MINUTES OF MEETING TURTLE RUN
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

A regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Turtle Run Community Development District was held on Monday, April 27, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. at the Coral Bay Recreation Center, 3101 South Bay Drive, Margate, Florida.

Present and constituting a quorum:
Barry Winfree	Chairman
Skip Carney	Vice Chairman
Virginia Tropea	Assistant Secretary
Rob Shipe	Assistant Secretary (via telecommunications) Also present were:
Patrick Burgess	District Manager
Pat Szozda	GMS
Scott Cochran	District Counsel
Jonathan Geiger	District Engineer
Rhonda Mossing	MBS Capital Markets
Darrin Mossing	GMS Several residents

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS	Roll Call
Mr. Burgess called the meeting to order and called the roll.

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS	Moment of Silence
Mr. Winfree led a moment of silence.
THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Pledge of Allegiance
Mr. Winfree led the Pledge of Allegiance.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Good News
Mr. Winfree: It is time for good news. Does anybody have any good news? Mr. Carney: I would like to say that the park is looking good.
Mr. Winfree: I agree. I don’t know if anybody has driven by there in the last couple of day, but they have really done a good job with the parking lot. They are cleaning it up.

The whole park is being cleaned up as we speak so it is looking a whole lot better than it used to. That is a good thing. The other good thing that is a good thing, probably for one person in particular is the rain. If that keeps up for a couple more days we will be in pretty good shape. The lakes are up almost covering the geo-tubes.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Approval of the Minutes of the
March 30, 2026 Meeting
Mr. Winfree: We have the approval of the minutes of the meeting from March 30, 2026. Can I get a motion for that? Any discussion? Anything needing to be changed?
Mr. Burgess: We do have a couple corrections from District Counsel. So it would be a motion to accept the revised minutes from District Counsel. Just for the record Rob Shipe is on Zoom.

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, the Minutes of the March 30, 2026 Meeting with indicated changes from District Counsel were approved.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration of Underwriting
Agreement with MBS Capital Markets, LLC
Mr. Winfree: The next thing on the agenda is the consideration of Underwriting Agreement with MBS Capital Markets, LLC. I think we are going to run through the document that we sent out. If you could explain some of that and give us a little intro that would be great.
Ms. Mossing: I am Rhonda Mossing with MBS Capital Markets. We have been involved with the District, I have been involved with the District since the day it was created through the management team. Thereafter we became involved with the District during the refunding bonds and the issuance of your bonds in 2017 when you had that project. Back in 2021 you hired us to look at some lake bank erosion financing at that time which you didn’t follow through on, but we were under contract with you then to work with you on that. Because those agreements are stale and under SCC rules we are

required to be under contract with the District to answer any question regarding bond structuring that you might have and to show you numbers of what the bond structures and financing could look like. That is why you have this agreement before you today. It outlines the scope of services, and I am ready to answer any questions you may have about it.
Mr. Carney: I just want to make a statement. Right now we don’t know the total cost of the project. In order for us to put together a number for a bond we would need to know the total cost of the project. That would be the place that we would need to go to, correct, Scott?
Mr. Cochran: Yes.
Mr. Carney: I know we are the preplanning stage which is a good place to be and appreciate you being here. I do know that in having a conversation with Jennifer today, Jennifer Wasserman, our accountant, it pretty much looks like although we do have undesignated cash, and I think it would probably be goo to fund the project in total knowing what the numbers are and not take it from the undesignated cash because we may need that for something else. I think we are on the same page as far as that is concerned. With that said anybody else have any questions?
Mr. Winfree: I have a couple. Do you have any questions? Ms. Tropea: I may.
Mr. Winfree: Do you want to go now or do you want to wait? Ms. Tropea: I will wait.
Mr. Winfree: Can you explain the difference between reading through the document I see an underwriter, I see the District, I see there were some other terms in there, is there multiple roles in this that we will be dealing with?
Ms. Mossing: We will either act as your underwriter if we do a public offering of bonds or we will act as a placement agent if we do a private placement with a bank. You will see those terms quite often with a slash, underwriter/placement agent depending upon which direction you decide you want to go with the bonds.
Mr. Winfree: I think I saw somewhere there was an advisor or something also.
Ms. Mossing: It references in there a fiduciary which we are not. We are not acting as the District’s financial advisor. We are acting as your underwriter or your placement

agent. The difference is a financial advisor will work for you and give you advice on whether or not your underwriter is bringing you what is considered to be a fair market price for the bonds. As an underwriter if it is a public offering will work with the attorneys to write the offering statement for the offering, pull together all the details that are needed for that to market those bonds. We will market those bonds. We will look at the pricing of similar CDD bonds throughout the state prior to pricing the bonds and then we will go out to the market, and we will offer the bonds at a specific price that is competitive with everything else that is going on at the time. Once we do that then we come back to you and we will tell you we were successful in placing the bonds and we enter into a bond purchase agreement with the District where we buy the bonds and then we turn around and close those bonds and sell those bonds then to the investors that we have talked that have given us feedback that they would be willing to buy them at the price that we have asked. If we get out there and the rate that we go out with to the market is high and we get a lot of interest in those bonds then we take a step back, we lower the rate and we go back out into the market and see what kind of interest we still have. We want to get the District the best market price that we can, but we are not going to give you financial advice and tell you that this is the best market price that you can get. We are going to tell you this is where we feel it is at. A fiduciary would give you that financial advice and that is just one more player in the bond financing that you would have to pay to hire a fiduciary. You are not required to hire a fiduciary but sometimes CDDs do. It is usually on larger public issues not on bank placements and it is usually more related to revenue bonds where the financing security is more of a utility nature and less often with CDD bonds where it is an assessment bond issue. There is a lot of data out there from one day to the next on where those bonds are pricing. It is really a very limited market, limited investors that buy those bonds. It is not a lot of unknown that typically a financial advisor would be brought into advice on. You can certainly do that.
Mr. Winfree: If I understand correctly then I am assuming you have in here a few things that you said you are a not fiduciary in this position, but you do follow the MSRB Rule G17 which is to quote fairness and everything that is treated the same way. Is there any reason why you can’t do that in a fiduciary capacity for the District?

Ms. Mossing: Because that would be a conflict of interest. You wouldn’t hire us to do both.
Mr. Winfree: Ok. One other quick question when I was reading through Exhibit A and maybe just clarify this, the underwriter purchases securities from the District?
Ms. Mossing: Right. You are the issuer.
Mr. Winfree: So you buy our debt and then you place it however it works so that is why is it is from. It kind of struck me when you were buying it from the District. I didn’t quite understand that.
Ms. Mossing: You are actually selling bonds, and we are buying them from you and then reselling them to investors like the Franklin Fund, and all of the big funds that invest in tax-free municipal bonds.
Mr. Winfree: The last time when we went out for bonds did we have a fiduciary advisor?
Ms. Mossing: You did not.
Mr. Winfree: The last question I have is are we required to bid this out for an underwriter or for the best price or anything? There is nothing restricting us.
Mr. Cochran: No.
Mr. Winfree: Anything else?
Mr. Shipe: So are we saying 30 year bonds or is there is an option to do a 20 or 40 year or is it a 30 year bond that we are looking at?
Ms. Mossing: Hiring us we will work with the District on structuring different financing plans. The nice part about hiring us is you don’t pay us unless the bonds get issued. We can do modeling for you all day long. We can compare the numbers from a public offering where you would go out to the market and sell those bonds with a 30 year maturity or we can bring back to you a structure that is a bank financing that wouldn’t be more than 20 years but could be anywhere between 5, 10, 15, or 20 years. I think that is going to be depending upon what assessments the Board feels comfortable passing through for the payment of the debt service every year. Naturally if you do a 30 year bond issue and you borrow say $5,000,000 the assessments are going to be lower than a 5 year bond issue that you are borrowing $5,000,000 on.  We will help you model any

scenario that you want to see anywhere between a public offering and a private placement.
Mr. Carney: Once we know the total number of what it is going to cost. Mr. Carney was inaudible at this time.
Ms. Mossing: The first step in the process will be for the District to get an engineer’s report prepared that outlines what the project is. Then from that engineer’s report you can look at it and say ok this is a five or six year phase what do we need for the first three years. Once you issue bonds you have a tax obligation to spend that money within three years. You wouldn’t go out and issue debt for six years if you are not going to spend it.
Mr. Winfree: I am kind of jumping ahead on something we are going to discuss in a few minutes under the next item, but I don’t know if you plan on leaving or staying but the question I have is can we start working with some of the reserves we have now. We don’t want to deplete our reserves, which we have number one, that is why we are thinking of the bonds. It all depends on how much this is going to cost. We still don’t have that number. That seems to be fluctuating a little bit. We have a little bit of money and this process of doing the engineering phases and then going into the bond process is going to take a while. This isn’t something that is going to be done maybe by Christmas with all that has to be done. If we get the engineering study done and we get the bonds started and that is in process can we take some of our reserves and actually start working backwards sort of speak to get some of the work done so we can continuously get this done and get it done sooner and then when we get the bond money we could put it back in the reserves. Is that a feasible alternative?
Ms. Mossing: What I would suggest is a reimbursement agreement. Scott will give you that opinion more legal than I will but the reimbursement agreement if you enter into it now, identify projects that you are going to be working on that you are going to spend the District’s reserves on that you have with the intent to get reimbursed for that at some later date when you issue financing. That makes it work.
Mr. Winfree: Ok. The other thing is I don’t know if we can do this or if we want to do this the only question I also had is we have put a lot of time and effort into Avana, and we still have a lot more to go there. It is going to cost us quite a bit. Can we incorporate

that into our overall project and use our bond money to pay for that rather than depleting once again our actual reserves to get that project done?
Mr. Cochran: Yes. It is up to the District working with the District engineer to define the scope of the project. As long as it is something that will support a municipal bond. There is certain types of things that the District can fund but that you can’t necessarily pay for with bond funds because of the tax rules and things like that. You will have bond counsel involved once you start going through the process that can speak to those kind of tax issues and bond issues. Generally you are dealing with storm water infrastructure type issues. It doesn’t have to be limited to just the erosion thing but whatever the scope of the project is as defined in the engineer’s report that is what sets the parameters on what the bond money can go to.
Mr. Winfree: So that is something we can work in if we decide to do so. Ok. That answers my questions for now. I guess there is a last question. I noticed that you wanted to enter into this is there anything that is prevented us for waiting for this or is there any advantage doing it now? I need some guidance on this. We are talking two months for the first phase, how long before we even have numbers to start working with?
Mr. Geiger: Like you said the schedule for phase 1 is the end of June. The sooner we enter into this the sooner we get an updated schedule. I hope by the end of the year we can knock this all out. It is an issue that we are dealing with South Florida Management, dealing with the funding, dealing the rainy season coming up and everything.
Mr. Burgess: I spoke with Landshore and they said assuming the Board approves the 2 through 6 engineer studies that are on the agenda they said they anticipate a time frame would be around late July.
Mr. Winfree: For all of it?
Mr. Burgess: Yes. Late May or early June for phase 1.
Mr. Winfree: Phase 1 we can start right away. We already approved everything for that so they should be working on that already. If we approve 2 – 3 get that moving. We are fourteen months into this, and we are just talking about an engineering study. That is not good.

Mr. Burgess: Avana they said the design for what you approved at the last meeting will be finalized by the end of this week. That is moving.
Mr. Winfree: That is a good thing and then if we could start doing the projects we can maybe move into that and get some of this stuff moving along.
Mr. Burgess: Is there any benefit of approving your agreement today?
Ms. Mossing: I can see no negatives because you don’t pay us unless you issue bonds. Just like when we were hired by you in 2021. We did a lot of modeling for you. You didn’t issue the bonds so there was no cost to you. The benefits are if you enter into our agreement today I can do modeling and if you tell me ok we want to net $2,000,000 for phases 1 and 2 I can tell you what that is going to cost in bonds and what the annual assessments will be to each one of your property owners so that you can say maybe we don’t want to do 10 years maybe we want to do 15 years to soften that a little bit. I can do a lot model that shows you that. Shows you what the assessment would be based upon current market for any number of years, any type of structure that you think you might be able to come up with.
Mr. Winfree: You are jumping ahead of me a little bit. I got very nervous when you said three years and I know darn well we are not going to spend this to get this project done in three years. Does that really mean we split bonds and do our first phase and then the 3rd and 4th? I am getting a little nervous here.
Ms. Mossing: If it is going to take you six years to do it then I would say you need to break it up into two bonds. Your tax counsel is going to tell you that you have to sign a certificate as the District certifying that you anticipate you are going to spend the money in three years.
Mr. Shipe: When we get the bonds issued from the day of issuance we have to start repaying, making payments on it. Is there a time frame? Is it month to month? I am not exactly sure how the payments go out.
Ms. Mossing: The way it will work is say you guys knew how much money you wanted next week and we could issue those bonds before you certified this year’s tax roll in that bond issuance we would have capitalized interest until November 1, so you have the money to pay the interest from the date of issuance to November 1. You certify the tax roll and that debt service assessment that gets added to the very next tax roll will

cover the principal and interest for May 1 of 2027 and November 1 of 2027. Now if you don’t issue the bonds until January next year we will do the same thing. We will certify the tax roll in 2027 that will capitalize interest from January to November 1 of 2027. That increases your cost of issuance because money that you are cash funding to pay the interest expense on the bonds from the date of the issuance until you get it on the roll.
Mr. Winfree: That is something that we talked about last week. If we are running this late there is no way we are going to get it in for this year. We are not going to have the cost before we get our budget out. Correct? I don’t see how we do that. That is what we were discussing last week how much do we have and it didn’t look like we had enough to get the budget increase for this year or in this year for next year. Now you say it is going to be better then we have to figure out maybe we can do something with the bonds going forward for next year. Pay for it when we get a tax increase.
Ms. Mossing: For the tax roll 2027 – 2028. We can work with you on that. The nice thing is if you do a bank placement and I will go into more detail with you.
Mr. Winfree: We can do a bridge loan or something like that.
Ms. Mossing: It is the same thing as a bank placement. A bank placement you will close on that quicker than doing a public offering because then you are not writing an offering statement. You are just having me contact a list of 20 different banks in the state that are familiar with CDDs and used to this type of financing to give a term sheet to consider and they will give us a proposed rate. We will compare it to the market and come back and tell you this is a good deal.
Mr. Winfree: Just thinking ahead can we do that for a short term and then go into the bonds after?
Ms. Mossing: You wouldn’t want to do that because you are going to pay cost of issuance twice. Cost of issuance you they add up.
Mr. Winfree: What I am getting at though is the bond would have to be spent within three years, so I am thinking we are going to have to split this anyway. We are not going to be able to get this done in three years even after we know the cost. There is alternatives. I am jumping ahead. I put a little let’s call it a planning phase of all the things that we need, and we need the timing for them so when we get to your update we will go through this. I am hearing a little bit of changes that I might have to make to this thing to

figure out what, where, how and why or when we are pulling these things. Do we not see any downside?
Mr. Carney: I think we should be able to enter into an agreement with her tonight.
Mr. Winfree: If we are not obligated for a bid process and we have used it in the past and it has been successful and she is going to follow the G17 we are all set. Our butts are covered right? Everybody agree?
Ms. Tropea: I agree.
Mr. Winfree: Alright, so what does the motion say?
Mr. Burgess: Just a motion to approve the Underwriting Agreement with MBS..

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, The Underwriting Agreement with MBS Capital Markets, LLC, was approved.

Ms. Mossing: If you don’t mind I did bring some information for the Board and I did run two scenarios to give them an idea of where the market is right now. Would you mind if I passed it out?
Mr. Burgess: Yes, absolutely.
Mr. Shipe: Patrick, was the Resolution #2016-08 was that put in there in reference to the last issuance of bonds? I didn’t know exactly why that was put in there. Resolution #2016-08 Expressing the Intent to Utilize the Uniform Method for Levying, Collecting, and Enforcement of Non Ad Valorem Assessment.
Mr. Burgess: No. That is an Exhibit to the Interlocal Agreement. You guys approved that at your November meeting. This is the fully executed version, so you are just ratifying the full executed version.
Mr. Shipe: Ok.
Ms. Mossing: What I passed out for you this evening is just some information that gives you an update on prior bonds that were issued and what those were issued for. I know all the Board members that are here tonight were not here in 1988 for the bond issue or in 1993 probably when they were refinanced. This gives you an idea of the history of the bond issuance of the Board. Slide 14 talks about the 1988 bonds that were issued. Slide 5 talks about in 1993 when those were refunded. It gives you an idea of what the

interest rates were then. Keep in mind that back in 1988 they were concerted dirt bonds because that is what all Turtle Run was. Just a big several acres of dirt. Then the bonds were issued to dig the lakes and the lake banks and the whole system that is listed there that those were spent on. In 2016 there was an engineers report done for some replacement tasks and those 2017 bonds were issued. Those are still outstanding, but you can see what was outlined in the engineer’s report then. For those bonds the District validated in 2016 $11,000,000 and they actually issued in 2017 $7,545,000. What that means is you still have remaining under that original bond validation $3,455,000. That is total par. That is not the net proceeds of that amount. I did talk to your attorneys. I talked to Mike Pawelczyk and Scott Cochran and Pat Burgess prior to this meeting and we did discuss what potentially the District would need. At that time Mike and I agreed and I think Scott did too that the District should probably go through a new bond validation process which means to issue more bonds than what is remaining under the bond validation. You would file basically a validation complaint with the circuit court and basically the District is suing themselves for the right to issue bonds. As part of that validation complaint there will be the engineer’s report that outlines what you need the money for. There will be an assessment methodology report and a bond sizing that determines the sizing of the amount that you want to validate to cover the cost of that project. Just because you validate those bonds like you did back in 2016 doesn’t mean you have to issue them. It means that you won’t issue more than that amount. Then it goes to the court process, and they have a hearing and they validate the bonds. There is a 30 day appeal period after that hearing and you have to do mailed notices to all of your property owners of what bonds are being issued for and what the assessments are going to be. It gives them all kinds of information that is outlined in the statute on what needs to be done. You invite them all to a public hearing to give you their comments on the project that you are proposing and the levy of assessments on their property. You sit as an equalizing Board, and you listen to all the comments, and you determine whether or not you want to proceed or not or if you want to make changes and proceed differently. That is the purpose of the public hearing. Once the public hearing is closed you make a determination of what the assessments are going to be. Then after the validation and the public hearing you are able to go out and issue debt.

Mr. Winfree: The bonds you said we have about $3,500,000 left over. Ms. Mossing: Just a little less.
Mr. Winfree: The interest rate if I remember correctly was pretty favorable compared to now. Correct?
Ms. Mossing: Well back in 2017 when those were issued actually part of the bonds were rated and insured, the underlying security was the residential and the other part of the bonds was non-rated because the underlying security was commercial and you couldn’t get an adjustment grade rating at that time with the concentration of debt that was on the commercial property. The commercial property includes the apartment building because that is considered one tax folio number versus individual tax folio numbers on each residential lot. It was a combined rate but because you validated the bonds back in 2016 doesn’t mean you get that same rate today.
Mr. Winfree: That is what I was asking.
Ms. Mossing: You get today’s market rate. Under the original bond validation you would be limited to two things under the remaining unissued bonds that have been validated. One would be that you couldn’t exceed a certain par amount that was outlined at the time per unit and the other thing that you couldn’t exceed a certain maximum annual debt service assessment that was outlined at that time for that bond validation. This chart on page 9 for example shows you what your current maximum annual debt service is per unit and what your debt capacity is, your maximum that you approved back in 2016. For example a single family home is 540 units, so the current maximum annual debt service is $1,369.30. You committed not to exceed $2,097.70. Depending upon the interest rate that is out there in the market that is going to dictate whether or not you exceed that cap or not. It is going to limit the par amount of bonds you can issue. Even though there is
$3,455,000 left in the validation if you exceed that maximum annual assessment you can’t issue it without another bond validation. That is why we determined when we were talking that it would be in the District’s best interest to do a new bond validation and determine what the total cost of the project was, what your needs would be and then go from there. Then slide 10 just gives you idea of where the municipal market has been since the beginning of the year. When we put this slide together the market BMMD the 30 year was at 4.42. Today it is down to a 4.27. It has come down a bit, which is good. The

District’s bonds will trade off a spread off of the MMD and it will range between 130 basis points and up to 150 basis points depending upon whether or not the bonds are rated and insured and if they get an investment grade rating they will get a lower interest but if they don’t they will get a higher interest rate. It won’t be as high as if they were still dirt bonds because now you have vertical construction, you have houses with assessed values and individual taxpayers and a good credit history. You have an excellent collection history on the collection of your assessments so that all goes into play. It will be somewhere between investment grade rating and non-rated. The rest of the information is just a slide that I pulled of your six year plan phasing map. I understand your engineer is going to pull together some numbers. Slide 12 talks about the new bond validation process. It talks about your options of a private placement or a public offering like we talked about earlier. Slide 13 talks about the benefits, the pluses and the minuses of each. Typically you can get an investment grade rating, you probably have to do it the same as you did it the last time where the residential is rated and the commercial isn’t. Then it is blended rate that goes together to come up with the average. The nice thing about a private placement is the cost of issuance are usually lower. Recently the private placements have been getting a better interest rate than the rated and insured bonds which is a plus. Private placements won’t require a debt service reserve fund which is a cash funded reserve fund that is held by the trustee and can only be used for debt service. You can’t get an investment grade rating without one. Private placement placed with a bank they don’t require one, so you are not setting aside a chunk of money that is just going to sit there and earn a little bit of interest but not be enough interest to be commensurate to what you are paying on the bonds. There is pluses and minuses of both, and I will let you take a look at that. Timetable for closing the bonds. We talked a little bit about the cost of issuance. Slide 16 talks about the various consultants that will be involved. You will pay in cost of issuance your District counsel, your bond counsel, underwriters counsel, District engineer, District manager and assessment consultant, a trustee and trustee’s counsel. There will be a lot of attorneys involved. What you save if you do a private placement versus a public offering is you don’t pay underwriters counsel because you are not producing an offering document that you are going to do a public offering with. That saves you some money there. That was a just a presentation that I put together for your information. Once you

know what you need to finance and if you identify in an engineer’s report the different phases and you say I want to finance phase 1, 5 and 6. You just let me know and we start proceeding from there with modeling how many years you can go out with a private placement and 30 years for a public offering and let you know what your assessments would look like if you proceed in one of those directions.
Mr. Winfree: Like you said it is going to be a combination of things. If we are talking bonds we may not have to worry about the length of the project. Maybe we can do it in less time if Landshore could do it. There is so many variables in this thing it is not funny at this point.
Ms. Mossing: I understand. I have actually several Districts in the state that are having lake bank erosion problems. It is not just here.
Mr. Burgess: Could the engineering study that the Board has approved be considered into the reimbursement?
Ms. Mossing: Definitely. Scott will add that into a reimbursement resolution to list anything related to the hard costs, soft costs, anything the District expended on this particular project so that you can get reimbursed for those costs.
Mr. Burgess: Ok.
Mr. Winfree: Anything else? Mr. Carney: No.
Mr. Winfree: You certainly opened up the door a little bit more. There is a lot to think about. I will talk a little bit more after we get the tax collection out of the way and Item #8. We have three or four more things to do.
Ms. Mossing: Did you want me to stay for the rest of the agenda, or I can continue to work with Patrick?
Mr. Winfree: I don’t see any reason at this point. We have enough information for that. The only thing we have to talk about is the engineer. I don’t know if you sent this to anybody for anybody else has seen it. If we put some timing on this that would certainly help us. What I am referring to is I spend the weekend because I was getting very nervous of everything that is happening, the bonds, and how much cost was going on. I put a little document together, but we will discuss that once we get into the KCI time and figure out how we are going to track this thing because right now we haven’t done in my opinion I

could be wrong, but I don’t see where we have done any real tracking or planning and it is time to start. We are at that point where we can’t keep going like this. We will discuss that when we get to step 10. I think we are good. Unless someone else has a different opinion.
Ms. Mossing: It was nice meeting you. I am sure we will be talking. Mr. Burgess: I will let you know if there is any questions.
Ms. Mossing: Thank you.

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Ratificaion	of	Interlocal	
	Agreement	for	Uniform	
	Collection	Non-Ad	Valorem	
Special Assessments
Mr. Winfree: Item #7 is the ratification of Interlocal Agreement for Uniform Collection of Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessments. I think we are still on the agreement that I signed last year.
Mr. Burgess: Yes that one was approved. Now this is fully executed with the tax collector signature. This is the full executed version that needs ratification.
Mr. Cochran: What had happened I believe because they executed it way back and last year as well, but I think they didn’t provide the District with the fully executed versions with their signatures throughout all the Broward Districts until recently. I think that it was put into the agenda package for this meeting. You already approved the substance of it. It is just for the District’s records. You can just motion to ratify it. It is really just a housekeeping thing.
Mr. Winfree: Any more questions before we ratify it? Can I get a motion to ratify the agreement.

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, Ratification of Interlocal Agreement for Uniform Collection Non-Ad Valorem Special Assessments was approved.

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Discussion	of	District
Property/Easement Encroachments
Mr. Winfree: Item #8 is the discussion of two items. One is easement encroachments and the other is encroachment of District property.
Mr. Burgess: We have a resident here, Margaret. Based on our last meeting we had a discussion about the Board’s policy of not having any homeowner’s property fences or anything installed on any District lake bank easements. We provided the answer to the resident about that. We met with Jonathan. I met with her on site to explain in more detail rather than just an email thread. She had a few more questions and wanted to bring an idea to you guys of installing a fence. I told her it is not up to us it is up to you guys. We told her we would put it on the agenda for discussion. I have a copy of the survey that was originally provided in case it helps. Does the Board have any issue with Margaret speaking on this and explaining what the reason is that she wanted to speak with the Board?
Mr. Winfree: This is something that we have already said we wouldn’t. If we want to take it further that is fine. Do you have an overview that we could take a look at?
Ms. Corbett: I bought the house about ten years ago and I have fences on both sides of house that have been approved and permitted not sure how because they go past the property line. I didn’t realize that when I purchased the house. I just wanted a fence across. There is a couple of reasons I want to do that. A few years ago they did a park in that area. I get a lot of kids that come a fish in my yard. They don’t know where my property line is or starts and where the public area is. I just wanted to put a fence through there. I realize my original one is at the end, but when you look at the survey there is my property line there. I would like to put it right here where it is in my property line, but I understand that there is easement issues. I know that Patrick and Jonathan came over and said you have plans to fix the shoreline with the water. My property line is about sixteen feet from the water so it would be like 18 feet away from the water. There is plenty of room there. I have been doing my research on easements and fences it doesn’t say that it can’t be considered. I am willing if there is work that needs to be done I will be responsible just like the fact that I actually have a bunch of trees there. If you

had to do work my trees are in the way which are probably going to be more of a determent than a fence. I have like five trees right here that are on the property line. The water is all the way down here. This says 10 feet, but it is actually around 16.
Mr. Geiger: The easement is ten feet. The water edge to her property line is about 16 or 17 feet and then the 10 foot lake bank easement which overlaps the utility easement. Ms. Corbett: My proposal is to just put it right along here. I know you guys mentioned I had to put right up against my pool deck which there is zero green space. Ms. Corbett was inaudible at this point. That is my request. There is several properties in my neighborhood that are clearly beyond the easement that has somehow been permitted and approved not sure how. When I to apply for a permit it said my house was on a waterway I would have to get some sort of approval or a no objection. That is all I
am asking. I am willing sign anything that I am responsible for any removal.
Mr. Winfree: Let me ask a couple of questions. The property doesn’t go all the way to the water is what I am hearing?
Ms. Corbett: No.
Mr. Winfree: Where is this exactly?
Mr. Geiger: You know where the passive park we built off of Turtle Run Boulevard, that brick paver path that goes around. It is right over there.
Ms. Corbett: It is beautiful but now I am exposed to a lot of strangers in my backyard. They don’t know where my property ends or begins. Kids fishing.
Mr. Winfree: Is that actually CDD property?
Mr. Geiger: Like she said there is about 16 feet from the water that is CDD property. Most area around the lakes have CDD property. Then the ten foot easement and she is one of the people where there is only a ten foot easement behind her house not a 20 foot and it overlaps the utility easement.
Mr. Winfree: So then ten is the maximum that is easement. The rest of it is our property right?
Mr. Geiger: That pool is built right on an easement line.
Mr. Burgess: The reason we brought it to you guys is we told her, her fence could not be built past this line.

Ms. Corbett: There is very little green space. It is very small on the side. Technically my property line even though I can’t build on it. I do pay quite a lot of money in taxes every year. In ten years I have never had any come and say we need your land for anything. Nobody has ever touched it. I am willing to take the responsibility of any costs in case you needed to remove a section of the fence or whatever. There was a fence that actually went all the way down here. I have a fence that goes down almost to the water that someone was approved and permitted.
Mr. Winfree: I am confused.
Ms. Corbett: I have it already on the sides. This survey was from about ten years ago when I bought the house. You can see how the fence goes down here past my property line. I am asking to go here bringing it closer to my house further away from the water.
Mr. Geiger: The easement the District owns are against the residents or into their property.
Mr. Winfree: Ok that is why it is only ten feet there because you have the other 16 feet between our property line and the lake.
Ms. Corbett: Again the distance from my property line to the water is about 16 feet. I am actually to put it up a couple more feet so it would be like 18 almost 20 feet from the water. Still plenty of room for any kind of maintenance that you need along the shore.
Mr. Winfree: Is that from her property line or our property line? The easement goes all the way up to where that second dotted line is. So it is 10 off of there and you are asking to come down halfway to take half of that is what you are saying.
Mr. Geiger: Essentially where that green dotted line is in the middle.
Ms. Corbett: Ideally I want it to be my property line. Just the other day I had somebody almost at my pool deck. I get a lot of people who walk around because of that park that was built. It is beautiful I will give you that, but when you live there it is not fun when you have strangers fishing in your backyard and I need green space for my dog. I wanted to and still I felt personally there is so much room from the water. When Patrick and Jonathan came they informed me about what is going to be going in the future working along the shoreline. I can’t imagine the fence being a problem. If it is a problem I am ok with paying for whatever costs it would be to remove a section or whatever.

Mr. Carney: The problem is we don’t allow permanent structures on CDD property.
That is where the issue is.
Ms. Corbett: Many of them have gotten approved in my community. You should come and take a look.
Mr. Carney: I don’t think any of them were approved. That needs to be investigated if that is the case.
Mr. Winfree: The only thing that is strange to me in this one is I know that we turned one down in Hidden Lake about six months ago. That was because there wasn’t even room off of the lake itself. In this situation we already have sixteen feet off of there before we even start the easement correct.
Mr. Geiger: Yes. Patrick sent me the District rules that were adopted and it does say that fences are permissible on District property. There is nothing in here that references the easement. I see no rule that the District has adopted that says they can’t be placed in easements. It always references right-of-way and it does say that plantings, the construction and removal of plantings are permissible within the Districts right-of-way with the understanding that such improvements are made at the risk of the permittee and are subject to removal if we need to use the property.
Ms. Corbett: Even on the website it even has you are responsible if it is on an easement.
Mr. Winfree: So this is concerned then a right-of-way since it is to water. Mr. Geiger: Right-of-way is your property.
Mr. Winfree: That is concerned a right-of-way. It isn’t like we need ten feet off of the lake or 20 feet that we normally need to work on it. It is a right-of-way not an easement. In Hidden Lake they are up to the lake. There is no CDD property it is easement only.
Mr. Geiger: That is why the easement then goes into the property. In this instance right-of-way just means District property.
Mr. Winfree: What I don’t understand, and I am kind of confused is we have 16 feet and most of them are between 10 why did we need another ten feet in?
Mr. Geiger: That is just the way it was platted. Don’t ask me. There is some areas in the District where there is 30 feet and then a 20 foot lake bank easement.

Mr. Winfree: Do we have an actual rule written or anything that says that we can’t put a fence? I know we turned the other ones down but that was because it was all the way into the easement and we couldn’t have a fence all the way down there. This one I am kind of torn.
Mr. Carney: You are going to open up the pandora’s box.
Mr. Winfree: I know that is what I am worried about. If there was an easement down below I would say it is a no brainer.
Ms. Corbett: If I am willing to pay for whatever. Nobody has touched my property in the ten years that I have been here. I live there and pay $10,000 a year in property taxes. I get what you are saying but if it according to what I have been researching. Again I am not a professional.
Mr. Carney: We have had people over the years that have wanted to put fences, put structures in easements and we really didn’t allow that. What you are going to do is open a Pandora’s box.
Mr. Winfree: If you do it for one. Ms. Corbett: I understand.
Mr. Carney: Once we open up the Pandora’s box they are going to be lined up. It could take six months, a year, but they are coming. We need to be consistent.
Mr. Winfree: The legality is you are still in the easement.
Mr. Burgess: I think at this point the Board just needs to let us know the direction on this. She had some questions we couldn’t answer. It is an interesting situation, so we want the Board to give us direction.
Mr. Winfree: I understand. I got to follow what we have done for years. There is no fences in the easement. Do you agree? I say we have to follow the precedence that we have had since day one unless someone else has a different idea.
Mr. Carney: I agree.
Mr. Burgess: We will take that direction then.
Mr. Winfree: I am sorry. Alright next issue. We talked about the easement, but we have another situation to talk about. We have a community, part of Newport, we own the property very similar to this. We own all that property all the way to the lake. We talked about this. I don’t think that is a right-of-way that goes down to the FPL lakes.

Mr. Geiger: I am confused to what the conversation is.
Mr. Winfree: Here is the point. What is happening is you have, can you throw up Newport in the back. You see the top line which is the property line as far as Newport is concerned. You see now they are actually planting and that line down, all that inside those red lines include the lake and around the lake belongs to the CDD. Newport some of those residents are planting gardens, trees, bushes, and everything on CDD property. You can see they are all the way down to the lake and they just put in about half a dozen new ones just in the last month. The rules as I understood them is that there is no planting on CDD property. There is no residents utilizing CDD property for trees, fences and things of that nature. What reason brought this is do we have a liability if they come out here and the planting trees, cutting trees, cutting grass on CDD property?
Mr. Carney: Let me go back through the history of what is happening here. Years ago we started enforcing the lake banks. You couldn’t even get around the lake. Dennis went through and knocked on all the doors and said you need to remove your landscaping. At that time the Board it was agreed upon that we needed ten to fifteen feet whatever number it was to be able to get around the lake for emergency purposes. There has to be a pathway to go around these lakes that if there is an emergency we have accessibly around these lakes. It has to come out without question.
Mr. Winfree: How do we enforce that and how many feet do we want? What is the direction?
Mr. Burgess: It is not really closed off it is people planting on not their property. I think the direction is we need to know whether the District wants to remove it.
Mr. Winfree: If you have palms and stuff growing out there, mango trees that are all the way down laying on the ground who is going to raise them up or take care of those.
Mr. Carney: I believe the homeowner needs to remove it.
Mr. Winfree: All the way to the lake or fifteen feet or what are we doing? What was the guidelines in the past?
Mr. Carney: It was fifteen feet from the lake. We would need fifteen feet to get around the lake.
Ms. Tropea: So being consistent it would remain 15 feet.
Mr. Burgess: Does the Board want us to send letters to these residents?

Mr. Carney: I would.
Mr. Winfree: Can we let him speak since it his HOA?
Mr. Lohman: What you are talking about is the new stuff that is down there is already taken out. I told him he had to take it out and he would be getting some kind of notification from the CDD.
Mr. Winfree: All the new stuff is out already?
Mr. Lohman: I will go back there and look. I believe he did. The thing is that you can see right there that there is a bunch of trees back there up towards the middle and there is an oak tree that is probably somewhere right about in there or the next house.
Mr. Winfree: There is two of them. There is one there and one down further.
Mr. Lohman: The property owner has a fence there and it is within four feet of the fence and goes way over his house. He is allowed to trim it over his property line, but he was in the process of cutting it down and he complained that is has never been maintained. The tree has never been trimmed. I told him he couldn’t cut it down. His complaint was the tree had never been maintained. I get the little stuff, but what do you do with all the other stuff that is back there because it has been years. That stuff just didn’t get big overnight.
Mr. Burgess: It is up to the Board. Does the Board want to have the items removed?
Mr. Carney: I think what needs to happen is Pat and whoever else needs to go around and look at not just this guy’s house but a lot of the houses that are putting stuff down to the lake bank and it should all be removed, not just one person.
Mr. Lohman: He is the only new guy, and I am the one who saw it and I brought the subject up because I didn’t think it was right. In 20 years he would have had a grove of avocado trees back there.
Mr. Carney: It is not just Newport though.
Mr. Lohman: If it is there and you are not going to take it down it needs to be maintained.
Mr. Winfree: Let me ask a stupid question. What do the other Districts do? Have you had this in other Districts and what have they done?

Mr. Cochran: Boards do different things. Some of them take the approach that they don’t allow anything and remove it all. Some of them allow stuff to be grandfathered in. Some of them adopt specific rules that govern it and standards for maintenance and stuff like that. It is not one size fits all.
Mr. Carney: Dennis went around with a yard stick. He measured ten feet or fifteen feet whatever it was and everything else had to come out. He sent letters to all the homeowners. We did the entire neighborhood.
Mr. Cochran: The main thing is just being consistent. Unless there is something specific about a particular location or the maintenance or the feasibility of doing things that requires it to be treated differently.
Mr. Winfree: I could live with 15 feet around but what about all the stuff that is there. Is that ours now to maintain because it doesn’t seem like any of the homeowners are maintaining that stuff.
Mr. Carney: We shouldn’t have to maintain any of that landscaping.
Mr. Winfree: I don’t’ know who put it there. Some of that stuff has been there since looks like day one. Some of those trees are bigger than some of the biggest trees we have.
Mr. Kapish: I don’t think our tax dollars should be paying for somebody else’s trees. Mr. Carney: That is true.
Mr. Kapish: Actually the way the Board used to operate was none of the stuff was allowed because otherwise if you let one person do this like this lady trying to get fence in there. Since she is telling you that there are fences in the easement means that nobody has inspected those easement in years otherwise there shouldn’t be a fence in the easement. You shouldn’t have someone coming here telling you there is fences in the easement. You need some oversight.
Mr. Carney: Everybody’s property line a little different too. She could be mistaken.
Mr. Winfree: They told us the same thing over at Hidden Lake when they were trying to get their fence.
Mr. Burgess: I think until we have more information for you guys. This was one singular area that was looked at. We can bring back more information, but it is not going

to be productive until we give you a full scope of what is going on. I think until we provide you guys with more areas.
Mr. Kapish: The more exceptions you make the more of problem you will have. Mr. Winfree: The Pandora’s box is open every time you do it, I agree.
Mr. Lohman: With the maintenance there now I know that anybody that doesn’t have a fence behind their house has their landscaper cuts all the way down to the lake.
Mr. Burgess: In general no one should be on property that is not theirs.
Mr. Lohman: I don’t think anybody has ever said anything to them. Again I don’t know if you guys have ever cut it before. I don’t know anything about it. I do know that there are people that live along that area there that cut all the way down to the lake.
Mr. Burgess: I think we can bring back a plan to the Board on how to proceed but I think if we are going to send anything out it needs to explain that look up your property line and if it is not your property you should be cutting to it and not past it.
Mr. Carney: Send them letters saying you need to remove your landscaping going down to the lake.
Mr. Lohman: Again, remove your landscaping again those people a lot of them didn’t live there when that stuff went in. That tree in the corner right there is massive. You guys took care of it a while back because the homeowner was complaining because people could hide in there and people walking along there could get jumped.
Mr. Burgess: Can we bring this back to the Board with more information? Mr. Carney: It is not that complicated. We just have to make a decision.
Mr. Winfree: I think the 15 feet rule at a bare minimum, but I don’t think anything should be planted on there and we should be maintaining it. It shouldn’t be them the homeowners in front of it having free range sort of speak. That is my opinion.
Mr. Carney: Let’s go back to the fence issue. I thought it was documented that no permanent structures were allowed in the easement. Everyone is saying there is nothing in writing. We need to put something in writing.
Mr. Kapish: We had a lawsuit about that and that was the rule. I don’t know why it
is not.
Mr. Burgess: We have the District adopted rules and within those rules is what the
District approved. That is what I provided to Jonathan. We can put them on the agenda

for you guys to review them. You have rules in place, and it mentions what Jonathan mentioned. I think until we can put it in front of you guys to look I don’t’ think it is going to be productive discussion.
Mr. Winfree: Let’s table this for that. We need to come up with something we are going to do with this back area.
Mr. Burgess: We will add rules to the next meeting, and we can discuss it further. Once we have more information on any plantings or anything on District property we will have something for you guys to discuss efficiently.
Mr. Winfree: Ok.
Mr. Burgess: We will recess the meeting until Barry returns. Mr. Winfree: I am back.
Mr. Burgess: We will reconvince the meeting. Time is 7:17 pm.

NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration of Proposals to
Clean Decorative Light Poles
SouthEast Land and Water Management
People’s Choice Pressure Washing
Mr. Winfree: Pat do you want to talk about those two really quick?
Mr. Szozda: Yes. I consulted with Steve who is with People’s Choice about cleaning the poles all the light poles including the globes. He said it probably hasn’t been done in ten years, so we went ahead and got three proposals for the pressure cleaning of the poles and every individual agreed to handwipe the globes and dust what was necessary up there. SouthEast Land and Water I believe came in at $6,550 and People’s Choice at
$7,169.
Mr. Burgess: So People’s Choice is basically saying that they are going to have a one month rental for a lift, and it could be reduced from $2,801 to whatever the time frame is that the use the lift. The lift is included in SouthEast Land & Water Management.
Mr. Szozda: I would say cost wise they are probably very similar. I am estimating maybe it could be two week project just based on weather, dealing with issues. Doing ten poles a day it would be done in two weeks. If you are doing 20 poles a day you are done in a week. He is on the side of caution. That price would be reduced. I think it was a safety net for him to put that in there.

Mr. Carney: People’s Choice they have been there a long time. Mr. Szozda: They did it previously also.
Mr. Carney: He takes ownership of the area. He sees things that need to be done, and he will tidy it up along the way. We don’t know if someone new is going to do that for us. I like People’s Choice.
Mr. Burgess: Do we have a motion for People’s Choice? Mr. Carney: That would be my choice.
Mr. Winfree: I kind of agree. SouthEast is the one that takes care of all of our lakes and the other one takes care of all of our power washing and stuff to begin with. Separation of duties kind of makes more sense. Like you said we have been using them for quite a while. That is my two cents worth.
Mr. Carney: I can call Steve today, and he will be here tomorrow. Mr. Szozda: He is very responsive. I have no problems with them. Mr. Winfree: Ok, then I hear a motion for People’s Choice?

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, a proposal in the amount of $7,169.21 with People’s Choice to clean the decorative light poles and globes was approved.

TENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Staff Reports
Attorney
Mr. Winfree: Scott do you have anything?
Mr. Cochran: Not beyond what we will talk about with the Landshore stuff.
Engineer
Update on District Lake Side Slope Remediation
Proposals with Landshore Enterprises, LLC for Lake Side Slope Phase Engineering Studies:
Lake Side Slope Phase 2 Engineering Study
Lake Side Slope Phase 3-6 Engineering Studies
Mr. Geiger: Just to recap what Patrick had explained earlier with Avana just to get that out of the way. The schedule says that they will have the plans by the end of the week. Hopefully once we get their plan specifications, I am assuming they are going to provide a cost for whatever the solution is going to be on that. I guess the next meeting

we will hopefully have something to approve for the construction side of that. They haven’t updated me on anything outside of the fact that they are still working on the engineering. Moving from that at the last meeting we approved phase 1 for the engineering study. That was for $20,000, about 9,500 linear feet. We met with Landshore and then obviously with the bond counsel, GMS and everything to discuss getting the additional proposals that are needed for the rest of the phases. Landshore basically provided the same proposals for engineering studies for the other lakes, one for phase 2 and then they provided one for phases 3- 6. Phase 2 the cost was $29,610 and that for 12,725 linear feet of study area. That is why it is a little bit more expensive than Phase 1. Then for Phase 3 – 6 they are asking for $32,500. I think that is about 12,925 linear feet. It is the remainder of the lakes. After meeting with Landshore and then speaking with Rhonda and everybody, we are just trying to get a feel for, this would give us plans specifications and cost estimates and hopefully a timeline for what they think they can accomplish and how fast. This would be the best way to get a firm number to have KCI if we were to go the bond route. Because they also do construction I feel more comfortable with their numbers then us having to put numbers to something. KCI is the person who would running an engineer’s report for any sort of bonds, a lot more confidence with that number and what the District would need to borrow. This would also give us a better idea of how we are going to accomplish this. I know part of the reason that we are going through this is because the first method that we were looking at for Phase 1 with the eco-tube South Florida did not seem to want to entertain. Moving onto the other two methods now we are looking at $1.7 million to $2 million dollars. I don’t think Phase 2 is going to need the same method around the whole lake because there is not the geo-tubes. As things got more expensive it would behoove the District to put some of this work upfront. Get the plan specifications, get costs figured out and then when we do need to go back for either a bond or loan and also put this out to bid for construction we have all that information ready to go. Then we can look at that and decide we have three years what can we accomplish in that three years based on something that is already on paper. Some of this stuff might be a little bit out there in terms of construction time but I don’t think it is going to change that much to where these plans aren’t going to valid in a couple of years. I think the Board should go ahead and consider

approving these just so we can get this on the books. I know Patrick said the end of July for all of them.
Mr. Burgess: That is what they said.
Mr. Winfree: Seems very aggressive to me. Let’s see what we can do.
Mr. Geiger: I think after speaking with Miquel and his team a couple of times they seem very dedicated to providing service to the District. Like I said this is going to have to go out to bid because of the cost and everything, but I think they are really looking to help us out here and try to get us as much information so the Board can make decisions on how to fund and move forward and everything.
Mr. Winfree: I don’t see any reason we can’t do this to tell you the truth. Does anybody see it any different?
Mr. Geiger: This would be costs that would probably be built into, we just put a generic bid out, this would already be built in because they are not going to just go out there and start moving dirt. I wouldn’t want them doing that anyways. I feel like we are getting step one out of the way now so we can better look at the finances and also get something in front of South Florida that we can say this is what we are doing. Here are our plans. Please give us an indication.
Mr. Winfree: I completely agree. It has been 14 months and we haven’t anything. There is a limit to patience. I think this is about the only step we have at this point. Unless somebody has something different or has any discussion.
Mr. Geiger: I know this doesn’t change the timeline. I have to go back to South Florida. I owe them an update. I wanted to wait until we spoke to the Board about this because this would change the timeline from we are going to get phases done this year to you are going to do all the engineering upfront, figure out the finances. If we have everything all planned out if Landshore is the selected contractor they can just continuously work instead of having to pause to do design, go back to construction. I think that South Florida is going to be fine with it. I think it is to our advantage to lock in a cost estimate now.
Mr. Winfree: Absolutely. I completely agree. One thing that I would like to see, and it is for a couple of reasons. I would like something from South Florida in writing that they are not buying into the geo-tubes. Two reasons, one I can’t just have somebody say I

don’t think we are going to approve them and we are not going to go forward with it or whatever. I need something in writing because when we go back to the residents or go before anybody and say we are going from $900,000 and something to $2 million something now why? They using the same process in other places why can’t we use it here? We need a good reason. Not just a rejection but why? I need a good reason on why we can’t do what we proposed.
Mr. Geiger: Understood. That could be something we could talk to them.
Mr. Winfree: Is that unreasonable? I am not trying to piss them off or anything I need a good reason for us spending that extra money and do all this extra work.
Mr. Geiger: Understood. I think for them that would be a pretty easy letter for them to provide. Here is what your permit says, here is what we allow.
Mr. Winfree: And this is why we are saying no. I am hearing we have used the same process in other places why can’t we use it now.
Mr. Geiger: When we spoke with them directly I think Landshore might have been confusing a permit they pulled under Broward County. Even when we spoke with Miguel with Landshore on the line he indicated the 9 inch thing and South Florida said 8 inches is our max and we don’t normally do the step downs.
Mr. Winfree: I like the 6, 6, 6 and we have met it. I would think I would like that more than putting some slippery concrete slope there to tell you the truth.
Mr. Geiger: It would be more of a cost advantage. Mr. Winfree: I think it would a better safety.
Mr. Geiger: It is not just concrete. It is planted on top. It is concrete but the material does allow planting to grow through and under it.
Mr. Winfree: Ok.
Mr. Geiger: What they showed us was a project still in construction. That is something we could speak to Miguel about as well.
Mr. Winfree: I still think that it is better to do a, it is like being in a pool. When you get out of a pool would you rather be climbing on nothing. There is no steps there or trying to use a step to get of a pool.
Mr. Geiger: With a 4:1 slope you shouldn’t need anything to climb out. That is the whole reason that is required.

Mr. Winfree: I would ask for that.
Mr. Geiger: Understood. Part of these studies too is Landshore they are going to coordinate with us. There will be some back and forth with GMS and KCI. We will go back to South Florida and if they say we can get them down to 6 inches, let us hit South Florida again and see how they feel.
Mr. Winfree: Exactly. Let’s vote on this thing first and get that out of the way. Can I get a motion that we are going to complete Phase 2 and Phase 3 -6 for an engineering study?

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, Lake Side Slope Phase 2 Engineering Study in the amount of $29,610 and Lake Side Slope Phase 3 – 6 Engineering Study in the amount of $32,500 with Lakeshore Enterprises, LLC was approved.

Mr. Winfree: Do we have a copy of what I sent you? Mr. Burgess: Yes.
Mr. Winfree: This is what I put together to your point of who needs to talk to who and what we need to do. What I did was and don’t worry about the owners and all that. I just put things in there as a suggestion. We don’t have any project planning tools or anything like that to use. I tried digging out some old stuff and I couldn’t get anything. You have to pay for everything now. The free stuff just didn’t work very well. This is kind of the preplanning steps. Like we have all said in the meeting for a while the first thing we have to do is complete these engineering studies before we can do anything else. We can’t go for bonds, we can’t start work, we can’t do anything until these engineering studies are done. Then we already reviewed the bond process. She has already given us an idea of what we can do but to me that is going to be an ongoing thing. You heard all of the options we have. That is going to be a lot of discussion. We reviewed it and we have somebody working with us now, so I think we are going in the right direction for that. To your point once we have all this together, engineering, South Florida, and GMS needs to get together to review what are we going to put together for a bid package. That is what is going to come out of this how do are we going to bid this.

Mr. Geiger: What Landshore provided is exactly what we put in the package. There is going to be plan specifications. The only other stuff is just front end documents that I would work with District counsel and GMS on providing but essentially we would just be attaching the engineering.
Mr. Winfree: The other thing I am looking for when we get the bid package we have to figure out if we can piece meal this thing somehow. We have some reserves where we can start some of this sooner than later. We have to include that and spread that work out and around to be able to pay what we have the money for and get back from the bonds.
Mr. Geiger: Getting all that stuff done now is the Board can make the decision. Some of these smaller lakes it is going to be $50,000 one or two lakes start it now, placate South Florida and then we don’t have to borrow $50,000 extra.
Mr. Winfree: Exactly and when you get that together come back to the Board, the Board says ok yes this is a bid package we want to send out. We send it out to our assuming it is going to have to go out for public bid. It is not just going to be vendors we choose. The other thing I want to throw in there is a due date. Figure out what we need for a due date. When do we want that back? I don’t want to give these guys six months.
Mr. Geiger: That is part of the normal bid process for a sealed bid. It has to be posted in the paper, and we have to follow that schedule that we normally post. We give them two weeks to come get documents. We have a pre-bid meeting a week after that and then they have three more weeks to ask questions. If it is not sealed and in my hands by 3:00 p.m. on the day we decide we don’t consider it. We have worked on that stuff for other Districts already and with GMS. We have documents that basically you need to change the scope of work and maybe update them or new rules and regulations.
Mr. Winfree: Sounds good. That is what I am looking for. Once you come back with what the actual plan that you have worked with the vendors what is their actual implementation plan like you said. Where can move things to get things done and put in an actual plan. Once we have all that then we know the monies we need and when we need them and then we can actually get into the meat of really starting to do the bond process. Am I missing anything here? I am sure there are more steps below or in between all that.

Mr. Geiger: In my experience we have bonds to do construction, if some of this we are going to do without bond money we can go do that without starting the bond process but for everything else normally you would get the bond first and then you would start putting stuff out to bid. For Cypress Cove for example we had to get hard numbers and bids before the bonds were issued. They would not issue us bonds without them.
Mr. Winfree: Maybe I am not explaining this properly. What I am saying is we can use some of our money, but we would put that into the reimbursement agreement that we can put that back in, so we don’t run out of money. Our capital is getting drastically low. Our capital reserves are very low right now. You can see down further some of the questions that I put in there. Can we start? We already talked about that one. Can we actually add Avana into this process also? Can we insure that the lakes go back to the original plat? If we are going to spend all this money and set everything up shouldn’t we put it back all the erosion that has happened and fix it to where it was when it was set up and where it should be. I mean what I would like to see is going down neighbors’ yards and everything zig and zag, is there a way that we can, I don’t know if it going to cost a lot more to do that or whether it is worthwhile or not.
Mr. Geiger: It is going to cost more because right now what we are being required to fix is the slope and to fair these lakes some of them were not always straight edge lines.
Mr. Winfree: I understand that, but I am sure some of them were curved and some of them don’t go in a perfect straight but at least get them back to some resemblance of where we were.
Mr. Geiger: That can be something we can discuss with Landshore. He has indicated that there is going to some areas where we are going to have to fix headwalls, we might have to extend some out. That would be something when they are doing their engineering study. I will look at the plans, we will present them to the Board and if you have comments, can we straighten that out, can we push that out a little bit? That is going to be down the road once we get into the weeds of it.
Mr. Winfree: The other thing is do we need to, I know for the bonds we have to notify all the residents and do our public hearing and all that, but do we need to notify the residents that we are working or going to be in their backyards?

Mr. Geiger: It would be nice to.
Mr. Winfree: I would thing that would something we would have to do also. Once we have our plan, put a plan out to the residents and say we are coming be prepared.
Mr. Carney: Once we have the plan I agree with that.
Mr. Winfree: Something has to go out to the residents. Last but not least can we incorporate a maintenance plan? Is there a maintenance to this or not?
Mr. Geiger: Part of the outlined action plan that South Florida agreed to was us submitting a maintenance plan or coming up with one. I don’t think they need to approve it. I do think it would behoove the District for when there is a different Board the same way we have the annual maintenance plan, take a couple lakes every year we are inspecting lakes 1, 2 and 3. We have to do repairs on a five-year basis and inspect all the lakes. I don’t think we have to do every lake every year. Ten years from now if you see something let us know so we can fix it. I would recommend a maintenance plan so I am not here down the road and you guys are not here there is something in writing that GMS can follow.
Mr. Winfree: That was me sitting at the kitchen table. Can anybody think of anything

else?

Ms. Tropea: Well done. Great questions.
Mr. Winfree: Is there anything else we should be putting in there? I am sure there

is going to be more details as this thing grows.
Mr. Geiger: I think this is a good starting point and I think once we start getting some stuff back from Landshore and some firmer dates we can start populating some this to keep us on track.
Mr. Winfree: I want to start tracking this. It has to be.
Mr. Geiger: Based on this I feel like you are going to complete all these engineering studies by the end of July by August we should be able to sit down with South Florida and then have a good idea of ok this is what we are doing. This is what it going to cost. Concurrently work on the financing.
Mr. Winfree: Patrick I will leave this up to you. Do you think it worthwhile getting tracking software or anything? Do you want to try and do this on Excel? We will talk about

it later. I don’t want to decide that right now. That is just an excel spreadsheet I threw together.
Mr. Burgess: We can look at it.
Mr. Winfree: Anything else on that? Any other suggestions or discussions on that
one?
Field Manager – Annual Maintenance Plan
Mr. Szozda: Just a couple quick updates. We had the pavers leveled at Lauren
Jackson. The roots were pushing them up pretty bad. Julia was nice enough to point that out for us. Over on the corner of Turtle Creek and Sample Horsepower went in there and put in a new pole. Well they were putting in the pole they did quite a number on the existing landscape. I had some cocoplums and some sod put in there and it turned out pretty good. I also had Eagle Electric do a complete inspection of all the lighting on the property. Seeing that we are going to get the poles cleaned up I want to make sure all the lights were working. All the lighting is in good shape. As far as what is coming up next the Sylvester’s will be trimmed this week. Mulch should be in hopefully by the end of next week.
Mr. Winfree: Is that it?
Mr. Szozda: That is it.
Mr. Winfree: Does anybody have any questions?
Manager – Progress Report
Mr. Burgess: On the progress report Horsepower does have the speed limit pole in the Estates. They are just behind with scheduling. Tomorrow they are supposed to give me an install date. We have all the equipment. That will done then come July we should get the light poles that are knocked down or damaged that need to be replaced. That will be taken care. Hopefully no more get hit but I doubt it. That is all I have as far as what is on the progress report unless there is any questions.
Mr. Winfree: Any park updates?
Mr. Carney: The park is coming along really well. They did the resurfacing of the blacktop. There is a few outstanding items right now are the restroom roof. I think they are putting that into the budget for next year. The basketball court relocation will be relocated in the west side of the playset closer to the school. The old decorative signs

they are going to replace those. They will all be consistent throughout. For the most part that is it. It is looking good out there. They always talked about we are neighborhood park. They are not going to do a lot for us, they are not going to give us a lot but right now it is looking more like a city park, and they are using it quite a bit actually. A lot of soccer games, a lot happening out there. The pavilion was completed. The picnic benches were put in. They are going to put one BBQ grill out there so people can grill. We asked for two.
Mr. Szozda: I do believe according to what I have heard there will be some kind of ceremony Saturday, May 2nd.
Mr. Carney: That is right. I think it is from 10:00 to 1:00 pm. Mr. Winfree: Just an FYI I leave this Friday for a little vacation.
Mr. Burgess: Just an FYI as a reminder the May 18th meeting is at GMS. Mr. Winfree: It is not the last Monday of the month because of the holiday.
Mr. Shipe: I am not going to be here on the 18th. I don’t know if you want to check and see if we are going to have a quorum.
Ms. Tropea: I will be available.
Mr. Winfree: We just have to confirm Ken because we know both us are not going to be in town.

ELEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Financial Reports
Approval of Check Register
Approval of Unaudited Financials
Mr. Winfree: Financial reports. Approving the check register.
Mr. Carney: We are doing relatively good. Mr. Carney was inaudible at this time. Mr. Winfree: They don’t quite balance out but we are going in the right direction. Mr. Carney: I was talking to Jennifer earlier today and she said it is going to close.

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, the Check Register was approved.

Mr. Winfree: Anything else you want to discuss about the unaudited financials? Mr. Carney: No.

TWELFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Public Comments
Mr. Winfree: Public comments.  Who wants to go first?  Do you have anything
Chris?
Mr. Kapish: I wanted to talk about Pat you might want to take a look at this the
pavers at the main entrance. The curbs from the huge oak trees which shouldn’t be there they are lifting the curbs.
Mr. Szozda: I noticed that.
Mr. Kapish: If that continues that is going to be a major problem. Mr. Szozda: I agree.
Mr. Kapish: My suggestion is to put some other type of tree there because those oak trees they don’t recommend them to be in a small area.
Mr. Szozda: We will have to look at that for sure.
Mr. Kapish: The other thing is this lank bank has actually been going on for sixteen months. I don’t know about the liability if someone falls in that lake and can’t get out and they sue the District I don’t know if the insurance company is on notice or whatever. The District is open up to massive amount of liability. You are talking about a lot of lakes and a lot of shoreline that has liability issues. You haven’t even gotten to a plan yet. There should be a line item for lank bank restoration because lake banks is the main and sole function of the District. Everything else is secondary. The fact that there is no money for it is telling the fact that it is not being appropriated for. That probably should change in the future. That is all.
Mr. Winfree: Thanks.
THIRTEENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Supervisors Requests
Mr. Winfree: Skip do you have anything? Mr. Carney: No, thank you.
Mr. Winfree: Ginny?
Ms. Tropea: No, I am good.
Mr. Winfree: I am good. The only other thing I was going to bring up was the 18th being the meeting at GMS. Anybody else have anything? Alright. Can I get a motion to adjourn.

FOURTEENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Adjournment

On MOTION by Mr. Carney seconded by Ms. Tropea with all in favor, the meeting was adjourned.

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