The city is asked Monday to borrow up to $17 million for a new fire station on A1A.

Resolution 2026-34 authorizes not to exceed $17,000,000 in Capital Improvement Revenue Bonds, Series 2026. It is item 9.B.1 on the agenda, in the section that requires no public hearing.

The title begins on page 7 of the packet. The cost of carrying the debt appears nowhere in its 251 pages.

The project, as the draft bond documents describe it, is a new 12,790-square-foot resilient structure on A1A, replacing the station at A1A and Red Cox Road. The documents say it would serve Anastasia Island and downtown, double as a community point of distribution during a natural disaster, and allow traffic and pedestrian improvements at that intersection.

The security is worth a reader’s minute. These are not property tax bonds. The city covenants to budget and appropriate legally available non-ad valorem revenues each year, which is a promise to find the money in the rest of the budget rather than a pledge of the millage. The same draft documents say the city expects to carry the same kind of covenant for a parking garage lease with West Augustine Gateway, LLC, on terms a memorandum of understanding set in January 2026.

What the packet does not say is what the borrowing costs. The truth-in-bonding statement on page 68 is a form with its numbers missing: the repayment period, the true interest cost, the total interest and the average annual debt service are all blank lines. They get filled in when the bonds sell at competitive sale.

Interest starts running April 1, 2027.

One other item returns. Resolution 2026-38, a policy for preserving and reusing the historic paving bricks in city streets, was moved off the Oct. 26 agenda “to allow for additional revisions,” per the draft minutes of that meeting. The revised version starts on page 197.

The consent agenda carries the draft minutes of Oct. 12 and both Oct. 26 meetings. What the Oct. 12 draft records, and what it does not, is its own story.

The meeting is Monday at 5 p.m. in the Alcazar Room at City Hall. The packet runs 251 pages by its own footers.

The one number a reader would most want is the annual payment, and it is not in there yet. It arrives after the vote, which is fine. That is how a not-to-exceed works.