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Votes at a glance

1) Approve amended agenda (04/08/2025)
- Motion: “I make a motion to approve the amended 04/08/2025 agenda.”
- Outcome: Approved (roll call recorded: Commissioner Robinson — Yes; Commissioner Reznicki — Yes; Vice Mayor Mohalland — Yes; Commissioner Marriott — Yes; Mayor Petrilla — Yes)
- Notes: Motion carried on roll call.

2) Consent agenda
- Motion: “I make a motion to approve the consent agenda.”
- Outcome: Approved (roll call recorded: Commissioner Reznicki — Yes; Vice Mayor Mohalland — Yes; Commissioner Marriott — Yes; Mayor Petrilla — Yes)
- Notes: Motion carried on roll call.

3) Election of vice mayor
- Motion/nomination: Commissioners nominated Mariah Marriott and Paul Mahal; the commission proceeded to a vote.
- Outcome: Commissioner Mariah Marriott appointed vice mayor (roll call recorded: Vice Mayor Mohalland — Yes; Commissioner Marriott — Yes; Commissioner Robinson — Yes; Commissioner Reznicki — Yes; Mayor Petrilla — Yes)
- Notes: Commissioner Marriott accepted the appointment.

4) Appointments to outside agencies and interlocal roles
- Motion: Adopt the appointments as amended (list of assignments presented in meeting)
- Outcome: Approved (roll call recorded: Commissioner Marriott — Yes; Commissioner Robinson — Yes; Commissioner Reznicki — Yes; Commissioner Mohalland — Yes; Mayor Petrilla — Yes)
- Notes: Appointments included representative and alternate assignments for regional boards (Florida League of Cities, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, Pinellas County Flood Insurance Committee, etc.).

5) Federal lobbyist contract — Becker (two‑year)
- Motion: Authorize the city manager to enter into a federal lobbyist agreement with Becker in the amount of $48,000 per year for a two‑year contract term.
- Outcome: Approved (roll call recorded: Commissioner Robinson — Yes; Commissioner Reznicki — Yes; Commissioner Mulholland — Yes; Vice Mayor Marriott — Yes; Mayor Petrilla — Yes)
- Notes: City manager stated the contract will be absorbed in the current fiscal year through salary savings and then evaluated in next year’s budget.

6) State lobbyist contract — Shoemaker Advisors
- Motion: Authorize the city manager to enter into an agreement in the amount of $5,000 per month with Shoemaker Advisors to conduct state lobbying activities on behalf of the city.
- Outcome: Approved (roll call recorded: Commissioner Reznicki — Yes; Commissioner Mohalland — Yes; Vice Mayor Marriott — Yes; Commissioner Robinson — Yes; Mayor Petrilla — Yes)
- Notes: Shoemaker Advisors currently serves as the city’s state lobbyist; the contract was put out for competitive review and staff recommended renewal.

Meeting procedural notes
- All recorded roll calls in the transcript show unanimous ‘Yes’ votes for each recorded item; if individual abstentions or no votes occurred they were not recorded in the meeting transcript provided.

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Schmidt told the commission the calendar and committee are intended to increase transparency and community engagement across the budget process and to produce iterative recommendations for the commission. Under the proposal, department capital requests, personnel and benefits, operating budgets and a preliminary budget book would be reviewed in stages; the finance committee would provide advisory recommendations after each workshop. Tentative and final budget hearings would still be scheduled in September as required.

Schmidt acknowledged a dates discrepancy flagged by commissioners and said staff would reconcile the published slide dates with the city’s calendar and re-upload the corrected presentation to the meeting record. The finance committee’s scope, he said, would be advisory only and would not supplant the commission’s policy role: “they can provide recommendations to the city commission on financial budget matters in accordance with the city charters,” he said.

Commissioner Mohalland praised the proposed approach as “refreshing” compared with prior practice and thanked staff and the city manager for the more phased process. Commissioners discussed scheduling conflicts (several noted July workshop dates conflict with vacation plans) and asked staff to confirm dates before finalizing the calendar.

Schmidt said staff intends to use the committee and workshops to collect more frequent public input and to return to the commission with the tentative budget and a summary of changes for final adoption later in the year.

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Sacko said the county’s waste‑to‑energy facility previously received capacity payments through a 30‑year power purchase agreement with Duke Energy that expired at the end of 2024. He told the commission that contract had become a major revenue source and that, by the time it ended, capacity payments represented about 55% of the solid‑waste fund’s revenue.

With that revenue source gone, Sacko said the county has relied on a mix of sales from electricity generated at the plant (now a much smaller revenue line) and tipping fees paid per ton. He said the county began a multi‑year rate catch‑up in 2019 — planning annual increases in the mid‑single digits to avoid a single large rate shock — but that this year’s recommendation to the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners was for an 8% increase. Sacko said the 8% increase, if adopted, would be implemented for three years in the county projection and that for a typical single‑family home that generates about one ton of household waste per year the change would represent roughly $4.50 more per year for disposal countywide.

Sacko noted some uncertainty tied to the next operator of the county waste‑to‑energy facility: the county is soliciting proposals to operate the plant and recent incumbent cost increases (he referred to an almost 50% operator cost increase in the last year) were a factor in forecasting. He told commissioners the county expects competing proposals to come in lower than the recent operator increase and that the annual rate study will be revisited each year as new operator bids and market changes are known.

He emphasized the solid‑waste fund is an enterprise fund that does not use general‑fund (tax) dollars and that planned rate increases have been designed to smooth revenue needs over multiple years rather than impose a single large hike on municipal customers and private haulers.

Sacko summarized comparative context: even with the proposed increases, he said Pinellas County’s disposal fee would remain below the median among Florida counties that operate similar waste‑to‑energy facilities, because current county fees had not been adjusted for many years prior to the multi‑year plan.

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City Community Development Director Laura Canary told the commission the city has received a large volume of post-storm permit activity: 3,658 permit applications submitted, 2,765 permits issued, about 67 currently in review and 235 not in review. Inspectors are averaging roughly 82 inspections per day; permitting staff report closing 68 permits to date. Canary said 2,883 substantial-damage assessments have been completed and that the city mailed 2,329 substantive-damage (SD/NSD) letters — 1,512 of those were non-substantially damaged and 817 substantially damaged. She said 554 of the mailed determinations remain pending additional review or information.

Canary described how the city is matching several data sources — building permits, FEMA records and other lists — to identify properties that may need permitting. She said FEMA reported 1,781 claims for the city, and the city sent roughly 979 outreach letters on Friday to addresses with claims or no matching permit in the city system. Property owners who received a letter were asked to reply to permits@stpetebeach.org with questions or documentation.

The city has waived permit fees for storm repairs through April 22. Canary told the commission the city has waived roughly $3.2 million in fees to date; year-to-date building-permit revenue is about $375,000, compared with an original budget target of $1.325 million for the year. She warned the commission that continuing a large waiver would draw down building-fund reserves and that staffing and processing needs are still uncertain until more property owners respond.

Canary explained the city’s approach to after-the-fact (unpermitted) work: if an owner self-reports before the fee-waiver deadline and applies for required permits, the city will waive permit fees; if work is discovered through enforcement and a stop-work order is issued, the owner will face the regular permit fee and the possibility of a penalty that the city described as up to three times the permit fee. Canary described the voluntary reporting option as an amnesty path: “If you come and self report, we’ll waive the fees before the [April 22] deadline. If you do not self report, then you will be subject to the 3 x permit fee.”

Canary also addressed technical resources and data access: property elevation (LIDAR) data currently is not public on the county GIS site. The city said owners lacking elevational certificates can request LIDAR information from the city at lidar@stpetebeach.org. City staff said new permitting software, 4Runner, will eventually provide a public interface for elevation and assessment data once it is implemented.

On available recovery programs, Canary summarized federal, state and county resources: Elevate Florida (state program) had roughly 6,200 statewide applicants and about 2,300 in Pinellas County; St. Pete Beach had filed 231 Elevate applications as of the city’s update. Pinellas County’s income-eligible hurricane home repair program offers up to $30,000 in grant funding; federal CDBG-DR recovery funding totals about $813 million for the county planning area, and a county public outreach process is underway with a draft action plan targeted for a May 6 Board of County Commissioners presentation.

Commissioners debated how long to continue fee relief. Several commissioners and the mayor said they want to keep a building-fund reserve floor (discussed at roughly $2 million) while still giving residents time to apply. The mayor summarized the discussion and said he would present a resolution on April 22 to extend relief on a reduced basis: “If I get consensus, I can bring it back in a resolution that from April 23 to June 1 there will be a 50% fee waiver.” Multiple commissioners nodded in agreement and asked staff to return a draft resolution for formal action at the April 22 meeting.

Commissioners and staff also discussed outreach next steps, including a possible second data pull focused on properties determined to be substantially damaged but with no active permit and additional public contact. Commissioners emphasized they want staff to prioritize getting owners into the permitting process quickly, and to use available state and county recovery programs where eligible.

The city asked owners with questions to email permits@StPeteBeach.org or call the building-permit line provided in updates.

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