Music I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. Thank you. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to a workshop meeting in the Book of Riton City Council. It is Monday, October 7, 2024. The time is two, 16. And as it's October 7th, you know, Chair Naclas at our CERA meeting shortly ago, give a very moving call for a moment of silence, I would like to do the same at today's meeting as well. It has been a year to the day since the murder of more than 1200 innocent civilians. Murders that were brutal, horrific, and broadcast to inflect terror and further pain among the victims and their families. Since then we've seen more continuous attacks and violence in Israel by Iran and terror proxies and more demonizing and dehumanizing and stereotyping that is come along with an alarming rise of anti-Semitism abroad and in our own nation. And while I'm proud that our council members individually last year, those of us who were here individually took a moment to speak from the heart and said that they strip with Israel and that our community usually strong and usually strong. Uniformly stands strong against hate in all its forms that we see arise in anti-symmetism and hate throughout college campuses, large cities, and other places. And I think it's appropriate that we remember the victims who were so horrifically taken from us and stand witness to that their memory not be overshadowed by those who would seek to politicize it and minimize it. So would you please join in a moment of silent reflection? Thank you. We have no proclamations or presentations today. So we're starting to board interviews of first board for which we're seeking applicants. Is there civil service board? I see one of our applicants present. We'd please come forward, give your name and address, and tell us why you'd like to keep serving. Welcome, Ms. Mohaw. Good afternoon, everyone. Council members. My name is Lisa Mohaw. I'm going to go to the next floor. Good afternoon, everyone. Council members. My name is Lisa Mahal. I live at 875 Aurelia Street in Boca Raton. I am a 12-year resident of the city. I think I've been a member of the civil service board for two terms, maybe three. I'm here today because I'm interested in serving another term if that is your desire. My profession is as a grant writer. I work for in-rem solutions, which is a municipal grant writing firm. My education is from the University of Delaware and the Dickinson School of Law. I practice law for seven years before switching into grant writing. I have three children and I'm married to John Mahal. I'm a big volunteer in the community and I've been a member of the Junior League of Boca Raton and past president and I'm a co-founder of Impact 100 and I'd like to thank our two Impact 100 members that are here today. And I'm interested in serving if you all would like me to help in that way. That's all I have, anything else? I think that's a lot. Council members, any questions? Is well, how many times was the board met in the last year or two if you can recall? It's only met once and all my times of service. It was poised to meet twice, but that one was canceled. Very good. Well, hopefully that's a testament to the fact that we have very few matters that need the boards. Absolutely. Yes. All right. Well, thank you for your desire to continue serving. Thank you all. All right. Thank you. Any other applicants for the Civil Service Board? Welcome. Well, thank you very much. My first time applying for this position is a board member. I had no idea they only met once in the past two years. I thought I'd be contributing a little bit more. Good afternoon. I want to thank you for the opportunity to apply for this position as a board member. My name is Thomas Maloney. So let me give you some background about myself. I've been a bulk of a tone resident for the past 10 years. I've lived in Florida for the past 12. I'm a married father of a 26 year old son who was attended a local, local bulk of a tone high school. And he just graduated from FAU with his master's degree back in the spring. Prior to this, I lived in New York. I worked for the New York City Police Department. I've over 18 years in law enforcement. I served in various capacities throughout New York City. I retired as a police sergeant in 2009. I have been moving to Florida in 2012, I successfully completed the Florida State Law Enforcement Certification Course. I volunteered at my son's high school throughout his high school years. Afterwards, I became a big brother, I guess I missed having my son around, became a big brother with the Palm Beach County Big Brothers Association. I've gotten involved with numerous water cleanups. I have a small little boat and I use the Boca ramp. I love it over there and In doing numerous waterway cleanups as well as the beach Pardon me Currently, I'm working the upcoming elections as a poll inspector. I have a strong sense of community I feel need to serve and get back. I believe my background gives me a strong idea of right and wrong. I understand the fairness and accountability. I'm used to handling tough questions, tough decisions while staying impartial. I first hand experience with rules and processes involved in a smooth running civil service operation. That combined with my knowledge of law enforcement, I feel that makes me a great fit for the position. Thank you very much for your consideration. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Melody. One thing I just didn't ask your address, please. Oh, sorry about that. 92 northwest 12th Avenue. How many spoke spoke right off the pop out of park road. Thank you council members any questions Well, thank you, Mr. Melody Yes, as was said this board does not meet that often and we only one vacancy now however We do have many boards for which we seek residents to serve so you might find if you're not appointed to this, you might find an opportunity to serve there. Sounds good. I'll look on the website. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And I will note that for all our applicants today, we will make the appointments tomorrow night. You do not need to attend tomorrow night to be considered your interview today, suffices. Any other applicants for this board? Then we'll turn to the environmental, excuse me, welcome. Please give your name and address and tell us up to three minutes why you'd like to serve. Good afternoon. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Okay, hi. My name is Lorraine Blank. I live at 545 North West 7th Street. I'm split in different distance from town hall. And I've lived in Boca for three years now. My background is I have a PhD in policy analysis and I worked in developing countries for 30 years. And as part of that unique experience I had to go into countries, go into communities, go into villages, and listen to communities, and hear what they had to say about the social safety nets in their countries. And then work with the World Bank and other international development agencies to design actionable projects to improve the social safety nets. So when I lived, if we're 16 years in Jamaica, I was a member of a community and there I worked actively to write grants to rebuild our community center for low-income children and start active to school programs. So I've always been very active in communities and want to be active here. At right now I'm also volunteering at the Milagro Center as a mentor. And I've just almost completed a two-year renovation of a 1955 house in Boca that every other bidder wanted to tear down, but I'm incredibly committed to preserving Boca. And the part of old history, I grew up in Florida. We came in 1950. I'm not new to Florida, though I'm new new and I'm new coming back. I came home. But Florida's always been home. My mother turned 99 last week in Florida in Miami. I'm always in Florida I always came back and now I'm finally home and I'd like to serve Questions. Thank you very much for your desire to serve. Councilman, are there any questions? All right, as the said we'll make the appointments to our night and you do not need to desire to serve. Councilmembers, any questions? As the said, we'll make the appointments to our night and you do not need to attend that. Although you're welcome to. Thank you. I believe that concludes all of our board interviews because we have no applicants yet for the Environmental Advisory Board nor the Permitting and Construction Review Board. So at this time, we'll open the floor to public arrests. Anyone wishing to speak? Please come forward. Jonathan Nungian, 6501 Congress Avenue. So it was brought to my attention last week which I forwarded the email to all of you on council that with the project next door, the development, that a tentative suggestion of the parameters to resolve the code enforcement case was going back between Jamie Danberg and Mr. Brown. And I wholeheartedly, as you know, have stated the need for the other portion of the development, not just the very profitable one for the developer, but the one that was needed for the community. And I've also suggested that that corner parcel for, I don't know how long that I've been coming here. That it shouldn't be a bank that maybe there's a restaurant use, which was the discussion that finally happened. It appears between the city and this negligent property owner. And my only, well actually I've got a few question, one question, but a couple of points. And if you've seen that that I forwarded to you all, I think there were a couple of concerns. And that being that there's going to be a site plan amendment, which would be just for that corner parcel in essence because they're keeping the 8,000 square feet to move it from a bank to a restaurant, fast food, whatever it may be, which would need, which could have been proposed at any point over the last two years with a minor site plan amendment. suggestion was I couldn't determine exactly how it read and I'm asking Mr. Brown and I've asked him in an email is it 15 months to get that site plan amendment and to build it or is it 15 months to get the site plan and to submit the permits and then another 12 months to build, in essence, eight, 9,000 square feet. The man next door built 293,000 square feet in a year, a year and a quarter. And, you know, I think 15 months is reasonable. I think 27 months just is rubbing the salt in the wounds of the community that Mr. Dan Burke finally stated how vibrant of an existing workforce community we have here has needed. And then beyond that, I strongly suggest which council can suggest to staff as there's nothing finalized. That this party is not considered in compliance of code just by signing this agreement and by paying a fine and my concern and I want to stay on the record here and if I can get just a minute I know there's a quiet day my concern has never been taxing Mr. Danberg for a fine my whole thing is I want the same thing as a city which is compliance and to see a development there. It's never been about financially hurting Mr. Dan Burke. I could care less that they doubled it or that it's 18 or that it was 9,000 or that it's 78 or 150,000. I could care less. But I think that that fine and a fine as part of this agreement that if they don't hit the deadlines that are stipulated in this agreement that start right then or maybe even potentially back date are critical and necessary for achieving compliance. And so those are my only two concerns is to clarify whether it's what 15 months total to get this thing, site plan permitted and built, or is it 27, which I think is very, very long time for a minor site plan amendment, and then also just the penalty phase, because I think that people get penalized there in code enforcement for a lot less and a lot less time. And I think that needs to be hashed out enforcement for a lot less and a lot less time. And I think that needs to be hashed out and council can work to a satisfactory resolution with the staff, because staff report, the council reports to us, the community. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to make any public request of the city council seeing no one comfortable, close the time for public request? We'll turn to review of regular agenda items. This is an opportunity for questions concerning tomorrow night's agenda. I'll start with Mr. Thompson. I have no questions mayor. Thank you Ms. Nackles. No questions. Ms. Rucker. No questions, thank you. Ms. Riger. No questions, thank you. Thank you. And we have no future agenda matters or items We have a presentation on our key performance indicators for the 2024 2025 strategic plan, Mr. Brown. Thank you, Mayor of the St. Lucastic. Our deputy city manager is going to make this presentation. I thank him for his work on the entire strategic plan process. Welcome, Mr. Brown. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. So this is sort of the next phase of our strategic plan development. So we've gotten, we've gotten to a point where we have a fairly robust plan in place. Now we're taking those next steps and starting to work on the reporting structure, which will include some metrics so that we have a way to measure and see how we're performing our performance as an organization relative to the strategic focus areas and the strategic priorities that you've identified as part of the strategic plan. So my goal, my objective for today is to walk you through some of the high-level KPIs that we've developed at a staff level. See if you think that they dovetail with where you want to go from a strategic focus area perspective and see if we need to make any adjustments. So moving forward. Just a couple of things to bear in mind as we're looking at the suggested KPIs. As I just mentioned, those KPIs are metrics, they're measures to try to see where we're going. Their objective data to evaluate our success. So right now we do a lot of anecdotal comparisons. These will give us some objective measures to see, okay, well where are we going? Are we hitting target? Are we moving in the right direction? It'll give us that ability to do some regular monitoring. So depending upon how often data is available, we'll be able to check, see how we're doing. We'll be able to see for us as successful or see if there might be a need for a change and approach. Because maybe we're not going in the direction that we need. So that will give us a little bit of an indication as to what we might need to change. And then it helps align the organization with those strategic focus areas and those strategic priorities that we've established in the strategic plan. The common phrase, what gets measured gets done. So staff will be paying attention to those measures, which is really important because staff will be focusing on those measures. So if those measures aren't appropriate or we're trying to measure the wrong things might steer us in the wrong direction So it's really important that we think about what it is that we're asking to measure as we're going forward And then a couple of words of caution just gave you one of those if we don't pick the right measurements You know we could be going in the wrong direction So we want to make sure that we're we're thinking about those things also important to make sure that we're thinking about those things. Also important to make sure that from a leadership perspective that we're thinking and we're making sure that we're coaching staff to think broadly and not just think about the numbers. So if we get too focused on the numbers, we get start losing focus of what's going on in the forest, you know, getting pinned down into the trees and not thinking about globally what it is that you're trying to accomplish for the community. And then lastly, as we're talking about the KPIs, if you have some concerns about some of the measures that we're suggesting or you have some questions about them, one thing to think about is making sure that whatever measures we pick or that we want to hone in on, that that data is easy to collect and it's easy to manage. If it's difficult to collect it or we have a hard time managing and going forward, it just makes it that much more difficult to keep those measures up and keep that focus on those particular areas of concern for the community. Okay, so the way that I've organized this is that I've provided information on the strategic focus areas and the strategic priorities. So I can go back and forth to the slides if you need to see what some of those descriptions are that we have in the strategic plan, but my goal today is to get right to the KPIs, see if you have any questions about what we've suggested at a high level. If I need to go back to these descriptions so that you can compare, we can do that. But my goal is to kind of jump right into those measures and see what kind of questions or comments that you have. Okay. right into those measures and see what kind of questions or comments that you have. Okay, so for community safety, we identified three high-level measures, crime incidents, and we'll be using the Nibers data to report out on that. We used to use the unified crime data, FBI switch to the neighbors, it's far more telling, it's far more detailed, it's far more granular than universal, excuse me, you know, from reporting. So we're going to, because not that many communities in Florida have adopted it, we'll do a comparison internally. So we'll see what our trending, what our trend lines are. So we'll look at the average number of crimes over a period of time and see what our trending is to kind of guide and understand what we're doing in terms of crime incidents. The next measure that we'll look at is a perception number. So we're getting ready to conduct us some perception survey in January. One of the questions that we'll ultimately have in there is gonna be related to safety. I use, if you look at the benchmark or the metric, I've gave a suggestion of 95% of residents indicate they feel safe or extremely safe. I don't know exactly what language we'll use within the survey, but generally those top two tiers are something that we might want to compare to when we're thinking about citizen perception and survey. Now it's pretty broad. It could include everything from B, could include fire, could include traffic, somebody walking on a sidewalk, whatever it might be, it could be a broad interpretation. So it's not necessarily just associated with crime. Because that's what a lot of people will think when they're taking a look at these things. But it could be any factor that's associated with safety. And then lastly, because of our interest in pedestrian bicycle mobility throughout the community, we wanted to take a look at the number of accidents involving pedestrians or bicyclists. So kind of tying into the vision zero concept, making sure that we're including that into the community safety piece. So those are the three high level measures that we had for our community safety. Any questions on those? Any concerns about those? Okay. Ms. Knuckles. have for our community safety. Any questions on those, any concerns about those? Does that close? Mr. LeCasek, I would just add, under the benchmark, not only a number of accidents, but also near misses. So to that point of how we're going to collect that data, we'll see if there's anything available for us to be able to do that under Understand the point for sure But but again just trying to be able to collect that data. We'll see what we have and then we can go from there But I've jotted it down Mr. Thompson I was just going to jump in and say the same thing I'm sure you and I probably both have been involved in near misses and I'm not sure I reported it to the police, right? And I think that's probably true for most folks. So that's one of those difficult to collect and assess things, but I still think it's worth checking that out because if somebody was sufficiently upset by that they reported, then it is a significant incident, I think. Great. For Strucker. Thank you. Also, some of the movements for the TPAs are going away from the term accident to crash because they're not always, sometimes it's not really accident if you get crashed into. So we all took pledges a couple of months ago maybe this year. I don't remember when. They're changing the terminology to crash provisions. And also for staff, and I'm sure you're aware of this, but the TPA does a really good job of tracking this data already with live maps and anywhere there's been an accident reported in the entire county, you can click there whether it's car, whether it's on the track, whether it's on the bike, et cetera, et cetera. I know we're only tracking pedestrian and bicycle accidents slash crash, but they track on all Different angles and it's already live data that we can access pretty Reddy available if you just click on the on the map It'll come up but they're moving away the state after a tea We're kind of they're all moving away from accident to more of a crash because of what Mr. Thompson and Miss not the says some of them are near miss and some of them are really not access people are literally crashing into people So maybe we got a change of terminology with that Mr. Classic let me let me use this let me make some general comments that apply to the slide and then this general slide. First, I think it's important that we're benchmarking. And in fact, we probably should have been doing more as a city, holistically, a long time ago. So this is overdue. Second, I think it's also helpful as we're benchmarking internally by year-to-year improvement. We're also understanding where we relate to other cities. So we do that for example with crime incidents, we've already been tracking that even before the roll over to the Nibers system, the predecessor system, we compare our decrease in crime to other cities increases. I think we can do that across the board. 95% does strike me as very aspirational, which is fine, vision zero is aspirational, but it's hard to get 95% of people to agree on something. Only 89% of people voted for me. I last contested a contested election. So that's a comparison. Thank you for the courtesy laugh. But still 95% I would like that. Just consider I don't know what other cities use in that metric. And then on the number of accidents or crashes, collisions, maybe, we might want to compare that to to bike miles and trips and have some ratio there because the number of collisions is one number. If you contextualize it and then compare it to other cities of similar size and similar bike paths and multi-use paths knowing it part of vehicle miles of relevant statute, a relevant standard that we use vehicle miles, collisions per vehicle miles on for traditional car accidents. So that might be another comparator. For the clanks? Mr. Rueger. Thank you. I think along the lines of what my colleagues were saying in terms of certain things that might be hard to measure, I know there is, as Mr. Drucker said, there's a crash statistics page, and I know we have one locally where you could find where the crashes occurred, but I think it's also kind of important if it can be statistically if you could find out if there's certain conflict points that have excessive crashes in certain places. And I think people like us and bikers and pedestrians out there, there are certain spots that are known conflict points that might not show up in an average statistical analysis or if the gross number perhaps, you know, the gross number with God's help will go down, but, you know, a localized conflict point might go up and you might lose some of that specialized data in the larger metrics. So, you know, that would be my only thought. Like I said, I appreciate it might be difficult to find some of those conflict points, you know, in terms of, you know, in terms of mapping where the accidents are actually occurring. But that could be helpful in the future. Thanks. For the comments on this, Ms. Naclas. Just one last one that Ms. Drucker had mentioned, the TPA, but also our own bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. This may be a good task for them to help out on. So we're always looking for something to task them with. And they certainly are all riding their bikes and walking around. They could probably help out. Anyone else? Thank you, Mr. Elkassing. Thank you, Mayor. Next we'll go to Quality Life. Three suggested measures for Quality Life. First one is an increase in the city's tree canopy. So a lot of discussion in our description of quality of life about sustainability and livability. So that increase in the tree canopy and number of trees throughout the community is going to be important. So the next one, using the citizen perception survey again, having a resident expressing a sense of community. I didn't put a number down in this one in particular America, because I'm not sure what it should be quite yet, so we needed to think about that internally in terms of a benchmark. But again, a general question that generally comes from those perception surveys, and it'll be a good one to help understand the perception of quality life. And then lastly, as we talk a lot about community and we talk a lot about engagement, one of the measures can be a city-sponsored event and the number of participants. And the other piece that we might wanna add to that that was thinking about after the fact in terms of having a quality metric might be some sort of evaluation of the attendees. Give them some sort of simple feedback ability so we understand what do they like about the events, what do they not like, so on and so forth. So we gave an initial suggestion just a number of events and how my participants are there, but there might be a quality type of evaluation that we might be able to do to understand what people are thinking about when they attend an event and then they walk away. So those are the three that we're suggesting for quality life. Any thoughts, suggestions? Comments? Yes, please. This one I think was gonna be very difficult to get numerical data on quality of life. There's just some probably going to be very difficult to do in that way. I like these as a starting point, particularly the second one, because you're going to get a baseline sense from residents when they respond. City-sponsored events and participants is going to be tricky because anybody who's gone to these events knows that it's a large portion or non-residents and a lot of folks from West Bocca, North South everywhere. Anybody who's trying to campaign in one of these events to learn that painfully because you'll find that it's just very, very, not few, but it's not obviously exclusive to just city residents. So that on the spot, I can't think of any better way to create metrics for the quality of life. So this is a good start, but I think this one's gonna be difficult to quantify. For the comments? If not all out of, oh, Mr. Rager, please. No, to Mr. Thompson's point, do you think it would be helpful if we, or if it was possible to measure what's the resident participation rate? Is it, would that help us? Would that answer some of those things? Who's actually coming to our events? And are we, are we doing the right thing? Are we, are we doing it for the right? You know? Populous. Maybe what I made default to say that's going to be difficult to assess because for example like the summer series people go we don't have to have tickets they just walk in they enjoy free music cover bands whatever you know rock of have or whatever and it's not like we're like hey you are you a city resident you know it's? If we have ticketed performances and you have to give a credit card to see where you're paying from, maybe that's one thing, but that may be difficult to do. And I think of two, we used to have art festivals in Meister Park and San Bortzquare also. Same thing. We're not, we're not, we're when you ask people where they come from a lot of them, especially with live nation, they come from a lot of different places. I think it's hard because you're right when you ask people where they come from a lot of them, especially with live nation, they come from a lot of different places. I think it's hard because you're right when you ask people where they're coming from a lot of them, especially with live nation, they're coming to our city outside of the city, which is what we want. We want people to come into our city on the Bright Line or on wherever, dry rail, wherever they get here. I'm thinking in the events that we sell, so like there's certain things that we promote that we at the Meiser Park Amphitheater, there is a way, I'm sure there's a way to say, are you a resident when you buy your ticket? That would capture the data immediately, but those are only for our own operated event. So I'm thinking, I don't, I don't know IT, so I don't know if that's possible, or if you could just add the coding, but that would be some good data there. If you're buying tickets to the circus that comes every year, I forget the thing, that one. You can add, are you a resident? Yes, and no, that would give you good data on a lot of the events. Some of those are through the MPA, the Meister Park Ampitheater, like sold through our city. So that could be a way to get at least those events, and those are city but everything else will be hard to track because you ask people and in my experience most of the time they're not they're not residents they don't live yet they come to our events. For the comments I may please don't want to mean to go off there. I think one component of and I think all of our children here if we've lived in the city, have participated in like athletics sporting events for children. That our recreation in the city is out of this world in my view. I know that to be true anecdotally, but I think it's objective. I would, it would be good if we could figure out a way to quantify how much those recreation and sports youth sports can contribute to the quality of life here. I think that can, you know, talk about community, family building experiences, that's what those are. And we know from both visiting other cities and from participation in our own city leagues here, how good we have it. So I think that would be a good metric if we could try to, and maybe it's part of the resident survey, the Perception Survey. But the participation in recreation and sports here in the city, I think, can contribute to the quality of life so maybe we can try and add that as a quantifier. For the comments? Mr. Wagner. Sorry. Mr. Locasic, the citizen perception survey, to Mr. Thompson's point, is it more of like a household, is it a household census or something like that, or how is it being administered? Usually they'll ask for, let's see, how have they done it. They've asked for the individual with the closest birthday or something along those lines. So someone is responding to it. Now, how it actually gets done when they receive it is beyond me. So, you know, it could be a whole community affair when they're responding to it or someone just sits down and actually does it and it might not meet that criteria. No, but just to Mr. Thompson's suggestion, which is a valid one, which is, you know, if you're answering for the household, you know, if it's just me answering, do you participate in recreation? Sure. No, or, you know, in Savers, Okra No, but does someone in your household, or, you know, how important is that to you? Like there's a whole level of the household participation rate that's not just the citizen, it's citizen versus families or citizen versus households. So there might be, there's a way to capture more global. So like unit data, household data. Yes, sorry, I didn't mean that right. So to that point, understanding what you're trying to get at now, we will have a couple of questions that we can ask more broadly. So we could capture something like that. We can ask that specific question and ask about their participation, their family's participation in our recreation programs or our athletic programs. OK. For the comments or questions on this? Just one more question. So is the citizen perception survey, is that something we can share on social media? Like I've been sharing the League of American Bicyclists survey that's been open for three months is going to be something that we can share that's ongoing or is it one you get one shot? So generally it's fairly defined. So the survey company won't just necessarily push out and anybody can respond to it because they want it to be scientifically statistically statistically significant. Sorry about that. So they'll have some control over it. Make sure they have a decent distribution throughout throughout the city so No, we won't just have this link to say hey everybody go ahead and respond to it. Oh, it'll be controlled a bit Okay For the comments on this All right, here's one where I think we already have a bunch of data and we need to be using it more and by the way I appreciate these as examples. I'm sure we have more than three for quality of life. I can think of them more off the cuff. On the tree canopy, we already set, I remember Ms. Narek are presenting about one of our goals for either it was a sustainability goal, which is to increase the tree canopy 20%. So we already have a number, we already know, we already had an inventory of trees. I love the Centennial tree legacy program. It's something that Mr. Brown has talked about. It's something I think is a good idea. We'll be rolling out more things. We talked about it too. But so it's not just the number of trees planted. It's can't be growth generally. Citizen survey, I think that's good. I think it may also provide us other opportunities to determine where to go in the future year. And maybe you don't set a particular benchmark because this is year one. That goes back to the police issue too because I don't know what the appropriate benchmark is. If you looked at other cities, maybe they see what they have done too. We did that with our employment. I'm not sure whether we did that with our employment engagement survey because I'd asked how do we set the benchmarks and I don't know if we went out to other cities to go look at what we thought was good. But we should be, you know, measuring us. We're not the only ones out there. Finally on city-sponsored events and participants, all good points raised about who you get. I think we've been doing a good job of this. We have tweaked in tailored events, knowing that we weren't necessarily getting attendance or the attendance had shifted. For example, our fourth of July events are shifting partly because we were seeing fewer and fewer bokeh residents. People were voting with their feet, for example, on things like the boat parade. We have tweaked our Memorial Day in fourth of July and not Labor Day Veterans Day events appropriately. We've seen just, we can we're all there so we can count the heads too. I think there's some data there. I think we also can do a better job of tracking our social media and our outbound email communications through constant contact or whatever a service provider we use. In response to Miz Delbeckio's question during strategic planning in May, I mentioned this. I don't know yet if economic development is, you know, tracking what, what, what newsletters are hitting, what articles within each newsletters are hitting. I know we're all able to do that. I'm sure our staff is able to do that with our monthly newsletter and perhaps our Myzner newsletters and other things like that. That might also give you an indication of, hey, what are people clicking on as another indication of interest? Is it necessarily a benchmark that you say, well, we went up 5% on people clicking on this type of thing? I don't know if you measure that alone is a demonstrable result, but it may indicate more things of where you're going. So I think it's more than just the person with the clicker who walk in at Meister Park. And again, we've had that data for a number of years. In quality life is the most ephemeral of all of these things. I think the survey will yield fruit, but it's also another thing on city sponsored events. It's also impact on the business community. Some of our events were not deemed successful because they had negative impacts on local businesses. So we might have an opportunity to engage with those people as well. Again, on Meister Park, we used to get a number of complaints that relating to the Valley operation, which was not the city's responsibility on nice where you do events at Meister Park and some tables had to cancel a lot of reservations accordingly. So it goes both ways. For the thoughts? All right. To answer one question on that benchmarking data, so the survey company that we're going to use, they have a cash of data. So they have been doing this for a while. So we'll be able to compare ourselves to other cities pretty readily. So we'll have an understanding of what their benchmarks are. We could compare to cities in Florida, we can compare to cities nationwide. So we'll have a little bit of that data mayor. So you'll be able to see how we kind of compare relative to everybody else. Thank you. of metrics to think about here. One is trying to measure the long-term sustainability of the organization and making a comparison of revenue versus expenditures. And what we wanted to track for you was looking at our reoccurring revenue relative to our reoccurring expenditures and making sure that revenue meets or exceeds those expenditures. So that would be revenue that we see on a regular basis relative to those reoccurring expenses, factoring out things like capital projects or maybe one-time initiatives that are unique or special. So that gives us a pretty good idea as to where we're going to sit from a long-term financial perspective. You'll see that when you're developing your financial plan, but also what's more telling is what you see in the audited statements. So a little bit of a lag measure, but something that will give you a little bit of an idea where we are from a long-term financial sustainability perspective. Second measure we're suggesting is a fund balance as a percentage of the priors operating budget. So kind of the standard benchmark is 25 to 30%. We don't want it to go too high, you don't want to sit on too much cash but you want to have enough cash to show some ability to be flexible and to address needs as they come up on a regular basis. And then lastly, bond rating. So making sure that that bond rating is high is important. As you know that it's a pretty rigorous process when they go through and they evaluate our Financial condition and the management structure of the organization see how we're functioning So that so that in and of itself is a pretty telling metric to see how we're functioning as an organization from a financial perspective So so those three things give a a nice overview of our sustainability and how we're functioning. So any thoughts on those three? Unlike the last goal, I think this one's more easily quantifiable, less ephemeral. And I think these are good. I mean, I, the AAA bond rating, I think we would like to have that as a baseline minimum. Of course, we keep that. I mean, did the city, as long as I've been paying attention, always has, and I don't think it's going to change. But again, I think these are good. I think these are good. Starting poor, particularly the first one, because that may be slightly different than the kinds of assessment we get each year on when it comes to budget time. So I like these, I'm not sure what else we can do. But keeping a AAA bond rating, I think, is an absolute given, given our role and how strong our city's finances are. Question for you, Mr. LeCastic, what has been our fund balances percentage of fiscal operating budget for 25 and for completed 24? I think it's, Mr. Zervis just popped out. I think it's been slightly higher, but a little bit above 30, but I'm not 100% certain. OK. For the questions. And I'll just continue. Again, I would say look to what, in this regard, we don't look to what other cities do historically, because we've been the best in class, AAA bond rating that we enjoy is higher than the rating of the United States of America. I think that's a good thing. It's not entirely within our control that the bond agencies change their ratings, but I know we've pivoted constantly to meet up, meet, to stay current with their changing requirements. 25 or 30 percent, I think we should pick a number, not a range, and if we've been consistently higher than go above it. And then on sustainability, we've long budgeted this way. There have been times where we have projected shortfalls and we have to accordingly figure that out. But one other thing, and it came up during the budget season, which is we often project to be net negative for the year and almost every year, at least in bracing memory, and a positive. So maybe it means that our projections are not, they're a little too negative. I'd rather be more negative and have a windfall than be too polyanish and have a deficit. But trying to better align those, so maybe it's also benchmarking where we expected we thought we'd went up and where we're earning up is a percentage year to year. Maybe it helps us tighten those things. And thank you to my colleagues who agreed to lower our milligrate accordingly because we had positions we knew we did not need. So as time goes on, maybe we tighten those up. I think that would be a good benchmark to know now what has been the percentage net every year as a total relation in this proportion of the total budget where we've ended up more positive than projected. Thank you. Moving on, world class services. Couple items for you. The percentage of CIP projects scheduled, complete on time and on budget. We move a lot of CIP out into the, you know, from year to year. So we want to be, we want to be able to identify the resources that we need to implement projects on time and not move so many projects into future years. So getting those done on time and on budget will be important. Our response is he click fix. Obviously, we want to be able to respond as quickly as we can to some of those. Now, some of those are a little more difficult to resolve. So some of our simple as a pothole or moving a dead animal, some of them are far more involved. So as long as we're responding, that's probably the easiest way to be able to take a look at C-click fix. And then again, using the citizen perception survey, the percentage of residents indicating that customer service is provided by the city is either good or excellent. You'll be able to get some good benchmark data from that survey tool to be able to see how we're doing. And again, just from my own experience, I know that again, these survey companies, they collect a lot of that data, so we'll be able to see how we're comparing from a customer service perspective relative to other communities, whether it be across the country or just in Florida or even Palm Beach County. So we'll be able to narrow down that data. How did those look to you? Anything that we're missing or anything? We're not missing hitting the mark here? I think these were also likewise, very good. I like the idea of the C-Click fix data and I recognize that many of the issues that get posted on there, they get report on there including the ones that I report, are not within our control complete. Sometimes we're talking about roadways that we don't operate or maintain. We're talking about street light issues at FPL handles, so that's not something we can control necessarily. But I like the idea of having folks told that we have passed this on to whatever agency is dealing with it and then they can follow up, necessarily, if they want to after that. One suggestion I would make would be the mayor over time has been quick to point out, justifiably, that we have increased the speed with which we address permitting issues. That may be, that's a world-class service that we might be able to look at and point to in terms of how swiftly we are getting these things out and in the hands of homeowners residents who are seeking them. That may be something that we can both get good data on now and also improve upon over time, which I know has been our goal for many years. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Reader. Thank you. That's a great point, Mr. Thompson, yet, in terms of how fast or just the permitting process. I mean, I'm sure my colleagues have been approached by various citizens or businesses at one time or another. I know Mr. Brown, Mr. Locase, that we've talked about it. You know, there's 13,000 permits that are in process right now. 99% of them are residential. So most of them are people's houses, are people getting renovated or not a lot of commercial. Just in that regard, when we're doing a citizen perception survey, does that also include a business perception survey? Is it good to just go to citizens or go to BTRs, the BTR holder, if we have 13,000 business tax receipts, I think it could be very helpful to hear their perception survey. Not for the ones that are very kind of residentially oriented, but certainly as what we're talking about in terms of the, you know, the best business atmosphere, how fast are they getting their BTRs? How fast are they getting the permits? How fast are they, you know, getting that responsiveness, and specifically at different stages of the process, because I know we've all encountered roadblocks or herd of roadblocks at every stage of the process. So if there's some way to analyze how the business are perceiving it, I don't know if that goes here and there's another section for businesses, but certainly crossing, you know, if there's one opportunity to have citizens and business perception survey, because I'm sure it would be very helpful to see if they feel the same way. Yeah, so the citizen perception survey that we're getting ready to implement won't include business community, and it will be based around households. But that's not to say that we couldn't use a that company or a similar company to be able to do the same thing. So not impossible to do that just wouldn't fit under this particular scenario. In the comments. I like that. I'm Mr. Wiggers and focus the best place to do business. Be nice to have a business perception survey as well. Further comments? That'll make a few. Let me just step back here because Mr. Thompson gave another example of one of the many metrics we've been using for years. So I understand that this list is not intended to be exhaustive and we could probably have hand or 12 metrics other than the three selected. So I don't want to get too bogged down even though I already have and I reserve the right to make for the comments. The bigger picture is, and it goes back to what you said about aligning departments. I think you said aligning departments and employees with the strategic goals and objectives. I think that's already there. I trust it's already there because this certainly should be. We have the goals since May, so everyone should be already clear and aligned. It's more about making sure that attitude of how are we implementing this every single day and how are we measuring it gets through. So it's more than just the individual 18 metrics on these slides. It's that culture of measurement, accountability, and transparency. And whatever more we need to do across the board to get that there is maybe the most important thing of everything on these slides. Now back to some specifics. Yeah, I mean, completing time on budget, it's something we're already doing and that's good. But you know, it's also understanding if year to year something dips, what happened? We had an, you know, an unusual incident concerning a roadway last week that, last week that you have to factor that in two. Seek click fix, it's not just a percentage of the submittals that are responded to within two days, which can't really, I think, should be 100%. At least the response should be within two days if not one day, because you can just say, we've received this and we're reviewing it. That shouldn't take hard, but it's also, are more people using C-Click fix? Is this becoming the dominant medium for which people communicate concerns? For the phone calls that come into City Hall or to the sanitation line after hours or those promptly responded to? I know that I encountered an issue trying to read someone from sanitation and didn't get a call back. We do this with all these other metrics. So how are we charting everything and also are the number of complaints increasing, decreasing? I mean, there's just some other things to throw out there. And then finally, go to our excellent service. Yeah. And maybe it's more than just a perception survey. It's individual departments or tasks responding. Some people have expressed concerns about our beach permitting system, our dog permitting system. I know we're working on that. We are not cutting edge. We should be. We're lagging actually. And what we can do to quickly change that around and make that seamless and more streamlined for residents is another metric in and of itself. And at the end of the year, even if not everything is quantitative, if we have qualitative improvements, then you list the qualitative improvement, qualitative improvements. Brother, thoughts? All right, thank you. Please go. OK, the Ever vibrant economy. So a couple of metrics here. It's quickly trying to measure new businesses, business retention, and new jobs introduced to the community. And again, we're sort of looking at metrics that will span probably over a couple years, you know, just so we smooth out, you know, blips in data, you know, whether it's a peak or a valley in terms of the number. So in terms of new businesses, obviously we have engagement with some of our economic development partners, so we'll have some data from them as well as from the business tax receipts. And again, on the business tax receipts, well we're moving in a direction where we're trying to keep it as simple as possible and not ask for things that we don't need. Some of this data might be good for us to have as we're starting to try to figure out okay well what direction are we going in and what are we accomplishing with a lot of our economic development efforts. So we might as a matter course through the business tax receding process, add a couple of fields to collect some data to see what kind of information we get back. So business retention piece I think would be really important and Council Council Member Wiggar, you had asked about it a little while ago, which I thought was a really good suggestion taking a look at that business retention data. And then new jobs were not necessarily collecting that data. And it might be available in some other places like career source. But if we can get that data directly, that would be helpful. Now when people are renewing their BTRs, that might be a little more difficult for us to collect that data because it's a little faster and they don't have to fill out as much data. So we have to evaluate what steps we might have to take to be able to get the mechanism in place to be able to actually ask businesses for this information. So we're working on that right now if these are metrics that you think are valuable for us going forward. Let me just ask a question on that. Miss Lucastic, for eight years or so we've had access to the Department of Economic Opportunities quarterly in re-employment tax filings. What use have we been making of that data? That's a great question. I wish I could give you a good answer. I should have that answer, but I don't. We'll dig into that one and figure out where we are with that. I haven't discussed this directly with Ms. Delveque, but when this was started, the idea was to go track month quarterly rise and falls among employers to see who had added jobs and then reach out to them and who had lost jobs and reach out to them. So that, frankly, that data is a lot more robust than the business tax receipts because it does give them for employees. We had to enter in certain, confidentiality provisions with DEO in order to get it. So the access is limited, but I know they had it so you should too. I think that would be a much better place to start in addition to BTRs and very robust. All right, Ms. Drucker. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. My question is, are we tracking, so like we're going to like many ribbing honies for many different things, well, as far ago, whatever it is As economic development tracking like how many Business are opening whether they're small larger scale and when those business open So when we went to Kreme, I always ask and I learned this from the mayor. How many employees are you employing here? It's important for me to know that because I Wanted to understand and the same thing with H&H vehicles. Like what is the job structure here? So, I mean, are we able to track that? I think that's an incredible thing to track on all new business that's opening, whether small, large, medium, just to see that right there will give you at the base line of like, okay, we opened, you we opened 10 businesses this month and those 10 businesses added, et cetera. So we know that 60 jobs were added to Wells Fargo and maybe Krema did a 15 and I don't remember eight change right now, but that's already like 70 or 80 jobs in one and a half weeks. So I think we should do a better job of tracking that. Another thing is I had the opportunity to present on a panel and I worked with Mr. Brown last week for Brightline and I didn't have a lot of data and I know Brightline is a private company in their ridership numbers and things like that but there has to be a way for us to understand what those numbers are and that they're easily tracked without having myself go to Brightline and get that data. So I got the Boca Connect data which was great to have and I used it as part of my presentation. And the panel was like what has the Brightline impact on Brightline on your city? Not only business but also culturally, etc. And I had a heart, I mean I know a lot of the data because we talk about it, but I didn't have a lot of quantitative data. And I think that we're missing the mark. We want to know how many people are coming into the station? How many people are leaving the station? Can tell you, Miss Nacos and I were on the train last Friday or Thursday, Friday, the trains were busy and we were coming in and out. It would be great for us to have that information, that'll make even a better case for our potential second platform. Also, trial numbers, like what are the numbers? Are the people coming? We know that our stations number one use station, we should have that data available. It's there. They're tracking it. Those entities are tracking it. We should have it so that when we are there. They're tracking it. Those entities are tracking it. We should have it so that when we are doing presentations or we're out there having these discussions, we can really say, well, here's what's happening. So I think there's multiple ways of gathering that, not only for new business, but also for former businesses that are already in town. So. Thank you. All great suggestions. As an attorney over the many years, I've had to help companies incorporate or get their tax ID numbers, their EIN number. And as part of the application process, to simply get a tax ID number, the IRS asks a series of very general questions, but some of them about business formation, obviously what type of business it is, et cetera, similar to our business tax receipt. But also, how many employees do you anticipate having over the next 12 months, things like that? So, you know, we want our business tax receipt system to be simple, of course, and efficient, but it could be also a way to capture some data, some onboarding data of what those are going to look like, what those businesses are, and how many people they're going to employ. Along the same lines, you know, there is, and again, it's very difficult, but in a corporate setting, sometimes there's exit interviews. And it's not just businesses in terms of the retention effort, it's not just the retention rate, but the exit rate, and if a business relocated out of here, certainly, I'd like to know why. Was it something that the city could have done better? Was it a city-specific thing? Or was it just business? The reason for it. So sometimes an exit entry, again, very low response rate on those types of things. But obviously, if we can reach out, it's another opportunity to capture data. And lastly, something that we've talked about, and along the same lines is what Deputy Mayor Drucker is saying, in terms of my understanding is that the daily, the number of people in the city during business day exceeds the number of residents, right? There's 140,000 people that come here to work. And how many people live here and work here? How many people are commuting here? And of those businesses, I know we've all heard this, that the businesses want to move here, but they're also concerned about where their employees are gonna live regionally locally. So it's part of our policy too. So if there was some way of capturing metrics of how many residents businesses employ or like Mr. Walker says, commuting habits, things like that, there may be ways to capture meaning that you know, it's not just efficient to do business here It's also a great way and a great place to attract talent retain talent because some of them can live close by So again just that kind of global aspect of where are the employees coming from not just the businesses as well. Thank you Mr. Pasek. Okay. Okay. Very good. So transportation mobility. So a couple of things here. And one in terms of the metrics and then there's some interesting data sources that we can use to capture data that I want to talk about a little bit. And then there are conflicting goals that we might want to discuss real quick. So the first measure that we were starting to talk about given the direction that we're heading in in terms of development and what we want to see with transportation is looking at the miles traveled via auto compared to other modes of transportation. So maybe the metric is the percentage of miles traveled by auto compared to other modes. You know, now not an easy, easy bit of data to try to collect. However, there are companies out there that are aggregating data from mobile devices now. So I just happened to talk to one of them and it was more focused in the long lines of economic development. But if I was mayor Drucker, we were actually talking about the question you had about, I asked some about the question you had about Brightline. So they were able to hone in on Brightline figure out how many people are going there, where they're going, where they're going most frequently, how long they're staying there. So there is that type of data that's out there. Now it's a admittedly it's a little big brother-ish. But the data is there, it's out there. Now it's an admittedly it's a little big brother-ish. But the data is there. It's being collected. And there are companies that we could work with to be able to understand what are those patterns and what does that look like and how are people using the resources that we have and then what are they doing once they get here. So those opportunities are available for us if we want to look at those. Now it's a question of, do we start partnering and contracting with companies that actually start aggregating that data? Because that can be a little controversial at times. So something to think about as we're kind of going through these things. The second measure that we were looking at was related to transit ridership. We already know we have Bokeh Connect, and now we have where we've had the Park at Broken Sound Shuttle. So any those and any other ride systems that we put in place, we should be taking a look at. The number of systematic safety and quick build projects are things that we should probably be looking at. And then the last thing which I think is somewhat important, people think about it, but it conflicts a little bit with some of our other goals as it relates to safety. Is that average level of service at key intersections? Obviously, for moving cars through intersections that sometimes can sacrifice the safety parameters for bicyclists and pedestrians. So it's a commonly used measure. Obviously, when we're starting to think about ease of transportation throughout a community but it conflicts Generally with a lot of our focus on pedestrians and bicyclists right now. So so anyway I offered it up as a hey by the way. There's the smager out there I don't know if it's something that we want to use or not. But I offer it up for discussion purposes, I think. Yeah, I jump in on that one. I don't think the conflict is necessarily as inherent as you suggest, because there's, you have intersection delays just from the normal grid. Then you also have intersection delays because someone hit the pedestrian crosswalk or otherwise, those are very different. Sure. You don't have to, I think LOS is still a very valuable pedestrian crosswalk or otherwise, those are very different. You don't have to, I think LOS is still a very valuable measurement, but if you can layer on that second set of data somehow through our campers, through indications of the push buttons, that will, we do that anyway when we're affecting timing. We know we've adjusted traffic signals based on pedestrian demand. So You contextualize it there, but still seeing LOS is important because it also speaks to for example What we're now seeing on Clintmore Road that the county development on lions west of the city is impacting Clintmore Road And that's not something we can control But it's helpful to know that because we might have to go back to the county at some point and say what you're gonna do So my thoughts are Mr. Thompson. I agree. It has to stay as part of or as one of the metrics we're going to use. I don't and I think I agree that I'm not sure I see it as necessarily like a absolute conflict with safety and vision zero. I think it does speak to ways that we can improve if we have the data that is, you know, we're collecting on that. I think that it should stay. Another point I want to make too is relates to school zones. And I'm wondering if there's a way, I'm sure a lot of us anecdotally have observed the fact that we have a lot of school zones in our city that don't necessarily get the kinds of compliance by drivers. And so if there's a way that we can build in the degree to which school zone, I don't want to, far be it for me to suggest that we keep track of tickets for that kind of thing. Or use that as a metric because the incentive structure will get all messed up. But I would like to know that we have safety built into our school zones and that there's got to be a way that we can add a metric related to that. Not sure how, but I give it to the, I raised the idea and the idea that I imagine if my colleagues agree that that make sense to build into a metric in some way. And I leave it to the staff, the archaible staff to determine how best to do that. Ms. Walker. Thank you, Mayor Singer. So in terms of the, we were saying the first bullet here on the Miles Travel of Yalato and the mobile device data that you received. So we know when you purchase a ticket on Tri-Rail, they already ask you for your zip code. So that's part of that process. So I'm sure that we could get that data. We would be able to know on that station every time I go, like, what is your zip code? That's part of the process. You have to put your zip code. So I'm assuming we could get, that's how they probably know that our stations are highest use for certain areas, for incoming. So I think that I agree we have to be careful in terms of how much we want a monitor, but I think that the monitoring that we're doing is not so much personal data is just like trips taken. If most of our folks are going to Orlando, I think we want to know that. And I think if most of our people are leaving to go to like, I don't know, I'm just going to say, I have Intura, I'm just going to say I have Intura. Like, I would like to also like know that. I think that's important data on ridership so that we could understand how we're going to make it better in terms of moving people around. Transit ridership in the TOC areas, Volga Connect, I just got some numbers on that, you know, in preparation for that panel. And about last year before Mr. Brown took over, I had had conversations of the prior city manager where I had kind of requested the contract because it had been brought to our attention that the shuttle services were not being used in that area and that's a miss mark. However, we had entered a five year contract that I didn't know of the provisions. We kind of discussed it and then we kind of left it at that. Because maybe that's something we need to look at. Maybe there is a contract provision that we're breaking the contract early. But if we're paying for a service which is almost in the millions of dollars and they're not being utilized, then maybe we should look at that contract and we negotiate that contract or enter into another facility. Maybe that will be our next bulk of connect. But I think that in this process, that's something that if the council agrees that we should look at the contract, what does it cost to break that contract? And what is a ridership? I can tell you, when I pulled that data last year towards the end of the year, it is not being utilized. So that is not good use of our taxpayer dollars. And I think that if we look at that, maybe it's a conversation for this council to look at that contract. I think that has to happen before you can start tracking because when you track that ridership data, you're gonna see you're not getting a good ROI in terms of the park I broken sound. And then in terms of the traffic I agree with Mr. Thompson and the mayor, we still have that metric in there because you're right. We accommodate a lot of our crosswalks, sometimes the timing. We know that the DDI calls a lot of, you know, Agenda, we know it gets backed up in the morning and we're always looking at that kind of traffic flow. So, and because people cross that big, late intersection and you see them on their bikes, that delays that area, but I still think we should be tracking it because it kind of, it all goes hand in hand, like you said. It was contradictory, but it does go hand in hand like you said it was contradictory but it does go hand in hand. We are going to have cars on the road and people is how do we get them together to the safest place But we know that we're not going to do away with cars We're our job is going to be how we're going to make these two fit together on by providing other multimodal alternatives Mr. Reader Thank you. All great points. I think just, you know, one kind of differential there is that we do have a downtown that has a different density and as we always strive for a different walkability component, as opposed to, let's say, our western communities or our northern sector, which might be more, let's call it suburban, traditional suburban, vehicular dominated. The downtown by design, we've strived to have it be more pedestrian, mobile, walking oriented. So in terms of the conflict that you kind of discuss, Mr. Leuke said, I don't disagree. It's kind of just on the slide rule, where are you moving that? And I think in the downtown where we want and where we are incentivizing people to walk and do those walkable type of things. There might be more appropriate to have a little bit of a longer cross walk time or etc. Even though the streets are supposed to be narrow, right? So maybe that'll still come out the same. But I think depending on where it is is gonna be, is going to be critical because like I said, as we start to develop and it's funny that you brought up Ms. Drucker the transit in the park of Broken Sound because now with the Live Local Act and our initiation to try to densify that. You know, we have the services there before the density and that's one of the issues. So hopefully whether it's a movement towards both of them, connect doing more different spots. But the point is as those communities start to become more mixed use and develop, then obviously the, you know, the hypothesis is that it should, right, the ridership should be increasing. And right now we just got a little, I guess we were early to the game there, sort of speak, because you know, the PM now with the live local designation, you know, it's going to take several years for that to happen. So I think there's a couple, you know, great points there, but certainly the downtown is, might be a little treated a little differently. Ms. X. Thank you, Mayor Singer. The one word that I wanted to point out on here was connectivity. And I read recently how one city was using as a benchmark, the number of miles of improving connectivity yearly that that city was committing to. And I thought that that was a really nice benchmark, whether it's a half a mile or two miles or something like that, we're always saying we need to connect the trails and we need to provide better connectivity. So I think committing to something like that and using that as a benchmark would be a really great step towards improving our connectivity in the city. For the comments. Got it. All right. Thank you. Okay. Last focus area. Last set of suggested KPIs. So growth management. And this first measure, maybe a little bit duplicative. So it's looking at the increase in pedestrian and bicycle traffic in certain locations throughout the community. So this is really built on Consumber Wigder, I could be credit. The 15-minute city concept, so that's the idea behind this particular measure. A little bit duplicative to one of the other ones and under transportation, but thought was still important, given the idea behind some of the development that we're thinking about. Affordable housing units, the number of units that are developed within the city. And then lastly, the amount of dedicated pedestrian bicycle facilities within the city. So, once we're not close a little similar to what you were hinting at, the number of linear fee of new and improved pedestrian or bicycle facility. So whether it's connectivity or I would even say, you know, just an increased level service. So maybe it's a four foot sidewalk and we expanded the six because it's needed for the pedestrian or bicycle movement or it's planting trees, great shade to make it more usable. Whatever that is, just making sure that we're taking a look at what we're improving along the system so that it's enhanced for people to use it better. This way, no. Yeah, thank you. along the similar lines, you know, from one of the previous slides, I think it would be helpful to find out the time period. When we look at the number of affordable housing units approved and built or just units in general or developments in general, the time from application to approval, the time from application to occupancy, because as we know sometimes the application process, just getting the units approved can be a significant process. So if we can get those units created more, right? So it's not just affordable housing units, it's kind of, we need them now. And so the question is the timeliness of how fast we can get those through the system, somehow measuring that I think would be, would be helpful. Thank you. Further comments? I think that's it for this slide. Was there anything further before? How was that? All right, thank you. Or anyone else want to add anything? I'll add just one last thing. I think thank you for this. This is, as we said, as I said, we probably got a little more granular than we needed to on these 18 or 19 chosen ones. And there are scores and scores of metrics we're using and ones that we tout all the time are tax rate compared to other cities that were 60% lower than Miami that the lowest tax rate of any full service city. Number of corporate headquarters in our city compared to other places we far outpaste those. I think those are important metrics to keep in mind. Just you know other things the customs facility that we approved was at a quality of life issue. Yeah, but the metrics are customs of the airport was significant. Plammability, we talked about the number of miles reduced, and even though we don't have exact numbers on it anecdotally, we know it. Permitting time, I think it's, you know, it's not just how fast permits are, but the number all time we're reducing permitting overall, how fast construction projects can get completed. And while you structured this in terms of, our different goals, just bear in mind that I know all of our departments have their own internal metrics too. So even if they don't fit neatly into one of the six or seven organizing bundles, they're there. So we probably have hundreds of metrics that I think we should be looking at. So it's about, as you said, going back to what's the most important ones, and I'll just end with an anecdote. In World War I, during World War I, the British government shifted from cloth caps to helmets in an effort to reduce head injuries. And they found out that the number of head injuries increased dramatically. They weren't concerned, though, because the number of deaths decreased far greater. So what had been deaths just became head injuries. And so they were happier that people were having a head injury instead of a death. So it's important to know that when you solve a metric, what's the overall context? And so it's important to put all these things in context as well. Final thoughts? It's a question. May I make one suggestion? And this may sound uneducated, it likely is. One of the things that sets apart Boka and kind of is wrapped into a lot of these priorities of ours is our tax base. Our tax base, significant as it is, is a reflection of the quality of life we have here of our vibrant economy of how we're financially sound. It allows us to have such a low tax rate, or low tax rate. So, but our tax base is a function of many things. Good, I think, local government being chief among them, good planning, going back decades. But also, it's, you know, we are larger than other cities, and that could explain it. Have we ever analyzed what our tax base is, like, per square mile, to counteract the fact that the size of the city, while we're larger, say, than our neighbor to the north, we have a substantially larger tax base. I'm wondering if we can use that as a global metric, because it does creep into all of these things. And let's keep track of that. The fact that our property in our city is worth so much more than other cities nearby, relative to size and taking into account size that our property in our city is worth so much more than other cities nearby. Relative to size and taking into account size should be used and I think can be something that we could track over time because our square footage, square mileage, tends to say the same less we annex. But could we add that as one of the metrics that we can take a look at? If it hasn't been assessed in that way previously. I'm seeing nods of yes, and I think that's a simple calculation. So thank you for the comments. All right, Mr. Brown, still your report? Thank you very briefly, Councillor Fryday. I believe I sent you all proposed ordinance for amendment to the agenda tomorrow night. I'm going to bring that up tomorrow night to please amend the agenda. I wanted to inform you in the public that we are closely monitoring the storm. We're monitoring what actions may need to be taken in the next few days and we will keep everybody informed. Please stay tuned to social media, our text alerts, etc. And we'll keep everybody informed. Thank you. And we, I believe, we sent out some alerts today. We also have activated the Citizen Information Center. The CIC is active from 8 to 5 during regular business hours in case people have questions about where to find out something. Sandbags, for example, we had a couple of inquiries today. the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the We'll start on my left with Ms. Naclas. We'll go that way this time. Thank you, Mayor. I just have a couple of questions. Follow-ups. Are we getting a bokeh connect update because I thought it was going to be done in September? But it's I think that it's likely to be at the first meeting in November now, based upon what we've got coming up on agendas. Okay. And hopefully the numbers will be up a little bit. Getting closer into season maybe a little bit. Okay, secondly I have a question not something that was brought up today. A week ago you had sent an email to Mr. Danberg and we we all got it and I'm just wondering since then it's been a week has there been a finalized agreement yet? No, we have not heard back from the Danburg side, but we are finalizing an agreement on our side It should be ready probably by the end of this week. Okay, and do we know the answer to that question About the 15 months versus the 27 months is it 15 months? To get a permit 12 months to build so is it 27 months? It's 12 months to obtain a site plan amendment if it is necessary and then 15 months to build once they commence. So it's 12 plus 15 plus 12. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. I was just going by the email in the two different options. Right. And just a little bit of further clarification on the question that was asked today. The fact that a stipulated order is entered into does not mean that the property is in compliance. The property will not be in compliance until the new part, the second part of the project is built. Thank you for clarifying that, Mr. Brown. That's all I had. Mr. Thompson? No report. Mr. Reader. Thank you, just very briefly. Thank you, Mr. Brown and Mayor Singer, for making sure that all the people are alert out there and miss Nockles as well. And you report, yes, the My Boca app is a very great place to get a source of information and you could sign up for the alerts right there or on the internet So please please stay safe everyone just this weekend You know, we had a significant amount of rain and it looks like there's more to come So and we talked about the one partial bridge collapse in the south of the city So please just be careful. Be careful out there. Stay away from the large puddles and whatnot. If you can't see the bottom, don't drive through it because I just saw even yesterday with the amount of rain. I saw some people driving through some significant water. And right now, the ground is very, very saturated. So please be careful out there. And then likewise also being at the one-year anniversary of October 7th, thank you all colleagues for your really heartfelt comments through this difficult and challenging year, especially for the people in Israel, especially the fact that there's still 100 hostages there, including Americans. They're still within our there, including Americans. They're still within our thoughts, of course. And we pray for peace. We pray for peace and the return of the hostages that are there one year later. It's very sad to me that very depressing that we have to even talk like this, that there are hostages there, including Americans a year later. So I appreciate all the heartfelt sentiments today. And I know there's a lot of events throughout the city tonight that I'm sure many of us will be participating in. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Rucker. So I'm going to start as so I just wanted to congratulate Mr. Brown and Ms. Nakhlas who've all been appointed alongside myself to legislative policy committees. I'm going to be doing this for the first time in my life. I'm going to be doing this for the second time in my life. I'm going to be doing this for the second time in my life. I'm going to be doing this for the second time in my life. I'm going to be doing this for the second time in my life. I'm going to be doing this for the second time in my life. I'm going to be doing this for the and they added intergovernmental relations, the mobility piece is still in there, and of course emergency management, which is what the whole state has been doing for the last couple of weeks. So I wanted just to give a couple of updates. As we get ready, we took the Bright Line up, again, great way to get up there and take care of business. In terms of the meeting that I attended with the intergovernmental relations, there was a whole piece on annexation and nor not annexation here in Boca's return, we're not doing anything like that. But there is a movement from Tallahassee where smaller cities are trying to be dissolved and put into bigger buckets to bring in development. So there's all these lawsuits that It was really a fascinating conversation. And I believe these means are going to be recorded because of the storm. But I thought it was very interesting. And the reason I'm saying that to us is because we're financially sound. And what was happening with some of these cities is that some of them are not. And that is why they're trying to be dissolved. So very eye- conversation. In terms of mobility, we were talking again about the gas tax and the reduction of gas tax as more and more people go, you know, go hybrid or go to electrical cars. There was a big conversation about EV chargers as well. And I went ahead and put in my two cents and I said how proactive we have been with our development community that we don't want to look at projects if they're not EV ready or at least EV ready to connect. So a lot of the cities were reaching out to me asking how we were doing that because of course we're now preemptive from EV changes. And we also got to hear from FDOT for the 2055 plan that's out there. They're still taking feedback. Our feedback for the elective was canceled because of the storm last week and they haven't been rescheduled. But it was really good to hear how FDOT is really aligned with a lot of the things that were aligned in our strategic priorities. They're talking about, you know, air travel, trains, bike, pedestrian. So everyone from the top down now is kind of on that same path. So that was really good to hear and the plan is out there. And then of course we had a whole segment on emergency management and obviously storm, the flood zones which we had already here and Bokeh. We had already had a presentation. They came in and they kind of explained all the new coding, et cetera, et cetera. So our next meeting is in November. We're going to start preparing in my particular committee what our legislative policy is going to be. And at some point I'll have to bring it back to the council. So we all have agreement before I take the vote in Orlando. So just kind of wanted to give a little update on that. Also, it's go, it's go pink awareness month. Last week, the hospital went pink for breast cancer awareness month. And I know that we do things in the city for our employees, but for everybody out there, early detection, the earlier you detect breast cancer, the earlier chances that you'll be a survivor. Lastly, I know maybe the mayor's gonna speak about it, but I had the opportunity to go to H&HB, it goes last week with my son, he approves. Another addition, and we always talk about everything going on downtown, but at least this is kind of in the midtown area. And then lastly, to Ms. Nocklisboke, Mayor Singer's Boke, and Mr. Wigder. Today is October 7th. And earlier today, I had the opportunity of listening to a former Israeli ambassador, Mike Orin, or he had a whole presentation today in Palm Beach. And it was really interesting to hear his perspective of not only this war, but the war on Israel and this man served and was also part of our government. But what left me mostly kind of the end of the speech was that two of his children actually live in Israel and this morning rockets were launched into Israel again and he put up the pictures of all the little grandchildren still in the bomb shelters today. So very, very sad that we're going through that. So we pray for Israel, we pray for peace and that's my report. Thank you very much and thank you. Congratulations and thank you as well, Ms. Rucker, and addition, Mr. Brown and Ms. Knuckles for your service on those state committees. I've done a number of years. I'm temporarily parole, but I appreciate your service there to make sure our concerns are known as we all work with our counterparts across the state. Again, it was said before, but if you're watching now, you'll probably still hear. You've probably already done it. Go to mybocat.us slash alert. Polka to sign up for alerts. Stay involved, stay informed. We continue to make preparation staff does all your long to maintain our infrastructure to prepare for storms. We will continue to do so and hopefully this one passes us. And I really do hope and pray that it totally dissipates. But until then, we'll do our best and pray for the safety of others who may be in the path of the storm. So with that, we will adjourn this meeting at 348 today and we'll come back tomorrow night at 6am for our regular council meeting. Thank you and good afternoon.