Okay. All right. Good evening everyone. I'd like to call tonight's meeting to order. It's 6:00 p. p.m. August 18th, 2025 and this is our budget workshop meeting. Maryanne, can I get roll call? Mayor Young here. Vice Mayor Stori
here. Council member Brandon here. Council member Painter. Council member French here. Thank you. And the only agenda item is to discuss uh changes in the budget from the last workshop. And Jeremy, the floor is yours.
All right. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Before you, you have a amended u brief condensed version of what we had uh at the last workshop in July with the changes that u was given to staff. Um and so um with that, I'll go through
this some of this pretty quick because you've seen it before or a version of it, but I'll highlight some of the changes that we made. um obviously is the budget review, the the dates that we have. U just bring your attention that um September 4th we do have our first
budget hearing um and the 11th would be the second budget hearing which is a normal council meeting date. We just started a little bit earlier. Um just a review of of our millage rate. It has stayed um level uh across the the
years. Overall it's 8.4% increase. Uh significant portion of this is due to new construction or property sales which does change the save our home exemption. Uh homestead properties is capped at 2.9%. More than 61% of the village residents
use uh or have the homestead uh protection. Nonstead homestead properties limited 10% increase that includes commercial significant budget changes since the last uh meeting. U increased and assessed value. We got our new
valuations as of July 1st. We made those changes. Contractual decrease in emergency services. The JIC contract, as you know, we froze their increase for five years. So that was a 32 $32,000 that we had to bring off of the uh the
revenues. We removed the use of the reserves, $1.4 million, that being a majority of that being the Remembrance Park project. Um, we did decrease the general fund expenditures by 1.368 million. Uh, decrease in personal
expenditures of $52,000. We made some adjustments to the salaries that brought that down. Increase in 250 year celebration. We did not have anything in the last budget um for for that. Um, so but we did make that change um to the
budget. We allocate to fund balance is 39,000 removed remembrance park project decrease in insurance premiums of 81,000 increased we did um add a stipen for K9 Eric as a retired K9 officer um and we
added that to the budget increase in fund balance and building fund reserves um we appropriated fund balance we increased the appropriate fund balance 47,000 increase in the expend expenditures a total of 40 or 67,000
um decrease in Medicare or mental health health care sorry struggling healthcare um property insurance and then we had an increase to capital outlay for the station 11 that council has seen and and we've discussed um we we've started on
some interior stuff. We haven't started on any of the major renovations until the next budget year starts. And so you'll see that um in the in the budget and as well as in the general fund for the for moving the building over to Tquesta Park. Um we have decreased the
capital improvement fund reserves of $1.3 million, the double of counting things. So then we also had a decrease in capital improvement fund expenditures of $1.3 million. Um we did have a decrease in the water fund reserves of 68,000
and then we decreased the appropriate fund balance by that amount. We also have expenditures in the amount of 16,000 and 52,000. Special law enforcement fund is a decrease in 20,000. Um and then we allocate to fund balance. We also uh decrease that item
still outstanding. Um, depending on what we decide with Paradise Park, we may have $125,000 expenditures with $100,000 being the lease of the property for the year and then an estimated $25,000 in maintenance cost. Um, Juban's project um we
discussed at the last workshop about allocating $5,000 for their project. They did send some specific projects or tasks um with some different budget numbers. And so I would take direction from council if you guys have looked at that email I sent you. If you want that
number to be different, you'll have to let me know. Um approve, we approved the solid waste rates. We still need to make those changes. We approve the storm water rates. We still need to make those changes in the budget. Um you guys have approved those rates, but we just haven't been able we haven't had time to change those, but that'll be changed
before the budget hearing. Uh other minor changes will be benefits, capturing all the pay increases, contractual increases, making sure just double-checking all of our numbers on that, but there may be some small changes in the budget for those. And obviously the PBA CBA is still ongoing.
Budget summaries, you guys have seen a very similar slide to this. Other than just the the major changes pulling from reserves, there hasn't been a lot of changes to this. Um the general fund is is basic is increased 4.27%
mainly due to public safety salaries and personnel costs. The transfers down due to last year's vehicle replacement fund of 700,000. Overall um there's a 3.1% increase in in the budget. This is just a pie chart representing uh
the expenditures. We have a similar one that um represents the proposed revenues and shows you we have a balanced budget. and allocates where those where those funds are are going. General fund history um and where we are
with our three-month balance. Typically, we have a policy is three-month target. That is the best practice within municipalities. Um interesting trend. I am seeing some municipalities considering boosting that a little bit. Uh I have it's not overall, not everybody is doing it, but there is uh
there is a little bit of a trend of trying to do that because we're not sure what's going to go on with property taxes. Um and obviously there's a double-edged sword there because Doge is coming. You know, you they see that extra the extra funds and boosting that. So, uh just being mindful. We want to
make sure we use those those taxpayer uh funds when we get those for projects, meaningful projects, which we have done a very good job of doing over the years and continue to do that. Uh this slide represents the um impact
for the proper the property tax increase with keeping the millage rate the same. What um with a homestead property capped at 2.9%. The average homeowner with a homestead protection will see $109 increase. That's based on a $600,000 property
valuation. This slide was put in last time just shows the differences and it's hard to show see on the screen but shows the differences if you if the council decided to lower the millage rate um and what the offset would be as far as
financial and um building fund reserves. You guys have seen this slide. The only thing that's changed with building fund since the last meeting was the $75,000 for station 11 to improve that. Um funds still
healthy over time. Not it, you know, for a while there we were carrying a little extra, but we have utilized those funds. We are fully staffed. We are expecting $256,000 over our um our unassigned fund balance for that fund. So, we're still
looking good. Still, uh we'll keep an eye on that on an annual basis. This just shows that we are $291,000 over the six-month target expenditure for that fund. other governmental entities which
includes capital um the capital fund. This has a our five-year breakdown. Typically every year we'll look at this. Council can change move items around. We we um piece this together based on available funds and the necessity of those items. Um the funds for the 301
fund do sunset in 2026. Um we are looking at added some additional funds in the future for roads. You know, we we originally started out when we started out in 2019, I think it was like $250,000 we were putting toward roads. As we started,
obviously cost increase and we really started to get a better handle of changing those roads over from a 20-year to a 15. That cost has kind of escalated and increased. Um right now we're at uh $710,000 um for road improvements. And so as as
projects come up or the need comes up, we may need to add to it. right now we we're currently funding at that level. Uh so the note the note on this one that um we haven't really done a good job of highlighting it is in your packet has
been there the whole time is that you know in a couple years we will need to change out the the playgrounds at Constitution Park. Those playgrounds that equipment is 20 years old. So with sun and use and it's very uh very used
park uh we do need to make some improvements and the useful life of those parks are sneaking up on us. Um the other um interesting note on this particular slide to show that you know we do have $16 million in expenditures
in utilities. We this is planned. We use partly SRF funding um and then some pay as you go for for this year. And as we move forward, it's going to be really transferred to pay as you go. And as we talked about with our strategic plan trying to allocate some money for
capital projects, we're putting putting putting away $2.1 million a year for payo projects. So as you see this trend, you'll see that it kind of fits within that. Any money that we don't use for that goes into reserve. And so when we have those bigger ticket items, we'll
have that cash to be able to tackle those. So, uh, I think we're we're trending well with that. And, um, I know Marjorie and her team done a really good job of of managing those projects and trying to get some of those moving this year. U, this this slide represents the storm
water um, and then the special law enforcement fund, which this year with BLM partnership, we plan to put a boat lift out there at the BLM property. that is part of their their project that they're doing. Um so hopefully this year we'll be able to um be able to
contribute to that project and and get a a lift put out there for our marine boat [Music] capital improvement. Uh this is the 301 fund which the 301 fund is the tax infrastructure infrastructure sir tax
that does sunset December 31st. Uh we we plan to exhaust all the funds in this by by this through this uh calendar year leaving only 323,000 but that money we have earmarked for a future uh Northcom infrastructure
project per contract. When that infrastructure project comes up, it's an estimated $9 million project. We do have to pay our portion of of the the the improvements to that. We're estimating um $323,000
should get us there. Um we're we're still working with Northcom and it will also depend on the agencies that continue to participate in that. I know there's been some feedback from a couple agencies about the the total cost of this project and how how it's being bid.
Um we're working through that. Our chief, you know, has been going to meetings monthly on this and um but right now we think the 323 will suffice. Um but that is to be determined. 303 fund is the funds that's fun uh funded from our general fund that we
transfer general fund to cover these. You got your 710 for roads, 170 for sidewalks, 250 for toquest park maintenance facility, old Dixie improvements, and then the structural maintenance at at 136 bridge road which
the public works utilities. Um the utilities also has 475 uh to op to match those costs at that at that facility. Special law enforcement fund. These are the planned uses um for out of that fund to cover that. I know I just think we
just got an email today updating this. We did receive additional funds for some of the some of the seizures that we got. We're looking for a couple really large ones, but I think we're we're trending well in this fund is keeping it healthy, be able to use these funds specifically
for law enforcement activities. And so this helps supplement so we don't ask you use general funds for for some of these things. And some of them are uh you know this money they can use for more wants than needs and sometimes it's for needs. So, um, these projects are
this these project monies are are good for the law enforcement. Uh, water utility fund. This is a 401 fund. As you can see, uh, we have our net positions $8 million. We did have a rate increase 3.5%. Um, we have water treatment plant upgrades, energy resource improvements
at 7.3. Uh the water treatment plant membrane replacement program 1.125 million water main replacement program phase two that's the beach road $4.7 million and the relocation of concentrate disposal 660,000
um the refues and recycling you guys just recently saw this at the last council meeting we are estimating our our net restricted net position to be $16,000 after the increases that we made um at the previous council meeting.
Storm water also want a fee that you guys approved at the last meeting. The we have the rate increase of 5% um which which equate equates to 57 cents um for the 68% of our single family residents.
We are transferring 135,000 from our utility tax which is estimated um 135,000 out of the 270 that we received. Um threemonth uh reclamation three swell reclamation projects of 100,000 and then
storm water pipe maintenance of 100,000 proposed vehicle replacements. Nothing has changed since the last um two workshops where we showed this. still have uh ongoing. The big one being the rescue uh vehicle fire the rescue the
rescue truck for the fire department. Having trouble speaking tonight. Um budget decisions. So these are these are kind of your thresholds that you guys have to work with at the mill rate uh up to 6.396 a simple majority vote. Uh if it goes
millage rate up to 6.94 2/3 vote millage rate over 6.94 unanimous vote of the governing body. Um with that you have the presentation. We're here happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you Jeremy Council. Open it for
discussion. I have a a few questions and go first. Uh the 1.3 million from Park transferred. Where does it transfer to? Back to reserves. It was just coming out of our un unassigned fund balance. So, it's not it wasn't used out of the
general fund like operating for the for for those funds. I'd like to see them by the end of budget be appropriated in some direction, whatever that plan may be. I don't I don't love the idea of them just sitting there in reserve without a plan. Whatever that
may be, parks, property, um whatever we come with at the end, at least a plan. Doesn't mean we have to do that, but at least they're assigned to a certain a certain area on Northcom. That's PD's dispatch only currently.
Yep. And and I'm only asking I don't know the answer. Is there a reason why we're on Northcom and not PBSOs? Um, so we were I don't know. I'm not sure about PBSO. So we were always on
when we had our own dispatch. We were on the county dispatch which I believe is P PBSO as well but I we were in the county dispatch. We did a financial analysis that we would save over like a 5year period almost a million dollars. So we
transferred over to Northcom. We pay a percentage of of that fee um to Northcom. Our fire is still on the county uh dispatch system. So, we still we still run u the calls through the county. I understand. Okay. Thank you.
Those are all mine for now. Not really too many. We've gone through this, right? Um you happen to bring up playgrounds and I know that's a future thought. Possible as we go down that road next budget season we start looking
at those numbers. Could we look at also options at phasing it in? um just in case whatever happens next legislative season possibly what that would look like if we did half a park or if we did a full park. Um go
I'm going to comment on your Northcom question. Can I ask a question real quick before you move on? So are you talking about remembrance park or you talking about the playground Constitution Park. Okay. So that isn't that we're not seeing that expense until it's hard to
see from the screen till 2029. So, you know, I mean, we could start phasing and then we'll look at it. I think it's something that it'd be easier to take a small bite at the apple, whether we start trying to do that earlier or we wait until 2029, then start taking a bite of the apple. But, we'll look at
that. That's all I'm saying is just have the options in case the wear and tear comes faster. And I know a surrounding town was replaced a lot of playgrounds and there were some hiccups with engineerings and going at the installation. So, just to make sure when we do it, we're prepared and we're doing
it correctly and also budget friendly. Um, as far as Northcom, the his the history on that and I think we have an officer in the room. You can hear Jupiter, correct? We can hear everybody. Yeah.
Um, I'm still okay with staying to that. Um, because they can hear literally our neighbors. And at the time too, there were some school instances in the area. And it's nice if all of our neighboring municipalities right here can hear
exactly what's happening. And that was big for the residents. Um because there was some school instances at the high school and middle school. Um that's kind of all I have for right now. Um good job. Thank you. And you know, I love the money man in the back. He does all the
grit work for us. Um Doug, thank you for again just doing a fantastic job on this whole budget and I don't have any comments or questions. Yeah, mine are pretty Did you have add one for you because I need to go last the I support the Jupyter Narrows. I
think one of them was 6,000 for the options if you want to talk about that later. I support that $6,000 option. Sorry. I would agree with the same thing. No, that that was one of the things I was going to bring up. I I mean those are still just estimates at the end of
the day. Um so I for now would like to just keep it at 5,000 and then when they get more um you know they get their permit construction's actually starting we can we can deal with it then like we discussed at the workshop last time um
because apparensus was we wanted it to go towards something concrete and you know when uh construction's absolutely starting. So, I would like to keep it where it's at for now because at the end of the day, that's a engineer's estimate and we all know and Marjorie knows well that engineer estimates don't always
aren't always super accurate. So, yeah, I just keep it what we agree to already. Um the the old Dixie project, I don't I don't know that we're going to put a huge dent in that with 100,000. So, I don't I think
that would come from reserves. So, I don't know if that's something that we would need to add more money now for the budget if we think that uh we might want to do put a bigger dent in that or if that's something that could just be dealt with a budget amen budget amendment once we kind of get
some plans and get the costs. I mean what really I guess that's a question for Jeremy or Jeff. So, I think the you know the plan would be to let us get a better scope. I think the question is brought up to us like what where do we get that number? I mean, that was kind of just a ballpark
estimate. Let us work through the plan. We'll get a a final number or kind of a scope for what we want to do and then we'll be able to kind of tie it to a budget number and then we'll bring it back and say 100,000 is good or hey council, we're going to need a little
bit more money. So, let us kind of work through that scope at this point. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I just want to throw that out there like I don't want there to be a surprise if maybe you know like halfway through the year we have to do a budget amendment because you know they've been talking about beautifying old Dixie well before I was on council and probably even before you were on
council and I don't want to halfass it. I would like it to be a significant improvement that um you know a residents can see. And then reserves were you talking about like at the end of next fiscal year like when we start talking about the budget next year is when you
want to have something earmarked. I meant now if we pulled it from remembrance park project. So now it does not have anything assigned to it that we assign something to it. So it doesn't sit in um um in reserves unassigned
reserves that it sits in the if it has whatever that plan may be just like a members park it doesn't tie it to there but at least it's assigned. I don't love having those additional funds and unassigned. I guess I would lean to to Jeff on best
practice there because I I mean I because of the potential property tax reform and unknown FEMA changes to how much um money that they're going to um reimburse for like I really am not comfortable earmarking a bunch of money until those two things are uh a little
more concrete and then we do h I mean there's definitely stuff we can earmark it towards remembrance parka park we'll see what happens paradise park so I think we have plenty of projects say old Dixie if it ends up costing more. So I think there's lots of places to use it but until the property tax and FEMA
potential changes are understood makes me nervous like your market now for something. Um I don't know Jeff maybe you know better what the best practice is for that or Jeremy I would say you know t typically I would
say you know you you want to use the money because I've been in situations where we built up too much reserves residents were like where's my taxpayer dollar going and so we'd want to use you know set our policy which is three months and then use the money and if if
we if we were incurring more than three months worth of revenue we try to lower taxes. We're in a very unique situation right now where there's a lot of unknowns which is, you know, property tax, even if they don't remove property tax altogether, there's probably going
to be some homestead exemptions added or something. So, um, it's not a bad idea to be cautious. So, I I know that kind of leans both ways where you want to use that money um or, you know, do we want to be cautious?
And you know, I think in this point, I know Jeff and I had this conversation very early in the process of, you know, utilizing it, utilizing for remembrance park. I think there's a good point that can be made to keep it in reserves. We, you know, and
and and kind of hold out until we see what's going to happen to property taxes. So, that's at the will of the council, but I think either way, I think we're going to be justified. However you guys decide at this point, um, we chose not to pursue Remembrance Park. We have
plenty of projects that we can allocate it toward if council wants to all use the money for something. We, you know, we have needs. I mean, you look at playgrounds coming and, uh, you guys have seen several of the capital projects that we can allocate it toward. We have storm water. We can, you know,
throw some money at storm water projects. I mean, if you guys want to spend money, but I see the value also of holding on and just seeing how property tax goes as well. We're not way over, you know, way over. I mean, I think we're probably at four months if you uh hadn't done the math,
but we're probably at four months. It's not like we're stocked with reserves. So, I think we're okay either way. And where do the three months come from? Do all cities do three months or is that a standard? I guess I would like to know what all the other municipalities around us do.
Um there's a standard between in in government of two to three months in hurricane areas. 3 months is more the standard than it is say if you have a snowstorm up north. It doesn't do the kinds of damages that we would
experience if we get it full head on. So, three months gives us some time to help our residents, get them back on the track, get our our plays working, and then FEMA will start kicking in. So, FEMA does change, like I said, the the
latest that Mary had was that they were talking about doing it, you know, by four, increasing the threshold. So, what would that what do you think that would do to reserve amounts that we would keep if that happened? Um, it depends on how much the threshold
would be. You're just talking about damage. So, what we're worried about is if we get a head-on hit, there's not going to be any problem getting damage in in Palm Beach County because there's all the different areas that are going
to be affected. So, we will hit that level pretty easily. If we just get the storms where we're getting ready and we're hanging out um getting ready to respond and nothing happens, then it's a small amount and and it's not that big a
deal. I mean, it's not as bad as it could be, right? But even so, if they change their threshold, like it's around 7 million now, it goes to 28 million. Like, we're still going to pay more out of pocket than if there's a bigger disaster. Right. Well, I mean, if if in fact we get hit
solid, 20 million will be nothing. If we just getting ready, I mean, they may we may not get enough. So, for instance, this year, um, the one we just had, um, we have like $67,000
worth of overtime costs that we're asking FEMA to give back. And so, eventually we'll get that, but it it takes them a bit. Okay. So, it's not I I don't see it as a real deterrent.
Okay. Um, yeah, I'm still in line. Like I said, it's a very abnormal here we have coming up and um I agree like you don't want to hoard taxpayer dollars. That's very bad practice. But I I think this is a very unique circumstance and then we know I think as soon as we know
what's happening, we have lots of projects we can spend the money on. So, I don't think it's a matter of not spending the money. like let's wait and see because we might have to subsidize last uh lesson at warm. So yeah, so just like just this year so we know what's going on.
We're talking about property tax. We talked about after the state decides this next session what the property tax. Yeah. Well, they anything they decide will have to go to the ballot. I think like everything they're talking about would have to go to the ballot. So then that would be when would what ballot would it go on? I think they were talking about 26
November of 26 ballot is what they' do. So it probably take effect. I guess the January after that I guess. So January 27. Yeah. Could they make it in 20 November of this year? 25. No, it's 26. I'm sorry. They were talking about it. Yeah.
But even so, we would be already working on our budget before it goes out um to vote. But at least we would know what it is so we could like crunch numbers to see like, okay, well, if this does happen, we need to like save this much. So whether it passes or not, we we would be able to do the math and figure out
like what the impact is while we're doing our budget next year. Sure, I understand that. I mean, we're talking a year and three months though before you even know what's going to happen, right? Because you're even if they decide, the state says, "Okay, this is what we're going for." The voters
still have to go all the way till to vote for it. So even if the state decides this is the way direction we're going, the voters are going to have to win. Yeah. But when session end in March this year? Yeah. So like we would know then what's going to bounce like so we could do the math then whether it passes or not we can
like okay you know when session's over it starts in January right so it ends in March though so end of March whenever it ends if something is going about we're going to know what it is so the money man back there as council member Brandon called him can start doing the math to figure out how that's
going to impact us so that way we can be ready and plan and then we'll have a better idea like okay let's just earmark this much for property tax reform if it does pass and then the rest we know we can, you know, start allocating it towards projects. So, I would say
what are they going to do? Yeah, we have no idea where they're going to go with it right now. Yeah, I get that. Yeah, I think it's a tough one for me to swallow because if there's not a huge, right, it's every every session there's a scary something and then if it's it's usually not that scary and then then we get there and now we lost a
year and a half or a year and three months of projects we could have done. It's building a park or maintaining a park or whatever even buying a property, you know, but I guess if that option um gets there, we could jump ahead and
change that. Yeah, but if we if if if we know something's happening at the end of March after session and we do the math and figure out let's just earmark x amount now in case that passes we could allocate stuff from reserves next fiscal
year whether we technically budget it or not if we want to move forward with something before the next bud fiscal year. Correct. Sure. Yeah. So it's not so we could still do something next year. It's just wait and see till session's over. you say budgeting for worst case scenario
because we don't know what's going to go with the vote and then if it doesn't there's extra that make sense okay can I ask a question there uh Jeremy um back in excuse me the 301 fund
it's 800 or $989,000 of which 854,000 is the five-year quest bridge improvement plan so do we incur that8 850,000 all in the first in this coming budget year or is it 175,000 a year for
the next five years? I'm pretty sure we're gonna get it all done. I think it's about a sixmonth project. We we plan on kicking it off. I mean, we've already worked on work working on the plans. We plan on kicking off like right toward the beginning of the year. Um I don't I don't think we'll
kick it off until January, February, but I think Doug told me it's about six month process. So, I think we'll expend all 854,000. And is this it's called a five-year plan because it every 5 years we do this? Well, we we set out like two years ago
to make it our five-year bridge plan. So, it it's not going to come back in 5 years. At least this particular part of it, we just set out a couple years ago. We had never put any money toward the bridge. And we were like, "All right, we got a fiveyear capital plan. Let's put together a fiveyear bridge plan." because we knew we were going to have to
break it out in increments. And this was actually broken out. We had some small changes to the bridge like two years ago. Uh I say changes um improvements to the bridge a couple years ago. Then we had plans and then we were going to break it out in two years. But because
we had the available sir tax funds, we went ahead and combined two years. So, it was really like a four-year plan, you know, kind of big bid, build, you know, type of approach. Um, so that's why it's a fiveyear. And on the heels of a comment that was made earlier about, you
know, the best laid plans or best laid budgets don't always pan out. We I think we'll end the fiscal year at $324,000 in this 301 fund. What if this bridge cost us, you know, $1.4 $4 million and that
fund that 301 fund. Can we take that from general? We could we could well we could take it from 301 fund or take it from the reserves and then help pay for our Northcom out of reserves. I mean tomato at that point, but yeah, I mean we'd probably just take use the
remainder of the 301 funds at that point. Um but we we'll cross that bridge and get there. Doug does a really good job on capital projects. He'll keep us on budgets. Thank you. That's the only question I have. I have one more miscellaneous on the um
page page nine of the agenda. You had removed reserves of 1.4 million, but remembrance park was 1.3. What's the what's that other 100,000? What was that for? Do you remember, Jeff? Do you remember what that was? Old Dixie.
Oh, that's right. Did we um we moved Old Dixie to the general fund expenses, not out of reserves? That's right. Oh, got it. Okay. So, it was So, that's coming out. I will mention that just to remind everybody with old Dixie is that when we put
together improvements for that, we are at the mercy of the railroad. At any point, at any time, they can say, "We need our land back and we have to take out those improvements at our cost." And so, that's why there's never been a huge
investment in that rideway because we lease the land. And so just just know that I mean we don't have any inclination that they're going to take it back. They have they don't take it back anywhere in you know throughout the state but we are at their mercy. If they
decide they're going to go start taking right away back to put in a third track we have to take that out and it's at our expense. So if we want to go put more money than 100,000 you know that's just the risk that we're taking. So that's that's the reason why a lot hasn't been
done with that since it's been in our strategic plan since 1979 is because there's there's a risk that goes with that if we would have got our money's worth if we did something in 1979 by now. Again, it's like the quest park, right?
It's one of those things. It's like it's it's an it's investment in our community and um they're going to appreciate it. I mean, there's stuff to do on the other side on the east side of the road, too, isn't there? like can't we do more landscaping on shade trees on the east side? It's it's fairly it's
done fairly well I think. I mean I know we had talked about doing some street lighting and maybe some decorative lighting over there. Um that wasn't an option. I think most of it was always on the the west side and even on the east side of the sidewalk on the west side if
that makes sense. Um really trying to improve it. So, I think that's where the most improvements can come, but I'm sure there is some some improvements we can make on the east side and most of it was all on the west. I think I think both sides could use a little sprucing up in my opinion.
I agree. Any other comments or questions? No. Well, great job. The next time we get to talk about this is at the budget hearing. We don't really talk too much. We just approve or deny. So, and I would usually take public comment, but there is no
public here tonight. So, with that, can I get a motion to adjurnn? So, moved. Second. All in favor? I Patrick missed a short one. lobster as well. Good job as usual. It served.