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Video-Count: 2
Video-1: youtube.com/watch?v=sGuDTvk6sD0
Video-2: youtube.com/watch?v=3bfZ5VzZj-Q

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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: sGuDTvk6sD0):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order, Invocation, Pledge Allegiance, Roll Call
- 00:01:51: Agenda Approval, Legal Updates, Member Informational Items
- 00:05:13: Public Comments: City Events, Program Honor Request
- 00:10:51: Residential Improvement Grant Program Discussion and Approval
- 00:17:17: CRA Business Development Transfer Discussion: Events Data Overview
- 00:23:44: Event Transfer Discussion: Future Events, Legal Considerations
- 00:34:35: Additional Public Comment: Partnering Together, Event Concerns
- 00:41:59: Budget Considerations: Circuit Transportation Expansion Discussion
- 00:57:52: CRA Board Workshop Date and Agenda Finalization
- 01:00:13: Community Input Survey Results for West Boynton Beach Boulevard
- 01:09:12: Interlocal Agreement for City Services Discussion
- 01:27:32: Interlocal Agreement Approval Vote and Adjournment
- 01:29:30: Financial Oversight Plan Presentation and Policy Discussion

Part 2 (Video ID: 3bfZ5VzZj-Q):
- 00:00:04: Facility Improvements and Community Engagement Overview
- 00:01:54: Growth in Community Participation, Leagues, and Tournaments
- 00:03:48: Operational Modernization and Community Hub Activities
- 00:06:16: Thank You, Commission Comments, Tennis Center Improvements
- 00:06:33: Public Comment: Tennis Center Membership and Scholarships
- 00:07:39: Public Comment: Membership, Utilization, and Improvements
- 00:11:59: Public Comment: Senior Discounts and School Programs
- 00:14:59: Public Comment: First Responders Lunch and Recognition
- 00:17:40: Public Comment: Hotspots, Trees, Grants, and Celebrations
- 00:20:06: Public Comment: Federal Highway Design and Improvements
- 00:22:33: Public Comment: Taste of Boon and Community Appreciation
- 00:23:23: Public Comment: Flock Center Costs and Camera Concerns
- 00:26:59: Public Comment: Red Light Cameras and City Safety
- 00:28:59: Advisory Board Appointments and Remaining Board Openings
- 00:30:02: Consent Agenda Approval, Financial Report Review
- 00:31:09: Financial Report Discussion: Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus
- 00:34:28: Consent Bids Approval, Federal Highway Project Discussion
- 00:37:08: Federal Highway Collaboration, Beautification, and Roadways
- 00:40:39: Public Hearing: Nuisance Abatement and Community Redevelopment
- 00:41:42: Chronic Nuisance Discussion and Vote on Ordinance
- 00:43:05: Second Reading and Vote on Community Redevelopment Ordinance
- 00:44:08: City Manager Report: Beautification and Streets Division Overview
- 00:46:11: Tasks, Responsibilities, and Daily Street Services
- 00:48:18: Beautification Achievements, Graffiti Removal, and Audit
- 00:50:31: Collaboration, Standards, and City Street Maintenance
- 00:50:48: Public Appreciation, Beautification, Support, and Adjournment


Part: 1

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--------- you so much for coming. Today is Tuesday, April 21st, 2026. The time is now 6:00 p.m. And this joint meeting of Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency Board in the City of Boynton Beach Commission is now called to order. The City of Boynton Beach Commission meeting will start the conclusion of

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this joint meeting. Let's proceed to uh the invocation led by Pastor Bryce Hudson of Christ Fellowship Church, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Board Member Kelly. Let's bow our heads and pray together. Father, we invite you in this space uh

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to this joint meeting knowing that uh you will fill this space. You will give wisdom and discernment where there may not be any. You will bring peace and hope uh where there is needed. And Father, we are grateful for those gathered here and what they mean to our community. We pray that this community be a light for all to see. They would

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see what it means when we come together uh and desire the hope that only comes from you. Your holy and awesome name, we give this time to you. Your name we pray. Amen. 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. Thank you, everybody. We will now turn to our interim City Clerk, Tammy Stanzione. If you could

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please begin the roll call. Board Member Cruz? Present. Board Member McCray? Present. Board Member Kelly? Here. Vice Chair Turkin? Present. Mayor Shelton? Here. Chair, you have a quorum. Thank you. We are now moving on to additions,

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deletions, corrections to the agenda. Let's begin on my right with Board Member Cruz. Are there any additions, deletions, or corrections? >> Nothing for me. Thank you. Board Member Turkin? Uh nothing, Chair. Thank you. Board Member Kelly? No, thank you, Chair. And Board Member McCray? Nothing, Chair. Thank you. May I have a motion to

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approve the agenda as presented? >> Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion to approve and we have a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. Let's now turn to legal counsel. Are there any updates?

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Good evening. Nothing from uh Katherine Rossmoel, Lewis, Longman, and Walker on behalf of CRA. Thank you. Let's now begin informational items and disclosures by CRA Board Members and Staff. We will begin on my left with Board Member McCray. Uh thank you, uh Board Chair. I have

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nothing for this meeting, but I have something for the next meeting. Thank you. >> Board Member Kelly? Uh no, thank you, Chair. Board Member Turkin? Um I just want to say that we have a park clean up at the um cemetery on the 23rd

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from 9:00 to 12:00 for anyone who wants to uh assist us in help helping and serving our community. And then the other thing I'd like, if I can get consensus from my colleagues, is to look at potential get some foresight for potential issues

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with the downtown parking as all these um projects come out of the ground. I think it's important that we minimize the amount of impact that we see for these businesses in the downtown already. And so whether that's looking at some type of um you know, shuttle, you know,

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partnering with the private sector to make sure that they're not taking up all this public parking as these projects get done by their by their subcontractors and etc. I think it's important that we identify and have this foresight to look and see how we can offset um the impact of parking from

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what we'll see, you know, with all these projects coming out of the ground, if that if that makes sense. And the cleanup's this Saturday? The cleanup is Thursday. Thursday. Yes. And then the potential parking, is it something that you want to add or put it on our workshop agenda when we decide

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that in the next meeting? >> I think I mean, I think it's really an item that you know, the staff and the CRA can look at. Okay. >> Um you know, because we already have one out of the ground, you know, shelling's done for that one. You know, we have I think three or four in permitting now.

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And so I just don't want these businesses getting impacted if all of a sudden these um the contractors, subcontractors are taking up all of that space for potential tenants or even residents in existing um parcels. So I think it'd be important

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to partner with those developers in order to identify what How can we offset that? Maybe it's a shuttle to the mall. Maybe it's somewhere else. You know, they do this in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. And so I think um you know, we don't need to reinvent the wheel, but kind of look and see what other, you

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know, cities have done to help mitigate that issue. Yeah, we might have some empty lots that we can use Exactly. for that purpose. Okay. Board I I Chair, I I'd like to say we need to do it sooner than later. I'm just saying cuz it's already upon us. I'm all in favor. Thank you.

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Okay. So we have consensus on moving forward from everyone on that. Okay. Good. Let's move on to the next portion of the agenda, public comments. The public comment section of the meeting is for the public comment on all items on the agenda or

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>> social media, press, and how many people are actually sharing on social media. So what is that They're they're not necessarily tangible things, but you certainly get a lot of goodwill out of it. So um and and then what is

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how many people from outside the city, outside the area are coming to these things. So I think you should consider losing um just looking at hard numbers, the MLK, the Say It Out Loud, Pearl Harbor, the Bon Appetit, and the Holiday Parade. Um the ones that I think maybe

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you should consider looking at possibly cutting down the number of events would be like the Rock the Plaza and um the First Fridays, which I know are very heavily attended, but you know, in the summer it's really miserable and and I think maybe we should relook at that.

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The 9/11, I think maybe we should be shifting that to a big anniversary like a like a five or a 10-year cycle, not every single year at this point cuz you don't see that happening in everywhere else anymore either. Not to downplay what happened, but you know, at some

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point we have to be cycling through this. Um the ones that obviously are worth keeping are the 4th of July, especially this year with America 250. Um Memorial Day, which seems to have a great turnout. Pirate Fest, of course, it's one of our key item one of our key

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events. Um Juneteenth, what an amazing bang for your buck that we get for that. That is obviously a great summer program and it goes over very well. Um the Eggstravaganza, um Fall Festival goes over very well.

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Veterans Day, the Night Market, Boat Parade, the Tree Lighting, and the Taste of Boynton Beach. Um and and the Santa thing, I think we have too many Santas. I think maybe we should narrow it down to one Santa. So, in as I know you guys are looking to start talking about that

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going forward, that would be my input for you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, and I think one other thing is the guy who's out there who does the reading program with these kids after school every day, somebody needs to be doing something to honor this man. He's out there on on the

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the stadium the the stage out in it there right now with a bunch of kids teaching them how to read. How many hundreds of have learned to read because of this guy? And what are we as a city doing to honor him? I mean, he blows me away. Sorry. But he's really great. And what are we

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doing for him? I mean, does any Do you guys even notice? Every time I come to this this building, he's there with kids helping them. So, maybe we should be doing something no matter which group. Thank you. Anyone online?

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Okay. Just be sure. Okay. Thank you, everybody. Public comment is now closed. Let's now move on to items under new business. The first item is the discussion and consideration of the residential

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improvement grant program, which was tabled on April 14th, 2026 meeting to a date certain on April 21st, 2026. If we want to discuss this item, it will need to be untabled. Would any of my colleagues like to make a motion? Motion to move from the table.

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We have a motion and we have a second to untable this item. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. Bonnie, could you open the item, please? >> Sure. Good evening, board. Bonnie Nicklin, grants and project manager. I'm

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happy to do a quick recap and if you'd like I can run through the presentation. At the March CRA board meeting, the board were they were presented terms for residential improvement grant. We went through those options and you finalized the terms. So, we've simplified that in a presentation just to recap if you'd

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like me to run through it. And then the next steps would be um consolidating these terms into a grant program, which we anticipate bringing back to you at the May CRA board meeting. And then shortly thereafter we can um launch the program. So, if you'd like I can run through. Okay. So, the mission and the goal of the

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program would be to enhance neighborhood revitalization by providing financial resources that allow residential properties to improve and restore their homes, strengthen community pride, and promote a safe and attractive living environment. And this stems out of uh the CRA's uh funding to code enforcement

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officers that are specific to the CRA boundaries and kind of go above and beyond um the normal day-to-day for code. So, this would be in partnership with them and we met with code to kind of find out those highest ticket items to address through this grant program.

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So, this will go through the applicant eligibility, program parameters, and eligible improvements. These were the final terms uh agreed upon. The uh eligible pool would be for those who are subject to enforcement and also voluntary

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applicants. It would only be for owner-occupied properties, no rentals at this time, and only for single-family detached homes. The properties must be uh free of liens unless the grant can remedy the lien and same for code violations, no active code

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cases unless the grant can remedy the violation as well. The third point isn't going to be applicable at this time cuz it's a brand new program, but it would be limited to one per property address for every 5 years. The funding amount uh the board had consensus on $10,000 per property

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address. There would be a $100 application fee. And the funding reimbursement would be or disbursement would be direct pay to the contractor. That way it would encourage more participation from home homeowners who might be facing those violations.

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We have identified $100,000 that we can use as a pilot program to launch this fiscal year and then the board can decide moving forward based on the pilot program success um how they'd like to fund it in future fiscal years. Of that $100,000, $50,000 would be reserved for voluntary applications and

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the other 50,000 would be reserved for those who are um under code violations. And for the contractor, legal can expand uh in a little more detail, but we can provide a list of qualified contractors to the homeowners. The CRA would not be in a position to fund deposits.

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The CRA nor the city would be performing the contracted work and it was board consensus that if the um applicant met all the eligibility requirements of the grant application, that they could be approved administratively by staff. They would not come before the CRA board every

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month for approval. And the list of eligible improvements is this list. We're, you know, trying to to make the biggest impact we can with $10,000. So, paint, paving, power washing, plants. Um we're not going to go for sod um and fence staining, repair, tree

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landscaping, trimming site triangle issues, and then driveway repair and expansion. And then as far as next steps, we are going to bring back those program documents in May and if uh the board has any other direction tonight, we can incorporate that uh into the program

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documents. And we're here for any questions. I have one. Thank you, Bonnie. In regards to receiving these funds, how long will a homeowner have to live in that property before they could I don't want to fix up somebody home and

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then I turn around and look at it and it's on the market for sale. That's true. Um with prior executive leadership, we had discussed um internally a 2-year. 2 years? 2 years. Thank you. Otherwise, it would be paid back. All right.

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>> [clears throat] >> My other question would be um is this going to be marketed amongst all four districts so that everyone knows about it? It would be limited to the CRA boundaries because it's a CRA grant. Yes. I have one other question. It might not

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have anything to do with this, but who's responsible for the home of the month? I can see that sign pop up every now and then in the community. I'm not sure. That's the uh city, sir. That's uh the code enforcement department with Candace Stone and Pat Hart. I thank you for

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that, but the first time you all put your home of the month sign, I called in because you had misspelled words on it. I'm sorry. I I remember that. >> [laughter] >> I I think we forgot the M. We we're sorry. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Oh, jeez. Stop it.

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Oh, jeez. Clever. That's a joke. Are there any other questions from my colleagues? >> [laughter] >> Would any of my colleagues like to make a motion? I'd like to offer a motion that we move forward with this program with the items

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and things that was stated that we follow this to the letter. Thank you. I second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you, Bonnie. Thank you, board. Thanks for all your work on this. Yeah.

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The next item for discussion and consideration is the transfer of the CRA business development promotions to the city, which was tabled on April 14th to today's date. If we want to discuss this item, we need it untabled. Will any of my colleagues like to make a motion to untable this item? >> So moved. Second. We have a motion and a

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second. All those in favor of the motion say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. Um Ms. Copeland, can you open the item or Amanda? Um good evening, board. My name's Amanda

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Onda, division director of events. And and good evening, Mercedes Copeland, business develop- Excuse me. Business development manager for the CRA. Um tonight we have um a pres- a provided a presentation if you would like us to preview it for you of the events and promotions. It's a

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data-driven overview of both CRA and city events. Um and it would basically present you with data from 2025 so that we can give you actual numbers with um attendance. Would you like us to proceed?

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Okay, great. Pushing it. It's not moving. We turned it off. Ow. Sorry, it was off. >> [laughter] >> Okay. So, um in 2018, the laws changed that are governed CRAs that basically removed language stating

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including but not limited to. With that change, um it basically um left some ambiguity regarding how CRAs could fund events. Um so, that's why we're having this conversation tonight. At the February 10th board meeting, um

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legal presented a memo that basically provided a risk analysis of our CRA promotions. The holiday boat parade, snapshots with Santa, night market, and the spring market were all flagged as high risk primarily because of their connection to holidays as well as the markets having expanded their growth for

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what they originally were um launched to produce uh to promote our local CRA businesses. So, following that meeting, um city and CRA staff met and we discussed how the city could potentially assume responsibility for some of the CRA promotions and it was

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determined at that time that it would not be um feasible to allocate additional funding to expand the events budget for the city within fiscal year 2026-2027 and that accommodating any of the CRA promotions would require some restructuring of the city's current event resources. Um and that could be

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done with budget reductions, adjustments, or even eliminations of certain city-hosted events. Um but the primary goal would be to continue delivering high-quality signature events for our community. Okay, so we prepared an analysis

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an analysis for you. So, we compiled a list of all the city-wide signature events including recreation and arts and culture. As you can see, we have 24 total including three veteran-focused events and our monthly First Fridays at 5. And for the CRA, we have 12 promotions

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that are budgeted. Um all of our activations are produced to spotlight local businesses and encourage community members to shop locally. The majority of our activations do occur intentionally during the summer months, which is typically the slow season for our local businesses.

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To give you a comparison, we researched how many events the surrounding cities execute in a year. So, you can see the numbers right there. Some of the numbers in West Palm and Wellington seem high because they have a weekly event similar to our First Fridays. Placer AI is a new software the city is

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utilizing. It is a location intelligence platform that uses cell phone data to track attendance of events, where people are coming from, and where they are going afterwards. And we use this software to perform the analysis and you'll see that on the next slide. So, this slide represents a city-wide

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signature events. They are in order by budget. We also included the attendance from 2025, any revenue that was gained from the event, the net cost, and finally the cost per person. In total, the city is currently spending 1,378,000

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to execute events. This is an overview of the CRA promotions. It mirrors the exact spreadsheet that Amanda just referenced for the city. In total, we have 419,000 that is budgeted for the CRA promotions.

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So, for the total, we have 36 signature events between the CRA and the city. The 24 events hosted across the city departments is approximately 1.3 million. With the CRA, like I said, 419,000 for a total of 1.8 million,

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just under 1.8 million for events. Okay, and you can go into event performance. So, this slide represents the top-performing events including both the city and the CRA in order by attendance. So, if you can see, the Night Market and Pirates Fest both bring over 12,000

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people to our city. And then the next slide represents the lowest-performing events in order of attendance. The First Fridays, I find the attendance can vary based on the time of year, the band selection, and also the weather plays a big part.

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Okay, so basically that data present that just highlights the full scope of city and CRA events including our overall budget, estimated attendance, and cost per attendee. I did provide a printout of the backup items for you so that you could review that. Staff is

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seeking direction on how the board would like to proceed with the events, specifically which CRA promotions that you would like to proceed with that have not yet been hosted this fiscal year. Thank you. Are there any questions from my colleagues at this time? Sure. I do. Thank you, board.

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One of the citizens stood up for a portion tonight and said that they would like to get rid of the MLK Day and say it loud. I think probably the reason that this is not being very well attended is because of lack of how we promote this. I'm just saying I noticed the city now you all

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have stepped up your game on promoting what we're doing here. I wouldn't want it to be cut. I'd like for us to give it another shot, these two events, and promote it as much as you can. Then if it comes back low attendance, then we can revisit. We did alter the MLK Day this this past

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year because we knew the attendance has been lower and there was a pretty significant budget attached to it. A lot of it was due to the time of year and just bad weather every year. So, we changed that and we have already altered the budget. We were just reflecting 2025. I feel like this past year was

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successful. We did more of a banquet and acknowledging and a day of service and had about 100 people for under 15,000. I appreciate that. Thank you. Chair. Um Amanda, real quick. So, the the one

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when we spoke about this at the last meeting, kind of [snorts] uh you know, in I don't know what I said. Like just casual conversation talking about the events. Um one of my concerns with

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um pushing off, let's say, the Night Market. I mean, the Night Market is our most successful event when you look at both city and CRA. Um and I know that in your budget you're not showing any available funding for that.

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So, this will go to Catherine, too. Um because that has been so successful and I think a lot of that has to do with the dates. Mercedes has been very cognizant on picking dates that

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everyone's kind of back from summer vacations. Yeah. Um but still not back at school yet. And I fear that because other cities have picked up on our Night Market success and have

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secured other dates other than that weekend, that if we go and cancel it even for a year, um that there's a a good chance that we'll lose the that opportunity to have that Night Market again. And it is a very

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successful event for our not only for our city, but for our businesses. And so, I get and this is because we're having this good reason to have this joint meeting is because I I wonder if there is a mechanism to allow

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us to continue or to partner between the CRA and the city to make sure that this event still happens this year so that we until we can transition it. Because what happened

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with Pirate Fest, it's a prime example. It got transferred to the city. The city didn't have it budgeted. The CRA got it off of their budget. And then it was gone. And we were lucky enough where we were able to to capture it because there was enough hype that

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people wanted Boynton Beach to still carry Pirate Fest. We were able to kind of secure a date and say, "No, it's coming back. It's coming back. It's here. We're not going anywhere." Um but I just wonder if there is a way that we can do a

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a a smooth transition where it's not just going straight from the CRA off of their budget and onto the city budget so that we don't lose it this year. I agree. Since I've started, I think we all know that I'm about 6 months new. Mercedes has been a wealth of knowledge

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and I've utilized that. Depending on your decision, we have spoken that yes, we would love this year where I could work with them, understand how they execute it so that if it is approved for next year that we could take it on smoothly. So, we're Our events team is ready to

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work on it this year if that's the direction you would like. And then I guess my question to Catherine is then what um with partnering with the city, do we assuming it kind of lessens the the risk because we're not

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um it's not a full event. But can you just briefly talk about that for a second? Just Yes. So, I'm going to back up by just clarifying a little bit of the legal background, which is that events are it's unclear in the statute and that there is some support for activities by

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CRA undertaking things like that. So, it is not that they are clearly prohibited. Okay? So, with that as a background, the the evaluation was was related to higher risk, lower risk. There is no immediate change that has that necessitated this discussion. It just was the time and

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state of affairs. Having said that, the CRA could certainly partner with the city understanding it's been it has been carrying this risk. And so, certainly transitioning to the city already begins to lessen it. The CRA would continue to in this year if it were to execute. I I think

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I am correct in assuming that the CRA would continue to do those things that have made it CRA-focused including special focus on CRA businesses, highlighting those particular attendees that were related to the CRA. And so, in that vein, could continue to partner

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with the city. And moving forward, the CRA could also partner with the city in some fiscal capacity as long as those funds were reasonably focused on those CRA businesses, CRA participation. So, the CRA does not need to walk away from this event entirely in any case.

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Does that answer your question? Yes, thank you. Thank you cuz that's I mean, that's really my concern is losing our you know, our top event really between the the city and the CRA as far and I think that um you know, partnering together, we could probably even make it

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a little bit bigger. Right? So, I mean, that would be my hope is that but I you know, I think all the other ones that we spoke about Mercedes, you know, the snapshots and you went over that kind of in detail of the ones that you really felt like as much as

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they were bringing some opportunity to businesses that wasn't really providing that business driver. Which is what we which is what the end goal really is for us. So you know, I kind of follow your recommendations that you previously gave us as far as the ones that you really

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felt like were probably you know, or that you know, between staff gave us as far as what was you know, a risk that we should probably you know, stop doing whether the city ends up wanting to adopt those then

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you know, that's up to to Amanda but those are those are kind of my thoughts on that but thank you guys for working together on this and look forward to many more great events. Thanks. Thank you. So for clarification, you guys are looking for what events to

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continue this year and then what to potentially discuss um to transfer over to the city. I think the big concern about this conversation is the ambiguity and what we saw with the legislation last year in Tallahassee about CRAs

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in its entirety and so I think it's responsible to at least scale back a little bit. um You know, I think the boat parade is important. That was a city event that the CRA had had taken on. The boat parade has been going on before the CRA

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was even adopted. And so also has the lowest cost per person. Huge turnout, you know, it's a multi-jurisdictional um event. So I would like to see that transferred over. I could go without the Rock the Blocks, without the Rock the

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Plazas. I think the Rock the Marina is a good one too because it And again, it's not the discussion technically isn't about events, it's about business promotions, right? And we're doing that through events. And so I think highlighting one of our anchors is is crucial

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to the CRA to the CRA plan and then also the strategic plan. um You know, what that looks like on the city side, I don't know. But for this fiscal year, I would like to see the Rock the Marina. um you know, Boynton Beach Spring Market

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if we're going to potentially discuss having some form of like future ILA agreement between the CRA and the economic development team to highlight those businesses then I think it'd be responsible to keep that this year so we understand how that works if it

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does get transferred. As far as the snapshots with Santa, you know, Bon Appetit, I'm okay that the Bon Appetit was a good one. It's expensive. It does highlight the businesses. I think there's other ways to do that. um but I just I just don't want us to depend on these too much and I want us

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to have some foresight thinking that next year anything could change in Tallahassee and then we can't do any of this. So I think it's important to scale back. I think the other thing to I to think about too is what something the city attorney had addressed at our last commission meeting in regards to some

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events based on what they're promoting. There's going to be some hindrance there and so you know, I just don't want us to budget all this money and then not have the ability to perform for these. um but again, we're focused on the CRA now so

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you know, for me it's um for this the rest of the fiscal year, you know, I would say just keep the Rock the Marina, keep the Night Market and I'm okay to forego the rest and then you know, I imagine closer to budget season we'll have a you know, more in length

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conversation about what that looks like in transing transferring those over if that's what this board decides to do. So and just >> So my my suggestion is if >> [snorts] >> there's conversations about or there's a question about what are we going to keep

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is I would say the Rock the Marina and the Night Market and then I'd be okay to forego the rest. I know one of them one of them we okayed last week because there was a time restraint on that. Yes, so you gave permission to

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proceed with the Rock the Plaza series. So we've already been in contact with >> Yes. So that includes the August one. Correct. Okay. Okay. I thought it was just for the one that was next month.

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um Based on the board discussion, I believe that it was to proceed with the low risk events that you didn't see there there any need and to hold off and find out this week about the Rock the Marina as well as the Night Market and Bon Appetit Boynton Beach. Okay. Board chair, I've been

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it's I've been told that there is a request for additional public comment on this item. You're not required to take it but just to let you know. I'm okay with taking public comment on this item. Chair. Thank you. I just like to say to the two of you partnering together, you know, the city

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and the CRA, you know, we got a lot of things that we got to get done. I'd like for you all to continue to work together and what you all see that we need to do without breaking the law cuz that's the way I'm looking at it. That we are in line, you know, to continue giving us, you know, really bangs for

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our bucks like you all have been doing and things you say, well, I think this is really failing, you know, you all are putting the programs on. I'm saying y'all know just what needs to be cut and what needs to be promoted and saying that this is really a we're getting what we need for our bucks. I'm just saying, you know, this is why I say

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advertisement. Advertisement, I think that's the crux of a lot of things we do in Boynton without it and I want to thank y'all for painting up the signs that y'all put up on the entrance ways. I'm just saying cuz I told y'all about the two sticks wasn't painted. Y'all did that and I want to say thank you. At least you do

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all listen to the citizens. Thank you. Chair. Yes, if I may. So just to confirm cuz I think this was um so the city has agreed to take the Boat Parade back on. Is that my because I I do want the Boat Parade to continue. And my understanding

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was that this on the city end they that you guys had agreed to to do that this year. So when we >> technically next year. >> So we did talk the two events that we did target that we were trying to free up money within the city's budget to cover it would have been the Night

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Market and the Boat Parade, correct? So I think Amanda was able to find how much you were projecting that that's just kind of a little bit in advance of our budget discussions but you thought you could free up some money but it wasn't enough to cover the whole thing. That is correct. We were under budget on a couple events so we might

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have about 30, 40,000 dollars in excess. We do have a I do have suggestions on where we can maybe merge an event together and would free up about 103,000 dollars to help cover a big chunk. And I just Should I state that now or I just think there's an opportunity for

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us to merge the um holiday parade and the holiday tree lighting together. There's there's like 80,000 dollars of hard costs that like you have to just to execute the event. I noticed we really didn't have attendance lining the street only right in front of the performance

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stage and I understand the parents love seeing their kids perform. I think we can merge that with the tree lighting, have a secondary stage, the kids can do all their performances. Now we're not utilizing all the officers resources and closing down Federal Highway and that would save us 103,000.

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And then also Catherine, there are some things cuz I know we have done this in the past also with some of the city events where we can market or we can pay for certain things too. So I would like us to look at that too because there are some maybe some mechanisms in these even

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in the Holiday Boat Parade that maybe the CRA can still assist in some of the funding aspects whether that be marketing or or whatever that is, promotions or whatever to kind of offset some of that cost too. So I think there is an opportunity where the CRA can even kind of um

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assist in funding that you know, at least temporarily if not um a little bit further down the line. So I just wanted to confirm that. So the Boat Parade were okay. So thank you Amanda for squeezing your belt to make all that work. And and

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I'm good. I know that I know when we did Mercedes, when you did the Bon Appetit um presentation, I know that there was a lot of success on the business end. So not necessarily and I know it is a one of our higher cost and I hate to call it an event cuz it's really not, it's a promotional. There's

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no actual true event except that people get to go to restaurants for um a pre-fixed menu but um on a particular day. So I guess if you want to call that an event but um so I want to make sure that we don't just get rid of it because it's on this events list because it truly I feel like

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it's a business promotions um opportunity for our restaurants so um I would I'd rather almost keep that as a a placeholder on our on our budget and maybe we can re-look at that data at our next CRA meeting cuz

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I'd like to re-look at that Bon Appetit data and really see if it is if if the businesses is are at the end of the day that's what matters is are the businesses benefiting from us you know, hosting that um that series. So if I mean if that's

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okay with staff, I'd like to have um that come back just a brief, you know, and it can even not necessarily be at the meeting. I'd be happy to look at it but I think that that would be my thought just because if that truly is a a benefit to the businesses, I don't want to lose it just because of the

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cost. Board member Cruise, do you have anything before we go back to public comment? Okay. Go ahead. Thank you. David Katz, you're the five wise souls. You're going to figure this out really well. I'd like to speak to two items. One is the Pirate Fest, the number over the past this last year is kind of low

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and the reason why is those there were two days of rain and usually there's probably three times that amount there. So, that's one calculation that really isn't representative of it. The other thing is earlier Ms. Hoyer spoke about wanting to not have the 9/11

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memorial as often, didn't mention not having the Pearl Harbor Day. I contacted the Oracle and Pearl Harbor, there were 2,400 casualties. On 9/11 with the three plane attacks, there were close to 3,000 casualties.

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My mother was the youngest of four sisters. Her older sister had a grandchild who was a second cousin to me who died in those towers. And besides all the people that as far as PTSD PTSD PTSD and the others who died of cancer afterwards, first

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responders, the number is much higher than 2,900. And I think getting rid of that memorial would be a grave mistake because that was the second time this country was attacked in a surprise way and it brought us into a new type of era. Thank you very much. Thank you.

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Sure, if I may. I just I just want to clarify for the public. We're talking about moving CRA events into the city. We're not discussing cutting city events right now. I think that's important to know. That way there's no uh no misinformation going around.

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Okay. >> [cough] [clears throat] >> So, what kind of direction do we need? Do we need a motion? Do you have consensus? Do we have consensus? So, no motion is required as you're not at this point talking about an adjustment. I believe that we have consensus and I will recap and then you

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all can correct if if we've not gotten it correct. Um but for Rock the Marina Night Market and the Rock the Plaza series, those are going to continue with maximum partnership with the city. Um currently, we will not the CRA will not undertake planning efforts for snapshots

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with Santa um and the city is going to be working on taking over the boat parade and the CRA is going to investigate methods to help. If that is your direction, we can execute that without a motion. Good. And by me, thank you. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you both. The next item for discussion and consideration is fiscal year 2026-27 budget considerations which was tabled on April 14th meeting to a date certain on April 21st 2026. If you want to discuss this item, I would it would need to be untabled. Would any of my

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colleagues like to make a motion to untable this item? >> Move. 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. Um would the interim director Dan Dugger

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like to open this item? Where's uh Vicky. She's in the audience. Oh. I know we uh briefly discussed in reference to uh some of the different items that we're looking to um

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possibly add to and I uh we had a discussion also with uh I had a discussion with Tim is the expansion of our circuit program. Uh right now the city currently provides I'm going to say about $60,000 in

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funding which goes towards um uh the uh the transportation to the beach and there's discussion as far as like expanding that to Tri-Rail. However,

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that's only from Tri-Rail to the CRA district, from the CRA district to Tri-Rail and uh Tim's been looking at uh some FDOT grants that can offset probably about 50% of that cost. We're looking at it,

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it's probably going to be in the uh vicinity of $100 to $200,000. Additional monies from the city side um I do want to have a discussion on that. I think it may be worth it when we're looking at the overall analytics from

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the transportation to the beach that we're currently utilizing now. Uh we spoke today and ridership has actually decreased by probably about 500 riders per uh per year. So, as opposed to expanding

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that, um I just want to have a discussion as maybe we should should look at possibly canceling the beach transportation or ridership and maybe incorporating the Tri-Rail or we try to carry both, but again uh

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we're discussing adding events to the city's budget and now we're discussing adding additional travel to Tri-Rail from the uh CRA district um and I haven't really budgeted pay raises for the employees this year, so I'm trying to keep things

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to a priority, but I uh I'd be open to discussion as far as like expanding that program to Tri-Rail. It's just if I continue to see ridership decrease, then that's uh that was my concern, but I have a question on that. So, when you

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travel to other cities and they have this type of transportation, all of those type of transportations are heavily funded with advertising. So, is our circuit not doing that? Cuz there's there's other transportation companies that come right into cities

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and have that advertisement already lined up and so that's a source of revenue that I think we're really missing out on which I don't think I don't think canceling it going to the beach is a good idea. We have seniors that want to go there. Yeah. We know parking's an issue, but I also feel like circuit itself as a company is not

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carrying us or trying to help us with this program. The circuit has been actively trying to get sponsorships within uh we actually had uh a month-long uh sponsorship. Uh however, it wasn't continued. Uh we were

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also hoping at some point in time looking at some of the developments that we have coming on board, maybe there should be partnerships in that regard as well. Um Bonnie has some of the numbers because she is my person that's been working hand in hand in glove with uh circuit um

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and certainly if we were to look at expanding outside of our CRA district uh and talking with Dan, there may be an opportunity to increase your geo fence, so it's not just a destination. Mhm. So, there's those opportunities, but again that comes at an expense to Dan's point.

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So. Well, and I know um Chair, I know we we also kept the fees down, the cost down to encourage people to use it. So, I think there are I don't want to know I don't I definitely the beach is probably

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and and it's when we get our circuit updates, we don't have one tonight, so we we need to have one probably at our next CRA meeting um to really look at the numbers or or soon. I think we're due for an update soon from circuit anyway. Um but maybe there's a way that

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we scale back the beach trips or maybe there's a way that we maybe we look at the days that it's most used, whether that's the weekend or particular hours or whatever. Um but I think there's ways that we can tweak that and then maybe with the Tri-Rail because it's a added

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city, maybe it it costs more, you know, to the to the rider. Um so, I think there's ways that we can capture it. The advertising, unfortunately, it's based on people wanting to advertise. Um and so, it's not and I think and I I want to say Tim that

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we even limited who we wanted to advertise. And so, I feel like in our I feel like I remember something about being local or at least close to being local businesses, so I'd like to look at that again with circuit and see if if it's a if it's a truly

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if we're shooting ourselves in the foot, so to speak, by limiting um the advertising possibilities because I know the advertising that we did have, it was advertising and I remember some people were kind of like, "Oh, well, it's a alcohol company or whatever." Well, it's still advertising that's helping us pay

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the bills. So, I think um I think looking at that, too, and working with circuit a little bit more closely and, you know, working with even our economic development since we do um connect to the beach, working with our economic development team to look at

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really reaching out to businesses to see if we can push that advertising aspect of it, too. So, there may be a way that we can we can also increase that um on our own, too. Thank you, Chair. And and this is off for the city manager. You know, I'm I'm

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new up here, but have you all are we still doing beach decals? Okay. >> Yes, sir, we are. Okay. I is that part I'm just saying is it the one only because of circuit or is it We we we try to utilize circuit to offset some of the um the shortages of

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those decals. They were in our permits, they were in such high demand. We were actually uh on a first come, first serve basis and circuit was going to help offset some of the bottlenecking that we had due to the popularity of our beach, especially during the uh during the uh

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off-season or during the winter and fall months, whenever we have an influx of uh tourism and visitors coming in. Thank you. I just didn't want us to shoot our foot for shoot our foot our shoot ourselves at the foot, you know. Understood. Thank

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you. Hey chair, as far as expansion of circuit I don't for me that's not thing something we should do right now especially if the data is showing that the ridership is down. I'd like to see where also don't think that cutting off the beach is

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appropriate because that was the main the main kicker that the city got involved with this. Um but I think I think too one second. I think too I talk about this discussion I know it's a whole it's not just about circuit. It's a talk about what city projects are

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we prioritizing that match our strategic plan and also the CRA plan and so I know we've done a lot of ILAs over the last few years. Which I think has been some great work and collaboration between the two agencies and so that's why I had brought

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up this discussion and a lot of that for me is geared towards infrastructure. We're seeing a huge impact in in the CRA district. You know it's in some of the oldest parts of the city, right? And so I think it's important that you know you know mobility is important

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and I think getting developers to pay into that as sponsorships is great but we also need to get back to the basics basics and look at the foundation. You know of mobility and it's making sure that we have aesthetic and safe roads and so if there's any road paving

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projects that the city has identified that are within the CRA district I would like to have those conversations going into the budget year. You know Penns Park is one of those projects which I think is great looking forward to that. The roads near Penns Park aren't the best

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and so I want to make sure that you know that we're we're being proactive when it comes to this infrastructure especially because we have 3,000 keys coming into the next into the downtown over the next few years.

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Um you know so for me it's infrastructure looking at projects. Um you know if we want to have the discussion about circuit expanding maybe my perception of this item was what do we want to get done in the city

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specifically related to CIP that then we can utilize the CRA to do an ILA for. And so you know I want to make sure that we're being aggressive with this because it's an opportunity to deliver to the residents sooner and again be

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proactive and maintain our infrastructure improve our infrastructure as the city grows. Yeah the and I just want to add this one caveat. I was just speaking on the ridership that's that's being paid for by the city. The actual ridership for circuit is up year over year by probably about

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5,000 ridership. So the program seems to be being utilized more on the CRA side but just transportation to the beach is the one that we're seeing a drop in. >> has decreased. Correct. >> Interesting. Yep. Yes over if I may just over year one to

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two for the beach it went down 500 riders but in the overall CRA district ridership went from 10,000 riders a year to 18,000 plus to riders a year. >> because it's off season and people don't go to the beach when it's 1,000°. It's

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annual the analytics are done from an annual basis so it would include both. Um So as far as budget considerations that's one of the things I I kind of wanted to look at where on the city side and obviously this is going to be reflective of CRA

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funding as well. We're doing our projections right around 4 to 5% this year and that's what we're looking at as far as the increase in funding. Uh we brought in probably about $80 million in ad valorem revenue of that about 21% went to CRA 16.7 million. So I'm

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assuming we're going to see about a 4 to 5% increase in the those fundings to go over to CRA. So um and additional CIP considerations so we'll we'll look at that as far as I guess that's a question for you Katherine as far as road pavings.

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Uh we can look at it on a case by case basis depending on what you're bringing forward but CRAs do have the ability to help with that type of project subject to certain parameters. Right. And the only other thing I want to remind this board about is

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second meeting in May. I have some transformative items that I want to present to you guys that could have an impact as far as like CRA funding. So I just wanted you guys to keep that in mind. Uh Tim Vicki you guys want to bring up anything? Well good evening

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board Vicki Hill CRA finance director. Um the only thing is is we'll be ready to budget soon. I will get the number from the property appraiser the first one comes next month the end of the month and then the month the one that we actually

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budget with is the end of June but we'll be ready and whatever is needed in the city we'll we'll be here. We always ask you what you would like so we will make sure that those numbers get in. That's it for me. And we'll continue to

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coordinate with city staff in regards to infrastructure improvements. Every year we sit down we look at you know what it is that the CRA can fund and where it's going to be very impactful and I think we have this year was like what 10. 7 million or something to that effect so

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you know we'll continue to keep looking at that. I have I have one comment and that is on the circuit thing can the city advertise some of our events some of there will be legal legal Yes sir. The the city is able to advertise the

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CRA is able to advertise and just since you've given me the moment to speak I will just clarify that there is no limit on businesses other than there's no obscenity no defamatory and then tobacco firearms and and cannabis advertising are prohibited but is otherwise not limited to businesses.

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Thank you. Yeah I'm just saying we might want to look at you know some of our events we could probably you know get money and put that on the circuit and let it run around town with it. Just a thought. I just think if we do any expansion too I don't know if Tri-Rail's really the place because I think this helps senior

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citizens a lot and is the circuit able to take them to a doctor's appointment down by Bethesda or anything as opposed to like how many are really going to the Tri-Rail all the time so I think these are some variables that I I don't think we can make a decision on that without more accurate data.

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I think also too to consider is there was discussion of Tri-Rail not even getting state funding and so there's Tri-Rail could be eliminated so we might be investing in something that's got an expiration date so you know I think great thought process the point about

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the um like utilizing for seniors I think is important so like maybe it's not um the Tri-Rail maybe it's Leisureville right maybe it's those other communities you know that could better serve you know people who don't have the same um

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you know mobility preferences others so I think great idea but I think there's more more to be discussed. Right. Let me ask another question in regards to circuit do you all look at the senior center? I'm just saying you know we might have some individuals might need

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rides to and fro because we want to utilize our facilities. Uh the senior center is within our geofenced area however it's restricted to within the CRA district. So we would not be able to go you know depending on where you're you're trying to get.

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>> in the CRA they can go to the senior center and back. Right. Or to Publix or we've expanded it to Walmart on Federal Highway so we have expanded it to places that you know our seniors can get to and then the grocery store and things like that.

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>> The only district that we haven't expanded to is Industrial. Thank you. Okay. Okay more work to do on that. Thank you very much. Moving on to the next item is the discussion and consideration of finalizing the date and agenda for the

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CRA board workshop. CRA interim executive director Mr. Dugger could you please open this item? Uh yes. Mayor Madam Chair >> [laughter] >> Um originally we had a date scheduled

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for April 25th. We're looking for a consensus from the board to reschedule that meeting. Uh that was a CRA meeting where we were going to look at possibly redistricting and have a more large discussion. Um so again we're just looking for direction

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from the board as far as like a date certain for us. I think we canceled it with the thought that you as staff would need to tell us when you would be prepared to present that so I think I'll turn it back to you and just ask when when will you be prepared or when would

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you like to have that discussion is in a time frame so that we can start looking cuz otherwise we'll just start throwing out dates and it may not work. I would look at the following Saturday. May 9th. May 9th. >> May 2nd doesn't work. >> May 2nd doesn't work for you? >> Yeah. Okay then May 9th.

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May May 9th what time? We usually do it early morning. Cuz it might not work for me but I'm just saying I could do >> It's Mother's Day weekend. I'll see you then. May 9th is Mother's Day Mother's Day weekend. Oh. Oh no. 23rd? Let's shoot for the 20th. That's

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Memorial Day. Memorial Day? 16th? No can't do the 16th. 30th? 30th 30th is good. 30th work? Yeah it's a month out so 9:00 a.m. Yeah 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 I think 3 hours should be sufficient.

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If I can make it, I will. If not, I will, you know, be Zoom. Okay? Mhm. Okay. All right. Consensus or motion? Uh motion, please, as it's a schedule change. Motion to approve the um the next CRA workshop to a date of May

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30th. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed, say nay. Motion passes unanimously. Moving on, the next item is the discussion and consideration of the results of the community input survey

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for 480 West Boynton Beach Boulevard and the surrounding properties. Mercedes, can you open this item? Yes, good evening again, board. So, in alignment with the CRA's commitment to produce community-driven redevelopment, our staff conducted an extensive public

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outreach campaign to gather feedback in the future use of the property located at 480 West Boynton Beach Boulevard and the surrounding parcels. As a result of those efforts, we received 1,079 responses. Um the data provides an

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overview regarding the land use, desired amenities, and architectural character for the redevelopment site. And we can go through the questions individually if you'd like. Vicky, can you start from the top? So, the majority of the respondents, 81%, were residents of the City of Boynton Beach.

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Um and also the majority lived within um 2 miles of this project site. Uh they traveled throughout the site via car. That was 97%. When asked what types of development they want to see on that property, the primary responses, the we there were

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three that were over uh 40%. Mixed use and retail, um as well including sorry, mixed use, which would include retail dining and residential, public green space or plaza, as well as cultural arts or community space were the top ranking.

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And then when we go on to question nine, which is what types of businesses or services would you like to see featured, number one, 57% family-friendly dining, followed by arts and cultural or creative spaces, and small local businesses.

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The next question is asking Sorry. The next question is what amenities or features would make this site most beneficial to the community? Um top ranking on that again would be walkable design and sidewalks, local restaurants and cafes, public gathering

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space or plaza, landscaping and shade, and improved lighting and safety features. The next question asking how important it's going to be to create new jobs and business opportunities, we had 44% say

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that it was very important to them. Now, when it came to building height um and what the appropriate height um they that uh respondents felt that this property would um have, we had at the top 42% one to two floors or one to two stories, sorry, and then three to five

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stories coming in at 36%. The number one question or sorry, the number one response regarding what visual elements is most important for the site was lush landscaping and green space. And then when it came down to the what

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best reflects the vision for the site, uh 39% said a balanced gateway presence and a neighbor- neighborhood compatibility. And then rounding that out with what concerns um if any were had, the top of that was with 77%

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traffic and congestion, followed by parking availability. Now, we did have some open-ended questions as well. Um and there were some outliers within them. So, the questions that we had, in your own words, what would you like this site to represent for Boynton Beach? We were

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seeing things like community, family, gathering, um as well as green space, nature, trees, walkability, safety. They want to see local businesses and small shops, as well as art, culture, and identity. And they wanted to keep it

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coastal, as well as a fishing village identity. Now, on to the final uh open-ended question, it was if there's a place that you visited anywhere in the world that reflects your vision for what you would like to be built on the site to share

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with that was. And what we had for that, um there was a strong preference again for walkability and mixed use. People were citing Delray Beach specifically, Atlantic Avenue, Sunday Village, and Pineapple Grove. Um we got West Palm Beach, CityPlace, Rosemary Square, and

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Clematis Street. Uh Boca Raton, Mizner Park um came up, as well as downtown St. Petersburg. And the things that people liked about these areas was specifically the walkability and the pedestrian um first design, as well as the mixed uses, the

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active streets and just the life that was there during the day and at nighttime, and then that it had a destination feel. So, that's the overall. I didn't want to spend too much time going over the data with you, but that's a overall um overview of what the data represented. And I'm happy to answer any questions

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that you might have. Fantastic. The survey. Any comments or questions from my colleagues? Yep. No, I wanted to bring this item up because it's obviously it's important to have community feedback, and I just want to say for the record, told you so, we didn't need six to seven stories on the survey because it was one

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of the lowest ranked. Um this is a clear um this is a clear decision from the community that they're sick of high-rise development. They don't want the density. Right? When you look at all of this, lush landscaping was I think the most um

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common theme that you saw throughout a lot of these questions, along with community feel. And so, I think as we move forward with this project, when we were negotiating, you know, on the idea of purchasing this, I think everyone on the dais did not said said something similar. They did

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not want this to just be a buy and hold and just see what we do with it. And so, now that we have a good idea of what the community wants for what I would argue is the most visible redevelopment site in our city being off of 95, I think it's important that um

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that both the city and the CRA look at this and identify based on the feedback, based on the current zoning, what that looks like. You know, what are some conceptuals that we can look like? I know, you know, the former uh the firm was very good at identifying, you know,

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spitball ideas, looking at stuff, you know, and then getting the community involved, and then, you know, looking at this, you know, as a board together. And so, that's what I'm looking for is making sure that this doesn't fall through the cracks through this transition, and that we're identifying, you know, to the community, hey, we hear

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you. We're going to do something with this feedback. We're going to come back with ideas. And um you know, hopefully, you know, identify as a board what that next process uh would look like for this site. Maybe it's more land acquisition, you know, maybe it's um an RFP, maybe

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it's something else, but I just want to get this on the front of the CRA and the city's radar, especially having that overlapping leadership, so that may that way we can come back with something and deliver because I do believe this is the most visible and

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important for now um redevelopment site for the city's future, especially, you know, with that location. So, I just want to, you know, really hit on that point, and um you know, make sure that we take the feedback seriously from the community.

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And we have closed on the other parcels as of last Friday, correct? >> That's correct. Okay. And so, this survey was going out just about that in property. Are we re-running the survey at all knowing that we now not only have the inn, but have the 13

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or 14 parcels? So, the survey included the parcels that joined parcels. >> Good. Thank you. Sure. Vicky, since we have the stats, my concern is have we put this out for anybody to like to come out come in and see what they

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want to put there? Not yet? Not yet because we wanted to hear from talk to the community first. Okay, since we have the stats, we know what we need to go. Mhm. Good. Thank you. Don't you think this was a better approach instead of developers just coming and throwing everything our way and wasting so much time? Is now they know what the

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community wants and they can tailor it to to that. Absolutely. I have one other concern. You know, at when I sat up here before, we used to get uh surveys and everything done, and we would put them on the back burner and not do anything with them. I hope this is not one that we put on the

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back burner, and please, thank you. Definitely not. Yeah, I think and just quite on that same kind of that same topic, and I I think ev- everyone up here feels the same way that that we have invested so much time and energy and focus on

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purchasing and getting these sites that that we want to be a part of what is going to come in those spots. And so, I feel like I know for me that I'm not I'm not willing to sit on this and wait to see what happens. So, I think that it's

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important for us to to to really uh spearhead this and and make it um make it for the residents. Um thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mercedes, for your help on this. It was it was insightful, for sure.

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Okay. Moving on. The next item is the discussion and consideration of the interlocal agreement between the City of Boynton Beach and the Boynton Beach Community Redevelopment Agency for city services, including city man- city manager interim executive director services, human resources services, finance services, and

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information technology services. CRA interim executive director, Mr. Dugger, would you like to open this item? Yes, Mayor. I'm briefly going to discuss what this ILA does and then I'll turn it over to the attorneys to give you the

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legal aspect of it. But essentially, what it does, we have some old ILAs with the CRA, and we have a master capital improvement ILA, and this is a similar idea, but it's from an operational

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personnel standpoint. So, this gives me the ability to utilize the city side of these inter-service departments to provide the same services that we get on a city with the CRA. One of the things that I'll probably

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bring back in the future to this board. It was brought to my attention that CRA does not have a a recording function where in the CRA policy, essentially, the executive

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director acts as such, meaning that public records requests come into the CRA, the executive director fulfills those requests. I'd like to eventually utilize the clerk's office to fill that function with GovX, and we'll do a similar add-on. But this does the

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human resources aspect, financial aspect, and the two below items are going to be part of the overall assessment that I mentioned during the appointment over the next 30 days that we've identified some of the

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some of the issues going forward that I wanted to bring to your guys' attention. So. Got it. Sure. So, I'll take it over, and I'm going to start with a little bit of an oddity here, which is that we are here at a noticed joint meeting, meaning you are sitting here wearing two hats at

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once. So, at the end of this, with whatever decision you make, if it is by motion and discussion with the city attorney, we've agreed that although it will be weird, we will ask you to make the motion twice, once as the CRA and once as the city. So, I'm just putting you on alert for wherever this discussion goes. Um having gotten that

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oddity out of the way, as Mr. Dugger mentioned, we since he was appointed last week have pulled together an interlocal agreement to effectuate not only that, but also to integrate existing interlocal agreements. So, I'm going to talk you through the terms

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of it, and I I will in a little bit of a slower fashion, again, because this was a late publication, so please feel free to jump in with any questions. Um so, this this covers four primary areas. The first are the interlocal I'm sorry, the interim executive director

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services being provided by Mr. Dugger. Um as set forth in this agreement, it he is deemed to have commenced as of last week, even though this interlocal agreement is being put in place today, and it ratifies all of his actions that he's taken in the past week. It will automatically renew. It is subject to

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renegotiation of terms at such renewal, and it may be terminated upon notice by either party. >> [snorts] >> The in in securing his executive services, it also allows for the executive director to authorize the

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assistant or deputy deputy city managers as eligible delegates under this agreement to perform CRA tasks. In other words, he can use the existing city management staff as appropriate delegates for CRA business. Um

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assuming that they are duly qualified to to fulfill that role. Um it is very clear that the that those personnel also have the right to refuse to engage in CRA business if they feel like they are not qualified to do so, and it won't be deemed to impact their city employment.

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So, in other words, they may be of help to the CRA, but they also because they're not employed by the CRA are not obligated to take on those responsibilities at this point in time. Um the scope of the duties will be as very similar to what were in the prior executive director contract. Generally,

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the management and oversight of the CRA, governance, personnel, public records, appearing at meetings. There are no substantial changes. I can go through those, but it is exactly what you would expect of an executive director. >> [snorts] >> Um and the CRA is not going to engage

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any outside firm or person to perform those services so long as Mr. Dugger is in that role, provided, of course, that if someone is hired as a permanent CRA director, he would be empowered to work with him to make that transition smooth. Um and then compensation for this will be paid from the CRA to the city

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pursuant to this interlocal agreement. It is $300 per year, and it will be be distributed to the city manager through the city, and that is through the end of this year. That is considered a salary supplement to the city manager. So, those I'm going to stop there and

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just ask if we have any questions about that. I have one. Yes, sir. Please don't nobody take this the wrong way. I'm just saying if we get rid of the city manager No, don't get it wrong. I'm just saying would we have to advertise we're looking for a city

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manager {slash} CRA director, or how would we do that? I'm just I'm trying to look down the road, too. So, currently, it you would not be obligated to do that because you are not obligated to keep the city manager as your executive director. You could do

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that if that is if you wanted to consider with that design. So, yes, at the point where the city manager were to let's say win the lottery and go live in the Mediterranean, you would be out two jobs. >> [laughter] >> Are you asking if you you can I'll come

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back so you can fire me twice. Okay. [laughter] Any other questions on that? Okay. So, next up are the human resources services. As previously mentioned, the city and the CRA currently have a human resources interlocal agreement. It has been a number of years since it was

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updated. So, there are some changes. However, it is in substantial conformance with the way many of these things operate. Basically, the city would provide all HR services to the CRA, all aspects of personnel administration, maintenance of files, relations to

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hiring and firing, posting of jobs, document imaging, employment verification, varied standard HR functions. So, that would be basically entirely performed by the city on behalf of the CRA pursuant to this. Um that would also include benefits

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administration, employee relations, discipline, termination, training and development, payroll, all of those all of those different aspects, you know, basically every aspect of HR. Um the estimated annual total for that would be $20,700

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with a 5% escalator year over year. Um both parties would have the right to ask for a change in that in that payment should, you know, the need for services dramatically increase over 5%. could come renegotiate should there be a reason that um

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the need for services decreases, the CRA could ask for an adjustment in price. But that is based on on current needs. For the CRA to allocate those funds to the city for clarification, not to the executive director. That is correct. It is to the It is to the city. I could see

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that getting picked up, so I want to make sure we're clear there. Yeah, no, the executive director stands to make $300 a year from this arrangement. >> [laughter] >> Okay. Um all in one place, yes. On the Mediterranean cruise. Um for financial services, this is a bit

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of a change. So, and this is different in scope and type than the other pieces of this interlocal agreement. So, currently, the city does perform the IT services and the HR services for the CRA. The city does not currently perform financial services for the CRA.

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This agreement would allow the city to perform financial oversight functions for the CRA, but it does not require taking over the day-to-day operations of the CRA and is not predicated on, you know, removal of existing CRA finance

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staff. It is it's intended to supplement and not replace that, but to provide additional oversight and to provide the opportunity for the interim executive director to perform those tasks that he spoke with you about, including financial audits, updating financial policies, and, you

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know, performance reviews, that kind of thing. And so, this is I can go over this in greater detail if you like, but that is generally the concept behind that. The compensation for those services is estimated to be an annual about $55,000

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a year. I I have a question. Um And this was part of my concern with making an a quick decision to to make a change. You know, we're we're saying that we're looking to do this until the end of the fiscal year,

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but I already see the lines blurring between CRA and city, and I don't like it. It It There's I have concerns with that. Um I mean, there's we're separate. There's a reason for it, and I believe that if

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we needed to have financial services or any sort of auditing, we could have a third party come in and do that specifically for the CRA. I don't like the lines being blurred between city staff overlooking the finances of the CRA, you know, where they're

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inherently separate governmental agencies, and this is really blurring the lines, and I do have concerns with that. I mean, I one thing is, you know, the executive director position and human resources which comes with it, but to add

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financial services to that, um knowing that there are plenty of financial agencies that are experienced with CRA specifically. The city has a lot to handle budgetarily right now, um where I don't think that we should utilize our city staff to

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also oversee CRA in addition to the fact that we do have a finance director in our CRA if we wanted to audit it. I think we should go forward with an outside firm that's not connected to the city and it can be independent. Thank you.

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>> [clears throat] >> Anything else? Okay. No other questions on this section? Okay. Um So, I will proceed through moving on to IT services. Again, this is this is substantially the

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same as the IT services agreement that is in place currently with the city and the CRA. There's really not much of a of a change in function. There is a minor adjustment in price equating to an annual amount of $32,194.96. Um And it again it just it's just putting

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all of these administrative functions into one CRA. The other items in this are are somewhat of a legal nature other than the office location which is that the CRA is located where it is currently located. Everyone agrees that we are

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um operating in the sunshine. We have to abide with public records laws etc. There is some cross indemnification as is normally appropriate in these in these types of documents when one entity is performing services on behalf of another. Nothing in this waves

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the sovereign immunity of either of the agencies involved. Um and I think that those are kind of the major provisions that I did want to bring to your attention. Um

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other than termination. So, either party can terminate this agreement either as a whole or as to each of the individual service category. So, of the four categories we listed it is possible to sever any one of them from this agreement at any time without impacting the others upon 60 days written notice.

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It can be for cause, it can be without cause, it is simply at the will of either party. And so, moving forward you are not limited in how this how must be administered moving forward. Um However, if there is termination for cause it is a 30-day instead of a

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60-day. With that, I think if there are any other questions I would be happy to answer them and I would just like to check with the city attorney to see if there's anything she'd like to add. No. Thank you board chair.

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I'm going to back up on what board member Cruz said about, you know, the financial aspect of this. Okay, we already have a director in the CRA and, you know, sometimes when things mesh together, I'm

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just saying you might learn how to do things easier. That's my way of looking at it and better. We always used to have to get a audit for the city. And we also have to get an audit for the CRA. So, we're not losing the auditorian

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auditing ability of each one of these agencies. I'm just saying sometimes when parties come together they can say, "Well, I was making three copies of this but I only needed one copy." I'm just saying, you know, before we jump in and and and and try to kill what's going to happen. I'm just saying we need to kind of let

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things start playing out. That's the way I'm looking at it. Thank you, chair. I couldn't agree with you more, Commissioner McCrae. I think uh Yeah, you can say they're two different agencies but ultimately it's the taxpayer dollars. That's what

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we're here for. Doesn't matter if it's CRA in the left hand or the city in the right hand, it's the oversight of where it comes from and that is the taxpayers. So, if someone wants to decline an extra set of transparency for taxpayer dollars, that is absolutely their

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prerogative. That will not be mine. And I think Commissioner McCrae brought up a great point that when you have more collaboration, you streamline processes and when you make things more efficient and streamlined, you save money. You

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you do a service to the taxpayers versus not trying to you know, just do things the same way time and time again. The old interim city manager said said something the most expensive thing you can do or say is we've always done it that way. Right? And and that's how businesses some fail

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because they don't innovate. They don't get with the times. You know, they don't learn how to be more efficient. But I think ultimately if if we're going to you know, ask the city manager to be the interim executive director, we need to make sure that we provide the tools that

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they need to do their job and that includes the whole city manager's office. So, I think it's important that if these are the tools that the executive director and his team need to do their job, you know, I think it's I think it's fair to do that and um you know, again adding an extra layer of

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transparency for the taxpayer dollars especially when we're saving hundreds of thousands by not going back out for another CRA director and hundreds of thousands by not going out for another firm. I I think that's a that's fair. I think saving spending, you know, what is

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it worth 55,000 to save a couple hundred I think is fair. And to piggyback, you know, we started doing these joint meetings for a reason because we saw the value in really working together as a team. Um and also the CRA and the city have

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staff has worked together, you know, in the last couple months and and had weekly meetings for that exact purpose so that we are you know, even though we are two separate entities, we are we represent one group one city. We're one city and I've

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said this when it comes to events and it comes to different things, nobody's looking at the logo. We all represent the city and it doesn't matter what logo is on your shirt or what title is after your name or what

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event it is and who is behind behind the scenes running it. We represent the city as a whole and the residents. And the more we can collaborate and work together as a team, the the more success that we see as a city.

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And so, just like these joint meetings, we have seen the value in working together. So, Thank you. I want to follow up on what I said earlier. This is not about transparency. This is about control. I don't see this as more

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transparent. My concerns are valid and I wouldn't say something unless I meant it. I do understand that CRA and the city will work together and should work together. But we have a CRA that handles millions of dollars in tax incremental funding

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sources, development and things of that nature and I do think that it is too much for one person to do. We have a lot going on in the city like I've said it before. And I think that it is too much um too much power for

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for one entity to have to be in control of both the city and the CRA. I have the right to speak. I was elected to speak and have the right to speak. She's she's a she's making accusatory remarks towards the city manager here. I'm not speaking of any individual in their

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personal capacity. I'm saying it's too much power for any individual in that seat whether it's Don Smith or another individual. We're going to move on. Well, I just want to say because that type of language can really deter the public with a lot of misinformation.

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>> This is my right to freedom of speech which I have right to do and I was elected to speak. I'm I'm speaking. >> finished speaking. If you allow me to finish speaking then you can speak yourself. We're going to call to order. We're going to stop this so that [clears throat] there are no nothing derogatory

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>> no derogatory comments about anybody. I have nothing negative to say about the city manager. That is not what I said and my words will not be taken out of context. There is a point of order. So, we need to address that point of order. It can be approved or denied but He called for a point of order.

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Which means to move it to the vote. Yes. So, I'll make a motion to approve the ILA agreement. Second. I apologize. Can you specify in which capacity? We do need to do it twice. >> Yes. So, I will make a motion as the CRA board member um

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to approve the ILA agreement as it sits in front of us. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. And quick for discussion chair, I just want to I just want to say other cities do this. This is not an unprecedented thing. A lot of successful

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cities and towns We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor say I. All those opposed say nay. I had a question. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. My take is I just want to make sure that I'm clear on this before we

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before I vote is that we will still have the same I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If we're and and it's nothing against you, Commissioner McCrae. Please don't but if there is a point of order that has to apply to everybody on the board equally and I don't want to single out one

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person as being told they can't speak. So, if we have a point of order, we we have the motion. My my point of order was a question about staffing. I understand but a point of order is to take it to a vote. We had a motion and a

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second. We have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor say I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes 4 to 1. I'll make a motion to pass the ILA agreement as it is in front of us as a

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city commission member. Second. We have a motion and we have a second. All of those in favor say I. I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Nay. Motion passes 4 to 1. Okay, >> [clears throat]

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>> moving on. The next item is the discussion and consideration of the financial oversight project plan. CRA interim executive director, Mr. Dugger. Uh Thank you, Mayor. Uh I have uh Director of Finance and CFO

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Alan Lawson. He's going to come up and he's going to uh speak a little bit about some of the uh proposed oversight, um what we're looking at. And also, he's going to uh also speak about H as well. So, I don't know what the process is far as combining those two items cuz they're

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going to um flow together. Good evening, uh CRA board. So, um I produced a finance oversight project plan for the CRA for the audit. Um this is a very comprehensive audit that Is this is it turned on? That button there.

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Everybody's turned it off. Okay. Um The immediate next steps that I'm asking to do is basically uh we've already engaged legal counsel, which is step one. Um and then engage the financial team, which will start that tomorrow with the meeting with the team in the morning at 10:00 a.m.

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And then from there, we will begin to build that for the document uh preservation, which is critical. Uh meaning that no records should be um eliminated, deleted, or um you know, destroyed during this process. And then from there, uh we will go forward and obtain those uh and present

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the the findings there to the to the actual board. Um with financial oversight and a fraud audit. Um we have the audit phase, um which I'm expecting to be around, you know, 6 days or so. But from there, this

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is essentially the project plan or the financial risk assessment that's going to take place over the next 2 weeks. From here, we will look at basically looking at detect, document, and remediate. So, as we begin to look at the financials and situations, we will

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pressure test either using statistics, looking at financial transactions. And then from there, we will document our findings. And then also, when we document our findings, we will look at ways to remediate any exposure for taxpayer dollars. From there, we've already looked at

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several areas that are considered to be financial risk or fraud zones. This is standard in any sort of financial audit, but typically where we see it's it's in the P-card transactions, cash disbursements, and procurement fraud. Those are going to be the three main

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high areas because those are things that we did statistical ways that we'll be able to see any sort of transactions that actually fall out from a from a uh stat standpoint. What's low right now? We do know today that the payroll and the uh capital uh the capital asset

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misuse, those are really low. We're not expecting anything there. But then we are going to look at the grant disbursements, the investment accounting, as well as the marina revenue. Here is the preliminary audit phase timeline, which is 10 days. I'm going to tell you that typically an audit of this

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transaction takes about 90 days. So, there's going to be a lot of work. I'm assuming I will not sleep for the next uh 2 weeks, but this is basically much we're engaging right now. The data collection will start tomorrow. We'll begin to do the forensic analysis. Um I will be doing evidence gathering and some interviews just trying to

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understand. From there, we will go to findings and reporting. And then from that, it'll be reform and remediation. I'm just continuing this uh dialogue around what's actually taking places through these phases. Just giving the detail through phase one,

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phase two. Obviously, the engagement set up, giving the detail, formalizing that part, as well as the data collection. And then from here, these are just some of the touch points that we have for the forensic analysis as well as the fraud detection.

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And phases four and five, these are basic the basic guidelines around the interviews and evidence, as well as the finding and the reporting. And then the remediation. So, we will begin to look at immediately looking at there are some quick hits

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that we have from a control standpoint. There also will be, if necessary, a recovery and any legal action. We'll make sure we also look at any sort of policy reviews. And then ongoing marting monitoring how that's going to happen and establish those guidelines as we move forward on

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the remediation side. The key deliverables, as we kind of talked about, which is started out at the beginning of this presentation, really is around the engagement, the analysis, the findings, and then finally the remediation. These are just simply some one of the

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preliminary findings that we had uh just on the P-card uh audit that we had. Um we realized that there were only two uh uh there were only two categories only from a policy standpoint for um prohibited use. The city currently has

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24 to 25. So, we will be looking to incorporate those those prohibited use going forward. That's really the main piece of the of the structure that we looked at over the last week with OIAA. And that is the end of my presentation.

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Thank you. Would any of my colleagues like to ask any questions? Yes, >> questions and comments as well. The CRA has just finished having their books audited. Am I correct? Yes, sir. Okay. I I you know, when I pick up Anybody can

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pick up what you all put out here tonight saying financial oversight and fraud audit. I'm just saying this is sending something to the public like you all are looking for something that might not be there. I don't like the word fraud. I'm like saying maybe I'm reading too far, but seems

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like somebody's trying to catch somebody doing something. I don't like the word I could go with the oversight. But when you start using the word like fraud, I'm just saying you make me think that you all are trying to find something that's not there. I'm It could you What's another word

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>> In 10 days in 10 days, we're it's going to be very difficult to find fraud. What it is, it really comes down to activities where either policies aren't being followed or simple transactions that aren't happening. That's really what it's going to be about. But I'm Control It's going to come down to

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controls. It's going to come down to controls and are we following the controls? Are we counting the things with the money? How those transactions are being accounted for and and recorded. Now, on an audit, the difference between having an audit, an auditor looks at making sure that the

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accounting is correct, right? We've had the audits for several years. I can tell you right now that there were no controls in place for certain activities that happen within that. O- o- okay, let me continue what I'm saying. From where I'm sitting at, sir, I'm going to be honest with you and the way you're addressing us. Mhm. Yes, sir.

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[clears throat] The way you look to me and you said fraud audit. Mhm. You look like you're somebody that's like uh really want to shoot you know, do something bad. You know, I'm just saying I don't like the word fraud. I'm just saying is another word we could use in there. I'm just saying because it's sending the wrong message to the

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citizens. >> We we could It's that's fair. We could take the word out. Huh? Risk management? Yes, sir. It's really around It's really around a risk assessment. That's fair. >> just in the wrong hands. That's fair. No, I I agree. Yeah, this just just

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Thank you. Um sir. I will change that document, update it to make sure this says risk, and I'll get any words in that document that says fraud. Thank you. Maybe it's a hat that I'm not getting, but you know >> [laughter] >> I'm getting there. >> Take the hat off and try that again. Thank you, Mayor. Um

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So, I think Look, you when you look at the charts, there's comparisons, controls, and policies on one side. I think it's fair with taxpayer dollars, we would want those same controls and policies on any, you know, taxpayer dollars. So, I think >> That's what really the audit is about,

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Commissioner. Yeah. That's what That's what the audit is about. Yeah, so I think I think for the public to know this is just a conversation around instilling policies to make sure that um you know, the the way tax dollars are treated in the city are done on the same

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way uh in the same fashion as the CRA from my understanding. And then that way there's controls, there's policies because if if there is mismanagement, there's no policies, no no one no one's doing anything wrong cuz they're not There's no policy or guideline, you know, have someone adhere to. So,

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wouldn't, you know, there's no accountability, there's no guideline. And so, I think it's important to have those those put in place, especially, you know, if we're doing that, you know, in the um capacity of the city as well. So, I just want to make sure that you know, I kind of piggyback a little bit with the Commissioner McCray was saying

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is that this is just financial oversight. We're just making sure that, you know, we do establish policies that are streamlined amongst both organizations. So, that way there's no questions about oh, we we do this here, but we don't do this here. That taxpayer dollars protected um

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equally at both uh organization levels. I want to make a comment. Um taxpayer dollars have been protected. And we have had a finance director the entire time in the CRA. We also [clears throat] have had an audit an outside audit that has come clean every single year that I've

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been sitting on this board. So, I just wanted to say that for the record. Thank you. Board member Kelly, before we wrap this up. Um no, I just um I just for the in my uh city hat, um and my I guess you can technically my

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CRA, Alan, um you have recently like all of the the P-Card policies are all fairly new within the last I would say 6 months on the city side because you saw a significant misuse and not necessarily

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anyone doing anything that they shouldn't be doing or just it it becomes the norm. It becomes the the routine that I'll just use my P-Card for that and and instead of procuring it in a more

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um financially sound way or in a more responsible way. Um and so I know that on the city end uh you have done that to create these policies to make sure that all of the departments um citywide are not just taking the easy

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route and ordering their stuff off Amazon because they need it tomorrow and are actually procuring items and being more responsible with the taxpayer dollar if we're talking about a taxpayer dollar. So I um I understand the

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concerns and the hesitancy and the and the pushback. But there has to be there has to be a policy in place not for the the the people who are doing it right and but it's just for the just to have a

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policy in place so that there is a there is a mechanism to establish how things should be done so that they're most the most fiscally responsible for the taxpayer dollar that we're spending. Hey Commissioner, add to what you're saying. So for that example, right? So we started here, we had 190 P-Cards. Those

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have gone down dramatically just within the city. And then I think the spend roughly was, you know, 130, 140,000 dollars a month. That has dropped down to 60 to 80,000 dollars a month. What that does is when you put these policies in place, it forces you to go through

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the procurement process. You centralize that piece of of activity through a centralized and they you know, we have folks that do that. We do it through the warehouse through Mike Dotta's team, right? They'll he has in that time, he's already doubled the amount of deliveries and orders that he does with the city

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based upon the secure pricing that we have that are you know, Andrew R has done for us over the last while. It's just following that process, getting it in place, and making sure we're all moving in the same direction. And the CRA should be able to benefit from that from that same policy. And pricing as

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well. Yeah, we probably saved close to half a million dollars just in P-Card spends and stuff by doing these audits. So it's never a bad thing and anytime the OIG comes into us and even if they don't find anything, the number one recommendation that they put at the bottom of their findings is they

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recommend enacting a policy to govern the employees by and that's essentially what we're trying to do is provide structure. Right. And 90% of the time is people just don't know they're not supposed to do stuff. Yeah, that's what usually what it is. It's usually it's 90% of the time is people just don't know. I didn't know that was a policy.

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Right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Yep. If there's no further discussion, would any of my colleagues like to make a motion? Where are we? Uh 90 >> Do we need a a motion for this? >> Yeah. Okay, motion to approve um consideration of the financial oversight

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plan. 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. Moving on. And then we have Motion on 8.

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Motion on number 8 as well, please. Thank you. Motion to approve the revised purchasing card policy as presented. Second. I have not been able to review this policy. It was added today. Thank you. For the record, I don't know if anybody else did.

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We have a motion on the table and we have a second. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed say nay. Nay. Motion passes 4-1. If [clears throat] there is nothing else for my colleagues tonight, I would like

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to have a motion to adjourn. >> So move. Second. We have a motion to adjourn. All and we have a second. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed say nay. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned. We will need about 10 minutes, 15 minutes to

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Thank you so much. So tonight we we'll be covering a few key topics such as facility improvements, participation in USC and usage, tournaments and events, systems and operations and community programming. What am I doing wrong? Over the first six months, FM Tennis has

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invested over $50,000 in capital improvements for the Boyan Beach Tennis and Pickle Ball Center. These improvements have enhanced both the player experience and the long-term quality of the facility. Recent upgrades include installation of new windcreens. We've installed 9 foot windscreens with

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tennis center logos. This has created a refreshed look and an improved player experience. We developed a new and improved pro shop. Our pro shop renovation included new a new electronic stringing machine,

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new flooring and fresh paint, a new lounge and TV area, a check-in kiosk for players as they enter, and merchandise walls for tennis and pickle ball retail products. We've resurfaced select uh tennis courts, and we've also improved the

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irrigation system, including new above ground sprinkler heads for more consistent court maintenance. These investments reflect an ongoing commitment to maintaining a first class recreational asset for the community. In regard to the facility, following a recent weather event, certain sections

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of the facility were impacted. And I just wanted to take a moment to recognize and thank city staff for their immediate response in addressing these issues and helping stabilize the affected areas quickly and safely. Community engagement at the facility continues to grow at a strong pace.

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Since transitioning to the court reserve platform in October, the center has surpassed 1750 unique account holders, representing more than 1750 individual players actively utilizing the facility for tennis and pickle ball. This level of participation highlights the

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facility's increasing relevance as a premier destination for recreation, wellness, and social activity within Boone Beach. Looking ahead to the fall season, league programming has also expanded significantly. Our adult league program will feature 22

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total teams, including several that have transitioned from neighboring facilities. This growth demonstrates rising demand, strong player satisfaction, and the facility's growing competitiveness within the regional market. In addition, we're also excited to announce the launch of an 8week tennis camp for

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juniors this summer. All that being said, through our first six months, we sit at a 47% utilization rate. So, we still believe we have some work to do in terms of increasing our goal and reaching our goals and increasing facility utilization. The facility has continued to elevate

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its tournament presence, now regularly hosting both US adult and junior tournaments. These tournaments have been highly successful, generating strong participation while attracting players, families, and spectators from outside the immediate area. This increased traffic not only supports

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the facility, but also brings added exposure and economic activity to the city of Boone Beach. This past week, we hosted the high school districts and on the first Saturday in May, we'll be hosting a member appreciation roundroin and pro exhibition, which will be free of charge for all tennis and pickleball

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members. We currently have eight additional tournaments scheduled to the end of the summer, continuing to build on this momentum. One of those tournaments is the USA Summer Smash, where we're hosting the top 18 and under boys and girls from around the state.

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This event is the highest level of USA sanctioned tournament that we have from a sectional a sectional standpoint in Florida. Looking ahead, we are proud to share that the facility is scheduled to host an ITF junior event in late 2026. This is a major milestone as ITF

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tournaments are internationally recognized events that attract elite junior players from around the world. Hosting an event of this caliber places Boon Beach on the global tennis map, enhances the city's reputation, and creates meaningful economic and community impact.

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Operational modernization has also been a major success story. Since imple implementing court reserve, nearly 90% of all bookings are now completed through the Playboy buon beach mobile app, creating a seamless reservation experience for residents and visitors alike. This transition has delivered

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several important benefits. Improved customer convenience, better visibility into court usage and demand, more efficient scheduling processes, increased court court utilization through reduced downtime, enhanced ability to manage programming growth.

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These operational improvements position the facility for scalable datadriven growth moving forward. Beyond courts and competition, the facility continues to serve as an important community hub where residents of all ages can gather, stay active, and connect through leagues, tournaments,

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instructional programming, and daily recreational play. The center provides inclusive opportunities for youth, adults, seniors, beginners, and competitive players alike. We're proud to have hosted renowned coach and educator Steve Smith for a free parent child workshop in January. In addition,

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every week we host classes for underprivileged children through the Youth Tennis Foundation and classes for children on the spectrum through Love Serving Autism. We're excited to continue to expand our programming that supports health, recreation, and community engagement for Boyon Beach

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residents. In closing, we'd like to thank the mayor, commissioners, city managers, and city staff for their continued support of the Boy Beach Tennis and Pickle Ball Center. Your partnership and commitment have helped transform this facility into a growing source of recreation,

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community pride, and regional visibility for the city of Boon Beach. We're proud of the progress made thus far, excited about the momentum ahead, and committed to continuing to deliver a firstass experience for residents and visitors alike. Thank you for your time, your

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leadership, and your continued investment. Thank you, >> Mayor. Mayor >> Thank you, sir. Hello. >> Not so fast. >> Not so fast.

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>> Thank you. First of all, I want to say thank you for your presentation and I want to say to staff, thank you for what you have done to the tennis center because years ago it was just neglected. And my whole take is that I always tell individuals here in the city, what we

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have, we need to take care of it. Thank you for taking care of our tennis center out there and our pro shop. I want to know about what is the price for a membership for the year. How the membership runs, what is that price? >> That's uh just around $370 $380 for the

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year for a resident and uh $470 for a non-resident. >> Okay. And that 8we tennis thing that you're having, will y'all be presenting scholarships for underprivileged kids? We we will be working with the youth foundation to uh accommodate children who can't afford the camp and we'll be

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sponsoring them for the camp. Yes, sir. >> Thank you. And I want to say thank you for putting pointing back on the map. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Mayor. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Brandon, um for the presentation. I just I had a couple of questions. Um,

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I just want to commend you for doing a great job because I know we were fielding um, emails after emails and phone calls about the issues and the and the problems and the nonavailability and the, you know, at the tennis center. And

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so, um, those have stopped. Um, you know, I I think we know that there's it's a work in progress. We know that the, you know, the courts need a lot of work. We know that that's in your plan. as my two questions were um the one on

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your membership increases are you seeing that more is there is it pretty even as far as resident versus non-resident are you seeing more residents more non-residents do you have and you may not have it right now and if you don't you can you know send me an email with that information but I'd be curious to

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see are we seeing an an an uptick in you know where that aligns with residents versus non-residents >> I don't have an exact figure for you right now, but I'd be happy to definitely send you that via email. Um, just off the top of my head, I would say it's maybe 5050 or it's pretty split

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down the middle. Um, but I can definitely get that to you. >> Okay, perfect. Yeah, I would like to see how that plays out. And then um the you mentioned the 47% increase of um court utilization. Is that on track with what you anticipated given uh you know kind

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of your plans of updates and and upgrades? I know you had said you wanted it to be higher. Um but is it is this sort of on track with where you expected we would be at this point? >> So just to clarify 47% of the facilities being utilized right now. So it's not an

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increase but it's just the current utilization. So, you know, we have a target obviously below 50% the facility is still at this point is still underutilized, but with our plans for the fall and with the summer camp that increases the overall utilization of the

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facility, um we'd like to obviously increase that to between 65 and 75%. Okay. And so then my part two of that is, you know, I guess what are you what are some of the things that you're doing to try and get that court utilization up? Um, is there anything that the city

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can do to kind of assist get getting that uh utilization up? It sounds like you have so many things coming up. I feel like you'll, you know, that will increase, but I'm just kind of curious what your plan is to to to try and increase that. >> Yeah, we're we're confident that we'll

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get there. Um, you know, one thing in terms of the pickle ball courts not being lighted, we're working on converting uh as part of our proposal was converting court 19, tennis court 9 19 into four pickle ball courts. We feel like six pickle ball courts at the

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facility is a little bit too too few for the amount of play they get. So those those six are being used on a consistent basis. Um, obviously having them available at night for people who cannot play during the day because they work would be a huge bonus. Um, and we're

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committed to making that happen and looking into that over the summer. Um, we also have noticed that um, in building a junior program after school, it just takes a little bit more time to get kids maybe away from, you know, other activities and other programs they

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they've been participating in. Um, also too, we feel like over time that'll increase. So that'll kind of balance out the utilization over the course of of the day and over over the course of the weeks. Um, obviously uh with 22 adult

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teams uh slated for the fall, we feel like that's going to increase the utilization and we should be in good shape. >> Good. Yeah. I think I feel like it also has kind of been slow moving just because I don't want to say Boon has a bad rep, but the tennis courts were struggling for so long that I think

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people found other places to go and are now finally starting to come back and realize that we're we are investing in our tennis court um by bringing you in and and having you um uh manage this. So hopefully that will we'll see that on

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year two on the year two report where we are. So thank you so much Brandon and and great job. I look forward to to hearing uh more about this. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Oh, go ahead. >> Um very happy to see this progress. Thank you. And um the innovation that

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you guys have really brought this tennis center um into the 21st century. Um I wanted to say do we have um a senior discount for specifically for Boon Beach residents? >> There is currently not one in place for

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membership. Um ultimately we've decided to or was agreed upon that the city commission would set the rates for membership. So if the city you know were to decide that then we would be welcome to that option. >> Thank you. I I would definitely like to

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advocate for that um given that a lot of our seniors um are living on fixed incomes. And then one other thing that I wanted to to say is you know I'm really excited to see the programs that you have going on with with the schools and the students. Have we thought about maybe working together with the

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principles of the schools inside the city limits of Boon Beach to actually advertise and get that out there so that they know that this is available? >> We have we have reached out as part of our efforts especially working with the youth tennis foundation. Um and those children from Boon Beach schools are

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starting to use the facility more and more. So pretty happy about that so far. But obviously we just have to keep keep at it, keep promoting the programs and keep trying to turn kids on to tennis and and pickle ball too. Well, and we have um sorry to interrupt. I'm sorry, Vice Mayor, you haven't

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spoken yet, but on that to that point, too. Um you know, the I think of the YMCA out um it's not technically in the city. Um but they don't have tennis facilities and so that might be a good avenue to to reach out to them um because they do have a strong youth sports program. It might be a way that

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we can kind of capture some of those um students that are that are looking to play tennis or pickle ball. know that they have adult pickle ball at like 9:30 in the morning on a weekday that most people who would like to try pickle ball can't do. Um but you know um they you

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know so to since we're trying to capture that youth a little bit more that might be an avenue too is to reach out to them and see if if they would advertise our uh tennis center because they don't have those facilities available to their students. So just throwing it out there.

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>> Yeah, great idea. Great work. Thank you. This is another successful public private partnership, you know. Um, so I think we should all be proud of that and I would support the sentiment about having staff come back with some discount rates for seniors. I

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think that's a great idea. >> Mayor, before we move on, sorry, this is for staff. They said some courts are not lighted. I know we don't have a CIP budget, but can you all give us a price to see how much it will cost to get lights out there? I'm just saying we might be missing some revenue that we

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can tap into. >> Yeah, absolutely, sir. >> Thank you. >> Thank you very much, sir. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Brandon. >> We are now moving on to public audience. As always, it is three minutes per person. It's non-transferable and this is not a Q&A. Same rules as always apply. The speaker must address the

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commission as a whole and and not to any individual in the DAS or in the audience. Insults, personal attacks, and disruptions will not be tolerated, and you'll be asked to leave should you violate these rules. After we have concluded those in person, we will go to those online. Anyone who would like to speak, please already come up to the podium so we can keep it moving.

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Welcome. >> Thank you. Good evening, uh, Madame Mayor and commission members. My name is Jennifer Markwart and on behalf of the Boon Beach Chamber of Commerce, which is locally led but regionally connected, it is an honor and privilege to stand before you today to recognize a group of

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individuals who represent the very best of this community. This Friday, April 24th, the chamber will proudly host our annual first responders lunchon, an event that has become a cornerstone of our organization and a meaningful tradition for more than two decades. uh

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for over uh we we've gathered for over 20 years to recognize and celebrate the extraordinary men and women of the Buon Beach Police and Fire departments. This is not simply an event on our calendar. It is a reflection of our values. Each

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and every day, these professionals answer the call, often without hesitation and always with a deep sense of duty. Uh they are they're they are there in moments of crisis in times of uncertainty and in situations where most

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would step back. They step forward. They do not do this for recognition. They do it because they are committed to service, to safety, and to the community they have sworn to protect. But moments like this, this lunchon gives us the opportunity to pause and to recognize

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and to say thank you in a meaningful and visible way. Because behind every call responded to, every life saved, and every situation brought under control are individuals who have chosen a path of service that requires courage,

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resilience, and sacrifice. Um, as a business community, we understand something very clearly. Public safety and economic vitality go hand in hand. A strong, safe city is the foundation upon which businesses grow,

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families thrive, and communities prosper. So, as we gather this Friday to recognize firefighter um paramedic Connor Reichenban Reichenbach, sorry, I don't have my glasses on. So,

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uh firefighter Damen Faric and officer uh Sunil Sunny Sergully. We do so with gratitude and with deep respect for the roles these individuals play in the fabric of this community. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, please.

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>> Susan Oyer Boon Beach. So, I think I'm here for the right time now for the right thing. So, I want to um talk about consent agenda items 6D um resolution 26-063. Where are these 23 hotspots going? Um the the plans that they're talking

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about. But I'd love to see some transparency on that. 7D, which is R26-067, it's $395,000. Page seven, please note that they have differentiated between trees and palms because palms are not trees. And I'm

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saying this for the 1 billionth time. Let's stop putting palms in our city. Let's do the right thing and get rid of them. Sell what we have to other cities, other developers, whatever, but get them the heck out. Um, it also mentions lighting style, but yet there's no pictures. So, I I'm looking forward to

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seeing what kind of lighting they plan on putting there on US1. I hope they go back to the thought that maybe every neighborhood or every major street should have its own unique design style so that you know you've gone to that next street when you see a different style change. Um, also I hope they're

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exploring the um possible grants including the Wildflower Foundation of Florida which gives out grants. 9A the beautifification report. Um, please let's stop using speed bumps. We need to be switching to chicanees, which would include trees or flowering bushes, and

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that would double check off things off your list of things to do. And I want to finish by saying um I I didn't have enough time on my last thing, so I'll just add this on. I am not against veterans in any way, as I'm sure you guys are very aware. My family's fought in almost every war in American history

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for over 250 years. Sorry, not over but 250 years. Um, I do think that Pearl the Pearl Harbor event and 911 could be rolled into another larger city event with maybe specific holidays, you know, like a spec specific five-year or the

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the zero years, the decade years being a more large event type thing, but maybe roll them into some other event with the city so that they're still acknowledged. the same with MLK and whatever else we feel the need to celebrate, but make

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them more cost effective and and pick out the big years to make them their own special thing. Um, there just was not enough time obviously to address this last time. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next, please. >> Good evening, madame mayor and commissioners. My name is Steve Homer

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and my wife and Rose and I have lived in downtown Boon Beach for 27 years now. I'm concerned with consent consent agenda item 7D to pay a design consultant $400,000 to design improvements for federal highway. While

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I support improving this corridor, I'm concerned about spending such a significant amount of money when our city has a history of problems with implementation. As a member of Inca, I have encouraged the city to make improvements to this

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north federal highway for many years. I believe we should prioritize lowhanging fruit that the city staff could manage before hiring an outside consultant. Uh, and specifically, I suggest the following. Coordinate with Palm Trent to

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install proper covered bus stops. Pressure FPL and cable companies to remove remaining wooden poles and fix dangling overhead lines. Replace damaged sidewalks south of the C16 canal. This includes removing the pavers and the

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mulch that always floats away in favor of a lowmaintenance 8- foot wide concrete path similar to the one that's north of the canal which is much more walkable. rebuild the landscape buffer between federal highway and the railroad tracks and and ensure the maintenance crews do

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not overp prune it like they did in the past. That basically destroyed it because we had the same thing that hypoxuxo has has but we lost by overp pruning. And uh lastly um have city crew walk to pick up litter

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on federal highway at least once every two weeks. It piles up pretty quick as a person that's picked it up. It's a lot of trash piling up. I recommend that we invest in these type of improvements and only hire a consultant to plan something if once we finish these things and it

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might look will look a lot better if we just do that. Um, one other thing with that uh trash pickup in May, I suggest we have the whole month of May for hurricane uh preparation, not just a few days because I I missed it last year. was out of town or was rainy or

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something, but there's no reason not to make the whole month. If you remember the last hurricane, the amount of debris that was left over, it sat there for weeks. It's a lot better to get ahead of it. So, that's all. Thanks for your consideration. >> Thank you, sir. Next, please. >> David Katz, uh, you all gave all the

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kudos about the taste of Boon. I'm here to do the same. um Amanda Craig Fabian and their staff thought outside the box much better than the last couple of years. But there's also not just them. There's

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the what I would call the Indians, those who work with with them. Uh there's a fellow named Glenn who worked his butt off during the during the evening. Uh there's Britney, another staff member. There's Jay who works inside the city hall. There are the police who make sure

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everybody's safe. So, I mean, they just did a tremendous, tremendous job. And I would suggest to Mr. Homework that maybe he uh contact the Bokeh Chamber. Maybe they want to adopt Federal Highway for a cleanup. Thank you. >> Next, please.

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>> Good evening, Harry Woodworth, Boon Beach. Uh, I wanted to thank the public safety director, but he bugged out. Anyhow, tell you guys, John took us on a tour of the Flock Center, as it's named. Uh, fascinating place. Uh if you haven't been there, you should be. Uh amazing.

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Left there with a a real good feeling about the technology in that room. Uh I'm still kind of puzzled by how we're affording $7.7 million in a 10-year contract when we're laying off people to balance or prevent a hole in the budget of $5 million. So, I'm left wondering

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that a little bit. the uh uncertainty of the revenue as was discussed at a previous commission meeting, the camera revenue, um the uncertainty of what Tallahassee is going to do with the uh property taxes, uh if they do anything. The other thing that we didn't discuss

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was that last year Tallahassee did put a bunch of controls on cameras on on drones as a result of public outcry. You need a warrant. You need permission, consent, and there are exceptions for emergencies. That make some sense.

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This is becoming, this camera surveillance is becoming a very hot issue. I got a call from Tallahassee today, a call from Orlando yesterday. The state is waking up to this stuff. It would not surprise me at all if Tallahassee decides to go finish what they started on FS934.5

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and extends those same things to this camera system. That's a concern. And we should probably be thinking about it because the pressure is building. The lawsuits are building. The the lock cancellations nationwide are going up. Another half dozen last week. Um

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the problem I'm having with all this is I'm a techie and I like this stuff. It does some things that need doing. Okay. So I did some research on it because my experience and what I've talked to people about has been based on my personal experience with it for 30 years. It does some things. So, I to did

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some research, did a bunch of digging on what's out there, peer-reviewed research. I did not go to the American Civil Liberties Union. I did not go to the Institute of Justice, and I sure as hell didn't go to the flock site for my information. I went to peer-reviewed

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admin studies. Let me just refresh. I can't let me read this because I can't remember all this stuff. National Academy of Science, October 25th, the impact of public security, cameras on cities. You know where that study was based on China. Half the cameras in the world are implemented in China. So

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Comrade is safe and there's nice safe living over there. The other one was a Cambridge University in 2019. Camera surveillance of crime 40ear systemic review of camera use in England. England

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has been using cameras since 1960. There are more cameras per thousand people in London than there are in Beijing. And that's a fact. You can look it up. You don't like uni UK and China? United

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States Department of Justice Urban Institute 2011 evaluating use of public surveillance cameras for crime control and present prevention. >> 10 seconds. >> I'm sorry. >> You got 10 more seconds. We're giving you 10 extra seconds. I just want the punch line in all of this is that the general conclusion to all of these

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studies and there are dozens of them is that this stuff works for crime after the fact getting evidence of chasing people down. It works for property crime. You put it here in a parking lot. >> It does not work for violent crime. >> Thank you. You can look it up next,

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please. >> Hello, Steven Grant, Boon Beach, Florida. Uh I'm here in favor of uh resolution 6E piggybacking with uh the city of Barto for the red light cameras. Um I have a different experience here as

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the mayor of Boon Beach or former mayor of Boon Beach. Uh when the cameras went dark uh crime did spike. Uh there were five people that were shot um 200 feet from where I was living at that time. And the cameras are still providing safety for the city. Uh earlier this

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year, I was struck by a pickup truck while walking my dogs on Boon Beach Boulevard in Serest. Um I'm very fortunate that the man stopped and hit the brakes, but unfortunately it wasn't in time. Um but he did have the ability

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to hire a lawyer try to get out of the ticket um that you know failing to yield and because I was able to get access to the camera um because our officer pulled it to show yes absolutely he hit you while you were walking with the green

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walking man and I was able to look at that video so that I could identify him because that's the first thing that they ask you when someone hits you is that are you able to identify them because in our current legal legal system beyond a reasonable doubt. If you're not the one

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that saw them hit you, they don't get to they don't have to pay for the ticket. And so that is where I'm here in favor of it. Um, you know, if I didn't do what I did, my dog would definitely gone rode over. And so that's why I'm here because it saves lives. I've seen it um, you

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know, provides safety for our citizens here. And so I'm just hopefully that you all agree that extending the red light cameras is the right thing to do for Bdon Beach. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anyone else before we look online?

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>> No one. >> There is no one online. Mayor, >> public comment is now closed. We're moving on to the advisory board and appointments. We have one application for the art advisory board. The nomination goes to Commissioner Cruz. Would you like to make a motion? >> Uh, yes. So I'll go ahead and make a

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motion to nominate Jennifer Spatola. >> 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. The next nomination is for me to appoint a regular member of the recreation and parks advisory board.

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I'd like to make a motion to appoint Tiffany North. >> Second. >> We have a motion and we have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. There are no applicants for the following boards, but we encourage residents to apply if

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they're interested. Building board of adjustment and appeals, but there are three regular members and one alternate member position available for anyone who qualifies and would like to apply. The Education and Youth Board has alternate, one has one alternate and two student member positions. The Historic Resources Preservation Board has three regular,

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one alternate. The library advisory board has two regular, one alternate. And the senior advisory board has three and two alternate. We are now moving on to the consent agenda. If my colleagues want to pull any items from consent, let's begin on my left with Commissioner McCrae. >> Thank you. I'd like to pull item 6A.

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>> Okay. Any other ones? >> That's it for me on that one. >> Commissioner Kelly? >> No. Mayor, >> Vice Mayor? >> No. >> And Commissioner Cruz? >> No. For me, thank you. >> Okay. >> Motion to approve the remainder of consent agenda. >> Second. >> We have a motion and we have a second.

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All those in favor say I. I >> all those oppos say nay. >> Nay. >> Motion passes 4 to one and um Mr. McCrae since you pulled the item.

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Thank you for being so formal. Commissioner McCrae, go ahead. Right. The reason I really pulled this was I'm the newbie up here and I want to uh hear from staff. >> Thank you again. Is this on? There it is. Good

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evening again, uh, Madame Mayor and Commissioner. Um, I'm going to walk through the quarterly, uh, financial report. Uh, simple deck. Um, right now what we have is general fund revenues. Uh, we hit 100% of budget

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and expenditures came in roughly around 90% of that amount, yielding roughly a 1.9 1.8 surplus. Um, from a utility standpoint, um, there is going to be one correction on there. It says 14.9. Um, we are in a blackout period right now with uh with the audit going on. So, I'm

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not able to make an adjusting entry, but we have a $7 million debt service payment that's not in here. So, that will go down to around just under 8 million. So, that'll be adjusted once the auditors give us the green light. Um, and then year-over-year, our general funds revenue actually grew almost about

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6%. However, our expenditure growth uh grew at about 15.5, which is really around wages and uh the public uh public safety costs. Our general fund revenues uh really kind of focus on three major areas, right? Our property taxes are roughly 43% of

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what we receive in for the general fund. And then on top of that, the other revenues that we have is the other 43% and then we get transfers from other funds. From an expenditure standpoint, um, all really kind of came in on budget,

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um, obviously the biggest growth year-over-year was our public safety costs shown there on the bar graph on the left. And then from a utility standpoint, if there are any specific questions, again, on there is the surplus, which is 14.9. that will be coming down $7 million as

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we uh begin to make the adjusting entry once the audit is done. But we can see our mix of sales. 50% of our sales uh for utilities is water. Uh 36% is sewer, storm water is 10% and there are other miscellaneous around four and 5%.

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And then our year-over-year comparison. Um, as you can see, um, we grew a little bit, uh, year-over-year due some of the rate increases that we had to pay for the the RNR going forward. Um, but we're getting good, um, we're getting good, um,

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movement on that. And then the key takeaways is that again, we are at a balanced budget. We continue to to be strong with that. Um we do have our poverty growth. We did drop it down from 7.85 down to 7.8, but we still grew at 6%. And then

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our utility uh our utility funds um again it grew uh roughly 7% to 67.4 million. And then um one of our focuses that we have obviously our largest spending category again is public safety at 89.6. Any questions?

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>> Yes. a general fund surplus. I noticed that did not grow. I'm just saying, you know, but you did say that we have a balanced budget. >> Yes, sir. >> That's for the city and also for utilities. Both balance. >> Yes, sir.

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>> That's what I need to hear. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a motion to approve and we have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. All those opposed say nay. Motion passes unanimously. We are now moving on to consent bids and purchases over 100,000. If my colleagues would like to

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pull any items, let's begin on my right with Commissioner Cruz. >> Uh yes, just wanted to pull 7D for a quick um discussion. I did meet with staff about this >> and vice mayor. >> Commissioner, >> no mayor. Thank you.

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>> McCotion to approve consent bids and purchases. >> 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. And since um we did

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pull Commissioner Cruz pulled D, please. >> Um just wanted I don't we don't unless the board wants the whole presentation, just wanted to make a few comments. Um thank you for taking the time to meet with me about this. And also, um I

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briefly mentioned this at a previous meeting. I know Commissioner uh Kelly is the board member for the used to be called TPA, now it's called the MO. Um just wanted to see if we were able to have any conversations with um Valerie and her team with regard to our plans on

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federal highway and how we could collaborate. Um, I do understand that they already have made plans or, you know, they've made preliminary plans for the entirety of federal highway and if it's something that we could potentially collaborate with and obviously add what

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we wanted, we could potentially pay 50 thou $50,000 or or a really small number instead of spending about $400,000. So, I just wanted to see if we could connect with the um MO to really see where they are with that. Um and then adding

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whatever it is that we want to add to the work order so that we can save a lot of money. >> Sure. >> Um my name is Jay, street division director. Yes. So definitely I can contact >> your mic.

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>> Can you turn your mic on? Sorry about that. Again, Jay Kim, street division director. Definitely I can contact the NO to see where there are and then what is their um conceptual plan or there is any other um grant money available for this project.

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>> I again I don't want to like overstep or anything but I just wanted to to say that and I don't know if you wanted to get involved with that. Uh, Commissioner Kelly, >> I have um been involved in that and Jun and I had spoken about it too. Um, with the MO, a lot of theirs has to do with

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the transportation and not necessarily the beautifification and streetscape end of it. So, I think there there may be some collaboration that we can do. that has to do with the pedestrian safety, the bike safety and and those sort of aspects, but when it comes to the wider

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sidewalks and the trees and the street lighting and stuff, we're kind of that's kind of has to be our wheelhouse. So, I think there is a there is a mechanism to partner with them on some of the things. And I know I've been in conversations with um Amanda and Will uh to really get

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on a schedule um working with the MO on the grant programs and making sure that whatever um projects we have coming down the pike um that we're evaluating them and looking at the feasibility on um you know on partnering with the TBA or

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applying for those various grants. So, is something that's on um on my radar, something I've um spoken to staff about, too. So, >> thank you. Yeah, I I do know one of their grants definitely focuses on on street scapes and, you know, wider sidewalks and things of that nature as

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well. So, you know, it doesn't hurt to try to not only get grant money, but also if they already done the research, if we could just maybe add that to ourformational bucket and then kind of grow from there. >> Yes, Commissioner McCrae. >> Thank you, Mayor. I'm I'm glad this was

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brought up and I'm glad you all pulled this here because we had a a gentleman from Inca tonight >> that address these same issues. So, I'm just saying when you all start doing what you said that you're going to do, bear in mind what they said that they would like because we have always had problems with federal highway as long as

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I can remember. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um I agree with you, Commissioner McCrae. And that's something like even Monday night we have an Inca meeting that's going to be the topic of discussion is the sidewalks and the cutting of the you know I mean I garden but not like this but apparently we are

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not pruning things right to create the blockage on the tracks is what we got the other day. Um so I think there's more that we can discuss on this issue to make sure that we're doing it right after all these residents have been waiting for two decades to get some of this stuff done. Well, and and I think

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um it's important because I know it was also brought up um during public comment about the trees. We are also bound by what FDOT will allow. Um, and so I have run into this on Lawrence Road and as much as I understand the desire to not

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have a bunch of palm trees because quantum quantum legs has palm trees that are 50 plus feet tall now and provide no shade and provide no um but we are governed when it comes to uh state roads

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um by what they want and I know um I've spoken to June about this especially on Lawrence Road because of the size of the medians we can't have regular trees and they have to be certain trees. So, I am happy to continue having that discussion and maybe we can loop in um F dot on

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their tree list. Um but I just wanted to answer that um for clarification of the public that we are when it comes to these state roads and even the county road, we are we're bound by what they'll allow. And so, unfortunately, when it comes to trees, we're stuck by their

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list. So, and I I've I've spoken lots of trees. So, thank you. >> Any further discussion on this? >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Have a motion to approve and we have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I.

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>> I. All those opposed say nay. >> Thank you. >> Motion passes unanimously. >> We have two public hearing items this evening and a public comment will be permitted on these items. I'll turn to the clerk to read item 8A into the record. Please.

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>> Proposed ordinance number 26012. Second reading, an ordinance of the city of Boon Beach, Florida, creating article 15, abandonment of nuisance of chapter 15 of the city code, establishing a public nuisance abatement process, providing for definitions, procedures,

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hearings before a special magistrate emergency abatement, enforcement, penalties, and means providing for authority consistent with chapter 166 and section 893.138 Florida statutes providing for cotification, conflict, severability, and an effective date. This is the

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second reading for this item. Have there been any changes? >> No. >> Okay. Are there any comments from the commission before we open up to public comment? >> Uh yeah, this is for the chronic nuisance. Um did we get clarification on

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uh adding that in there with like um discharge of a firearm? >> Good evening everyone. because I got I got a communication and it was like we'll work on that but that should be worked on before the second reading. >> Um go ahead. That cannot be added.

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>> No. So the the ordinance is this one. >> So the ordinance that we're talking about does not include that. We are reviewing the chronic nuisance ordinance that's already in effect to amend that to include um reckless display of a weapon and uh discharging a firearm.

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>> Yeah, the reckless discharge of firearm. That's the one. Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Public comment. Anybody else before we open up to public comment? Okay, public comment will be permitted for three minutes per speaker at this time. If you'd like to speak, now's the time to come down.

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>> Okay, >> thank you. If there's nothing else, may we have a motion to approve proposed ordinance number 26-012? >> So move. >> Second. >> We have a motion. We have a second. Let's turn to the clerk for the roll call. Commissioner Cruz,

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>> yes. >> Commissioner McCra, >> yes. >> Commissioner Kelly, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Turkin, >> yes. >> Mayor Shelton, >> yes. >> In a roll call vote, the motion passes unanimously. >> Thank you very much. I will turn to the clerk to read in item 8B. Ordinance number 26-013,

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second reading, an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Boon Beach, Florida, codifying resolution R15136, which created a community redevelopment agency advisory board establishing composition, qualifications, appointment procedures and duties, providing for codification, providing for variability,

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providing for conflicts, and providing for an effective date. >> This is the second reading for this item. Have there been any changes? >> There have been no changes. >> Thank you. Any comments from the commission before we go to public comment? Anyone that would like to speak on

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public comment? Now is your time. >> If there's nothing else, may we have a motion to approve proposed or proposed ordinance number 26-013. >> So move. >> Second. >> We have a motion. We have a second. Let's turn to the clerk for the roll call. >> Commissioner Cruz. >> Yes.

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>> Commissioner McCrae. >> I. >> Commissioner Kelly? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Turkin? >> Yes. >> Mayor Shelton? Yes. >> In a roll call vote, the motion passes unanimously. >> Thank you. Moving on to the city manager report, a presentation from Kevin Ramsey on beautifification and streets division

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responsibilities and achievements. >> Good evening, mayor. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, commission. I'm here to give a brief presentation on beautifification streets, where we are, and our achievements. >> I think we presentation. >> Oh, sorry.

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That's the wrong station. >> No, no, >> not that. >> There it is. There it is. >> There it is. Yeah, we have red lights. >> Nothing about red lights. >> All right. So, I'll start again. Uh,

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this is a quick uh presentation on responsibilities and achievements so far with bation streets. >> Hi, gone. >> Yes, it is. I'm just >> going to take it up. >> I need to cut my legs off a little bit. Get down here. Um, all right. So, let's get to this.

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>> I squat. Okay. Yeah. Try that. Okay. Tammy, it's the left one. Every Thank you. Okay. All right. Goals and purpose. Um, our daily goal is to enhance the city's

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appearance and create safer streets. We work to provide clean travel lanes, safe sidewalks, flourish medians, and maintain city facilities and city- owned properties by involving residents, city officials, and organizations to build a rapport and address concerns.

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We have a few examples from uh so far. Uh this is an organization. Uh Jay Young Kim is the division uh director of this department. Um we have a really great team we put together and yes, the CRA does pay for two of these employees. Um

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Charles Mosy and Thoroughly Johnson are the supervisors of this position of this uh division. Um they're doing an excellent job. Next page task and responsibilities and we're find ourselves always these are always expanding you know um address

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task requests via rock solid program. Restore and enhance landscaping within street medians and street trees along with sidewalks. fabricate, produce, and install various street signs and signage for city events. Regularly inspect and uh report issues

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related to city-owned and FPL owned street lights, which is a big undertaking, but they're doing they're managing it well. Uh repair and improve sidewalks on all city maintained streets. Uh collaborate um with Palm Beach County and FDOT to repair and improve roadways and sidewalks under

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their jurisdictions, including I95 overpasses. Um, install, remove, and relocate temporary speed humps. That's part of our traffic calming. Sometimes you need those out there just for a quick calming. Um, we work with engineering to do that. Uh, install and maintain pavement markings, perform

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asphalt patching, and repair potholes. That's citywide, and sometimes I don't think there's someone on that dice call me about a pothole where a quick fix we had to go out and do. Uh, pressure clean sidewalks, public spaces, and mun facilities, and remove graffiti.

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conduct daily inspections and remove litter to prevent roadway hazards. We're we're averaging eight cubic yards a day, which is like four pickup trucks every we do the same routine every day. I did hear uh Mr. Homer about federal highway walk federal highway walk. So I'll get

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with Jay and we'll address federal highway a little bit deeper. Okay. Um assist with drive safe program including traffic and speed counts. Um that's again we work with engineering for that as well. uh maintain overgrown vegetation that affects street sign

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visibility, uh support city events as needed, manage weekly and monthly street sweeping services. Um we have a budget of $160,000 a year, and we uh every week we sweep streets sweep the city as well

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as 10 additional miles in different neighborhoods. We try to do district one, two, three, and four. 10 miles in each one. So once a month, one of your areas is getting another sweep in the neighborhoods. Okay, that's been established. Um, this here. All right. Incept

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achievements. September 25 to March 26, staff addressed, 198 task request. Uh, street maintenance reports 150 150 outlet of service lights. FPL. Street and traffic signs are equipped and refurbished throughout the city. That's a constant. Southeast street enhanced

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landscaping. This group took on itself. We know there's a lot of development coming onto Southeast 4th and uh they went and took care of the median knowing that down the road those developments will go and maintain that median and readress it uh because it was a bit shabby. Boy Beach Boulevard landscape

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enhancements for medians has begun. Um federal highway landscape improvements are in progress and we just had that little thing with Jay up here. Street and sidewalk audit. Okay, that's one of our biggest achievements. I'm so proud of that one. I can tell you. Um, this commission wanted us to pressure

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wash with city of local city vendors. We did that. Uh, we had no help from Palm Beach County. We asked them if we needed a permit or help. They said no. Um, so we did took it on ourselves. We did an audit of our own of all their stuff. We made a nice pamphlet book up, sent it to

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Tallahassy, and it fit to Palm Beach County and they have been addressing their sidewalk repairs um 380 spots actually. So, it's going to cost them some money, but they're doing it. they'll help us next time. All right.

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So, these are some of just some pictures that what this group has done. Um, we know that there is more things that we can do expanding wise um marking and signs from the street signs that we do. Um, from Little League Park, which is a park,

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I'm sorry. Um, just some minor everyday things. There's some of our trash that we do every day. It's amazing how much stress we get just by running the streets, you know. And then we have the weekend calls. There's a mattress in Federal High in Hypoxa Road or >> or Pelican

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>> or Pelican. Pelican. We're getting them. Uh between my sanitation and BK streets, I think they're coming to be. They're they're falling in line. >> They were, but the last week it's been rough. >> Just a phone call. Just a phone call. We'll take care of it. Okay. Um we paint hydrants as well. So, uh, this is just a

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little minor things we do. And I just want to put a few things on there for that. And so, we continue to collaborate with county and state, establish beautifification standards for streets, and enhance and maintain city streets. And, uh, we do appreciate your phone

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calls and your input and request. Um, and that's it. And questions. >> Any questions? >> I I don't have a question, but I do have a comment. And I want to say to you all, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> I've noticed a great improvement in

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District 2 and all over our entire city. When I see the guys working, I blow at them and I give them thumbs up. I'm just saying because it's a shame that they have to go around and pick up what we throw away. >> Mhm. >> Not the right way. >> Yes, sir. That's true. But since we got

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them pointed looking much cleaner and take care of federal highway for Inca, please. Thank you. >> Yes. Yes. And yes, >> well I real quick and I just Kevin, thank you so much to you and the team um to Jayun. I mean this um you know when

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we set down this path of doing this um we knew it was going to be impactful, but it really truly has been impactful um citywide. I see it. Um, and when there is an issue or something comes up, it is addressed immediately. Um, no

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matter where it is in the city and the staff is always happy to help and always happy to jump in and, um, so just, you know, thank you for that. Um, I will text you about some sprinklers I saw this morning. >> We will

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>> some lights. Um but yeah, no, just um you know, thank you for for all this hard work and I look forward to continuing uh you know, this because I think it it really does make a big difference um citywide um to have this

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uh this team. Um but it also you know and what I was going to say is that to the public um you know we really depend on the we can only be so many places and really at the end of the day we need the public to make these recommend make the

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complaints and report something. Um I I do it I try and do it as as soon as I see something. I tell my residents text me, email me, call me if you see something because there's only so we can only see so many things. Um, and so it's

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a quick um, little report and it and it gets handled. And so if you see something, even if you think somebody will see this, just it doesn't hurt to take a quick minute to, you know, notify staff of a a street light or garbage or

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whatever because it may have just gotten picked up two days before that and it and it needs to be picked up again. So I you know to the public just you know we can't be everywhere and we really do um you know hope that that you uh report these things to us so that you can be

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our eyes too. So thank you. Thank you Kevin. >> Yeah I just want to say thank you Kevin and Jay and the whole beautifification team for everything you guys do there. Thank you. If there are no final comments for tonight. Do we have a motion to

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>> second? We have a motion to adjurnn. We have a second. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. Those oppos say nay. Motion passes unanimously. We have no further business discussed. The meeting is adjourned at 9:00 p.m. >> Good night.