I just love these little [Music] Hey, are you worried about me? Never. Always. I can see that. I feel like you just wake up. [Applause] No, I had a HPC meeting.
your uh yeah that's it. Thank you. But no, I guess how you would say that. How are you? Yes, ma'am. And all right. Good evening, everyone. It's
6 p.m. I'd like to go ahead and call tonight's meeting to order. It's October 9th, 2025, and this is our regular council meeting. Lori, can I get roll call? Mayor Young here. Vice Mayor Story here. Council member Brandon here.
Council member Painter here. Council member here. Thank you. And I will lead our invocation and pledge tonight. Father, we thank you for your presence and guidance as we gather here tonight to serve our community. May we approach
each matter before us with wisdom, discernment, and a commitment to the greater good of our village. Help us to set priorities with purpose and intention. Let us not be vague or uncertain, but seek clarity and truth, making informed decisions with courage
and conviction. We also ask for your continued blessing over our dedicated staff and over every member of our community. Amen. Amen. You could please rise for the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we do not have any presentations tonight, so we will move on to the consent agenda. Lori, is there any
public comment cards for the consent agenda? Yes, ma'am. Number two. Okay. Who submitted it? Marcia Nielsen. Marsha, thank you. As historians, Pat Watkins
and I are very careful with our listing of founders that we wish to be recognized either with a village sponsored brick or with signage at Remembrance Park. Each of us, our submissions were first, the first fire chief, the first police chief, the first
village manager. There were many notable names that we considered. Mr. Schlushmire who donated the land on which our public safety building is erected. Mr. Offett who built the sewer system and enhanced the water system. Carlton Stoddard whose vision of the
Golden Circle influenced development. Jim Humpidge who estab initiated the 911 uh memorial and Joe Capa the longest serving council member. I could go on. As I said in my speech at the ribbon cutting, we stand on the shoulders of
giants. At present, there is no policy, no procedure, nothing in place that would govern additional signage in our remembrance park or on any village property. A precedent whereby anyone can have a plaque placed on village property within
any specification without any specification criteria would be set. It would be extremely difficult for future council members to be to vote no on any person's desire to remember someone with a plaque. We have a place that the
paternal family and anyone can be can be remembered. The purpose of the brick program is to honor those specific people who over the years have contributed to our village. The program is open to everyone. I personally cannot
support any future signage in remembrance. The present signage is tasteful, aesthetically pleasing, and not overwhelming. In additional plaques and and memorials are allowed, the message of our founding will be lost. Thank you.
Thank you, Marca. Lawyer, are there any other common cards on the consent agenda? Any other public comment on consent agenda? Uh, council, you can either remove item for additional discussion or make a motion to approve. I'll make a motion to approve the
consent agenda. Second. All in favor? I. Right. Moving on to communications from citizens. Lori, are there any comment cards for items that are not on tonight's agenda? Yes. Harold Taylor. Before
I get started, you didn't do the approval of the overall agenda. You missed. Oh, Harold. Well, thank you. Let me do that right now. Can I get a motion to approve tonight's agenda? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you.
Thank you, sir. I'm sure that's not what you wanted to talk about. Okay, it's to do with quiet zones at the sequester drive railroad crossings. Last fall, a resident said Bright Wine had approximately 16
crossings a day. I throw in another four for freight trains. Total crossings, 20 a day. Each crossing, the horn blows four times over approximately 10 seconds. Total of 80 horn blows a day.
Total time involved in that is about 3 minutes 20 seconds. Comparing that to what h has happened at this home construction for the year, they doing a a lot of grading using construction equipment like
bulldozers, front end loaders, uh back hose, trucks, OSHA requirements. All that equipment must have an alarm system when it's put in reverse. All of that equipment, the alarm system, goes beep beep beep beep until it's
taken out of reverse. I contacted two manufacturers, Caterpillar and John Deere and two day of equipment, Rain Power Cats and Dogs Equipment. There's no information on the
timing between the uh beeps. I counted myself over 15 to 20 seconds and the timing appears to be about 1 second between the beeps. In an 8hour day, the number of beeps at that rate
would far exceed the 80 we dealt with for approximately we had to deal with for approximately 9 months. Grading did not occur every day, but a goodly number of days. village got no record on how many complaints were made and I'm sure
there were a few. Federal regulations also now include hybrid and electrical vehicles. Anytime a hybrid or electric vehicle backs up, you have to have some kind of an alarm. Contact three
different dealers. Honda has a humming sound. Toyota goes woo. and Nissan small chimes. In summary, if we live residents living next to Hannah's home can endure nine
months of construction equipment law alarms, there is no reason that eight or 10 people cannot endure 80 horn blows a day at a railroad crossing. The regulations on hybrid and electric vehicles and railroad horns laws are
just a small part of the day daily noise we have to endure. Public safety is more important than pleasing eight or 10 people. We shouldn't have quiet zones.
Public safety is a lot more important to trying to police eight or 10 people that have complained. It's immoral to place eight or 10 people out of 6,100 people in the village ahead of her public safety. Thank you. Thank you, Harold.
Thank you, Harold. Any other public comments? No. Any other public comment on items that are not on tonight's agenda? All right, moving on to communications from council. Anything tonight? Nothing in particular.
Nothing tonight. just have one item from my municipal operations committee uh that we met with Florida League of Cities last month in Orlando and um the two items looks like they're going to be going to the state level for lobbying is sovereign immunity
and possibly uh exemption records exemption for clerks. Both of those are still being discussed but it looked like most of the group at that time were leaning towards those two. So I'll update you as we go along. Um, sovereign immunity still being number one on that list as it's gone a long time, but
there's definitely uh the security and protection of the clerks was heard during the conversations of other council members and staff from throughout the state on protecting the clerk's uh safety uh through public records exemption.
Thank you for sharing that. Um, I just had the opportunity and the pleasure of meeting um, the executive director of another great nonprofit here in the village of Twa, uh, Tanya Perry, the executive director of Golf with Cops. Uh, they're located right uh, one Main Street. um in a a great nonprofit
organization that um provides support in a number of different ways, not only financial, but in education and kind of navigating the uh family and the children of police officers that are killed in the line of duty. Um so just another hidden gem in Questa that I was
not aware of. So I just wanted to recognize that organization and the great work that they do. Um, but yeah, it's great for our first responders, specifically uh police, um, and their families to help navigate in an event of death in the line of duty. I thought it was just a hidden gem that I just want to let other people know that we have
right here in the village of Questa. Thank you. Uh, just two quick updates. Uh, like Jason, I was up in Orlando a couple weeks ago for the policy committees. I'm the chair of the finance and taxation policy committee this year. Um we did not narrow it down to two. So
we'll be discussing um at the October meeting property taxes which is the elephant in the room of course and then uh local sales tax options and then also uh business tax receipts. And there's been bills already filed. I've been keeping Jeremy informed um to eliminate
the business tax receipts and there's been some bills filed for some changes to homestead exemption percentages. So, we'll be uh tracking those and working with the state this year and I will keep you all informed. And then locally, um I know you guys know about the Palm Beach
Countywide master transportation plan. The survey is probably going to be up for just another week. So, council staff, the community, um the website is pbcm moves.com. There's a link for residents, elected officials, and then there's also a link for businesses to
take the survey. So, it's really important that the county gets your feedback on how you think uh transportation and mobility should look in the future. It will al also ask you about what your biggest frustrations are, whether it's traffic congestion or
there's not enough, you know, bus routes. Um, it's really important information. So, please take the time to fill that out. And that's all I have. We're moving on to standard reports. Village attorney. Thank you, Mayor. The lawsuits are flying. Two two lawsuits were filed uh
this week in circuit court. Um uh challenging the legality of Senate Bill 180. One was filed by the consortium of local governments uh throughout the state. The other was filed by a thousand friends of Florida.
basically similar um prayers for relief uh injunctive and declarator declaratory relief that that that the law is unconstitutional on a variety of levels. Um they both allege that the Senate Bill 180 is arbitrary and capriccious um due
process violation void for vagueness on how what impacted local government means what more restrictive or burdensome means. They both um allege that uh it conflicts with Florida statutes chapter
163 which is the community planning act that deals with comprehensive planning. Um they both allege violations of the constitutional single subject rule. All all legislation has to u be limited to one subject and they both
allege violations of that. Um the uh Thousand Friends of Florida lawsuit also alleges that the law violates the Florida constitutional provision on uh the natural resources clause and the um municipal consortium
uh lawsuit also makes a number of allegations uh regarding violations of home rule in terms of u impermissible preeemptions of prior acts of local governments. uh impermissible preeemption because uh
the language is arbitrary and vague. Uh so all of that was filed this week. Um we will continue we'll be monitoring this as it uh works its way through the court system. Both will be seeking temporary injunctions as well as
permanent relief. Um so I would expect that we'll see something on the temporary injunction front within the next several months. I would I would hope we'll keep uh monitoring both of these and keep you updated. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Keith. Any comments or questions for the attorney?
No, ma'am. Village manager. Thank you, mayor. Uh we received a request from Martin County uh just today asking for a letter of support. They're looking to bring a Bright Line station to Martin County. We'll work with them to see what kind of language they're looking at and we'll bring a draft uh
for council consider in November. Um, I know we we staff have agreed to talk about, you know, the safety improvements for the railroad. I know Minister Taylor brought that up. So, we did have a meeting uh for the safety improvements with FEC and Bright Line. I say we Doug
did September 17th. Um, we are waiting on the agreement. We're estimating 45 days or we were told it takes 45 days. Part of that um part of that uh discussion was that if we do these improvements, doesn't matter who pays for it, that we will have to take on the responsibility maintenance for those for
those railroads and those crossings, which we've never had to do in the past. So, we'll see what that language looks like and it'll bring to council for consideration. Uh tomorrow night, we are still expecting to have the the country music concert that we have out in the
park. Um, we'll make a decision tomorrow by noon, depending on weather. The alternate date is maybe Saturday. So, Greg is closely monitoring the weather. We hope to still be able to push forward with that. Um, Saturday, we are having coffee with the cop and the shredded event. Um, I think the last one that we
had was probably the most successful one we've had. So, hopefully we can top that. Um, on Saturday, uh, October 14th, um, uh, we hope that you'll join us welcoming our new officer, Julian Een. Um, we also will have a ceremony with a
promotion of Jesse Dcasta to rank of sergeant and officer air Gildes or Sergeant Yieldz, uh, to the rank of lieutenant. Um, and I know that's two of them that I stole from the chief. So, let's see if I can come up with a third one. But um uh
October 21st uh the mayor will be uh at the Martin County delegation meeting and we'll be asking uh the delegation there to support a bill for Toquesta Park to be deed over um to the village of Toquesta. So we hope we'll be successful with that. And then lastly, just want to
recognize the Paterno family. I know that was on the consent agenda and it passed. Um their family has been very easy to work with, very we've been working on this for a couple months. um and just want to recognize them. Staff will work on uh and bring it to a
workshop a policy so we can consider for council consider. But uh to steal Rick's line, I doubt that I could write a policy that will keep him out off of that. So um his reputation, I only know him by reputation and everything that I've heard about him. He is very
deserving with 15 years of service to the village. Uh I've never worked with a council member that's worked that long. So um just want to recognize the fraternal family. Thank you for coming out on force tonight and um you know I'm glad that we could celebrate Mr. Fraterno. So thank you. Thank you all so much.
You're welcome. Any comments or questions for Jeremy? Nope. I have one question. Martin County is requesting our support for Bright Line. Am I correct in saying Martin County denied the quiet zone throughout Martin County which is one of our crossings
county line at this point? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Anything else? Right, moving on to the police department. Evening, mayor, vice mayor, council. Uh before you you have my monthly report, just a couple of highlights since the
manager stole a couple of mine. Uh the firearm safety class. We continue that. And we also just submitted a grant for it once again for $41,000. We're waiting to see if we get it again. Regardless, we're going to continue forward with that. It's been a great
success. Uh we also wrote for a grant for identity theft and fraud, which is probably our number one issue in the village. Uh with so many scams going on, uh we also for a $10,000 grant on that. So, we're waiting to hear on that. Uh just kind of to commend the manager on
something. Uh I had a request of residents action committee meeting last month and two issues that came up uh during that from our group was about the post office which I know you all have talked about about the condition of it. Uh Jeremy had a long list of emails that
have been going back and forth about that and he's been on top of that. So I forwarded that to the committee. They're very happy with the village's response and you know the quick attention to it as well as at the light at Seabbook and Questa. Uh the ding it's a little loud they said you know the crosswalk and
stuff uh unbeknownst to me Jeremy had them come out the county come out and lowered a little bit. So I also passed that on but you know when we started the residents action committee this is what we were talking about little issues that if you allow them to fester and people start talking about it they they don't realize that the work that's being done
behind uh closed doors and uh by by staff. So, they were very happy with that. So, that's all I have. And I also just want to second the manager's comments about the Paterno family. I personally love Councilman Paterno. He was great with me. Uh he was very
supportive of staff and the village and he truly loved this village. So, I just want to commend and honest. I'm so happy you guys got it. Thank you. That's all I have. Questions or comments for the chief? No. Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Thank
you. Thank you. Right. Fire department. Uh good evening everybody, council, vice mayor, mayor, uh village attorney, manager, clerk. I'm filling in for Chief Mclofflin tonight as he's not well. He's at home with a the flu or something like
that. So, um just a couple of quick things, couple of updates. Last week, we finished our um interviews for our new hires. um really good candidates. We had about nine. We narrowed it down to six. Those six will move on tomorrow and have
um face toface interviews with the chief and then please God, next week we'll send out letters or inform anyone who are hiring and start a list. But um the six candidates that we narrowed it down to are excellent and we'll do a great job for this village. So we're very excited about that. Um came with a
wealth of experience and stuff like that which we weren't used to in the past. So really, really good. Um, tomorrow we have two firefighters, uh, firefighter Costio and, um, firefighter Sambali that will be heading down to work with Palm Beach County, as well as seven other departments in dive training. They're
going to be going down more so to train the trainer so that they can come back and train our divers. They're going to be working in blacked out water and dealing with obstacles and things like that and just how to do it safely, whether it be a car upside down or without any car in a in a lake or anything like that around here. So
they're going to bring back some valuable lessons and then they'll train our people on November 4th. Also, um we are back in the schools at the moment doing all the pubeds. We had the joy of doing 84 and 5 year olds today. That was really cool. I'm still recovering and um
but it's fun. We love going out there and meeting all the kids and letting them see the fire engines and meeting all of us as well. So we're also doing that at the moment. And uh lastly, just working close with the police right now. Uh watching these flash floods and we
had some today. We are expecting some tomorrow and possibly Saturday morning as well. But we're prepared and uh we'll keep an eye on the weather and just make sure that we're we're making sure that the village is looked after. So um that's all I got. If you have any questions. Thank you, council.
No, thank you. Last utilities department. Hi, Marjorie Craig, utilities director. Um, there's a lot on uh this month's uh update and even the summary list is kind of long. So, but I'll you'll be glad I
won't read it all all of it. So, we've started a new year. So, our dashboard is started at the beginning again. Um or this actually this is the end of the year. So, you see the entire year's um income. Uh you've got an update for the projects and the timeline um for water
man number one making good progress but with all the rain and the high water table um we've had had a little delay on uh the Gulf Stream road shutdown and we're aiming for a partial shutdown Monday Tuesday for paving only. We thought we would be done uh by tomorrow.
Uh so that is going to be extended for just a few days. Um, do ditch, we got really great news from D uh for full funding of the 157,000. As you know, the bid came in at a little bit less than the estimated cost of 315,000 for once.
And um so that differential we were able to get D to go ahead and give us the additional uh funding because we have a few other things that we're going to do as improvements that we found. So that's a benefit for both the town of Jupiter and the village. um the water treatment
plant efficiency upgrades. That's up to bid out to bid. We did have to extend the bid date because of a number of questions and we are still receiving questions and so we may have to extend it just to make sure that you're aware of that. Um we are also uh preparing a water quality master plan or
implementation plan. So uh something to march forward with uh that we'll be bringing. Uh, and also we can see some of the pictures in the the update of some of the projects. Um, I think with that, are there any questions?
Thank you. Any comments or questions, council? Nothing. Thank you, Margaret. Thank you. Thank you so much. Right. Moving on to the regular agenda under old business item number nine. discuss and consider a motion to direct village staff to draft a resolution for
a referendum question to be placed on the 2026 election ballot. And this is in regards to the purchase of the Main Street property. Thank you, mayor. Uh this item is considered a motion direct staff to draft a resolution for referendum question to be placed on the 2026 election ballot to purchase the one Main
Street property. This is an item that we've discussed for the last few months. This uh will be of the fourth agenda item that it's been on a few meetings back. Keith provided a timeline to get language on uh the ballot for the March election, working backwards. Uh if there
is still a desire to put this on the ballot, we will need to get direction from council via motion tonight. Uh so staff can work on that resolution with the appropriate wording uh for residents to vote on. So, kind of the the last last uh last uh decision point is we
need to get to get that on there. Over the last couple of months, we have talked about a couple different uses of the property. We also have reviewed two appraisals for the property. In addition, during this time, we have discovered agreements with adjacent property owners, have met with the
adjacent property owners to provide uh parking when the properties developed. Uh one of the agreements uh states that when the property develops that the property owner of the three parcels will need to provide 21 spaces. This is the Wells Fargo building that is to um to
the west of the building or the the properties and the other agreement states that the buyer will not make any submitts to any applicable government authorities that would result in parcel 4 um not being in compliance with our zoning laws. zoning codes or laws
including not limited to compliance with parking uh uh requirements of the village of Tquesta. Um so and that agreement does run with the land. Um I've asked Jay and Jay's been awesome trying to put uh find the history of we'll say non-documented
uh parking uh agreements and things in the past, but Jay has a quick presentation that he'd like to give. And so I think this will help council understand a little bit of the challenges that we're dealing with with these parking agreements. Thank you, Jeremy. Uh Jay Hutch, community development director. So, kind of a carryover from our discussion at
the workshop last Monday. Um at that meeting, I said that they would not be able to have a site plan in time. They they proved me wrong. Uh so, thank you, Mr. Frankle and Troy Holloway. They got us three different design concepts. We got them on Tuesday, so we haven't had a ton of time to digest them, but um you
know, hopefully we can give you a little bit of clarity here. Uh so, as Jeremy mentioned, um there's 21 spaces owed for the Questa Corporate Center. Um there's currently zero of those provided on site and the existing Main Street building uh is required to have 112 spaces. Um
they're currently providing 44 spaces on site. So there's 24 behind the building and 20 spaces on Main Street on the northern part of Main Street. We uh consider being able to be counted for that property um because that was what was shown in the original 1999 approval. So there's technically an 89 space
deficiency for the existing building on Main Street. um what they the plan they've showed us they they've mostly met it um but they're showing um 112 spaces um which is a negative 21 uh parking space
deficiency. Um so here's the proposed plan. Uh you see uh they're providing 47 spaces over there on the south portion of the site. Um however they're counting 21 spaces on Main Street. Um, these spaces were not
intended to be used for for the existing building on Main Street. They were kind of intended to be used for the other three parcels. So, we do not believe that they should be counted for that existing building on Main Street. We are allowing them to count the 20 spaces on the northern part of Main Street for that, but not those other 21.
Um, so that usual park space I think that's shown in that plan kind of goes away because I think you'd have to kind of flip it and provide 21 additional parking spaces um for that main street property there. Uh, additionally, uh, they're providing the 21 spaces for um,
the adjacent property that are owed right here. Um, you know, we think you'd have to put in a landscape bar for there as well. Um, again, they've done this pretty quickly, so it's not an official site plan, but the the yellow area is a spot where I think it'd be difficult for those angled parking spaces to even back
out. So, there's probably some stuff that would still need to be worked on here. You probably need to push those angled spaces a little bit further onto the property. Um, but just want to point out, you know, Troy did a phenomenal job, but it's not a it's not a full fully designed site plan. Uh, and one other thing to consider, too, is this
plan would close the cross access, right? you can currently cut through uh this plan because of the new parking spaces, you would not be able to have that kind of connectivity between the Wells Fargo site and Paradise Park. Um, one thing you do is you pick up 27 um
angled spaces on Bridge Road. So, here's a kind of a summary of what I just said. So, so those three spaces that are X's are spaces that we would not be able to use for our for our property. Um, these check marks are spaces that we'd be able to use for for Paradise Park. So, you'd have 48 total
spaces for park use, roughly 2.2 acres for that park usage, uh, which in total it's 3.2 acres of park space. So, you'd have about 63% of the the total parcels um would be usable for park space. The
remainder would go to the go to parking. Uh and and one thing to to to also consider too is those parking spaces do not exist currently, right? So we would have to actually construct those parking spaces. Uh this is another plan they showed. So
this one shows closing Main Street off on the south end. Um it enables you to pick up a little bit more green space. Um this plan, however, it counts, see the little strip in the red over there? There's a shared parking agreement with the the old Bank of America building.
Um, but those spaces are also used for that Bank of America building. So, we technically don't consider them being able to be counted for the Paradise Park property. So, you'd have to probably provide 12 additional spaces on onto this property. Um, this one also routes
the um the traffic will be routed over um through Main Street to the east and then down to Bridge Road. um you do you lose the 21 spaces on Main Street, but you do also pick up a little bit more spaces at um on Bridge Road with this because you don't have Main Street coming through.
So, a question is, you know, also how many how many parking spaces would we need for our own park if we were going to, you know, construct a park? And what I say to that is there's no perfect answer, right? Parks parks parking is contextsensitive to each specific case. There's no exact science because each
park is different. It's situated differently. Um, it's got different users and different uses. Um, some parks have substantial on street parking nearby. Um, some are in areas that are more walkable or bikable than others. So, it's very difficult to determine how
many you would need. Um, I will point out urban parks tend to be in areas with public parking garages and ample on street parking. So, if you're trying to program a park with things like an amphitheater and farmers markets and, you know, activities, um, those tend to be in in in that area. I'm going to show
you some slides uh showing that um passive parks of course have much lower demand. Of course, remember it's park, we've only got five spaces there, right? So, um depends on what we'd use. However, we designed the park would determine what type of parking needs we
have. Uh Wellington Amphitheater is a good example here. So, um they obviously have a great amphitheater. Um but it's located at their municipal complex. If you look there, all those surface parking lots um are owned by Wellington, so it's very easy to park it um and have
large events there. You know, another one is the Aico Amphitheater. Um this one has uh tons of on street parking and you also have two parking garages. So, you got the parking garage that I've highlighted here in red and there's another one um on the to to the right of where the amphitheater is.
Um, so obviously used for for baseball as well, but there's a lot of parking in that area. Uh, of course everyone knows this one, West Palm Waterfront Landing, you know, where you've got Sandy and Clatus by Night and all the events that they have. Um, great park, great example, but um,
there's eight public garages fairly nearby, tons of on street parking, um, a lot of, um, different mobility options too with circuit and and things like that. So, uh, then other ones, you know, privately locally like downtown at the
gardens. Um, you know, they've this the aerial shows that under construction, but there is a big green area. They have like uh summer concert series. They do a lot of events and activities and, you know, kids movie nights on the green and and things like that. Um, but they've got the two parking garages kind of right near that area. Uh, another one is
Harborside. Um, of course, Harborside also has a parking garage and on street parking. Um, so, uh, another thing that we've kind of talked about before is is, you know, could we put a park? I mean, could we put a restaurant on the park? So, I looked for kind of a good similar local
example where you have a restaurant that has outdoor seating, maybe a little bit green space and activity on it and then kind of did a little size comparison. So, we did Lucky Shuck and Love Street. Um, the area that you see there around Lucky Shock is a roughly 25,000 square
feet of indoor and outdoor space. The restaurant itself is is a little under 6,000 square feet. So, per our a code, you need about 60 code required parking spaces. Um, and then um I overlaid this here. So, the 47 spaces that are shown there, that's just what they designed on that
on that other side of Main Street. So that shows you what 47 spaces would give you plus the 25,000 ft² of of you know restaurant space and green space. Um and then the on street parking in total you'd have 97 95 spaces for the restaurant and the park. And then of
course on the northern part of that you'd have a little bit more green space if you wanted to kind of put something adjacent to a restaurant there. So gives you a little bit of idea what what we could do with the restaurant on site. And that's my presentation. All right. Thank you, Jay. And council,
I'll open up for discussion. Okay. Yeah. A few items. First, I didn't think everyone was going to be able to have a site plan and parking plan this quick. And that just shows to the group, everybody who's worked on this project, uh, including the owners, that that's just an amazing job in a short period of
time. This is the first time, I believe, I've truly grasped the parking situation. It's been confusing to this process to me. Um, so just kudos to everybody working on this and I think this just shows more of a reason why we want to work with these owners. Um, if it's now or in the future, they've been
really easy to deal with, flexible getting things done, just wanting to work with us. And I think that's really phenomenal thing. Sometimes a rare thing. Uh, for parking, I think everywhere in toqua is shared parking. Even Constitution Park doesn't have enough parking for an event. Uh,
remembrance, right? We know that's only five spaces, but Constitution on a normal normal day doesn't have enough parking. So, I think that's something we could work with uh in the future. As far as for the park itself, I think that for me,
the price tag that would be the property and the park is just still way too high. I think we'd be around $10 million for a park. And I don't think we're ready to make that investment in order we we have the funds. We'd have to go to the residents uh basically for all of the funds. And at this time, I think other
places like uh Toquesta Park and other issues that we have in the village would take priority. Uh if there was something we could do with the in the future that's going to be different or a public private partnership where we could share that cost, if it was a small restaurant or something of that nature, I would
definitely be willing to hear that. Um so for me, I don't support going to the ballot this year on this piece of land. I really would like to see it be developed. I would like to see something there, but I don't think we're there yet. And for something this big, I don't think we should rush it. Uh, one more
year is not going to make a difference. Thank you. I can go. You like? Uh, yeah. No, I just want to thank the property owners also and um just a quick turnaround on getting these concepts done. I It was very quick and it did
help a lot just to kind of picture the whole site and and the possibilities that were there. Um, and just kind of the overall assistance throughout this pro this extremely long process. I mean, we've been you guys we've been working with you guys for a very long time on this
and you guys have been extremely flexible and willing to work with us on things. So, I really appreciate that. Um, you know, for me, unfortunately, the concepts revealed, I think, what I personally already fear to be true, that that we would be required to give up a
significant portion of the property um that the village would be purchasing just to accommodate those site or the parking requirements for the site. And it did shed some light for me on the additional dollars we would have to expend as a village just to put in those
improvements for parking and and storm water. And like uh Council Member French said, it's probably like with the purchase price of the property plus the improvements, you're you're probably right around that $10 million number, which you know, for some municipalities, they can swing that. Um for our village, that's a that's a big number. Um it's a
lot of taxpayer dollars, and you know, part of our role on council is to fully vet everything that comes before us. And I uh I am confident that we did that on this one. Um, and it it it exts me to
say this because I really really wanted this to work for our residents. I think it would have been just an incredible asset for our village. Um, I just right now I cannot support moving forward the resolution for the referendum. Um, just
based on mostly the price tag alone and you know the taxpayer dollars that would have to be expended to make that happen. And I just truthfully I don't have a great a good enough grasp about you know the affordability of it if we did do it you know the maintenance and um but
again I very appreciative to everybody involved on this cuz this would have been great to make work. I wish we could have agree. So to the owners I knew you could do it. I believed in you. I actually
think I joked with the manager. I said watch. They're going to come back. They're going to figure out. It is rough. It's not super detailed. It is rough. I'm disappointed that the parking proposal would be on a different lot cuz that means we would have to spend money to convert the
current parking lot into usable green space and create a parking lot. Also, creating the parking around the perimeter. That's going to cost a lot. We talked a lot up here recently about utilities and there's utilities underneath there, which I know we're all
aware of. the flow of the ingress and egress of the properties around it, the new shared parking agreement we were alerted to. That's lovely. Um, I'm still in favor of asking the residents to vote on it. However, like I said last time,
not on this timeline. This is not the right timeline because I don't think this deal is completed enough to present to the residents to vote on. I think the price tag needs to be discussed in a realistic
manner because we're not a development that's going to be building housing in a commercial property. It's going to be completely different. So, I think a seller and I'm not putting this on them, but any seller, you know, I put myself in their shoes and looking at what they
could sell it for and what it could be. I think this is just a very unique situation. And again, I go back to that price tag. Um, we'd have to fork out a ton of money afterwards. And so, if the residents
were to vote on a bond, it would need to include some leeway in there as to what we would apply to the property to accommodate one, the parking, and a use because we need to make some sort of funds on the
property, too. It can't just sit there like it is. So, it's very unfortunate. It hurts. Like Patrick said, it hurts. Um, but I think this time for me, for us betting as elected officials, I don't think it's vetted enough. I don't think it might be the right time.
It's And again, we're we're not a developer, so we're we're a town trying to buy a property that's different from a developer selling to a developer, and they're developing similar things. I don't know the answer. I just know right now is not the right time to ask the residents for a referendum,
especially with that price tag, considering what we would have to put into it to create more parking, meeting accommodations for the fellow properties around it, and finding the right layout to use to make some
sort of funding back. And that's where I sit. Um, thank you to Mr. Frankle and Mr. Bruno for just bearing through following through with us. Um I echo a lot of what
my colleagues have have already said so I won't really rehash those. Um my biggest concerns are buying three parcels and really it will be only ability the ability to use two to two and a quarter of them. Um if we did acquire there' be some parking concerns
for any BOT sponsored events. Um, and as much as I want to, I think this is a I've always called it when we had discussions about our overlays, I said this is an opportunity. It's called One Main Street for a reason. It's an opportunity to be a signature destination. It could be a park. Um, I
think but right now taking these this parcel off the tax roles is one of my biggest concerns that I've talked about. Um, we have Remembrance Park phase two to digest. We have to really see what the usage is and the cost to maintain phase one. We've got to digest and and
try to complete phase two. Um we've talked about Toquesta Park. We maintain that for a number of years. Uh and and if we do get that property donated to us through the state, then we will have to um continue to maintain uh and probably
retrofit. And that's why we took the exercise of getting 90% plans done. Um so I think we've got a lot of park space here already that we're start we need to digest and understand. Um, as I said, I I don't want to take it off the tax roles. You know, right now is a vacant land. I said last month, I don't see
that that's not the end all. It's about $65,000 in real estate income. Uh, I am definitely afraid. I've said this the last two or three meetings u there being some type of advorum tax refund um repeal. And if that's the case, if we lose 5 to 10% of our real estate income,
you know, that's 10% off of our general fund. Um, and that's concerning to me. Um, we spent a lot of time and effort on our overlays. Um, prior councils and prior staff have done a tremendous amount of work on our zone, our our zoning districts. And this is a mixeduse
property. Um, I would hate to take off the tax roles within before the next year till we decide find out really what the state of Florida is going to do with with property taxes. Um, because it can be developed and I don't know what the number would be, but it could be several hundred,000 in real estate tax income to
the village. And I that's I think it's the fiscally responsible thing to do. Um if there was not a repeal being floated at the state level of some version of property taxes, I could get a bigger comfort level and a better comfort level about taking this off the tax role and
changing the zoning and making a village park. But again, having said to do that, we would have to buy three parcel three acres and you only be able to utilize two. And I don't think that's a good use of of taxpayer dollar when it comes to that. I said before, I've had a lot of people say buy it, but I don't want to pay for it. And the village does not
have the financial resources right now. We would have to deplete every in reserve fund that we have to do that. So, I don't think this is the right time. So, I I echo what my colleagues have said, but I'm I'm leading with, as much as I'd love to buy it, I'm leading with my my opposition is taking this
thing off the tax roles. I I don't think it's fiscally responsible for us to do that. And I think that's one of my roles up here uh on this council is to do what's best for the village financially for years to come. And I think generating several hundred,000 worth of income is better at this time than
taking it off the tax roles. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um I agree with some of what uh my other council members have said, so I'm not going to regurgitate that. I do want to thank the owner again for bringing this opportunity to us, working with us, and turning around those site plans so fast.
That was very helpful. Um, I'm just going to repeat what I've said in the past couple meetings. I don't think it is fiscally responsible for us to take taxpayer money to purchase property where a good portion of property is going to be for the use of adjacent private property owners and not for the
public. So, I'll kind of just leave my comments at that. Lori, do we have any public comment tonight? We have John Elib. Uh good evening, council members. Uh John is with 252 West Drive. I'm one of the adjacent property owners. And um
obviously these parking space requirements were committed through our assignment. We were actually the low or high bidder to buy this property for $520,000 20 plus years ago. and to uh assist the
village, we assigned that to the previous property owner. But at any rate, to bring us up to to where we're at today, I I think, you know, Jay's done a wonderful job kind of summarizing all the the issues that surround this piece and everything. And I I think, you
know, uh you see the complications for potential amphitheater or restaurant uses. I just don't think there's adequate parking obviously. Um without intruding on the other adjacent properties, myself being one of them and Bessie Minnelli being the other. Um that
being said, you know, are you going to get your value for it out of it being a passive part just green space? You know, again, I think you guys have already kind of leaned in that direction that that's not probably the best use of the village's uh financial resources. So, I
I I just wanted to clarify that. Um the second thing that I also wanted to address in the evening which is this evening is also about this property. Um I recently have encountered some circumstances regarding my property for liability and insurance issues that as
I've done in the past allow parking for the chili cook off and to fest that used to go on but due to current situations I have advised the village that I cannot allow any access onto my property for this event. Um, you know, there's some
rumors going around that I don't care about veterans, that I don't care about this village. I've been a resident for almost 50 years in this village. I've raised a daughter. I've owned property here. I still own property here. I am a very active, concerned citizen in this community. And I I offended that, you
know, that is the word that's getting out. It is strictly a business decision that if I was to lose my liability insurance, I would be in a world of trouble. insurance market is extremely challenging on many aspects and um you know I continue to support the council
and the village in a lot of ways in that but unfortunately I can't no longer do that obviously for these reasons and you know I I hope that you know people I've talked to Jeremy about it and you know obviously the business side of it you can understand I can't operate without
insurance and I can't afford to have another you know slip and fall or anything like that Keith addressed you know litig litigations are lawsuits are flying everywhere and they are we are a very ligious society unfortunately. So I wanted to clarify that to the council as
well and hopefully you guys can understand that. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thank you John. Tom Frankle. I really just put my uh name there in case you had questions I didn't discuss. Um I respect all your decisions. I think It's not an easy situation you're in and
um and we'll continue to try and work with you whatever we end up doing there. That's really all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. Any other public comment? All right. So, I think uh the motion will be to deny. So moved.
Second. All in favor? I. All right. Moving on to old business. Agenda item 10. Consider approval of the mobility plan. Good evening. Jay Hutch, community development director. Um, introducing the mobility plan. So, as you know, we've had, I think, three different
workshops about this. We're we're now, I think, right at the finish line, ready to adopt it. Um, I will say I've got a lot of good feedback from some outside sources about it. Kim Delaney from the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council looked at it and she said it was a phenomenal document. So, um, hats off to our consultants. Um, Alex is not going
to give you the full presentation that he did before. I think he's I told him to read the room a little bit, go a little quicker this time. So, uh, he's going to give kind of an overview of it. And then, um, I'll kind of talk about next steps at the end. Thanks, Jay. Uh, thank you all for
letting me speak again tonight. Alex Reesec, uh, KDson and Associates, the consultant on this. I promise to keep it, uh, much shorter this time, but just a brief overview for for those in the room. uh and then some updates based on the com comments from y'all and uh from you know some of the stakeholders and folks that we talked to after. Uh so
just a quick reminder what this mobility plan is and what its purpose was uh is to connect the community to enhance safety, improve traffic, really think about in the future and to build a living document that can continue to provide guidance uh and thought throughout the growth and uh multimodal
efforts across the village. So how the village can use this plan? Uh the goal with this was to to set aside some some high level goals that allow you to track and develop this plan across um the village and over time. Uh so to really guide and identify projects throughout the village uh to support funding
strategies and identify funding strategies for some of the priority projects and projects that we talked a little bit about uh to shape policy just continue to help um guide some of that across the village. coordinating with partners, working with the other counties as well as um with the now MO
used to be the TPA here in Palm Beach. Uh measuring that progress so continuing to to understand what's happening in the village as it continues to grow. Uh and then to adapt over time, continue to evolve with technologies and work for the village. So our general findings again just really quick what we saw uh
we took a look at where residents are commuting today, where folks how folks are moving across the village, what their commute times are. um we look at the average person going around 27 minutes whether they're coming into the village for work or whether they're leaving the village to go to their job
or um or their home vice versa. Um and then we looked at kind of what that looks like across the state average. Um the existing conditions kind of helped us build that baseline which is this synthesis map which is some of that data that we saw for some of the highle areas of issues where there were crashes or
areas that needed for connectivity. Uh we also took all the feedback we received from our public our two public events um and and incorporated that in our findings. Uh started to look at where there are dangerous intersections, areas of interest that we could continue to to focus some of this multimodal
efforts towards. Uh the connections to the parks, how those work and those different opportunities within the village. Uh for our outreach and the results, um we had really good feedback, almost 300 total interactions across our two events, which was really good. um 150 of those being online across the
survey. Uh and then 125 inerson interactions across the two events. Um they were really great and they helped us kind of guide a lot of the decisions especially towards the priority projects which we'll dive into quickly. Um so as a reminder uh we built out the the
mobility plan to be based on set of goals that can help us identify priority projects and help you all identify priority pro future projects after this mobility plan. Uh so we really focused on these six areas, traffic operation and calming. Um safety, access, multimodal, pedestrian, bike and
transit. Uh and then sustainability and wayfinding. All with the goal of increasing connectivity, improving streetscapes, keeping that character across the village uh and protecting vulnerable users and and um obviously increasing safety across the village. Um so we landed uh on 10 priority projects.
Uh but they're really three larger buckets of projects. Um, and this was from feedback that we heard from y'all kind of the first time out. Uh, is how we can kind of tie these efforts together, but really rightsize them so that they can be built uh across the village and not just put on a shelf because they cost too much or they're
too big or too ambitious. Uh, so these three are this river to ocean trail um connecting across the village um which I'll touch on a little bit on the next slide. some of the changes we made based on the comments we heard from y'all last time. Um the old Dixie linear park, looking at that area along the the rail
line and how we can activate it as a space to connect north to south across the village. Um then just some general safety and intersection connectivity improvement projects um scattered across some of the the intersections that were identified through throughout the process, excuse me. Um so we landed uh
this map kind of highlights the different areas that we're talking about. So, starting with that river to ocean trail, kind of starting up the county line road where the cemetery is, working our way back down towards the Jackson Natural Area, um area, uh and then crossing over down Riverside, uh and coming across on the back side of
Remembrance Park. So, part of this is how we can tie into that and then working down Seabbrook um and then across to Questa Drive, um all the way over to to um Dixie as we work through to bridge um and then down to the Jupiter Inlet. Uh and so this trail we
we thought of in this kind of four to five different pieces that would allow for the the village to build into it to start making these connections across several of the great parks that you all have talked about a lot tonight. Uh a big piece of this that we also heard is how we can continue to connect westward towards the communities towards the country club. So, we identified Tquusta,
you'll see it as more of a blue line for that village safety improvement, but in the documentation, we included for future expansion along Toquesta Drive um as as the uh River to Ocean Trail continues to connect out to the bridge and then to the communities um near the
Country Club uh with Old Dixie Linear Park. Again, just that area that we can activate kind of creating that spine up to Questa County Park uh and then back down to the inlet area. Uh and then last, the village the safety improvements areas. You'll see a lot focused in the center uh especially towards Quest to drive several uh
focusing on how we can change the geometry around some of these areas and kind of soften from the pedestrian uh while also improving multimodal elements, widening the sidewalks where we can. Um so here's kind of that high level cost estimate that we we shared last time just all pulled together. Um,
we see kind of those three buckets, the the larger sums, you know, closer to three million for for the river to ocean in total, uh, but broken down into smaller segments that allow for it to be built in and phased in. Um, kind of just a reminder that all of our cost
estimates are built out and broken out so that pieces from each can be pulled and developed as needed. So, as you're looking at this and you say, "Oh, we want to, you know, develop the intersection at Twussa, but we can only do the shared use path." Well, that piece is broken out as its own cost and can kind of be worked through uh as
these projects are being developed. And then the second portion of this plan was really focusing on the program policy recommendations. Um so taking a look at what's happening across the area, but also uh a lot of the things you all have today um already started and or have great foundations for. So
continuing to align the mobility goals with the long-term and long-range plans, committing those to um connecting with the the county plan that's ongoing right now. um thinking about how sidewalks are required or bike parking, parking in general as we develop mobility projects, kind of re-evaluating those minimums to
allow for golf carts and low speed vehicles to be included or in in a share of parking dedicated to them. Um vision zero, continuing to commit to that as as others are in the in the region, but also at the NO. Um and then continuing the placemaking and streetscaping
efforts that are going on in the village today. Some great streets out there now. So, keeping a lot of that character. Um, we talked a lot in in the plan about and previously about low- speed vehicles and this initiative to continue to focus um around kind of this not an emerging trend but continuing to growing trend
across across the state. Uh, but just kind of balancing the difference between golf carts and low speed vehicles um highlighting what those differences are, what some of the state mandates are and building off the the golf cart study from 2019. Um the ebike and education safety piece was another large effort uh that we
really looked into is how we can continue to um focus some of that energy and a big piece of this was added based on some of the comments we heard from y'all which I'll touch on following section after the final adjustments. Um but just focusing public service announcements focusing school-based outreach um that's where a lot of the
issues that are happening are. So kind of getting ahead of that um doing safety workshops with local PD and places like Constitution or Remembrance Park. Um, and then just community rides and safety audits, more opportunities to show what safe riding practices are. Um, and so for the implementation plan, um, we set
the mobility plan up to be this living document, but also included a identification matrix where we can take projects or y'all can take projects as they're identified by the public or others, um, and start to develop how it scores out, how it ranks in comparison. Um, and then tracking those metrics so that you can continue to see the
standard that's continued to grow with the mobility plan and the types of projects that are working for the village. Um and so we identified the the different action items how we can work through developing a project from that funding to construction phase um by working through different priority projects uh as well as um guiding
through the different matrix and living tools that we're offering in um including some of those funding strategies. So applying for the different TPA grants and things like Suntrail and some of the other great FDOT pro FD funding projects. Uh so the revisions so the big piece of this is a lot of the comments that we heard from
y'all. Um, I really appreciate it. It was really great. We also got um got feedback from the MO as they were kind of a partner in this um on at the beginning. And so a lot of this is we revised that parking section. We removed anything about density increases. We
really focused on offering flexibility, focused on um supporting open spaces with the the parking piece that we talked about. We uploaded uploaded the ebike section to include the new state law um 462 which talks about future consideration for ebikes and also requirements with helmets and speed
limits. Uh we talked and expanded on the funding section talking a little bit about the opportunities on County Line Road in Old Dixie to the river ocean trail and having that as a priority project for Sunrail. Uh and then we built in a further section which we also heard from the Palm Beach TPA about
mobility on demand and readiness in that micromobility section. um just how we can continue to start to lay the foundation for future mo micromobility and transit uh within within the village or connectivity to transit in the village. Um comment that we had heard was about
the traffic calming elements. Um we did work with um TPD as part of this to kind of work through what solutions would work. Um and then we also designed everything to kind of fit that state standard. So all of the feasibility designs align with your local code first. Um and then the county code or if
needed DOT after just based on um those different design practices. Um the priority projects were scored out as they are now based on the feedback that we had heard in the um through the data but also through stakeholder engagement and public engagement. So kind of that lowest hanging fruit is first. Those
projects are kind of first in go. Um, and then all the designs, um, we took into account any sidewalk projects that have been done recently in the village, but also any like mature trees or tree replacements so that we weren't digging or destroying anything that had just been done that was had been there. Um,
and then I think Jay just touched a little bit on next steps. Sure. Thank you, Alex. Great job, sir. Um, so next steps, assuming you adopt it tonight, um, we will immediately provide a final copy to the consultants who are working in the Palm Beach Countywide
Master Transportation Plan and then follow up with them and county staff to try and incorporate some things that we did into that plan. So, some of our plans are are things that that the county could do in some of the unincorporated areas and um, you know, even with the county owning Old Dixie, you know, maybe there's an opportunity
where there's some cost share of things. So, we'll definitely kind of start a dialogue with with that group and um work on that. Um we'll follow the Palm Beach TPA or the NO um about having projects included in the agency's long range transportation plan and their TIF
plan to receive funding. Um I think that was one of the big reasons they wanted to fund this plan in the first place um was to get us kind of in their queue for for funding for future projects. So, um we have some good relationships there and hope that we can get some some buy in on some funding. Um we're also um in
talks to commence a mobility fee study with New Urban Concepts. They're the basically the only ones doing mobility fees in the state right now. Um they they actually wrote or kind of co-authored some of the state legislation about mobility fees. Um so if we can get a mobility fee, you know,
adopted that will actually help um fund these projects through future developments. Um and that's what a lot of communities around Palm Beach County and the state of Florida are doing right now. Um, so we're hopefully be able to bring kind of a proposal for that to you guys um, sometime in the near near future. And New Urban has said they
could get started on that in January. Um, we're also then going to um, you know, after some of these discussions we've had hopefully have a little bit more of an idea of what projects are maybe closer to being funded or or you know kind of shovel ready. So we'll we'll start bringing projects forward
for inclusion in the 2026 strategic plan. So we obviously have some some great projects and ideas here and um like Alex said that the the projects have actually been um created so they can be broken up into small pieces. So we might be able to bring uh you know those three big projects but say hey
let's fund you know phase one of this project in the next fiscal year. So um we definitely anticipate kind of having some discussions about that in the strategic planning. And then on the general recommendations, there's there's things like the ebike safety that um you know, I think the the police
department's already doing, but um with some of the new state legislation, there's some some ideas that they can um maybe start considering um low speed vehicle initiatives. Um it hasn't been in the presentation, but we actually have a really good map that shows where you can drive with a low-speed vehicle in the village. And I think it would
change a lot of people's opinions on on um how how nice it'd be to have a low speed vehicle because you can really get a lot of places in the village with a low-speed vehicle. So um and I you know I want to also consider you know creating parking credits for for for people who use low speed vehicles. Um so
that's something that you know maybe we can have a separate workshop with with you guys on in the near future. But um I think I think it's a really cool opportunity for the village to to distinguish ourselves and create a unique place and um that's it. Um happy to answer any questions.
Thank you Jay Council. Got one question. Yeah, go ahead. U excited for all the projects are on here. I love to see them get executed. Um I know it's going to be a long long term. There's some some uh ones with higher costs. It's going to take some time, but very excited. Low speed vehicle parking that's credits. I'd like
to hear more about that. That is interesting. My one question is for we've done a lot of talk tonight about parking. We talk a lot about traffic congestion. When we look far out, there's a lot of funding going into us. Are as we get into autonomous or robo taxi, are we looking out 10 years to see
what that effect is or is it more of, hey, we're continuing on this trend until there's the real drop off. Is any of that discussed? Do you mean um like AV or any autonomous uh at the microobility piece or from like a
general driver perspective? More? Yeah. General driver as far as looking out as we're going to invest a lot of money into parking traffic and then all of a sudden we're not going to have a parking traffic problem. Yeah. And where does that leave our community? Yeah. And it's uh I would say the next
10 years is is optimistic, right? There are there are cities that have um autonomous vehicles that are are working through those kinks right now. Um there's always going to be a need for parking as long as there's always going to be a need for cars and eventually it's just going to mean is the car going
to be able to take you where you're going and park somewhere else which I think is is what you're talking about. Um and then you know where we are now which is park as close as you can you're able to walk in. Um I think as we see mobility trends continue to change that question is going to find a way to
answer itself through traffic that we have today but also demand. So areas where we see um we see more folks wanting to be are going to offer more of those opportunities to rightsize what they need. So, um, as the technology
catches up, I would say we have that section that we talk a little about a little bit about it today and we reference um things like circuit and other things in in Palm Beach definitely to be continued to think about uh on on the broader transit scale. On the on the
personal transit side, I guess, or on the personal home vehicle side, um, I think it's just going to continue to depend on uh where the legislature goes. Um, I know they're having a lot of issues in Texas right now with some of the robo taxi rollout. Uh, I know Arizona is not. So, I guess it's going
to continue to change state by state. Um, we do a lot of work in Arizona. We do a lot of work with Whimo in particular and their autonomous vehicle producer. Um, they still park in many places. That's one of their preferred. Um, it's just the way that they have
their vehicles set up. Um, they have a lot of kinks, right? So, that's the place where they kind of have their biggest issues. So, um we'll continue to see that to change and there is a piece, but um there will be challenges as it continues. Um and that'll be about how you balance parking in the future and
and kind of where you kind of set that fine line um for that. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you, Alex. Alex, correct? Alex and Jay uh as I said last time you guys presented some very cool
ideas um for some some potential future projects for our village that obviously don't know how we'll fund them yet but at least we have a plan now you know and we can plan for the future with this um this was something that was on our strategic plan that we all collectively thought was important enough to spend
some time and money on and um also great that I believe I think it was at least half of it got paid for through grants or the TPA or NPO or whatever ever it is now. I don't uh don't really know. Um so I'm in favor of approving the mobility
plan um for all the reasons you said, you know, but I think just that we can now submit this to the NO, am I saying that right? NO or old TPA. Um and other strategic funding sources to just get in
that list of, you know, ways to find grant and and potential other strategic funding sources. I mean, that's great. In the meantime, we can just start, you know, thinking about what we want to do, what we want the future of Questa to look like, and figure out how to pay for it all. So, I'm in favor.
Um, no questions or comments because we've gone through this with you. We spent a lot of time with you. Thank you. Um, thanks for taking all of our feedback and trying to adapt as much as you can with that. Uh, thank you again, Alex. Uh, one question on the low speed on the
parking. um talked about flexibility with parking. Um where would we recommend or is there an example of where we would recommend an area that wouldn't impact the current parking to because I I'm in favor of encouraging low-speed vehicles. I mean, give me a little bit more information on that.
So, that's a great question. So, I actually in North Palm Beach, I I put something in the code where you could you could use um up up to 10% of your required parking spaces could be used for low- speed vehicle parking, but you had to demonstrate that you could actually that residents could actually
drive low- speed vehicles to your area, right? So, I mean, uh right over here's a perfect example of it, right? Um but, you know, I think if if you I wish I had the map to show you guys, but but you can get to virtually all of our commercial areas. um from some
residential area. So, um I think there's an opportunity there. Like I said though, you'd want to cap it at like 10% because you wouldn't want a parking lot to just be low- speed vehicle parking. Um but but I think that's a good a good step from the start. And and of course, I I think there's maybe an opportunity
to retrofit some village facilities too to start um doing low speed vehicles, right? We could we could fit um can't remember what the number is. I think you can fit um is it would be maybe like three-speed vehicles for every two,
maybe it's four for every three, but but there's more efficiency you can pick up from a space perspective. So, um that's something we could also do in village facilities. Okay. I'm excited that gets cars off the road. Um and I think it would encourage more mobility around there. So, thank you for taking all the concerns into and
comments into consideration and um I'm excited to move forward. So, thank you. Yeah. Uh, thank again, great job, uh, getting all the revisions in there. I think you really, uh, picked up everything that was spoken about at the workshop. And are you able to send the
low-speed vehicle map to Jeremy so he can distribute it? I want to see this. I will I'll send it to Jeremy and then um I do you know once this is adopted I was hoping to you know put something in smoke signals about it you know like you know get a little push out there and then like I said maybe have a workshop with you all about about adopting or
amending the parking code. Um so I think that's that's a good way to kind of incentivize people to do it. Okay. And I think it it's exciting that this is done in time that we can send it to the county so WSP can uh consider it as they uh start to put together their plan and uh you know kind of what
council member French touched on you know when the county comes out with their plan like they might have some um options like that in their plan. So the idea is you know they'll take some of the city stuff but the county might have stuff that we haven't thought of that we could use as well. So, I think it's
going to be really exciting to see what what they come up with and I'm glad we're able to participate in the manner that we can. All right. I have no additional comments. So, is there any public comment? No. All right. Can I get a motion? Moved. Second.
All in favor? I. Thank you. Thank you. All right. On to new business. Agenda item 11, ordinance number 09-25, first reading. It is a comp plan amendment for Dquesta Country Club.
Thank you, mayor. Ordinance 0925, ordinance of the village council, village of Dquesta, Florida, adopting smallcale amendment to the comprehensive development plan in accordance with the mandate set forth in section 163 3187 Florida statutes pursuant to a privately initiated application FL125,
which provides for an amendment to the future land use map designating 1.454 454 acres more or less of real property as recreation and open space. Which property is located at 2011 Country Club Drive known as Quest Country Club providing for compliance with
requirements chapter 163 Florida statute providing conflicts clause severability clause effective data for other purposes. Well, thank you uh council. For the record, Zach Cer with Cotler Hearing and Jupiter um here on behalf of the Questa
Country Club. Obviously very excited to be here. We have a lot in store for you over the next few months. I know we were in front of you about a month or two ago for the conceptual review. So, tonight we are asking for approval of the future land use amendment and resoning. Of
course, coming soon will be the site plan aspects of uh the redevelopment of the country club. So, uh tonight we're really talking about these two out parcels on the club. Um, this has always been a part of the development of the club since really its inception in 1957
when the population of the Questa was 300 people. Um, so we're not talking about the entire golf course here. We're just talking about these two B parcels. Uh, you can see they're taken up by the existing cart barn and the existing maintenance facility. And then moving forward here on my next slide, I just
superimposed our proposed site plan. obviously not approved yet and we're not voting on that tonight, but you can see that the use of these parcels just remains the same. So, this really makes a lot of sense. Um, and to be rest assured, we've taken your feedback um as well as the residents feedback and we
are not including that uh parcel across the street that is the parking lot. That is not part of this application whatsoever. So, you can see uh the existing uh future land use map on your on the lefth hand side of your screen here. All we're doing is proposing uh to go from low
density residential to rack and open space. It's the same land use as the entire golf course and the same uh that it has been since 1957 and very similar with the zoning map. Um going from R1A to wreck and open space. So just remaining compatible with the with the
golf course use. Think I might have a lag here. Oh, okay. All right. So, uh, in summary, um, a couple bullet points here. Um, we want to provide the necessary framework to
proceed with the redevelopment of the entire club maintenance facility, the clubhouse, um, and the cafe or formerly known as the halfway house. Um, most importantly, this will bring these parcels into compliance um with the code, the comp plan, and just the
overall use of the golf course. And it'll properly reflect the long-standing wreck use of the golf course. And um I've added some renderings here, some uh beautiful images of what we are what we will be proposing to you, the new clubhouse there. And then as a sneak
peek, uh this will be developed of course in two phases as you know. uh the cafe and new golf maintenance will be done as a part of phase one and then the clubhouse will begin in phase two. But again, that's just a sneak peek of what's coming. I'll be back here in the next coming months to present that to you all. So, um very much appreciated
and that the site plan is actually in uh review with uh staff and they've been first class throughout this entire process. Very, very easy to work with. So, um very much appreciate all your feedback and um thank you for your time tonight. Thank you, council. Awesome. Thank you. I I don't really
have uh any additional comments other than what I said during the conceptual. So, thank you. One question. Since conceptual, when you guys do your different phases, are you still having people park in the existing parking lots and then how are they
getting out into the green? In phase one, yes. Phase two, we you just shuttle them out there cuz I had some residents say, "We don't want to walk." Well, that's a good question. That's why I'm asking. I will absolutely have that answer for you when we come back because I'm not sure. I told my you guys were going to be here
today. Um, aside from that, you answered um the other questions. I know a lot of stuff I heard was what's going on with that person that piece that's across the street. You answered that question. So, thank you. And again, I really appreciate I think on behalf of all of us you taking our feedback, residents
feedback and working with us rather than just coming at us. So, I really appreciate that. Thank you so much. Appreciate that. Great job. No comments. I echo what my client my my colleagues have said. Um I do want to thank planning and zoning you know we're looking at this as well. So it's the
second review that has seen. So PNZ went 50-0 in favor of this. So take put a lot of faith in the vetting that happens there as well. Um and thank you as council member Brandon said for re-emphasizing and very much the strong emphasis on nothing happening across the streets. Absolutely.
Thank you very much. Thank you. I have a comment. Thank you. Any public comment? No. All right. Can I get a motion? So move. Second. All in favor? I
agenda item 12, ordinance number 08-25, first reading for a reasonzoning for the same country club property. Thank you, mayor. Ordinance 0825, an ordinance of the village council village of the Quest of Florida providing for the reszoning of certain real property within the corporate limits of the
village of Tquesta pursuant to privately initiated application REZ12025. Property consists of 1.454 acres more or less land located at 2011 Country Club Drive provided that the real property which is more specifically described here in shall be reszoned from village zoning designation of R1A single family
dwelling to the village zoning designation of recreation and open space. Ring that the zoning map of the village request to be amended to reflect the proper designation of Israel property fronting conflicts clause severability clause authority to codify I'm sorry not an authority to codify this is not codified effective date and
further purposes Jay is there anything else to add for this one nothing further council any comments or questions nothing for me no any public comment I get a motion so moved second all in favor I
thank Right. Agenda item 13, ordinance number 11-25, first reading for a comp plan amendment for uh property on 19626 Riverside Drive.
Thank you, Mayor. Give me one second. Ordinance 11:25, ordinance of the village council, village of the quest of Florida, adopting a smallcale amendment to the comprehensive development plan in accordance with the mandate set forth in section 163 3187 Florida statutes pursuant to a privately initiated
application FLU225, which provides for an amendment to the future land use map designating 2.1271 acres more or less of real property as low density residential which property is located at 19626 Riverside Drive providing for compliance with all
requirements chapter 163 Florida statutes prior conflicts clause severability clause effective data and for other purposes. Thank you Keith. Uh so this is u a reasonzoning future land use amendment for the swan property that you annexed back in August. So just a quick
refresher um in April the swans back with village staff expressed interest in annexing of the village. It's located in our future annexation area. The plan had a uh the property had an adopted uh site plan through Palm Beach County. We adopted that when we annexed
the property. Um the site plan contains eight lots, 3.75 units per acre, which is below the maximum allowable density of 5.5 uh 5.4 units per acre and the low density land use, which is what we're proposing to designate this so it will
be compliant with our uh density. Uh again, the swans indicated to village staff they didn't want to have to go through our site plan approval process. It was lengthy and costly. Um they did not want to pursue annexation of the village if they had to do that again. Um and the village staff in consultation
confirmed that the existing site plan could be adopted as part of the annexation process. Actually, we normally would have done the um future land use amendment and reszoning at that same time as annexation, but there's a a delay because we have to send the future land use amendment to the state of Florida. So sometimes it can take 2 3
months to for that to even come back. So because of that and because of the Swans construction timelines, they didn't want us to to have to wait, you know, 3, four, 5 months to figure out if we were going to even annex the property. So um we figured out we could adopt do the annexation, come back later and do do
what we're doing today. So uh again, this is all the stuff from the annexation uh we formally adopted on August 14th. Now we have to assign the zoning classification future land use. Uh the most appropriate zoning is R1 single
family and the most appropriate land use is low density residential. So here's our current zoning map. All of the properties around it are R1. Um so we're just proposing R1. So it'll be consistent with all the surrounding properties. Um with the land use um same thing. All the properties around it are
low density residential. And of course remember it's park phase three and phase two you see there are recreation open space. We're proposing same thing. and lowdensity residential. Uh it's consistent with the comp plan a few of these uh policies and objectives.
On September 18th, PCB uh sitting as a local planning agency voted 5 to zero to recommend approval of of both the resoning and future land use ordinances. Um so if the council finds that the proposed resoning and land use map are compatible surrounding properties will not adversely affect the public health
and safety of Tquesta, it should vote to approve the ordinances. Um, so if you do pass it on first reading tonight, um, along with the previous one that just happened, um, they will both be transmitted to the state of Florida for review. Um, the state's gotten a little bit better at it. So, it's possible we
can have it back in December for second reading. Um, but it'll probably be December or January for for uh, second reading and final adoption. And that's my presentation. Thank you, Jay. Council, any comments or questions? I don't have no comments. Nope. Any public comment?
All right. Can I get a motion? Some move. Second. All in favor? I. Agenda item 14, ordinance number 10-25, first reading for reszoning of the same property off uh Riverside Drive.
Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance 1025, ordinance of the village council, village of the Questa, Florida, providing for the reszoning of certain real property within the corporate limits of the village of the Questa pursuant to privately initiated application re225. The property consists of 2.1271
acres more or less of land located at 19626 Riverside Drive, providing that this real property, which is more specifically described here in shall be reszoned from the existing Palm Beach County zone and designation of residential single family RS to the village zoning designation of R1 single family providing that zoning map of the
village to quest to be amended to reflect proper designation for this real property. Finding conflicts cause severability clause effective date and further purposes. You do anything else to add? Nothing. All right. Council, any comments or questions? No. Any public comment? No. Can I get a motion?
So moved. Second. All in favor? Item 15, ordinance number 07-25, second first reading of a zoning text amendment to uh marina use.
All right, there we go. Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance 0725, ordinance of the village council, village of the quest of Florida, amending chapter 78, zoning, article 10, off streetet and on street parking and loading regulations. Section 78705, required number of parking spaces to
modify the number of required spaces for various marina uses such as charter boat, wet slips, water taxis, and boat clubs. Also providing parking requirements for accessories and crew amenities. Providing that each and every other section subsection of chapter 78 shall remain in full force and effect as previously adopted. running confidence
clause severability clause authority to clify effective data and for other purposes as you indicated uh this is back for first reading with um some significant modifications based on council discussion uh at the last uh meeting when this was heard
thank you Keith uh Jay Hutch community development director um as Keith said uh this is kind of a continued discussion apologize to you guys for not make putting this in old business and making you sit through a few things so thanks for bearing with us here um so I'm not going to go through the full presentation. I'm going to jump to to
what we did. Um so the proposed changes since the last meeting, there was a lot of good feedback from residents and a lot of good feedback from council as well. So we tried to kind of blend all that in and create a new code that um it actually makes the marina code stronger
for and I think protects the village um for for future marina uses more than it currently has. And because this is actually a resident driven request, um, Senate Bill 180 would not apply, right? You can't create more restrictive regulations, but in this case, the resident is the one actually requesting
it, so that would not apply. Uh, what what uh what we did in working with the applicants here was um create uh a new parking standard. So, the one space per two slip that they were previously requesting, we made that so it's only for the first 30 slips. So it only
applies to kind of your smaller marinas and their marina does fall under that. So they would be able to utilize that. But if a larger marina came in for the next 30 slips, you actually have to meet our current requirement of 1.5 spaces per slip. So that's basically stays in
effect. So if a large new marina came in, it would um you know, we'd have that that that code there to protect us. Um, one of the other, you know, I think a really good suggestion thing that might came come from you, Mayor Young, was um, how do we how do we deal with
liverboards, boat rentals, boat clubs? Um, and I think I think some people highlighted there's parking issues at a lot of marinas, right? I think we all we all around here know that, right? Um, I'm a member of Freedom Boat Club, so I I see it at the places that that we go to. Um, and that's because a lot of
those marinas have they have restaurants, they have boat clubs, they have boat rentals. Um, you know, and when people, you know, are at a boat club, they're having multiple friends come meet them to to go to Peanut Island or or fishing or whatever, right? So, so
typically, I think two spaces per slip is probably around where where those land. So, we propose that. So, two spaces per slip if you're using it for liboard, boat rentals, or boat clubs. Um crew amenities would require one space for 500 square feet. So um technically
those shouldn't really generate any new parking demand because it's just amenities for crew that are already there. But um the applicant proposed that I think West Palm has it in their code. And so we thought can't hurt to put that in there as well. And then of course we also added a provision says
all other uses will have to meet the parking space requirements for the individual use. So again, back to like Sailfish Marina that has a a restaurant there. Um or Jupiter Point that has a restaurant. Um they have to meet that parking space for for each individual use and it it would ensure us and give
us some protection to make sure that there's not not parking issues there. Um here's the the full code. It's basically everything I just said. Um we have in there um also the same thing in there. Two spaces for every charter boat as well.
Um or no, I'm sorry. One space for every two passengers on on the charter boats. And uh as as stated the last last one, um the PCB voted 5 to zero recommend approval of the ordinances it was previously written. If you pass this tonight, we'll also be coming back with
a special exception and a site plan at the November 13th hearing uh to coincide with second reading. Um the applicant is here. If you have any questions for him, I'm happy to answer him as well. Thank you, Jay. Council, one question to make sure I heard you
correctly. I think you said if the applicant uh requests stricter limitations or stricter policy and that doesn't apply to the state bill. I Yeah, Senate Bill 180 has a provision that says for for um
applicant driven requests that that Senate Bill 180 the stringency thing doesn't apply. Okay. Thank you. I support the um project and proposed changes. Thank you. Uh my question is about the written code that you just had on that slide. Um I
mean it's a legal question, but it's kind of for both of you. I just want to make sure that it's it's for marina facilities only. And I say that for a hypothetical future look. If a condo building on the inter coastal got bought
and redeveloped and they added a marina, the parking would be solely for the marina portion and not necessarily for the housing plus marina. So this is just for marina section only, right? This is just the marina portion. Correct.
Just want to make sure that they're not going to blend like this is written for marina only. And I think the last sentence of the new text is what addresses your your concern with all other Yeah. I just want to publicly make sure we're on the same page because we obviously have a lot of redevelopment
and we think 30 years down the road and um knowing the sizes of marinas. I think 30 slips is a good number. Thank you for putting in the rec recognization of some of those difficult marinas and they do have multiple uses and that's kind of
where my mindset was last time was not this applicant's marina but for the whole zone we have to consider that the way it was written last time. So, I appreciate the changes and the specifications and adding more details
and I think I'd be okay with it like this as long as it's for the marina section only and we are sure on that. Correct. I just want to say thank you to the applicant for understanding, you know, we just wanted to get it right and thank you for your patience and on that and thank you for being a great partner with
us for as long as you've been there. So, I'm in favor of Yeah, I'll second that. Thank you for uh putting in a little more effort and uh addressing all the comments that came up during the last first reading and uh I'm in favor of it.
I agree. I greatly appreciate y'all taking the time to work with Jay for another month to tighten this up. I think it's right where it needs to be and will protect us down the road for any future marines that you know could maybe or maybe not happen. So, thank you. Any public comment? Yes. Marie Perry.
Marie. Marie superior than the country club. Um the problems that were previously discussed still remain in this revision. Um which is unsatisfactory because it still lowers the parking requirements for every marina despite ample evidence showing that municipalities that have lower parking requirements inquesta have
major parking problems. You should therefore reject this proposed code change and give the applicant a variance immediately so that he can undertake his building improvements. No compelling reason has been given as to why lowering the parking requirement if for all marinas is a good idea because it isn't
a good idea. However, variance is entirely appropriate here. To quickly go through the variance criteria as they apply to this property. One, there are obvious special conditions that exist that are peculiar to this property. This property has very little land and is mo it is mostly submerged. Number two, those conditions don't result from the
actions of the applicant. They've done nothing to create this. Number three, the granting the variance won't confer any special privileges. There are no special privileges being granted here. Number four, literal interpretation of the code would deprive him of rights commonly enjoyed by other properties and would work a hardship. The hardship here
is obvious and other properties get to have second stories. Number five, this would be the minimum variance possible. This is minimum because here they they're not changing the number of parking spots. And number six, and granting the variance will be in harmony with the general intent of the code and will not injure the area or be
detrimental to public welfare. The general intent of the code is not to create parking problems and we know that on this site there aren't any. All of these criteria are clearly met here. So a variance is what's appropriate. This change still results in a red reduction in the parking requirement compared to
what is currently in the code for every possible marina. Because this change gives every marina the ability to have one space per two slips for the first 30 slips. Bigger marinas would also have lower overall parking requirements than is currently required. There's no good reason to do this and there was overwhelming evidence from residents at
the last meeting showing that there are parking problems at many marinas. Finally, granting a code change where you wouldn't give a variance is a very bad idea because a variance affects only one property while a code change affects every property in the zoning district. Making this change would defeat the purpose of the code. A code change is
not intended to be a loophole for a variance. The variance option is intended to protect the integrity of the code. Thank you. Thank you, Marie. Any other public comment? All right. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Second.
All in favor? I agenda item 16, consider approval of a piggyback agreement for Hydroax for our fire hydro maintenance. Marjorie, good evening. Marjorie Craig, utilities director. This contract is something that we budgeted for um during the
fiscal year uh 26 budget uh season uh to do repair valve maintenance, fire hydrants maintenance, repair and flushing and uh for all of the hydrants within the water utilities service area. So that includes unincorporated
unincorporated Hillsboro um Hillsboro Martin County, unincorporated Palm Beach County and the village of Dquesta just to make sure that we uh have everything done correctly and and then provide the information uh to uh the fire rescue
departments for their ISO rating. Are there any questions? Council, I don't have any. So I know we do we do them now. Um, if we go forward with having this third party dome, will we be doing any of them or just let them do all of them?
So, this is basic hybrid maintenance. That's a great question. This is basic hybrid maintenance and in the past um unincorporated Palm Beach County, unincorporated Martin County and then the village of Kesta Fire Rescue was performing uh that um testing and it was
causing some some issues. So because of that for consistency and by state statute we we must actually make sure that we maintain those hydrants. This helps us with compliance. This is very very important contract. But we still will do if there's like a
major hydrant uh maintenance issue, we will absolutely repair it, replace it, uh do the more in-depth hydrant work just like we have in the past. Okay. That's why I ask because obviously anything ever happens. The worst case scenario is never good. If you open it
up and it doesn't work, especially with these old these asbesus, these AC pipes, it's really important that we have a consistent maintenance program. That's fine. I just want to make sure that our crew is still going to basically have access to do them if needed. Absolutely. Okay. Mhm. Yeah. If I can add on that small detail.
Um I'm the one that notices the hydrants and not all hydrants and maintenance and upkeep is the same. And to Questa um is a level up on a lot of areas and if you just look at the paint the enamel the difference is uh it's night and day in some places. So
thank you sir and we will and this is leveling up to make sure that we're we're keeping it. Also I don't know if y'all notice the pink hydrants. I noticed I do we did about seven this year again and so and then the guys are wearing the pink shirts just in honor of breast
cancer month. I don't have any just I think this is a great opportunity for us to to you know just really strengthen our maintenance program. My understanding that fire will still test minimum of 25%. And if there's something that's was a major repair renovation they will go
after that but it's great to have another set of eyes doing that. So great and and because of this contract they don't have to but yes you're right. They want to hold them and love them and and and and do some training on them. And you know the more that's great
as long as you know. Yep. I had the exact same question about um fire department and and um if they're going to still be testing or you know what their um access will be and Jeremy answered it for me before the meeting so I didn't feel the need to bring it up but um but yeah I find that funny that
several of us had that same thought. We see them out there right. All right. Is there any public comment? Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you for the support. Thank you, Marjorie. Agenda item 17, consider approval of a
piggyback agreement with Florida Divine Drilling for our water well rehab. Marjorie Craig, utilities director. Again, this contract is a piggyback on Broward County to perform uh well rehabs and and I've come before you every year. These are the three wells we're going to
rehab and the utilities update. I gave the ones that we're going to be doing in fiscal year 26. This company can do the rehabs for not only the surficial aquifer wells, but also for the upper floor and aquifer wells. Um we've already done the uh specific cap capacity testing for the Florida and
aquifer wells. We won't have to do any rehabs for those. Those are quite expensive. Um so we'll focus on the rehabs for the uh three up uh um the three surficial aquifer wells. And then also, if you've read read through the
utilities updates, we're having some issues with some of our sufficient aquifer wells and we will be using this company to help um address some of those issues. Thank you, councel. Nothing. Thank you. Any public comment?
Oh, can I get a motion to approve? So move. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you again. Agenda item 18. Marjorie, don't leave. You're still on deck. consider approval of the FD loan agreement for water main
number two, Beach Road replacement. So this um Marjorie Craig, utility instructor, um this um this agreement is for Beach Road. We've been talking about this for years. This is phase two of Beach Road and we got approval for the
SRF loan and you know what you do is you apply and they you know back and forth and this is actually the agreement and we'll be able to bid out this project once that uh this is submitted to them and then they fully execute it and give us back.
Any questions council? Not for me? No. Any public comment? No. All right. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All in favor? I. J. Item 19, consider approval of a piggyback agreement with Odyssey
Manufacturing Company for our am I going to say this right? Sodium hypocchlorite, which is bleach. Partly. Perfect. Marjorie Craig, utilities director. We need bleach to treat our uh water. And this is the annual contract that I bring forward.
Any questions? No. Any public comment? and the fancy name sodium hypocchlorite. Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All in favor? I I. Agenda item 20. Consider approval of uh
several agreements, six of them with consulting firms. Marjorie Craig, utilities director. This is um every uh about every five years we come forward. We we do a an RFP for uh under the consultants competitive
negotiation act um to uh get our our stable of consultants uh continuing services consultants under under contract. Um we we a committee was formed. We negotiated. This was a several month process and we ultimately
selected that and I've got to tell you we had a fantastic uh just all of the submittals were great. Um it was a very difficult decision in many cases and um I I felt really great um that this caliber of
consultants submitted these proposals to the village of Dquesta and that really says something. So, the top six on this list were selected. Um, and I won't read them all out. You can just you can see them, but they're they're very excited
to move forward with this list, and we hope that you will consider approval. Any questions? Thank you, council. Any comments or questions? No. Any public comment? Nope. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Second. All in favor?
I. Thank you for your support. And we do have several of the consultants here tonight that that were selected. So, thank you for sitting here tonight. Thank you, Mark. We look forward to working with them. Thank you. All right. Last agenda item 21. Consider the replacement of the outdated parks
and rec structures at Questa Park. Doug, good evening. Mayor, vice mayor, village council. Doug Chambers, public works director. Uh staff is requesting consideration to replace outdated uh building structures at Quested Park. Uh the main storage structure we have right
now is a barn that's about 50 years old. Uh if you lean on too hard, it's about ready to hit the ground. There's a hole on the roof. Uh the the walls are falling down and it's it's past its useful life. Um we went out and we got three quotes for a new structure at the
facility at Quest Park. Uh the building size is 40 feet by 80 by 14. So that's 40 wide by 80 long. It's a little bit larger than to put that in perspective the Girl Scout facility that's currently on location at Twista Park. After reviewing the three quotes, uh we are
recommending uh ever safe building structures. They came in with the best uh not only price, but their price includes uh installation. The other two proposals did not include installation. So it I mean it is a phenomenal price. There's a picture of example of the
building. We can we can change the color of the building if council desires. Um it has three main rollout doors, an access door. Uh we have a 40-year warranty on the panels, a 20-year warranty on the rust through frame, and a 12-ear warranty on the on the
workmanship. Um and uh we are receiving so the price we got back from Eversace is $53,778 and again that includes installations and stamp drawing so we can move ahead with permitting and putting that uh
facility on a concrete pad a reinforced concrete pad that would be an additional cost the concrete pad to the village. Um and project timeline from deposit to installation would be approximately about four months. Most of that uh probably permit relate waiting on a
permit through Martin County. And well the picture's not very clear right here. It's it's it's enlarged but uh in the green there in the upper right corner that's where we propose putting a new facility. And um all the circles in
in red or the boxes there, those are existing storage facilities with the exception of the one at the bottom. That one's already been removed. That's the old trailer home that was there for 40 plus years. We've we've since removed that. Um so I mean I think this is a
great uh opportunity for the village. We have a phenomenal price for this structure and it will be used for uh events um equipment uh landscape equipment and all the equipment that only public works uses but you know
parks and recreation department has. They currently do not have uh storage for their all the things that they use for events. Uh there's no storage over at the community center. Um there's no storage over at uh station 11 and
everything's sort of clogged up in those older facilities there. So this is a good opportunity for us. Like I said, we have a great price. Uh and the discount is only good till the end of the month, that 13 $14,000 discount.
I can answer any questions you have about the process or the building itself. Thank you, Doug. I can add just one more thing. He Doug never needs any help. But we did make it a little bit longer than like the Girl Scout house because the future land use when we working with Kimley Horn, they did say that to put
like a lot of our some of our electrical equipment if we ever build that future plan out that we'd put it in the back of this building like the like the last 5 or 10 ft I think. And so we've like oh let's get a little bit bigger so that way we're not taking away from our space. So that's the reason why when he
said we're we're doing a little bit larger than the Girl Scout building and that's the reason why. Okay. Thank you. Right. Any comments or questions? Funny you mentioned color. I have a pet peeve with monotones um throughout the whole thing
and I would I would go back to that. Yeah, I would trust you guys. I would recommend the village considering not a monotone look and do a lighter version on the larger portion of the building. a different shade on the bottom half like a like that Hawaiian blue or something
that kind of is cohesive too with the park and wreck building. There's your colors. And again, I'm just thinking to future with that park, something that's just more friendly. I mean, it's not surrounded by trees. So, I don't expect this to be like a hunting type shed where it's going to be kind of camoy.
It's right up front right when you pull in the park. So, maybe a different brighter, more friendly color, not monotoned. Maybe the trim be different from the mass centerpiece. A two-tone color. Yeah, just not monotone. Not all in the same color scheme.
Yep. Those are the colors we can choose from. I like the Hawaiian blue as a trim with the white cuz that also is cohesive with the rec center with our parks and w Hawaiian blue. Mhm. As the trim and then something lighter
and simple to keep it I suggest keep it simple. I just I feel we could do better cuz that's be right up front and it's not surrounded by trees. Again, it's not camified. I don't know. That's my my personal I have no suggestions on it if I go along with that.
It's big, too. Like you said, it's 80 ft long. It's the same. It'll be tucked up in the back on the east side. And the manager talked about adding landscaping around the building as well. Okay. Yeah. my two cents.
Will they send you like actual color samples? Cuz just I mean, you know, looking at this screen and mine, the Hawaiian blue looks very different. So, it would probably be best to get some actual color samples, physical ones. We can just confirm everything. And the other I guess the other part too
is just let everybody know that this has to go through Martin County through permitting and and uh all that. So, that's going to be a process. Uh we hope that, you know, we can get it through, but you know, we we do have to go through Martin County. We can't approve that ourselves. So, but you said the prices end of the
month. We're not going to do it. Are we going to do the contract before Mhm. Yeah, we're going to do the contract. So, they'll let us cancel it if it doesn't get approved by the county. I'm not sure why it wouldn't get approved by the county, but I I think they'll hold it. I mean, we we'll work through that. I guess we just need to make sure is the
contract. we get we get denied, we'll um we'll bring it back to council if we don't think that it's going to go through. That's a good question though because um we have to issue a deposit if this is approved tonight. We have to issue about $8,000 deposit
and so I don't have the answer if that's a non-refundable deposit depending on the permit. So what what the deposit does is secures the building and it gets us the plans we need to apply for the permit. So, I mean, I can't see why Martin County
wouldn't approve it. It's just a lengthy process. I mean, it's a facility that's going to meet all the building code requirements and um let's get an update for council and I'll provide it to them. You know, what we come up with that for that that make
that way we can all be on the same page with it. Yeah. Would Martin County have a say on the color also that they're going through their process? Maybe. I doubt that they're going to We've done some work out there with um
with some sidewalks and some pickle ball courts and things like that. We They've They've had little resistance. Just timely. The concession stands in the pavilion. They didn't care about the mobile. [Laughter]
That's good. I support it. I don't have any more faith you guys will make the right decision and do the right thing for the village. The deposit is 8,700. I'm sorry. The deposit is that the 8,700 8,700. Yeah.
Yeah. So, um, and is there are they signing there's our agreement is not attached to this. Are we signing their proposal or are we're signing their proposal? Yeah. Yeah. I guess maybe just Keith, just make sure there's a termination clause that,
you know, satisfies us in case for whatever reason, right, Martin County denies it or makes us revise it, you know, make it smaller. Um, I don't know. Just make sure we're protected there. And then I'm assuming the location's been coordinated with Kim Horn with the
the project, you know, the design we're doing for the Yes. Great. And great job on pivoting from your original thoughts. I know I think originally you guys were budgeting for CMU and then pivoting this. We saved us a lot of money. Um yes
building. So great job. Doug Doug receives all the credit for that cuz he's the one that uh didn't like the the cost of the other one. So we can beat that and I said challenge accepted and he that's it. So thank you Doug. Thanks.
Any public comment? Is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. All in favor? I thank you, Doug. Thank you. Thank you, Doug. All right, council. Are there any other matters tonight? No, mayor. None for me.
No items. Just thank you for you guys and your patience. I know we're always talking about Par's Park, but I really appreciate the transparency in the process and making sure we're being fair to residents that we went through the process and we're fully transparent with it. Thank you. Thank you. I learned a lot.
I have one item. Um, I attended a presentation from the environmental committee of North Palm Beach and they are champion the first municipality to champion vertical oyster gardens. Uh, it's a very easy process where it's oyster shells hanging on on a rope from
your dock so you don't have to worry about any any land below. Um, and uh it's it's a free process. The Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation is uh championing that and paying for all these. Uh, and I would like with staff's approval is to Tom Tweifer who's the
director of the Palm Beach County Fishing uh, Foundation and would be willing to come make an abbreviated presentation to EAC to see if that's something that they would recommend. Again, it's no cost to the village or to the individual homeowner. You're basically getting a a a rope to hang
from underneath your your dock uh, with about three feet three and a half feet of old oyster shells that are locally sourced. So, it's keeping stuff out of the out of the landfill. Um, cleaning up the Lockachi River is what we would do it. Um, learned a tremendous amount
about how uh the soot the silk makes its way through the C-51 and the C17 and when they open those word I'm looking for spillways. How it just rushes in and it just floats around. So, these will an oyster um not
to bore you with details, but can filter 50 gallons of water a day. So if there's 1,200 throughout Palm Beach County um and of those 1,200 they average 14 oysters that attaches themselves um doing 30 gall minimum of
30 gallons a day. It's over half a million gallons of water a day that is being filtered by these oysters and it's low no cost at all. They will come and even install them on your dock. It's literally just a hook and they hang it um right at the uh it's entered title. So you've got to do it where really when
you see the oysters on your pylons of your dot, that's the the depth that you have. So it goes up and down. But I if with staff's approval or at least present that to the EAC, I think it'd be a great program for us to kind of champion here a little bit and let our residents aware of what the benefits are. I think it's a great thing that we
could put in our newsletter, but like to see if the EAC would approve it first. I can forward all the information from the contact for Mr. Tweford to Jeremy and you can get it to the EAC. Yeah. As long as there's no objection, I think it's a really good uh project for the EAC to look into, get us more
details, and the council can come back with with the ultimate approval for it. They didn't they won an award for it, didn't they? Uh they've just started. Um it's offer in South Florida. There's no community doing it. So, I knew they were doing they just started it. Um it's fascinating. Everybody I mean, they
can't make them fast enough. The the shells are bleached or dried, if you will, uh cured in Macarthur Park. Arthur State Park and gave them a couple parking spots and they built what really looks like uh four like horse stalls
with no roofs on them and they just sit out there and they're donating from the breakers right now uh and cotton capers. So, it's keeping them out of the landfill. It's a commitment on behalf of, you know, they would of course love to get more restaurants involved, but there's restaurant has to take them out of the garbage and store them in their
cooler so they're not sitting outside. So, there's a big commitment to get that done, but it's nice. It's locally sourced cleaning mobile water. You can see that more municipalities do it. You can see the demand would probably only the supply like you said with only if not more restaurants or
uh like seafood markets contribute. They know. Yeah. Um that's great. That's a great thing they're doing over there. I think that'd be great for EAC to look into. All right. Anything else? No ma'am. No. A motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All in favor? I
[Applause] You know very well.