The Latest News: December, 2024
Music in the Keys
MARATHON--St. Columba Episcopal Church offers a gift to all: a free concert featuring some of the greatest local singers and musicians in the Keys to deliver Handel’s Messiah on Sunday at 7 p.m. at the sanctuary, 451 West 52nd Street Gulf. Everyone joins in final chorus of Hallelujah in this annual Christmas tradition.
KCB--The music season begins next month in KCB with Music by the Inch on Inch Beach on Sunday, January 20.
Lots to Talk About in KCB
KCB has several important meetings in two days next week, a Town Hall, an organizational meeting, a public hearing, and a regular commission meeting.
Townhall Meeting December 16
First up, the City Commission will host its monthly "Townhall Meeting" in Marble Hall and as a Zoom webinar on Monday, December 16, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. This Townhall will include a city hall update, parking plans, and the FDOT 5-year program. The "commissioners' packet" has both the complete city hall drawings and FDOT program.
Townhall Meetings are planned for the Monday before each monthly city commission meeting "in season".
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.
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.
From the Agenda:
Mayor Raspe will discuss the City Hall renderings shown on pages 1-8 of the commissioners' packet.
The City Commission discussed and approved their new renderings at the special meeting on November 1. They didn't "want resident input" to affect the process.
The current City Hall has about 4,200 .f. of ground floor office space. The renderings add 1,377 s.f. new first floor space plus 1,550 s.f. new second floor space for 2,927 s.f. total new construction. Most commissioners said they were not in favor of the "three tower" plan that is shown in this month's commissioners' packet.
People Are (Still) Asking why the commission has ignored the residents and their own consensus to use and expand the existing city hall?
"In November, the Commission approved a concept extending [the current] City Hall approximately ten feet toward Ocean Drive." Mayor Raspe wrote.People Are (Still) Asking why the city website shows City Hall is condemned.
People Are (Also Still) Asking why the commission's three-towered choice looks so much like the LIVS-design rejected by KCB residents
Click or tap here to email yourquestions and comments to the commissioners and city clerk .Commissioner Harding will review the FDOT 5-Year Work Program shown on page 9 of the commissioners' packet. None of the projects are in KCB but many will affect driving to and from our home.
Commissioner Colonell has parking plans for the new Pickleball courts.
KCB is our little city. Be there. Be ready. Be focused. Be persuasive. And please volunteer to help our gem.
Click or tap here to email your questions and comments to the commissioners and city clerk.
Download the 11-18-2024 Townhall Meeting Agenda
Download the 11-18-2024 Townhall Meeting Agenda and Commissioners' Packet.Join the 12/16 meeting from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
Please click this URL to join. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88993135586?pwd=IOFoEte8p8UGWPedyJaj320XcfuroH.1
Passcode: 047439
Public Hearing, Organization Meeting, and City Commission Meeting on December 19
Read the Key Colony Beach Public Hearing Agenda here: http://PeopleAreAsking.org/resources/12-19-2024-public-hearing-agenda.pdf,
the Organizational Meeting packet here: http://PeopleAreAsking.org/resources/12-19-2024-organizational-meeting-packet.pdf,
and the Regular City Commission Meeting Agenda here: http://PeopleAreAsking.org/resources/12-19-2024-regular-meeting-agenda.pdf.The City Commission will host a public hearing followed by the annual organizational meeting and the regular monthly meeting in Marble Hall and as a Zoom webinar on Thursday, December 19, beginning at 9:30 a.m. The major topics for the meetings include commission approval of Comprehensive Plan changes, election of officers and appointment to volunteer committees, and an award for the City Hall project. The appointments shown in the organizational meeting packet may be controversial.
The city will post the packets for the regular meeting and the public hearing.
Join the 12/19 meetings from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device:
Please click this URL to join. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89536488001?pwd=rsaAbLuV21JV7JwAHaccublnzGyvay.1
Passcode: 425346
Farmer's Market
The KCB Farmer's Market is back in the City Hall parking lot on Tuesdays from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. They usually have fresh produce, fresh juices, Colombian empanadas, arepas made of 100% corn, gluten-free pasta, Mediterranean food, ciabatta bread, pistacho butter, fresh made desserts, imported cheeses, Just Accent (wood boards), and more.
If you want to become a vendor, call Rosy Perez (305.218.5911).