seat, please. Good afternoon. Welcome to the town commission meeting of Tuesday, June 3rd, 1:30 p.m. Kindly silence all cell phones. Lenel, may I have a roll call, please? Commissioner Chanobski, present.
Commissioner Goldberg, present. Commissioner Peters, present. Vice Mayor Stern, present. And Mayor Morris, absent. Town Manager Laby, present. And town attorney Ruben, present. Please all rise for the pledge of allegiance. Our allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible justice for all. Are there any changes to the agenda? Uh no changes. No changes. There are
none. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as as uh presented? Yes. Uh, I move to accept the agenda. Approve the agenda as presented. I second it. All in favor say yes. Yes. Here we have a presentation today. Palm
Beach County Commission on Ethics. A presentation by Ronda Guyger, Esquire, General Counsel. Hope you got your name right. Okay. Thank you, Rhonda Guyger. Uh, Palm Beach County Commission on Ethics. Uh to call this a presentation is very uh generous um because it's not.
I'm just here as always to say hi and make my face seen and remind everybody including everybody here that the Commission on Ethics is here. Hello. Uh here to answer questions. It's our 15 year anniversary this year. Wow. So you guys got new printings of our book. um
we now have jurisdiction over every municipality in the county as well as all the county um officials and employees. So, um it's a big it's a big job. Um and we're enjoying every minute of it. And I guess the same thing I
probably say every year is we really are emphasizing these days training and being available for questions. We definitely do not want to be a gotcha agency. We want to be the agency that is here to work collaboratively with everybody, with you, with the public,
with the employees. Um, we're here to answer questions. We're here to to really reward people. We hope for asking first. Um, you know, our motto is ask first, act later. So, we do want people to ask questions. Um, to know that we are there for them. You know, this is where it starts, right? This is where
faith in government starts is at the local level. And the more transparent we, you know, me too as an employee, you as elected officials, the more transparent we can be, the more faith our people are going to have in us and the more um we're going to move in that direction of people actually believing
in their local government. And that's really what we're all about. And also, I'll say it again, I'm always available to do trainings except for the one day that Lenelda asked me to do it. Um, so I'm sorry for that. Figures, doesn't it? Um, and I want to thank her
publicly. I just had a little conversation. It's so lovely to come here. She's always so easy to work with and puts me on the agenda. Doesn't make me sit through the whole meeting. Um, so thank you, Lela, as always. Um, I do appreciate it and thank you all for having me. Any questions? Anyone?
Anybody have any questions? Anybody in the audience have any questions on Yes. for you? Okay. Come up to the podium, please, if you have a question. And you guys all got your stuff, but you don't have to worry about that. There is no value to it at all. Last year I asked
about the $100. I know. I saw that. Just try to show me when I came in. We got that a name and address and question. Yes. I'm formerly of Highland Beach, Coronado, Mr. Jason's territory, but now Boca Raton,
Florida, where we're welcoming the addition of some community cats, especially a new cat born Saturday night. And I just wanted to ask if the new forms, I know there's some been some
litigation as far as the new new disclosure forms with the council members and other board members of municipalities. I'm not sure where where that stands as far as whether they have to file or not. Thank you. I will answer that question to the best
of my ability. That is a state form, not a county form. So, I have absolutely nothing to do with it. Um, sorry, we don't have a disclosure form, so I can't really help. You can contact the state commission on ethics. I can get you that information if you want. Thank Thank you
very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh, next on the agenda is a hurricane preparedness presentation by fire chief Glenn Joseph and chief well just wanted to uh remind everybody that hurricane is right around
the corner and our community risk reduction chief Nwell will take it over. Good afternoon everybody. How y'all doing? Um, as Chief Joseph said, we've been working on this uh again every
year. Second year now. Pretty pretty impressive. Um, and uh what we put together so far. Uh, just I'll give you a little background on what the Noah predicts uh for hurricanes this year. It's it's actually a little better than it was last year. Um, they expect
they're forecasting 13 to 19 named storms. I believe we've already had one though that was off the coast of Mexico. Um six to 10 are forecast to become hurricanes and three to five of those are expected to become major. Um we did
do an update on our um Iowa Beach hurricane prep manual. Uh I believe I've got thatender and uh that's probably going to be going out sometime in the very near future. Um we did some updates on
that. They're going to start doing uh the hurricane um watch is going to begin 72 hours before instead of 48. That's kind of the one significant change if you want to call it that. Uh the most important thing is that you know um
prepare now. Uh do some do you know get the manual, go through it, try to figure out what you need to what you need to supply up um in case we need to do something. If we get a category 2 or stronger uh that's predicted to hit here, uh we are going to evacuate. Uh we
have set us, you know, already um uh signed a contract for relocating um if we need to do that and uh just the same thing we did last year. So, uh we have everything in place we believe that we need to do to get things prepared um and
to continue to be able to operate should a hurricane come through this area directly. I don't know if you all have any questions or anything about Hey, Matt. Yes, sir. How does this compare to last year's projections? Um, so last year they they projected more storms, more
name storms, and more major hurricanes. That kind of did come true. Uh, I think that the accuracy of Noah has been pretty good. Um so not to say that this is a a light season obviously but uh they are predicting fewer storms um this
year and that has to do with the L nin El Nino thing you know and all those types of things and obviously warming temperatures you know globally and off our shores. So uh we'll see how it all works out but just uh wanted to make sure you guys understood that we're
prepared for it. You know Glenn and I have been through this process for you know the last 30 years. Um, we've had a couple storms, you know, will being the the last one that actually came directly over this area. Um, and so we're we understand what we need to do and we'll
be prepared. So, question, will will your report be disseminated uh to the residents? Yes. And if so, how? Uh, right now we're going to do that via email. Um, we've got the list of the people uh that have
submitted to us. We have a couple different avenues uh that we can utilize. Um we're still what's the website that people can join, sign up for and get information on a regular basis. Uh um we the the town has a
pretty vast uh email list. So our our goal is to try to get it out to as many people as possible. Uh we plan on doing that, like I said, you know, probably by the end of the week at the latest. Okay. Thank you. Nothing. Nothing else. Matt, do we have
the locations? Like I saw the county just sent us emails locations in the booklet where we can go if uh they have these places I guess uh inland that the county has set up. I just saw a me message that we have that. Yeah, the shelters are the shelters are going to
be run by the county and the county EOC. So we everything that's in this manual is is directed on links on how to get that information or the information is already here. One thing that I would like to point out is if anybody needs um you know additional care or higher level
care, you do have to register for that. I would register for it right away. U if you need assisted care, there's only one one location for that. That's at by the fairgrounds and that that registration process fills up really quickly.
We always have people that stay for one reason or another. Uh, I ask the property managers and the and the and at least in the high-rise mid-rise buildings if they would put together a list of the people that are going to stay and what units they're in. So when we do get back over here, if we have a
happen to have a direct hit, we can do, you know, welfare checks and get to those people as soon as possible and just make sure they're they're good. That's all part of our our plan. Um what ends up happening if we do have to evacuate is the county dispatch center will start stacking calls and as soon as
we are able to get back over here and get the roads clear. That's the first thing we're going to do. We will work on that um along with the the facilities, you know, Pat Romans folks to get the roads roads clear enough for us to be able to get our vehicles over here and then we will start you know and you know
the the original order in which those calls came in going back and checking on every one that we can and uh and that's that's just the normal process. Do you anticipate any um impact from uh
with respect to uh cars leaving the property or coming in with respect to uh if they're electric cars? Uh that would be something that would more most likely be posts storm. So, I would suggest to anybody that if your if your parking
garage is below grade or under, you know, more or less under the building, especially along the right along, we're all right along the beach, I would I would move those vehicles if you can. You know, we would rather that the uh if there's electric vehicles that are parked in the garage and people have
gone up north and they're just sitting there. Um if they can ask somebody to get those moved, that would be good. If we get storm surge here that inundates those vehicles, it doesn't they won't break down. You know, that's not necessarily going to start a fire right away.
Typically, it's going to take a little bit of time. Could be, you know, a few days, a week, longer, uh, for the salt to have an effect on the the batteries and and start causing um degradation of those that that may, you know, cause a
fire. Thank you. That's what happened over on the West Coast. a lot of those fires from that. Yeah, I think it would be a good idea to emphasize that to the uh the condos and so forth because if they have x amount of electric view, that's a very good point to try to and I know a lot of them
have limited parking, but obviously you should give priority to those that are electric to get them off the lower level. Y that's a good point. Um any questions on this topic? Okay. Um, we also ought to check I think it
is, but we ought to check the website to make sure for this time of the year in particular, there's a quick link to hurricane. Got it, Scander. Yep. Good. Thank you. Thanks very much. No problem. Thank you.
Thank you. Thanks, man. Are there any other any public comments on anything? If there is, uh, please raise your hand, please. These will be limited to 5 minutes. Thank you. Uh Tim Routollo again from Highland Beach formerly and
now Boca Raton at the Tiara del Soul Condominiums by the Fifth Avenue shops. Um Mr. Mayor Prom, I believe you would be. I don't know. I've worked with some other commissions in the past where there were
some vice mayors and mayor prom. I'm not sure what to call you there, but I have to agree with the first presenter as far as Lenelda's office goes. Uh, she is a delight to work with. I've been working her with her for years. She's done everything
from notaries to um trying to find information from the town and I just can't think of all the things she's helped me with. And I've recently emailed her about the subject of this public comment which is primarily
the shared path. I tried to bring it up at a previous meeting. Uh emailed the town manager about it and I also emailed Lanela as well and tried to email some planning
board member and others but there's a lot of blockage out there and Mr. Mayor Prom I want to thank you kindly for your persistent work at the Highland Place condominiums about
the the battery problem because I'm with you on that and I appreciate it every time you bring it up sir and Mr. Mr. Peters, I appreciate your work on the commission and with your condominium board. I I don't know if you remember, but I got your shirt here and and the
big reason for that. Yeah. Is it It was the Vikes. We talked about the Vikes. I think we talked about it with with the other commissioner, Mrs. Goldberg. Miss Goldberg. Yeah. And uh you two were running. There was one other running at
that time and one other of your co-ounselor commissioners here I believe endorsed that other and that was one of the reasons I was on my bike looking for these shirts and other things to vote for besides that particular commissioner who made some comments at the
uh what do you call that swearing in some ceremony. I'm not sure if I was fortunate to attend that or or unfortunate, but I would I mean, it started out good and
and by the end I felt like I almost had to. Anyway, hopefully we could have the subject matter of the shared path possibly some improvements out there. There have been some comments made here. I I do watch the meetings. If I'm not
here, I watched I I particularly noted one and Mr. Mayor Pro 10 was leading and it was a quick one. A very efficient. It was a lot better than any meeting I remember the sassy sister. Oh, the self-proclaimed sassy sister running.
And I don't like that kind of connotations or sassy sisters regarding domestic violence and things of that sort. That's a I mean we talked about that a little bit at the time that when you're talking about domestic
violence and sassiness when the sisters are sassy I've had some experience with that commissioners and it's you know commissioner here commissioner there the ethics presentation couldn't have been
more ironic. I wasn't sure if I was going to come today or not, but then the time out pretty good. And just lastly, I'd like to make a recommendation for Dollywood. Also, this book if cats
disappeared from the world. Like I said, we have some community cats at our old at our new condominium in Boca Raton. I don't think that ever would have in the world happened at my old residence. Even though
it's got ordinances related to the kitties, the kitties have rights. And I think bikers have some rights. I don't know. I think people that might want to go hang out at Milani Park and sit on the
bench. Even though y'all might not want there to be benches for the for the elderly and the disabled people that might come to your park, you might want to consider the benches. that I don't know what it is about that
sassy stuff, but when you start talking about keeping as many people out as you possibly can on the record and it's all there for everybody to look at on the on the website, maybe even they're watching now. I don't know. Lela told me that that they do run her office told me they
do run live again. Thanks. Thank you very much. Thanks for your comments. Anybody else? Okay, thank you. Uh there are no ordinances. Unfinished business. Building department reertification program update present by the building
department. Good afternoon. So since the last reertification update, Ambassadors East 3215 and 3221 buildings have been reertified. The building 3301 was
reertified back in November of 2023. So now all three buildings are complete. That brings our total number of reertified buildings to 22. We have two buildings under permit for electrical work. Once that's completed, the whole building will be
reertified as well. Highland Beach Club, the buildings 3594 and 366 are overdue on submitting a concrete restoration application and a code case is in process for that.
23 buildings are under permit for restoration. We have one building still within the due date to submit the phase one reports. That due date is January 1st, 2026. So they're halfway through submitting the date submitting the reports and three buildings still within
or the due date is still far. So they haven't been notified as of yet. Okay. So everyone else is in compliance. Yeah. No one. Okay. Yes, we're in a good place. So, there's 22 out of 53. Is that correct? Yes, correct. I'm just curling.
Are they hoping that the balance will be finished by the end of this year? Is that the goal? I would say it is the goal, but it really depends. There's many factors with concrete restoration work, but a lot of buildings are working on it, the
23, and some of them are coming towards the end of completion of the project. So, we're hoping by the end of this year we'll have a big jump, Judy. No, I'm good. I'm good. Thank you.
Thank you. Okay. Um, are there any public comments on this issue? Okay. Thank you. Um, Florida Department of Transportation uh project update presented by public works director Pat Roman, please. Vice
Mayor, Commission, Mr. Laberty, any questions? Yes. Was this week a good week to test what was for the right? This has been a good week. This has been this been okay week, but we still have more work to do. I have a question. Uhhuh. The question I have is the uh the
drains were mostly done in the west side. Correct. Correct. Okay. So, as we look at the water shifting right now and some of the water looks like it's shifting to the east, right? Okay. And as as you look at where the the water is starting to accumulate, are there any
drains in that side at all? There are some drains on the south end of the south end of town on the east side. On the east side, they're done with the the north end. So, what's what's there is there. Okay. So, and we still all have to remember we're on a barrier island,
high tide, torrential rains, we are still going to have some puddles. So, and and what this actually will do actually make it disappear quicker. So, that's, you know, that's going to be the saving grace. So, the water will dissipate quicker than it has in the past because of what they're doing out
there. But, the water's not just going to go away. I just don't want I'm on the west side and I'm very, very happy to see the water dripping to the other side. Yeah. because they raised it so much the water has a chance to get off of the road. Now, see, before the grass and the hedges were not allowing the
water to get off, right now since they raised it and there's that big drop off, water has a place to go now, right? However, for those uh buildings, residences on the west side, right, where the roadway
is now higher than the property, it would appear I wonder where is the water supposed to go? I mean, is there any because there is no drainage. There was no drainage contemplated on the west side. On the west side? Yeah. Well, they they they have put in
drainage on the west side. And what they'll do is is the driveways is they'll crown the driveways so it runs off of the driveway into the swailes. That's that's their theory. That's what they're going with the entire the entire uh length of the
town. whatever need whichever whichever whichever needs that correct depending on the difference in the height of the road and the driveways. Now it was my understanding after our uh paths for the bicycles. I hesitate to say bicycle
paths. I don't know if that legally comes within we call it a walk path. All right. after our u restoration renovation uh will bikes bike riders be permitted on the sidewalks? Absolutely. Still so there's no as far as I know
unless Mr. Labberty has something different in mind. I would love to talk about the non-motorized shared use pathways that we have. They're not built to a standard to be divided into lanes. They're usually 6 to 8 feet which means
they're shared use. Now, if you're on a bicycle with all those driveway cuts, you should not be probably moving over about six miles an hour. If you do, you run the risk of running into either people and/or vehicles uh and exiting on
their driveways. Uh in order to put what we heard earlier and many times down the road, it has to be 10 ft wide paved plus 2 feet of clearance on each side. We don't have that in our rightway. So, you're never going to have a divided bike path. It's going to be a
non-motorized shared use. So, basically, it's a it's a bigger sidewalk. And kids are better on kids should be on bicycles there. Maybe some people that are going really slow in a very recreational manner. If you have a helmet on and
tight shorts, you probably should get back on to A1A because you're moving too fast. And that's generally uh what you're doing. But people will and they'll ring their bells and yell at you. I I would discourage folks that are good at riding bicycles from being on the sidewalk because that's really what
it is. While it's, you know, a foot and a half, two feet wider than your traditional sidewalk, it's not enough to accommodate a bike at 12 miles an hour. It's just not going to work. We're we're not widening our sidewalks, though. But but as is as it has been, it's wider than you're saying the traditional
sidewalk. Traditional sidewalks four feet. uh a non-motorized shared use goes to six sometimes to eight feet depends on if you have the rightway uh under ASHTO standards which is an engineering standard for like these things has to be 10 ft wide if you want two-way movement
traffic on both sides uh you need to do that but with the marked shoulder that we have on A1A which people call the bike lane that's marked as such it's a marked shoulder because it's doesn't have two feet of separation from the travel lane so what we have is a marked shoulder and that's a safe place to ride
a bicycle um for most folks. Um well, I'm concerned uh about the pedestrians. Sure. We have an older population. Uh many have hearing problems. Sure. Um and balance problems.
So, um have we experienced um accidents or problems with bicyclists riding too quickly and accidents injured? Uh we we have there's one individual that does it regularly. It's
a problem. Um um but most folks seem to get along and figure it out. Um on there we've had a few conflicts. Luckily no accidents, just shouting matches if you will, somebody wanting to go excessively quick
or they're on and they're trying to get someone's attention and they don't move. And you're right, it creates that hazard. And now with the road profile as high as it is and the side the the the pathway will be repaved hopefully in its entirety if not probably 60% of it
there's coming off you're going to go into a ditch or swale now. So we're going to have other additional issues and we do have an ordinance is that bicycles must give an audible warning when you're coming up to pedestrians. That that is an ordinance in this town. So you're supposed to give audible warning when you come up on somebody
walking. But it is our it's a linear park too for ourselves because if you notice especially in high season folks are just out there with their friends and their neighbors and they stop with their dogs. That's why it's just not made for bicycle traffic nor is it going to ever be big enough for bicycle
traffic where you have unfettered two-way movement of bicycles at higher speeds. Too many driveway cuts, too narrow, too limited of rightway. Pat, they're putting the bicycle symbols right in the bike lanes. Yeah. Yep. That's what I heard. So then technically
bikes are supposed to go in those links to be because I I have trouble when I run up and down A1A. I got these electric bikes that go faster and if I took one step out I'd be hit and be I mean they go faster than a car. Correct. Correct. That's a bigger um we were at
the lunch talking about it with the city of Bokeh trying to tackle that. I know Jupiter's trying to tackle it. The county maybe the state. I think it's a growing issue. Um because I think ebike the bike part is kind of deceptive because they are moving quickly. Um and
if you'd have multiple folks doing that, some of those things can go upwards 25 miles an hour. That should be nowhere near a sidewalk. A shared use pathway should only be in the street. Um however, they can be dangerous. Um especially with kids and pedestrians
kind of the conflicts, the unicycles, motorized skateboards. We had an issue with the motorized skateboard uh about a year and a half year and a half ago. That wasn't that wasn't a good scene either. No, it was right by our Yeah. Right in front of your place, right? Yeah. Had a helmet on. He would have lip Mhm.
I have a couple of questions. First of all, thank you for the updates constantly to the condos. That's very helpful. Um the turn lane coming off um Linton, is that complete at this time? the it where the lines are, that's
how long it's going to be. Okay. Yeah. So, that's the other part of the question, there's a quite a bump when you make the right hand turn off uh Linton on to A1A. Is that completed because that's I can find that out for you. I'm not sure, but I I don't think
they'll allow that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I I think they'll be made to to smooth that out. Okay. Um, I've also heard from another number of areas that since the paving there is somewhat of a decline or a bump getting in and out of the
driveway, rather a smooth access. Is that going to They're going to address every bit of that. Correct. Yes. They got to make a smooth transition to everybody's driveway. There'll be no bumps when you're coming off. Okay, great. And lastly, is there any change in the timing of the projected
completion? I know the weather's a big factor. The weather's a factor. Uh some of this some of these tie tie-in driveways were not expected to be as high. So it's going to be dragged out a little bit longer than we expect. August September I'm thinking. That's that's
just my educated guess. I who knows like I say weather could play a factor. We could get a tropical depression that could be down for you know whatever. So, anybody? Yeah, I had a question just to clarify uh with respect to um the
approach to uh Linton. Um will there still be more work done to widen that access? No, that's it. It is it is what it is right now. Correct. And I noticed they changed the the at the outset you could wait almost three
minutes to turn. They've they appears they've adjusted They've adjusted that. Yeah, it was on full timer, so it went the whole cycle. Now they have it back on where the trips will read it and it'll change quicker. Correct. Anybody else here? Any public questions,
comments? Uh, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Consent agenda. Um, are there any comments regarding the consent agenda? No. No comments here. Okay. Are there
any public comments? Uh is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion to approve the consent agenda presented. Second. Second. All in favor say yes. Yes. I. Okay. Any opposed?
New business. A. to approve and authorize the mayor to execute an agreement with the Hinderland group in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for utility construction and repair services as is needed and as
is basis pursuant to an invitation to bid issued by Loxahhatchee River Environmental Control District ITB number 24- 001- 00131. I'll refer that to Pat. Yeah.
Really what this is, we we've had a contract with Hentling Group for three to four years. I think four years. Their contract has has expired. So instead of going out again doing the bid process is what we're going to do is we're going to piggyback contracts already awarded to
Hentin Group. That way we don't have to go through the process of doing all that bidding and and the time and money to do that when we just piggy back a contract that's already been vetted. So that that's what that's what this is about. Are there any commission questions or
comments on this issue? Are there any public comments or questions? Well, I do have uh well, let me just see if I'm on No, not on this contract. Thank you. Next one. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the agreement with Hind Group Incorporated? When you guys move to
approve it, present it. I have a second, please. Second. All in favor say I. I. Okay. B. Approve and authorize the mayor to execute an agreement with G3 Contracting Incorporated, DBA Industry
standard in the amount not to exceed $100,000 for utility installation and repair services on an asne basis pursuant to a request for proposals issued by Indian River County number 20250005. Again, I'll refer that to P.
Yes, Commission. pretty much the same thing, but with the town, what I would really like is to have two contractors in my pocket in case one's busy, I can't get somebody here. So, we want a service agreement with uh industry standard as well as the same piggybacking an Indian
River contract. So, we can use either vendor in a crisis that won't exceed 100,000. Questions? Judy, do you have a question on that? No, no question on that. No. Okay. Thank you. Any public question, comments? Thank you. Hearing none. Is there a motion to approve the agreement?
Yes. Motion to approve the agreement. Second. All in favor say I. I. Anybody oppose? No. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Thank you very much. May I go back for a moment to the um appointments? Uh will you uh passing
that? That was a part of the consent agenda. Okay. I'd like to just um point out that on the resolution uh there is a typo uh Evelyn's Evelyn David's name is still in there. My name
is not on that document. Yeah, I'm Thank you. Thank you. Good catch. Thank you. Okay. Town Commission comments. Uh Jason, any comments? No. Um my comments and I could have brought it up but I'm
just curious do we bypass the bid process um as we move forward the motions that we just approved. Do we bypass the bid process in the future? We did the bid process with Hinterland Group. Okay. Now we're piggybacking so we don't have to go
through the bid process because somebody else has already done that. So, it's it's it's a it's a cheaper way to get a service agreement with somebody than going out to bid and doing all the resources that you get to go out to bid, but the processes has been bidded out on
these other contracts. So, we're comfortable in justifying the pricing. Yes. Yes. And that really the question if we were asked about the pricing, we would say this is what we went through. Yes. Exactly. So, so all the prices are set in a contract that somebody else has already done. They've done the leg work.
We're just piggybacking on their leg work. Okay. Thank you. That's my Any other reports or comments that you have? No, my comments um obviously this is a short short meeting day and uh uh I'm I'm more interested in um future
appointments right now. I notice the open positions rather than comment. And um I think with the uh relationships a lot of us have, I am surprised that some of the positions are still open. uh as we move into those positions. So that would be my only comment about today's
activity. I think that there's a lot of qualified people out there and we might not be uh reaching out to these people and asking them to be a participant in the community. Um and there's a number of qualified people out there. That would be my comment about today. Okay. I
know they are also listed on the uh managers uh right thing that he sends out. Uh yeah, I believe it's recruiting is a relationship. Say if you have any other ideas on uh love to hear them as you think about it
because I think you're absolutely right. Thank you, Judith. Well, it it as an extension of what Jason had said, I wanted to um acknowledge David Axelrod's application and appointment today. Uh in
looking at um uh his resume and notes, I was very impressed with the um uh the length of time that he has uh given of his time and services to serve on the planning board. and um he has served in
so many capacities including chair since I think 2012. So uh I thank him and uh I just wanted to put that on the record and everyone else that that has uh given of their their time. We have um very
impressive uh backgrounds on everyone that that serves. Um I'd be interested to hear maybe at a subsequent meeting how it's working out in code enforcement with the magistrate. I haven't had any feedback on that. So for perhaps our future
meeting and other than that um um uh happy what month? Happy June to everyone. Looking forward to the uh financials that we have to do in the ensuing month. Two weeks. Yeah. I was just going to
echo the same thing with uh Mr. Axel Rod with all the boards he's been on. He's definitely did his uh his job uh for the town. And I just like to say I just remind everybody it's turtle season and lights down. Um I always see that we got a couple nice turtle nests out in front
of our condo there. Uh and I see Joanne and her crew out there. So I just want to uh give them kudos all the good work they do. Thank you. Okay. I have no additional comments. Um announcements. Board vacancies. Code
Enforcement Board, one vacancy for a three-year term. Natural Resources and Preservation Board, one vacancy for a three-year term. Planning Board, one vacancy for a three-year term. Meetings and events. June 10th, 1:30, Special
Magistrate Meeting. June 12th, 9:30, planning board meeting. June 17th, 1:30, Town Commission meeting. June 19th, 2025, town hall closed in observance of Junth. That's how you pronounce it. June
24th, 11:00 a.m. Financial Advisory Board regular meeting board action report. Okay. Um uh yeah, just a few few comments. Um, as you uh recruit actively for uh uh board
members, uh just if you could on behalf of myself, Lenelda, and staff, just remind them there's meetings bes outside of December through April. So if you get them, we need them year round. It really helps when we need to take care of uh
business in June, July, August, September to have folks that are in town. We've run into that problem. So, as you actively uh recruit uh neighbors and friends, just let them know we need them. You know, it's not all the time. It's usually, you know, monthly meetings, but we need them physically
here monthly. So, uh but otherwise, uh it I'm glad we're starting to get more applicants and and people engaged. Um a few things. Uh some fire kudos. Um I've got a
message. Oh, hold on. I'll try again. Fire department. Just kidding. Um, so for the I know, right? For the big our B shift won uh shift of the year. Uh I sent you um the commendations that we're going to send to the Bshift
with our fire department. Good job, gentlemen. Uh your team is uh high functioning, high performing. Thank you. And thank you to the Bshift folks uh for the commitment to the organization. And then we also got uh uh from uh the town houses manager uh they had a water leak
and they they were very appreciative of our effort to help with the cleanup when a pipe burst in in the building and our team was there from the start of the issue, responded quickly and helped them clean up. So again, uh great work as we expected. Uh I'm glad to see that it's
coming coming to life that uh you know having our own fire service really is uh been a a godscent to us. um you uh got the estimated values. I sent that to you all. Uh 6 and 3/4%. So
that's a little bit uh of an uptick uh from the 5% and going through the budget today. I'm glad we got a little bit extra so we can get those capital projects. That's really what we want to be able to do before we start seeing a softening. Again, we are seeing each year we're losing a couple percent in
value. So we're imagining next year will be a couple percent lower. Um I have uh Dorothy Jax coming here in July 17th to present to you so you can ask her questions uh how they calculate those estimates, what she foresees in the future and how she calculates values and
the like. So she'll be here uh make a presentation to you all, answer your questions. It's she does a great job. She's an amazing appraiser. I don't even really personally know her. I just like the work that she does. It's good having an elected official in that technical role that came from the field. uh it
does uh translate into uh uh great work on her part. Um overall in the county know 7.75% so we're kind of on the mark. Um I have Jeff working with them. I think the new value ad that's shown in there is a little understated. It says we only
added $6 million in new value. We had three or four homes in Balo completed. As you can imagine they're more than $6 million. So um we had a few on the the beach do some extensive remodeling. So, uh, Jeff's going to work through that to see it won't be a huge change, but I
just want to make sure that, you know, we're submitting, we're required to submit to them all our building permits. Why is the value not, uh, translating? Because it's all improvements. So, it could be kitchen remodels, bathrooms. Um, my question for Dorothy, for all of us, is how does the reertification
program affect values, or are they saying it's holding values rather than enhancing values? What I mean by that is uh when they estimate a taxable value or a market value, are they assuming the building is safe? So when you go through these huge multi-million dollar
projects, is it really to preserve value or does it enhance value? And that's a good question. Um I I hope to have uh her answer for all of us and the condo market in particular because what's really Hey Marshall, uh the feedback from the insurance companies right now
after certification has been dramatic. I know that we got close to a million dollar decrease in our policy. So obviously they've been very impressed what's happening in Highland Beach and as far as the certification has taken place. I mean that in itself should actually explain the values that are
going to continue to hold value or go up uh and looking at the pricing that some of the condos are selling for and the price of some of the homes in comparison to what I read in the news which happened in the rest of Florida, we should be pretty impressed. Yeah. And that's uh the good thing. I like the
building departments putting the plaques out. Matt's kind of wrestling with this when all the fire inspections closed. So you should put those at your front entryway. So when you know new residents or potential new residents come in, they know one structurally safe, it's fire safe. Every you know the building is
and span ready to go. So um that should be a good sign for everybody. and to assure rest assured the the current residents that you're in a a safe place uh structurally and from uh fire safety uh perspective. So uh we're working
through the budget. We had a a long meeting this morning and we'll have another one on Thursday. Then David comes in for a couple days tomorrow and we tie it all together. So on the 17th of June, uh we'll be able to present what I would say about an 80 85% budget
to you. Uh everything looks good. It's just capital. Remember how we were uh David on the 5-year forecast spaced out capital. We should be able to compress that a bit, but that involves some changes. There's some timing of projects that we're trying to to wrestle around with that make it difficult to do we
budget it for next year or do we keep it in because a few projects are in this year. Are we going to issue a bid or an award before September 30th or is it carry over, roll the dollars over? So, uh, David and I and Susie and Madison are kind of working through those
pieces, uh, to see how how that looks. And, um, but financial health again continues to be completely strong, healthy, just for this vibrant three Miles of Paradise. Um, budget season, while it's my most favorite part of the
year, no one else really gets excited. the residents don't show up anymore, but um we'll try to make it as exciting as possible. But it it we're looking very good. We'll be able to uh meet the uh capital requirements that we put out there. Uh honor our agreements with uh
the police union and to the staff itself to be able to uh maintain our commitment as a preferred employer here in uh Palm Beach and South Florida. So uh great shape. Great shape. So I just wanted to communicate that. But again, we're looking at the numbers usually tweak up
if if you recall over the year. So this is the preliminary estimate. July one, we'll get a tweak. That usually it's about a tenth of a point, two ten of a point. So we'll move closer towards seven. But um we're we're in great shape. Will we have
comparables? What I'm interested to see how it compares over the last two or three years as far as the values. Yeah, David will predict the values. I mean, we were high as 13.9%. Now we're down to 6.74% and it's like 2% a year drop we've
been having since the heighten was that 2122 it's gen 2% a year falling. Um I was a little surprised at how strong the county is as a whole. I mean that's been propped up for a lot of new home construction.
Um, so you know, while we anticipate a fall, I think Palm Beach is in a pretty good space to uh keep the floor from hitting really low numbers. I think that floor is, you know, three and a half to 5%. Which is a good healthy growth rate.
Um, I I I project would be that the outer outer years here is on our five-year projection. Um, but the county did quite well. Um so uh you know our model is holding on and our forecasting and allow us to to get those capital projects without borrowing money. Uh just we're working
on the timing of those projects. Sounds good. Uh town attorney. No sir. Thank you. Any other business? Hearing none other. I'll call the meeting to adjournment at 218. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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