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a.m. March 7th 2025 it's our strategic planning session Maran can I get roll call please Mayor Young here vice mayor Sartori here council member Brandon here council member painter here council member French
here okay and can I get a motion to approve today today's agenda so move second all in favor I right and there is a section for communications from citizens there are no citizens in the audience as of now so we'll move on to the first and only agenda item our
strategic planning workshop Jeremy thank you um so we we we kind of pivot a little bit from what we've done the last two years uh the first couple years when I was here um you know I was the facilitator which I'll act as the facilitator again um the last um couple
years we brought in uh a gentleman to do that I think there was benefits to both sides having uh kind of a third- party independent person versus you know me doing it um and I say all that because I think it's been very helpful for for me to be more uh in the facilitator role I
was able to meet with all of council and um really talk about initiatives and what was important to the council um there are some initiatives that are carried over from our uh previous plan but there are some new initiatives that were brought up so I'd like to go
through um the kind of the Strategic plan some of the initiatives that were either rolled over or new um at the February Workshop um if you guys remember I did go over the Strategic plan the current one um and so I don't
know that we need to review some of those items obviously if you guys want to we can be prepared for uh any direction you guys want to go but this one is based off of uh or these initiatives are based off of the conversations I've had um there might be some opportunities to elaborate more or
pivot into a different direction um and you know I'll hopefully tee those up for discussion um and so I'd like to kind of just go through it and then by section we'll stop you know each uh core core value uh of this strategic plan we'll
stop uh ask questions discuss these items then we we go on to the next section um and our strategic plan is broken into four basically core U core sections um physically responsible government Community appearance
character and identity Municipal infrastructure and operational excellence and so most of our initiatives fall into those four categories as they stand today um and so after each section I'd like to dist stop we'll talk about those I know you guys have these in your backup so you guys
maybe already have some questions or some thoughts or if you were one of the ones that brought it up maybe you want to elaborate more that I didn't capture it properly um and that's okay um so we have the four categories operate physically responsible government um you
guys have these in your packet as part of the Strategic plan um the other one protect Community appearance character and identity build and maintain Municipal infrastructure and maintain level of service at the intended level of operational excellence uh so the first one the first
C category um uh is Opera physically responsible government um one of the first initiatives on here is identify additional CIP funding sources this was on our strategic plan last year which is why we have the numbers FS1 and then number three so in this category of
physically responsible government it was the number one item number three overall as a priority for us last year um so as we continue with this item continue prioritize the usage of Grants identify
applied um provide updates for state and federal grants support continue to report on applications I know that was uh you know a discussion that came up about you know seeing our successes with grants and and um showing the ones that we've either applied for or weren't
successful with um I do have uh an amendment to this one or another another slide for think I did so the question for this one since we need to identify other sources is like what's the problem that we're trying to
solve I know most of you guys know the ctax funds you know we're going to be sunsetting at the end of 25 so by December it'll be we'll be collecting our last resource for that in the ballpark between 6 and $700,000 a year
that we typically fund projects in the last couple years knowing that this was coming uh we we kind of lean forward a little bit count with council's guidance and and approval um we've moved a lot of stuff from our 301 fund to what we call
our 303 fund and our 303 fund is what we've basically funded out of the general fund um knowing that our our C tax was going to Sunset so the top item is still kind of those items that were either um the top two really um is items
that we're still planning on funding out of the ctax fund Cur currently that we need to move to the general fund um so you'll see items some of the smaller items which are probably operational but you know M migration um I know power loader I mean there's some still
some some equipment type things but then you look at you know the request of Park improvements we did that out of the sir tax funds but we you know we have uh tree landscape or um the bridge improvements are still planned and then if we were going to do something with Old Dixie that was still planned so we
still have um we do have a commitment for our radios for uh police that that's coming up in two years that we'll have to do um so we still have some things uh allocated or pointing toward that sir tax funds we'll have the funds to kind of cover these items but as new items
get um get introduced to from our staff to the council you know we don't have a dedicated fund for those we'll have to either cover from our general fund apply for Grants look for alternative funding sources um so just wanted to kind of show you that you know the I guess the
challenge but some of the successes I mean our roads are $710,000 for roads our $170,000 for sidewalks that we've been doing um those have been Come Those came out of the general fund this year knowing that we W you know make it sustainable so in the future you guys
won't have to make those decisions about you know what we're going to cut to still continue with those things that was a strategic initiative that we did um and so uh this this is part of uh you know we can share this if you guys want to take a deeper look we can I can come
back to this but I just kind of want to show you kind of the the challenge that we're facing with that and that's our strategic plan last year and we'll continue with that that item as we as we move forward what uh one of the items that was on um that we've been talking about
for a while is um storm water um and as you guys know we've been talking about this for a couple years now the the lack of funding we have for storm water projects we've had had some emergency repairs over the last two or three years which has significantly drained that fund and so
we we don't have money for major projects we we're kind of just piecing it together with some maintenance funds um and so what one of the proposals we're going to do and this is kind of teed up for see where you guys land on your priorities but something that we'd like to do in the budget process is
dedicate part of our water utility tax um as part of a funding source for stor STM water moving forward does two things obviously helps us um do some project we've identified a handful of projects I'll say five that um are are projects that we think we can fund with these
with this money um but also projects that will definitely help a couple of areas I think North Dober was one um Fair viiew West and East that around the corner there had some some issues I think we have a several a couple more um
but I think this will help us with our funny but the the most important thing is we don't have to take uh be having the discussion about huge jumps in in assessments like we did with water you know we really fell behind with water Council um you know put the $10 infrastructure charge we don't want to
do that again and we don't want to have that discussion so I think this is the alternative to having huge rate jumps to try to cover some of these it's a necessity we have to fund some projects for storm water so this is the alternative for that so that way we don't have to uh you know take that to
the public so I have two quick questions on that and I think this is a very as Jeremy like open conversation Chim in whatever um on the taking the I love the um idea and us not having to potentially charge
the taxpayers even more on top of what we had to do for the water a couple years ago um but we know the past several years the uh state has issues with Enterprise funds you think this I mean you're going from one Enterprise fund to the other basically do you think
there's any any issue there this is not going from one Enterprise fund to the other we charge a water utility tax so it gets taxed we collect that into the general fund that tax so it's not coming specifically from that fund it's a tax goes in the general fund and then we can
use it when we brought this utility tax back so quick history lesson with with little facts behind it but um back in the day before I got here we had a water utility tax several years before I got here they removed it most municipalities
have a water utility tax you can tax up to 10% we didn't have that um and I know Miss Brandon was here but we were you know we were doing everything we could not to raise taxes to a certain point so one of the options was to bring this water utility tax to help with our
general fund offset some of our cost that we incur for for those funds and so we brought that back in 200 I want to say 20 we brought that back um and it is for the general fund um and so we can do
up to 10% we charge 9% of utility tax for that it does not go to unincorporated we can't charge it to unincorporated you can only charge it to um the to Quest a property okay and then second question is I know we had the
vulnerability assessment and um I didn't see that anywhere on here I mean is that something to kind of have under um this item or the was was like the building uh build and maintain Municipal
infrastructure so it's I don't know if those are just going to happen too if those are even um things we need to put on the Strategic plan so in my mind those are going to fall into prioritize and align Community needs for storm water because we're going to have to identify the projects that we're going
to do we want to do that we can afford and so it's kind of all part of this I think it's rolled into this one if you want to separate it or in my action items I can make it more uh more distinct in this and and make sure that we incorporate some of that you know
those items that are in that resiliency and I don't I don't have them memorized I mean some of those are might be low hanging fruit but some of them are big action items so like you know I don't know we have we have some significant issues that we need to address probably before
we get to a lot of those resiliency things you know with just in our neighborhoods and some of the SW and um so I think those with only $130,000 allocated I mean we're going to we're going to hit some of those areas first before we really start diving into some of those major things now with a
resiliency thing um you know the next step for us and it's always been the plan was to take that resiliency study and now go apply for Grants and and you know there's usually I say usually some cities are successful once they get that resiliency study going to the state with
and asking for funds Lake Park was a great example I think they got like 11 million uh margorie and I just had this conversation the other day about um I think it was either Holtz or Chen Moore was successful in helping them of you know employing them to help us to try to
get that those funds so I think the resiliency study that was done I think that's going to be most of those projects going to be targeted with grants if we can right so what do what does council think on that like do we a do we want to add the vulnerability assessment
uh action items or recommendations to this if we do do we want to just wrap it up under here and just have a clarified on action items or do we want it to be St alone I had two questions on the storm water first but I didn't know if we want to which direction we want to go with that or we just vulnerability assessment
right now open conversation we want to just make a decision on that and you can bring up your other questions unless they're related yeah I'm not following on the vulnerability assessment adding it to here so it's already in our strategic
plan it's not the vulnerability assessment no it's is something we've been working on we got a grant it's actually a two-piece Grant it was I think the first time we got it was like $90,000 that was to do the vulnerability assessment uh some gaps were identified we went back and applied for additional
funding I think 50,000 don't call me on either one of those numbers but they're pretty close uh so we have 140 145 ,000 grant that we just completed a uh our vulnerability assessment and so what that that was supposed to do is really
address sea level rise address some of the storm water uh issues that we have in the village of Testa we have that um and so like I said the next step really for that vulnerability assessment um if we're successful like the other cities would be to get a grant from the state
or you know look at some funding other funding options okay yeah I agree with that adding the vulner vulnerability assessment into the same transfer the water utility tax you're saying into the storm water same okay yeah well I think I
agree with that and this is my opinion we'll do whatever I think it might fit better in here so that way if there is some funds to have you know chin more or Holtz or whoever is going to help us we can obviously tie it to some of those funding as well so um I think it would
be good and I can just really make it very specific about the vulnerability part I'll come up with some language that I can I can put in there if that's best the will it was a range of projects of varying sizes and costs like one was like raise you know Elevate the generators above flood zone um other
were some pretty significant like storm water management suggestions so it's it's a range that's something we can just pick away at as I said we find funds available but it's definitely important absolutely I I believe that as well that it's something that we we
invested time and staff in and the my concern is you know we we're now addressing all these critical issues but I think storm water is something that can change the landscape of our community tremendously so I would like to make sure Jason said and your asking M to put it in there and I I agree with
where it should go because some things might just be considered and some things might be funded so I I wouldn't want to make it its own Standalone because it's important that we look at it but we may not ever touch anything that's in there so making it part of one of the other goals would be
great I agree yeah it seems to be very important Council Brandon think you know how I feel about assessments and Studies have those actually even the ones that we have they've been even productive and efficient the vulnerability studies and
assessments what do you mean by productive and efficient so I mean the study waste the money or we getting something out of it well it's done already I mean we already accepted that um I mean I think there there are a lot of things on there that you know sea level rise which is real which you
wouldn't have convinced me when I first moved from Texas but I'm from Florida now so I mean it's real we do need to address some of those items you know you know like Molly said Mayor Young said you know some of them are low hanging fruit some of them are you know wish list that we need to address over time
so there yes the answer to the question without being long-winded um is that it is it is a valuable tool for us am I understanding correctly that in order to potentially um qualify for Grants we would need not just what we already have
but the next steps as well is that a grant requirement to show that here's our assessment there's a need did I hear that or am I making that this this study that we already did that's already accepted is the step I mean you you Bas to get some of these grants you it is
very important that you have the vulnerability assessment for you the successful ones that I've seen a couple cities I've seen they had this done so we're done with that now you know the big step is to really try to go out and get the grant that's associated with that that'll really
help take care of some of even the low hanging fruit and some of the bigger projects um like I said I think Lake Park got 111 million to to address their vulnerability assessment and that that was huge so okay when what and that was some recently last year like two years
ago year and a half ago so yes recently they still continue to there are it out there okay cool I think there's a you know there's a lot of money out there for those vulnerability assessments and to take that step a lot
of cities are doing that now we were a little bit ahead of the curve um getting getting ahead of that because a lot of cities know that that's that's important to identify those projects before you go ask for money right council member fren did you have any other questions on this topic
storm water I did thank you the water utility tax so we're pulling we're funding storm water water utility tax what are we reducing in the water utility tax or is that just uh additional funds that were in that fund so we have a little bit of an excess in
that fund because you know every year we take we take our capital projects and the the funds that can be used out of the Ser tax fund you know we we because it's specific to a statute we fund that some of the other capital projects that may be related to the water utility tax
we fund out of there so there is some excess that we have that we can continue to use but ultimately it's covering the capital so yes I mean I think maybe the point that you're getting to is that if we're if we have $272,000 going into that pot half of it's going to be
reduced come over to storm water and so you know there's going to be more that's going to be needed to be funded at a general fund I think you you could make the argument that you know we haven't really funded a lot of storm water projects even out of that Capital fund that you
know is allowable uses for for those two so I don't know if that answered the question or not that is does answer the second question more are we taking away any type of funding or is it only excess from the wi utility tax and I think you
answered it but I wasn't 100 that's not I mean there's no excess I mean but yes we are taking away from our Capital Improvement plan that we currently fund with these with these taxes okay um we never passed a resolution when we did this utility tax and we can use it for anything general fund but when when we
did this we sold it as we were going to use it for capital projects that's what we were using for very similar similar so we don't we're not we're not retracting from that statement it's it's 100% true we're just going to really Target the storm water projects with
with these funds okay thank you so the way I understand it we're just going to add all act some detailed action items to this one so that way we can track it throughout the year and and move forward with uh some of the vulnerability and the grant funding for
that um this was an item that was brought up um through through Council and I put new on here because it was I say new but we we have a couple things that we've done with this one but developed a structured program that encourages City departments to propose cost saving measures and Innovation
innovative solutions with financial recognition based on incentives for successful ideas um and I'll I know this was an item that was brought up by Council um and I I shared this at the time and I'll share it again you know I I struggle with this one a little bit
it's not for me to decide it's for Council um but I mean I know we hire people we hire department heads to be financially physically responsible I think that's part of our jobs to do that and so incentivizing people to do that and I've shared this with my team so this isn't the first time they've heard
it either incentivizing department heads to be fiscally responsible is tough for me to to wrap my head around um we have done we have done an innovation challenge that we did through the city we put it out for a month or two um you know we had we had some participation
some a couple of ideas none of them were necessarily funded in the in the budget process but the idea of the Innovation Challenge was you if you come up an idea that saves money or you know gets additional revenue or just improves our customer service that we we can provide
some kind of incentive whether you know it's if you save $60,000 and we give you you know a check for $2,000 because you saved that money um or if you you know come up with something we we have an innovation program I mean it wasn't um
it wasn't wildly successful um but I think it's something we can continue that's my idea of it if there's any other thoughts or um you know I say I struggle with it a little bit but if you want to elaborate or talk about it we can we also have to sorry to interrupt
again we have to be very mindful that anything we do we have to pass ahead of time otherwise it's not legal so there's a legal aspect to incentivizing public employees so we have to be very mindful that we be very specific you have to make sure it's across the board for
everybody can't be one Department have to be mindful that you know if you're talking about savings you know a fire department's $4.1 million our clerk's office is like $600,000 so like trying to you know be fair across the board is
is pretty tough I mean so you know depending on the direction you guys give us we can definitely try to put something together that you know meets the legal requirement but also incentivizes those but um I struggle with this one a little bit I like the idea of a program like
this but I trust you if you said you kind of attemp Ed what could be done and um it still exist or maybe it didn't necessarily work out maybe something incentivized in a private sector would you know because when we look for additional Revenue we could also look for savings so I think those kind of go
hand inand and if somebody's incentivized one of our employees to get to that point that would be great but I understand the pitfalls that maybe go along with that so if you believe your the program is or the opportunity is available then I don't think any action
needs to be taken all right and if obviously if something comes up throughout a year that somebody else is doing that you know we love we can always revisit this but I I think you know as of right now I don't I don't know I mean I've I scoured the internet
for programs and things there's not a lot out there we have our star program which you know does incentivize employees for going above and beyond you know they have a chance to get lunch or you know a $25 gift card or something um that we have some opportunities to at
least showcase some of our employees it's not you know some would say it's not enough or whatever but you just have to be very careful from the from the incentiv incentivization part of it yeah I mean I agree that um other than the current narrative that is out there
about efficiency and government efficiency um but I think that's when you're talking about a you don't even know how many zeros are in the federal budget I mean this is something I think we've all got our heads wrapped around our 4344 million
budget and I think it's incumbent upon and and expected of our department heads that's why they are in the position they are to be to operate the most efficiency I don't think we have departments here that are just nobody knows about and nobody here so I wouldn't want to spend a lot of time on this but as Jason
indicated you know the programs that we have that work are something that can be done because somebody might see something differently and there's value in seeing things differently I think there's five of five of us up here that see things differently on a daily basis but but I think when it comes to you know that that's what our department heads are for and that's why they've been placed with that public trust in
there so I wouldn't I want to spend a lot of time on it but I think that you the current programs are great and The innov Innovation Challenge if maybe you just need to memorialize that a little bit better in case it does pop up but I don't think we need to go chasing down a rabbit hole just to meet the national
narrative right now I don't think we're we're not that big we're not those people yeah I agree I kind of you know align with what what Jeremy said and what vice mayor just said um I don't know that this has to be a strategic priority I do think um maybe like you
know the Star Award is great and then what was that you did do some type of award I think it was separate from Star Award for like the department that pulled in the most grant money oh yeah so I think stuff like that is really appropriate and maybe we can you know kind of come up with some more ideas like that you know just for some
recognition so you know um and like said if there's an innovation program maybe revisit that but um but yeah otherwise I think we should um yeah kind of leave that to you and the directors because they are here to lead you know lead their teams and and be Innovative and and always try to look
for the most uh cost savings that they can such as a natural job function um yeah not a bad idea and like maybe we can just improve on the programs we're already doing that are kind of a more appropriate recognition I forgot about that one the
the grant the winner um I usually I buy a $100 gift card for the winner but the the real fun is the trophy and getting to keep the trophy for the year um I mean Brad really strutted that thing around um Greg has it sitting on the counter at the rec center because he was
our latest winner um but with the appropriation request we got I'm going to put myself in it this year so that way I can win the trophy um but we do have some incentive maybe we can you know we can extend that somehow you know and it's up to department head I give him a $100 I if he wants to go buy his
you know lunch for his team that's you know that's up to him so uh impact fee Council comment no sorry I agree with everything I said uh impact fee analysis implementation this one's a new one and I will say this is probably driven more by staff maybe the only one in here that's driven more by
staff um this is something that's kind of going through Palm Beach County probably the state um is that you know the idea we talked about Mobility fee which we're working through uh but the other big the big item that's really moving is the
impact fee and municipalities have the ability now to to uh establish their own impact fees um we'd have to do a study um and then we you know implement the fee um I I put together a a slide of
what what we would be looking at if with some of if we were to implement some impa feed just based on the last several years now now mind you the impact fees are only on uh new development or Redevelopment that increases the
capacity so if you have a 20 home 20 unit town homes and you they tear it down and they build 19 there's no New Impact to the Village of taquesta it's basically for if you tear down 30 and you put up 40 we're going to capture
that extra 10 um and so going back to 201819 you know those are the impact fees that we get we basically collect all of it we take a an admin fee and then we remit the rest of it to the county um so that you kind of go into
201920 and then I think this is the Seaglass um so you see that the impact fees that we sent to the county that year were pretty significant um you look at um the next year
2122 uh 22 23 and so just going to give you an idea of what the impact fees you know some of these years that we don't have major projects going you know we're only talking about 145,000 or whatever the number is but you know it's still something you combine that with maybe some Mobility
fee you know we then you start talking about one of our initiatives to replace our Capital fund like this would be a solution to helping with some of our Capital um capital projects and there are specific uses that you have to use these impact fees for but um I still
think it's a good supplement Jay and I were invited over to Gardens next week um there are several municipalities that are going to be meeting on the on impact fees and how to implement them and there'll be a consultant there and so you know we'll have more information but uh I really think this one would be a
very good one for us to consider moving forward we'll get you guys more information but this is uh this one might might tackle two or three items with capital funding and and some things with Parks because you have a park impact fee a police impact fee um I
think there's transportation there's some different categories that these impact fees all will be able to fit into one of those categories so Jeremy just to be clear this now now it's versus doing keeping just remitting
the 96.6% to the county we are keeping 100% we be able to keep it right okay and I looked like some of those they appear to be they were Residential Properties so that's an impact when one is torn down in your home is built or not necessarily there might have been
and I don't don't quote me on this because this was given to me by the building part maybe there was an empty lot and a new one was up and so that that's I just saw something they look appear to be residential in nature so not all those are empty lots and maybe it maybe it was an extension of the the
the footprint so anything that's if we're replacing anything that's bigger than what was Prior there right yeah I believe so it's just want make sure it has an impact on the community one way or another so you know the part with this and I because I just heard this is you know we don't want to do any more studies or any
of that like this would have to be a study like we have to do a study to implement whatever fees we're doing we can't just take somebody else's fees and do it uh Jay and I met with a consultant uh who knows what must have been last week I would guess but maybe it this
week call runs together um but um you know we're looking at you know 50 ,000 to do an impact fee study um and then in return we'd have we'd have our fees set that we can charge and then we would not remit payments to the county we would
keep those and they would go into the fund to use those for for the impacts and that's that's settled that's that's new law MH yep I think it's I think it's a great idea um I'd like to hear some cons about
it but I think especially in quest I don't think anybody here wants to create any highrises or will in the near future and so I think just keeping up demand and funding this would be a good idea on going forward not existing residents or existing structures yeah I think it can
be it could be significant if you go back to those years in Seaglass and if any 250 or three any of similar projects that that will be a significant number so I think if that would be an example of an impact fee that would be kept
right all of you would be correct so I Molly does probably better track and stuff than than I do but like the 300 building I believe it was like 40 units when they're coming back where they came back it was like 33 units so like you're not going to see the same that you saw
with SE glass because you'll see there'll be a less less units right so it's not the size of the building it's yeah it's the impact on on they're building a building that is twice or three times the size of a force right when you look at it so might you know if you start talking about size yes but I
mean if you're just talking about impact based on the the dwelling units it's not it's less you know 300 to less impact on on the village so but as you know other properties that may you know come through with and I hate to use even
mention it live local projects that can just tear down something and put up you know highrises that we can't control we could could you know be able to you know capture some of that you know if if that comes through so these fees would be applied toward the developer and they
would have to pay those and we'd get it instead of the county in situation so chew that in on live local at least the conversations I was part of in Tallahassee about live local the electeds that were there were in kind of radio silent this session nothing really was jumping out at anybody which there's
some significant changes in in the live local so I mean and I don't know that they're all positive for us MH two quick questions on that I know Jay says no not any of them but
oh it's it's a it's a lot more aggressive than it already is so um a two questions the I know last fall I think the County Commission approved municipalities to uh uh increase the
fees they collect from Builders is that does that have any impact to to this plan and then I know I think you have to have the Mobility plan to even be able to collect impact fees for yourself because the Mobility plan is
tied to it as well if you're doing like a transportation impact fee so it just depends on what what type of impact we're trying to do so I mean you can come in and we just say we just want to do the parks impact fee and that's it and they'll come in set a fee for us
what we can charge for our Parks based on what we have and they'll say you know you know do the whole analysis but there's different parts of it I think there was like you know Civic government there was Transportation there was parks you know there's there's several items that you can do the Mobility plan would
tie into possibly that impact fee for transportation so the analysis would kind of highlight those different categories if you will and what would be best suited for us is that yeah I think that would be the you know the the study when we did that they would be a like
look here you know this is what your fees will be you estimate your fees to be this is what we you know expect you to recover there'll be some kind of analysis on that okay and then I know you mentioned we've talked about this you're mean with Gardens because there I know there's a deadline with the county
to file and is that is that for impact fees or is that for Mobility per that's for impact fees I believe okay it'll be a little bit Mobility cons be there too we'll get you a better a
better we're going to get a clearer picture that's why we're going to it of what everybody else doing North Palm just passed impact fee they don't turn anything over to the county they have the only one they don't have I believe is a transportation impact fee but they
they collect everything else parks and some other ones I I have that study J's probably looked at it better than I have but I mean there are municipalities that are doing this um and it is an opportunity for us to capture some of these these things and the downside if
you know just off the top of my head is you know you're not sending to the county we have a couple County roads here I mean so mhm you know I obviously they still have a responsibility for their roads but you know if they have less funding you know how long is it going to take them to get to to our part
so there there are some some some downsides to it and then and maybe you'll find this out from your meeting next week but I know there there's a deadline to file this with the county and is that is it like a one anddone deadline or every year is through that
opportunity like is this a a hurry up kind of uh analysis we need to do or or do we have time I'm going be careful answering because I'm not 100% um into you know until we go to that meeting but I'm told we if we want to send impact
fees to the county we need to have that by October 1st if we don't want to we don't have to do anything with the county by October 1st we just pass our own impact fees and we we start collecting them we don't ship them to the county that's what I was told but you know I don't hope nobody you know
says that I'm a liar or I was wrong it could be I'll have a better idea next week but feel very comfortable with that answer but you know not 100% okay so after that meeting maybe you'll you could email you know just the yep okay perfect I'm not sure on the process but
is there any way to sidebar with the county first and speak about our intentions and also speak about other projects that are pending like Old Dixie and things like that to get a feel for where they're at yep um we you know we
can prioritize what that means which I do think that's in the process because I know Doug just replied to the county with Old Dixie uh Camp The Bridge Road on safety there was a couple things on there yeah their their roads
they do a five-year Road plan that they send out to all the cities with you know they have roads in there you know none of our roads none of the county roads that are inquest are in next five years and so we don't have any identified Doug's been pretty adamant about Doug's
been pretty adamant about uh making sure those roads are on there but I don't think they were on there but wow that's great good glad you came thanks for coming you're also working on perfect oh glad to hear the funding
still there did not show up in the report this year the one by Wells Fargo oh yeah to turn when you turn out of there yep yeah blind spot yeah well then if that doesn't need to be then yeah support that impact fee
then well I think it's still important to after we really get the scope of what this is to have the conversation with the county too I mean that way we know the pros and cons of it they may not like it they're not I mean I can imagine they're not going to like it but there other municipalities are doing I think
West Palm is considering and don't quote me on it but I think they're considering doing the impact fees and not sent them to the county as well but really that'd be a big one all right um so that was operate physically responsible government I I thought we
were going to do a recap after this section but we've been kind of doing after each initiative Ian if there's any other questions with that particular category um n all right protect Community appearance character and identity uh consider remembrance Park
phase two U this was an initiative that was on there last year it was number one the category number two overall we authorize $103,000 for planning Services per Council direction we held off on that until we complet get done with phase one um the estimated construction
for phase two is $1.2 million um we you know we we we haven't started the plane services but the the I guess the consideration is you know do we want to also start setting money aside for phase two to do it in sections
that's kind of the initiative or that's the you know if there's a desire to prioritize that we can do that during the budget process one thing I I mean I guess I feel like this is appropriate place to bring it up um when we were just up in Tallahassee I
ran into the library director and he informed me in two to three years I have a plan to expand uh not expand make improvements to the library and he he was not sure if that is maybe a potential like expansion or just improvements within the current
footprint um but he brought up that retention Pond and I was like funny you should bring that up we actually have a plan for that um in our overlay District plan that uh Treasure Coast Regional planning Council put together so um I know Germany's going to get in touch
with them send them that plan and you know is there if there's any way to collaborate with the library and the post office and you know make that maybe come to life with connectivity to the library and the post office like is that if that could become real is that
something that TS would want to consider adding to the list or you know prioritizing rembrance Park Phase 2 over something like that um because that would be a really great Improvement and we know Old Dixie beautification in
general is really important to us um I Know It's tricky because we don't own that land but again if there's opportunity there to pigy back off their improvements um you know do we want to spread the wealth a little bit we did one phase of remembrance Parks see I know we talked about this I think it was
last planning session like let's see how successful that is how much is used before we put the funds into the second phase or like if there is an opportunity for whatever reason to do the retention P Library you know like I said kind of spread the wealth around the community a little more versus just
focusing on the one um remance Park when there's already a really great Improvement going on there right now so I just want to throw that out I think it's an appropriate place to just to so you guys are aware and let me know uh any thoughts you have on that I think it's a great idea um I'm
I'm more preferen to finish off remember Park Phase 2 whatever that looks like I think um the counsel or your idea earlier I think before I was here to finish phase one get some feedback see how it went and then and then fun and finish off phase two was a great idea so I think the Old Dixie is a good idea but
I'd be more um to still place a priority on remember Park you say connectivity are you talking actually connecting over the retention Pond yeah if I remember I mean and the plan it's it's a concept right they had
a round and like a a Pavilion in the back and you know I was talking to uh Mr Crane I was like oh people could go you know go Library check out a book and then go and you know go to the pav Pavilion and sit out there um I I don't remember that in the design
plan yeah it was I think it was just like kind of a loop and they had like a Pavilion in the back of it and it's right between the library and post office I think it's a good idea I it's so hard to say with you know any any park but particularly a park you know where there
isn't a ton of I mean I'm not here during the day as much as a most start but where there's not a lot of foot traffic of how many people are actually going to use it right and I don't I don't know the answer to that question um remembrance Park is certainly in a
little bit more of a a densely populated area with single family um I don't think it's a bad idea I think it really comes down to the cost and trying to determine who's actually going to use it I mean it'll look better one way or another but that could be a lot of money just to
make it look bad and I agree with that what Patrick just said fully like totally comes down for me the use of the funds that would be put into it I do hear feedback that the connection of remembrance Park the second phase would be awesome um because I hear people
already especially kids they're already excited about that Pavilion that went up on the first phase so they Peak through the fence so there's a lot of excitement from the tax paying residents on that one I'd like more information from the library when they get their thought process together like are they expanding
the building on that property if they just want us to beautify it that's us helping them but what are they doing to the library to make the library more welcoming efficient it's very tiny so I need more info before I make any
decision on that to prioritize them I think that um I've received more complaints and more negative comments about the library than anything to do with remembrance Park um I don't know what the constru the estimated construction timeline is
but it's been probably for members park we might get to June July you know and fiscal year will be three qus over um I think this Mobility study that we're working towards were my definition of our
Mobility is really moving people off of the main highways throughout our village I think getting them from Riverside to C Brook would be critical I think we can do that by perhaps carving out part of the path I know we don't want to touch the project twice because of just the
cost of the mobilization but I think that fits also into the Mobility plan as well as I think it's the same audience that uses the post office a lot of times our I think our senior citizens might utilize the post office and the library I know young families go to the library
during the summer kids go there to eat and everything and I think that part of the mobility even though I'll be at a small section I think fits into what my definition of what Mobility around our village would be so um I see carving out
the mobility part of phase two of Riverside and including also you know the mobility because while it's just one building it might be 100 yards it's something that I think connects people to two pieces of property that are utilized by our I don't know the the
foot traffic but I know I've gotten a lot of complaints about the way it looks and if we can do anything to improve the appearance of part of the the post office and make along with with what the county has plans of doing and I think if
we're trying to use our definition of mobility and I don't think I'm too far off on the majority of what I've heard from Council I think this kind of fits into the mobility as well so I like talking about this thing this port this portion of the the Mobil of the lighthouse I keep
saying the lighthouse the post office to the library yeah and they said uh like Mr Crane said it was two to three years he was thinking so like I said not tomorrow and um like I said this is like the initial oh hey here are some ideas
like literally initial conversations I see potential for collaboration and keep in mind too um like you said we do have a lot of people and we hear from them I hear more about post office in the library um but you know there's connectivity between those but there are
a lot of apartments right there really close to that there's neighborhoods um like the Oaks and stuff right there so I think we you know keep in mind all the residents that are literally right there that would probably utilize that where remember remember Park is a little bit
further for them to go to and knowing that you know uh Main Street is going to be developed one day that's not really going eventually probably not going to be a park for the people that are in that area to go to so that's what I meant like spread the well for our residents that you know there's there's
a lot of residential um homes and apartments in that vicinity as well did did he mention I know this was probably a very high level conversation since it's so far off and so unknown but did he mention there could be the possibility of them throwing in money on
this no we didn't get in that detail okay but do you think that that is that something that the county typically with something like this is I mean they'll consider or are they just going to probably be looking at the building no clue well and then so the federal it's federal land correct y
yeah oh so so we really need to talk to you know F the post office our federal representatives there but um like I said it's going to be collaboration with basically three jurisdictions yeah but I mean why not why not try right I'm all
for the collaborative Rel relationship and the project as a whole for me that like you just said it's not tomorrow it's not even this fiscal budget year coming up so for me that's just not right up here it's maybe like right here based on what they come back with
starting that conversation soon because we all know those design studies the planning process it takes quite a while so we can decide do we want to just wait and maybe this is something we add next year do we want to add it this year and then it might be a lower
priority but we don't you know lose uh you know it doesn't fall off the radar I don't want it to fall off the radar I don't mind if they want to start the conversation but like I said I know from experience this is a process this isn't going to be in a year I'm okay with
starting the process with them um but again for me budget wise I'm not putting any money towards this fiscal year because there's nothing to put money towards yet they don't know what they're doing we don't know where the partnership is yet so maybe the goal is coll like I collaborate with the
jurisdiction put money in but start to collaborate with them to see if this is you know a vision that can be that library is super tiny so small so tiny so there's a couple options for this um for for that
I guess we'll say initiative um you could you could put it um maybe let me find the initiative we could put it somewhere in here where we're protecting Community parents it's expand and improve critical land areas that serve maintain the village of
distinctive features through land acquisition and park improvements we could just uh add that as an action item to begin collaboration with um you know the the jurisdictions on that so it kind of ties all into this this initiative and I haven't got to this one yet and I
can elaborate you know some of the comments that I received but I think it might fit good into this one that works for me mhm awesome thank you uh okay ca2 which was this was number two on in this category last year
and priority number 10 expand uh tree planning efforts uh we do have a pro some projects scheduled I think two years out we are waiting the phase two of the tree program was the next next section of toed to drive we're obviously waiting for us to do that water main as
Marjorie alluded to the last Workshop you know we're going to we're going to start turning turning that project forward and so after that's done that was kind of the next phase of our of our tree program that we were doing um there's obviously some opportunities here with Old Dixie and I'll elaborate
on that in a second but I mean I think a big part of this one when we continue is doing a a tree rebate program instead of adopt a tree and I'll tell you the difference the adopt a tree program where you know it's everything it's in the village rideway we put the tree in
for you that type of thing um which is really extremely difficult and uh I get beat up by our utility director and our Public Works director for putting you know trees in rideways um you know because of the utilities that's that's in there storm
water swales you know all that's going to be affected with more of a tree rebate program um residents can apply to put in a tree there's some criteria the types of trees make sure it's Florida friendly the types of trees they can
purchase it and then we rebate their money up to a certain amount and I want to say it's like you know for one gallon tree it's 50 bucks for a five gallon tree it's you know 100 bucks and it's up to like 250 I think is the is the max so um I would recommend we do something
like this with this tree planting I know we uh I don't want to say we're obligated but kind of our goal with our tree City USA we need to spend what is it $2 for every resident we have so we should spend about $12,000 a year 12 125
to continue to be a tree City uh program some of that can be staff time and all that so I'm not overly concerned about the dollar amount because I mean the staff time we can we can put forward but I think this would be a good good opportunity to continue with getting
trees played in the village which you know has been a core core thing for us for many years going back to the 90s um with the residents having some buy into this having to purchase it put it in themselves and then we rebate them how was that rebate done like a refund or
rebate on yeah so they'll they'll put in do a form no no not two taxes no we give them a check that would I don't even know what that looks like but yeah it would be that they would do a form fill it out prior and you know give us the receipt has to make
sure it meets all the criteria they can't just go put in some you know random tree that doesn't fit what what we want yeah so I've seen some successful cities that do this program and so when I when I caught it I ran it by Jay and Doug they they didn't have
anything negative at the time to say about it so I think you know if we want to continue the tree planting so this will be teed up as one of your guys' items to consider as a priority or not and then we'll budget accordingly I think it's a good alternative for what you're already doing you know I did the
the uh the other tree program last year and Doug's team it was they did a great job it was fast easy um but my wife was like I want to choose the tree and you know duck team shows up puts in about a 15 foot tree which is amazing and my wife's like I want to pick the tree I'm
like a it doesn't work that way so this is yeah this would be good oh so here was an example I had another slide so this is an example for the resident uh the resident part if you put in a five gallon tree you can have a maximum of five trees 50 bucks a tree 15
Gallons five and 100 and then 30 gallon 250 and what these cities have done is they typically put in $10,000 annually and then they uh they have another fund of 10,000 for HOAs U we can we can determine that number what's appropriate during the budget process but um that's
that's one of the cities that I highlighted that was one of them and so they also in this program they highlight the trees that are applicable and then you can kind of pick your tree and you do it yourself and there's like I don't know 15 different trees that you can pick from but ours will be probably a little different just based on our our
code and what we what we think is important for Village so a quick question so I know we I think the uh rebate program is a great idea I'm all for it um but what about our
our planting efforts to with you know finishing DEA Drive um you know eventually maybe doing some more in Old dixy I can't I don't think those are elsewhere through here and I know funding was an issue because I think like that original uh tree planning
effort was through the infrastructure tax is that correct yeah and so we still have it labeled in there which you know if you carry out with no no new initiatives that $75,000 is still part of our ctax as we even though we're ending in 25 we'll still have funds to
spend that $775,000 is still earmarked to to use out of that ctax funds it's actually 20 2027 budget process so two years from now because of the water main the water main project we were wait we we pushed it out now obviously if we get down with
a water main project a little earlier we can move that money we can move that forward because it's part of the C tax funds uh so we can move forward a year if we as we pivot and get a better timeline from I'm understanding this water main project is still a you know
16 to 24 month process like it's not like you know get it done like there's there's still going to be a year process still so I think it's probably appropriately where it is that was what you know we pitched and uh discussed as the next next part of our tree planting
efforts and that's gonna that's falls under here so I just want to make sure in the action item we don't lose sight of that so that 75 will still have have it'll just roll over to 2027 you think that what you said okay well it's in 2027 we might be able to move it into
2026 depending on the water main I mean it'll just so basically when the water Main's done that's the next phase of the tree planting efforts unless unless we we have a Initiative for Old Dixie we can do some planting Dougs and I Doug and I have
talked about a couple different scenarios for Old Dixie it's not really what we had as the next phase of this tree plan effort however it is you know it was part of the discussion for tree plane efforts it just wasn't the next phase and so uh we can kind of jump that
forward and do some tree planting some Hedges and things along the FEC RightWay in Old Dixie but um to me it's a different different approach different initiative is that on here though that initiative yes oh it is okay lower we
haven't got sorry thanks seeking issues to reduce The Village's carbon footprint uh as you guys know this is something that's been on our our radar we've done some some good things um with this one I know the EAC and you guys got there five priorities that are
priorities they wanted part of is a Green Building initiative I think that kind of fits under this category us moving forward with that we're also working through some EV charging station like try to we're trying to do some of these things that are part of this
initiative um and so we continue try to identify some of those and bring those to council but you know just you know how far how high of priority is it for you guys last year was priority number 11 of 19 I think so I have um did you have something to
say wtp is that water treat what is WT Water Treatment Plant yeah so you as you guys know we have have a $6 million project about ready to be initiated and and and funded through an srf program or partially funded through an srf program so we're doing some of that that'll help
reduce some of the the energy usage and help uh save some some there so the carbon footprint will be reduced based on those improvements in the EV charge station I mean I have two electric cars and solar panels charge my home and my cars I'm
all for it as long as we're not uh adding its projects or renovating um or adding as a project itself if it's something that a business is building a additional structure set up parking lot or renovating building that's one thing but I don't know that using our funds is
the greatest use for the residents in this case I just know I'm just saying that from experience on how EV charging is used and who uses it and we have a small village so I think it's a good idea but I don't want to PR prioritize funds to that at this point yeah I think
there for us there's really two two things going on with that one you know we're trying to we're trying to revisit the idea of the charging stations over at the rec center we put into charging station two two home runs
we'll call it do you no um we put in we were planning to put two home runs over at the rec center so we put in uh some conduit it kind of set the whole program up um and then the the stations themselves wouldn't fit I have talked to another
company I know Doug is I threw Doug in the middle of it Doug's working on trying to to do that that's one one thing for us but that that wasn't going to cost either time it wasn't going to cost us anything it was they were going to put it in based on you know the revenue that is derived from that we
would get a portion back so in theory we'd actually make some Revenue the the challenge with that is you know we're giving up a space or two at the rec center um you know we had talked about doing maybe over a main street because we have some parking right there in that Park but that was when we were we were
using it utilizing it for for you know the public you know now you know as as you guys are saying there's a couple of Concepts that have come forward like I don't know that's the best use to go put charging stations over there right now so um the companies that we've talked to they they ain't going to put a lot of
infrastructure or money into it unless they see a return on investment for them and those are really the only two locations that they would entertain were those two so that's one the second part of it is like you know do we want to put it in code for new development new
commercial to require them to do it you know we don't have a lot of Redevelopment I mean but let's just say one of the big shopping centers redo their parking lot I me we can ask them or we can put it in code do we do we want to do that and so that'll be that that'll have just have to be a future
discussion for Council if we want to consider that as part of code I um my thoughts on this one is part of me almost sings to transition this one off because one of the items is a tree planting effort which is a
separate item we already have on here the water treatment plant upgrades are already happening in progress and that the study we had the water treatment plant was the biggest colporate of carbon emissions and we're already tackling
that we just talked about EV charging St I don't know what how much opportunity is there and I'm unclear on the Green Building incentive a why it's under carbon footprint because that's not necessarily a a a carbon emissions issue
and I know it was on eac's letter but um so Green Building initiatives was something we handed to EAC quite some time ago uh we rolled it off of the Beach Road design guidelines and the master quarter plan because we thought it was more appropriate to kind of do
some more research maybe have more of a holistic approach on green billing incentives and I want to see it was a year ago maybe more that we give back to the EAC and so I'm not clear on that ask from them and I'm not clear on why there hasn't been any deliverables there yet
so I think Green Building incentives it was on our strategic plan via the design guidelines we already did um so for those four reasons I almost feel like this is something we can maybe just say roll off at this point
i' I'd agree with that I didn't know we could do that in that manner so I think that's a good idea um I work in a Green Building at times and I like the idea the especially when you're creating but I also see that there is a large amount of cost and maintenance on certain parts
of that green initiative you know summer you build it and maybe Patrick knows more here but I the dayto day for even staff and the cost and the maintenance could be extremely high um and frustrating so I don't know that that's a huge benefit to our residents maybe
those funds can be spent somewhere else to reduce carbon footprint or offer some other uh ideas since we're not renovating any huge buildings yet I we'll get to our building Master Plan and maybe that's better of there sounds like a plan yeah I'm on the
same page I agree so we can handle this one of two ways at this point you know we can remove it all together from your guys' scoring before we score them and prioritize them or nobody just give it any points and if it doesn't at least get at
least two C's at the very minimum then it won't make the priority it won't make the Strategic plan anyway so you can handle both either way okay thank you you want me to take it off and then we'll I think I'm just
gonna C there's a no call on so do we just do no yeah if you guys all want to put no we can just do it on here right that make it easier for me and do we need to maybe give a disclaimer that we weren't removing it but we're you are transitioning off we're not saying get rid of all these
things we they're either in process or they're already just elsewhere here yeah or like I said I think we just need some more clarity on the The Green Building initiative but I think that's separate from strategic plan I just would like to understand better what the E is working on and okay
so Jay's here and he's he's been tasked with the the EAC and I think he's done a phenomenal job of really uh you know working with him and actually lining things up so maybe he can give us a little bit of an update yeah so we we've workshed building with the E were you
talking to Mike J so pick you and people can pick you up morning Jay Hub community development director we've workshopped Green Building cers with the EAC at two different meetings and are going to bring forward um some proposed code language at the next Workshop in April
I'm going to kind of try and roll it into like a a glitch code so we're updating a lot of things at once um it's it's pretty minor but we've got this concept where we're going to incentivize people to give them like expedited permitting expedited plan review and
then Wayne has agreed to give some reduction of building permit fees if people do certain Green Building certifications but it's not going to be our proposed language is that's not mandatory we're just kind of trying to you know get put a carrot out there for people to do Green Building I don't
think we'll see a ton of people actually take the carrot but at least we'll have it so I'm going to bring that forward in April to you guys that's it awesome I'm glad to hear we're gonna see something on that soon and again like we're we're about there so I think another reason
yeah transition that off too perfect uh touched on this one already a little bit um expand and improve critical land areas to serve maintain the village distinctive features the land acquisition the park Improvement I think it might have been unanimous that every council member uh discussed
this in some form or another in our our pre meeting leading up to this about wanting to see us continue to look at land acquisition if there's an an opportunity uh obviously last several years we haven't been in a good financial position uh you know depending
on what our priorities are you know it's still a tough ask depending on what where we're going or how much the land is but um I think if that's you know if it's a priority for us we will make it a priority for for our funding and try to
work out work that out you know as you guys know it's still a challenge to you know with the price of land and and projects um you know the park land purchasing policy that we had you know part of it was to see if you know you had a willing seller you know if there's any kind of discounts or any kind of uh
value on the property that um that we could get for a discounted price um we haven't seen those no one's brought us any of those um but that was part of it so part of the initiative for this one be to consider it you know we can revisit the Parkland purchasing policy
at one point we brought to you guys um vacant Parcels that were available not even only in the village of Testa but adjacent um not necessarily they were for sale but they were vacant and so we can look at some some of those opportunities I don't know if we
consider them opportunities but we can look at some of those things again so part of this initiative I put together is just revisit that and maybe maybe try to get some energy going again for that um and now we'll add um in some form We'll add the post office and start
working with other um agencies to to see if we can move that along so that's what this one is it's revised from what it was before we've added some different things I think the other part that is important to note on this is that we've gotten some funding um from
um from the state for Appropriations if you guys I'm sure I told all of you guys or through a letter or an email that we we expected to get $340,000 from the state for construction plans for taquesta Park we got up to
$680,000 uh funded um it was a 6535 appropriation you guys are going to see that on your council meeting next week uh we have worked with kimley horn and uh got them down to uh a more reasonable price for taquesta Park in the construction plans to I think it's right
under a half a million dollars so we're looking at $178,000 of our costs versus originally it was $590,000 we were we were estimating so I I think man it's good because it's we've been working on that
for about three years uh or four years and so and it's good because we we got more than what we expected so um that's that initiative is oh second part why I brought that up is working with our lobbyists He suggests that we file a
local Bill next year it's really the only way to to do this is that if we want the state to deed that property over over to us so we can have full control over that property uh we could do a local Bill and see if they would entertain that that would be next year not this
session not this mess of a session that's going on right now next year's mess of a session better timing anyway yeah I'd support any real estate acquisition plan um I don't think it has to be just vacant land anything adjacent
to around TAA that's maybe distressed or vacant either way um maybe we could put together a long-term plan to uh create Parcels that are neighboring each other or even if we created pocket parts from it or something in the in the future that we could exchange off to somebody
for one piece of you know multiple properties for one piece of large land um I don't know how that functions within if we have to set a budget and just be ready to go I don't also know if there's ability to sometimes I've seen commercial land be leased for 100 years or 50 years if that's any opportunity
within the village that we have that um availability uh when needed or availability of funds when needed maybe could you recirculate that Park policy because I think that was predates you I think I think you were I can't remember but it would a good
refresher for me to I got on yeah okay is that the bond No we did a Parks policy that and it kind of says like how I think there's a couple different ways we could acquire land like how that process goes not not funding but the process like I said I know I think not
everyone that's here today was here and then it'd be good refresher for me to to read it as well again um I think this is great the only one is I don't know if we want to take off the uh local bill for toester Park because it it is listed
under the dequa park item as well it's just a duplication unless you think there's other opportunities for local bill but I think the local Bill one was specifically for the state Thea park for state land right it's under Testa Park uh on well my backup we have a different
looking yeah yeah yeah it says consider local bill yeah okay we can take it off there good catch Jeremy's just being through yeah really wanted that local bill I'll show you we we'll make sure we
prioritize it one way or another huh exactly okay um this beautification to Old Dixie um as you guys know we've had um several conversations and I know Doug's been very involved with the county for uh funding improvements to
Old Dixie the first step was always going to be which we agreed upon was going to be to start the planning process we set set aside $65,000 to fund the planning services for some Old Dixie some medians on Old
Dixie um anticipating it being right around $65,000 the county was going to fund half of that what we what We've ran into is they put some unreasonable restrictions on that funding request um you know taking away taking away our
protect our liability protections was was probably the number one uh also you know if we didn't meet their standards we'd have to refund the money if we didn't keep it up to speed it you know up to code or up to their standards we'd have to refund it just very um in our
opinion very unreasonable you know legal looked at it too they had some um a lot of hesitations with removing our our protections there so I think you know the next step if we're not going to beautifi beautify uh the me put some medians in there is like let
maybe we can do some more with the landscape in Long Long Old Dixie knowing that we don't own it we lease it from FEC at any point they can tell us that they're going to do something with that property and then we have to we have to return it back to its to its original
state um don't really feel like that's going to happen it never has happened uh I would say the only thing that scares me is a couple years ago the council um had conversations about not renewing them at least because we have to renew it and there's a escalator on that every
year I want to say like 5% so you know over time it's going to continue to escalate so you know but I think Doug has identified and I've had some conversation about you know putting some hedges in planting some trees especially as you start getting further north it you know kind of it kind of gets a
little Barren up there um trying to do some additional Landscaping I think that would be our action for beautification Old Dixie instead of the the medians and and and maybe we can come back to that at some point you know obviously their new administrator is going to be changing maybe there's some different
conversation that can happen in the future but that's why I put revised on here I think we can pivot and and really look that beautification old Dixie has been on the Strategic plan in the village since 1978 so on and off um that was shared by our historians hasn't you
know FEC rideway um it's obviously it's important to everybody because you know it's it's one of our gateways but it's just are we willing to spend some money to beautify that knowing that you know it's not our land we we lease it however it's you
know we pretty close to have ownership of it let's put it that way I mean nothing I don't think anything's going to happen to the lease unless we decide not to fund it so what's the current term of that lease sure in talking with the FBC mentioned we pay a leasing fee
and upgrade the existing beautification will be additional cost for that as so those costree what so wait any change to their property so right now all that
pay weif ex we have ADD add landscap that is going to go because they maintain it because it's their property so we're going to improve your proper chares more yeah don't NE want proper improve yeah
they don't care you'd think they would just say yeah that's fine but we're not going to pay for anything you% do you remember what that cost was dog I mean 15 somewhere around 15,000 so I don't think it'll go up significantly
if we make you know make those improvements but you know we we would negot try to negotiate that make sure it stayed reasonable but and we wouldn't obviously wouldn't do it until after we figured out what that cost would be it come to council and get full you know we'll have full disclosure on all that
but if that's a priority we'll we'll work on it what year did you say 1978 this is the year imagine if like trees and stuff were planted in the 80s what it would look like today like threshold best time to plant a tree
yesterday yeah I mean quite literally when do you how far do you keep kicking the can and just nothing's happening it's more and more expensive to do it the further you kick the can so my two cents CU I've talked about this with a previous Council and this is just so you guys know how you want to prioritize it
it's always a rock in a heart place because we don't own it the lease is not considering the amount it is money but it's really not that expensive previous Council before all you guys that Council was unfortunately big on selling anything they could whether it was
removing leases selling little slivers of pieces of land for pennies basically in the hindsight um then Council has changed over by because the voters started putting different people in these seats um so that changes the goals and priorities of what we want to do for
the residents beautifying and making toqua look beautiful and safe and clean Doug is always great at presenting council at options for landscaping that are easy to maintain don't take a lot of water things that are going to grow efficiently because the train goes by um so we've been given a ton of
options and now knowing maybe in the next couple years the east side with the library and the post office might be in talks with a conjunction partnership maybe we do finally look at addressing the west side because nothing's over
there there's no business and again 1978 my gut even living in Florida nothing really gets done next to Railroad unless it's a large piece of property so I don't see why we wouldn't hold a lease as long as it's not atrociously expensive but I don't see FEC
ever taking it back and doing something with it that's my two cents so I I've always been an advocate of if we can afford it to put something there I've always said too publicly it doesn't have to be a massive amount of landscaping or anything too complex
anything added is a benefit like anything because it's such a dead zone over there um I've always been Advocate to start small little pieces like Jeremy said plant a tree yesterday doesn't have to be a whole slew of anything um that's where I sit and I always look at the
budget and then sometimes we've had years where we again have to prioritize sometimes that 15,000 had to go towards a piping project because that was more important than some trees so my two
cents historically too thanks for that date and the historians can advocate for that too FC little railroad property is probably not really going to do anything that's crazy how long that was yeah I don't know that we've had the FEC
property since 78 I think there was talk of medians and beautification along there but so I don't know the exact scope that they were thinking in 78 but it's been on there that's what it was shared with me is that property water at all is there irrigation there or is this
all natural Landscaping okay yeah because you know my thought on that is you know I look at Constitution Park and what we're doing at remembrance Park and it's Lush and it's green and that's like our scrub land and you know we're going to put something that can
live within that environment and all the detriment that comes with passing trains and a gas tank that's there and all the other things so you know put I think this we need to improve that because it is a gateway but I think the Landscaping is just I don't know if it's just going
to be look more Barren or more like we're just putting natural things there because they can grow without water we have more things that are just going to make it look more dead right like more brown tones or tones but there are things that there are things that could go there that are
even small so it doesn't need it doesn't have to be you know this big glorious thing but you know I agree with you like we don't want to go for more Earth Tones maybe something that just pops even just some green yeah so I think it's important because it is it's it's everyone travels that road yeah but
you're right like there's a lot of tra railroads now we have all the bright line runs and there's the tank and it's it's more of an industrial kind of feel right there it's wear and Terror and the big gas tank and surrounded by a fence who does the poppies or the flowers that have the signs out there
that do not kill the flowers you ever seen that it's on almost near County Line Road there's sign there's signs that say watch out for the flowers so that that is can do you want me to tell Doug or do you want you want to say rum that somebody might have G over
coups I just wonder who did it and I'm sorry because it wasn't me but I think I said that okay I love driving in seesta at least once a week when as soon as I drive in I'm like hey D gu uh still nothing
there so oh I'm glad it's I glad it's a village initiative I just I was just curious more so than like who does that so it's one of those things like in my mind it was way better you know um just for a fun fun
little quick story Jeremy comes from Texas and when we first hired him I said to him are you familiar with the Blue Bonnets and he looked at me and Texas actually has a law like you can't mow over the Blue Bonnets and the rways and the medians they naturally grow they're
a seasonal flower but they are amazing and I don't know how they grow because that when I go out there their land is so dry it's cracked but those blue bonnets will grow and they are I mean it's just people go out through to photograph them I mean it's amazing and they ended up putting a long place where
you can't mow them so that's where my mindset was was how do we find something simple like that that grows even if it's seasonal cuz then it gives people look forward to Jupiter has them those um grassy plants and then they bloom with the purpley pink and everyone looks forward to that that's kind of where my
mindset is something simple but then it always brings me back to the blue bonnet Theory like how do we get something like that well we were shooting for something like that we still are I know Doug is always on the hunt still you have to you have to prep the property I know go in there and dig it up really the
irrigation too depending on how heavy that's going to be there still I applaud I applaud I my question was more who was responsible for that the star W right there well not [Laughter] yet so if you know obviously if you guys
make that a priority or top priority you know we we will have um Doug has already identified some some things that we can do we'll try to fit the budget um you know as we get around to that that point this was I know Council hears about this
SE emails you know ebike education you know proposed we leave this on um just continue education policy on golf carts and ebikes I mean public education Friday news smoke signals uh I proposed that we'll try to do a a public meeting
this year to discuss it um as you guys have seen we put out a video not too long ago um and this continue enforcement and you know I've talked with Chief we're continuing just monitor see if anybody else has any any things any other cities have anything they can
offer and I Know Chief is talking with other Chiefs um you know we're we're kind out a loss the state allows ebikes allow um and I know that's the big topic on this one is the ebikes more than the golf carts but um you know ebikes the
state allows for them we can't prohibit them and so we have to allow them and you get in the conversation about you know are you going to allow them on the streets can allow them on the roads we match the state the state law for it and so you know people will see kids on ebikes and they're popping Willies not
illegal you know they're cursing on them not necessarily illegal you know there there's just there's things that you know kids on kids kids be kids so it's it becomes an education hopefully um you know we can educate the the kids and the parents on those things but um we we
will continue to do that whether you transition it off if you want or we'll leave it on there that way our residents know it's important to us and we keep we keep moving forward with I think that's important that's I'm sorry yeah that's that's a key point because I expressed
to somebody recently um there was three kids on an ebike I don't think any of them had helmets no shoes I don't know how they had three on there pulling a kid on a skateboard and he fell right in my right in front of my house and I heard him hit the ground and I thought that's the first one and because we're
going to have somebody die from ebikes it's going to happen because it's not parental thing because I don't think the parents know kids are just out on their ebikes they don't know what they're doing they have they don't understand they don't know the rules of the road they so there's going to be a death so
you're right fact I am I'm gonna make it a floor because it's got to stay on there it is so important or else The Village will be blamed the first time there's a a tragic injury injury or a death and they're going to name the law after one of our young kill kids that
may lose their life because of this and so I I think to me me this is this is big because I don't know about your streets but Dober is one of the most active when it comes to ebikes all going to the park they're being kids doing what they should be doing but on their way there sometimes they they're they're
fearless and uh but I just I think it is that to keep it on there and you know some type of a priority to keep this on the list is something that's very important to me only because I I see it every single day when I saw that young man fall I thought he's not getting up and he did and he sat there in the
street for I would say a good four to five minutes before he could pull himself together and the people Towing him kept right on going just kind of left them there so I it's it's going to happen it's going to happen it's going to happen there will be a tragedy in this Village at some point yeah it's
it's a it's a big deal uh um I see him in the country club everywhere I've received um concerns from I want to say residents from Mo most of the major neighborhoods in out through here and I know just I've
witnessed um near misses with cars because there's a couple I've seen uh at the Country Club the kids you know come out fast from the boat ramp and there's kind of a blind spot with bushes there I've seen cars have to slam on their brakes because they almost hit them and then there's a there's a house on a
corner that has construction fencing up and it creates a blind spot too so I've seen kids whip out there and the car basically sees them when they're in front because they can't see because they're screening on the construction fist again slam on the bricks that one I was like oh my gosh like I really thought that that's the street they all congregate
on I agree I mean what else can we do do we have to raise this issue at the state more too because it's like I feel the same it's like a matter of time and I feel like our hands are tied because of the preemption and stuff but I there's
education but then from a policy level like what else can we do there to and try to help to prevent do at least so we feel like we've at least done as much as we can to prevent you know the worst case from happening yeah
you know I believe you know we measure what matters but this is so tough to measure because you said when we get a call our police officers go over there and they're gone or they talk to them or they'll I've seen them stop them in the street I've seen Lieutenant Blanc to stop them and talk to them and just give
them an education but it's hard to measure this we say well you know we can't measure the the impact of this but I think it's this is that off balance sheet it's just something we just have to do and keep top of mind because it's tough to I think it's tough to measure this but when we have one event to
measure it's going to be the worst event that we ever have to measure in this Village and for the record because I want on record I do think tpd has done an amazing job today managing this and being out there public facing enforcing it trying to educate the kids um I mean
too I see I see them on cell phones one hand on bike no helmet on a cell phone I'm like oh my gosh no shoes dragging their feet as they go I don't I don't I don't understand it and they go home and tell hey did you follow the rules of the road today I absolutely did okay great thanks let's go eat
dinner so that one's hard for me because you're right it's going to take a tragedy to make these kids go up and unfortunately like I don't know what the village could do other than Banning them and we don't want to ban D that mean
it's it's a fun bike but it really comes down to the kids' responsibility and that's true too so some parents are good parents and they are getting on their kids but then their kids are going to be kids and go do what they want and then you have the parents that you know I love you guys but you don't care and
you're not pushing your kids to do the right thing so what would the village even do to put something in place because the cops are in a rock and hard place too I know some cops that are taking these kids to home and talking to the parents and then they're back out again so I I I
feel for them cuz they're like what what do you guys want us to do and I'm like what can we do other than put a law place to straight up ban them but we don't want to do that so the state you know the more they get from all the towns with the same issue they're going
to end up doing something and it was probably like 12 years ago we had that golf cart accident and the village had the 14 no The Village was 16 the state was 14 years old to drive a golf cart but
the village had the 16-year-old Rule and that girl did suffer brain trauma and it took that unfortunately to shake people up and it got better and then a whole new crop of residents moved in and it's gotten looser and then we've been trying
to address it with expressing those shared memories and concerns and then same thing with boating world no one wants to wear the life jacket and this and that and then that tragedy happened and the community felt it and things got better so I I I don't like that it takes a tragedy but I would like residents to
tell us what do they want us to do other than straight up ban them because there's nothing else we we l them on sidewalks we got them off the road our sidewalks can't be widened to 8 10 ft wide I mean it comes down to they're not stopping at stop signs they're crossing the road at ridiculous spots they're
literally playing chicken with car and it's in it's in Jupiter too cuz I almost sideswipe them CU they come out of nowhere so just really what is it that we can do other than straight up ban them and I don't want to ban them I'm not against them I just need I need our youth and
some of our younger adults to just follow the common sense rules stop at a stop sign don't play chicken with the cars stay on the side of the road and mean how many how many times have we talked about the frustration with the um the cyclist right they go they ride in big groups it's difficult to get around
but they do at least try to stay on the side of the road I will give them that now right when they used to be on Beach Road so it's kind of going back to that with the eikers I just I for me I just really need everyone to just have some common sense follow the rules and ride safely just like you would on a regular
bike a skateboard I mean I support you police if you want to stop them if they have three kids to a bike I do not support that I am a kid that grew up on pegs that was one extra person we never piled three or four kids on a bike um but if we're going to talk about
this as a high priority which I think think it is but I me what would we do would it be a straight up ban or did we just send our concerns to the state and see what they can do because right now anyone can buy them anyone can ride them even the motorbikes there was a
motorbike at my house last night a child is very young do I support it maybe not not his parent the law says he can ride it what do I do kind of stuck a rock in heart place yeah I I don't I agree with
you I don't think is the answer I think that's too much of a government overreach at that point but I mean is this something Jeremy you can kind of talk to our lobbyist about and see what his thoughts are and is there anything more at a state level with uh I mean I again I think all of us want to do
something but yeah what's the answer and they're popular and they're getting more developed they're getting more I mean every year every Christmas I get more and more and more and I remember saying this years ago because my kids are that age now many years ago
we built the Rec Center event it was hey we have this whole demographic that moved into the village about 14 15 years ago we all have these little babies and one day they're going to be teens get excited how we like we have to accept to they're going to grow up and then five
years all this might calm down because they're all off at college and doing their jobs and there's another new trend there's another new toy that comes out so yeah I can talk with our lobbyists I um I have I have not seen a bill that is at
the legislation right now and I think their filing period might be over now since they're started but haven't seen a bill that addresses ebikes but I can talk to our lobbyists kind of find out our options if not this year moving forward into next next year um but I if
I will agree with with the mayor I think the police do an excellent job I mean every time something's ever come up I mean they've been you know very responsive so can appreciate apprciate that and they I mean they're stopping kids it's not like we're not we're just you know not even meeting them out there we'll go out there they may not be
acting a fool when our police get there they're talking to them they're trying to educate them I mean I think that's our angle at this point so and there are some good kids I had nine kids in my driveway last night and they were talking about it and I asked them another question of an email we got
and they confirmed my suspicion of what that what would the result of that be and they even asked like oh do you think like you know there's be things taken away from us unfortunately for you guys it takes the one kid to ruin it and there's multiple that are ruin it for you guys who're trying to just ride your
bikes without pedaling there's good ones and there's ones that aren't so great with [Music] it I feel for those good ones it's hard to be a kid um so developer developer and Community engagement this was a new one
that was brought up uh for specific provide a community form list listening sessions for feedback more of a shred environment and I this was brought up by I think two or three different council members um just a more I guess the idea was more of a relaxed environment when
we have some of these large projects as opposed to the you know the the council Forum where you know they have three minutes and they don't have a chance to have back and forth so that was an initiative that was proposed I I'm in support of this and
I'm one of the I know this is one my recommendations I just think there's times when open dialogue shet style or better and don't want to stop and break a meeting up into different forms of meetings but I think just having this as
an active tool that we can have an offer because I think we've had projects before us and conceptual projects and go back to the overlays when specific things came up where it doesn't our our the for our form of meeting and or Workshop don't lend themselves to an open exchange where somebody can say
okay like let me like what we're doing right now let's address that one issue so I don't know what that looks like and maybe other people are doing it but this is something that I think we could it would be a productive use of our time or a productive item to keep on on the
radar I say Jay's done a little bit of this already some form of it with um you know the county line project I don't think it would be too far for us to get there if this is what council wants to do to I say I hate say use the word formalize it but more of a formal thing
that almost requires this less formal environment you know I mean I think something like that or or maybe it's you know when we when Council does ask for that environment that we have a process to to to make it happen and and I say
say a process because you know you don't want it to be just a back and forth shouting things especially we want it to still be structured but how do we structure that environment so it's open and free and back and forth but not not any uh we don't want people yelling at each other you know that type of thing
so we can come up with with something if that's the will of the council do you need to change the location to change the environment the feel right because you have the the Das but when you do it the rec center it does have that a little more relaxed feel but it does get out of control kind of quick also one
person goes off and then all a sudden now you got four people talking right do I guess I guess my question is would we need to move that to the rec center setting little more formal Rec Center setting instead of here being formal to create that environment or just here and
letting it be open like you said open dialogue back and forth with my opinion but I mean open but I mean we can do that here I mean obviously I think you were at that Rec Center one that we had recently um you know we can you know this council chambers now we have the
ability to move the podium stuff we can put some tables down here and and create a less formal environment for something like that so that way we're on the same level with the with a developer and having those discussions we can do that um so we can do it either way I guess
it's uh like I said depend on what direction the council wants to go and how you know if this is a priority for the council when you guys get to ranking these we talked about that not that long ago just to give you some history we were all open to that idea we were kind of geared towards the
positives of doing it here like get away from this and coming out here like like jery said we rearranged the room because the technology was in here so we could have things up on the screens we had we had to play audio or videos and then if we had to record any part of the session like that's already built into
this room right that was yeah that was really the only reason why we kept those things here yeah cuz otherwise we were all for like changing it up um there was just a lot more manageable Pros in this room okay I think it worked pretty well what was it the uh I guess it was the
commercial Corridor shet that we did last in here I me I thought it was pretty it was pretty good there was tables set up everywhere and there were little groups and I agree having all the technology here is nice yeah but that environment is a little different because we didn't have count we didn't
have Sunshine laws that we had to worry about versus what I think what has come up in the discussions that were presented to me was you know all five council members sitting down with the public and you know having discussions about what that looks like or can we do this
can you do that you know Council pitching some ideas but that all need to be captured so because it'll be part of the sunshine versus there would still be like a public comment section to that we did something similar when we were trying to conversate about annexing Council sit sat at tables right
here and then the residents came in front and it was back and forth yeah said that and I thought it was I thought it was productive I mean obviously you know there was a lot of people didn't want to be in but it wasn't like you know the setup is what tense but I don't know that's it tense but it wasn't it
wasn't a terrible environment everyone got heard Council was you know in sunshine rules we were all seated May Jay may have something he can add to this he he's done several of these in his past experience and he was the one that brought it in did you want to say something Jay well let me do you
mind if I comment real quick because I um for me I almost would like to Workshop this more than have a strategic plan because I just have a lot of questions out the gate like who would manage it does council need to be there um does the developer need to be there
you know how do we have a workshop on or share on their Project without them being there I think they would have to um you know how are we going to manage public Comon there is rules of decorum for a reason um you know when would it
happen we have conceptual process which is really was kind of for this reason many municipalities do not have that conceptual plan process um so like when in the process of them doing their application would that happen because I
don't want it to become too cumbersome for developers where it's like okay they have to do the conceptual plan they have to do the trette then they have to go through site plan approval um and then you know I know we was it the Vox Cove that you know the neighboring properties
didn't want to meet with them to begin with so I think it's a good idea I would like to just workshop and kind of talk through those things and kind of figure out what's most appropriate if anything because there's it could be great it could go sideways so I just want to make sure it's something that we really it's
really well thought through if we want to proceed yeah because I I 100 I just want to be able to have dialogue about it and say we might at the end of this Workshop just well you know what we're just going to stick the way it is um you know like but it needs to be structured so everyone needs is the same so one
applicant gets the same same exact process as the next one did in case it goes off the rails or things like that so I be open for that because I just think we're I I think not we but I think in general we're we don't have that opportunity to have that open dialogue you're just sitting at around a table
and coffee shop and home I would love the the workshop J sorry you chime in to be for the media to record the meeting um yeah and I agree we should worksh think the best form to do that would just be when we're having a
workshop meeting have have the shet session out one of your regular workshops rather than a regular Council right because it's a little more formal it's a little less button up and it also wouldn't distract from from the regular business
that I agre we should work further because like what what kind of qu projects qualify all of them there's a certain size or you know um okay so why don't I'm gonna add it to our running Workshop list now is everyone's good instead of striking it just if it
doesn't get points it has no life right so we're not striking it right and I mean I think in this situation you know we're we're adding it a list I think I mean if you guys don't want to prioritize it you can put no on it and um it'll it won't die today but it's
great that in a publicly noticed meeting we're having this conversation so we could talk about it at another publicly know uh enhancing Civic engagement digital governance improve social media presence through influencers um and then the other one
that was brought up as this item as an example would be evaluate democracy OS and liquid feedback his potential platforms to increase transparency engagement with non-residents including reducing Reliance on inconsistent social media discussions uh I don't want to
call you out but if you want to maybe maybe elaborate because there's specific things on there that you've seen that you wanted to talk about and so I I don't didn't want to call any you out but I obviously don't know much about the two examples that you no please do
um yeah the first one's social media so um two parts of it the first part is clerk's office done a great job above and beyond with uh events noticing keeping information out there um you know a lot of municipality is much bigger than ours don't even uh do that
as a minimum and I think we do a good job there the idea behind social media is that you really haven't had a successful program unless you've had full engagement and so we don't have full engagement in social media and uh the idea behind this is uh part getting
information out to the uh residents in a oneway form but also being partners with our businesses and we do business highlights which is phenomenal but it doesn't attract engagement so although it's a great program it's really not hitting those
benchmarks of engaging uh residents and people to come into the village to to spend uh dollars in our on our businesses so the idea behind this is if you use a social media influencer that's their specific job
they can uh number one help kind of identify and brand what our residents want to see and create more engagement and then other side have the same influence with business highlights and small businesses so the new restaurant
onquest a drive ac across from um I forget the name now lla llaa right so they had a huge initial right that was a a YouTube or not social media influencer right they they partnered up had a big startup um you see a big difference in
that you'll even see one of them coming around Towns at Danny and K's the other day right it's it's real simple but it it makes a huge difference on attracting for our businesses so the idea behind that is number one engage residence number two help our small business or
help our businesses in general um you know during season I'm sure they're they're great but during the summer time you know how do we create more and more people to visiting our businesses and so that's the idea behind that um I really think it's a small investment over time
if that's what we're looking for if we're trying to say hey we don't want anybody else coming in here we're fine well then don't worry about because really the only goal in those social media influencers is to bring in more people the um is branding on this also
is branding later oh branding should be on this one Sor probably I can reward it but I know you so I I like that out that's my I think Brandy would fall in the same place um you know with the current we have the Indian on some items
or if you look at the quest Department's logo I mean maybe they paid attention to go look at it it's pretty bad it's like it got to be from the 90s um and so just thinking about does that matter to us number one if it doesn't then then
that's okay but kind of uh modernizing the um way we're viewed of social media branding residence and it usually creates more engagement uh when someone can um I don't know feel feel is
not the right order but it usually doesn't create more engagement with our residents if it's events or government policy whatever may be as one part of that branding and so really what you would normally do is kind of through a social media influencer see what's out there um what
our residents like what our businesses like and then create some type of branding change from there depending what people like uh the other part of this is uh democracy OS liquid feedback it's basically um government media platforms that would
take the place of next door Facebook so it gives the residents information that uh we're putting out and it's not tied to negative algorithms or just random partial truths or misinformation and so really it's it's Village staff uh
answering questions from the residents but as an as an ease of social media um as we know Facebook you know can focus on an algorithm right more negativity more reviews more algorithm and it can run next door things like that some of
these discussions can just run rampid this would Point people back to the actual answers policy whatever may be this would take Village staff time so it might not be uh necessarily the best use of time if it's not used frequently by residents but this would be a
comfortable platform people could ask questions and increase engagement and Trust in government as well as transparency uh that is my pitch for that I'm not an expert on any of these but I'll be happy to answer any questions on the experiences I've had
with them in the past thank you I I know the day I'm the oldest person up here and so I am probably the least qualified I this is not my wheelhouse this is not my Lane I was just thinking you should be the
influencer you know at first you know it I admit when I saw you know influencers and quotes and I said well we of course you have to put it in quotes because is it really a thing but as I was walking up this morning there was two young ladies up front in front of this beautiful Orchid that's blooming on the
tree and I'm so that Village Hall will be on somebody's Instagram or Facebook I probably by the time they got back in their car so at 10 to n or quarter to nine somebody was here doing that so I was thinking oh wow influencer there was one here today you know um so I think
this is the part of of this is hard for me not hard for me to embrace I have never been in a professional capacity to do this and my social media experience is very limited to Instagram and that's it so I would
default to my colleagues that that but I see the value in something like this just based on the feedback that we get that government is confusing agendas are confusing to some people that you know we take it for granted that we understand what we're doing but it's intimidating the people and not only
that for them to stand up there for three minutes and speak at that Podium probably one of the most intimidating thing but we need to remember that at that time that's one of the most important things in their life at that moment and need to do that so maybe this would be a different way to address some of those questions or concerns so I'm
open I don't know enough about it to say it's a priority uh but I think the way that we can communicate with our with our residen is I know my two campaigns walk in the neighborhood it was better opportunity different ways to communicate and I asked what those were
and this is the first time I've seen two other ways to do that so thank you for atast providing that I said all that I am not the person to feeline too much on this um I the I'm kind of broken up into two parts here for me so I'm going to
kind of combine the um idea with the influencers and branding and for that I guess I'm trying to understand what is there an issue we're trying to solve or what we're trying to bring in because I I feel like with that influencers and branding um when men andali go on that
road there's usually lots of times for economic development reasons I don't think we have that problem here there there's usually a specific reason they're doing that because they have a problem uh we're a jewel everyone wants to be here is not a secret this place is here so I I'm trying to understand the
purpose of of doing that and um I'm like vice mayor I'm not the same age but I'm not big on social media and whatnot but I do know from talking to people about this there's a lot of influence local influence influencers in the area that are already coming here and posting
I know people that come from all over the county to you know go out to dinner here um so I don't know if there's a need for that the so then that second part is the like more transparency engagement making sure the
right Information Gain out there I don't I think there's room to uh do some research there for sure because that's always been important to me from day one it says non-residents on there so I don't know if that is a Mis print I think this print and it could have been
mine this print okay yeah this print so your specifically your ideas for transparency and engagement with our residents not non-residents yeah it's like an official platform basically to to the answers that residents residents want or or business businesses but the community yeah not to say I don't care
about the non-residents but this is not their platform okay okay so thank you for clarifying and I looked into those two I didn't get the warm and fuzzies it'd be nice to maybe do some research on others that have the same uh provide the same service but maybe a more like us-based platform would be better um and
I do want to make sure that it wouldn't I don't know exactly how those work but um like I want to make sure we're getting the right info out there but we're not um silencing anyone or or not allowing people to express their opinions even if it's not
correct everyone's opinion and their view is their opinion you know View and we should respect that so I want to make sure it's still open platform but like you said we can at least it can direct to the correct information so I guess maybe you can explain how that works a
little more so yeah and which whichever software doesn't L matter and you can customize it to just have direct feedback so it's not it doesn't end up being like a long thread and then long thread would be in the background but you can can then engage AI where I think the clerk's office might already be
using some parts where AI starts to see the questions the residents ask and there's a common theme right so it won't necessarily answer it for you but it could prompt hey here's the answer and then you could confirm to to take less of Village staff time when you start
getting the same question and I got I think I got a question last week someone said why' you guys approve 100 homes on Town Homes on County Line right um again you know it you know it was asked to accuse not asked to inquire so just get Point people in the right
direction and we're small enough to handle our own emails and phone calls so I don't know if it's necessary for staff time but I want to at least present it as hey there there's an option no comments or question I have
comments oh I have comments I have questions all right let's start with is an influencer yes influencers okay so my opinion we've had I don't think any of you were here yet we've had this conversation when the bridge was coming up to a closure and the businesses were
concerned about how to get marketing and you were here for the I can't keep track of the that that whole Co year was a blur right um we talked about how much should the village be marketing for businesses for me municipality is not a
marketing agency so I think taxpayers dollars should not be going towards marketing for all business businesses because if we do it for one we have to do it for all and we have a lot even though you don't see all of them influen was I think are great kakana did a great job in the open they pulled a lot of
influencers in and again that's on their business being smart how they want to take care of compensation for that whether it was giving them something or paying them flat up for a post or it's up to for me it's up to the business
choice and that's smart business if you have a business you have to be smart use marketing pum pumping your own business money into marketing is going to get you business I don't think municipalities should be pumping money into that um I do think we do a good job of we do
ribbon cuting and we post that so we introduce a new business but then for me it's not a municipality's job to continue marketing it the Chamber of Commerce is there for that I think that'd be smart if influencers want to maybe you know hook up with them or any
of the other micro organizations that we've been hearing about that would be a great spot for them to hook up with and they can start working on gearing those Avenues I agree with Rick any way we can continue open dialogue with residents um
multiple platforms I'm a big support of for those two I would like because staff is going to be have having to answer residents through it I'd like Brad or someone who's familiar with it and the techie stuff to kind of maybe sit with
staff shortly and kind of see if staff is going to be feeling like it's um proficient and not taking a lot of their time because you know like you go on social media it's very time consuming if you let it so I I don't want to take more time away from staff so I'd like to
see staff kind of get a little briefing from Brad or someone that can maybe see if it's a good fit if it's good fit I'm all for it um otherwise I don't want to take any more time and make it more complicated for residents because we do use a lot of platforms already and you
mentioned fire like branding and fire I think branding in general um branding in general we've gone we've gone through this so there's a lot of historical aspects I wish our historians were here but they're not um the Indian goes way back to the roots like the founders of
taquesta and there were discussions on do we use it everywhere do we not use it do we use the new modery one and the fire one so I felt the resins at that time were kind of torn we had like newer generation that were kind of open to to
like modernizing and then we had the classic traditionalist that kind of wanted to keep the roots MH so it kind of went back and forth I think that's why we used both and the Indian one kind of became like the official it's like on all of our memos it's all like that one's kind of gotten used for like hats
and maybe like Park stuff cuz it's less official government feeling and the fire thing came up a couple years ago with especially with the new trucks coming and that didn't really go super one way it was kind of split down the middle too
um because the original design came from someone a part of the Village Family so there was some history to it some sentimental value to it but then there was some there was some favoring of like a modernizing one I think it had a blackish color to it I
remember anyways I'm just give you some history I wasn't really dead set one way or the other but there was just a lot of good pros and cons to both branding logos whether it was for the municipality or the fire so if we revisit that I just I think we're going
to hear a lot of that again and it might not be a onesided decision it might be kind of split down the middle and these are I appreciate that they're not obviously branding not high high priority for me is just things I noticed I know with employees especially
fire and police um they really love their branding their logos and has a a sense of um you get a sense of increased morale engagement they get proud of yeah I get that but no that the history makes sense I think that might have been a part of it too the fire one is you know
we have we we have some amazing firefighters that have been with us for a long time and this was a couple years ago and some of them have retired since so again you know the numbers might be adjusting but that was kind of split down the middle too was some like modernizing some like the
tradition I think if we brought that up again we're going to we're going to hear that again so just be open to it to bring it up again yeah you bring up that was it right I think that was it thank you that's it thank
you C mer painter yeah I mean I don't I I actually I I think about The Branding quite a bit not so much the fire I had thought about that I love our you know connection to our history and all that but I think it's only when I'm
here in here and I see it so up close that I'm looking over here sorry the behind you um I don't ever think about it until I'm sitting right here so I I understand The Branding but I also understand respecting our history if there's not a desire from residents to touch it then maybe we don't touch it uh
I am not the oldest up here but I am only on LinkedIn so I know nothing about influencing so I cannot comment if that's a good or a bad idea but I I do know that whatever they do they make a lot of money doing it so I will I can assume that it's effective I just can't
say if we need it or not but I'll take the job if we're looking for it but I also do think we do an awesome job engaging with residents I I mean the uh I know I get it at least to my phone and two different emails every Friday I
mean it's hard it's hard to uh not get the weekly update so I think they do were're doing a great job there and people that don't know what's going on in the village frankly just like they're not reading because there's a lot of stuff in
there so that's my opinion okay so we just rank that later well I I think go ahead I'm sorry no you can go ahead I was just say let's see how it you know scores out I mean you know you guys have some some Four A's four BS four C's see if you know see if
it's it's on there and and we'll go from there I mean I think you know usually when you brand when a city Brands it's that they're trying to create an identity create energy um you know I don't I don't know that we have that issue like I think you know everybody's always oh I love to Questa I know where
we're going so I don't I don't know you know obviously the small business part of it I think that's a so you know I think go either way so we'll see how that scores on our on on your guys' priorities as we move forward uh and this is so I I lied
earlier not purposely but staff did uh Drive two of these this is the second one improve cross connection control compliance and I'll say drive it um the mayor has been talking about this for for I don't know as long as she's been on Council probably um she didn't put it
on her strategic initiatives but it's been on our radar for a while this is coming to council for uh for discussion at the next Workshop but I think it's important you know we need to we need to come up with some some compliance for this we're roughly about some somewhere
between 40 and 50% compliance you know our goal is always 100% but our our really our true Target goal is 90% we we're not having much movement on giving people into compliance with you know backflow back flows on their on their properties and so staff's going to be
coming together with some options that we can for compliance anything from and and I'm just spitballing here based on our conversation anything from us taking that over and and requiring citizens res resents to do that and then we build
them through their bills uh other or you know you can even go as far as Code Compliance and you know requiring them to do that but what's happened is they're not registering their backflow devices and or not not installing them and so that's that's an issue for clean water and so it's important so that's
why I threw it up there as an initiative um we are going to bring that to you guys in a workshop format regardless if you prioritize it now if it's a high priority for you guys moving forward I mean that's a different conversation
so is there a reader digest of the for the public or just for the record of the Cross connecting what we're we see it every month but anytime you have irrigation on your property you should have a backflow device on there and so if we only have 50%
compliance you you may have several properties I mean a lot of properties that may not have true back flow devices on there which in could lead to water you know back flowing into our our clean water and so that's that's the challenge
and it could be that you know they're supposed to get registered and checked every year that they have them but we're just not receiving that compliance we we have Aqua backflow I believe is the company that goes through and making sure that you know we're receiving those
and and they track all that for us but we're only getting about 50% you know compliance right now through that compli through that process so we need to pick up the enforcement on that to make sure we're either getting those make sure they're getting speced every year and I
want to say they're you know less than 50 bucks probably to get them spec I don't I don't know the exact number so don't don't quote that but it's not significant but I think it's important enough that I mean most cities have it and we should have it and we're not doing a great job I know I brought the
mayor because we used to have it on our monthly report through utilities and it was always kind of flat and we we really picked up the pace with aqua backflow and they send out two or three letters but we're not seeing an increase in compliance and so now it's a it's a
thing is like how far do we want to go into enforcement and that's going to be what's brought to council and this is this is Residential Properties business Commercial properties both both so a type of irrigation yeah so my sprinkler on my house needs to have a backf flow
device on it I hope you do well I bought it and it was there so I I can't tell I know I've never had it inspected I didn't know that was a requirement of having a sprinkler system and it's per like if someone 51% right there right there I didn't know if someone does new construction I mean
that's code to put it in so so it's just for probably older existing what if there's a remodel is there any kind of code if there's a remodel like a certain threshold they have to do it or how do I'm not sure okay that' be good to know you know I know at this point so but U
maybe we can talk about that the workshop yeah I think margorie and her team will be able to provide any answers to your questions for that thank you all right uh getting into build and maintain Municipal infrastructure uh provide additional
match funding straight and state Appropriations as you guys know we already mentioned we got some of the appropriation from the state in the amount of $680,000 we have $178,000 of potential for our cost that we have set
aside already um through our CIP program you know the next steps is you know we're we're going to spend the next you know we'll say 8 to 12 months putting together these construction plans and then what you know are we going to take
the step you know obviously we want to go ask the state for that during that next session ask the state for additional funding maybe a local bill but if we don't get it are we are we willing to continue with some matching funds and so that'll be something that
we need to continue to see how we can develop you know to Questa Park and and those Appropriations develop future Master plans facilities um you know this has been on the the Strategic this was on the plan last year um it's something
that we need to identify we've identified some um some some areas or some things that need to be done or um I'll say a road map to some to the scope of work for the facilities plan um the number one is station 11 it's been
vacant for 10 plus years in in a state of disrepair um you know we're we're estimating $750,000 to clean that facility up like to see it be a meeting and training facility for Public Safety um you know that it's pretty good garage area out
there um there's some office spaces so we there's some ability to do some things over there um but right now we cannot currently use it it's more of just a shed storage area um if we do that we also need to find uh some areas to put put our our Parks equipment and
some of the other equipments in there we do have a plan for a recreation maintenance shed out of to Questa Park as you guys know that trailer's coming out probably within days um you know the always the kind of the plan would be to replace that with a maintenance shed out
there and move it back a little bit there's also a Big Red Barn that's in disrepair it's about to fall down it has stuff in there so we're we're really struggling for you know what we're going to do you know with the maintenance of all of our equipment for for parks and
so uh there is we are working on that plan that's that's one of the items we'd like to move forward with this facility's plan um the utility admin operations facility this has been something been talked about before I even got here about moving you know water distribution
Administration having to building out the water treatment plant you know we're estimating $4 million to do something that's similar to what's out of Bridge Road um you know that'd be out of the water utilities fund but um you know we're kind of busting at the seams if you've been out to Bridge Road you know
that we're pretty full out there you know that we're full over here as well um I think moving some utility admin out there and our distribution team out there kind of provide some Unity um where they'll all be together the water treatment plan water distribution um but
obviously having admin out there as well will go a long way with that our Bridge Road you know if we if we are able to move that those operations whether we move them or not we do need to do some improvements to Bridge Road it's it's getting to the point we haven't put a lot of money into it I know Doug was
going to have uh the engineer out I think they have some some uh some repairs that they need to do to some to the structure of that biling nothing that's falling down no safety concerns but I think some some improvements are already in the way U needs to facelift
um and then Village Hall Public Safety we've identified some projects future capital projects in the future roof and gutters um you know we have this old old tile on there it's pretty expensive to maintain currently um you know there I think Doug asked me if we were to redo
the the roofs and we're talking about 3/4 of a million dollars generator impact glass and doors to the to to the to the building that would be I mean that's probably more of a wish list than a than a need but uh fuel tanks AC condensers those are things that need to
be really start Lean Forward on as far as funding I think we have I think we've identified $1.2 million in in future Capital expenditures that we're going to need to really look at that we don't have current funding for and we don't really have an outlook for uh for the
funding for it so those are the the components of the future master plan facilities you know to to me when we put this on there last year was really to identify the needs um you know the next step would be you know to budget for you
know some plans um and then you know take a step like and try to do this in a in a phased approach we obviously can't do all these at once but uh determine what's what's important what's our priorities with these buildings um so
with that that's kind of the overview of this item question on the station 11 the 750,000 that is to get that building um renovated and be available for the
meeting and Training Facility offices okay we got a didn't me cut you off we got a like two three years ago we had got an estimate to bring the full building up to code roof electrical um I want to say it was like 400,000 give give or take a little bit
so couple years later equipment it all that stuff that's where I threw three three4 of a million dollars in there so it's going to be somewhere in that ballpark based off of some going rates and the second part because if you use that now for for training facilities
offices you need to now do the maintenance shed into Questa Park so is that project kind of together yeah they need to be married together right okay thank you because there's nowhere else to put our I mean our Park stuff and we
they don't have to be together get done at the same time we could move some of that equipment out to Bridge Road but Bridge Road is is I mean it's completely packed too so it'd be a logistics nightmare in and out getting equipment on a daily basis could we do it for a
couple months or whatever yes but they really need to be kind of married together as far as what you know leaning for on those thank you other comments questions I mean in my last comment I was going to say this you know it's not pretty I mean it's one of those things
that if they would have started you know some kind of facilities master plan 10 years ago same thing with roads if they would had money set aside for roads if they would had money set as side for Parks be a lot better situation but you know the future councils will than this Council and this Administration for
leaning forward even if it's a little bit here and a little bit there put money aside kind of like we have done with roads and you know I think I think it's important to least Lean Forward on these items um develop master plan assessment methodology for undergrounding this was the item that was on the agenda last
year we ranked them you know originally the item on the on for this was structured in such that we did a a high level analysis for the master plan it came back to be $80 million and that was
a you know we we paid kimley horn I think $50,000 to do that highlevel analysis for us um and we were basing that off of kind of the the two-part approach it's very similar to what town of Palm Beach did prior to that um and
so we got a high level 60 or $80 million like do we you know do we still want to move for for the next step of that was to create a master plan so that way um you know if there's areas that want to
uh do undergrounding they could petition and come to the Village of taquesta and say our area wants to do it we have 51% put it to a vote um and then there can be an assessment so that way the village of Desta residents aren't putting together $80 million it's the group that
wants the undergrounding um and so then uh really what where we where we landed last year was you know instead of doing the master plan the idea was to put together a a referendum process so that residents
could ask for that the part that's missing that we I think we took we jumped a step is that residents won't know that that they can come and do a referendum process or a vote to do that if they don't know how much it's going to cost so really the step is we if we
want to consider you know any next step for undergrounding it's we got to do a master plan and that will give residents the idea of what their area will cost to put undergrounding in it's going to be a lot I mean it's going to be you know significant no matter where you do it
right now fpnl they as you guys know they're starting another pilot program um or I guess it's not considered a pilot program anymore it's just part of their hardening so they are hardening doesn't solve the undergrounding issue but it does it does help solve the you
know the I guess the sustainability of the system but it doesn't you know necessarily affect the Aesthetics of the system right now fpnl has a program that if couple residents want to get together they want to ask them to come in and do it they can go through and pay for it themselves right now like they can go to
fpnl so uh I think it's a huge ask I know that there's several municipalities that have had had the same discussion over the last couple years about one undergrounding everybody wants money everybody wants you know funding from the state there's just no money for for
undergrounding it's not that's not a there's not a grant out there that will help us get that there's a couple you know grants that this fits under but I mean the chances of getting it is pretty much slim and none so um really
our next step is is the master plan and then that would give residents an opportunity know how much their area would be they can go out and knock on doors and try to get you know a whole bunch of residents together to do undergrounding um and so with that that's that's the item you know it' be'
be great if we had some direction from Council on where we want to go with this is this something we want to take off the plan or are we going to move forward with the master plan um and that's really the the direction and see how it prioritizes you know for you guys if it's a high priority we'll we'll budget
for it if it's not if you know if if everybody thinks it's something that it's too big of an ask then we won't I mean I this isn't a big priority for me personally so I uh I think at some point FPL is going to have to do
all this on their own anyway similar to what they're doing in some of the other areas um so for me I don't not too concerned about this one but just my my opinion I I hesitate you know spending
more money on it especially now that I'm seeing the activity on it because they're do is North do is one of the streets that are I've already signed ement to have the transformer in my front yard um so it is moving through and I think people if we know what the
process is I we could be staff driven to say oh you want question about that here here's what you can do call FPL and you can get your four neighbors that whoever shares the one Transformer I would imagine that's how they do it by pod I would assume um or if you get a group you guys can go get it the I I don't know if we need to especially if we had
an $8 million number that's probably now 100 million right so I think we we have information that people are going say oh well you told us it was 80 and now you know my neighborhood would be 10 million it's really 25 you guys wasted all my time so um I struggle with spending more money on this when FPL appears to be
rolling out undergrounding at no costs to anybody other than putting an easement in your front yard yeah I would I for me so this was a big one for me since I got on Council since then um FPL has harden the main feeders
coming in to Desta which those will always be overhead um and Le now are doing there was a pilot underground program but now they're doing actually you know actual undergrounding um so I think there's been more action on this since I joined Council where this was a really big deal
to me and I know Council M Brandon you not a fan of studies and this initial study yeah that's one that's G to probably possibly should sit on a a shelf now but sometimes you do have to do those studies to come to that conclusion and I
personally don't think dequa has a bad habit of doing studies and having them sit on the Shelf the several that we've done since I've been on Council most of them we've taken action on um but also I know we're all aware that there's proposed rate hikes that FPL for it's
think it's a four year mhm plan and I would hope that some of those right hikes continues to go into hardening and undergrounding lines so I think because of those reasons um that have really just you know happened in the past couple years um yeah this is a no for me
take it off same for me as well initi I thought maybe there was an opportunity for a 30-year Bond but when I heard the $80 million I I withdrew that quickly um so I think it's great neighbors can get together uh they can handle it all their
own I mean that's get government out of it let the residents take care of it it's great all right um this one it wasn't read in your packet but when I was putting this together I thought it should be read just to highlight you
know we last year this was one that was on our strategic plan wasn't a top prior or high priority but it was a priority for the village and our staff obviously so funds of quest to bridge future maintenance we put $100,000 into the planning getting kimley horn to do the
analysis I think Doug told me you know it was like 50 Grand so we have a little bit of savings there the the maint the actual maintenance part of the bridge is going to be probably a little bit north of 350 so I think we're going to be okay but I left it R because I don't I don't
want to get to a point where this is scored zero and it doesn't meet the P the Strategic plan that somebody's going to why are you fund it in the budget um I think it's already in the plan it's in our CIP don't want to take it out so I think it's you know for for staff we don't want to kick the can down the road
these are things that have to be done uh I know since I've been here not not only just the structural part if you get on the side the steel is uh it needs to be sand blasted there's nothing structural that the bridge is falling down but you know obviously we need to put some money into it you know painting and cleaning
number one that's been a huge uh I'll say concern or complaint and I say huge I probably you know if I got 10 a year that'd be that'd be huge for us but um you know several people that complained that it needs to be improved it is you
know it is aged and looks aged um so I think that's why I put it red just to have that I guess hype for it just make sure that we we know that's important and we need to move forward with that you know whether uh so I think it needs to be
somewhat of a in our strategic plan so that way when when we get to budget Point uh budget process I can point at and say yep that's in our strategic plan is it on our checklist I was just looking I didn't find it no I think I took it off because I was going to leave it in that's why I
put it red so I I took it off because I'm going to leave it on the Strategic plan you know if you I mean I don't know that it needs to be a high priority it's you know but I want to leave it on there so we can point to it and say it's funded we already have money in our CIP unless there's a difference of counsel
and say we don't we can wait a couple years but I don't think that uh I'd make friends with Doug if we did that so so we're it's on it's going to be on remain on the plan yeah it's going to remain on a strategic plan but I wouldn't use one of your priorities for it because it'll just be on there um it'll just be a
priority for it for the for the village because it's already in the capital Improvement plan yes it's already in there so I don't I don't want everybody to be like oh of course we're going to do it we're not going to waste a priority on it and then it gets zero scoring and we take it off so I just we're just assume it's on there can I
ask a quick question it's to one of our public members who was in the village when that bridge was being rebuilt how do you remember how long that was that the bridge was out and everyone had to go up and around
12s about 12 13 months so I appreciate you putting that in red because maintenance will hopefully obviously keep it strong and we don't have to go down that path again of a year of no bridge and half of Testa having to go up and around especially with Jupiter doing
everything they're doing so I appreciate that thank Doug Doug's the one stays on top of that roads too so um EST established safe and quiet railroad crossing you know as you know we're getting funding from uh the TPA
and F dot um so that process is in the works already um and so we're moving move forward with a safe and quiet railroad crossing it's on our strategic plan probably stay on there um you know how it's prioritized as far as funding I think it's important to know that you
know we we will see some a line item somewhere in our budget for increased maintenance cost of that Crossing we're going to own it I mean we're going to have to be the ones that uh does the maintenance of that you know currently even the crossing now um you know long term if they have to do any kind of
maintenance for that Crossing we have to we have to to do that we haven't put put aside any money for that um so I think you know there's going to be a line item for this and so just know when you know as we prioritize this item we've you know that's what we're going to be
taking on so high level Transportation plan with Mobility planning sorry I um to go backwards for one second so we're already I mean if this priority for the railroad crossing is the low ranking
than others I mean we're already down the road of working with the TPA for funding of it I mean what yeah but we haven't agreed to anything yet if you guys okay there's potential for it to just not happen if yeah okay we haven't voted as a council on it so if you guys if there's I guess if there's enough you
guys don't think it's important or we don't want to go it's been accidents that's happened you know just recently is this still something that we think is a priority for the village because you know some might or could change their minds with that that's why I you know you guys can
prioritize that on your guys's list and we can have future discussions I don't know I mean you guys can chime in I don't know if anybody's pivoted think it's a bad idea the Qui zone no I still supported and I think we already voted going forward that was kind of your
question right yeah we already in motion with yeah but I don't think we I don't think we've actually agreed to the TP TPA and their funding I think it's in most we're working on it but we can always we can always stop the point because it wasn't they were covering the
bulk of the funding right right so I think that's why I was like well if we the we're yes I I totally and great point on the maintenance because I think sometimes that gets for and safety though but the safety part it needs to be Revisited again because you know there's been a couple accidents several
accidents since the last time we talked about it has anybody changed their mind for that I have not no no I mean the the train conductor will sound his horn regardless in a quiet Zone if there's something in the way or
they think there's a safety hazard so knowing the fact that they can still Sound the Horn in a quiet Zone if there's a safety issue to me I yeah I feel like I'm in the same position as I originally was I'm in favor of it so I mean you can at this point you can
choose to say hey don't worry about this one let's keep it on the plan but we're moving forward with it not waste you know a priority item with it similar to the other one with a bridge and we'll just move forward or is it something you want to keep and and see how high of a priority it is but that was your
intention mayor I'd rather not waste a priority number on something we've already gone forward with yeah and that's and I don't necessarily want to Mark a no because there's some on here I'm marking no because I don't want to do them at all so I don't want to mark this no either so do we just leave it totally blank and you know yeah we'll
just keep we'll just keep it it won't die today we'll keep it on our transportation plan everyone's good with that mhm yep so we can mark it no on here and then just leave a blank don't yeah don't Mark no don't Mark no unless you unless you're really against it be said you're
on record saying you were for it so just leave it alone we'll leave it we'll transition into it the NOS are going to be something you think I absolutely don't want that on the plan understand yeah okay thank you improve safety intersection safety for
pedestrian and cyclist I mean this was an item that was brought up as a new item um I think the only you know when I got when we got this item we I talked with the chief and Doug you know really the only items that we really had a lot of concerns for from a safety standpoint
was Old Dixie and Bridge Road was a big one Village Boulevard was a was a big one neither one of those really have pedestrian or cyclist um task or you know parts to it um so not sure if there's a specific area or
direction that you know we need to to Target obviously we always think safety and pedestrian cyclist is important um and maybe since I got this item that the ebik covers this but from what I understood it was bit more on the intersection and crosswalks but I'm
unaware of any I think you can point to North the north entrance of country Country Club's always been an issue um that one's tough because we have to uh purchase some rideway from you know and it's it's expensive I mean it's going to be expensive to fix that
intersection so with that I I don't recall who brought that um to to me um but if anybody wants to elaborate on it more than that we we'll just scored as part of a priority or not I can add one thing on there I'm not
sure exactly what that is focused on but just overall pedestrian cyc safety for people to get around the village right Crossing intersections is usually the issue you know if there's anything we can do simple processes or during the Mobility
plan like it says if there's offering improvements that other municipalities have done or as successful could be as easy as you know painting the crosswalk a different color whatever something simple just to make people oh so I just want to say like we're
still early in the Mobility plan process but I've already like identified there's not a crosswalk at CBR and county line so that's there's a lot of low hanging fruits there Consultants have said there's not enough mid so think's be a lot of
that's understood okay thank you that's a good point that is a nasty one when I ride up to Jonathan nerson that's a nasty one okay thank you then I reserve all those comments for future discussion and I think I mean this is a no for me on the ranking
not because I don't want it but because I think um the the Bridge Road and Old Dixie uh like Doug told us today it actually is still in the County's plan so that's going to be addressed and Mobility plans on here too like I said I think we'll wrap that Mobility so it's not a NOA because I don't want to because I think they're super important
but I think we're they're wrapped up in other areas they're going to be covered thank you and we'll see what the Mobility plan comes up that's why I put that note in there I think there some of that but for Lori Pat I know maranne chuckled when we heard paint the
crosswalks like that was a that was a thing like we we painted a crosswalk by country club before I got here it was like bright red it was like a a nightmare so many people complained about it we you know we pivoted a little
bit changed the color it still wasn't a popular thing so um obviously you know new Council new citizens we can revisit that but it you know I don't know that it's the juice is worth the squeeze on that one so I will say just the white lines though just helps visually vehicle
stop before it if you see someone like the white lines visually help yeah I don't think we need all the colors of the rainbow out there though yeah well then that was the other part I think the second part we we even talked about maybe some of this count I know I think Molly May young was on it um you know
doing like a crosswalk painting over you know front of the rec center and doing some cross you know it just it it was tough to coordinate you got some liability some safety issues so um we can obviously revisit it if if Council pushes hard enough on that one there was
um oh wait are you talking about the safety one or the because there was the artwork ones too the artwork one but there was a safety issue with that because the type of paint you get and all that like there was it was a thing but there there's conceptuals for those and that might have been pre that was an artist that was involved in that too
right Julie Julie bman maybe you can recircle just for she wasn't she wasn't fonded on keeping all that going because there was it was going to be too much government involved in it you know so I agree um we are getting pretty close
just for you guys that are keeping score um utility project Timeless and Reporting this was an item that was brought up almost unanimously through Council um what was already in the works is that we were working on trying to do a presentation for you guys to kind of get you guys up
to speed with what's going on uh you guys got that last Workshop I do think this is an important one obviously us um as a staff making sure that we're staying on top of the the timeliness of the projects and Reporting so that way our citizens know what they're getting for their for their dollar I think those
were the the highlights of the comments that I received so I think it's a new effort that I I think is worthy of the Strategic plan and you know the the priorities so improv Village gateways um this was an item about uh some
beautification it's I kept it separate from Old Dixie because we're talking about several different gateways um and this wasn't in your packet but I added it you know Doug has uh identified some really some lwh hanging fruit that we want to improve some Village gateways or
Village areas um some flower boxes Quest the bridge some Monument wall upgrade Landscaping to Quest to drive us medion uh he did propose a butterfly garden out here in front a village hall uh some decorative Street lightings which will
be a little more expensive but uh it's doable linear Trail improving that so that kind of fits with the Old Dixie one and then some street lights on Old Dixie which we have had a conversation and that was part of the Treasure Coast plan of of putting some more some even some
decorative lights on Old Dixie as we improve that area so I put these examples that these would be some examples of some improving some gateways some things we can do landscaping wise um and to see where you guys prioritize this on the in the grand scheme of things but this was brought up by a
couple different council members not the specific projects but the the Improvement and Aesthetics of the Village Road and sidewalk improvements oh so any questions on that I just have I was trying to dig it up through the history and it just I was going down a
rabbit hole and couldn't find it um um this one I know it's been on our plan off our plan like we we've talked about this since I've been on councel I think predating me too and you know when council member Brandon comes back I'm sure she can um attest but why was it do
you know why it was taken off at one point I don't know if it's because we we like wrapped it up into the overlay District plan I'm just trying I can't remember the history and I think it's important I think we continue to talk about this and say we want to do this but I just
like why did it come off our plan or the Strategic plan to begin with when it wasn't I think and this is just my recollection you know there was a couple parts to that improving the gateways one was like the monument sign which we've done we did some small improvements to
that the other part was to do um US1 and we were going to go after grant grant funding I think it was like a maybe an 802 Grant um and Council decided that at that time not to not to put out the
money for the grant Rider to do that and go after that for us and so you know that point that particular part died the other part of improving like the where the the monument wall and some of the other stuff we did some minor stuff to it we painted it um but there I mean
there's always room for improvement like on the monument walls um Bridge Road or not Beach Road in US1 like that that corner that was part of it um but ultimately Council you know we we chose
not to to fund those items okay thanks for the history here it is again I think it's important and everyone wants it to happen so it's just a fun issue basically is why it got dropped off yep okay we didn't want to prioritize that
road and sidewalks um you know we we are funding that out of the general fund I think it's important that we do prioritize this and score to make sure that it's still important we do fund $880,000 out of our general fund for Road and sidewalks there might even be if it's high enough a priority there
might even be a discussion about you know moving faster with that or increasing that that dollar amount but I think it's important to see how it scores and how it prioritizes but I think we're moving at a good Pace um and I think residents are appreciative of
the of the direction that the council has gone with that so J can we ask a question so while that is current can't over it I'm sorry since that's already being done we've we've discussed saying well doing a no because it's going to be there
anyway but you're saying just because of it's a budget item yeah I mean I I think for this one because it's not part of the capital it's part of our general fund like it needs to be prioritized because you know if not we get to a budget item you go this is $100,000 I'm going to go well this is higher than
this so maybe I need to take away money part of the general fund I think we need to prioritize okay good thank you last category uh maintain level of service and tend level operational excellence um develop strategy to address the anticipated rise in
transient population within the community this was brought up I don't I don't really know the direction for that I think I teed it up just for discussion um you know my mind we're obviously you know we're pretty built out as far as new new development we'll have some
Redevelopment but I think it's the I guess the comment is really just how to address the increased traffic within the village I'm guessing that was the comment might have been Jason but I was
this you yes okay you want to elaborate then sure um yeah the more Miami West Palm for a lot to build out that's going to keep moving North seen an increase lately Jupiter and um I think I think for
Council uh for a village should be a zero tolerance um in our community we do not have the resources to manage or provide the right resources for those people so however we can
um by the letter of the law make sure that is known and refer these people immediately um out of the village to those proper resources um in palmach County those resources um are are everywhere and they do a great job
and there's more than enough of them the village we just don't have those uh we don't have that ability I'm not following what what kind of resources um so Transit population so if there's if it's housing mental health drug addiction whatever it is um I think
my latest uh contact was in the country club you know I was on a jog at 6 7 o'clock at night um and then there was some people with shopping carts um not deep into the country club but into the
country club and we got kids around there you know my kids go to Lighthouse art they go to rec center they go all around um so for me I'm also I work Downtown West Palm Beach I'm very familiar uh with these communities and they they need assistance they need help
uh we do not have those resources for them and for me it's it can be a danger to my family as well in the village I guess my question for staff would be because I know if there is stuff if you resident spot something
that visibly doesn't belong or if there's like loitering kind of situations going on or people up on your properties you're supposed to call police and isn't there for certain situations that regard like mental health if the police get to the scene and they decide there's some sort of
mental health or maybe a housing issue wasn't police this General for the State of Florida now able to help them find something like sources that would be my question for staff because that would be for me that would
be one of the resource answers is residents if they see something out of place call PD and let PD figure out what's the next step and I don't know if there's any more resources on top of that and I'm not saying you know I'm saying that would be my question is what additional resources other than resident
calling PD to evaluate the scario what would that entail does it even ENT I what we had conversations about this with the um police chief when uh at the time the county mayor was uh mayor sax and she had had a mayor Symposium to
talk about um this issue and nothing really came of it but they did have a lot of uh of the stakeholders in the community that provide services you know at that and um and there there I think what you're thinking is the new state legislation that passed last year which
actually makes a lot more difficult for municipalities um if you have you know an unhoused population like they can't stay at parks so you have to have facilities for them it's it's um nothing that we probably would deal with at that
level here but um I mean one one idea I had brought back and and talked about but you maybe would have to partner with people it's like you can buy a bed uh Salvation Army it's like do we do we buy a better too like and and split the cost
with Jupiter and work you know so that way we could send someone there um again that would be taxpayer dollars we're using um but or is it like you said having maybe just doing some more messaging of you know the resources that are out there like that like the Lord's
place you know all those um organizations to help you know the unhoused population but you can comment on PD I know when when um we discussed with Chief Medina I mean they think they work with Martin County too I mean they're they're on it and they have their you know procedures that
they follow yeah I think kind of tag team what you and Lori both said you know when we get those those calls from uh for through PD for those you know concerns I mean I can think of several examples one just off
top my head where we had an officer officer pu I mean drove the guy to Martin County for some assistance and so I think our team does a very good job of not identifying where we can help them but help them get there too not just send them up their way um you know do I
don't know this is one that you I'm a little bit unfamiliar Waters with you know what our options are from a policy standpoint uh more than just what we do as a process standpoint you know with the county and you know the the policy I'm
I'm not sure where we where we would fall with that but if this is important to you guys I mean we will we can develop some options policy wise but I don't know I don't know what today if we need them but maybe it's a future thing that we need to consider maybe I think that's what
maybe Jason is talking about you know now you say that that's what I feel like I would have to decide on whether it's a policy or yes it's very it can get very complicated and that's why I was trying to be in front of it as I start to notice it increase in Jupiter a little
bit um I say okay how you know how can we stay in front of this the proper way um and make that Zero Tolerance because even when I see the word transi populations I think about our airbnbs which I know we've gone round and round and around with with the state I mean I
know residents have they have concerns and they have issues sometimes with some of the arabb so when I when I think about transient populations again for me right now our resources is if there's an issue you call PD if if the PD goes and evaluates the situation they realize there's a Code air or something they get
building involved like for me it always starts with PD so I don't know if our resources at PD are are being able to hold up to what we have currently happening like again if there's a problem if we need to readdress the resource with PD that's my question is where is that level right now do I need
to prioritize this High because there's an issue or we don't have an issue right now we're just future thinking to be proactive yeah and I could have clarified this I think transient just to be somewhat politically correct I don't know which way we go it's homeless people everything it is it's people
coming and going whether it's visiting we don't have a lot of big hotels we have the little Motel still but and yeah we have some people that float through the Boy Scout property and then make their way I know uh Chief Medina he told me a lot of times um we have pass passor th
they're not staying here like they are in other communities so there's that too like we're not necessarily a destination we're a pass through yeah whatever the town of Palm Beach does we should copy them because West Palm has a high population but you go to the island and
it's zero I think they're putting them in their cars and driving across busy in W so in that case we we follow their policy that's we we but you know we're doing it in a way that we're trying to help them get to where they need to be in a you know and a you know
we talking about trans you're not talking about homeless you're talking about you know mental health and things like we I think we do a really good job um you know helping people with with that so I don't know that we have an issue today maybe something to keep on the radar I mean you guys can decide
decide that with with your guys priorities thank you employee retention and recruitment this one might be the last one um you know this came up a couple different council members as really as we start
this compensation study got c um PBA obviously CWA and we just passed the fire is just you know the comments to me was making sure that you know with this conversation benchmarking you know have conversations with Council what our Target is and you know try to get there
um and you know have competitive benefits and salaries and you know I guess the direction to me and the couple of the comments was make sure we do it in a way that you know we can afford and you know that that's tolerable for the village and so uh I do think it's a you
know it's a very good initiative to to to show our employees that you guys do value that but we also you know Mak sure that we're staying competitive but making sure that we're you know being mindful of our resources too we are I mean we are
expecting a huge jump in health insurance again this year I mean that's got to be considered as part of compensation because you know we don't we have not asked for employee contributions to go up or family contributions to go up and you know
we're talking about hundreds of dollars a month for for some of these people that are on family plans and we we haven't taken that into consideration I think it needs to be part of the the discussion so when when when this one came up I just wanted to kind of mention those things we are we are looking at
Big rise in health insurance costs this year at least we're projecting because of our because of our rates that we're seeing you know people that need need assistance so forget the technical name for that going back to a comment was made earlier
about studies I think this is these are this is a study that I think is very critical because um you know we've said it I say say it all the time you know the level of expertise and the quality of the employees and the leadership that we have here is really unparalleled I mean I just hear about everybody's
background I think it's unbelievable but you're right is if we continue to absorb those things it'd be great to have the data to say well total compensation would include our continued increase in employer pay toward you know these
benefits so I think having that information to for not only for knowledge but also for defense of certain things when somebody says I'm gonna leave for this this and this you can say well this is really what your true number is so I think that's something to have that can be used that
that would be very critical but um we have to show that our team add Val adds value to us and that we value what they do on a daily basis and um of course every was going to tell you the my paychecks in the top three of my employee satisfaction um so I think to
have that information available to say we may be on par we may be below strengthen some things add things so I'd be in favor of this study did I miss do we know the uh approximate cost for a study like this or we don't we haven't even reached out
no we we we already have you did miss it because you proved it in a I think it was a consent that's right that was a test that was a test you passed no you passed thank you no I think you know it's relatively I was surprised I think it was like 20 grand or under which you
know for a study that that's not bad nowadays so um but I think it's important last time we did the a compensation study for our non-union uh CWA employees was like 2018 or 19 so you know it' be you we do we do
uh benchmarking it with our Pepe study every year so regardless of that with Pepe study all the municipalities that are part of this Pepe group they submit all their salaries and we look at every year we feel like we there's not going we don't feel like there's going to be a
huge off Mark with these we think that now a third party coming in that actually does these studies and and gets our 10 Benchmark cities that we have identified that we want to compare against um we feel like it'll be close
the Pepe study takes a whole bunch of municipalities and averages and so you know some of those might not be comparable but but they're part of this average and so you might have like West Palm well you know we're not West Palm you might have you know for Lauderdale
like well we're not that and there'll be some smaller cities so the average is good we feel like it's the pepy study is a very valuable tool for us but this should be done probably every five years or so and and so we're we're a year off I think Merlin asked me to do it last year and I was like I think we're all
right um but in part of it just because what we were dealing with from you know um budget budgetary reasons so um yeah I got else after that okay 20 it's just crazy to me how much these
studies cost but yep some are good some are good but I just feel like government as a whole it's just so it's just comical at some point it just becomes study this study that study this and some of them have good data some of them are just kind of still loose ended data and it's it's like what do we just spend
money on and this is government as a whole not just us that's just what I've learned in my experience data is good to justify future spend though a lot of time why it's done except for some like for Grants and stuff you have to have it you can't get
money government is a whole you want a project done got do a study so I is that it for you so yeah so can I you want to go first and I'll Define the process well no cuz I have one more to add maybe it was on my form it did not end up on
here and I'm and I apologize if anybody else had any that I miss so please has anything to add but I think mine is is specifically for this category that's why I um uh waited till the end so I um
I received complaints um from different areas of the community with frustrations about um building pering the process communication um I think our billing department does a great job it's
not a knock on them but based on the feedback I've get I've received I the Common Thread to me is I I wonder if there's some room for improvement or think of some creative ideas to maybe um improve or streamline the
communication to Residents or businesses on like status next steps because i' maybe there's a disconnect there and I've been told one thing that I'm told this and it's you know I think the billing department has a really hard job you know people want to do their project
right away they don't want to wait for the very important review and a lot of times it's you know it's a public safety thing too with reviewing um plans to make sure they meet code and there's no safety issues but is there is there any way that staff can kind of brainstorm and come up with ideas where we can
streamline communication make sure it's efficient make sure it's um aligned and so that way the our customers really know a what they need to do their requirements and be you know kind of the status on things as they go through the
process so it's not as frustrating for them how would you summarize that to a bullet point um well I kind would lead on Jeremy because I think I think it would be a staff initiative to maybe just um come up with solutions to
streamline uh customer Communications or Communications to customer what do you think because you we've had these discussions in the past is not new to him well the the when it came to me you know it was about customer service and so that's why I didn't put it on there because customer service Falls within my
perview I don't need you know I don't I don't necessarily need Council direction for you know we should to be having good customer service and I address those issues with us if you're talking about communication how do we improve that absolutely we can develop something to help streamline you know or communicate
the processes for building you know for building or and or storm water utilities I mean that that is something we can do hit me cold I mean but I think you know something along the lines if we just want to add it so that way we can rank it as you know improved communication
for uh you know permitting process something like that is it for property owners that are trying to find out information on where their project is at or is it for residents who are concerned about projects that they see say for example one would be like oh my gosh why
is that house taking so long can they no for people who are actually doing I know they have to line up the next step and they're trying to juggle a lot of things so they often times have to wait and that's what you're talking about the property owner trying to figure out okay yeah and there's been you know I was told I need that but then
I was told I need that and like just can streamline and have a is it a check you know I mean I know you guys do have you know documentation but is is there any way to improve it because I've received several calls from different areas throughout the community and it seemed to be a Common Thread so I think that it
was enough to maybe see if there's room for improvement there and come up with a system so you know the applicants really know where they're at on things we we writing that down writing that to this if Council wants to if there's not consens R so just one piece real quick I
mean they have the ability to check the process now through our permitting system they go in there put their permit number in there and it gives them all the notes all what been approv what hasn't been approved we can come up with some additional steps but we do have some already built in that they can check
now now whether they go through or not maybe we need a better job educating that they can do those things but there's that's part of bsna why we use BSN because every time we put a permit in the system now they can go on the back side type in the permit and get where the statuses are on those things
kind of like I think you've looked at our code our Code system before and you can get the idea of where stuff is the same thing with our building process but if we need to do a better job of educating people that they can track those things yeah I think I mean I think those are there if there's some other
stuff we'll look at those too so I'll I'll te that up to staff and let them see if there's some things that we can do better I think it's important but not necessarily on the Strategic plan just because it's under the director's perview uh you know it's already his
kind of requirement to take a look at it um to find out where the issue is regardless of it's our side or the customer side we still need to find that solution even in customer's fault we can find a way to to fix that for the customer going forward uh that's our job I don't know about putting it on the
Strategic plan okay yeah I I mean I agree I think it it I do get comments as well um my question that jerem kind of just answered was what are we currently doing and I I knew we had the bsna maybe it's
just simple and if they already doing this as f is just passing on a little handout at the time of Perman application of here you go this is how you can bracket of course that assumes that the information is being updated within that but
um that's I mean the comments I get are largely communication but I think sometimes people just don't go on the system they're expecting someone to reach out to them or I don't know but I think it's important I agree I just don't know if it's a strategic plan initiative or not but I'll leave that up
to you guys to decide so let's put it on the list and you guys can prioritize it or not I think it's something we can still address you know it sounds like we we can improve soomer okay communication with building okay building permit process yeah I put
streamline customer communication within building permit process good so you we have sorry we have the EAC stuff too did you want to look at that yeah we do that and then you can close out and tell us what we need to do
eat lunch and eat yeah I need to stand up and stretch and get some food does everyone have the letter that the EAC sent yes so they're they they five priorities were building Green Building
initiatives which you know I think is already in the works I don't I don't know if you guys really want to prioritize so that way when it comes to you you can say it's a priority and you know vote on that that way or just you first you want to entertain the idea first before you make it a priority in
enhance Street Scapes which we talked about that already I think some of those already kind of built into what we're what we're talking about with Aesthetics there were some projects identified with Aesthetics and our Old Dixie um you know in my mind I think you know we we have
some of those already kind of built in living shorelines I know Jay just did a workshop over uh with the EAC and a couple speakers uh for living shorelines is part of our code um I think we had what less than 10
residents show up to that but still still important I think we can still continue to educate you know that was another one like you know if you guys want to put any of these in we can but um single stream recycling they want to see that as a process the biggest part
with that is you know uh the waste SWA is you know is hasn't hasn't pushed that initiative so you know we can obviously advocate for that and try to you know send letters you know talk to the talk to them saying we want you know as a has
something come down the line but it's not something that this Council necessarily can control except for more of an advocate you know for that process you know long term and then in support environmental legislations which I could argue that we have done that it'sin our
legislative priorities um several items that are inv environmental legislation if if they target one that we have not said yes I've directed um Jay to say you know bring it to us we'll you know have a meeting to discuss and you know the
council can give me authority to Advocate on behalf or against one of those things so I mean whatever your guys' thoughts are if we if there's holes or if you guys want to plug them in somewhere we we can so but I think we're we're pretty
close on a lot of these so you're saying Plug the the EAC strategic goals into this current strategic planning if you think that if you think that we're missing something or that there's a that I'm missing something that we need to make sure like the single stream
recycling we really don't have anything on here but if you guys really want to you guys want to consider it it's going to be more of an advocacy thing like for us so if you guys want to put that initiative advocate for single stream recycling we can do that and that and
that's that wasn't I did not include that one but that's council's prerogative to to include that if you guys want any of the other ones under the which goal that one particular if it were that one okay if it was that one I would
probably put it under protect protect the community of parents character and identity I think maybe that's it or the operational excellence maybe would be the other one but let's put it under um protect Community appearance character and identity for the single stream yeah for
the single stream doesn't really fit either one but we'll make it work I might Revis depending on how you guys prioritize I I can always move it into a different section after we I think the first three are already kind of a done deal we've been working on um for the single stre recycling we
are at you know the will of waste management and SWA um I mean I think that would have to be a more Collective effort getting other municipalities and even the county to
buy into that has is there any interest outside to Questa for this I guess that's my first question and my second and maybe Jay can answer because I know you're the liaison for the EAC and then is there any data that does show that the single streamer cycling is more
effective than what w andw are doing it's like I I it's potentially a good idea but there's I it's very Broad and those two questions I'd really want to answer before I want to add it there is data but I don't I don't know off the
top of my head I know we got some from don't even know if they offer it here like if we said we want to do it they that's the issue is that they don't doesn't have facility to handle single this seems like a point waste management
is ready for it and we'll do it from what I understand but SWA can't accept it do it in Mar County don't you theam I don't know I mean listen this would be awesome I just speaking for myself when I walk out there on Sun Sunday night and
I'm looking at the pile of recycling that I have to like that my wife is you know figured out how to all make it somehow sit on top of the boxes um I will admit there are times stuff ends up in the track can because I run out of room or I don't feel like
dealing with it yeah and if it was just a big bucket that I'm throwing everything in this is just me personally i' probably do it but it's a move point if it's not if we can't execute it so or if by we meaning it's not set up yet to be executed yeah but I would love to see
that happen self assur so I think adding this item you guys can put it on your list if it doesn't if it doesn't make our priorities you know so be it but put advocate for single stream recycling that would be the one Sor uh number two protect Community appearance character and
identity I think high level that's the closest one I can get to and for me the last one support environmental legislation I don't think that needs to go on our strategic plan because like we already do this every
year I think what I've noticed is this has come late in the process from EAC twice twice you know our Council and staff we are involved in other organizations that keep us up to date
leading up to session um so I'm I'm I know of a couple of environmental based organizations that do the same thing so I would I would request EAC to find those organizations that you guys can follow so that way when we're going
through the process on our end that we do with our you know the organizations we participate with leading up to session before we approve our platform they have they're in the same position we are and can provide theirs at that time so Jay if you could relay that it's
just it's tough for us to go anywhere I mean we our opportunity would have been Tuesday Wednesday Thursday this week you know we need to vote on this properly and formally so so the one item we're adding from this um if you guys will mark it on your list under protect Community appearance character identity
is advocate for single stream recycling I think some of the other we already have built into what we're doing so um it's not that we're not doing them we just have it kind of built in so I need more as many as possible what are we doing wrong ordering too much from Amazon all right so we're going to
take the next 30 minutes or so we're going to eat but before or during while you're eating if you will fill this out prioritize it you get Four A's Four B's four C's I think there's like 24 to 27 to you know the idea is that we really
want to we limit the number so that way we know what's important to you if we just gave you unlimited we never really feel like what what's important and then we will prioritize these and um you know have kind of a top 10 list or so to
speak of what our top priorities are so we can really really focus and this will give uh staff kind of the road map of knowing what's important for the village uh Village Council um doesn't mean we won't work work on some other stuff it just you know it won't be the the
tippity top of it if you write your name please that'll help us too so we know and then once you get done if you give them to us we'll calculate all these and then what we'll do is we'll uh put this list up on a screen so we can just see if it makes
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strategic planning there's a exercise you can do where you put like number one up then you put number two and you see if they all match up it's a pretty lengthy exercise so we won't necessarily do that but these are the way that they scored from 1 to 14 if they don't if
it's not up here and you put a point you might have been the only person um and so and it might only been like a c so uh we didn't put in put those on here doesn't mean they're go they will go away we'll obviously try to work through them but these are ones that we will
have as high priorities for our strategic plan um any thoughts or comments how do you feel about the results can I ask you how you feel about the results first then I'll tell you how
I feel about if you guys feel good about them you enlarge it a little bit Yeah so but these some of these they'll fall it could be priority one in master right I mean overall like I see some
some common themes you know like with um remembrance Park and Old Dixie and you know the beautification you know you see those are popping up on here versus you know some of the other ones that didn't maybe get scored so you know I mean those are those are things that we can tackle you know from a financial
standpoint you know I think uh I think everybody sees the value and um storm water and CIP funding I mean you see those too high I mean that's obviously for for us for the village financially those are important so I mean I think
we're I think it's pretty much aligned with where I thought maybe we'd end up is there any of them that you guys think that just stick out that you're like oh it's weird that that it's up there so we can talk about those not necessarily but um that's kind of the
exercise to make sure that one doesn't stand out that you're like wow man that shouldn't be that shouldn't be ranked that high I have a question on Mobility plan because low we're already doing that so what does that mean when that's we're already doing the plan what does that
mean when that's ranked so low I think to me when I see that because you know the transportation Mobility plan is going to come up with a number of items that will be um task for us to do you know connectivity and some of those
things so to me why it's ranked low I don't know that it's you know any kind of a deal breaker when we get that final result in May and June we'll obviously have another conversation because some of those things you guys might think man that connectivity right there that sidewalk that might be really impr
important but um it doesn't really doesn't stand out that it's low because you guys you guys guys aren't seeing that there's a financial impact or whatever I know last year that was a that was a little bit of a conversation and everybody was supportive of it so I
don't think it changes what we're doing if that makes if that's probably the ultimate answer yeah I think the things that are up there that if we continue which you do a great job of is reminding us reviewing and where are we at what is Staff been able to accomplish as long as we look at them like you know if we're
not going to follow up and look at how we doing you know on a quarterly basis you know I think we go there and except when we see some of these things as they evolve and grow up and kind of get their own legs I might you might make sense to
just agree that we switched a few things around but I to me I don't have any concerns which on there I mean they're all very important they're all great ideas that came out of the five of us so I think they're good the one I and I would assume most municipalities have
number some version of number two um on there but I that's not I mean that's I don't know how resolvable that is you know what I mean well I mean so like when we did Mother state which kind of started this whole you know process when
we first started is you know we dedicated like 8% of our in Taxas different because sales taxes goes to the municipality so it's it's a lot higher like 50% sales tax 50% Ador where here it's we're you know 80% Ador
Revenue and you know maybe 20% of everything else but we would take and identify a percent of a sales tax or in our case maybe all of our sales tax start going to our CIP and so doing something like that I mean we've obviously already started with some of
that with general fund not necessarily a percentage or uh a specific fund but we've already starred down that route but I think it's important that we know that we're going to have to continue to identify those funds in the general fund versus anywhere else at this Point yeah
no and I I mean I I put that in my my my 4 a as well but as I was doing it I'm like yeah that's really important but I don't I guess I was thinking of it more of like replacing the current um source which we can't that just because this is this relate directly to the penny tax is
kind of going out that would yeah so unless the State of Florida decides or PCH kind or whatever decides to put something like that in place then there's not much we can do about it but I wasn't thinking about you just said is we just redirect certain funds that we do have control over okay I think too
it's kind of it's kind of interesting like they're all very interconnected some of them right because if we don't find additional CIP funding some of the things luren L aren't going to happen and then the Mobility plan like that was a little higher for me personally because to me with the infrastructure going away and the city
or the county March now with their trans uh portation you know countywide Transportation plan which would then potentially result in transportation ctax we have to have that plan to be at the table to get some of that money so to me like that ties into the dollars too to be able to get stuff done it's
like they're they're really like a lot of them are very interconnected and I think it's great I mean I think I think this is a very Democratic process I love the way you rank it and I am very pleased and respect the results I'm really happy with number
one well I think I thought I was alone on that one good so I think the the interesting thing is you know like you know for me say what do I think about I mean I think it's good that I see that you guys value the employee retention and recruitment because obviously it's easy for me to say you know let's do
that but I think you guys have all everybody had a piece of that um so when the mayor first started you know with strategic plan you know she wanted like an update like every month or every quarter like we come and we talk about a workshop we have uh have that on our on
our website now so at any point at any time any of the initiative can be tracked on where we are at these things once we approve them obviously and then I'll do the input into the system but you know it's very transparent with where we're at on these things and so we don't necessarily Workshop them anymore
like we used to uh obviously we can do that you know maybe twice a year or something just uh have discussions make sure we're all on the same page especially if something significantly changes but um knowing that there's a way to track these on a regular basis important too so I think you did an
awesome job and save some money really wasn't that much I think it was more about for me it was a very good experience that I got to hear from you guys for last year it was kind of like you know our facilitator you come and you know I'm like where did that come from like I don't even know
who it came from or it was very specific for this I can understand you guys and you know help help get us there so it's good so next month not March it'll be April because we were missed the March deadline we will put this in a format that you guys can approve and then we
will move forward with these through the budget process and and other means so okay and then um as I need to I will open up for public comment there is no public here so I'll close the public comment session fing any additional
comments from Council no no all right can I get a motion to adjourn so moved second all in favor you see how quick that was not going to let you be I want try to give you break being on that I went really quick though I was
prepared thank you guys that a really interesting educational process that think yeah phenomenal I think you you were here last time you were and I did it by phone CU I had a oh it was terrible
and these just so you guys know these are all public documents I