Hello sir. Hello there Dr. Rich. Mayor Rich. meeting to order. Now we'll all stand and pledge allegiance to the flag. Thank you. 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. Okay, I think we can start with introductions. Introduce yourself. Uh,
we'll start we'll start with the county and work our way around the room. Elise Elder, acting county attorney. Good morning. Stacy Heatherington, District 2 County Commissioner. Sarah Herd, County Commissioner.
Blake Caps, County Commissioner, District Three. Don Donaldson, County Administrator. Good morning. Michael Maine, superintendent of schools. Brilli Roberts, school board. Marcia Powers, school board. Amy Pritchette, school board.
Jen Russell, school board. Dr. Brian Morardi, Martin County School Board, District 5. Tony George, school board attorney. Darren Christa, village manager for Indiantown. Carmalo, village mayor for Indiantown.
Angelina Perez, council member. Taylor Simons, assistant village attorney for Indian Town. Mike Mortell, Steuart, city manager. Ula Clark, City of Stewart Commissioner. Campbell Rich, mayor, city of Stewart.
Good morning, everyone. Laura Gio, um, commissioner, city of Stewart. Lee Bagot, city attorney. Okay. Thank you. Do we have any, uh, opening comments for anybody? No. Any public comments?
No. No. Okay. The agenda items public works project for um Keith Baker. [Music] Hello. Good morning everyone. And I'm Keith Baker, the capital project
administrator for Martin County. Going to um typically we run through pretty much all of our projects. This morning going to change the format a little bit since we had a meeting just a couple months ago and just highlight a few projects. Um so recently we started
construction of the Charlie Leighton Park improvements. Um, the park and boat ramps will be closed until summer of 2026. Um, at the bottom of the slide here, you can see some alternative ramps that could be used.
Uh, we just have some photos of the construction. Uh, some floating turbidity barrier and staged equipment at the park. Um, here's an overall site plan of the improvements. Just to point out some key features, we're going to um
increase the number of boat parking spaces and regular passenger car parking spaces. And then um we're replacing the boat ramps themselves and there'll be a pergola area along the water side.
Next project to highlight is the Port Seno Peninsula improvements. Um this consists of a lot of drainage improvements. Um sidewalk replacement as mentioned um for if there's broken sidewalk or sidewalk that doesn't meet ADA
requirements, we replace that. This is coordinated with the utility department. As part of the project, we installed low pressure force man um throughout parts of the neighborhood. Here's some photos of the active construction.
Um, increasing the size of some of the retention areas to maximize the storage volume uh to help improve water quality in the area. Next up is one of our resurfacing projects in Jensen Beach is Leilani
Heights Improvements. We have some nice before and afters. Um JW Cheetum was our contractor and they did a very nice job um with the resurfacing project. Here's a couple more photos of the of
the job. Here's a those were in construction. So to highlight one that's currently under design in the Hob Sound area, the Sun Trail project is a a really cool project, a joint effort with FDOT to um
construct a 12-oot multi-use trail to connect Jonathan Dickinson Park to Cab Branch Preserve State Park. Um here's a couple renderings. And this is the last project to highlight today is um just some photos
of the recent intersection improvements at Sunset Trail in High Meadow. They converted it from a regular three-legged intersection to a roundabout. With that, does anyone have any questions? All right, I'll turn it over to John.
Good morning. John Male, your Martin County Environmental Resource Administrator. Um, taking a little bit different approach um for this joint meeting. We uh used to kind of go through a list of all of our active projects. Um we're going to abbreviate
it to just a few areas where you're likely to see some kind of impact or activity on the project. So, the first one, thanks to a uh Florida Inland Navigation District grant that was recently awarded, um this paddling access project is going to move forward.
Um this is right across from the uh Jensen Beach. Uh this is an an addition to our U Blueways paddling network. And so folks will be able to to paddle up to a um a landing there and a boardwalk
that will take them to the beach or to Hudson Shores to eat or or or what have you. Or or it could work the other way too where folks could launch there and and access the lagoon. Um it's paddling only. There'll be a little cheeky hut about halfway through that boardwalk system. It's an area that was um kind of
lowhanging fruit for this because it was historically dredged out as a mosquito empoundment channel. Well, it doesn't show up very well on that that slide because of the the overstory. Um there's a fairly established channel there and there was some exotics that really had
impacted the area. So, as we cleaned up the exotics, we saw that there was an opportunity there and and now it's funded. So, that you'll start to see some construction activity on that um in the next few months. Um, next slide. Yeah, we've had a couple of exciting developments on Martin County Forever.
Does anybody not know what that is or need an explanation? Um, it seems like it's gotten a fair amount of attention. In the the last couple weeks, we've had a couple of uh landmark steps in the Martin County Forever program. The first
would be our uh the Martin County Board. Um, no. I'm sorry. The Environmental Lands Oversight Committee, which is your citizens oversight committee for Martin County Forever, approved 16 properties to move forward as Martin County Forever projects. Um, in total, those are about
10,000 acres. Our next step will be to take those properties to the Martin County Board for final approval to have them be active Martin County Forever projects. Then your staff will go to work on um due diligence, negotiating agreements, and establishing
partnerships to acquire those properties. A couple months ago, the board approved the first two Martin County Forever projects, and uh one of those I I believe were closing out um shortly, and it's an an additional
thousand acres more or less in Palmar. And the other one, we had kind of a notable event on Tuesday morning. The governor and cabinet approved a conservation easement for uh um Barbie Ranch, which is 1,600 acres of pristine
um stunning um natural area out by the C44 storm water treatment area. Plays a critical role in our natural lands component of Everglades restoration. Um Chair Herd was able to be there for that um with the governor and cabinet and
it's something we've been working on for years. It's a partnership with Florida Forever where they are going to uh do the closing on a $17 million easement on this property and the county is going to commit 5 million from the Martin County
Forever sales tax. So, super exciting and lots more exciting things to come with this where we we kind of permanently move the needle for for uh ecosystems. Next slide. So, this is an ongoing project, but it's it's going to go through a notable
change. In Indian Riverside Park, we've been doing a a resilience project where we're hardening the shoreline and and putting in some living shoreline um components to that. We're moving offshore now as we've kind of finished the shoreline work and you'll start to
see some activity in the lagoon. Um as we build a series of offset breakwaters that will help uh to preserve that shoreline and it'll also encourage um we'll we'll get that taken care of.
It's more interesting I'm I'm sure um more productive anyway. So those those break waters will help to encourage oyster growth and a treatment of sand behind them and so it'll make the the habitat more suitable for seaggrass restoration. We'll follow that up with
some seaggrass plantings to make sure that that fills in well. And I think that was all I was going to mention today. So if there any questions, happy to take them. Questions? Right. So um to date, how much money has been raised from Martin County Forever? We've
collected about 12 million in receipts. It's about a three-month lag between when they're collected and when the state um sends them over. Um so last yes, as of yesterday it was about 11.7 million. And how much has been committed by the commission so far? Um
you mentioned the 5 million about 12 million, but we won't close on Barbie Ranch until probably January or February. And then what is the total um cost estimated for the 16 properties? That's a challenging question to answer
because we haven't really started due diligence on those properties. We've just got them qualified to participate in the program. So now we'll start doing appraisals, conversations with the owners and our partners. So it's it's pretty tough for us to put a number on it. Okay. Thank you.
It would be many times our collection ultimately. So it requires partnerships to get a dent in that entire list. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Okay. Next up is city utilities and engineering projects. [Music] Good morning everyone. Uh my name is Peter Cunan, director of utilities and engineering for the city of Stewart. I
hope you're all doing well this morning. Right. So I have a few updates for you on some of the uh ongoing projects at the city of Stewart. First will be our our transportation projects
and uh we have uh that's uh pavement maintenance uh for the area that's designated as zone 3 uh that is currently in design. And uh the pavement maintenance includes a variety of uh
millings and uh uh surface treatments uh asphalt renovations for some of the streets within the city of Stewart. And uh we're looking at having some of the uh uh some of the streets done starting next summer. That's typically
when when we do the the type of work uh during the summer months. The next project is uh also an ongoing project. It's uh at the city of Stewart fire station number three. It's a signalization project for the new fire
station and that that is under construction and the anticipated time for the completion of the project is this November. onto our utility projects. We have uh a lift station project. Uh it's our concistador lift station. It's a
rehabilitation project that is also under construction and uh it's going to be a a rehabilitation of an existing lift station with upgrades to the electrical control panel. The uh wet well is going to be rehabilitated.
uh piping is going to be uh changed out and uh odor control will be installed. Uh anticipated time frame for the completion of this project is March of 2026. Also in construction is uh the installation
of fire hydrants along uh St. Lucy Boulevard. Uh we have uh a total of six fire hydrants that are going to be installed and uh it's underway right now. We're looking at the completion of this
project in December of this year. And then to our facility projects we have also under construction at our water reclamation facility. It's the uh rehabilitation of our the existing headwork structure at the at the
wastewater plant and uh that uh is um just doing some upgrades to the the headwork structure itself. Uh redoing some of the the equipment inside the headworks. Uh adding coatings inside the headwork
structure as well. Also odor control. Uh just doing a change out of the existing odor control. uh system that's in place. Uh the anticipated time frame for the completion of this project is this coming January of 2026.
And then the Veterans Memorial Park project, the amphitheater project is also currently under construction with the construction of uh the amphitheater in uh in Veterans Memorial Park. Uh there's also landscaping upgrades. Uh
putting in pavers. Um it's uh going quite well. It's under construction. Uh we're looking at the completion of this project in March of 2026. And so with that, uh it's a kind of a brief update of of where we're at with
some of our projects at the city of Stewart. And uh are there any questions uh that you may have at this time? Well, thank you very much. Very good seeing all of you. Thank you. Okay, next we'll have the Village
Utilities of Indian Town. [Music] [Music] Good morning. I'm Pat Nolan. I'm the director of utilities and public works for the village of Indian town. First up, uh I've got some street projects. First one is the uptown
roadway and drainage repair project. That's basically design and you'll see that most of our projects are grant funded. Uh so the uptown roadway drainage repair project has been designed. So now we're looking for
funding to actually do the work. uh Southwest Lincoln Street roadway and drainage project. That is a project that we've uh received funding from the Florida Department of Transportation, but we're working on uh possibly doing something different there uh because of
uh challenges with the funding. Seminal Drive project that is a project we're going to uh drainage repair the road also a grant-f funded project. We are just finalizing the paperwork and hopefully we'll be starting that project soon.
uh roadway repair and maintenance. Basically, this is an overall roadway repair project that we started last year. We basically went and mil the worst of the streets in the village of Indiantown. We're going to do that again this year. So, we'll be doing year two.
Year three, hoping to have the funding in place to actually do a comprehensive repair on one of our streets in the village, which would encompass the infrastructure and the road. Water projects, excuse me. First one is the existing
water plant. We've received SRF funding to work on that and uh we are in the design phase for that project. We're going to be updating pretty much the whole water plant, the wells, the pumps, uh adding a ground storage tank, and I'm happy to say that we are in design with
that. We should be going out to bid very soon on the well project. Railroad Avenue Water Man. Uh this has been on my presentation since I've been with the Village of Indian Town. This is a 100-year-old main that runs parallel to the CSX uh railroad, which is the
backbone of the system of the village of Indiantown. We're trying to find funding for that, but it is designed and uh as soon as we get funding, we're going to get going on that thing. Uh 12-in water main looping project. That was a project that was funded from ARPA funding and uh Martin County Fire
Department. That project is pretty much complete. We're just waiting for some uh final approvals from the FD and that's going to be online. 151st in Oyola Street. Also another project that we're looking for funding.
Uh you know, you're hearing a recurring theme here. We're looking for funding. We have a lot of projects that we'd like to do in the village. It's just a matter of getting the funding and then getting to work. Special water projects. Uh we've talked about this one also in previous uh
presentations. This is a deep injection well. This is located at the wastewater treatment plant. And we're going to be using this to dispose of our concentrate from the new RO plant that we plan on constructing in the near future. As soon as we get the
money, as Taran always says, if you've got an extra 50 million in your pocket, we will take it because we're going to build this plant. It's just a matter of funding wastewater. Excuse me. Some of you were in the village a couple
of months ago to see the progress of the wastewater plant. We broke ground. I believe it was July. As you can see in the picture on the left, one tank is almost complete. Another one is uh in the works. And the two biggest
tanks of the project are actually uh much further along than these pictures. We anticipate completing the wastewater plan June of 26 as well as a deep injection well. And there's also a slide that's not on there. We have recently
signed a contract to drill three Florida wells for the new RO plant that started this week. So in the next presentation, you'll probably see a picture of a Florida well if you've never seen one before. So as you can see, our little village has got a lot going on. Um,
we're looking for funding every day. Have to thank the village board for all of their work supporting us in finding that funding and also supporting us in the projects as we encounter them. Questions?
Also, if I can add Pat, we have our village engineer Tom Jensen with us. Tom actually works for Kimley Horn, but he's uh a really important part of all these projects and putting together our capital project program. So, I just wanted to recognize him.
Absolutely. Um in the previous presentation, you know, they have a a capital improvement project administrator and I leaned over to Tom and I said, "Oh, yeah, that's you." Um it goes without saying everything that you see in these slides, it's not just
me. There's a team and Tom's fingerprints are in everything that we do in the village of Indiantown. Any questions? Commissioner, go ahead. Guys, I had a question about deep injection wells. Can you explain a little bit about what they're for and
what and what goes in those? The deep injection well that we're drilling specifically is for the concentrate for the new RO plant that we will be building. You have to have some place and and what we're disposing of is just the natural constituents of the water that we pulled out of the ground
from the Florida wells. The Florida wells are comprised of brackish water and there's a lot of minerals in that water and when you use do the RORO process you pretty much remove everything from the water. There's nothing left in water that comes out of an RO plant. So you have to dispose of
that. You have to dispose of it safely. You also don't want to do anything to the aqua, you know, the aquifier. So the deep injection well is down about 3,300 feet and we will be naturally putting the concentrate from the waste the the
RO process back into the ground. But you want to make sure that you encapsulate it. So there's a lot of geology involved. But we're basically putting what we took out of the ground back into the ground. But we don't want to infect the aquifer which is the Florida aquifer. I talked about Florida wells.
We're looking at drilling those wells about 800 ft getting into the we don't want to get into the really deep brackish water because then that will change how we treat the water. So, you know, this this presentation is kind of, you know, I'm not getting into the weeds, but when we drilled the deep
injection well, we did extra testing to see what the aquifer looked like as we were going down. Our initial plan was to go about,00t because there's other wells throughout the county that are about that deep. But once we did the testing with the deep injection well, we realized that the best water is about
800 ft. So we're going to save a little bit of money by not drilling that 1100 ft, but we hopefully will get better water with a better quantity and then it'll be easier to treat in a nutshell. Thank you. Sure. Any other questions, Mr. Carmine? Thank you. Yes, you
probably said it, but I didn't remember hearing it, but um the total cost of that whole the I guess four tanks or whatever you're putting in and then the entire time frame because I know that Indian Town has a lot of residential development coming along and I was just
trying to see how they were fitting. Uh the the wastewater plant specifically, we presently have a wastewater plant that'll handle 750,000 gallons a day. The new plant will handle 1.2 million gallons a day with the ability to expand
it another 600,000 pretty quickly. Uh everything we do, we're thinking about expandability as we build it because we know we don't know where the expansion's going to go. But you also need to have reserves regardless of what the expansion is. And also
whether we expand or not, we need to improve the the the capability, the redundancy, and the resiliency of all of the infrastructure in the village. So that wastewater plant, the original estimate was $14 million. We're at about
$26 million to build that. Fortunately, we've received appropriations from the governor's office. In totality, we've received $76 million from the governor's office. We're going to spend all $76 million on infrastructure. Uh the
wastewater plant, like I said, is about $26 million. We put a brand new lift station in my last presentation. I dropped it because we finished it. That was a million, $2 million. We've got infrastructure improvements. The Florida welds that I was talking about, they're 2.2 million each. We're doing three of
those. Uh we're going to need another three probably eventually if we do grow, but we've already planned for that. the RORO plant. I say every time I speak to anybody, we're talking about $50 million to build that. Um the existing water
plant, we have SRF funding for 12.3 million. We're going to use every penny of that to uh and again, if we don't grow, we still need to rebuild that existing water plant. We have days in the village of Indian
Town where bad things could happen. We've been lucky. We've spent a lot of money improving the water plant that we have, but it's going to take all that 12 million to get us to where we should be. Uh when I first met Taran, we talked about that water plant when Mr. Leslie
sold it to the village, Martin County was looking at it. I don't know how many years ago that was, maybe 10 or 12, but they were talking about $60 million investment 10 or 12 years ago to bring it up to Martin County standards. So, we're not going to get it to Martin County standards with that 12 million,
but we're going to get it to where it's more reliable and more resilient. So, uh the wastewater plant I talked about, infrastructure, deep injection well, that's $15 million. And these wells that
this is just the drilling. You still have to outfit them. I believe the estimates to outfit each Florida well is$1 to $2 million each. That deep injection well is probably going to be $5 million. And I haven't uh talked about a reuse plant either. There's a reuse plant on site at the wastewater
plant that we're rehabbing as well. Uh the previous operators built a reuse facility but then shut it down about 10 years ago. So we've been rehabbing that. That's another million $2 million. So as you can see 76 million sounds like a lot
of money, but it's not. It doesn't go very far. The cost of doing business is so much more now than it was 5 years ago for a lot of reasons. So everything that we do, we try to I didn't mention the deep injection well. We colllocated it at the wastewater plant. That was
actually a recommendation from South Florida Water Management District so that when we seek funding, it's more attractive to the funding agencies because we're using a dual purpose. If we have some kind of upset at the wastewater plant, we have a insurance policy with that deep injection well.
we'll be able to put whatever upset we have as opposed to putting it into the environment which is what you do with your affluent from a wastewater plant is put it into that deep injection well. So we're funding it for the water treatment plant, but thought our thought process in the village, Tom, myself, Taran, the
board is how do we maximize everything that we do? What can we get out of this project that we're doing? We don't just do a project to do a project. There's a lot of and all the municipalities are thinking that way because I've spoken to, you know, the other directors. We're
all thinking that way because we have to maximize what we do. So every project that we do, we try to get the most that we can out of it. But can we also affect another project in a positive way like the deep injection well? Thank you for your definitive answer.
Sure. As you can tell, I'm kind of into what I do. Um I'm a wastewater geek. That's really what I am. I'm a wastewater guy. I enjoy going to work every single day because of what we're doing in the village of Indian town. We have a very
good team, very strong leadership, and uh like I said, I enjoy going to work every single day. Thank you. Commissioner Caps, did you have a followup? No, I'm good. I'm good. Okay. Anybody else? No. All right. Moving on. Uh growth and
development updates, county, city, and village. Good morning. I'm Samantha Love Lady with the growth management department. Oh boy, I was not expecting that. Okay, this is the annual growth and
development trends report. I do not know what's happening here. [Music] Okay, we finally got the 2024 estimates from Bieber. We got those in August.
I'm trying to show them to you and they were late this year coming out with the the numbers, but we finally got them. Here are those numbers if they'll stay there.
Nope. Do what? [Music] Does anybody need more time on that? Cancel. Oh, here. I apologize. [Music]
[Music] It's never done this before. Does anybody want to plan a trip? I think it's 10. Oh. go to there. Click on the Facebook project lift.
I apologize everyone. Oh, you should be getting an email, but I'm just letting you know. I'm sure you've informed Nina. I just Oh, okay. When was it? Next Thursday. It's
in your email. Oh. What? Can you look up the new Monroia? Um, yeah, it was Bohemian Festival and tell him when he has to be there. Okay, now there's a parade in the morning. Okay, here are the new population
figures um that came out this August. Okay. All right. And this is the historic growth for Martin County. And we grew 1.23% over 2023.
And so far this year, we've approved 90 dwelling units and 221,750 square ft of non-residential and 1842 acres. And that is the ranch PUD final site plan um phase one site
plan. Here are projects that we have in review for residential. Let me know if you have any questions. Please and these are non-residential that are in review. Senator.
And so far this year, we've issued 470 residential permits. And that's the end of March. Yeah. You want to just roll up to And here's Jody. Okay. Uh good morning. My name is Jody Cooer.
I'm the development director for the city of Stewart. Um so some of these projects you've already seen uh we've already um reported on. We have under construction the Baron business parkway which is off of Willoughby. Uh that is Flex Office Space and Industrial. Uh we
are proud to announce that project is finally under construction. So, this was a grant program that through our CRA and we actually purchased a pro project the uh property and is now under construction. Uh, Zenado is a property
that's uh located at 924 Southeast Dixie Highway. This is just a small 6,000 square foot commercial building that's uh under construction. And uh it does say that Popeye's um is under construction. However, that is a
uh it is still in review. This is next to the windmir by the LA Fitness. Uh we don't have any residential right now to report, but we do have non-residential that are under review. Uh we have a Bay View Southern Construction, and this site you're probably familiar with is located at the
corner of Southeast Indian Street and Southeast Commerce Avenue. Uh this is a vacant property that consists about 9.43 43 acres and the application is to amend the existing site plan, the uh plan development and uh plat the property. We
have two coffee rush sites. One is located at Walmart off of Federal Highway that's being proposed and the other one is located uh Baker Road Publiclix. Um we also have the Barn Theater. They're looking to do some expansions to the site. Uh those are
currently under review. I am happy to announce that our city commission did approve the C Coast Bank headquarters at their meeting last week. Um it's a very exciting uh project and we look forward to working with them further. Have any questions?
Thank you. Questions? Good morning everybody. Dina Freeman with the village of Indian Town. Um happy to be here to present um the latest information from the village. What we would like to start with is as
we've got the opportunity to provide information on our website. We're in the process of improving the GIS mapping system. Information is so powerful and helpful to the community within Indian Town and beyond Indian Town. So, we
thought, let's start with some fun information. So, we've been working with our GIS um expert Michelle Jet and Lucia Mendoza have both been working really hard. And so, this is just showing you the website and access to village maps.
I'm going to go live to the the website in a moment, but I just wanted to let you know um people are asking what's happening in Indian Town. We actually have that information available on the web and you can put a layer on just like Martin County does with the proposals map. We've got a development map
information map as well. So this when you click on the maps it comes to the municipal boundary of Indian Town with the boundary depicted in red. Um, and we've got some other developments in mapping that also shows in relation to Martin County's land use and zoning
coming up. This is an improvement to the website. It's not gone live yet, but we've got a lot more layers that we're providing. We're aiming to be as good as Martin County when it comes to your GIS mapping. So, we're using a lot of the information from the property appraisers and um you can see on the side here, and
you I'll show you in a moment, but we've now got active businesses. We have um development projects, PUDS, the zoning and land use, but we also now have Martin County's land use and zoning as well, which is really helpful when you're looking at so this is what it looks like right now in terms of
addressing. Even this is revolutionized what we do in Indian Town. Just being able to click on and know you can click on any address uh within the village that's addressed and get that information. And this is the improvements. It's going to look a little bit different um but it's going to have a lot more different
active uh access for the layers that going to help people navigate through Indian Town. And this is the existing development projects with in review in red and this will link to our update on our projects. And then in green is what's been approved. The big green area here is depicted as the this is the uh
Indian town um Teralago um master site plan that's been approved um for that property. So, uh, this is the proposed new GIS development. It's going to be in orange instead of red for in review and approved in green. Um, and that's something that when you click on
that information, you'll be able to actually know what the project is and and the number of units or number of square square footage of a non-residential development. And this is the existing um what we've done here. And it's been really helpful. Oops. Let's go back. It shows the existing uh
zoning in relation to the boundary and also all of Martin County, which is really good when you're doing analysis and looking at what we got adjacent to um when you've got any proposed annexations or any any land use changes coming in. And this is just showing you
again with the zoning and then with the PUD hatched in. Um, this is uh really cool in that we've now got the Marty bus route information or route information and you can actually live click on that and see where the bus is in Indiantown. Access the public transport is so
important to Indian Town. So access to information. We're going to roll this out on our website and and and help people to navigate so they can get this will be able to be accessed on their phones as well. And this is the active business information that's going to be um improved on the website. We're about
to launch this in the next few weeks and and change the website dramatically. And this is so you can click on one of the active businesses and this is WW and Lumber and you can you know basically identify what's happening in Indian Town and some of those businesses that have been there forever but now we actually
have them on a map. So it's really helpful and this is um again looking at Martin County and the historic layer. Um you could go through timelines. This is imagery that's called way back and you can slide across and this one is River Oak which is 131 unit development that's
been approved uh for single family and this is it if you you go back in time just not that not that long ago and that's really helpful for seeing the changes especially with some of these big developments that coming in and and it makes us feel proud that you can see what's actually happening on the ground.
So again very there's a lot more information out there on our website for people to look at. Uh so the reason we're here today as well obviously um I was going to go to the website which is down here really quick and just to show
you so village maps and then um you basically have the information that comes up and then right now for proposed developments um we've got this development projects layer that comes on and then you can click on um that's terago and you basically any that's in
review like this is the um Indiantown Technology and Commerce Park. Um, and we've got basically lots of different projects that are in review or have been approved. You can zoom in and basically click on any of the parcels and it'll come up with uh P3 technologies. So,
this is our venture park industrial site. So, people are quite amazed that this is already there and they didn't know about it. So, we thought this is a really good opportunity while we're here to kind of put the word out. And um right now you can instead of development, you can click on the Marty
bus routes and it'll come up with that. Oops, take the addresses off as well. And you zoom out and basically it comes up with the information. Um, and the Marty bus route too. They're over here. So, and you can click on those at any point and it'll tell you where the bus is at. So, it's really helpful. So, I
just wanted to go through that and then back to the presentation. I got to find it again. Hold on a moment. I think I got just click back through. So, we've got a summary of the developments that are happening. I've just highlighted the ones that have
changed. All the others that are still there are under construction, approved for building permits, um or in the building permit, you know, navigating through the pass and fails of reviews of building permits as they're building out there. The Dollar Tree is actually um we've actually we're very close to CO
and they've just handed over the keys to Dollar Tree, the property owners, just in the last day. So, they'll be taking over and completing the buildout um off of Warfield Boulevard. Um so, that one is very close to CO. The rest of the projects are underway right now in terms
of build. Um TA Estates is the 22,600 square feet that right now if you went out they're actively in construction. Um Grindard is about to do a job fair u for their um opening of their uh their manufacturing building in Indian Town.
So that's something that people should look out for on websites because there's some really good job opportunities. And then Indiantown upycling facility. Um this is the former juice plant and just to let everybody know that Cedron Technologies have just they've submitted um and re they're about to resubmit
62,990 square ft uh of it's a really good effective reuse of an old juice plant defunct property that is being um spearheaded by the Indian Town um company with Gary Henry's uh team. I think we're up to at least 17 companies
right now on that property. Um it's it's a Unbelievable how many different businesses are actually there and um successfully operating every day. And then we've got Yellow Pine Trusses is just under construction right now for manufacturing u roof trusses and
Sedron's a really good synergy. It's a really good location because it's heavy industrial. So we're very happy with that uh proposed new location. Um we're pending a resubmission um and they're very close to approval. Um, we've got a non-residentidential including uh this includes uh the Silver
Fox. Um, we've got 2,262,749 ft. Um, non-residential that's under site plan approved or under construction built is 193,973 square ft. And we do have a lot of other um active inquiries regarding um a
multitude of industrial um and residential development within the village. uh residential development. Um the all of these Teralago um the changes are that they're in the active build building permit stage. I believe there's uh over 70 building permits been
processed to date in our building department. And I need to say a very good thank you to um the Martin County Building Department and Josh Nay in particular who reviews a multitude of our permits and comes in every day either him or another one of his colleagues and is helping out Indian
Town with the building permit reviews. It's working really well. It works incredibly hard even on weekends. So, we're very happy with that. Um, and then a new project, all the others that are in, they've been in review. They're under construction. Um, Heritage Park um
is the former FEMA site and the change with that is they've come in with a couple of additional units. It's been to development review colleagues uh which is like uh the growth management development review uh recently and um they're very close to um approval on
that. They are utilizing a previous site. So in terms of water and sewer the analysis and the capacity was completed by Tom and Pat in the back there um on behalf of the village and um the capacity is you know they determined that it was available based on what was
already there and approved previously. Uh we've also got the plat that's come in u on the back of the the site plan. We have a project called JPI Indian Town. Um we've had a DRC meeting. This is where we're getting into that capacity challenge and um we're working
uh Tom and Pat are working actively with their engineer and and the property owner to try and identify solutions. They may be looking to do individual wells as a temporary fix. um it's subject to approval by DP in South Florida um and by the village. Um they
may be doing that with a view to then having to hook up to the available water when we get the um the capacity fixed on with all of these improvements in our utilities. So we're working actively with them right now, but that's where we're getting into challenges with our
uh reservation of capacity and not being able to issue site plans without the water being addressed. We've also got another project that's going to be at the development review colleagues next Wednesday for a preapp. It's called Hendry Ridge offers Southwest Farms Road. Um it's a pre-application to
propose 443 units including single family town and apartments. Um they're going to be um told that they're going to need a land use amendment in order to be able to accommodate apartments in that area of um Indian Town. Um so we're we're preparing the staff report for
that right now. And then Citrus Grove um applicants preparing to come in with a land use and a zoning and a PUD PUD. I believe again they're going to be um solving the water issue um with uh the well um as a solution or their own water
plan water facility. Um we've got other people that are coming in looking at developments and they're actively looking at contributing towards the improvements for water um knowing that we can't move them forward without that being addressed. So the total in the master of site planning including
Teralago uh pre-applications recently added is 4,562 units but what's actually being approved and under construction or in the um building permit stage is 1,528 units including the terago um you know phase 1
A and 1B is 808. So, we've also got we was continued to have um one annexation application in with a comp plan amendment and a concurrent zoning change um from Martin County agricultural to light industrial that's still under review with staff. And that's the end of
that's the location of property that's um requesting for annexation. Um and that's the end of our presentation. So, I'm happy to answer any questions. Hi, Dina. I'm sorry, Miss Freeman. Good morning. Good morning. I have three questions.
Uh, on your land use designation when you put up I think what the one of the ridge and something else, you had one for TH and then one for TWW. Is there any difference or is it all just still be a typo? Yeah, it should be town homes
and um single family and town homes. Multifamily. Yeah. And what's the TWW? Still town homes. Oh, it should be town homes. It's just a typo. Okay, that's fine. I created a new acronym. I don't know what it means.
Okay, that's fine. Okay. And then on I haven't been out there lately. Did the Publix ever get built out there? No, but they're actively trying to help with that. And Taran, they're currently asking us for
information that we're providing relative to growth. Okay, fine. Third, um, what is the relationship with the Marty bus and go from Indian Town to Stewart and is there a potential for Indian Town to Palm
City? I know that I don't know the answer to that. I'm sorry. I know that it's a county it's a county issue, but because I've seen people trying to raise funds or do something or trying to improve the relationship with
the trip to to Stewart. So, I was just wondering uh maybe it's a county issue, but um yeah, open to open to any discussions and any opportunity to improve public transportation for Indian Town. A lot of people walk and they bike and they share
cars, the car pooling for school and the buses, the school buses and then the they rely very heavily on um public transport as well. So, whatever improvements can be provided would be great. Okay, no problem. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions?
Commissioner Caps. Yeah. I wondered if you could comment a little bit more about the proposed data center and what uh and whatever you're comfortable sharing about that at this point. And um well, we have the one that's been um for
a pre-application um for Silver Fox. We're pending them. So I believe that they're in um the FPL study stage um and then uh preparing for application for you know coming in with a development application. So we've had a preapp
several months ago. It's on the books. It's so important to Indiantown if we do get that um opportunity. Um so yeah it would be a good development proposal but I don't have the slide from the couple of presentations ago um with the data center because it's it was a preapp but
we're not there yet that we're waiting for the applicant to submit and when they do it will go through completeness review and then it will be transmitted to our development review colleagues. There'll be a staff report and it'll be that back and forth until the point where, you know, they identify that um they're ready for approval and again
they'll have to address capacity and they're aware of that and that was very clearly stated in the preapp. Yeah. And the property that they're the application is in on is up in the left hand side that light orange and across from there that kind of a not
Yeah. Sorry, I'm trying to zoom in. You're fine. Yeah, there that's the property where they've come in um with their applications about 600 acres and across from there that looped area is the old cogen plant site and
FPNL has been talking to us about putting a battery pack um operation on that site, repurposing that site, which would be great because with all the solar fields, they want to be able to store that power in those battery packs for constant
um for constant source of energy. So the synergy in that site is is pretty significant in our opinion. They're in for the permits right now. Yeah, it's really exciting and additional revenue for the village as well which is well received. So
I understand those uh the Indian town is a good site for data centers because of the power lines that are there and the big power and they have to spend quite a bit of money to determine that the power um source is is there and going to do what
it needs to do with the tremendous amount of power that they need. So yeah, thank you. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay, thank you. Thank you. School district update.
Good morning everyone. My name is Derek Low. I serve as the public information coordinator for the Martin County School District. Um here before you today just to start off with some exciting news that uh each one of our three Martin County School District high schools has
been named uh a best high school by US News and World Report. We achieved this last year as well. Um, in order to be named a best high school, uh, each high school must be in the top 40% in the nation. However, as you can see on the screen, our high schools have gone above
and beyond as usual. Uh, each ranking in the top 25%. There are 18,000 high schools roughly that are uh, graded and evaluated each year. And these rankings are based on academic performance, graduation rates,
and college readiness scores. So here you can see uh the rankings for each of our three respective high schools. Jensen Beach uh 133rd in the state up from 144 in 2024. Each of our high schools uh did progress year-over-year
as you can see. Martin County uh up to 230 from 233 in 2024 and South Fork High School also uh making a small jump as well. uh again um all in the top 25% but some of our high schools um even ranking
as high as the top 16% or the top 11% uh in the case of Jensen Beach High School. So I just wanted to share that start off with some good news and you know make sure that everyone's aware that we're going to continue building on our successes.
Thanks. Can I ask a question? Absolutely. What is the um census at each of those high schools now in terms of the population at each one moment
high school. Martin County High School is 1898. Okay. So, Martin County High School is 1,898. South Fork is 1642 and Jensen Beach is 1587.
Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Nobody else has any questions. I'll pass it along to our CFO, Mr. Carter Morrison. Yeah, absolutely. [Music] Thank you very much and good morning
everyone. Um just wanted to give the um everyone an update regarding the school board's 2526 adopted mill rates. As you can see from the slide, in 2425, the school district adopted a millage rate of 5.75 mills which is broken down
between the required local effort discretionary operating additional votage millage which is which are classified as operating millages and um we also have a capital millage of 1.5 last year. Um, as you'll see on the slide, the adopted millage for 2526 is
5.177 mills, which is roughly about a half a mill, a little over half a mill, um, in comparison to the prior year. Um, what we wanted to do was to show you in comparison also to the roll back
rate. Uh what we did this year was we were able to pri prioritize our budget uh without affecting any named projects um in the in the in the capital budget. We were able to reduce our capital budget to the extent you will see that
the capital budget at 0.95 is less than the roll back rate of 1.371. Uh we were so overall we're lower than the roll back rate by about 1.47%. Um we feel that um we're very thankful
actually just like to take this opportunity to thank the voters of Martin County for approving the sales tax millillage which has had a significant impact on on our um capital projects. As you are everyone is well aware that we have completed the Jensen
Beach Elementary as well as the Palm City Elementary projects. Oops, sorry. Um here I have a pie chart that shows the prior year. If you look at the school capital in the top left hand quadrant, you will see that's about
$57.4 million. Um through the rep prioritization and lowering of the millillage this year, we were able to bring that down to about $40.4 million. In essence, when you look at the total proceeds for 202425, we remained essentially level funded at
220.2 million. And then the the pie chart on the right shows the same roughly the same number at 220 220 million $220.2 million. Just want to make a note for those who might be watching and and are
not really familiar with this um is that the capital school capital outlay does not pay for um your operating expenses. only the additional voted millage school school discretionary and the school general fund um that that pays for the
salaries and benefits of our teachers and our operating expenses. So from a taxpayer perspective um the adopted millage this this year um taxpayers should see b dependent upon their situation um the either the same amount of taxes or maybe even a slight decrease
in the millillage going forward. If you look at the bottom chart, you bottom section of the chart, you can see again the capital operating capital, excuse me, millage going from 57.4 down to about 40.4 million and operating actually went up a little bit. Again, the the tax role did increase which is
offset by the required local effort. So with that, I'll take any questions. If not, I'll turn it over to Mark. Thank you. So, good morning everyone. Mark Se, director of facilities and planning at the Martin County School District. I'm here to present you with three of our
major capital projects. We do have a lot of projects behind the scenes, but I'm going to present on these three. So, this will probably be the last time you see Steuart Middle School. We are great to announce that all phases, phase one, two, and three are now complete. students are now occupying the renovated
gym. Um, and it will be open for use of facilities next Monday uh for the public. So that the gym renovation has just been completed. I'm showing you the aerial photograph because now you can actually see the final layout of the campus. You can see the um cafeteria
building which is located here where my cursor is. That's the new building 10. We now have a new playfield for the students. We have a new play field back here for the students. We actually have a new play court here which is right off of the gym complex that we just renovated. Um and we do actually offer
access from the boys and girls to our play courts through this walkway here. Um we with this project we have a new building number one which is the admin on the first floor and media center on the second floor. But in um building this building between the old building
which was located here and the two-story classroom building, we were actually able to extend the carline double and the parking double for that area on Georgia Avenue. But as I stated, this is probably the last time we'll be presenting this project. The project is
now going through a closeout process. Um the buildings are fully occupied now. Um, and I will say, um, we're at the beginning steps of a cultural change at the school. The kids are now excited about going to these buildings. We actually repainted the whole campus. So,
the campus is cohesive as a as a campus now and building colors and and aesthetics. So, um, from what I've gathered, staff is excited, students are excited. Um, so I think it's changing the educational environment at this school.
Next up is Murray Middle School. I'm excited to announce that we uh approved the uh AIA contract for the architect in August and the contractor or the CM at risk was approved in September. So now that project design
um schedule has started as of August. So we were going to we are going to go through the steps of designing this. So it'll go through schematic design development and then construction documents. And then at some point in time in the future, we will present the GMP for this project to the school board
for approval. And then when we break ground at that point, but that that's several months in advance, probably somewhere around 9 months to 10 months ahead of where we are now. But that project is currently on schedule and like I said, we're excited that everything has started now. We are
working on on the design schedule. Um, we will actually keep the principal informed and we we will keep the SAC committee informed as we progress through the design and I will perform monthly updates to the board with this design as we move forward. The last project is Warfield. This
project is now uh now that I have Murray Middle um approved, we will start the same process with Warfield. I'm in the process of creating the documents where we um send it out to the contractors at risk and the architects and we start the same process of getting those RFQS
approved by the board and then we get the contracts approved and then once all that information is approved by the board we will start that design schedule. So at this point I'm I can take any questions on any of the three projects. Roger. No, I just wanted to mention I
was contacted by one of the council members and I know a big priority for Indiantown and the village is youth sports and Mark Serest is will be your contact person. All of our facilities are available and so please reach out to
Mark. I did share the gymnasium at Indiantown Middle, the fields, the covered space at Warfield. Um, all of those facilities are available to organizations for use outside of the typical school day. So, um, please reach out to Mark. He'll be the point person
on that. Thank you. Anybody else? Yes. I'm glad you mentioned youth sports. And this is not necessarily a school curriculum or anything. It may even be for the private sector, but it has also
been brought up that for young people, especially middle schools, middle schoolers, um something like a availability of a another big skating rink or something in Martin County cuz these apparently these
young people don't have someplace to go or whatever. I've seen just comments around and people asking and this might be for the private sector of course but anything that can be done and I'm glad that organized youth sports is going on
but we just need to make sure that these middle schoolers always have an outlet uh in our community. So just wanted to bring that up. Thank you. Anybody else have any comments? No.
Okay. Well, I guess this is the end. So, I will call this meeting ajourned. Thank you. Please tell come and invite people.