advisory committee meeting this is February 12th 2025 at approximately 2 p.m. uh and do the roll call Mr Thomas Bradford here Russ Redmond Brad freeze here clay
Damon Joe W here marish shouse here way chance here okay um does anyone need to make any changes to the agenda sorry she said Maurice I thought I saw did she say marce wow I didn't I'm so I'm so sorry
we can go back and do it again Michelle I didn't hear that did not hear that we're good everybody's here now okay even Maurice even Maurice rightrice so does anyone have any
additions deletions or modifications to this agenda no as written therefore I make a motion to approve the agenda as submitted second motion carries or sorry all those
in favor say I I nay zero motion carries um Communications from citizens I'm busy okay um all right so
presentations uh mag did you um approve the minutes did I I thought that's oh presentations are first yeah sorry you're out of order um so Meg will be uh presenting on green and
sness thank you good afternoon everyone uh thank you for allowing me to present to you the second part of our Green Building certification presentation in this one we are going to talk about local municipalities and the codes that they have in place to encourage Green
Building all right so as we spoke about previously we are looking at the four types of certification systems this is not a conclusive list but these are the ones that are very popular we have lead which is comprehensive and globally recognized fgbc which is regionally
focused on Florida's specific needs ngbs geared toward residential buildings and energy star which focuses on Energy Efficiency so the first city that we will look at is Del Beach new construction or additions consisting of
15,000 square ft require minimum Green Building certification they do have multiple options this could be fgbc ngbs or lead new buildings or additions consisting of more than 50,000 Square ft shall achieve lead silver or
equivalent at the time of the building permit the applicant must provide sign and sealed affidavit checklists and proof of registration with Green Building entity prior to coo prior to co certificate is to be provided delr Beach
also asks for a bond or letter of credit for private developers the sliding Bond of 3 to 6% depending on the square footage and if certification is not completed it will be forfeited forfeited invested into sustainability The Village Wellington is
currently going through a Zone zoning text amendment to mimic the delr ordinance the city of Stewart so green development standards to credit Green Building elements for new renovation projects lead points are used to qualify
these projects the incentives are not specified expeditor review process is guaranteed only after a green review preat meeting and written confirmation that the project does in fact qualify applicants receive an anticipated
expedited review timeline and and additional incentives are not specified but approve but are subject to the approval of the development director so here we have some municipalities locally that do not have any green building
codes and here we have some floorida municipalities that do have Green Building incentives so the next two slides these are very soft numbers it's just to kind of give you an estimate on what the price estimates would look like and and
what savings would look like so for lead certification that's going to be the most expensive it's 15 to 40 fgbc and N GBS are both in the middle there energy star is the most cost effective when it comes to savings total
annual savings lead is the highest fgbc and ngbs are about the same however fgbc does come in a little bit higher and energy star is the least savings now we're going to look at a
6,000 ft commercial space again these are just very soft numbers to give you an idea certification prices lead is the most expensive fgbc and ngbs are in the middle there and then energy star is the most cost effective when we look at savings this
one is a little bit different lead you have a total annual savings of4 to $441,000 which is obviously very big that's over the life of the project fgbc ngbs those are the same and energy star is also oh gosh did I say it wrong guys
I am so sorry when we're talking about certified price estimates fgbc ngbc and energy star on the commercial are all in the same wheelhouse I'm I probably misspoke there did I well again here are the total annual
savings lead is the highest fgbc and ngbs are in the middle and energy star is kind of catching up but still again the lowest here we have some municipalities incentivizing Green Building everybody uses Expediting permitting um areas with
higher density use the density bonuses and about half if not more use reduced fees green incentives intoa Jay you want just gonna jump in on this one um so we um we talked to our building department
our building official Wayne Cameron um after a lengthy discussion about you know the value of having this um we were able to kind of talk him into agreeing to wave up to 10% of building permit fees which is pretty good right a lot of building officials they're very um they
like to protect their money um they like to they like to keep coming in so it was very good that we got him to agree to to that so he he has agreed to wave up to 10% of of the fees so right so if someone had a someone came in for a new new single family home and it was a
$115,000 fee they'd say $1,500 it's not going to offset the cost the total cost as you saw but it might soften the blow a little bit um we've also gotten the building department to agree to do expedited plan review and to do priority inspections it's probably not as big of
a deal to offer that as it would be in like Chicago or New York where you know it may take you a year to get through the plan review process and where you may be in there may be 5,000 inspections going on a day we're usually pretty quick here but we can definitely
exhibite it and give people priority review priority inspections um so that's just another little care that we could throw into it and then in looking at how we would offer the 10% building permit fee reduction you know and looking at the different certifications and the
cost and what you'd have to actually provide you know we didn't think it'd be fair to to give a 10% the same reduction someone get for an energy star as they would for lead Platinum so then you know if you look there's kind of four tiers of certifications which is really based
on kind of the lead structure which is just lead certified would be tier one lead silver is tier two lead gold is tier three and Lead Platinum is tier four so you know 2 and A2 five 7 and 1 half 10 and then fgbc and
ngbs the the kind of lower tier there is probably not even worth giving incentives to it's really pretty it's really pretty small so then we would kind of slide it up so that their their tier two would be the same as leads tier two and get slightly
less um and then energy star there's only one certification type and and that's probably the equivalent of of somewhere between tier and two and tier three so you know we recommend the 5% so that's kind of staff's recommendation
um and that's all we've got um I'm I'm going to be taking kind of a we call it a glitch list where we update a lot lot of different things in our zoning code at the same time um so one of the things I was going to do is update the the the
prohibited species list that we did I think last month so I can do this and that at the same time and just kind of roll it into a code update and get this done pretty quickly so if the EAC is open to it um we'd like to take some
language like this to council for for adoption into the code but if you have any other suggestions or ideas we're open to listening that's it so when you say the this language um you're talking similar to
what Del Ry Beach had as an ordinance no so Del delay Beach is is mandatory Green Building so if you're if you're doing a certain size project I think it was 15,000 square F feet you have to you have to do the lower tiered ones and if you're over 50,000 you have to do like
the higher tiered yeah so that's mandat mandatory so you know right now we've got like the the Bank of America but old Bank of America is getting Rec converted to a Chipotle you know we we'd say well you're going to have to make this lead
certified uh which it's a big leap so we can we'll certainly call the council's attention to that but I think it's a big leap to to make it mandatory um but sorry go yeah but if you're if the if the EAC wants us to we
can we can suggest it to them but no I was just wanted that for clarification um so basically you're just incentivizing through this yeah okay yeah incentivizing not mandating so you get the you get the reduction of your permit fee and then you'd get expedited plan review and inspections and and
we'll while we're doing that we'll create like a Green Building thing on our in our building department and planning department's website and share links and you know encourage people will do some stuff in Social Med Med encourage people to do green building but nothing
mandatory as of yet so these U uh incentives that we're seeing on the screen right now and the tears and the certification firms
um that would apply to all forms of uh construction except for like Public Works type stuff right could be yeah so commercial residential mixed use etc etc everything and then energy star so I
take it it's morphed into something more than appliances and fixtures and I'm I'm not familiar with how they what they've morphed into they it apparently it's similar otherwise you wouldn't have had
that on the list were you here from X other presentation the first one the first one yeah yeah yeah she went over it let's see so yes eny star has kind of evolved from your fixtures and your appliances to overall home certification and Commercial and I think they even do
like Community municipality but it's it's really much like the other ones where you apply you meet their criteria and then they come back and say hey great job energy star is unique in the fact that it's either you get a certification you don't get
the certification so there's no teers on that one um and then additionally they are solely focused on Energy Efficiency they're not looking at Florida they're not looking at residential it's just about sa is it still a program of
EPA I will verify that for you because U I don't even want to say it I'm GNA have to say it later but so you can go and say I should go ahead and say you can say it I'm going have to say it during the GR ation in Washington may
say that's not all going to be allowed anymore but uh or or funded who knows but you can still have it on our code and if ever comes back in four years from now although it's be in the code any other questions um just a
general thinking out loud as a a developer Builder comes in and they're looking at if they wanted to do the max the lead tier for 10 grand and they get uh 1,500 off or
whatever as an incentive from the village and expedited uh process do we feel like that's enough to encourage them to actually so it's so it's 10% and on a commercial project it it
could probably pencil out right so if it or like on the highrises that were just approved you know a couple years ago on Beach Road where you're talking 40,000 or 50 I mean4 million or $50 million valuation um that permit fee would be that 10% would be pretty
substantial okay on a single family home it's going to be tough uh but you know on a on a $3 million house which is typical now which is not uncommon these days um I wish I had had I thought I was
thought about running these numbers beforehand but it's it's 2% of the permit fee so what's three could be30 $60,000 just for a single family home so 10% of that would
be 3,000 is 6,000 so you're offsetting it's a little nice yeah it's it's not going to complete but then you as mag pointed out you're also getting projected Energy savings too right so so we're we're giving you a little bit of
cash and then you would also be saving money over 5 10 15 years on the actual Energy savings right so and would we assist with um helping them promote that
they've utilized this in terms of marketing Village support that's a good suggestion I know Megan had some ideas about that kind of highlighting when when people do get certifications highlighting it so so the community is aware of it and because otherwise you
would never know and then it's creates more interest lead they do like a plaque on the building I don't know if you've seen them before I want to say like the the Miami Museum has a nice big one um I personally think if we get somebody in here that's interested then yeah of course we would want to
share that information with the community even a celebration of some sort just to really make it visible um again for encouragement to show yeah I I I remember we talked about that when we first as one of the Came Upon the
subject but you know some people might not want it but yeah we we could do it we could you know make it take a photograph or the homeowner and spouse or whatnot and say and maybe more so towards commercial
building that we could make a a lot more visual than a homeowner because like you said not all homeowners are going to want to be recognized but they might I'm not sure it's allowed but can when you're when people are going to
call or ask or try to search out the builders that do these certifications are are we allowed to recommend or have a few that are on our Village website that you know hey these guys this is we can never yeah we can
never recommend just one I think it generally has to be at least three can you do like three or five people you know builders that offer this kind of put links in those green building and then when you go there they
have like a search CU that help you know yeah there there's there's yeah there's a lot of those sources online so I can't remember which city it was I looked at but one of the cities has a lot of different links and there's a Florida Green Building Coalition that has a lot of links so we
could also share share then you find make it easy you know to help them help lead people to the builders that are going to that's the biggest block that when I was building like I'll have access to who does this one one of our
biggest challenges to this being high highly utilized is the fact that we're mostly built out so in a place like Palm Beach Gardens where you had couter building Alton recently they did they did maybe five or 10 different prototype of a green building model and then
people could then say well I'll I'll take that one yeah and then if you're building a thousand houses you might get 10 15 20 of them um whereas here you're you're not having any there's really no subdivisions there's maybe one opportunity for a subdivision type
project to happen um so we're not going to get a lot of that it's going to be Custom Homes and I think a lot of that's just going to be it's going to have to be from the it's I mean it's going to be an affluent homebuilt buyer that says to their
to their custom home builder and says hey I'd like to go lead matters to me yeah this matters to me I'd like to go lead and let's let's find a way to make it happen but even we don't have build up opportunities new but we have lots of opportunities for purchase of commercial
property tear down and build up so we want to be able to have something in place for that that's true yeah that's what they're doing that's what's happening yes that's most that's definitely most likely to be used as as commercial yes and that's where we incentives okay
so in ter so I take it that U we don't see much value or staff sees does not see much value in offering expedited review I don't think it's needed because
we're already pretty pretty quick and most people know that but like I said it's we're offering it you know it's it's it'll be part of the incentive package but I don't think people are going to be you
know waiting lining up to do it because of that because they know they already know we're we're pretty quick but like I said Chicago I think is a city that's notorious they they have a Green Building program but they're a city that's known to take forever to get
permitted and inspections and reviews and so the because of that the developers are like well we've got to Green Building cuz otherwise we're going to be held up for months and and that's a cost savings you can actually get by not having to right waste that
time well what Ju Just so I have it in my head maybe seal glass might be an example but what what would you estimate that the typical turnaround time for a
building like that might be for from for the permitting process so go through our our development Review Committee which is multiple departments and we're we're typically getting comments back to people within a month
whereas Palm Beach County would be three months so we'll get comments back to people generally within a month they then make some updates get it back to us we have comments back in three weeks because it's a less thorough review then same thing and then two weeks and then
and then they're pretty much at planning and zoning board I mean for instance we just had a project that's going to council tomorrow night um it's 358 Cypress uh it's an existing building that someone's renovating and remodeling um and I think they submitted
it or we started reviewing it in like August and it was already at our planning zoning Board in December um so it's pretty quick pretty quick compared to most places we anything no nothing can you go back a few slides to where it CHS the
cost of each yeah so this is commercial yeah that one the commercial one's fine so l so the lead 50 to 150 including certification fee and
construction upgrades is that where' you get the that range is that again these are just really General okay numbers so if I had a 6,000 foot commercial space approximately how this okay all right so
kind of a gauge a little bit all right and the range is wide because there's you know certified all the way up to platinum yeah okay any other questions there's any other questions okay thank you Meg so what so
what what do you guys need from us at this time blessing if you want to just give a a blessing to kind of staff's proposed recommendations would be helpful yeah this was one of the things that I was going to talk about when we talk our
strategic goals so we can revisit it when we get there I would only just add the marketing support piece great idea I agree with that and educational and educational and
and a reference to um resources yeah resources that's huge that really is a huge chunk M that that can sway somebody forget it we go with it all right thank you all right thank
you all right uh next up consent agenda um guess does anyone have a problem with the minutes additions delet modifications to the January
8th um meeting no no no I'll make a mo go ahead Jill I move to accept the January 8th agenda as written minutes minutes as written
second second okay um all those in favor I I all those opposed motion passes uh old business under our regular agenda um I did have an opportunity to
to view the uh January meeting um so there was a lot of I guess ideas and and input I just wanted to bring this to kind of finality U since this will be our last meeting prior to
the uh the evening presentations in March um it was a while ago since I viewed that uh the January meeting but
the the time date and place is is set um it's going to be uh March 4th time is 6:00 to 7:30 and it's going to be at the
taquesta recreational center um I'm going to go back to the title but content um I am planning on three uh well not planning we're going to have three
presentations um and the Order of those presentations I would like in a logical way meaning uh something perhaps from staff maybe from Margery I know you had mentioned the resiliency study we can probably come up
with that but something that you know this is the living Shoreline ordinance or this is the reason we have a living Shoreline ordinance uh the next presentation will
be uh from the refore Ming they're going to I've talked to them they're probably going to do a joint presentation uh since you know they're not exactly the same but uh they provide
natural and engineered living Shoreline structure uh and then the final one is going to be from Peter DT uh reviewing I guess his what has transpired at galona and and what
is on the uh Horizon for galona um and and that third presentation is kind of okay here is a living Shoreline and here is why we did it sort of like this is the reason Desta has it
these are the solutions if you will and then number three this is all of that in action um each presentation is approximately 15 to 20 minutes um you know of course that'll be
like EMC I guess and uh I'll introduce the EAC if you guys are available uh and you show up and um and then I'll introduce each presentation as it as it goes on in the
evening um that's kind of the rough idea um all of the speakers are are on so you know the presentations are AO uh any questions about
that Mar's again what what's her P it was yeah it was mentioned in one of the other a couple months ago maybe and and Jay um Can Explain better but um he had mentioned that there was a resiliency study done by Marjorie um here which
well I thought about the resiliency study but then that they're also doing a do ditch living shorelines right now it's under construction so I thought that maybe she could share that she's hard it's hard to get her to commit to things I know she's she's very busy so what I could probably do is just
incorporate that in my presentation what I think I'll do is to to to kick off my thing is is say you know the village is has adopted this living shorelines ordinance and it's kind of a um mandatory thing when you're repairing
your seaw wall but we would also like to find ways to encourage people to do these things voluntarily and on their own and for instance we're doing this cool project and then show them some pictures of the do ditch project and say Hey you know we're we're putting our money where our mouth is and then um say
you know the people that are going to be talking after me which be M and reef arches and Jona are going to show some cool other cool examples of living shortlands projects and I think you you hit on something um
it's mandatory um and I think people who come to this meeting are going to be coming because well in my mind anyway uh it's going to be primarily the people that live along the water I would imagine
yeah um maybe not I could be wrong but I'm thinking that would be the case and I I have a feeling they're going to want to know every every little detail of that um that ordinance since it is mandatory sure that's the big change
yeah right and I I would say probably a vast majority of them don't even know yeah but are you are you suggesting that we explain it to them at the meeting in detail I can I can go over the high level the high level stuff I
can do that in two or three minutes I mean if they want to you know get into the weeds with it I mean they can just go and read the ordinance or um make appointment with yeah or J yeah um good I think your outline that
is fantastic I'm just I'm assuming that we're not going to be stuck on like one hour and the bell goes off and but because I could see it being up to an hour and a half but I I think uh an hour might be wishful
thinking but it's a good Target yeah I mean that that's it's hard you know difficult especially if you know after every presentation there's an opportunity for questions and answers I mean Jay's part could drag on for a
while you don't know but uh with the Q&A um you know I'm going to try to police that and keep it moving uh it is 6:00 to 7:30 just to give us maybe a little extra leway um because I think we had started talking six to
seven um so that's the content okay uh the advertisement uh I think that was pretty simple you found a an address list of the waterfront homes we're going to uh mail something hard copy to each one of those addresses and then publish
it on the E newsletter the the the E newsletter in our social media social media I think this thing that's on the big screen right now is fantastic we've got an even better one that Meg's TR desperately
trying to pull up if you want to pass what it looks like so we're working on a few things we found some other examples of living shorelanes workshops and we're just oh yeah good kind of using that as the basis don't reinvent the wheel exactly and Meg knows how to use AI she
does AI images very well so nice really this is this is AI right yeah this is not that's an AI picture it's crazy I realize you do um so really the only thing and I I don't
think there was finality to it is the title of the is this what we've come up with that was just she was just kicking around some ideas so we're open to any any suggestions um or what was it that we came up with at the end of the I
wasn't here so I don't know but it seemed like there was a lot of discussion about ordinance being in the title and you know and I I don't know there was any finality was if anyone remembers there was no finality no finality typed up a couple random things
what what were they CU to refresh our memories the ones that I have uh that we did yeah that we tossed around I I don't remember the things that I had written down was living shorelines a community a community commitment to sustainability we had living shorelines the green one
has a different tagline okay so that one that one okay protect our Shores preser our future that's it I protect our Shores preserve our future and then I had a third one that I've written down
but did any of those went out I so it seemed as if the word ordinance would no one wanted to in the title yeah I remember I started out supporting I know I heard I was like I'll be
there um and since it's mailing out to the water side residence I I feel like that is oh this this could impact me I want to go see what it's about it's just my opinion but I also like the um the this
one that you just said um for the future does it protect shorelines for the future protect our sh protect our Shores preserve our future I like that and then maybe under it you could
put something about the ordinance we're going to actually have a a letter to them so when when the mailers go out it'll have like the flyer the catchy flyer and then there'll be a letter and that letter will say things like come learn about our ordinance and
you know Jona Reef arches and we can because some people might want to go and not be able to attend we can put links in to the to the actual ordinance and to direct them to the website so some people may want to learn about it on their own some may want to come MH no that's a good as long as it's in
the content somewhere yeah what about the media platforms like Friday news website it's your page maybe yeah we're going to we're going to get it in the newsletter for the two weeks building up to it so NE it'll be next we'll get in next Friday's newsletter
and then the one after that and then we'll have at least one maybe two on social media um which will be the which will be the catchy thing right you always want to catch people's eye with with a good image so we'll put we'll put one of those on the Facebook page and catch
some attention that way MH so we it'll be a pretty wide net and honestly I've done these type of things for 15 years we may have two people come we may have 25 people come but at least we're
trying and some people may just like the fact that that we put it out on on social media and that that may be all they need to see so don't feel bad if no one shows up right um go
ahead the uh you you read three potential titles right can you read those again I can sorry all right living shorelines a community commitment to
sustainability Liv living shorelines protecting preserving and playing on our waterways and living shorelines protect our Shores preserve our ches I like three I like one and
three I think I liked the first one I think I like the first one as well again sure little mem on that number one oh
it's three oh three I like three all right should we put it up to a vote then all right let's move this along I think I've got one two or three I can't remember all right let's put it she's pulling them up okay living
shorelines you are you trying to pull it up yes me yes okay all right so this is one and of course the I can that's number one right yes that was living sh lines protect our Shores preserve our future
that was three before that was three sorry you want to make it now it's it was antip had a nice for you both are odd this one this one the photo looks like I'm in South Carolina on the coast and it's
got a lot of words so I ped Numero Uno over numero do yeah yd um but what about the slogan because the yeah what was the the title is important yeah what was the third
oneone of like we're down to okay one of all right so number one is on the left just the wording though just the title wording and number two is on the right I'm going to put it up to a
vote all those in favor of title number one on the left side of the screen raise your hand yeah okay that's unanimous good all right oh good so we go with title number
one write that down that's the I like them I think so I like it I still want ordinance in there somewhere it'll be in the letter in the letter the problem is I hope it gets that far you know what I mean and I said a lot of times I'll just read the title
and be like yeah but ordinance would especially the folks that live on the water be like what yeah pass this back okay so that's done I think let's
see yeah all right so we're done with that does anyone have any other comments about this meeting in the beginning of next month you've done great thank you very much for organizing well Jay does his job as well thank you Jay thank you
both okay next up is new um under old business uh this one's important we need to discuss what I need to put into a memo to present or to give
to council and I guess staff or the manager with regard to the EAC strategic initiatives um I'd like to finalize this because I have to get it to those folks ASAP okay so I need to write it um what
I will do is take well first of all share with you what I think that we've discussed in the past and what I think we've kind of agreed on and we can discuss that or if you want to add anything to it we can do
that as well uh what I'll do is summarize and put it into a memo uh and then I'll probably send it to you for your proof and then he'll send it out for everyone else's proof to give it the final okay if that's all
right so uh number one um and when I say this it's not just for Budget um I'm going to go into a little more detail but supporting the living Shoreline initiative um and there will
be bullets I guess uh that explain uh why and what we um think are important from a strategic uh perspective um secondly Street
Scapes um same same deal uh third Green Building initiatives um fourth uh continued and um I don't know if new support would be appropriate but at least continued
support of state and County efforts to conserve public lands um I don't know if that's really I mean I guess as a committee we can keep our eye out for things but and
and let uh Council know if we come across something but um you know just for kind of yes our stamp of approval we need to um keep the uh those uh conservation areas is
conserved um can I interrupt please do um so do we this is really a question for you Jay so tell me if I'm wrong if something is in the Strategic plan that that tends to
mean that the council in the legislative session will will support things that will make that likely to happen happen or is the Strategic plan completely separated from their
legislative priorities the legislative this is more probably of a Jeremy question but the legisl legislative priorities is separate from the strategic planning the strategic planning process is more
budgetary and Village Project Specific so so more for for ongoing Village initiatives legislative priorities are things that matter to the council that they want our lobbyist to kind of fight for in the current legislative
session when when is the anticipated time of the year where Brad will have to come to a workshop and explain to them the work that EAC has done in the prior year so I
believe we did that last fall where that's kind of the over rview of of what you've been working on and this year strategic planning is I think just kind of swamped so we would so the council and the village manager
have asked or the mayor and Village manager have asked that Brad write a a memo outlining strategic goals for the upcoming year rather than have to present it because there's limited time okay I just needed to get that all in my
head yeah got back in the line pardon I got shoved to the back of the line oh no um and my final one is uh urge Council uh to push WM to
provide to Questa with single stream recycling containers or a single stream recycling solution um so that's 1 two 3 4 4 five it's going to be a long
memo um does anyone have any discussion with regard to the living Shoreline and streetscapes streetscapes um I feel like they're backing away from
Old Dixie Highway because they ran into you know roadblocks with the county um but you know I thought about it and I you know I know that there's a way to Strongarm those guys and I have done that
before and you know just because they say you got to do this you can go over their head you can put the screws to them big time uh so I don't think they need to surrender on Old Dixie because it's one of the ugliest thoroughfares in
taquesta it needs to be repaved they're they're they they're fighting toqua on wanting raised medium for planter beds to beautify the whole thing I think they should not give up that fight and if
they want my help I'll be head do it volunteer for free I mean well the good the good news on that is that we're working on the Mobility plan which just kicked off and the Mobility plan is being run by a very well-known engineering company but the main project
manager is a landscape architect so he's going to incorporate a lot of plac making Street shaping beautification stuff into that Mobility plan and I know I know Doug Chambers our Public Works director Jeremy Allen myself we're all going to kind of push for that um one of
the big things I've I've noticed and Doug and I have noticed we don't have enough color in the village there's a lot of there's a lot of green but there's not enough kind of that pop of color that you see in some places so that's one thing that we want worked into it and um there's going to be two public meetings
for the Mobility plan would love for all of you to attend those and kind of give any suggestions you have as well we don't have those set yet but it'll be probably March April May sometime I just say this quick footnote a recent uh
meeting of my HOA we had people saying to us there was the adopted treat thing into quest which I think is being changed right now but they saying we want the canopy we want the canopy into quest of pies
now Doug and Jeremy they may not they don't like the root impact and everything but I'm telling you that's what people want they love that shade that lets them walk run play whatever agree so yeah I think that's great I'm
glad you put it on the list I support it all the way I was just wanting to reiterate some aspects related to it so may maybe incorporate what you're say incorporate the Old Dixie into the memo so not just streetscapes but as an
example as an example um yeah okay um Green Building we just had a wonderful presentation um uh I don't know what really needs to
be discussed it was thoroughly presented um we had an opportunity to ask our questions I mean if you want my opinion of course I think the AC should support this effort uh in exactly the way that was
presented agreed agre we've been a year of it so yeah it's that it's so I'll incorporate that um we talked that and recycling as any
went against explain to me the singles what did what you call so I hearkened back to the gentleman who came from WM and gave us a presentation and uh I think it was Stuart that he had mentioned that they do a single stream recycling in Stewart where you have one
bucket and you throw aluminum cans paper everything into it they come and pick it up it's sorted at a fa you know some facility uh and he said correct me if I'm wrong on this number if you remember Jay uh it was
over 30% more recyclable material is collected when you had a single stream versus that same unpitying separate so you know in my mind it makes
sense it's just easier to toss all your recycling into one you know yeah and he said the reason why we don't have access to that here is because our facility is the actual processing facility is not set up for single stream dual stream but
I did I think I recall him saying it may have how squeaky the wheel is right to get that facility to change yeah squeaky wheel okay
maybe can our Council be a squeaky wheel um I don't know I think it's worthwhile I mean I I was blown away by the 30% number um I knew it would increase but not by that much does it allow you to have like one of those new
bigger bins that dumps automatic the poor guy up to yeah I mean maybe yeah maybe um I think I do remember him saying that it is an easier proposition for collection the back end is having to
separate it at the facility um which I see now with our regular garbage um I mean those guys are coming at least three hours earlier than they used to in my neighborhood on our garbage collection day I believe it was
Martin County saying Martin County has the single stream that's where we started hey why can't we have that and the facility the processing facility has the capability to do uh single stream processing I think at one point we even inquired as to why would is there a
possibility that we could uh engage a process with Martin County's management instead of just Palm Beach County and of course we don't know the answer to that but that was something that we were talking about we don't quite remember how waste management is
structured but it I mean it's all under one umbrella they might have District a South district and then we just happen to be on the border and then they have a North District and maybe that facility sits on the North District I don't know
but it would seem to me that close enough to you know they want to continue to pursue it's worthwhile so unless someone is dead said against it I think it is worthwhile putting into the memo does anyone have any additions to
this I think you hit the nail on the head relative to the things that we've been focusing on the last 12 to 15 or so months okay all right good all right well if there's no more discussion I'll go on to our new
business um this was a grant that Jay actually uh had emailed and um it really fits quite nicely uh our living
Shoreline initiative and and project um let me pull up can I say bad news now brother oh no so I saw this Grand I was like we're perfect for it it's great but it got yanked it's it looks like it's going to
get the axxe from from from from the Doge team damn it's already on The Hit List really and it's funny I was I was looking at the Grant and they say that it says priority will be given to F fiscally distress communities as identified in the climate and economic
Justice screening tool and there's link to it so I clicked on it and it's already disabled and so I Googled it I'm like and sure enough there's all these news articles about how people are trying to find workarounds to that tool being
disabled um but on the so New York Times has The Hit List from Doge and the urban and Community forestry program is is on it it's 14 million of federal dollars that gets dispersed out to to the states to then manage and so there's a Poss possibility
that it will survive but it's it's also possible that we spend a ton of time on the Grant and it's it's not even there is there a timeline as to when we'll kind of know probably not so the grant the grant is
due in a month from yesterday so the grant the Grant application due a month from yesterday and then the award period is in June and then the money is not dispersed until the fall so it's possible that you could even you could
even win this award and while it's and in the fall that the money is not even there to dispers in in the fall do you know approximately how much money the state gets the state was only getting $200,000 for this one which is also not
also scares me I think that we could put together an absolutely phenomenal application because M and reef arches would be partnered with us on it but they're only giving out four Awards up to $50,000 for each award so
there's not even a ton of money for it but you know I'm thinking if I was uh a legislator a legislator the uh I'd figure out a way to to fund it with Florida
dollars and if they did that they should if they did that and we had our application in and we and they ranked us in the top four or whatever you were talking about then maybe we get them upy that's 50 50 Grand is the max mhm well I
think there's some similarities to uh Florida Department of Environmental Protection grants that I've come across um to this one yeah so there might be a mechanism already in place and maybe even already funded
that you know like we've been discussing that we as a community can can uh at least sign our name to like in the case of Jupiter and Aros um it's just
another this is like another bucket of money that is a potential money for the project so you I take you would rather just not deal with it but are are you open to looking at these things that Brad said he thinks may exist that's
that yeah that Brett and I had talked about this that that we we still pursue this mang project that that you guys have identified but look at funding from alternative sources which could be the council it could be private funding
sources um and I mean we can still go for this grant uh it the the one benefit to it is it it's not it's a no match Grant so we don't have to provide any Financial match which means it doesn't have to go in front of council for
approval um how labor intensive is the process that's the problem um it's a little labor intensive and we're we're a little tied up in the next month or two but I I mean Meg and I might be able to pull together by by March 11th if if
this Federal uncertainty wasn't there I I we could we could just plow through it but it makes me it it it worries me that we're going to you know not focus on things like the Mobility plan which is like the number one priority for a Village Council for me to be working on
right now and then I I don't want to give 80% to that for this that could could be a losing proposition so it's understand challenging you got to do what your priorities are so if you want us to we can we can kind of give it the old
College try and um see what we can put together so we're certain that that March uh time is not the intent to submit it's the sub the submitt there you go did they even have an intent to submit date
M CU if we didn't do that I think we'd be excluded right you have to submit an intent before you submit the actual some grants do this one it's just used you submit it by right do you remember Palm
Beach County used to do a lot of uh Mangrove planting events you know with like the Boy Scouts and the girl scouts or volunteers would show up and I remember reading about those things and it would
always say that the mangroves were supplied by X which I can't remember and it could have been you know FD for all I know um what if that what if that's
something we did would do I just don't remember the detail I can see them now the kids P putting in the mangroves in the in the soil you know and and then the reporter standing there telling you all about it where did jalona get all those mangroves for the
velona project I think theym also yeah I'm pretty sure that mang supplied the uh mangroves for the gelona project or it's PLM the we're talking about the same is no no but I mean BLM
and galona were kind of the same right um but yeah I believe that they supplied them so now that's a bummer well there'll be something else for us to pursue it's not in front of us
today so one of the this might be a moot point but one of the sentences that Jay had sent um and is uh came from that Grant um application it says plant trees and reparan or Coastal Waterway areas to
decrease erosion improve storm water runoff capture and enhance the water quality of Flor to waterways so it definitely qualified so we'll see I guess um anyway I don't I don't think we have
to speak about that anymore unless someone else would like to uh nothing if staff keeps your eyes and ears open we keep our eyes and ears open maybe we come up to something that won't require federal dollars or
something okay um that's up here hold on sorry okay all right no wrong one so I think you're now on comments of
committee members got it okay um comments on committee from committee on anything future agenda items looking forward to our Workshop whatever we're calling it okay yeah tell me the date again so I
can write it down march 4 okay thank you I'll send a calendar invite everybody okay so I have a few comments um Michelle uh you came up with a couple good ideas for future agenda items uh natural enhancement at the
quest the Water catchment Area yes and uh the gentleman Bud Howard yes concerns for construction runoff and debris yes did he get in contact with you he did not okay I think he might be waiting for you to contact him okay I don't have his contact information right at the end of
okay perfect yeah um and anything else on Arbor Day I I think I heard something from the last meeting no we're still waiting to see if remembrance Park will be ready so I'll I'll have an answer by March if it's not
I know we had discussed you know going there yeah is that even possible I fun depends on how active the construction site is yeah that's what we got we have to wait on even if it's not completely done there's still a fear of letting
people on a construction site liability issues so in which case we probably have it somewhere on the public grounds here somewhere else another public property in the village somewhere okay all right um unless we have
anything else uh I will ask for a motion okay I'll make a motion to a j a j like what's that word I make I second the motion all right all those in
favor against say Shoreline seems like good job it Ming trying to these 2our meetings yeah they're they're a little long yeah this Grandpa's got to go to sleep now oh oh here we go Julie thanks for coming to J welome
again um what what is the money for for the uh I want to interrupt y's what is the money for for that gr that you all were talking about