Can you open that for me? Absolutely. It's tight on there for some reason. Thank you. That's good. I am Hope it tap the gap twice.
Good evening and welcome to the joint city of Boon Beach City Commission and Charter Review Committee meeting. Today is Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 and the time is 5:30. We will now turn to the deputy city clerk for roll call. Mayor Rebecca Shelton, present. Vice Mayor Woodro Haye,
present. Commissioner Angela Cruz, present. Commissioner Thomas Turkin, present. Commissioner Amy Kelly, here. Committee member Jerry Taylor, present. Committee member Reverend Richard Dames, present. Committee member David Katz, present.
Committee member Angela Tranowski, present. And Committee member Phyllis Balichi Pelli and I that one up close enough. Thank you. Thank you, Tammy. First, on behalf of the city, I'd like to extend our
gratitude to each member of the charter review committee for volunteering your time, expertise, and dedication to this important work. Your willingness to serve in this vital role demonstrates your commitment to our community's governance and future. The thoughtful analysis and recommendations you will provide to the commission will help
ensure our charter continues to serve the needs of the city. effectively. Again, thank you for your service and for your valuable contributions you add to this process. We are now moving on to the agenda repro approval, additions, deletions, and corrections. Let's begin on the left um with Commissioner Turkin,
if you have any additions, deletions, or corrections to the agenda? I have none. And Commissioner Kelly? No. Thank you. And Vice Mayor Haye? No. And Commissioner Cruz? Okay. Motion to approve agenda. Luck. We have a motion to approve and we have
a second. All of those in favor say I. I. I. Okay. We will move on to the other, which is the opportunity for the city commissioners to give direction to the charter review committee regarding changes to the charter and scheduling of the first public meeting.
Okay. Um, yeah. So, I'll I'll open it up. Thank you, chair. Thank you committee members for volunteering your time as uh the mayor had mentioned. Um you know for me you know I wanted to establish this
committee to have experience look at the charter right keep it autonomous give some feedback and ultimately you know I've been very vocal about this it's it's not a director from the commission in my eyes it's to leverage all of these minds to be collaborative and identify
where some maybe outdated changes need to be addressed in the charter this charter is you know I think a hundred years old if I'm not mistaken. And you know, things change, things innovate. And so, as a city changes, we need to make sure that our our ordinances, our
laws, and our charter goes uh keeps up to date. Um, one of the things that I know the city attorney is working on currently is the residency requirement that will be coming to referendum. Uh, the matter is, uh, how and when. Um, you
know, I think it's important for me that if someone's going to run and manage an over $300 or $300 million budget that they actually live in the city, right, and they can be verified. You know, I would personally I would have more stringent qualifications, but you know, I understand that a lot of that's pro
protected by Florida state statutes. So ultimately, you know, I wanted to propose this committee so the committee members could be the ones to bring those proposed changes to the commission to then bring to the voters to enable the purest form of democracy via referendum.
And so that's why we're here today. Thank you. Commissioner Cruz, do you have anything? Vice Mayor Haye? No. Again, I would like to uh welcome of this trial review committee. It's uh
long overdue. Uh we've been able to find something ourselves that should never have been on the books and uh I'm sure that you guys will find something and make some recommendation. Um I have some thoughts that uh I I would like to see
you uh look over, but I don't think this is the time for that. uh we'll just uh just welcome you and I'll see what the structure is from here. Have we determined when this board meets
and where and anything? That's one of the things we're to discuss today is our first meeting. Um the scheduling of that and where that will take place and then also at the first meeting we'll um elect the chair and the vice chair.
Okay. Go ahead. Yeah. I'm so I think uh open it up to the committee members, see where everyone's uh what everyone's schedule looks like, how often we want to meet. Um you know, I would like the city attorney's office to be at these
meetings um as we move forward. And if there's anything that my colleagues want to bring up now, I think we address it now and then that way it can uh be discussed. Otherwise, we'll reconvene and uh let the board operate as it was
uh established to do so. I I think one of the things we're looking for is um some type of report or sun setting in October. Uh and so with that being said, um it's
up to the committee of course, of course, uh how often and where you want to want want to meet. Um, you know, that there are a lot of things that that you guys could look at. Uh, and we have to thank as a committee and
as a as a commission council that these are necessarily long-term rather than short-term, even though some could be shortterm, but basically we're looking at uh long-term suggestions, you
know, like uh it may not be a hot topic with people, but you got to talk about it. for example, whether or not there should be a um a council uh uh city manager structure. What are the benefits
for it? What what long term is are we serving the needs of the people? uh these are uh are questions that that the form of government that we have would be something that I would like to
see you guys look at, you know, um whether it be a commissioner, city manager, or stay like it is. But um I I think tonight uh is best to to get these questions answered about how
often you're going to meet and where you're going to meet and then we'll just have a dialogue uh from there in order to get what we want to accomplish. It may take a little more uh meeting than
you might normally think. like once a month. You might might have to go twice a month. I I don't know. But I think it comes down to efficiency number one. And I and I would like to see and again I hope that the board can agree with me on this is it's something that we try to focus on the quality of
life issues. I think there's a lot of things that might be dated and might not apply. And I get that you might be able to get to that sooner than later, but right now I think it's collectively talking about how we're going to make things better. Whether that's more beautiful, safer, more efficient. I
think those are the things that we that this board should tackle first in my opinion. Is that good? Yes, please. Is this on? No. Thank you. Um, one I I think we would like to have and I'm I'm speaking from
my mind. one the date certain that we have to be done so that there's enough time for you guys to vote on whatever we bring forth if you choose to vote on them so it can get on the ballot. So whatever that you know that hard stop is the last time there was a charter review
committee uh we met six times I think over a period of two months and we got it done. Um it's not a very thick document at all. I mean it's not going to take months and months to do this. Uh the other thing is is to maybe work with the city clerk to find out when either
this room or a conference room is open so we don't conflict with some other committee or board that's meeting and maybe you know gather you know poll the rest of the members to find out whether that that like a Thursday evening at 6:00 is good you know that kind of thing. So um the only thing I would ask
and I think the board is uh the city commissioners already said is that to kind of let us do the work. Okay. Instead of you like taking direction from you know what you want done. If it's something that we bring that we don't bring forward that you'd like to have done then as a as the commission
you guys can vote three to two to put it as an ordinance for for vote as a referendum. So just that's what I'm asking. That's it. The um the resolution provides that a final report with recommendation should be presented to um
the commission on by excuse me October 21st 2025. Okay. So we do have a bit of a short time frame about two-month period. Is that a Tuesday? It is. Is it Tuesday? So then on that on that day whoever the board our committee
chooses to present it to the commission will report our suggestions. Correct. that would report that the vice mayor is asking about. We could either add that as an agenda item or we could do another joint meeting, whatever the body desires to do. Can I ask a question? So on that
presentation then we would do um like a PowerPoint or something along those lines as a presentation. Is that what you're asking for recommendations or do you want it just a a plain written report? Typically it's a written report but I have examples of that. I'm I'm sure my
office will be instrumental in putting that together and then circulate it to the board um based upon your direction. Circulate that to the board for the presentation to the the commission whether you choose to do a PowerPoint with that or not as you know. I have u one other question for you.
will you be giving us um state statutes that we will need um as part of the backbone because we don't want to make recommendations and say, "Oh, by the way, that's a violation of Florida statute." So, I think it would be either
either having you advise us or give us copies of statutes, something I think would probably be helpful. I think one of the things and and certainly is as things come up then my office will research and
you know deem whether that is appropriate. We've already started doing some research based upon some of the things that come up have come up specifically the residency requirement and kind of what there is no clearcut law because a lot remember this is home
rule so this area isn't necessarily preempted by state statute but there is some case law guiding and until I kind of know what areas you're looking at yes I can't you know but yes I'll provide you whatever you need do you think it it will be possible
possible like say after a meeting let's say Mr. cats or um one of the other members here bring something up. Can we send requests to you to say, "Look, we're looking at these things. Can you give us advice before the next meeting?"
That is the role of the city attorney in this position. Okay. Just I want to just kind of clarify a few few of those types of issues so that we kind of know logistically because um from what I'm hearing, you want this done by October
21. Correct. Today is August and so we're looking at you half a dozen or so meetings, you know, every two weeks. So it would be a a some type of a turnaround uh for your office. As long as that's
possible, I think we can do our job quite well. Just um this initial one with the short time frame was really supposed to be kind of narrow. uh the charter review committee does not sunset at the
conclusion of this review and then there will be a full review. So the purpose of this meeting was for the commission to kind of give a little bit of direction on where the focus was to be, but if the charter review committee also saw
anything glaring, then they could certainly make recommendations. But this is narrow and then the bigger review comes after. Well, you or a member of your staff will be at our meetings at every single meeting.
So if we can get guidance as we go along, know that they were actually going to be they can guide us as we go. Perfect. Jerry will not be a problem. And also a person from the clerk's office that that is who will be assigned to they will take minutes. Right. The clerk will take minutes. Right.
Correct. Perfect. Great. Well, as far as meetings, I can tell you I'm retired so I can come as often you want or whenever you want and but I don't know about the others. I know some of you may work or something. So, I'm open as far as the meeting.
I resemble that. So you resemble that remotely. I resemble that more. I resemble that, too. Yeah, you're pretty busy, Pastor D. I'm not quite there yet. Is like I need I need evenings, guys. Um I I still work a full full schedule. Okay.
So, um as long as it's around this time, I I'm open. Okay. So, and I can be very flexible in in term Can I make a suggestion? every two weeks. We we have eight or nine weeks from now until October 21st.
So would that that would be fine. As far as I'm concerned, I would say yes to that. I don't know what everybody else would unless there's a committee we think we should meet within another week. Well, we can start maybe in a week and then from there every two weeks. Is there a particular Is there a
particular day that works better for the committee like a Tuesday, Wednesday? Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I I would like Wednesday if possible, but I could go Wednesday, Thursday. I have another board that meets on
Wednesday nights for the city. So, if we could do Thursdays, that would be my preference. Okay, that Thursday's good. Works for me. Okay. How about the first or second or third Tuesday? We do have Well, that's we do our agenda reviews on Thursday,
Shauna. So, I don't know if that means you'd be in their meeting or this Stacey and I can work that. Okay, cool. And then we just have to work out location and time. It's just going to be right what's available. Well, we should set a time right now. 6 o'clock. 6 o'clock is fine with me.
Yeah. Okay. And here um I don't know that it needs to be televised necessarily. we could probably do in our community room is what I'm thinking. And then certainly if somebody
wants to attend, there will be plenty of seating in there. And they'll there can be an email confirmation on this. Are most of the uh I I'm not sure if that's the case, but for advisory boards, are those all televised or are they not? I I to be honest, I don't know.
I don't believe so. They're not. No. Okay. No. No. Commissioner Kelly, you wanted to say something? Thank you. I did. Um I I have had lots of conversations with city staff also and so I think that it's important um
that we go to the um to the powerhouses of the city um in really what they recommend as far as what's working, what's not working, what needs to be changed, what doesn't need to be changed, and really assist
the the review board in prioritizing. Um there are your ideas and initiatives and what really is uh because there will be things that are that will come up that are a priority that have needed to be changed for a very long time. I've
spoken to Andrew and you know that he's been here for a long time. He knows what's working, what's not. I know we have a lot of deleted um and old reserve stuff and so there's you know there's always a lot of uh uh changes when it comes to to our charter. So, I think um
staff is a is a good resource and I I would really want them to be um a a part of uh of this review um committee meeting just because they have the institutional knowledge of of being here for um a very long time and knowing what
um works and doesn't work and helping them also to prioritize um you know what should come before us you know first as a as a priority. So, um, those are my, so that's my thought on that. Would our first meeting, uh, August 28th
at Thursday? Next week, the Thursday the 28th. Yep. Everybody okay with that? Are you okay, Robert? I have to check my calendar. I'll Commissioner Turkin. Yeah. I just want to um, ditto Commissioner Kelly sentiment. That's
what I was going to say is having staff involved. maybe whether it's uh I would say Andrew, you know, or or Adam to participate or at least connect with the city attorney's office. At the same token, have the city attorney's office also make recommendations. You guys hear that?
Yeah. Um because you guys are the powerhouse too. So, and then you know collaborate with this board on uh you know what the idea of the priority is you know what um what should be addressed maybe sooner rather than later. And then also as this
board isn't going to sunset, we can continue this conversation. Um that way, you know, we're focused on high priority things and then we can take our time and really do a complete overhaul of what needs to be addressed. So I agree with you, Commissioner Kelly. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Just one thing
we've noticed on the calendar. I know this is soon, but if we could start this Thursday and we do alternating weeks that prohibits it conflicting with agenda review. um that would work better for my staff.
Otherwise, there may be a like a one-off meeting where you guys might get, you know, a younger um assistant city attorney because I I do know we have a conference scheduled that's a Thursday, Friday, and you know, agenda review
although generally those aren't as intense, but okay, for scheduling purposes, not to interrupt, you know, obviously our other This Thursday is the 21st. That's okay with me. Okay. 21st. My schedule. Give me just one moment.
Okay, David. That's not a problem. I don't have a problem with that. Well, while they decide it, Shauna, and I don't know if Commissioner Kelly knows what those things mean on in in the charter, what deleted means and what you do. Okay. I'm sorry. You know what
deleted and what reserved mean. The uh one other thing if you need to contact us like I was not contacted about this meeting. I want to make sure you have my correct email. So I'll give it to you later. Okay. Yes, that is something we need to
um get is everyone's email address and phone number because we do need to reach you. Correct. Me too. Um the 21st will be fine for me everyone. So Okay. And again we just need a quum to meet. So if on the off chance someone is
missing from one meeting, you know, it's okay. Will it be in this room or are you going to email us and tell us which room we will be meeting in? I believe it's going to be in our our community room, which is right over
here. So there's a wayin from the lobby. Um, so I believe that's it. But if someone could just email us and just say, "Hey, we're on the six o'clock in this room." That would be awesome. We will provide um the clerk will send everyone copies of the notice and it'll
have my email address on there as well. So if you need anything I'll I'm happy to give you all my cell phone number as well offline and we'll my office will be available. Yes. Okay. We're uh
we're going to send a document down though. Uh Phyllis has it to put everybody's email and stuff. So, let's just get that circulated. Okay. So, just we want to uh you know, we're supposed to like the chair and the vice chair want to do that at the next meeting. At
the first meeting. Yes. At our first meeting, we'll do that. Got it. Okay. Just a quick question. Are these meetings subject to public notice? Yes, they are subject to public notice. And there are also um sunshine law with regard to them as well. So if there is
an item coming up, if you could refrain from discussing it privately amongst each other unless it's at a publicly noticed meeting. So this Thursday, that's exactly my question. Does this Thursday give us enough time for public notice? It does. Okay, perfect.
And how long is the meeting going? Are we scheduling one-hour meetings, twohour meetings? What are we here all night, Phyllis? Till like 11 p.m. Just kidding with you. I got you. I got you. I can write it in three languages. for volunteering.
John, are they affected by the Sunshine Law at all? Yes, they are. You can pass that down. I have a little uh Sunshine Law cheat sheet for those of you who are not familiar. So, once I get all of your emails tomorrow, I will send that around. It's a little memo that kind of
explains what that is, just for your benefit. And then if you have any further specific questions, certainly you can email or call me. Well, this is exciting. I want to thank all of you again. Yeah. Well, thank you for the opportunity. Overdue.
One last thing. Uh I haven't um if anybody in the audience or in the outside there has something that they'd like this committee to look at as far as a charter, you can call me. Anything. my
my phone number be there or you get it from the attorney or come because we want to be open. Come to the meeting. Or you can come to the meeting but if you can't make the meeting just give us a give us a note. Good.
Very good. You guys ready to work? I think so. Attorney, do you need anything else? No, I'm I'm all set. I think unless the board has any other comments, then we could uh I'm going to wait until they fill this out, get to the end, then we'll adjourn.
Anything from staff? Easy tiger. You got one and a half minutes. Yeah. If anyone has any final comments, now is the time to make them. Mr. Catz, 90 seconds.
You're welcome. Sorry, I didn't mean to hold it up all weird, wonky. And if there are no final comments to then um do we have a motion? Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Second. Okay. Um Vice Mayor Haye made the motion and Tur uh Commissioner Turkin made the
second. All those in favor to adjurnn, say I. I. Motion passes unanimously. All right. We will be starting the next meeting in six minutes. and welcome to the city of Boon Beach city commission meeting. Today is
Tuesday, August 19th, 2025. The time is 6 p.m. If anyone is here this evening for the annexation discussion, the city commission is not considering annexation on this agenda. We will now turn to the deputy city clerk for roll call.
Mayor Shelton, present. Vice Mayor Haye, present. Commissioner Cruz, present. Commissioner Turkin, present. Commissioner Kelly, here. Mayor, you have a quorum. Thank you, Tammy. Pastor Sean Blakey from My Anchor
Church will lead our invocation tonight. Then Commissioner Kelly will lead the pledge of allegiance. Let's all stand for the invocation and pledge. And Pastor Sean, can you come on down? Let's pray. Well, Lord, we are so grateful for your power and your presence. So thankful, extremely
thankful for your love. Thank you for this amazing group of people, Lord, that is um leading the city in such an amazing way. Father, we're praying today for direction, insight, wisdom. We're praying that you'd give that to us. We need it. And I pray in all things that, Father, you get the glory. and it's in
your name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. Thank you everyone. We are now moving on to the agenda approval, additions,
deletions, and corrections. Let's begin to my right with Commissioner Cruz. if you have any additions, deletions, or corrections to the agenda. I do not, Mayor. Thank you. Vice Mayor Haye. Yes, I do have uh one addition. Uh out of my discretionary funds, uh $1,000 to
the Boon Beach uh Tigers High School. Is that the name of Okay. Uh paperwork uh clerk has. So, like to add that to the agenda for approval. You need a motion to add that?
Well, we when we approve the agenda, we can add it. We can we can add it at as 5B. Perfect. Wait. Um I might have a question for I remember I think at the last commission meeting um I requested for us
to have a discussion about um the resident from Gy Harbor who came in. Is that part of our future agenda? Just want to make sure it is. Did you the last one? Uh 11J. Okay, perfect. So, no, I don't I don't have any more changes. Thank you. Here.
Uh um Commissioner Kelly, Mayor, the only thing I have and I don't know if we want to talk about an hour or later, um 10 C um we didn't really have an agenda review this week that involved all of staff and this I have some
concerns about moving forward with 10 C without more discussion because I feel like Um, if I remember correctly from 6 months ago there, we were very specific in our direction and now it's kind of been um kind of side kind of changed
direction um without really any discussion from the board. And so I want to make sure that um that I have enough time to talk with staff and review what our previous minutes were and what our direction was to staff because I'm so I'm not comfortable moving forward with
10 C tonight. I don't know if we want to um if we want to just wait to table it or we remove it, but that's I just wanted that to be reflected under that. I'm I'm okay to remove it. Um I'm not in
agreeance with it. I've done a good bit of research. I've got a a lot of thoughts typed out to discuss this item. Um however, I'm okay to remove it or table it given what the board consensus is. Yeah, I agree on tableabling it because I would say we table it.
Yeah, it was before my time. So, I need some more research on that. We can uh table it at the time or we can remove it with direction to staff to put it on the next one. But this is something that we've discussed at uh previous commission meetings. I haven't had the chance to read the entirety of the ordinance. So, I would support tableabling it um asking
questions to city attorney's office and then coming back at the next city commission meeting. Thank you. We'll just table it when we get there. Correct. Okay. And then um Commissioner Turkin, do you have anything to add? Delete. I do not. Thank you.
Motion to approve as amended. Second. Commissioner Kelly made the motion to approve the agenda as amended and Commissioner I mean Vice Mayor Hay second the motion. All those in favor of approving the agenda as amended say I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion
passes unanimously. We will now move on toformational items by the members of the city commission. Let's begin on the left with Commissioner Turkin. Thank you, Mayor. Um, I did have a very productive uh time at FLC. Was able to attend the uh Doge seminar and get some
insight and feedback on what the state government is going to be looking for, looking at, and recommending. They are actually in Palm Beach County, I think yesterday and today to give some recommendations. on the PowerPoint and presentation, I did not see that Boton was one of the volunteer voluntary
municipalities. Um, however, I did see communications from the city manager's office finance with the state. So, I'm unsure as why that why that is. So, I would like to see um on the city manager report, you know, a followup on that. What they're doing, I think, is great
for the taxpayer. Um, and they're they're being pretty reasonable with considering cost of inflation. Obviously, you know, we've seen record inflation since 2020 um with the pandemic and then just the skyrocket of costs all around. But some of their
initiatives of, you know, prioritizing, uh, higher return on investment, um, with taxpayer dollars, um, funding strategies, regulatory reform, which I think this commission has already done a lot of discussion, um, about with
regards to updating old ordinances, repealing um, old rules that are maybe unnecessary fees uh, for our residents, and really maximizing the the taxpayer dollar and then making sure that we're entertaining and promoting free
enterprise and free market by not subsidizing too much. Um I think the city does a good job with that. I think economic development has done done great in their department and um you know I think we have an opportunity here to really be a leader amongst our our
municipalities not just in the county and but in the state to uh comply open our books and most importantly ask for recommendations on how we can operate more efficiency efficiently whether that's consolidation you know collateral
roles um obviously eliminating waste stepping away from social issues and focusing more on being fiscally responsible and focus on where where that highest ROI is. So, I know this has been a a a great uh acceptance by both
the finance and city manager's office. So, I'm really looking forward to see the hard work you guys put in and collaboration with the Florida Doge team. I do I I want to address one thing there. We we had uh correspondence with the uh Doge team. I want to say probably
uh 3 weeks ago. I believe Allan Lawson, our finance director's in the back. We were completely transparent. They requested a a great deal of information and data from us and we fulfilled that request within a week and they were very like appreciative that we the
correspondence was so quick. So, anything that they want from us, I mean I like we are completely open. So they can come in person, they can send a team, we can do it um over uh teams meeting or via email. But we've
completely um we com completed their uh initial audit request that they uh all the information. I want to say close to two weeks. It took us about a week and a half to get them the information. So I would welcome that. That's great to hear. I think I think
from what I gathered from the presentation was they're doing this across the board with county um with with county boards with with city or with m municipalities and what it seems like is they're going to take all this data and identify what the similarities
are and then I think ultimately provide some best practices. You know, I don't know what that's going to look like as far as the law goes. Um, but I think this is good and I think that we're really going to operate more efficiently with this collaboration. So, I look
forward to uh, you know, bringing back some tax dollars. Yeah. No, I just just wanted to just inform, you know, a very good seminar, a lot of good information. I can share some of that information with both you and the city manager's office. I don't know if
the presentation is uh, live on FLC's website. If it is, I would highly recommend looking at it. It is awesome. Um the the presenter did a great job articulating what this is going to look like. Also, I think addressed some concerns that, you know, majority
municipalities may have and uh kind of cushion those concerns, you know, and and and very fair with with the sentiment of like, hey, obviously costs have gone up, right? I think, you know, that that's known. And so, yeah, I'm really looking forward to this initiative and I'm happy to hear that
the the city is being collaborative because I don't think we see that across the state. And real quick, just uh just to give finance credit, uh we actually did it two days. We turned the response back to them in two days with followup. They actually followed it back up with us and
then uh we so everything was done within five business days. So, they were very pleased with us uh in our response time. Great. Commissioner Kelly, do you have anything? Um, I also attended FLC, although during
the Doge workshop, I went to a a much uh less helpful um one on um it was supposed to be on ebikes and scooters and they talked about their micro mobility plans and it was completely um just sidelined and derailed. But um I
did attend um the legislative update um that I thought was very helpful um you know FLC uh of course our priorities um at the city level um that are carried through by the Florida League of Cities as well as the National League of Cities
is our protection of home rule um which uh is what uh has you know live local has preempted our ability to make decisions on behalf of our residents and so that um was a is a big priority focus
for FLC um to really see what you know continue that uh the workings to make sure that we're we protect our home rule and our right to make our decisions uh for our residents instead of uh some politician in uh in uh Lake County um
who has no idea, you know, what Boon Beach is about. And um so uh it was it was important uh to see what the priorities are but in particular it was you know pushing towards uh live local um working on infrastructure updates for
our municipalities. Um so there there is a lot of good that the um Florida League of Cities is doing. Um if you go on their website, you can look um but you know they work really hard um and their lobbyists work really hard to to
maintain um our ability to do what we do for our residents. So um so that was good to see that they are um you know they're working really hard um to you know to continue to protect our our ability to do what we do. So um so it was good stuff but sorry I missed the
doge and I heard it was good vice mayor. Hey without being redundant to the FLC. It was a tremendous u u conference and I like to talk to our uh deputy city manager before I uh discuss some of the
ideas that I've picked up here. But I will say that they uh gave us some of the bills that uh failed and why they didn't pass and what's going to come up the next goround uh which will affect us. Um it was outstanding from the
standpoint of other cities are having a similar problem that we're having. Isn't that amazing? And so it's it's good to hear what other cities have done uh to resolve those problems that we're having. and that we can probably look at
them and implement them ourselves. Uh I'm glad that we had a a majority uh of our board at the uh FLC and and those who couldn't make it because of job or whatever. Uh the next time you you can
make it, it it really is worth uh worth your while to attend those those meetings. Um I I can recall one particular colleague uh who uh is now talking uh like an
expert uh because uh he's attending these uh functions and I'm I'm very proud of that. I also had the opportunity today to attend the uh the water plants and uh turn that off. And
the water plant uh out out uh west and the water plant here uh in the east uh are working just fine. Um, it was good to see uh where our taxpayers dollars are going, but we also had the
opportunity to see that the equipment, the infrastructure at the West plant and the East plant are just outdated. Uh there once was a time 20 years ago that the West plant was state-of-the- people
were coming from other countries to take a look at us to see what we were doing with our water. Uh and now uh because of uh depreciation and and and and life expectancy of that infrastructure,
we need to really take a close look now at uh what we need to do and set aside some funding to update and make sure that our water uh stays u at the level that we want it. It is now. I don't want
to you to go away thinking our water is substandard. That's not what I'm saying. Our water is is excellent. Okay. But in order to keep it that way, we we're going to have to make some investments. So, I believe staff and and this uh council is going to be looking at at
those issues so that we can stay at the top. Uh because you you know, it doesn't get any better than your drinking water. And we have some of the best in the county in the state. Okay. So, I'll be talking with uh staff about those ideas.
Thank you, Cruz don't want to be redundant about another conference, but I was able to attend a different conference, the National League of Cities. We talked about infrastructure, leveraging artificial intelligence and other technology to make permitting and other processes more
efficient um to reduce red tape and to help new businesses, which in turn leads to economic development. um really got great information from multiple presenters from multiple different states as well as different elected officials from other cities um who
shared ideas and um opportunities that they're actually implementing in their cities um that we can take here that are relevant to Boon Beach. I also did a tour of the water plant. Uh and it was really great to see the investment in our infrastructure um but also the need
to continue to invest in that infrastructure um going forward and to do it in a proactive manner. Thank you. Thank you. Um we don't have any announcements, community and special events and presentation. So we're going to move on to the public audience portion of the meeting. As always, it is
three minutes per person and non-transferable. The same rules always apply. The speaker must address the commission as a whole, not any individual on the dis or in the audience. Insults, personal attacks and disruptions are not permitted and you may be asked to leave the meeting should you violate these rules. After we conclude it in person, uh we will then
move on to online comments. Just a res reminder if you came in a little late, the commission is not considering annexation this evening. I do ask anyone who plans to speak to go ahead and line up on each side of the wall so that we can keep both mics moving quickly. So,
if you are speaking, come on down. Um, sir, good afternoon. Mike McCrae, does this stand on? Is your mic on? Good afternoon. There you go. This afternoon, I was here to hear your
charter review presentation. It was nice to see two former representatives up on the deis. That was former mayor Jerry Taylor and former commissioner David Katz. One observation I noticed tonight is that your chairs, they're too close
on this side. I don't know who responsible for spreading them out, but they need to be spreaded out. Leg room is better than that on an airplane. Okay. I'd like to say to you all, it was a privilege tonight to sit and listen to hear you all say that you all attended
conferences, you learned something, you brought something back for the citizens of Boon to here. I'm glad you all are shopping in your tools to be better uh supporters and also be better workers and doers of the fiduciary that we have displayed with each of you. In regards
to Doge, I listened tonight and it says that they can only offer recommendations. They cannot make anyone or a city do whatever they uh want to do, but they said one thing they could do when it comes to the state, they can withhold funds. So, be due diligence and careful about what you're doing. Thank
you. Thank you. Next, please. And we will alternate. Hi, can you hear me? Yes. Um, I'm a resident of Boon Beach for about three years now. Can you please state your name? Oh, I'm sorry. Edward Nesbbit. I live in
Boon Beach, Leisureville. Okay. And we've had a problem with cutth through traffic in Leisureville. Apparently, for a long time, long before I moved in there, but uh recently uh well, I shouldn't say recently, in 24
November, I uh got a petition from the city to have them do an evaluation on the cutthrough streets. Um, I followed up four months later and they told me they were still working
on it and as of now it's been about 8 months and uh even our property manager has called and got no response. So I'm I'm here trying to figure out what can I do next. Someone will be in touch with you on
that. Kevin, if you're in the audience, can you address it with him offline? Yeah, offline. Kevin can talk to you about it in private. Okay, Kevin. Yes. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next, please.
Susan Oyer, Boon Beach. So, first of all, I'm going to say um no to AI because um besides the fact it takes away jobs ultimately, it has a horrendously god-awful impact on the environment, the amount of energy that it takes to run these. And if you are
paying any attention to what's going on worldwide with AI, these data centers are massive energy hogs, massive fuel hogs, and and we really should not be endorsing that in such an eosensitive state. Um, second of all, I'm still waiting on my environmental impact study
on the Boon forest. It still hasn't come out. I'm still waiting. And the third thing I want to bring up is as we're looking at the charter and and going forward with the um strategic plan and comprehensive plan, whatever you guys are working on, um let me point out that
there's was always we need to take the to out for the train station because seven cities were selected to be part of this Tri Rail Coastal Link train station. Boon Beach is not one of them. Um, quickly, it is North Miami Beach, Miami, Hollywood, Oakland Park, Wilton
Manners, Delray Beach, and Palm Beach Gardens. And my understanding was is Delray wasn't even trying to get this. So, we're not part of it. So, it needs to for sure come out when you And while I've never been much of an advocate for the city owning everything, I think um Commissioner Turkin has made this point
very obvious and it's very true. Obviously, our city needs to be that needs to be our strategic plan is buying up every empty piece of land so we can control what gets put here so we have no more tall buildings coming in this city. And that gets me to the whole train station issue. We have been lied to,
defrauded, um, however you want to describe the word. Um, I personally like fraud that comes from that city employee in planning who has been pushing this train station fantasy that we were going to get a tri rail coastal link station.
We were never under consideration. Um, Tri Rail is fighting for their life right now and it is desperately needed. It is not needed to be a coastal link. Um, and this p person needs to stop perpetuating this lie. We need to take it out of our comprehensive plan. we
need to take it out of our strategic plan. We have no chance of getting that train station. They've already decided it's not us. This came up back on July 21st at the county meeting. And so why are we continuing to perpetuate this myth? Um the big issue is it's going to
cost $500 million, which is a half of a billion dollars to move to start the Tri Coastal Link. That's not going to happen. There's no money for it. Um, the county is not going to reenact the 1 cent sales tax that ends this year to make this happen. They're also pumping
2.3 billion into the turnpike and 1 billion into I95 interchanges. There is no money for this, so please take this out as you move forward on the strategic plan and the comprehensive plan. This is not possible in any way, shape, or form. Get it the heck out. Stop letting it be
your deciding factor on projects. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Mark Stevenson, Royal Manor, Boon Beach, Gateway 500, after where we live. Um, I have a concern. My wife and I served in the military in the DoD for 21 years. We
were stationed in some really cool places. We raised four kids and four dogs. We're on our fourth right now. Sunday was a very bad day for us. So, we decided to do something we used to do all the time. Let's go to the beach.
Great. Went down to the beach and I don't have access to the beach because I have a dog. It's the only place I've been in my 65 years that I can't take my dog on a beach. I don't know why. The beach is filthy. It's got garbage all over it. Has seaweed all over it. I'm
not really seeing anything that that's telling me to, oh, we shouldn't be on that beach. Okay, this is Buon Beach. Okay, I would like to use that beach. There are other people. I take my money and spend it in Jupiter when I want to take her to the ocean. Or I go down to
Bokeh and spend it down there. I'm not spending it here. Why is that? And why do our beaches look I don't want to use a colorful metaphor. Bad. We don't rake them. You've got dead seaweed all over the place. You got garbage all over the place. There used to be a concession
stand down there. I don't know what happened to that. you know, kind of just asking a question. Now, as a Navy guy, I also like to give kudos. I like to give Bravo Zulus, as they're called. Today, we had a water mane break at Seal. Bad one.
Okay. I want to thank PW for coming on the scene, lickety split Johnny on the spot, patching a hole, and getting us back online in under three and a half hours. Incredibly impressive. Okay, I want to thank you for that one. As far as the beach thing goes, we're a beach
town, but we have no beach. It's tiny. It's small. We need to get that fixed. And I I I don't understand. I think humans are a lot more dirtier than dogs are. Okay. I'm just kind of just kind of asking for just some place to go for a
walk when the day is bad. That's it. That's all. Anyhow, thanks very much. See you later. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening. My name is Dominic Misella. I'm from Vill Royale Alan Green in Bon Beach. Uh the reason I'm here is
that I spoke previously with commission A. We have uh first court which is goes from Gateway Boulevard to 26th Avenue has been like as a race track. In other words, cars are coming through a high
speed. Uh, with some luck, I was able to have a speed bumpers put in on June 19, I think around that time. Um, from, you know, from people from from the city of Boon Beach, but the problem
was some of the problem was solved. So, a lot of the cars were slowing down. But what's happening now, there's four buildings on that spender between Gateway and 26th Avenue and they going
try to to eliminate to eliminating the speed bumpers and they go right through the parking lot and that's that's worse than speeding now because people coming out and can easily be run over by these
cars. So that's a situation that has to be eliminated somehow some way. My suggestion talking again with commission a which he was very kind to talk you know that gave us a time to talk to him
said why can't we just also look into putting sidewalks because there is no sidewalks we take care of the fourth quarter just like it's our own home. uh we no depend on the city. We cut the grass, we put the flowers and
I we're very proud of what we what we doing there. But the thing is that uh uh side worker will eliminate people from walking in the street because what's happening that now is if they got to go to the clubhouse, they got to work on the street. If they got to go to the
pool, they got to walk on the streets. So that increases the chance of somebody getting hit. and we are the 55 and over community and they use walkers and they use wheeling chairs. So it's really something that I would appreciate if we
can look into it and get some some the response. U if nothing else can be done but the bumpers that they put in they have to be lowered. uh they they're too dangerous because of course cars they uh they still using them they they reduce
the speed but they I have a lot of complaints about that by eliminate by lower maybe they decided not to drive it to the parking lot. I will appreciate it if something can be done. Thank you very much. Thank you ma'am.
Thank you. Thank you. Now Kimberly Chase I'm from Grayson Heights. I first spoke here a year ago, specifically asking Tom Turkin for help with the noise nuisances caused by the short-term rentals in our area. After
being denied and dismissed by code and law enforcement for two years, Adam and I spoke about trauma-informed care and crisis intervention training for police and city employees, which is sorely lacking. I appreciated his time very much and commend Adam for his efforts.
While there's been improvement, there's many more resources and training available at no cost to the city. Not all of Boon Beach police treats citizens with kindness and dignity. Exactly. What does protective care mean to all of you?
And what does a mental health patient look and talk like exactly? And I know, Vice Mayor Hayes, this is an area kind of kind of you have a passion for. Think about that, folks. If if
one tries to speak with victim services of the Boon Beach Police Department, there's a small sign and a in tiny 12-in type. It says call Del Rey. Wow. Imagine Imagine I was raped and got up the nerve
to walk into the police station and I saw that sign or lost both parents in a car wreck or my child drowned. Or maybe I'm the victim of bullying and a drug encounter. Or neurode divergent. There's no help at this police station. Maybe you're a person struggling with family,
work, or financial crisis. Who could you turn to? There is a resource and it's called 988. Servicing all 50 states for the past 3 years. You can call or text. It's a crisis hotline where you'll be put in touch with a trained human
immediately. Anyone can call confidentially and it's free. There are options for veterans and LBGTQ. NAMI is also a resource right up there far away in West Palm Beach. It's the National Alliance on Mental Health. NAMI
is committed to advancing efforts to reimagine crisis response in our country. We are calling for a standard of care in every community that provides a continuum of crisis services that end the revolving door of ER visits,
arrests, incarcerations, and homelessness. We believe that every person in crisis and their families should receive a humane response that treats them with dignity and connects them to the appropriate and timely care.
Again, 988 is a suicide and crisis lifeline. It's available seven 7 days a week, 24 hours, and anybody can call. It's a life-saving service, and you can also reach NAMI 9 uh pardon me, 10:00
a.m. to 10:00 p.m. You can text NAMI and 211 is another resource number to call or text. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening, mayor, commissioners. My name is Jim Suzik. I'm from Palm Beach Leechville. But today, I'd like to speak
to you as your chairman of your senior advisory board. Uh for for the mayor and for my commissioner, uh I know that they know how passionate I was and how frustrated I was several years ago when uh we were dealing with uh some racial
tension and some and some frustration in these chambers. And uh it it became my it became my obsession when I got on the senior advisory board to make sure that anytime we did something we had a balanced approach to it across four districts. Uh we are in the process
right now and it's not nearly life-changing at all. You have far more difficult things to worry about right now. But right now there's an event going on called the senior prom. It was dedicated to bring together 150 to 200 seniors a cross-section of
our of our community to come together on September 12th at the senior uh at the at the women's senior club. um marketing went out a little bit late. That's not my concern. My concern is the fact that right now with three and a
half weeks to go. First district is pretty much full the allocation that I wanted to do, but the other districts, nobody. I don't know if that's a fact that they don't want any part of it. I know that I've shared with the commissioners uh you know the the past
and and the concern that I have. I really want the community to come together. I really want um all of the seniors that attend this event to be spokesmen for the city across four districts. I want them to meet the commissioners. I want them to meet the
mayor. I want them to have a good time and prove in my mind that the city recognizes the value of our seniors across four districts. Um and I would just ask um in the interim time, if you have an opportunity to talk to your
constituency, please reach out. let them know that this is not just fluff. This is has some some underbelly to it that really has some residual effects that can really affect all of us. Um and I would ask you if in p if in fact three
weeks to go. Um I know that right now we're charging $10 ahead. I hope to God that that's not the reason why people aren't signing up for this. But if if the determination is made that you have to reach out and offer 40 50 people in each of your districts a free ticket
to bring them together, I think that the end result would be so beneficial for our community and I think it would have a a long-term forreaching effect and I thank you for your time. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening. My name is Barbara Ridi.
Um is now a time to maybe bring up some concerns about things on the consent agenda. Mayor. Okay. Um my first one is item 6B, which sounds like a wonderful program. Has a pilot program to uh help
the police deal with mental health issues. It sounds like a wonderful idea. My concern is that I hope that uh the entire police force gets trained. There's there's got to be a severe training that comes along with this much
as like the school board uh taught everybody in conflict resolution. This is a beneficial thing. I support it. I'm just want to make sure that you know they're trained. My next question has to do with item 7B
um which is uh the not worldwide uh wedding planning uh organization that wants to utilize the women's club which is also a great idea. My concern would be that this I don't want to see this be
an exclusive contract that excludes other people from you know planning their wedding there just because they don't want to use this particular organization. So that would be my concern that it not be exclusive. Um, also, uh, is there is
there u a cut? You know, what is what is the city's cut or this organization going to be making more money than we are utilizing our our uh public building. It's kind of like privatizing
uh one of our facilities. So, those are my concerns. That's all. Thank you very much. Thank you. And we will be moving to see if there is anyone online. And there is no one online. So we will be closing public comment.
Moving on to the advisory board and appointments. We have an appointment that was tabled at the last two meetings that would need to be removed from the table. Is there a motion or are we leaving it table to remove? Second. Um Vice Mayor Haye moved to remove from
the table. Commissioner Haye, I mean Commissioner Turkin made the second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. So this was for the historic preservation board. Correct. Was that
yours and commissioner? Yes. I do see um another application that came in that was um prior to the meeting uh but maybe too recent for it to be on the agenda. So I wanted to uh
be able to see that application before making my appointment. Great. So there was the historic res preservation board and there are three regular positions and two alternate and that was going to you. The second nomination goes to Vice Mayor Haye. May I'm sorry if she's not making
nomination. We we need to table it again. Motion to table. Second. Commissioner Turkin made the motion to table. Commissioner Cruz made a second. All those in favor say I. I. All those post say nay. Motion passes unanimously. So we are now moving on to
the second nomination goes to Vice Mayor Haye. Would you like to I don't think there is anyone. There isn't anyone. I don't see anything. What are these two for? These are ones that we received after. So those are after. So none of the applicants meeting. Right. Okay. So we don't have anything on that
one either for you, sir. So there are no applicants for the following boards, but we encourage residents to apply if you're interested. um the art advisory board, the building board of adjustment and appeals, education and youth advisory board, library board, and senior advisory board.
Question. Yes. Did on that last one that we uh table, was it because it didn't make it in time to get on the can we not make an exception since the person is uh uh
already written it? Um, Commissioner Haye, I re, excuse me, Vice Mayor H, I recently read the ordinance and the way our ordinance is written, the application must be vetted by the clerk's office before it can be considered by the commission. Unless we
change that ordinance, we need to follow that. Okay. And then is this where you wanted to put your addition in for the 1K? Yes. Yes. Um, Do you want it read or clerk?
Okay. They want you to speak up, sir. Oh, okay. Uh the clerk, would would you read that uh for the records? The one that I turned in for the
Boon Beach. Yes. Um Vice Mayor Harris requested that $1,000 be uh donated to the Boon Beach High School football team. Motion to approve. Second. Commissioner Turkin made the motion to
approve the 1K for the Boon Beach High School football and Commissioner Kelly made the second. All of those in favor say I. I. I. All of those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. We'll now be moving on to the consent agenda. If my colleagues want to pull any items from
consent. Let's begin to my left. Commissioner Turkin. I'm okay. Mayor, thank you. Commissioner Kelly. Doing good. Thank you, Vice Mayor Haye. I'm good. And Vice Mayor Cruz, I mean Commissioner Cruz. Not for me. Thank you. Motion to approve. Second.
Commissioner Turkin move to approve the consent agenda. Vice Mayor Hay second on the motion. All those all those in favor say I. I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. We'll now move on to consent bids and purchases. If my colleagues would like
to pull any items. Let's begin to my right with Commissioner Cruz. Not for me. Thank you. Vice Mayor Haye. None. Commissioner Kelly. No. Thank you. And Commissioner Turkey. None. Motion to approve. Second. Second. Commissioner Turkin move to approve the
consent bids and purchases. Commissioner Kelly second the motion. All those in favor of approving the agenda say I. I. I. All those post say nay. Motion passes unanimously. We have two public hearing items. Public comment will be permitted on both of
these. I'll turn to the clerk to read 8A into the record, please. This is a second readings and for staff. If there's been any changes, come down. On behalf of the city attorney's office, there's been no changes, but she needs
to read it. Thank you. Proposed ordinance number 25-006 on second reading. An ordinance of the city of commission city commissioner of the city of Boon Beach, Florida, amending part two, chapter 27, article 1, section 27-2,
board or committee member selection organization qualifications term establishing limited authority to wave certain appointment requirements, providing for codification, providing for severability, providing for conflicts, and providing for an effective date.
Any comments or questions from the commission? No. Are there any changes from the last first reading? Vice Mayor head. There's been no changes. Motion. Okay. We have public comment.
Again, each person has three minutes. David Casmore Beach. Ju just before I start, you know, it's been a good day for me. Sometimes you think you're on an island by yourself and then you find out that it's not the case. So, it's really been a good good day. Um, this ordinance
and I'm sure staff has worked very hard on it, but I think it's useless, pointless. Um, the reason why you're here is because of previous commissions that created this mess. First of all, you there was a a woman uh
Betty Row because of term limits. She was eliminated from the parks and recck board and the person who was appointed to take her place didn't even live in the city. That's absurd. So I think having term limits on these boards is ridiculous. These are
volunteers. If they're willing to serve for 20 years, God bless them. If if you don't want them on there the next time they come up, you don't have to appoint them. There's no need to have term limits and get rid of that institutional knowledge. The other thing is is that not part of
this ordinance but part of the board ordinance in general is that you guys have advising consent on the chairs and the vice chairs. That's absurd and it adds to the time on your agenda. There's nobody who knows those folks better than the people on those boards. There's no need for you guys. And with all respect,
I don't know anybody who goes to those meetings, maybe doesn't even read the minutes. When I served on the PND board as chair, sometimes there was a member of the commission there because of a controversial item, but usually commission members do not go to those meetings. So, who knows them better than
the members of those boards? And there's there's no reason for for the commission to to go, "Okay, yeah, we like your choice." And there's a reason why that happened, but I'm not going to go into that tonight. And the third thing is in relation to the boards, you really have to have it where it's people who live in
the city who serve on these boards, not somebody who lives out in West Boon, not somebody who lives in Delray. That's ridiculous. We don't serve on their boards in Bokeh or West Palm. They shouldn't serve on our boards determining and giving advice to this commission on what should happen in our
city. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Susan Oyer, Boon Beach. Having sat on multiple boards for multiple years, I want to make sure you guys have something in there that says you're allowed to serve on more than one board and not just at somebody's discretion,
but it can be a rule. You're always complaining that you don't have enough people on boards. This is a way to solve that problem. You have residents like me and a handful of other people who truly want to give back and volunteer our time and let us do that. Um, I'm also going to agree with um former ma former
commissioner Katz who was just speaking to issues one and two. You know, you need to get rid of term limits. Betty Row is an amazing woman. No one knows reckon parks better than her and and that was embarrassing that we got rid of her and got her off the board. She needs
to be back on if she wants to be on. You know, I was on boards for years. The institutional knowledge truly matters. You walk up whether you love Barbara or hate her. Oh my gosh, her her font of knowledge far exceeds anyone else in this city on historic preservation. She
helped start the arts board. No one knows more than her. You want someone like that on your board. You want, whether you love me or hate me, you want someone like me on your board or David or any one of the Jim Sysnik, any of these people who actively participate in this city on a regular basis. You want
us on these boards and you want to get rid of the term limits. I am a pro pro pro- term limit person when it comes to elected officials but not not city boards because they just serve such a great purpose and this is a volunteer
opportunity. This is not a political making points kind of thing and and yes um the second point um former commissioner cat spoke to I I totally agree as well but I don't need to sit there and rattle on about that. So,
thank you for your time and I do ag disagree with number three. Although we don't need anyone from West Palm. Okay. Are there any further questions or comments from the commission? Anyone online?
There is no one online. Um, no. I think I brought this up be to be frank solely because of uh Betty Row. She had she had approached me about this. And what this does is it allows the opportunity for someone so
committed, you know, to continue serving. You know, we've looked in the past and we've seen people removed from boards by administrations, previous commissions because of their political ideologies. You know, I don't think that's right. And so, you know,
who's to who's to say that, you know, you you might have another person who doesn't live in the city that, you know, maybe involved themselves politically, you know, had harmed staff, right, through the media, didn't like that. I know that his family didn't appreciate that. I don't think that's a fair
representation, especially they don't live in the city. So, I think um I I do like the acknowledging of living in the city, maybe even open that up to business owners. I think someone who invests so much money to produce jobs
and to create destination, I think should have a say. Um you know, for me, it's they need to live in the city. They or have a a stake as far as business goes. And then also too, you
know, if we have someone so committed um, you know, and that that truly just cares about serving and doesn't want to get in the political nastiness, right? I think that person should have an opportunity to continue serving. And so that's why I brought this forward is uh to have people like Betty Rose mentioned
continue serving and and maintain that institutional knowledge that doesn't have any ulterior motives. Any other comments from the commission? Uh, yes. You know, when we look at our uh committees, we've been having
challenges for years trying to get people to uh volunteer and fill the the vacancies that we have on these boards. And and I don't see anybody waiting in line uh to to break the door down to get
on these boards. So I I think uh the u what was just stated has has merit in terms of if if we don't have someone for that board that's trying to get on don't don't eliminate the one who's trying to
serve uh I just feel we should allow them to go head on and serve. I do believe in that. Uh but as far as uh term limiters uh for the uh
commissioners, I I do feel that that's needed uh as has been stated, but you know, if you if you own a business in in Boon Beach, then why not serve on on a Boon Beach uh committee? Um
I I just feel that uh uh you have a voice because you have a business. But if you live live outside and say in Boca Raton and that your only affiliation is is just to come to you
know Golden Corral on occasion, uh then no, you should not be getting on one of our um committees. So that's that's that's why I agree with uh what's been said. uh by our speakers. This ordinance addresses that. It allows
you to have that waiver so that you have the ability to extend those term limits and do the various things that you are seeking to do without having to remove them completely. Uh because there are some boards where you may want term limits and some boards you where you may
not. And this waiver when the applicant comes before you, you know, it is appropriate for this board to consider their residency, their significant contacts in the city, whether they have a business and all of those various things. And that's exactly what this ordinance is doing.
Okay. So, we do have that that power to waiver at our at our options. Yes, sir. Wave certain appointment requirements. Right. We're good. Okay. So, how do we if there's nothing else? Motion. We have a second.
Commissioner Turkin moved to approve ordinance. Oh, she Yeah, she second. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve ordinance number 25-0066. And Commissioner Kelly made the second. Second the motion. Let's turn to the city clerk for a roll call.
Commissioner Kelly, yes. Commissioner Turkin, yes. Commissioner Cruz, yes. Vice Mayor Hay, yes. Mayor Shelter. Yes. Vote passes 5-0. We are now moving on to um to the clerk
to read 8B into the record. Proposed ordinance number 25-011, second reading, an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Buon Beach, Florida, amending chapter 2, article 3, elections of the city code ordinances to
retitle section 2-42 to read candidate requirements and qualifications, official ballot and filing fees. Establishing qualifying requirements, modifying the number of petitions required to run for office and the amount of the campaign filing fee, and
creating section 2-48 entitled campaign signs, bonds, penalties, and providing for sorry and financial responsibility, providing for codification, providing for severability, providing for conflicts, and providing for effective
date. This is the second reading. Staff, have there been any changes? No, mayor. There's been no changes. There any comments or questions from the commission? I I'm just happy to see these changes taking effect. Agreed. Um, anyone else have any comments?
There's some public comment. Oh, public comment. Anyone? Anyone online? Come on down, sir. Not online. I'm offline. McCrae here. Oh, that's Thank you. I'm glad to see that you have put the qualifying requirements in because that's long overdue. Thank you.
And no comment. Approve. Motion to approve. Oh, thank you. You made the first one. Okay. Second. Commissioner Kelly moved to approve ordinance number 25-001.
And Vice Mayor Haye seconded the motion. Let's turn to the city clerk for a roll call, please. Commissioner Kelly, yes. Commissioner Turkin, yes. Commissioner Cruz. Vice Mayor Hay. Yes. Mayor Shelton. Yes. Motion passes 5-0.
Thank you. We are going to move on to the regular agenda. I will turn to the city clerk to read 10A into the record, please. Proposed ordinance number 25-12. First reading an ordinance of the city of Buon Beach, Florida, repealing
section 16-44 of the city code of ordinance entitled gambling providing for a cotification, conflicts, variability, and an effective date. Staff, if you could please begin your presentation. Yes. Um, it came to our one of the things the city attorney's office has
been doing, as you know, we've been here a year and a half. So, as uh different ordinances are brought up either through our reading them or by staff, you know, we are repealing ones that are redundant. This has been preempted by state statute with regard to gambling.
So, you know, again, we're just repetitively cleaning up the process. Are there any comments or questions from the commission? No. To approve. Are there any public comments? Second. Public comments first reading.
Public comments. Second. Um, Commissioner Kelly move to approve ordinance number 25-012 on first reading. Vice Mayor H seconding the motion. Let's turn to the city clerk for the roll call. Commissioner Kelly, yes. Commissioner Turkin, yes. Commissioner Cruz,
yes. Vice Mayor Hay, yes. Mayor Shelton, yes. Motion passes 5-0. Thank you. Moving on, I'll turn to the city clerk to read 10B into the record. No, actually uh there's um 25 ordinance
number 25-14 is also under 10A. They were actually going together, but the clerk read one. So, if you could um we need to read proposed ordinance 25-14 into the record. That's under A. Proposed Ordinance 25-14, first reading
an ordinance of the city of Boon Beach, Florida, repealing article 12, section 15-128 through 15-133 of chapter 15 of the city code of ordinances which establish and revise the prohibition of loitering in the city of Buon Beach providing for
codification, conflicts, variability, and an effective date. Have there any been any changes? No, you're this is also um preempted by state law. So, we are repealing this and there's also some constitutional limitations on who we can regulate with
regard to um meeting. So, we are repealing this as well. Motion to approve. Second. Commissioner Cruz made the motion to approve. Vice Mayor made the second. All those in Vice Mayor Hay. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Motion pass. Oh, let's turn to city
clerk for roll call. Mayor Shelton. Yes. Commissioner Kelly. Yes. Commissioner Turkin. Yes. Commissioner Cruz. Yes. Vice Mayor Haye. Yes. Passes 5-0.
Okay. Moving on. And now we're moving on to 10B. For you to read it into the record, please. Okay. Proposed ordinance number 25-015. First, reading an ordinance of the city of Boon Beach, Florida, amending chapter
10, article 3 entitled abandoned property by repealing article 3 in its entirety and replacing it with a new article 3 entitled abandoned property. Amending chapter 12 entitled reserved by renaming it foreclosed vacant and unimproved property registration program
and creating new sections there under providing for conflicts of variability codification and providing an effective date. Good evening mayor, vice mayor, commissioners. The purpose of the ordinance amendment, the abandoned property ordinance is
being requested to be repealed and replaced to improve efficiency, enhance enforcements, and better address the community's concerns related to vacant and abandoned properties. The revised ordinance also streamlines the overall vacant property/forclosure
registration and enforcement process, reducing response time. The ordinance has been updated to comply with the state law notice changes. The abandoned property and VA vacant property foreclosure registration sections have been separated and reorganized now make
it both more clear. Some of the updated highlights include for the abandoned property section 10-15. Oh yeah, I need that. Thank you. Sorry. Probably wouldn't go through that. Okay. Section 10-15, procedure for
abandoned or lost property on public property was amended to handle inoperable motor vehicles and lost property found on private pro public property in accordance with the procedure set forth in section of the state statute 705.03.
The city can also regulate uh dialect and nuisent vehicles located in public waters under the state statute as well. Section 10-52 procedure for abandoned property on private property was amended to reflect the notice language changes in
the state statute. It also reduces the days and administrative process resulting in a more efficient process. Foreclosure and vacant property registration program. A new provision was added requiring registration of
vacant properties, not just those classified as abandoned or foreclosured, to ensure earlier oversight and to help prevent potential blight before it becomes a larger issue. Change the annual vacant property registration requirement from a yearly payment
structure to a semianual payment structure, which allows for more frequent updates and provide tracking of the property status. Any questions? Any questions from the commission? Mayor, um, thank you, Candace. Quick,
can you go back to the la the last slide? What um when you're talking about um the annual vacant property registration, can you just briefly explain um is that property that maybe somebody doesn't live it? like can you explain what that means and then what
this payment structure is just so that you know for clarity of the public. Correct. Sure. So the currently we have a registration for foreclosed properties. This would also include the vacant properties where maybe the property owner owned multiple properties
in the city but for whatever reason it's sitting vacant for a long time. So the the ordinance will state that it's not does not apply to people going on vacation for like a month, two months. It's basically if it's sitting vacant for around 6 months or more, then those
are the properties we want to, you know, have register. That way we can keep an eye on them because we have multiple properties along the around the city that they're not in foreclosure. There's nothing wrong with financially. It's just sitting vacant for one reason or the other.
And so who would report or who would register because if it's in foreclosure most of the time that owner is kind of is not. So I'm just wondering who's who's then responsible for applying for registration and then who's
responsible for any fees? Would it just get tacked on if it's a foreclosure and the owner is, you know, has moved on? um which we know that you know especially when the real estate market gets a little wonky um they have moved on or it
was owned by you know somebody who wasn't homesteaded and they're not losing their their home there it's it was an investment let's say um so then who's responsible for this registration then what happens with that fee does city just keep I mean if nobody's registering these properties I guess I'm
just trying to understand the process on on how we accomplish this so the the abandoned The foreclosure, abandoned property registration has been around for many years. We've had a company for the past, I don't know, probably 10 years. Um, we had one
company and then we have a new company two years ago come in effect. And that company actually soughts for these. They look for these. They're the ones that ask for them to register. They look for foreclosure properties. Um, it is the bank's if they acquire the the property,
this is the bank's responsibility to then register. there's a $300 registration fee which 150 goes towards the company managing it because they do all the leg work basically and then the other 150 comes to us. So as far as the vacant property uh registration, we
don't have a set fee for them. We can use the same company because they are both for foreclosure and vacant properties. Um, but we would have to, if this was approved, form an application for vacant properties and then assess a a fee. And what would be the benefit of
registering and paying a fee? Like I I'm just trying to understand why somebody would, you know, want to register their property. Like what are we offering? What benefit is it to be registered with the city as a foreclosure? It's a benefit to the city so that way we can have an eye on them, track them, and
make sure they don't lose uh let their properties go um out of control with landscaping, painting, you know, making sure that it's still not a eyesore to the community. Does this also um if it is an abandoned property and we have
people that are loitering on there or you know, I mean, I got a call on a Saturday night. It was an abandoned property on 4th and there was like 30 people in the backyard. Does this allow the city or the cops to take action on those two? Because at the time it was there was no a no trespassing
something or other and so nothing could be done. It was like okay just leave. Does have anything to do with um that because we do have that going a lot a lot in our district. That is something that would this doesn't particularly address that but obviously there would
be a code enforcement complaint that then they would check to see if in fact that property is registered and if not then they could be cited. Yeah. Right. The the ordinance does provide for maintenance requirements and and security requirements. Okay. But not to the extent uh I think that that you're
mentioning. So they would they would be citing them. Okay. I do want to mention um after this agenda was published 10-52B relating to removal of abandoned
property from private property indicates 10 days. It actually should be 5 days. So there will be a change between first and second reading. Uh that was a scrivener's error. So we just wanted to let you know. Any other questions or comments from the commission?
No, there's no public comments for the first reading. If there's nothing else, uh, Commissioner Turkin made the motion to approve and Vice Commissioner Kelly made the second for ordinance number 25-015 on first reading. So, let's turn to the city clerk for roll call. Thank you,
Commissioner Kelly. Yes. Commissioner Turkin, yes. Commissioner Cruz, yes. Vice Mayor Heg, yes. Mayor Shelton, yes. Motion passes 5-0. So we have decided to table C. Do we
need a motion to do that? Motion table 10 C. Do we have a date certain to what date? Or just tableabling it for now. Let's table it for now. I mean I we should be able to do it by the next meeting, but let's not have a date
certain just in case. Commissioner Kelly made a motion to table 10 C. Vice Mayor Haye made a second motion. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Sorry, madame clerk. Um Oh, is it a roll call? No, it's not for this, not for the
table. Just Commissioner Turkin has left the DAS. Just for your record. Okay. Thank you. Motion passes for Okay. Um I am also now going to turn to the city clerk to read in 10D into the record, please. Proposed ordinance
number 25-017, first reading. An ordinance of the city commission of the city of Boon Beach, Florida, correcting errors in the legal descriptions contained in ordinance 23-006, approving the abandonment of the 225 ft
long segment of the 20 foot wide ride ofway located within the northern section of the proposed the Pierce development proximity 175 ft south of East Boon and Beach Boulevard aka North Alley. the 225 foot
long segment of the 40 foot wide Northeast 1st Avenue rightway and the 335.02 02 foot long segment of the 20 foot wide rideway located within the southern section of the proposed the Pierce development approximately 150 ft
north of East Ocean Avenue Center Line aka South Alley authorizing the city manager to execute and an amended disclaimer which shall be recorded with the ordinance in the public records of Palm Beach County, Florida providing an effective date and for all other purposes.
Staff, if you could begin your presentation, please. Good evening. Amanda Ratigan, planning and development director. I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce our new division director of engineering and city engineer William Lighty. He will be um taking on this item. Um William comes
with us with over 22 years experience with both public and private experience. He's been with us for about a month now. Um and we're very excited to have him. So I want to take the opportunity to introduce him and he will be covering this item. Thank you.
Good evening everyone. Um, so this is a change of three minor changes in the ordinance for the Pierce. Um, there was one that had a five foot discrepancy. One was just a legal description minor and then another one had a literally
onetenth of a foot change. Um, the applicant is here to discuss or take any questions you have, but that is what this ordinance is. Thank you. Um, any comments or questions from the commission? No, just want to say welcome to the city, William. Thanks for uh bringing your experience here. We're going to
keep you super busy. There's a lot going on. Thank you, Commissioner. I'm happy to be here. Anyone else? There are no public comments for the first reading. There will be an opportunity at the second reading. If there's nothing else, may we have a motion to approve proposed ordinance number 2517.
Second. Vice Mayor Haye moved to approve ordinance number 25-01 017 on first reading. Commissioner Kelly second in the motion. Let's turn to the city clerk for a roll call. Commissioner Kelly. Yes. Commissioner Turkin. Yes. Commissioner Cruz. Yes.
Vice Mayor Haye. Yes. Mayor Shelton. Yes. Motion passes 5-0. Moving on, I'll turn to the city clerk to read 10E into the record. Proposed ordinance number 25-018 first reading an ordinance of the city of Boon Beach Florida amending chapter 14 motor
vehicles and traffic section 14-5 stopping standing parking or storage prohibited in specified places and creating new sections there under providing for conflicts severability codification and providing an effective date. Could you be begin your presentation?
Look at this time. Good evening again. Candace Stone co- director. Purpose of this ordinance amendment. Throughout the years, the city has received numerous complaints regarding vehicles parked on rightways interfering with the traffic flow and multiple vehicles parked on
lawns overnight causing damage to swailes and blight in the neighborhood. The city currently's current parking regulations under section 14-5 have not been compreh comprehens comprehensively updated since 2004. To
give the city authority to regulate citizens safety concerns regarding vehicles interfering with the traffic flow, damaging swailes and bllighted neighborhoods. To provide clarity and consistency as to residents ability to park or stop on certain areas located
within the city. Some highlighted changes. There's removal language allowing vehicles to park on the rideway. We added langage language prohibiting parking, stopping, standing at any time on the rideway, public or private yards,
swailes, and easements adjacent to paved or unpaved roads or street. We added an exception allowing temporary parking in yards for social or other events held at a residence. provides such parking does not exceed 8 hours in a 24-hour period.
We also at last minute updated um the crosswalks. We we added some more language about sidewalks in front of residential and commercial properties throughout the city uh to help enforcement on those. You got it.
Um you know, in the last 24 hours, I have been literally blown up about this for First and Second Avenue, and I believe you have too. Um, and you know, I love this, right? You know, I love cleaning up the neighborhood. I do have some questions though. Um, you know, my neighbor across the street has her
senior citizen mother coming and she said, "Is she not going to be allowed to park?" Right. So, um, at the time there was not a sidewalk in front of their home and now there is. And so, the tail end of the car would be out into from their driveway into the sidewalk. So, I
I I don't want the good people being punished that have the clean yards and have families and only eight hours to to think that we do need to maybe work that out just a little bit more because her mom's staying for 5 days. Does that mean her mom can't park there for, you know,
so um you want to chime in because I know you've been getting blown up, too. Yeah. No. Yeah. So, first I know this was brought up. I talked to the police chief about it, Andrew. Um, and I said, you know, this is great. Would love to have conversation. Love
having this in front of us. Uh, let's make sure people are noticed first. Didn't happen. I don't like that at all. Um, but I do I do like the intent of this. The big thing for me is that we have and I don't this might be specific to Forest
Park. um if there's going to be any construct of sidewalks in the future and other non-HOA residents, what you're going to have is this situation that we've endured over the last few days where someone who purchased a home here, didn't have a sidewalk, the city then came and built a sidewalks. Hey, you
know, we're we're building sidewalk here. Get over it. Right? Even though it's their property, now they are being punished because the city built a sidewalk obviously for whatever reason. I I want to eliminate the sidewalk aspect of this. Um if we have if we have
it in the swell, I understand if it's obstructing the road, I understand. If there's a bunch of inoperable vehicles, you know, um you know, where the cars are overflowing into the road because there's so many. Totally understand. What I don't want is that people in the
neighborhood, a lot of them are teachers, a lot of them, you know, one was a deputy and, you know, I get a phone call that he's he's got this fine already when I'm under the impression that there was going to be a notice sent and that wasn't done. And I understand
that the fine was an old ordinance, right, that currently stands today. 100% get that. I I just ask that you guys be empathetic and put yourself in my shoes where there was we had these conversations. We agreed that there was going to be notice when the city manager had brought this up last time. However,
that was completely um disregarded. I don't think intentionally. I find it I I find it interesting and I find it um inconvenient that that this did indeed happen. And you know, I'll save my
sentiment for offline with the city manager in regards to that. But I I don't want people to get punished for just existing. And as the mayor mentioned, you know, a lot of these people do keep up with the yards. They're they're hardworking people. They purchased these homes when there were no
sidewalks. Then the city came in, establish these, and now they're being punished. So, I don't want to see I don't know what kind of language we could have to craft that. If if I can clarify, our our existing parking
ordinance has always prohibited blocking any sidewalk. And what we have done, let me let me just clarify please real quick. What we have done is actually added language so that the resident can understand that that includes
uh blocking a sidewalk over a driveway because it it's an ADA violation. I just I I I'm going to challenge you on that that I've lived in this neighborhood uh I lived in Forest Park since 2012 on my street since 2017 and not once have I
seen or gotten myself or my neighbors uh a citation, let alone a fine from this ordinance. So, I just find it in I I just find it it's it's amusing to me that this is all comes all of a sudden
super fast, right? And um I just I'm looking at this from the lens of the taxpayer, right? Because on my street there is no sidewalks, right? So the same place where I'm parking my vehicle, right? Or a friend's vehicle, whatever, my neighbor across the street because
there's a sidewalk there, he's getting punished, right? Mine, too. I have one question. My Well, I get that. What I'm asking for if it's the will of this body to maybe eliminate that sidewalk or maybe we look at certain hours. I don't know cuz I
wake up, you know, 5 this morning and I look across the street and there's a minivan parked east and west blocking the whole driveway. Same on my street. What if this man needed to get to work immediately for something? What if something happened to his daughter and he needed to rush over to Bethesda? now
they got to play uh musical chairs with their vehicles to move everything. And so I just because he was cited, you know, and he's being a law-abiding citizen. So I just don't I I just I I don't think we're there. I think we need
to try to get there. Um and again, I I love the well intent for this. I just want to be pragmatic and make sure that I do my due diligence as a representative and bring this, you know, from, you know, not just my constituency, but my neighbor just across the street, you
know, because I just feel horrible that I don't have sidewalks and I have people parking the same place yet he does and he does have sidewalks and and here he is getting fined and getting phone calls. I just want to I'm sorry. I just need to clarify. Was this was he cited for violating this ordinance or state
statute? because state statute also covers some of the it was an ordinance and when I when I spoke with staff it was the existing ordinance that we have. Okay, that's what I right and which which again I have never I've never gotten a phone call about as long as I've been up here. I've never
seen I've never talked to a neighbor about this ordinance and then all of a sudden boom before we even get the public notice out. Right. And I think that's what people would appreciate like hey we do that with everything else. Why are people getting fined? You know when we're not even this is the first reading of a a completely different ordinance
yet people are getting fined you know on my street and the mayor's street before we're even having this discussion. And you know, I've never heard I've never seen this for as long as I lived in the neighborhood.
I also think that the 8 hours is just not right when you have family coming and staying with you and they're parked there. So, I don't know if that's something else that we can finesse through, but um I agree with Commissioner Turkin. It's just everyone was getting these tickets and there was no warning and there was no education.
And um I appreciate what you did with code enforcement when you put the notices on the door of saying, "Hey, these are the days and you're going to be warned, but they just all got tickets in the last 24 hours." So, you know, we look like the bad guys on on our street. I I I I just want to see if I comprehend
this. I believe this individual was cited under a previous ordinance. This is existing or under an existing ordinance and we're It wasn't code is what you're saying. We can't write tickets. That wasn't code. It was it was law enforcement. Oh, it was a PSA. So, it was with the police department,
but it's just kind of odd because And I guess it has to be It's okay. Is is it an obstru is obstructing certain things? And when you go to Southwest 9th and Southwest 10, yeah, there's nine cars you can't get through. But if somebody is parked um and their tail end of their car is on
the sidewalk that they now have that they didn't have the sidewalk when they bought the home. So, code code enforcement had nothing to This was a police department. code enforcement did great when they were telling people about they warned them, they educated them, but that was that was not the case. I'm not sure there's a way to get around
the ADA aspect of this because the city's going to be liable for any sort of issues that come from that. Well, it would be interesting to see if all the other streets got fined because there would have been a lot of city would have been liable 10 last 10 years. I agree with what you guys are saying.
What I'm trying to say is like what the city attorney says, the ADA aspect. I know whatever discretion is involved that those PSAs or code enforcement officers didn't site anyone and they're doing it now and the time frame is suspicious is what you guys are I'm picking up what you're putting down. I'm
just saying that I don't know if the body would have the authority to lift that ADA requirement of not blocking the sidewalk because of the liability aspect. I mean, Sha better do it on secret then. They should be pretty busy going down up and down the main road. But is there any way that the residents can be educated on this
issue that hey, we're suddenly following the law because it hasn't happened in 20 years since I've lived here. Thank you. Yeah. No, I the notice aspect and it's discretionary. So obviously, and if this is such an urgent thing in Florida state statute and the ADA, why wasn't it done 3 years ago? Why wasn't it done 10 years ago?
I'm not concerned about the ADA liability. Uh we would not necessarily have liability for someone else. um parking their vehicle. I did look at some different language, but we were not changing that section. This came from
the police department seeking clarification requesting that we change it so people understood that you cannot block your own driveway. If this commission wants me to play with the language because I think there is some language that I've seen which may be more uh flexible with regard to blocking
a sidewalk um in a driveway. We can certainly attempt to put that together and have that ready for second reading. Okay. I they haven't spoke yet. I I hear the points that are being made and I you know I I agree with listening
to the concerns of um of our constituents. I wanted to ask, is there an opportunity for us to maybe remove that language since it's preempted by state law and really focus at the local level on
things that are really public nuisances and things of that nature as well as potentially having a maximum number of vehicles per household depending on the size or number of rooms or or things of that nature. that could potentially um you know kind of accomplish that same
goal without getting into maybe you know a little too much in depth with state law and just letting the state handle that. I would have to compare the differences between the state law and see exactly it it preempts us to a point but it doesn't
prohibit us from creating stricter limits than the state law but I will have to compare the two. Um, but again, when it says it applies to sidewalks, it's talking about the entirety of the sidewalk, not just the driveway. So, if
you eliminate blocking sidewalks, there's nothing to p prevent someone from going to a business and just completely parking on the sidewalk. So, we can't eliminate it entirely, or I mean, we could if that's certainly
certainly what you want to do. um you know whatever the board decides to however you guys want us to handle it. If you want to go back to the drawing board and we could keep working. The other option we could do is we would like to continue there. There
are three amendment sections to this. Okay. The one that I believe you're talking about is 1B relating to the sidewalks. We can strike that amendment right now um and and not make any changes. The
problem is it does just say sidewalks, but couldn't it be done on something like obviously the main roads, which is more of the beautifification problem, but some of these problem roads in our district don't have sidewalks. They're just parked all over the place like the Wild West. So, the people that have sidewalks are the ones that are getting penalized
right now. I think what I'm what I'm trying to say is we can from from this ordinance update el eliminate that section from any changes and then we can dive down into what you guys want to address the sidewalks with a message not to enforce that portion right now until
further direction from the board but we still have the other amendments we would like to go forward and also if there is one um to enforce or not I think it's is it one car or is it eight cars right or three cars. Like that's that's an obstructionist right
there. But when it's one car, that's grandma coming over for Sunday dinner, you know, and she's not allowed to park her car there. Where's she going to go? So, I I just feel like again I I would love to see how many tickets were given in Forest Park in the last two days and where they were given because there
should have been a ton of them given on on 7th, 8th, 9th, but ironically I've just been blown up from Southwest 1st Avenue and Second and I bet there was none given of the 95 wall which is a city horrific, you know. I bet there was none given. So, and and
from the chief's lips, we Yes, we will. and from the city manager's lips, we will send a notice before anything. And so my my my whole problem is if if the chief or representative from the police department is supposed to be attending
and being attentive to these commission meetings and this was discussed at the last commission meeting. Why are we here? Why are we discussing this with an existing ordinance from the previous citation and now I understand the new ordinance, you know, I just there there
is either I don't know what the miscommunication was. Um I don't know if this was uh a a training situation where we were training. But, you know, I just find it completely ironic that before we even
move forward with a new ordinance that residents are being cited for something that has not been a priority, at least from what I've seen as long as I've lived in this city. And then I would again, I would I would like to see every citation that was given over the last
week or so and where they were given. Um, too, you know, because I just find it funny, you know, that right now this is being prioritized when there's many other things I think we should do. Um, yeah, I I just uh I'm okay with striking
the sidewalk for related to this ordinance. Um, and then also have staff produce some additional options. Um, because again, well intended. You guys worked very hard on this and I appreciate it. And our
role for code officers, police officers, the PSAs is a hard one. You're you're you're danged if you do, you're danged if you don't. I understand that and I understand how how hard of an issue that is. And um you know, certainly that we don't want to have selective enforce
enforcement and sometimes that's the case. Sometimes that appears to be the case and you know, a lot of times people say perception is reality. I just think this is crazy how this is shaken out in the last week or two after, you know, was communicated by the police chief and
then there was conversation presented to us about how this is going to be cited and so on what for. So I don't want my tone to not appreciate our law enforcement officers or PSAs and our code enforcement officers. You know, ultimately there's a chain of command they need to follow. And so I just want
to get to the root analysis of how this was decided to be pushed and um you know we can talk offline for that, but I would like to propose to my colleagues to strike out that sidewalk um and then have staff based on our feedback come up with some additional options. Thank you,
Mayor. Okay, mayor, please. You know, I I can empathize with what you guys are saying, but uh I'm glad you got sidewalks. We don't all have them. They're on his They're on one side. We have a lot of places that don't have
sidewalk. And since we're going to go back to the drawing table, I want to I don't know how I don't know the solution, but maybe there is one. I'll talk to you about it here now. Um is the double parking. Uh I have many cases
where a car can't even get through. Okay. And if there was an emergency, uh we would have trouble on the cable. So, uh I don't know whether it means we could put up some uh no double parking signs. I I don't know what the answer
is, but something needs to be be done about about that that there are too many instances where me personally I' I've gone through that. I had to turn around and in several places where I couldn't get through
that. that is addressed in this um that's part of the portion we're amending sections four five and six which will address that situation and that's why if we're not moving forward with 1B I would encourage this commission to move forward with four
five and six with direction to staff uh we can't just strike sidewalk because it's in our existing ordinance so the motion would be motion to approve with direction to staff to work on 1B be further um based upon what we're hearing
to see if we can come up with a solution that works for the commission as a whole. Mayor, it's pretty clear if they're blocking the road, that's an issue, right? But I think if your car is on the tail end of your own driveway that you bought a house before you had sidewalks and much
like you, we only have sidewalks on first and half of second. Other than that, we don't have them. So, we're having the same issue you are, which is the double parked and not being able to get through. So, you know, I think it's just creating a lot of confusion. Yeah. Chief,
mayor, if I could real quick. Um, no, I agree. And I'm comfortable moving, you know, pulling off the sidewalk one and revisiting that. I think it's important because when you you get four people living in a house, you have teenagers. I have a teenager who's, you know, and I
mean then you're blocking a sidewalk not to block a sidewalk because you have to. You can't park on the road. And so where are you going to park? You're going to park in your driveway. And I I get that it blocks a sidewalk, but there's got to be some way that we can do it. But this is now the second
time that we've started talking about a topic and then all of a sudden there's a mad rush to start citing people. And so it's I it's a very it's a very interesting phenomenon. It happened on another code issue where we were talking about it. It came before us. There had been edits and then we started hearing
about people being fined for something that we hadn't even really voted on that was in a past ordinance. So, it is a little frustrating and I totally empathize with you, Commissioner Turkin, and the mayor on the your residents are having this issue because it's not like it's it's not like it's just selective
like one person here, one person there. you're not sure if your neighbor got cited or if you're just getting cited. We're talking about years and years and years of something that has never been an issue and wasn't an issue when the sidewalk got installed and there hasn't been a notice. And so now here we are
because we're talking about a topic that it started coming up. So that is I think we I think when when ordinances come up and we're having this discussion, I think there should be a and this is to staff. There should be like a a stop on any citation for anything that's in that
ordinance because we don't know what we're going to change. We don't know what we're going to approve and what was in a past ordinance and and so I think that it's important that it it's very clear with staff that and if obviously if the commission agrees, but that any real fines that are in the meat of that
ordinance um shouldn't go forward until that ordinance is back and and in final unless it's something egregious and then you know maybe that comes before the commission. Hey, I know this ordinance is being we're amending it or editing it. Um, but we're having this situation and and it should be on a case- by case
basis, but to then, you know, I feel like it's kind I I totally understand where what you're saying. It it's kind of like targeting like, oh, now all of a sudden, let's start um let's start doing this because the commission's talking about it. It's important. And we are talking about a lot of code issues lately and a lot of issues and cleaning
stuff up. So, I'm I'm happy that staff is being proactive. it's kind of there's other things that they can be proactive about like all the garbage on hypoxo and and the issues that we're having and guard rails that are gone and um so I feel like it's it's maybe misargeted but
um anyway those are my comments for that but I support you Turk on commissioner Turkin on you know reooking at the sidewalk ordinance and how that can be revised and moving forward with the other parts. So, and again, this is a previous ordinance that they're getting fined
for. So, like it's very confusing to me when I get a phone call. I'm like, "What? Wait, what? We're not even that's not even on first reading yet." And then I figure out that there's an existing ordinance. I'm like, "Okay, that's interesting." And then this is now being addressed, you know, and um even when it hasn't
been. So, Chief, would you like to say something? Was this I just think we should be like like mindful like with this. Was this written from an ordinance or a state statute? Chief, what's that? Was this an ordinance or a state? This was 14-5. Okay. So, this is the ordinance.
City ordinance. Yeah. It's just improper parking. Correct. Mhm. Actually, a catchall. The 14-5. It's a catch all. Yeah. Anything else you'd like to say, Chief? No, just speak about I know uh a just Yeah, just for a point of
clarification and maybe I I misheard you, Commissioner Turkin. Uh you had sent me a text early in the morning about some parking issues on Southwest 1st Avenue. So, I notified our traffic unit to go out there and see if there's any ordinance violations or any parking issues and I sent them out there. I
didn't send them out there specifically to address anything other than the parking p picture you sent me about the car parked in the roadway. They went out there and I just told them to address it based on your request. I believe it was August 4th at 7:13. Southwest 1st Street, not Southwest 1st Avenue. Southwest 1st Avenue. South
West First Street. I have your text. It's Southwest First Avenue. Southwest is running north and south, not east and west. And that's not a sidewalk. The direction was to enforce if there's
any ordinance violations. The 14-5 is still on the books to enforce it. It wasn't a specific direction at sidewalks. I never once said sidewalks to anybody. It was I sent the picture you sent me to the PSAs and the traffic sergeant to go out there and to make sure that that there was any parking
issues and that was the direction. It wasn't specifically about the sidewalks. No, there was no direction. There was illumination to an issue that this is ongoing ongoing. Well, I think moving forward, let's tighten this up and then I would like to see if possible that we educate everyone
first and then maybe they do get a warning. Um, and I would like to see that people are not being um fined or ticketed simply because they are having family over and that's staying with them for a couple days. We're going into season people come and visit people. So,
I definitely think this needs to be tightened up in a lot of ways. that that's that's going to be difficult on staff. Okay. I don't know how we're going to be able to differentiate that and if we're trying to enhance the parking aspects with the city if you're going to have individuals that
have family over the option or the caveat of that is going to have to be very clear in the ordinance that we go forward with the new ordinance. So, as far as warning, but if we're talking about striking out the sidewalk because I think it's com it's common
consensus here that we all agree that there shouldn't be cars parked in the road obstructing emergency vehicles. I also don't think there should be cars parked on the sidewalk like they are in Serest like 7th Avenue, Southeast 7th. Oh, Southeast 8th in Serest. I mean, you
know this, you've cleaned it up. you know, you there's eight cars parked on the sidewalk there on the weekend. So, be a way to leave. Is there a way to create a maximum number of vehicles per household based on potentially the number of rooms? And that's something that we could potentially work with code enforcement
on to figure out the the adequate number or an average number. There's going to be more of these issues going forward. There's going to be a ton of complaints that's going to come out of this parking aspect, even with the notices, because we're essentially trying to change the standard.
in the city and there's going to be people that you guys know, there's going to be friends, there's going to be family that's going to get these notices or tickets or citations. I just don't want staff being essentially held responsible when we're
out here trying to enforce these ordinances that the commission wants to change the neighborhoods that we live in and the community that we're trying to essentially beautify. And these types of instances are going to continue to come up going forward, especially when you're
trying to enhance the code um standards of the city. So, if I can make a quick comment, could could we or should we create a temporary moratorum when we're working on specific policy to to give specific direction to
say, okay, we're currently working on this. We don't want to have we want to have a time frame of maybe between first discussion to second reading or uh x number of of weeks or months where we
give specific direction that we don't want to enforce an ordinance until the commission has decided by second reading that that's the direction that we want to head into so that there's no confusion. That could be something we
could do. But also, if we're going to move forward with the maximum number of vehicles, I think that that could be a great opportunity to kind of address both concerns and maybe going quiet on the on the sidewalk issue for now and
being more specific towards the number of vehicles, which could potentially have a similar outcome. The only issue would be if a sidewalk is really close to the house, then you're not going to be able to fit more than maybe two cars. And if a house has three
bedrooms or four bedrooms, then they're allowed to have it. So I think then it gets even muddier once you start talking about number of cars. I mean, if we have it to where I think it's clear about parking on your own private property, but if you have a sidewalk that then
shortens your property, then should you not be allowed to park your four cars when you have two kids who are 20 years old and they're driving to college and then you are two adults, working adults, and you have four cars and so you're parking legally in your driveway and
it's blocking a sidewalk because you they the city shortened your driveway when they added a sidewalk. And so now what's your right to then access your driveway? What I would like to do is do some analysis with regard to
potential liability with the ADA. um and and and do a memo on that because it appears that Colorado Springs was sued for this and I do want to make sure that we are not creating liability,
right? If we have sidewalks, we only have sidewalks pretty much on first and right, but if you provide a sidewalk, then you have to follow the law that provides the sidewalk. If you don't have a sidewalk, then you don't have a
sidewalk ADA issue. So that's where cars parked on the street and the grass crisscross. So it's a catch 22. Um, having gone through this recently myself, well, I live in V in village and we do have six people living in my house. I do have
four kids. We have four cars. We had to learn. We had to teach ourselves. Um, two cars fit in our driveway, two cars fit in our apron. We do clear the sidewalk. I do agree with that. There would be needs to be probably some training. I mean, I'm not exactly sure the situation that happened on second or first street where they completely
blocked the sidewalk or if it was just partially blocked. I do, you know, currently we I get out of the car, I come up to the front, I'll look at the back to make sure I'm out of the road, out of the that. But they can park in there on the apron as well. That's that is legal allowed to be done. And you don't have to park you could park
parallel to the street on the apron. So, it really gets down to boils down to kind of where you guys all are talking about where if you have eight cars and you only got four cars in your driveway, yeah, you're going to have a problem. Yeah, there's definitely going to be a problem if you have eight, nine cars and you only have four spots and and we're only seeing that coming
out of the properties that are not being maintained in a lot of other ways that Candice has been working very hard and it's a challenge um with those prop it's all together on those. So, my suggestion would go ahead and approve this on first reading, giving us time and instruction to go back and look at the sidewalk to see if it could be
modified to provide clarity or some kind of uh tweak to the language. Um, I do think it'll be more of a training thing because I can tell you, I mean, my car was maybe 6 in over the sidewalk, but my but you can still maneuver the sidewalk by going into my drive by 6 in because I
had, you know, we had to clear span across my driveway. So I think there's some training component that will happen with the you know again I think there was a a premature thing that happened on on that street. Um I think we'll that'll get rectified through this process. Um and again I think once we get and start
seeing the the effectiveness of this we we we will be tweaking this. I guarantee it. So I do think that once we get to that point we can then come back and then modify it at that point but or do it between first and second reading. Right. One of the things that West Palm does, I just want to mention, they have very narrow streets in some areas
because they're they have one way, right? So that by having oneway streets, one way and another, it does allow for on street parking maybe on one particular side. So it still leaves an entire lane open. And maybe that's something the city long term could look
at, whether or not some of these narrow streets need to be one way instead of two-way. And that was not my idea. That was someone sitting in the audience. Well, I can tell you if I like my neighbor who bought a home that didn't have sidewalks and now it does and then,
you know, they got blown up about it. So, I'd be really upset, too, because I had this long driveway and I had things and now it's partially an apron and now I don't know if I can park there or not. So, well, we're making some progress,
I hope. Is there a motion to approve on first reading with direction to staff to go back and tweak item 1B? Yes, that's basically what uh you were going to Andrew said. What Andrew was saying and that's what I'm saying. Is there an
emotion to do that? Do you need a motion for that? Yes. Yes, we do. I'll make that motion. Second. Have a motion to amend 1B. What's the rest of it? Um motion to approve the item on first reading with direction to
staff to amend 1B as given direction by this commission. Vice Mayor Hay made a motion. Commissioner Kelly made a second. Mayor, I got one thing. Just so we're clear, 14-5 is still going to exist. So I don't know if you guys
want staff to bring back 14-5 to also amend that ordinance. Well, this is 14-5. Okay. Okay. This is 14-5. Um, we have a motion to approve of Vice Mayor Haye, a second from Commissioner Kelly, and we may now need to go to a
roll call. Commissioner Kelly, yes. Commissioner Turkin, yes. Commissioner Cruz, yes. Vice Mayor Haye, yes. Mayor Shelton, yes. Motion passes 50. Okay. Okay. The final item for tonight is proposed resolution number R25227
adopting the Boon Beach 2025 economic development plan. Staff, if you could please begin your presentation. Good evening. Um Okay. So, good evening everyone. Mayor, elected officials, executive team, JJ Shassu, division director of economic
development. I present to you the uh economic development plan 2025 to 2030. It's a five-year plan uh that has been um carefully studied uh for this year that I have been here with the city and
it has been based on a on previous studies done by um Florida International University and also by RMA that have been uh I'm sorry WJI that did some studies in the city. So we
um researched those along with other data that we found and uh refined everything to be um in line with what's going on right now in the city in the county. So the goal is to position Boon
Beach as a vibrant, inclusive, and resilient city for both residents and investors. We have a vision. Hold on. the vision, mission and aspirational goals. Um the vision of course is just
aspirational seeking to establish Boon Beach as a city that drives innovation and prosperity and also the mission cultivates uh a thriving economic ecosystem and uh the aspirational goals as you see in there is becoming a hub for
innovation and opportunity, create a liveable livable city and vibrant inclusive districts um and also foster collab collaborative community. Uh one of the things that we want that we started doing actually with
pilot programs that we've been running this year is uh collaboration with different different institutions, different organizations here in the con in the county. So this is something that we've been proving um just to make sure
that works and that we can do it. Uh we have five guiding principles as you can see in there specifically downtown and waterfront uh reinvestment, business attraction and retention, workforce development and housing,
placemaking and economic development, marketing. Um these are not um the these are uh principles that are interconnected and you are going to see how they really
cannot survive without each other but they have been thought to make sure that they work. So with principle one it's basically the downtown and waterfront reinvestment. So of course is
uh downtown, the marina and the beach. Uh this is uh these are the assets that are very important for the city. Um they bring a lot of um they have a big economic impact and we want to make sure
that they are um they work properly to bring tourism and to support our community and of course the business community that it in there is uh vibrant. So every principle is going to be measurable. Uh like for example, we
have an example of the of the key metrics that we have for this specific principle which is the number of visitors to town square, the marina and the beach and adjacent corridors. But each principle is going to be also
measured uh in for each one of the strategies that are under that uh principle. Let's go to principle number two which is the business attraction and retention. Of course targets high growth
sectors like tech, healthcare and the two uh last ones that are creative industries and tourism are the ones that nationwide are more important right now for economic development. So definitely we want to bank on that make sure that
we also are part of that creative industry. So it focuses on incentive programs and infrastructure upgrades to support the businesses. So if we want advanced industries here, we have to work together of course to have the infrastructure ready for those
businesses and of course we h we want to structure we have to strengthen the support for the current small business and businesses and for entrepreneurship. By the way, Friday is the small business summit. I hope to see you some of you
here. Okay. So also you can see the key metrics there. for example, number of entrepreneurs supported, new jobs created and priority se in priority sectors. So it's all about uh creating a businessfriendly environment to attract
industries and strengthen the what we already have. Principle three is workforce development and housing. uh also a very strong principle here and uh aligns education and training
uh aligned with industry needs. We just graduated two weeks ago our first cohort of the workforce development program. We graduated 11 residents uh in the city and four of those residents that were unemployed they
received free laptops from Baptist Baptist Health. So the pilot program worked pretty well. So we are going to continue to reinforce everything in the city in workforce and we already have uh Florida International University and Palm Beach State College align for that.
Um so of course in regarding housing we we promote mixed income housing and infield development and uh as you know we're growing fast and we want to keep you know at the same speed just to make sure that our residents and future
residents uh have what they need. Another one is placemaking which activates the economic devel economic target areas and emerging micro districts. Um again uh we envision Boon
Beach as a vibrant, connected and livable city. Uh and placemaking plays a crucial role in shaping how people interact with the different spaces that we have here in the city. Um key matrix
example is um activated districts. How many districts were activated? Um branded signage which is very important. One of the things I I I was a resident of Boon Beach. I used the beach a lot and one of the things that I it really
bothered me as a resident is that when going to the beach the first sign that I see is this is forbidden. you cannot do this instead of a welcoming sign that says welcome to the beach enjoy etc etc. So this is part of the placemaking. So
we need to improve signage. We need to be more welcoming and we need to have all those welcome signs really really redesigned uh to be inviting. Okay. So it's not just about beautifification but it's
about function and flow. And then we have principle number five which is the economic development marketing which defines and promotes Boon Beach values proposition launches targeted branding campaigns and
digital engagement and highlights businessfriendly environment talent and quality of life. So we must really define our city to be open for businesses, to be open for visitors and
residents. Uh we have to promote a lifestyle just to make sure that people know that when they come here, they are going to find things to do that when they work here and live here, they can stay here because we have all the restaurants, we have the entertainment
and everything. Um so it's not about visual it's about reinforcing the identity of the city as a business hub. Then we have the implementation matrix uh which is
something that we worked um with other uh departments. Uh so this is not a solo um plan. This encompasses every single um department here in the city. And this
matrix uh defines which departments we are going to be working with to make sure that everyone of these different strategies are going to go through and how long we calculate that each of those strategies are going to be taking place.
Again, this is a fiveyear plan and uh one of the things that we want to stress is the that this is a livable document. So if we need to change something in those five years, we can do it depending on the trends, depending on the needs of
the population, depending on the needs of the businesses. So this is an operational plan and it reflects the team effort of the whole city towards the different goals that economic development is proposing.
So the key actions of course is treat this as a living document as I said before collaboration because we leverage partnerships with regional agencies and of course we request the approval of the commission for this plan and we have a
video so I don't know how to launch it. Who can launch the video? There you go.
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I did that. So this is a sample of what economic development marketing is. So and this is something that we're going to be showing everywhere just to make sure that people know what we have here, which other players are here. So and what you can
play with here in Boon Beach. Any questions? No, that was great. A great representation of uh the city and I'm glad we excluded all the couches on sequest. Thank you for doing that. You got to bait and switch sometimes.
You know what I mean? If there's nothing else, may we have a motion to approve resolution number R25-227. Commissioner Turken move to approve resolution number R25-227. Vice Mayor Hay second the motion. The motion pass. Oh, all those in favor say I. I.
I. Thank you, Gigi. That all those opposed. Amazing. Thank you. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Gigi, and all of your team. That was amazing. Thank you. Any other final comments for tonight? Yes, mayor. Um, I do want to get an update on the environmental
No, we didn't journal. We just we adopted the economic plan. Um, environmental impact study. Uh, if we can do a little marketing blast on the senior prom. And then, um, the comprehensive plan, I don't see that on the future agenda. Did
I am I forgetting? Did we discuss that or did we take that off because it's going to be a big overhaul? We Yes, we we took it off because the um we had a kickoff meeting already and it's so it's ongoing. Okay, perfect. All right. I just want the sentiment about the train station. I'm been vocal about that and I agree
with that. So, I know Adam's smiling, but I'm going to I'm I'm not going to back down on that fight. Um and then the city attorney's office. I want to thank you guys. You guys have been getting super busy, so I appreciate that. And then um as we move into the new budget year, we're obviously going to do the
city manager and the city attorney's review. And um I want to make sure that we're including the depart the um deputies in this also fire chief, deputy chiefs, the the whole nine yards because that's in our budget. And what I'd like um for me personally is to see
measurable accomplishments over the last year, right? I know we've we've kind of done that, but I want to know, you know, what have we accomplished since last budget year? You know, as far as the street strategic plan, economic growth, obviously, um, you know, public safety
decreases in, uh, in and crime rate, um, you know, response times, etc., etc. I want to make sure that we have measurable accomplishments. If that's us saving legal attorney fees by going in house versus outside, great. I just want to make sure as we move forward with
these reviews for me that we have measurable accomplishments, right? Because that that's going to tell a story and um and then that'll help me make my decision on on how we move forward. Okay. Why don't you uh piggy back on the
senior prom? Is there a way for us to add it to social media? Maybe try to get other other um they've been sharing the heck out of it on social media and they also put it in the newsletter and email we could get in addition to social media because I mean most people have social media but but yeah
do we have time for that or no with the water bill? Um what about on the digital? We can put out some mail. Can we put it on the digital sign? You can put it out. You can put out you can turn around mail in 3 to four days. I remember I I had a lot of residents go to the Christmas event here that we had.
because of a a flyer that I had sent out and they're like, "We didn't even know this existed and but they got the flyer and they're like, "Oh, here are the events." About the utility bill like it's it's way ahead of I think maybe what I would do if I was in charge of marketing is I would look
at 55 plus communities and easy pull up their HOAs, email them, maybe uh go doortodoor, send flyers. I mean, when I was in FLC, Sebring has one marketing person for all their departments, and
the amazing stuff this young woman was able to accomplish was incredible as one individual. And so, we've had a senior prom that we've been discussing for a year and I'm hearing like it hasn't been like, let's there's there's there's opportunity
there. And so, I think a mailer would be good connecting with these HOA leaders. Obviously, I think the timing plays into it as well. We're out of season right now. People aren't going to start coming back until, you know, November. A lot of my district does leave and they don't come back till November, December, some even January. But I think, you know, if
we haven't re reached out to those 55 plus HOAs, that would be great. This is a city event and um you know, I'm big on meeting them where they need to be met, right? They're paying us. So, let's get it on the digital sign.
I'm excited for that. Okay. Um, if there's nothing else, do we have a motion to adjurnn? Second. Commissioner Turk made a motion to adjurnn. Vice Mayor Hay made the second motion. All those in favor say I. I. Motion pass. No further business
discussed. This meeting is adjourned at 8 uh 8:04 p.m. I guess it's