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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are having some technical difficulties, so we will reconvene at 9:00 and hopefully we can get everything --

We are going to use the web audio, and hopefully we can convert it out there, so we are going to start.

We are going to start quite okay, I need one minute.

We are going to continue on with our citizen participation segment. Hopefully we will get the gremlins out of the machines. We are hoping.

One of the rules we do have here at the County Council is, when you are speaking please be courteous of other people's opinions, any attacks that are made upon a staff member or citizen of this country will not be tolerated. The first person up this morning is the Honorable Michael McDermott. Her honor? Good morning.

And this goes for everybody. When you come up to the podium please state your name, address, and then you'll be given during three minutes. Please speak slowly as possible to get the point across. We do have someone off-site typing their fingers to the bone trying to put this out here for the hearing impaired.

Name and address are quick.

Yes, can everyone hear me quirks by name is Michael McDermott and my wife and I live at 3726 autumn Leaves Drive near Port Orange. I retired at the end of 2000 after serving 24 years as a judge in Boucher County. You may recall that I was part of the canvassing board in November of -- made necessary a recount of all votes cast for president in the United States in Boucher County. Thanks to a great deal of hard work of many dedicated people including this worthy, who was a member of the canvassing board with me, we successfully completed our recount in the time permitted by Florida law. Some of you may recall that in August of 1986, I made the first of what would become many appearances before this council, as it was then constituted, to argue against a plan to or build a new courthouse next to the buildings between the land and Daytona Beach. Many people addicted to pills in a courthouse in such a remote location so far from major population zones. After more than two years of public discussions and meetings of the Council, good sense finally prevailed in the justice center was built in Daytona Beach race stands today. I'm here to argue against postal description less of a journal which seeks to demolish the courthouse annex and replace it with a new courthouse next to the Chip Justice Center in Daytona Beach or next to the jail buildings out in the country half way between the land and Daytona Beach. This proposal is as unnecessary as it is unwise. It just happens that during the last five and a half years I served as a judge I was stationed in the courthouse annex on city Island. I quickly found it very well as a courthouse for proceedings that do not include regularly doing with it to tenants have accused of serious crimes. But Justice Center was built with features such as a sally port for secure voting in the moving of prisoner transport vehicles as loss of recorders to keep prisoners safely away from the general public. In short, there is nothing wrong with a courthouse annex on city Island. It has proven to be a very sturdy building which has withstood several hurricanes and with routine maintenance should be good for another 25 years. Demolishing the courthouse annex and original library on city Island would benefit only developers and would betray the trust the people in Volusia County are placed in the government. Public places like city Island should be preserved, not sold off to the highest bidder. This council must not pretend to pick something that is not even broken.

Next up is Mr. Stanley is Mr. Stanley Escudero.

Good morning Ambassador, name and address, you have three minutes.

Thank you Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Council. I'm Stanley Escudero reasserting Dominic presenting at 3034 South Peninsula Drive and Daytona Beach shore. I'm here as chairman of the taxpayer action group board tag. We aren't a fiscally conservative nonpartisan group which existed when the people of the decisions and processes of government in Falluja County and to help governments become more efficient and more responsive to the people, and today I would like to speak to the formulation of the strategic fiscal plan for the county. We are very pleased that the Council yesterday beginning a process which we hope will lead to such a plan. Now, what we see as a three-part package including the plan itself, a new budget assumptions which reflect the plan and annual justification of all County exposures by zero-based budgeting. Recently I noted in the news Journal a proposal by Councilman Wagner for dramatic changes in the use of the city Island property in Daytona. Ted believes this proposal has much to recommend depending on how the numbers crunch out, and I'm aware that Mr. Weidner and other council members have additional bold ideas in mind. But I jump into consideration of specific initiatives at the outset, the Council risks getting ahead of the planning process. You need to decide where you want to go before you consider how you will get there. The council should first agree it seems to us on the vision. They set a broad goal which will encompass a guide to strategic plan. Then and only then should it consider specific initiatives which would give substance to the vision and advance the goals. To ensure that this agreement process benefits from the largest possible range of informed opinions, I propose that the Council create an advisory board, which would bring to the table representatives to the County Chamber of Commerce and other business representatives. The academic community, tourism agencies, homeowners associations in the agricultural community and others. Tag wants a seat at the table. Once the agreement has been reached and brothers and uncles once a series of strategic initiatives and experienced private consulting firms will be chosen to put this framework into the form of a strategic plan. At that point the council could engage approvable polling firm based on the plan and questions which would be approved by the council before pulling to discover the people's reaction to the essence of the plan. In this way a strategic plan could be produced with majority approval of the major elements of the economic structure. And it would have been better, committed to some degree by the people. Once approved by the Council of final plan will provide the needed roadmap to the County manager and staff for credit preparation of future budgets. I hope you take this into consideration. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Do we have a copy of the?

I will send one out and get a tour stop.

Okay. I hope I'm pronouncing this rate, Mr. Don Blumberg? Good morning.

Good morning.

Your name and address her.

My name is Don Blumberg and other that this is the North Springs. We are here this morning to tell you and invite you all to come to our community Association Festival and October 20 sixth we will advertise the Ponce de Leon look-alike contest, and that's all tied in with the the the 500. Do we want to have everybody come to our festival. We have a little token here that we want everyone to have one of so that you can remember to come to our festival. As October 20 sixth. Thank you very much.

Thank you, sir. I'm hearing everyone up here saying thank you.

All right, Brian Pool.

I might have to go to this thing. I wonder if I win the day we on the look-alike. I guess Josh might be ahead of me. [laughter]

I think you could pull that off.

Good morning sir.

Your name and address quick.

Brian Polk, I'm here representing the Volusia County historic visit to the preservation Board. This is an unusual place to stand. I'm usually sitting in your chair during these meetings. All I wanted to do today was present a letter from the board that we wanted to present to the Council in support of preserving Elliott presentation. I will give that to Marcy and she can present that to the board. It is a site that's eligible as a national historic landmark and it has a lot of significance and especially as far as the bridge plantation and significant because of African-American history.

Is that it collects.

That is it.

That's very cool.

We like it.

Thank you. Okay. This is the last public participation that we have. Anyone else clicks going once. Going twice. Gone. At this very brief moment, public participation is hereby concluded.

Now we will just continue on with our normal meeting.

Once again, good morning everyone. It is October 10, 2013. It is approximately 9:04 in the morning. They have local police.

Yes, sir. Ms.Denys clucks dismally plucked Mr. Patterson? Mr.Weidner? That Cusack clicks Mr. Daniels, Mr. Davis? All present.

Do we have the gremlins out yet quick.

We are fine. GMAC okay. Because we will never be able to do this particular moment again.

We are live streaming on the Internet.

Okay. Maybe if someone could record that for us and mail it to us that would be great.

Good morning. This morning we were going to have father maker Dell MacMichael tears from the Holly Doc Orthodox Church present our invocation this morning but unfortunately there has been a situation that has arisen that has prevented him from being here. So-- I have another name. Pastor Vince Kuna clucks.

Last minute, he was willing to come last minute.

You are the man. He's the senior pastor at my refuge Christian Center.

Good morning.

Welcome, it's good to see some of you, I haven't been here in a while. I know pastoring and stuff, I know where you said that even tougher these days.

Father, we come to you this morning recognizing that with all of our abilities and talents and even good fortune, that without your divine guidance we can do this. We've come to a day in our society where we finally have realized that without your divine providence we are in trouble. Even in our land today we realize that there are things we need to didn't negotiate with and work with and it always comes down to the people working together. I think he that in this chamber there are people we have known for a long time and people that we don't know. But there would be a unity in this chamber today, that they would be able to resolve any conflicts and differences, and come to unify decisions that would prevent the health and well-being and unity of our families. I pray for the health and well-being of every member, Council member, that presides there today and they would be able to take their position well and function properly according to postings that they have been asked to do. So we asked us all in Jesus name, amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you very much, please be seated.

Okay. First order of business, what that's poker content items. Ms.Denys clucks.

None.

Visibility clucks.

Mr. Chairman, to understand item 28 has been removed to.

Let me doublecheck.

Yes sir.

Okay, I don't think I have anything else.

Okay, Mr. Patterson? Mr.Weidner?

I would like to discuss the removal of 28.

You want to discuss the removal of.

Yes, I personally think we went through a process that was very specific SRS processes were concerned. It was supposed to be for a single source provider for Ocean Center advertising. The person was elected and the recommendation came in at three-two," is more than a hundred times on County Council, a split decision. I have no issue with that. I know Steph pulled it but I don't want to. So I went to vote today, I'll either vote on it now or at the end of the day. I'm going to go ahead and put a motion on the floor to approve at number 28 but was pulled, and I think there are opportunities there for a single source d ivide.

I second.

Okay, we have a motion on the floor and a second. Any further discussion clicks.

There's a question on the floor as two, why was 28 withdrawn and removed tax.

Well I removed it because I had some concerns about the process that we use, and it was a three-two vote. I think there was some thought, in this case what you are doing, there's an opportunity for people to do work under that. So I wanted to pull it back and take another look at it. I had made up my mind completely. But there was also an issue about the additional firm that was considered, and there's obviously opportunity And County for additional firms to get a word to work. So basically --

I just think signaling to Marcy, my screen isn't up.

Atari, I wasn't prepared into this because actually took off the calendar to do more research. I think their concerns about if I go outside of the county or -- this has nothing to do with the ability of the people listed here to do the work. It's obviously an area where we have a lot of people that are interested in doing the work for us.

Mr. Weidner?

I appreciate that but it's a representative recommendation from staff at County Council makes the decision. I'm more than comfortable with the decision and I agree with the selection committee. I think they are capable of doing the work and have done a great job and I like to continue with them. I think knowing their local knowledge, this is not a contract that should be shipped out of town and it doesn't make sense considering the amount of advertising birds I have locally. If the council does not see fit then I will be back another day.

Mr. Eckerd clucks.

Well in this case, the agenda that was prepared at a recommendation for two firms that was removed from the agenda, and so the other firm would've had no reason and both firms were notified. Not speaking to the motion that Mr. Wagner has made that it would be appropriate if Mr. Weidner wants to have Sigurd and make the award as he has described that you place it on your next agenda rather than go on after having told someone that there was no reason to be here.

Okay. Mr.Daniels.

If Mr. Wagner is still comfortable with it, I'm ready to vote today also.

I am too.

And visibility clicks.

Uncomfortable.

All those in favor, call the question. All those opposed clicks so the question is, a move for approval and item number 28.

It's the sole award as advertised in the agenda.

Contracts with Lord and Lasker of Florida incorporated, on the beach.

I was thinking it was on the agenda with the names.

While I'm reading it write off, Lord and Lasker/Florida incorporated.

Is that the new agenda clicks.

This is red letter version that I have.

I believe it was originally the recommendation for both.

Yes, the approval is written on the agenda, correct?

No, we are not voting on the motion in the agenda, we are going on the motion Mr. Wagner made.

Yes, that was my concern, and it's not as presented by the motion.

The motion was forceful source provider for the Ocean Center, advertising marketing and public relations services.

Maybe we could clarify. Because of the vote we did have which was three-two, because I may have gone there anyway. I'm going to make a recommendation, and I have no reason not to make that recommendation because a recommendation from the staff was to pick him as the sole provider. I'm quite willing to make that recommendation so it's consistent.

Okay. Now let's try to continue on with the question.

All those in favor of please signify by saying, I pay all those opposed clicks so carried.

Okay. Anything else Mr. Wagner you wish to pull from the consent agenda items clicks.

Thank you sir. Ms.Cusack quick.

Thank you, I'd like to poll item 12.

And Mr. Daniel?

Nothing.

Ms. Cusack will pull item number 12.

A second.

I have a motion for approval from this Patterson, second from newsworthy. Any other discussion clicks.

Mr. Wagner, could you poke your head in here for just one moment to clucks we have a quorum, I was just going to give him a chance. Motion at second for approval, all those in favor signify the guy, I. All those opposed clicks.

Seven-zero with Mr. Wagner in the room.

Okay, interesting day.

Never a dull moment here.

Item number one, approval of minutes for July 20 fifth 2015 County Council meeting. Motion for Mr. Patterson, Ms. Cusack second. Discussion clicks the none, all those in favor signify by, I'd. All those opposed clicks so carried. Now the County Council meeting. Mr.Patterson motions for approval. Second from Ms. Cusack. All those in favor signify by, I. Proclamations presented us at our County chambers. We had a Hispanic heritage month, and responsible dog ownership day. Recover month, or the Association of Private investigators day, Daytona Beach Toastmasters club Day and the Daytona blues Festival. May I have a motion in?