The City Commission will host its monthly "Townhall Meeting" in Marble Hall and as a Zoom webinar on Monday, May 13, 2024, at 9:30 a.m.
Townhall Meetings are planned for the Monday before each monthly city commission meeting.
Come in person! Attend on Zoom!
Have your questions and comments ready!
The city commission really wants to hear from all KCBers!
Be persuasive. Be focused. Be present.
This Townhall will be the second public hearing for the Monroe County Vulnerability Assessment Project for KCB, starting with a presentation by Florida attorney and certified land planner Erin Deady.
From the Agenda:
The City is completing the modeling and analysis for the project and is conducting the second of a two-part series of Townhall meetings to gain your input.
This 2nd and final Public Hearing will focus on information about the City’s critical assets and infrastructure and other regional assets located in the City to determine how to prioritize the City’s adaptation response. We will be identifying "hot spots" where there are City assets at risk and the City would like the public's feedback to ensure that the proposed priorities are correct.
The Commission wants your input "to ensure we have included all of the important City assets and infrastructure, that we have developed the right priorities and that we hear from you on the types of adaptation response you would like to see the City pursue."
Other Issues to Review:
- Mayor Raspe asks for more public input to address the potential of a Solar Referendum.
Public comment at the April Commission meeting included many letters from residents asking the commission to reject the solar plans. The commission voted unanimously to reject the proposal for solar energy by the retention pond.
- Commissioner Colonell will discuss steel, piles, windows, and floor leveling for the rebuilding of City Hall
- Vice-Mayor Foster has additional information about stabilization and leveling the old City Hall.
- Commissioner Harding has an update on the Community Rating System (CRS)
CRS is FEMA's "voluntary" incentive program that drives floodplain management practices and has offered flood insurance discounts for homeowners here. It was noted at the April Commission meeting that insurers say CRS discounts are dissolving. FEMA says we are losing the CRS discount. Despite that, Commissioner Harding announced plans to restart the monthly CRS workshop.
- Commissioner DiFransico will revisit the revised Sewer Billing approach. Should the Utility Board change our sewer billing from the current "flat rate" quarterly bills sent by the City to a bill based on water usage sent by FKAA?
At the April Commission meeting, the Commission unanimously tabled the Utility Board's suggestion to change sewer billing. The current billing method means the residences without pools or irrigation subsidize high volume users with renters, pools, etc. The plan was meant to make the billing more fair and to make it easier for the city to administer. It relied on a flat "infrastructure charge" plus a smaller charge based on the amount of poop going into the sewer plant.
The prior commission disbanded KCB's (free) citizen-led Code Board in favor of hiring the Florida Department of Administrative Hearings to hold code proceedings. Commissioner Harding never answered these questions:
- Is it true that the work formerly done by citizens didn't bring in enough revenue?
- Is it true the DOAH magistrate has rubber stamped whatever the city lawyers or the code enforcer told him to do?
- How many times have DOAH magistrates been reversed?
- How much does DOAH charge KCB?
Please attend the meeting to hear the news and to tell your story or make your requests. The commission invites all KCBers to air their interests and concerns on these topics. Really. They do want to hear from you. Town hall meetings educate the commissioners who have pledged to include your issues at the commission meetings.
KCB is our little city. Be there. Be ready. Be focused. Be persuasive. And please volunteer to help our gem and to stand against the remaining false claims.
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Download the 05-13-2024 City Commission Townhall Meeting Agenda.
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