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you thank you yeah yeah reach out thanks nice to everyone that's that's my I want to welcome everyone to uh The Joint meeting of Martin County can everyone please rise to say the Pledge of Allegiance a new R you're moving 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 [Music] so good morning everyone I'd like to uh
take a moment to go around the room and everyone introduce themselves we'll start with the city of Stewart uh lee bagot City attorney Sean Reed commissioner Reed City of Stewart Christopher Collin city of Stewart commissioner Campell Rich mayor
city of Stewart Ula Clarks Stuart commissioner Laura giobi commissioner in the city of Stewart Mike mortell city manager Taren chrisa Village manager for Indi Town council member phis Waters Brown
from Indiantown council member Angelina Perez Village of Indiantown Wade Vos Village attorney Village of Indiantown good morning Michael main superintendent of schools Dr Brian morard Martin County
Schoolboard District 5 good morning Marsha Powers Martin County Schoolboard Amy Pritchett Martin County School Board Jen Russell Martin County School Board Tony George Schoolboard attorney Don Donaldson County Administrator County
Commissioner eileene Vargas district one Blake caps Martin County Commission my sign says chair herd Ed campy Martin County Commissioner good morning Stacy heatherington District 2 county commissioner
Sarah Woods County attorney okay we have some public comments um if you wish to speak please fill out a form we're going to start with Jesse Nasi aneno and our tradition is you have three
minutes you heard the man we have three minutes yes good morning everybody thank you and very congratulations you uh said my name correctly so I'm Jesse nin Seno uh resident of uh The Florida Club since
1988 August of 1988 so I've been here 27 years family and I it's wonderful we love I mean so I've traveled the world most of it and most of the and 45 states of the US so it's uh we
are very happy and pleased to be living in Martin County city of Stewart so um and I'm still at The Florida Club A Home of 515 homes District 4 and you know I met commissioner herd back in 98
99 when when uh you know she was exploring the idea of running for commissioner because we had an incumbent who had been there for 20 years who happen to be Elmyra gainy so anyways
moving forward um in uh so while I've been here for the I I when I quit traveling I became very active in the uh in Civics so uh currently I serve as a chair for the affordable housing committee I spent a year and a half with Mark cartney fair
board I spent four years with the school board oversight committee sales tax committee uh chared it for a couple years at taxpayers Association economic Business Development and I was the first non-black elected to an office
for the NAACP here in Martin County so that's just a little bit of background about me what I'd really like to discuss is uh oh and I and you know I believe in providing all the necessary funds that
our fire department and police need to do their jobs and to keep up with the training however on October 8th of 2024 I still was at home my daughter was at home and we hear a thump so I went
over to the bedroom to see that my wife had fallen and right away I can tell that there was something wrong half her face was drooping and uh you know her eyes were not focused so we called my daughter called
911 came out came out a um paramedic uh within probably 10 minutes they were there there was three of them came in and they decided she was not having a stroke we suggested that she was having
a stroke so they left and as he's walking out I came out to the garage to meet one of the head guys and I said you know can you please take my wife to the hospital I believe she's having a stroke she he says no so to me that's a person who decided to play God and say that my
wife was not having a stroke sir wrap it up please as as they um were leaving my daughter called 911 again Along came a second Trio of paramedics and this paramedic team did
their job asked a series of questions to my wife and they made a decision that she was having a stroke sir your time is up they took her to the uh to the hospital and so she spent a couple months there because during the
process had brain surgery sir your time is up thank you right legut thank you very much for your time thank you thank you Frank mcris [Music] dear Lord thank you for this
day thank you for this day um he had a mistress down on a and 12th here I am going human 1.5 it's so embarrassing he had a mistress down on a
and 12th she was that little something that he did for himself his own little secret didn't hurt nobody come the afternoon he'd take her waiting waste deep in the Big Muddy
waste deep in the Big Muddy you start out standing but end up crawling got in some trouble and needed a hand from a friend of mine this old friend he had a figure in
mind it was nothing illegal just a little bit funny he said come on man don't tell me the rich don't know sooner or later it all comes down to money and you're waste deep in the Big
Muddy waste deep in the Big Muddy you start on higher ground but end up crawling well I had a friend said you watch what you do poison snake bites you and your poison
too how beautiful the river flows and the birds they sing but you and I we're Messier things there ain't no one leav in this whole world buddy without their shirt tail dirty or
their her hands a little bloody waist deep in the Big Muddy waist deep in the Big Muddy you start on higher ground but end up somehow
crawling waist deep in the Big Muddy one of my mentors was my uh offensive line coach Giant mountain of a man black man and from 80 yards away he could make the hair on the back of your neck standing up and every day after
practice we'd all be looking up at him kneeling down on our helmets and he'd go into his Spiel and at the end of his Spiel every day for three years he'd look at us little 12 and 13year old guys and
say men just remember one thing you've got to look at yourself first in the morning every morning when you're shaving thank you Lord for this day thank you Tom
[Music] Pine good morning I've been a resident of Martin County for over 50 years presently living in Jensen Beach Florida on Monday on my morning walk about two blocks north of Jensen Beach Elementary School on Savannah Road
the school buses stopped I'm watching children get on the bus and the horn starts blaring as a car continues flying past the school bus stop old school bus and yes on the other side of the street there are children and adults waiting to
starting to cross the street when this all transpires as if San VOD isn't dangerous enough for students with stop signs meaning little to nothing anymore I continue
walking till I come to the driveway where this parent drop off road is and here's a parent flying out of the road of course not stopping there's no traffic so she doesn't she's flying out of the road and a daughter in the
passenger side eyes wide open as I'm only a couple steps from stepping onto the crosswalk this is how our children learn how to drive their parents teach them at a young age this is where they learn stop signs don't matter anymore since there's
no enforcement they don't matter it's really dangerous for our children these days out there that's why very few kids ride bikes to school in Jensen Beach or walk that's why the line for cars is
sometimes around the block yesterday at the Joint meeting with the city of Stewart and commission City uh County Commission I'd like to thank the city of Stewart for standing strong and not bending down to
build a bright Line Station unless bright line chips in for it just like they did in the Cy south of us where the stations they built down there they chipped in I'd like to thank the city of Stewart for standing up for the taxpayer the
workingclass taxpayers of Martin County and not rolling over for this same old Martin County Chamber of Commerce thank you for your time and have a great day thank you uh last speaker is Robin cartright if you wish to speak please
fill out a form good morning yesterday there was a lot of rhetoric about how the county and the city need to work together and here's an issue that we need to jointly solve and we can talk about the absurdity of development and annexations later but let's talk about the very real situation about water on Monday the city
will discuss its consumptive use permit it has with South Florida Water Management District in each municipality and large development submit a consumption permit a 2023 D water plan presentation stated quote the Water Resource development component is where Regional Water Resource Management is
formulated and implement M mented and without these planning efforts the districts project that existing sources of water will not adequately meet the reasonable beneficial needs for the next 20 years to be clear there is not one aquafer and water supply for the county and one for the city and one separate
one for Indian town but bringing it local Harbor Grove is a city of St project that was annexed in from the county explicitly so it could be developed excuse me they've had documented water pressure issues in 2024 in April May June June August September
and December and on March 6th they received another notice about another water water service issue it's a city parcel but it's to the south of Indian Street so it's not the city's problem because it's a County Utility but it's a city parcel so it is a city problem but it's not because it's on the southside
of Indian Street in the meantime Terell Lago in Indian town was approved and they have a water consumption permit with sfwmd but it's not enough and in January it was noted that Indian town now needs and recognizes that they need a solution to their water supply so is it is an Indian Town problem or is it a
county problem and now add in all of the rural lifestyle projects in their needs add the pending 35.7 acre project in the city that was annexed in from the county that includes a Car Lot commercial properties and 249 residential units that still needs approval on September
5th 2024 Florida Tax watch wrote quote Florida will not be able to sustain the continued level of growth it has seen over the recent years without dramatically improving how it selects and funds water projects so one solution is to limit development we all know that won't happen though places like Phoenix do just that another
option is to have developers pay for reverse osmosis treatment plans to support their developments but that won't happen even though places like New Mexico have action plans to proactively address this blindly approving development while passing the buck does nothing for our community members and we
literally end up paying for the solution so maybe instead of throwing tax dollars behind a private public partnership with no actual private investment supported by no economic feasibility study maybe we consider investing in the sustainability of our community that has a real and meaningful impact our
priorities for our community need to seriously be reconsidered thank you is there anyone else who would like to speak if not we'll move on to our agenda items first up County Public Works project Keith Baker
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those what hi good excuse me good morning everyone I'm Keith Baker I'm the capital project administrator for Martin County um we'll start with our neighborhood restoration updates these projects are done in uh two phases
typically a drainage Improvement portion and then a milling and resurfacing of the pavement portion if there if there's a utility Improvement component it'll be done in uh three phases it would be the drainage improvements then the utilities and then the milling and
resurfacing um the port going through the list here today the port SLO Peninsula project is expected to start this month um we have an awarded contractor uh Rocky Point neighborhood restoration the design is at
90% we're anticipating construction I would say like late summer Port Sero new monrovia's pending bid um the bid package has been prepared it's with the purchasing department uh just waiting for advertisement we're beginning the design
just getting into the the design for the Dixie Park um neighborhood project um city of Stewart Riverside Park is a project in coordination with with the city of Stewart It's about 50% complete old Palm City North the
Design's at 60% and we had a public involvement meeting last week it went really well um we took feedback from the residents and we're working on incorporating that into the design plans um SPS manate Business Park the drainage study is almost done we're just
waiting to get the final drainage study and South County neighborhood restoration this survey is approximately 30% complete phase two which is the milling and resurfacing or the pavement Improvement portion Golden Gate uh
neighborhood is is near near complete uh the contractor working on punch list items um Leilani Heights is currently out to bid and hob Hills is scheduled to start U mid this year uh moving into our roadway and
sidewalk Improvement projects um Indian Street resurfacing is at 90% complete uh the only thing left is the punch list we're working on some punch list items with the contractor um Jensen Beach Boulevard resurfacing is
complete Avalon Drive sidewalk is expected to start in April um MacArthur Boulevard construction this has 50% but it's further along than that I would say it's 90% complete we're moving into the project close out
portion Fox Brown Road resurfacing will be going out to bid in March um Dixie Highway multimodal or shared use path the Design's at 90% and water side way uh roadway
construction project is approximately 50% complete uh the two on the bottom are some upcoming sidewalk and Trail projects we have the sun Trail um which connects Jonathan Dickinson park to se
Branch State Park uh the Design's a 30% complete we have a public involvement meeting schedule for 325 at the hobtown library and Washington Street sidewalks approximately 30% design also and that public involvement meeting is scheduled
for 4:16 at the morgade library I just like to point out on this slide that um all of the projects on this slide with the exception of water Side Way are partially Grant funded um the state funded projects are 75% funded through
fdot the and then the federal projects are also administered fdot and those are almost 100% Grant funded with the exception of a few nonparticipating items and then the FD projects are uh
5050 s it's 50% Grant funded for Bridge Project updates uh Dixie Highway East Fort Creek Bridge we nearing the completion of construction trying to wrap that up says 90% hobes
basal Bridge um this is the um one off of Bridge Road this is actually a scour protection project to line the Channel with rip wrap to prevent undermining or erosion of the channel section um in the Island Way Westbridge
the survey is expected to begin in the spring of this year um on the bottom of the slide the County Line Road lockah hatchee River Bridge um it says expected to go to bid and summer um on kind of the critical path for that we're working
with utility coordination or doing the utility coordination with uh Village of taquesta and lockah hatchee River District it requires relocation of the water sewer we also have electric line relocation with FPL so that's the critical path we're
working through that and um but we're still expecting to bid this summer but that's the items that we have to address and one other item of note with the county line road bridge that one will be 100% Grant funded are there any
[Music] questions Mr Reed yes Keith where can I go online to find more information about all these projects is it on the County website yes we have a when you go to the website there's a Al if you look for
that like o WL and it'll have a list of all the projects with a um a summary of each one I think you can also get the design plans if you want to download them is this just for public works then the owl or is that um I believe it's public works okay
I know it's public works I'm not sure if it's other department it has the other has some utility projects and then there's a separate section that has projects that would be uh private development uh in application so it has both uh um two sections but one so this
will have like the projects with file numbers and all that on the county side or is that different Don it just it has it'll have a brief description of each project its location and uh it has Public Works utilities Projects Park projects um that that's maintained in
terms of uh what's being designed or constructed today doesn't have historic data okay and then another question does it have zoning changes then like when you see the big yellow sign with the file number does the county list zoning changes yes it does it has a separate uh
there it's it's similar on the same web page but it's a different access portal it has a different button if you will on the page to go to for projects that are so you can search the file number then right yeah you can find out what is uh it's currently in application for uh
zoning um or um uh site development plans I believe the no also has a link to uh the system as well on their web page okay thanks I have a question I have a question uh it has to do with the
timetable between design and construction when design is done what what is the typical lag period between the completion of design and the beginning of construction I know it probably varies a lot yeah I would say it varies by
project but it once the Design's complete it takes about 3 to 4 months to get it out to bid and award the contractor on average thanks it it'll see when you review our CIP coming up the the design
and the construction phase so sometimes we have ahead of the design and you may not be ready for construction until you've accumulated enough funds or be awarded a grant so the lag time can be um months uh as as was stated or it
could be um years depending upon the project oh yeah I'm also going to provide the traffic updates today for the traffic department um Indian Street Willoughby Boulevard intersection improvements this was done in coordination with the
roadway project it was replacing the Mast arms and Signal heads at that intersection it's almost finished um Sno Road at caner Highway intersection Improvement this is um adding I believe left turn Lanes at that intersection
this is scheduled it's um this slide has a couple typos on it this one is scheduled for fall of 2025 Constitution Boulevard at Federal Highway signalization is under construction in the High Meadows Avenue at suntrail roundabout this one's
pending construction I think it's um I believe they've had the pre-construction meeting and they're waiting to break ground thank you we'll now hear from John M environmental resource administrator good morning thank you for the opportunity to give you an update on what's going on with the environmental
projects I'm just going to highlight um a few where you're likely to see activity on the landscape uh before you meet again um we've got the list of of ongoing things um on the the slides there but um I want to mention East Fort
Creek Phase 2 that's a linear Lake and man-made Wetland project that will further polish um the water coming out of our East Fork Creek Phase 1 project before it U makes its way through Mariner Sands to uh the manatee pocket
um that is under construction now started about a week ago you you won't notice a large footprint it's adjacent to US1 but it's a narrow um joining of US1 and then it goes deep back uh on the
south side of mariners Sands um and then if you're a frequenter of Florida oceanographic Society you'll notice their seagrass Nursery will start um a I would call it an industrialization process um we got some funding through
FWC to help enhance that um Nursery to provide uh more testing beds and also a um a more stable and uh resilient system to provide Nursery stock for anticipated
Nursery plantings and then uh the uh last one that I'll highlight kind of spins off of that um we've gotten another Grant um from DP to do 20 more Acres of seagrass planting in the Estuary and that will start uh towards
the end of this month last year we did about 20 acres and and that uh in our follow-up monitoring through the dry season has done much better than we expected um even in spite of Lake charges and so we're excited to to start with the next 20 acres and just keep
putting more grass out there happy to take some questions thank you moving along we will have City Utilities and engineering project projects Peter cunan utilities and engineering director city of Stewart usually there's no public comment oh
[Music] really good morning everyone it's great to see everyone here this morning um let me get to the uh presentation let's see [Music]
okay well as far as the uh update on the current city of Stewart projects we have the following projects first would be the the transportation or uh related projects uh we have uh that's about
ready to start now some pavement maintenance uh within the city of Stewarts Zone 2 that uh will include some micro surfacing and also milling and repaving we have a few streets uh that
uh are slated for for this work uh that being uh Weir Street High School Avenue and Cortez Avenue the uh anticipated start of the work is going to be towards the end of this month the uh the project was just
awarded at the previous commission meeting so uh I would say that uh probably in April you'll see some of the the work starting and uh it's anticipated to be completed by the end of June right before it gets really
really hot in the summer onto our storm water projects we have two storm water projects that are currently in construction the first being the Southwest dire Drive storm water Improvement project and uh that is uh uh some storm water
improvements on dire drive that uh there's been some reoccurring flooding problems and uh that uh includes exfiltration trench uh drainage inlets and uh it will tie into an
existing storm water system located on Palm City Road the project uh is uh pretty much underway and and uh looking at anticipated completion by the end of April of this year the second storm water Improvement
project is on Southeast lenita drive and uh that's also uh primarily focusing on on L lenita Street and Casa Avenue and it uh drainage improvements storm waterer inlets exfiltration
trenching a trench as well and connecting to an existing drainage structure Loc located uh on a Trester drive that discharges to peton Creek uh the project is uh slated for construction towards the end of June of
this year on our Utility side we have uh two utility projects uh lift station projects that are uh in in design the designs have been completed actually and the first one is the uh North steart
uh lift station project that project involves basically a rehabilitation of the existing North Stewart uh pumping station with recating of the wet well uh adding uh changing out some piping discharge piping uh putting in some uh
Electrical uh some electrical um control a new electrical control panel uh the installation of an auxiliary pump uh in the event that uh the actual electrical pumps go down we'll have a a
source of pumping the Wastewater uh with a power outage or some kind of electrical problem there at the station uh that uh the second uh project is uh located at the store list station project something similar uh with uh
respect to its rehab of an existing stor U Wastewater Pump Station and uh includes Rehabilitation of the the existing wet well uh uh putting in uh changing out some piping uh electrical control panel
upgrades uh both projects as I mentioned are um well the the designs have been completed and we're looking at putting the uh projects out for bids uh most likely in uh the the end of
April so uh with that construction I would say would would be starting over the summer months and uh the time frame for completion of construction is 1 year we have uh also uh underway the
construction of uh our Rehabilitation of our existing headwork structure at our Water Reclamation facility uh that uh the headworks uh is uh uh in need of some repairs some some uh channels inside the The headworks
Need to Be uh reigned there's also Odor Control uh equipment that is going to be upgraded and at the top of the headwork structure a new roof uh is going to be installed as part of the project uh the project is uh is in
construction and uh we're anticipating that construction to take place through uh the end of July or into August of this year we also have have uh the uh within the Veterans Park Memorial Park project uh the the amphitheater project
construction construction of a a new Amphitheater and uh which will include uh uh covered stage area Green Room uh lawn seating architectural entryway uh and uh
some paperwor uh for uh the Aesthetics of that of that location in the park the project just started construction the beginning of this month and uh it has a 365 calendar day time frame so we're looking at the project being completed
by the end of March of 2026 and with that I'm I'm here to answer any questions that you may have sir yeah this project looks terrific the amphitheater does what's the what material is the are the wings constructed of well that is a it's a
canopy uh type of structure so it'll be a fabric material and I see that the stage is completely shaded how much of the uh lawn seating is shaded that's a good question uh let me see if I could figure that out um I I can chime in
we've maintained all of the large oak trees that are still in the park are going to stay so there's a significant amount of shade that comes from the courthouse and then also two very large oak trees that are kind of in the center of the grass area so I would say about half of the lawn will end up being in
the shade this looks terrific I'm anxious to see it evolve thanks thank you any more questions thank you very much thank you so much next we have Village of Indian
Town Capital Improvement projects update Patrick Nolan utilities and Public Works director Village of Indian Town good morning okay up first we have a our Public Works projects update uh for anybody that's been to these meetings
previously you're going to see some of the things are the same but I'm happy to report that we're actually starting construction on some of these projects so uh the first one is the Uptown roadway and drainage repair that project is in a design phase uh that was fun and you will also he I'll get this you've
heard a recurring theme with the other municipalities most of our projects are Grant funded we spend a good part of our time finding funding for these projects so when we start these projects it is dependent on funding so the Uptown roadway and
drainage repair we do have the funding in place for the design we do not have funding for the construction on a Southwest Lincoln Street roadway and drainage project we do have funding and we are working through the process to uh start that project hopefully uh in the near future
seminal Drive project uh also a road repair and drainage project um we did put that out to bid but we had some hiccups with the grant process so we are hoping to start that process or that that construction sooner later as
well a roadway repair and maintenance that was a general repair of uh a lot of the the streets throughout the Village um there was no project for the first 3 years at the municipality was a municipality so this
was our first go at trying to repair the roads and this will be the beginning of an annual project to uh assess our roads and uh make the necessary repairs on the water side uh water project we again have been have been
seeking funding from the state revolving fund to rehab the existing Water Treatment Plant we recently got notification that we will have that funding so we'll be going out to bid on that project very soon and uh starting construction the other part of this is
building a new Ro treatment plant we are seeking funding we're looking for about $60 million so as teren says if you have 60 in your pocket please give it to us before we leave next project is Railroad Avenue water main this is a 100-year water main that
runs through the middle of the village we're seeking funding for that project because it is a very important part of our infrastructure so if you have an extra 10 million we'll take that too next one is a 12-in watermain looping project that is a project that
we did with Martin County Fire we actually have started construction on that project we hope to have that done in the next five or 6 months and uh last on the Water Project is 151st naola Street we are working with Congressman Mass's office to secure
funding for that we we have not seen the funding so again once we see the funding we'll start that project and last but not least is our special Water Project as uh I've been talking about the water and waste water
with that new rro plant that we plan to build we're going to need someplace to dispose of the concentr that is a deep injection well we chose to collocate that deep injection well at the water at the Wastewater Plant so construction on that literally started this week uh so
that is a big project for the village as well because we'll be able to take care of the concentrate from our water treatment plant as well as any upsets from our Wastewater Plant that is it for the presentation if anybody has any questions heatherington Mr Nolan did I understand
the water projects the the one on the first page they're all designed and ready just uh waiting for funding the one water project uh actually both are yes uh we haven't design the r plant but we are on the early stages we received a
planning Grant so we have started design on the r plant the other project is designed and it's ready to go out to bid ready so as soon as you get the funding you can start constru yes perfect thank you does that mean you brought some money with
you I didn't bring any Pockets today okay thank you thank you next up we have County City Village Development updates we'll start with Samantha love lady principal planner Martin County Board of County Commissioners good morning everyone I'm Samantha Lov
lady with Martin County growth management and I want to start off with the your population statistics and um the 2024 projections have not been released yet but we do have an estimate for 2024
and that's 164 853 and these projections will be updated as as soon as Bieber updates those the county has approved 1,11 single residential
projects I'll give you a moment to look at those and 1.7 million million square F feet of non-residential and if you want me to slow down and look at any of these or want to ask questions about any of them please please do
so and we have a here's a list of all the projects that we have under review for residential and this includes phases within a master plan that may have been reported earlier and here's your non-residential
projects that are under review again let me know if you have any questions and for the calendar year of 2024 we issued 712 permits for residential and with that I'll take any
questions and that completes my presentation Collins so just to confirm if you'll scroll back up to Newfield was that 1.1 million square feet of commercial in Newfield there you go is that correct what month are you on November
Newfield SD that's the master plan so that's 1.1 million square feet of commercial space uh non-residential yes thank you anyone all right thank
you Jody cougler development director city of Stewart uh good morning my name is Jody cougler uh nice to see everybody the city of Stewart does not have any projects right now in Horizon as of for the last quarter we did um complete our
zoning in progress and made the um necessary Land Development code changes and we are now working through the comp plan [Music] changes any questions easy say thank you thank you Jody thank you Dina
Freeman community development director and Lucia Mendoza planning assistant Village of Indian Town good morning everybody Dina Freeman with Community Economic Development Department in the village of Indiantown Lucia Mendoza Lucy is back at the office working really
hard on our addressing so she's um she's not here today but she's always working really hard with the department so we have a presentation this feels like an echo okay [Music]
so what we're starting off with is just to because this is televised and and there's people in the audience and and fellow um government um people we've got a update on the gis and we are working hard on the gis system and alongside
we're also working with a seller to provide an online permitting system which will help with transparency access to information and also just project management so what we wanted to start off with is just to let you know that we have a new layer it's very exciting for Indian town when we have new layers on
our maps that show the existing the in in review and approved developments we're looking with our GIS consultant um is looking to update that every month so that anybody that wants to look on the website um can look and click on and show uh basically what projects are in
for review and what's been approved and this is just a zoomed in version of that map just showing you the the highlighted one is a River Oak plat application that's just been approved for 131 um units so this is the list of non-residential projects it's been
updated since the last quarterly uh meeting um a lot of the ones that are on the list Dem marelis um a lot of these are Under being approved as site planning are in the building permit stage um so we've got the Dem marelis which is
19,500 square ft of manufacturing building um we've got the dollar Tre um which has been approved and is under construction in and you know you can see that in Indian town as we speak with the building permits having been pulled store away is an addition of
10,421 um of building um to an existing storage facility um that's approved and they're in the building permit preparation and submittal stage performance boats which is in Venture Park which we'll show you on the map in a moment that's been approved and they're in the building permit stage um
ta Estates is an office Warehouse facility 22,600 they have been approved of their building permits there and a lot of these the reason we're listing is because they're going to be paying their impact fees as part of that building permit and um any other connection fees
and and obviously uh M county is going to see some of that money coming their way from the development point of view uh grindhard um is working towards their CEO they're still under construction and already in discussions about Phase 2 which be which be an enormous facility in Indian Town we're working with
operations manager he came in last week talking about an initial 30 jobs up to 100 when they create second shifts and really looking to invest in um Indian town and finding Community um you know employ employment from within if possible so it's quite exciting RCC
Construction U Venture park again is an approved manufacturing building of 25,000 ft that's in the building permit stage green carbon is already approved um they're actually uh meeting with with us um to and have' been meeting with us for phase two and um when they're up and
running that will be a really cool project for Indian town and a good Synergy with some of the other um industry within the area um particularly green carbon and um all the um Venture Park industrial site that's becoming almost full East Coast Metal structures they've
been actually since this slide was produced um they've actually had their uh CEO and are open for business um as is another one which is um Kendall industrial that's not on the list but they're ornate concrete manufacturing and they've also had their Co and and
that's another development within the Venture Park we've got um the sedron Technologies in is in for their second round of reviews looking to draft a development order um yellow pine trust company is utilizing some of the former Juice plant um and we've they've done a
lot split and are creating a Trust Company manufacturing facility they're close to I'm drafting the development order this afternoon so they're close to approval um having gone through the development review process P3 Technologies is also in Venture Park and that's a a company that's coming in um I
always like to read what they are um testing center specializing in propulsion pumps and power anything that you see going up to space they've got some sort of handing that and they're relocating some of their operation from Jupiter so that's a really good kind of rounding off in the Venture Park um
development and this is just the The Venture Park indicated in blue in terms of location in relation to the rest of the village and this is this companies that we've just been talking about with P3 Technologies being one of the few that's left to get their actual development
order and everybody else they're depending on um well and septic right now in a pump house um just in terms of utilities um but they're also designed to hook up uh at the time when that's available um and basically that's all of the list of from The Venture Park PUD or
plan development and this is just a a picture to show you what green carbon Solutions is like and we did have a tour of that in the last few months and um it's fully built um and it's it's lit hitting the Go Button at any time now on the first
phase and this is P3 technologies that I just talked about um and the location in relation to the Venture Park and this is the site plan that's been under review um they had receiv received their comments resubmitted and um we just completed reviews of the second round of reviews um we're ready for development
order with conditions and they'll start putting in their building permits as of now this is yellow pine Trust Company in relation to the overall um Juice plant uh we call this like our pop-up industry it's a really good effective reuse of the Juice plant um with a lot of uh
multitude of employment um operations and Industrial it's heavy industrial so there's a lot of different things going on on there uh with the owner very open to um creative thinking on how to use that old site so we're encouraging that and this is
the uh sedron facility that we're in review it's is using part of the Water waste water transfer uh facility and this is a residential list of development um of importance what has changed since the last uh meeting terago
has um revised their PUD to reduce the size of the minimum um size of um housing to incorporate a model that will be under the 300,000 299,000 I believe um so that's really exciting for Indian town because it
provides a lot more opportunity for housing that may be attainable um Phase 1 a and 1B has received plat approval so that's 808 units that we're are going to be we are seeing building permits for and they're going to be going vertical um as soon the plats in in the stage of being
recorded once that's done we'll be able to release building permits and get them started to go vertical on some of these models and also some of the houses that are looking to sell so Indian town when you drive over there it's going to start to look very different in terms of the housing that's coming um um in the area
and then just historically this is a Indiantown drri That Was Then teral Lago at some point so this is historically been a project that's been in the making for many years um so it's just coming to fruition at this point and we've got uh River Oak uh the major site plan was
approved for 131 Lots since the last presentation they've also received the river the plat has been recorded our village clerk has it in her hands right now from um having been recorded so that means that they can also um start to go vertical and we can issue building
permits for construction seminal Crossing um has got approval for 24 single family homes and there is a seol Crossings plat that's under review right now and we just received our comments and they'll be resubmitting um Oola Pines PUD we're
working with them on some revisions this is one that came in from the county it was approved as a master plan they've since come in with a final for uh now it's in the village and um there was some um addition and a few different changes to triggered a revision to the
master plan um so they're doing that alongside with their final um and and with they're close to being scheduled for pza in then Village Council ool Pine's plat um that is um in with review at the moment um but and that will be
scheduled p Zab planning zone and appeals board and uh Village Council in the next couple of months Heritage Park uh was a preapp this is the former FEMA site within um Indian toown um they're looking to uh introduce 60 units of
housing on that site um and that's come in actually since this slide was produced yesterday we got completeness review um submittal so we'll be getting that done and they'll be under review for a site plan application for a major site plan because it's over 50 units and
then JPI Indian Town um this this was a a pre-application that came in for 39 units um that's the first one of the preamps that we've had to indicate that we're at capacity in Indian Town in terms of water so um you know anybody
that comes in they have have to have IND individual independent Wells to provide water and then they'll have to deal with their fire suppression um so what we're doing the message right now is we obviously need 60 million in water in order to any more um approve any more
development so people are still coming in and interested but we're being very clear around we have to handle capacity but anything that's on the books that you're seeing on these slides is actually been approved and Reserve capacity under the what was available and we've literally had to draw a line
based on the recent um review by our village engineer of where we're at with the water so I just want to make that clear and this is teral Lago just to remind everybody this was the Indian town drri this is the overall site and it's in multiple phases and Phase 1 a
and 1 B is what's been approved for final site plan and had reserved capacity for so they are able to build and go vertical on that when the plats been recorded and um we've got River Oak and the gain this had Reserve capacity
um and this is for the 131 homes and this is just a map that shows you the ool Pines PUD the JPI preap we also had a preap for Indian Wood Landing um these are people that are buying up property that are associated with the
Industrial Development Kendall Industrial in particular and they're looking to provide housing to actually accommodate their Workforce whoever they're bringing in or you know whoever's already here so there's a real demand for housing in Indian Town um obviously what we're doing is we're
we're looking for that water capacity in order to accommodate and this is just the Oola Pines that's in um right now for review and this is the JPI just a pre-application um that we were provided with and this is the Heritage Park which
was the former FEMA site and then we've got a comprehensive plan Amendment that's in right now with bestar Investments um that's been in for completeness and we're pending resubmittal on that and I have a slide to show you the yellow indicates the um the request for the annexation it's to
provide um additional industrial land um I believe it will be light industrial and it's in relation to um to the West is The Venture Park PUD just to give you context across the street is the U Juice plant and a lot of heavy and light
Industrial Development and that's the end of my presentation um if there's any questions commissioner Clark oh thank you um P I have a question for each of the three presenters but I'll just start with Indian Town
um the red the red are I don't know what s um that's your that's your city limits yes that's our village boundary yeah and the only thing south of the canal is is the I guess the marina yes that's the
only thing south of the canal South not North like you're looking at the you're looking at the marina and then the blue or you look oh this here is no that's that's Village mixed use vacant land okay and that's the only thing that's south of the yes I understand now yeah
that's that's it yeah the extent of the boundary is in red okay so we that's caner Highway okay that's map that I have is more helpful this is the map of Indian Town it shows in red but that blocks what you're looking at to be
fair okay okay orobi Waterway I was thinking that the caner highway was the okobi Waterway but I'm I'm mistaken then okay it okay right along the the okobi Waterway is can highway just on the other side so yeah so that's the
only thing that's there okay yeah you have citrus on one side and caner on the other yeah yeah oh I didn't I didn't realize I I thought that maybe you did but I don't I know do know that piece of property okay and then the other thing in your acronyms you have single family what's
the th again I saw it on the County Town Homes Town Homes sorry yeah I should probably spell that out yeah okay all right no problem can I ask the county a question please yes ma'am on caner Highway where
the Gateway distribution um Center is I wanted to know if you could just throw out what the actual um square footage of that is and what's the current occupancy level and when do we expect all of it to get um you know used up and actually
what are they using it for anybody there well yeah I can move I think thank you good morning everyone Paul Shilling growth management director uh commissioner Clark I I believe you're
speaking of the the uh K Water side development a Gateway so I'm just using uh rough numbers here but that's approvals that has approvals for approximately just under 2 million
square ft I believe of of industrial Light industrial for the most part and it is we have two buildings that are approved actually three uh one of which is a half million and so it it is well
underway there are a couple Parcels that are under review to be incorporated into that area as well so uh and the bulk of it um is all industrial yes yeah I thought I saw more than two buildings but I don't know they're all on under
construction then correct in the back there's there's the frontage building there is a freestanding cold storage building and there is at least two other buildings that share uh loading bays and I haven't been all the way back there but how far is that from the river where
does it stop there uh does their property go up to the to the canal no it does not that is a separate owner that is uh has agricultural land use agricultural is
beside that industrial correct to the to the what would be the north okay thank you I appreciate it sure thing cyia Stewart excuse me I have a question for and then you can all right thank
thank thank you this you just mentioned that the um the zoning in progress has uh been approved um and just put because there people listening what's the potential time frame for the compl plan amendments
to be completed and for people to know that they can now come in and start asking for plans to be reviewed or we uh thank you commissioner Clark um we just did the zoning in progress ended on
the 5th of this month and um the comprehensive plan are under review right now probably about three months we will be rolling out the the Amendments okay thank you Miss fargas yes my question is regarding the
processing facility uh is are you requesting other bids or is this final this is for Indian Town Indi town you mean the biosolid processing yes I am referring to that we
don't yeah we have not um put a a bit out with them the village was working with them to provide them with an area for them to lease from the village and all their permits and everything are coming through the federal or state
whatever they're required to do so yeah this is a private developer um that's utilizing part of the village of Indian toown so they're treated like any other applicant so they're going through the site plan review process and just yesterday we met with them about the building permits and starting to submit
those um so yeah it's there's no bidding process because it's not government related per se I hope that helps okay so are there other entities that are also aware that there's a possibility that they may also approach you for a processing
facility as I I think where you're going commissioner is um the county is in the process of putting together an RFP for the hauling of material as I understand it and Don probably can articulate much better than I can as an engineer go
ahead Don so the uh sedron um uh uh biosolids processing facility has letters of interest from a number of government entities including Martin County uh I think City of West Palm Beach and others in terms of uh
Contracting with them I think the city of West Palm is the only one one that currently has a has a direct contract for future processing the count is exploring the also um a bidding process that would allow us to look at bios
solids processing whether it's sedron or any other company that can process biosolids in a way that does not allow any of the processed material to be reintroduced to the land the whole purpose of it is to to uh have a
costeffective means to processed biosolids to hopefully create beneficial uses but most importantly that no nutrients get put back on the land and so that we are looking to bid that out um we anticipate that cedron would be
one of the biders perhaps others we will put it out on demand star so it's open to all um and uh that that we will be uh the city of West Palm was it went through a different process ours is going through a more traditional uh competitive bid process and I think I
think we also were asked to consider um including within our proposal um uh quantities uh sufficient to allow others to piggy back that's a Nuance that uh government uh people would understand what that means but nonetheless it would
be it would be open to potentially others to to to use this contract but the the most important thing is is that in ultimately in order for anybody to contract with cedron they need to have their facility under construction and I think that's what's most important is
the village uh once they issue that permit uh and they start building we will now know that they it is more than a promise okay so on demand star other entities will be notified that they do
have the potential the possibility of also building a facility yes so there's a really the I think the two things is that um most importantly is that we are bidding out so that not only sedron could bid on it but on the other hand we're also looking to potentially do it
in a way that others could utilize this there have been a number of presentations by sedron and others around the state regarding new methods of processing biosolids and of course we're all looking for a method that is uh meets our environmental goals but
it's potentially cheaper than we're paying today so that's that's the goal and so the I think the two-part question is is that uh as As I understood there's the Martin County has its own procurement process for ourselves that what others might be able to use but more importantly um sedron themselves
has been advertising um their capabilities throughout South Florida and has been lining up potential customers um we would anticipate if they're very successful that they will run out of capacity um within a short
marit of time and so um we're hoping to be one of those on the list if if they're selected or another company that can do the same thing thank you any other questions for any of these
folks uh commissioner Collins Mrs Freeman um as a planner in Indiantown when I'm surveying from my perspective the presentation it seems like a lot of these water supply projects you know in reference to what you said development
would be at the mercy of supply of water um it seems like a lot of the supply is in the planning phase looking for Grant phase yet a lot of the development and it seems like there's a lot is further along what are you guys doing what sort
of tools are you using to make sure that you don't end up with far more development than you can supply water to within the planning so any of the development applications that are under review um anybody that before they get sight plan as part of the site plan review process
they have to reserve capacity so anything that you see on the books that's what I was trying to explain has already got the capacity has been calculated with what's on the books right now um we have a village engineer U that's a contract um consultant with Kim Le horn who runs the numbers and
he's very qualified in what he does and he has provided confirmation that there are no more um there's no more capacity as of right now for anything coming in um including the preapps that were mentioned um for for reserving capacity so anything that you see that's there
already Reserve capacity some of them have had development approvals on the books for many years and kept them alive through the extensions and timetables but they any site planning just like in Martin County requires reservation of capacity unless it's just a master plan where you can defer so with the teral
laggo phase 1 a and 1B have final site plan approved for 808 units they Reserve capacity for that and that has been paid for with their you know with their erc's and it's all on the books um fa any of the other phases excuse me I'll finish first thank you so any of the other
project sorry excuse me I'll finish first and then so what I was trying to expl I can't I just I just wanted to ask you to that point you just made there was a lot that the reservation is for future capacity that they're reserving in in no existing capacity correct
that's I just okay it's just I was just in mids sentence but what I was trying to explain is that you have to get site plan approval and any permit that's issued any site plan has to have reservation of capacity and they pay for the hookup as part of the building permit process so so none of the approvals that
have happened as of yet are based on future capacity it's all on existing just existing capacity the calculations have been done by The Village engineer just curious he's a part of the development review colleagues um so any application that comes in gets reviewed just like they're do in growth management development review in your
public works department and ultimately their engineer in the private sector side has to submit and our engineer has to review and determine that there is capacity thank you thank you very much to your point we have been working with our attorney The Village attorney to see
if at site plan approval um they can't like get in a queue if you will as far as because that will help us as we build this new plant to know exactly who's out there and what possibly could be on the books um so we are looking at a
mechanism it would be like the ability to come and get your site plan pay your fees and then at the time when you're issuing your building permits you Shore up if you will if our fees have gone up so that they're not coming in and reserving at a lower rate if we increase our fees down the down the road so
that's what we're hoping to accomplish but we haven't gotten there yet thank you commissioner Reed yeah I see a village of Indiantown has their GIS map up is is there a possibility I don't know if if all
municipalities had the same GIS and we just filtered it by municipality and then we can filter out zoning districts it just helps so we're one County at the end of the day instead of working off of three or four GIS the city of Stewart has one Martin
County has one the village of Indiantown has one well I I can comment on that and say that we've all been using the same GIS system and I know that the property appraisers GIS includes all of the county which would include all the
municipalities in it it doesn't include the local zoning Maps because each regulatory Authority has its own zoning Maps so it would be impossible for Martin County to manage the City Zoning Maps because of the changes we make so the city's zoning falls in the city GIS
map and the County zoning falls in the county but if you wanted to see all of the properties if you click on any individual property at the property appraisers GIS system it actually says City Zoning single family residential or County zoning commercial or whatever the
actual zoning is is on the uh property if you click on the link at the property appraiser site so the simple answer is no well wa well similar answer is that we're different agencies correct I understand that just it would make it easier um instead of having the three
for the zoning that's all but thanks thank you commissioner heatherington unrelated to some of those presentations but um for the benefit of while we have all the village of Indian town here um mayor depalo and I was unable to attend the last no meeting but
mayor depalo um based on our one of our priorities is signalizing the intersection of alapata 609 and 710 and I know that's a high priority as is 710 is their number one priority for the mo
widening 710 and May depalo suggested that a good solution and I agree with him that a good solution at least a long-term solution would be to realign 609 alpata with Martin Luther King at the intersection of 710 and while I
think that suggestion is good I just want to bring that up while we're all in the same room it's a good I think that's a long-term solution as 710 is widened and I will Advocate at least on the no that we get that uh intersection signalized
as soon as possible because there have been major accidents fatalities it seems like there's a fatality every other weekend now on 710 but I think we need to try to get and that will require some Mar County cooperation as is 609 is the
county road but to signalize um we need to really prioritize dot signalizing as soon as they possibly can that intersection for the safety of our residents and then I like the long-term idea of realigning it with Martin Luther
King thank you if I may included in my um Report with the county there's a link in my report that goes straight to the developments within
all the [Music] jurisdictions the the link is in my report and it shows you projects as they are updated um this I believe is being updated every 6 months but it does include the
municipalities and the county projects if you wanted to look there yeah I'm familiar with this GIS map it's very resourceful as well but I was specifically looking for something a little different but thank you anyone else have any questions Miss
Clark yes um I'm asking my question especially before the school SCH board comes up um the school board and the county and the city have done a very good job of expanding the safety at 10 Street where
JD Parker school is I remember when there was just one crossing guard now it's a whole major complicated system but the kids are safe another thing that I'm very concerned about within the city of Stewart and I'm asking now at this
meeting to hopefully get some traction on this is the intersection of Palm Beach Road which is a county govern Road and Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard where students go to Stuart Middle School and other places and it's right
there in front of the aabon and we're just asking for a little sign that says um you know people are crossing or maybe a pavement across Palm Beach Road that shows that it's a Crossing area so I
highlighted um what do we call those Mike we did it for ger yeah yeah highlighted um high high high accessible um uh crosswalk uh situation and if we could just work with the county on that
at Martin Luther King and Palm Beach Road lots of kids crossing there for Stuart Middle School lots of activities there with people walking and biking we just want to highlight just to put pavers along the road of Palm Beach Road
just to highlight that there's that intersection there where there's a lot of Crossing Activity thank you so finally we have the school district update superintendent Michael
Maine and staff good morning everyone Tracy Miller Deputy superintendent on behalf of superintendent Michael Maine we are pleased to be here as always to share the happenings of the Martin County School District with you and we'll kick it off with Mr Mark cist with an update
on Martin County high schools pool good morning everyone Mark secis director of facilities at the Martin County School District I'm going to provide you an update on the Martin County High School pool project so there were two phases to this pool project prior to November 19th that's posted as
the first date we did a full assessment on the pool so it was a professional assessment done with an architect an electrical engineer and actually a pool consultant that report was presented to the board on November 19th when the report was um when the presentation was
finished they had options which invol which involved course of action items so each option um had course of option items listed under it and it was at the board discretion to decide what work they wanted to be done so on November
19th we were given Direction on option number one which involved course of action number one and course of action 6A so what that means to you as the public is there were electrical items under course of action 6A and non-electrical items under course of
action number one so as we move forward through the project that's what the project option is related to so on December 9th we um contacted the contractors the electric elal contractors to do the electrical side of this work so there's two different proposals going out for this project
um then on January 24th we actually got the submitted proposal for the electrical work keep in mind there were three holidays between the November 19th date and the dates as we move forward so we had Thanksgiving break Christmas break and New Year's Eve um and it's
very difficult to start a project during that time frame so that's why there's some gaps and dates on January 27th the fee proposals were reviewed by staff on January 31st we actually
submitted the PO for the electrical work on February 3rd we actually started the proposal request for the items that are non electrical which is course ofi action items number one on February 7th the purchase order was released for the electrical work to the contractor which
means at that point you can actually schedule the work and then move forward with dates on February 12th um the proposal request was completed for course of action number one and then on February 18th the actual electrical contractor
started the work for the electrical items so now on March 21st which is coming up we will get the second proposal for the non-electrical items and then once we get that in for a proposal we will start that work and get that work scheduled so that's essentially the whole whole pool project
as a whole um we are moving forward right now with the electrical items they're being ordered and um installed as they come in so that work is progressing so as backup I won't go through all these line items but it is for your information it lists what items
were listed in course action number one and then the next slides list course of action 6A and that was all located under option one which the board previous selected in the November 19th board meeting keep it I can take any questions
before I hand it back to Dr Miller thank you so before I leave um again we have this slide every every quarter but this is this is our top 24 um capital projects that are currently going on so um if you have any questions on them you can let U Mr M know but um
that board keeps rotating every 12 months thank you thank you Mark I'd like to share with you some information about student enrollment this is always a big topic and everyone's interested in knowing how many students we have enrolled in our
schools so this is actually a a chart that shares the overtime information we call enrollment FTE that's the full-time equivalent that is actually also related to how we receive funding from the Florida Department of Education through the
Florida education Finance program so FTE is very important to us it helps us pay our bills it helps us pay our teachers and keeps our amazing programs and Schools running so you can see these we do take counts for enrollment twice a year that is the February and the
October points that you see over the last several years and you certainly can see the trend that's happening over time again I want to point out these are district operated schools prek to 12 these do not include Charters these do not in include students who participate
in the family empowerment scholarship or any of those other programs so these are the students who you would see in our district operated schools prek through 12 over time and so you can see we are very anxious to increase our
enrollment because we want our we really we want the students in our area to be able to benefit from The Amazing programs and education that we provide and we need for efficiency to fill our building so that we can continue to operate in the most effective way so in
order to do that we have en opened a an enrollment process that began on March 1st and we are calling that our window for fall enrollment application so any family any parent of a student who lives anywhere in the
State of Florida can actually apply to go to our Martin County schools now the first first thing people ask is well who pays for that are Martin County taxpayers paying for a student who comes from somewhere else and the simple answer is no that the Money Follows the child so the FTE program that I
mentioned the Florida education Finance program that funding for students no matter where they live comes to us in Martin County when they participate and are enrolled in Martin County Schools so there are four ways to attend our schools number one you can live right here in Martin County and live within
the attendance zone of the school that you are attending second you can be a child of a Martin County employee we value our employees greatly and one of the benefits is that you can enroll your child in any school of you're choosing in the district by being an employee and
then third and fourth are really related the enrollment process I mentioned the fall enrollment application that's available at martinschools.org is available for any parent of a resident or non-resident and through that application process if you are a resident and you would like your
child to attend a school other than the one that is assigned to you based upon where you live you can apply as a resident or if you are a non-resident but in the State of Florida you can apply as well so that application is open right now and the most upto-date
information we have and I mentioned we're trying to increase the numbers of students in our schools since this opened on March 1st we have 174 applications that would represent new to the district students 60 uh sorry 76 of them are from out of
Martin County and the remainder are students who reside in Martin County but are doing something else for Education right now they might be homeschoolers they might be attending Charter they might be participating in some other form of education and they're interested in coming to our Public
Schools so these are our projected enrollment numbers for the next school year school opens on August 11th 2025 and these are the numb is that if we were opening today this is what you would see in our schools fish stands for
the Florida inventory of school houses it's the number assigned by the Department of Education that is the school capacity for each individual building and in elementary schools we also house preschool programs so we are able to accommodate our preschool students and our kindergarten through fifth grade students you can see that
Bessie Creek is exceeding capacity at this point so there is a wait list for anyone who would like to choice or be a part of the application process for Bessie Creek at the elementary school we do have limited enrollment space Also at
Warfield Elementary you see its nearing capacity and also Jensen Beach Elementary School for secondary schools middle and high you can see that our middle schools are wide open we're very excited to welcome new students into our middle
schools so if there are families out there who are looking for an amazing alternative for their middle school age student any of our five public Run Elementary Schools can be applied to and we would accept students into those schools at this time for next school
year actually you can also apply to go this school year if you'd like to continue the remaining of the school year we could accommodate that as well and then in high school you can see Jensen Beach High School is overc capacity so those families interested would be put on a weit list and capacity
is limited but available at Martin County and southw high schools Dr Miller can I ask a question absolutely is there is there a standard of percentage like for the high school particularly if you get to all the schools are at 95% or higher it forces
the building of another facility or is there a measurement like that or so there is we would first go to Portables we have plenty of space at Martin County High School if you've been on that campus anytime recently you know that there are a lot of Portables right by the pool so we have lots of space in
that way we would utilize that first also many of those Portables are owned by the district so we would move them to other locations and Mark's presentation included future projects for expansion in additional space at our schools thank you you're
welcome so I mentioned that we have space available and an enrollment process and families can choose among many opportunities that we have obviously because we have so many programs and so many options available for those in Martin County those who
attend our schools we can't offer every program at every school so that's why choice is very important to us so that families can choose where they would like to send their child based upon the needs and specific interests of their child so I'd like to introduce Miss Lana baros who will give some information but
I'll stop for some questions first before we move on to Pathways commissioner Collins did you have a question I did I did so and again this is I said this the last time I'm outside sort of looking in right but would you say just in looking
at that this that the trend is you know parents are pulling kids from middle school to home school or where where do you think that those numbers are are dipping with enrollment so it's a really good question and the trend has been that we are lower in middle schools and
students are enrolling you can see our capacity is very high is we are very full in the high schools and less full in the middle schools we do have a great great amount of capacity with only three grade levels 6 seven and8 in middle school so you can see our seats
available are 5600 for Middle for just three grades and 5400 for three grades in middle and four in high school so you can see we just have larger middle schools and therefore more capacity available in the middle schools
you anticipate from a market standpoint that this is going to be a continuing Trend or it's just a moment in time that's sort of a lag from Co so it could be any of the above we are definitely working with our curriculum and instruction team and they have some additional programming
opportunities and things as what I'll call attractor programs and you'll hear a little bit about that from Mrs Barrow to really let the people the parents and students know of those middle schools of middle schoolers what is available and sometimes I think it's just the idea of you've left the one teacher that you've
had you know in fifth grade you had one teacher all day long and then the unknown happens when you go to middle school and you move classrooms and have multiple teachers so we're really opening up opportunities for parents to come in and see what that looks like for students to see how that feels and
really hear from our students to see how they benefit from those opportunities with different teachers different programs and different course opportunities assuming that that's a continued Trend that happens and it's not just a covid uh hangover has there been any
consideration with having your middle schools so vacant po potentially converting a or multiple middle schools if the market seems to not want to have their kids in public school and then put them back in high school absolutely there's opportunity for K8 programs
there's opportunity for us to really have significant movement with our attractor programs and as I mentioned that's kind of why I shared that information we have more than half of the students who are new to the district are those coming from somewhere other
than out of County they are here in County coming back to our schools so we're looking for that to be a positive trend in that direction and we have opportunities for to make some adjustments as you mentioned if we need to in the future thank you you're welcome uh
commissioner C yes my question is uh about IND Indiantown schools in the future uh will will there need to be new schools uh to accommodate the new growth there so we have some planned actually
you will be seeing Mr cist has just put together information for major upgrades and new buildings on the site at Warfield Elementary so we've had many improvements in additional buildings at Indiantown Middle School in the last several years and Warfield is slated
along with Murray middle for some major Renovations including front office additional classroom space renovated classrooms if you're familiar with Warfield the entire front area where you would walk in through the office and the surrounding classrooms those would all be replaced to the south and east with
uh new buildings that will be coming very soon they are next on the list thank you you're welcome commissioner Clark yes thank you m Dr Miller how much is that money that each student travels with again is it $88,500
it varies uh it varies by year and varies by student students with exceptionalities who require additional services and programs receive additional funds and that's through a Matrix formula and then what I'll call the average student for example it costs
more money to educate a um kindergartener than for example a maybe a third grader and then when you get into students who are in specialty programs that you'll hear about such as our CTE programs those obviously are a little more cost costly so that number
does vary by student so there's an unweighted number and then there's a weighted number based upon the intricacies of the services being provided to a child and that is set by the Department of Education each year commissioner caps did you have another question no I'm good thank okay
thank you thank you thank you [Music] I'm good morning I'm Lana baros I'm the director of innovation and choice for the Martin County School District I have
um been here before speaking at the Joint meeting specifically about our Career and Technical education programs and we have a really solid system around those specific programs our career cies so we have over 30 careeres in our high
schools they're all registered careeres so that means that we follow Perkins Law and that all of those acmis um meet size scope and quality they have articulation agreements at postsecondary institutes uh they have industry engagement and
advisory and then they have work-based learning so those pictures you see there are our classrooms and those are solid in addition to our 30 career acmis we also have Collegiate Pathways in all three of our high schools so you're
probably very aware of those we have AP Capstone diploma we have an IB diploma at Southfork and we have the Ace Cambridge at Mark County high school so College and Career Readiness is Alive and Well in our secondary schools and so
we often think think of that graduate and the profile of a graduate um but our push for specialty Pathways is falling from prek prek through high school so we've looked at the end in mind but we
really need to start at the beginning as well so our specialty Pathways we pushing down into our middle schools and with the help of the Education Foundation we have instituted a career exploration lab oh go back um career exploration lab in um all five of our
middle schools that allows all students to become aware of the feeder patterns and as those of you who've been in your seat for quite a long time you know that our careeres are selected to um be Talent pipelines for our local community
so they fulfill the labor market demand that we have and so we put those into our middle schools to bring awareness in the last 5 years we've also added some of these special Pathways into our middle schools specifically so all five
of our middle schools now have a CTE distinctive program along with an accelerated pathway so when I say an accelerated pathway they're obviously not taking college courses in middle school but they're taking High School
courses in middle school or they have a program in their middle school so at Hidden Oaks Middle we have the Cambridge program and then at Murray we have just became an IB candidate school middle school middle year school so that feeds
our high school so that being said we also brought our specialty Pathways down into our elementary schools so how do we make college career Readiness for our elementary students well reading and math proficiency is number one we want them proficient at that so that's for
all of our schools but each one of our elementary schools is working towards having a unique identity so we've gone through this process in the last year to ensure that all of our elementary schools are also having a k through 12
Continuum to make that graduate who we want them to be and so I'm going to actually highlight two of our elementary schools that were selected and were two of our first ones that went through branding one was Pinewood Elementary School so
now they are known as Pinewood School of communication we strategically put commun Comm unication there because Pinewood though it feeds to and Anderson middle and we have communication programs at Anderson Middle it also feeds to all three high schools so those
students will split to all three high schools and then we have communication and audio visual in all three of our high schools so we want to start them with that awareness so that if they continue into that pathway in their High School in their middle school experience they also are able to connect to that
coursework seawind ele is also one of our highlighted schools they are now the leadership academy so they're utilizing leader and me which is uh Dr Stephen kovi um curriculum and that is infused throughout their school
in addition to um core content proficiency and they feed their students are zoned for Anderson midle and Murray midle and so those two schools also have leadership programs in addition to to
ultimately ending up at Martin County High School in South work who also both of those have jrc programs which are our official leadership programs so we're happy to report that we are doing really well with that we say in Martin County
we educate all students for success and if we say we're educating all students for Success this past year we um proved that 73% of our graduates graduated with college career acceleration which is 7 percentage points higher than our state
average which yay that's a really big deal thank you but that also means 25% we didn't catch so that is the goal of this is to really help our students K through 12 get to that place where
they're graduating with a head start on their life and so this is where we go to our next slide here our next slide here really represents our schools K through 12 so it when we think of high school graduation in the school district we
often think of it as getting the students ready for the finish line but we're actually getting them ready for the starting line of their life and we want to give every single one of them a head start so when this young lady was at elementary school didn't seem seemed
like a lifetime away keep going um that she would end up being reading proficient and math proficient when she left and entered Middle School she attended two of our middle schools actually the two that I highlighted
today and then she ended up at hid um Anderson middle school before she headed on to high school and in high school through that pathway she ended up doing the hospitality program and the sports
Recreation program she did dual credit so she graduated with a career certification and a high school diploma and college credit so this this next slide represents her um next column represents her dual enrollment college
credit and that is her proud standing before this stage at her Martin County High School she graduated college career and life ready or what our strategic plan is calling Future Ready she had college credit she had industry CT she
had experience in um a sports team and extracurricular activities and there she is now working as a 19-year-old for uh the college program at Disney so this is what we want for all our kids all of them and so that is our promise to our
community through our specialty Pathways and we already see an uptick in our interest and the volume of applications to enter our schools to be engaged in this work and we're doing a much better time an effort telling that story so the
story is really important so when we talk about those Middle School years though those programs are there but it's really about helping our schools and all of us in our community tell the story of what the outcomes are for our students not just entering but the outcomes of a
success story in her schools and so does if anyone has any questions I'm open to questions now good job oh thank you very much we have great things happening our schools we know that public schools attract families to our community they
boost our property values they Foster a skilled Workforce and of course they contribute to our community so we're happy to offer these programs and I see Miss Clark has a question thank you at JD Parker there's a relationship with
the um airport the sore is it sore program or something what how is that going with in terms of starting people off into that industry I am so happy for your question
I wasn't planning to go there but I am proud to report that it is going extraordinary well so JD Parker Stewart Middle Jensen Beach High School is our first true K through2 Continuum on a industry and that is Aviation
Aerospace uh so we have outcomes we had our very first pilot graduate from Jensen Beach High School as an 18-year-old last year we're doing a pledge to pilot program at Jensen Beach High School and some Embry Riddle dual enrollment courses there but it starts
at kindergarten at JD Parker so we've resurrected our simulation lab there and we have started to investigate the curriculum with the Civil Air Patrol so that work has also started and though since covid our visits to the airport
have decreased we met just this week with our sac and we're developing a plan there to make sure that all those pieces are in place so every grade level at JD Parker has an aerospace experience to start that um awareness and interest so
they hopefully continue in engineering as um future members of our community so it's very exciting stuff so thanks for asking because I wasn't going to share that but I'm so proud of it um if if there's ever the opportunity just like how people have old boats and
things like that if there's some type of a airplane something or other that maybe could be incorporated into an art piece at the school but something that will help you know put that in the minds of students when they're young they wake up
they see it something is at their school whatever it is I don't know I'm just thinking thank you yes we will take any donated planes any time someone has one to offer but we'll go through our our check with our risk Department
first I'll donate my plane um I have a question yes hi Miss BR I hear about our schools on the coast what about Indian Town you know what I mean I'm excited but you know Indian Town my home
what are we doing to get those K kiddles interested in the career path because this is amazing but can we duplicate it in Indian town so I do I don't know about the a new school so I just heard that question presented so it sounds
like our campuses have space for growth Indian toown as a community is zoned for southw high school so Warfield Elementary 100% feeder to Indian Town Middle School M Indiantown Middle School's 100% feeds to South Fork High School so at Indiantown middle we do H
offer a stem career exploration lab so that brings the awareness and the the labs that were chosen there are specific to labor market and South Ork high school so that's number one number two we have we we've had a little bit of a
turnover in our um teacher there so with that being said we've initiated a program a tourism so a tourism allows for some feeder patterns at South Fork High School because we have our strong landscape agricultural program there in
addition to Public Service marine and Auto um technicians so that's why we brought in a tourism we know agriculture tourism is one of the biggest industries in Indian town and so when we're introducing that variety of um a wheel
per se then it's just bringing exposure in terms of high school I don't know maybe maybe one day all the growth out west that would be a great um opportunity to keep our students engaged but and if that were to happen we'd definitely consider and be strategic
about what we place at the school and I'll follow up with that again I've always I'm always concerned of the relationship between the school board and the um private uh Indian Town High School the the you know the
governance of that and how we're making sure that there's absolute coordinated planning and and assistance I'm still not sure how that all works because I know they have their own um directors but I just want to make sure that that
our students are getting from Indian Town middle school going to the high school which is um under a different it's not a part of the school board system this power Marsha thank you so I
can talk a little bit about Indiantown High School um we absolutely coordinate services and offer support through the school district in fact I know we are doing that uh right now as we speak
um but also I think that you should come out and visit Indiantown high school because they had their first graduating class A group of 12 students that graduated early and had you been if you were to attend or you I think you can go back and watch it on video there were 12
students that graduated early um because they want to go to work um the school uh Indiantown High School chose not to not to hold them their graduation until May so that they could actually get to work um one of the
students was um had an amazing story and Angelina can probably talk about it a little bit more than uh give you more details but everyone in the room was basically in tears it was a student that was not um thriving in a traditional
setting he was accepted at Indiantown High School um very cautiously because there were had been some behavioral issues um he graduated a semester early um and the teachers got together and gave a scholarship to him because he um
is was in the welding program which has a weight list at Indiantown high school and they bought they gave him a scholarship to be able to purchase helmets and gloves and the tools that he would need to go right to work and that is his plan and he was being pursued by
industry um businesses in Indiantown that actually weld so those are the success stories and I invite you to come out please contact me or Angelina and I know that they'd be happy to give you a tour so you can see what's happening and see the coordination with the Martin
County School District thank you and to just piggy back off of that it's just really important that we we all remember we are in a school choice state right and so with that we do have fluidity so we see students come and go
and so we still share them they're are there are residents and they're part of our school system and so we do work hard with our four Charters here locally to ensure that they're following their requirements to meet their eligibility
and also that we're supporting them because in the end their success is our success so we do that work too so thank you for the question commissioner Vargas yes uh I think it's exciting um the variety of programs are offering as
a former high school teacher in the County School System I'm reading endorsed and I understand about the reading component critical for success in life I also uh International balarat teacher and I understand about the other
programs that you're offering had you thought about a um Health Science component those that want to go into the medical field that is an exploding field especially in our area so we do so uh we work closely with Economic Council and
Business Development so we are aware of the six hubs of Excellence here in Mark County so healthc care is one of our strongest programs we have Healthcare in all three of our high schools we also have Healthcare at Anderson Middle School and we're starting Health
Sciences and Technology at Crystal Lake Elementary School can I just add that uh the pass rate for students completing that program and the credential that goes along with with that is um well above
the state average and it's some of our schools it's been 100% so the health science program is very strong that is correct so that is our perfect pass rate I feel very terrible if we don't continue that for probably 8 years we've
had 100% pass rate for our CNA test so we put about 100 CNAs into the workforce every graduating class in the last 3 years we've added additional certifications and coursework in our high schools under the medical umbrella
so we have also offered um certified medical assisting so we started that last year and photomy and um EKG tech EKG tech you seem to have covered quite a bit so you
you talked about students are they able to Shadow uh pas or doctors because this is a very real experience that is indelible then in their mind so all of our programs whether it it's medical welding
HVAC are required for us to register them as um an academy they're required to have a work-based learning component so the medical ones are the most stringent just because they're in Florida statute and governed by the department of of health and nursing um
so our CNAs are required to do 40 clinical hours we do those 20 we do in a nursing home and then 20 are done at the hospital and so we do the same for our certified medical assisting program an administrative assistant program those students are pushing into doctor's
offices in the hospitals to do that side of the work and then our exercise science program those students are on the sidelines of our own athletic programs um with our trainers just doing tier one level of of support which would be like wrapping
ankles icing students and so that's their hands-on experience commissioner Clark thank you so I know that the boys and girls club has been developing their culinary for after school care home there and I know
that Martin County High School has a big culinary program and I want to make sure that we all the other schools have that also and are you encouraging that for the in for the charter school at Indian town if the people are involved with the charter school I don't if it's big
enough to have something like that there but we currently have the culinary program oh you do we just uh started it in January okay thank you any other questions anyone well thank you very much thank
you all for having me look me up I'll give you a tour we'd love to showcase our schools and share more get you more information information if you're interested so thank you so [Applause] much okay thank you my name is Jennifer
corkin I'm the director of prek programs with the Martin County School District I'm here today to share with you some exciting uh event that we recently had um to increase excitement about attending kindergarten at our schools for the past few years we've offered a kindergarden blastoff I've included some
pictures there from our most recent event um we are welcoming our students into to our campuses um it's a great uh opportunity for them to get to meet their teachers and see where they're going to be um having their lunch and going to the library and things like
that um we utilize kindergarten ambassadors to hold this program which are kindergarten teachers they work very hard to coordinate with their school and schedule these events oh sorry okay um this was our attendance from our most recent event we had 564
families attend that was an increase over last year of 56 families um and you can see some of our schools were very highly attended um and kind of goes along with our enrollment okay and that was just a brief little thing about our kindergarten kickoff is there any
questions or anything concerning this I don't really have a question but but just to encourage families to um get your children registered for voluntary pre kindergarten um we do have spots open in our Public School VPK programs
but the VPK program in the State of Florida would not be successful without private providers as well and parents are entitled to that free VPK um about 80% of the providers are privately um run programs so please uh get your
certificate and get your children enrolled in a highquality voluntary pre kindergarten program because we do know that if a child completes those um that voluntary pre kindergarten program about 75% of them are ready on the day they
start kindergarten so and we do do not see those types of numbers for the kids do who do not attend a highquality VPK program thank you Mrs poers yes we have VPK in all of our 12 elementary schools and we are currently enrolling commissioner Clark yes May m
Powers maybe you can help me with this I know that this is the elected officials for City County and school board but I was wondering if maybe sometime on the agenda for the school board especially if we could get this nonprofit Group which is the Early Learning Coalition
just to tell us a little bit about themselves and what they're doing for families and children at that stage and I don't know if if we could just do that well again Miss Clark I would be happy to talk to you about the Early Learning Coalition and what we do um I I would
love for you to visit some of um I know you're very familiar with a lot of our providers um gerud Walden I know you're very familiar with but I I'm happy to share all about um the programs that we offer in the birth to five space yeah i' just like if they would at least you
know if we could have some information they could say something to the public at one of these joint meetings even though they're not one of our bodies thank you okay any other questions with that I will adjourn the
meeting thank you all for coming