MINUTES OF MEETING
SOUTH-DADE VENTURE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the South-Dade Venture Community Development District was held on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 4:00 p.m., at the Waterstone Bay Clubhouse, 1355 Waterstone Way, Homestead, Florida.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Curtis Cooper Bradley Compton Miguel Aponte Sonia Castro
Mike Lopez

Chairman
Vice Chairman Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary

Also present was:
Paul Winkeljohn Scott Cochran Ben Quesada

District Manager District Attorney Clubhouse Director

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS
Mr. Compton called the meeting
recited by all who attended the meeting.

Roll Call & Pledge of Allegiance
to  order,  and  the Pledge  of  Allegiance  was

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS

Approval  of  the Minutes of the
August  23, 2018 and  September
13, 2018 Meetings

Mr. Compton:   The first order of business is the approval of the minutes of the
August 23, 2018 and September 13, 2018 meetings.

On MOTION by Ms. Castro seconded by Mr. Aponte with all in favor, the Minutes of the August 23, 2018 and September 13, 2018 Meetings were approved.

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THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS

Staff Reports

Mr. Compton:  Moving on to the staff reports, Mr. Attorney?

A. Attorney
Mr. Cochran: I don't have a whole lot to report. I believe it was at the last meeting, one of the residents came and the situation with the fence, and the easement, where the lake is and the fence there, and they needed some documents for the city with permitting or something like that, so we took care of the agreement and brought it into management but other than that, nothing specific to report.
Ms. Castro:  And we still haven't received anything from Floridian Bay Estates? Mr. Cochran:   I haven’t received  anything from them.
Mr. Aponte: On what?
Mr. Cochran: On the encroachment agreement, right?
Ms. Castro: Yes, the encroachment agreement that they wanted.
Mr. Quesada:  Mike would be the one but I'm waiting for that from him. Mr. Winkeljohn:  We can ask him later.
Ms. Castro:  Ok, perfect.
Mr. Compton: Right, we can come back to that.
Mr. Cochran:   But I haven’t personally  received  anything from them. Ms. Castro:  Ok, perfect.
Mr. Compton:  Anything else for the attorney? Mr. Cochran:  No.
Mr. Compton: Ok.

B.  Engineer
Mr. Compton: Do we have an engineering report? Mr. Quesada: I can go over some of that for you.
Mr. Compton: Ok.

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Mr. Quesada: The asphalt walkways, I just got off the phone with our contractor, so it looks like our plans are finally going to get approved, they're just waiting on the usual documentation, but they reviewed it to make sure there was nothing missing. So they're looking at somewhere early next week, and it is a holiday week so it could be a day or two there where they're off, but what they told me is by the first week of December they can start repairs. I think what's most important to us is to get rid of some of these hazards that we have out there but, we're looking at, as far as the entire repaving, possibly early January, that's the entire walkway paving, but they can send crews back there and work on those isolated areas and repair them first. Then the storm drains, like I said that work has been completed, we did notice there is some additional flooding going on at Portofino Point and Oaks, the engineer just submitted us a report, it's very detailed with really good work. Some of our french drains may have tree roots in the line, we don't know yet until we get a camera in there, so you'll probably be getting some update from me on that by the next meeting.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Can I interrupt you for just a quick second, we might want to just get out information to the managers, or the leaders of each community so they understand that the system here is not wholly piped directly to the lake system, you have a two part system. You have french drains in some areas, and you have pipes to the lake system, so cleaning out, our agreements are for the draining of the pipe system, by the way, which the french drain part, I don't have a problem with that, it's our responsibility, and I'm not saying that this should be separated but they're not part of our drainage cleaning program, or the initial concept of it.
Mr. Quesada: Right, our agreement is basically catch basins, so again this is really just a learning experience but again, it's something that we'll be touching on with those communities and I'll update you all as we get those numbers in. Pressure cleaning is basically completed, they will be doing some touch ups here, I've got some tree trimming work going on at the same time, and I just spoke to the owner of our pressure cleaning company and he's here tomorrow conducting some of that touch up
work.  And I don't know if you just want me to go into my report.

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Mr. Compton: Before you do that, if I can make a statement. Mr. Quesada: Sure.
Mr. Compton: With respect to the sidewalks, I just want to make sure that with the holidays coming up, that we don't do the work such that we have a block of time where they start something, close off a section of the sidewalk, and we have a holiday where nothing is happening for 3, 4 or 5 days, and it's that stagnant time while the sidewalks are blocked off, so in the scheduling just keep that in mind.
Mr. Quesada: That's part of the reason of my saying early January for the paving, that and we don't rush them either and then it doesn't come out right. So I think we're all on the same page there but, I would like some of the more hazardous areas, I'd like to address this, but we'll make sure everything is blocked off there or whatever we have to make sure that's safe for everybody.
Mr. Compton: And that's fine to block it off for the days that they're doing the work but I don't want to block it off over the Thanksgiving break or something like that but, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Mr. Quesada: Ok and from what I understood, I think he said on the phone about the asphalt, and they'll cut it out, whatever the root issue is there, and they'll put asphalt there. They're just going to repave the entire walkway in January, so I think we'll be good with that, they'll be able to manage that in a short amount of time, each
area that they address.

Mr.  Compton:
attendance.

Very good, and just  for the record, Mr. Cooper  is now in

Mr. Cooper:  Hello everybody.
Mr. Quesada: So I have a couple of bid analysis spreadsheets that I gave to you

all and it kind of does fall under  engineering as well.

I'll  start with  the  concrete

sidewalk because I just put a copy in front of you that's not in the report. The concrete sidewalks on the opposite side of the street, we have about 12 flags that we identified that are more at risk right now as far as being hazard than some of the minor stuff that
you see going on there. So I went ahead and asked for some pricing on it, there's a third

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person I haven't gotten a price from yet because they're still writing them. So you only have two prices now but if you guys want to come up with a not to exceed amount we can more forward and address these also in a more expedient amount of time. That's basically very self-explanatory in the spreadsheet, to also add the concrete that are 5 X 4, and they would also remove any tree roots underneath that are affecting those areas.
Ms. Castro: We have two people that were able to meet with our deadline. I don't think that we need to wait, we  should pick, whoever was ready was ready, whoever is not, well they can wait for the next project that comes up.
Mr. Winkeljohn: So whoever you're comfortable hiring because a few hundred dollars in price difference is not necessarily a bad thing.
Ms. Castro: Ok.
Mr. Compton: Is there any preference to either one of them, I don't know what your experience has been with either company of good, bad, or otherwise?
Ms. Castro: Well I had Ortiz doing construction in my community and they have worked out well, and I know that we have also used Concrete Cowboys in a couple of the other communities. I believe you used it in yours right Miguel?
Mr. Aponte: I don't know if it was Concrete Cowboys but they did give us a bid, it was me, it was another community.
Mr. Compton:  I've used them in mine and they were fine, I had no issues.
Ms. Castro: They're both good, so if we're ready to pull the trigger, we can't continue to have these tree roots in the way.
Mr. Cooper: So this is a different proposal? So we haven't made any movement on this at all previously?
Mr. Winkeljohn: No, not on this part, only on the asphalt, that's all done.
Mr. Quesada: If we had some changes on the other repair projects, we would have addressed it but we got to our limit there so that's why we had to do this separate.
Ms. Castro: How fast can they be here, each of these two vendors?

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Mr. Quesada: I have to get back to you on that, I'll double check on that, if you want to give me a little bit of latitude for management to handle that, we'll address it as quickly as possible.
Ms. Castro: Because to me, whoever can be here, if they can be here tomorrow that would be good.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok.
Mr. Winkeljohn:	That's  a good  point,  so you  want to give the not to exceed
. amount and let staff choose under that condition?
Ms. Castro: Yes.
Mr. Winkeljohn: That speed is a priority.
Ms. Castro:  So I make a motion to not exceed $3,500 and that way he can pick either or based on the timeframe because we need this immediately.
Mr. Quesada: Ok.
Mr. Cooper:  Don't we need like a small project agreement and all of that stuff ?
Mr. Winkeljohn: Well this is a pretty small job, so it's smaller than a small project agreement. If we can get a reasonable agreement, but I don't think it's necessary, but Scott can tell us that.
Mr. Cochran:  If management is comfortable with it, I mean as long as they're licensed, bonded and insured, it's pretty small.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Mr. Quesada:  And these are two companies that do a lot of work already in the community, so I don't think they're going to be going anywhere.
Mr. Cooper:  Concrete Cowboys, they've done work here before?
Mr. Quesada:  Yes, they do a lot of work on Waterstone, and they've done some work on Waterstone II.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok, and you guys have been happy with Concrete Cowboys as far as the work they've provided of there?
Mr. Compton: Yes.
Mr. Cooper: Reliable and in a timely manner, quality?

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Mr. Compton: Yes, we've never had any issues with them. They did one job for me over there, so not a ton but they've always been good, I have no issues.
Mr. Cooper: Ok, good.
Mr. Compton:  Alright, any other discussion?
Ms. Castro: No, I think it's up to Ben, go ahead. Mr. Quesada: Ok.

Mr. Quesada: Ok going into the phase subject, you asked me at the last meeting regarding speed humps at guardhouse #3, and that is in my report, it should be the third page I believe in my report. It's the speed humps for guardhouse #3.
Ms. Castro: Well I'm on page 3 and this is not his report, it's a golf cart. Oh thank you very much.
Mr. Aponte:  You're welcome.
Mr. Quesada: Ok, and I left DML Security, I know we discussed it at the last meeting as far as you not being interested in using that same style but I wanted you to have a side by side comparison of what the alternatives were, and so it was pretty hard to beat Southern Asphalt, they were actually the company that did our guardhouse #1 project, and they did a pretty good job there but you see some numbers here and it's basically the same scope and the same design of the speed humps that we have at guardhouse #1.
Ms. Castro: They were the ones who did those speed humps right? Mr. Quesada: Yes.
Ms. Castro:   Ok, perfect, and their price is the one to beat.

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On MOTION by Ms. Castro seconded by Mr. Lopez with all in favor, authorizing a not to exceed amount of $3,500 to proceed with sidewalk repairs and root removal subject to staff selecting one of the two proposals submitted was approved.

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Mr. Cooper:   The thermoplastic, what was that for the third proposal there, the
$995 thermoplastic?
Mr. Quesada: He basically said, and again, we know this from guardhouse #1, they're going to use temporary paint at the beginning because there's a curing phase with the asphalt so you can't just apply thermoplastic paint right away. So he's just basically saying he gave me the price for that, plus the $995 for thermoplastic once the time comes if we want to go that route. He said when we read his proposal, and I can't find the exact terminology he used but it was basically throwing in some kind of reflective material into non-thermoplastic paint to make it reflective for a temporary basis.
Mr. Cooper:  But we will have thermoplastic paint?
Mr. Quesada: Correct, and Southern Asphalt included thermoplastic paint in there, and this would be the option if we wanted to do it with Florida Pavement, they just wanted to give you guys two options.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok, and guardhouse #2?
Mr. Quesada: What about guardhouse #2?
Mr. Cooper: The speed humps for guardhouse #2? Mr. Quesada: I did not, I forgot to inquire about that.
Mr. Cooper: So why are we doing it piecemeal?  If they're going to be coming out here with a crew why wouldn't we knock out all the guardhouses?
Mr. Quesada:  Whatever direction you guys want to go, just the behavior at guardhouse #3 I can tell you there's a lot more interest right now, that's why I wanted to concentrate on that first, but we can always do the other ones.
Mr. Cooper: Well they have all the equipment out here, I don't see why we're going to have another meeting to go ahead and approve speed humps if this is what you guys want to do at all the guardhouses.
Mr. Quesada:  Guardhouse #2 is near the school, so that is something to take into
consideration because they only have one exit there, so something like that we'd have to plan for school break or something like that.

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Mr. Cooper: The holidays are coming up. Mr. Quesada: Let me see what I can do.
Ms. Castro: But wait, let me crunch out numbers here.
Mr. Aponte:  Are we getting major shifting on guardhouse #2 or are we paving guardhouse #2?
Mr. Quesada: Again, from what I know it's totally behavior down there.

Ms.  Castro: guardhouses.
Mr. Cooper:
Juan, why  are we

But  I  think  that  Curtis  is  referring  to  symmetry  in  all  of  our

Well if we have these brick pavers and the plans called for them, or
going to not  do that, we wanted  to see how it worked  out at

guardhouse #1 I believe right?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  He wanted to test it out, and make sure we were happy.
Mr. Cooper: The only thing I'm not seeing here is the reflective marking from all the proposals.
Mr. Quesada:  I have plans already drafted from our engineer, and again, I'm getting pricing on that.
Ms. Castro: Ok wait.
Mr. Lopez:  Where are they putting the speed humps, not at guardhouse #1
right?
Mr. Quesada: We already have speed humps at guardhouse #1. In this case, our discussion has been about behavior at guardhouse #3, we had somebody already destroy our operators on their way out and it's really dangerous out there, and I think today I was just there.
Mr. Lopez:  Right, and we don't have exit speed humps we don't have here. Ms. Castro: No.
Mr. Lopez:  So we're talking about exit speed humps? Ms. Castro: Yes.
Mr. Quesada: Yes.

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Ms. Castro: Ok so, the math comes out to $946.25 per speed hump with Southern Asphalt, so we want 8 Ben, because it's 4 for guardhouse #3, then we want 4 for here, and then 1more for the exit. So it would be 10 speed humps right?
Mr. Quesada: Just double check, again we only have one exit at guardhouse #2. Ms. Castro: But you want 2 speed humps no?
Mr. Quesada: Yes, 1before and 1after, isn't that how you guys do it? Ms. Castro: Exactly.
Mr. Aponte: So that's 2 and then can we do 1large one across, would that work? Mr. Winkeljohn: We have it already designed.
Mr. Quesada: Let me run it by our engineer first just to make sure, I'm sure it's just a minor revision that he can do just for guardhouse #2 because I want to make sure that they do it right because I just took the dimensions and the scope of what we did at guardhouse #1 to apply to here, but in this case the behavior is a little bit different.
Ms. Castro: But the math is still the same, it's still 4 speed humps for guardhouse
#2, so Ben if we can do 2 only for guardhouse #3, no because it's two lanes. So it's 4 speed humps for guardhouse #3, and then 4 for the entrance here, and then 2 for guardhouse #2, so it's 10 speed humps is what you need.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, it should be 10 speed humps.
Ms. Castro: So it should be $9,462.50 but because we're adding 10, they should give it to us for about $8,500, try to shoot for $8,500.
Mr. Aponte: I just  think it's unnecessary to put a speed hump at an exit at guardhouse #2. The lane narrows already so people are not flying through it.
Mr. Cooper: They do fly through there.
Ms. Castro:  Yes, they do fly through there but I believe there is a speed hump
there.
Mr. Quesada: This is a speed hump right now. Mr. Cooper: A speed bump.
Mr. Lopez: So guardhouse #2, that's where it narrows.

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Mr. Aponte: The whole entire intersection there it just narrows as you get to it
because there's markings everywhere.
Mr. Cooper: Yes but people are flying through there.
Ms. Castro: People are flying but you know where I see them flying more is towards the front of the school.
Mr. Aponte: After they pass the area, that's where they go fast, I mean Irun through there every single day.
Mr. Quesada: Do you want to table guardhouse #3 until we get some numbers on that just to be safe?
Mr. Aponte: Guardhouse #2 you mean? Mr. Quesada: Yes, guardhouse #2.
Mr. Cooper: Why are we going to be safe on the number, $900 or whatever, then maximize that.
Mr. Quesada: Another thing to factor in is remember how we did the markings on the road, as you lead to the speed hump to kind of slow people down, I forget what they're called but the stripes that we had added, that's not something that, for the exit here that we had in the plans. So again, I just want to make sure that we have the engineer review the plans for that guardhouse.
Mr. Aponte:   I mean we have them already there, and people are just driving
around them the whole time.

Mr. Cooper:

We  have  the  plans  that  the  engineer  provided  for  all three

guardhouses, there's no surprises.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, but those are different. Let me go back, we're going back to the original guardhouse plans, the original guardhouse plans were that they wanted to put a speed hump on the concrete header and we did not do that. We left the concrete normal, flush.
Mr. Winkeljohn: And we had an alternate, which is what we did. Mr. Quesada: At guardhouse #1.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Exactly, but he did it for all of them.

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Mr. Quesada: Ok, I'll double check with him. So are we tabling this for now? Mr. Compton: Do we have a motion or are we tabling?
Mr. Cooper:  Not to exceed $10,000, is there a motion on the table? Ms. Castro: Yes, not to exceed $1010001 so moved.
Mr. Compton: Is there a second to that motion?
Mr. Lopez:  Where are we putting the speed humps again? Mr. Winkeljohn:  The other two gates.

Mr.  Lopez:	So 4  speed  humps  at the  other  two  gates?
seriously?

Do we need them

Ms. Castro: The speed humps will be at guardhouse #3 at the exit, yes we need them there.
Mr. Quesada: And I'm just telling you from personal experience on drives, that is our most dangerous exit right now.
Mr. Lopez: Alright so guardhouse #3 does need them, and guardhouse #2, do you know if they need them?
Mr. Aponte: Guardhouse #2 has them already, coming in.
Mr. Lopez: Right, coming in, like guardhouse #1 they have speed bumps. So guardhouse #1 is doing way better because of what we have there, the way we boxed them in.
Mr. Quesada: And the pavers are perfect.
Mr. Lopez: Right they're perfect and they look great, I think those bumps really did it, and I was against them but now I think they are working, they're doing what they're supposed to do.
Ms. Castro: Ok so I don't have any issues in guardhouse #3. So guardhouse #3 there is no problem coming in, but going out people not only speed, they go through the right lane, and then they cut in front of you to actually make the turn.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, it's really bad over there.
Mr. Lopez:  Alright, so I'll second the motion. Mr. Cooper:  I already seconded it.

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Mr. Lopez: Alright.
Ms. Castro:  So it's a not to exceed amount for guardhouse #2 as well which is included in this motion.
Mr. Compton:  Correct. Ms. Castro:  Perfect.
Mr. Compton:  Alright so we have a motion and we have a second, any further discussion?
Mr. Winkeljohn: So what I am hearing, just so we're all hearing the same thing, is that we really don't need an entrance one at gate #3, that would be in excess and unnecessary.
Ms. Castro:  No.
Mr. Aponte:  And I would say the same thing about the exit in guardhouse #2, it's unnecessary, we're just throwing money away.
Mr. Winkeljohn:	So we are  dealing with this  and staff  can evaluate those,  and verif y that.
Mr. Cooper: Well I don't think people fly at guardhouse #2. Guardhouse #2 is the one over by the school, right?
Mr. Aponte:  Yes, guardhouse #2.
Ms. Castro: But don't they have something there?
Mr. Quesada: Yes, we have anchored speed humps or bumps at guardhouse #2 at both the entrance and the exit right now.
Ms. Castro:  So if we can make them permanent and then aesthetic-wise.
Mr. Quesada: I'm just telling you right now that the speeding isn't as much an issue there because of that, what we have in place, compared to guardhouse #3 with people flying out.
Mr. Compton:  Ok, any further discussion?
Mr. Cooper: And you're going to also look into the striping?
Mr. Quesada:  Again, I'm going to double check to see if Juan did that for all 3 guardhouses, and if not I'm going to request one for guardhouse #2 for uniformity.

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Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Mr. Aponte: But where, at the entrance, there's stripes everywhere there, we have the parking lot area striped, we have stripes all over the place, it's going to look like a runway.
Mr. Quesada:  Sure, you're right, that's why again I want to see what his opinion
is.
Mr. Aponte: Right because there's so many stripes, just to the humps and let's not waste time, there's too many stripes, and people are already confused on where to go.
Mr. Quesada: Ok, that's fine.
Ms. Castro:  Ok, moving on.

Mr. Cochran: That's for guardhouses #2 and #3? Mr. Aponte: Yes #2 and #3, speed humps.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok so the last thing regarding our guardhouses, you guys asked
me for some more competitive prices on sealing our guardhouse pavers,  the clay

pavers.

So I have a price here for guardhouse paver sealing which is the last bid

analysis that's in my report, it should be on page 4. So again, same scope of work here, with 3 bidders to do the sealing of the pavers at the guardhouses.
Ms. Castro: Ok so Master Rollers I think is out if we judge by the timeframe of the painting project because something that should have taken a month at most has been overextended and they're still not done. So I wouldn't be comfortable with Master Rollers but that is my opinion. You guys say what you think.
Mr. Compton: I don't disagree with that at all, and from what I've seen the quality is not the issue, but the time limits I agree.
Ms. Castro: Yes, it's ridiculous, and the excuses as well.

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Mr. Quesada:  Since we're on that subject I just want to let you know we're about a day away from finishing.
Ms. Castro: Oh we've heard that before, don't worry, we've heard that before. Mr. Quesada: Ok.
Mr. Compton:  Ok so back to our sealer.
Mr.  Lopez:	So I  agree  with  you  about Master  Rollers,  I agree  it's a timing problem.
Ms. Castro: Ok, well perfect.
Mr. Compton: And we're discussing the 3 proposals we have, and if there's a motion great, or further discussion. So we're still on our pavers here, do we have a motion on there or is there further discussion or is it going to be tabled? We decided we don't want Master Rollers but that's as far as we got.
Mr. Aponte:  And we can get more prices.
Mr. Quesada: I mean you can always give me a not to exceed amount, but again this is 3 prices, or if you guys wanted me to table it I'm fine with that.
Mr. Compton:  Do you want to table it and try to get better prices?
Mr. Cooper: Yes. Mr. Aponte: Yes.
Mr. Compton: Ok that's easy enough. Mr. Winkeljohn: Got it.
Mr. Compton:  Alright, moving on.
Mr. Quesada:  That's it as far as engineering. Mr. Compton:  Ok.
Ms. Castro: So golf cart, is what I see next.

C.  Field Manager
Mr. Compton: Moving on to field manager's report. Mr. Quesada: Yes, back to me.
Mr. Compton: Right, back to Ben.

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Mr. Aponte: I thought we were already into it.
Mr. Quesada: Well we were under the engineer. So under the field manager' s report and let's go to the golf cart first, and I have a set here if you want to circulate it because I'm going to talk about GEM first. So you have two prices on GEM golf carts here and I want to read you the email that's in my report from IP Motor Sports, they are a very popular golf cart customization company, so they do more than just golf carts, they do all kinds of water vehicles that are for recreational use in Arizona, actually California. So he just suggests, and we're going to go over the GEM which is similar to build to the golf cart we have now for the CDD that you go with the GEM. So his email says, here's what I would suggest, using a late model (classic) chassis like a 2012, 13, 14, 15 for example. If you want to go beyond those years, you can. He can make it with a 6" lift for some of the off road that we do on the easements. Paint it, interior, upholstery, all terrain tires, rear facing seat kit, sound system, LED lighting inside & out, high power motor & controller, all new GEL maintenance free batteries. If we use this particular model, the total price will be about $24,000 to $25,000 all in, that's including all the customization.
Mr. Aponte: Awesome, that sounds like splurging, so let's move on.
Mr. Compton: Well just, I had some question before we get too far along here. For me I think they have to be asked, what timing are we looking at here? I mean is this something we're planning for a few years down the road, or is this something that we want to do now?
Mr. Cooper: We have a golf cart that has exceeded its life expectancy, so that would be a yes, we are going to need this sooner than later.
Mr. Compton: But the problem that I have with it is that we also have plans for this year that we've already had the scale done once, and if we start looking at spending
$20,000 or $25,000 on a golf cart, we have to scale those plans down even more, and from  a  fiscally  responsible  perspective,  I'm  having  a  problem  looking  at  $18,000,
$20,000,  or  $25,000  on  a  golf  cart  so that  we  can pair  down the  services  and  the
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golf cart, and I don't disagree that a) we need the golf cart, or b) that it's something we should look into in the not too distant future but I'm not sure that now is the right time for that.
Ms. Castro:  Well maybe if it wasn't as expensive. Mr. Lopez:  How much is the golf cart, $18,000? Ms. Castro: $25,000.
Mr. Quesada: And again I'm telling you because he's top of the line. Mr. Lopez: What's top of the line?
Mr. Quesada: This vendor, IP Motor Sports. Mr. Lopez: So it’s. The GEM?
Mr. Quesada: Yes, it's a GEM model, and that's what he's saying between 2012 and 2015, that's the price for what we're trying to do which is a 6 seater, with rear facing. I have another price here for another GEM, because I did look, there's a GEM dealer I believe it was in Naples and most of the GEM dealers are there. There's one here in South Florida, but as far as you getting lighting audio stereo, two-tone gray seats, GEM, it comes in black so you have to account for $8.00 wrapping of that golf cart, rubber floor mats, rugged front and rear bumper set, soft canvas doors, premium LED headlights, solar panel light bar, standard windshield with washer and distance AGM battery, so you're looking at roughly $19,547.
Mr. Aponte: How much just for a golf cart with 4 wheels and 6 seats, seriously, we don't need all that, we just need a golf cart to go from point A to point B, it needs to be a little higher because we obviously have to drive through some rough terrain.
Mr. Cooper: Well I think anytime you start customizing that's when the price starts going up there. I mean typically golf carts start at, basic golf carts are $12,000, I mean you're looking at basic stuff, but then when you start customizing it, painting it to match the District colors, like the one we have right now is a customized golf cart, and I forgot how much you pay for it.
Ms. Castro: Between $6,000 and $9,000.
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Ms. Castro: $16,000?
Mr. Cooper:  Yes we did and it's lasted this long so it's an investment. Ms. Castro:  But I don't think it was $16,000.
Mr. Cooper: Yes.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  It was over $10,000, I can look it up.
Mr. Cooper: So it's an investment and we've had it I think since 2007 maybe.
Mr. Quesada: So going back to what Miguel said, as far as just looking for another option, I did look into an E-Z Go model which is a more typical brand, and this is brand new, and I want to again focus on brand new for you guys, so this is a 2019 E-Z Go Express L6, which has 6 seats, with the rear facing on the back side, and it comes with all the bells and whistles, it comes with whatever paint job you want, and all the colors are listed on the top under the first line item. So you can pick from all those colors, and charcoal gray body is what I would recommend in this case for us because if we change our colors to the District. It comes with everything to make it street legal is what you're seeing there, extended canopy, hinged windshield, custom track sunbrella enclosure.
Ms. Castro: Do you have a picture of what this looks like? Mr. Quesada: Give me one second.
Mr. Aponte: I say you find a 2016.
Mr. Quesada:  It's a nice looking golf cart in my opinion. Mr. Aponte: Why not a 2017 or a 2016 for $7,000?
Mr. Lopez:  How much is that? Mr. Quesada:  About $12,434.38. Mr. Lopez: Alright.
Mr. Quesada:  Again, I'm just telling you that's the price of this one.
Mr. Lopez:  And these are brand new, these are practically brand new, I've seen a lot of them, we just bought one for Floridian Bay.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok.
Mr. Lopez: How much is that, $12,000?

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Ms. Castro: $12,434.38.
Mr. Lopez:  It should be $11,000. Ms. Castro: How much?
Mr. Lopez: $11,000, and it's always better if you buy it brand new, obviously it has warranties.
Mr. Cooper: Well the thing is you want to get somebody that can actually, if there's an issue with it, be able to do stuff, I mean you can get something and then you have to find a place to go ahead and put the shocks in, to do all the work into it, and that's not necessarily the easiest thing to find.
Mr. Aponte: Custom track style sunbrella enclosure, we don't need that, so that's
$790 less.
Mr. Quesada:  Well the sunbrella, I believe that's for the raingear.
Mr. Aponte:  Right but we don't need that.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok.
Mr. Aponte: So that's $800 less. Windshield we would need. LED light bar on top, I don't think we need that, we don't need a wet sound bar, you know what I mean, all this stuff is just not necessary, all we need is a cart to take us from point A to point B.
Ms. Castro:  But didn't we use the bar on top at night? Mr. Cooper: Yes, light bar.
Mr. Quesada:  Yes, you need that, the light bar, you might want to have that.
Mr. Aponte:	So let's remove the  one we have  on there, and have  somebody install it.
Ms. Castro: Listen, how much does it cost? Mr. Winkeljohn: $480.
Mr. Aponte: $480.
Ms. Castro:  Really, you're going to use some 11year old light bar? Mr. Winkeljohn:  I think Ben has what he needs.
Mr. Cooper: What does Ben need?
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Mr. Quesada: What number is good for you?
Mr. Cooper: Ok so where do you guys want to be number-wise, so we can get this thing honed in or are we waiting for whenever because Ben has a lot of stuff going on and I don't want to keep wasting his time looking for stuff if we're not going to make any decisions on this.  Brad, you seem like you want to hold off.
Mr. Compton: Yes.
Ms. Castro: How much did we pay, did you find out how much we paid for the other golf cart?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  I don't have it handy, I'd have to look it up in our archives.
Ms. Castro: Because I think that when you  have that amount of money that would be a good starting point for us to have this discussion. I would be comfortable paying whatever we paid for the other golf cart, maybe a little bit more.
Mr. Lopez: What did we pay for the other one?
Ms. Castro: That is what he's going to find out for us. Mr. Aponte: $16,000.
Mr. Quesada: Ok, just let me know because again there's so many options out there, I think just having a range to look at will help me narrow it down for you guys.
Mr. Lopez: GEMs are good because they're diesel too, you get away from the battery plugging stuff and just put diesel in it, and it's street legal.
Mr. Quesada:  You're talking about gas, ok.
Mr. Compton: I would rather spend the money and get a quality product that's going to last like it has. I don't have a problem spending the money specifically, I just don't think that now is the right time for that. I don't think it's something that we have to have right now, and I think we're better off waiting a little bit longer until we're in a better position to do it because to do so right now I think we're going to have to take money away from the projects that we need to do, or should be doing for our residents and putting it into the golf cart. So that's going to be putting us in a situation where we do one of two things, we either spend quite a bit of money and get what we really want,
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our project list, or we go with a much cheaper option, we settle for something else that's either not going to be of the same quality or it's not going to fit our needs as well as we can, and we're still going to be not doing some of those projects, just not as many of them.  I don't think either of those are good options.
Mr. Cooper: When are we not going to have a project that we could use the money towards? That's a fair question.
Mr. Compton: It is, but I think right now just happens to be a little different position than we would otherwise be in because we already had a set of projects we were planning on doing for the following year, and we're already having to pair that list down.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Right and most  of that is still contingent on your FEMA reimbursement because don't forget you have a sizable amount of money that is still not back in your accounting, so that would be an important element as well.
Mr. Compton:  Right.
Mr. Cooper:  Where are we standing financially now?
Mr. Winkeljohn: Well it's the end of the year, or the beginning of the next year, and you have no revenue until another 5 weeks or so.  So you have about $300,000 or
$400,000 in cash but you're going to burn through it until you start getting the 2019 revenue in because you use reserves from the prior year to cover the first quarter operating.
Mr. Cooper: Ok, so when would you think that it would be a good time to say, if
we were going to pull this trigger, we'd be able to pull the trigger?
Mr. Winkeljohn: Well what I typically say is, I wait until the January, February, or early winter for any catastrophes or anything unusual, or anything unexpected, and then at that point what you're doing is you're developing your 2020 budget and then you can start making decisions then, and that is a good cycle for you.
Ms. Castro: Ok. What I don't like about this one is the fact that the two people in
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Mr. Quesada: E-Z Go does have that option that's in there, it's an extended roof.
Ms. Castro: So that's what I would be looking for, even if they're rear facing, that doesn't really matter.
Mr. Quesada:  For space in our shed I think we're going to have to have rear
facing.
Ms. Castro:  That's fine. Mr. Quesada:  Ok.
Ms. Castro: I just need the roof.
Mr. Cooper:  Ben, how often have you had 6 people in the golf cart?
Mr. Quesada: Once in a blue moon, other than our lighting drive, hardly ever.
Mr. Cooper: So if we were going to be doing it where we have a need all the time to have somebody sit out there, then I could see that would be a negative thing to not have.
Mr. Lopez: Where's our to do list? I'm sorry I missed that.
Mr. Quesada:  I didn't bring it with me, I'll have it up to date for you at the next meeting.
Mr. Lopez: Do we still have things on our to do list? Mr. Quesada: Of course, yes.
Ms. Castro: We always have things on our to do list.
Mr. Aponte:  We have a whole bunch of things on our to do list. Mr. Lopez:  What's #1 on our to do list?
Mr. Quesada: It was the speed humps after the walkway.
Mr. Lopez: So speed humps after the walkway, then that's what we should take,
$25,000 and put it into the to do list. I don't think right now we need to, I mean this is a
11want", not a need. We have things we /1 need" to do.
Mr. Quesada:  And I would say, I believe our roadway markings, which Curtis was previously saying.
Mr. Lopez:  That's another thing, I was going to ask you about that since you
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Mr. Quesada: So that's next on our list and we were looking somewhere I think in the $20,000 to $30,000 range.
Mr. Lopez: So you see all those markings, they're missing all over the place. Mr. Aponte: And we have landscaping to replace, we've got a lot of things.
Mr. Lopez: At the Christmas tree lighting, a lot of those things  got kicked around, what do they call them?
Mr. Quesada: Reflectors, RPMs
Mr. Lopez: Right, they're called RPMs, exactly, that's the correct term. The RPMs, they got kicked right off the glue that they're on, I mean that's a necessity.
Mr. Aponte:  They're all over the place.
Mr. Lopez: So "needs" and "wants", and I think this is a "want", so I'm going to vote no.
Mr. Quesada:  I think we can get some good LED lights out there for those RPMs.
Mr. Compton: In my opinion, and I tell you the way in which I will vote, I'm not comfortable spending any amount of money like this on this right now. I think this is something that we look at, we start planning out for next year, and it's fine to get the numbers, let's figure out kind of what we want, exactly what we want.
Mr. Quesada: I'll add this to the list.
Mr. Compton: Yes, and so we got good numbers for budgeting purposes, we know exactly what we want, we have time to digest it, but when we actually pull the trigger, for me, I think next year is when we need to do it, not now.
Ms. Castro: I do have a question because I'm not too educated on golf carts, why top of the line, why GEM? What is the reason to go after top of the line? Is it like going after a Land Rover versus a Subaru?
Mr. Cooper:  It's the quality, the craftsmanship of the crop.
Mr. Quesada: I have another example, GEM is like a highest grade of the golf cart world, so they're more energy efficient and they're  less maintenance as far as energy consumption of the batteries and all of that.

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Ms. Castro: When we got this other golf cart, was it top of the line, or was it like middle of the pack?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  It was just very unique because it was fully solar powered. Mr. Cooper:  It was solar and energy saving.
Ms. Castro: But as far as brand went, was it top of the line?
Mr. Cooper: I don't know, it's a Japanese brand, and Alex did all the research on that I believe.
Ms. Castro: It was Dennis, the one who did it, I remember Dennis bringing it up to us, but was that brand top of the line at the time?
Mr. Winkeljohn: It was the only available golf cart in our budget at the time, solar powered golf cart, that fit 6 people, like there weren't 10 of them to choose from, we had one that fit the bill, and it was a reconditioned golf cart.
Ms. Castro: Yes I remember, solar powered.
Mr. Winkeljohn:   So it's not exactly apples to apples discussion because of the
solar.
Mr. Cooper: I mean, I know this last time when we were driving, it did 4 trips, to and from the Waterstone Grand to the clubhouse before it needed to be charged up again, so I'm just throwing that out there.
Mr. Aponte: And it is something that we'll need in the future, but Ben is not going to be doing 4 trips back and forth. I think next year, we need a shuttle bus because that's not going to work, so we're not going to use it to be bringing people back and forth, so if it's going to make it throughout the next year, and it's going to work, like Brad mentioned, let's just prepare for it, let's budget for it and if we're going to go out and get the best of the best, let's budget for it so we can get the best of the best, but for right now let's just sit on it and let's move on.
Mr. Quesada: Ok so what I have for here, is table for now and I'll be adding it to the project list.
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Ms. Castro: Ok, and if you can please bring some other models to see, even if it's under GEM.
Mr. Quesada: Ok.
Mr. Cooper: I think Sonia the best thing for you to do is, I would rather have you look, do some research on it, and see what you can find.
Mr. Quesada:   Consider what Curtis said, there's a lot of  4 seater options too.
I've been looking at just 6 seaters, and there's not a whole lot of them.
Ms. Castro: That's what I had done with him before when we found the vendor here in Homestead, you don't have those available Ben? The ones that we found with the vendor here in Homestead, the guys who sold us the tires?
Mr. Quesada:  Yes.
Ms. Castro: He had the custom one that he could make for us in teal.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, I have that, and again, without the paint, everything else though, it listed everything else, and give me two seconds, I'll tell you right now.
Ms. Castro:  Yes because we did this legwork before.
Mr. Quesada: And I have some photos, and again, I wanted to pull something for you guys for now because I know that's something we've been talking about for a while is looking into new options, but there's plenty of used out there, and I did a little bit of homework on that.
Mr. Aponte: But we also in the past talked about leasing.
Mr. Quesada: So about $4,800 for everything minus customized the colors, all the seats and the paint because he doesn't do that, he does that in-house, so for a used 6 seater E-Z Go, it was about $4,800.
Ms. Castro:  And how good is E-Z Go?
Mr. Quesada: Compared to what you saw in that picture, you can take a look at the models.
Mr. Aponte:  E-Z Go's are everywhere.
Ms. Castro:  No, not aesthetic-wise, as far as quality goes?

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Mr. Aponte: They're still around, I think they've been making E-Z Go's since the 70s and they're still here.
Mr. Quesada: The two most popular brands of golf carts and most widely used golf courses with the most variety and most options you can customize are E-Z Go and Club Cart, those are the two brands that are most typical. GEM is again, we're talking high grade styles, so GEM is considered top of the line.
Ms. Castro: Ok so circling back to the topic at hand, so this one, can they lift it? Mr. Quesada: Yes.
Ms. Castro: So they can lif t it, so for how much money? Mr. Quesada: $4,800 for everything.
Mr. Cooper: And there's no cost to do all the customized painting, the lift, the lifting, the tires.
Mr. Quesada: Again, he has the tires are included and it's everything except for doing the seats and the paint, and I don't have those numbers yet, that's what I'm missing.
Ms. Castro:  I think it went up by $2,000 or $2,500 to have it teal if we wanted it.
Mr. Quesada: What we'd have to do, because he does repairs, and he obviously has an occasional golf cart that he restores, so you have to go to someone like Advance Golf Carts, and they would go and customize the paint and the cushions for you.
Mr. Cooper: So we would buy this from somebody else, and take it to him to get customized?
Ms. Castro: No, you get it from him.

Mr. Aponte:

You  can  but  the  key  is  chassis,  so  you're  not  getting  newer

equipment because you're not going to be able to customize to what we need, so that's what we need to look at, is an older model that we can find cheap and then you take it to them and then have them customize it.
Mr. Quesada: Add all brand new parts.
Mr. Aponte: Yes.

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Ms. Castro: Do we really need it customized, why can't we have a red golf cart or a teal golf cart?
Mr. Cooper:  Well listen when we do things in the District, we do things right.
Ms. Castro: I don't see what's wrong about having a blue golf cart, and I'm usually the stickler for the teal.
Mr. Cooper: Ok just like the Christmas lights, we have attention to detail, how things flow, the blending, and we're all looking at all those different things, it's the same thing with the golf cart.
Ms. Castro: If we can get you a golf cart this year for $6,000, wouldn't you prefer
that?
Mr. Cooper: I don't even want that but I just don't want to not make a decision and then we have to spend $2,000 additional into this one again because something went wrong on it and now you just threw $2,000 more away when we could have started fresh, so this one will last, the higher priced one, and even if we went with the cheaper one, it's $2,000 a year if it lasts another 11years like we just had this other one here. So if we're looking at a $2,000 investment a year to be able to get Ben to do what he needs to do and aesthetically-wise it works out good, that's a win but, I agree, I don't think right now is the right time, I want to wait at least until we can get some of the money in and we get past this hump and maybe in January or February, come back to the table and make a decision.
Ms. Castro: Ok so then we can move on. Mr. Compton: Ok. Ben anything else?
Mr. Quesada: Everything is in my facilities report if you have any questions let me know, I'm just keeping you up to date with all the work that's going on. I do have another update, the surge protection that should be done in the last week of November, he's got almost all the parts he needs. He's missing a few more and he's going to come in here, and that should get knocked out in the last week of November for all our surge protection.   We are going to roll out the BAI reader system for the guardhouse that we
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good shape. So we already put a deposit down, the parts are ordered.  We just have to work on the details because it's going to be a little bit labor intensive as far as customizing our software for our needs, but we're working on that with Mack as well. So we got brand new servers for the Access control system, and you'll have brand new readers and the whole BAI option which is what Floridian Bay and Marbella Bay use, so I'm working on those details now for them to come back.
Ms. Castro: Ok, and then when do we pick the colors?
Mr. Quesada: I believe we already discussed that, they were going to do tint for residents and black and white for renters on the barcode stickers, we're going to get 1,000 and that was included in the price that they quoted us but we'll start off with 1,500 for each of those colored options.
Ms. Castro: The tinted one that you said was the one that was clear?
Mr. Quesada: Yes, and black on black, so the black on black will be residents because it blends in a little bit better, and then you'll have the black and white for the renters.
Mr. Cooper: Do you want to do a trial run, like sending it out to some people, like maybe the Board members of the different option ones, so we can get a gauge and fine tune the equipment and do a test on them?
Ms. Castro: That's what we did with the E-passes.

Mr. Quesada:

Of  course, but  again, I  can just  tell  you  from reference-wise

because Marbella's doing it, and Floridian Bay, and we didn't have any issues with the readers, they have a really high success rate.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Right they're nearly 100%. Mr. Lopez:  They're really good.
Mr. Quesada: And it's a dual reader so it aims up and it aims down, it covers the area of the car, so all shapes and sizes.
Mr. Lopez:  There's got to be an option, what about people who have a short
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Mr. Quesada: I'm going to try, and I cannot guarantee something but, because you already have communities using them, it would just be a matter of them possibly registering so they don't need two stickers, so that's the part of the little details that I'm trying to iron down with Kevin.
Mr. Winkeljohn: So our stickers are compatible with the internal readers so they only need one.
Mr. Lopez:  One sticker right.
Ms. Castro: How are we going to phase out the E-passes?
Mr. Winkeljohn: You just leave both of them running until there's a time when it's convenient.
Ms. Castro: Ok perfect.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  I'm seeing.
Ms. Castro: Ok so Curtis wouldn't that go against what we need to have a far as clearance for fire trucks, the 20' because we would have an object on the road?
Mr. Cooper: No it wouldn't be on the road, it's on the curb and the sidewalk, so you have the grass right there, it's not on the road. I'm just trying to look at it, like say for example Mike's got it already installed in his community and it's on the right side.
Mr. Quesada: The scanner is on the left side.
Mr. Lopez: Yes, I think the lef t side makes the most sense. Mr. Aponte:  Right.
Mr. Lopez: Another question, I'm soon going to be on a subscription program, a vehicle subscription program, which means once a month I can drive into a parking lot and take out a car, what's going to happen let's say to me?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  You just don't enjoy the convenience.
Mr. Quesada: I'm going to tell you, I never had a specific case like that here but, there's occasional people that have to rotate cars for their jobs, so it's one of those things where there's a way to pay it or not.
Mr. Lopez:  I think we should find out some happy medium for that, there's got
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limbo but, I need a vehicle while I'm here but at the same time I can't get into a long term lease, so it can't be a 12 or 24 month lease like I used to do or whatever. So a subscription program, it's on a month to month lease basically, and you can break it at any time. What we do at Floridian Bay Estates is we gave this person a sticker, and they have it on a piece of plexiglas and they're able to come in and out because it's unfair also for a person who's constantly changing vehicles to have to comply with the sticker policy, and I'm not saying to do it for me, I'm saying you have to have something in
place for people, and I don't mind, I really don't.

Mr.  Winkeljohn:

One of  the  options is you  add a small, another  opening

capability with a clicker, a hand clicker, and if somebody qualifies for it you can recover your costs and I'm doing it in a few communities because there's a window problem and the other option to the external ones, they don't want to put that on Ferrari's sometimes, so they have a clicker, like an old school garage door opener, and it's $150 once and then they use that, they can bring it in and out of the their car.
Mr. Lopez: Right, so there's got to be something, you guys just can't arbitrarily say, oh no there's nothing.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  I put one in for $500 or $600, the clickers are about $60 because they're programmed, and you buy 20 of them, plus the $500.
Mr. Lopez:  So on the BAI you can do this?
Mr. Winkeljohn: It's an additional thing, but it's just like an override clicker. Mr. Lopez: That's not a bad deal.
Mr. Aponte: That's a great idea, I like that.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Do you want to mention that to Kevin? Mr. Quesada:  About that plexiglas?
Ms. Castro:  No.
Mr. Lopez: Like a clicker.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  I'll explain it to him.
Mr. Lopez: Right Paul has it, Paul understands. Mr. Winkeljohn: I got you, I'll explain to him.

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Mr. Compton:

Alright, good.

D. Manager Mr. Compton:

Moving along, Paul your report?

Mr. Winkeljohn: I have nothing else to add. The only thing I would ask you guys, just planning a little bit ahead, you've given us a lot of work which is great, it's going to carry us well into the holidays, and unless you have some policy, I wouldn't suggest the December meeting. It's a good way to save a little bit of money and give staff a little bit of a break so we can get some work done, that's just my suggestion.
Mr. Lopez: So do you need a motion for that?

Mr. Winkeljohn:

No, we  don't need  a motion, I just  say it out loud and

if

somebody says, why are we canceling the meeting, you'll know, I just explained why.
Mr. Compton:  Yes, I'm fine with that.  Is there any objection? Mr. Aponte:  None.
Mr. Compton:  Ok.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS
A. Approval of Check Run Summary

Financial Reports

B. Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Mr. Cooper:   Then moving on to the financials.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

Supervisors Requests
Comments

and Audience

Mr. Cooper: Ok, Supervisors requests?  Mr. Lopez?
Mr. Lopez:  Is there anything I can do, I actually have a break today, so is there anything I can do as a CDD Board member?	I do want to report that we have a new

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Pebblebrook Board and it's going to be great for the District, but other than that, I have no requests right now.
Mr. Compton: Ok, Ms. Castro do you have anything?
Ms. Castro: No, my only request is to do the speed humps as soon as possible because I foresee a problem with the exit at guardhouse #3. Other than that, if you can please tell BrightView to please fix that area in the front of the clubhouse, those plants look horrendous, they need to fix that.
Mr. Quesada:  You're talking about the flowers right here? Ms. Castro: Yes, what's left of them.
Mr. Cooper: The golf cart hasn't worked very well so they haven't been able to do the drive by over the by the front of the clubhouse to be able to inspect them.
Ms. Castro: Oh that's why, ok Mr. Quesada: Ok
Ms. Castro: Oh and there is an agave down the road past Oaks, I believe it's between Oaks and Pointe, that was going to murder both Mike and I when we were walking down the road for the MOT, on Saturday, so the agaves they need to make sure that they are being scaled back
Mr. Quesada: I'm pretty sure they did that this week but I'll double check
Ms. Castro: Well they need to keep a watchful eye so that this doesn't happen anywhere.
Mr. Quesada: I'll double check and make sure it gets done. Ms. Castro: Thank you.
Mr. Winkeljohn: For the tape purposes, if we could get through the meeting that would be good.
Mr. Compton:  Let's move on, anything else Ms. Castro?
Ms. Castro: The last thing that I wanted to really bring up was a very big thank you for both Myra and Ben for doing such an amazing job at the lighting ceremony on Saturday.  We appreciate you tremendously, I don't know where we found Myra but I
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don't think you would find better staff anywhere at GMS, than the people that we have right here.
Mr. Lopez: I'll second that.
Mr. Winkeljohn: It starts with you guys. Mr. Quesada: Thank you.
Mr. Compton: Just to follow up on that, beside from our perspective I know, I got a lot of good feedback from the community, they were extremely pleased with the lighting ceremony, so thank you very much for all that you did from the Board and from the community.
Mr. Quesada: Thank you, it's an honor to work here, I appreciate it, thank you. Mr. Compton: Ok, anything else?
Ms. Castro:  No.
Mr. Compton:  Mr. Aponte?
Mr. Aponte: I don't have anything other than, I just wanted to thank you guys for your support during the election process.
Ms. Castro: Oh yes, thank you, we are excited. Mr. Compton: Mr. Cooper?
Mr. Cooper: Mr. Quesada, can you do me favor, shirts for the newly elected officials for the District, make sure that everyone has one.
Mr. Aponte: Miguel's shirts are new, I'm the only one who really needs them. Mr. Quesada: Ok.
Mr. Cooper: Also I need a teal one so that I can match everybody next year at the event. I just want to touch along those same lines  with  regards  to  the  community. There's this wonderful App that people like posting their views and really don't do too much with it, outside of that, but it's kind of cool seeing some of the posts that were on there. One person put, this is beautiful every time that I pass by the kids all get excited, I love  it, they  go all  out  every year  and  that  was  last year.   Waterstone  is lovely,  it's
beautiful at Christmas, yes I like to drive through there with the kids it's so beautiful, a

lot  of  people  were  taking  pictures  over  by  the  tree.

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communities, they pay a lot but they don't really get anything for what they have. I love it, it makes the holidays feel cheerful, Waterstone is such a beautiful community and the tree lighting event last night, my kids had a blast. So I know these events take up a lot of our time, especially the preparation work, and people that come to these events don't see the behind the scenes nightmares that sometimes happen. The day of the events with vendors not showing up or the night before, and you guys really picked up some of the pieces that got dropped, not by Ben or Myra's doing but we came together as a team.
Mr. Lopez:  And Sal did a very good job of getting us the Florida Grand Opera. Mr. Cooper: Yes.
Mr. Quesada: And with the piano performer, I have some really good photos for you guys, I'll circulate them to you.
Mr. Lopez:  Alright.
Mr. Aponte:  That's awesome.
Mr. Cooper: So we have such a great team between Waterstone I and Waterstone II, managers, and everybody kind of stepped it up this year, I look forward to next year seeing what's going to transpire, especially with the white horses taking people to and from their cars.
Ms. Castro:  What, white horses? Mr. Aponte: Yes.
Mr. Cooper: They had white horses with the carriages, the carriage rides to and from the school.
Ms. Castro: Yes.
Mr. Cooper: So these are people that commented who are not even from Waterstone. So just seeing that stuff gets you in the Christmas spirit early in November and thank you guys, I appreciate it.
Mr. Winkeljohn: You guys let's finish the business of the meeting while the tape is trying to transcribe.
Mr. Compton: Let's just wrap up and stay on form.

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Mr. Cooper: One last thing, I know it's probably on the wish list but I know you guys did some research with regards to the traffic speed sign?
Mr. Winkeljohn: Right, I have some good prices and good recommendations on a mobile sign, it's about $2,500.
Mr. Cooper: Ok, alright.  Then lastly just on the record if you could, I would like to see about, we do still have some time so maybe we can make it happen depending on the cost, the Christmas balls for the tree with every ball having each community's logo.
Mr. Quesada: To add to the ornaments, I'll talk to CDI.

Ms. Castro:

They  can do it but  when  I requested  that, it was  ridiculously

expensive, like ridiculous.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  We could have people do them. on their own and then add them. to the tree.
Ms. Castro: Well we have a Board member that has a printer for stickers, maybe we ask her to print us the stickers and we just get our balls and put them. on.
Mr. Quesada:  Right.
Mr. Cooper: But we need to see, can you guys reach out to your constituents over there and see if you can get the logos?
Mr. Compton: Yes it shouldn't be a problem.. Mr. Cooper: Ok.
Mr. Compton: Do we do that now? Mr. Cooper: And we will add ours. Ms. Castor: No, for next year.
Mr. Cooper: Alright, that's all I have.
Mr. Compton: My only question is with respect to our website once again, with the adjustments we need to make for that, where are we at with that and what's the timing in which we need to have it done to keep ourselves out of trouble?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  We're more than 18 months away, so that part is fine.
Mr. Compton:  Ok.

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Mr. Winkeljohn: The conversion is to take all documents and move them to RTF format, that seems to work much better than PDF, so we're doing that already, just  as a natural change of policy.   I do have I think two website  proposals, one is Hemingway
Point, one of your adjacent communities, they found a tech who has an excellent price,

and I'm reviewing that next week, and I've got your original web designer, who had price for me which I just got so I'll be going down that road shortly.
Mr. Compton: Good, sounds good.

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SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

Adjournment

Mr. Compton:  Now I will entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting.

Chairman/Vice Chairman

Secretary / Assistant Secretary

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On MOTION by Ms. Castro seconded by Mr. Aponte with all in favor, the Meeting was adjourned.