MINUTES OF MEETING MIDDLE VILLAGE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Middle Village Community Development District was held Monday, November 10, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. at the Plantation Oaks Amenity Center, 845 Oakleaf Plantation Parkway, Orange Park, Florida 32065.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Michael Steiner	Chairman
Sherrie Mifsud by phone	Vice Chair
Gerald Bowen	Assistant Secretary
Eric Marx	Assistant Secretary
Julie Arnau	Assistant Secretary

Also present were:

Marilee Giles	District Manager, GMS
Mike Eckert by phone	District Counsel, Kutak Rock
Jay Soriano	GMS
Jennifer Stanton	S3 Security
Robert Grogan	S3 Security

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS	Roll Call
Ms. Giles called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m. Four Supervisors were in attendance constituting a quorum. Ms. Mifsud joined by phone.

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS	Audience Comments (Limited to three
minutes)
Ms. Giles stated for the record there are no members of the public present other than staff in the room.

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Approval of Consent Agenda
Approval of the Minutes of the October 13, 2025 Meeting.
Ms. Giles stated on page 7 of your iPads is the minutes of the October 13, 2025 meeting.
Unless there are any comments or corrections, I just look for a motion to approve.
Ms. Mifsud stated her first name was misspelled in the attendance. If it has been taken care of, other than that I am good.
Ms. Giles asked for any discussion.

On MOTION by Mr. Steiner seconded by Mr. Marx with all in favor, the Minutes of the October 13, 2025 Meeting as amended, were approved.

Financial Statements
Assessment Receipts Schedule
Check Register
Ms. Giles stated item B is your financial statement as of September 30, 2025 that starts on page 17 and is followed by the assessment receipt schedule on page 29 showing we are 100% collected. Your check register is on page 31 for the month of October and it is in the amount of
$205,141.20. I see no unusual variances with the check register. Unless there are any comments or questions, I just look for a motion to approve it.

On MOTION by Ms. Arnau seconded by Mr. Steiner all in favor, the Check Register, was approved.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration	of	Resolution	2026-01,
Amending the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
Ms. Giles stated item 4 on the agenda starts on page 92. It is Resolution 2026-01 and that is the resolution but if you want to scroll down to the exhibit which is the amended budget, I can go over that. When a District exceeds the budgeted expenses and amendment is necessary, the amendment is a formality for audit purposes. The expenses are a projection and as you can see here there were some lines that were overspent and some that were underspent. These funds have already been expensed so no funds are really moving. This is just a way to true up the budget so I will give you a minute there. Unless there are any comments or questions, I am just looking for a motion to adopt Resolution 2026-01.

On MOTION by Mr. Marx seconded by Mr. Steiner all in favor, Resolution 2026-01, Amending the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget, was approved.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Staff Reports
District Counsel
Mr. Eckert stated I have two items. One is I don’t have an update on the impact fee sales right now but certainly the resolution we adopted at the last meeting will help so I will keep the Board posted if there is any movement there. The other thing that we have been following is a First District Court of Appeal case which found Florida’s open carry of firearms prohibition to be unconstitutional. We have had to go back through and look at what does that mean for people with weapons on District facilities as well as people bringing weapons to District Board meetings. I think we provided that memo to all the District Managers. Marilee if you have it and you would like to send that out to all of the Board members that would be great. If you don’t want to, I can. I do think on our next agenda call which we have usually a couple of weeks before the Board meeting we should discuss various scenarios in terms of dealing with the Board meetings where people may bring firearms. We will coordinate that with the Chair and the manager and be prepared in the event something like that ever happens.
Ms. Giles stated I will send that out Mike.
Mr. Eckert stated okay. Other than that, it has been pretty quiet for us. Thanks for letting me attend by phone.

District Engineer
Ms. Giles stated Jay, anything from Mike Silverstein? Mr. Soriano stated nothing going on right now.

District Manager
Memorandum
Ms. Giles stated just a reminder if you have not completed your four hours of ethics training, if you can do that the deadline is December 31st. If you are not sure if you have completed it, just see me after the meeting. I have a tracker that looks like there are a couple of you that still need to complete it. There is one of you that still needs to complete it. Jerry, are you having any trouble with that, the online ethics training?

Mr. Bowen stated I didn’t think I am up for that am I?
Ms. Giles stated let me check to see when you were appointed. Mr. Bowen stated I came on Board this fiscal year.
Ms. Giles asked after March? Let me check right after the meeting and I will let you know for sure. That is all I have.

Update on Open Items (Deer View Column Repair)
Ms. Giles stated Jays report starts on page 100.
Mr. Soriano stated we have had a couple of neighborhood events since I saw you guys last. Our community yard sale was this past weekend and then also our pumpkin plunge a couple of weekends ago. That turned out really well. Everybody kind of enjoys that one if you guys haven’t seen that event before. We put the pumpkins in the pool, they float and the kids jump in swim around and pick out their pumpkin that they get to take home. We play games with it too so they can win prizes and things like that. It is a fun kind of earlier morning activity compared to every couple of years we do this big party at nighttime for Halloween. That is a little different so this year we just had the pumpkin plunge. We do have a couple of events coming up this week for anybody that would like to stop in. I do have a thank you to our veterans. We are doing coffee and donuts over at the clubhouse at your sister District. At the end of the week, we have a pickleball social. This is kind of one of our leftover events that we tried to do a couple of months ago. This will be kind of an introductory event for bringing in residents that may not be a part of pickleball already. We will have two groups, the adult group and then also a younger group out there. It is a more social event. They are going to have snacks and beverages and also, we have some music playing while they are out there on the courts and they are going to do a little tournament too at the end of the introductory clinics. That will be Friday night. Everybody should see an email go out about coffee and donuts and the pickleball social later this afternoon. Moving on, we are getting into our holiday season so we do have a lot of events that go on around here going into the holidays. You should see our guys out starting to decorate all of the entries and the buildings with Christmas lights here soon. Usually, we start the last week but we had some big projects that we are still trying to finish up so you will see them out this week. It does take us pretty much all of November to get those lights and wreaths and everything like that hung so that the day after Thanksgiving those lights go on everywhere. I did want to update you

guys, I had some pictures just because we finished up last time but in case anybody didn’t really notice, this is the column I had mentioned there off of Deer View. This is the back side so when you are in the neighborhood riding out, you can actually see the column. From Deer View, you can’t really see it. That is the front. You will notice we did damage a couple of bushes. Hopefully we can trim them back and they will kind of grow in and cover that base for a while because until they get that big pipe fixed, that right there may be sitting there for a while. We can’t really shore it up and actually build a column back up until we know the ground is in good condition. Now, we are just waiting on repairs from the county. We are going to take that off of the agenda. I think we did for this one but I know it is something that was on there for the column work. This is really the point. I know it looks like it is a half-finished job but it is going to stay like that until we can figure anything else out with the county. There is really no sense to do much more. We could pull the column away completely. I would just see that kind of as a waste of money. We know we will help put that column back. I don’t think anybody wants to remove the column completely. It would look odd being the only neighborhood having one on one side. Even though it looks like it is an unfinished project, that is actually what it is going to look like.
Mr. Steiner stated Jay you might want to just look at maybe two plants to come around the back of it. Just put two plants in there that way you don’t have it looking like it is unfinished. Mr. Soriano stated we could do that with some smaller plants. Right there usually on the backside, that is actually their property line, right here. Most of the columns you will see on that back side they don’t have a lot of these planted but that can be trimmed nice and neat. We can
put that around the back to hide that a bit.
Mr. Steiner stated we don’t know how long Clay County is going to take. Mr. Soriano stated right.
Mr. Steiner stated if you know it is going to be taken care of within the next few months, I would say don’t bother. But if we are looking out to the way things are going, it could be.
Mr. Soriano stated six hedges there. I can talk to Chalon about getting something to put in
there.
Mr. Marx stated that homeowner there, he is frequently the HOAs yard of the month so
he loves his yard.

Mr. Soriano stated unless there were questions on any of the other repair items on there, I did want to let you guys know we did start the promenade work last week. I will have to zoom in here the way we send these pictures through and then rotate it. This right here was the line I showed you guys that picture before but you can actually kind of see it traveling underneath and lifting the pavers up. This was one of the first sections you come too. As you come up the amenity property, there is one line right away going towards the corner of the first building. You can see the size of the root there underneath that. Some of them are really, really large. We have even pulled a couple up now early this morning that they are digging along the wall that is trying to penetrate through that wall. We are cutting these completely. We are not just repairing the pavers and sand around it. We are taking that root out and some of them are quite large. What will end up having is you will see some of the branches on the tree die off. A lot of times that root is almost directly connected to the branch above the tree and kind of reach out in that direction. The corresponding root with a branch coming off the trunk. You will see it brown out and die. We will just trim them back. On this side here, we have a lot more coverage from those trees where they really reach out and go over top that walkway. As you get farther down, we don’t have that. I don’t think anybody complains down there so if we lose a little bit of shade and a little coverage, I think we are still going to be, you know, good. I am not talking about moving a lot of trees but trimming them back quite a bit so we can get rid of a lot of this right here is what we need because if we leave them like that, they are going to grow the roots back. They are trying to stabilize. It is just extra work.
Mr. Steiner stated Jay this is the same area where we have got the issue with the tree leaning out over the lake.
Mr. Soriano stated the first one. It is growing like that. It looks like it is leaning. It is not really leaning. We have gone on there and tried to move the tree around. It is solid. If I can cut some of the weight off, that makes me feel better. If we ever have a bad storm, that bank has really softened that is where you get a tree that falls over. We don’t want that. I don’t mind some of the branches reaching out and getting into the water. People get concerned that leaves are building up and debris in the water. It is natural debris. I don’t want a whole tree there because we do have to remove that. If the St. Johns River Water Management District sees that, a big tree in the way, we are creating a dam or stopping flow of water and that is all they are concerned about is that water has to move. That is because they want to make sure it moves through the

pond and to our outfalls for flooding concerns. I don’t want a tree to fall over but we will cut a lot of the branches off.
Mr. Steiner stated my issue or my concern would be the fact that roots like these that are good size may be some of the anchoring that is holding it from going the rest of the way over.
Mr. Soriano stated that is the other side so we would actually weaken that side and would be concerned. All the trees we will watch. We will see those branches die off or turn brown so we will but them and trim them back. We will watch the trees because the more roots we cut, the more we are traumatizing that tree. Outside of that unless there are any questions on some of those other maintenance items, I did want to report your heaters on and running. Not last week but the week before when we were testing them, we just kind of left them on. Most of last week they really didn’t run but an hour or two in the middle of the night. I do have concern as we already have a freeze warning for tomorrow. It is a little bit of a rare thing but this is early. We typically don’t have 30-degree days this early. Depending on how many times this stuff happens, we will do that schedule where we introduce the covers. When we use the covers, I have to have staff come in while they are here so beginning of the day 9:00 or 10:00 they pull those covers off so we can get heat from the sun. We don’t do it too early. The sun is not up at 6 or 7 in the morning. I have to wait, there are only one or two of those guys anyway but that saves a lot of gas that you guys use to heat that pool. The same thing, we shut down pretty early so I don’t have staff come in late at 7:00 or 8:00 at night. They shut down at the end of the day so if we are leaving here at 4:30 they are pulling those covers back on and those heaters can kind of work moderately rather than running all night long just to keep it at that kind of consistent temperature. If we have early cold days like this, hopefully this one is just tomorrow, we will see but we if we have a lot more early cold days like this, we will start utilizing that cover and I will send out the email like we do every year kind of explaining how that time works when we are using covers. Everybody wants to come in and sit on the pool deck and kind of wait until that opening time but they can’t do that as the pool is actually closed down until those covers go off. If we use those covers, I don’t want to have to worry somebody is going to pull the cover back and swim, get stuck underneath them, things like that so they are a safety concern. When we use the cover, the pool is closed. Outside of that, it has been running. Right now, if I go down there I promise you they are running right now. We don’t want them running 24/7.
Ms. Giles stated thanks Jay.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Audience  Comments  (limited  to  three
minutes) / Supervisor Requests
Ms. Giles stated item six is audience comments and Supervisor requests. For the record, only the staff is present at the meeting and no members of the public. We will move to Supervisors requests. Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Steiner stated I have nothing. Ms. Giles asked Jerry?
Mr. Bowen had nothing. Ms. Giles stated Julie? Ms. Arnau stated nothing. Mr. Marx had nothing.
Ms. Giles stated Jerry I did check and you came on the Board in November of 2024. I can send you the link if you want me to resurface it in your email.
Mr. Bowen stated I will go back and see. I think I have done it.
Ms. Giles stated there is no training certificate and no test. Any four hours, you just click and play.

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Next Scheduled Meeting – December 8,
2025 @ 2:00 p.m. at the Plantation Oaks Amenity Center
Ms. Giles stated the next meeting is scheduled for December 8, 2025 here at the same location at 2:00 PM.

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment
Ms. Giles stated unless there is anything else, I just look for a motion to adjourn.

On MOTION by Mr. Steiner seconded by Mr. Bowen with all in favor the meeting was adjourned.

Secretary/Assistant Secretary	Chairman/Vice Chairman