MINUTES OF MEETING 

INDIGO EAST 

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT 

 

 The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Indigo East Community 
Development District was held on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 9:00 a.m. at Circle Square 
Commons, 8395 SW 80th Street, Ocala, Florida. 

 

 Present and constituting a quorum: 

 

 John Gysen Chairman 

 Terrance Solan Vice Chairman 

 Bob Hutson Assistant Secretary 

 Harold Brouillard Assistant Secretary 

 Maria Ziino by phone Assistant Secretary 

 

 

 Also present were: 

 

 

 George Flint District Manager 

 Rachel Wagoner District Counsel 

 Andy Jorgenson OTOW 

 Bryan Schmalz BLCDD 

 Robert Stepp Colen Built 

 Robert Szozda Field Manager 

 

 

 

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS Roll Call 

 Mr. Flint called the meeting to order. Four members of the Board were present in person 
constituting a quorum. Ms. Ziino joined the meeting via phone. 

 

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS Public Comment Period 

 Mr. Flint: Next is public comment period, this is an opportunity for any members of the 
public to provide comment to the Indigo East Board of Supervisors on anything on the agenda or 
not on the agenda you would like to bring to the Board’s attention. There is a public hearing for 
the budget adoption. If you are here for Indigo, you may have received a mailed notice. If you have 
comments on the budget or questions, that would be the opportunity to do that. This is the general 


comments section but there will be another opportunity for public input under the budget hearing 
if you have comments on the budget. Any general public comments? When we get to the public 
hearing, if you do have comments, if you would approach the microphone and state your name 
and address. I will remind everyone of that when we get to that point. 

 

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS Approval of Minutes 

A. May 20 2025 Board of Supervisors Meeting 


 Mr. Flint: The next item is approval of the minutes. You have the May 20, 2025 meeting 
minutes and then you have the continued June 17, 2025 meeting minutes. Were there any 
comments or corrections on the minutes from the Board? Hearing no change, I would ask for a 
motion to approve the minutes. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Hutson, seconded by Mr. Solan, with all in 
favor, the Minutes of the May 20, 2025 Board of Supervisors 
Meeting, were approved. 

 

B. June 17, 2025 Board of Supervisors Meeting 


 

On MOTION by Mr. Hutson, seconded by Mr. Solan, with all in 
favor, the Minutes of the June 17, 2025 Board of Supervisors 
Meeting, were approved. 

 

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Public Hearing 

Mr. Flint: That brings us to item four, which is the public hearing to consider adoption of 
your Fiscal Year 2026 budget and also the public hearing to impose the assessments associated 
with that budget. We will start with a motion to open the hearing. Is there a motion to open the 
public hearing? 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Gysen, seconded by Mr. Brouillard, with all in 
favor, Opening the Public Hearing, was approved. 

 

 


A. Consideration of Resolution 2025-05 Adopting the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget and 
Relating to the Annual Appropriations 


Mr. Flint: As the Board recalls, the budget adoption process is a two-step process. In the 
spring you approved what is called a proposed budget. You did that at your May 20th meeting. In 
the adoption of that budget, it allowed us to meet the statutory requirement that you approve a 
proposed budget by June 15th and then you continued the meeting to June 17th to revisit the 
proposed budget because there was some additional information that staff needed to gather that 
may impact the budget. You had your continued meeting on the 17th. You amended the proposed 
budget at that meeting and the primary purpose of the amendment to the proposed budget was the 
increase in electric expenses which is under operations and maintenance. That line item covers the 
streetlights in Indigo. So, the CDD enters into a streetlight lease with SECO who is the electric 
provider. SECO, going into the current fiscal year imposed almost an almost a 100% on their 
streetlight lease cost. So, your line item for streetlights went from $30,360 to $56,042. Otherwise, 
your administrative costs went from $52,076 to $53,742. Some of that was a 3% increase in district 
management. A lot of that was in your liability insurance line item. Your operations and 
maintenance expenses increased from $259,000 to $287,000 and that was all primarily due to the 
streetlights. We increased your transfer out to your capitol reserve from $22,608 back up to 
$25,000 where it had been. Over the last few years, we have had to decrease that line item slightly 
to balance the budget. So, your annual assessments, and this is an annual assessment amount, you 
received a letter about a proposed increase. The annual assessments will increase from $587, if 
adopted today, to $644. The increase referenced in that letter was an annual amount of $58, I 
believe. Is that correct? $57? So, less than $5 a month for each resident in the community. Before 
we open the floor to public comment, did the Board have any comments? After public comment, 
we will bring it back to the Board for discussion. Any discussion prior to public comments? If not, 
this is a public hearing, so we will open the floor. If there are any members of the public that want 
to provide comment to the Board, this would be the opportunity for you to do that. 

Resident: Frank DiPiero, (7899 SW 83rd Place) Just a question; I have been here 16 years 
and I don’t ever recall the annual assessments or the taxes going up. Is this the very first time for 
all of that? 

Mr. Flint: No, they have increased. I do not have the historical information here; I just have 
back to 2023. There has been at least one that I am aware of and that was maybe four or five years 
ago. 


Mr. DiPiero: Well, I just have to compliment you guys, because in 16 years, you know how 
stuff goes up up up, it’s amazing that we’ve had very minimal increases in the past 16 years. 

Mr. Flint: One of the largest line items is the landscape maintenance and we do bid that out 
every two or three years. Any other public comments? Okay we’ll close the public comment 
section and we’ll bring it back to the Board. There are two public hearings, the first one is dealing 
with adoption of your budget. You have Resolution 2025-05 and attached to that resolution is 
exhibit A which is the proposed budget. Are there any comments or questions on the resolution or 
the exhibit? Is there a motion to adopt Resolution 2025-05 the annual appropriations resolution of 
the Indigo East Community Development District relating to the annual appropriations and 
adopting the budget for Fiscal Year beginning October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026 
and providing an effective date? 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Solan, seconded by Mr. Gysen, with all in 
favor, Resolution 2025-05 Adopting the Fiscal Year 2026 Budget 
and Relating to the Annual Appropriations, was approved. 

 

B. Consideration of Resolution 2025-06 Imposing Special Assessments and Certifying an 
Assessment Roll 


Mr. Flint: The next resolution is Resolution 2025-06. This is technically a separate public 
hearing. This resolution imposes the assessments that were included in the budget that you just 
adopted. So, attached to this resolution are two exhibits. One is the budget you just approved and 
the other is the assessment roll that lists all the properties within the CDD and their assessment 
amounts. Are there any public comments on the assessment resolution? Hearing none, we will 
close public comment and bring it back to the Board. Amy comments or questions from the Board 
on the resolution? If not, is there a motion to approve it? 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Gysn, seconded by Mr. Brouillard, with all in 
favor, Resolution 2025-06 Imposing Special Assessments and 
Certifying an Assessment Roll, was approved. 

 

Mr. Flint: Is there a motion to close the public hearings? 

 


On MOTION by Mr. Brouillard, seconded by Mr. Hutson, with all in 
favor, Closing the Public Hearing, was approved. 

 

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Discussion of Preliminary Landscape 
Remediation Designs 

 Mr. Flint: I put item five on here hoping we would have information for the Board to 
discuss regarding remediation of the landscaping. We are continuing to work on that. As the Board 
has had discussions about the fact, well we have had discussions regarding maintenance, and I 
think there has been some improvements on the performance of Yellowstone. There is still some 
room for improvement there, but the other issue was a lot of the landscaping is aging out over time 
and the desire to come up with a plan and proposals to go through and remediate the landscaping 
to rehab and replant. I’d like to ask the Board to allow me to continue this item until the next 
agenda. We have reached out through Colen Built and On Top of the World, to a vendor called 
Quality by Design. They have been working on some concept plans and cost proposals, but I have 
also reached out to Yellowstone. I have asked them to come up with some proposals and design 
ideas as well. Yellowstone is a very large national company. They have their own inhouse 
landscape designers. I’d like some additional time to get that information from Yellowstone. Is 
that amenable to the Board? 

 

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Surface Depression Remediation Report 
and Proposals 

A. Presentation of Geotechnical Report 


 Mr. Flint: We will move on to item six. As one of the responsibilities that the CDD has is, 
you own the stormwater system within Indigo. Included with that are the dry retention areas. 
Periodically, we have surface depressions within the dry retention areas. We had one that was 
identified. We had a Geotech company come out and prepare a report to repair it. Solicited 
proposals from vendors. I believe we received two proposals for the repair. Florida Fine Grading 
was the low bid on the repair. Once Florida Fine Grading started excavating as often occurs with 
these things you don’t really know the situation until you start excavating and uncovering it. They 
started excavating and uncovering it and they found a chimney. So, we got a change order from 
Florida Fine Grading and also proposals for grouting the chimney. This is in the dry retention area. 
It wasn’t near any structures or effecting any homes. Foundation Services was engaged to actually 
do the grouting work and the CDD purchased the grout directly from the supplier to save the sales 


tax. The total cost of the repair ended up being $7,718. The report and the proposals are in your 
agenda. The Foundation Services proposal and the Swift Concrete proposal for the grout were per 
unit. There was an allowance but we didn’t know how much it was going to actually take. The 
final cost ended up being $7,718. We’ve included the proposals in your agenda and I am asking 
the Board to ratify those. Any questions on the proposals? 

 

B. Ratification of Proposal for Pond B Repairs from Florida Find Grading 
C. Ratification of Proposal for Additional Repairs from Florida Fine Grading 
D. Ratification of Proposal from Foundation Services for Grout Injection 
E. Ratification of Proposal from Swift Concrete for Grout 


 

On MOTION by Mr. Hutson, seconded by Mr. Gysen, with all in 
favor, the Surface Depression Remediation Report and Ratification 
of Proposals, was approved. 

 

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Consideration of Engagement Letter for 
Professional Audit Services from Grau & 
Associates 

 Mr. Flint: Item seven, this deals with your annual independent audit. The CDD as a 
government entity is required to have an annual independent audit performed. You went through 
a bidding process prescribed by the Board of statutes. You selected Grau & Associates as your 
independent auditor. They provided pricing for five years and then you enter into an annual 
contract each year for their services. The engagement letter that’s in your agenda is to perform the 
audit for Fiscal Year 2025 which is the Fiscal Year we’re in. It ends on September 30th. The fee, 
it's the top of page four. The fee for the services will not exceed $3,300 for the September 30, 2025 
audit. I did review their proposal that is consistent with what they provided in their proposal and 
it’s also consistent with what we have budgeted for the services. Any questions on the engagement 
letter with Grau? Is there a motion to approve it? 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Gysen, seconded by Mr. Solan, with all in 
favor, Engagement Letter for Professional Audit Services from Grau 
& Associates, was approved. 

 

 


EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Staff Reports 

A. Attorney 


Mr. Flint: Staff reports, attorney. Ms. Wagoner? 

Ms. Wagoner: I have nothing additional to report at this time. 

 

B. District Manager’s Report 
i. Consideration of Check Register 
ii. Balance Sheet and Income Statement 








Mr. Flint: You have consideration of the check register that was included in your agenda 
package. Were there any questions on that? It goes from May 7th to August 5th. For the general 
fund are checks 1741-1754 and then the Board compensation totaling $151,905.06. Included in 
those checks, anywhere you see Indigo East care of USBank, that is a transfer of the debt services 
revenue to the trustee for the debt service payment. So, it’s not a true expense, it’s just we get the 
check in from the County for O&M and debt in one check and then we transfer those funds to the 
trustee. Any questions on the check register? Is there a motion to approve it? 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Brouillard, seconded by Mr. Gysen, with all in 
favor, the Check Register, was approved. 

 

Mr. Flint: We also provided you the unaudited financials through June 30, 2025. There is 
no action required by the Board on these. If you have any questions, we can discuss those. It 
includes a combined balance sheet with the general fund, debt service fund, and capitol reserve 
fund. Then you have statements of revenue and expenditures for each of those funds. On page two, 
you see the general fund. We are over 100% collected on out on roll assessments. Our actual 
administrative expenses are $92 over our prorated budget, so we are right in line with our budget 
on that. And our actual O&M expenses are under our prorated budget. Any questions on the 
financials? 

 

 

 


iii. District Goals & Objectives 
a. Presentation of Fiscal Year 2025 Authorizing Chair to 
Execute 
b. Adoption of Fiscal Year 2026 Goals & Objectives 














Mr. Flint: Item three under the District Manager’s report, you may recall there was a 
legislative change last year that requires Special Districts to adopt goals and objectives annually 
and report on those annually. FY 2025 was the first year that the District is required to do the goals 
and objectives. The first item under this is the current year FY25 Goals & Objectives. Those are 
required to be reported on at the end of the Fiscal Year. We are not at the end of the reporting 
period yet, but what we are asking for there is that the Board consider a motion delegating authority 
to the Chair to execute the report at the end of the fiscal year and we’ll bring it back to the Board. 
The goals and objectives include three main areas. The first being community communication and 
engagement. Under that there are three goals. The first one dealing with public meetings 
compliance. The second one dealing with notice of meetings compliance. And the third one dealing 
with access to records. Under each of those we have measurements and a standard of whether it’s 
been achieved or not. Item two is infrastructure and facilities maintenance. There are two goals 
under that. The first one being Field Management or District Management site inspections. The 
second one being District infrastructure and facilities inspections. That’s your annual District 
Engineer’s inspection. And then the third area is financial transparency and accountability. The 
first goal deals with your annual budget preparation and adoption. The second with the financial 
reports that are included in your agenda and the third with the annual financial audit. Any questions 
on the current year Goals & Objectives? If not, is there a motion to delegate authority to the Chair 
to execute the final report? 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Hutson, seconded by Mr. Brouillard, with all in 
favor, Accepting the Fiscal Year 2025 Goals & Objectives and 
Authorizing Chair to Execute, was approved. 

 

Mr. Flint: For FY 2026 which October 1st, we have included the same goals and objectives 
has in the current year. If there are any comments or questions on those, we can discuss that. If not 
I would ask for a motion to approve the Goals & Objectives for FY2026. 

 


iv. Approval of Fiscal Year 2026 Meeting Schedule 








On MOTION by Ms. Ziino, seconded by Mr. Gysen, with all in favor, 
Adoption of Fiscal Year 2026 Goals & Objectives, was approved. 

 

Mr. Flint: Each year you’re required to adopt an annual meeting schedule. In the past you 
have approved a schedule with meeting quarterly at 9:00 a.m. in this location. So, we have listed 
November 18, 2025, February 17, 2026, May 19, 2026, and August 18, 2026. You can approve 
this schedule or if you want to make adjustments to it we can do that as well. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Gysen, seconded by Mr. Solan, with all in 
favor, the Fiscal Year 2026 Meeting Schedule, was approved. 

 

NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Supervisors Requests 

Mr. Flint: Supervisors requests, was there anything not on the agenda that the Board wanted 
to discuss. I wanted to remind the Board, as you remember last year, the legislature adopted a law 
that required special Districts’ Board members to do four hours of ethics training annually. Last 
year was the first year of that requirement. It is something that needs to be done every year. We 
provided links in the past to the Attorney General and the Commission on Ethics for free sources 
of those ethics’ trainings. But it is something that needs to be done by December 31st again if you 
haven’t done it already. It will be reported on your financial disclosure report next July. 

 

TENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Other Business 

Mr. Flint: Is there any other business the Board would like to discuss? 

 

ELEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Adjournment 

Mr. Flint: If not is there a motion to adjourn. 

On MOTION by Mr. Hutson, seconded by Mr. Gysen, with all in 
favor, the meeting was adjourned. 

 

 

 

 

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Secretary / Assistant Secretary Chairman / Vice Chairman