that, we can start that project. What that is, is a lot of the erosion that we see in lakes from wind and storms. So, some of the students from FIT, have created a concrete pyramid, that we can put Spartina in, that we can put a couple feet off the shoreline, that will actually break. If this works, it will be a lot cheaper than geo-tubing every so many years. Mr. Dale: Right. How many square feet are we doing and how much is it costing us? Mr. Moller: It's by linear feet, and I think we’re up to $30. Mr. Showe: $30 to $33. Somewhere in the ballpark of $33 per linear square foot. Mr. Dale: Right now, we're doing how many linear feet? Mr. Moller: Thousands of linear feet. Mr. Dale: Thousands of linear feet. Mr. Moller: We still have thousands upon thousands of lake bank left. Mr. Dale: Yeah. Mr. Moller: So, hopefully, we can get that started here before hurricane season. Great. Golf course maintenance, I know we were going to revisit the greenside bunker proposal, because it never had a formal vote, which was discussed at the last workshop. Ms. DeVries: It was signed, but we didn't vote on it. I was wondering about voting on it. Mr. Moller: Right. I thought we needed to vote on it for this meeting, in a not-to-exceed amount of the proposal. Mr. Dale: Right. You are correct. Okay. Do we need to do any review on that? Are we able to catch Denise up? Mr. Moller: So, we put together a proposal to rebuild all the greenside bunkers on the golf course, that are 30 some odd years old. All of the drainage is shot. The edges are eroding. So, what our game plan is, is because over time, they've expanded and they've gotten way bigger, we're going to reduce the sizes of the greenside bunkers and make it more manageable for the maintenance crew. We are going top roll the faces down with sod faces, so the guys can mow around a lot easier. They can treat with nutrition and chemicals, to make it easier to rake. We'll redesign the bunker, so any water sheeting off the greens, instead of cascading over the bunker and washing it out by shaping the bunker face, we can convert water around the bunker to eliminate erosion. Any sand that we excavate during the construction process, we're going to relocate in a nearby fairway bunker. This way we can actually add sand to our bunkers and help those stations as well. I spent thousands of dollars to do those. Basically, as a golfer talking to golfers, it's pretty much the missing piece that we're missing. We've re-did the irrigation system. We have the best greens in the county. It is just that our bunkers are tired. Mr. Dale: Were you good with the proposal? Do you have additional information? Ms. DeVries: I just want to make sure, two things. I want to make sure that the proposal has the not-to-exceed language on it, that we talked about, the not-to-exceed the amount on the proposal, which is $260,000. I also want to make sure that the proposal references the statement of work that you wrote and basically says what we believe the work that needs to be done for this proposal. So, just kind of a reference to that document. Mr. Moller: Okay. Mr. Dale: Those are caveats that we could make to any motion. Correct, Jason? Mr. Showe: Correct. So, you could set the motion up so that you delegate authority to the Chair to execute the contract, provided that all of those conditions, such as the not-to-exceed. Ms. DeVries: The not-to-exceed, and that it references the statement of work. Mr. Showe: And the statement of work is included in the final contract. Mr. Dale: Okay. Then my final question. I almost feel we're kind of putting Denise on the spot on this one, because we're talking about a huge chunk of money for something that she hasn't had a chance to review. I know what we talked about with abstaining on votes, but she can't vote present? Mr. Showe: No. It's got to be yay or nay, unless you have a conflict. Mr. Dale: Interesting. Ms. DeVries: What's the time frame when this work needs to be done, Jim? Mr. Moller: I don't plan on starting it until August. I want to wait as long as I can to get the rainy season done before we start doing that. Ms. DeVries: So, if we vote on it at the next meeting, would that still work? Mr. Moller: We can do it in March. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Dale: Okay. Alright. That's where I'm going. Mr. Showe: Let me just bring a proposal back in March as explained. Mr. Dale: Right. Yeah, because I didn't think that was fair, getting thrown into the fire on a something big. Mr. Moller: I don't know if the price might change. Mr. Dale: We're not the United States Congress here. We don't give you 13 minutes to review a 10,000-page Bill. Ms. DeVries: Does the proposal have a signing deadline on it? That's another good practice for a proposal, at least from a seller's perspective, to get this price, you must sign by this date. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: I don't anticipate it happening just because of our relationship with Landirr. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Dale: Alright. That makes sense. Ms. DeVries: You can also explain to them that we have a new Board Member and there's going to be a little bit of a delay. Mr. Dale: Bill, did you have something you wanted to add on that? Mr. Macheras: I agree with Jen. I understand the not-to-exceed. My only question is, we do have some additional pricing, if we run into something that we don't know about until we get there. So how is that going to be handled? Do you know what I'm saying? If we cap it, we might run across where we need 76 cents per square feet of additional sod. Is it something that, as you said, that the Chair can approve. I guess it could be a not-to-exceed what's written, but if we run into this extra stuff, how is that going to be approved? Mr. Moller: So, I don't know if this is right or wrong. This is what I've done at other clubs. I have in the irrigation drainage budget, which we have ample amount of money in there, since it's going to be mostly near the bunker outfall drainage. So, if we need to repair $1,000 of outfall drainage, I can easily just put that in operational, like we would have done in house anyway. Mr. Dale: And it's something we've already budgeted for. Okay. Ms. DeVries: From a contractual standpoint, the way a not-to-exceed works, is if some things might come in less, some things might come in more, as long as it doesn't exceed the budget. But if it's going to exceed the budget, then they have to issue a Change Order. Mr. Showe: Correct. Ms. DeVries: And we have to agree to it. Mr. Showe: That would have to be represented to the Board. Mr. Macheras: Just knowing that there's something... Mr. Moller: For the most part, the way this was structured, was the existing bunker, is 72,000 square feet. They're changing 72,000 square feet, one way or the other. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Moller: So as long as we're not making them larger than 72,000 square feet, that number should not change. If anything, it could decrease. If we say, “You know what, I like that bunker, let's not touch it.” So, there's 8,000 square feet of bunker that we won't touch. So, we save $2,400. Mr. Macheras: I think a lot of us would be happy if there weren't any bunkers. That's just my personal preference. Mr. Moller: Right. Mr. Macheras: Okay. just want to make sure that I understand. Mr. Dale: Okay. So, I guess we're essentially tabling this until the next meeting, is what we're doing. But we will have a vote soon. Mr. Moller: Alright. Next, are the financials. As of yesterday, golf revenue is sitting at $152,000. Last year, we finished at $233,000, again. Like January, it's been wetter. Now, we're still doing very well in February, just that last February, we had zero weather effective days. This year we've had five. Last weekend, we had a great Friday, an okay Saturday and rain on Sunday. So, I think we're sitting at $152,000 and we're averaging a little over $7,000 a day. We can easily hit our budgetary number. We're not going to hit last year's record number, but we'll easily hit the budget. Mr. Dale: Right. Ms. DeVries: You get one extra day this month. Mr. Moller: We do. Mr. Dale: Which we need. Mr. Moller: Thank God. Even today, when I left the Clubhouse office at 4:00 p.m., I know on the books we had 213 golf rounds and we were a little over $10,000 just in golf revenue. So that's tremendous. Mr. Dale: Were we hitting those numbers last year? Mr. Moller: On and off. Mr. Dale: On a weekday. Mr. Moller: Not as frequently. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: We had a couple in there, but not as frequently. Mr. Dale: Right. Could you also put into perspective, because we missed several weekends and I want to cry every time. Mr. Moller: The weekend before last, both golf and food and beverage, we just missed the $50,000 weekend. That's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I think we were like at $48,000, which from what I can tell, I don't think we've ever done that. Mr. Dale: That is what a weekend costs us when it rains. Mr. Moller: Mother Nature is only throwing rain at us on weekends. Mr. Dale: On Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We're making money like bandits right now and when we miss those weekends, it hurts. Mr. Moller: Fortunately, we’re going to have a great weekend, weather-wise. We're going to be in the upper 70s. Mr. Dale: Yeah. Mr. Moller: It’s going to be sunny on Saturday and partly cloudy on Friday and Sunday. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: I think we'll knock this weekend out of the park as well. Mr. Dale: Right. Well, and then to add to that, I was looking through the restaurant numbers and through some of the golf numbers and everything, and it looked like last year, March and May were, at least for the restaurant, May was one of the big ones, but March for both was pretty much our biggest month. Mr. Moller: Yes. March is a really good month. February and March are like usually the two strongest months in the golf revenue year. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: Then it kind of tapers down from there. I think we've made some changes for this fiscal year, which is some of our pricing dynamics and some programs we're starting up. So, I don't know if we're going to see as much of a slide as we've seen in years past. Mr. Dale: I don't see a slide. I see, we're actually making more when we're in business. Mr. Moller: And I know reading some social media posts with the golf course industry, the COVID effect is kind of wearing off a lot of golfers, whether it's due to the economy, whatever the case may be. So, overall, we're not seeing the rounds that we saw two years ago. They're still bigger than they were five years ago, but I guess, the COVID effect starts to plateau off. Mr. Dale: But when we're open for business, are we making more or less money than we ever have? Mr. Moller: More. Yeah, I want to say last February, even though it was a great month, it was very steady. I think there was maybe a handful of days that we were over $11,000, and we had already surpassed that this February, with more rainouts and weather affected days. So, we're seeing bigger numbers more frequently, which is really good. For food and beverage, as of yesterday, they're at $51,000. Last year, they did $62,000. So, they’re knocking it out. Even looking at the financials from food and beverage, I know there was a little number that jumped out for January, which was a credit of $5,700 in the admin fee. That was, I guess, a clerical error on Applied Business Solutions, our payroll company. That number should be around the $500 mark, because it's basically, $23 per full time employee and $16 or $17 for part time, and that's our admin fee. So, somehow in the report that they sent GMS, they must have added the servers credit card tips and joined the two. So basically, and then that would normally out. So, the bottom line for the restaurant expenditures, would stay the same. But basically, it would just be moving that credit from one bucket into another bucket. That's all. January, we finished up with a plus of $5,500. That still leaves us a deficit of $11,335 year-to-date. Now that is a true number; however, if we take out our previous Restaurant Manager's contract, which is about $10,800, we’re a couple of hundred dollars from breaking even. Mr. Dale: Without the Restaurant Manager in there, from the previous contract, we're essentially sitting at zero. Mr. Macheras: Was that like a three-month thing? Mr. Moller: Yeah, the last one was November. Mr. Dale: So, it's not something we're going to have. Mr. Showe: The challenge that we had, at that point, was that we had to pay him out for the contract, plus pay the employee. So, we were kind of double. Mr. Dale: We were double paying. But correct me if I'm wrong, on this, Jim, but I went back last year and looked at the numbers and all this kind of stuff. I wanted to put it into perspective. Actually, Jason, you got my email on that, so for future ones, I know you'll be able to get that. Mr. Showe: Yeah, I’ll take care of it. Mr. Dale: One of the things I like to be able to do, is compare and contrast to previous years. Mr. Showe: Right. Mr. Dale: What I did is I manually figured out where we were at, at this point, last year. Keep in mind, our fiscal year starts in October and ends in September. But for the roughly four months, the third of the year that we're talking about, if you compare apples-to-apples, last year we were sitting at this point at -$28,000. Right now, without the manager contract in there, we're sitting at zero. So, effectively, if you're doing an apples-to-apples comparison, we're almost $30,000 ahead of where we were at, at this point in time last year. Mr. Showe: Right. Mr. Dale: So that, I think is a testament. You can see it in the numbers, when you look at the full year. It seems in October; the restaurant did a little over $38,000 last year. This year, we did $53,000. In November, they did $40,000. This year we did $54,000. So roughly, 20% to 25% every month. Where it really started kicking in, was in December, they did just a tad under $50,000 and we did $60,000, this year, in December. This year, in January, we did almost $66,000 gross and last year, they did $50,000 gross. So, the revenue numbers are coming up now. I know, just the revenue alone, doesn't indicate profit, because the costs are going up and everything. We are in a tough economy, is the way I'll put it, when French fries and chicken wings and everything cost three times the amount that they did two years ago. It's tough to be able to manage that, but the fact that they were able to pull out a $5,700 profit this past month in January, is I think, a good sign, because here's what I saw happen. This is why I'm keeping my fingers crossed for February, March and April, like what Jim was talking about. Because what we started to have happening, is we probably wound up with $15,000 to $20,000 in profit just for those three months, that helped carried us on into the Summer and got us to where we finished up the year. So, if they start hitting really good numbers, which it seems they're starting to, I like the direction it's going. Mr. Moller: Yeah. Whether we like it or not, our restaurant is very weather affected. I think it's mostly just because of location, location, location. We're a restaurant attached to a golf course off the beaten path. We're not off of Murrell Road. We're not off of Viera Boulevard. We're not off the Stadium Parkway. People have to want to come to that restaurant for a reason. So, they're not just going to go out, if it’s raining to the Hook & Eagle. So, I mean, with the amount of weather that we had in January, that number could have easily been over $70,000 for revenue. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: But it is what it is. We have to make adjustments. I talked with Jen and Jamie. We just have to watch the slower nights and whether we really need the extra dishwasher or the extra cook. Those are the nickels and dimes that are going to… Mr. Dale: Add up over time. Mr. Moller: Yes. Mr. Macheras: Quick question, and you all know more about this than I do and we've talked about this before, and I know, Rob, mentioned these are the big months we're going to be looking at coming up. So, even if our revenue is down, I guess one thing, and correct me if I'm wrong with your all's background, if our net percentage, if we're doing $152,000 instead of $230,000. Of course, our net is going to be lower, but if we're hitting our percentage, I think that's still a sign that we're still running everything effectively. Do you know what I'm saying? That's a number, right or wrong, that we could still look at and say, “We can't control the revenue because of some things, weather, whatever, so our profit was there,” but the percentage of net profit, we're still hitting what we hit every month. I think that's a good thing that we can still look at when we have these low numbers, as we're still utilizing our monies effectively. You know what I'm saying? Does that sound right or wrong? Mr. Moller: Right. Mr. Macheras: That's one thing we can still look at. Mr. Moller: So, actually, I'll pass this around later, but I make these for Jen and Jane. Mr. Dale: That's the one you gave me, right? Mr. Moller: Yes. Mr. Dale: Okay. Mr. Moller: So, I kind of gave them target goals, percentages, and a lot of this information was based off of, food and beverage operations and country clubs and attached to golf, not a traditional restaurant. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Moller: Because we're not going to be able to operate at those markets. So, I mean, I'm thinking what I see in country clubs at 40% labor cost, and we hit 39% last month. Mr. Macheras: Right. Those are the numbers that we can always look at. Mr. Moller: They're there. There was an overall cost of goods at 35%. We were a little high on that. We were at 43%. That needs to come down a little bit, for the most part. Ms. DeVries: It was in the ballpark. Mr. Macheras: That's a good tool. That is something that we can, again, with your background, you know more than I do, that we can look at and say, “Okay, we're working with less dollars, but we're still doing an effective job of coming out with the same percentage of profit.” If not, then Jamie can look at one area. And like what you just said, “That could be something we can't control the cost of goods.” It is what it is, but then at least we know, okay, here's an area that was up, but we're still buying a sack of potatoes that cost more. Mr. Dale: Right. It's a great example, because the same thing is happening on the golf side. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Dale: I've heard comments, “Oh, well, you didn't make as much as you made your first year,” even though we're making more than the golf course ever made, but we didn't make as much as we made our first year. But the barometer, the benchmark that we can look at, though, with the changes that we've made with season passes and the rates and all that kind of stuff, our revenues have not declined. Our revenues have gone up every year. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Dale: What we are having the issue with sometimes, is when the expenses are out of control, when it cost us three times as much to ship a truckload of sand as it costs to buy the truckload of sand. Mr. Moller: To me, it's not really our overall operational expenses, it's our labor. Mr. Dale: Its largely labor. Mr. Moller: Every year, we take golf operations. Our entire cart barn staff, most of our pro shop staff, are minimum wage, part time employees. So, every year everybody gets a dollar raise. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Moller: The servers, every year they get extra money because of the minimum wage increases. So, the labor is the hardest line item to control. Mr. Dale: Right. One of the other things, would you just touch again on? We were talking about the cost of goods being at $43,000, and there was a very proactive step that you took. We had budgeted money for training for staff and then one of the things we talked about was the alcohol and all that kind of stuff. Mr. Moller: Yeah. Actually, I don't remember the dates, but I tasked our Food and Beverage Manager, Jen, to find a bartending school. So, her and Vicky, our marketing lady, are going to bartending school to learn better the ins and outs of bar management, such as proper pour techniques, bartending, etc. Mr. Dale: Right. Because we're selling a lot of booze. Therefore, if you do a two ounce pour versus a one and a half ounce pour over the course of a month, that makes a big difference. That’s all part of inventory control. When you said that about cost of goods sold, it made me think of that. Mr. Moller: Yeah. Because our liquor costs are around $30,000, and we're hovering at $40,000. So, we have some definite room for improvement. Mr. Dale: Right. Mr. Moller: But, yeah, I've listened to a lot of podcasts. I was listening to one at work, and they were talking about a Wall Street Journal article. I went to work and tried to pull up the Wall Street Journal, and I guess you have to subscribe to actually read the article, but they were talking about how Wendy's and Denny's are reporting a large reduction in customers and the same thing with Hershey's and Kraft Foods. They’re basically just seeing a big decline sales with not everyone buying the extra things that they would normally do. They're just basically buying the necessities. Mr. Dale: Right. Well, there's a lot of talk about the upcoming recession and all that kind of stuff, depending on which financial magazine you're reading. Mr. Macheras: I think it’s a positive on the golf course, too, because when hard times are upon us, we give up our golf, we sell our motorcycle, we give up our RV. We still have people wanting to play golf. Mr. Moller: I think one of our saving graces in Brevard County, in our area, is the influx of people moving to our area. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Moller: Just by sheer percentages, we're seeing more golfers move to our area. Another thing, when we had our last manager meeting, we were coming up with ideas, and we came up with an idea of home cooked meals. We kind of threw it out a little last minute. I think we had about seven days of lead time, but Jamie made a meatloaf dinner that was prepackaged. All you had to do is take it home, heat it up, and I think we had about a seven-day lead time. He sold 25 of them for $11 apiece and we had $3.50 into each meal. Mr. Macheras: I think that's awesome. Mr. Dale: He had one left, and I bought it and ate it for lunch yesterday and it was delicious. Mr. Moller: I asked him if he had leftovers. He can make meatloaf sandwiches, but he didn't have any. Mr. Dale: I emphasize the part that I bought it. Mr. Moller: But that's one thing that I don't want to overdo, because I think it will lose its appeal if we do it every month. Mr. Macheras: I got you. Mr. Moller: So, I think if we do it once a quarter, where he comes up with another idea. Mr. Macheras: Right. Mr. Moller: Maybe around Thanksgiving time, he can do a pre made Thanksgiving dinner for some of the people that don't have friends and family that they can go to. They can preorder it, pick it up and go from there. Mr. Macheras: That’s great. Mr. Moller: That's just a little extra revenue stream for the restaurant. Alright, so we got that. I basically talked about a lot of the restaurant stuff in the financials. For golf operations, we have some upcoming events. He’s having a Demo Day, Sassy Saturday on the 16th. A ladies wedge fitting on the 19th. Glow golf, we’re still trying to figure out what we want to do. So, that's still to be determined. Then he has a kids camp from the 25th to the 29th for Spring Break. Mr. Macheras: Awesome. Ms. DeVries: Have they done camps before? Mr. Moller: Our new pro has not. Mr. Mike Hogan usually runs just a Summer Camp. So, we want to try to do something for Spring Break. Mr. Dale: But we really haven't made much off of that whole process. Mr. Moller: Yeah. Mr. Dale: Maybe off meeting sometime, if you could fill her in on camps and how Mike's contract and everything is structured. Mr. Moller: We'll be doing some collaborations for next Summer Camp, too. Mr. Dale: Yup. But that's a big component of what we want our new pro to be involved with youth. A big focus for the Board prior to this, has been attracting youth, women, Sassy Saturdays that Michelle will probably talk about and things like that. So, we want to open up to lots more demographics, is where we're heading. Mr. Moller: That's pretty much it. I started reviewing Inez’ job description with her, but then we got interrupted. So, next week we're going to sit down, just two of us, lock the door and go through the job description. I also had her do an updated version of her bullet point one, just because the old one that I gave you still had EZLinks on it and didn't have Toast. So, we kind of revamped it. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Dale: Thanks for doing that. Mr. Moller: I’ll send it to you for review. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Moller: Other than that, I don’t have anything else. Mr. Macheras: To questions. On the dog park with the mats, can we do before and after pictures and then throw that out there? Mr. Moller: Yeah. Mr. Macheras: Because I've certainly run into plenty of these situations. With the sidewalk, has the county acknowledged that it's theirs? Mr. Moller: Yes. Mr. Macheras: Okay, good. Have they painted it or done the spray? Mr. Dale: No. Mr. Macheras: Okay, but at least they've acknowledged it. Mr. Dale: Yes. Mr. Macheras: Okay. That's a big one. Because we had plenty of those. As we know, there are four different entities in our area that own sidewalks, including the schools. Mr. Showe: Yeah. Mr. Macheras: So, I'm glad that you didn't have to fight that. Mr. Moller: No. Mr. Macheras: Okay. Mr. Moller: At least not yet. Mr. Macheras: I know. Right. That’s it. Mr. Dale: Alright, let's move on to lifestyle then. B. District Manager’s Report There being no comments, the next item followed. C. Lifestyle/Marketing Report Ms. Webb: Well, I do want to let you know, we had our first trivia last night. I don't know if Jamie knows, we made $3,200 yesterday alone, on a Wednesday, which is not horrible. So, it was a good day. We had eight teams last night. Ms. Yelvington: There was a group of maybe seven or eight people sitting next to us from Idaho. Mr. Dale: Cool. Ms. Yelvington: We thought it was pretty interesting that a group from Idaho found Hook & Eagle in Viera East. So that was great. Ms. Webb: They came in to eat and they ended up winning trivia night. Mr. Macheras: Other places are doing Tuesdays. Ms. Webb: Yes. Tuesday nights are never bad. One of the things you have to understand when you're doing these types of events, is what you're competing against. Mr. Macheras: Right. Ms. Webb: Tracy's lounge has had a well-established trivia night and they're always packed. There's another one in Rockledge, but I could never remember their name. Mr. Dale: Twisted Birch. Ms. Webb: Twisted Birch has theirs, but they’re too close to us. There's another one in Cocoa Village. So, there’s too much in our area that has already been established for a while. So, when we moved it from Wednesday to Tuesday, it lost our people, because they looked for that. Wednesdays, if anything, is Hump Day. So, people are looking by Wednesday to go out and do something before the weekend. So, it's always been a better. Mr. Dale: But what did we establish on Tuesdays? Ms. Webb: We've actually established our Senior Night on Tuesday nights. That's actually done very well. Mr. Moller: It was good for a Tuesday. Ms. Webb: Yes, for a Tuesday. Hopefully we'll continue it for going into March. I have to talk to Jamie about that. We are creating our March calendar now, so hopefully they will want to continue it for another month for the area. So, those have been some good things to create. So, there’s going to be trivia every other Wednesday. It's not going to be every Wednesday. I can't do that. I'm very tired. I'm already tired. We also added a mocktail menu, which is up and coming. We presented it at the Farmers Market last month, gave away free mocktails. It was very receptive. A lot of people said thank you, because they love to go out and socialize, but they don't always want to drink sodas and things like that. So, they made a really nice mocktail outline of what we're going to present. So, we're working on that. We're also creating a new brunch menu, with pretty much the same stuff. Jamie does want to make some changes on it, so we are creating that. Like I said, we're doing a new calendar for March, which will get out. I already had an email sent to me that they ran out of our February calendars at the apartment complex. Mr. Dale: The Pearl and Luna. Ms. Webb: I gave her 65 and they are already out of them. Next week is the last week for the February ones and we will provide them with the March ones. She said that they’re very receptive. They actually have a little sign with our stuff underneath it. It's right across the street from Urban Prime. So, it's great that they have us up there, too. We have some new people interested in putting signs up at the park. I've been talking with them today for sponsorships. So, we'll be getting a couple new sponsors up at the park. We also be contacting BBPR, an Orlando Marketing Management Company, that will give, if you host events for companies or programs, you can get a beer and wine license. So, if we want to do something at the park, since the Hook & Eagle don't extend past property, this will allow us to do something at the park, if we want to do a Sip and Stroll or a doggy thing or something, whatever we want to do. We could have beer and wine out there. So, we're working on that, so, if Jamie started to cater some stuff, we have to do something for that. We've been just driving out. If you notice, you might have had things pop up on your Facebook live the dog park, as well as the regular park. We're trying to push that out a little bit more, because of our new listing in this new park and rec thing. You might see us, because they're pushing us out. So, if you see that, check it out. I got a little note and it's all legit, so we called park and recs to make sure they've heard of them, because it’s a weird thing that we're getting into. People are commenting on to posts for well-known parks and we were recommended for it. Mr. Dale: That park, I don't know if you've driven by it. It is packed all the time. Ms. Yelvington: It’s pretty unique. Mr. Dale: Is that the only nature playground in the county? Ms. Webb: There is one in Grant. Mr. Dale: Yeah, I think it is Grant. That's right. Ms. Webb: Ours is better than theirs, because we actually have hills and I was watching the kids roll down it the other day and it made my heart feel good. So, ours is probably nicer. Mr. Dale: Right. Ms. Webb: But yeah. In Brevard County, we have the only nature playground. I'm hoping that we have some music in the park, will actually drive even more people. Mr. Dale: I've been meaning to say this to you for months and I keep forgetting to say it, but if ever we have the opportunity, if there is some form of a felled Oak tree… Mr. Moller: You've asked me that. I told Ed and those guys to keep a look out for it. Mr. Dale: Yeah, just keep an eye out, because I'm stunned at the amount of wear that this one had. Mr. Moller: I think that area, that round circle, would be perfect for the Orchestra, instead of another tree. Mr. Dale: For the instruments. Mr. Moller: Where the climbing tree is. Ms. Webb: Yes. I need to get that one out of there. Mr. Dale: Good luck moving it. Mr. Moller: That’s what I’m thinking. Mr. Dale: The only thing that was more difficult to move than that tree, was the seven-ton granite boulder that we had to bring a crane in for. Ms. Webb: Kids are on that thing all the time. Mr. Dale: To the point where some of the branches are starting to get worn. I'm stunned that it's only been up, like a year and a half, and they're wearing this Oak tree down. Mr. Macheras: Welcome to Florida. Mr. Dale: Yeah. Ms. Webb: I know when I drive by there, all that you see are tons of kids on it. They really enjoy it. Mr. Dale: I'll show you some pictures someday of how we got that thing there. It was crazy. Ms. Webb: I know that we allocate some money for the possibility of music. Is that still a possibility. I know we talked about it. We said we were going to pick a couple of instruments, and I know we allocated some money, but I don't know where that is. Mr. Dale: Well, we've allocated money, but I'm a little ahead of myself. One of the things that Jim and I did on Wednesday, is we still are working with our grant writer. He brought to our attention an upcoming grant. We don't know if we're going to qualify for it, because they say you need to be a 501(c)(3), which we're obviously not, but we are obviously a non- profit. So, they're looking into whether or not we fit the criteria. It's through the county. One of the things that we had discussed, as part of that process, was whether or not we could do musical instruments through that grant. But, yeah, Jim was up there at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, listening to the county spokesperson talking about grants. Mr. Macheras: Are we allowed to pursue a 501(c)(3) or not? Mr. Dale: Well, the 501(c)(3) is a nonprofit charity. So, no, because we're a government entity. Ms. Webb: We're tax exempt. Mr. Moller: One of the points was, I mean, there's no difference than a local police department that has a program that could benefit a certain designation. Mr. Dale: Right, like the Police Athletic League (PAL). Mr. Moller: They would probably qualify for the grant. Ms. DeVries: Police and fire have foundations. Can we have a foundation? Mr. Showe: Not technically, no. Ms. DeVries: Okay. Mr. Dale: Interesting. Ms. Yelvington: That gets very tricky in the tax world. Ms. DeVries: Yes, it does. Ms. Yelvington: There are a lot of rules. Ms. DeVries: I don't like complicated. Ms. Yelvington: Yeah. Mr. Dale: Right. Ms. Webb: As I said, I know we allocated funds towards it, but I don't know if that was pending or if those funds were there. Mr. Dale: Jason, I know we had essentially said $60,000 of the remaining bond money, would be allocated towards the park. Where are we at with that? I thought we took a vote on that. Mr. Showe: I don’t think we took a vote. I think we just talked about what was left. There's about $60,000 left. So, if there's equipment that you want, bring a proposal. Mr. Moller: My only recommendation would be, because I know that the one sheet that you had, there was a lot of metallic instruments. I know the park in Palm Bay, Bill Madden, have the formed plastic. I think they will be a little bit sturdier. Ms. Webb: Yes and no. What I want to do, is get the lady to come out and give me some prices, because some of them have the same type of recycled wood. I know sometimes even those heavy plastic, don't last as long as you think, especially in an area that gets direct sunlight. I was actually thinking about the back area, the bathrooms. Mr. Dale: I think this is all something we can work on after the meeting. Ms. Webb: Yeah. I just didn’t know if I could pursue it or not and get bids. Ms. DeVries: Yeah. Get proposals and ideas. Mr. Dale: I think that's where we're at. We need bids. We need proposals from you. I'm trying not to overstep, but what I heard the Board say was, we wanted to look into a digital sign for that location. Basically, it would be like a community billboard along Murrell Road. We thought that might be in the $20,000 to $25,000 range, but in addition to that, because there's limited electrical service, we are going to need to get some kind of proposal. We're probably talking another $10,000 to $15,000 in running electric out there. We had also talked about running some form of electric to the center of the playground, which would then enable us to be able to do more things at the park, like movies in the park, or if ever we wanted to have a little band concert in the park or anything like that. It enables us to have options there. I assume no one has any huge issues. We're not really voting on anything right now. So, I guess the ask and the task, is then for our General Manager to do the same thing that Michelle is talking about. Let's start talking to sign companies and electricians and drag them out there and see what it's going to cost us. Then we'll figure it out. I figure for the sign and the electric, you're probably talking $35,000 to $40,000, and then you're probably talking another $20,000 to $25,000 for instruments. And there's our $60,000. Mr. Moller: Good. Ms. Webb: Now, I know we did have Sassy Saturdays in February, but it got rained out. We had 20 women signed up and eight showed up, but it was the rain day. It also took out our logo off. But this is why I love David. He's our new pro. He already got pints and putters for the next one. I didn't have to come up with a thing. Mr. Dale: He's very proactive. Ms. Webb: For St. Patty’s Day. I'm also starting to look for sponsorships for our June women's golf event, because that's coming up fast. I’ll actually get with David on that so he can reach out to the Ladies PGA, who sponsored some of it last year. She wanted to be a bigger part of it this year. So, we have a lot going on. Mr. Dale: Jace, those things that we just talked about, the instruments, the sign and all, can we add that to the Action Items List, please? Mr. Showe: Yes. Mr. Dale: I don't want to just forget about it. D. Restaurant Report This item was discussed. NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Treasurer’s Report A. Approval of Check Register Mr. Dale: Alright. We have the Check Register. Mr. Showe: In your General Fund, we have Checks #4934 through #4964 for $52,140.08, Capital Reserve Check #191 for $3,000, and Golf Course Checks #31387 through #31445 for $78,796.39. The total Check Register is $133,896.47. Jim and I can answer questions on those invoices that follow, should the Board have any or we can take a motion to approve. Mr. Dale: Does anyone have any questions on said checks? If not, I will entertain a motion. Mr. Rysztogi MOVED to approve the Check Register for January 19, 2024 through February 15, 2024 in the amount of $133,896.47 and Mr. Macheras seconded the motion. Mr. Dale: Is there any further discussion on the Check Register? Hearing none, On VOICE VOTE with all in favor the Check Register for January 19, 2024 through February 15, 2024 in the amount of $133,896.47 was approved. B. Balance Sheet and Income Statements Mr. Showe: Behind that, is your Balance Sheet and Income Statement. I know went over a lot of the financials for you, but they're there for you if you have any questions. I will point out that you are 89% collected on your assessments through the end of January. So, we're in great shape there. We'll get the rest of that in. Mr. Macheras: So, 89% collected. Does that mean that not everybody has paid their taxes? Mr. Showe: No. Mr. Macheras: Okay. Mr. Showe: A lot of the businesses we found will either pay an installment, so they will break it quarterly or they actually like to hold the tax payment, to make as much interest as possible and pay the last payment. Mr. Macheras: Okay. Mr. Showe: They figure they can make more than 4% off of it. But you guys are right on target with where you normally end up. Mr. Macheras: I was just curious. I didn’t know that. Mr. Dale: Very good. Mr. Showe: That's all I've got. TENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Supervisor’s Requests Mr. Dale: Alright. Let's move on to Supervisor Requests. We will start with our newest Supervisor, if you have anything that you'd like to say or add. Ms. Yelvington: Oh, boy. Well, I guess thanks for having me. I'll just need some time to digest whatever information is in front of me. I don't have anything else to add at this point. Mr. Dale: Jason, please, after the meeting, exchange phone numbers so she has your contact. Jim, do the same. Alright, we'll move on down to the other end of the table. Bill? Mr. Macheras: I have a couple of quick things. I do want to just reiterate, going back to the beginning of the meeting, talking about some of the comments. The good thing that came out of it, is that we came out with a harassment letter, just to reiterate to our employees that if there was some said behavior from the leadership, they know that they're supported and have a way to go. So, I just want to make sure that that's in the packet, too. Mr. Dale: Well, it is in the packet, but I do want to draw special attention to the fact that that's existed since 2022. So, the only reason why I mentioned that, is that policy is only in existence as long as the Board supports it. Mr. Macheras: Correct. Mr. Dale: So, if ever the Board chooses to change that or adapt the Harassment Policy, we're able to do that. But that was something that was voted on almost two years ago. Mr. Macheras: Good. Jim, remind me, the Tee Time Policies, I don’t remember. Is it something we're looking at? Mr. Moller: That’s in affect. Mr. Macheras: It is. Okay. I wasn't sure. Lastly, I want to thank Mary and also for you all, for coming out. There were times when Mary and I were the last ones here, sometimes back in the day, and Robbie kind of started trying to get more, not only participation from residents, but from HOA Members. It started out pretty good and just kind of waned, but just to reiterate to all of our residents, new ones, because every now and then, I still get comments. So, there's still some confusion, as much as we have tried to. But I appreciate the residents that do come out. Just to reiterate to all residents in our area, just come out and see what we talk about, even though you can read it online, whether you have an issue or not, a compliment or just want to listen, to see what we go over, we welcome that and appreciate when people come. Because again, that's the way to get heard. You know you're in front of everybody. I appreciate Mary and everybody else that comes out and I just wanted to say thanks. That’s it. Mr. Dale: Ron? Thank you, Bill. Mr. Rysztogi: Once again, I'd like to welcome Denise to the Board. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. Mr. Rysztogi: I didn't get a chance to talk to you at the last meeting, but I just welcome the Board and I'm happy you're here. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. Mr. Rysztogi: That's it. Mr. Dale: Thanks, Ron. Jen? Ms. DeVries: Same here. We would love to have more HOA representation. Thank you for coming, we appreciate it and we're glad to have you with us, Denise. So, thanks for joining us. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. Ms. DeVries: Thank you for stepping up. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. Mr. Dale: I will add my stamp to that comment, too. I'm really happy to have you on Board and I think you bring a wealth of expertise that will be well utilized. Ms. Yelvington: Thank you. I’m going to do my best. Mr. Dale: I just have one last thing that I want to leave with. I know over the years, and I normally don't like touching on this issue, but there's a reason why I want to bring it up tonight. But the rumor mill that we get, we've had over the years some of the craziest rumors I've ever heard. I remember when Lily and Jeff were running the restaurant, first I was related to Lily and then they found out Lily was Puerto Rican and I'm not. They said, “Oh, well, he can't be related to her. He's related to Jeff,” all of a sudden is what the rumor became. Ms. DeVries: Condos on the golf course. Mr. Dale: Condos on the golf course was another one. The putting green was going to be made into the shape of the State of Florida. That one I thought was highly entertaining. I don't know where that remotely came from. Normally, I don't like touching on this, but I heard it from a couple people. I'm not saying this as much for the community as I'm saying this for the Board of Directors, but the rumor that I heard was Michelle and Rob like to go to the Hook & Eagle, all the time, because they eat and drink for free. I have to say that is one of the most offensive rumors I've ever heard, because it essentially calls me a thief. The reason why I want to bring this up with the Board is, I assure you, if you look at my credit card statement, I believe we spent a great deal of money, which was stunning to me. Ms. Webb: Actually, it was stunning. Mr. Dale: Yeah. We had my daughter's engagement party at the restaurant, which cost us $1,500, that we put back into the District, having that at the Hook & Eagle. Last month, we spent between $3,000 and $4,000 at the Hook & Eagle Tavern. What I am going to do, is I'm going to bring in my credit card statement. I'm going to show the General Manager. I know he hasn't asked, but I am going to have him verify, because it all says h Hook & Eagle, Hook & Eagle,