Administrative Notes:
Marathon Fire/Rescue reported that about 6.5% of their 2025 responses were in KCB.
KCB logged about 6.5% of Marathon Fire/Rescue service calls. Our FY25 payment was $970,000 against the total Fire/Rescue budget of $8,155,853. People Are Asking why we pay 11.9% of the Marathon budget for 6.5% of the costs.
Code enforcement, the police department, and building department launched a citywide waterway inspection program for seawalls, docks, missing buoys, and boat lift reflectors.
The waterway compliance has generated about 40 seawall or dock notifications or citations to property owners.
The city administrator is working on invitations to bid for Shelter Bay pavers at the retention pond, the basketball half court, pickleball court shades, and the fishing pier project for Sunset Park.
The building department has relocated to the city hall trailer.
The Tiki Restaurant remains on schedule for completion in June.
Consent Action Items:
The commission votes for Consent Action Items with a single motion. This month they include meeting minutes for the December organizational, public hearing, and regular meetings, a warrant for $1,043,877.13 and a contract renewal with The Southern Group for $54,000 (The Southern Group is a lobbyist in Alabama, the Carolinas, Florida, Georgia, and DC--eighth-generation Floridian Kate DeLoach is our representative). They will install new committee and board members Joe Schmidt and Peter Testa to the Utility Board, Janie Byland and Janice Mueller to Beaut, Larry Freels to P&Z, and Jessica Borraccino to CRS.
Discussion Action Items:
Resolution 2026-01 changes building permit fees, fire safety inspections, transfers, sewer connections, P&Z review, and vacation rentals
Resolution 2026-02 changes miscellaneous fees such as variances and trailer parking.
Resolution 2026-03 changes the penalties in the schedule of violations
The commission will discuss evaluating golf course safety.
Ordinances and Resolutions:
The commission will do final readings of Ordinance 2025-497 to amend the Comprehensive Plan and Ordinance 2025-507 to amend the Land Development Regulations. 2025-497 (first reading March 20, 2025) adds sections for coastal storm areas, community wide resiliency, flood risk in coastal areas, flood zone designations, site development, and reduction of flood loss and claims. 2025-507 (first reading December 18, 2025) reduces the setbacks for residential pools.
Commissioner Tom Harding will publish the December, 2025, Financial Summary. He will also give the Wastewater Sampling Summary Report of January 19 and discuss the US1 and Sadowski Causeway pedestrian crossing, a suggestion to lower city speed limits to 20 mph, and summarize the city's three emergency generators.
Vice Mayor Doug Colonell will give a city hall update and discuss moving the Farmers Market.
The agenda has no information about the city attorney's report or commissioner's reports and comments from mayor Foster or commissioners Diehl or DiFransico.
