You have to wait, I think. Yeah. Good evening. The time is now 700 p.m. and I'll call to order the town council meeting of Tuesday, June 3rd. We'll begin with an invocation followed by a moment of silence and then the pledge of
allegiance. If all those that are able, please join me in standing. Dear God. Dear God, may we serve with grace and strength to conceive and execute what comes before us tonight to the highest and best regard of our people. Amen.
Let's have a moment of silence. Please join me in pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. We have a roll call, please. Mayor Caretsky here. Vice Mayor Delaney here. Councelor Malise Sunstrom here. Town Manager Kitso here. Town attorney Baird here.
Okay. Uh we begin tonight uh with the installation and swearing in of Council Member Dan Gisinger by Town Attorney. I'll turn it over to town attorney. Thank you, mayor. Uh, it's an honor and a privilege to do this. It's been on my
bucket list for some time. So, I'm going to ask uh the councelor elect to join me in front of the uh council and we'll do the festivities. Do we want to do it anymore? All right. You're just gonna raise your
right hand. Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I, Dan Gisinger. I, Dan Gisinger, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support, protect, and defend I will support, protect, and defend the Constitution and government
of the United States the Constitution and government of the United States in the state of Florida State of Florida. And that I'm duly qualified to hold office duly qualified to hold office under the Constitution of the State of Florida under the Constitution of the
State of Florida. And that I will well and I will well and faithfully perform and faithfully perform the duties of council member the duties of council member which I am now about to enter which I'm now about to enter. So help me God. So help me God. Congratulations.
[Applause] Say any words or I guess this is on everybody hear me? Uh first of all, I want to thank the council for this appointment. I really appreciate the opportunity to uh to serve the town of Jupiter and hopefully
uh my presence on the council will be for the betterment of the town. So, and also I'd like to thank my wife and my family. Without her support, she uh keeps me grounded and uh gives me the opportunity to do all the things I like to do around the community. So, thank
you, Sue. I appreciate it. So, and with that, Did um the staff want to just take photos with his family? Take a moment. Sure. We have to sign him up first. Yes, sir. I sign both.
So, you want take some pictures with family and Sure. You guys all want Why don't I just don't want it to be chairs. Thank you, [Music]
Stephanie. One, two, three. Perfect. Thank you guys. Okay. Uh now move on. I have a proclamation. I'll be presenting uh I will be presenting this proclamation uh to Chris Als, our code compliance
manager with a code enforcement appreciation week proclamation. If he'd come up and after I get done reading and I'll come down and to present it. A proclamation of the town of Jupiter, Florida, declaring the week of June 2nd
through 6, 2025 as code compliance officers appreciation week. Whereas code compliance officers provide for the safety, health, and welfare of the citizens in this community through the
enforcement of building, zoning, housing, fire safety, environmental, and other codes and ordinances. And whereas code compliance officers are often not credited for the jobs that they do in saving lives and improving
neighborhoods. And whereas every day assisted by supporting program staff, they attempt to provide quality customer service to the public for the betterment of the community. And whereas too many times their efforts go unnoticed even
after code compliance has been accomplished due to their efforts and expertise. And whereas code compliance officers are dedicated, well-trained, and highly responsible individuals who take their job seriously and are proud
of their department and the local government with within which they serve. And whereas the Florida Association of Code Enforcement has declared the first week of June to be set aside by local governments to honor and recognize their
code compliance officers. Now therefore, I, Jim Caritzky, mayor of the town of Jupiter, Florida, do hereby proclaim issue this proclamation on behalf of the Jupiter Town Council and do proclaim the week of June 2nd through
6, 2025 as code compliance officers appreciation week in Jupiter, Florida, in accordance with the statewide observance of the same and encourage citizens of Jupiter to join this council in expressing appreciation ation for
their dedication and outstanding service provided by the individuals who serve as our code compliance officers. In witness there whereof, I have here unto set my hand and seal this third day of June, 2025. [Applause]
Right in front right here. Mayor, town council, town manager, thank you for your continued support of our division. Uh we couldn't do this without the support and you know um the welcoming atmosphere that this council and the town manager presents
for us. We're honored to serve the residents of Jupiter. Uh we're honored to feel as uh appreciated as we do by the town and we will continue to serve with respect and dignity. Thank you. Thank you very much to your team.
[Applause] Okay. Uh, now is the time for any citizen comments. This is for non-aggenda items and are limited to three minutes. Anyone wishing to speak is asked to state his or her name and address for the record prior addressing town council. Uh, do we have any public
comments? Yes, mayor. We have three. Uh, Brett Leone. Good evening, council. Uh for the record, Brett Leone, 132 Barbados Drive. Uh councelor, congratulations on your appointment. Look forward to uh seeing what you do and add to the great work
that the council and the town is doing. I know you've been on planning and zoning for a while and look forward to seeing the work that you will continue to do um as a council member. Thank you. Uh just want to uh touch on a few topics
here real quick. Um a week ago we had quite the incident in my neighborhood, the island of Abakoa. And um coincidentally, the next night we had a a CAG meeting with the police department. And I know I mentioned this to Chief Barbaro when when we were there
and the other officers, but just wanted to say on the record that their response and handling of that situation was second to none. It was absolutely amazing at the response. Uh I think the entire department seemed like they were they were in our neighborhood making
sure that everyone was safe and that it ended uh peacefully and luckily that it did. And u I think it just goes to the police training that our our Jupiter Police Department goes through. The fact that every single sworn officer goes through SWAT training and understands
what it takes to protect our community is a true testament to the leadership of our police chiefs all the way from the first chief, Chief Mayo, to our latest chief, Chief Barbara, including uh Chief Kitaro, who's now our town manager. Uh
which leads me to my next point. Um few weeks ago during uh the police officers appreciation week, if I got that correct. Um finally, the the police department building was dedicated in honor of our first police chief, as I mentioned, Chief Mayo. Uh
beautiful ceremony for those that haven't had a chance to go check out the plaque on the building. It's a a beautiful bronze plaque with a an image of Chief Mayo. Um very handsome man. Um, and just amazing to hear all the accomplishments I've heard I've heard
firsthand from his son Brad, but to, you know, continue to hear it from others is is truly remarkable and and again, you know, standing on the shoulder of a giant who who built our police department and ensured the safety of our town when it was just a small town back then. Um, also as the mayor just
proclaimed, uh, code compliance week mentioned this again at the KAG meeting uh, to Chris Als was been driving around town and just noticed the the beautifification that's going on with landscaping and everything. So, um, kudos to to their team for helping to
improve the the quality of life and the appearance of our town. And my last topic I've I've mentioned a few times. Um would really appreciate your support on this is looking at um the photometrics and the lighting at key
intersections within our town. Uh specifically just cuz I live in Abico and traverse there through a lot. There are several intersections that are very dark at night that could use some additional lighting to help with some pedestrian safety. So we just like to
get that out there. Thank you. Next is Lean Lobbeck. Good evening. Uh, first I wanted to take a moment to thank you uh, Deputy Chief Shaw who did reach out to me to help address some of the concerns I had about the webcams in Sinquis Park.
Um, with the information he provided, it does look like the bus stop and uh, paths where my children and I are usually walking through don't look like they will be um, displayed with the webcam. So that did help alleviate some
of the concerns I had for my family. However, I still have continuing concerns for other visitors of the dog park and uh the community as well. Um just the fact that having the parks displayed to anyone who has internet
access I feel is just kind of a safety hazard which doesn't allow the park to be as inclusive as possible. For example, I know of at least one woman in Jupiter right now who's escaping domestic violence who has a dog. And for
a victim of domestic violence to be televised for anyone to see, to know where she is, to know where her dog is in a place she might frequent because she has a dog, I think really puts that person at risk. Um, it also puts people
at risk. Um, if people are watching and they learn the patterns of the people attending this park, uh, it could put them at risk for break-in, especially since a lot of the people who visit the park do walk there, so it's not very hard to figure out where they live in
proximity to the park. Um, I also think that having the people's positions displayed at any time uh, also increase risks for situations like active shooters. Um, overall the webcams, my
understanding is that they are there to display the beauty of the park as well as help people know uh where the activity is in the park and the level of activity at any given time. But overall, it seems like it's still limited benefit
for something that could potentially turn into high risk for uh an individual or more than one individual. Um because of that I think there might be other ways to accomplish the goals. Um maybe having this webcams available but having
them monitored by someone who isn't everyone in the entire world um so that if there is a situation that they are trying to monitor um that appropriate action can be taken rather than giving information to anyone um who's able to
log in. I or if uh the concern is about monitoring the activity, there are softwares out there that can use technology to learn the level of activity that's going on in the park and then could display the if it's high
activity, low activity, that sort of thing. Um overall, I just think that the webcams could put people at risk and I think we could do something that has a better benefit to risk ratio. Thank
you, Carol Watson. Good evening. Carol Watson, 6500 Chasewood Drive, C Jupiter 33458. One of the best zip codes in the country. I wanted to touch on a few things. The first of which
um are all these applications that happened for the position that councelor Geisinger ultimately got. I would like to just say to the people out there in Zoom world and who are watching online that the
next time this happens, please limit your resume to one page. I went through 60 pages and read every word, my friends. And let me tell you something, it just some of them just went on and on and on and on. Please
make your resume specific to the position that you are trying to get instead of a resume that you've had from your business from 10, 20 years ago. But congratulations and I think you picked the right man. So I'm very happy about that. Thank you. And that would have
been my pick, too. Um, the second thing I want to touch on is a KAG meetings. I don't think people understand how important they are. And this last KAG, not that I attend every one of them, but I try to and they just I want to
encourage the new counselor and all of the counselors and even Mayor Ketsky, please attend a KAG meeting. It's only usually an hour of your time. It goes by quickly. You get to meet the leaders of the communities in this town. Um, hey,
even the next time you run for office, it could be some votes in your pocket. You don't even know. But it, uh, Chief Barbara is terrific at disseminating information and it's always so interesting. I when I do miss, I'm really upset at myself because I forgot
usually. The third thing I wanted to touch on was I drove by um the new fire station that's being built on US1 yesterday because I just wanted to see what was going on and it's just like the excitement is building for many many
many of us and it was really hard to see behind all the the fences that are over there. It's easier to see the St. Quiz Park one. So that is really um something I think that is going to be I'm like I hope they get it done. He said it was going to be done on time, but it doesn't
look like it right now. At least the US one what doesn't. And the last thing I want to say is these people that come in here and do citizen comments on voting and how messed up the voting in this county is have really ticked me off to
the nth degree. These bozos come up here and they say that this county does this and this county does that and they're the, you know, it's all disruptive. It's dis it's the wrong information. I have worked for the supervisor of elections
since 2008, the first Barack Obama, and there is nothing wrong. And so every time I see those women, those gals come up here, the next meeting, you're going to see me because I usually watch at home. Thank
you. That was it. Okay. Uh council, we have before us the minutes of the May 20th meeting and there's some minor corrections on the dis. If there's no further corrections, I'll take a motion in a second to approve the minutes as
amended. Motion to approve as amended. Second. Motion in a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries unanimously. I have to say no since I
wasn't on the council then. Okay, you could, but Okay. Uh council, we have before us uh well, we have a consent agenda um items 4 through nine. Is there any member of the public that wish to pull a consent agenda item? No, mayor. Any member on
the dis wish to wish to pull a consent agenda item? Yes, I'd like to pull number four. Okay, I'll take a motion and a second to approve the amended agenda items 5 through nine. So moved as amended.
I'll second. Motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carries uh 4. Uh moving to item agenda item four pulled
by uh councelor Sunstrom. Uh what's your pleasure on this? Sure. I just wanted to ask a few questions of Satu from neighborhood services. Good evening. Uh Sadan with neighborhood services and uh neighborhood services administers the CDBG program for the
town of Jupiter. Thank you Satu. Um Sati, you and I spoke earlier, but just the use of CDBG funds um for a fire brush truck. Can you speak to how um that came about and kind of the history of CDBG, essentially the overview that you gave me earlier today? Sure. So CDBG
is a um a federal program and we are lucky to receive about now 300,000 annually. It's been between 250 and 300 annually. And we do uh write an application. the funds are going to um
the the benefit of the the funds is supposed to go to low and moderate income residents. So since 2012 the town has had its own program and every year we meet with um stakeholders, the public um departments and we try to find worthy
and eligible projects. And in the past, the projects that we've used the funds for have been things like athletic scholarships, um water main replacement, um refurbishing of a soccer field, we've done sidewalk improvements, and the list
goes on and on. So, every year, um we do have this opportunity from the federal government to utilize the funds to better the the um community. And um there is a there is a rule in the CDBG
program that every year you have to be in um in an acceptable expenditure rate and due to the pandemic and a lot of construction projects kind of falling behind in that we have been playing catch-up. So we were running into an
issue of um not being able to spend fast enough. So we have a task force and our task force meets monthly and we discuss um future projects, current projects and we were trying to kind of find um a a
way to utilize some of the unspent funds from um from previous years when we typically we end up having some remainder funds in in some of those accounts. And there was there is a um engineering project that had about a
$100,000 balance because the town actually was able to complete the design work inhouse. So that was sort of recaptured. it was um it was money that wasn't spent on that and that h 100,000 kind of followed us because it was meant
to go for the design and it did not um we weren't able to procure a um a contractor for that design. So the town ended up doing the design in-house and so we ended up in a situation where we're running into an expenditure
deadline. So do um you know through these kind of um discussions with the task force, we were able to quickly brainstorm and came up with a fantastic idea of using um the the funds that we have available from that design to to do
something in the realm of public ser um public um uh security safety public safety. So we really, you know, this was an out-of-the-box idea. It worked perfect because we looked at the area where the Sinquest um fire station will be built
and the equipment needs for that. Um and it was just a a great idea to to come up with something like that. So that's kind of where we are right now. So that is the the item and the the ask. What is the deadline for using that money? So
every August 2nd we have um every it's an annual deadline. So every August 2nd um the federal government looks at our line of credit and it cannot be more than 1.5 times our annual allocation. So
it's about 450 a little under every year. So that is where um we were heading into that direction and just having all the delays in the projects that are worthy projects and wonderful projects but just this kind of snowball
effect of some of the delays we were running into that that issue of having to to find a way to spend about 100,000 and the federal government reimbures. Is that correct? So it's not money deposited in some bank account that we use and report on after the fact. It's
not reimbursed until the federal government reviews it, views it as appropriate, which this item is, and reimbures the town. That's exactly how it goes. So, we we ask in our annual plan approval for the project, and then
we get an grant agreement. And only with those approved expenses can we actually ask for reimbursement. And I see here that only a percentage of the funding is coming from CDBG. And is that a function of the percentage of the population served? um that meet the criteria of the
federal government in this case. That is exactly the case. So we had to look at um the service area of the the station and 24% of that area is low and moderate income. So that was the calculation that went into the the actual price of the um
the expense the the appar you know the um the brush truck and whatever else is is needed and the 24% is comes right out of the the numbers that we came from. Okay. Came from HUD. Thank you very much. And if I could quickly speak with
someone from Fire Rescue, Jupiter Fire Rescue. I also bugged you earlier today, so you've been warned. Um, no, I just wanted to follow up because um I had learned and we had we had done a study with a consultant before you were hired, before you came on board um showing
brush trucks at two stations, 16 and 19. One got much more use than the other. The other was hardly used at all. But we were, you know, we were looking at the consultants report but also understanding that as we brought on a leadership team, they would look at the
data with their expertise, all of you, and you would make it your own department and you would move forward from there. And so I just want to kind of understand how the brush truck came into play and is that the most strategic location at Sinquaz Park for fire
independent of CDBG expenditure. So uh mayor counselors and uh to all the people that are watching from face to face and online thanks for watching. Um so we're excited to talk about this. Uh long story short, um yeah, you're right. In reference to the consultants report, you know, one of the things we're doing
in going through that consultant report is making sure that we have everything we need to start on day one to provide world-class service on day one. And shame on us if there's something mentioned in that report, wasn't mentioned in that report that we're not accounting for. Now, all that being said, I'm going to let Kevin Martin, our dep our division chief of uh logistics, kind of answer some of these questions
um in terms of where it came from, where it's going, and why. And um I'll jump in if I need to. Thank you guys. Um we were approached as Satu said with this exciting opportunity to provide a uh muchneeded piece of equipment that uh we
can provide on day one and actually if approved we can get it within a month and start using using it for other things uh you know with hurricane season upon us. Um so we were able to secure this vehicle. Uh there's usually two
three four year wait times on these vehicles. So everything lined up. We were approved. Uh this idea was approached and we uh were able to secure this brush truck uh at uh 2025 prices. We don't have to wait till 2028, 2029.
Um they they're holding it for us. Uh we're we're ready to purchase it along with all the equipment needed uh to to function a full a brush truck. Um we're also uh purchasing uh muchneeded SCBAs and protective equipment that will be
housed at that station along with um tools uh education tools uh that'll be used at that station strategically because most of the uh the high impact uh accidents are going to happen on the expressways. So, uh it was just an opportunity we couldn't pass up and
creative uh you know minds came up with it and uh we were able to secure this and uh like like Satu said uh the number is it's 24% of of all the purchases there. So it's it works out to about 100,000 like uh she said I remember
speaking with Chief Donado and he very much loves data. I've learned this about him. uh and he I remember had wanted one and had wanted to add this to the list of all that you're working on. Um and in doing so I believe that that station
would receive a number more calls. It's more strategic because of the geography or the brush that's there. Yes ma'am. So if you look at the even if you go back to the consultants reports on how many calls each brush truck run ran from 16 and 19 uh I believe the
number somewhere around 2.5 times more runs from the brush over at 19 as opposed to 16. So we believe strategically that that location for the brush truck works perfectly with the the funding mechanism and where it belongs over 19 or that that area around 19. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Thank
you. Thank you for those questions and followup. Um, anybody else have any questions? Seeing none, I'll take a motion and a second. Um, I have a motion to approve and move to
approve. Second. Motion to second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Motion carries unanimously. Moving on to reports. Town attorney. Thank you, mayor. I would like to begin
by again congratulating councelor Geisinger. Um, you know, there have been a lot of council members over the years. There have been some council members that uh believe that they were rocket scientists, but we now have a real
rocket scientist on the council. Mhm. So, uh I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but uh we know that if we need to get out of here in a hurry, we know who to look to. On a uh very serious note, we have
uh scheduled continued mediation on the Sperry property on Friday. Uh town manager will be our representative at that mediation. And um I know I haven't had an opportunity
uh to speak with you counselor about uh what's going on. I I hope you might have some time for me on Thursday. Um, and if other council members are available, uh, just to give you, and I know we a couple
weeks ago we talked about this, but a followup on it just to remind you of what we we I have discussed individually with each of you. Um, if you have some time on Thursday, I'd like to either uh call or meet with you either at town
hall or my office, whatever. My office in Jupiter. Uh, whatever might be convenient. And if you can just let um Stacy know, I'm sure she'll um she'll let us know. I don't have anything scheduled that day, which is why I'm
suggesting Thursday, so I can be very flexible in terms of meeting uh with you whatever time you have [Music] available. And with that, um, the last thing I'll note is tomorrow is one of my son's birthdays. I want to
wish him happy birthday. Town manager. Thank you, mayor. Just a few things. U want to provide an update um on the town's application for quiet zone designation. Hadn't talked about that in a while. And uh the town and its partner agencies have been working on
completing the list of items. the Federal Rail Rail Administration identified in its report last fall. We're down to five items now. There's only five items remaining. The town is funding the remaining work and FDOT will eventually reimburse the town. Once the
remaining five items are completed, the FRA will do a final inspection and if approved, issue the quiet zone designation. We're anticipating that we should be able to start the work on the remaining five items sometime toward the end of June, early
July. Um, I also want to congratulate a few of our employees who reached some significant milestones who have recently received awards. First, Mark Shepard from the engineering and public works department recently celebrated 35 years of service with our town. And if you
guys know Mark, it looks like he started when he was about five because he looks really young still. Uh, next I want to recognize Lillian Kaine from our building department who was named the employee of the quarter for the first quarter of 2025. And on Friday, May 23rd, the
annual community service awards banquet was held. And officer Lindseay Canonico received the Jupiter Police Department Community Service Award. And then finally, Private First Class Ryan Ferguson of the Jupiter Police Department was named the 2025 alumni of
the year for the Take Stock and Children Palm Beach County program. And so we're proud of all of those. Uh on Wednesday, June 18th, the count the town will hold its annual club 20 uh celebration lunchon. We will recognize those
employees with 20 or more years of service to the town. Club 20 has nine new members this year, which brings our total to 96 members. Pretty impressive. Reminder, tomorrow afternoon at 4 PM, the town will celebrate the groundbreaking for the playground at
Jupiter Community Park. This is the third groundbreaking we have held in the last month as we previously began renovations at the Indian Creek Park and Maplewood Park playgrounds. We invite everyone out to attend tomorrow's groundbreaking ceremony, but also encourage everyone to check the town
social media pages for updates uh as we look to avoid the rain. Hopefully, we won't get any, but we'll we'll leverage the social media pages. Um, next week uh is always an exciting time around this campus. Visitors to the municipal
complex will see a lot of activity beginning next Monday as the town's youth summer camp begins. Approximately 340 children are signed up for this year's camp. Our parks and recreation staff have been busy planning a fun summer and are looking forward to this
year's camp sessions. And so that's always an exciting time around here. Um if you as I'm sure many of you noticed as you came in tonight, we've now have the town green open and uh it looks remarkable. I want to thank Roger Held
and and his team uh and the contractor who did a great job uh for moving this project forward. And I know we're really proud of it. And uh and if you have for those that haven't seen it, I'd encourage you to take a walk out front. It's really remarkable. And then finally, uh mayor, I again want to thank
Chris Sales and the members of the code compliance uh division uh under Chief Barbara's leadership. This is a remarkable group of people that go out every single day and handle some of the most um complex, potentially volatile
situations that you could imagine. And they always do with grace and dignity and professionalism. So kudos to you guys and thank you for the work that you do. Truly appreciate it. And that's my report. Mayor, thank you. Um Vice Mayor,
a couple things here. I just want to uh congratulate my latest colleague Dan Gisinger and your appointment to the council and hope you know what you're in for. I'm just kidding. No, I've watched you on P&Z. You did you did really good work over there and um I know you'll fit right in. So, and I also would like to
um uh thank the Jupiter Police for their great response to the incident over in Abicoa uh recently and um just diffuse the situation with I think no injuries. Correct. Everybody got out? Okay. So, that's great. And thanks again to uh code and compliance. You guys to kind of
ride on the uh town manager's comments look at it mostly a thankless job. You have to deal with a lot of difficult circumstances. So, but and I see you guys around town a lot doing your thing. So, I appreciate it. So, that's it. Mayor Council Senstöm,
I I second my colleagues comments about the police and just uh handling that situation so well with no injuries. But I do also wanna um I want to spend a moment on code compliance because they're one of my favorite departments and Chris can say that because I contact
him frequently. um what he's done to change the code, to give themselves more work with commercial properties, not only residential, to take that on, um to proactively share wonderful photos with me to cheer me up. Um of all the
beautifification happening around the town, to have it be recognized by residents, by all of us. We're so incredibly grateful for a patience that I don't know we could ever have. It's just I don't know. It's incredible. So hopefully all that you have learned and
gained from your position can rub off on me. Love to hang out with you more. Um, but we are very grateful for you and your team. You really are some of the best of the best of us. Um, and I also want to welcome my colleague. Tom stole my joke, but you know, they say it's not rocket science, but if it ever is, we're
in good shape. So, uh, very grateful to have you on board and not be so lonely over here on this side of the dis or go first because the mayor tends to call from the end. So, I'm grateful to have some coverage. So, thank you and welcome, Councelor Gisinger. Yeah, I'd like to
second and third. Everything's been said to date and uh tonight and uh offer my appreciation to what all code um enforcement does. You guys got a uh very unique job and that you perform it well. So, thank you for all you do for
the town. Thank you. Just a few quick items. one um um following up on a sentiment that's been said on pure I'm always grateful for the code compliance team always tell them that that's a a
job I would never want um they have to manage their own morale uh they uh work tirelessly people seeing non-compliant conditions think you can wave a wand and solve it and I know they work sometimes for months to make it happen so I'm I'm
grateful for the professionalism and the work they do. Um, regarding the Avakcoa incident, or I should say incidents, because there was one the week before, I've come to realize, um, and I appreciate, uh, what a member
of the public had said earlier about how well trained our police are. I think I've come to realize this is just they almost they just go in automatic and and maybe take for
granted. Um, but I want to make sure they know that we don't. Um, and we're grateful, um, for the number of incidents that, uh, they're able to very quickly, um, you know, get under control and protect the
public. My colleagues may remember I talked about an incident in Navico like the week before, two weeks before. Never heard about it. I had to ask about it because uh you know it became a non-event because they managed through it. But but we're grateful for
all those quote unquote non-events. They're not non-events. Uh but thank you very much. Um welcome to Councelor Gisinger. And uh I don't know as we get older I just want to have said this
because there's been some up here. People take sayings that we said for years out of context. So if I ever say and I have a number of time, it's not rocket science. It's not meant any in any
way to one way or the other towards it is a common saying, right? Um so I don't know that I've said it, but I've said it a lot in my private life. So, and then um just want to go back and
touch on two things with the in the town manager report. Number one, in the quiet zone, um I appreciate the update. Um I likewise stay in contact with Bright Line on a number of commitments that
they made, you know, to be to the town over time. Um, and as I understand it, I just want to say because I know everybody is been waiting waiting. So, um, I think when FRA issues the final ruling, then it becomes up to Bright
Line to accept it. That's not That's correct. Right. That is correct, Mayor. So, I just want to set expectations so they know that we've been working on this. Uh, but that's the last hurdle you have to pass. you could finally get everything done and they actually have
the final decision uh to implement a quiet zone. Um so and then lastly and not to get into the conversation about this up here um but I have uh been relentlessly
pursuing the fencing safety fencing for years and um I did get an update every once in a while the media reaches out to me on that and um there was a phase of fencing they were Bright Line had agreed to do.
In fact, they started on it and then FEC stopped them and then there was a subsequent phase that received raise federal grant funding. And the latest I got is that the raise fencing is slated to start in
Palm Beach County in Q1 of 2026. That's assuming the federal grant is executed this month, which is expected. So, just want to make sure the public knows because we took a council position on that. Um, we've been relentlessly
pursuing that commitment to make sure it doesn't fall in the crack and I just want to make sure the town manager knows that, you know, I stay in contact. So, we I should probably make sure that we're talking, you know, offline to make sure that
we're hearing the same thing. Um but uh but in any event, so you know with that um so I'm anxious for that fencing to be installed because that was an area that we I think as a town
council felt you know needed to be addressed for proper public safety. So it now looks like that may be you know first quarter of uh 2026. Mayor, when you mentioned Palm Beach County, you talking specifically Jupiter. Were they
going to start it or No. Um, the raise grant included a number of other things. So, um, the raise grant covered the entire which was a federal grant covered the entire line and it included a number of safety upgrades. So, there is other
upgrades. I think not fencing, but I don't know. But there was a host of upgrades, you know, up and down the line. And I'm I'm just reading actually the note from that I got from Bright Line. Okay. Because I reached out to them last week to get an update as I
normally as I do on some regular basis and uh I was just reading what they said. So it's not just but you know they start in the county and do everything in the county. Right. So we are part of that but they're going to Right. And the fencing is not tied to the our quiet
zone in Jupiter. Correct. No it's not. Right. Okay. Just want to get that. No it's not. Yeah. Thank you for making sure we clarify that for the record. But nonetheless, we feel it's an important safety attribute. So, um, and with that, um, the time is now
7:48 and we'll adjourn the meeting and thanks for running in. By the way, you ruin my record running in at the beginning of the meeting. It was chapter seven. I just got