He's one or one. He's a little hot in my mind. All right. He helped it. Yeah, there's some escaping. Summer, the oppressive humidity is rising. 68 on the higher rate. That's what he did. That's my break. All right. All right. Thank you very much. We're going to call the meeting to order. Roll call. Miss Bauer. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. N. Mr. Thank you. Before we have a quorum, so we'll continue with the meeting. Does anybody have a chance or everybody to look at the minutes from our last meeting? I did. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes from May 1, 2024. I'll second. Thank you. Any old business that we should be addressing? No, none at this time. any old business that we should be addressing. No, not at this time. New business. We have a board chair selection and the vice board chair selection coming up. Do we need more people? Yes, probably should. Yeah. Yeah, let's We'll table that to our next meeting. It should be October. Okay. Is all do we have consensus? Yeah, Mike I'll make a motion to table that We'll call Miss Jamison. Yes. Yeah. Presentation for Edgewater Village. No, we already did that. Let me show our roll call for the motion. Oh, for the motion. That's all right. That's all right. All right. So I have today Joe Burns to give a presentation on an upcoming project going before City Council on September 9th. I'm going to start a little background. I've been a developer for 40 years. I've been a principal. I've been in senior housing for over 20 years. And today I'm primary focused on development and senior housing. Giving back to communities is what I've been known for. What I do, everything from fire stations to baseball fields, the football field. A developer in believing in giving back. So many developers come into communities and try to extract. I'm one that comes into a community once it'd be community-oriented. And really, that's all the way down to our product that we have to offer at Edgewater Village as a senior community medical development. And it's a wellness community. And what we want to do is have it, community is a big word because it takes a city to make an empire as far as community itself. I know we do have other projects that go on in the cities with their own master plans, but our master plan is based around you, the community. And we need someplace to house our seniors as we get older, being one of them myself, being 63 years old. And we're looking for quality places, for quality of life, for people to be able to retire in their on-core life. And I say on-core because that's an area of community in Port St. Lucie. And anybody that chooses to look and see what we've done, on-core is 415 units of active adult in Port St. Lucie who are now open. It, a $200 million plus project that we're giving back to a community and have housing for our seniors. A little bit different here in this edge water, we're taking it to the next level and going with a pure CCRC and that's a community development project that not only has after-homes 55 and older it has Alzheimer's, memory care, assisted living, independent living, and active adults. And what we do is we bring our active adults and I'm going to go down on a little pointer here a little bit. We go through our active adults with ranch-styled homes. There would be our ranch-styled homes where we could see the monitors. We're doing our market analysis now. We're looking at one or two car attach garages, units being anywhere from 1100 square feet to 1400 square feet. You know what we're seeing is there's an average of only one car per active adult housing unit. We're proposing approximately 50 of them. That would be your starter. That would be when you're at home and you're in your four-story colonial or your two-story colonial or you're in your ranch, it's getting a little bit too big to go from one side of the house to the other side of the house. So we're trying to make this positive space that is active. Heaps both parties intermingled in life and life itself and has a car or two car garage you want to be storage you want to be for the vehicle itself. You move up then to our assistant living, or our independent living. You make that bigger? Hold that up. Hold me and get the video. Yeah, how do you drive? Yeah, how do you drive? This is what it would look like going down 442. This is an actual picture of our facility. So it's not something we're dreaming up. It's something that's built. That's the rear of the building. I'll be a pool, the lake behind it. We believe in having restaurants that would be open to the public in our facilities, in our clubhouse, in our wellness center. Once again to get to that community atmosphere. This one has one restaurant, the new facility we're looking to have three restaurants in one building. People get tired of eating the same old time. The Wellness Center is approximately 2700 square feet, 27,000 square feet, and it would base out of a community almost as a senior center because the people behind us could actually use it and city residents would actually be able to use this facility also and that's intermingling our communities into our project directly. See we have a nice abyance of a pool which the pool would also have a lap pool for wellness and fitness. Again we're trying to accommodate hospitals and colleges incorporate them into our wellness communities to help the vigorous by talisman. And make you want to live longer is what it does. And once again, if you look at this closely, this would be going down 4-4-2. This is what you would see driving into the gateway of community. The community that we're offering here has a lot to offer. And one of the main things that we've found out after meeting with our neighbors behind is Coral Tracer, there's a lot of concern on flooding. You know, that was the city engineer, my engineers, and what we realize is that you've driven up your wetlands stormed tensions to have 100-year flood recoveries, and what that is, we're not letting any more water leave the site that is leaving it. Now, our water flows to the east and into the south, over to a large conservatory basin. We would burn the outside corners of our property to make sure that the water drains away from our neighbors and goes in direction, it normally goes in, that's downhill. I know we have problems in low lying areas in this community and we're here to try to correct those the best we can and be healthy neighbors on making an environment that's not only economically and feasibly amenable but it was also an asset for our community. The other thing that we do for edgewater villages, we don't put any kids in the school system. And right now that we think that's a positive as far as economic impact on the school system itself. We're trying to keep that down and actually, you know, prevail with a 55 and older community. So we think that's another positive traffic. That was another big concern we had from our neighbors behind us. And we're saying on the average, there's one car per unit on our assistant living. But when we get into our independent living it's probably one car per every two to three units. So the cars are being eliminated the higher the quality of treatment that the people are getting and that is a positive as far as on our infrastructure of the whole city on your roads and your impact on your of your inner structure as far as maintaining. So no traffic, no kids, low traffic, low traffic, no kids. And we have been fortunate enough to have two meetings with the HOA behind us and they've been very cooperative, very vocal, which is good. You have a community here that wants to be part of the community and you don't get that in a lot of times you don't have anybody show up or all you have is people show up for their own personal reasons on complaints and we all have problems and we understand that and we can't correct everybody's problem. But what we can do is we could we could bring jobs to your community and that's another thing. This whole project could throw off four to 500 jobs, new jobs, high paying jobs, not low quality jobs. And I'm not going to say any competition. But these are jobs where we could bring in doctors, nurses, and paramedical things through our colleges. We work with Daytona State Community College. A couple hospitals are looking at this facility also. Our total project cost is anywhere between $250 million. We are working with tenants now on a preliminary basis. We're looking forward to bringing this economic engine into edge water. We're looking with the job creation, we've met with the county already there. They're supporting us 100 percent. They want us to actually bring in new people into your community instead of bringing the people that are here upgrade and we're seeing that's not going to happen. We look at 80 percent of our tenants itself will be from edge water. We have 20 percent will be from out of edge water, maybe in Volusia County. We're trying to be economic conscious on our projects ourselves because people are retiring, they're on fixed incomes, right now they're getting a pretty high rate on their return, but we're trying to be a middle class provider of services of our facility so we're not up or in we're trying to be middle of the road that people can afford us right now our pricing will be anywhere from 2000 maybe a low 3000s per month we do not have four sale product either everything is for rent we're trying to tell our clientele as they come in, go ahead and sell your house, put it in a new idea, and pay your rent. We include landscaping. We include activities. The link that isn't included in our overall base price would be meals. And what we try to do first and foremost is we put demo kitchen into our amenity center, and that's going to be able to allow us to bring a public who's one of our partners, bringing them in and letting them do a demo chef once a month and try to teach our seniors how to eat healthy, how to eat on a budget, how to eat the way that would help your health for longevity. And that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to be, I'm not going to say names of people that are up north and have a large senior community where they drive to places and do what they do. We're trying to have people walk to our wellness center, do our program in rolling our programs and wellness and get on our college case studies and try to live longer. Who doesn't want longevity of life? And that's what we're trying to do. It's not only longevity of life, not only quality of life, but to show people that if you do what is recommended by doctors and people that have PhDs and MDs and these things, you can live longer too. And you can't put a price tag on living longer, especially if it's a quality longer. And that's what we're trying to provide here at Edgewater Village. We're trying to bring something into your community that's special. We're trying to bring something that's been done before. One of our other principles is owns and operates 15 facilities and he will be on boots on the ground. We don't plan on selling. We plan on retaining this for a longevity. Show people that we're part of the community. He's also a Florida resident, another county up. And he has much to bring to the community as far as providing healthcare for our seniors. It's so important. This time I'll be open to take any questions at the board. Thank you. What's the start timeline? What's your look? I know there's a lot of... We'd have to get through zoning. We figured about a year before we get started. It would take approximately 12 to 18 months to get the first phase on top of that year. So now you're two and a half years before you're actually bringing a resident into the community. I'm trying to be real when I'm saying that. You want to hear, is a developer, we want to hear it done in 12 months. It's not reality. On Chloris took us, we're on our fourth year since we started. We have people moving in now. Once again, cost of money is a developer. We want to actually make this work economically as well as feasibility. So two and a half years, the first people would be moving in. And the phases are they represented in these colors? Yes they are. It's kind of small. So there is what four or five phases? Yes they are. Capsuleed, it's kind of small. So there is what, four or five phases? That's correct. The first phase would be, and it's kind of hard to see, you'd be that top one, would be the ranches, their villas, their connected, yes, right there, thank you Ryan. And you'd move to the independent living, and we'd start both those phases at the same time. And then we'd move into the assistant memory care, which would be there, and forth we'd go into the medical office, part of the project. We do have hurdles in wetlands. We're dealing with that on a daily basis, an important part of that. And we do have the county behind us on that also, as they see, they want this in their community. They this in their county they want they want this to be a diamond in the rough for their county being we're we're the first part of the county coming in from edgelwater yes and other city to the south but the edgelwater needs to be the diamond that it actually is and edgelwater village will actually showcase that. We're exactly as the site, I'm sorry, about a six four. That's fine, that's fine. A 442 in Mission Road. So we're on a state interchange in a county road there. And one of the things we do have is we have county participation in this. Our residents behind us stated that Mission Road has some bad water flow problems and our engineering as well as your engineering need to cooperate together. This is a big investment for us. So we want our front door to be looking and maintain to the utmost standards of what it needs to be and what the not only you would expect as a city but what the residents expect as far as what they're paying for to get. So we know we have a very high high-fold profile corner here and that's how we think the medical Office should be on that side of the project on that corner looking at it Maybe an ambulance service with a 24 hour Medical attention there some other tents tents were working on the wellness part that would bring that also to that corner. And then a rehab case mom would be in our independent living and by an act of God, break and hip or something, we'd be able to get over to the treatment center in the corner there and then put her in an actual rehab. So that is a rehab facility we're looking at putting there and then get them back into their unit. They're not away from their community much much longer than they have to be. When you get a little bit older you get a little bit more disoriented when you lose your footing and you get injured and we're trying to say this is an environment that you could see where you're gonna be able to go and get the medical attention right there in the community. And that's a positive not only for just this master development, but for all of that you are. Looking at the site plan, I see two entrances, one off of old mission and one off of 442. Is there going to be an entrance to the west? Yes, there's actually three. And that was very important for us to meet with our neighbors behind us. Oh, okay. I see it. What we see and that's really more health and safety because the third entrance on mission is probably two years or better off. We're going to need two forms of egress. Our master entrance is off of 442. We'd be bringing construction traffic in off of there we bring bringing in and workers our employees who come in off of 442 that'd be a secondary entrance off of so name that road let me out here thank you appreciate that and well we know with us citizens one of the things we thought we could do is we could pull that back a little bit so we're gonna change our buildings up a little bit there and try to bring that entrance back 50 feet they're having some congestion with their school buses with their kids in the mornings and that's a problem for them. National seniors don't get up quite that early for the school buses but they will maybe in the afternoon when I go to the grocery store so I pull in that back we could stack approximately four more cars there on that side. And we've also, I don't want to say, violent, told, volunteered to help with maintenance on that driveway. Because that is a front entrance and a front door for them. It's a secondary entrance from ours. But driving down 4-4-42, you needed to shine. That whole corner needs to shine. And that's why we said we'd maintain the island that's down that public drive right now. One of the things you talked about was middle class profile. That's kind of where we want to sit. How does that state consistent? Because even two to 3,000 sounds a little high for some of maybe our middle class. That's a good question. Now, what you got to remember, they don't have a tax payment. They don't have a law and maintenance payment. They will, some of them will have electric payments, but that would be it. So one of the things that's good for not only the client that's in there, it's the families that are providing with the clients. We release to the daughters and sons. And the first thing the daughters ask us is, where's a nearest hospital? Where can mom or dad get to the nearest hospital? We'd have that provided right here on site. The second question is from the sun, how much is this going to cost us? Because they're worried about their inheritance. And there's a lot of these places just suck people dry on their inheritance. And what we're saying is, we're for lease. And you just write one check to us, and that's it. If you want to meal pan, it would be also part of that one provided check per month. So we're trying to minimize their excess cost that they have. Maintenance is another big one. Once you're getting older, you have the furnaces and the roofs. Now we're news we're not going to add that, but eventually that's going to happen. So we put a fund together for that to maintain property and keep the values up. And we believe in this large investment of this type is going to help the neighborhood in the city values pull up too. Now, on the negative part as a homeowner, you're going to have to pay higher income tax because we're going to bring the value to your houses up. That's a necessary evil. Hope that answered that question. We just opened a new facility also in edge water. You want to get that comprehension plan. You could actually go through a video that we have of that too. So we have a new facility that opened in Clearwater than a new one in Traditions Port St. Lucie. And what we've done is that's our provider and our operator and we've merged together to bring this edgewater village to people here. I think finally thoughts are assisted living. We have two or three of them in our community already. We don't have enough. Okay. Let's go to our market study. We did a market study. 80% of our, we are underbed it to our market study. 80% would be single ladies. 10% would be men with the ladies. And then 10% would be customers. That's a broad market study, but that's what we've done on our market study already. It came so we could already spend, have a tendency, dying off earlier than the women do. And hopefully if they're going to work on their wellness, they'll stay longer. And maybe we could catch you, ladies. I don't know. We're trying anyway. Any other questions? No, I think it's an impressive plan. It's the right thing. It's a way without understanding all the processes. Saying that is one thing, but going down to Port St. Lucien's scene when I'm a founding principal of that project, to actually see it as something else. I'm just not a guy up here with an idea. And you see a lot of people up here with ideas. We actually have product that is under roof and with people in them right now. We filled up our assisted living in Clearwater in eight months, that's how positive it was. That's how we were priced properly for the market and how much community efforts that we put in working with our community to help fill our facilities. And that's where we start. JCC is a rotary's, churches. This needs to be a community, a community together or it's not going to work. And that's where you see stand loans fail a lot in our industry because they're not community oriented. So that's why we're up here. That's why we're meeting with homeowner associations ahead of time. That's why we're at this board meeting today to tell you that we want to be part of your community. Well, as someone who's had a relative in three different assisted living facilities in the last 10 years. I can tell you they are all not equal. There is still a great need. And this is a product we don't have. I mean because it has all the different phases. The price point is good. If by the time we get there, you can keep it at 2000 to 3000. That would be excellent. And especially when they throw in the meal plan too, it's pretty easy. They don't have to do anything. All they're left with is their personal shopping for clothing, utility, I mean, toiletries, haircuts, you know, and going out with their girlfriend. Yeah, I think the transitional phase is definitely an asset, more so than some other opportunities. It's not over here. Because I think as you grow older, it's easier to let go over your livelihood, your house, your all that stuff. If you're, I mean, there's a big difference between not being able to live by yourself and being in a chute care. I mean, there's an age gap there, or time gap, or health gap there, where want to call it. So I mean a lot of people don't necessarily need like you said. You live in a four-story two-story bedroom two-story colonial, but don't want to necessarily live in a living either. So the transitional where you can be in the same property I think is something that is a mishere. Yes, we do have a lot of assisted living or several, but I'm aware of one that where you can kind of progress in this fashion. So I think that's what makes it very student. The other good plus about this is, you know, as they get less and less independent, they're range of motion is less, their friends are less, because their friends aren't driving either. So they make friends in their communities, and so be unable to transition within the same property. They maintain their friends, because each time you move them to a different facility away, where they make new friends. It's a big challenge. It's set some back. And it's, you know, just adds to the whatever decline there is. So I'm all for it. I think it's great. I think we've needed it for a long time. And I hope you will be able to deal with all the wetland issues and move forward. One of the other things that we're talking pricing and services in our independent, we're almost a smorgage board. You could buy your needs as you need them versus going into your assistant living and have to pay all that at once. Now, when I quoted two to three thousand, that was for our assistant living and our excuse me for our active adults and for our independent. We're in the four thousands for our assistant living and there's nothing under that We try to be a thousand dollars less and our competition. We know what our competition is here already but as being in our independent living if you need certain Items on the menu, but you don't want to pay for the whole menu. That's what we're trying to buy And I ala cart is the word I'm trying to say. We could offer Alicart services, and so you could still live in your independent living. And you're not paying the whole kid and kaboom to go over to the assistant living. When you're getting to an assistant living memory care or Alzheimer's, that's a need. When we're still in our active adults and independence, it's a want. You want to live there. You don't have to live there. By the time you get to the assist to living, you're almost to the point that it's a need. And we're trying to provide once and needs and then combine them together. And a lot of times we do have, bad again, the husband ends up in the assistant living and the wife will still be in the independent living because the toll that our body takes on the services that we've done for a lifetime. Once again that's knowing your product and knowing what the needs are, the people, your customers. I think you know it well. Thank you. John, do you have anything? No, I'm good. Thank you. I'd like to thank the work of your time. Thank you. Great presentation. Thank you. Is there a link somewhere in the presentation to your two properties? The one you said in clear water imports ain't Lucy? Thank you. I'd like to take a look at this. Yes. Mark. Boy, good morning. Mark Mellor is 639 coral trace Boulevard Metro last week. The meeting. There are a lot is pretty low. So right now we got a lot of runoff of our water that runs from floods, runs into his property right now. So we're just concerned that if we can work with Joe or get something, he was talking about putting a brim up. He doesn't realize when he put a brim between the property lines, our water is going to sit here. None of our water can run over. So I want to forget something built by these guys that leads to sadly to say Mission Road. Mission Road already floods. So we need to see a plan, what's he going to do to run off? And because he's not there when it rains and floods out because he's got like, was it 40 acres? 40 acres? 43 acres that fills up a water that saves our butt when in big storms. So we really got to think about that. The other thing is that one road that's coral trace pull of art. We put over $110,000 of our money in it. It's a public road. And if Joe gets a right of way to build, I hope some of those impact fees can come back towards us to repay us for all that work we did. We might have put a 200,000. I don't know. I'm just coming up with a number. You know, trimming the trees, cutting the grass, maintaining wheat and feed, the pines, the fountains, all that. I put those two fountains in when I was on the board 10 years ago. Not knowing it wasn't our property, but then it's saying it is our property and it's treats your property, so it's one big mess. What's the other thing? Hey, more mostly it's the, it's that the water flow out. There's all these homes, they're built, I'd say there's about 18 homes that they're gonna butt against. And I feel sorry for them, but it's like a five year project. We know it's going to be noisy and trucks and smoke. Can we ask for maybe you ready to have it implemented, but that they can't show up to after eight and work till five? Joseph, they might leave at three. But I don't know. I don't know how you guys work this. When you work something out with the builder, we don't want to come in at 730 at night with cement trucks. I think that's just in general noise or disease and okay yeah I've been to the core trace for a hundred homes. That's right though. I'll rate that down too. I built five homes in my life, California, Chicago. My biggest one was 6,000s worth feet. And it's a lot of construction. And I always move every five years when I'm done. But I moved there 14 years ago. So this is great idea Joe's got. Really nice. I really love it. He says we can use a pull. That's what he says, but we'll find out. So yeah, we're really serious about that flooding. Who we might even hire get our board to hire? What is it? A engineer, a civic engineer or something like that that come out to see about the floodplain? Because my house came, who was great? We didn't get flooded, everybody else did, but it came so close to the front door and my back, Lenai, it's meant to be about this high when we built it, came up the pond above that Lenai and right to my back door Or about five feet from it. So with feet bills there. Hopefully it is good to run off I noticed another pond going in which this is which water but where does it water going from that pond that big when you got better? Oh, so that's gonna be built with underground or just on top of the land I'm going to be able to go to the office. Oh, so that's going to be built with underground or just on top of the land. Okay, cool. Show me it someday. They're worried about it. We just thought they're going to build and you let the water go anywhere. Hi, thank you. I think Joe has a little bit of time to go through all of the environmental impacts and how they manage that. Yeah. Thank you. Well, that's positive. We have input from the community and it was somewhat positive. The biggest fear that we're hearing is the flooding and what I did last week is I met with your city engineer and he'll be at the meeting on Monday and we have low spots in your city. Three to five foot above sea level grade. We're actually at 10, 8 and 6 as an average. And we're probably maintaining a grade somewhere at 8 to 10, which is above the level of the lower bowl, which would be about the same as what is behind us. Take that grade and keep it. Once again, what we're getting is there was a flooding comes from build up a water where there's too much water running off one place and it's backing up. And they had a thousand year hurricane and it did not. None of the people there are flooded, which that means the system's working for them right now. The system will work better when we get in there because you, Edgelwater City, have made us go to 100-year floods now, which is three times the state limit. And no more water is going to leave our site than's leaving it now. And it's going to be more controlled by us putting in storm detention, where we could actually control this water. And once again, I'm not an engineer, but I could only go by the recommendations of the ends of the years. But I've met with your city and went over the toe pole and the whole thing. So we're lucky that the capital improvements have been on that box culvert for our particular project. Because we're running directly from West to East and then North to South, going into a conservatory that was just purchased by the county. And you had part of it to do with it, the 2500 acres were our particular water of be going. The flooding problem that I'm hearing is in a low level bowl area where the elevation is 3 to 5 feet above sea level which backs up in the mission road. Once again having county, the county's ear right now on a project this large, providing this much economic engine for its community, we could put that in their ear that there needs to be, I want to say an upgrade, but I can't say it's an upgrade, because I don't know what I'm not an engineer, but from what I'm hearing, they need an upgrade on mission road, which is a county road. We have very here right now that we're talking to, not only economic development, we're talking commissioners on the board at Volusia County. So, understanding water, it's going to flow. It's going to flow downward. It never flows up. But what happens when you have too much at one concentrated area, which would be that box culvert, it's backing up into that bull area that's lower. And that's how we have residents from that lower level coming and talking with concerns to you, the city, because there's city residents. It's a county road, and they're not getting done what they want done. And we're just trying to provide a service that might help get that done. So thank you. Thank you. The ever since Ian, you know, and large parts of Volusia County flooded, this is a concern that any new development, regardless of where you go in Volusia County, this is a major concern, but it's also a major concern of the County Council the in-rac committee which is the Environmental and Natural Resource Advisory Committee which I'm on Has been studying stormwater for months So they're very sensitive to it and the county and St. John's Order Management District are not going to allow something that is going to create additional flooding. As it should be. There will be proper engineering or it won't happen. Good. So, you know, listening to the gentleman from Coral Trace, that their stormwater goes over this property is an issue, but yet now we're going to tell this new plan that you have to maintain all your water So you see the differences there. It's the timing issue. Quirl Trace has been around forever I'm not sure we had one of those hundred year flood plains to talk about until the last two years so I just ask that everybody keep an open mind and listen to the experts, not the household experts, but the experts because as Joe's I mean Jeff is very knowledgeable in saying that how it would flood and I don't even think that majority of the residents are even aware of the new conservation area and the purchase of those 2500 acres. This is new information, which I seriously don't think most people are aware. And if this whole system gets explained, I think it'll be aha. So please stay tuned, keep an open mind, and just listen and ask questions. Thank you, Bliss. I think that's great information for all of us, for anything that we're dealing within the city. I think that defines good growth. Yes, correct. All right. Any other new business? Any other public business? Any other public comments? Yes. State your name and address please. Jerry Con 509, Lackokina, Edwarda Florida. My concern is mission road. When I came here five years ago, I was kind of shocked to see how it's a disaster waiting to happen and I'm surprised people aren't getting killed. I was happy to see this development because it doesn't bring a lot of traffic to that corner. They will widen mission road eventually. All I want to say to this committee is what I notice about the cities of Rhodes, Park, Mission Road, that should be a major concern and put on the faster track than it is because everything in between is going to develop like it's going to happen. This project is a jewel. You know it's not a shopping center where they're going in and out. It's less traffic. It's the right kind of development monetarily wise. You've got a good client tell that's going to bring money and jobs and necessities for other people so that they can live here and earn a living. I just, I didn't even know about this committee, but my concern is mission road. The quicker you make it better, the better it is for everybody. Regarding, they're putting housing developments there and the traffic is just increasing dramatically. So that's it. Man. Sir, are you talking about a certain section of old mission mode for all of us? The section from 442 to park. It's one lane each way. OK. I feel I'm taking my life in my hands when I drive on that road. No, it's not funny because you got a large. It's funny. It's not, if I was running the city, if I was the dictator of the city, I would widen mission road and widen park. I think it should talk about economic development. What are we waiting for? And it takes a long time to get it done. I know there are plans to widen it. I saw it somewhere in the public records. I think that that should be a priority with this commission. I appreciate your comments. I agree. And are you aware that you just got here five years ago? Did you see Park Avenue before it was widened? It was widened? It's already been widened. A section of it. Not all of Parkette. Well, I was kidding. I'm talking from River Ridgewood Ridgewood Dale over the railroad track. You have a lot of traffic there. Mainly mission road they're building housing developments now. They're putting more there. It's ridiculous. I mean, look at the way it hits new cemurna. It wasn't the road. That should be a, I think, a priority because it solves a lot of problems. I'd like to make another comment from another perspective. This is a great project. This is a jewel. It is a jewel. It sets the tone and the ambiance for the community. Perfect. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you. Come back to see us. Any other public comments? Thank you Economic Development Director Report, I think Ryan you're gonna help us out there. Yeah, so my name is Ryan Solstice serve as the Development Services Director for the City of Edgewater over planning and building. I started October 1st and I'm taking over the role as the economic development director here over at the city. We're currently looking to hire for a redevelopment economic coordinator in addition to a few other positions in my current department and I'm just happy to help out the board and if anyone has any questions about anything, feel free to ask. So unless in a year you get five hats to wear? Yeah, I have a lot of going on. Oh, there you go. Well, welcome and we're glad to have you, Ryan. Thank you. Appreciate that you're Ryan. Is there anything else to report as far as this meeting goes? No, not at this time. Okay, great. Thank you. Board reports. John? No, I'm good. Thank you. I just wanted to mention, this is just in general. We did have another large theft at your facility. John, so the Everglades facility looks somewhat professional. People are targeting some things. I know many of us that have businesses in the community get a little concern. People are cutting fences. They've got off-road forklifts. I mean how much do those cost? I want one of them. My motor guy wants one of those. But just opportunities. That happened over the weekend. I think there was also a couple of thefts earlier in the year. So we have some targeted people, I guess, like motors. I think that's it. Oh, Bliss, you're probably bring up the workforce apprenticeship program. So Southeast pollution manufacturing and technology coalition for those who don't know is a committee that grew, or is an organization that grew out of this board. It's a nonprofit organization and it is responsible for branding and marketing and building awareness of Southeast Volusia and our geographical location within the tech triangle Kennedy Space Center, Orlando, and Emory Riddle. And we are the closest to the Cape. So we are hoping to bring industry here to complement what we have. Second, I mean, third, fourth, and fifth- fifth year industries supply chain industries that would help out the Cape and our current boat builders. We have a new it's called a explorer. You might have to time chime in Andrea explore new workforce opportunities. Program coming up on Tuesday, September 17th, it'll be here in the chambers. And a lady from Career Source is going to come up and talk about apprenticeships. A lady from the state is coming to talk about how to fund them. And then we are going to have hot topics and employment law from Doug Collins, Cob Cole, and it's going to be a recent summary of pending and recent changes to employment law which affects all businesses and it will also focus on how the younger generation can work within your business within these on the job training and apprentice programs. So we need to facilitate the workforce program. So they're also going to be talking about the statistics on how apprenticeships and internships lead to a more stable workforce and longer retention. So all of it is going to be pretty interesting. 830 will be light refreshments and networking programs starts at 9. It will be right here. Be right here in this chambers. Perfect. Thank you, bless. There were also working on our annual fundraiser, which is the golf tournament. It will be Friday, December 13th at Cypress Head Golf Course. I don't know if you... Yeah, you should have received information about it in your newsletter from SEBMTC. So please save the day to come golfing. Great fundraiser by the way, to do a nice job. And all proceeds go, thank you very much. And all proceeds go to education and workforce development programs. And that's all I had. Great. Do you have anything else? Welcome Ryan. Welcome Ryan. All right. Motion director. Yes, motion. Do it during, do I have a second? Yes. Thank you. Thank you for our participants. We have to be how you're doing. Good. Thank you for your presentation, Jeff. Yep. Good job. Thank you.