MINUTES OF MEETING 

STONEYBROOK SOUTH AT CHAMPIONSGATE 

 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT 

 

 The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Stoneybrook South at 
ChampionsGate Community Development District was held Monday, October 7, 2024, at 11:00 
a.m. at the Oasis Club at ChampionsGate, 1520 Oasis Club Blvd., ChampionsGate, Florida 33896. 

 

 Present and constituting a quorum: 

 

 Adam Morgan Chairman 
Rob Bonin joined late Vice Chairman 

 Barry Bichard Assistant Secretary 

 John Lambert Assistant Secretary 

 Campbell McAnally Appointed as Assistant Secretary 

 

 

 Also present were: 

 

 

 Jeremy LeBrun District Manager, GMS 

 Kristen Trucco District Counsel 

 Alan Scheerer Field Manager 

 

 

 

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS Roll Call 

 Mr. LeBrun called the meeting to order at 11:00 a.m. and called roll. Three Supervisors 
were present constituting a quorum. 

 

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS Public Comment Period 

Mr. LeBrun: This is the time for members of the public who wish to make a statement to 
the Board. Does anyone wish to make a statement? We have no one on the line. 

 

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS Organizational Matters 

A. Acceptance of Resignation of Jarred Cornell 

Mr. LeBrun: We received notice from Mr. Cornell that he wanted to resign from his Board 
seat. We just need a motion from the Board to accept resignation from Jarred Cornell. 

 


On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Bichard, with all in 
favor, the Acceptance of Resignation of Jarred Cornell, was 
approved. 

 

B. Letter(s) of Interest/Resume(s) for Vacant Seat 

Mr. LeBrun: Any time there is a vacancy in a seat, the Board has the option to appoint 
someone. I believe we have one resident who is in attendance today who has expressed interest in 
Jarred Cornell’s previously occupied seat. The Board can choose to proceed however they wish 
but we recommend if a resident has expressed interest that we appoint them to that open seat that 
just came available. 

Mr. Morgan: What is your name? 

Resident: Campbell McAnally. 

 

C. Appointment of Individuals to Fulfill Vacancies in Seat #1 and #3 

 Mr. Morgan: The Chair makes a motion to appoint Campbell McAnally. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Lambert, with all in 
favor, Appointing Campbell McAnally to Seat #1, was approved. 

 

D. Administration of Oaths of Office to Newly Appointed Board Members 

Mr. LeBrun administered the oath of office to Campbell McAnally. 

Ms. Trucco: Have you served as a CDD Supervisor before? 

Mr. McAnally: No. 

Ms. Trucco: I am Kristen Trucco and serve as District Counsel for the CDD. I will meet 
with you after the Board meeting or can schedule a call with you at some point to go through the 
different areas of law that apply to you as a CDD Supervisor because you are considered a locally 
elected government official under Florida Law which subjects you to the Sunshine Law, Code of 
Ethics for public official as well as Public Records Law. There are some things as soon as today 
that you should be aware of resulting from your new government position as a Supervisor. Like I 
said, you are a government official now in the State of Florida which subjects you to things like 
the Sunshine Law meaning you can’t discuss items which will foreseeably come before this Board 
with another Supervisor outside of one of these Board meetings. These Board meetings are 
advertised notice of when and where these meetings occur. They are open to the public. Meeting 


minutes are taken. There are certain qualifications that need to occur to hold one of these meetings 
as it is considered a government meeting. You are also subject to Public Records Law so any 
documents or materials made or received in connection with official business of the CDD that 
includes your emails, any text messages, notes that you write during these meetings are considered 
public record. You have to hold onto those for the statutorily required period of time. We will send 
you information about what that is. There are also Ethics Laws that apply to you. You have to 
abstain from voting. It is considered a voting conflict if you vote on something that will result in 
a special private gain or loss to yourself. For example, if you own a landscaping company or your 
spouse does or child of yours or parent, brother, or sister and they own a landscape company and 
submit a proposal, you will have to abstain from voting because it is going to result to your special 
gain or loss or of a family member. That applies to business associates as well. There are a couple 
of other categories too for the ethics code that you will want to be aware of. I will schedule a call 
with you and send you some informational documents to get you up to speed on the specifics of 
all the laws that apply to you. 

Mr. LeBrun: After the meeting, I will stick around and give you an information packet that 
has some general information that you will fill in for our office. We can get in contact with you 
and as Kristen mentioned there is also a nice summary of the public records and Sunshine Law. It 
is kind of a handbook that will also be in the packet as well to look through. Each Supervisor is 
entitled to $200 per meeting per statue. All of the other Board members accept compensation so I 
just wanted to ask if you want to accept compensation as well. 

Mr. McAnally: Yes. 

Mr. LeBrun: Like Kristen mentioned, we will be available for any questions. I will give 
you my card and that way we can help you with anything you need going forward. 

Mr. McAnally: Thank you. 

Mr. Morgan: Welcome to the Board. 

 

E. Election of Officers 

Mr. LeBrun: Anytime there is a new appointment to the Board, we also do an election of 
officers. 

 

 


F. Consideration of Resolution 2024-05 Electing Officers 

Mr. LeBrun: What the Board can do is they can just add Campbell into the same Assistant 
Secretary position that the previous Board member held and keep everything else the same. 

Mr. Morgan: Make a motion. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Bichard, with all in 
favor, Resolution 2024-05 Electing Officers – Keeping Officers the 
Same and Appointing Campbell McAnally as Assistant Secretary, 
was approved. 

 

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Approval of the Minutes of the August 5, 
2024 Meeting 

 Mr. LeBrun: This is approval of the minutes from the August 5, 2024 meeting. Those will 
be on page 11 of your electronic PDF. Happy to take any corrections or comments on those 
minutes. If not, we just look for a motion to approve those. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Lambert, seconded by Mr. Morgan, with all in 
favor, the Minutes of the August 5, 2024, Meeting, were approved 
as amended. 

 

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Consideration of Addendum to Landscape 
Agreement 

Mr. LeBrun: This starts on page 29 of your electronic agenda packets. 

Mr. Morgan: Is this adding in some new areas? 

Mr. Scheerer: No, basically it is just renewing the existing agreements that we have with 
our current providers. As you know, both Boards Stoneybrook South and ChampionsGate have 
the same provider. We are just extending it for another year. All of the increases that are included 
are in the budget for 2025 already. We did give the Board an option for two additional years of 
renewal for 2026 and 2027 should you choose to do so. 

Mr. Bichard: Just really quick, can we check the phone line again. I guess Rob is trying to 
get called in. 

Mr. LeBrun: He is not on this one, the main one so I am not sure which one he is calling 
into. 

Mr. Scheerer: I hung up on the guest one. 


Mr. Bichard: He just text me and said has the meeting started. 

*Rob Bonin joined the meeting via phone at this time. 

 Mr. Morgan: This is just an extension of the triparty agreement which we approved last 
year. 

 Mr. Scheerer: That is correct. The other CDD that met this morning Stoneybrook South 
CDD have already approved it. 

 Mr. LeBrun: Floralawn has already signed off as well. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Bichard, with all in 
favor, the Addendum to Landscape Agreement, was approved. 

 

 *Rob Bonin joined the meeting in person at this time. 

 

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Consideration of Letter of Engagement for 
Fiscal Year 2024 Audit with Grau & 
Associates 

Mr. LeBrun: This is on page 34 of the electronic agenda. Each year the District is required 
to undergo an independent third-party audit. Grau & Associates is your auditor. This is the formal 
engagement letter that starts that process for the fiscal year that just ended a week or so ago. The 
fee has already been budgeted. It is exactly what was budgeted in our current budget so I 
recommend the Board approve that. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Bichard, with all in 
favor, the Letter of Engagement for Fiscal Year 2024 Audit with 
Grau & Associates, was approved. 

 

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Consideration of Agreement for Water 
Management Services with the Lake 
Doctors 

Mr. Scheerer: This is a continuation of our agreement with Lake Doctors for aquatic 
services within Stoneybrook South at ChampionsGate. 

Mr. Morgan: Just for this budget year? 


Mr. Scheerer: Yes, we try to get everything in our fiscal year October 1st through September 
30th so that is what we are trying to accomplish. This way, we are not trying to figure out which 
one expires when. 

Mr. Morgan: It is not really that much more than it has been. It is like $10 more. 

Mr. Scheerer: Everything has been accounted for in our budget. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Bichard, with all in 
favor, the Agreement for Water Management Services with the Lake 
Doctors, was approved. 

 

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUISNESS Staff Reports 

A. Attorney 


Ms. Trucco: Today I just handed out an agreement for engineering services. I think you 
saw a prior version of this. Since the last Board meeting, the engineer that was recently hired, the 
firm Kimley-Horn and Associates, their attorney has sent multiple comments on this contract. 
Basically, this is the second iteration of comments. The first round was sent and I responded to 
those and then these comments were sent back which I think we can live with but it has got to 
come back to the Board for approval. You will see the most substantive changes are in #1B on 
page 2. They want to make crystal clear that they were not the engineer of record for the 
construction phase nor were they the design project engineer for the CDD so they are not willing 
to give opinions about that work. You will see that they are comfortable providing general 
observation services during the construction phase on certain projects including visual observation, 
final inspection and the Certificate for Construction that we usually need prior to conveyances. We 
are on the last step of finalizing all of the conveyances from the developer right now for the CDD 
so we are not anticipating too much work on that end as opposed to if the CDD was brand new 
and everything still needed to come over to the CDD. I wanted to bring those comments to your 
attention so you are aware of what this final form looks like otherwise. It still includes our 
indemnification language. There is still insurance in there and indemnification just basically 
agreeing to reimburse the CDD for any damages or cause that result from negligence of the 
engineer or somebody at the engineering firm, something like that. You will see that in paragraph 
14. Otherwise, this is all just our standard form of language that we have in all of our contracts. 


Mr. Morgan: What are they agreeing to do? Are they just going to be the new engineer for 
the CDD? They are saying they are not going to be held responsible for anything prior to them 
being hired by the CDD except for observational purposes and then moving forward if we ask 
them to do any work, they would be responsible for that work. 

Ms. Trucco: Yes, it starts on scope. Prepare and present necessary or desirable reports and 
applications to the Board, attendance by Jason Allgood or other representative, meeting, 
negotiating, communicating with parties to effectuate issuance of bonds, sign to certify bonds, 
future bonds, professional administration, opinions concerning capital improvement so that at 
some point may be necessary if there is an issue with something, maintenance projects, property 
projects and tasks associated with that. Basically, they have said that if they do a site visit it is only 
for the purpose of providing the District with general project status updates, engineers not 
operating as engineer record, not responsible for certifying the work with the developers or design 
professionals. They are not responsible for certifying the work of other design professionals 
outside of the engineer’s firm. What we did work into here which it looks like their attorney has 
accepted, if this Board asks them to perform some service that they are not comfortable doing, 
they have to let the Board know. You need to use someone else. You need to use a different 
professional for whatever you are requesting. There is also a mutual termination option here too. 

Mr. Morgan: We use Kimley-Horn in some other Districts and they do a good job so I am 
not worried. John, are you good? 

Mr. Lambert: I am familiar with them. 

 Mr. Morgan: Are you good with the contract though, the way it reads. 

 Mr. Lambert: Yes sir. 

 Mr. LeBrun: They are also doing Stoneybrook South as well. 

 Mr. Morgan: Okay. 

 Ms. Trucco: The other company, what was the other company? 

 Mr. LeBrun: Dewberry. 

 Ms. Trucco: I haven’t seen these comments come from other counsel but every company 
is different. If they have a more active lawyer working there, it is not untypical to see back and 
forth. 

 Mr. Morgan: What is counsel looking for on this? 


 Ms. Trucco: I am basically looking for a motion to approve this revised form subject to 
staff sign off. I would like to just run these comments by my boss who is Jane Carpenter and make 
sure she is comfortable with them too. I think that we are okay with them but because we have 
gotten them back before a Board meeting, I wanted to bring them back to you to make sure you 
are comfortable with these as they are drafted. You have a 30-day termination clause so if this 
doesn’t work, you can find a different engineer. You can go out RFP and see what else is out there 
if you are not satisfied with the work they are performing. 

 Mr. LeBrun: Dave Reid is staying on until this gets finalized so he is still with us. 

 

On MOTION by Mr. Lambert, seconded by Mr. Morgan, with all in 
favor, the Revised Form of Engineer Agreement Subject to Staff 
Signoff, was approved. 

 

 Ms. Trucco: I did a robust dive into all of the plats and the maps that he prepared in 
conjunction with the field manager which is a ton of time they have expended on that. Just to try 
to make sure everything that is on the recorded plats for this development, they have been 
conveyed to the CDD or the HOA in accordance with the development plans. It is not untypical 
for there to be a plat recorded and then those change slightly but we want to get an 
acknowledgement from the developer that whatever we have finally agreed on with the HOA and 
the CDD what makes the most sense is to who is maintaining, operating and owning what that we 
get an acknowledgement from the developer just consenting to yes this is correct. This is the intent 
of the developer and this was consistent with the development plans of the CDD. That is basically 
the step we are on now. We are almost done with that. There are so many tracts and we are trying 
to make sure there are zero issues moving forward on that topic because it is not uncommon in 
older CDDs to have issues 10, 15, 20 years down the line so trying to be ahead of that on this one. 
That is all I have for you today unless you have any questions for me. 

 

B. Engineer 


Mr. LeBrun: I don’t believe Dave is on the phone. I emailed with him back and forth 
yesterday and he doesn’t have anything to report to the Board. 

 

 


C. District Manager’s Report 

i. Approval of Check Register 

Mr. LeBrun: The first item is approval of the check register on page 45 of your electronic 
agenda. This is through September 30, 2024 so end of the fiscal year. From our general fund, we 
have checks 787-810 total there is $162,850.05. For the payroll fund, we have checks 50095-50099 
total there is $923.50. Check register total is $163,773.55. Behind that is your line-by-line register. 
Happy to take any questions on that. 

Mr. Morgan: Anybody have any issues with the check register? 

Mr. Bichard: No sir 

Mr. Lambert: No. 

 

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

 

ii. Balance Sheet and Income Statement 

Mr. LeBrun: Behind that, you have your unaudited financials. No action is required by the 
Board, just there for your review. 

 

NINTH ORDER OF BUISNESS Other Business 

 Mr. Scheerer: We are doing obviously hurricane prep right now. I told the other Board and 
same thing I will tell you; I am out in the field shutting down all of the fountains. All of the lake 
fountains will be shut off until further notice. We have a Board member who plays a lot of golf in 
the other District and he already told me once it is clear, he will be happy to turn them all back on 
for us. We will be shutting down the architectural fountain as well. We are going to keep the 
circulation motors going but shut the pumps down that brings it out of the tower. The landscaper 
is going to work as long as they feel they can work. Overall, I think we are in good shape from 
what I have seen so far today. If you have any problems, I will be on call 24/7 so give me a shout 
and whatever I can do for you, I will be happy to do it. That is all I have. 

 Mr. LeBrun: I think you already noted the H light on the sign is out. 

 Mr. Scheerer: Yes. 

 Mr. LeBrun: Any other business or Supervisor’s requests? Hearing none. 

 


TENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Supervisor’s Requests 

There being no comments, the next item followed. 

 

ELEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS Adjournment 

 Mr. Morgan: I make a motion to adjourn. 

On MOTION by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Bichard, with all in 
favor, the meeting was adjourned. Signature - Jeremy Lebrun
Signature - Adam Morgan


 

 

 

 

 

 

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