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Part 1 (Video ID: H84lwsk-lk8):
- 00:04:13: Meeting Commencement: Civility Rules, Roll Call, Invocation
- 00:09:55: Agenda Approval: Veteran Preferences, Senior Citizen Permitting
- 00:12:09: Informational Items: Lamar Jackson, High School Events, Adele
- 00:15:59: City Announcements and Transformative City Initiatives Presentation
- 00:17:16: City Manager's Proposal: Lower Taxes, Better Services
- 00:21:41: Strategic Initiatives: Fire Rescue Merger Possibilities
- 00:25:15: Utility Transfer and Municipal Endowment Fund Creation
- 00:27:29: Property Tax Legislation and Land Acquisition Act
- 00:31:41: Pension Risk Reduction and CRA Restructuring
- 00:36:39: Millage Rate Reduction and Long-Term Financial Goals
- 00:40:17: Workforce Realignment and Financial Savings Breakdown
- 00:43:14: Millage Rate Timeline and Strategic Initiatives Recap
- 00:46:16: Commission Discussion: Support, Concerns, Macro Tax Reform
- 01:02:40: Public Comment Begins
- 01:03:27: Public Comment: Susan Oyer on Flock Cameras, Utilities, Art
- 01:06:59: Public Comment: Woodro on City Manager Presentation
- 01:09:13: Public Comment: David Catz on Art in Public Places Fees
- 01:10:06: Public Comment: Cindy Falca on Justice System Integrity
- 01:12:35: Public Comment: Andre Thaddius on Voting Information Event
- 01:14:47: Public Comment: Nikki King, Arrival and Community Concerns
- 01:16:13: Advisory Board Appointments, Building Board Members
- 01:17:17: Consent Agenda Approval
- 01:18:04: Consent Bids and Purchases Approval
- 01:18:20: Ordinance 26-014 Second Reading, Board Advocacy, Lobbying
- 01:19:42: Ordinance 26-015 Second Reading, Cemetery Plot Policies
- 01:20:44: Discussion: Art in Public Places Program and Nonprofits
- 01:35:46: Legislative Break, Meeting Schedule Discussion and Approval


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[laughter] How you doing? I'm good. Happy birthday. And usually Wherever you are, >> I usually >> [laughter] >> today. >> Oh, you ready?

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>> It's actually trust me. This will shut. connect. Good evening everybody and welcome to the city of Boon Beach city commission meeting. Today is Tuesday, May 19th, 2026, and the time is now 6 p.m. Before I continue, I'd like to remind everyone

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of our rules of civility and decorum. Speakers must first be addressed by the mayor and not interrupt any other speakers. Public comments must be addressed to the commission as a whole and not to any individual on the dis or in the audience. Insults, personal attacks, and disruptions will not be tolerated, and you'll be asked to leave if you violate these rules. We will now

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turn to the interim city clerk for roll call. >> Commissioner Cruz, >> present. Commissioner McCra >> here. >> Commissioner Kelly >> here. >> Vice Mayor Turkin >> present. >> Mayor Shelton >> present. >> Mayor, you have a quorum. >> Thank you. Our invocation tonight will

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be held by Commissioner McCrae and we will be doing the pledge of allegiance led by Commissioner Cruz. Let us bow to the creator and make of all mankind. We come before thee this afternoon first recognizing that thou art God and

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besides thee there is no other. As we stand tonight begin to recollect on our 250 anniversary for the United States of America. We want to pray for this world in a whole for all the turmoil that is going on. Let love abide. Let peace

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abide. Most of all you reign. Why? Because you're king of kings. And as we deliberate tonight, let us know that we're doing it and everybody's watching, including you. In your name we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We are now moving on to the agenda. approval, additions, deletions, and corrections. Let's begin on my left. Commissioner McCrae, >> I'm good. Thank you.

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>> Commissioner Kelly, >> no. >> No, I'm good. >> Vice Mayor Turkin. >> Uh, yes. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to add for a future agenda discussion around uh looking at our procurement policy in respect to um allowing a

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preference or point system for veterans, spec specifically disabled veterans. This is something that the state of Florida does, other municipalities have done. Um, so I'm just looking for consensus to move forward with this. Um, and then, you know, hopefully have staff bring back something in front of us.

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>> I agree. >> Commissioner McCra, do you agree? >> Sure. >> Okay. We have a consensus to be added. >> Okay. Perfect. And then um the other thing is looking at our our permitting system and identifying you know how how

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we can scale the costs for these for senior citizens especially when it comes to these lowhanging fruit such as like HVAC um you know the overnight permits. I know Adam your team has done a great job with expediting this but I think when we look at the building fund you know and

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you look at legislation that Tallahassee is passing they're looking to try to eliminate that. So, I think scaling down uh some of these permit fees for our, you know, residents and and most um vulnerable communities. You

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know, I think this would be uh a home run, especially given that we have a large senior population here in the uh city of Buon Beach. So looking at some type of tiered system um and um you know I'm not saying an overhaul but something

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that allows to alleviate some type of cost because people are getting hit everywhere with home insurance property taxes there there is some relief with the home insurance there may be relief some with some property taxes but I think looking at what we can do for those on fixed income would be would be

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crucial um because every dollar does count. Commissioner Cruz. >> Nothing for me. Thank you. >> Thank you. We'll now move on toformational items by the members of the city commission. Let's begin on my right with Commissioner Cruz. >> Nothing for me regarding this one

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meeting. Thank you. >> Vice Mayor Turkin. >> I did attend the um retirement ceremony for uh Lamar Jackson's jersey. It's good to see uh Andrew jumping up like he was a Taylor Swift fan. [laughter] And um you know, I got to say, Andrew, I

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I really hope you keep that enthusiasm and bring that into cleaning up u you know, the neighborhood and improving the city. You know, I've never seen you like that. So, let's keep that continuence. Thank you, >> Commissioner Kelly. That's Andrew at sports. Anything sports related. Um I

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just mayor, I just wanted to this past week was I feel like it was Bo Beach High School week for me. Um I attended the point beach high school uh graduation um which you know these kids are are doing amazing things in the city. And

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then I also on Thursday evening I attended the award ceremony for the BASA um I had donated at my last um meeting donated some of my community funds to their BASSA program. It's their drone uh aerospace program that uh Emory Riddle

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um teaches at the high school. Uh it's an amazing program and I went to their awards ceremony and these kids they really they grow up to be a family. Uh it's a small uh small-nit group and uh they're their families are great. We had a whole dinner and an award ceremony. It

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was really nice. And then of course uh the football game to close out the week um was a super special um you know event to have Lamar Jackson come back home to Boon Beach. um was always good to see and I know he was happy to get all of his uh all of his signs and and all of

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his memorabilia. So, it was um it was a cool um week of Beach High School. So, um that's it. We're moving into just congratulations to all of the teachers and students who survived another year. We're rounding the end of the school year. Um I know my kids are excited to

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be done with school. Um, I'm happy to say my daughter got a a five in her civics test. So, I feel like I'm doing something right if my daughter is acing civics. Um, so just a shout out to the teachers and students. You're almost there. I think you have uh seven more

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days. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Commissioner McCrae. >> Thank you, Mayor. First of all, I'd like to say um Saturday night I did attend at 6:30 the concert for Adele, the candle light. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. I want

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to commend staff in regards to what you have done with the culture center. I was one of those that when I said up here prior, I was one of those that was a true advocate saying that it should have been torn down. I'm glad they did not listen to me because it is very well

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well done. You all took pride in refurbishing it. You took pride in doing what needed to have been done and you put us on the map with that adult co that center over there. And I want to just say thank you. I don't want to beat the dead horse to death, but I'm going

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to talk tonight about the cemetery. First of all, I'd like to say thank you all for go ahead and starting Sarah Sims. I see dirt turnover. The citizens there are so so excited. I want to say thank you for doing that.

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Also, this week we received letters about the rules for the cemetery. I received one phone call, but it was positive and they told me that it was long overdue. didn't say anything about the fruit tree that had grown in there, but it was long

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overdue. But I want to say that we are on the right path. Boon, let's continue to push forward. The star and nothing but the moon is what we're going to achieve now. Thank you, gentlemen and ladies. Thank you. >> Thank you. Moving on to city announcements. Would staff please

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approach the podium. >> Oh, wait. We have to approve the agenda. >> Second. >> We have a motion to approve the agenda. We have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. Now come on down. >> Hi. Good evening commissioners, mayor,

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city manager, and assistant city manager. My name is Marvelous Washington. I'm the division director for parks uh recreation and parks. And we have two announcements. We have the flag planning event which is Friday at 8:00 a.m. at the Borton Beach Memorial Park 1611 South Serest Boulevard. And

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then we also have our Memorial Day celebration and ceremony at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 24th at Borton Beach Memorial Park, 1611 South Serest Boulevard. Hope to see you guys there. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, we are moving on to a

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presentation of transformative city initiatives presented by our city manager, Dan Duggar. Tell me what you going tell me ain't nowhere to run. When judgement comes for you. When judgement comes for you.

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Tell me ain't nohere to hide. Judgement music. Andrew. Much like Bone Thugs and Harmony in 1999, the city of Boon Beach is at a crossroads. [laughter] >> Um,

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mayor, vice mayor, uh, members of the board, uh, the community, what if I told everyone the ultimate goal of municipal government wasn't to collect taxes, but to completely eliminate them. How do we do that? We need a road map.

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It's PowerPoint clicker should work, Tammy. All right. So, on your guys' screen, you'll see two separate paths. You see the status quo, which I'm going to go over first, and you're going to see what our path, the possibilities

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are. status quo. We remain the sixth highest millage rate in Palm Beach County out of 39 municipalities. Our expenses continue to outpace our revenues, resulting in fee increases and mill rate increases.

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Unfunded liability continues to expand and we have one of the top five largest CRAAS in the state. Currently, we're a fullervice city. Now, our path, lower taxes for every household, same or

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better city services, a municipal endowment fund, smaller, more accountable government, and the commission controls our future. Now, before I get into the actual granular details of the presentation, I just want to let everyone know on the board,

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everything I'm about to go over is preliminary and tentative. There's talk still going on in the background between both county entities and city entities. And what I'm looking for tonight from the board is consensus to continue or to put a pause and overall direction. So

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this presentation was born out of Vice Mayor Turkin's initiative to get a presentation on macro uh tax reform. And really what it's coming from is from the state and their overall property tax legislation that we're looking for as

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far as coming back in a special session in June. And what that's going to do is from most municipalities who include counties, it has the probability to decrease the amount of revenue that most municipalities um receive from abalor

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revenues because the city of Bo is just like other municipalities. We're in a service industry. We provide high quality service to our residents and we want to continue to do that. Now, for most municipalities, when you come to the bread and butter of budgetary

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preparation, it's two entities. One is going to be police, the other one's going to be fire, public safety. There are high-risisk employees. They deserve enhanced benefits, and everyone recognizes that to include the state. That's why they've carved out an amendment saying that there will not be

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any defunding uh even in the event that revenue is reduced from property tax legislation to public safety. So then that brings me to a third uh organization within the city that also has to be funded which is our CRA. So

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combined those represent probably about $17 million uh in overall funding and the city's funded mainly through Avalorum revenue but also uh fees, franchise fees, transfers and enterprise funds. Uh

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what I want to get across to the commission in the in the most basic terms is right now if we continue down the path we're going our expenses are going to continue to increase. So what that's going to have is the residents

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are going to ultimately be responsible for those higher fees, higher millage rates. So I want to propose an alternative plan for the city's future tonight. So first one, you can see we have eight strategic initiatives and I'm going to go through each one. One is a

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possibility of a um Palm Beach County and uh Boy Beach fire rescue merger. These are these are two A+ organizations. They provide uh high quality service to all of our residents, response times, and if we do

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decide to go forward with the merger, there will not be any loss in quality of service um to our residents. So, the second one is going to be the utility transfer of ownership. Three, we're going to go over the property tax bill and probability of uh revenue reduction.

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Four is going to be the possibility of a land acquisition aspect to a lot of our uh municipal endowment initiatives that we're uh looking at. Pension risk reduction from a risk to a stable uh pension fund, CRA restructuring, millage

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rate reductions, and an endowment fund of $400 to $500 million. So the first one I'm going to go over currently right now is a fire rescue merger. So when we started the fire rescue merger talks and

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initially it was born out of our annexation initiatives and that started off a little precarious in the beginning and I think uh cooler heads prevailed and we've been working for a compromise in the background for quite some time now with the county and I can't say

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enough about uh county administrator Joe Abbruso and his staff to include county IIAFF. They have met us halfway uh during the uh negotiation process. They've been nothing but professionals. So, currently we have an allocation from our general fund to fund your fire

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rescue uh of $20 million. County Fire Rescue also brings in about 19.8 in uh revenue. So, they account for almost 50% of their total budget in revenues. Uh that is funded through

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their ALS transports. that's funded through our fire service agreements with our uh four servicing cities to include uh their ALS transport fees and some other oxygen fees. So, the overall unfunded liability comes to right around

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$4 million per year with the city when we talk about the uh the pension. Now, what we've done over the last uh I want to say probably about 6 months is we've been doing appraisals, analysis on all our fire uh fire safety equipment as well as our real estate and our

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buildings and our infrastructure. And that came up to a total of about 95 to 115 million lumpsum payment to the city of Boon Beach in the event we decide to merge with Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. That's going to be a reduction of the

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unfunded liability to the tune of right somewhere in between $30 to $60 million and that's going to be a net annual savings of $20 million to our general fund. Now that's also going to account for 185 employee transition. There's

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going to be lease back agreements for the city's EOC and also station agreements which still need to be finalized. Now in year one, what we're looking at is moving to about 7.65. There will not be any MSTU rate imposed on any

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residents. The MSTU rate is right around 3.458. The city's ultimate goal is going to be to reduce the 7.75 millage rate in year two down to 4.19. That's going to be our ultimate goal.

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Combined with the 3.458 458, you're going to go back up to the 7.65 millig rate, but you're going to drop the fire assessment fee. And every resident, every single family household is going to save approximately $145 per

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year without paying any additional taxes. So, we're going to go forward utility transfer. So, right now, we're in phase two of negotiation. I can't say enough about my staff. they've uh they've really been burning the midnight oil uh working with their county uh

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counterparts. Right now, we're looking at a valuation between 375 to $470 million. So, if you look back, you can see the combined value of the fire rescue uh merger along with the utility transfer.

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We want to use these monies to create a municipal endowment fund. What's that going to do? That's going to give this board the ability to truly have transformative property tax reduction across the city of Buen Beach. You have

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the possibility to create a municipal utopia in the state of Florida. I'm going to go further into detail, but ultimately what's going to happen is you're going to eliminate the need for a $300 million infrastructure bond. You're going to remove the exposure of new

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utility searchcharge legislation, which the state, if anyone's been paying attention, they're not in the business of helping municipalities. Key considerations, we got a depreciation gap. The city is 12 to 18 million versus the uh county's

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28 to 30 million. We still need to work through uh some severance obligations with the uh the employees of the utility um department. And I do want to say to them, the anxiety that these employees are

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going through right now isn't lost on the executive staff of the city. The only reason why I'm before you guys as a city manager is because close to a thousand employees put me here. And I just want to say that to those who are listening, I will maintain

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to have their back so not one of them lose their jobs. We also have an obligation to the city of Delray Beach. We sit on the South Central Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant Board, which is we have to govern. >> Next slide. I think some of the com There we go.

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>> My apologies. Uh some of the uh the governance transition we have to work through and be resolved. So currently we have two and a half uh treatment plants. One is the half is the um one we set on with Delray Beach. We have the Eastwater treatment facility. We have the

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Westwater treatment facility. Moving forward [clears throat] property tax legislation. Currently a lot of this is unknown. Uh we have no agreement that's been reached on property taxes during regular session. The governor has around six to seven months remaining in office.

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The special session is anticipated later on in uh late in the month of June 2026. Most likely everything that's being heard, especially from our uh from our lobbyists that we have in Tallahassee and locally, is an enhanced homestead

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exemption, which is going to be phased in over the next few years. Any exemption increase is going to result in a loss of revenue for every municipality across the state of Florida. So, how does the city of Boon Beach's

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initiatives respond? Diversify revenue. The endowment fund means a stable income even if our t tax base does shrink. You're going to get 8.8 million in tax relief in year two with the elimination of the fire assessment fee.

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The ultimate goal is to lower our millage rate continually year after year after year while maintaining the same level of services and to be a model city for the state of Florida. Let's talk about land acquisition and the live local act. And I've heard this

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over and over and over again and >> I can go back to the former mayor and he told me in his office he says Dan a lot of people don't understand this but the only way Boon is going to dig itself out of this hole is to build up not build

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out because we don't have the land. I beg to differ. We have a way out. We don't have to lose our character. We can still maintain low density and we can still maintain our green spaces and we can still have free parking.

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The right now developers use the live local act to bypass you. You don't have any say. Los mangoes comes to mind. Vice Mayor Turkin, did you have a say in that project? >> No.

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>> Highrises maximum density equals maximum profit. We lose our character. the city loses control of its design density and what Boon Beach actually should look like. If we move forward, you're going to have a passive income

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stream between$25 to $40 million a year. The city buys land when you allocate $10 million to land acquisition. You can actually purchase property and design. You can actually purchase prop. It's

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payback for the bone thugs and harmony. I appreciate it. [laughter] Um, you can actually purchase land and control the design of your city, which I know a lot of the residents I hear constantly. They're like, "Dan, why are these highrises going up?" And I go, "These decisions

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were made some some over a decade ago by your predecessors that you had no control over." But who gets blamed? You guys do. So, land acquisition, we set the terms. We own the parcel. We offer developers with design requirements and we get the

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boon we want. The commission controls the desk the city's destiny character and the number of rooftops. The more land the city owns the more the commission is going to be able to control how Boon Beach grows and looks

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pension risk reduction. Currently right now public safety for as long as I've been in the city 22 years uh it's always been public safety and the general fund has mostly been fully funded. It fluctuates between 90% during down markets, up markets, it can get get all

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the way up to 107% funded public safety because you have enhanced benefits. Um, you end up with what's called an unfunded liability gap or for the pension uh pension people in here, UAL. So basically all that means is it's a

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mortgage payment just like you have a mortgage payment on your house and you're making monthly payments on it and slowly but surely you're ticking down that note to where eventually you pay it off. We're not doing a balloon payment. So even in the event that you have a $40

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million unfunded liability, the plan sponsor, which is the city, we come in annually and we buffer whatever shortfall those pension plans have. Currently, fire and police make up for right around 90% of your uh your your

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pension shortfalls. So, what we're looking as uh working with the county to absorb some of that unfunded liability risk and reduce the uh pension exposure by approximately 45%. Never in the history of the city has

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that been done. 10 million a year from the endowment fund. You guys have the option to be able to pay some of that debt service obligations down on the pension and you could actually fully fund your pensions for the first time in the city's history. Hart and Logan benefit liability

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eliminated upon merger. The county would absorb that invested fire employees may stay in the city of Boon Beach uh pension plan. And what I want to say is we conducted a survey with uh with the Boon Beach firefighters which come in I want to say at 91.7

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to right around 8% that were uh that were against the merger. So we're still keeping our employees in mind. See our >> against the merger. >> No, no, for the merger. >> Okay. You said against >> 91.8 for the merger. Correct. >> So 91.4%

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>> 91.7 >> 91.7 for the merger. or the merger. Correct. >> Okay. >> I got and Johnny McMahon and Jeff Nuome. Are you guys in the crowd? Can you just raise your hand? Are those numbers accurate? >> All right. [clears throat]

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>> So, when we talk about >> Excuse me. >> Yes, sir. >> You're supposed to talk to us, not the audience. [laughter] >> I got me. You got me. [laughter] I wore my glasses for you guys tonight, too. >> [gasps]

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>> All right. So, here's the con of all this because now I have two hats. Put on my CRA hat. Not for this meeting, though. So, currently right now in TIFF revenue, the CRA receives right around six.

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Currently, right now, the CRA recur uh receives right around 16.7 million rounded up plus or minus 17 million a year in TIFF revenue from the city. that represents about 20 21% of your uh uh total uh Avalorum revenue.

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So of that if you move in 2728 meaning we're doing the budget this year 26 and 27 Chris per um we're going to 2728 and

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we're going to be able to reduce the millage rate to 4.19. But the issue here, the true issue here is we're going to lose some funding on the CRA side. So by our estimates, if you cut your millage rate to 4.19 in the second year,

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you're going to lose right around 8 million and you're going to drop your city revenue down to 9.5 million per year. But the county revenues that come into the CRA do not change. Now, I don't want to get into uh the overall specifics of the funding from the CRA.

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had a couple of conversations with some of you guys that we had a CRA meeting. We went over the uh monetary values and some of those changes that we've made. So there is some savings on that side to kind of offset that overall numerical number. Now the new CRA structure

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removes redundancy and cost savings, reduces the footprint focused uh strategic mission align with new revenue reality and we swap some of our high high value areas for new growth zones like forest park, rolling green

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and the sand castle area. So mill rate reduction there's a lot there's some loss of control here and lose control of you're going to lose control of some of

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your departments too specifically. But what I want everyone to understand is you're going to gain tax savings that are your residents are going to benefit from. And we're not talking about small tenth of a meal

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here, 100th of a mill there. These are going to be substantial savings that I'm going to go into. And I want everyone to keep that in mind. So the first year, we're going to lower the millage rate. There's going to be no changes. The MSTU will not be levied during the first year

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of this merger. The county is going to absorb the cost of that. We're going to lower the city's millage rate from 7.75 right now down to 7.65. The second year, year two, you're going to see that we've dropped

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the millage rate to 4.19 and we're going to combine that with 3.458 on the MSTU rate. With that MST rate levied within the city of Boon Beach, fire assessment

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completely goes away. You're still realizing a 7.65 millage rate, which is a tenth of a mill savings combined with a $145 savings to every resident, every single family home to include commercials, our

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business, uh our businesses, our residents, everyone. Fire assessment goes away in year three. You're going to continue to cut taxes. We're going to move to the roll back rate, true tax cuts to where the city no

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longer is going to be relying on the addiction of Avalorum revenues. I go to these meetings as a city manager. I see all the other city managers, West Lake, West Palm, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens. They're all sitting there waiting for

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the property tax appraiser to announce what their city got, how much additional revenues they got. It's like a lottery. That's not appropriate. That's not how you do business. You need stable sources of income. That's not stable. That's peaks

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and valleys. And if you were here in 2008 and 2009 like I was and you saw employees crying in the parking lot cuz they're losing their livelihood and the city was helpless to do anything about it. Probably could have used an endowment fund at that point to buffer the losses

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to get off the advalorum heroin. Long-term goal zero city millage rate Wellington 2.48 48 Jupiter colony 1.5 Dest 1.3 city of Dorado Adam what's the city of Dorado's

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millage rate or something >> we're at 7.75 it's time boy realizes it potential let's talk about a municipal endowment fund target fund size >> next slide

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>> target fund size $400 to $500 million. I've told you both fire rescue merger, utility merger. At that rate, realistically, safely, we could bring in right around

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30 to $40 million a year. That's not realizing any inner service attrition. uh inner service departments that we're going to continue to reduce those because we also have to understand that if you're reducing the city's

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workforce by 35% you also have to reduce the people that support those city workers by a commiserate amount. But we're going to do that through attrition. There will be no no layoffs within those interervice departments. [clears throat] Each mill in the city

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represents about $10.1 million. So, remember what I told you guys? I told you that we're moving our millage rate down to 4.19. If I told you you're bringing in 30 million of passive income, you have the ability to reduce your millage rate to one. Vice Mayor Turkin.

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>> 1.65 lowering the row. Adam, sorry. Workforce realignment. Currently, we have 991 employees. Hi. >> Love you guys. [gasps] [clears throat] Self-esteem board.

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After we're going to have 665 employees, more leaner, more efficient city government. 185 fire rescue. Palm Beach County uh goes to P Palm Beach County payroll 141 utility. Palm Beach County payroll 33% interervice headcount

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reduction. 20 to 25% ERP efficiency gain catalyst. your ERP is system, your enterprise resource planning system that you funded and implemented in two years, you're going to see real cost savings there in the millions. Final general fund savings, $20 million

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that comes in fiscal year 20 2627 this year. Fire assessment fee elimination $8.8 million a year. Utility sale lump sum 375 to470 million to be determined. Fire rescue pension liability absorbed by the county. This is tentative. We're

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still in talks. That's post merger. Debt service bond savings. We have some bond savings that we're paying off early that come to about $2.6 million per year. The endowment fund passive income 6% on 500 million comes to about $30 million.

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ERP catalyst optimization savings, we're looking at probably about 1 to4 million between uh year 2 to four. fire utility benefit reduction. We're going to save money on our health health insurance, guys. Probably to the tune of about four and a half million dollars a year

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and that's going to come between fiscal year 26 and 28. And the resident savings in year two, like I said, $145 per household. So the miller's rate timeline we're going to look at roll after year two we're looking at roll back

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>> nice >> the millage rate timeline this year we want to reduce the millage rate from 7.75 down to 7.65 65. Year two, we want to lower that to 4.19 mills. Year three, we go to roll back. And then so forth,

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the commission can have a decision based on operational necessities and um what our overall passive income looks like on our endowment fund for any further uh further uh millage rate cuts. We have a roadmap to almost get to a zero millage

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rate within the city of Boon Beach. strategic initiatives. In the event that a fire merger fails, fire >> in the event that a fire merger fails, you're going to have to increase the uh you're going to have to increase your um

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fire assessment closely close between $280 to $350 per household. Utili utility sale fails, you're going to have to do a second round of rate hikes necessary if the sale of the utility does not. And you also are going to need

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two years from now and a $300 million utility bond that's required for plant upgrades. You guys have all been briefed uh 101 ones by members of staff. No endowment fund. The city remains fully dependent on Abalorum taxes and there's no stable uh revenue

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alternative. Status quo continues. Expenses continue. Outpacing revenues, unfunded liabilities expand, and you maintain a high tax rate on your community. I can tell you guys it's not lost on me.

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I've heard it the entire two decades I've been in this city. Full service city. Full Bo's a full service city. Bo's a full service city. Boon's a full service city. There's a motion attached to the city. But sometimes when you reach a crossroads like this, you have

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to make a decision. And the decision is you relinquish the full service city mantra. and you realize that you have true financial potential in the city to be when I tell you guys there's not going to be another city that has this

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capability in the state of Florida like we do. Lower property taxes for every resident in business. Same or better level of city services. Jeff, I agree with you. A leaner, more accountable city government. Financial

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stability through diversified passive revenue streams. Commission control over how Boon Beach grows and looks to include the community's input. [clears throat] Commission control over how Boon a city positioned to thrive regardless of state legislative outcomes. A model for municipal fiscal

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transformation in Florida and beyond. We see the train coming down the tracks. These initiatives are our path. Lower taxes, better services, smaller government, and a city designed the way our residents want it. With that being said, I'll take some questions and if I can't answer them and

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they're too technical, I'll definitely uh turn to my subject matter experts with my staff and I'll get you guys the answers that you need. >> Starting with uh Commissioner McCrae, do you have any questions? >> First of all, [clears throat] I really don't have questions right now. I just want to tell you thank you for

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your report. Thank you for thinking outside of the box because you know when citizens come to me, they said, "Are you all going to raise taxes? What about the fire assessment? What about water? This is what we here as elected officials. Anything that we could do like to lower

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taxes, I'm in favor of it. I also like what you said when you said that we would not lose employees. When you start bringing new programs in, the first thing staff start thinking about and looking towards, am I going to lose my job?

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That's a benefit for us. It's a big bullet for us to bite, but it's time that B and we need to bite it because people are saying, you know, taxes, taxes, taxes. They said that's all government, you know, we do is just tax people, tax

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people, tax people. This is just a plan. I'm not 100% sure that it's going to work, but I hope it will work. You also said about our utilities. I sat in the audience and I heard people

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say that we shouldn't get rid of our utilities. I beg the difference and we get a main water break. Anything major here in this city that's going to be a bill that Boon is going to pick up.

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We need to start looking down the road. We need to stop playing games. Game days are over with. We don't know what Tally Hast is going to do. And when you start thinking about where we going to get money from, the citizens in district 2, they already said, Commissioner McCrae,

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we're down to the bare bone. That's why I'm up here is to help them save money. You said that you're going to get rid of fire assessment. They would jump over for joy. I probably leave the jumping because I'm just saying, you know, taxes, taxes, taxes.

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We live on a fixed income. We have groups over in district two that don't pay pay their fair share of taxes because they senior citizens that's the way they built their lives and that's the way they live on village royal yellow and the green is what I call

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names I don't mind they don't contribute what they should because why because 65 and older this is a big pill that you gave us to swallow with little water with little water but if we come on

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board and said that we're going to support this and see how it work. I'm one that you know don't mind taking it's not a risk and it's not a gamble because I'm just saying when we have leadership that wants to lead us and we as elected officials need to follow I

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will take y'all advice because if anything go wrong I'm going to come back to you. Thank you >> Commissioner Kelly. >> Um I'm going to reserve most of my comments for um later. I think it's I mean it's a lot to to take in. It's a

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lot um you know I I envision that we will have lots of conversations with the residents about this. Um you know but you know as being up here for over three years you know we hear the common thread of don't raise the taxes but keep

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providing services. We want more but we want to pay less. And so you know we have been And like you said, um, Dan, you know, this is this is something that we did not create that gosh, probably there's

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very few staff that was here. um you know when this you know when the the barrels started rolling down the hill um especially when it comes to utilities um you know I've heard time and time again about in meeting with utility staff um

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about how they'd come to admin and say we need money to fix this and admin would go not today not today not this year not next year not the year after and now we're put in a situation where we have to um make huge decisions. You

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know, we we talked about it last year. Nobody wanted to increase the utility fee. We get it. Nobody up here wanted to to to make that commitment, that necessary commitment because we we had to we had to make repairs. We had to do

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those things to provide services. So when we we talk about doing what is what our residents want and what's responsible sometimes those are really tough decisions and really hard. Um, I have concerns about the the long-term

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effects because, you know, we know, you know, everything is shiny and pretty when it's in a little packaged bow on Christmas and then it tarnishes and then it, you know, and so there's I don't I don't see that as much on the fire side

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as I do with utilities. I have concerns if it's not Palm Beach County and we have to go with other alternatives how that then looks to the residents when we lose control and you know or and we give up that control. So, you know, so

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there's there's a lot of conversations that will have to happen. Um >> I I I do want to address one thing and I I'm glad you brought that up and I I didn't bring it up there in the presentation. like we have contingencies put in place that I I I don't really

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want to um I guess opine from the podium here um in public at this time, but there are contingencies in place that we have. We have options. So, but right now I will say that the county has been first class. I can't say enough positive

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things about the working relationship that we've had with them and we we put in a lot a lot of hours to include our fire consultant Neil de Jesus. He's uh he's put in a lot of hours as well. So I will say that the progress that we've

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made I I I do like the fact that the county's our partner in this. So >> no I get that. I just um you know it's like I mean and like you said I mean it's it's we're unfortunately have been put in a situation like this. It's not

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anything we did you know I mean the the annexation conversation was 20 years ago with the county and now the county is like we didn't say that. So, you know, and and so we're being put in this situation where, you know, should our residents

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foot an entire, you know, $300,000 or $300 million bond for outside of the city limits residents to get water and then we can't sir tax them. That's an that's the latest law that was just

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signed is that now we can't even recoup that 25% that we were without really showing cause that we need to. So now the county residents get our water, our great water that we've worked really hard to keep and use and they get

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[clears throat] it without any sir tax and we have to provide it. So I Dan I this has been a thorough presentation and I appreciate it. I think that I think that there were residents coming into this meeting that were unsure of what you know that it was

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going to be a quick little presentation and they were going to leave with questions and I'm sure there's a lot of residences still have questions but I think this was so thorough that it answers a lot of those questions and what things we still have to discuss. So, um, so I

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there's a lot of conversations that have to happen. Um, but I I respect these proposals and I respect this plan. It's just going to take some time to to

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get through those questions and to feel comfortable with making these decisions for 86ish,000 residents. So, thank you, >> Commissioner Cruz. Thank you. >> Any comments? >> Yes. Um, thank you. Um,

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first wanted to say thank you for your for your presentation. I was really curious to see what that looks like. Um, when it comes to comparing our city with other municipalities that have significantly lower mill rates. I think we have to definitely take the time to make sure we're comparing apples to

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apples. I know some of the cities are full service cities versus other cities that are not. Um, so I do want to keep that in mind when we make our our comparisons. Um, I think not just myself, but the entire board has been a huge advocate for reducing u property

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taxes and we really try to move forward in that direction ever since um we were elected. So I think that this is definitely something that we can in on a general sense support uh bringing savings to our residents. Um, I do want to see what more of the details and the

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actual numbers uh look like uh again to make sure that we're comparing apples to apples and to making sure that we look at the long-term effects of any potential opportunities that we have uh in front of us. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Vice Mayor. >> Thank you, Mayor. Let me remind everyone

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it was a couple hundred years ago when people freaked out over a a 3 pence tea tax, right? And now we've gotten to a place where it has become a common thing again and again and again and that hardworking people like everyone in this

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audience become called tax cattle. This allows an opportunity to eliminate that. And I think that when we hear about all the talking points about affordability, about live local, about providing quality services but not wanting to

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raise taxes, this is your solution. you have the ability to maintain quality services, if not better, while creating probably the most municipal creative-minded thing that anyone probably has ever seen. Um, I think this

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is a no-brainer. I think that when you look on, you know, resident forums about what their concerns are, I would argue that the number one is density and traffic and, you know, maybe it's services as well. And so the question I do have is

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you brought up live local. Did you bring that up because of utilizing the interest revenue from the endowment fund to purchase properties? Was that the idea by bringing that up? >> Yeah. I I just wanted to use uh some

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examples of what the possibilities to the board is because you guys are ultimately going to be the fiduciaries of the uh the the overall passive income that we receive off that endowment fund. Whether or not that's a million, whether or not we do do that to purchase property, completely a board decision.

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It was just an option that we went out as well as a debt reduction. So, I'm not a fan of reducing debt if you're paying around a lot of our debt service obligations. We have right around 3 to three and a half% and right now in the market, even money markets, you can get close to uh to that. And if you're uh

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non-committed funds, you can be right around 5 to 7%. So, it's not a not a good idea to pay off debt when it's a lower interest rate and you're making more money on your money that you have static, >> right? So, I think that that is a huge win if we move forward. Um, hopefully we

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do. I think this is an absolute no-brainer. I would like a digital copy because I'm going to make sure every resident in the city sees this and see the generational change that their families can have for those who want to stay in the city. Um, you know, Commissioner McCrae hit it right on the

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head about incorporating, you know, the the worry of, um, you know, employees with a full service city. I know those kind of go hand in hand. And so to be able to ensure that there's elements in place that those jobs remain, I think

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kind of suppresses any worry there. And so really, it creates this is a no-brainer. I mean every person on this dis I believe has advocated for being fiscally conservative. There is nothing more

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fiscally conservative than reducing taxes, becoming more efficient and then ultimately creating an economic spear within the city because it's not just the residents that are going to benefit from this. You are now going to have

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people knocking at the door to move their businesses here. And what does that do? That creates great jobs. What does that do? That creates an opportunity to get class A office space and no more multif family. That gets opportunity to get brandame recreational

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companies into the city because people want to do business in a city where the leaders are fiscally minded. And what does that do for the residents? They're going to stay. And you're going to build a stronger sense of community because their kids are going to stay here. Their grandkids are going to come back. And so

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for me, you know, I don't know if we need a motion or or whatever it is, if it's just consensus, but this is a no-brainer. Obviously, there's concerns. This is a phased approach. It seems like the first one is the fire merger. So, I will say, you know, I hope that if the county's listening, they don't take the

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interest of this um and abuse it, you know, for leverage and negotiations. That's going to be my one thing is uh you know I think the city manager and staff has done a great job and and providing such a thorough presentation and whatever discussions they're having

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you know with the county but um I think you know ultimately we want a fair and um transparent negotiation that people can swallow and that getting resident buyin involved is good. And I think if that happens, you know, obviously, you

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know, the county will then, you know, become a part of the city and our community. And so there's a lot of, you know, events and minute things I think about that I hope that the county will observe like the fisherman's tournament so I can win it again. um, [laughter]

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you know, but um, but in all seriousness, you know, I think it's in the county's best interest to operate in good faith moving forward so that way, you know, the residents are welcoming everyone with open arms. And um, you know, again, when you look at this, this

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is a this is a no-brainer. Uh, I would even argue that majority of people didn't don't know the difference between a full service city or not a full service city. But what they do notice is that their trash doesn't picked up when they dial 911. How fast does someone get there? Or how much they're paying on

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their property tax bill every single year. When people start to see that reduce, when other municipalities are increasing, everyone's going to ask why. And then you're going to have people again clawing at the gates of Boon Beach to do business here. And that just

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creates such a huge economic ripple that everyone benefits from. Um, so I I mean my position is no-brainer. Move forward. >> If this is a home run for the city of Bo Beach, it's a grand slam for the county. I can promise you guys that.

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>> Okay. So, do we have a consensus from the board to continue to move in this direction? >> Yes. Uh, I'm in favor. >> Yes. Real quick, I am in favor of moving forward with um continuing to do research and continuing to have conversations. At the same time, I think

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it's important to maintain public trust and um as we're having these conversations, making sure that we bring actual numbers. I know um a lot of the figures were preliminary, so I want to make sure that we continue to have that conversation. And if the board does decide that we want to move forward with

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further negotiations, I think it there's a lot of value to having town halls with our constituents to make sure we educate the public um in the future. Thank you. I appreciate it. And I uh I'm not going to serenade you guys with any more bone thugs in harmony.

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>> Please don't. Uh uh before you leave, excuse me. Turn around. You look kind of nice down there. >> I was [laughter] very Clark Kentish today. >> Thank you guys. >> Mad to wear the glasses to make you look smarter. >> Um we're now moving on to public

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audience. If people would like to speak, please come down. Same rules applies as I stated in the beginning. You have three minutes. cannot be transferred. Please don't insult the board and only direct the board. Um, after we have everyone speak in the room, we will then move on to anyone that's online.

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So, if you'd like to speak, come on down. Line up at both podiums so we can keep it moving. >> Or you start. >> Here we go. Before you start, um, are we going to be able to speak on any of the other issues at any other time or is

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everything just flat out right now? You have [clears throat] public comment. >> There's public comment on the second reading items. >> Okay. So, >> item 8A. >> Okay. >> And AB have public comment. >> Okay. So, don't start my time yet.

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Here's one for everybody. Oops. Oh, that's mine. Sorry. Um, here we go. One for everybody. I'll take the extras back. back. Okay, thank you. Susan Oyer, Boon Beach.

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So, what I'm passing around is um I know flock cameras are coming up and that's quite the hot topic um especially with all the invasions of privacy and how um things are going to be run with this. I really think you guys need to put some controls on this and be leaders in the field like some of the other cities

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around the nation have done with these types of systems where they put rules in place and say, "Hey, you don't get unlimited." Please don't shake your head, Shauna. You do not get unlimited 10 years to go and pull data. You need

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to if you want data, you have to pull it in 30 days. Here's examples of where flot camera data has gone evil and bad because it's been used and abused. And while I certainly don't think that would come from our police chief or any of our police officers, that's right now.

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That's not to say what's going to happen in the future. So, um, please think and please put some brakes and guard rails if you do decide to go forward with Flock. Please also look at I know there's um some information out there that possibly they're able to tap in and

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use Wi-Fi from your phone and your house and use your personal Wi-Fi to get to to run these machines. So please look deeper. Don't just take it off the top. Um so um as far as the utilities goes um

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I personally worry I I see both sides of this. Stan did a great job. Um, my issue is right now you're paying three people, one of whom has a high school diploma. I believe his name is Josh McDermott. And then there's two other people from West Palm Beach that have just been employed

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by utilities. They're making high six-f figureure incomes. And one of these people only has a high school diploma. I believe the other person is um Charles Phoenix and Amelia Holmes. Maybe you want to reook at how much you're paying these people because no one should be

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making six figures and you're sitting here talking about how there's no money coming in and we need to sell this. So maybe you want to re-evaluate where that money is going, especially to someone who only has a high school diploma. Um, I think if you're looking at doing this

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going forward, maybe you should start, as um, Commissioner Cruz said, doing meetings with the public and maybe you should be looking at, if you're going to sell off our major assets, and I'm not for or against either one. Either way, you really need to sit there and go, we need to have the residents vote on this.

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You need to educate everyone and then you need to put this to a vote. The last thing I handed you is on 10 A. As you guys know, I'm the biggest arts supporter in the city and it's coming up for a discussion on how we're moving forward with the arts fees. Um, so I brought you all the information on the

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cities across the state. I highlighted in orange Boon Beach. All the rest are in blue in Palm Beach County and then I wrote the couple that are not on here down on the bottom so that you can see we are fully in line with the rest of the state. what we're asking for is not outrageous and we really do need to

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support our arts because it brings this tourist it brings us positive attention. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, please. Welcome back. >> Nice to see you. >> That's good. Good to be seen. Woodro, uh I just wanted to put my stamp of

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approval on what our city commander city manager just presented. Uh I would uh caution us uh to move uh slowly and cautious with this uh because I do have uh friends in the political world in

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other cities that went this route and uh it didn't work out. Some some did, some didn't. And they tried to go back and it was just too costly and they found themselves in in in uh and hot water. So, I just want us to be mindful of

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that. Uh, I think that uh I know we can do this. I've been talking with uh staff members about this for a long time. How we can u uh uh increase our revenue sources and uh

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make more money for the city as well as maintain uh the services. But I I just I just want us to be mindful and move slowly on this because once you get out

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there and it doesn't work and uh it's almost impossible to get back. So I was glad to hear that Dan well city manager Dan Douglas said that we do have some contingencies that we're looking at. Um,

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like it or not, I still get calls from many of our citizens and I'm sure I'm going to get calls about this this particular one. And so I would like to as much as possible stay in the loop and have discussions uh with our uh city

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leaders uh on this matter uh because I I like to give I don't want to refer everything to Commissioner McCrae. I'd like to help him out where I can and uh those question that I can answer uh I would like to be able to answer. So uh

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just keep me in the loop if you uh don't mind. Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thanks. Please. >> Thank you. David Catz Boon Beach burning the midnight oil sounds like Hanukkah to me. Um, I want to talk about the art and

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public place um, item uh, 10A. Nonprofits serve a city, serve the county, serve the country, but they don't pay any real estate taxes in the city and they avail themselves of our of our services, police, fire, utilities, garbage, all of

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it. And they don't pay for it. So I would ask you that you move with an abundance of caution by reducing completely what they might pay on expanding their buildings as far as an art and public place. That's a small price to pay. Maybe take it on a a case-byase basis, not totally eliminate

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it. Maybe lower it for nonprofits to a 0.25% instead of the 1%. But don't eliminate it. They we have the right to get from them something from for the city. And that's what I would ask you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, please. Cindy Falca de Curado. Good evening. I

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stand here today not just as a woman with a complaint, but as an American whose heart has been broken by what I have witnessed inside of our system. From the time we are children, we are taught to respect the badge. We are taught that the police officers, prosecutors, and public officials are

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people to honor. People who swear oaths to uphold truth, justice, and the Constitution of the United States. We want to believe that. We believe the badge stands for integrity. We believe the courtroom stands for justice. We believe truth matters. But what happens

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when the very people entrusted to protect the truth begin speaking lies? That is what grieves me. Because when an ordinary citizen attacks someone, they can be charged with assault or abuse. But when officers use excessive force,

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falsify reports, hide evidence, intimidate witnesses, or distort facts, too often they are protected by the very system that should hold them accountable. And that should terrify every American, regardless of political party, race, or

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background. A government cannot remain free when truth no longer matters. A justice system cannot remain just when accountability only applies to the citizens and not to those in power. There are not simply personal grievances. These are injuries against

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public trust. When Americans begin fearing the people sworn to protect them, when prosecutors seek convictions instead of truth. When integrity becomes secondary to protecting protecting departments and careers, then we are no longer dealing with isolated incidences.

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We are witnessing a moral crisis. I still believe in justice. I still believe there are good officers and honest public servants. But silence protects corruption, not integrity. And if we truly love this country, then we must have the courage to expose

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wrongdoing even when it's uncomfortable. Because truth is the foundation of freedom. Without truth, there is no justice. Without justice, there is no liberty. And without liberty, America becomes nothing more than the words wrote on this paper. I beseech you and I

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encourage you as a woman who has been at the hand of the injustices of this governing government here, Boon Beach, Delray Beach, and Palm Beach County. We must do better. And I'm asking and beseeching each one of you sitting on this dis to hold those accountable that have done harm to we the American people

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who are innocent. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, please. Hello everybody. Hello Mayor Shelton, vice mayor and everyone sits on the dis. My name is Andre Thaddius and I'm the executive director for connect the greatness. I wanted to share that um

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thanks to Chief the Julio that we're going to host a voting information. It's called are you registered to vote really? So, this is going to be an educational opportunity to share all the new rules, all the new legislation, all

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the new needs that will be um accounted for for this election cycle. This city will be hosting it and along with connect to greatness, we'll have um shared with League of Women Voters, uh YW.CA, CA EJS project and one of our goals is to really inform in particular

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the the students because right now what I just found out a little while ago is that the 16-year-olds with driver's license they can pre-register to vote right now. So, I know just I've already talked to the athletic department at Boon High School and they will be

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present and I've started talking with the churches here in uh city of Boon Beach so that we can really all come out and inform each other and so everyone can be kind of up to date of what the new changes are. And I just wanted to say thank you to Boon for allowing us to

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do this. Um, it's going to be on Saturday, June 13th, 10 am to 2 pm at the Bon Beach Police Department. And we're just going to have tables and inform information. We'll have food and just really try to understand,

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you know, [clears throat] the advocacy pieces for these young people so we can understand why you guys sit here like you do and how um they can be informed. And also for the parents um that needs to reregister or maybe the the women

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that are divorced or just got married, the new rules that you need with your new ID and how it has to match everything perfectly. So, so on that date, we just invite you all to come out. Um the whole cities welcome to come out and we just want to share and give back. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Next, please. >> How you doing? My name is Nikki King. Um I'm following up on arrivals um through the county commissioner office. Um Mr. Greg Weiss. Um I'm an employee of Washington DC. Um I'm also here just to

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let you guys know that I'm back in my community home area um following up about my three daughters that's been missing um of a kidnapping for these 5 to eight years. Um, and also I believe that the community is totally different

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now. There's lots of new neighbors that I'm in and dislike about. Um, it's not polite to do that in the community. Um, because it's lots of people that's on a trespass that really

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shouldn't be in this community. Um, so moving forward, just wanted to let all the commissioners know that Nikki King is back home in her original home area from Washington DC following up under US Senator Rick Scott for the state of

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Florida and of the state of Florida. Well, he's let him tell he's of the state of Florida, too. >> Thank you. Anyone online? >> No, mayor. There is nobody online. >> Thank you. Um, if no one else will come up, there's no one online. Public

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comment is officially closed. Moving on to advisory board and appointments. We have two applications. Two applicants for the building board of adjustment and appeals. The first nomination for me to appoint a regular member to the building board of adjustment and appeals. I would like to make a motion to appoint Gary

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Swanson. Do do we have a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and we have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. The next nomination is for Commissioner Cruz to appoint a regular member to the building board of adjustments and appeals. Do you have a motion?

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>> Thank you, Mayor. Yes. I'll go ahead and make a motion to appoint Michael Cass. >> Second. >> We have a motion and we have a second to appoint Michael Cassell. All those in favor say I. I. All those oppose say nay. Motion passes. Thank you very much. There are no applicants for the following boards, but we encourage

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residents to apply if you're interested. The Education and Youth Board has one alternate and two student member positions available. Historic Resources Preservation Board has three regular and one alternate. The Library Board has two regular and one alternate. The Senior Advisory Board has three regular and two

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alternate positions. We will now be moving on to the consent agenda. If any of my colleagues want to pull any items from consent agenda, let's begin on my left with Commissioner McCrae. >> Thank you. Um Mayor, I don't want to pull anything. I'm good. Thank you. >> Thank you, Commissioner Kelly.

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>> Uh no, thank you, Mayor. >> Commissioner Cruz, >> not for me. Thank you. And I don't have anything. >> Motion to approve consent agenda. >> Second. >> We have a motion to approve consent agenda. We have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay.

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>> Motion passes. Moving on to consent bids and purchases. We'll now be um would any of my colleagues like to pull any items? Let's begin to my left. I mean, I'm sorry, my right with Commissioner Cruz. >> No, thank you. >> Commissioner Kelly. >> Uh, no, Mayor. Thank you. >> And Commissioner McCrae.

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>> I'm good, Mayor. Thank you, sir. >> Motion to approve consent bids and purchases. >> Second. >> We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. Um, moving on, we have two public hearing items. Public comment will be permitted. I'll turn to the

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clerk to read item 8A. Proposed ordinance number 26-014 second reading an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Boon Beach Florida regarding chapter 2 article 1 section 2-15 and any amendments thereafter which establish limitations

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on board member advocacy and lobbying in the city of Boon Beach providing for codification providing for variability providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date. >> Thank you so much. This is the second reading for this item. Have there been any changes from staff?

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>> There's been no changes. >> Okay. Um um before we go to public comment, is there any comments from the commission or questions? Okay. And if anyone has public comment, now is the time to come down. If there's nothing else, do we have a

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motion to approve propo proposed ordinance number 26-014 on second reading? >> Second. >> We have turning to you for roll call. >> Yeah. >> Commissioner Kelly. Yes. >> Commissioner McCrae. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Cruz. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Turkin. >> Yes. >> Mayor Shelton. >> Yes.

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>> And a roll call vote. The motion passes unanimously. >> Thank you. And I will also turn back to you to read in I item 8B. >> Proposed ordinance number 26-015. Second reading an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Boon Beach, Florida. Amending chapter six of the

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code of ordinances relating to Boon Beach memorial park cemetery and Syra sim cemetery. Revising policies governing the transfer and resale of cemetery plots. Providing for trans transfer limitations to immediate family, prohibiting private resale, reoccurring resale to the city,

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providing for a prospective application, providing for conflicts of variability, codification, and an effective date. >> Thank you. This is the second reading for this item. Have there been any changes? >> Changes. >> No changes. Okay. Any comments from the qu commission or questions before we

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open up to public comment? >> Okay. Public comment will be permitted at this time. >> Okay. If there's nothing else, may we have a motion to approve? >> Approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion to approve ordinance number 26-015. We have a second. All

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those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. >> You need a roll call. >> Oh, sorry. Roll call. [laughter] >> Commissioner [clears throat] Kelly? >> Yes. >> Commissioner McCra? >> Yes. >> Commissioner [snorts] Cruz? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Turkin? >> Yes. >> Mayor Shelton? >> Yes. >> And a roll call vote. The motion passes unanimously.

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>> Thank you. Next, we're moving on to regular agenda item 10A. The staff is requesting commission direction on whether to incorporate a commission approved waiver option in the art and public places program for qualifying nonprofit organizations. Commissioner Kelly, we will start with you. Are there

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any questions or comments? >> Thank you, Mayor. You know, this was brought up to me um and it's not it was brought up and the reason I I asked for it was because of a partic a not for profofit in an industrial area that was

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kind of like why do you know I have this public art fee um but I'm in an industrial area who's really seeing this art and I can feed so many more residents with the money that we would be paying into an art fee. So it it of

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course had me speak with staff um about what those options are. And so that's where this discussion um came from. And so um thank you uh to staff for uh doing this research and for uh having this presentation. I think it's important

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that we're always looking at and I agree I don't think there should be a 100% um waiver of of any of the art and public places. I think it is important, but I think there's unique situations where you have maybe um like in in in the situation I'm speaking of where it's in

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an industrial area and nobody is ever going to see this art and so what's the value in it? Um and so as opposed to the value in feeding our senior residents and our and our you know other residents

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who are are food hungry. So anyway um so thank you to staff. Uh take it away. So, thank you. >> Right. Good evening. Gabe Sveni, interim director, planning and zoning division. Uh, I do apologize. I can't compete with the hype videos, so we'll try to keep it to the arts and public places. Um, so

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again, this is a a direction from commission to bring this before you for nonprofit exemption request. Currently, I wanted to go over how the AIP process works. Projects that are over $500,000 are required to enter into the program. They can agree to install

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art or they can do a fee of uh that that the amount of the art or the fee is a 1% of the overall budget of the construction costs. If they do agree to go into the fee in lie of on top of that they get another 10% reduction uh for

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those overall fees. So at time of building permit they would be required to pay 30% of that administrative fee and the remainder at time of co. Again, right now, what we consider current exemptions are going to be projects with construction value under 500,000, affordable workforce housing

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projects, and normal maintenance and natural, excuse me, natural damage repair. Uh, how Florida cities handle, we did research several of the jurisdictions. There's two that only have an outright exemption. Uh, and there are five that actually do a commission approved

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waiverss. uh staff is in the position that whichever route going is that it is commission approved for the um update, excuse me. Financial impact of the blanket exemption. Currently, we have 126 projects that are in the public art

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program since 2021. Uh as you know, a couple years ago, the amount went from 250,000 to the 500,000. Um therefore aiding several of the small businesses that are in town. uh if there was a current uh exemption, outright exemption or for any 5013C, you're looking at an

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overall 15% reduction in the art and public places uh budget. Uh some of the ex uh examples are feeding South Florida that was mentioned and several of the hospitals. Hospitals being probably one of the number one uh 501c3s that would be exempted.

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So considerations for the discussion obviously the scope of the 5013C status equity among the participants impact of the public art fund eligibility criteria and one of the bigger ones change of use or ownership some kind of agreement that

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if it's sold at the end uh to then a for-profit group that we would be able to come back and uh obtain those funds again the alternative and this is what staff supports is a commission approved waiver um establishing those criteria as mentioned on the previous slide for the

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501c3 status uh demonstrate that the project primarily serves a public benefit uh that the facility will be used principally for mission delivery submits required financial documents and excuse me there's a glare on the screen

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I can't see that last one executive compensation and organizational expenses meet the IRS reasonleness standards majority of the budget allocated to direct program services supporting the community. This would mirror uh five of the seven that

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we did find. So what we're seeking now is for the guidance is option A, the full waiver process. Uh that would again come back to commission. Uh a blanket exemption not recommended. Uh option C, not changing anything. Uh one of the options that could be as well is that

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was spoken of tonight is reducing that 1% uh portion of it down. Uh but this would be a land development regulation change. So with the direction of commission, staff would be able to do that and bring that back to you for uh any final approvals. >> And that's it for staff.

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>> Thank you. Um any questions or comments from the rest of the commission? >> Question. >> Question. >> Okay. >> Thank you, staff. Uh option C. Is that the one that we're presently operating under? >> Yes, sir. >> That's all I need to know. Thank you.

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Um, I do have a quick question. Um, >> can't hear you. >> Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? >> Yeah. >> Great. Okay. Um, when it comes to the waiver process, I I um I do want to thank uh Commissioner Kelly for for bringing this up. I know it comes from a

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very good place and, you know, you just want to have a heart to to help the nonprofits that are, you know, helping our community in a very tangible way. So, I commend you for that. Um, I do want to ask legal potentially if there's is there and I guess there's no right

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answer 100% guarantee in a world of litigation as as this world is, but um if we were to create a waiver process where the commission were to decide on who gets the exception and who doesn't,

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um, is there a potential for someone to litigate and say, "Well, you gave them, you know, a waiver, but you didn't give me a waiver. for um that was thank you. You know that's I always think about possibilities for for litigation and trying to protect the city from from

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having to spend a lot of money in in those sorts of endeavors. So because this would be part of your land development deals. We believe it would fall under quasi judicial and under that you would have to obviously I believe develop criteria that would be part of your ordinance because quasi judicial

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can be appealed to circuit court as opposed to legislative and so um yes there is a possibility for suit. So I I think whatever you guys decide to do there has to be a criteria and then they would have to prove that criteria so

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that um it's fair and unbiased for it and if if they don't prove the qualifying criteria whatever that is you know and then you did approve it then yes obviously that opens it up to challenge. >> Thank you for that. Okay. Uh, so in that

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in response that I I would propose that we I'm sorry, can we go back to the options? Um, I would and again up to Commissioner Kelly because you're the one you're the one that brought it up. Um, but I would support a uh potentially a waiver process that creates um, you know,

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certain rules that are used the same way for for everyone. And and maybe it could be it could be two things, right? It could be potentially being a nonprofit and if we want to make it, you know, serving food to the community that's directly going to Bo Beach residents or whatever we come up with. I think maybe

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those two things could be reasonable. >> Go ahead. Um, just for clarification, I'm a little bit confused on what um, so are we looking to just eliminate the 1% art fee in totality for nonprofits or do we have

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the ability to scale them down? >> I think that's what we're here to see guidance on when we can start drafting and bring >> I'm open. I don't want to eliminate it in totality and cherrypick who does and who doesn't because there's a lot of people in the political world that run nonprofits and if they have friends in

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here in the future then you're going to have nepotism and so not and I'm not that is not an accusation let me make that first and foremost clear that is just forward thinking and so I think even though like a a maybe it's a waiver process and maybe we we hash it down to

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like half a percent is that is that maybe a compromise I do like what was brought up about like if they opt in to the like in lie of that is that is better. I think I'd be more inclined to do something that incentivizes that

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because then that allows the city to kind of you know have more control with how those those funds are expended. Um but I don't want to eliminate it all together. Um definitely just want to maybe reduce it because I think there is

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you know there there is a realm where we can you know you know again attract more nonprofits to expand or move here by having you know friendlier regulations no different than for-profit businesses. Um, you know,

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I it's dynamic conversation because then you could argue that, well, you know, these for-profit businesses are now bringing higherend jobs. They're not getting the same treatment. You know, I mean, there's there's a lot of variables that go into this. Um, but I would definitely like to expand and explore

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some further option where we reduce we reduce it maybe a little bit but not eliminate it is my position. >> Good evening, Amanda Ratigan. a couple things. I think we can combine all these ideas into one. >> Can you hear me now? >> Yes.

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>> Okay. I think I think what we could do is put together an ordinance that combines several of these ideas. Um I think that the waiver process is important that it is commission approved and then on top of that the we have a draft of criteria. So the waiver process will have criteria that it's review

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against and then we can set maximum. So if you meet this criteria instead of paying the 1% um you would get a higher reduction um for the pay in le of program meaning if you are building art it could stay at the 1% and we can incentivize the pay in

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le of option the same way we did recently with the revamp of this program. So right now there's a blanket 10% if you are doing the fee in lie of we can up that to a 40% reduction in fee or or whatever the board is comfortable with through this waiver process for

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nonprofits. >> Thank you staff. Uh how long has we been doing art in public places? I'm just saying I know for years >> 2006. >> That's about right. About 20 years or so. about about 20 years. Have we had

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any changes within those 20 years to this process? >> Absolutely. So just recently, I would say in the last year and a half or so, we did a full revamp of the process. Um and the direction from the board was to incentivize the fee in lie of program

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over the art program which would allow the board more control um for spending of public art in public places. We also expanded the use of the public art funds to go towards beautifification of public spaces as well. >> Thank you. Because I was going to say if

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it's not broken, don't worry about fixing it. You know, I'm just saying but I had that you all had made a change. So I'm trying to catch up with the change that you all have made prior. So I'm with the majority up here. >> Yeah. I think the other notable change is that this threshold used to be $250,000

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which was killing small businesses and the commission raised that to to 500,000. So that way they weren't taxed. >> And while that wasn't a waiver, that was to try and get some small businesses outside of this uh of this threshold. >> And we created a maximum cap. >> Yes, there's also a maximum cap of 1

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million. >> Yep. >> Okay. So for direction, I just want to make sure that we have our marching orders. We're going to bring back a code amendment um that creates a waiver process um for specifically nonprofits

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that would allow them to uh request a waiver or a reduction in the art fee of x%. >> A half of a percent isn't that what you >> Yes. Yeah. >> So it would be a reduction >> 40% in the lie of if they

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>> 40%. >> Yeah. they want to pay 40% in lie of that's great because almost it's it selfishly like forces their hand like they're going to they're going to give the city the money and then you know staff can do that as they will. >> Okay. So we'll bring it back at 40%

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obviously our first reading if there are any changes staff can make them at that time. >> And I wanted to see if we could make it a two-part system where it's first being a nonprofit like the first condition but then having a second condition of providing a certain service or feeding or >> that would be part of the criteria. So

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there are six that we presented, but we'll continue working through uh some of those to make sure it's rich and we can take feedback at first reading as well. >> Yeah. And maybe we can look at um you know also like their annual you know revenue like I mean I don't know if

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anyone up here has gotten a hospital bill recently or not but it's hard to believe that hospitals are run as not forprofits because I can promise you there's people making profits out there in the hospital business. >> Yes. And I will say just from being part

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of this process um they are the highest contributors when we are talking about nonprofits. >> So um >> but they would have to come in for the waiver. >> Right. Of course. No. And you know, and I think, yeah, I like lots of criteria

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because I think that once you you really look at the criteria of you really truly have to be, you know, not for profofit giving to our community, you know, giving, you know, it's not just you're a not for-p profofit because that's what looks best on your business profile. So,

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um, so anyway, yeah. So, thank you, um, to my colleagues and we'll look for, um, you know, for the draft. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> We are now moving on to item 10B, discussion and approval for legislative break. Staff is recommending cancelling

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the July 21st and August 4th, 2026. Are there any questions or comments? >> Yeah, [clears throat] instead of cancel, I would say consolidate. I don't want city like if we can consolidate any forward thinking items that need to be brought up in earlier in the month and then later in the month in August, I

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think that would be important. >> Yeah, we'll do it like we did last year where we uh we triage the most important items. We'll definitely frontload them, make sure uh that all the operational necessity items are passed. >> Okay. >> So, say that again because I wasn't with

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you all last time, but any all the as an emergency during this period, we have a way to work it. Hamlet. Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Be on the vice mayor because I'll be out of the country. >> Yeah. I'm not going anywhere.

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>> I'm not going anywhere. I don't reckon. If you guys wanted, you could pass a resolution to temporarily up my threshold of spending to 10 million. [laughter] >> What? >> If there's no further comment, do we have a motion? >> So move. >> Motion to have a motion and we have a second. All those in favor say I. I.

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>> I. All those opposed say nay. >> Um if there is nothing else or any more comments tonight, do we have a motion to >> We just adjourned. >> Oh, we did. I thought we just did the for the approve. The time is now. I can't see the clock. 7:30 p.m. and we

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are adjourned. Mhm. They were