B. Second Meeting June 20th, 2022 CALL REPORT Project: Date: Present:
Volusia County Fairgrounds 20th June 2022 Bradley Burbaugh, PhD Resource Stewardship Director, UF|IFAS, ECHO Volusia Director Kalan Taylor, Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent II, UF|IFAS Prof. Martha Kohen, Director UF|CHU Maria Estefania Barrios, Research Assoc. UF|CHU
RE: Minutes from Zoom Meeting / Martha Kohen (PI) and Maria Barrios (RA) _____________________________________________________________________________________ A zoom call meeting was held to discuss the results from the public meeting survey performed by the Volusia County Fairgrounds and to review the first report submission. Here is a list of the main items discussed over the call:
1. BB acknowledged receiving the First Report May 30th, he agrees with the content, and request that UF | CHU send an invoice. 2. Kalan and Bradley shared the results of the Survey, that was responded by 340 participants. The stakeholders were also consulted. The power point of the results will be sent to us for further analysis. It was highlighted that the most recurring suggestion is the acquisition of more land, as well as the improvement of the access infrastructure. BB and Kalan will send the Survey for a Word Cloud analysis to highlight the more important aspects and we will receive the results. 3. BB also pointed out the request for sports venues and commented on commissioners traveling to visit Boombah (Seminole) and the idea of associating a similar facility to the VCF. This could be possible in the Kilimanjaro property. It could host tournaments and keep resources in the County instead of customers traveling to other counties. Kohen/Barrios agreed on exploring this possibility by producing a land use proposal for locating the Sports facility in the Kilimanjaro property, inclusive of the access possibilities. This could be achieved by superposition at same scale of similar facilities in the Kilimanjaro tract. An economic analysis could be possible. 4. BB suggested that the land acquisition is key to solving access issues to the actual property, currently difficult, and that a member of our team, Prof. Ruth Steiner could study it. The land 85
