All right. Welcome to the Environmental Advisory Board meeting. I'm going to call the meeting to order on today at us, is Thursday, July 27th at role. Rick Moore. Here. Erica Allen. Here. Rachel Baudich. Absent. Christina Hicks. Absent. Margaret Horty. Here. OK, please note the absences for the record. Which I did. Are there any amendments to the agenda today? No. No. All right. So let's move on to the minutes. Are there, did everybody get a copy of the minutes and have a chance to look at over? Do you have any corrections? So I request a motion to approve the minutes from last time's meeting. I'm motion to approve. Second. All right. The motion takes so it passes so we can accept the minutes from last meeting. All right. So if anybody would like to speak, they need to be sworn in now. Can the board secretary administer the oath? Anybody wishes to speak please rise. Do you swear or affirm that any testimony may give during this public hearing will be truthful and accurate? Okay. Would you read the title of today's agenda? Yeah. OK, so this is for Patrick Park, tennis pickleball at 2,000 West Ju model road. The public hearing on items 5A, I, and 5A, I, I will be conducted contemporaneously as the items are related, but a separate vote will be taken on each item. Recommendation to the city council regarding I. An ordinance of the city of Boca-R Redtone considering an amendment to the future land use map of the comprehensive plan by rede signating certain property consisting of approximately 0.84 acres at the Patrieve Park generally located at 2,000 West Yamada Road from public land P.L. to conservation and providing for revisions to the future land news map, providing for repealer, providing an effective date. In addition, final action of the planning and zoning board regarding I.I. A resolution of the planning and zoning board of the city of Boca Raton, considering for an approximately three acre portion of the 52 point, excuse me, 52 point-acre patch reef park. Generally located at 2,000 West Jamada Road, a site plan approval to authorize the construction of 18 new covered pickleball courts and other site improvements, including a new surface parking area and pedestrian pathway and the creation of approximately 0.84-acre environmental set aside, providing for repeal or providing an effective date. All right, I wanted to note that our public request will come after the, if that's what you're here to do, that'll come after the presentation. Okay. And I'll let people know. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. I'm going to ask you a question. Okay. Then I think we move on to the Gregory Podera making, did I get it right this time? I'm making the staff presentation. Thank you, Mr. Newman. So good evening board. My name is Greg Paul Adora. I'm the senior environmental officer for the city of Bokoriton. This evening I'll be presenting to you the proposed expansion to the existing tennis center at Patrick Park. So I seen on screen the park is located generally on Tennis Center at Petri Park. So I seen on screen the park is located generally on Yamato Road about a quarter mile west of military trail And specifically we'll be focusing in the you know south west corner of the property. So a little history for the board. March 4, 1983, City of Boqueray, Joan Building, Department issued, permit 268, 7, 3 for Patrick Park, Phase 1, that included the construction of three baseball, softball fields, one soccer field, soccer field restroom and sight parking. May 2, 1984 City of Booker-Tone Building Department issued permit number 32163 for Patrick Park Phase 2 that included the construction of the community center and additional sight parking. February 14, 1985 City of Booker-Ton Building Department issued permit number 36319 for Patrick Park Phase 3. That included the construction of the Pirates Code of Playground, the tennis courts, three basketball courts, and additional sight parking. The request before you, again like I said is at 2000 West Immortal Road. The applicant is the greater Booker-Tone Beach and Park District. They are requesting a site plan approval to authorize the construction of 18 new covered pickable courts and other inside improvements including a new service parking area and pedestrian pathway and the creation of an approximately .84 acre environmental set aside or preserve. So above you'll see the existing conditions of the site. I'd like to just point out on the eastern portion, this is the existing tennis center. There's some converted pickleball courts currently. The existing walking trail, which does circle the whole, most of the park and continues through, you know, the subject area with some, a couple of pavilions and barbecue grills. Just to give you some lay of the land. This is Patrick the State's single family community across the Canal St. John Paul Academy to the South and the gardens of Booker Tone, you know, musely and property to the east. So this aerial photograph will give you a perspective on what the site looks like today as described in the previous slide. So above you'll see that we're in front of you the footprint of the proposed improvements. So here coming west of the tennis center today and south of the existing parking lot is the footprint of the 18 new covered football courts, new parking lot to the west of the existing parking lot to the west of the existing parking lot. There'll be a realignment of the walking path you saw cut through this area. It will be realigned here and the connect back up to the northeast. And then while you're here today, the Native Plank Community area, sensitive land is scattered through here. And then in the southwest corner, this is the proposed restoration area to offset that. So the application will alter approximately three acres of existing environmentally sensitive land as described in the applicant's environmental assessment. Pursue into code section 20-14 B2, co-ordinates as the applicant is required to set aside at least 25% of the native plant communities on the area which will be impacted as an environmental preserve designated with a conservation and future land use category in the city's future land use map of the comprehensive plan and preserved in viable condition with intact canopy understoring ground cover so the applicant will provide a point eight four acre environmental set aside which does meet the 25 percent actually exceeded, I think they're at 29 percent actually. So as stated, the property is adjacent to the gardens. A book, Raton, Preserve Set aside to give you some ecological sense of, you know, where wildlife can kind of traverse. The Patrick Trail to the West, which kind of acts as a route to Lynn University's scrub. The application is proposing the removal of the majority of the southern vegetative buffer that links between the gardens of Boca property to the Patrick Trail. The property site was generally found to be underline with loose to medium dense fine grain sand and medium dense fine green sand and medium dense fine green sand with silt. Two animal species were identified as potentially being affected by activities in the location, including Gofort tortoise, a state listed species threatened in Florida, and Eastern Indigo Snake, which is a commensal species known to occupy the boroughs. No Indigo snakes were found on the property. The assessment found that approximately 2.89 acres of the property are environmentally sensitive lands, and therefore, as said, the mandatory 25% set aside would be about 0.72 acres, so the applicant is providing 0.84. Based on the assessment, which is called the Restoration Offset Planting Plan that was in your packet, or the quote unquote the Preserve Area Planting Plan was provided which dictates the amount of plant material to be relocated from the environment in a sense of land into the newly created preserve. So based on the assessment done by Calvin Gierdana, the land was classified as scrubby flatwoods. And the city senior environmental officer, me has requested for the preserve to be increased in size to include a section, a pie shaped piece to the north of the preserve that currently contains several invasive species so that the invasive species are When they're cleared the preserve is increased to prevent those species from propagating within the preserve or else we're in the park so The applicant considered it but was sticking to the original footprint of the .84 with not an increase. So the .84 acres does meet to 25% as stated per chapter 20. And in fact they met exceeded it to 29. It should note that you've probably seen other projects where because this is not a very large set, where other projects per chapter 20 were allowed to do a payment in lieu if the set aside was less than one acre. However, because the property has a land use designation of public land, the payment in lieu provision does not apply here. So, as I'm sure you've had a chance to review the environmental assessment, although a go-for-torture was observed nearby the subject area, it was outside of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission required 25-foot distance from any disturbance. The applicant has acknowledged that if the project is approved, they must adhere to the FWC rules pertaining to go for tortoise. In the event they discover one in the area, one of the conditions of the project is to have an exclusionary fence installed around the project boundaries during construction. And I have more details on the tortoise location and later slides. And there were no other species of concern found, both plants or animals. So again, you'll see the general impact within the subject area that was outlined previously. So again, the parking area will be here and then the courts generally here and this would be the footprint of the set aside. So in case you weren't able to make a site visit to the property, there's some photographs of the site which we're kind of representing of what you'd see out there. So as you'll see, the site has plant species indicative of flora scrubber, scrubby flatwoods, including sand livoque, mertel oak, prickly pear, lionia, salt pol plum, salt, plum, apple, palm, and apple, and apple, and apple, and apple, and apple. So this is an image all the way on the right of the walking path that you saw kind of curved towards the southern edge of the property. So in front of you, you'll see the location of the tortoise burrow. Staff did know that there was one in the park prior to the application. So the applicant's environmental assessment did confirm that of the potentially occupied burrow. And I'll show you kind of where that is in relation to the project footprint. So the yellow circle you'll see is the 25 foot radius that's required and that the burrow is clear of the burrow. There was an original attempt, which the original environmental assessment. And again, the new classifications for burrows is potentially occupied, not necessarily occupied, they don't really class them like that anymore. So however, upon multiple visits by staff, you know, just to kind of see if we would see the animal show up, there was a new burrow attempt that I had witnessed about five feet to the north of the original borough, which indicated to me that the tortoise was still present. And we just noted it and they updated the environmental assessment to reflect. So there's the tortoise on the right, right in there. Oh, and that was actually 2023. Sorry, that says May 18, 22. This was this year, just a couple of months ago. So, the staff analysis. The city's environmental staff have visited the property several times have reviewed the assessments submitted by the applicant and support the findings in the assessment. Staff can confirm the presence of at least one go for tortoise on the property as well as several native songbirds, woodpeckers and snakes. Staff supports the proposed 0.84 acres of environmental preserve set aside proposed for the property, which exceeds a required minimum environmental preserve set aside of 0.72 acres. Also, staff finds that maintaining the environmental preserve set aside on the property protects and preserves the functions of the environmentally sensitive land and will maintain the conservation of native plant species communities within the environmental set aside area as well as the neighboring park vegetation. Given these factors staff supports to propose point eight for acre environmental preserve set aside as shown on the plants submitted. Condition of approval has been included in the resolution to ensure that these measures occupy prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the proposed additions. For further more pursuant to code section 20-14B2, quote, of ordinances, future land use designation for the preserve area must be changed to conservation and therefore a future land use designation of preserve area must be changed to conservation and therefore a future land use map amendment Application to change the future land use designation for the preserve area and is being processed concurrently With this site plan application to ensure that any future owner of the property is fully aware of the set aside That it must be maintained in perpetuity as a preserve and thus better ensure the continued protection of the environmental preserve condition has also be added in the resolution requiring the applicant to record a deeded conservation easement for the preserve area prior to the issuance of a building permit. It should be noted that during the development review process application, just for this board's knowledge, you may have questions as well. Staff did inquire if this was the best suited location within the property for the courts, respect to the impact of the natural environment. And if additional areas on the property can be incorporated as part of the newly created preserve. So kind of given some of the constraints of existing parking and other amenities in the park, you know the applicant did feel that the additional pickleball courts would be most appropriate at this location and didn't wish to increase the size of the preserve as mentioned as the preserve did already exceed the code requirements. So just to give you some context of that area that we had requested the expansion, this is the footprint of the offset area and this would be kind of this pie shaped little piece and there's the burrow in relation. So this is a photograph of what that area looks like with a bunch of invasive species in it. So this is just our standard slide to let you know that public notice was sent out for this meeting July 14, 2023, male or notice of properties within 500 feet of the property were sent. July 14, 2023, mail or notice of properties within 500 feet of the property were sent. July 14, 2023, posting of the property within 10 days prior to public hearing. And July 16, 2023, the newspaper publication prior to public hearing. So based on staff analysis and review of compliance with city policies, code, staff is recommending approval of the application based on the pickle ball expansion, providing a needed amenity for adjacent residents and the city as a whole. The portion of the site will be designated as conservation easement that will protect the existing wildlife located within the park. This approval comes with conditions as outlined in the resolution. I'm happy to answer any questions you have this time or review any of those conditions in the resolution. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. Actually, do you have a question? How is... I don't understand why the 25% only applies to this portion of the park instead of the whole park because my understanding is like that portion is the 25% set aside from the whole park. So if you're separating this out and then taking another 25%, it doesn't really meet that requirement anymore. I mean, you can't keep cutting it up and calling it a new 25% every time you cut a piece off of it. Yeah, it's interesting you asked that. So we did review that quite a bit of staff and we did not find any documentation that this was actually set aside. There was no conservation easement on this portion of the property. So that was kind of our, to our surprise. This park was actually developed, you know, kind of a long time ago, prior to chapter 20 in the code. So those are the best records we could find, even our rec staff, you know, thought that it was set aside. But we actually couldn't find any records that that was so it just kind of happened to be preserved in a very natural state for all these years. So why now is it being personaled out to be a substance, to be a sub piece of the larger parking general? I mean that would be my question. I mean is it simply so that they can fit some courts in here? Well as with any of the other developments that come in on sensitive lands they have to do the 25% of what we felt was you know valuable. So's just so happens to be what that acreage shook out to. I got you. Like I said earlier, under an acre is pretty small for a preserve. It's not typical of the set of sides. Any other zoning type property would have been able to do the payment in lieu. But because it's designated as public land, it just doesn't apply for chapter 20. Do either of you have any? Yeah, can you please go over the staff approval with conditions of what those conditions would be? Sure. Yeah. I know it's kind of small here. It's in the resolution as well. I don't know if you guys have that available to you, I know it's kind of small here. It's in the resolution as well. I don't know if you guys have that available to you, but I'm sure I'd fit these all on one slide. Probably should have broken it in two for you, but I put here just the most relevant. Once there's other conditions in the resolution that don't pertain to the ESL, but I'll go through these for you. So, prior to issuance of a main building permit, the applicant shall. Execute and deliver to the city for a recordation along with applicable fees in the form attached to the agenda materials and connection with the site plan, a conservation easement for the natural area preserve at the location depicted in the site plan. So essentially like I said, they're going to have to record a conservation easement on this set aside. They will have to submit a natural area management and restoration plan detailing the methods of construction and long-term management activities for the natural preserve area. Obtain an environmental permit for the restoration work within the natural air preserve as detailed in the environmental assessment. Preclering inspection shall be conducted by a qualified biologist prior to the removal of any existing vegetation to ensure no listed species have moved. A copy of their port shall be submitted for review and approval by the City and City and Senior Environmental Officer. Obtaining all applicable Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission permits for relocation of Gofort Tortuses if needed and for construction activity within 25 feet of any active go for tortoise burrow. All construction activity and go for tortoise relocation shall be accomplished pursuant to the terms of the FF WCC permits. Submit a plan subject to review and approval by the city senior environmental officer to protect any active go for tortoise burrows from adverse impacts of construction activity on the property at a minimum a six foot temporary construction construction fence shall be installed on the property Project limit boundary as depicted on sheet SB two. Let's site plan two fencing Fencing design shall include a temporary exclusion element as specified in the Go For Tortoise Permitting Guidelines published by the Florida Fish Wildlife Conservation Commission in order to deter Go For Tortoise's fermentoring the construction site. And then prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy or its functional equivalent, the applicant shall complete the restoration work in the natural area preserved in accordance with the permit required in section three, four J, and have approved final inspection for such work. Once the planning and restoration work identified in the environmental assessment is complete, a time zero monitoring report shall be submitted to the city's environmental officer for review and approval. ongoing monitoring report shall be submitted on a semi-annual basis for three years from the completion of the planting and restoration work. Monitoring reports shall include a minimum overall survival of the installed plant materials, photographic documentation, nuisance vegetation cover and natural recruitment. Do you need to follow the questions? I have a question. Kind of a follow-up to Mr. Newman's question. With this area then designated as the conservation easement that then would protect it from being as he said sliced up again and again. Correct. Correct. You can't set aside, set aside, essentially. So now that it's designated as N conservation, it cannot be carved and, you know, set aside another 25%. I think that was kind of a rick's point. It was under the assumption that this was already set aside. And that would be true. Right. If it was, it could not be carved up again. Okay. And then the pie-shaped portion that you had talked about before that is not part of the set aside. Is that part of the public land that would now be designated as N? Even though it's not part of this. It would not. No. Only the .84 acres would receive the designation. So that little piece is all still public land but it does not have the conservation easement over it. Correct I guess my question is how what's the plan to mitigate those invasive species coming into the? Yeah I know the applicant will probably present as well so perhaps they'll be able to answer that a little bit better but I assume they would work with recreation services staff to try to mitigate some of that and at least try to eliminate the exotics. I don't want to speak for them, but I suspect maybe that would happen. I have one more question about, you know, it's already a very small piece of natural area in there. And there isn't a lot of adjacent natural area to this property. So just from my looking at it, it doesn't look like it's a viable, it doesn't look like once you make it smaller, it's going to be a viable connected habitat for go for tourist population. I mean, there's just no, there will be no connectivity to other parcels, especially if you put in, I mean, the entire, I guess, what is the South boundary is now going to be off. It's basically you're going to fence in those go for tourists. It's going to be essentially ecologically dead animal once this project goes in. Yeah. So that's what we had originally looked at the payment of lieu because we kind of knew. And then perhaps the applicant would have to pursue with FWC a relocation of the animal, you know, knowing that. We did also stress to them that they need to go to that agency to speak to them about that, knowing that the footprint is small. And again, that's out of my jurisdiction. So I have to kind of defer to that agency to kind of opine on it. I don't disagree with you that it's small. It's a bit of a postage stamp, so. But typically, we would have been able to do the payment on lieu, but the code kind of dictated. Right. Otherwise, in this case. Yeah, and that was the most continuous piece that we could find, given the footprint of the project. Yeah. It's a tiny piece, I mean the footprint of the project. Yeah. It's a tiny piece. I mean, agreed. Yeah. All right. Do we have any more questions? Then I think we can, let's see, move on to the next present. Or where are we here? I guess we can open the public hearing portion. So we can allow the applicant to speak first for 20 minutes. Good evening. Thank you for your time. My name is Melissa Dawson. I'm the facilities manager for the Red Ribocor Aton Beach and Parks District. We do have our executive director, Brianne Harms here this evening as well. We have questions and then we have Michael O'Connor from Calvin, Giadano and Associates to help with us on this project. So thank you very much for your time. I also want to thank the City staff for helping us get to this point on this project. It's a project we're very excited about. We do want to be sensitive to the land. We very much we have a set aside at Sugar Sam Park that we actually have actively guided requests we've had away from that park to honor to honor the environmental sensitivity of it. So we are aware that what we have is a strain on an amenity that is being requested by the residents of Bocahton and the district we're having heavy requests for pickleball courts. So in order to try to accomplish this to accommodate these needs we did first look at what can we do in lieu of building more courts and taking on a project of this size. And what we did was we converted two pick, we felt that we were able to convert two tennis courts without impacting the tennis players into six pickle ball courts. So initially that's what we did here at this project to try to accommodate the need. The need for this sport right now, it's just the popularity of skyrocketing. So the amount of participants that we have in our local area has grown greatly and we are continuing to get more and more demand and one of the critical things that we're also getting demand for our courts with lights on them because currently I believe these six pickleball courts at Patrick Park are the only public lit courts in in Boca Raton. There are some HOAs and stuff that have them but there are no other. So as the time starts to change in the upcoming stuff we get really short on the amount of courts that people can go to after they get off of work and go. So there's a high demand for pickleball courts in the community. And when we started to look at the different parks that we control, which is Sugar Sam Park, Swimming Racket Center, and the Patrief Park, we took a look in, the infrastructure is available at Patrief Park where it isn't at other parks. First at Sugar Sam Park, we do have environmental land set aside that is protected, so we do not go encroaching to that area. And then Swimming Racketett Center there isn't land available and then at the Patrick Park we already had the tennis center where the infrastructure was there there's a lobby there's a check-in so that people can be brought in and out and we can expand there to accommodate these needs so that's what we set off to do we have before you just so you can get a visionary of what we're envisioning for the project is to put a cover over it in order to help with the heat as it gets hotter in the days. And it will have some fans to keep some air circulating in there. And then there will also be lights that will be underneath focus down on the court so that'll stop the ambient light from flowing out as much to LED lighting in the project. So I wanted to give you a general overview as the facilities manager for the district and we're gonna let Michael O'Connor also address this in things from an environmental standpoint from Calvin G. Dono Associates. Yes, hello, good evening. My name is Mike Conner. I'm a Senior Landscape Architect and certified Arborist with Calvin G. Dono Associates. We are the Landscape architect, site planners, civil engineers, electrical engineers for this project, for the Greater Book of Return Beach and Park District. I think that Greg did an excellent job of explaining the project. I will point out a couple things that I thought of as you were making your presentation. One is the environmental sensitive area that's being disturbed is the three acres. There's more probably environmentally sensitive lands or natural areas within the park. The whole park is 52 acres. So there are other areas. This was the biggest kind of piece that was continuous that we could use as the set aside. There also would like to mention that the areas already a little bit degraded. There's pathways. There's people having birthday parties at picnic shelters, barbecue grills, and things of that nature. So there's a lot of people in and around this area throughout this area. It's not just a pristine type environmentally sensitive land. When we sent our environmental specialists out there, did come up with a classification of scrubby flatwoods. And as you go towards the west, it does become more degraded. There are sweetacacia trees, there's other invasive exotics in this portion of the site. So the thought process was that we could remove those exotics, invasive exotics, clean it up, and then restore it with relocating some existing trees and palms into that area, as well as doing tree spated scrub plugs. And, you know, a lot of salt, palmetto, mixed in with some of the o material at first, but the success of that is kind of difficult to move. It's hard and almost impossible to move larger pines, but even the oaks have a lot of resources and a lot of cost and there's no guarantee of the success of that. So the flip side of that is that there's a lot of smaller scrubby material and smaller oak trees that can be easily spated and we can get a lot more of that native material into this corner and clean up and get rid of the invasive exotics because some of the occasion trees are quite large. We are keeping some existing trees in that portion. Because we didn't want to get rid of all of the large trees, we wanted to have some screening effect because there are residential on the other side of the canal, even though they're a good distance away from this project. And it is a large roof covering that's going to be there. So we wanted to keep those trees as buffers for those neighbors. So that's pretty much what I wanted to add. Greg pretty much made the presentation for us and covered most of the things. So if you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer them. Am I, I do have a question. I mean, I understand why you would like to put this facility here. But as resources go, you know, this Oak Habitat is one of the most limited resources in the city. And there's plenty of places around the city that, you know, the beach and park district could acquire that are completely degraded already. I don't know why you would sacrifice one of the few pieces of green space that still remains in the city to build this, to expand this. I mean, that park alone, you you know is almost built completely out. This little corner of the park, I mean I know for the scope of this project it's being considered a whole separate parcel which doesn't make sense to me. I mean I think that's kind of, I think we've lost sight of the you know the spirit of maintaining green spaces adjacent to our park. So, you know, I'm just wondering, if you're weighing the value of use in terms of pickle board courts versus use in terms of green spaces, there's nowhere else you're gonna find natural green spaces where you could put pickle bowl courts in a lot of other places that have already been destroyed. And I just want to know if that was even entered in the equation. I mean, I know the beach and parks district, they can acquire property. And I believe part of their mandate is to protect native habitat. Maybe I'm wrong. The executive director of the Beechron Proc district, Brienne Harms. So the Beechron Proc district, yes, our initiative is to preserve land. I think we've done that. Like demonstrated that almost 50 years of the district. We have Ocean Strand, which is conservation area. I think we've done that. Like demonstrated that almost 50 years of the district. We have Ocean Strand, which is conservation area. The bulk of sugar, sandpark, 130 to acres, more than half of that is conservation area. So from the standpoint of providing pickleball to people, the idea was operationally, we have people ready at the 10th Senate that can do this. So to put this somewhere else, we're going to have to build a brand new building, restrooms, a lot more of the infrastructure. So the idea was to add this already to the tennis complex that's there. So we would have a place for staff and a place for all the other things that go along with running a facility. So that was the idea. That's why we chose Patrick Park. It makes sense because we had pickleball courts out there. We have a program in place for people, membership wise. I think we've done a good job. And as far as, yes, we can acquire land if we have the money for it. But we don't just acquire land without city approval. Like usually the city comes to us and says, hey, beach and park district, you guys want to buy this land? Can you help us out? And we do that. So we work in tandem with the city on those things. The idea of doing this here was really from the standpoint of getting it up for the residents, because the residents have been fighting and fighting and fighting for more pickleball courts. They built El Rio. No lights out there. So after, once the sun sets, you're done playing pickleball. That's where we came at it. We said we looked at our parks, obviously sugar sand's not going to happen. We're certainly not going to put anything at Ocean Strand that's going to require lighting. And then Swimming Racket Center is built out. So this was the best place for it. That's what we looked at. I think Pat Reef has a lot of, you know, it's been a dedicated spot for all the tree programs that the city has, Arbor Day, all those things have happened over the years. So we've been pretty dedicated to conservation as a district. I think that we also have an obligation for recreation to the community. That's our other thing. So that's why we started this project here. So you're saying that you don't actually acquire natural land unless you're asked to do so by the city of Boca-Ton. Is that correct? That's been the history. I mean the whole foundation of the district back in 1974 was to purchase red reef. So we were started and we partnered with the city of purchase red reef. We bought Boca-Tica because the then mayor asked us to look into buying that property. Ocean Strand, the city came to us and said, you know, there was used to be residential property out there and it was going. So we came in and we bought that property and kept it, we just recently put a trail out there but we did a really, we had to make sure that that property was preserved. So historically, yes, we do a lot to contribute to conservation in the city, but we also have an obligation for providing recreation. Gotcha. I understand. I mean, the city has grown quite a bit. Yes. And you just have to drive through downtown to see what's coming. We're going to have a tsunami of people accessing our parks and they need more facilities. But the one thing they're not making is any more green space in the city. Unless there's a plan to do that, I mean, I hate to say it, but you're asking me to value pickable course versus value a Resource that we can't replace. You can't but I will tell you you guys haven't seen this yet But I'm sure you will when we get there We just started the site plan approval process for that but Boca Tica is 200 acres of property used to be a golf course Obviously golf courses aren't great for the environment So now we're in there East Side. It's a very passive park. And we are working very hard to add all native vegetation, get rid of all those invasives, repair the soil. You'll see those things come through here. But our goal out there is to have a very natural space. Trails, mountain bike trails, not a lot of concrete at all in that entire park. And right now we're just focused on the east side because that's the part we own out right we're paying a bond on the west side that's a whole convoluted story but we will the plan for that park is a very natural and very very much heavy emphasis on green space. Not to get off the topic here but are you planning on designating that as in perpetuity green space or is this just a holding pattern until you want to build more pickle ports out there? Well as long as it takes us to get through this, I think it'll be green space for a very long time But I you know, I can't speak you're right the city is growing and we are running out of green space wherever we are Yeah, so if the city you know in 20 years if the city comes and says the only space we have left to build homes for people is in our parks That's a that's a story I can't answer or talk to but I know our board and this district has been really committed to preserving a lot of green space Especially now when you DC so much going away What will happen in the future? I'm not sure we've always partnered with the city on a lot of stuff, but our focus is green space Okay, thank you. Does anybody else have any more questions? All right Let's see who's next. So is there anybody here on a posing side of this project that wants to speak now? Yeah. Question. I'll leave another question. Sorry. So I know at El Rio Park there are pick-up all courts. What would it take to get lights there instead of building this facility? There's a long history to that park and my understanding is that the residents did not, they thought really hard to have lighting out there and that's why the city opted not to do lighting. Okay, that's the city park. We don't have any control over what happens in the early process. All right. Thank you. I will just add that this is, you know, and this isn't a small project. This project is going to come in at probably $8.5 million. And that's another thing that's very preclusive to ask the taxpayers to purchase more land for it to add the price of that land onto the actual price of the project alone because and for $8.5 million what we're hoping with these 18 courts that will do is take the stress and the financial burden off the city to provide those courts someplace else to accommodate the needs of the residents here and take care of that need so that the other areas are not have to be going to in order to do that. And how did you get to the number 18 courts? So, currently there are, we had 17 courts out there for tennis. When we tried to accommodate Pickleball in the early stages, we felt like discussing it with the city who operates this park for us, the city of Buckertown. We discussed, would it be available and not hurt the tennis patrons to take two of the courts and switch them to six pickleball? They felt very secure in that. And that time since then, the number of participants that we have using six pickleball courts is equal to the number of participants we have using 15 tennis courts now. So the goal was is that we should probably at least come up with 15 minimum in order because that's what is accommodating the tennis players with the same number of patrons out there right now. And then we took a look at it and we addition to those 15. We wanted to add two accessible courts, which are the courts on the screen that you'll see with a number two next to them. That is because one of the thing that is lacking is accommodating the needs of our disabled patrons and residents. And so we added those to it. So at that point, we were even numbering to put the quads. That's how we got to the number of 18. I'm curious. What do you estimate the yearly usage of these additional courts will be? Like how many people are going to use these courts on a yearly basis? Well, I would say right now for each month with six courts we have approximately just over 3,000 participants per month. So with the need there, if these are needed you could almost triple that because you're adding three additional courts. Do I think we would fully triple that? Maybe not, but I think that you would with at six courts getting just over I think 3500 is what we're looking at monthly there. So I would say you would get upwards of probably 15,000 people using a monthly. Now that might not I'm not I'll be honest with you. The city runs those for us so I don't know 100% unique users. Let me qualify because I don't want to misrepresent anything here this evening. I'm just trying to understand the math. I mean, the city recently said that they didn't have money to fund the C-Triple Rehab Center, which costs a lot less than $8 million to operate. And that has hundreds of thousands of people visited every year. And obviously, that's not part of this project. But you can see the math here is making me scratch my head a little bit on how something like that could happen. Just on the seat of a rehab we actually fund gumball limbo we fully fund it so the city made a decision not to continue carrying that program they wanted the nonprofit so to clear like our role in that we we pay we we budget for gumball limbo what is requested us. So we don't have a say in how it's operated. We are really just a checkbook for Gumball Limbo. So I just want to clarify our role in that decision. And the city has opted to have a nonprofit run it. It's not that they've opted to get out of it or like a funding. It's just separating what the environmental center is capable of doing versus the nonprofit. So I just wanna clarify that. I mean, the nonprofit is not running that center. So, I understand that you don't run the center also. My understanding was you funded the positions for that. We did and then the city is eliminated those positions. So we have, we have. But they stated they eliminated it because it was too expensive. I mean, that was what they said. I just sound like another. They probably stated that. I know this is, you know, it's off topic, but I'm just, you know, I'm trying to think like, you know, for pickleball courts that is going to impact an environmentally sensitive piece of land within the city. How many people are going to use, not that many people are going to use comparatively to something like that. I'm just wondering how these decisions are getting made and who is making them. Well, I can tell you that we've never turned down funding request for Gumballembo. The city submits a budget to us every year. I'm sorry, one time we did, and that was on the pipes and pumping when it went over budget and the friends of Gumball Limbo at the time, Coastal Stewards now, they contributed the remaining 100,000 of the $3.2 million project. So we have always contributed to Gumball Limbo. We've always contributed the city for funding on their parks. Great. Thank you. Does anybody else have any more questions? Yeah, I was going to say now would be the times if anybody from the public, which is to speak you five minutes each? Yeah, hi. Could you state your name? I could speak by, thank you. My name is Ronald Trivieso. I live at 1037 West Royal Palm Road. I'm also the USAPA, Pickable Ambassador for all of Southeast Florida, including Boca Raton. And so here's my thing. Listen, Pickleball has been such a fast growing sport that people are just addicted to it. And they keep playing pickable and they want to play pickable in as many places as possible. The issue is that even though we're talking about environmental and we are all pro-environmental, listen, we want people to recreate, and that's so important. There are so many examples that I can express with friends of mine and other people that I play with, that Pickable has changed their lives because they actually recreate. They're not sitting in their couches anymore. They're actually playing a sport that motivates them. And so there's a lot of issues here. I think that if we look at from a perspective of South Florida, if we move on with this projected pickable complex, it'll be the premiere of all of South Florida. It's going to be 18 courts, they're going to be covered. You know, people are going to be protected from the sun. And it's a win-win. So I don't understand or I hope that this committee moves forward with appropriating these courts. You know, one of the things, so look, I've been playing Pickleball for five or five years, whatever. But anyway, all I know is that everyone that I have met and all the equatements have always said to me, this game has changed my life. And the reason is because I have gotten off of my couch and I have gotten active with playing Pickleball. And that's it. So please, I hope that you guys understand that and can help us to move forward with this. Thank you. Thank you. I actually have one question for you when my answer is. Sure. Did you, for you if you wouldn't mind answering. Sure. When you picked up Pickleball, was there a support that you used to play that you no longer like were you a tennis player at one point? No. So that's the beauty of it. And I appreciate your question. The beauty is that I had a hip replay spent. I couldn't play tennis anymore. I couldn't play racquetball anymore. However, I could play pickleball. And from the first day I saw pickleball being played, I called my wife and I said, this is my new sport. So there's so many examples in my life that people have said and called me and said, man, this sport has changed my life. And so I think this committee needs to recognize that. All right, thank you. Does anybody else have any questions? I have, I guess one more question for a follow-up based on this question. You know, it does seem like Pickleball, like he said, is a sport that's taking off. And, you know, my understanding is that some of the more traditional sports that we've invested in in the city like golf and tennis are perhaps falling out of favor with residents. Now I know our residents, our population is going up so as a percentage it might not seem that way. I'm just wondering if there are more existing tennis courts or parts of golf courses that we could better be using to alleviate some of this pressure. Thank you. Yes. I think right now what the thought is is we've already gone over with our parks but we don't have the room so we go out and buy and renew. I think the city is also looking for us as a partner to help alleviate this need because the needs are growing in multitudes. When we've done a study, one of the reasons why as Brienne mentioned, we're putting trails and stuff out at the new North Park, Mocha Tica area is because that was one of the reasons why, as Brienne mentioned, we're putting trails and stuff out at the new North Park, Moquatica area, is because that was one of the greatest needs. So we had trails and walking and biking trails in Pickleball, where two of our top five, I believe, right? Two of our top five or top three requests. So this is one way where we figure the infrastructure is there. And what we're trying to do is do it the most, I can solve the needs of the community in most economical way with their taxpayer money. And by looking at where the infrastructure was for all of these areas, this was a park that made the most sense because it has the infrastructure of the tennis center already there. It can serve pickleball as well. You can one in one eight. So there's memberships and and that's really why this particular spot was like and now I do believe that the city is holding to see where we're going with ours before they make some decisions because there's so many different things that are needed that we're trying not to double up what we're doing. So they're hoping my understanding is from the recreation department is there are very excited about these courts and hoping these will go forward so they can look for other areas to do other activities with. Okay so I mean I think what I was really asking is why can't you replace tennis courts with pickleball courts? We've done that to a certain extent like that's the very first thing that we did at yeah it seemed like a good idea. Yeah and that's what we did thing that we did at. Yeah, it seemed like a good idea. Yeah, and that's what we did. We tried to accommodate, but the sport is just growing crazy fast. As fast as growing, I think there's like 34 million people I think now in the United States that play it. And it's also getting, you know, when it first started, it was also a sport that was mainly an elderly population, but the average age for the pickleball player, I started playing two years ago and he's right, you get addicted. And it got me off of coach. I lost a lot of weight playing it. So it is a fantastic sport, but you know we all have our passions for our sport. And we all have our passions for the environment. We have our passions and they're all very critical and important. But I think that overall we tried, we went that route and did it to the best of our ability. And took two of those tennis courts because we did an out and out. We worked with the city of Boqueraton to do an analysis to see what the participation was and could we lose and to convert two of those. We were able to do so so we did that. But now the demand has just gotten so high that our thought was if we can get these 18 courts built, we will accommodate it from a situation of needing public courts and that this should accommodate that need for us going forward. Our only other inventory is the clay courts at Swam and Racket Center, the rest is all city owned property. We did suggest during the pandemic at Boca Tica there was some dilapidated tennis courts converting those in a pickle ball But we we were told that we would also need to build restrooms and infrastructure and a number of other things that would have priced us out of that so this is This is why All right anybody else have any questions? Would anybody else like to ask any questions? Anybody else at this time? Listen, if you don't mind, I just want to say one thing. I think as the 18 court, pickable courts are being proposed, it will be an outstanding and like we would have the most impressive pickable court complex in all of South Florida and maybe all of the nation. So I mean, that's what all Boca is all about. I'm retired 40 years on the Boca Raton Fire Department and we always strived to exceed all expectations. I think if we built this complex, it would really be a star on the pickable side of Boca Raton. And that's all I have to say. Thank you so much. I have another question for you in response to that. As a resident, would you prefer that they build a facility like this on a piece of property that say had formerly been used for industrial? We've got a lot of empty industrial spaces throughout the city that could actually be better. They could be indoor pickleball. You know, I mean, it seems like you're, I don't have a problem with pickleball. My problem is that we have a very limited resource left in this city of, of, you know, upland, O'Cabitat. You know, go for tortoises, have a lot of, nearly, I mean, this is, I don't, you know, our point is to evaluate the relative value of these things. And to some people, all they see is an empty degraded lot that, you know, isn't getting a lot of use. You know, I've been out there bird watching. I've walked that property. I find it has value in its current state. I would rather see the Beach and parks district invest their money in rehabilitating the habitat, getting rid of invasive species, that sort of thing. And put a pickleball court, you know, where there's already infrastructure that's not getting already degraded habitat that's not being used. So I understand your enthusiasm, but would you prefer you put a pickle-wall court on a green space or put it in a place that has been, say, an empty parking lot? So there's really a hard question for me to answer. I mean, you're a resident. So I see you like green space. And I've been a resident since 1971 as a kid. And I graduated from Boko High. But I don't know, and I answer your question. I think what I want to say to you is that we need more pickable courts. There are 65 tennis courts in the city of Boca Raton and there are 10 pickable courts in the city of Boca Raton. So that I think is important to kind of spotlight the fact that we don't have enough courts for the demand of pick them all players. So whether it's in Patrick Park, whether it's in the new, you know, down the street or down the road in Briny, what do you call it? I'm sorry, okay. I lost my Boateka Country Club. Those are all possibilities. What we're asking for right now is to really look at the demand that's currently demanding our Pickable players we need more courts. We have six courts in Boca Raton. That's not enough We need to get more courts and so grouch. I mean, my question for you was really, do you think it's appropriate to pave over a natural area to build a pickleball court? Well, I mean, do you think that's an appropriate thing to do? So I think we do. That's because that's the question that ultimately we were being asked here. Okay, look, look,'t know there's there's a lot a lot of people here more Intelligence than I am when I'm saying who I guess my my answer would be is that yes we want to have environmental protection and we also want to have the opportunity for people to recreate. So what is that balance? I don't know, but absolutely. I don't want to take away from any environmental issues, but I also want to get my people off the couch and playing pickleball and so that they would improve their health Thank you. I appreciate Any all right I Guess at this point If it nobody has any more questions we can close the public portion of the hearing. So I ask for a motion. Motion to approve. To no motion to close the. Motion to close. All right. In the second. And I guess we can, if we've got a second, the public portion is closed. And now our board can discuss amongst ourselves or amongst that. Do you have anything you'd like to say? So I really liked your idea about we're not against Pickleball, but let's move the Pickleball courts to an already abandoned MD industrial area. You know, there's a ton of empty parking lots, ton of warehouse space, move it there instead. Don't pave over the greenlands. That's my idea. Yeah, I mean, I like, I mean, the way the plant plan is and the way the set aside is, I mean, I do worry that, you know, I like, I mean, the way that plant plant is and the way the set aside is, I mean, I do worry that, you know, even if this program doesn't get approved, that that's a piece of public land there that's still vulnerable. I mean, I would think. And especially right now with rising temperatures and stuff, green spaces, the utmost important right now. That's what's, you know, taking in the heat, the preventus from... I don't know what pickleful carts are made of, but I assume they're non-pervious material. All right. So we want to make I guess we want to talk about any possible amendments to this. I mean the city. I'm sorry I got I guess I need to circle back to Greg. You had proposed an amendment to this project that was rejected, correct? I wanted to add to the North just to try to extend it, you know, to try to, you know, not bleed into the 25 foot of the Taurus, but try to make it as continuous as possible, you know, because there is another circular area, which is super disconnected to that Taurus have to go across a parking lot which is probably another two-waykers I think but again they ask go across asphalt so and my thought with that was to try to get a little bit more continuous and linear you know a nice area that I could try to use but again you know the applicant's gonna have to kind of check with Florida Fish and Wildlife on I I had asked them to check. Let's just say that. Okay. And make sure that this was enough square footage for the animal to survive. Gotcha. Yeah. All right. So the animal's relocation is dependent on the fish and wildlife permit, which is a condition recommended in the approval. Right, so if they encounter one within their footprint, they have to stop and get a relocation permit. Otherwise they have to kind of have an exclusionary element so the tortoise doesn't come in. I am not tortoise expert, which is why I said, they should go to them to see if the square footage remaining is enough of a viable habitat. I had concerns with it in particular, but again, I'm not the expert. I had, that's what kind of sparked the whole environmental assessment to begin with because I was concerned. I didn't know there was a tortoise there, that a tortoise, if one existed, could wander into this area. So I wanted to make sure it was free and clear to begin with. And then one was found. So I don't have the answer to your question, Maggie. I have a question on the relocation of the native species. So the 25% is required to stay, with the relocation the ones that aren't being relocated can they be considered for any right of ways that might be planned for landscaping or things such as that? Perhaps, yeah, it wasn't part of this. I had what we had looked at was possible. Other recipient locations just around the park even Maybe Michael couldn't speak to that. I think the tree moving company didn't meet with them So there's I think there's some possibilities for that still But I don't know if it was baked into the rest of the landscaping plan. There was a whole other landscaping plan with this Which was basically parking lot landscaping so I didn't really cover it here But perhaps Michael Michael can answer that. Yes there are opportunities for other areas that are further away and harder to deal with. So the idea was that if we were going to do this off site restoration area that we would consolidate all the relocated material in one spot, it makes it easier for the contractor to set up temporary watering and to ensure there is a survivability of the relocates and those kinds of things. So, you know, moving an oak tree out of this area and putting it in a parking island doesn't seem to me to be as valuable as putting it into this area. So that's why we decided to do that. And Greg, I just want to say that we did increase the area to the north per your request. I don't know if we went as far as maybe you thought we were going to go, but that's how we went from the .72 to the .84 or whatever it is. So we did go to the north a little bit, but again, it is disturbing the land. So you're getting closer to where the tortoise burrow is. So we don't want to get too close to it. We still want to stay outside of that boundary. Yeah, I think more Maggie's question was, what's going to happen to the rest of the trees? I don't think she was suggesting going in parking lot islands, but elsewhere in the park, perhaps. Right, more than native species that aren't planned to be relocated into the offset area. As I mentioned before, pines are extremely difficult, if not impossible, to relocate at this size. The other trees are of not as good condition as the ones that we are proposing to relocate. So again, as an arborist, I've evaluated the trees and noted which ones are the most viable candidates for relocation. And so we concentrated on, there are a few larger ones, but rather than spend the expense and effort it is to try to relocate those somewhere else on the park site and keep it watered and make sure it survives the smaller trees that are more tree spatable if that's a word are much more prone to success. And there's a proliferation, you know And there's a lot of small trees that fit into what Greg and City staff were asking us to look into and to do. Thank you. I think at this point we're ready to motion to see if we recommend or not recommend this project. So I'm going to ask the board secretary to roll call vote on the main motion. Are you making a motion? Somebody has to make a motion and second it and then I can roll call vote. You can motion, you can motion also to approve and not and second it. And then I can all call vote. You can motion also to approve and not vote for it. I'll make a motion but I'd like to add to the conditions. I'd like to add a condition that any native material not planned for relocation into this point eight to acre area be considered for any landscaping projects or right of ways or anything else that might be on the agenda or upcoming within the span of this project. If you agree. I agree to that amendment. So with that I'd I'd motion to approve with conditions. Second. Just just want to clarify one thing. I think what we're doing for the PNZ Board is a recommendation. Yeah. So we can recommend these conditions. Yeah. And I'll write that open. I'll include in my presentation that these recommendations. It doesn't mean that they're going to be included in this. Right. Just want to clarify. The first motion is for recommendation to City Council 5AI. The second motion would be for planning and zoning. There's two motions. Yeah. So the first one is to I'm sorry could you could you repeat that I missed the first one. So there's going to be two motions one is going to be for five a i yeah for two for recommending to city council and the second one is a recommending approval to planning and zoning 5A II. So there's two. Yeah. So there's two, one is an ordinance for the city of Boca Raton and the second is a resolution for a final action to the planning and zoning. Okay. So is the first one, the one you want your conditions in as well, right? Yes, okay. Thank you I still need a second I can't approve this You don't have to still second in vote against it. Okay. So motion to vote on my second motion to vote on it. The first amendment. So right. So at this point, I guess I'm going to do a roll call vote. OK. OK. Wick Newman? Um, no. I don't have them. Rachel Bobbitch? I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Oh, I'm sorry. One person. Erica. Oh, yeah. Erica. I'm sorry. No worries. No. Okay. Margaret Horty. Yes. So the motion does not pass vote of one to two. Okay. Now we go to the second motion. And will that be with the same conditions? Thank you. So, Assemblyman, who's making the motion? Did you were you reading roll call? No, I need a motion. So, is that him? Who's making the motion? Did you were you reading Rokal? No, I need a motion. Oh, yeah, motion to. So you're making the motion? Yes. Thank you. Sorry. Seconding. In a second. Rick. No. Erica Allen. No. Erica Allen? No. Margaret Horty. Yes. Okay. One to two again. Does not pass. Mr. Newman is Allen. But are no. This point, I just can't just clarify one thing. Yes, sure. It's not that it looks like it's not that it looks like it, it's it's not that it doesn't pass. No, that's our recommendation. It's the recommendation on Ford. Yeah, so it's still going to go forward to P and Z with the recommendation that the board denoted to two to one and the condition will be included in the resolution and then PNZ will make the final decision on the site plan and then the ordinance will go to City Council. Okay, so All right, so do we have any new business? At this point Any old business I guess I want to ask if there's any consideration been given to the request for Regular meetings for this board. We spoke about possibly having quarterly meetings In the last one. Yeah, it's still under discussion with the planning staff, essentially my boss. So, but we have been discussing it. Yeah. Yeah, did you guys have any additional input into it? No, I was to write the regularity of it. Yeah. Do you want monthly or quarterly? So I can give a report back. I'm open to either, but I would like to establish some sort of regular schedule if we would allow us to. Okay. Quarterly would be slightly easier for me. Yeah. And I agree. I think that's what we're going to try and shoot for. Something may come up in the interim where we may have to add a meeting. But I think just as a general rule, we'd like to at least get you together quarterly to discuss things that are going on and things that you guys can bring to the table. Gotcha. I mean, my worry is they obviously put a lot of work into this. And there was a lot of thought put into this. But if somebody had asked me early on, if this was a good idea thought put into this. But, you know, I mean, if somebody had asked me early on, if this was a good idea to go down this road, I would have said there's a lot of better places in the city to build pit wall courts than on the very fragile piece of land that's remaining. And maybe somebody at that point would have thought, huh, you know, maybe we can acquire a piece of land where we could, that is not being used. I mean, we have a lot of unused space in this city that used to be oak forest that was bulldozed years ago and now is sitting as empty parking lots. We should be building pickleball courts there, not on the very tiny shreds of land that we have left in this city and you know, I think Just having that thought process going on in the in the early stages because by the time it gets here It's like a freight train moving and everybody wants to see it get to its destination and you know There's a lot of pressure on us to meet You know obviously something that's popular. Pickleball, everybody talks about wanting to play pickleball. But at what expense? And what if this is just a fad, what if in five years nobody wants to play pickleball anymore? You can't unbolt those the property. That's not something you can do. Especially nobody wants to play Vigilball because it's too hot. Yeah, I mean nobody's playing, you know, I don't care. I mean, even at night right now, you can't play Pickleball. It's, you know, no matter how many lights you have out there. Yeah, I'll say Rick, just as staff person, it's something I've brought up as a general theme. I've only been here two years, but just the more holistic approach to it, to kind of evaluate what we have, and Owen can to test to it. This project went some rounds. Yeah. And we had to treat it as another development, you know, within the confines of the code. So, this is where we are. So, to bring it before the board. On old business, I do want to add, because I think Erica, you had brought it up about the monofilament stations at WLR, so I did get a hold of David Anderson from Gumbo Limbo and the Rec staff, and they got him in touch with FWC. So, I know it's in motion. I don't know when they're going to get installed, but we did get the right contacts in place. So hopefully the stations will go in soon. So that's good news. The fish thank you. New business too. Sorry. Back up. Tomorrow is actually my last day with the city as well. Oh, I'm excited. Except for another opportunity. So I'm going to let you guys know. That's why I stuck around. Actually, this was a stage to come to this meeting and present the projects. Got you. Well, thank you for your service. Yeah, of course. We'll be sorry to see you go. Yeah. Thank you for your service. Yeah, we'll be sorry to see you go. Yeah, maybe I'll be on that side. So I'm still a resident. All right. Well, that's good thing. You would be valuable asset to this, especially since you sat in that chair. All right. Okay. Is there anything else to report? I'm going to give you a little run down on the sunshine law. Okay. Is there anything else to report? At this point. I guess we have to review the sunshine law. Sunshine Law. Yep. Okay. You guys are all complete with your meeting. Okay, great. I'll go quick. Most of this information has been provided to you when you first came on the board. 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Be sure to use them when conducting and discussing city business. We will send your agendas and related materials to your city email accounts. Please do not use your personal email addresses when conducting board business. If anything goes awry, they'll be digging in all your personal stuff and we don't want that. Text messaging and social media, the same rules applied to emails should apply to electronic communications and instant messaging. The what matters is really the content of your messages, not what form it comes in. These are a couple examples of text messages that have come from the city, things like something your board liaison may send you a meeting agenda minutes, backup materials for a meeting. This information is saved on a city computer, so you don't necessarily have to save it. But in the next example, where this is basically a conversation from someone. Part of the text message, you would want to save because it's related to city business, and the second part of it is not. So you'd want to keep the stuff that's pertinent and get rid of the rest. With regards to social media, there is no statutory prohibition against board and committee members posting comments on a private website or blog. But beware that such exchanges could result in violation of the Sunshine Law. So if you do choose to follow or friend, other members of your board on social media, avoid posting comments with respect to applications or other specific matters that are pending or would be likely to come before your board. If you see a post from a fellow board member on a specific pending matter, please refrain from commenting on it. Ethics. The ethics policies protect against conflict of interest and are intended to ensure public officials conduct themselves independently and impartially. Public officers, that's you. Any person elected or appointed to a board or committee is considered a public officer. Misuse of public positions. Misuse of public positions can get you in trouble. Please do not represent yourself or give the impression that you represent the city of Boqueratone in order to gain favor. Floating conflicts. This doesn't come up all that often with this particular board, but if you have a conflict with an item that's being heard on the agenda, you must disclose the conflict prior to the item being heard and do not participate in the discussion of the issue. Palm Beach County code prohibits an appointed board member from both voting and participating on matters that come before his or her board if the vote will result in a financial benefit or loss. In this case, the board member must then complete a form 8B voting conflict form. I don't know if any of you have ever had to fill one of those out but it should be submitted directly to your board liaison or sent to the city clerk's office prior to the actual meeting taking place. The form eight must be filled out in detail with the agenda project or item number listed along with detailed description of why you have the conflict and a good practice would be to notify your board liaison prior to the meeting to ensure a quorum would still be reached without your vote. If you're unsure whether or not you have a conflict, please contact your board liaison or the city clerk's office for clarification. And last but not least, financial disclosure. All of, there's a few of the city boards that are required to file financial disclosure and all of you were required to fill out a form one financial disclosure when you were appointed to the boards and you will fill one out when you end up leaving the boards. But those, there's only four or five boards that have to do those. And that's pretty much it in a nutshell. Just a little reminder, things get tricky out there with all the social media and the phones and just try to keep everything on the website and use your city emails and you should be fine. Okay. Anybody have any questions? No? I have one question about the city email portion. Yeah. If it's copied both to the city, if it's copied from our personal to the city, then it becomes part of it. And it doesn't, what I'm saying is like a lot of times I get emails that are both to my city and to my personal. The same email? The same email. OK. And I prefer that because my city account is just bombarded with spam. Like I get hundreds of messages. And I can't wait through it. You had mentioned that before. Yeah, it's just, there's got to be yours too. I mean, I don't check it, because it's a waste of my time to go through hundreds of emails to find the one message when you say check. Well, and we send every all the materials through the city email, and then I've got to go back to your personal ones to say hey go look but I just I don't understand why you're getting that that amount of spam and on that account but I'll I'll mention it oh I don't get any spam on mine no no not a single one okay then we may have to look at your two and see what's going on there. That would be great. Yeah, I will definitely make note of that and have them look into it. But you just got the information and you're, I mean yours is newer. So I don't know if they've got to go back. They haven't gone to you yet. I've only gotten the information and I had a couple emails from the public regarding that one that was postponed. But other than that, sometimes I wonder if it's even working if I'm receiving things because I never get emails to that account. All right. Well, yes, I promised to take a look at that and I'll get back to both of you with some answers. Okay. Well, thank you all for coming tonight. All right. And we're going to miss you, Mr. Poledero. Thanks. Hopefully you'll see me again some former fashion so that's right. You'd be a good board candidate Thank you for all your support port. All right Does any board member of anything to report Then can I ask for a motion to adjourn? Me motion prove Second that second that we're adjourned I for a motion to adjourn? Me, motion, prove. Let's second that. Second that, we adjourn. I don't have the gavel. What's up? 740, all right.