[Music] No darling. I said, "Let's just really disagree. Just stop now. Oh, there he is. I guess we should have parking spots for
all of our commissioners. So then Yeah, I know, right? So most other town halls, they have a special park. They do. They do. Really? We'll come pick you up.
We could send the police officers to pick you up. Since we towed his car this morning, he's going to need a ride home. Are you ready, mayor? All right, let me get you on. [Music] To the flag of the United States of
America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner Green here. Commissioner Canfield here. Commissioner Orwine here. Vice Mayor Stanley here. Mayor Morgan
here. Let it also be known president participating today is town manager Dunham, assistant town attorney Nazaro, CFO Mark Fymaster, Chief Jones, and myself. Thank you very much. It's been presented with the minutes from our last meeting on June 3rd or 13th. Are there any corrections
for a motion? Uh motion to approve the minutes. Second. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes. Commissioner Orwine. Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley. Yes. Mayor Morgan. Yes. Any changes or additions to the
summing will be August 8th at 9:00 a.m. for anyone who wishes to attend. Uh also Thursday, September 11th at 400 p.m. Uh will be our September meeting followed by attended budget meeting at 5:01 p.m.
with a final budget meeting on September 24th at 50:01. U public comment. We have Michael Moral here from the Florida League of Cities. Michael. Yes, sir. All right. I don't know. I wish I could say this.
People know how old I am. Good morning, mayor, commissioners, staff, and citizens. My name is Mike Moral and I am the account executive with the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust, the Florida League of Cities in Tallahassee. For those who may not be familiar with us, the Florida League of Cities has
represented Florida's 411 cities, towns, and villages for more than a century. Since our founding, our mission has remained the same. Protect local decision-making because we believe the best decisions are made by those who know their communities best.
I want to begin by thanking the town of Gfream for being committed and a valued member of the league. And I'm here this morning to recognize a remarkable public servant and community leader. It's my great honor to present Commissioner Joan K. Orwine with the
John Lan Years of Service Award in recognition of her 30 years of dedicated service to the town of Colream. This award is named after Mayor John Land of Aka who served the city for more than 60 years. and it is reserved for elected municipal officials whose
long-term leadership and commitment have made a lasting impact on their communities. Today we celebrate not just years but decades of meaningful service of showing up and making a difference. And at this time I'm going to read a resolution which you'll bear with me. It's it's
been long. This is a resolution of the board of directors of the Florida League of Cities honoring Joan K. Orwine for 30 years of elected service and presenting with the John Lane years of service award in recognition of their selfless commitment to municipal leadership and
governance. Whereas America's municipal governments have long reply have long relied upon selfless leadership of their citizens for local self-government and Florida's municipal governments shared a time-honored role as the level of government closest to the people.
Whereas this reliance places extraordinary responsibilities upon citizen legislators, municipal elected officials who make significant sacrifices of their time and energies on behalf of their citizenry, making this commitment a true labor of love. And
whereas municipal leaders strive for excellence in the governance of their city, town or village and commit themselves to providing quality services, governing effectively and working to improve the quality of life. Whereas the league has named its years of service recognition in honor of John
Land, the mayor of Apakka between the years 1949 and 2014, a leader whose dedicated dedication is unsurpassed as the national and state levels who modeled the way for decades of municipal leaders. And whereas several terms in
office are a high compliment voters give to an official. And with these years of experience comes a strengthening of wisdom, discernment, and strong leadership skills that bring tremendous value to the municipal governments of Florida. And whereas Joan Korthwine has
held office in the town of GRE for 30 years and is recognized for this achievement. Now therefore, it be resolved by the board of directors of the Florida League of Cities that Joan Kworth is commended for this dedication to the town of Gream and is hereby recognized as an
outstanding public servant. [Applause] vice mayor and mayor and I hope everyone enjoys living here. Thank you. Joan, it's been three decades that you
have been involved in our local government on the ARPD commission, vice mayor, mayor, and uh with every issue that has confronted this hand. you have always addressed it with your
characteristic grace and dignity and uh which is really unusual I think in municipal government and it has been a pleasure uh with you as my friend to sit with you on the states. Well, thank you Scott. It's been um like
I said an honor to be on the commission and to be among all these wonderful people. It's been good. We have a good group. Good. Wonderful employees, too. 60 years, Mike. Welcome. Thank you very much.
Anyone else wish to speak? Uh, I just want to say on behalf of the board, appreciate all the support that you give us. You've given me over the eight years that I've been here. And uh I have I have a comment about our employees
abilities here down the uh agenda. So uh but we all appreciate your support throughout the years. Thank you. You are wonderful. So we're lucky too. Indeed we are. Uh but it's time to move on.
Good. Uh we have a couple applications today. So anyone who speaking on please rise and respir the truth the whole truth nothing but the truth to help you go and first
application is 25 water code who will be speaking today. Good morning. My name is Luis Rivera from Affinity Architects and as stated I'm going to be uh presenting lot 10 blue.
Um on our first slide um on our next slide. Our next slide will show the block in comparison with the uh the rest of the
uh plots. All right. Come on. Let's keep going. They have it in front of them. Okay. Um next slide after that um is a an elevation comparison. Um where we show all the elevations of the house that houses that have been approved
already. Um our lot is lot 10. Um it's uh the fourth uh twotory home. As you can see the the difference from the other twotory elevations. Uh next is
the the site plan with all the calculations required calculations and set tax. Um our next slide is uh the first floor plan.
Next would be the second floor plan. Um and uh the next slide, this slide is the materials and colors of the home. We have the the map that shows the difference elevations.
Interested in seeing this house against the other homes. Um, next uh next slide is uh elevation. Um, yeah. So, if you want to go back to that, that's what he asked for. Yeah.
Yeah. So, this is what you were referring to. Um, yeah. The other two stories is lot two, lot six, which is this one, and lot seven. And as you can see, you know, they're
all completely different architecture and proportions. This is our is the uh so far the only one story on that side of the street. Sorry, two.
What will What will the 11 and nine? Those are going to be one story. Uh we're going to be submitting nine next. Um that one is going to be a one story uh angle. So the one skate patch. Yeah. What's the
other one right across the street? That is also an angle but it has a different entry. And then the other one is west lot too. Right. Any
questions? No. So the next uh slides for the first and second floor. Okay. Yeah. That's the renovation. Um next for the
next slides are going to be the 2D elevations. So front rear and uh the next one will be the side elevations. Next would be the last and for landscape Mr. Paul is going to be us through.
Good morning everyone. I am uh filling in for Louie with Majestic because he had a hard trouble this morning. So I have not uh I know the plan and I'll walk you through it. Um but it's not prepared for the
conversation. So you can see overall uh the landscape plan here. We've got the rear bumper trees required by the uh overall site plan in the back. Um we've got the oak trees in the front and um on
both sides of the property we've got uh hedging uh Kucia hedging I believe. And um as far as um the landscaping, we've got uh two um major palms here, secondary columns on
either side, and um more of a angular walkway to the front walk to the front door. And uh in the back, we've got a series of palms and uh underping underneath.
I think the coverage is there. You know, the required coverage from uh the neighboring properties. Any questions? Yeah. On the front uh for those what adium or Good framing the
entryway. What are those? It's hard to see. Yeah, I believe that. Which one? on this.
Yeah, the front of I realize it's tough because you got to, you know, create everything just somewhere, but the front of the home or the the entryway is you sort of have the living room or room popping out and the entryway is sort of
tucked back. There's a lot of interest there. And you know, you even got like a little square uh courtyard with another planting I think in the front entry court. But you just look at it without the landscaping. It doesn't it looks a little different than what we would normally approve, but I realize there's
a lot of interest there. It's just hard to Yeah. hard to pick it up on the plants. On the next slide, you'll you can see a front elevation with all the trees and that Yeah. I mean, I'm looking at it. Yeah. You can see the proportions of the pumpkins. Yeah.
president. Yeah. The challenge is trying to establish some level of dissimilarity, you know. Yeah. Well, we are you referring to architecture or what uh architecture and and most notably the
entry features sort of picked over and you got different roof lines. It's just sort of Yeah. And then on on lot six uh over the end over the entry there's no balcony. So we changed that to a balcony here. Uh
in this plan uh the dining room is on the front. So in the other house the dining is the kitchen is in. So that's what creates the variation of not to mention that the roof on the other one
is a shed and or I should say on our lot six is a balcony above this area which creates a whole different style and the front entry is more of a
head roof. Yeah. Over there. And then on lot two, uh, we have the balcony similar to this, except that the roof over the kitchen is a shed roof. This is more of a hidden
thing that jumps out at me is LP3, which is what this is, shows, nice roof line. The first page shows a flat roof. And I always get concerned that what we're presented with here will not be what it is there. We really have
objection to flatter roofs where you're just building up that second story. And what page are you looking at? The page. The first page. Oh yeah. So there's no flat roofs. I know it's not flat, but pitch.
It's not pitch. Well, it's on lower pitch pitch. That's what we Yeah, it's a lower pitch roof to avoid hitting obviously the sill of the windows. That way you can create larger windows towards the front which creates the variation from the other uh homes.
Yeah. But what what's it going to look like? Because I have two different drawings here uh between this and the last one. So that's a front view. But then there's a there's another front elevation at LP3
shows steeper pitch roof jumped out of me. So what's what's the ceiling height on the second story? That's about uh 9 foot6.
It's the same on Yeah, this Yeah, I think you're uh we're looking at a 2D rendering versus a 3D rendering on the first page, right? Yeah. Yes, they're they're both the same, the exact
same. Uh it's just maybe the angle makes it look flatter. Maybe that's We could increase this the the slope. Uh what we were trying to avoid is having the roof tile too close to the windows a little that's why we lower the pitch a little
bit so that it's this is at what 26 is the top of the roof above the slab while I'm standing here. Yeah. What's your height? But what's the roof height? The maximum roof height that we could uh do is 30. But we're uh you we're at 26. So you've got some room
there. Pitch. Uh so run run through what your concern is if you increase the pitch. Well, one of the the things that we like about it is is this proportion right here, which is it makes the mass more
elongated rather than uh if you allow the roof to go off, it'll it'll be higher. It'll look more like a peak. Um same on the well the other side is already the maximum height that you want but uh the other what creates the the
roof line right now is the layout of the second floor because it's longer this way and that has this other pod which would be this part here. So the roof is running this way. That's what creates the the peak is not going to go much
more higher than what it is right now. We we could, you know, raise that just slightly. Um, you know, we've got a we like to have this gap here, but we could raise it maybe another six inches. Sorry,
you're talking about this roof, right? So, no, I'm talking overall. Second story. How does this compare to the existing property? Is this similar pitch? It's the same pitch and the roof height's the same as well. I'm wondering
is this first page just a rendering issue and that's what we're seeing or like the view we're standing well we're standing at a street level. Yeah. So you're looking sort of up. So it'll it'll look a little shallower than in the 2D elevation. You see you see
more for lack of a better word meat between the the sophic and the peak of the board. Yeah. So it's very it's similar to the other heights. Yeah. It's within all the codes, I guess, but
it it's not one of my favorite, but that's a personal one, right? So, you know, um I think some of the other houses are much more attractive. Yeah. This was I mean that's what I'm looking at,
right? I don't know. There's someone building you're building. Yeah. It's for a homeowner and directed by the homeowner. They wanted a cleaner um you know, keeping it still traditional and within the architectural guidelines. They just wanted a cleaner look. You know what? It might be the
rendering, too. I mean, I'm not saying it's not going to be a beautiful home in the end. I'm just saying the rendering doesn't look quite as well. This one doesn't have the palms in the front either. Yeah, this is showing just because otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the the architecture with all the trees
in front. You might pull up the uh the other one on the which one? The landscaping page. No, no, no. The uh where you're comparing and contrasting to the other palms. Yep. Okay. We can pull up lot six. I think if
the palm trees were in front just to guide you through each one. This one is a West Indies. So the difference here is that we have a steeper roof. We have a two step uh roofs. We have a three on 12 and we have
a seven on one which probably gives it more volume. just more my taste, which really isn't the point or jokes. Yeah. I'm sorry. That's not what we're doing here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And obviously, um, over time here,
everyone's wanted to have everything, you know, not the same, just similar. So, you know, we're definitely working towards that. Now, the this one, lot six, the roof profile for the second floor is very similar to the one we have now. is
pretty much uh the similar second floor. So you're going to have the same uh you know heights and pitches. What changes is obviously the the color. I think if the palm trees were put in front of that rendering it would it
would help a lot but it's not. So that's okay. We're use our imagination. Yeah. That's why we have the uh the 2D with all the landscape on it. Yeah. Might help. But I think that would just give us some perspective of um
yeah I mean so this is the 2D but you see how much more volume is there when it's when it's in 2D versus 3D right in 3D you see probably half of that visual
depending on the stream yeah again again it's just these are just our personal tastes preferences but uh not determin. Any other questions? Yeah, one other comment that's come up. This is part of our evening dogwalk, so I'm very
familiar with the street. Um areas for trash. Has that been considered? Cuz I noticed on the house that's occupied right now, the recycling bins just sit out. There a place where they can be stored outside. Um right now there is a two and a half
garage and that is the place they should be putting recommended when it comes to our side gate collection uh where they would want to leave it out. Most people just leave it on the side of their house in a hidden area to avoid having to put trash cans out. Is that
that has not been taken into consideration? Um it could be put behind the um I guess the the side uh railing. Let's say like on the left side there is a generator
and equipment area that's cut that's um enclosed with landscaping. Guess if you go to the site plan Rene the um with the landscaping on it that could be a home letter issue too where they left it out before they went
out of town and they're out of town. I did see that problem. Yeah. Yeah. Just one other one mayor. So I there not that many twotory homes. So the dissimilarity issue is a little easier here. I think I think what you're probably hearing
also is that the next two given they're going to be one story that the similarity issue is going to be that's going to be high on our radar. Right. Yeah. And I think landscaping is the way to to really differentiate at this point. That's right. There's
only got so many elevations you can do. I think it's lot 11. It's got the six palms in the front again. Yes. 13. I think that looks great. When we started out, it was palm on each side.
Got a motion to approve a level three architectural site plan based on a finding of the construction of a 5,465T West Indy style twotory single family dwelling with 2 and 1 half car garage with swimming pool including new landscaping First meets the minimum
intended design manual and applicable review standards with the following condition that any minor modifications to the approved landscaping be submitted to the town manager for review and approval and any major modifications be brought back to the be for review and approval prior
to commencement of the landscape. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes. Commissioner Orwin. Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley. Yes. Mayor Morgan. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Let's move on to Mr. Mary.
Good morning. Mark Marsh Brx here representing Amos and Barbara better at 3224 North. This is going to frustrate me. I
pass right now back and forth here. Um [Music] they got it in front of a mark. You can go ahead. Okay. Um as you can see um today we have
um Charles Lara here who is representing um Fernando Wong landscape was to be out of town had a conflict. Um he may be presenting that landscape out over general. If you have any questions
please send them that way. Um so this is a survey. Um, I think you're all familiar with the property. It's one of the larger properties that's still in
town. It's a beautiful property. Um, it's a little over an acre. It's about an acre, 1.3 acres. Um, the we were here in March in front of you requesting an early demo and were
asked to postpone till after the May one. Um, that actually worked out for a benefit for us. We had more time to really study it probably but we will be demolishing in the next couple of months
everything goes through here today. Um just going back to the well the aerial family the aerial um the uniqueness of this lot is the fact that it has this really lovely
burge lawn as you approach from North Ocean Boulevard up the driveway. And the intent here, as you'll see, is to maintain that um outlook and preserve and set the house, the new house back.
The existing entry is on the north side, the motor court, and then it exits on Gulfream Road. What we're proposing today will reflect that traffic pattern. again really to preserve the east and
south and southwest area of the property to be more outdoor uh development and center the house. Um you'll notice here this house was built I think in the early 60s. Um it's a Bermuda
um style and it's really lust. There's nothing to salvage here. It's it's very tired. It hasn't been really kept up very well over the years. And so
we're going to obviously demolish it. Um let's go on to the other point I want to make. Sorry, was that the landscaping there's really established landscaping. There's a banyan tree here that's about 45 years old or more, which obviously
we're going to keep. And and but also you can see the coconuts, very tall Jamaican coconuts. Um those will be either salvaged or saved in place or relocated. We're not taking them off site. So we're definitely going to reuse
some of the established landscaping. Next. Uh, this is our site plan from a development standpoint. I said we're 1.3 acres. The residence is going to be a little under 9,000 square ft, single
story. Um, we're actually allowed 13,000 square ft on the property. The owners and ourselves have no desire to try to overdevelop it. So, um, you'll see the accommodation Um the as I said the existing driveway
over main and north uh Ocean Boulevard coming into a formal uh motorport which is opposite the new proposed front door and that would connect to a service
motorport which links on to Gulfream Road. And for most people that live in along this stretch, the Gulf Stream Road is one of the more traveled in and outs of the property. Um the house is located
um singlestory in the area similar to what exists now and we're going to develop a pool um area here on the southwest along with a freestanding command. I'll let um
Charles get into any of the details that you might be interested in on that. Um so we're we're actually almost replicating what's there now with with expansion as I said single story. The
the critical thing is that the owners had a very specific uh program and the program going to the plan now I have to step over here help myself is to their
desire was to create a a very small very modest entry into a a house that had very private more private space for both of them. their own and they they wanted to create the house around their
desires, their space. With that, they wanted a sense of symmetry within the house and they also wanted to be able to look out to all the beautiful outdoor areas which I've harped on before and we're going to obviously improve. So,
I'll just take you through the house. Note one thing, there is no dining room. Um, and I'll get back to that, but you're going to come in through a a very simple entry into a foyer and into a great room, which is going to be a much more lifestyle oriented. It's it's not
going to be a formal living room. It's going to be like a combination family room, lounge. And again to stress the importance of connection to the outside we wanted to you'll see through the plans and elevations
created a a very transparent wall here. So if you're in this you can see out to the most primary outdoor areas. This was very critical to them and they wanted the house really to be just around their particular lifestyle
and I'll go through that personal library acting as an office and library the master suites here the living room break rooms here kitchen without the dining room they wanted to develop a larger slightly larger
breakfast room again with a wonderful outlook through the penistration to the yard area here in the southwest area. And if they were if they do entertain, which they don't do a lot, they'll either entertain in the breakfast room or the loia. They're very
much indoor outdoor people. Um the kitchen is center. The one thing they wanted to do, they do have a family and guests that come stay periodic, but um they didn't want the guest areas to be
really part of this main living area. So what we've created here off the kitchen and the back hall is a via which is a open air covered link to the two primary
guest rooms on the southwest here. So they're linked, they're attached, but they're not intimately engaged to the main house. And this was critical. So that's why the house is spread a little bit in length.
And then the basic functions of the house are the back of the house, a large service area because they do have health. the there's a secondary entry from the the um motorcord garage and the golf cart. You have to
exit through Mil Street. Um and then there is one guest room which you'll see in the architecture of balance which would be for closer friends or more intimate family. So the whole house and
then obviously a big loia across the south side. So the whole house was developed basically about their lifestyle program which is very rare for us to get involved in we spend a lot of time. Um the roof is going to be it's
it's a hip roof and some cables. This is a Bermuda and you'll see a Bermuda um vernacular residence. It's kind of the the pitch is 9 and 12. And then you'll see there's a
combination three roof types. There's a shingle roof cedar shingle not shake. Those of you familiar with life or tea or any of that, this is kind of the shingle. It's a very tight shingle that cylinders over time and gets a very nice
gray smooth um and there are a couple of flat areas and we have used some uh standing seam copper roofs copper roofs which I'll show you in more detail on the elevation. These flat roofs are over the
loia and the DI mentioned earlier and they're basically if they do want to use solar in in the future. These would be the two areas that would accommodate that again out of full view from any neighbor or any street. Uh let's go to
the elevation. So this is looking from another court on the north side. This is the entry. I said now you start to see the Bermuda gingle elements starting to appear and
the uh entry is set back 10 ft. It's very they wanted a very simple but recognizable entry element and that's what we've done. The materials are cedar shingle. The uh walls are going to be
stuck with a very light texture but a little bit movement in a stuckco. The other thing that the client was very definitive on was to try to elevate the house as high as possible. Um, currently under the code we eight is the minimum
with a one foot uh freeboard. So nine we have actually raised this to 10 and it's as it's a single story it doesn't really have any impact on the mess. Um, and what we've done is we set a water table,
which is a Carl stone water table, which is all the way around the the house. So, it's grounded. If it's exposed, it looks like it's engaged the the ground. That's an intentional uh the windows are very traditional
small panes uh flanked by um shutters some side some projected and some this element here which is a oval window shaping element made out of wood
all the wood here will be cyprress including the outlook is out to the the edge of the Eve and it's it's this element here is really an old traditional colonial
angle here shading which I'll show you very hard to see in one dimension. um stay with that if I could. The thing that we wanted to achieve with this house which I think makes it unique is
and excuse me I'm just going to blank. If most people approaching the house would almost assume that that was the main house originally and over time and this might have been a freestanding garage linked by a walkway
and that's you see the copper roof on very secondary elements of the house. Um, and because of the composition here, this area here might have been added after, but it's kind of giving a a a
growth appearance. It's just not all new, and I think that's what creates charm because it gives it a little bit of aging. Um, let's go to the next one. This is the west facing Gulf Stream
Road. Again, simple um things you will see and I forgot to point out. There are two porches on each of the the primary bedrooms, primary master or primary guest. Um again, this is intended to
create a little bit of a a folly. Um so that you can go out and sit down and read or just be relax and not be in your private space rather than having a continuous um friend.
Uh go to the next I'm getting there, Mark. I'm getting there. We're gonna do something about this. [Music] What do you want, Mark? Just zoom it down to the full page. You want the full page? Okay.
So, this is a rear facing south. This is that primary master the loia. Very simple element. This is the breakfast area. Another uh game plan. Um and this is the primary guest room linked by the
via here. Um you'll have outlook coming through the parapit there just a little bit of again traditional uh detail across there. Um you can see the fenistration all very small pain.
This is the east elevation um which you'll see this is that library which is a very transparent room. It's it's again all French floors um settlement here and again to my philosophy of being an original house.
This could have been the original house and this could have been a balcony or ver and over time was bridged and linked and incorporated to the living and this may have even been added later. Um I just want to point out in the distance
this is a cabana sitting freestanding. It's a very small building. It has two, it's a breezeway through the middle and a bathroom, shower area and some storage and just a cabana food area, but it's it's all
open. That's all at the standing seat copper room, which again will patina. And that's the head wall of the living room. The gables here are all based on traditional styles that are used in
Bermuda and similar projects. So, let's go to the renderings or so. These are renderings. This is as if you're arriving from North Ocean Boulevard and you can see the character
and you can start to see the bonnet uh elements over the windows and the comp the composition of the house. So there's there's a lot of interest um and it's it's really developed from that growth uh philosophy that I mentioned earlier
and the parapus and this is the south looking from the cabana. This is the via these are the the porches here breakfast area with the fireplace again the other areas here. Um, so with that, I'll
answer any architectural questions that the commission may have. I have one question. You said was it 10 feet elevation, did you? Yes, floor elevation. Okay. And the neighbors are eight eight.
It's it's on a bridge. Um, so that's what we want to take advantage of. It's not overall. Height of the building, I think, is 17 ft. And the cabana just has showers and just a bathroom and a little kitchenette
and stuff. Um, so these are the last photographic picture. So, as I mentioned earlier, I'd like to show you some of the images that
most important one is this little bonnet element, which again is a classic window you see in the islands per through the West Indies. And they're very they give a nice really
definition to windows, but the windows are rather small. Um, you can see the style of the wave on game lens. It's hard to explain that. So, I think that shows it clearly.
You've been bringing uh home applications to this town for as long as Joan has has been perhaps even. And I think the last time you were here, I told you I thought your ocean home was the best work you've done. I think this this may exceed that
one. I love this design. I think you did a tremendous job with this. Thank you. Just the interest of the creativity. Well done. Any other questions?
No. Beautiful project. We'll go to the landscape with you presentation. Um, I'll try and help. You want to get it? Do your best. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mark. It's a
beautiful house and we've really tried to try our best with preserving the site of integrity while also just coordinating with the casual was the word the client kept using. here. I think we have this sort of uh color laidback style that also uh brings
forward Fernando's design aesthetic. So, preserving kind of the great lawn that was in the property on the uh Ocean Boulevard side. We also added more coconuts to add the sort of orchard grove feeling. and then adding more
formality in this lawn that builds off the house axially aligning with this very pulled back pool. They didn't want this major with it's just the everything the proportions are all very aligned with the architecture and we wanted it to just
feel just like it all made sense and was just this uh garden that was just a lot of greens and native trees and refining. So, we really kept way over half of the trees on the site. We are only removing about
30 that were not very impressive and we're relocating a remaining well over 50. So, we're really keeping and we're also bringing in more larger material such as the bunion trees you see throughout the plan. uh in the elevations all the elevations are taken
from the street sides looking from ocean and gulfream uh and then the other adjacent roads. So we really are enclosing a whole side on the gulfream and the ocean side is going to be a seagra perimeter hedge and then
there's calm hedge which is this darker green on the north and south side. So uh the site is fully enclosed but it is more open once you get inside the perimeter. Uh so moving forward all the
materiality is also tying in with the architecture. We're using uh mostly coral stone, Dominican coral stone and that's going to be mixed throughout the site athletic stone and then a just square cut large size. We have uh a variety of sizes up to 36 by 36 of the
coal stone and then caddy concrete is used for the vehicular drive which is a shell topped concrete and we got really good installers for that uh who also did course using Palm Beach and people love the finish of that. It's done. It tabby concrete really depends on how well it's
executed and we're kind of executed in the best way possible where it really feels very highend. Um, so it's not just going to be butter slides with concrete. And moving to the next sheet is uh
our planting plan, I believe, which it just shows the the overall density of the property. We're really going all in with the landscape and really framing every view you could possibly frame with
different coconut grapes and all uh the relocations. The relocations on the plan are shown in the remains and relocations are the darker text and then everything that has a label like this is material we are bringing in. So
uh and then moving up to the plant schedule we are bringing in a mix of Florida friendly and uh native material. The native material is mangro spider lily
sea grapes cocoa plums uh and uh which is holly bush. And then that really concludes our challenge. So, I'm happy to answer any particular questions you have about our proposed design. Thank you.
Questions? It looks like we're preserving great deal of the original. Yes, sir. I mean, we are relocating a lot. I mean, the remain we're relocating more than we're remaining, but we're definitely keeping all of the impressive things and we're even creating pathways
to experience the beautiful findings that are on site. Um, if there's no questions, is there a motion? I did have a uh communication from the neighbor. So, she would like for me to read it. She called yesterday Mrs. Francis Stevens. She said, "Thank you for
listening to my reservations on the tear down and construction of the home opposite my property, 3138 Gulfream Road. The basic request and concern is the disruption, noise, and harm, multiple access that may occur if construction workers and equipment use Gulfream Road as access to the property.
I do not believe that requesting the equipment and workers vehicles to enter the property via A1A will cause hardship for the developers, but will alleviate damage, disruption, and hardship that will occur with multiple usages to me and my neighbors on Gulfream Road. We have had our lives challenged on
Gulfream Road enough over this year with drainage and road widening, not to mention breaking my sprinklers and subsequent damage to my landscaping and the removal of my hedge. Renee stated she will bring this to the attention of the commission at the public hearing to be held on July 11th. I am certain that
the board will embrace this request. Did we talk about the construction construction? No, we have plenty of lay down area access good access to the property. So I think most of the heavy equipment will
obviously come from right. So I think her concern will be mitigated by her approach. Right. I mean our our residents are understandably sensing. Well, we're trying to start construction
maybe in November or December, but it would be not impacted at that point. We just be preparing the foundation. Okay. Because by November, December, I'm not quite sure that we would have our final lift
of asphalt. You talking about this year? Yes. Hopefully. I don't think by then we'll have our final lift of asphalt down for both phases. Time go. Yeah. Yeah. But I think we have good access
and we've got great lay down space. I don't think we we're fortunate that way that we we really don't need to use Gulf Stream. No, I mean it would be incidental at the most. Yeah. I mean I'd really hate to have our last lift asphalt down there.
Right. Yeah. So, and I think I'm meeting with a contractor to, you know, go over that care. I think it it' be easier for them to come in a2 just in general. So, no, I'm not saying that we're going to
be using that. I mean, in the buildout, that's what I was referring to. You know, they use that as their strand. Mayor, we can as part of our traffic plan that we provide to the contractors part of process, we can require that they
and not use. Okay, good. Let's do that. Let res. Um, great. Thank you, Mark. Appreciate that. Uh, all right. There's no other comments.
Okay. A motion to approve the level three architecture site plan based on the construction of an 8587T Bermuda style unsto single family dwelling with a two and a half car garage 430t
cabana new landscape heartscape meets the minimum of the design manual and review standards with the following condition. Any minor mod modification to the approved landscaping shall be submitted to the town manager for review and approval and any mod major
modification shall be brought back to the ARPB for review and approval prior to the commencement of landscaping. And I think we should add that traffic pattern will go through the town staff um coming from A1A, however you want to
state that. Thank you. Is there a sec? Second. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes. Commissioner Orwine. Yes. Mayor Morgan. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay. Let's move on to CI updates.
Uh yes, Mr. Mayor here to give us an update. He's out there. Not so up to date. Morning commission. Um starting off with
the middle road. Um that road is almost completed. They have road rock they have to finish doing on the curb section next to the hole. We had to come back fage to install that curb. They did that yesterday. So they'll finish up hopefully today with the regraining of
the road and finalizing asphalt. um Lake Drive 3/4 of the way down the drainage. Um they have to do the geog grid for the actual um lift that they
have to put in. Um that's going to be possibly completed by today, the drainage um so they can reopen the road again as of this evening. Um Bion will be 3/4 of the way down the drainage as well. Um they're going to be connecting
from in front of Mr. Steven's home uh going west to Polo uh to reconnect the drainage for the 48 in pipe that runs out to inter coastal. Um they have all the drainage that's on
Gulfream Road from in front of Mrs. Orthan's daughter's house all the way to the front of the school with the exception of the north entry gate. the exit, I'm sorry, the exit gate on the school. They still have to do that drainage and then they'll be completing
on golf street with the exception of what's in front of Mr. Ford's house as well that connects to the golf course. So, they'll have just that section left of drainage on Golf Street, but the rest of it has been completed from my understanding. Um,
Gream Middle has been completed as far as side restoration, irrigation. Uh they're working on drives. The driveways to reconnect um has still been on Mr. Schuman's um deflection of his driveway
has to still be done. Haven't done a um Mr. Do hasn't been completed yet either. So um other than that, they've completed all the connections of the driveways that they can do at this time. That doesn't require concrete pores to overlay with the stone or the paper that
they use on top of it. Um they've completed the first lift of asphalt on Gulf Stream from Golf View all the way to Lake View. Uh with the with the U curving and asphalt completed
already. Um they have about 40 ft left of reconstruction on Bion from Lake View to Bion on Off to get ready for final lift to put asphalt on as well.
Um they're going to try to proceed um Monday on GFream to old school to get that section completed road reconstruction mesh curving to be ready for asphalt because they're trying to do
asphalt on the 24th of this month. They want to do middle. They want to do the rest of G Street up to in front of the school to have that completed before school opens up. They are going to start on Monday a deflection that they have to do for partial drainage that's
conflicting right now which I have to do a shut down on the water um from Banyan and and Gulf Stream. So that's going to be temporary like probably about 2 or 3 hours on on Monday. Um they're going to start doing Monday as well from my
understanding unless they change it and they haven't told me yet. Um they're going to do the school entry going through the school property behind your house to do the wire relocation for that section, but they're going to expose it with the vacuum first to find out to
make sure there's no obstacles that are in the way. Um I'm going to have to reach out to the school u to Dr. green and this caring to find out if there's any electrical or any other utilities that can't be marked because 811 day
won't come out of market cuz it's on private property. Anything that's outside of the easement they will mark. So we have to do our due diligence to try to help them make sure they don't pay anything that's on the property that we're not aware of. Um
and that that's kind of basically it. Um they are they're going to try to do after they get the water connection done that they need to do to go into the school. They're going to try to continue coming up Gulf Stream to see and finish
the water connection because when they get ready to do Bermuda, they're going to have to do a partial approval on that line itself because the the line is in conflict with the drainage. So they got to get the line the new water line approved and then shut the old water line off and remove it so that way they
can do the drainage on it. But that's that I think that's within another three or four weeks before they get there. We had an issue last month with FDL locates. Uh they had came out um for Bion Road.
Um I did speak to them on Monday I believe it was. Mr. You spoke to him? Yeah, I spoke to them on Monday. Um, they sent out the crew the week while I was going on vacation. Um, during the Fourth of July week, um, they came out,
did soft hole digs on all the lineates. They sent um mapping of where the line was, what depth they were at. Um, there's only a small section from my understanding that needs to be either removed or deflected down so they can do the the road reconstruction on B. Um, as
far as the rest of the the gas line that was existing on Golf Street in front of us is Katie's house, all that's been rectified. They defected everything there. So, we don't have any more issues with the with the gas at least as of right now.
So, I do I mean, do you think we'll see a flooding incident like we did while you were gone or or Have they been able to
address that over the years? The only issue that we're having with their dewatering right now is that as they dewater, they have to plug the line that goes to our pumps cuz our pumps are working all the time. Um, one of them is
not functioning correctly. So, I have to have George B, who's the gentleman that takes care of the low pressure force man for the sewer, to pull the pump because that's who I use to to do that type of work. Um, he's going to have to pull the pump to see if there's anything that's underneath it that's causing it to not
want to work correctly because it's shorting. Um, hopefully they didn't do anything to the wiring when they redid the crossing for old school. That's not an indication that we're having right now because the voltage meter at the box behind the town hall is is giving
correct voltage. He goes to the pump and it's giving correct voltage. So, he's assuming that maybe something that's with the pump itself. So, I'm not sure, but hopefully when he comes to to pull it, I know Chief has some experience with pumps and having me there so that we can at least put our eyes on it and
see what it is. So, I'm hoping we don't have to buy another pump cuz it's the older pump. It's not the new pump. The new pump is what's doing all the work right now. We have to ship the last one to Germany, didn't we? Yes. Sweden. And that took 6 months. Took six months.
At $35,000 and that was 5 years ago. So Anthony told me uh that we had shut that one pump down. It is now already right now. Yeah. Yeah. I have it off. I told him to turn
it off. He's jumping it into phase phase series. So that way one pump will run and it gets a signal saying that yeah it's running but it's not running. So that way that pump will stay running. But neither here nor there. That's not something we can fix right now because until we pull it and find out what's
wrong with it, we won't know what's happening. So but the drainage portion of the water that he's concerned about is is probably going to be affecting because the pump will be able to keep up because it puts out 15,000 gallons of water in a minute. So, I mean, that's not my concern. My
concern is is as of right now because they're dewatering, they're distributing a lot of the soil that's coming out of the ground into the drainage. And if they don't keep cleaning the drainage like they've been doing and they just let it go one, two days, then we can cause a problem with the pump itself.
It'll bind it. It'll destroy the gears in there. So, the dewatering that they're doing on on Bangan is being pushed to Polo to Polo. the balance of tape. Yeah, that's why and settlement tape that they kind of
man made. It's not a professional settlement. Uh so the the water that was on there when you were gone, was that because of dewatering or So what actually happened was that they had disconnected the drainage on Bion
between Gulfream Road and Polo. So the drainage system on Gulfream Road was working properly, but it had nowhere to go. That was the old system full. So it was literally working like a trough. All the water was going as much as it could underground being stored and
once that storage system was overwhelmed was it was then raising up and the only way the water was getting from Gulf Stream Road to Polo was based on a gravity feed system of elevation. So, it had to get really deep in order to start flowing to those areas. And that's why
we uh implemented the pump system um that same day to obviously keep the water moving at a faster pace. Um but the last section of piping is actually what they're trying to finish connecting now again. It was put in, but they put
it in at the wrong elevation because the deflection that we had to do with so many columns that were in the way, we had to push one of the actual boxes from within Mr. Stevens's property out into the road and make it a manhole cover and just make it a storage box. So now it's just a straight line instead of
deflecting into the property and back out of the property. So now they have to rerun that actual existing line that they already had ran. They got to pick it up and reposition, reshift it, and change the elevation. So, they're supposed to have it all tied in with 48 in pipe like in the next hopefully today.
Today because it's existing already. I don't have to install it. Just got to shift it. We're not going to get the rest of the debris hopefully going down to the pumps. I I hope not. I mean, they have filter cloth in place and they have the bay, you know, in place as well. But, I mean,
it's still it's just slow process because the water has nowhere to really go when it's high tight. So, it gets it gets stuck. What everybody has to realize is those 40 in 8 in pipes are major. Like when it gets hooked up and you get the first load of asphalt in,
you're moving a lot of water. Like the engineering will work. Yeah. It just was a little we barely we have a 4 in rain. We barely have three puddles on old school and we don't even have the second lift on yet.
Correct. the uh the day that we had the flooding, massive flooding on Gulfream Road in that area, we had literally not a single quarter of an inch of water anywhere else in town. Interesting. So, the only problem we have to take into
consideration is after everything is said and done, that 48 in outfall, that flat gate, it's massive. Okay? And the way this is going to have to work is that that line has to at least get halfway or a quarter full before that
flap disengages it and opens up. Yeah. And it'll have to store a lot of water going out. So it constantly back up into the street and push into the bypass to go to the pumps until that actually happens. But when it opens, it's it's all going to go.
So just keep that in mind. Uh great. Thank you. Any other questions on CIP? Thanks. Uh ARPD meeting. Our next one is July 24th and 8:30. There'll be no August meeting. Finance report.
Uh yes. Uh this represents 75% of our budget. Uh and unless you have any questions, I don't think there's anything abnormal in it. Park is is good with it. So
that's okay. Any questions here? Not as submitted. Report. Good morning, mayor, vice mayor, and commissioners. I just ask that you accept the report as submitted. There's nothing unique or concerning about the
report this month. If you have any questions, I'll be more than happy to answer that. Any questions? Not accept that report. Submitted as well. Let's move on to the budget. Um, okay. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um,
so let's see. Start here. Um, so you all have this, right? Yeah. But they have a page in our basically our two page summary. Um, I really intended having this
in that last night, but we we passed it out to you today. This is this represents and and you know first of all let me let me do this. I want to thank every one of you guys for taking the time out of your busy schedules to come
and meet with me uh individually. I know that you're all busy but u it was very helpful to our staff and and I want to thank you for that. Uh, I also want
to u I think most of our town hall and non police staff is here. I wanted to thank my staff for another very good year uh for the town. Um,
what is it that you recognize for the staff people that are in here right now? I know that's a hard question and I'll give you the answer. The answer is it's the same faces that you've seen for year after year after year. And my point is
is that uh that we don't have any turnover and don't have to deal with that. that takes a lot of time, administrative time. And uh also my point is that our employees enjoy working here very much. They vote
down Gulf Stream and uh they I want to personally thank them because they make my job a lot easier. So, uh, that's why I wanted to have him have these people here to to thank them for all your hard
work for the past year. And I know you're going to be here for a whole another year. Uh, so uh, anyway, I just wanted to have you here so I could do that in front of the big public audience that we have here.
Thank you. So, uh, okay. So, uh, I'm going to read a couple things that I need to, as I do every year, uh, and then go over some numbers with you. And uh uh I think the one thing that we uh I want to point out our goal here is
to uh have a budget that will um uh allow us to finish the uh the CIP project that we're working on right now and to begin to plan on our 2026
uh project uh which is plays us away the uh uh road work that we're doing over there and there is some water man work uh for a couple of blocks on uh Avenue off the lane. Right. Correct.
Uh so I I've been in touch with our engineers. They're uh uh they're updating their numbers on on the project for place LA and then Pelican which is scheduled for 2027. Uh but uh uh again our our our budget
this year, we won't be able to uh make it through to September 30th of 26 with an uh available funds to finish this and begin the prepar the design and perhaps
the construction of the work that's going to be done place. Uh so um central and I want to remind you all we're doing today is approving the uh mill
rate. uh we're not approving this budget as presented to you, but uh I use this as kind of a workshop to go through it and let and I do plan on again like I've done the last couple of years to have to have another meeting that we discuss the
budget in uh August, but really only to address a few things that we'll have updated numbers for and that I would be talking about like insurance and uh thanks Okay. And um and uh our
engineers numbers uh to use in this budget. So this may change a little before uh August and and September, but uh not much likely not much. So I'm going to just go through a few of these
numbers. the uh roll back rate and some of these things I I'm required to do. The 2026 roll back rate is 3.3838. Our existing mill rate uh that we're using now is 3.6724.
Uh the uh the staff is recommending and proposing to use the same millage rate uh this year at 3.6724. We've used that rate the last two years.
Our property values have uh increased uh actually every year that I've been here. This past year our our property values increased by 8 and a half%. Um the uh the the number that you see the
existing 2025 adjusted adorn proceeds for operations at $6,430,000. Uh Mark, can you just tell them where you got this number? I think it started out at 600 and what was it? 70
477 6 million477 that was what was budgeted but over the year uh people uh they they'll adjust the values some of the values were adjusted uh from the
from when we issued the uh build rate last year and so it fell to 6430 which is about you know 33 $37,000 reduction. So, so anyway, so that's the number uh
uh pro proceeds for 2025. Uh now, so if if we were to do u if we were to choose to go back to the roll back rate this year, uh uh the proceeds
that we estimate would be $6,446,000. Using the same miller rate that we have the last couple of years, it would represent 6,996,000 general fund and more revenue uh which is about $550,000
more this year um using the same mill rate. So you can see the the difference at the bottom line there. The final gross taxable value for Bel GR was 1 bill750,000.
Uh and our estimated taxable value for this year will be 1 bill95 billion maybe it would be two billion year. So I mean the staff was always happy to see the increase in the values. Now you you
that own houses here might may not enjoy those increases. Uh I don't know but uh but uh I think it's a good sign. Construction is always a good thing. Okay. Yeah. Well uh so uh so I have a
few uh uh highlighted a few numbers here uh for the budget small equipment public works building maintenance uh 20,000 repair seaw wall at bird sanctuary is 35,000. We'll come back with that.
uh two police cruisers and equipment 1375. Create less lethal program for police at 10,000. I might increase that. We'll talk about that one here in a second. Uh replace underground propane tank uh for
police 10,000. Axon evidence. This is an annual uh uh expense data storage for video evidence at 20,000. And then our weather related contingencies at 100,000.
So uh did uh did uh I guess Anthony BL Okay. Can you call anything? Uh so Chief, if you could uh just chat a
second about the create less lethal program. Absolutely. So, um, one of the things that we want to accomplish within the police department as we develop the professionalism of our organization and continue to create policies that meet the federal and state standards as well
as best practices is to have a program in place that allows us to respond to incidents that may be incidents that require the response of lethal systems like a firearm, but give us the ability to utilize less
lethal tools and functions to respond to that so that you don't have to resort to using a firearm in those type of situations. Um, not they happen frequently, but we should be prepared for them in the event they do occur. Uh, and it's it's just a matter of purchasing these systems and then having
obviously trained staff to be able to utilize them. An example, an example would be a system called the bowl wrap system that actually uses a high pressure launching mechanism to shoot out uh string that
actually is able to wrap a person up and prevent them from being able to move. Um so it's just one method that doesn't involve any kind of a a force situation, but rather prevents that from having to be the case. Uh, an alternative is a deployment of uh, chemical agents like
pepper spray, being able to launch that at a greater distance so that you don't have to interact with somebody at a close distance and you can do that at a greater distance. Um, or even potentially uh, a bean bag system that allows you to deploy a bean bag round at
greater distances um, if you need to. And all of these systems can be used for obviously violent encounters that we have with people that are not from the town or even mental health related emergencies that we respond to within. And it also gives us the ability to respond to, you know, neighboring
agencies that may need to utilize that skill set and we have it on the ship when maybe they don't have an operator on their agency that could utilize it. So it just gives us that flexibility and the ability to make sure we have those systems in place. It's kind of an expectation in today's um law
enforcement world. How much do you expect are you planning to spend for that equipment? I'd say we're probably somewhere between 10 and $15,000. So, as I mentioned, I'm probably going to raise that to 15. It's a onetime expense. Once we have the
equipment, then it's just a matter of maintaining. And uh and I think in in all of our individual conversations uh with our commissioners that the chief uh went over a a situation that kind of
triggered his thoughts on I think starting this program. So that conversation. Uh thank you chief. Yes sir. Sorry. I I I I I wanted uh
Anthony to uh talk just briefly about the repair of the seat. Anthony, get that mic. Yes. Okay. The seaw wall that's at work, we got it approved last year. We didn't spend the funds for it. It didn't get
taken care of. So, the rebids on the same item is the same as it was. Um the reason that the the seaw wall needs to be repaired is because there's a lot of wash out that's happening on the inlet side that's going through the joints expansion joints. Typically those joints
have to be done every 3 to four years depending on how much abuse they take. See as being it's on a finger side that side doesn't get as much abuse as the inter coastal side does which is the one facing to the west next door to Mr. Martin. Correct? Yeah. Mr. Martin's
property. So those have larger sink holes from the wall because more weight keeps hitting the wall and it causes the expansions to to to move and it's encased in concrete. So the process of what they're going to have to do is remove that old stuff, repack it and re
reort it again. But it's designed so that way if there was a flood or some sort of a cave in on the property, it gets away and pushes out into the coastal so it won't stay on the property. So, so we don't want to lose the seaw wall. So, we're not taking the
old seaw wall out. It's we're just it's the joint repairs. We talked about this before. We did last year and we just Why didn't we do it? I think it was just the numbers came in higher than we thought. Yes. Yeah. But it's the same process, same
cost. Right. Okay. So, it's it's a specific type of job because not all seed repair work companies do it because it's so time consuming. So, yeah. And I didn't want you to think we were taking a whole seaw wall down and
building a new a new one. So, thank you. Sorry to catch out. Uh so uh so we are uh of course uh as you as we all know our our capital improvement plan really drives our
budget and has been for the last several years. Uh but we are in we'll be beginning you'll you'll be happy to hear this that we're beginning the eighth year of our capital improvements program
this year beginning in September. So, uh, so not too much longer on that and then we can start to decide what we want to do next. Mr. Mayor, so parking spot. Yeah. Put a sign a new sign for.
So, uh, I do have some numbers here for you that, uh, Mark is going to, uh, just speak briefly about. So the the capital project we do have as you know we created a capital project fund uh a
separate fund and Mark can you just talk about the general and you have Oh no no no I was just looking at the name that's okay uh the general and the blocker parts of this yeah we just have a conservative
estimate of what's going to be left over in the capital then from the CIP plan the core project for mostly in the first quarter of the 20 to 26 year and it's going to be approximately 3 million uh left over and that's a conservative
number might be less than that. Uh but we're budgeting for the for the 26th year of approximately 2.5 million in the uh in the capital projects fund and then about 643,000
in the uh for the water for the water pipes. Uh and then the drainage and the roads would be in the capital projects fund. The uh we're going to use about approximately 1.4 million from the general fund about
designated funds and approximately uh there's still 2.3 million left in the in the water fund that's uh could be used towards these projects. So could you also then just uh follow up with uh our
our lung that we're working on and how we're going to manage that. Correct. So so the you know the final numbers for the core project are still you know still not final. We'll have a better understanding of you know towards
the end of the year and then the first quarter of of 2026. the we have approximately one year from June to to take the draws on on the loan of up to 7 million now 6950
the we're we're expecting to know what the those finals numbers are to you know to to to pay for the project and to keep healthy reserves for for for future uh expenditures and so we should know that you know that
closer number around around uh December of 2025. The we haven't budgeted the the full amount for for the loan, but it's probably going to be expected more around 4 million or or or less than that
to just so that you know to to not have such a high debt uh service. But we just budget just for right now, we estimated just by putting the the full number in there so you can see what what what those numbers are. Uh and we can also use the loan money to
to pay for uh expenses 18 months prior. Right. Correct. The the the loan agreement is is for the the core project and the expected water main uh for the buo connect but but the the expenditures
that can be used towards loan are can go back 18 months on the on the core project. Right. Our cost to complete on core project is roughly what about 7 million 6.8 right now. Yeah. Correct.
So either way you used to you plus with the water the the connect you have you have plenty of of funds in those two projects to to allocate towards the loan. But but obviously you don't want to borrow the full amount if you if there's no need
for it which I expect it to be quite less than the full amount. Uh, did you want to I don't know if you have any I know you haven't had this but really even less than 24 hours so I don't know if really been
able to go through any of these numbers. These are just typical annual uh uh line items that we have in all of our in all of our various budgets. Uh I think when the vice mayor came in he
initially said what is it about 66 6,800,000 in and say 6,800,000 out because minus all the CIP uh expenses and revenues for that our
budget is pretty much almost the same basically every year around $7 million $8 million wouldn't you say more yeah correct I mean for our normal uh annual services that we provide.
Um, and again, so, uh, and I'm I've got a 4% cola in here. Uh, the, uh, CPI this year, I think it's 2.8 in April. Uh but
four 4% represents right in the middle of the survey that our town clerk uh does every year. It says attached here. It's not attached, but uh uh I think I can have our town clerk promise that
this 4% uh is right in the middle of the average of the uh uh cities towns that responded to. Yeah. The highest was I think seven% um and then the lowest was 2.8 right
but most of them were four. Yeah. So so it's right on the average but so I am going to come back to you and I've had this individual conversation with each one of you. Uh I am as I have the last two years would
like to have another item on the agenda in August uh to to give you some refined numbers about probably insurance engineers and the
issue before us at least at this meeting is Saturday. That's correct. correct which we cannot exceed. So just remember you'll have this look through it and remember we'll be having a meeting again
August and you develop any questions call us any time because this might change a little uh but I I do have for whoever wants to make these motions or if you're ready to do that motions
well are there any uh comments regarding the military staff recommending thing. We maintain the same military as last year and the year before that uh and has given the proposed numbers we've expected to generate from it. Um I think
looks like we're all ready to do it. So we have four motions before us. Vice Mayor's generally Johnny on the spot. Uh yes. I'll make a motion to set the proposed mill rate at 3.6724. Second.
Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes. Commissioner Orwine, yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Mayor Morgan, yes. Second motion is a motion to certify the roll back rate of 3.3838. Second. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes.
Commissioner Orwin. Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley. Yes. Mayor Morgan. Yep. Next motion is to set the date, time, and place for the first budget hearing for September 11th, 2025 at 5:01 p.m. at Gream Town Hall, 100C Road, Gulf Stream.
Second, Commissioner Green, yes. Commissioner Canfield, yes. Commissioner Orwine, yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Mayor Morgan, yes. Last motion is a motion to set the date, time, and place of the second budget hearing for September 24th, 2025 at 5:01 p.m.
All town hall 100C road. Second, Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield, yes. Commissioner Orwin, yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Mayor Morgan, yes. Uh, if there are no more questions of staff regarding
proposed budget, let's move on to the police department. modeling the restroom and lockers. Mayor, thank you again. As we discussed last month, we have pretty much um been able to mitigate and repair all the other areas of the police department.
This is really the one last area that we're working on. We have over the last couple years hired female staff, which is obviously a big change for us. We've never had that before. Um, so the restroom and the locker rooms are kind of u
probably not been touched since 70s or 80s. Pretty pretty old condition. Uh, tiles are falling off the walls. It's just gotten to the point that we need to remodel. So, we have obtained multiple quotes. I reached out to at least 10 different companies. Um, the
best quote that we received that included all of the services we requested as well as a site visit and a licensed contractor was $25,868. Uh, I would propose that we move forward with that vendor, LLH Construction. They
are local and they have agreed to get moving. uh and a couple of our staff have had some history with them and say that they've obviously executed uh their um you know projects very well. Uh and in addition to that uh cost, we have
move forward the purchase of the lockers which are about 12 to 16 weeks out for build time and that cost was $6,363.15. We are not asking the commission for additional funding. We currently have these funds in our budget. We're just
asking for your approval because of the threshold exceeding the town manager's ability to authorize the purchase. Go ahead. The total cost of the project combined is $32,2315. And you just need a motion to approve
this. Yes. Uh motion to approve a $32,500 project which also includes the purchase of the lockers that are already included in the budget uh for the police station. Second. Commissioner Grant, yes. Commissioner Canfield, yes.
Commissioner Orwin, yes. Vice Mayor Stanley, yes. Mayor Morgan, yes. Uh let's move on then to the resolution. Mr. Uh thank you, Mayor. So FEMA requires local governments to develop and adopt hazard mitigation plans in addition for
receiving certain types of non emergency disaster assistance including funding for mitigation projects update our mitigation plans periodically. Palm Beach County has historically handled that for all the ser municipalities and
those individual municipalities adopt the Palm Beach County local mitigation strategy. This is something that we have done before periodically. So they have an updated 2024 local mitigation strategy that we are required to participate in to uh get FEMA money for
certain grants. So this is just uh stopping that and making sure that we're in compliance. Yes. A resolution of the town commission of the town of Gulfream, Florida, approving and adopting the 2024 revised Palm Beach County local mitigation strategy plan
providing an effective date of today, July 11th, 2025. And for other purposes, motion to approve resolution number 25-04 as present. Second. Commissioner Green. Yes. Commissioner Canfield. Yes. Commissioner Orwine. Yes. Vice Mayor Stanley. Yes. Mayor Morgan.
Yes. Um, comments. Uh, we celebrated today an achievement by one of our but I also want to comment on the loss of one of our former commissioners Bob Ganganger who passed away in April. Bob
was chairman of the ARPG served on the commission place mayor until his health forced him off off the court. However, he continued working diligently until as far as I could tell a couple weeks before his passing. I just wanted to say
that um I'd written a testimonial beforehand post while some of it was in there to comment perhaps publicly but no one cared more about this town or knew more about its origins
than than Bob and his service on the ARP on the town commission. He established the Florida coalition preservation of our barer island. He spearheaded the town's electrical undergrounding. He had a leadership role in the annexation of
the county pocket that brought Balentree 401 into this town. He published books. He wrote articles on local history. And all of this represented his dedication to our town and to the larger barrier
island community. with this passing. Uh we should recognize the loss of value and irreplaceable member public. And with that,