15th, 2025, and the time is 6 p.m. We will now turn to the city clerk for roll call. Mayor Shelton. Present. Vice Mayor Haye. Absent. Commissioner Cruz. Here. Commissioner Turkin. Present. Commissioner Kelly. Here. Mayor, you have a quorum. Thank you, mailey. Reverend Omelie Ash from the first Presbyterian Bointen will lead our invocation tonight. Commissioner Kelly will lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Let's all stand for the invocation and the Pledge, please. Oh. Ann Arryn, Amalie Ash from the first Presbyterian Bointin will lead our invocation tonight. Then Commissioner Kelly will lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Let's all stand for the invocation and the Pledge, please. Oh. Is the pastor here? Possibly not. No, pastor. All right, so I guess someone else is winging the prayer. Not me. Yeah. All right. Okay. All right. All right. Everyone, bow your heads. Heavenly Father, bless this commission. bless the residents of Boyton Beach. Allow us to have your guidance and discipline as we go through today's meeting. Let us remember that we are a community. And that together, we can shape this future for the betterment of the city. We love you. We thank you to God be the glory, Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We are now moving on to the agenda approval additions, deletions and corrections. Let's begin with Commissioner Turkin. Do you have any additions or corrections to the agenda? Nope, I don't have anything. Commissioner Kelly? No mayor, I don't. Thank you. Commissioner Cruz? Nothing from me, either. Thank you. Mayor. I have one addition. I like the at an item on Consonant Gen. Item 6D item above it or to approve a minimum minimum agreement for task force model with the police department. The agreement establishes the framework for the task force model allines roles responsibilities and operational procedures for a collaborative effort. Okay. If there is nothing else, maybe we have a motion to amend the agenda to add item 60 to consent and approved as amended. So move. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor of approving the agenda as amended say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. And the motion passes four to one. Right or is it unanimously because he's not here. Okay it's unanimously. Okay. Okay. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve the agenda as amended. Commissioner Kelly seconded the motion. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. We will now move on to informational items by the member of the city commission. Let's begin to the right with Commissioner Cruz. I do not have any informational items for this meeting. Commissioner Kelly. No, thank you Mayor. I do not. And Commissioner Troutkin. Okay. Great. Moving on to the following item is an announcement on the small business week. The announcement will be given by the Economic Development Director, Gigi Shazou. I hope I said that right. Good evening commissioners, executive team, how are you? Economic development is pleased to announce the celebration of the 2025 nationalism business week from May 4th to through May 10th with a community-wide scavenger hunt event. It's going to be the first time we're doing something like this in the community. And I promise that is going to be fun. This interactive event invites residents to visit participating in small businesses, find a special quest sticker, and take a photo and post it online. On social media to complete phone challenges. Participants will have a chance to win prices and access special offers, all while supporting our local entrepreneurs. The business quest is designed to boost food traffic, introduce residents to businesses they may not yet know, and highlight specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important specific and important important important important important important important important important important important important important importantontom Beach forward. And we have already several business that have agreed to be as stops for the scavenger hunt. And we invite everyone to participate. Thank you. Thank you. OK. And the following item is an announcement on the extra egg. Stravaganza, recreational marketing and outreach manager, Justin Johnson will give you an out. the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of PM. this Saturday, April 19th, 2025. It's a free event that will occur just east of the building at Centennial Park and Ampitheater from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. This year's event includes a kid's own giveaways by supporting sponsors, Raising Cains, Florida Blue, and we just added it was after the agenda went to commission, excuse me, went to print, but we also added, I think, financial as a supporting sponsor, vendors, food trucks, music, egg hunts and more. For more information, we invite everyone to log on to the recreation and park department website at wemakelifefun.com, bring your friends and family out for a morning filled with fun and festivities. Excuse me, Miss Madam Mayor with permission, I'll move on to the second announcement of mine as well, which is for the recognition of partners for Magic Wheels and Special Deals and the Barrier Free 5K event. We'd like to thank chariots on ice and little wolf carpentry for their outstanding efforts in constructing this year's Magic Wheels mobility device. I'd also like to invite our ADA compliance coordinator Stephanie Saplop up to the podium as well as she has some plaques and recognition of our partners who constructed the mobility device. Thank you Justin. Good evening Mayor commissioners. I'm Stephanie Saplop, the compliance coordinator for ADA and FMLI. And I did want to take a special moment to recognize all of our partners. These are two separate events that take a lot of planning and teamwork. So the barrier free 5K, we want to give a special thank you to the Realtors Association who provided multiple volunteers that helped out the day of the event and also they provided a sponsorship of $500 towards that event. We've appreciated working with the Greater Point and Beach Foundation and Hunter's run to run that event for several years and this was a great turn out of over 200 attendees. the Magic Wheels and Special Deals event. today we have the Cheerioats of Love. Cheerioats on ICE build team that worked very hard at building this year's Magic Wheels. I think we have a video that we could watch, and then I'll say a few more words and invite them up, give them plaques, and if you want mine, may are coming down to take a quick picture. Sure. Okay. This is what it's all about. This is how we come together as a community. This is how we come together to support one another, to let all of us know that you're not by yourself, you're not alone. We're in this together. Well, Magic Wheels and Special Deals is a special event held once a year, and we pick a special child in the community with special needs. And we create a fantasy vehicle, a fantasy creation for this special child, based on some of their interests. We knew Little Leo loved the water. He's done this swimming with dolphins, so we thought a boat would be an interesting concept for him and it fit over his existing wheelchair. That was amazing. He had to be a smile on his face. It was, it's always very heart-filling to see my son so happy and just to love that, get showered with it really does feel the heart. This is what we get into this industry for, you know, to see the smiles on the face of our youth. Being able to do special things like this, providing mobility devices make it easier for them to navigate around the city or wherever they travel during their times really hits home for us. This gives us the ultimate fulfillment and is priceless. It's really what brings us joy here in the recreation division. The City of Boiton Beach is really at the forefront of inclusion for special needs. They really have taken a leadership role in that. They have so many initiatives, magic wheels and special deals is part of it. And I really appreciate the efforts they go to and there's many other communities that could learn from them of how to have more inclusion in the community for the special needs. Get them involved. Oh yeah, I'm listening. I'm just along for the ride. And that's what our motto is in our life is. I'm here for Leo and we just, I'm along for the ride. So whatever he wants, whatever he needs, it's my job to just go along for the ride with him and he's going to take me where he needs to go and now we got a really awesome ride. So as you can see it brings a lot of joy to the child and the family to receive this special gift. This was the sixth year that Valerie from Cheerio's on ice, Jeff from Little Wolf Carpentry, along with Nathan and Rosalind have created this special magic wheels for a child. And I have seen firsthand the hard work it takes. So they start months in advance, they do a lot of planning, brainstorming, they conceptualize the idea of what they're gonna create. They use their own creativity, ideas, a lot of their own supplies, and a lot of time and hard work, but they know that it brings a lot of joy to the child, so it's worth it. So I do have some plaques I'd like to present to them. If they can come on up, I can present the plaques and mayor if you wouldn't mind coming down to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. I'm going to go to the next floor. Thank you. And if Valerie wanted to say a couple words, she's welcome to. Thank you so much for having us. And this is the sixth year that we've done this for a special needs child. And when you see a face like Leo's just light up like that, it's just something we're compelled to do. And Leo and his mother have been participants for several of the chariots on ice sled hockey clinics. We have free clinics for people with disabilities and their family members to come out and try the adaptive sport of sled hockey here in Palm Beach County. It's a very unique experience and they've done it probably six times together. I have some flyers for both charities, cheerleets on ice and cheerleets of love at the door if you're interested in learning more about our programs. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay item 3D, the last item is an announcement regarding pre-hurricane prep and vegetation amnesty week, which will be given by Deputy Director of Public's work, Annelie Holmes. Good evening Mayor, commissioners, residents. The hurricane season begins June 1st and the Solid Waste Division is urging residents to do their part by conducting tree trimming early in preparation for the hurricane season. The city will be having hurricane vegetation amnesty week that begins May 5th to May 9th. Residents may place more than the three cubic yards of vegetation only out for pickup on their scheduled bulk day during that week. Fees will be waived during Amnesty Week. All guidelines must be followed. If you have questions, you can contact us at 5, 6, 1, 7, 4, 2, 6, 2, 0, 0, option 1. Monday through Friday, 8 to 5 p.m. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Okay, moving on to section four for public audience. We will now transition to the public audience portion of our meeting. Each person will have three minutes to speak and this time cannot be shared with others. We kindly ask that you address your comments to the commission as a whole rather than singling out individual commissioners or audience members to maintain a respectful environment for everyone We appreciate your cooperation and avoiding personal remarks that might be interpreted as disruptive Once we've heard from everyone present today we'll move on to comments online Thank you Good afternoon mayor. Oh one second. You can line up on both sides of the podium if you choose. So continue. Thank you, Mayor. Commissioners, staff, citizens, and guests. When we know better, we do better. Tonight, when you all presented the plikes, it would have been nice if you all would have read the names because I did not recognize anyone. That's the first one. Second one, I made a phone call to Commissioner, who's president of the night. They did not return my phone call. Haven't said where you all said it's a courtesy to make a phone call. I'm going to discuss tonight the Town Square Project because there are some things that need to be addressed tonight, so all of you all be on the same page Town square project is not a project of one commissioner And then person kept saying it's in Another commissioner district. That's not the way you vote First of all all, when you all did the baseball field, it was for the entire citizens of Wynchon, the library, City Hall, all the citizens of Wynchon. That's the way you vote. That's the way you make a judgment call. A lot of things came up when I was commissioned for this retweet that I didn't like but guess what I stepped aside and listed it with everybody else voted and that's the way you're supposed to vote. You're not supposed to say it's best because it says someone else's district and I don't like it and they don't like it. I'm going to say I'm going to go along with them. You know I'm kind of taken back because some of you are sitting up there and it's not the first time. These are some things that you all should know. Mayor, you're a newbie. The next time that you don't have anyone to pray, commissioner, I want to say thank you for praying. Just call for a moment of silence and you don't have to waste your time. I just want to say, we have a lot going on here in the city of Boincin. where project is going to affect all of the citizens here in Boincin. I don't care where it's located. A work reason you might not like the project is for all of us to enjoy. City Hall was not built just for the people that lives in this district. It was built to serve all the citizens of Boincin, the library, the fire station, police department. When we start singing it out, districts, we mess up. Please be cautious of what you're doing. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Please state your name. Good evening. My name is Dave Patterson. I'm the president of the Los Mangos Property Owners Association. We are here tonight with homeowners from Los Mangos, as well as other point and beach communities and citizens. This burgeoning coalition is in chambers tonight to state that we vehemently protest the Dune Department build in similar live local act projects like it. We do not object to the 38 townhouses on the adjacent property. We all support affordable housing. And as we suggested at the April 1st Commission meeting, the city should come up with an innovative plan for affordable home ownership. As everyone in this room knows, we do not need any more high-rise rental units. The Dune build is reckless and dangerous and is not a harmonious fit in this location. To quote a city official, this build is quote to tight. Consider this our formal protest launch. The citizens of Boynton Beach refused to become Fort Lauderdale. The residents of Los Mangos refused to become guinea pigs for this white elephant. We respectfully ask for one, the city to get involved now, and address the four proposed bills in this legislative session. Two, nothing to be built higher than 45 feet with meaningful setbacks, not a build that towers 85 feet over our 15 foot high homes and is only 30 feet or less from our property line. Three, create a good neighbor policy between the city staff, the commission, the developer and the citizens. This means communication, transparency and giving notice in real time. We're joined by other communities because they realize that the Dune Apartments will set a dangerous precedent throughout the city if this is allowed to move forward as planned. To put a frame around this, here are some points about the Dune Apartment build. This is a zero-lot line build. A 450,000 square foot monster on 2.98 acres with 298 apartments. It is an eight-story, 85-foot high building with an eight-story 401-space parking garards that dumps onto our tiny main entrance. Thank you in advance for your attention to our speakers' presentations. Let's commit to finding ways we can work together to defend and protect Boing Beach. Thank you. Next, please. Hello all. I'm Charles Sunt. Emilitary TIE. Hello all, I'm Charles Sunt, a military retiree. Thank you. Next, please. Hello, I'm Charles Sunt, a military retiree at 1330 Northwest First Court, just to correct you on my last visit, I did not say that I'll see the manager is a bad person because he's not. I stated that he is not cut out to be a city manager because he's not. I'll see the manager background is police force and force men. And that's what he do good. But a citizen don't need to pull these chiefs. Therefore, our city is going to chaos. For example, city, charging, charge wrongfully charged fines against seniors and citizens. I'm being fined of $75 a day, which is wrongfully, and it can be proven. City manager attacking an innocent vice down here in the ordinance. If he does that what about his law enforcement officers, red light cameras which is illegal. Part rages by police. Borten Beach Police Officer charged with kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old woman. Man fatally shot by a Borten Beach Police Officer for previously daring the police to shoot him. Man, armed with matches shot and killed. Our city is turning into a police force. They don't have the heart. I mean, the city manager don't have the heart to manage the city, but he has the heart to enforce the law. And we'll be in hurt by it. Why don't you all see and make a correction? Put a good man in his job. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Hi, my name is Cheryl Campabaso and I live in the Los Mangos community. And I'm here to talk about the Live Local Act. The Live Local Act was a new bill in 2023. In In 2024 they made amendments due to pushback from around the state. Now in 2025 the lobbyists at this moment are hard at work advocating against any local control. They are considering amending it again and there are presently four bills in the legislature. This second round of amendments includes language heavily weighted towards developers and does nothing to address the flaws in the existing legislation to protect the homeowners. Are you aware that the new proposed legislation will further limit local government control? They're planning not just to play in your sandbox but to take you out of it altogether. There have been multiple articles published on the live local shortcomings. From the Orlando Sentinel in March, an article entitled, Florida's Live Local Act is broken, can it be fixed? The Tampa Bay Business Journal in December, Live Local Act backlash spreads across Tampa Bay. The Miami Herald in February, developers plans for high rise on Hollywood Beach were rejected. The Sun Sentinel just last week, tweaks to Florida's live local act may boost developers options but frustrate cities. An 85-foot building does not belong towering over our homes that are 15 to 20 feet in height. A sun and our breezes will be blocked. The noise will be unbearable. The trash compactes, the dumpsters, the pickle ball courts, the transformers, the delivery trucks, the moving trucks, and the sewage lift station are right on our property line. The traffic issues will be horrendous. Our streets are private, but with over 600 new rental residents, they will want to stroll in our community, walk their dogs, ride their bikes, drive through our second entrance when the main entrance will back up with their 400 plus cars exiting to the 275 foot long southeast 28th circle to get to federal which is a challenge as it is. Unfortunately our city has rolled over and not fought back. Other other Floridian municipalities have. You know it's dangerous. What will it do to our quality of life, our safety, our privacy, and our property values? What have you done to protect us? What are you gonna do to protect the city? Please help us save Los Mangos. Thank you kindly for listening. Woo! Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. It's hard to go after that. Susan Oyer, Bointen Beach. So first thing I'm going to talk about is my understanding you're trying to get rid of our arts program and take away our arts fees and use it to beautification for the city, which I, of course, am adamantly against having sat on the arts board for years and being a huge proponent of arts. We have the largest kinetic art event in the world. We are known for our art. We are known for our kinetic, we are known everywhere as an art city. We're one of the old original art cities in the state, and you want to defund a portion of that, all of it, whatever a man does in the mood to do, to put towards whatever kind of landscaping, beautification, whatever assorted projects you have going on that you could easily just tack fees on to, the dunes and everything else, and make them pay for it and not take a single precious sin out of our arts fees. We are, I don't even know where to begin, other than I found out about this about an hour or so ago. And I think this is appalling. This is a quality of life issue in our city. The arts matter if you don't think so, then take a look at what happens in our school systems when they don't have arts. How many kids in our city have been inspired by our kinetic art and our art program? And that's gonna take me to my next thing, which is the commission is the boss of Dan. Dan is the boss of Amanda. Please tell Dan to get rid of Amanda or defund her position. How many more times does she have to go after something in this city that the residents are adamantly against? She is the reason you guys have this. She is the reason you have the town square fight happening over height. She is going to go all these projects push through again when they should have just died a horrible death because the residents didn't want them and we voted for a 45 foot height limit. She does not live in this city, she does not give a damn, she needs to go. And I don't advocate anyone being fired ever, but she should be asked to find a new job. What I really plan to talk about tonight was the right turn lanes in the city, which are becoming worse and worse than a bigger and bigger problem. And as I watched yesterday, multiple cars going through the right hand turn only lane, headed east on point and road. and instead of turning under Congress, they're going and almost causing accidents on Old Boiton Road and the city still seriously makes the money, goes at some cops out there, and ticket the heck out of everybody and make the city some money. There's at least three if not four intersections. And so I'm going to say, if I finish off with no to the Dunes project. The Pierce project is absolutely stunning and beautiful. There is no redeeming qualities to this Doons project, so please vote against it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, please. Good evening. My name is Rachel Sierra. I've been a Boy and Beach resident for the past 14 years and I live in the Las Migos community. I'd like to share a few of the many threats that this build poses to Las Migos to our safety or privacy and our quality of life. Privacy. Eight stories of apartments with balconies looking right into our entire community as this is basically a zero lot line build and set back as minimal. Trust passing, we're a private community with private roads and have not been gated for 48 years but with this build pedestrians and pet walkers will be naturally drawn to our park like setting. Noise, the plans for this proposed build are to put all the noise makers and foul odor producers right on our property line, which shows no respect or regard for our community as if we don't exist. Most of these items are high decibel and the point beach limit is 55 decibels. This includes a pick-up block court which averages 70 decibels up to 100 feet and can be heard at least two blocks away. The trash compactors 66 decibels, transformers 45 to 65 decibels with constant buzzing, dumpsters, trash pickup, truck deliveries, moving trucks, the parking garage is about 35 feet from our property line. The sound of cars constantly growing over the expansion joints, car alarms going off, engines revving, etc. Environmental, we have more than 800 catalog trees on our property, many of which are mangoes. The massive loss of sun will potentially stop the mangoes from producing and could eventually kill them, as they require six to eight hours of direct sunlight per day. The shadows cast by the eight-story building will significantly decrease the utility of solar panels installed in our community. This proposed build will put parts of our community in the shade for at least half of the day will block our ocean breezes, impact our grass and landscaping, and our quality of life. Flooding the 2.98 acres of open usable space has served as a natural sponge for several decades, and now the developer estimates what remains is 0.69 acres of available sponge. In the recent FEMA flood zone reassessment, half of the property was assigned an AE designation, meaning it is now officially in a flood zone. So half of this huge building is being constructed in a flood zone. How's that going to work? Who's overseeing that? That doesn't come back on us. And then there's also the concern of crime with all these extra people right outside of our neighborhood. Hood. Thank you. Thank you. Next place. My name is Gloria Goldsby. I live at 27 Kensington Lane in Boiton. I'm here at a concern. We have an assisted living facility that's located on Northeast Falls Street and Northeast 15th Court. I work in that area. So I see the seniors come and a crossover, the gravel track. Most of them are in wheelchairs or they have walkers or they're helping another senior try to get across the tracks. And one day I have the video. I actually watched one of the seniors that could belly walk, pushing another one in the wheelchair. And the track went down. And I counted to 18. And the Bright Line train came by. And I was so afraid that that person was going to get hit. Another incident, a dog was going across, and he actually, he was gone. The dog was gone. He got hit. Not only that, but that intersection coming out of the, that small shop in the there, there is no stop sign, no warning sign, everything. You got traffic coming from everywhere and everybody's trying to get across. You have the cause going, making a U turn and as they making a U-turn, people are crossing. So you're, it's always a streak, a streak, a streak of sound. And it is really, I'm having nightmares about the dog, first of all, because he just, it was no more dog. But more importantly, the seniors, is there anything we can do to address that problem? And then at night, it's really dark and those same individuals from the assisted living facility. They're coming across by cigarettes and whatever. Let's take care of our seniors because I'm one too. Thank you. Next please. Good evening mayor and commissioners. My name is Candace Avengio. I've been a resident of a point in Beach for 30 years and I've lived in Los Migos for 22 years. And traffic is one of our main concerns as well. There will be 401 cars in the parking garage dumping on to our little main road which is just 275 feet from federal highway on our property line. Traffic backs up on to our little road every single morning because I witness it on my way to work. Directly across are two lanes of South Federal Highway through the center turn, we referred to it as the Suicide Lane. Going through two lanes of North Federal Highway is North Colonial Club. Here there are approximately 252 vehicles exiting and entering. How are we ever going to get out to go to work? Or do anything, actually? The intersection of Southeast 28 and US 1 is already dangerous intersection. There have been fatalities over the years, and in 2024, there are at least five accidents. We are a mere 1 past three years from 1.8 million to 4.3 million trips per year. This bill will add another number of people to the police chief said the traffic in this corridor is insane. It is doubled in the past three years from 1.8 million to 4.3 million trips per year. This build will add another 500,000 trips per year. And this does not even include the impact that the townhouses will have. A Philly-Eddie Commission, a traffic study with Warroke Engineering in September of 2023, The traffic study did provide that the traffic calming measuring was not available. Talk about insane and dangerous. The visibility at this intersection is bad now. But they are even adding more to the street with three sides to the build. A bus shelter is planned on the southeast corner which will further impact the ability to see any oncoming traffic. JC Park is across the street with four lanes of federal highway and is in insane area. June residents will wanna walk to the park. They'll wanna take their dogs for a walk. They'll wanna take their kids to the park and they'll need a crosswalk. for a walk. They'll want to take their kids to the park, and they'll need a crosswalk. They'll want to go exercise. Where's the path? Is there going to be a walking path? How does anybody think this is going to work? Where are the traffic lights? Where are the crosswalks? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And if you can line up over at the second podium if you want so that we have them going back to back. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Mervyn Johnson. I'm a resident of the Los Manglos community and there's another issue I'd like to bring up. There is a median that runs down the middle of Southeast 28th Circle. been's been part of our main entrance for 48 years. And before anyone thought about building the atrium, which has been demolished now, we designed and built this median and have been maintained there, uninterrupted for 48 years. We landscape it, moet, fertilize it, trimmer trees, irrigate it, electrify it. We pay for the water used for the irrigation and for the electricity that lights up our sign. Both lines run from our property and are part our irrigation and electrical grid. What community would pay all of this for 48 years if it wasn't theirs? Our main sign sits on this medium. We've been told to move our sign because the developer wants to use the medium and is preparing to demolish it, our medium. They're going to put in a left turn lane on Southeast 28th Circle at this already dangerous intersection. But the sole purpose of this full court press from the developer and the city is to accommodate what the developer wants. The affiliated senior staff could not say who is mandating that this lane must be put in place. We're disputing the ownership of the median. The city searches records and found no agreements of any kind concerning the median. Additionally, we searched the county records in person and found no agreements. We granted easement and right of way for the 275 foot eastbound and westbound lanes on southeast 28th circle, which was originally named Loss Mangle Circle. Why would we maintain it all these years if we didn't own it from the start? Since when does a developer get to act in a way that is tantamount to seizing property via eminent domain? Who is the right to take private property for commercial gain? Back to the sign for a moment. In fairness, the developer has made several suggestions on where to move our sign. But none of them provide any utility. We've no interest in moving our sign. It's our sign on our property. So our answer about where to move the sign is, we like it just where it is. I would also say an eight-story building next to a residential development. That's not happened anywhere else. There's nothing like that between Walbright and Delray Beach and Lanark Avenue. We've got one story and two story townhouses and they they're gonna build up to the side of it. Eight stories high. Imagine that in your backyard. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Thanks, please. Thank you. Hi. My name is Jen Berry. Boy and Beach holds a very special place to my heart. I've been coming to Los Migos since I was a baby, and now I am a proud homeowner with my husband and son. I'm the third generation to reside in this home, and we hope for our son to be the fourth. Just as many others in our complex, we are a generational community. We've been reading up on what makes a good developer and what we should expect from a developer. We found the following quote. When it comes to real estate development community engagement often gets overlooked or treated as an afterthought But in today's urban landscape it's absolutely essential for developers to build strong positive relationships with local communities before breaking ground This isn't just about checking off a box on a planning permission form It's's about fostering trust, supporting the people who live there and contributing to the future of the area. Unfortunately this has not happened in our case. It's bad enough that these projects are permanently impacting our city in so many negative ways and their designs are what we refer to as Boyton Boring. Developers are using a cookie cutter approach, eight stories, big parking garages, lackluster design. As it turns out, the developer for the Dune, which is in front of Los Manges, is the same developer for the Pierce Project on Ocean Avenue. The Dune and the Pierce have a similar number of apartments. How does the Pierce get 25,000 square feet of retail space, including restaurants, a coffee shop, and other businesses, when the dune gets 2,500 square feet. They're proposing a gym when the build has a gym on its own. At the dune, you'll have to walk at least a mile to find similar services to the pierce. The developer didn't even make room for our wonderful dry cleaner in the new build. The massive dune structure also does nothing to support the historic charm of Los Mangos. In fact, it would permanently take away from it. They were literally stealing our sunshine. That being said, just because you can, doesn't mean you should. Thank you. Thank you. Next please. If you could kindly hold the applause till the end, that would be great. Hello. My name is Frances Saunders. I live in the Los Mangos community. I'm here to talk about the double standard headwins. We have not been treated fairly. What do we mean? The second live local project in the city has been handled 100% differently from ours. The developer went above and beyond with its neighbors. In this very chamber, we witnessed a variance request for the Seacrest Sound Project, the second live local project in Boynton Beach. This project is 89 apartments, three stories on 2.97 acres. They are in a residential zone with 30 foot maximum height. The land is surrounded by single family homes. This is a harmonious build unlike the proposed Dune that is 298 apartments on 2.98 acres. Same lot size, more than three times the density. We've learned in commission meetings this developer and its council actively engaged with the neighbors asking their concerns ensuring their privacy and safety were considered. They were asked for input and the developer responded. City commissioners went to the site for a review. We got none of this. Where is the fairness? The neighbors at Seacrest Sound were notified about this build. They knew it was coming. Los Mangos was never notified about the development by anyone. There were no hearings or meetings that we were notified of by anyone, even though the proposed Dune build drastically impacts our safety, privacy, security, and property values. No one came to us. Wondering how we found out about it? Through an obscure article posted on Facebook, the city knew this build was wrong and knew the impact it would have on us, but couldn't be bothered to let us know or to fight for us. This is not the first time we have not been notified about something major on one of our property lines. No one came to us about the homing in project either. Don't our elected officials at least owe it to their constituents to let them know what is happening that directly affects their neighborhood. They're three minutes, thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening, my name is Spinal A and I've been a resident owner for 25 years in Los Mangos. There's a provision in the existing law referred to as the one mile requirement. The act states that the maximum height can be as high as the tallest building within within a one mile radius of the proposed build. The proposed June project grossly exceeds by two times the maximum height of 45 feet because we are within a mile of the Avalon Riverwalk. It is important to note The exact distance from Los Mangos to the Avalon Riverwalk has not been formally established. We will be working on getting the paperwork. The spirit of the law is to provide workforce affordable housing but not up against the property lines of a single family residential area. The Avalon is not a comparable situation and shouldn't be used as the justification. The Avalon is not in a residential area. It has intercoastal on the east, commercial and mangroves on the south, commercial on the west, the Mermudike community on the north is across a major artery and over 300 feet will be 30 feet away from on a good day. This one mile rule is not applicable in all situations and it is not applicable in our situation and should not be a rigid requirement. The Live Local Act should be further amended to provide more protections for low density single-family neighborhoods. One-size-fits-all, all is not workable. This one-size-fits-all approach is ridiculous. The list of the problems with the proposed June build is extremely long. Let me share a few more examples. Number one, the dwelling units per acre allowed. Number two, the bonus the city has given to the developer for the dwelling units per acre. Three, the setbacks and four, the incorrect floor to area ratio calculations. Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg. This does not even begin to scratch the surface. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Hello, my name is Michael Salvatoreus. This is my wife, Kelly. We are Los Mangos homeowners. I've been a resident of Point and Beach for the last 10 years. So we want to talk about how this bill doesn't fit with our community and it actually doesn't even fit with the spirit of the Live Local Act and how it actually excludes families like ours. So the act states that a minimum of 40% of total units must be set aside for a qualified Live Local Applicants but it does not specify a required percentage of the bedroom unit type. And a quote from an affiliated executive to the project in the Sun Sentinel was quote, it's very, very difficult to build 40% of your project dedicated to workforce housing and do a high rise. The economics just don't make sense even with the tax incentive. I'm a financial analyst for a living, so this subject really hits home for me. If it's so difficult to make 40% work, why are they touting 61% of the dune as live local units if you can't even make money with 40%. How is it that the developer still continues with this project? If in his own words, it makes no economic sense. We investigated this and we found that 61% of the units turn out to be all one bedroom units and zero two bedroom units so Something I could point out is my wife and I are expecting our first child very soon in like two weeks very very soon If a family like us were to qualify for affordable housing and the only units available for us to rent are one bedroom units How would that work for us? It wouldn't work for us. We need the space. So who are these units for? I don't think they're four families. I don't think they're four people that the Live Local Act applies to. Those families are being excluded. So consider this. The developer can rent all the two bedroom units for the next 30 years at the prevailing market rate. And a lot of them have ocean views. So I ask again, who's this for? Our family's the future, Boynton Beach. We like the way we live now. I would invite all of you, if you haven't yet, go to Los Mangos, walk around. You will see how little sense this build makes. Go out to the site where the build is supposed to be. Look at the road. Then look at our community. Look at how many trees and birds and grass. There's, it's just completely different, and it will really disrupt the lifestyle that we love there. Everything the people here have said about the traffic, about the noise, the construction noise. I mean, if they're gonna begin demolition in two weeks and I'm gonna have a newborn, it's not ideal. I think a gate, I think a traffic light and I think a lot of other concessions like a moratorium on the 45 foot limit, higher distance from the board of our community, all those would be valid considerations. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening. My name is Liz White and I was a homeowner in Los Mangos for many years. As stated previously, we wholeheartedly support affordable housing that is built in the right places and then ensures longstanding communities are not negatively impacted. It should be a win-win for everyone, not just the developer. It should be truly affordable. It should be compatible with existing community zoning and the comprehensive plan. but this build is none of those things. I would ask you to think about the long-term impact this build will have on Boynton Beach, Ocean Ridge, Briny Breezes, Gulf Stream, all the way down to the Delray border. If the live local one mile rule stands with no exceptions, then these types of builds can continue out to the ocean into West Pointin, down to Del Rey, and beyond. I live just west of Congress now, and we too would be impacted by this. So what do we want? What is needed to make this more right and more fair? Here are a few items we have a long list, but the build needs to be lowered. It's just too tall. Make it a community of townhouses fitting in with the area and the city's comprehensive plan. Pull it out of live local and make it ownership versus rental. And unless you want more serious injury and traffic fatality, we need a traffic light and crosswalk at the intersection at Southeast 28 Circle. Move all the noise and odor creating items off as a Los Mangos property line. Help us fight for our neighborhood by pushing back on the state to change live local. They've got your hands tied but you can fight it. There are many other cities that are fighting back, where the third largest city in Palm Beach County used that cloud to our city's advantage. I would say what the previous spoke of said have any of you been to the build site at Los Mangos to see for yourselves how close, how dangerous, and devastating this will be to Los Mangos and other communities. At a recent commission meeting, some on the day us were bemoaning the fact that they would be able to see the town square build from their homes. Those homes will be four to five hundred feet from that build. We ask you to go outside your house, walk 30 feet, look up and imagine eight stories. Better yet, go to the avion river walk, walk 30 feet from the entrance and imagine your home right there. That's what the June is going to look like. Los Mangos is ground zero and taking the biggest hit. Isn't it time for all of us to start fighting this law? Please, we ask you to join the fight for us. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Hi. Hi, my name is Kim Roger. Generations of my family have lived in Los Mangos since the very beginning in 1977. We're on the fifth generation loving it there, and we want them to keep on loving it. In a recent Sun Sentinel article, a senior manager at Affiliate Development stated that the live local law is, quote, meant to address the nimbyism that happens. We are not nimby's. We're not in my backyard types. or more appropriately, we are not nimby's, not in my front yard. As we have clearly stated, we are all for affordable housing and keeping with our neighborhood heights and densities without impacting our safety and quality of life. Once we become the back alley for this build, our property values will decrease. Who's going to make us whole? Who's going to compensate that? Who's responsible for that? Were the folks that affiliated stand for this in their front yard? Would you all stand for this in front of your front yard? And would you all stand for this in your front yard? In the Boca Magazine article, Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer states, quote, we will continue to advocate to make sure that these local issues are decided locally and that we are not preempted from enforcing the normal zoning codes that have protected our city and enhance the character of our neighborhoods. He won't stand for this. We ask the day to follow Mayor Singer's lead, there needs to be balanced brought to this process. We've known that eventually something would be built on this property, but we never imagined something so out of character. Never imagined that a developer could be so careless of others and have total disregard for the city, for which they have set on multiple occasions they locked arms with. We've talked about today, what we've talked about today is just the tip of the iceberg with issues for the proposed build and its impacts. On a social media site, a senior manager at Affiliate Development posted a picture of the June apartments and said, quote, my baby, my backyard. I guarantee you that if this truly was in his backyard, he wouldn't be bragging about it, he would fight it. At an April 1st commission meeting, we made a brief two speakers presentation. We asked the city to step up and start a dialogue. In the two weeks since, we've heard nothing. When are we going to get together to move forward? We really need to move forward. Finally, we'd like to thank everyone that took the time today to come out and support and protecting the future of our city. Thank you. Thank you. Next, please. All right. One more Los Mangos person. My name's Anna Malaq. I've lived in Boynton Beach for 15 years. I'm a teacher. I have a few kids. And these people are my kids' extended family. And I want to give you an idea of what this community looks like for me because it is my affordable housing. I cannot afford to take my kids into a gated golf community. This is my community. This is what they've got, and it is amazing. My kids get to climb trees, my kids get to roller skate all over. When they say can I go play outside, they can go anywhere. If they're doing something stupid, somebody will knock on my door. It's what it's supposed to be. And this is all I can afford. This is as good as it gets and it's fine. It's great. And I want to just plant the seed that if this development is for affordable housing, let's make sure that it actually creates affordable housing that can be this kind of community without sacrificing the existing affordable housing and community that is here. This is the best of what Boynton Beach has to offer in its most like small scale thing. We are a city of balance. We have just enough development, just enough diversity, just enough fun. There's been a lot of great things happening in our city and we're proud of it and we like it but we don't want to be thrown be thrown under the bus or run over as we're trying to cross federal highway to get to the park with our children. That's all, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, my name is Mobin Chata. I'm a resident in Point and Beach. I now want to move to Los Mingos. I'm just here as a voter, a simple resident, just asking that as you develop your agendas and look at budgets, you pay attention to safety and security. As a first time mom to be, I have started to feel a little unsafe. I used to be able to walk in the evening outside of my neighborhood. I really can't. The speeding is very high. There's no traffic lights, and there's no stop sign. Words, I do work late with my husband. We go to the post office, our local post office. I'm boy and beach bou boulevard. We see homelessness there inside. They've called multiple times. There's nothing that's done. And that's a concern to me. I want to feel safe. I moved here for a reason. I pay my taxes for a reason. So as you develop your agendas and look at budgets and vote, safety and security is very important. I want to continue to feel safe and I need your help to make sure that I feel that. I'm going to echo the man earlier today that said this. It says you may have the power to vote but please do listen to the residents since we are here and asking you to vote what we want, not necessarily what you guys think. So I thank you for your time. Thank you. So you next please. Good evening. My name is Brian Bees. I'm district aid for state representative Jocicello. I'm also a resident homeowner in Nautica here in Boyn Beach. I just wanted to reach out. We have been speaking with some of the residents in Los Migos. They have been expressing their concerns with these issues. And unfortunately, the replica cello is in a bin session that I'll ask you today. But he said he wanted me to come over and speak to just let everyone know. He is planning on voting against the four bills that everybody is concerned about. He did vote for live local because of the need for more affordable housing, but he wanted me to say local. I'm voting against the four bills that everybody is concerned about. He did vote for live local because of the need for more affordable housing. But he wanted me to say local control has been his main kind of goal while at Pantala has. He's fought every instance he could of Tallahassee overreach trying to reach into municipalities back pockets. So he just asked me to come out today, make sure that the residents of Los Migos know that he's going to be voting against the four bills trying to extend the town as he's overreaching into the county or into the city. And our office is here in any way we can help. One other thing, well I do have a moment. I've heard a lot of people address the issue with traffic along that stretch on federal. Fortunately, one of our constituents down in Delray was killed, hit by a car while trying to cross A1A down in the Del Rey community Del Rey condos. We've been trying to help them through FDOT, get a crosswalk for there. The cost of that would fall on the residents themselves and it's going to be upwards of $50,000 to get the crosswalk installed and then it will be on them to maintain it going forward. We are going to be trying to get a local bill next year to try to get state funding for that but just to address some of the concerns that is the reality of if these crosswalks aren't put in when this development happens, it falls on the residents and it's a cost of upwards of $50,000. So thank you. Thank you. Next, please. Hi. My name is Pamela Tidwell. I live in Los Mangos. I'm a CPA in Nashville, Tennessee, and I bought my place there 15 years ago. I've never rented it. I've never used it as an Airbnb. I come down when I can so I've got off early and flew in today. People would say, why would you buy a property, pay the property taxes of over $4,400 a year at this point now because I can't get that good stuff y'all get. It's okay. Pay the, what do we add now? $800 a month for the HOA pay the $60 something for the water and sewer. I don't even come down eight weeks out of the year and never more than two weeks at a time. Keep a car in the driveway. Pay all the utilities. Why did I do that? Why have I always done that? Because it's Las Mangos and it's worth it. And guess what? I'm 68 now. Shitness said that, but you knew it. Uh, and here's the deal. After 15 years, I'm ready to move to Las Mangos. But not with this development. What's the point? We got better than that in Nashville. I can stay home in Nashville and not bother with what I've planned all my life. I go to the beach when I come down here and I make it a point to walk five to seven miles a day at the beach. Then all my friends back in Nashville say how do you do that I say you just keep going. I've been single now I think for 30 something years but that's a good thing because nobody would want to keep up with me at the beach there's a jet ski in my garage at Florida. I've been through that inlet I fell off in that inlet and some firemen were clapping. I didn't know about East winds, West winds and all that. All I knew was that thing was going to come over on me. That whole jet ski. So it threw me instead. But I just want to thank you all for hearing all this and I may not be like everybody else, but I am a CPA and I'm supposed to know something about numbers and where to live and how to do business and I say I did until now. Thank you. Thank you. And we are going to have our attorney kind of give an overview of some things. Hold on we have online my bad sorry. Oh there's no one online. We're going to close public comment, but we are going to have our attorney give a little overview and update on this issue. Sure. Very briefly. First, I want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank you all for coming out to express your concerns and participate in the local government process. I understand the live local act has created significant concerns for many Florida communities and the residents in this room. The preemption aspects of the legislation can be frustrating for residents and local officials who deeply value their community input in shaping the neighborhood's future. And it's difficult when decisions about development that will directly impact your daily lives, traffic patterns, and community character are taken out of your hands. Onto the legal fund. The live local act overrides local zoning laws for mixed use developments when at least 40% of the units are affordable. It established local preemption laws which significantly restrict your ability to reject development projects that otherwise comply with established zoning codes and administrative requirements. The law essentially creates a by-right approval process which prevents cities from denying compliant projects. This means developers can build on land zone for commercial or industrial purposes and bypass the city's restrictions on density, height, and use for otherwise affordable housing projects. The preemption requires the city to administratively approve projects that meet all technical specifications in the city code and limits discretionary review. Notably, this law is created by the state legislature and not by this commission. The legislature has allowed developments that qualify under live local to utilize the highest density permitted anywhere in the city, effectively increasing development potential without any say locally. With respect to the Doons project specifically, that project has not been brought forward to the city commission at this point in time because the law requires staff to administratively approve the project. Failure of the city to comply with the law may subject the city to litigation and the live local act does provide for prevailing party attorney's fees related to the live local act. So again, we recommend that you continue to lobby and contact your state legislatures regarding your concerns related to the live local act. So again we recommend that you continue to lobby and contact your state legislatures regarding your concerns related to the law. Thank you very much. Okay. We are moving on to section 5 administrative. Portion of the agenda. We have three boards with applications. Both appointments were table at the last meeting so I'd like to request a motion to untable the items. Motion to. We have three boards with applications both appointments were table to the last meeting so I'd like to request a motion to untable the items motion to Untable 5 a Do I have a second great all those in favor say aye? I just give them everyone gets out. Yeah. Wait. That's OK. Oh, no, she does. Are know, right? I think you're good. I think you're good. I think you're good. I think you're good. I think you're good. I think you're good. I think you're good. Okay. I think you're good. Okay. I'm really off with the motion passes unanimously for the first one. Okay. First up is the art advisory board. There are two regular positions and one alternate position and we have two applicants. The first nominee, she goes to commissioner Cruz, who will appoint a regular member to the art advisory board. Would you like to make your motion? Yes, Mary. I think, hold on a second. First name. I'm pulling them up. Marina. Aldenado. I'll go ahead and make a motion to appoint Karina Maldonado. Second. Good. Commissioner Cruz moved to approve Karina Maldonado as a regular member of the Art Advisory Board. Commissioner Turkin seconded the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. I didn't hear you. Okay. The second nomination goes to Commissioner Turkin who will appoint a regular member to the art advisory board. Would you like to make your motion? Yeah, I'd like to nominate Susan Frolic. Okay. Motion to appoint Susan Frolic. Okay. Second. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve Susan Frolic as a regular member of the art advisory board. Commissioner Kelly seconded the All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. There are no applicants for the building board of adjustment and appeals. Still five regular members and two alternate member positions are available for anyone who qualifies and would like to apply. We're moving on to the Community Redevelopment Agency Advisory Board. We have six applicants and there are three regular positions available. The first nomination goes to Commissioner Turkin, who will appoint a regular member to the CRA advisory board. Would you like to make your motion? Yep, I'd like to nominate Tommy Isabella. Motion to appoint Tommy Isabella. Second. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve. Tommy is a Thomas Isabella and Commissioner Kelly made the second as a regular member of the Sierra Advisory Board. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. The second nomination goes to me to appoint a regular member to the Sierra Advisory Board. I motion to appoint George Feldman. Second. Okay. Is there a second? Okay. Second was approved by Commissioner Turk and all those in favour say aye. Aye. Okay. Motion passes unanimously. The last nomination goes to Commissioner Cruz to appoint a regular member to the CRA advisory board. Would you like to make your motion? Yes, Mayor go ahead and appoint William Harper. Right a second. Second. Good. Commissioner Cruz moved to approve William Harper as the regular member of the Sierra advisory board. Commissioner Kelly seconded the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. The next board is the education and youth board with two alternate and three student member positions available. There are two applicants. The first nomination goes to Commissioner Turkin who will appoint an alternate education and youth advisory board member. Would you like to make your motion? You'd like to move to appoint Sandra Watson. Why does it take mine second? Okay. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve Sandra Watson as an alternate member of education and youth advisory board commissioner Kelly seconded the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. The second nomination goes to commissioner Kelly who will appoint an alternate education youth advisory board member. Would you like to make your motion? Thank you. Yes, I would appoint move to appoint Paul Jean as that alternate position. And do I have a second? Second. Okay. Commissioner Kelly moved to approve Paul Jean as an alternate member and education and youth advisory board commissioner Turkin second in the motion. All those in favor say aye. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, to apply if you're interested the historic resources Preservation board has three regular and two alternate positions available the library board has one regular position available the recreation and park sport has one alternate positions available. The library board has one regular position available. The recreation and parks board has one alternate position available. And the senior advisory board has one regular and two alternate positions available. Okay, moving on to community support funds. We have a request for 500 and community support firms from Commissioner Turkin to imagine Chancellor to help with sports programs and 500 from the South Florida Professional Golf Association to support veteran golfing. Do you want to go over both of them and we can just collectively? If you want to talk about them. It's fine. Go ahead. No, I got nothing to come. Motion to approve both. Okay. Second. So Commissioner Turkin, move to approve community support from Commissioner Turkin. That makes sense. Commissioner Kelly, second in the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All those pose aye nay. The motion passes unanimously. Moving on to six consent agenda. Consent agenda. We will now be moving on to the consent agenda. my colleagues want to pull any items from consent. Let's begin to my left, Commissioner Turkin. No. Commissioner Kelly. Thank you. Commissioner Cruz. No. Okay. If there are no further changes, we have a motion to approve the consent agenda. She'll move. Okay. Okay. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve the consent agenda. Commissioner Kelly second in the motion. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. Moving on to section 7, consent bids and purchases over 100,000. We will now move on to consent bids and purchases over 100,000. If my colleagues would like to pull any items, let's begin to my right. Commissioner Cruz. No mayor. Commissioner Kelly? Yeah, Mayor, I would like to pull seven B. Seven B. Thank you. Okay. Commissioner Trircan. Nope. make a motion to approve the rest of the agenda. Okay. Consent items. Not getting away that way, staff. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve. The remaining consent agenda. Commissioner Turkin made a motion to approve the remaining consent agenda. Commissioner Kelly seconded. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those post-say nay. At Newtian passes unanimously. That was a mouthful. Okay. Good evening, Mayor, commissioners, city management team. Give you a little background. We're here tonight for the funding source approval for the Arts and Cultural Center improvements. A little back with that. So in 2020, the high school was renovated, reopened as the cultural center. And due to constraints at the time, we were unable to build out the auditorium. So basically the first phase was completed to design in 23, 24. And phase two would be the construction implementation. So a little bit about the scope of work for the project. So the auditorium is expected to be used as an event space for performing arts activities, meetings, places for leagues of city meetings, a number of other things you could even possibly be a generate revenue for the city to have events and so forth there. A little bit more on the scope. So, the installation of an audio system, digital video screens, stage lighting and curtain systems, public address or PA system, window shades, acoustical treatments, and AV control booth, a green room, the HVAC system, a stage extension, and miscellaneous upgrades and improvements. The successful contract was last-code development and the contract amount was 1.242. I'm sorry, 1 million, $2,042,817, with a 10th percent contingency to bring the total amount to 1 million, $367,098.70. The duration of this project is 180 days to completion, 30 days to final completion, and the total duration for the project is 210 days. Thank you, I pulled this item not just necessarily for the details and not, you know, but really to just to let the public know that we are investing in the arts and cultural centers so that it becomes a more usable space, any event that we have in there, the acoustics are bad, you can't hear what's going on. And I've spoken to, you know, all the schools in my district, as well as the high school, that really want to this space. They love coming here for different events and they really want to utilize that space. But it's not usable for any true arts and cultural activities. So I really pulled the item to just highlight what improvements we are doing to the Arts and Cultural Center so that it becomes potentially a revenue generator but really a use that we can utilize and our schools can utilize and other programs can utilize. So I'm excited to see this happening and I know everything in the budget has gone up a little bit so we understand that but I just I wanted to highlight it because there are some exciting things going on at arts and cultural centers so thank you. Thank you for your comments. Motion to approve. Second. I'm just number two. I mean B. So. Oh, good. Commissioner Tercann moved to approve the resolution number R25-097A. Commissioner Kelly seconded the motion. All those of favor of approving the agenda as amended say aye. Aye. The motion passes unanimously. Okay. Moving on to public hearing. We have four public-carrying items. Public comment will be permitted on items 8 to A, B, C, and D. I will now turn to the clerk to swear in anyone here to speak on this item. Anyone here who is here to speak on items 8, A and and b please stand up and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you are about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Thank you may have seen If each commissioner can please make any disclosures at this time regarding items 8a and 8b Commissioner Cruz I do not have any disclosures You have to actually say it. Oh, I apologize. Yeah. I'm learning it too. I know it's going to work. As to this matter, I have not had expert communications. I have not received written communications that I'm aware of. I have not conducted an investigation. I have not made a site visit. I have not received expert opinions other than staff. I request that these closures and all written communications be made part of the record. Thank you. Moving on to Commissioner Kelly. As this matter, I have not had exparte communications. I have not received written communications. I have not conducted an investigation, I have not made a site visit other than driving down Congress Avenue almost every day of my life. I have not received expert opinions. I request that these disclosures and all written communications be made part of the record. Commissioner Turkin. As to this matter, I have not had X-part communications I have not received any written communications. I have not conducted investigation. I have made a site visit. I have not received any expert opinions outside of staffs or requests that these disclosures and all written communications be made part of the record. I have not had any expertise communication. I have not received written communication. I have not conducted an investigation. I have driven by the site as well. I have not received expert opinions. I request that these disclosures and all written communications be part of the record. As to 8 a and b, they will be presented together. I'll turn this back. Oh, sorry. As to 8 a and a b, they will be presented together. I asked the city clerk to read 8 a.m. I'm sorry. to 8 a and 8 b they will be presented together. I'll turn this back. Oh, sorry. As to 8 a and 8 b they will be presented together. I ask the city clerk to read 8 a and 8 b into the record, please. 8 a's approval or denial of the request for a major site plan modification application to construct an 8,111 square foot addition to the existing medical and professional office building and associate aside improvements on the outpoursel and the Boyton Beach promenade located at 1101 North Congress Avenue. 8B is the privilege of development or order or a fair for variance from part three chapter four article five section 2.6 table four dash, commercial and office health care uses to allow a reduction of 42 required parking spaces to accommodate the 8,111 square foot addition to an existing two-story 15,800 square foot building. Okay, can we please have the applicant begin? Madam Mayor commissioners and returning. Brian Chekis, principal planner, I plan and design very pleased to be here this evening. Thank you for allowing me to present both applications at the same time. Their companion pieces. And I have a brief presentation that I'll just fly through because it's a pretty simple request. I'm here on behalf of my client, Salon Holdy, and company, a group of docs who have purchased his property in 2021, have started moving their operations over there. They're looking for this approval for expansion at this location coming from an incorporated Palm Beach County into the city proper to bring those services and those jobs to the city itself. Our traffic engineers around Mr. Adam Kerr from Kimly Horn and myself for entitlements. And the architect, a local architect, Harold Toddle, I think everyone knows him locally who helped with the architectural design for this project. We're seeking from you all an approval for a master site plan modification that includes 8,111 square feet. It takes a 15,000 square foot building and it's up to 22,000 square feet, almost 23,000 square feet. We're asking to add 10 parking spaces on our site. And we're also asking for the relocation of an existing very old and outdated dumpster enclosure to put it into a corner and get it out of the way as we improve this property. The last part of it is a variance for parking for up to 49 parking spaces per per code, but I'll talk to you about how we feel that that number is excessive. And we think that number's much, much lower for the use that we're proposing. Uses that we're proposing and for how we're oriented within this parcel, within the greaterd and Beach Mall site. So you all know the location, you've all been there, 1101 North Congress is located at the northernmost access, rode into the Boyd and Beach Mall. It has a 40 year old building on it. It's not exactly exemplary architecture and it's something that could use a facelift and a complete makeover. And this group that's coming in wants to do and achieve that. Looking around the building, we all know what it looks like. The dumpster enclosure, I don't know who designed that. It's massive, that's gonna be taken down in parking spaces, we'll go there and that'll be part of the cleanup around the site. but there's not a lot of modifications in and around the site. This some improvements were proposed and are very self-contained and I'll show you that in the architectures. Building was built over 40 years ago. As I said, they're 2021, they purchased the property, they're coming in from one and in court unincorporated Palm Beach County to Boyton Beach proper. The expansion is entirely within the existing footprint of the building. So we're not spreading out. It's all self-contained. We spread out on the first floor where the existing drive-throughs are located. That was for the integrity bank that was there for a number of years. a since gone moved moved on and we're adding a third floor, partial third floor, all within the confines of the existing building footprint. This is the approved site plan. It's decades old. As you can see it was a bank office use originally where the parcel in the south, in the bottom right hand corner of the project. In 1996, the boundaries of our site, parcel A, where our buildings located were modified, and the parking at the center was reduced back in 1996 to accommodate for updating and constantly reconfiguring ADA requirements. So that plaza was going through requirements to keep up to date with ADA requirements that are parking spaces kept away at and what they have today is much less than what was originally approved to develop 35 years ago. This is what our site would look like plugged in on that corner, zooming in on the improvements. This is the ground floor of the building today. We would be looking at a very, and that's the overall second floor footprint around it. We would be looking at adding about a thousand square feet on the ground floor at the west end behind the building. So these spaces wouldn't even be seen by the passing public on Congress Avenue. We're also, we wrapped that new parking around the northwest and south sides of the building for that ground floor activity. The third floor is partially filled in with a balcony and a terrorist balcony at the front facing Congress Avenue. Very high-end architecture from what's in the plaza today globally as well as our site. And I think staff did a great job at packet review to kind of show you all the architecture and how it's going to look with all of the enhanced cornices and various copains and windows shutters and differentiation in colors and glass railings. Just a high- end architectural modification. This is the site in which the dumpster will be relocated up and from there to this corner of the site and put into a reasonably sized enclosure. As we talked, the architecture in the middle and on the left-hand side is the existing building compared to what's gonna be seen there after the renovations. So not only are they relocating to the city, but their goal is to enhance this site to be to match and be competitive and be part of in complimentary to all the commercial uses that are redeveloped on North Congress Avenue over the past decade. Renaissance Commons, but not compete with them, complimentary services, medical services, professional office services, not retail services. Again, the architecture is foresighted. There's no side that is untreated. It all enhances, and to the betterment of the site itself, as well as to the betterment of the plaza. We are seeking the variance for the by code 49 spaces. Our reasoning is such. The standards of the code require that a special conditions or circumstances exist, which are particular to the land structure building involved and not applicable to other lands. We believe this is our specific case. It can't be recreated. We're in an out parcel within a plaza. We have shared parking and that shared parking is governed by restrictive covenant. So we have the ability to work out a third party private agreement level to horse trade parking if it's ever required. And I'll get into the fact that it's never going to be required again in this plaza and It's going to be challenging for all retail centers moving into the future Be special conditions or circumstances do not result from the actions of the applicant For the variant we believe that's correct with the original approval prohibits any reasonable modifications or upgrades to the out parcel because the parking rate 35 years ago overburdened this site. It was given a one parking space per 200 square foot parking rate and we have a range of uses that don't park at that intensity. So we out of the box already have more parking that we meet. My client can attest to the fact that they're parking lots half empty all the time because they're over parked for the amount of building they have are even proposing and that they'll probably never get to the max number provided on site. See, variance granted will not confer on any special privilege over any other land structures in the same zone and district. Yes, this request is being made for specific site within a larger shopping center, as I said, in which we share parking spaces. It'll be a third party agreement if there's ever a problem in the future, and as we all know, when these regulations were applied to this center 35 years ago, there was no internet. There was no Amazon delivery, so every parking space counted, and it was needed. And parking lots were full. Fast forward two decades later, and the advent of internet, fast forward to the 2007 financial crisis, when parking at centers was exactly how it looks now, it was devastated. Brick and mortar stores are seeing a massive reduction in the amount of activity they see because they're competing with online shopping. Fast forward to 2021 in the 2020 in the pandemic and commercial and shopping centers obliterated. So we're now in 2024 and our parking analysis from 2021 show that we had 100 plus spaces available in that plaza. In 2024, we have 200 spaces. We understand and we recognize big lots has gone. So the massive parking that was happening at big lots is contributing to that number, but the number's not going down. The number available spaces are getting bigger, and we recognize that. If we have a parking problem on this center, we'd be super happy. We'd be really happy, actually, because they'd be successful in the big lot of activity. If these folks activate this site and bring activity to that site, they'd be more happy to work with the plaza and harsh trade parking spaces because it becomes an active center again If everyone's waiting for big lots to come back that ship is sailed Little D literal interpretations Provisions of the ordinance would deprive the applicant of rights commonly enjoyed by other properties Yes medical and office uses park at a different rate. They don't park at five per thousand. Medical office does, but professional office does. The IT standards, international transportation engineer standards nationally are at 1 per 300. So we're already on paper over parked, and the demand is higher than what would normally be required. And so our combination of uses out of the box has already been overburdened for parking. E, the variance granted is the minimum variance that will make possible reasonable use of the land structure or buildings. This request will update and modernize a 50-year-old building and ample parking is available to support the request because of our unique situation being an old parcel within a plaza with shared parking. Parking will never be a problem off site. We will never spill out into the street with respect to how this is oriented within the greater Boyton Beach Mall property. And then F. Ferrance Granado will be in harmony with the general intent purpose of the ordinance and will not be injurious to the, judgmental to the area involved, their public welfare. Yes, I'm getting this, we'll keep this medical office, user in your city, it'll bring jobs into the city, it will activate that portion of the center, it'll modernize that portion of the center and maybe it'll start other great things at that center. But right now paper code is restricting us from being able to advance this. We are asking for more intensity, but it's not egregious. It's a small amount of additional medical office that will go a long way to advancing the progress of this site and the center. Again, to quickly reiterate, we analyze this from an on the ground parking analysis in 2021, when they first bought the building, and we're interested in improving this wholesale and improving it. And we did it again in 2024, and the numbers show that we're well over-parked for our site as well as for the overall center for the use that we're proposing. With that, we're not here to beat staff up. We're here to try and fix an incongruency with the code requires and what we believe is happening on the ground. And that by advancing the variance and approving the site plan approval, we can get these docs to come into the city and provide those complimentary services to all the stuff that's happening out in the North Congress corridor now. With that, I'm seeking commissions approval of both the variance and the major site plan modification. If you have any questions, we are here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you very much. Thank you. Is there any staff response? Did I just yell? Hello, my name's John Stoud. I'm a planner here. The staff is unable to, due to strict, strict reliance on the code, a staff is unable to recommend approval. However, if the commission wishes to recommend approval, staff recommends that the variants be approved and the variants be approved for 49 parking spaces as he had mentioned previously had been 42 but for the shopping center to be parked completely and to code it would not be 49 and it both are approved and that is the commission's prerogative. So thank you. Okay, any comments from the commission? Nope. I mean from Thursday's agenda workshop my position remains the same I think this is a great opportunity moving Jobs from the west to the east side of Boying Beach medical office too As I mentioned earlier drove by there, you know reviewed this Google satellite and I think this is one of those situations where we need to take a holistic look at all of this, you know, when it comes to our ordinances and codes and zoning all together, requirements for parking. So I don't have any issues. I'm okay to move forward. Great. Krishna Kelly. Thank you, Mayor. I do have one question for the applicant if you don't mind. Thank you. Are they anticipating that the tenants will remain, I know, they've been medical, is that the intent that they will stay as low intensity as they currently are because obviously depending on the tenant would depend on you know what the you know the rate of parking would be. Great question. These are end users so these are the they have PCP's primary care physicians and they have their practice that are in that building so this isn't not jam in a whole bunch of different uses in there. It's going to be very much scaled to the site and to the building. And that's a good limiting factor in terms of the number of doctors and the amount of staff that they bring in. So as an end user, they're not improving this and opening it up to anyone and trying to jam tenants in there because they want the space for themselves And that's why the architecture is so It's it's it's it's rigorous. It has a lot of elements on it that serve their purpose outdoor deck space very very high-end finishes because they want that for themselves Great so instead of it being kind of a multi-plex with various tenants, it's going to be their building. There is an office, professional office floor in there as well. But that's about one third of the space. The second floor is dedicated to professional office. And that's again, pulls out that parking number down. But they curate their tenants based on what their needs are. So it's, again, it's not completely rented out to someone else and they just try to get as many tenants in as possible. It's basically making sure it's the right tenant mix for their practices. Right, yeah, because I mean, that's, I mean, I am, I support bringing, you know, this business to Congress Avenue, but what my question was for was, ensure that we have that it's not just going to end up then going to some high intensity business that then we have to. And I know it's not Arbordon to worry about it. It would be you as the, where them as the owners, but, you know, that was my concern was, you know, what with what the tendency was gonna look like, because, you know, obviously, when you're bringing in another 8,000 square foot, you have to envision that that's employees and that's patients and everything, but if their intensity is remaining the same, then we can understand, you know, the justification. So, and that is, I think that is my only question that I had. The only, it came up during our agenda review, and I can ask you since you're here and you weren't on that. Um, has there been communication with the, the plaza, or with the other tenants with regard to shared parkings? I that was something that came up that previously there had been you know I don't know if it was verbal agreements or agreements that you know they were sharing parking but my understanding from staff was that there hadn't been any recent communication but I just wanted to check with you to see if anything had changed since our last communication with staff. Very happy to report that there was communication with the owner of the plaza prior to your agenda packet meeting. I sent them all the information that it was part of this application. In the maybe once or twice that I was able to communicate with them, sent them everything, told them the request, and that was the last we heard from them, and I understand why, because we're an out-parts alone and we have an agreement to share parking so until or unless it's something that pops up that they need to poke their head into they saw what was happening and that was the end of our discussions so we were able to reach out to them get a hold of them and that happened before packet review and so there's no mystery to the Boyton Beach promenade ownership. Okay. So there are no tests and they understand what you're doing. Yes, ma'am. And no news is usually no objection and no new in no. Commissioner Kelly, they would have been noticed as part of this application as well. Yes. Perfect. Thank you so much. Those are you. Chris Nurgers. I think all the questions have been asked pretty much. I would be supporting this because I know it's going to create local jobs and we definitely need to revamp that area on Congress. So I'm supportive. Thank you. Okay. I guess it's not really a relevant question to this but are we encouraging local hiring And you know, that's one of the things that is important to us. It's not relevant to this, you know, application per se, but that's if we could. One of the docs is here and he nodded and said, yes, they will be hiring locally. So as a sidebar, yes, we'll be supporting local employment endeavors. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Great. We are taking public comment on this. It's permitted on items 8A and 8B at this time, with each person having three minutes. If you could come on down. I always feel like the price is right when I get. Susan Oyer, BoiTan Beach. First of all, I think this is a fabulous project and I think you guys should approve these exemptions. This is wonderful. I would just point out a is right when I see. Susan Oyer, Point and Beach. First, well, I think this is a fabulous project and I think you guys should approve these exemptions. This is wonderful. I would just point out a couple of things that weren't addressed and probably because I wasn't there. We have to ask him for it at a prior date. What is the art feature going in or is the money going into the arts? Are we doing something big and beautiful? I mean, this is the perfect place to maybe you should explore taking some of these city-owned pieces of art that are sitting in warehouses and maybe selling them and having them put them up and make them available. That would be a perfect use if you could get the art board to do that, which I'm sure they would. It gets them out of your warehouses. Second of all, I noticed in looking at the picture, it looks like it's going to be very dark roof. And the last time I checked, which was when I got the code changed, was that these buildings are supposed to have white roofs. So then why is this not have a white roof? And when was the codes changed that I wasn't here to sit there and argue about because I'm the one who got the codes changed. Next up, the canopy trees should be surrounding the parking lots that was put into code. What happened to that? We are supposed to have canopy trees around every parking lot going forward. So where is that? I just see partial trees. And they're beautiful, yay, no palms which are horrible because they are not trees. Also, are we doing some kind of butterfly planting to help encouraging our atala butterfly colony that we are one of the few places left in the United States that has atala butterflies. They cost the same as every other plant. So why not put them in and encourage the atala's to spread beyond just the downtown this area and my neighborhood Out to that area and especially make this happen and hopefully you'll be thinking along those lines when it comes to them all changes too and Not having seen the whole plans. What are the plans for putting electric car chargers in and adding more handicap? because if you have medical, medical means old people and people with issues and disabilities. So you need more handicap than normal, bigger spaces than normal, especially near the doors, and electric because we are an electrifying nation. So let's be prepared and as somebody who owns an electric car, I will tell you it is absolutely miserable to try and find someplace to charge and why not be the leader in this, especially if you're going to be upgrading and having a luxury office space, have luxury options because you know those doctors are showing up with electric cars. So thank you for your time, but please address these code issues that were changed that don't appear to be on this plan. Thank you. But otherwise vote yes. Are there any further questions or comments from the commission? If there's nothing else, may we have a motion to approve? To approve. Second. You need a separately or both? Separately, they would like for you to vote on 8B first and the motion needs to be modified on 8B to provide a variance of 49 spaces rather than 42. Motion to approve 8B with the modification of 49 species instead of 42. Commissioner Cruz second in the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. And the motion to approve a. Second. Okay. If they were at any certain way. Okay. Commissioner Turkin moved to approve item 8a. The major site plan modification. Commissioner Cruz second in the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. Regarding 8c. Thank you very much. C 25-103, first reading and ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Boyton Beach, Florida, amending part three, land development regulations, chapter one, general administration, article two, definitions, amending chapter two, land development process, article two, planning and zoning division and services, section five, permit applications, amending chapter three, zoning, article five, supplemental regulations, section three, common building, app, a preventances, re-standing structures, and site amenities, excluding walls and fences. Amending Chapter 4, site, development standards, Article 8, utility and for section design, standards, Section 3, standards establishing regulations for artificial turf providing for codification, providing for severability, providing for conflicts and providing for effective dates. Can we please have staff begin the presentation? Good evening mayor and commissioners my name is Aja Yankeem principal planner, redo planning and zoning division. I'm here to present land development regulations amendments to establish the use of artificial turf in the city. Next slide. Staff of Proposal Dis amendments to define what-visiterve established application process and review documents identified prohibit locations and then standardized installations and maintenance. This slide shows the findings based on research conducted from the from cities which was presented at the City Commission meeting on the Webber 4th of 2024. Just briefly added this slide to recap. A city that allows artificial turf only in a side in a rear yard, Delaware Beach, Lake was Wellington Wellington was Palm Beach. Cities that do not allow artificial turf is green acres, Jupiter and Palm Springs. Cities generally do not allow artificial turf within the right ways as well as the drainage easements and they do require permit to review manufacturing specifications and a verified drainage requirements. So now goes to the definition. I tried to memorize this. It was quite complicated so I'm gonna read through it. So artificial turf, a surface material made from synthetic made of fibers or similar materials designed to resemble natural grass. Artificial turf is shall consist of green life-like individual blades that closely mimic the appearance and the color of natural grass. Along with the artificial turf definition, we are we are establishing definition for the impervious and impervious surfaces to review the use of artificial turf in the city. So artificial turf will be review and process as a zoning permit along with with the standardized documents and plans, documentation detailing material installation of artificial turf system. Also, it's proof of made in USA to ensure compliance with current safety instanters, as well as it may require the drainage plan under the certain circumstances. Artificial turf needs to be, must be installed in accordance with the manufacturer's specifications, and it must be kept clean in good condition to maintain the original appearances. These are images shown that where the artificial turf could be used in single family as well as parks. And these images are shown that also artificial turf could be used, mixed use, or non-residential zoning district could be used for outdoor dining or roofed out gardens or pool deck areas. Artificial turf will be allowed in all districts, all districts except areas designated for the drainage and retention area. Landscape areas are defined in outline in the article 1 and 2 in the land development regulations. Rights of a way, waterways, water banks, and the registered historic properties. Staff would recommend approval of this Land Development Regulations amendment to establish use of our artificial turf. That concludes my presentation and I'm here for any questions. Any comments or questions from the commission? Yes, real quick. Because I know the presentation included rear and side yard. This is applicable for the front yard as well, correct? Absolutely. No, thank you guys so much for doing this. I've spoken a lot on this in the past in previous meetings. I would like the recommendation of increasing the square footage from 800 to 1,000 feet. And so that's my only, my ask for my colleagues. Thanks. My only, so I know you said it's going to be allowed in all districts except the list, but I'm assuming that also means that HOAs and neighborhoods that have their own books. So just for the use of the public, it's not something that unfortunately we can't govern what an HOA does and their neighborhood allows. So this wouldn't apply to that either. So maybe just to clarify. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Public comment is permitted at this time. If anyone would like to come up, you have three minutes. Okay. Any further questions from the commission? I just want to clarify the commission's target wanted increase from the 800 square for a food of in previous service to 1000. Are you referring to the all district? Okay. Okay. I'm just starting. I'll hold your hand. Hc with the amendment from start to 800 to a thousand feet. Your microphone's off. Sorry. I just wanted to make sure it was heard. Got it. Okay. You want to say it again? Yeah. Motion to approve 8C with the amendment moving 800 square feet to a thousand. Second. Okay. Let's turn to the city clerk for a roll call. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put it on the table. I'm going to put title into the record. Proposed ordinance number 25-0-0-4 for first reading in ordinance of the city commission, amending the art in public places and public beautification regulations of the code of ordinances, repealing part two, code of ordinances, chapter two, administration, article 11, arts commission, article 12, art in public places program, repealing chapter 27, advisory boards and committees, article two, Boyton Beach Beach Art Advisory Board, Section 27-21, intent, Section 27-22, definition, Section 27-25, establishment of public art fees, Section 27-26, Public Art Fund, and Section 27-27 Art in Public Places, Guidelines. Amendment Chapter 27, Advisory Boards and Committees, Article 2, Boit & Beach Advisory Board, Boit & Beach Art Advisory Board, Section 27-24, Purpose and duties, amending Part 3, Land Development Regulations, Chapter 1, General Administration, Article 2, Definitions, and Article 5, Housing Initiatives, Section 1, State Housing Initiatives Partnership Act, Amending Part 3, Land Development Regulations, Chapter 2, Land Development Process, Article 6, Impact and Selected Fees, Section 5, Article in Public Places, Amending Chapter 4, Site Development Standards, Article 14, Murals, I'm going to start with the first place. I'm going to start with the second place. I'm going to start with the second place. I'm going to start with the second place. I'm going to start with the second place. I'm going to start with the second Amanda Radigan, Planning and Development Director. This item comes before you based on commission direction to look at opportunities to expand the use of the public art fund. The original presentation and discussion among the commission was given back in July 2024. So this ordinance and this presentation is based on the discussion that we coming from public art. This was some of the things we could do immediately within the code. The other direction we got was to initiate an arts master plan which I'm happy to report the RIP and out. We had great response and we are about to start negotiation with the consultants that will be moving that project forward. So this ordinance aims to accomplish three things. The first it aims to expand the use of the public art fund specifically for public spaces and beautification efforts. The second thing it does is incentivize the public portion of the public art fund over the private development art portion of the public art program. And the third is this was a large cleanup. The art program was in three different places in our code. So you'll see in the ordinance two of them have been completely repealed and it was consolidated in one place under the land of been completely repealed and it was consolidated in one place under the Land of Elmer regulations. So the definition expansion, we created a new definition for a public art project and that last sentence in bold is the biggest difference. It essentially says that an art project can include a work of art, but it can also include the overall beautification of public spaces. We tightened up the definition of a public art budget, who were using budget instead of fee, and we removed a lot of duplicate definitions. So this is a visual of what this expansion of funds does. To the beginning of the slide, to your left, you'll see some of the previous things that you could get approved under the art program. Single pieces of art, art works. This expansion allows all of the things on the right side of the screen. It allows functional art such as under lighting, seating, projects like shade structures that can serve the public in a functional way as well. So the idea behind this amendment is to not only use it for art but overall beautification that can benefit the public as a whole. The other thing I'd like to point out is since this is for public spaces and the public The public overall it would also include the beautifying public spaces relaxes regulation on what a formal art would be and it also restores public spaces and memorializes historic beauty So again things like utility wrap-shaped structures Paint on roads all of those things would be permissible under this amendment. And even more so, it also allows for historic preservation of public spaces. It allows adaptive reuse, restoration of existing buildings and beautification of natural spaces. The second thing this does, like I said, is incentivizes the public portion. How we incentivized it was essentially creating a discount for the program if you pay instead of produce art. So if you are producing art on site, you pay the full 1%, you use that towards your budget to create art on your private property. If you are doing the pay and lieu of, you essentially get a 10% reduction. It goes into the fund. The city then uses that fund to do public projects. And the last thing again was a cleanup. We struck through multiple sections. We consolidated under one place. We removed duplicate definitions and we clarified definitions. Staff is recommending approval. This is the first reading. We are able to make amendments between readings if the commission chooses. I am available for questions. Any questions or comments from the commission? Just a clarification does not eliminate the the arts program, essentially this widens the scope for the use of the funds which we have discussed over months and months where this originated. It's an initiative from the Andrews House. That way we don't create an exit burden on the taxpayers or we eliminate investments. So I think this is a great amendment and thank you for bringing this forward. Thank you for bringing that up. This does not eliminate the art program. This at the most is a small shift from a more public, public art program to a private development art program. Thank you. Commissioner Kelly? No, just thank you for doing this. It's one of those things where we're getting these projects and getting this funding in and to have now a true mechanism where the city can use it in a functional way as well as you know to bring in creative art I think is you know is a great way to look at this so now I appreciate all the amendments so thank you. Thank you And we're hoping that the art master plan once that's initiated, we'll be stakeholder meetings, public meetings, and that plan will really help us guide how to fund, or what projects to fund and how to use those dollars. What Amanda, what's the timeline for that? I know you said it was out for. So it's soon. Yeah, so we're working with procurement. It's, we're. The bit is closed. We have selected someone. We already had presentations on your next agenda. You will see an item to request to negotiate. And then on the next agenda, if we come to terms with negotiation, you will see a request to award. So one month is my go. Okay. And then what is the plan for you were just mentioning for public meetings and what's your plan? Moving forward with that and making sure that the word gets out so that Anyone who wants to participate is able a big part of the RFP was public outreach So the R.P included requirements for stakeholder meetings public meetings kickoff meetings reviews and workshops of our, I mean, it's fully loaded. Websites are specific to this project, surveys, anything we can do to get input in it, we will do. And if anyone has specific things they would like to see happen, please communicate with me, I'll be happy to include them. Yeah. No, I think it's just, you know, looking outside the box, I think one of the things that we've always, you know, I feel like has always been a speed bump when getting information out is not everyone's on the internet and not everyone's on social media and so really, you know, to get out there and get creative in different ways that we can get the postcards, we could do mailers. I mean, right. All the things. All the things. All the things. We should do all the things because it is important. Yes. You know, city wide. So we want to make this plan live for a long time. They're meant to guide how we fund projects. We want to make sure the appropriate amount of input is put into it. Great. Thank you. Commissioner Cruz. I think can we please go back to the maybe like two slides back? One more I think can we please go back to the maybe like two slides back. One more. I think. Yep. Now what's the current status of the issuance of building permit to do you guys currently take 30% of the art fee as as it is like is that like a thing now. So that exists. The only change in this program is that if you are doing the public portion or the PANLU of program, it would be the same. You would pay 70% into the fund or you would use 70% to construct your art. What we're doing is essentially discounting the fee to 60% instead of the 70. All right, thank you. Okay, public comment is permitted at this time. Each person has three minutes. Thank you, Susan Ouer, Winton Beach. I thought you guys weren't doing public comment on this. Winner, I would have been slightly more prepared. I can't even begin to tell you all the things I find wrong with this. While I think the idea itself is great, I think you should take the funding from adding a separate fee onto these hideous, awful towers that are coming in that none of us want, none of us need, and are going to destroy the beauty and character of our city as opposed to taking money away from arts which should truly be arts and should be pushed out for expanding and getting our kinetic back on track that we are so famous for and the other arts projects that we have that are we are so famous for in our city. and that's where the funding needs to stay versus, you know, giving a discount. Jeez, I wonder which one, every single developer is going to pick. Oh, do we pay, the large winner, do we do we pay the discounted one and do something else? And I totally get where this is going, and I think it's, you know, the ideas for the landscaping beautification projects, whatever are great, and they need to happen. I think there's other ways to fund them versus taking it out of our already too small kinetic budget. We already aren't enforcing the arts to the level it should be. For example, the mural at the mall was never approved. That golf statue, golf or statue at a high-rigged country club, was never approved by the Arts Board, and it was supposed to be. It's underfunded, it's not unique, it's not allowed. So, and that came in during, I guess, before Glen, when he was the Arts Director, but we really need to look at this closely. We can have both, we can have it all. Let's make our city beautiful. Let's do the right thing. Let's truly encompass what it means to live in Boynton Beach and have the best possible city. But let's do this the right way. Let's not steal from Peter to pay Paul. Let's have all of it and let's make our city incredible and we don't need to destroy one to make the other happen. So I invite you to say no, and of course I'm telling the world. So I'm assuming you'll get a fair amount of input in the next week or two before the next commission meeting from all the people in this city and all the famous artists nationwide and worldwide. That love the fact that Boynton is a kinetic and art city and has always been a proud supporter of the arts and is one of the old original art cities in the United States, not just the state of Florida. So if we're truly looking at respecting our history and our heritage, let's look at what it really is and what it means and not to the one person who's trying their darned us to destroy this, which you know is on my list. And you and I will be talking. Thank you. Next, please. Hi, Commission, A. Silt and Ratcliffe. I've served on the art board as many of you know for years now. It's changed a lot over the last few years. I am hopeful that this will be used positively. I love the idea of expanding the definition of what art can be and how it looks in our city. I'm very hopeful that that means that our art will actually expand beyond kinetic. beyond kinetic. I think in some ways that the kinetic is actually a little bit old-fashioned and I don't think that it is as expansive as Winton Beach deeds are deserves to be in terms of our art. So I'm very excited about this. I know that we're bringing parks and rec into this, so I am hopeful that as this moves forward, it won't all become architecture and parks and rec. I hope that there will remain a focus on creating not entirely traditional art forms but keeping the art to some art. And I am hopeful I know that one of the things that we did change in the code was that we asked for more local artists to be included. I know that as we bring parks and commissions into this and we beautify spaces using greenery, I would request that there may be some language included that incentivizes as Susan was talking about local flora particularly. I think that that could be a really exceptional way to make point in a betteray better place as well So the Coontee Palm or any other natives an emphasis on that I think could be really useful here. Thank you Thank you Are there any further questions or comments from the commission? I'll just say I still have I still have some questions I went through the entire ordinance entire ordinance and there's some things that I kind of have questions about and it looks like everybody else is ready to go. So, if you have questions, you can ask them. So they can get addressed before the next meeting. Yeah, I'm sure you can hear me. So, let's get on with business. Motion to approve. 80. Second for discussion. I do have a question though. With regard to arcanetic art program, that's not something that is paid through this public art fund. That's something that is funded separately. Am I correct? Through arts and cultural? It is public art funds. Oh, it is. It is in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. It's in control. and options for that that will be discussed with commission stakeholders on the public too, but currently yes it is funded 100% to the public art fund and will remain until otherwise decided by the commission. with commission stakeholders on the public too, but currently yes it is funded 100% to the public fund and will remain until otherwise decided by the commission. Okay, thank you. I do have a question to on the administrative fee. Again in comparison to other municipalities, is that a high or a low fee of 30% administrative? The 1% is what is comparable everywhere. I'm not sure all ordinances split it up this way. Since this is a self-contained fund, that 30% goes towards all administrative, including staffing for the program. So it is set up as two funds. Anything that comes out of administrative, if there are surplus that goes into the general public guard. If I can. Follow up on that. That was kind of one of my questions. It's, I mean, 30% is a significant amount and if we have such a small amount for say for beautification and art in the city and this is our only source, we do have the general fund to fund staff and things of that nature. That's why I asked, like, has this always been the case? Because I wasn't aware. This has been structured this way since the beginning of this program, but it, although we collected in two different components, it is still one fund. So staff is being paid partially from this this fund anything that is not used for administrative is going towards in our budget and anything again at the end of the year that's not expended we have you know a fund balance that we maintained within this fund as well but it is obviously up to the commission if you want to move administrative completely out of this fund and onto the general fund, it could be, and right now, it is paying for staff as well as the art programs. Okay. Thank you. Okay. I'll just ask, in between first and second reading, all of the staff. Yeah, I have a lot of questions too. Okay. If there's nothing else. First, go to second. We have a motion to approve proposed ordinance number 25004 on the first reading. Seconded. I think Mr. Cruz. Oh, I do. Are you? You're right. You're right. I did. I did. Mr. Kelly. Mr. Kelly, let's turn to the city clerk for a roll call. Commissioner Kelly. Yes. Commissioner Tarkan. Yes. Commissioner Kelly. Commissioner Kelly. Let's turn to the city clerk for a roll call. Commissioner Kelly. Yes. Commissioner Turkin. Yes. Commissioner Cruz. No as I have more questions. Mayor Shelton. Yes. And Roca vote the motion pass three to one with Commissioner Cruz dissent. Thank you. Next we have the City Manager's report if somebody wants to begin. Yeah thank you mayor On Thursday night we had a 45 minute conversation about all the future agenda items. Tonight I kind of want to treat it as a all-acart. So if there's any additional information and any additional discussion that you guys may want, feel free. Nothing related to this. When are we scheduling that workshop, the parliamentary workshop? I was actually going to bring that up. I still, I added some discussions with staff as for a commission on ethics coming in on a Saturday. I know you guys have different work schedules. Some of you come in 536 PM to these meetings. Mayor, I know the weekends are very important to you. So this is a great opportunity for you guys to give me some direction as far as what you guys want. I mean, I know the Commissioner on Ethics, the Special Counselor, Rhonda Geiger. She has definitely did a commission personnel and also city staff ethics training on the weekends on Saturday. That's not out of the question. We have not met with the parliamentary vendor yet, so we would definitely reach out to him once we get some further clarification on the schedule for you guys. So when that's done, you can just reach out to all of us and we can coordinate. Are you guys good with a Saturday? I am. Saturday? I'm good for a morning. Because I work Saturdays compared to everyone. In the morning? I have enough time. I can reschedule. I hear the better. Yeah, the earlier the better. Nine. Nine a.m. Saturday? Oh, gosh. 10 a.m. 9 is good so that we don't buy top. 9 30? 9? 9! 9! 9 or 5? 9 or 5! 9.9 is good. 9.9 is good. So we don't buy tall. 9.9 30? 9.9. Out of there. We work every day. 9.9. 9.5. I'm up at 4.9.5 30. 9.9 is just 9.15. Because I do, I'm opposed to 15. Oh, we got 9.15. All right. 9.15 on a Saturday. I'll let you guys know the exact thing. I'll be right back. First Saturday. It's different for everyone. It's not the first Saturday of month. You got Drew? Yeah. You guys were during the week. And my mind is the day's running. I don't know the exact one. I'll be right back. Okay. It's different for everyone. It's not the first Saturday of month. You got Drew? Yeah. Okay. You guys were during the week and my mind is the days for usually Thursday to Sunday and the other days. So yeah, no, I'm okay. Listen, we can do a seven o'clock on a Tuesday. I'm game for anything. I prefer morning. Sunday at two. Now, Sunday is a for other people. We're good Saturday 915 got a I'll give you guys some different dates for Saturday and below. We're going to be able to do that. We're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. So, we're going to be able to do that. and a new major site plan can staff begin your presentation. Good evening mayor commissioners actually I can do the presentation but if you would be okay for the applicant to provide his presentation first. That's a clean up item to keep the very important cottage district project moving home, moving forward. Quick update if you've driven by it's just north of here. There's two model homes now under construction. 41 total workforce housing units, the homes will be sold in the lowest two price and categories of Palm Beach County, which is great. The single family home should start any day now. That's why we're here tonight. We've got one item to clean up so we can get our permits released. The townhouses will start a little bit later. There's an FPL utility line, it's got to be relocated. And we hope to have the first people moving in late 2025 or early 2026, which is right around the corner. A little bit of background, we were awarded this project by your CRA in 2022. As part of that contract in our presentation, we made multiple references that we're doing this as part of the counties for 4 housing program, which is a great program that gives down payment assistance and gets affordable housing to a lot of people that needed here locally. Our development order was approved in 2024, a couple years later. It also referenced using the Boynton workforce housing program. So now we've got two programs in there, which are very similar but different. Okay, this is a brief comparison of the two if you went through them. They both have 15 year restrictions. The county has a great down payment assistant program with a lot of funding in it. There's a resale protections they cannot sell to anyone else. If they do, it restarts the clock for another 15 years. As we said on the pricing, we're already promising to use the two lowest categories of the county. The buyer requirements to the county have to get a certificate verifying their income and that they've taken a home ownership class. And then also a governance the amount of deposit that they have to put up which is very low giving their getting a brand new house. Okay. The protections these are in a very long deed restriction which the county must approve and for this project It's already been approved by the county so we are ready to go if we try to make changes to that and put the The point in cities provisions in there. We've got to go back to the county and get their legal team to review it and improve it If I gave you a guess I would say at best six months I bet it would take 12 months and they might not even agree So the the entire project would stop, nothing else would happen, no home start, no people get to move in for probably six to 12 months. And we don't even know what would happen, the county may just say no. Okay, so in summary, we're trying to make a cleanup to the development order, which would just simply state we're going to use the county's workforce housing program and not the cities. city still gets all the benefits. Workforce housing, down payment assistance, the lowest to pricing categories, and the county enforces the provisions. They do annual inspections, they knock on doors. Make sure the people are live in there preventing them from being rented out, and they enforce any resales if they do come up to make sure they go to the right people, and then it resorts the 15 year clock. We're just making this simple request tonight so we can get our single family permits released and start a bunch more much needed We're four thousand units in your city. So we're just making this simple request tonight so we can get our single family permits released and start a bunch more much needed workforce housing units in your city. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening mayor, City Commissioner Sluizman, Councilman Principal Planner. Pleasure to be here. I wanna the applicant to provide a presentation. I see it was a very thorough and explained the request well. I don't have anything to add. Those recommend approval of the request. Mainly it's just the correction of the condition of approval to require participation on only one work for sourcing program, those preventing any future conflicts. Also, the request will not change any aspects, any other aspects of the project. Stuff he's here for any questions or concerns you may have. Thank you. Any comments or questions from the commission? Commissioner Kelly. Thank you, Mayor. I do just for the record, just needed to disclose that I hit for Rotten, but I did have a conversation with Brent Baker and I facilitated a conversation and connected him with staff. So I just, for clarification of the record, I was reminded of that when he started talking. So, and then also, I wanted to ask applicant, if is it possible for you, for the city to be provided with a copy of any of the report that you have to provide to the county, just so that we're seeing that I'm confident you're going to comply with the county, but I'm just, can we get a copy of that report showing that you know what is happening in our in our city is in compliance just yep there's two different things there one is the deed restriction which governs all the policies that's already been provided that's already approved the second thing as far as a report as far as with the county you have to go through a very detailed sales process that involves notification and then your CRA team is also deeply involved with our team on the marketing of the units making sure that we're making the local communities where as possible so there's a lot of people already with the city mainly through the CRA that are involved and everything we're doing to create a fair sales process which will be done through a lottery when probably September would be my rough guess on time frame at this this point. Right. And so you and I had that conversation about the CRA having, you know, we're getting our quarterly reports. What I'm asking more so is in the year six and year seven when you're doing these, you know, you know, when the county is doing their inspections and doing all those things can the city be provided with that. That would be a question for the kind of we don't do the enforcement after we close the last unit we will be gone from that percent of what we do not work in customer service for second but that would be a question for the county. You don't necessarily you're not in connection or in communication with the county when they're doing these inspections and things like that. No we've done several workforce housing projects around the county and we're not involved in the ongoing annual inspections of where they're making sure that people are living and being owned or occupied units, we're not involved in that. Okay, all right, thank you. Sure. Any other comments or questions? Mr. Turk and Commissioner Cruz. Good. Just a quick comment, please. Because it is a Sierra matter, just saying it's a public record because it's not a secret. We've talked about this before in public meetings. But I do recall that policy paid full price for the land. And you know, it was, I think it was a really good deal for the city. And also having Barfors housing here for for sale product is really great. I wish we could get a lot more of those projects, but I'm really happy to see that. The only thing that I, if I recall correctly, and I know it's been a while, I think that Paul T might have agreed to advertise, like on the marketing aspect, I understand you guys wanna follow the county side, but we also wanna get a benefit on benefit on the city side So I think the agreement if I remember correctly was to to provide some sort of like a marketing to local Residents like boi and b residents before it's market it else. Yes, you are absolutely correct There's a requirement to It's about a marketing plan Which we're doing now and there's a detailed list of local nonprofits that we're working with to create awareness. So we are as motivated as everyone to hopefully get as many local residents in there to these houses. But the exact answer is there's a marketing plan required that is a draft already been sent. We're getting feedback from Sierra if they want to see different things. So that would be that governing document to show that we're doing everything we can to create awareness around making sure the local boy and residents know these units will be available for sale. Thank you. All right. There's nothing else? Maybe we have a motion to approve the modification. Second. Okay. Okay. So you did the second. That's fine. That's fine. Okay. So Commissioner Turk can move to approve the modification to the development order for the approved Pulti Cottage District new master plan, new major site plan. Commissioner Kelly second in the motion. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. The motion passes unanimously. Removing on to discussion and update for fire station number three. Commissioner Kelly this is your request please start the discussion. Oh great. No I'm just kidding. No I mean this is something that has you know this is a conversation that I have had with sheep brooder many times this you know we approved an increase to the fire assessment in particular to make improvements on some of our facilities that are aging faster than we want to even admit. And so Chief Bruder has offered to come and as part of that, this is one of the conditions that I had made was that I wanted to have updates as quick as possible. And so he is here to provide an update on where we are and I think it's a state of the fire department as well as fire station 3. So thank you. Good evening, good evening Madam Mayor, commissioners, city staff and residents who are remaining. We established several months ago in preparation for Fire Station 3. We established a working group. And the idea there was to allow the men and women who are going to be serving in that station every day to have some input as to exactly what we were going to be doing. When we got some great input from that and so once we've done that now we're working with the construction division going over the actual design itself. There was a plan in place years ago but that plan unfortunately isn't going to work for us so we're in the process now going through looking at what we've come up looking at the plan, and we're hoping within about the next 90 days that we're going to be able to go out for a design build on fire station number three. Essentially what we're looking at is a time frame of 18 to 20 months for that building to be built from this point. What I'd also like to let you all know is the other three projects that were associated to the increase in the fire fee are also all of these projects once they were approved in this year's budget. We began to diligently work on all of them at the same time. Now, Station 3 is a behemoth project. We're looking at a $10 million building and we're going to try to come in way under budget. But it's a very large project, so they take some time. What we have been able to achieve so far is that through the procurement process, we actually just cut the PO on the new station alerting system. And we're hoping that that will be installed by July of this year. That's going to be huge as those of you that were on the board and that have heard me throughout my budget presentations here at the day was the fact that the station alerting system not only was it antiquated but the new technology will allow us to shave as much as 60 seconds off response times which is just massive. So that's an $800,000 project and that project is well underway. The fire fleet and logistics building that was a half a million dollars slated from the fire assessment fee for that project. Now any of you are that are aware the fleet facility is just overburdened right now. So part of the idea was to take old fire station two, make it into a fire logistics and fleet facility where we can have all of our equipment, all of our tools, fire trucks apparatus, and then additionally we would move the emergency vehicle technicians from the fleet over to the fire shop and we would be able to relieve some of the pressure. So we've been working on that building with facilities, we're diligently working to try to get that building ready and we're doing so. The other project that we're very proud of and we're very appreciative that was approved is the Fire Station number six public safety marine complex at Harvey Oyer Park. That has actually been through the complete design phase and right now we are getting ready to go out for design build. The design as far as the city and the fire department is concerned. We know exactly what we want. It's going to be a two story station. Unfortunately, we had some increases. We wanted to come in under budget, but unfortunately, we've had some increases because as of December of last year, there was some changes to the flood mapping which now requiring us to elevate that building quite a bit. But the design is gonna be absolutely gorgeous. It's gonna be very, very marine oriented, very beachy, very marine oriented, two-story facility, and it's gonna have everything we need to be able to have PD have in office, the Coast Guard, and as well as allowing the fire department to operate out of their full time. And our plan is to go ahead and move one of our units to that facility. So we'll actually be with using internal resources. We're actually going to be able to put a sixth fire truck on the road, which will operate out of station six. It'll help everything to the west because we'll be able to have more units out on the road 24-7. So that's where we are as far as that's concerned. Does anybody have any questions on anything that relates to Fire Station 3 or the fire assessment or anything that related to those other projects before I get on to the state of the Fire Department address? Real quick about the Marine. What's the expected timeline for that to be completed? Why is there going to be any impact? 12 to about 18 months right now. Is there any impact for the use of the boat ramp? There'll be a zero impact. There'll be zero impact during construction, and there'll be zero impact once we're there operating 24-7. The public safety dock for those that are not aware and mayor I'm not sure if you're aware But the north side of Ouer Park where the Coast Guard building is now is what we basically are going to be turning into Fire Station 6th and Marine Complex and then the north dock at Ouer Park is going to be utilized as a public safety dock and just to update you on that real quickly if that one's actually out for bid right now so we're hoping that That will be built in about the next couple of months. And we are expecting the fireboat to be delivered in August. It's in the middle of being built right now, and it's just gonna be a tremendous addition to our fleet, especially when we're running a tremendous amount of water rescue calls. In fact, I was in the back earlier when we had a house fire with flames and smoke showing and then two minutes later We had a water rescue call in Del Ray that we were actually called for mutual aid So we're pretty excited about the fireboat any other questions sir Can we do something when that fireboat comes here? That's been something we've been discussing for years and I think that is a huge asset Not just to point and beach but to all the communities between vocal ruts on West Palm Beach. And yeah, I think we should do something. Well, similar if I may. Similar to what we do with the push in ceremony, we'll be christening the vessel and we'll definitely put a nice something together so that we can christen it in quite nice style. Crystal. Yeah, thank you. And any other questions on the fire assessment fee issues? You mentioned Coast Guard. You mean the Coast Guard auxiliary, right? We're not going to have an actual, okay. No, that's the auxiliary. And they're going to be moved to another office there once it's done. Perfect. Thank you, Chief. Okay, you're welcome. Any other questions? Chief, real quick. With regard to Firesation 3, how I know that you've been in the planning phases, what is, and we have the police training facility right next door, how are you envisioning all of that working and have you been, you know, in communication I know with the police department as well as far as that training facility and what is the plan, I mean what's your vision and thought for the fire station? So if any of you remember when we started this dialogue part of it actually years ago when we first started talking about rebuilding station three there was a push to try to have the fire apparatus exit out onto Congress instead of minor. That's just poses a tremendous Pandora's box. We have to get DOT approval. You virtually never get DOT approval for this sort of thing. And so we're going to continue. We're going to make it easy. We're going to continue in-gress and egress off of minor. So we have to take that into consideration. So depending on what PD does with the shooting range, I've been in talks with the police chief, and I'm open to any suggestions or any way in which PD and FD can work together, I'm open to anything at this point. Perfect, thank you. Yeah, I think it's just, we need to work together to make sure that all works and that we're not then coming back to have another conversation about something else that needs to be renovated or updated. So, now I know Adam and Andrew Boe shaking their heads. So, just that whole complex, however that works and whatever we need to do, I want to make sure that we're thinking way ahead and not just trying to get fire station three rebuilt and that we're looking at what our needs are, what the police department's needs are, what fires needs are, and we're really looking at that whole complex holistically. And let me know if we need to talk about it on a future agenda, I'm happy to have that conversation. Thank you. You're welcome. So I'm going to go ahead and begin my state of the Boyne Beach Fire Department presentation. There's no PowerPoint. It's just going to be me. So Boyne Beach Fire Rescue is leading the way in many areas. We are leading the way in technology, using industry best practices, CAD and RMS systems, reducing response times right now. Our current response times that I just pulled the data today is four minutes and 24 seconds. It's astounding. The industry standard throughout the country is eight minutes and the Palm Beach County average, not just Palm Beach County fire, but Palm Beach County in general is six minutes and 43 seconds. So we're almost two minutes and 15 seconds quicker, which is astounding. As you're aware, if anybody has a stroke or a heart attack, they always say time is muscle, time is brain. So the quicker we can get there safely, the quicker we can do our stuff. I spoke briefly about the station alerting system, which will be installed hopefully by July. We just took receipt of brand new state-of-the-art motor-role radio system which portable handheld radios which actually have three different types of functionality. The police department actually just got theirs as well and we're in the process of training all of our firefighters and putting these new radios into service. It's an amazing radio. It can work anywhere in the world. It can work off the internet. It can work off of UHF or it can work off of cell. So if any of my people are stuck in Bethesda, hospital on a fire and the incident commander can't speak with them, they'll be able to get out and communicate. So thank you for approving that. That's a huge step in the right direction. With less and less people going into public service careers, Bush Fire Rescue is leading the way having built a destination fire department while addressing managing recruitment needs. We are currently experiencing extreme high levels of morale, which is the fire chief is very comforting. And we're also very concerned about retention and succession planning. Someday I'm gonna finally retire and I wanna make sure that this city has what it needs for the next 50 years. And the only way we can do that is if we prepare properly and we put the right people in the right positions and we're working very diligently for that. Boen Beach Fire Rescue is leading the way with 99% of our personnel being paramedics. There are no fire departments in South Florida that can say that. We're one person away from being an all-paramedic department. And we're also at this point fully staffed. And again, that's a testament to the amazing work this commission has done. Listening to my recommendations and the way we put everything out into a transparent and fiscally responsible fashion. So we really appreciate your support. Boing Beach Fire Rescue is, again, leading the way in first responder physical and mental health. We have one of the most progressive physical and mental health programs and support teams in the nation. If you could understand how many phone calls I get in a week, I think you would be astounded. From police chiefs around the country, pardon me, fire chiefs around the country, asking me how did we do what we did and how can they improve their mental health programs. As you can see, I'm wearing a pin today on my jacket. And I'm wearing a pin today on my jacket because in the last three weeks my former fire department has lost three members to suicide. And it's devastating. And I can tell you how proud I am of the men and women of this department because we were asked to send people down for peer support and we sent seven peer support team members. We have more peer support team members than any fire department in South Florida. And we're committed to the mental health of our first responders. So seven of our people went, it was more than any other fire department sent and they were peer support team members from across the country that went down to Miami date fire rescue to try to support them in their hour of need and there are many, many hours of need. So I'm very proud of those seven members and eventually I may want to bring them back before this commission to recognize them. One of the other things that you are all very supportive of is that we've moved towards doing these full body scans. And I just want you to know how important that is. Firefighters with cancer is an extremely difficult thing. And in the last two years, we've identified three individuals who had major, major issues that we would have never known. And one of which, he could have had an issue and died on a fire. So we were able to identify this, we've been able to get them that the help they need, and we're able to try to get them back to work as quickly as possible. So mental and physical health is extremely important. Boing Beach Fire Rescue is leading the way in EMS emergency medical services. Most fire departments in South Florida have gone to whole blood or going to whole blood. We want to take it to the next level. We want to use plasma, blood plasma. So we're working right now with our medical director. We've incorporated three new cardiac medications to our tool bag, so to speak. And we're using state-of-the-art Zoll cardiac monitors. I continue to instruct my staff to maintain and deliver the highest level of emergency medicine possible, whether it is through the use of new technologies such as handheld ultrasound devices to identify underlying medical or traumatic situations or new medications. Also in EMS over the last five years, we dramatically increased EMS transport revenue collections and all that's been done through workplace controls. One of the things we've had to do in the last several months, we've been looking at this actually for about the last 12 to 18 months, is we have been, although if you look at statistics our call volume generally goes up about 10 to 15% a year, that's usually the average for most fire departments, unless it's a massive influx in population. What we do see and what we have seen is a massive amount of increase in peak hour calls. What we've done is we've gone ahead five weeks ago, it took us about five months to get this done. But essentially I put in service or we had put in service, Rescue 2 Bravo is running out of Station 2 right now, Station 2 is our busiest firehouse. And I'm gonna tell you that in five weeks, Rescue 2 Bravo has run 111 calls for service. 64 of these were transports, rescue 2 Bravo, average calls in an eight-hour ship was 3.17. Rescue 2 Bravo, average transports 2.13. Two transports pays for the crew for the day. We were able to negotiate with the bargaining unit for detail pay for this unit, and it has really been good for us because our mutual aid has gone down to zero. Today we teed her on it today. Today was an absolute crazy day. The other good thing is since Rescue 2 Bravo has gone in service we have seen an additional reduction in response times because then we have all six rescues in service. We are out there running these calls. It's small but it was still a 10% reduction in response times as a result. Beach Fire Rescue is leading the way in firefighting. We are one of only several fire departments in South Florida that have their own live fire training facility and I cannot tell you how important that is that the men and women who put on that bunker gear and put on those self-contained breathing apparatus are confident and comfortable with what they're doing. If my grandmother was dying in a house fire and I had firefighters that were not prepared, you can be licensed, you can be working for a fire department, but unless you have real world life fire experience, it puts everybody at risk. So we're very, very proud of that facility. We're doing life fire training every year and for the whole department as well as a lot of smaller,, a divisional type training. We have state-of-the-art technical rescue equipment and we are one of only a handful to flusar Florida search and rescue teams that can be deployed and we have been around the state. In fact, our technical rescue team has taken three top honors in state and national competitions over the last four years. Three of the last four years we've been in the top three. It's just astounding for the size of this department. Boenbeach Fire Rescue is leading the way in water rescue. Last year we absorbed ocean rescue lifeguards into the BBFR family, and we've now taken it one step further and through a lot of hard work and collaboration, we've now certified eight of our frontline firefighters who can now work part time. We were having an extremely difficult time hiring part-time lifeguards. So the idea was floated to allow firefighters to go ahead and work over there part time. It's all part of my department and we actually had the first one work about two weeks ago and it's just fantastic. We've actually brought a full cadre of advanced life support equipment over there as well so you know there's really not much we can't handle. We're we as I said earlier the fireboat is coming fire station six and we've massively increased the number of rescue divers swift swift water, and high water response capability. And as you know, we also have a high water vehicle, which is, was critical during the last storms as we are very prone to flooding as everybody knows. Boenbeach Fire Rescue is leading the way in fire prevention. Over the last five years of my tenure, the Fire and Life Safety Division has reviewed and approved more fire-related plans for new construction, carried out more fire safety inspections, and collected more fire prevention revenue in the last five years than in the history of this city. We recognize that data is so important. Several months ago, I instructed staff to begin sending out customer surveys to individuals that we have transported. What I'd like to do really quickly is I just would like to read just very small. I have five samples. Second time I've called Boynton Beach Fire Rescue in three years. Top professionals all are at their best. I think Boynton Beach should be very proud of their rescue teams. Another, the team was amazing, caring, caring and kind. Everyone was professional, did an excellent job. Thank you. So I think it's very important that we continue to always evaluate and self-evaluate each and every department within this city, but from a public safety standpoint, I think it's even more critical. In closing, Boyne Beach Fire Rescue, pardon me, Boyne Beach Fire Rescue will continue to maintain high levels of transparency, fiscal responsibility while providing world-class fire rescue services. We are able to achieve all that we have accomplished for considerably less than surrounding Metro-sized departments, which tend to suffer from high levels of bureaucratic waste and inefficiency. We are and we will continue to lead the way, not only in Palm Beach County, but in the nation. I'm open for any questions you may have. Do you want to have any questions? Thank you so much, Chief. Thank you. It was an honor to be before you tonight. Thank you very much. Okay. Next is the discussion of candidate filing fees and signing bonds. Would you like the city attorney to give a presentation? Sure. I'll invite Ian Gregory check from my office up to give you a brief presentation. Good evening. The Ingrid Gortzek, Assistant City Attorney. I'll be speaking briefly about campaign filing fees and signed bond fees. I'm going to deal with presentation that goes with this. So you guys had asked us to look around at some neighboring cities and just kind of compare where they're at in regards to Boynton Beach. So Boynton currently has a campaign filing fee of $25. Compare that with Doral, which is out of $100, and the Quoil Gable to that 200, and then in a- certainly has a campaign filing fee of $25. Compare that with Doral, which is out of $100, and a Quail Gable to that 200. And then in addition to that, campaign filing fee, there's also the election assessment fee. That's required by state statute. And that's calculated as 1% of the annual salary of the position that's being sought. Move it on to the signed bonfire. So floor to statute states that you need to make a good faith effort to remove all of your signs within 30 days following the conclusion of the election. If you don't do that within 30 days, the city can move in and remove those signs ourselves and then charge the fee for that removal back to the candidate. And comparing some neighboring cities, sign Bonfis, as you can see, Doral is at 500, Haundel Beach 200, Miami Springs 200, Highly A 150. Almost every city will return the entire side Bonfee. Once all sides have been removed, with the exception of Haundel Beach, they keep half as an administrative fee. And some cities will put a time limit on how long you have to remove your signs. That's typically, as you can see, seven seven calendar days. And that concludes thank you. Thank you. Question. Please. Can you go back to the last slide and maybe the one before? Why do we have Miami-Dade County cities and now Palm Beach County cities to figure out like what to do? Go on. I understand. So we looked around at a bunch of different cities, not all of them have it in their ordinances. So these are the ones that I found in their ordinances. So Palm Beach County cities do not currently have that? I know Boca does. Yes, some of them do. I mean, I can email you that information as well. Yeah. see some Palm Beach County once too. I think it's a good idea to look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the look at the branched out from there and ended up at Dorall and some other southern cities. There was probably before my time so I definitely would like to see the Palm Beach County ones. That would help. Will you? Thank you. Well there's a lot of real things. It was probably before my time, so I definitely would like to see the Palm Beach County ones better. Well, yeah. Thank you. Well, yeah. Ralph, there's a lot of things right. The Ralph doesn't do a lot of things right. What about Bokeh? Bokeh does things right too. Bokeh does have a sign, Bob. I mean, Bokeh is, you know, Bokeh does have a sign. Look at their military. And then what they are like about, well, I like 10. The one thing I like about well, and I'm just like, they give you 10, they give you, they're military. And the one thing I like about Wellington, the one thing I like about Wellington is they give you, they give you designated spots for your large signs and you can only put them up I think 10 or 15 days before and you have to have them down within 10 days. So those are things that I do like about it. This was a big issue for me from day one. Do we currently, Stacy, do we currently charge? I know it says on here, and we talked about, it says also allows us to be to charge a candidate. Are we do, is that in our books? We have nothing in our ordinances. However, that is based in state statute. So the city can do that. I don't know if in practice they do do that. I don't know if the administration had a check in said no. So I don't believe we are. We should. Yeah. Yes. And it's personal, right? That's what it said. I think we need to increase the fee. I mean we talked about this. $25 fly by night. So fly by night today. You know what I mean? Signs are still out, Mr. Flyby night. I still would like clarification if the sign bond can come from not the campaign. I know it's a campaign expense. I know that's a gray line, but I don't know. I just think that ultimately people don't care about throwing away other people's money, but that's a whole other issue. Is this statute government? So I mean again, you have state campaign finance law which sets forth what permissible expenditures are and that includes filing fees, sign bomb fees, etc. I do not believe that it's a complete preemption so we can look at the specifics as to whether or not the city can adopt something that is more stringent than what the state all provides for And if that is permissible that something we can include in whatever we bring back to you Yeah, if I could just get clarification of You know when you are fined for a campaign violation That is not allowed to be paid from the campaign account. So I kind of look at this is along the same lines But I defer to to you on legal, but it's something I would like to explore. What are you proposing as far as the amount? I'd like to ask. The sign amount? Yeah, the amount. I'm sorry for the filing fee. Right now it's $25. I mean, I'm probably a brown person that I've been here for. We're here having this conversation. So I'd like to I think that's what Bokeh does. That's my thoughts on it. I don't think it's a deterrent to have people not run for $125. I agree. Especially when any good news is coming up, I think it's going to be a good news. I think that's going to be a good news. I think that's going to be a good news. I think that's going to be a good news. I think that's going to be a good news. I don't think it's a deterrent to have people not run for $125. Right, I agree. Especially when any good candidate opens up their account with their own campaign money. Right. Well, and if it is a deterrent, then they probably shouldn't be in a position where they're managing $300 million budget if you can't and can't commit $125 then, you know, I mean our You know our positions are and they and they have three months to pay it not to mention all the time compared to when they file all the time that gets consumed That the clerk's office has to now address right and so So there's you know, there's no fees for that, you know, and that backs up the rest of city business. I think if it's done properly, and we change the residency, we change the petitions, we change the code, I mean, the qualifying fee, and we have assigned code ordinance, that's a little tougher. I think it's definitely in the long run going to save the city money. Yeah. Is this going to be a separate item from what we're discussion as far as verification? Or is this all going to be wrapped into one ordinance or how is it going to be? You're going to forward one ordinance that addresses everything election-related. Got it. Got it. OK. That's good. That's good. I think it's a good idea to make a review of the committee. I think it's a good idea to make a review of the committee. I think it's a good idea to make a review of the committee. I think it's a good idea to make a review of the committee. I think it's a good idea to make a review of the committee. I think it's a good idea to make a review of the committee. I think it's a good idea to make I just use everything election related. Got it. Got it. Okay. That's good. That's good. Me. Yeah. All right. Moving on to a discussion about creating a charter review committee. Oh, sorry. So that's it. We set up the fee. Did you guys decide on the fee? Yeah. We didn't decide on it yet. Is it so what are we doing? Like we're going to get Lake Palm Beach coming in for you. OK, thank you. For sure. And I encourage everyone up here to please start looking. If you know other elected officials, and they've campaigned in other cities, which I think everyone up here does, I think it's important to start asking their experiences and how it can limit some of the drama. Okay, moving on to a discussion about creating a charter review committee, Commissioner Turkin, would you like to start this and what is your thoughts exactly? I'm confused on what this committee is. So every municipality, not everyone, but it's common practice for a municipality to have a charter review committee. I think most of them review the charter's every 10 years, make adjustments that are outdated, getting head nods, five years. Okay, VoidMeach doesn't have one, right? It's like we don't have a lot of things, but this is why we're here. And what is applicable 20, 30, 40 years ago may not be applicable today. Technology, innovation, laws, everything changes. And so I think it's important for the city to have a review committee that works obviously in conjunction with the body to identify what should be changed as we know. Any charter amendment needs to go on referendum and is ultimately in the avenue, the best form of democracy, allowing the people to decide. So I think having a committee to review these, proposed changes, additions, deletions, amendments is important and it's best practice, right? I think at the last meeting, Shana mentioned that again, we don't review our charter officially every 10 years. You know, it's just as we go and I think we should be a little bit more structured and organized. Third largest city in Palm Beach County. And so, you know, I'm proposing we have a board, you know, how that structure to organize, you know, could be, you know, five members, one from each district, the Mayor pick somebody, you know how that structure to organized you know it could be you know five members one from each district the Mayor picked somebody you know you know works in conjunction with the city attorney I think is out of the other municipal other municipalities do that but that's kind of what I'm looking for is a committee to review the charter proposed suggestions obviously all anything would come before the commission and Yeah, I think it's best practice I agree with this I think we have to do a pretty much a deep dive on it, but I think that if anything it would be Spread out over a period of time and let's start dealing with some of the charter reviews that are more affecting the quality of life issues and then because I think a lot of those are severely outdated in the city and you can see it from the day to day stuff going on. Stacy, what is the WC Attorney's Office position on this and what's your experience with the charter review committee and that's where I think if you could just go over that. So, as I mentioned the other night, there's a couple of different options. If you're looking for a right now one time review committee, that is something that this board could establish by resolution appoint members. If you're targeting the next municipal election, et cetera, to put some of those amendments on a ballot for referendum. and separate and separate and separate and separate and separate and separate and separate and separate and separate and separate and to adopt an ordinance establishing a regular review on regular intervals, whether it be five years, ten years, whatever this board desires, as well as, you know, specific processes for appointments, et cetera. So I think it's a two-fold question as to what you're looking to accomplish today. And then we can go forward from there. In doing so, this board also, again, it would be within its purview, so you can develop the scope of what the Charter Review Committee is looking at, whether it's that this commission after your review identifies the issues or a list of issues that you want the Charter Review Committee to look at. If you want it to kind of be an open forum for them to look at your charter issues and bring forward whatever recommendations they have, the ultimate control still rests in this board after the committee has been harder. It makes recommendations to you. And then this board votes on ordinance amendments that then are put out for referendum. Okay. Thank you. Just for just to be clear in reference to the residency requirement going to referendum. I'm in full support of that going on the next election with or without this review committee and how we decide to adopt that. So I don't want any miscommunication that that is aligned with what we're discussing here today. And so maybe we look at a few other municipalities, identify what they do and come back with some options. Yeah, I, Stacey, I do. You know, I thank you, Mr. Turgham, for bringing this up. I think it's important. And I like the idea of kind of making a test run, having a resolution, establishing this committee for the next election or or the next two elections, and really cleaning up the charters and seeing what needs to in a holistic way, and then seeing out works, and then move forward from there. And it gives us an opportunity at something that we haven't done in as long as I've been involved in the city. So it's important and it's needed. And so I do support that. I think that that's, you know, it's a good opportunity for us to clean things up and to bring them up to modern age. So thank you. Test room is good idea. Christian or Chris? You did with that. Oh, no comments right now. Thank you. Okay. Are we taking public comment? There's a consensus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. David Katz. The last time Mr. Charter of Youth Committee was basically the summer and fall of 2011. You have two to the former members here a genitalia or myself. I did forward to the city manager the minutes from all those meetings We were not a continuing we were at an ad hoc committee and we gave recommendations to the commission at the time of which I think they took all of them and They went on the on the on the on the ballot So I just want to let you know that there has been one 14 years ago, but we've had it, and we were quite successful. Thank you. Thank you. OK, moving on next, we discuss setting a time and date for a proposed code enforcement. Oh, is there any other public comments? Sorry. OK, OK. Next, we need to discuss setting a time and date for proposed code enforcement and code enforcement ordinances workshop. Commissioner Turk and I know this is a big priority to you as well as it is for me. Yeah. I we won't make you come on a Saturday for this one. We'll just leave in for this one. We have to compromise a little bit here but I'd like to see this on our calendar sooner than later. But is it something that warrants that kind of time too because I also don't want to, you know, I don't want to start a conversation at 6 p.m. and then we don't finish and then have to come back and do a second workshop if it's more efficient to, so it will, I guess, will depend on what, you know, what kind of heavy, you know, carry this is gonna be because if it's gonna be really involved and it requires the time. I think this is gonna be very involved because from when I campaigned, the number one issue is code, things that should be removed, things that are silly, and ultimately this body writes the instruction manual for code and code enforcement, and forces that, right? And so it's our duty to change the instruction manual, not create a, you know, he said, she said, pointing the finger between the city and the residents, right? And how do we get there? How do we get that we have one of these workshops and we invite the city or we invite the residents of the city to identify what silly, what's outdated, you know, what can we change, what staff's recommendations, what are each one of us hearing, and then that way, we can all say we sat together, we had this conversation, we're hearing the same thing over and over, you're building a data set, and then you can change based on metrics, not just one off situations, right, which has been happening, but I think if we do this once, it'll be big, but I think it'll be very productive for our city. I think it also goes along with checking some of these ordinances that are not up to date first so I think collectively if everybody here it will individually can maybe think of the questions that we might need for city staff prior. Mayor, I just know Adam Temple assistant city manager, Adam Temple he's been trying to actually bring up the same point that you just made. Oh, okay. Yeah, no, I mean, from a staff perspective, I mean, we realize that there are a lot of outdated codes or a lot of codes that need to be fixed. Maybe some standards that need to be enhanced. So I'd say from a general standpoint, it's long overdue, especially the chapter two of the code of ordinances. There's quite a bit that need to be updated and changed. Okay, Commissioner Cruz. I agree, this is something that I know is very important in the non-gated communities all around the city. And I know in Gulf U Harbor specifically, we've had multiple issues as well. So I do support this. I wonder, because as Commissioner Kelly stated, we could be here for three hours, and then we could end up here twice more. Is there an opportunity to maybe make it concise to where we reach out to the community whether it's like through some sort of a survey or whatever social media, you know, however it is and also through our elected officials that had had those one-on-one conversations to potentially bring in like, you know, topics per se like their topics and then we have legal work on the ordinances that are related to those topics, print out those ordinances and seeing where there might be places to make certain amendments and then have the workshop as we have all of them. Great. Well, and Adam, what you just said was you said chapter two is section two is in need of so maybe we pick a section the most you know based on staff and and resident you know and really try and like focus on them because I I kind of like commissioner cruise this product I will be all over the place if we just go back and forth and have a workshop where we're all just instead of focusing on and and really just checking them off and and cleaning up as we go. As I know even you and I have had conversations with you know our state law changed a year ago where now we are prohibited from forcing developers to put in EV charging stations and so now there's stuff that needs to be cleaned up that you know is because the Florida law is ever. So we can't even tell a developer to put any of these stations anymore, which is insane, but it's the law. And so now we have to go back and change something that we put in place and to comply with law. So, you know, I think that, you know, whatever we need to do to really, and maybe staff needs to work on a plan and a schedule of what the priorities, you know, these are the ones that are high priority and we need to focus on first. So, what I need to do survey though, because staff's high priorities is gonna be much, much different than golf, you harbor, Chapel Hill. Or us, or just for us. Yeah. I think each neighborhood's neighborhood type priorities are we completely different and from street to street it's street to street really yeah you could have even argue I think the magnitude of this and I think starting with the survey but we have to have our senior residents participate too I mean we've been up here countless times saying all we can't just rely social media. And so I agree. You can get creative and innovative and include the whole community. I've been in the city for over 20 years now. I'm fairly familiar with it. I can tell you that the lift that you guys are taking is significant. I think it's probably going to go beyond one workshop. Oh,, oh yeah. Oh yeah. I think it's going to be different for the certain districts. And it's almost the point to where you may have to entertain hiring an outside vendor to that specializes in something like this to kind of cut through a lot of the first. I'm just you know this has been one of my biggest issues since I've lived in the city and lived in the east. I just don't see any education to new residents or current residents or landlords. So why don't we start off there? Why don't we start off with something in the water bill? Why don't we start off letting them know that we're going to give them a pass the one day for leaving two couches out across the street. I am so grateful that that was taking care of because me looking at it for three days irritated me beyond words. But I do think that before maybe we do dive into some of this, let's make an attempt to start educating people and giving them a one-time warning in that there's a zero tolerance. You cannot leave a toilet out on the side of the road. It's not acceptable on a Monday to sit there on a Friday. It happens in Asia ways too, just you know. It's not just it's but at least there's some we call it out on it you know here it's just yeah one line up but it's have a city wide it's not right yeah. I hear you education is is a very very important component. It's something that we are going to be addressing through the budget to process. Because that outreach does, the water bills does carry a cost and it's not something that we currently have. But we are developing ways to do that. We've been talking internally. And the solid waste code is something that we actually talked about today, Mistone and I, and actually Andrew as well. That's probably one of the ordinance that we're going to want to tackle first as well. Thank you. And I'm not opposed to having, forming this out. I'm not opposed that because this is going to be a big lift. And this is no different than what are essentially with the park study where we, the consultant had gotten all this feedback, you know, whatever. So I think I don't want to rely on a consultant at all, but I want the city to lead this and I want the city to initiate this this action with the residents and it is going to be a big lift, but someone's got to do it and we have to do it. That's how we're going to clean up the East side. Sure. And the West. And I mean, I got a lot of calls from me right, golf you. During the campaign, I'm getting them daily from Chapel Hill. I'm getting emails, text messages, my personal socials getting blown up with videos of things. It's my works getting sent them. And I get it. This was my priority campaign. This was one of the reasons why I did file to run is because I couldn't take it anymore. But I think I have a lot of questions to ask procedurally before I can say whether it's a consultant or not. But I definitely think it needs to start with some type of education mechanism so people can't say I didn't know. Because that's what I did. I didn't know B Because that's what I did. I didn't know bulk was on Friday. We have lived here 20 years. So if you don't know, for the 900th time, then zero tolerance policy accumulated fines. That's my thought on that. Yeah, I'll just say that based on the park master plan, where Commissioner Turk and you just mentioned it, we gave a lot of feedback and that was not in any way she performed fairly incorporated into that. I think that, I mean, we don't have an outside attorney anymore. We have in-house attorneys and I think we have a significant number of staff as well, like a pretty large number where I think we can afford to have at least maybe one junior staff member look into this and also being responsible with our tax dollars. Like we don't wanna just go out and just get consultants for everything, especially when it's like something so close to the people as code is. So I would definitely advocate for keeping it in house but at the same time we want to be reasonable with staff time and we you know it's a time it takes time it's not something that's gonna happen overnight it's something that can take many many many months so as to not rush the process either. Yeah, just, and both Andrew and Adam can attest to, whenever I came in, it was a big haul. We made a lot of changes from a administrative standpoint. I can tell you guys that this year, I put an emphasis on looking at all of our administrative policies and it's taken,, Stacy. How long has it taken? And we're talking for just the city, the organization that essentially governs the employees of the city. You're talking about an overhaul of all the ordinance that govern the city as a whole, 85,000 individuals. That's the type of perspective I need you guys to understand. And it's a large one. And I think that it's important and prudent that we get it right. Yes, right. Yeah and it's bigger than a parts master plan there's a you know 36 parts with 32 parts that we have but there's many many ordinances and so I again I don't want to rule it out obviously you know legal has been growing and so I think we staff. And but again, I think if we want to get this done and we actually want to get it done, it's gonna take all hands on deck and maybe those ends are outside. So it's also gonna take addressing when the problems are surfacing because they're not surfacing, you know, Monday through Thursday from nine to three o'clock. That's the week. So, you So Friday night to the following Thursday in our district and I don't know what day bulk is for you or for you. Monday. Okay, Monday. So that would be a good situation for us because everything's happening on the weekends. But I think that's also where it begins is dealing with the day that things are picked up. Yeah. Well, maybe that's something, I mean, we're going into the budget cycle. And so maybe we need to look at staffing for code on the weekends and nights. And when we're having these, I mean, I think we have enough feedback now to know that we're having issues on the weekend and things are sitting. So I think that having a conversation about the code enforcement department and if there is a need, I mean our city is forever changing and growing and we need to grow with it and change with it. So that's my good one. It isn't there. Okay. Is that any of that? I figured, but. Yeah, I mean, just the perspective. I mean, I think we have six code officers covering the whole, the entire city right now, and to five. Five, right. So in order to cover the whole city seven days a week with five code officers is very difficult. So although we do have Saturday coverage, We have one person that works over time on Saturdays and so through the budgetary process, we are addressing that so that we can provide seven day, seven day a week coverage. Yeah, and just feedback, you know, collect, obviously we like to know what our neighboring cities are doing, especially Boko and West Palm, who are a little bit bigger, but similar size, Wellington, to know what they're doing and how they're addressing this. Wellington is tough. They're very, very tough. Oh yeah, because they have a lot of homes or not. They have a joys and they have a ruler. They are very tough. That's to the grass. Okay, well, I think this is going to be another discussion, but I'd like to set some times and goals, even if it's just getting couches and chopping carts off the side. side then we move to the toilets and then we can move to the tires. Attresses. A mattresses. Yeah. But it's something that has been well overdue. And I think it's addressing the same sources of these problems. They're the same, it's the same homes having most of the same developments too. Yeah, if it's multifamily, if it's meant to be. You've got two of them, the district family, you know, dense residential, chronic nuisance, you know. If the body is, if the body's good, but I think you want to have give staff and legal a chance to give this an overview. I want to get some ideas from each of you, from your respective districts, see what are maybe the top five ordinances that are most important to you guys. So we can kind of possibly narrow the scope of this and then we can go from there. Good. Okay. All right. When you're, excuse me, good evening, Mayor Commissioner Scandestone, Green Center Director. And when you're thinking about the ordinances, also think about the individual violations that you're facing, because it could be in different ordinances also think about the individual violations that you're facing because it could be in different ordinances that would help us also narrow it down and if there's any other research I heard some tonight what you want or to looking for for that workshop but there's any other research you want me to do to prepare for this that there's if you want to know like their exact what the plan is going to be, we do have something in the budget already with plans and task force and things like that that we're going to work towards. But there's anything you want to put there. I do have some questions. I think that some of the code issues that are coming out when you go by these properties, a lot of them have real safety issues. You know, I mean, we know the one in our, you know, Boyton, Pelican in our neighborhood has mold on the outside and walls are falling in and there's no floors in there. And so I think I need to be educated on the legal procedures of how to start cleaning that stuff up especially when it comes to property rights But I think that has been such an issue since I've lived in the neighborhood and It's trinkling down people are saying well they can do it there point and villas is gonna do it and that's gonna just keep continuing So any education you can give me to make this better. I would love it Thank you, right Thank you Candace. Yeah, okay. Does anyone have any final comments for tonight? Motion to adjourn. Second. Okay. Commissioner Turken moved to made a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Cruz made a second. But no further business to the class. Meaning it's adjourned at at 917 PM.