Award of Bid No. IFB-KM-22-018 – D.B.E. Management, LLC – Little Road Force Main Replacement (from Citizens Drive to Decubellis Road, PCU 20- 002.00) – $710,749.40

1:19:58Did everyone go Okay. I don't know where all my props went, but they're around here. Oh it's along the wall. Okay, Derek can come grab those. Okay, we will move on to the consent agenda. And I have three polls and two. Well um Commissioner Mariano added C52 for discussion. I'll uh entertain a motion for the rest. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Um C fifty C thirty nine. Margaret Smith.

1:20:29Good morning. I'm standing in for Mike Karbala. And um for C thirty-nine is a correction of the amount uh From sixty four million six hundred ninety six. Dollars and forty cents to sixty four million five hundred ninety five dollars and forty cents. All

1:20:48in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you.

1:20:53Oh, sound like she did.

1:20:54Yeah.

1:20:56Good morning. Keith Wiley, Parks Recreation Natural Resources. We had to update the sale purchase price for the Benchley contract to three hundred ninety-five thousand, which sub subsequentiously uh updated the total to one million two hundred and thirty-five thousand. Move for approvals revision.

1:21:12Second.

1:21:12Second.

1:21:13All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Thank you. C fifty two, Commissioner Mariano.

1:21:18Thank you, Madam Clerk.

1:21:18Oh wait, do you need something else?

1:21:20Fifty two.

1:21:21Oh that's you. Okay.

1:21:22Yeah, fifty two. I I wasn't gonna pull this but I was just thinking about it. I thought maybe a little discussion would be good for it 'cause it's tough As commissioners we don't know. What other other thoughts are on the process? Uh so with Magnolia Valley, I mean obviously the number one thing we did are doing there is to try to improve the f stormwater flooding. Um the amendment I talked about a long time ago was for Getting the boring test down, checking the soils out to find out what soils can be moved. Uh could be beneficial, could be for sale. Uh and then if there was gonna be some park

1:21:52amenities out there to what's the best thing to put out there. So I'll say I think with a potential along L Little Road with the properties that's there, a bigger park may be the best use of out there. But as we had talked Heath, you had mentioned to me that the current plan for stormwater is they may only dig down eighteen inches From the ground and If we're gonna make this a truly water type of experience, eighteen inches is not gonna be deep enough. Um we need to go look at putting a more depth

1:22:23to it so that you can r put a kayak out there, put a boat out there. So f some fish can live. We don't need just some small little mudhole pit to be out there. So the I think It may take bringing a private person in to go help get rid of the soils. The other thought I had and I've I've talked about this before is over at Mitchell Park uh especially the softball fields. They get rained out, they can't play on them over and over again. If ever there was a time to take a look at taking those softball fields over and moving them over

1:22:53to Magnolia Valley, might be this might be the ultimate time, especially if you do like a nice three or four plex that could go right there, that could go a lot a lot better for the whole softball community. the other th option that would give you later on is now you can go back over to Mitchell where we just spent a fortune not a fortune, but a a good sum of money building a beautiful uh uh concession center where now instead of they just having like three fields could go around, you can actually go look to maybe improve in those fields for down the road where there could be a much better soccer complex

1:23:23as well. So that's kinda what I'd like. I know Keith is kinda like They're gonna be looking at a bunch of different options out there and I just wanted to get it out there verbally that I'd like them to consider those things as well. And and that's gonna take you looking at the viability of you know trying to improve Mitchell field as well. Yep.

1:23:40So Commissioner, I can add that we're we are looking at the Westmarket area and all the park services and we're looking at um the the MPUD at Newport Corners, Mitchell drainage improvements, uh renovations at Pine Hill. I mean the whole area is basically being analyzed for those, you know, to answer those questions, correct?

1:23:57Yeah, because softball is coming to Starkey.

1:24:02And what are you gonna do with the sopha fields where they're coming from?

1:24:06So there's been some discussions about converting those to baseball. So for clarification, the fields at Mitchell are for adult play. Um softball and the the Starkey complex will be a youth sports complex, two two hundred and twenty foot fields. So

1:24:20So um on c what Commissioner Mariano was speaking about about the lakes, does that Can we dig deeper and it still be a stormwater function? Because I I like that idea.

1:24:29So actually the task order before you is exactly to analyze that possibility. So what we're requesting effectively is to ask for an alternative permitting mod mod to take it beyond the stormwater project to create the open water feature that Commissioner Mariano is referencing.

1:24:44Yeah. I mean um if if our benchmark is Cascade Park Among other parks, we want to make it as nice as possible. Commissioner Oriano.

1:24:56So when they look at the stormwater capacity, digging down the eighteen inches is uh only benefit for stormwater. The other benefit is gonna be for the amenity part going through.

1:25:06No, I'm all for that. Um Commissioner Fitzpatrick.

1:25:09Um is the Sca Cascade Park the skate park?

1:25:13Cascade Park is the um park in Tallahassee. that was a stormwater it was a ditch and and then it became a really successful stormwater

1:25:25Change downtown Tallahassee really. Parks

1:25:28can do that.

1:25:29Yes. Yes. So I believe that was looking also at Lake Lisa possibly for a possibility for that and also Magnolia Valley and I know You had mentioned previously possibly a three to f uh four to five diamonds at the Magnolia regional park. So the Magnolia stormwater area would also be a regional park,

1:25:51correct? So we're so the m the 2015 master plan identified a need for a district park in that vicinity. So the goal would be to to attempt to get as many facilities that addresses a district park uh you know package if you will as possible. Um obviously there's gonna be some some restrictions in terms of space, which is why looking at improvements at Mitchell, that's why we need to look at all possible um park locations to see if we can deliver the maximum amount of services possible.

1:26:18And I am excited about C fifty three passing today with the land swap for Pine Hill. So So thank you for working diligently on that and I'm looking forward to seeing the upgrades.

1:26:29We are too

1:26:30big

1:26:30parks day. It is.

1:26:34I missed the check delivery. I was I was out out with a citizen, but uh Thank you very much.

1:26:40Yeah. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. I hope you all read C fifty two well. Okay. Um No, C fifty one I mean. Okay, we are Done with the consent and we might be able to do that. What? Oh I think we're on a miscellaneous business.

1:27:00No, you're on the R fifty seven.