HomeMy WebLinkAboutcocc_cra_board_mtg_minutes_20211019_specialCITY OF CAPE CANAVERAL
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA)
SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
City Hall Council Chambers, 100 Polk Avenue, Cape Canaveral FL 32922
October 19, 2021
5:00 p.m.
MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER: The Chair called the Meeting to Order at 5:00 p.m. Board Member Brown led
the Pledge of Allegiance.
ROLL CALL:
Board Members Present: Chairperson Bob Hoog, Vice -Chairperson Angela Raymond, Mike
Brown, Mickie Kellum (attended via GoToWebinar) and Wes Morrison.
Others Present: CRA Registered Agent Todd Morley, CRA Director David Dickey, CRA Board
Attorney Anthony Garganese (arrived 5:02 p.m.), CRA Clerk/Recording Secretary Mia Goforth,
Administrative/Financial Services Director John DeLeo, Capital Projects Director Jeff Ratliff, Public
Works Services Director Jim Moore, Cultural/Community Affairs Director Molly Thomas, Leisure
Services Director Gustavo Vergara, Brevard County Sheriff's Office Lieutenant Brett Lockhart and
Deputy City Clerk Daniel LeFever.
PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: None.
NEW BUSINESS:
1. Approve Minutes for Cape Canaveral CRA Board Regular Meeting of September 21,
2021: A motion was made by Vice Chairperson Raymond, seconded by Board Member
Brown, to approve the CRA minutes. The motion carried 5-0.
2. General Discussion on CRA Funds (Submitted by Board Member Kellum): Board
Member Kellum explained the discussion relates to the status of the City's CRA Plan, programs
and grants in the coming year. Administrative/Financial Services Director DeLeo provided an
overview of CRA accomplishments since its 2012 inception, the current and projected debt service
schedule for the CRA and projected revenues going into the next fiscal year. Discussion ensued
and included the effect of finished projects rolling off the schedule, how the CRA will continue to
grow in the years ahead, the Interlocal Agreement with Brevard County, the CRA Sign Grant
program's leftover funds, buildings in need of repair and funds for landscape and facade
improvements. CRA Registered Agent Morley discussed the purchase and aggregation of blighted
properties process under the CRA for reinvestment and reinvigoration, Staff's plan to bring the
plan to the Strategic Planning Retreat in 2022, how the sign program is a small success so far and
the need to avoid a "winners versus losers" scenario. Discussion ensued and included City Hall
loan scheduled for payoff in two years, the success of small businesses around Center Street, the
City improvements are continuing to move forward, praise to fellow CRA Board Members for
approving the CRA Budget and the Promenade Project, no date or time set to demolish the
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CRA Special Board Meeting
October 19, 2021
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building at 7404 North Atlantic Avenue, which is a future item to be addressed, ways to use CRA
funds not allocated to debt service, cost of the loan for the Promenade Project, desire for equitable
treatment to all businesses, providing a process that businesses use to apply for the
improvements, desire for workshops with businesses to discuss ideas on use of CRA funds, ways
to deal with storm water runoff, rain barrels, 56% percent of the City legally qualified as slum and
blight in 2012, most of which being commercial properties, the CRA Plan language regarding
residential programs, requirements to implement programs within the adopted CRA Plan,
accounting for 100% of obligated funds annually, clear definitions of program criteria, support for
review of CRA programs in March at the Strategic Planning Retreat, support for a workshop to
receive input from the public before the Strategic Planning Retreat, a desire for CRA Board
Members to review the potential and future CRA Plan programs, the need to protect City interests
with rules and requirements provided within the language of CRA Plan, the CRA Plan programs
funding process, the Economic Development Ad Valorem Tax Exemption election referendum
which failed in 2019 and ideas that citizens can provide during the Re -Visioning scheduled for
2022. The Board reached consensus for a future public workshop meeting regarding
potential future CRA programs to be scheduled prior to the next Strategic Planning Retreat;
and an update regarding Brevard County's role in the process of creating additional future
CRA programs.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, Chairperson Hoog adjourned the meeting at
6:00 p.m.
Bob Hoog, Chairperson
Mia Goforth, CRA Clerk/Recording Secretary