MINUTES OF MEETING REUNION EAST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Reunion Development District was held Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 1:00 p.m. at the Community Center, 7715 Heritage Crossing Way, Reunion, Florida.

East  Community

Heritage Crossing

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Carlton Grant

Mark Greenstein

Steven Goldstein

Don Harding

John Dryburgh

Also present were:

George Flint Andrew d' Adesky Steve Boyd Alan Scheerer Rob Stultz Daniel Baker

Chairman

Vice Chairman

Assistant Secretary by phone

Assistant Secretary

Assistant Secretary

District Manager District Counsel District Engineer by phone Operations Manager Yellowstone Landscape ACP Communities by phone

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS	Roll Call

Mr. Flint called the meeting to order and called the roll.

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS	Public Comment Period

There being none, the next item followed.

THIRD

ORDER

OF

BUSINESS

Approval of the Minutes
2018 Meeting

of

the February 8,

On MOTION by Mr.	Greenstein	
all  in  favor  the  minutes	of the	
approved as presented.			

seconded by Mr. Dryburgh with February 8, 2018 meeting were

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FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Ratification	of	Natural    Gas    Services	
			Agreement with Teco Peoples Gas System	
Mr.	Flint:  Item four is an agreement with Teco related to provision of natural gas to The	
Terraces pool.  Teco has required that we	enter into this agreement prior to them restarting the	
process of	running the line to The Terraces pool.  The process got stalled the last time around	
because they were  unable to get an easement agreement.   They are currently evaluating the	
easements they did receive and they still need one easement.	We	communicated with them as	
last as this morning.						
Mr.	Scheerer:	The gas is being provided by Florida Natural Gas, it is higher than what	
we are currently paying for the gas but I'm	assuming that is because of the offset for Teco paying	
the expense of running the gas line and Teco will share the information of	how much gas runs	
through their meter with Florida Natural Gas and then they will present us	with a bill and the	
appropriate usage fees going forward once everything has been received, the gas line has been	
installed and we start using gas at The Terraces pool.				
Mr.	Flint:  The first year we have to	get the gas from Teco and after that we can probably	
roll this into our other agreement with Infinite Energy and pay a lower rate.		
Mr.	Dryburgh:  Do we know how much it is going up?				
Mr.	Scheerer:	It is 6 plus an index, we pay that same index to Teco because they own the	
lines and we have to pay the pass through costs but it is a little higher cost and most of that is to	
offset the cost of running the gas line.					
Mr.	Greenstein:  The bottom line is it is going to be more economical than the propane.	
Mr.	Scheerer:	It is about $1,500 to $1,700 a week in propane to heat the pool versus	
$4,000 a month for natural gas.  I know there are residents who are concerned because it is not	
on all the time, but propane is absolutely ridiculous.  We turned it on for spring break, we try to	
do it seasonally and then we will turn it back off and just keep the spa.		
Mr.	Flint stated I would like ratification of my action in executing that agreement.	
	On MOTION by Mr. Harding seconded by Mr.	Greenstein with all	
	in favor the natural gas services agreement with Teco Peoples Gas	
	System for 7500 Mourning Dove Circle, Kissimmee, Florida was	
	ratified.						

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FIFTH

ORDER

OF

BUSINESS

Consideration
Infinite Energy

of

Renewal  Agreement  with

Mr. Flint: We anticipated we would have this Energy has not provided it to us yet. They will have it separate agreement for gas everywhere else and it is at a

agreement for this meeting, but Infinite to us for the April meeting. We have a more competitive rate.

SIXTH

ORDER

OF

BUSINESS

Discussion	of	Proposed  Action  Regarding	
Poinciana Parkway Extension/1-4 Connector	
Expressway			

	Mr. Flint:   We added a new item at the request of Mr. Harding to have a discussion		
regarding the Poinciana Parkway extension, the I-4 connector.  That is a discussion item with no		
backup.  There was a public input hearing this morning, the Central Florida Expressway has had		
a number of workshops and public input forums.  The District had meetings, you designated Mr.		
Greenstein and Daniel Baker was there on behalf of the Resort, the POA was represented by		
David  Burman, the  District Engineer was there,  we  met with  representatives  of the  Central		
Florida Expressway a couple months ago.  The Board has not taken an official position on any	of		
this.  It is a gray area as to whether it falls under your legislative authority, but District Counsel		
has indicated you are not precluded from taking a position if you chose to do that and direct staff		
to send a letter.					
	Mr. Harding:  The HOA has put out a blast to all the homeowners telling them about the		
meeting this morning and also advising them of the different options and also making a comment		
about options 2A, 2B, the 429 connections and the 532 options. We encouraged homeowners	to		
express their opinions in opposition to these routes directly to the above authorities and a lot	of		
people have written letters and so forth to try to do that.  The Resort had put out an email to all		
the Reunion members  talking  about their concerns  and looking  out for  the  best interests	of		
everyone in Reunion.	I have had some conversations through another party who has talked to		
the	commissioner	of the  CFX Expressway Authority and he is  asking for  input from  all the		
				
different entities.	I was thinking of writing a letter from the CDD that says what our preferences		
are with regard to the options.  I was hoping the Resort would do the same thing, Lubert-Adler		
should do the same thing, Encore do the same thing and even the HOA because they are looking		
for everybody's input.	I am going to talk to David Burman to finalize something as far as a		

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document from the HOA and get the HOA Board to approve it.  I was thinking maybe a similar		
letter from the CDD and maybe the Resort doing the same thing too going to Commissioner Fred		
Hawkins and he is open and							I would like to prepare a letter and I		
						suggested that people do that.			
think we are all in favor	of the Ronald Reagan option versus the 532 or 429 connections and that		
would be the gist	of my letter, kind of what David Burman has already expressed.		
	Mr.	Dryburgh:  Do we need a motion on that?				
															
	Mr.	d' Adesky:  I think we need a consensus	direction on that and I advise against taking		
													
political positions but generally this is an administrative decision to go one way or another way		
and as long as the focus	of the letter and I'm confident that George has the ability to work with		
us on that to express the impact on District facilities, on District infrastructure and on the District		
as a whole is the focus	of the letter, the opposition to the	southern connection the 532 option		
															
shouldn't be an issue if this Board directs us	to transmit that letter.		
	Mr.	Greenstein:	Getting back to the	meeting that George referenced that meeting was		
											
back in October and we had the District Engineer, Steve Boyd, his firm prepared what I viewed		
as an overall impact statement addressing the impact, which were basically negative or they were		
concerns of the proposed	corridors that they were saying could be viable.  They haven't changed		
								
much since that meeting.  We have what I	consider to be	a fairly formal document that is an		
											
assessment	of impact that was prepared by our	engineering firm that could be included to serve		
												
as a history behind the two for any	transmittal that we do	agree to provide to the expressway		
										
authority.	That	document was given to the expressway	authority at that meeting and we can		

make	reference to	it, we did provide it but now we are formalizing it.		
				
	Mr. Dryburgh:  But there are negative impacts.				
	Mr.	Greenstein:  Back in October it was in an earlier stage of the project and they didn't		
				
narrow it to the	corridors they have now.  There may have been five at the time we had that		
					
meeting then they narrowed it down to three.								
	Mr.	Flint:		I think there are three, the 532, the 2A and 2B.		
	Mr. Greenstein:  Reagan, anything in Polk County wasn't on the radar.		
	Mr. Flint:	It was part of the prior study and when they picked the study back up they		
focused on where the prior study left	off and they kind of ruled out the Ronald Reagan option.  I		
don't think they are looking at it right now.								

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	Mr.	Greenstein:	It is in the package, if	you go on the CFX Authority website they	do		
have  fairly  decent  graphics,  maps,  snapshots	of	what  the  routing  would  be.   Most  of	the		
community has jumped out of their chairs because	of how close	it can come to that northeastern		
portion	of the Resort and anything running down the front entrance of the Resort is not going to		
have a positive impact for us, it will probably have a pretty significant negative impact.  While I		
recognize we can't get political about it I think pointing out that the proposed routing around		
Reunion has significant negative impacts and they should reconsider if they haven't.  We don't		
know if they have officially discounted the other routes, but I	think they need to look again.		
Regardless	of what the politics are, regardless of what ends up	happening I think the preferred		
routing would be away from Reunion and that would mean Ronald Reagan or Ernie Caldwell,		
they  are  Polk  County	alternatives,  which  may  not be  what  they  are  looking  for,  but good		
					
government would promote the concept of looking at all those alternatives before you knock		
them out.										
	Mr.	Baker:  Where do the endangered species fall into where all this is at as far as we	are		
concerned?  Is that something we can bring up?							
	Mr.	Greenstein:	It is in the study, that is a known issue with the skinks, they are all		
around	us.	That came up when it came to putting in the trail for the horse stables.			
	Mr. d'Adesky stated if you have a list of negative impacts you can put it in a letter.			
	Mr. Greenstein:	It is already documented in this study.	Maybe we can make the point		
that  if	the  only  viable  alternative  that  they  see  from	a  financial  standpoint  or  getting  all		
governmental entities to agree to it,	I think it is going to	have to have some federal influence		
because of the connection to I-4 even	if you do it via 429.					
	Mr.	Harding:   Has Lubert-Adler or the Resort given the CFX Expressway an official		
position?										
Mr.	Grant:  Daniel is on the line and I will let him address it but there is a meeting going		
on at the present and Kevin is there trying to learn more about it and hear what some of the other		
residents that are there have to say.  It is a completely filled room and I will get a download from		
Kevin on the different positions and comments that were made so we have a better understanding		
and we haven't made a formal statement as to this	is what Reunion wants or would like to see		
happen.	Right now we	are trying to meet personally as well trying to understand all the options		
and the pros and cons of each one.								

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Mr. Greenstein:  Where I was going was to the issue of moving the proposed route, the	
routing of 2A, which would connect into 429 to move it more to the east so that it does not	
encroach so closely on Reunion.  I know there are environmental wetlands in there, I think they	
have to go into it and they will need some remediation plans regardless	of the exact routing.	
Right now I think they have taken the easy way out by looking at the easements that exist for the	
utilities running through there and high tension lines and it is basically routing it as close to the	
perimeter of Celebration Company property as they can.	If that is the route they ultimately	
decide on I want to see that moved more to the east so that we can all have peaceful enjoyment.	
Mr. Baker:  You never know how much property owners' efforts weigh in because they	
go beyond the property owner list and go somewhere.	I	do think it is smart to continue the	
dialog and engage and what George referenced in the meeting last October our concern and what	
we presented.   Knowing this meeting today was heavily attended,  our G.M.  is there, we are	
continuing  to  monitor  and  want  to  say  as  they  finalize  our  position  will  be  more  strongly	
expressed.						
Mr. Dryburgh:  That Ronald Reagan route, they need to put an overpass over Old Lake	
Wilson Road because if they don't and all the cars have access to that portion	of it there is still	
going to be a pile of cars up Old Lake Wilson.  The details in that report don't	talk about that at	
all.						
Mr. Greenstein:  It was my						
understanding that when they were looking at Ronald Reagan	
even though they kind of discounted it early on in the process along with bringing it up to World	
Drive in Celebration for obvious reasons there, I think they were talking about an elevated road,	
it  wouldn't just  be  jumping  it  on  Ronald  Reagan  as	it	currently  exists  it  would  mean	a	
redevelopment of the area.  It would probably be similar to what they are proposing for 532	so	
that cars will be coming down from Poinciana Parkway following that route would be on high	
speed lanes and there would be service lanes for people to exit to get to whatever properties	
would exist but it has impact.						
Mr. Harding:  If I lived in Poinciana and could stay in a straight line	high speed road why	
would I come over to 532, I wouldn't do it I would just stay on that road.	I think that is their	
plan whether it is a two decker or widen it, it will be an expressway extension and it will be	
something that the Counties share revenue on and they are going to want to have that used.		

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Mr.  Lischynsky:	If the I-4  is packed then they just take  Old Lake  Wilson like they		
always do every day and they will get on that new road if they can get on it.			
Mr.	Harding stated there weren't going to be entrances on that.			
Mr.	Lischynsky:  My point is they shouldn't.				
Mr. Greenstein:	It would bypass Old Lake Wilson, it would go over it.	Until the I-4		
project continues on down and concludes an expansion of I-4 in our area probably all the way		
down to Tampa we are going to have this issue on Old Lake Wilson Road and I know the County		
is not planning on widening our piece of Old Lake Wilson Road for a number of years and even		
if they did if you have a problem on I-4 instead of the backup being one lane to Sinclair it will be		
two  lanes to  Spline Road or beyond on the bridge but you are still going to have a backup		
because it is a choke point.  The reason we are discussing this issue because it is not a CDD issue		
is because over the years	I have seen utility	encroachment, Sabal Trail project goes right around		
							
Reunion and you have Duke Energy down the street, Columbia Transmission, Florida Gas you		
have  a lot	of easements and  a lot of utilities  around the  area and  now we  are  seeing road		
construction.  Utilities you bury in the ground you know where they are you have the warning		
signs you live with them, but you don't want to be on the Watson Golf Course and hear road		
noise or see it.  Although there are people on the west side living off of I-4 in certain places.		
Mr.	Harding:  From the standpoint of not being a CDD issue what was the reason for the		
meeting as far as	CDD	representation and Steve Boyd going to the meeting?			
						
Mr.	Flint:	They were looking for stakeholder input and the stakeholders were basically		
the Resort, the developers, the CDD and POA.				
Mr. Harding:  As a stakeholder would it make sense as	far as taking the Steve Boyd letter		
attaching a letter to the commissioner saying here is our position with regard to preferences?		
Mr. Greenstein:	It can't hurt.					
Mr.	d' Adesky:	That is fine.					
Mr.	Greenstein:	I raised the issue outside of a meeting with George a month or so ago		
when the community started becoming aware of what was happening and we agreed at the time		
that document was  officially given to  expressway authority.	It was  given to  the  consulting		
group.									

Mr. with David

Harding: I would hope that Lubert-Adler and the Resort, Salamander and I will get Burman that the HOA do a similar type of thing as far as their concerns. I will share

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the  letter the  Board will  be  sending  and hopefully they  will  do  something  similar.   Maybe	
George  can have  Steve  Boyd  send  me  that  letter  and  I  think  we  all  agree  as  to  what  our	
preferences are and I can write it up and maybe you can go individually to each Board Member	
to confirm that is okay.  Would that work?	
Mr. Flint:	I can do that as long as I don't relay the position of one Board Member to	
another.  If there is disagreement we will probably have to bring it back to the next meeting.	
Mr. d' Adesky:  He can't circulate the comments.	
Mr. Flint:	I can ask that they send comments back to me and if everyone is in general	
agreement then it is good and if there seems to be not a consensus we will bring it back to a	
meeting for further discussion.	

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

A.	Attorney

Staff Reports

Mr. d' Adesky:  We received an email from the Trustee that they wanted to follow-up on	
the assessment report regarding the unexchanged bonds.  We might be hearing more on that in	
the future.	If you will recall this issue went away for a while and it seems like it is back and I	
wanted to make you aware that may come back up.	
I have been in contact with Osceola County regarding the 532 funds but they have not	
provided me with a written document yet.  I will call after this meeting to express our extreme	
dissatisfaction with their process.	
Mr.	Harding:  Have they given you anything in writing?	
Mr.	d' Adesky:  I have something written that says they understand and will get back to	
us.		

Mr.	Greenstein:	As far as an effective date?		
Mr.	d' Adesky:	Retroactive.  My first letter is dated	
dated and sent by certified mail so they have as of	this date	
and they sat on it.			

so in

when I transmitted a letter October that we are aware

it of

was this

B.

Engineer

Mr. going to be

Boyd: We have received submittals purchasing and those are currently in

for all review

of by

the materials that the contractor is both the County and Leftwich and

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we will have approval	of those in the next week, which will release the contract for purchase of	
those materials and then we will mobilize on their delivery.	
Mr.	Greenstein:	What is your best guess for install?	
Mr. Boyd:  It is	still in line with their project schedule they provided but behind by about	
two weeks.					
Mr.	Greenstein:  We were talking May.  It sounds like things are moving.	
Mr.	Flint:	Steve will you send	me the information that was provided to CSX at our	
October meeting and I can re-circulate it	to the Board?	
Mr.	Boyd:	I did just email that to you.	

C.	Manager

	i.Action Items List

Mr.  Flint:   We  talked  about  some  of these.   Daniel  1s  there  any  update  on  your	
discussions with water management?	
Mr. Baker:  No.		
Mr. Flint:   That issue is on hold pending the Resort or Lubert-Adler, Toho and water	
management working through the consumptive use permit.	
Signalization, Steve just gave you an update on that.  Andrew addressed the allocation of	
the 532 costs.   Next is  discussion of the amendment to the MSA for  Heritage Crossing and	
Carlton just handed me a document, but you haven't had a chance to review it.  I will email a	
copy of the handout to Steve.	
Mr. Grant:  The Board needs a chance to digest it.  Daniel crafted this on behalf of the	
developer and the request would be that the supervisors review it, make any comments, possibly	
we designate one	of the supervisors to work with Daniel on those comments to hammer out a	
final proposed MSA document that we can move forward with and present to the Board.	
Mr. Flint:	I quickly scanned this as we were sitting here and I do have questions but	
rather than getting into those at this point maybe Carlton's suggestion that we designate a Board	
Member and that Board Member and myself can meet with Daniel to go through this then we	
could bring it back at the next meeting.  Counsel has to look at it as well.	
Mr.  Greenstein:	I would want to  compare and contrast it to the base agreement we	
currently have in place.		

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Mr.	Harding:  I would like to propose that Mark be our designated supervisor.		
Mr. Greenstein:  I will do it.		
Mr. Flint:	If the Board is okay with that rather than Carlton being involved with it we		
will work with Daniel.	We will set up a meeting to go through this and we can bring something		
back to the next meeting.		
Mr.	Dryburgh:	$400 for four hours.  Is that market rate?		
Mr.	Flint:	That was one of my questions.  That is on the low end.  I want to talk about		
that, I want to talk about potential two tiered rental rate for resident events versus Resort events.		
There are a number of	issues like that where residents should have a discounted rate based on the		
fact that they are paying the operation and maintenance assessments and the debt service on the		
building.					
Mr.	d' Adesky:	Management contracts have to be very finely threaded under the current		
					
tax law.  It	is a start and that is the whole point.		
Mr.	Harding:	Would the individual horse stables all be removed so that opens up the		
whole place?  Is that the intent?		
Mr.	Grant:	I don't think so, the way the paddock gates are they make a nice venue for		
individual things.  You could put a bar inside one, food inside another, the recommendation we		
would have is as you	enter there are three wash stalls with basically concrete blocks between		
them to separate the horses and we would open that up to create one seating area.  That will		
create maybe a dining area, an area for a dance floor but the individual paddocks are great.		
Mr.	Harding:  Would you put a ceiling in?		
Mr.	Grant:	No,  it  is  a  beautiful  venue  and  the  recommendation  is  ceiling  fans  for		

ventilation. Mr. for the next Mr. Mr. Mr. in at many done in the Mr.

Greenstein:  We will try to get together so we have something to present to the Board	
meeting.  Does that sound reasonable?		
Baker:  Yes.		
Flint:  The signage on Sinclair Road is next.		
Grant:  I have to give Alan credit he has been chasing me down.	I was putting time	
properties in the last couple of weeks and I committed to Alan that I would get that	
coming week.		
Flint:  Kiosk parking, Alan.		

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Mr. Scheerer:  That project is complete.  I did consult with Mr. Goldstein on that as well	
and we stenciled both parking spaces as well.  The signs have been installed, we stenciled no	
parking and 15-minute parking and restriped all the parallel parking areas.		
Mr.	Harding:  Is that with all the kiosks within Reunion?			
Mr.	Scheerer:	There are only two that had parking on the east.	We did all the parallel	
along Excitement Drive in front of the Terraces, the mail kiosk on the east and the drive through	
kiosk on the west side.					
Mr. Flint:  The parking on Excitement and Gathering?			
Mr. Scheerer:  The direction I recall from that meeting was to get with security to address	
that, that isn't a parking space in front of those homes.  I addressed it with Garold and let him	
know there was a desire to keep people from parking there.			
Mr.	Harding:	They have not instituted anything at this time.	Some of the big problem	
makers are the guys maintaining the lawns bringing in the wide trailers.			
Mr.	Scheerer:  Guys were there doing the lawn and I know it is not permanent opposed to	
people actually using that.  I had a conversation with Garold, I talked to Josiah, I talked to Cruz	
and they told me they would look into it and see what they could do.			
Mr.	Harding:	What  is  the  cost of	painting  yellow  stripes?	I	do  know you  have  to	
maintain them.						
Mr.	Scheerer:	I would have to ask.	I can get a quote and we are going into budget	
season.  We can do that on Gathering I don't think it will be as effective on Excitement Drive.	
Gathering Drive seems to be the biggest culprit.	I will get some numbers and I will get with	
Fausnight and they can tell me how many no	parking signs we need based on the footage.	

ii.

Approval

of

Check Register

On MOTION by Mr. Greenstein seconded by Mr. Harding with all in favor the check register was approved.

iii.

Balance Sheet and Income Statement

A copy

of

the balance sheet and income statement were included in the agenda package.

iv.

Status

of

Direct Bill Assessments

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A copy of the direct bill status was included in the agenda package.

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v.

Presentation

of

JLAC Correspondence

Mr. Flint:  Next is a response to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee.	We have one	
bond series that is still technically in default because the bondholders chose to not extinguish all	
the bonds.  There is no action at this point the Board has to take in that regard, but it does show	
up in our audit as being an issue and because it shows up in the audit after three years the Joint	
Legislative Auditing Committee gets flagged and they contact the District for an explanation of	
why that comment is still in the audit.	We responded to this the last couple of years and we	
responded again this year.			
Mr. d' Adesky:  We reviewed the letter and as long as we are not asking them for money	
they are usually happy.			

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS There being none, the next item

NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

Other Business

followed.

Supervisor's Requests

Mr. Greenstein:  I have some questions on the Seven Eagles Cove action items punch list.	
Most of it has been completed then we have a couple items, roof leaks,  some pole lights and	
landscaping.  Are these future dates or past due dates?		
Mr. Scheerer:  This is a list that was provided by Carlton.	I know we have looked at	
some of these items.	I thought the pole lights were already approved unless I'm mistaken.  On	
the landscaping we	will review as part of the upcoming budget because there were no funds	
allocated for that.			
Mr. Grant:  The pole lights are the tall lights that were blown off by the hurricane and	
those are replaced.			
Mr. Scheerer:  I assume that Steve hasn't updated the list that we had but as far as I know	
the hot water tank is completed, the roof leaks I thought were resolved, we actually got a quote to	
do  the  whole  roof,  which  is  above  and  beyond what  was  requested.   The  pole  lights  and	
landscape lights I thought were already taken care of.  I will get with Steve at the Resort, he and I	
usually work on these items.		

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TENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Next Meeting Date

On MOTION by Mr. Greenstein seconded by Mr. Dryburgh with

all in favor the meeting adjourned at 1:52 p.rn.

Secretary/Assistant Secretary	Chairman/Vice Chairman	

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