MINUTES OF MEETING GRIFFIN LAKES
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Griffin Lakes Community Development District was held on Thursday, March 5, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. at 2317 Clipper Place, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Danielle Christie	Chairman
Benny Barak	Vice Chairman
Teresa West	Assistant Secretary
Karen Warfel	Assistant Secretary
Anina Venuti	Assistant Secretary

Also present were:

Ginger Wald	District Counsel
Patrick Burgess	District Manager
Jason Gitel	Governmental Management Services
Angel Camacho	District Engineer (by phone)
Amber Venzal	HOA Property Manager
Nicole Vernon	Resident (by phone) Several Residents

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

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS	Organizational Matters
Consideration of Appointment of Supervisor(s) to Unexpired Term(s) of Office – Seat #2
Mr. Burgess: The second item on the agenda is organizational matters, 2A, consideration of appointment of Supervisor to the unexpired term of office for seat #2. So, as you guys know there is an open seat, seat #2 and you guys have the option of appointing someone to that seat if you would like, or interviewing them if you’d like, asking them to speak about their background.
Ms. Christie: I think everyone needs to speak on their behalf, tell us what you do, tells us a little bit about yourself.

Ms. Wald: Well, let’s see who’s here and who’s interested.
Mr. Burgess: Right, exactly, so we’ll just start with you, state your name for the record.
Ms. Venuti: Sure, Anina Venuti, I live at 4927 Leeward Lane, I’ve been here 20 years, I actually served on the regular Board about 10 years ago for almost 2 years, so I’m not always visible but, I know what’s going on, I’m in the office a lot, I’m a licensed realtor, so I have a couple of listings in here and I love this community, I have no intentions of leaving anytime soon. I know we have a lot of issues and challenges and things as the property ages and so I’m interested in seeing how I can help.
Mr. Burgess: Ok, thank you.
Ms. Eager: Good morning, my name is Alison Eager, I live at 4925 Tradewinds Terrace, I have been here over a decade, about 13 years, and I’m currently sitting on our condo Board, and I will echo what Anina said, I have no intentions of leaving anytime soon, I also love the community, I’m also a licensed realtor, and essentially I care and I’d like to learn more about what the CDD does, how I can apply my skill and knowledge base to it and I look forward to potentially working with you.
Mr. Burgess: Ok, next.
Ms. Mejia: Good morning, my name is Lorecy Mejia, I work for the Department of Health so I already work with community and that’s why I want to be part of the Board. I am a resident, I’ve been living here a few years at 5006 S. Harbor Isles. I love the community and actually want to be more involved, so I would love to be a part of the community and help.
Mr. Burgess: Thank you.
Ms. Capuano: Good morning, Cheri Capuano, 2318 Coral Reef Court, I’ve live here for about 5 year now. I’m very active in the neighborhood, always out and about picking weeds or cleaning up something or reporting something to Amber, and the reason I would like to join the Board is because I’m always out in the community speaking with all of our neighbors and I don’t think they have a clear understanding of the CDD, so I’m hoping being here could bridge that gap and understanding. All people know right now is that we got another assessment and they don’t know why, they don’t know what’s going on and right now tensions are very high between the community and the Board so I’m hoping to help with the CDD, that’s my goal.

Mr. Burgess: Ok, thank you. Anyone else?
Ms. Wald: So as you know the requirements are, they’re very simple, you have to be a resident of Griffin Lakes Community Development District, so you have to live here. You have to be a Broward County registered voter, you have to be 18 years or older, and you have to be a U.S. citizen, those are the minimum requirements. This Board, the four of you have the complete autotomy to decide as through nominations who you want to proceed forward of the individuals that have shown up with an interest, and thank you very much for coming here, and also remember that for all of you who are interested that you would be a public official if you are appointed in the State of Florida, and you’re going to have to take an oath of office. It’s different than being an HOA Board member, or condo association Board member, I want you to understand you have to do ethics, you’re going to have to do 4 hours of ethics training every year, you’re going to have to fill out what’s called a Form 1 which is a statement of financial responsibility, providing certain information to the State of Florida. Some people don’t like providing that information but, it is a requirement, so that is something that you have to keep in mind if your appointed to the CDD Board. The other portion of being appointed to the CDD Board that’s very important is to come to meetings, to attend the meetings whether it’s in person, whether it’s virtually but we need people in person and here’s why, you have to have, or we have to have as a CDD Board at least 3 live bodies, so 3 of the members must be here in person to have the meeting, the other two can attend virtually, we do that here but, we have to have those 3 people. So, being able to come here for the meeting schedule that we have which is 9:00 o’clock in the morning on a Thursday is important to be able to do that to participate, so that’s basically it for the Board. You can proceed forward with making nominations, or the individual that you would like to see if you want to go through the nomination process, and you can obviously discuss and ask any questions and then if not, and you’re all in consensus then you could just make the motion to appoint to the unexpired term which does expire November, 2026, so whoever gets appointed to this position in June, if you want to stay in, you’re going to have to, and we’ll explain that later on, you’re going to have to go to the Supervisor of Elections and qualify.
Mr. Barak: So, what does that means, that means that their seat is up for the election.
Ms. Wald: Yes, up for election.

Mr. Barak: So, they’d be on the ballot. Ms. Wald: If they go and qualify, yes. Mr. Barak: Right, ok.
Ms. Warfel: Then you’re on the ballot, it’s a regular voting process.
Ms. Wald: Yes, and we will make that announcement, it won’t be in this meeting but we’ll make that announcement in the follow meeting because that’s the time period that you’re going to have to do it.
Ms. West: So, what’s next?
Ms. Wald: Next is whatever you guys want to do, now it’s up to you, do you want to talk together.
Mr. Barak: So, it has to be a majority, I’m assuming.
Ms. Wald: You’re going to do it by motion like you do everything else. Mr. Barak: Ok.
Ms. Wald: So, here’s the thing, do you want to ask these lovely ladies any questions? Any of you, any of the Board members, you don’t have to but, my question is, do you want to ask any questions?
Ms. West: I don’t.
Ms. Wald: Ok, alright, so let’s bring it back to the Board, talk among yourselves, or does someone just want to make a nomination.
Ms. Christie: Because I thought nobody was going to come. Ms. Wald: Right, nobody came last time that why she said that.
Ms. Christie: Because I talked to Lorecy and she seemed very interested, very passionate, Anina, I know I’ve spoken to you as well and you were supposed to be here a while ago, and then Cheri says you weren’t sure you wanted to do it.
(At this point several people were talking at one time, and no one conversation could be heard)

Ms. Wald: Keep in mind that you have to run again in November, so this is going to be and I’m not going to say temporary because if you qualify and you win, that’s fine but, you have people here, you should proceed forward with making a motion to nominate someone.
Ms. Christie: Who really wants it now.

Ms. Venuti: I think question could be, like what do you feel that you are going to bring forward that’s better than everyone else, in general. Like the property was 2 years old when I move here, and so then understanding what the CDD was about, what the function is, and now that I have the whole school thing figured out, and I have a 9 year old, I have no reason to go anywhere else. So, in my defense I would have been here for the January meeting but, my mother passed away, so it’s not that I didn’t want to do it I just wasn’t in a position at that time, I was just running crazy. I’d like to see how I can help with my skill set, with my knowledge of community, like Cheri said, with knowing a lot of the neighbors, I know a lot of the old timers that have been here even before me, what can we do. A lot of people will come to me and ask me questions, what’s this mean, and I’d say well did you read it. So, I think that being able to be a voice for those that I do know and those that have a need obviously through this, it would be very helpful because like Cheri said, a lot of people say, what is this, I don’t know what this is, what does this mean, and I’d say, did you read your condo docs, so it’s not a bad thing, they’re responsible for X, Y, and Z and this is what it’s all about, so I’d like to be able to kind of be their voice and bridge the gap.
Ms. Eager: Ok, for myself, and again my name is Alison, so in addition to my real estate current license, I have a background in education, I spent over 10 years in the Broward County Public School System. So, I’d say my strength that I bring to the table is the capacity to communicate and connect with people of very different standings, so from whatever your field, wherever you’re coming from I can meet you regarding that, I can understand what you’re saying and then I can translate that and potentially communicate it to someone else. I think there’s big gaps in communication in our community, a lot of misinformation, a lot of misconception and I think that the ability to comprehend and communicate freely and be with a bigger Board of people that will have different fields and different points of view, and I believe a strength of people-ness to the table.
Ms. Christie: Ok.
Ms. Eager: Thank you all.
Ms. Mejia: Hello, my name is Lorecy again, I feel that I can bring to you with my government background bring information and I’m very known in the community.
Ms. Christie: Thank you, Cheri.

Ms. Capuano: Yes, you have very good candidates here, and I stepped up because I was concerned about the community, concerned about what’s happening with the CDD and I wanted to make a difference. So, I always say, I go where I’m needed, and that’s where I felt I was needed right now but, you have very good candidates. I didn’t think anybody was going to run, so I said, you know what I will be more than happy to do it, and I see that, so for me, I work fulltime, I just got back from Liverpool last week, I do travel a little bit, not much but, I would be more than happy to help, and I’d be happy to be a liaison between the community and your eyes out there also. There was a sheen on the lake last week, and I sent it to Terry, and a dead duck, Terry acted on it immediately, she called Patrick, we got the duck removed and cleaned up. So, I just want to make sure that we’re taking care of things right away, so it’s not a problem, I’m ok either way you have great candidates.
Mr. Barak: Ok, so my question is, do we have to decide right now? Ms. Wald: No.
Mr. Burgess: No.
Mr. Barak: Because it almost sounds like, it’s just we’re under pressure to make a decision.
Ms. Wald: No, you’re not being put under pressure, and let me answer your question. The answer is no you do not but, what the law says is that upon the resignation, which you accepted of the Board members which creates a vacancy, you are supposed to fill that vacancy if you can within 90 days. Sometimes you can’t because you don’t have people, so you don’t have to but, you also have these lovely people who have shown up expecting some type of action but, again, that’s why I said, communicate, talk, and every single one of these people can run for the seat when it’s up for election and qualify in June.
Mr. Barak: So, just out of curiosity, the announcement of whoever it is that we end up choosing, does that have to happen at then next meeting or can we make a choose let’s say this meeting, we let these lovely ladies go and make a decision as to who we’re going to pick but, then notify them after the meeting.
Ms. Wald: Here’s what would happen, if an appointment occurs today then one of these lovely ladies is going to be sworn in, and they are going to be your Board member

for the meeting today. If you do not make a decision today, then this will be deferred to the next meeting.
Mr. Barak: Got it, but we’ll still be within the 90 days.
Ms. Wald: I don’t know that I’d have to look at the records, actually she resigned, the effective date was November 20, 2025, so I think you should do that today, and that’s why they’re here, that’s why the questions, if they weren’t here it would be a different story.
Ms. Christie: Should we do a race or something?
Ms. Wald: No, what you need to do is you need to do a motion to nominate and again, every single one of you have made it clear, every single person here is qualified, and it’s just like if you were going into the ballot box, I notice we don’t have those any more but, if there was a ballot box then you would do that.
Mr. Barak: Right because you’re doing that more personally.
Ms. Wald: It doesn’t matter, and let me help you. These lovely people on this Board for anyone that wants to be on the Board that has spoken today as to their interest, they feel like they want all of the advice was, as was stated by Danielle so they feel very nervous about choosing one over the other, and they’re going to feel bad if somebody had bad feelings about it, I’ve known these people for way too long, and so understand that they are under the obligation under Chapter 190 to make that decision but, they’re feeling very nervous because they don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, and you’re all qualified, so it’s ok to do that today because they’re here.
Mr. Barak: Alright.
Ms. Wald: So, what you do is you’re going to nominate, and who do you want to nominate.
Ms. Christie: So I motion to nominate Anina just because and I’ve known her a long time, she’s been in the community a really long time, I think you are all great candidates for real but, she was originally who we had in mind and I picture her in our group so I nominate Anina.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so we have one nomination. Ms. Christie: Right.
Ms. Wald: Well, we have more nominations, so let’s go down the list, are there any others?

Ms. Warfel: I would second that nomination, just based on experience.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so we have two nominations, so we’re doing nominations right now, and then we’ll do the appointment.
Mr. Barak: I would like to nominate Cheri Capuano. Ms. West: I’m go to go for Cheri.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so I have two nominations for Anina and two nominations for Cheri, so those are our nominations. Right now somebody has to make a motion to appoint from our two nominations.
Mr. Barak: So, how do we do that if there’s 2 & 2?
Ms. Warfel: I’ll make a motion to appoint Nina Venuti based on what Cheri said that she’s comfortable with the people that are also here, unless someone stepped up.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so we have a motion to appoint Anina, do we have a second to appoint?
Ms. Christie: Yes, I second.
Ms. Wald: We have a second by Danielle and now we’re going to vote, all in favor for Anina.
Ms. West: I vote for her because I think everybody will be fine with Anina. Ms. Wald: Ok, so we have 3 ayes. Do you want to vote Benny?
Mr. Barak: Ok, I vote yes as well.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so we have a unanimous vote for Anina, so congratulations.

On MOTION by Ms. Warfel seconded by Ms. Christie with all in favor, appointing Anina Venuti to fill the unexpired term of office for seat #2 was approved.

Oath of Office for Newly Appointed Supervisor(s)
Ms. Wald: So, you get to do the fun thing now which is taking the oath of office, and you just have to raise your right hand.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, just raise your right hand, and state your name after I say the word I, so “I”.
Ms. Venuti: Anina Venuti.
Mr. Burgess: A resident of the State of Florida and citizen of the United States of America, being a Supervisor of the Griffin Lakes Community Development District and

recipient of public funds on behalf of the District, do hereby solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Florida, and will faithfully, honestly, and impartially discharge the duties devolving upon me in the office of Supervisor of the Griffin Lakes Community Development District, Broward County, Florida.
Ms. Venuti: I do.
Mr. Burgess: Thank you.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so let’s get you to the table and give you one of these.
Mr. Burgess: And if you just want to fill in the information and I can notarize it after the meeting.
Ms. Venuti: Ok.
Mr. Burgess: So, welcome to the Board. Ms. Venuti: Thank you.

Election of Officers
Mr. Burgess: Then with new appointment you do have option of electing new officers, basically you can change the slate of officers as to the chairman, vice chairman or you can keep the slate the same and adding Anina as an assistant secretary. Currently it’s Danielle Christie as chairman, and Benny Barak as vice chairman, and everyone else as assistant secretaries.
Ms. Wald: And for Anina’s purposes, it doesn’t give anybody any more power than the other Board members, it’s just that we have to have the election of the officers because certain documents have to be signed by the Board on behalf of the District and we have to have either a chairman, or in the chairman’s absence a vice chairman to be able to do so, that’s the only reason.
Ms. Warfel: I would move to keep the current slate of officers. Mr. Barak: How long does that last?
Ms. Wald: Until the next go around, so when we have the election in November we’ll do it again.
Ms. West: And we used always change every time we got a new year. Ms. Wald: And you can do it anytime.

Ms. West: Yes, I know, and I like to change, I think Anina, and we used to do that, when someone new came in we give them that seat or president.
Ms. Wald: No you didn’t.
Ms. West: Well, sometimes we did because I did it for several years. Ms. Wald: Not when you were first elected.
Ms. West: No, but I’m not talking about then, right.
Ms. Wald: But let me say it again, it doesn’t matter who is chairman or vice chairman, the most important thing that I have seen over the number of years I’ve been practicing law in government is, whoever the chairman is going to be make sure they’re accessible so Patrick can get a hold of them, they can execute documents, we do a lot of things electronically now, it’s so much easier, than tracking someone down to sign, that’s the most important part, and then when the chairman is not around that the vice chairman is here.
Ms. Christie: And then we’re doing it again in November.
Ms. Wald: Yes, and we’re going to do it again in November, so Karen made a motion for the same slate of officers, is there a second?

On MOTION by Ms. Warfel seconded by Ms. Christie with all in favor, election of officers, electing to keep the existing slate of officers the same and adding Anina Venuti as an assistant secretary was approved.

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Approval	of	Minutes	of	the
January 8, 2026 Meeting
Mr. Burgess: Alright, item No. 3 on the agenda is approval of the minutes of the January 8, 2026 meeting.
Ms. Wald: I had one change that I provided to you that was a typographical error, it should have said “pad” instead of “pack” on page 14.
Mr. Burgess:	Ok, are there any other additions, deletions or corrections that anyone had noticed in the minutes? If not, I just need a motion to approve those.

On MOTION by Ms. Warfel seconded by Ms. Christie with all in favor, the Minutes of the January 8, 2026 Meeting with the indicated change were approved.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Discussion of:
Fiscal Year 2027 Budget
Mr. Burgess: Moving on to item No. 4 of the agenda, discussion of the fiscal year 2027 budget. So, I wanted to put this on here for discussion, and in April we’re going to be proposing the budget, and I wanted to provide you guys with a draft in case there’s any questions or concerns with what we are thinking about for the 2027 budget. Now, there is, let me just pull it up right now, so what we had done is decrease the assessment, and you guys assessed a $1,000 increase to everyone last time and the goal was to go back to no increase, and that’s what we are proposing with that draft budget. Now we do have the remaining lake projects for lake 1 and lake 2, and the accountants feel that we can get that project done based on the numbers that we received from Landshore with the funds available, with what you collected and assessed last year, and then with your budget currently. So, the goal is to get those projects done with what you guys assessed for it, and we’re able to do that without having an increase for fiscal year 2027. Now, it’s up to you guys but, that was the goal and that’s what I just wanted to put in front of you to look at and then if you have any input I can take that. There are a few increases with proposed numbers from Cutters Edge, later on in the agenda we’ll talk about a lake vendor which would be a decrease to the current budget line item but, I really just wanted to put this on here for discussion and any input so that we can have a proposed budget ready for you guys at the April meeting.
Ms. Wald: And I’m going to transfer to an associate at some point this year, so you’ll probably reduce that.
Mr. Burgess: Ok.
Ms. Wald: I mean back to where it was, and you’ll see that we’re asking for an increase of $25 per hour, but I’ll do that next, or whenever it’s my turn but, I don’t think you need to go that high, it might have been last year that we went to our budget number because you did have a few things going on and then I had to come back as a partner versus the associate but, I want to get you guys ok, I know you’re doing well, and also with Patrick here but, she did transfer this back to associate fee to save some money, and of course I’m always available as you know.
Mr. Barak: An associate would have been somebody like Greg.

Ms. Wald: Gregory was an associate, yes, but I came back, I wasn’t leaving because I have an institutional knowledge of this District.
Mr. Barak: And I’m just curious, it’s not a big increase but, I thought insurance kind of stabilized or lowered.
Ms. Wald: No, insurance has always gone up.
Mr. Barak: And is there a shopping around process at all?
Ms. Wald: Yes, they do shop around and they do put it out but, the problem is you’re limited, when you’re talking about insurance there are two different types, so you have your property insurance, your general liability, that’s been increasingly going up and up, even though it’s still less because the District has sovereign immunity, which I’ll talk about in a little bit but those numbers are going up as well but, then you have your E+O, which want as an official of the Board to protect yourselves individually, so that’s part of it as well.  There’s only a handful of insurance companies that provide that type of insurance for public officials, so you’re kind of limited in shopping around, and that has stayed stable, really what we’ve seen over the years and you’ve probably seen as individuals is property insurance just going up each year, and I don’t see that changing and nothing in the Florida Legislature right now to make that haMppr.eBn.arak: I thought there was.
Ms. Wald: No there isn’t and I’ll talk about that later.
Mr. Burgess: So, I think mainly the changes that I and Jason have been working on is landscaping, now that Cutters Edge has made their changes with their management, which we’ll talk about later as well but, their rates have gone up for annual tree trimming, so that’s stuff is what they presented to us which we will discuss later but, these numbers are as up to date as we can get them as far as the field line items but, the most important part is that the assessment would be decreased and that’s what you would be setting for the proposed budget to adopt the assessment.
Mr. Barak: When you say assessment decreased, what assessment?
Mr. Burgess: So, you increased your assessment $1,000 to fund the lake projects, now we have available funds to do the lake projects that are remaining which Angel will speak on further, we don’t have to have that increase, it’s up to you guys but, the goal was to decrease that based on the letter that you sent.

(At this point several people were talking at one time, and no one conversation could be heard)

Ms. Wald: Those were CDD special assessments, not condo assessments, but CDD assessments and remember it goes on your tax bill.
Mr. Barak: Right.
Ms. Wald: so they’re called special assessments and what we did for this fiscal year, last year is we did that increase across the board for everybody to pay for the lake project.
Mr. Barak: Right.
Ms. Wald: The money is in the bank, so to speak, for the lake project which as already commenced, we don’t need to have that extra money floating around, so you can go back down to what you had before.
Mr. Barak: Right, so when I hear it’s less of an assessment, it’s just sounds like there’s still an assessment.
Ms. Wald: Well, you still have an assessment, but you’re going back down to what you were before.
Mr. Burgess: And page 31 of your agenda it shows the assessment comparison, you can see it’s your annual maintenance assessment, so at fiscal year 2026 you’re at
$1,563.53, and fiscal year 2027 we’re proposing $563.54 which is a $1,000 decrease to your maintenance assessment. The debt assessment is going to stay the same and you can see the total assessed per unit will go down by $1,000.
Mr. Barak: Ok.
Ms. Wald: And that’s for this budget, now you’re not approving this budget right now, all you’re doing is having a discussion, so when we come back for the next meeting, that’s when you’re going to approve your proposed budget but, what Patrick wanted to do was give you these numbers now so you can look at them, have some discussions, tell him what you want right now, which you don’t have to, some changes thereto but, you’re not going to be making that decision until the next meeting.
Mr. Burgess: So, if you want to send me anything or call me about any questions or anything we can discuss it but, you have this draft and as of now that’s what we’re planning on proposing but, we’ll do that properly at the next meeting.

Ms. Wald: Right, so it’s just discussion, you’re not making any decisions. Mr. Burgess: So, if there are no further questions on that we can move on.
Ms. Christie: So, if we were to adopt this when the time comes, the amount on our tax bill will be what?
Mr. Burgess: It would be on page 31, and your total per unit assessment would be in fiscal year 2027 if you decrease it by $1,000 will be $1,230.10
Ms. Christie: Ok.
Ms. Wald: Going back down to what you had before. Ms. Christie: Yes.

Request from Condo Association Manager for Cost Share with CDD for Irrigation Improvements
Mr. Burgess: So moving on to item B we have a discussion request from condo association manager for cost share with CDD for irrigation improvements and this is something Amber wanted to discuss to the CDD Board about a possibility of going into a cost sharing agreement with the CDD to fund improvements to the irrigation system. Do you want to discuss it further Amber, the floor is yours.
Ms. Venzal: Yes. (inaudible comment) I was told we had a cost sharing document and then I was told, we’ll look into it and we’ll get back to you. I don’t think there is one, or there hasn’t been one, so I think as far as the condo Board would like to know, what are the common CDD areas that you share with us. Would the CDD replace the irrigation because we’re looking at roughly around $55,000, and things like that, so just out of curiosity what, if anything, would be done in a cost sharing.
Mr. Burgess: Well, that would be up to the Board if they want to explore a cost share agreement with the condo association and then I believe it would be up to the association’s attorney to draft something for the Board to even consider.
Ms. Warfel: I feel like it’s six of one, half a dozen of the other, it’s still our money as property owners.
Mr. Barak: So meaning there would be an assessment.
Ms. Venzal: We all have a budget for that, we would have to add that to our budget and then that would come out of your tax bill.
Mr. Barak: And there’s already a looming assessment for the roofs for the condos.

Mr. Burgess: And this is really for discussion, like Amber said, it’s not something that’s urgent but, there’s always going to be a need for improvements, I mean there’s going to be a need for replacement and I’m not sure about the existing pump condition, but they don’t last forever. So, she’s just saying in the future there is a possibility to do this, and if the Board is interested in a cost sharing agreement, she wanted to know.
Ms. Wald: For instance, what you’ll have is, you have an improvement, a system that is shared equally for plumbing but, it’s shared as to the condo association, or homeowners association, and the CDD. What can happen is the two parties can enter into an agreement with one of them taking control over the replacement or the repairs for that improvement, that capital improvement, and then making a determination who’s going to pay what percentage. So, you can do that as you used to have, you used to have an agreement with the condo associations which they took over some of the maintenance items and then that was terminated when that wasn’t working out. So, this is one of those items that is the irrigation system which is serving the purposes of the condo association for their property and their private parts, and then also part of it also is dealing with the CDD. So, the condo association is coming to you and saying, we got a quote for $55,001.10 and we’ll just say $55,000 and the request is would you be interested in contributing to that, that’s what they’re talking about with cost sharing.
(At this point several people were talking at one time, and no one conversation could be heard)

Ms. Venzal: And let me also just explain one thing to you, obviously we draw from the retention ponds, so the retention ponds are not being managed correctly and we need that for and I don’t know the technical term for the pipe to go into the lake, so I don’t manage the lake so why should I have to pay for the full cost of those types of repairs and things like that, so I just wanted to mention that.
Ms. Wald: Forget improper maintenance for a second, and by the way the condo association used to maintain them, and it wasn’t that long ago, and it’s also a function of with the lakes, as long as you have water in the lakes you can continue to use the irrigation.
Mr. Burgess: And these are purely retention ponds, they can empty out if there’s no rain.

Ms. Wald: Exactly.
Ms. Warfel: And I’ve raised concerns, like why are we watering every single day, I don’t think that’s general practice of good behavior to begin with, it’s deteriorating the water levels, all through dry season watering every single day, so there’s some stuff that’s out of our control too that they’re drawing on this water but, it shouldn’t be us versus them.
Ms. Wald: And I agree, I think it should be something where it should be cooperative, which is why we had the agreements in the past. It should be a cooperation, it works better when it’s that way, I agree with you100% Karen, and when we had that many years ago it did work well here and in other communities, and so I think that could also be part of the concerns is having an overall agreement where those items are placed. So, I’ll just give you a caution of warning and luckily you don’t have it here yet but, I do have another District in which the water levels got so low and then sludge got into the retention system that they no longer could use the lakes for irrigation, and so the entire irrigation system which was for CDD property and also for homeowner association property, and also for homeowners had to cease and they had to all connect up to city water. So, it’s the circle of life type of thing, and it’s everybody has to cooperate to make sure that not just the maintenance of the system, but that the system is properly being utilized when you have those instances of the water levels going low, sludge coming in I mean that’s why you’re doing all these things to get your stormwater system back up to an approved functioning system, it’s not bad, it’s working but, to get it where it was but, again, if you’re interested in doing something like that, you have to look at your budget, how much money do you have that can be provided thereto and what other things you want to see in a cost sharing agreement.
Ms. Venuti: How old is the system now? Ms. Wald: How long have we been here? Mr. Barak: 20 years.
Ms. Venzal: (inaudible comment)
Ms. Christie: And who’s in charge of the timers that go off? Ms. Venzal: (inaudible comment)
Mr. Burgess: And we can discuss that with them, that’s an easy catch. Mr. Barak: Well the lakes look pretty low right now for example.

Ms. Wald: Well, everybody’s does.
Mr. Burgess: So, I think if it’s something you guys want to entertain we have to see some sort of proposal from the association for you guys to even consider but, really this is just for discussion it was put out there for you guys to think about, it’s not urgent.
Mr. Barak: So, this would just be a cost sharing agreement but, we would have no say whatsoever in terms of how it actually works.
Ms. Wald: Well, you can add anything you want to the agreement but, you have to tell me.
Mr. Burgess: You have control over the current CDD irrigation, we maintain that but, as far as the condo association, they’re doing their thing.
(At this point several people were talking at one time, and no one conversation could be heard)

Mr. Barak: Hold on, that’s the entire amount, they’re not asking for the CDD to pay the entire amount, they’re asking to share.
Ms. Wald: Well, we don’t know what they’re asking.
Mr. Burgess: So I think Amber, if you guys want to present something for them to look at we can add it on the agenda or future agendas but, until then we really just wanted to put it out there for you guys.
Ms. Wald: Are you asking for a certain percentage so they can mull that over?
Ms. Venzal: I have to confirm with the Board, so this was just something that was up for discussion because a prior manager had mentioned and Juliana had mentioned that there was a cost sharing agreement but, I have no record of that.
Ms. Wald: Well, we used to have, and it was before you, we used to have a maintenance agreement and that was amended a few times.
Mr. Barak: It was an easement, right? Ms. Wald: No.
Ms. Venzal: I had spent one weekend for it, but I don’t have any record of it, I really don’t.
Ms. Wald: Ok, and everything is a public record and you can have anything you want, Patrick has them all, but that was terminated a while ago, and so it’s no longer in existence. So, whatever you want to do has to be new, and it’s fine, I’m not saying don’t

do it, what I’m saying is, it just needs to be done and it needs to be done properly, and so the information needs to be provided because this Board for its budgeting as we just discussed can only do it once a year, and so they have to budget for money. Now can a portion of this, whatever that amount may be, if there’s reserves and it could be pulled from there, of course, but they need to know because they need to figure out where they’re going to pull that money from if it’s going to be this fiscal year, that’s all.
Ms. Warfel: And what we can and cannot do as the governing body that we are.
Ms. Wald: That’s correct, and you do have that easement over basically everything, or almost everything in this community that was provided to the condo association to the CDD over 10 years ago but, let’s not get back into it. The percentage or basically what I always say is what’s being served, as Karen was stating, for the public portion thereof, and there is irrigation if this pump is serving that’s being replaced is serving the irrigation for the CDD portion, yes, can we figure out what that percentage is, probably yes, and once you figure out that percentage that’s what’s going to be fair.
Mr. Barak: Ok.
Ms. Venzal: Ginger, I have a question, because I know you mentioned that public information is available, are you suggesting I make a public records request?
Ms. Wald: No, Patrick can send it to you.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, I’ll send you the prior agreement, it terminated when GMS took over the field area, so that’s when those whole agreements were terminated and I can forward those to you.
Ms. Wald: Remember a public records request is just give it to me, nothing has to be formal.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, can you just state your name for the record.
Ms. Capuano: Yes, Cheri Capuano, 2318 Coral Reef Court, I remember when in a HOA meeting one time and they were talking about that the CDD has maintenance to just pick up the debris around the lakes, is that what you were referring to that we used to have that maintenance and we don’t anymore?
Mr. Burgess: Yes.
Ms. Wald: It was more than that, the agreements were everything.
Ms. Capuano: Because when I reported the dead duck the office said that’s the CDD responsibility.

Ms. Wald: Correct, there’s no longer a maintenance agreement between the condo association and the CDD.
Mr. Burgess: And we’ll discuss the duck situation later on in the agenda but, there’s no agreement with the condo association currently, it was terminated when GMS took over the field and that’s where it was ended. So, anything you want to send Amber, we can present it down the road.
Ms. Venzal: Thank you.
Mr. Burgess: You’re welcome.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration of Southeast Land
and Water Management, LLC as the new District Lake Maintenance Vendor
Mr. Burgess: Moving on to item No. 5 of the agenda, consideration of Southeast Land and Water Management, LLC as the new District lake maintenance vendor, do you want me to speak on this or do you want to?
Mr. Gitel: You can go ahead.
Mr. Burgess: So, basically Southeast Land and Water Management has provided a proposal and Juliana provide this in the past but, it wasn’t approved. They are proposing to service the lakes for $400 a month.
Mr. Gitel: And just to interject, Southeast, we use them on a lot of other properties and they’re very good, they’re very helpful, and they are a little bit less and they’re very good in what they do, and very attentive and very easy to get a hold of and they’re always there.
Mr. Burgess: So currently this budget is at $5,514 and Southeast Land and Water is proposing $4,800, and like Jason said, we use them, we used to have Solitude at a bunch of Districts and they became a little too corporate and it was really hard to get to someone in charge, so we switched over to this vendor, it’s locally owned vendor, he’s the president and owner, we call and text him and he answers right away. So, kind of later on we discussed the duck situation and that’s something that would have been handled right away with this vendor, whereas we have to go through customer service channels and it took 5 days for them to get out here, and we can discuss it more but, they’re not a bad vendor, I just think in terms of your budget we have an option of

decreasing vendors, and having better service, the same service, just quicker response and we work with them currently and we have no complaints. So, I think if you guys would like to, it would be a motion to terminate Advanced Aquatic and hire Southeast Land and Water Management.
Mr. Barak: I’ll motion.

On MOTION by Mr. Barak seconded by Ms. West with all in favor, authorizing staff to terminate the current vendor, Advanced Aquatic and enter into a contract with Southeast Land and Water Management in the amount of $4,800 per month for lake maintenance services was approved.

Ms. Venuti: Do they come every month? Ms. Christie: Yes, every month.
Ms. Venuti: And they’ll get rid of the algae and everything because it seems like we have a lot of algae bloom.
Mr. Burgess: They will do proper maintenance that they’re allowed to do. So, we’ll go ahead get the termination sent out based on the agreement, and we’ll get them started and I think it’s a positive change.
Ms. Christie: And you guys have used them, you’ve worked with them on other properties.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, they do a good job, we use them all over, so we’re very happy with them.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Staff Reports
Mr. Burgess: Moving on to staff reports, attorney.

Attorney – Consideration of Request for Adjustment to District Counsel Fee Structure
Ms. Wald: Ok, a few things, we were talking about the Florida Legislature and what’s going on, so one the bills, and there’s two, but one of the bills that are pending is increasing the sovereign immunity. As you know or may not, the CDD because it is a local government has the right to sovereign immunity which means if something happens and somebody sues the CCD, you have limitations and liabilities to $200,000 to
$300,000, that’s going to go up, there’s no question in my mind that’s going to go up, how

high it’s going to go up depends on which bill proceeds forward or some kind of combination thereof. There hasn’t been an increase to that amount in many years so it hasn’t stayed with the cost of living.  So, that will probably increase to $400,000 or
$500,000 but, once the legislative session is complete and we have the bill sent to the Governor, as we do, each year we do that memo but, I do want to make my Boards aware of that because that becomes even more for that insurance. There are a lot of questions that have been asked of me as to property taxes, that doesn’t affect the CDD, because we have special assessments even though it’s on the bill, so that does not affect the CDD, that will affect you as a homeowner as to what you pay in the services that you will be getting from the county and from your city but, I don’t see that happening until the special session which they’re already talking about schedule in July but, that does not affect the CDD, but I am getting a lot of questions on that, so it does not affect the CDD, the answer is no. There are some other changes in the CDD, there’s one that is a bill that I think is going to pass this legislative session, the senate billed passed, and it only affects this CDD as to, you don’t like one of your Board members, and you’re someone in the community, you could start a recall petition, same as you do for cities and counties. It was proposed on the west coast because they were having some problems with those CDDs, we don’t have those problems over here but, it is something that I think is going to pass, and again, none of these have passed yet, we will do the memo, everybody has an opportunity to read the memo when it’s completed, so that’s that.
Ms. Venuti: Excuse me, I’m sorry to do this but, I have a doctor’s appointment I have to get to, I just overlapped today, so I’m going to excuse myself, and I want to thank everybody, so have a good evening.
Ms. Wald: So, we’re announcing for the record that you’re departing at 9:52. Ms. Venuti: Ok, thank you so much.
Ms. Wald: And we still have a quorum.
Ms. West: I have an appointment but, it’s not until 11:00.
Ms. Wald: Well, that’s up to you, we still have a quorum if you need to leave. Ms. West: Ok, well I need to go.
Ms. Wald: Ok, so same as the Anina 9:53, that’s ok. So, my second item that I have is the request for fee increase. So, what you’re paying right now is $275 an hour for partners and $225 an hour for associates, and this fee structure has been in place since

2023, we are making a request for a whopping $25 an hour increase, which would make partners $300 an hour and associates $250 per hour. This would not be going into effect until the next fiscal year, we doing this really early so when people like you, and the District manager can take that into account when you’re doing your budget for next fiscal year. So, when we were looking at it, which is probably why he did that increase, but as I said I want to transfer this over to an associate for next year, not that I don’t love you guys and coming here, and I’m always available but my schedule is insane, and you would save some money. So, the CPI increase is 6.6%, one of my lovely assistants did that for me, and that is the request that we’re asking for.
Mr. Barak: And just doing the quick math, so the only difference is $50 per hour between he partner and associate, and let’s say we have 10 meetings out of the year, we’re talking about saving $500.
Ms. Wald: If you can do that math, sure.
Mr. Barak: Assuming meetings are an hour long. Ms. Wald: Yes, that’s usually how long they are. Mr. Barak: Ok.
Ms. Wald: And as I said before, if you need me, I’m always available, I’m always here, if you don’t like who we put as associate, but you’ll be in good hands, if you want me back, I’m more than happy to help you guys and come back but, anyone we’re not doing it right yet. So, that is the request, and if that is acceptable we would request that you make a motion to approve the fee increase which goes into effect October 1, 2026.

On MOTION by Ms. Warfel seconded by Ms. Christie with all in favor, accepting the request for adjustment to District Counsel fee structure effective October 1, 2026 was approved.

Engineer
Mr. Burgess: Moving on to the engineer, Angel is on the phone, can you hear us Angel?
Mr. Camacho: Yes, can you hear me? Ms. Wald: Yes.

Mr. Camacho: Great, good morning everyone. I have two items, the first item is the status on the outfall cleaning. We have Raptor Vac who just confirmed that they will be onsite one day next week, and it will take approximately two days to actually the clean those outfalls, they apologize for the delay, which was scheduled previously but, we’re expecting them onsite next Wednesday until Friday.
Mr. Burgess: Ok, thank you.
Mr. Camacho: Then to touch base on lakes 1 and 2, between meetings we received a proposal from Landshore which was about $441,000 I believe.
Mr. Burgess: $421,000.
Mr. Camacho: Ok, and during that meeting it was said for us to seek out other proposals, and you can correct me if I’m wrong, it doesn’t meet the threshold for a public bid which would increase cost to the District, so I was able to go out and submit requests for proposals from different vendors.
Ms. Wald: Angel, I need you guys to do the calculation, because you have the books, Juan does it every year, I don’t have the numbers memorized but, it’s the
$300,000 and then they multiple that, whatever that percentage is called, but you people have it in your books, and so you need to apply that and make sure that it stays within that threshold, and I know it’s $400,000 something but, if it is within that threshold then you’re fine, if not, you do have to go out to bid.
Mr. Camacho: Yes, and we spoke to, or I had a meeting with Juan and we kind of touched base on that but, I will confirm with him but, I have prepared a package to send out to separate vendors to hopefully have three proposals by the next meeting.
Ms. Wald: Ok, good, that’s fine.
Mr. Burgess: Ok, then anything else on the lakes, or does anyone have any questions for Angel?
Mr. Barak: No. Ms. Christie: No.
Mr. Burgess: Ok, anything additional on the lakes?
Ms. Christie: When are they coming, when are the Raptor Vac people coming? Mr. Burgess: Raptor Vac will be here Wednesday next week.
Mr. Christie: Ok.
Mr. Barak: So the outfall is not right.

Mr. Burgess: Yes. Then I didn’t put it on the agenda so I apologize Angel but, I do have you handout for the fee increase for the engineers, so if you want to speak on that we have the handout and we can accomplish that.
Mr. Camacho: Ok, so currently our hourly billing rates are 5 years old, from 2021, so what we did is we created new job applications to kind of be in line from day one. We don’t expect this proposed rate to exceed the engineering budget that was adopted for fiscal year 2026, so we kind of added new qualifications for the junior engineers. (inaudible comment)
Mr. Burgess: So, if there is no concerns with this, and the Board does approve it, then it would be an amendment to the current agreement with Alvarez Engineers, so are there any questions on this?
Mr. Barak: No.
Ms. Vernon: May I ask a question about the lake, Patrick, it’s Nicole Vernon. Mr. Burgess: Yes, do you guys have any issues with Nicole asking a question? Mr. Barak: No.
Ms. Christie: No.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, go ahead Nicole.
Ms. Vernon: Just a question for Angel, with what he was talking about earlier, didn’t we receive a proposal for lakes 1, 2 and 3 in April, 2025 and are those proposals no longer valid, those proposals totaled $292,860?
Mr. Camacho: Yes, so the April one excluded the actual shoreline, specifically the east and west shoreline for lakes 1 and 2, and then lake 3 but, this proposal I think, and I’m not sure when the meeting was that the Board proposed it but, Landshore recommended that because they were talking about replacing the retaining walls as well, so lakes 1 and 2 to have full retaining wall replacement, as well as completion of the shoreline restoration, and that’s kind of where the Board left off on lake 1 and 2, and then leaving lake 3 because that retaining wall would compromise whatever shoreline restoration that was completed there.
Ms. Vernon: So the shoreline restoration proposal that was proposed in April, 2025 currently 1, 2 and 3 for the $292,000, that was corrected in November for $426,000 basically $1,000 per unit. (inaudible comment)

Mr. Camacho: Well, I think those proposals supersede the other ones, I’m not sure but, we are moving forward with lakes 1 and 2.
Ms. Vernon: (inaudible comment) Then the Board decided not to move forward with lake 3 which was I think was $54,000 proposal because they said that it wasn’t as bad, so if the proposals totaled $292,860 and we currently have $426,000.
Ms. Christie: I think that quote was older, right?
Ms. Warfel:  I think the quote is older, I think we added to it and that’s why it’s
$400,000 something, and then we had to wait until we collected all of that revenue through your tax bills in order to be able to move forward because we can bid something without the cash on hand, so now we’re getting the three quotes to see where we’re at in reality versus the one that we had last year as an estimate to know what to ask for.
Ms. Vernon: Ok, so the work isn’t going to commence until we I guess get more bids to do the wall, as well, I guess is what my question is.
Ms. Warfel: Yes.
Ms. Vernon: Ok, that was my question, thank you, and will the shoreline deteriorate more, and are there plans if the erosion gets worse?
Mr. Camacho: Yes, so upon completion of lakes 1 and 2, we could asked the vendor put eyes on lake 3 to get recommendations at that time.
Ms. Vernon: Ok, alright thank you.
Mr. Burgess: Thank you Angel. Going back to the fee increase request from Alvarez Engineering, are there any issues with that, or is there a motion to accept the increase and amend the agreement?
Ms. Wald: It’s just the hourly rate, they go hourly, so it would be the current rates for the principal, which is Juan, and then they just increase the hourly rate. So, I think and Angel are you a junior or a senior?
Mr. Camacho: I’m actually a project engineer.
Ms. Wald: Ok, I just wanted to see what line item you would be. Mr. Camacho: It’s about a $4.00 increase from the original rate.

On MOTION by Ms. Warfel seconded by Ms. Christie with all in favor, accepting the updated hourly billing rate increase from Alvarez Engineers and authorizing staff to amend the agreement was approved.

Mr. Burgess: Does anyone have anything else for Angel? Mr. Barak: No.

Field
Monthly Report
Advanced Aquatic Email Regarding Recent Complaints in Lakes 1 and 2
Mr. Burgess: Moving on to the field report on page 37 is the monthly report, and Jason can take it from here.
Mr. Gitel: Yes, so Advance Aquatic continuing to maintain all the District lakes, special treatment for some of the plankton algae and that was conducted February 2nd for lakes 1 and 2, and Patrick will talk a little bit more about that and the situation that was discussed with the ducks and the algae. The big thing here is, the clusias were installed behind the dumpsters, and I’ve been taking a look every week or so and they are growing, so it’s looking good, and they’re growing quick which is nice. The royal poinciana when you first pull in at the main entrance to the right, it was kind of hanging over the lake, so it was kind of looking bad, so they trimmed that up. The hedges near lake 4 on the wall were trimmed, there was also some vines in there that were taken out, so we are just going to be monitoring that along that wall, just so it doesn’t do any damage to the current hedges. I’m not sure if you know this or not but, Anglers Avenue, they have that new bus stop, the new shelter, so they dug that all up, they repaired everything and then they did replace the grass. The grass right now, that was damaged and they did put it back but, right now it’s turning brown for some reason, so we’re not sure if it was from the cold weather but, it should come back, and we’re keeping an eye on that as well and Cutters Edge is aware so we’ll make sure that if it needs to be resodded, we’ll resod it.
Mr. Burgess: Well, the county paid for the new sod. Mr. Gitel: Yes.
Ms. Warfel: Was our irrigation in tack down there, or was it not getting water because they moved some irrigation?

Mr. Burgess: Yes, there’s probably clogged sprinkler heads because it was working when they installed it, so they’re probably just clogged sprinkler heads, and that area had a bad valve that Cutters Edge fixed, and a lot of Cutters Edge repairs have been something they’ve just eaten because they know it was kind of left it in the past, but they’ve done that for us which we appreciate but, they’re aware of the sod issues and the vendor even reached out but, it looked good when it was done.
Ms. Venzal: I’ve asked Cutters Edge to give a full sod proposal for the whole community to see if that’s something that we can do in phases. (inaudible comment)
Mr. Gitel: And that’s something different, this was the other thing but, that’s all I have so if anyone has any questions for the field let me know.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, so basically the vines that Amber is referencing bordering the hotel, the vines are coming from the oak trees from the hotel side, the account manager for Cutters Edge was there yesterday to try to discuss a removal and is going back today. If it gets down to it just not being something they’re maintaining, and it’s impacting our landscaping, and once those vines get inside our hedges they strangler them basically and basically kill them. So, I don’t know if down the road we need to send a letter or something or we can maintain anything that hangs over our property, but if it’s just going to continue to be a maintenance item, I don’t see why we would entertain that.
Ms. Warfel: Is it on their other side, is it just they’re not maintaining their landscaping or do they have a vine on that side or it’s coming over?
Mr. Burgess: It’s on their side.
Ms. Venzal: The vines are coming from their oak trees. (inaudible comment) Mr. Warfel: So it’s invasive all around.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, so Cutters Edge is going to try to offer them some kind of service to do it, it should be any expense for the CDD unless we decide to cut back what’s coming over to our side but again, trying to save money and not have a continuous maintenance item if they can just prevent it one time. So, if we need to we’ll talk about that but, we’ll let Cutters Edge do their research and get back to us but, it’s been good.
Ms. Venzal: Any chance that we have to do another duck removal in the area because it was very nice when there weren’t that many ducks the last time, and mother

nature kind of took care of the iguanas for us but, not we’re just getting over run with ducks and we just had the pressure wash done and they just poop on the sidewalk.
Mr. Gitel: I will say that I was here the other day and I brought that up when I was here, and there we still a lot of people feeding a bunch of ducks, and there were a lot of ducks around, so I’m just saying there are people still feeding the ducks.
Ms. Venzal: (inaudible comment)
Mr. Burgess: So, if that’s something the Board wants to talk about we can definitely discuss that.
Ms. Wald: You got to get people to stop feeding the ducks.
Mr. Burgess: So, moving to item #2 under field, I want to talk about the email, and based on the duck concern and the algae concern, we received a complaint from Teri that lake 1 had a dead duck and there was some sort of algae that fell on it, so I sent an email and this is the email back from the vendor, I emailed them on a Thursday, and they emailed be back on Friday, they go out there on Monday but, 10 days later they sent us an update after I had followed up so a reason why we terminated them but, we did our best to reach out to them and this is just for the record, that we were attempting to get it resolved and it wasn’t resolved as fast as we would have liked.
Ms. Venzal: (inaudible comment)
Mr. Burgess: The duck removal was to be a one-time service, and there’s two ways to do the duck removal as we have it.
Ms. Venzal: No but like the one that was on the lake.
Mr. Burgess: No, that’s something that our vendor would just come and do, that’s kind of why we like to use him, he’s going to just come and get that taken care of.
Ms. Venzal: Ok.
Mr. Burgess: So, unless there are any questions on that we can move on.

Manager – Discussion of Cutters Edge Maintenance Services for CDD
Mr. Burgess: Moving down to manager, discussion of Cutters Edge maintenance services, so we added this to the revised agenda because currently there is no agreement with Cutters Edge for the CDD to be maintained, there was an old agreement with the condo association that they honored for a long time, and currently we are just having them service the property monthly and paying them.  There’s no formal

agreement that is in place. So, we discussed last week on what you guys would like to do moving forward, is it keeping Cutters Edge for the CDD, is it going out to bid for other vendors, either way we’d like to have an agreement in place. They have provided us a proposal for fiscal year 2027 services which we’ll put on the next agenda for you guys to look at but, that wouldn’t go into effect until next year and that is included in your draft budget, their rates are, but currently we’re just paying them monthly and there’s really nothing accounted for besides what we want them to do and that they’re doing. I mean they’re doing the normal maintenance but, there’s nothing written out that says, hey you should be doing this or that.
Ms. Wald: Recommendation is to enter into an agreement. Mr. Burgess: Yes.
Ms. Wald: We need an agreement.
Mr. Barak: And how long has that been the case? Ms. Wald: A while.
Mr. Burgess: So, we can have them provide us a current proposal to draft an agreement and then come 2027 when they are renewing their services, there would be an amendment. So, if that’s something you guys would like we can add it to the next agenda but, I wanted to make you aware of that, that’s why there was pushback on the mulch job pricing, which why the tree trimming is going up, they have a ton of trees in the CDD to trim so I think their price is fair but, we just never really had something in place that says, you need to do 32 cuts a year here or whatever, at least for the CDD. So, the condo association may have something but, we never got anything.
Mr. Barak: So, we could just go back to whenever there was an agreement? Ms. Wald: No.
Mr. Barak: No, I’m saying like in terms of what they need to do or now all that is changed?
Ms. Wald: No.
Mr. Barak: So, it’s not like there’s a lot of time involved in drafting an agreement. Ms. Wald: No, I just need the proposal.
Mr. Barak: Ok.
Mr. Burgess: Amber do you have one? Ms. Venzal: (inaudible comment)

(At this point several people were talking at one time, and no one conversation could be heard)

Mr. Barak: It hasn’t been that bad to be honest with you, yes there’s issues here and there but, ultimately I think it’s something we can work with.
Mr. Burgess: Yes, but the CDD is very straight forward, a lot of it is just details, very minimal mowing.
Mr. Barak: Right.
Ms. Venzal: (inaudible comment) Just something you need to be aware, they’re charging you additional for certain trees, and the coconuts should be included. (inaudible comment)
Mr. Burgess: And we don’t have a current agreement with them but I appreciate it Amber. So, unless there are any questions, I’ll bring back a proposal to the next meeting to draft an agreement.
Ms. Wald: Give me the proposal, I’ll do the agreement and then you can have it on the agenda.
Mr. Burgess: Ok.
Ms. Warfel: I mean you still do it, whether we go out to bid or not, I think it just makes sense to stay with whoever the condo has.
Mr. Burgess: Ok.

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Financial Reports
Approval of Check Register
Acceptance of Unaudited Financials
Mr. Burgess: Moving on to financial reports, on page 42 is the approval of the check register, and page 47 starts the unaudited financials. So, unless there are any questions on those a motion to approve those would be in order.

On MOTION by Ms. Christie seconded by Mr. Barak with all in favor, the Check Register and the Unaudited Financials were approved.

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors	Requests	and
Audience Comments
Mr. Burgess: Are there any Supervisor’s requests?
Ms. Warfel: I have a question, I think a couple of ladies brought up to Cheri about communication, and we had the whole process where I created those flyers because I agreed that nobody knows what the CDD is and what we’re doing but, I never saw anything go out.
Mr. Burgess: I was contacted recently for a request, and I think it’s very informational and if you want to put it back on the agenda for you guys to maybe detail more, but I think it was really informative.
Mr. Barak: So, you’re suggesting to just send it out to everybody rather than just on a request basis.
Ms. Warfel: Yes, so that people are educated and know, because I know I didn’t know when I bought my property, my realtor was like, oh it’s fine, no big deal, don’t worry about it.
Ms. Venzal: Talking about that. (inaudible comment) If you think the CDD pushes something out like that would also help that would be good. (inaudible comment)
Ms. Wald: So, the audit is done every single year and it’s required to be on the website and it’s a link that brings you to the Florida Auditor General, so it brings you right to that link and all the reports are listed and I’m looking at them right now.
Ms. Venzal: Ok, is it under the audit that just passed? Mr. Burgess: Yes, there’s a link that says audit.
Ms. Venzal: Ok.
Mr. Barak: And that’s once a year in August?
Ms. Wald: No, so what happens is you are required because you are a local government, to have an independent auditor do the audit for every fiscal year, so it’s done after the fiscal year is over. We completed fiscal year 2025 on September 30, 2025.
Mr. Burgess: And you accepted that at your last meeting. Mr. Barak: Right.
Ms. Wald: So, some are a little bit more involved, so they don’t actually get done until like June but, some are done quicker because they’re easier to do like you guys and

you did yours, and once it’s done it goes up on to the website as a hyperlink to the state because it’s the state that actually maintains it and that’s who it gets sent to so that is on there. The other items that are required to be on there are your budget. So, it’s not your budgets when you began, but it’s a certain period of time for that but, that’s what is required now and a few other things but, you can add if you want to as a Board, and I talk to my Boards all the time about this, you must have the certain legal requirements, but if you want to add other things to your website, you can, and some want them, some don’t, it all depends on the District. Districts that do not have engaged HOAs or condo associations, they have more, because they don’t have anyone else to go to, or if they own more things, like the one I had last night, they own a clubhouse, so their website has lots of stuff on it but, yours is a basic one because you really don’t own much in this CDD. You have an easement that was given to you many years ago that you mentioned, I have a condo association, they give you the right as a CDD and you did install a lot landscaping back then and to maintain it, but other than that you have the lakes, that really all you have. It’s not owned by the CDD, it’s owned by the condo association, so there really is not a per se requirement that you have change your website but, it’s something you can always do if you want to as a Board. Your condo association is onsite which is why you’re relying on them with agreements over the years to have certain things being done because they’re here, they know what’s going on, you get see it, if you look out your window you get to see what’s happening in the community so it makes sense but, the unique difference between this CDD and others is you do have that easement, so that just gives you the right, not the obligations, and I had to make that clear to a few people, it is not an obligation of the CDD, you can always have the CDD say, we’re not doing this thing, it’s a perpetual easement but you could stop if you wanted to. Patrick and I just had this conversation not too long ago.
Mr. Barak: So, the CDD can say, hey we don’t have to, or is it the condo association.
Ms. Wald: No, it’s a perpetual easement, they can’t do it unilaterally, we can agree together as a group to completely terminate if you want to, but it’s not a unilateral, which is why you had those maintenance agreements over the years, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Again, things change, nothing is static, change is fine, and I agree with you, pointing fingers doesn’t get you anywhere but, being accurate is

important but, it’s up to you to provide it but for a community such as this where the ownership is limited, the issue usually is on a HOA or condo association to provide that information. They’re the ones that have those email addresses, we don’t have any email addresses unless they’re given to us because it’s not required by law for us to have them. What we have is the folio numbers to make sure your assessments get on the tax bill. So, it’s up to the Board.
Ms. Warfel: So maybe we can talk about at the next meeting again, and if there’s opportunity to improve the website, an opportunity to request again that the condo Board help with distribution if we agree on something.
Ms. Wald: Yes.
Mr. Burgess: And going back to your original point, we can add your back to the agenda and discuss it and we can have the webpage discussion. As Ginger mentioned there’s an audit link with our audits, the budgets are there, the financials, like she said, some Districts want us to add things, and some don’t, it’s a gray area because you’re adding things every single month, although we don’t meet every single month, and you’re not approving them, but they could always be requested from us.
Ms. Warfel: Are the agendas on there?
Mr. Burgess: Yes, the agendas are on there.
Ms. Warfel: So then the financials based on our agenda on that too.
Ms. Wald: All that’s required is an agenda page, not all the backup. If you want to add all the backup then yes, it can be placed on there but, all that’s required is this. Some Boards want everything, but some don’t because, like I said, I had a meeting last night, the agenda is like this so it takes up a lot of memory on the website, and so as long as you’re willing to pay extra for that, the storage and everything else, it’s fine but, this is all that’s required by law.
Mr. Burgess: Right, so what’s on there is your agenda package, the financials, and our boss had mentioned, we’re putting financials on the website, when the financials are in the agenda package, so you’re kind of doubling down but, it’s up to you guys definitely. You can have the full agenda package in there.
Mr. Barak: But there’s an added cost to that is what you’re saying. Ms. Wald: There could be.
Mr. Barak: Ok.

Ms. Wald: But remember also for financials and I kind of caution this to this, you approve your financials as a Board, that’s why they’re in your agenda package. If you’re putting all the financials without approval on to your website, they’re fine, they’re on there, but if something is not correct that it has to be revised and corrected, so that is a caution that I do say. Now, is it a public record, can anybody ask for it, of course, like I said, you don’t do anything formal, just say I need this and you have it.
Mr. Burgess: Are there any other Supervisor’s requests? Moving on to audience comments, and for the sake of the meeting time, there is a 3 minute public comment policy, and it’s not a Q&A, you guys don’t have to answer but, whoever is online, and Nicole I know you’re online so if you have any questions feel free.
Ms. Vernon: Yes, I just wanted to mention the last thing about the sprinklers, I know Juliana had worked on the sprinkler head issue and I know that she worked a lot with Cutters Edges on the invoices, and that we pay a lot for sprinkler repairs, so I’m on board with helping Amber again with getting the cost from Cutters Edge on that. (inaudible comment)
Mr. Burgess: Ok, thank you Amber. Anyone else have any questions?

NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment

Mr. Burgess: Not hearing any, is there a motion to adjourn.

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

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