change. It's like when we develop this property ready whenever you are. Okay. And now they don't uh we're going to call the meeting to order. Uh pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Rene, can you call the role, please? Commissioner Green here. Commissioner Canfield here. Commissioner Orwine here. Vice Mayor Stanley here. That it also be
present and participating is town manager Dunham, assistant town attorney Nazaro, CFO by master, Chief Jones, and myself. Absent with notice is Mayor Morgan. Uh, next item is approval of the minutes from the last meeting, April 11th, 2025. Any changes, comments, or
additions? No. I approve the minutes. Second. Uh, roll, please. Commissioner Green, yes. Commissioner Canfield, yes. Commissioner Earthwin, yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Uh, town manager, any
changes to the agenda? No, sir. Okay. uh you'll see the uh the dates for the regular meetings and the public meetings. You'll also see that uh September 12th, 2025 is going to be our first tenative budget meeting which are offcycle budget meetings. I believe on
item seven uh we have Senator Burman here to give for a presentation of what happened in the session this year. Good morning, Mayor. Good morning, council members. Um, so you may have read that we we completed session a week ago, but we did
not do our one constitutional duty, and that is that we do not have a budget in the state of Florida right now. Um, rumor was we were going to go back on Wednesday and start working out on the budget, but um, we still have not
received notice, so it's getting late for everybody to make their travel plans. There is a um serious dispute going on about the taxing in the budget this year and it will have implications for long-term implications for cities
and counties. The House Speaker has proposed lowering the state sales tax by 75%. The Senate President, and I'm in the Senate, so I'm partial to the Senate side, has said that that is not
sustainable. Um and they've done some analysis and it shows like in three years we'll be like8 billion dollars short have a deficit and then in four years we'll be 13 billion and we know that fire and and uh safety and and uh
police and social services are all paid with those taxes. Um, so for now we are holding strong in the Senate and that's why we don't have a budget and we don't have negotiations at this point even. So hard to say how it will be resolved. Um,
there also is very serious discussion about changing some of property tax in the state of Florida. Um, the the House just put together a committee and they are going to work on it and that would be on the ballot. um next November, a
year from November. So um that will be that will be part of if if it's decided that they want to make a recommendation to make any changes on property tax, that will be decided by the citizens of the state. Of course, it's a hard cell because who's not going to say yes, I
want my property taxes decreased. But we all know what happens when when taxes are decreased and it's going to affect services. So, that's the story with the the budget where we are right now. Um, it's pretty disturbing. Um, but we will
see how it all plays out. That said, we actually had a very good legislative session. Um, very little of the partisan cultural war issues went any place, which was wonderful for a change. the
and also the the House and the Senate finally woke up that we are a co-equal branch of government and and made decisions based on what we wanted to do not what was um top down. So it was it was a very successful and very
productive session. Um I handed out my Burman bulletin just a couple highlights um that so there's more information in here but I'll highlight a few of the items. One of the big um things we did um you may remember that there was a
proposal to put um recreational facilities including hotels into some of our state parks. Um and that was met with a pretty big uproar and um so we passed a bill saying we are not going to do any of that in our state parks. Um,
another area where we made um some good progress was in boating safety. Um, we passed a bill. It's named after a woman named Lucy and it strengthened the regulations including for boating under the influence. So hopefully it'll make
our waterways a lot safer. Um, I heard you say something about mooring. We did pass a bill. I'm not sure if it went all the way through. Um but it has to do with um you can't moore for more than 30 days I think is what the restrictions
were overnight. You can't more overnight for more than 30 days um because we have a lot of derelch vessels and and uh homeless areas. So homeless encampments actually on the water. So um the hope
we'll see how that hopefully it'll play out for that reason and it'll work the way it's supposed to work. Um I don't know if you I don't know where where does the city get its water from. Do you have your own Delray? Okay. Well, so you will have a
change. Um Delray discussed the issue about fluoridating its water and they agreed to continue to flidate its water and the state just passed a law preempting any fluoridation. So your water will no longer be fluoridated. Um I'm not sure when that will go into
effect, but that will be a change. Um and then the other big change that we did had to do with citizens petitions. I talked about the property bill being on the a constitutional amendment. Um so there's a couple different ways you get
constitutional amendments. We as a legislature can put them on, but we do have a very robust um citizens petition uh process here in the state. And in the years that I've been in the legislature, it's continued to be chipped away. And
this year, there was a pretty big chipping away and making it harder for people to get those petitions on the ballot. Um I, you know, we've done some really great things with the citizens petition. We've had um allowed returning
citizens to vote. We did uh the Fair Districts Act saying that you have to draw the districts based on geographic boundaries. Um, we did the minimum wage with the citizens petition. Um, so it's it's it's troubling to me that we're
trying to make it harder for citizens voices to be heard here in the state. And unfortunately, they said that they were doing it because they were concerned about big outofstate groups coming in to put petitions on the ballot. But I think
what they just did, what we just did, I voted against it. Um, is counterprotective and it will only allow big corporations because now we have very serious fines. If you violate this, you have to now turn in any petitions
within 10 days instead of 30 days. Um, if you're not um you can an individual can only collect 25 petitions total over the ent for that one item. So, you know, people used to go around and collect a whole bunch. Now, they're not going to
be able to do that. So, you're going to have to pay people. The way you pay people is changing. You used to be you could pay people for petition. That changed a couple years ago, and they're still making that harder. So, and there's real serious fines, including felonies for violating some of this. So,
I think unfortunately, you're only going to see big companies coming in trying to uh change some of our Florida laws. Um, I do like to Oh, so I I want to make sure and report to you a little bit about what happened on the preeemption
side. Um, I don't have the whole um list yet, and I'm sure you will get one from the Florida League of Cities and the League of Counties, but we did pass a bill um 1080 and it has to do with local government land regulations and it has
very um it had we the League of Cities and the League of Counties worked to make it a better bill. The way it was first drafted, it was really very very ownorous for cities and counties. It is still going to be difficult. There are timelines for you for um permitting
projects and if you don't meet those timelines, you have to refund money to the person who is paying for the permit. So, um I'm sure the League of Cities and the League of Counties will give you more information as it as the law gets
ready to be implemented, but that will, you know, is something that you should be aware of. And then we did change some of the live local act, which was the act a couple years ago that we did to make it easier for people to build affordable
housing. Um they're they continue to tweak it. So, there's that that's something that you should also be aware of. And I do like to um close with um talking about if we did any fun bills. Um and the one bill, it didn't pass this
year, but we did have one bill that I that I liked a lot, and that was um right now the mocking bird is our state bird, and it's it's in a lot of states. It's not unique to Florida. Um, so there was a bill to change that to I think the scrub jay, but the part of the bill I
really liked was to also add the flamingo as one of our state birds. Um, but it didn't pass, but rumor is that it's it it's going to pass next year. So, we might hear more about flamingos next year. And that's pretty much it for
now. I'm happy to answer any questions that you have about the session. um always happy to represent all of you in Tallahassee and um let me know any any issues or concerns that you have.
Thank you. Any any questions commission? If I had one question, what what's your outlook? I know you don't really know on actually having the budget passed like is there some sort of timeline on Yes, there there is. So, our budget year is July 1st. So, they have there's a little
leeway between now and then. I can't imagine. I heard there was one year I I've been in the legislature 15 years. This is this is definitely the farthest apart and the longest I've seen us go. Um we're about we were about 4 billion dollars apart. Right now we're about I'm
four billion. Right now we're about 2.8 billion, but I do think we will have a budget by July 1. It but it could be close to July one unfortunately. Can I ask a question about property taxes? What are they proposing? Um it's hard to
say. The the governor was talking about Yeah, the governor was talking about like eliminating property taxes. That was the original first proposal. Um so that's why the house put together a committee and they're they're they just started to meet the committee to see
there were some proposals which I thought were were actually quite reasonable and I would do those instead of the sales tax issue and that was to raise the homestead exemption. Um, right now everybody gets like a $25,000 homestead exemption. Could raise it to
like 75 h 100,000. That would give some people relief on their on their taxes, but still allow cities and counties to get money. So, not sure where we're going to end up, but um that House committee that was the point was to say
what if we're going to change property taxes, how should we do it? Sure. Thank you as always for coming to see us each year and informing us on what's going on state level. Sure. All right. Have a great day everyone. Happy Mother's Day.
Uh we're on to uh item eight reports and uh town manager CIP update. Thank you uh vice mayor. Um this won't take long. Uh I can tell you most of the activity of course has been on Gulf Stream Road and
Lake View uh over the last week uh to 10 days. Uh right now the contractor has completed putting in the water man from Gueview to uh basically in front of uh the Gavau and Dr. Mazio's house.
Uh drainage uh on Gulf View has been completed from G I'm sorry on Gulf Stream Road has been completed from G View down to Lake View the intersection. Uh then the water man has
been completed on Lake View from Polo to Gulfream. Uh no drainage yet on Lake View in that in that block. Um and uh there's been they they haven't
skipped over the um intersection of Lake View to the east side of I mean east of the intersection of Lake View and and Gulfream Road. Uh at this point there we're waiting on a part that needs to go
into the intersection. Um it's it's a it's like a cross because the the uh uh water utilities cross that intersection. So uh the part has to be specially made. But uh so we're waiting on that before
we can go beyond that on Lake View. Um and that really updates that. Uh there's a a very good possibility that uh uh though that they will begin to do the road work on Gulfream Road uh
beginning down at G View and moving north beginning next week. So I am happy to say that they are moving at a much quicker pace than they did in u phase one. And I mean, a lot of that is
because they're not dealing with as nearly as much groundwater, although they've kind of exchanged the groundwater for coral rock. Yeah. And uh uh literally I was standing there watching them try to
get under some rock and the machine was just shaving it off and it it was so white it it looked like I thought it was another uh pipe. Uh but it was actually the rock. So it's
amazing to see how difficult it is to get through that. But uh but they are making good progress. Uh I think our communication with our residents has uh done really well um in terms of you know
informing them that we we have an opport more opportunities for people to get in out of their driveways on Gulfream Road uh than we did over in phase one because of all the finger streaks streets just had one way in and one way out.
So, and we think maybe the timing as to when they get down to the school is going to be right around when the school that's lets out at at the beginning of June. What is it? June 4th. June
4th. So, um, so we have good work going on with respect to the CIP. Do they know is just regard to the pipe? I don't not worried about all the rest right now. when you think they might have the pipe done because the pipes get pretty complicated once they get down to the
school. Uh I'm sorry your question, you know, when they think they're going to be almost down to the school of the pipe know. Well, that's what I'm saying. That's it's hopefully it's going to be right around when school. Yeah, we're just we're just talking about the pipe
group. Yeah, the pipe and drainage at this point. So, uh yes. Excellent. Uh any questions with regard to the the project and the status on the uh phase two? And Mr. Vice Mayor, before we move on, uh there was a Oh, yeah. There was a
change order number six that actually came through on Tuesday uh from Max Woodman. It's a variety of items that we have been discussed and working on through the beginning of the project. Um most of these items been approved during construction in the field with uh
approval from Baxter Woodman. Uh I also reviewed their request for additional time that you'll see on number uh six for seven days additional time. Uh we believe that it's reasonable to allow seven days because that was when we forced them to not be at work during
hurricane watch or tropical storm watch or warnings over the last uh 12 months. They requested 26 total days including holidays and everything. So we believe that seven is reasonable. Uh so we just want you to go ahead and ratify this change order six which increases the
contract time by seven days uh and increases the cost uh of $17,76.83 uh cents. Yeah. Some of these on one through uh four weren't some of that some of that was on our our list
that we had we were finishing. These are for phase one, right? Correct. Yes. Yeah. Some of these were on our list they went through. Yes. Yeah. Right. recognizing recognizing the structure numbers, right? And and these the additional time of course our our codes require that when we when we get a watch
or or a warning that all construction uh stops. Uh any questions on the change order for 17,7683? Again, most of those structures were were part of our sort of our punch list items and things we needed to modify at the end of phase one. and then
the seven days additional time due to the hurricane watch. Uh I just need a motion. I'll move to approve the change orders. Second. Uh roll please. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield? Yes. Commissioner Orwine? Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley? Yes.
Uh anything else with regard to the CIP? No, sir. Uh next item is the G View Road guard rail damage and restoration mini project. Uh yeah. So, uh, Tran, I share in, uh, discussing this. I I did want to
say in terms, and then this came up at the last meeting, uh, that, uh, the grass and the dirt at the end of uh, the road uh was not level and so it
was holding water in front of the the house at the end of the street. So that's all been uh uh um dredged out there so that it now drains properly and the water doesn't
stand. But we also talked about the the fact that at at this point after the first lift, the slope of the road is actually uh goes towards the house there. So when they do the second lift, they're going to re-engineer it so that
the the drainage goes the other direction instead of collecting there at the front of the house. So So the um the the printouts are actually what it looked like previously. Those are just two of the sort of same shots. There is a guardrail on the other
side of that hedge. There was discussion previously about maybe not replacing the guardrail. I suggest against that. sovereign immunity may bar suit u in a lot of cases but I I don't think that um choosing to not replace something that was previously designed you know to with
safety in mind uh would be um would be wise I don't think there's any um detraction aesthetically given that it is completely we could uh completely place it behind those hedges um so it's recommended that we replace the previous guardrail and work with the residents in
that area to add landscaping you know to beautify the area uh so it's both safe uh and attractive and that's consistent with what we had done previously. I believe a previous resident actually installed all of this landscaping. So we're going to work with those and uh individuals in the area to um you know
to make it the same, but obviously the guardrail is something that the is a cost that the town will bear on its own. Um the anticipated cost will be well within the town manager's discretion. So this is just an update on that.
Thank you. Um see the architectural review and planning board dates uh are there through the summer. There's no meeting in August. Uh finance director report. Uh yes sir. Um the uh balance sheet that you have today represents 58%
of the budget and uh I don't believe Marker or myself believe that there's anything unusual in this. So ask you to approve that. Any questions regard the budget as presented? Uh, police chief,
police activity. Good morning, vice mayor, commissioners. Uh, I have submitted a report that I'd asked you accept. Um, there's nothing unusual in the report. Uh, there's been no unusual activity within the last month. Uh, we have seen some trespassing, uh, start in the southern portion of town here the
last couple weeks. We made a couple arrests for that. Um, but it it's not anything unusual. I think it's just movement of people based on the timing. Um, so we'll continue to obviously keep an eye on that. Other than that, everything is normal. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for the
chief? All right, moving along. Uh, items for commission action. We have a few here. Uh, first item is a change of use, uh, Gfream School. I believe Trey summary of that for the commission. No, thank you, Vice Mayor. So Renee and I met with the headmaster Grace Smith to
talk about uh the school using the house they own off campus located adjacent to the school at 3525 Oander Way as an office. It was previously used as a faculty residence. The developers agreement that we entered into uh you know maybe two decades or
more ago requires the onampus polo cottages to be used as faculty residences only. However, the Oander House is permitted to be either a faculty residence or an office. The school say stated that they wanted to locate up to five employees working in
the school's administrative offices at the Oleander House. Um, but they would still park on campus and have all visitors also park on campus and they anticipate no changes aesthetically to the structure, landscaping, hardscape,
interior or exterior. So, I went ahead and incorporated that into this uh notification of change of use. It does require them to continue to follow the town code and developers agreement if they do want to make any sort of changes to landscaping, driveway, interior,
exterior renovations. At this time, it is literally only going to be moving from someone living there to now it being used as an office. We haven't seen any building permits or anything, but we will absolutely keep you up to date on that. At this point, it is um a net uh
zero. Uh they are not going to be driving up Oleander Way and parking. They will continue to park. Uh the um the faculty will continue to park at the school and then walk. There's a gate between the school uh that that exists
and the home that they'll just walk back and forth. So um really um you know a very uh straightforward agreement at this point. The original the develop developers agreement they were allowed to use this house or they do that. That's correct.
So it would it would either be so it's just converting it to correct and it's it's it doesn't seem to be much of a conversion at this time. There may be some interior. I'm sure there'll be some interior renovations to, you know, accommodate, you know, it being an
office. I I would imagine. Uh we haven't seen anything. Um but as aesthetically, there's going to be no driveway, landscaping, anything at this point. And if that does uh um if they are seeking to make those modifications, that will probably go before the commission or at
least the the planning board and we'll we'll make you aware. Okay. Um, this is just FYI. I know we actually wasn't it. I actually have to recuse myself. So, I'm the adjacent
property owner and I was involved with submitting the plans. So, there's three commissioners that'll vote on this. Um, so, uh, someone make a motion. Yeah. Why do you need a motion if it was agreed on in the developers agreement if it's not a change? It's not a change and it is
agreed to but but this is a change. It is a legal thing. It's my position that I want to bring as much forward before the commission to consider uh as possible given that there is really going to be no
impact. It's really just changing it to what they can do um under the developers agreement. you know, I don't think there's a lot of leeway to to deny it. Um, but it is
something that I still wanted to bring to the commission for discussion and consideration. Now, if they were making changes, that would be something that we'd want to delve into the developers agreement and see if there were any limitations um, you know, for you to consider and and weigh and determine whether or not
you wanted to approve it or deny it. Um this is um really something that they are permitted to do as of right under the agreement, but I always prefer to bring things like this before the commission so you understand what's going on. And that's why I felt like it would be appropriate uh to bring it for
the before the commission for a vote. So they're going to reuse the office space for more office space. So right now it is a a faculty residence and the yeah the business but in the main campus they're just it doesn't matter. I'm not
really I don't you know I don't I right I don't know how they're reallocating that space. I imagine you know it'll be more classroom. I think they mentioned that they're doing some interior renovations to allow the um the the chef or whoever the the food service people
are to be on campus. Okay. Um because they now prepare meals on campus. That's the correct. Okay. Um I'll make a a motion to approve the change of the residence from faculty housing to the
office space as per the development. Second. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield? Yes. Commissioner Oak? Yes. Okay. Next item is 9B. This is the request for reimbursement from the owner
uh the 29 uh Avenue project with regard to the East and Water. Uh thanks, Mr. Vice Mayor. Um uh you can see in your packet the uh outline
submitted by the uh owner of 2900 with respect to uh his uh claims for time delays that were caused by the town staff. Um and uh I'm not sure how you
want to proceed with this. The owner is here um in the audience. I don't know if you want him to. Sure. Why don't you uh just give a brief summary because there's a lot of a lot of detail and moving parts here that the commissioners who are not not really
readily involved in water projects would understand. Then we'll let the owner go ahead and speak after that. Sure. Just a brief summary of what's going on. Yeah. I mean, yeah, he probably would like some time to explain his uh Yeah. Good morning. Yeah. And
this isn't what I do every day either, just for the record. So, um, as you may remember, I acquired the property back in April of 2024. Um, this was a blighted property, if you recall, where the house was imploding on itself and there were
violations and non-compliance and so forth. So, I worked, you know, very nicely, I'll add, with the town, uh, with with Mr. and Zoro and you know working through the whole process because the the key of it was to re to
be able to redevelop the property was to relocate the water man which ran right through the middle of the property. It was quite old and and really at end of useful life. So, as part of that project, I agreed to replace a portion of the line, replace the fire hydrant
location, and um and in consideration for that, the town was amendable to changing the easements in a way that would be uh more accommodative for development. So, that I closed, we you know, the town, we went back and forth with the engineers, my engineers, and
Baxter Woodman on behalf of the town agreed on a very specific plan. and I had that bid and that was the basis on which I assume responsibility to install the new infrastructure for the town. We closed on the property in April uh of
24. The job should have taken a few weeks. It was bid at you know is a firm price of $150,000 to do all the you know the infrastructure work the pipe and then the engineering was about $28,000. The
project has come in over $350,000. And you know, and I'm giving you color just so you can understand context of why I'm here. It it was stops and starts and changes in the plans unilaterally by
Baxter Woodman's um you know, chief engineer. We had agreed on a plan. They kept changing valves and the way the pipe was being connected. And I I've learned a tremendous amount about civil engineering that I did not previously know. So, it's pretty fascinating. But a
lot of changes and then you have a big expensive crew with an excavator and a dozen guys out there working and they have to stop and then go away and go buy all new parts and new pipe and everything else and then come back. So, the project that should have taken a matter of weeks has taken a
year. We finally had after further changes um which they dictated, we finally had the water mane replacement, the final connection um scheduled on or about uh
April, it was April 14th, April 15th and and so that had been scheduled for two months and prior to that time we had and in my engineer I personally communicated with you know the town's director of public works who's been
great in the project by the way. But we communicated and said, "Are you ready to go because we're mobilizing this big crew to come and make the connection?" And they said they were ready. And so that means the ability to shut the water mains off to connect to the water
service for all the residents on the other side of the intra coastal. They needed to be able to isolate it so they could cut it, disconnect it, and make the new connections. And so that was all planned. the the entire uh civil contractor team mobilized. They were
there ready to go and um and then lo and behold, the town could not turn off the water and there were multiple lines involved which was known from the prior installations. The infrastructure is very old admittedly, but the town really had a duty to know where its valves were
and to make sure that things were operative as we planned to do the final connections and installation. And it was affirmed that they were ready. And then when we went to, you know, you have this whole crew out there sitting there with a dewatering system and a dozen guys and a whole ton of equipment. They couldn't
go. And they basically sat there on and off for 4 days. The total installation was budgeted for three days. It took seven days. And of course, they build me now, you know, at the rate of actually their cost rate, a lower rate because I I hit back, but it was like I think it
was $435 an hour for like a week, four days. So, I'm asking that the town accept responsibility for the cost of, you know, the delay. You know, I've incurred all the costs associated with all the myriad changes from a very specifically
um and finally agreed upon per contract engineered set of plans, the cost of which, you know, went over over $100,000. And um and so this delay was just more than I could sort of accept.
And and he it's about $15,000 plus there was another $6,000 in engineering fees charged to me from Thomas Engineering because they're the engineer of record and they had a proctor and sit there for an extra four days. So that's the story. Hopefully it's not overly detailed, but
I wanted to give you color. Thank you. Uh so I would respond to the town uh commission that uh we did have Baxter and Woodman out there. It's a town water man so we needed to have Baxter and Woodman on the site uh uh as
it's our infrastructure. Um, I do have uh Anthony here uh who worked tirelessly uh with uh the on this project probably more than any
other project that we've done in this town on on private property, but it involved a town uh water man. So, uh, we needed to dedicate, uh, someone with his knowledge and ways, I might add, uh, of
the of the, uh, system. Uh so in in reviewing in reviewing um the owner's four days here uh with the um with Anthony and also in discussing that with
the town's engineer and inspector that has been on site. Um we don't agree that uh all of this time is uh related to work that was was
done uh that involved the the the town staff. Uh so I think what we can identify is on the on April 10th the 11hour time delay
I think is I I think Anthony will agree that he was I think he was here he was there the whole day. Correct. I was here till 9:00 at night. Right. And I I was there to support him that night uh when
they got done. um uh as we ate dinner on the tailgate of his pickup um uh after a long day. Uh so I think he did have issues with opening and closing the the
valves. Yes. I mean we admit to that. Uh but there was certainly no malice or intent to uh make this project any longer than it already has been. And uh so uh there there's another
four hours I think that you saw in here Anthony that uh you can relate to work that you were involved in. Uh I don't remember which day it day it was. Excuse me. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm
under the weather so you have to forgive me. Um the day after the actual shutdown of the 11 hours, the first half of the morning I spent excavating and removing all the debris around the areas of the valves that are at the golf course. We exposed those and I was able to shut
those completely all the way off without interfering with the other three residents that didn't get water for 8 hours the day before. So that those four hours and we paid for the vector. They used it over on his property as well. So we covered the cost of the half of the day that we had to have it rented for on
an emergency basis. So we took care of that as well as far as us using it for what we needed to use it for. And and on the day that you were there for the entire day, correct? Uh, I mean, you can, uh, easily agree that, uh, yeah, I
did everything I could to shut the water off, but, there was a valve that was completely hidden inside of the property on his side that I wasn't even aware that existed. I had to reach out to Harville, who used to be the infrastructure maintenance crew, and they directed me to this valve that was
five almost 10 feet away from where the main shut off line was. Once we shut that line off, it dead the water. I didn't even know it existed because I didn't have it in any of my asbuilts. How they knew it was there, I have no idea. And you were also working with their contractor. Yeah, their contractor
asked me to to open to close the fire hydrant that was open at the moment to relieve back pressure so that way water wouldn't flow through. The moment he told me to close it, I already knew that was going to be a bad idea. He flooded all his equipment that was in the hole to fuse the two lines together.
We had to wait two or three hours for them to get that all that water out of the system, pump it all out and then reactivate the system and then I closed I open the hydrogen back up again so it'll stop the flow of the water and then that's when we found the valve on the other side. So essentially it was
both parts but at the end of the day we did what we had to do and unfortunately we were here until 9:00 at night and I had residents without water for eight hours. That's what it boiled down to. For me, that's not an okay thing for my residents not to have water. I think this is all part of development,
too. I think we did what we had to do. Um, it was I mean, I would get in I would be scared to get into because the developer didn't get what he needed at the moment that we're responsibility for all this because I think we did everything we should have been doing
within our power, right? Do you agree with that? I agree with that. So I I don't think we should get into giving money to developers because we're all trying to work together. Yeah. With with respect the entire this
it was a brutal process and I know Anthony worked tirelessly on it. Everybody was engaged. Everybody worked collaboratively to work the problem. But the fact is had it been tested before which was affirmed to us that it was able to be shut off and the main issues
were all on the east side of the intra coastal the valves on the west side the water was shut off at the main at the front of my property all the way up by by the road by place sole road. So that was already isolated and disconnected. So all of the water pressure was coming
from the east side and that's where all the valve issues were. All the water was pouring out on my side because they had to relieve the pressure and they couldn't shut it off. And so to relieve the pressure, they opened the fire hydrant. But the bottom line is is if it
had been tested first and they located the valves, it turned out when they went to shut the valves off, I was there. They couldn't even find the valves on the east side. They didn't even know where they were. They were running around trying to find the valves. I was on the phone with the contractor on my
side while listening to the other side talking because Rick Adams from Baxter Woodman was going back and forth and Anthony was going nuts trying to find these valves and they kept turning valves and nothing. And they're like, "Is the water going off?" No, the water's not going up. It's still
flowing. Then they finally found some valves um that they didn't they weren't even sure but the valves didn't work. They didn't even know that. Then they dispatched their vector truck which broke and then my guys sourced another one which Anthony authorized and the town has accepted responsibility for and
eventually they got these closed. But this process went on and on and on. If they had tested it in advance, the project would have gone down with without a hitch in three days and I would have incurred an extra almost $20,000. So I sympathize the project's
been um very difficult. I know the whole project has been ongoing for years and years. It's racked up fine this, you know, and we've let go of things. I I still maintain that has nothing to do with me. Yeah. No, it has nothing to do with I've done everything I was supposed
to. It's been a very difficult project, but you knew that getting into it, too. Well, it not really. I mean, I I was fixing the town's problem with the house. We got rid of all that. Trey was amazing at helping work through all the easement stuff. I mean, it it actually it's been a pleasurable project in terms
of dealing with the town and we're excited to build our home. This is not a development project, or at least that was not my intent at the outset, but the intent is that that's going to be my personal home. I think it's a an amazing property, but it's never would I have
anticipated standing before you a year later, you know, since I put the it's a year and a half since I put the property under contract, but this one was just like kind of too much to swallow. I've eaten all the cost. I mean, the town should have been ready and the team was all deployed there to do the work and we
shouldn't have gone through there for 4 days with all respect, but I appreciate your consideration. Any other questions or comments from commissioners? Any other comments from town staff? No, I I just I disagree with the assertion
that we weren't ready and prepared to do this. We've been working uh with them tirelessly on this entire project. Yeah. So, I mean, there's a couple of things here on this matter. I mean, we we read it in detail. Respect the owner's comments with regard to the complexity
of it. But again, this was uh you know, we're not contracted with site works. We had to hire our own own engineers to oversee the project. The owner knows that. It's been you know, over a year. Um just you know I made a comment that with regard to water projects most of us up here are lay people but fortunately
and unfortunately simultaneously we're undergoing the same thing with the same system here with our project. So I mean we have no evidence if we had had two more engineers more locates and two more days of testing that we wouldn't have had the same problem. Um so it's just kind of what it is with older
infrastructures. Um, so I mean we support the staff's recommendation, at least I do, uh, you know, to deny the request at this time. So, do we need a uh do we need a motion? No, it's fine. Thank
[Music] you. Uh, next is agreement for special magistrate services. Thank you, Mr. Vice Mayor. per the town code, uh the special magistrate is appointed for a two-year term. That two-year term is up. We're just looking to renew with our existing special magistrate. I don't know if
we've had uh a special magistrate hearing this year, maybe two years ago. Uh he continues to serve um uh in in his capacity. Um I think we've had a good experience with him and just want to continue those services and he has agreed to uh continue for another
two-year term. Uh any comments or questions on this contract we're extending? Need a motion? Yes. Motion, please. Motion to approve the Mag Street Service for another two years. Second. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield? Yes. Commissioner Orwine? Yes.
Vice Mayor Stanley? Yes. Uh next on the item is uh I believe we have an opening uh on the ARPB to replace Mr. Roach. Uh yes, sir. Mr. Roach did decide to uh retire after all these years. Uh and so
that left us with a vacancy. and the two people that were next in line uh perhaps to move up and take that place both uh declined uh that appointment uh which meant the next person in line uh was
Michael Glennon and he has uh uh uh uh told us that he would be happy to do that and would uh like to do that. Uh that would then leave us uh with an alternate opening. Uh and we have two um
uh applications to do that. Sally Maguire and Richard Whittle. Uh I think though I would suggest if you are good moving uh Mr. Glennon up we go ahead and do that. Right. Make a motion. Right. So
um so like Mr. Dunham said Mr. Glennon is a current alternate. The other two alternates declined becoming full members. Um noting the importance of summer attendance. They weren't sure that they could commit to that um to attending all
the meetings during the off season. Mr. Glennon, however, I believe said that he would be happy to. So at this time, we'd like to entertain a motion to appoint Mr. Glennon as a full member to the ARPB. Okay. I believe Mr. Glennon is here today. Hi, Mr. Glennon. Thank you. Um,
and I also like to point out that uh Michael also participated uh yes, you know, and a great great amount spent a great amount of time on the the massing committee that uh we had last year that did a lot of the the X's and O's for the group as well and the staff looks uh
forward to working with Mr. Glennon. He's been a big help to us. Why don't we just approve him to be on the architectural review board? How's that? All those we need a motion. motion to approve. I think I need a second. Second that, Mr. Commissioner
Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes. Commissioner Earthwine. Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley. Yes. And at this point, that leaves a vacancy uh for an alternate on the ARPB. And I believe Mr. Dunham was just explaining that we did receive two applications. Yeah. Again, Sally
Maguire and then Mr. Richard Whittle. Uh Mr. Whittle lives in place. uh which we don't have many representation from in this I I think it's important to have people from Plaza sole I know both candidates right but I
think it's important we keep a balance um if we can the only question is are they going to commit to coming back if they have to for meetings I mean it's if we have but we don't have an August meeting so right they did commit to summer okay if they have to if they have
to yes not you know okay but that would be my recommendation to have someone come away. I would agree with that. Okay. Yeah. I'm so glad. Shocking. Shocking. Sorry about that.
Cam's very qualified. Um they're very nice. Um I just think it's important to have representation. So we just need a motion to approve Mr. Whittle as the first alternate. Do you want to do like to make a motion to approve Mr. Little is the first alternate on the ARPB. Second. A roll,
please. Commissioner Green, yes. Commissioner Canfield, yes. Commissioner Earthwin, yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Before we go any further, I do need to decide the date for the final budget hearing. I've got either the 23rd, 24th,
or 25th of September. Uh what days of the week? That's Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. And it would be at 501. And if you don't know right now, if you if you want to go and look at your calendars and just email me and then I'll put it on the next agenda. Okay.
You're good for any of those. Okay. What about that Wednesday? Wednesday the 24th. Anybody have any objections? Any of those work at this point? I don't. No, I don't. Okay. We'll go for the September 24th then. Okay. Uh any other items by commissioners or
uh the town staff? Not from the staff. No. No sir. No sir. More comments from the public. No. Okay. Thank you everyone. Meetings are okay. Yes. Cubby come up to the mic please.
My name is Copy Craft and I came I'm always glad to see you Tom but not today. I brought my book because I wanted Scott to sign it, but I wanted to thank the town for um underwriting the publication of the book. It's just terrific and I think everyone is so
excited and appreciates it. So, I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Uh okay, meeting's now adjourned. Thank you. Signature from the