WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:07.478 --> 00:00:10.590 >>> GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY AND WELCOME. 00:00:10.590 --> 00:00:13.870 WE HAVE A SOCIAL CROWD HERE TODAY, I CAN SEE IT. 00:00:13.870 --> 00:00:15.589 VERY, VERY GOOD. 00:00:15.589 --> 00:00:17.630 THANK YOU. 00:00:17.630 --> 00:00:22.910 WELCOME TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD MEETING HERE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA 00:00:22.910 --> 00:00:27.029 ON MARCH 5, 2024. 00:00:27.029 --> 00:00:31.439 IF WE COULD HAVE THE ROLL CALL. 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:32.439 >> COMMISSIONER BARNETT. 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:33.439 >> HERE. 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:34.439 >> COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:35.439 >> HERE. 00:00:35.439 --> 00:00:36.439 >> COMMISSIONER BERNARD. 00:00:36.439 --> 00:00:37.439 >> HERE. 00:00:37.439 --> 00:00:38.439 >> VICE MAYOR MARINO? 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:39.439 >> HERE. 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:40.439 >> MAYOR SACHS. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:41.439 >> HERE. 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:42.439 >> COMMISSIONER WEISS. 00:00:42.439 --> 00:00:43.439 >> HERE. 00:00:43.439 --> 00:00:44.439 >> COMMISSIONER WOODWARD. 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:45.439 >> HERE. 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:49.608 >> IF I COULD ASK COMMISSIONER BARNETT TO LEAD US IN THE PRAYER AND THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. 00:00:53.079 --> 00:01:00.455 >> Michael Barnett: DEAR GOD, WE ARE THANKFUL FOR THIS DAY THAT YOU'VE GIVEN US, FOR HIS 00:01:00.455 --> 00:01:03.538 BLESSINGS, ITS OPPORTUNITIES, ITS CHALLENGES. 00:01:03.538 --> 00:01:07.574 WE PRAY FOR STRENGTH AND GUIDANCE FOR EACH DAY AS IT COMES FOR EACH DAYS DUTIES, FOR 00:01:07.574 --> 00:01:08.922 EACH DAYS PROBLEMS. 00:01:08.922 --> 00:01:16.971 MAY WE BE CHALLENGED TO GIVE OUR BEST ALWAYS A MAY WE BE ASSURED OF YOUR PRESENCE WITH US. AMEN. 00:01:18.624 --> 00:01:24.682 >> I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC 00:01:24.682 --> 00:01:31.629 FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. 00:01:33.670 --> 00:01:37.707 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH COMMISSIONER BARNETT. 00:01:37.707 --> 00:01:43.429 ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS, DELETIONS OR SUBSTITUTIONS TO THE AGENDA. 00:01:48.722 --> 00:01:53.259 >> MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. 00:01:53.259 --> 00:02:02.440 ON PAGE 50 SAID THE ITEM FOR L IS BEING DELETED AND MOVED TO MAY 7, 2024 YOUR THAT CONCLUDES 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:04.974 THE ADDITIONS, DELETIONS AND SUBSTITUTIONS. 00:02:06.709 --> 00:02:09.990 >> VERY GOOD VIVIAN COMMISSIONER WEISS. 00:02:09.990 --> 00:02:17.280 >> Gregg Weiss: I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE THE AGENDA AS AMENDED. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:21.200 >> Maria Sachs: SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WOODWARD. 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:23.680 THOSE FOR? ANYBODY OPPOSED? 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:27.050 SEE THAT IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 00:02:27.050 --> 00:02:31.530 NOW LET'S GO ON TO ANY ADOPTIONS. 00:02:31.530 --> 00:02:35.890 WE ADOPTED IT AND NOW WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO AGENDA APPROVAL. 00:02:35.890 --> 00:02:41.810 THE CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF PAGES 10 TO 56. 00:02:41.810 --> 00:02:47.760 IS THERE ANYONE HERE WHO WISHES TO REMOVE ANYTHING FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? 00:02:47.760 --> 00:02:48.760 COMMISSIONER WEISS. 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:57.680 >> Gregg Weiss: I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ITEM ON ITEM 3D2 FROM MATT IN SUPPORT 00:02:57.680 --> 00:02:58.880 OF THE ITEM. 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:02.639 DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO REMOVE IT BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF IT. 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:05.470 >> Maria Sachs: IT IS NOTED FOR THE RECORD. 00:03:05.470 --> 00:03:11.629 I SEE NO ONE WHO WISHES TO REMOVE ANYTHING FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA SO LIKE TO HAVE A 00:03:11.629 --> 00:03:12.629 MOTION TO ACCEPT THE AGENDA. 00:03:12.629 --> 00:03:15.000 >> SO MOVED. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:22.490 >> Maria Sachs: I SEE THAT COMMISSIONER BERNARD IS FIRST AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 00:03:22.490 --> 00:03:24.640 ALL THOSE WITH ME? 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:26.090 ANYBODY OPPOSED? 00:03:26.090 --> 00:03:29.000 SEE IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:30.309 DOES HE WISH TO SPEAK. 00:03:30.309 --> 00:03:31.330 >> Gregg Weiss: HE DOES. 00:03:31.330 --> 00:03:35.860 >> Maria Sachs: WHY DON'T YOU CALL HIS NAME AND WE CAN COME UP AND SPEAK ON ITEM NOW THAT 00:03:35.860 --> 00:03:39.170 WE HAVE ADOPTED THE CONSENT AGENDA. 00:03:39.170 --> 00:03:41.813 >> Gregg Weiss: MR. 00:03:44.239 --> 00:03:45.930 MATT? 00:03:45.930 --> 00:03:49.300 >> GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS. 00:03:49.300 --> 00:03:54.480 IT IS MY FIRST TIME HERE SO I AM NOT TOO FAMILIAR WITH THE PROCEDURES BUT I REPRESENT MR. 00:03:54.480 --> 00:03:59.200 JOHNSON, A SHAREHOLDER AT CIRCE DENNY AS WELL AS BARNHART AND SHIPLEY. 00:03:59.200 --> 00:04:05.280 IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THE SETTLEMENT HAS PASSED BY THE BOAT THAT WE JUST HAD AND I 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:06.710 DON'T THINK YOU NEED TO HEAR ANYTHING ELSE FROM ME. 00:04:06.710 --> 00:04:13.019 >> Maria Sachs: IF YOU ARE A LAWYER YOU MAY WANT TO SAY SOMETHING. 00:04:13.019 --> 00:04:15.030 >> EVERY TIME I DO THAT TALK MYSELF INTO SOME TROUBLE. 00:04:15.030 --> 00:04:16.880 >> Maria Sachs: THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. 00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:17.880 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:04:17.880 --> 00:04:19.210 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU. 00:04:19.210 --> 00:04:20.210 GOOD TO SEE YOU. 00:04:20.210 --> 00:04:21.210 VICE MAYOR MARINO. 00:04:21.210 --> 00:04:27.220 >> Maria Marino: I JUST HAVE A COMMENT ON ITEM 3C3, THE ADOPTIVE ROAD AGREEMENTS. 00:04:27.220 --> 00:04:33.229 I WANTED TO PUT IT OUT THERE FOR SOME OF OUR NONPROFITS THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM, GET YOUR 00:04:33.229 --> 00:04:36.449 NAME OUT THERE THAT WON'T COST YOU ANYTHING. 00:04:36.449 --> 00:04:41.110 WE HAVE PLENTY OF ROADWAYS THAT CAN BE ADOPTED IN ANY BUSINESS THAT WANTS A LITTLE ADVERTISING 00:04:41.110 --> 00:04:42.580 YOU CAN DO IT TOO. 00:04:42.580 --> 00:04:47.910 PLEASE LOOK AT ITEM 3 C3 ON THE AGENDA, MAYBE YOU CAN GET INVOLVED WITH ADOPTING A ROADWAY 00:04:47.910 --> 00:04:49.270 IN OUR COUNTY, THANK YOU. 00:04:49.270 --> 00:04:50.670 >> Maria Sachs: VERY GOOD. 00:04:50.670 --> 00:04:51.670 THANK YOU VICE MAYOR. 00:04:51.670 --> 00:04:58.680 WE ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS ON PAGE 57 AND WE ARE GOING TO START A LITTLE 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:03.750 BIT OUT OF TURN TO ACCOMMODATE COMMISSIONER BARNETT. 00:05:03.750 --> 00:05:10.160 IF WE COULD HAVE COMMISSIONER BARNETT WHO ALREADY MOVED TO THE RIGHT AND THEN I'M GOING 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:19.100 TO GO LAST SO HOW ABOUT IF WE HAVE DISTRICT 7 OVER TO THE LEFT ON THE PROCLAMATION IF 00:05:19.100 --> 00:05:26.580 YOU WOULD LIKE TO COMMIT COMMISSIONER. 00:05:26.580 --> 00:05:29.840 OKAY. 00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:30.840 VERY GOOD. 00:05:30.840 --> 00:05:32.349 GO AHEAD. 00:05:32.349 --> 00:05:35.690 >> Michael Barnett: GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. 00:05:35.690 --> 00:05:37.150 THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE HONOR FOR ME. 00:05:37.150 --> 00:05:42.840 I WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE AND THANK CHIEF FRANK DEMARIO FOR HIS LEADERSHIP UNDER FIRE, 00:05:42.840 --> 00:05:48.040 COMMON THE STORMS AND STEADFASTNESS TO SAFETY FOR ALL OUR MEN AND WOMEN AT THE PALM BEACH 00:05:48.040 --> 00:05:54.890 COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. 25 YEARS IN ANY JOB DISPLAYS UNMATCHED DEDICATION, HOWEVER, AT 00:05:54.890 --> 00:05:58.850 THIS TYPE A JOB WITH THIS TYPE OF ORGANIZATION, THE DEMANDS AND PRESSURES ARGUMENTS. 00:05:58.850 --> 00:06:05.860 I JOINED WITH THE ENTIRE FAMILY AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN WISHING YOU A WELL-DESERVED 00:06:05.860 --> 00:06:10.910 RETIREMENT. 00:06:10.910 --> 00:06:15.960 CONGRATULATIONS. 00:06:15.960 --> 00:06:22.660 [APPLAUSE] CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION PRESENTED AT CHIEF 00:06:22.660 --> 00:06:23.660 FRANK DEMARIO. 00:06:23.660 --> 00:06:28.639 WOULD YOU COME ON UP, PLEASE? 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:36.220 FOR 25 YEARS A DISTINGUISHED SERVICE WITH THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, CHIEF 00:06:36.220 --> 00:06:40.910 SERVED AS CHIEF OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS AND COMMUNITY OPERATIONS AND WAS RESPONSIBLE 00:06:40.910 --> 00:06:50.870 FOR AN ANNUAL BUDGET OF $498 MILLION WITH THE STAFF 1626 SWORN OFFICERS IN 1631 CIVILIANS. 00:06:50.870 --> 00:06:57.080 CHIEF RETIRED AS A NEW YORK POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVE AND SERVED AS A SPECIAL MINISTER 00:06:57.080 --> 00:06:59.660 2 TO THE PALM BEACH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER. 00:06:59.660 --> 00:07:05.940 HE BEGAN HIS CAREER IN 1998, HIS ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDE SERVING AS COLONEL OF THE DEPARTMENT 00:07:05.940 --> 00:07:11.110 OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS, MAJOR STRATEGIC OPERATIONS, COMMANDER OF THE COURT SERVICES 00:07:11.110 --> 00:07:17.629 DIVISION, COMMANDER OF THE TRAINING DIVISION, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES, DETECTIVE 00:07:17.629 --> 00:07:23.690 LIEUTENANT FOR DISTRICT FOR AN ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER OF THE DIVISION OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS. 00:07:23.690 --> 00:07:28.470 WE RECOGNIZES COMMENDABLE CONTRIBUTIONS OVER THE COURSE OF HIS CAREER WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS 00:07:28.470 --> 00:07:33.500 OUR SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR HIS DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE WHILE PROTECTING 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:37.530 AND SERVING THE RESIDENTS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA. 00:07:37.530 --> 00:07:42.410 PRESENTED ON THIS FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 2024, PALM BEACH COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. 00:07:42.410 --> 00:07:44.260 THANK YOU CHIEF. 00:07:44.260 --> 00:07:50.699 [APPLAUSE] I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO 00:07:50.699 --> 00:07:56.970 SAY A FEW WORDS BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO INVITE SHERIFF RICK BRADSHAW. 00:07:56.970 --> 00:08:08.729 MARGARET DEMARIO, LORI DEMARIO, SOPHIE DEMARIO, COLONEL ROBERT ALLEN, TONIO RACHEL, JOHN PURCELL, 00:08:08.729 --> 00:08:09.729 MAJOR. 00:08:09.729 --> 00:08:21.720 [NAME], CARRIE MACK, [NAME], TOMMY SHALLCROSS, LINDA SULLIVAN, IN McLEAN AND SELENA ANDERSON. 00:08:23.718 --> 00:08:34.180 >> I WILL SAY A COUPLE WORDS AND THEN WE WILL DO A PICTURE. 00:08:34.180 --> 00:08:35.390 GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS. 00:08:35.390 --> 00:08:37.190 NICE TO BE HERE TODAY. 00:08:37.190 --> 00:08:43.760 I'M GOING TO TAKE A SECOND TO EDITORIALIZE BECAUSE I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT. 00:08:43.760 --> 00:08:54.030 ONE OF THE TRAITS THAT IS PROBABLY IN THE SHORT A SUPPLY I HAVE EVER SEEN IT HIS LOYALTY. 00:08:54.030 --> 00:08:58.029 YOU SEE IT IN ELECTIONS COMMITTEE SEE IT IN ORGANIZATIONS. 00:08:58.029 --> 00:09:03.360 PEOPLE TODAY ARE JUST NOT LOYAL TO WHAT THEY ARE DOING. 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:06.200 OR PEOPLE. 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:12.440 ONE THING EVERYBODY CAN SAY ABOUT FRANK IS HE WAS EXTREMELY LOYAL. 00:09:12.440 --> 00:09:19.490 NOT JUST TO THE SHERIFF, NOT JUST TO THE ORGANIZATION BUT THE PEOPLE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY AND HIS 00:09:19.490 --> 00:09:23.920 DEDICATION WAS EXEMPLARY. 00:09:23.920 --> 00:09:29.500 I DON'T CARE WHAT TIME OF DAY IT WAS AND SOMETIMES MUCH TO FRANK'S DISMAY I WILL CALL AT 4:30, 00:09:29.500 --> 00:09:34.350 5:00 IN THE MORNING AND SAY I HOPE I DIDN'T WAKE YOU UP AND HE SAID I'M ALREADY UP AND 00:09:34.350 --> 00:09:41.530 I SAID WE NEED TO DO X, Y AND Z MANY OF THIS PHRASE THAT MADE YOU FEEL SO COMFORTABLE EVERY 00:09:41.530 --> 00:09:42.530 TIME. 00:09:42.530 --> 00:09:46.209 HE SAYS I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT. 00:09:46.209 --> 00:09:49.000 AND YOU KNEW THAT HE WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT. 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:52.040 BUT HE WOULD TAKE CARE OF IT BY DOING THE RIGHT THING. 00:09:52.040 --> 00:09:57.880 MAY NOT BE THE POPULAR THING BUT HE WOULD DO THE RIGHT THING AND I KNEW THAT HE WOULD 00:09:57.880 --> 00:10:01.600 DO IT WHERE I DIDN'T HAVE TO FOLLOW BEHIND THEM BECAUSE WHEN HE GOT THAT HE WOULD GO 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:07.630 BACK AND SAY HERE'S WHAT I DID, BUT HE KNEW OUR PHILOSOPHY WHICH WAS ALWAYS DO THE RIGHT 00:10:07.630 --> 00:10:12.399 THING FOR THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY. 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.440 I CONGRATULATE FRANK ON A GREAT CAREER. 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.730 I WISH HE WOULD'VE STAYED BUT I UNDERSTAND. 00:10:18.730 --> 00:10:25.750 AT SOME POINT IN TIME YOU'LL HAVE TO SAY THAT'S ENOUGH, WAVE THE WHITE FLAG. 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:27.170 BUT I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST. 00:10:27.170 --> 00:10:33.350 I KNOW THAT HE'S GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME AND I WILL PROBABLY WAKE HIM UP SOMETIME IN 00:10:33.350 --> 00:10:36.080 THE MORNING JUST TO REMIND HIM WE ARE STILL THERE. 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:48.850 FRANK, GIVE HER EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE DONE. 00:10:48.850 --> 00:10:51.860 >> THIS IS, IS A LITTLE BIT OVERWHELMING. 00:10:51.860 --> 00:10:56.660 THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER IF HE WOULD COMMISSIONER BARNETT THANK YOU AND THE REST 00:10:56.660 --> 00:11:00.560 OF THE COMMISSIONERS IN VIRGINIA BANKER, HOW ARE YOU? 00:11:00.560 --> 00:11:03.170 AND ALL OF YOU HERE TODAY. 00:11:03.170 --> 00:11:09.920 I JUST WANT TO SAY IT WAS HONOR FOR ME TO WORK WITH SUCH FINE MEN AND WOMEN IN THE SHERIFF'S 00:11:09.920 --> 00:11:10.920 OFFICE. 00:11:10.920 --> 00:11:12.519 IT IS A GREAT ORGANIZATION. 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:19.360 THE OF THE BEST SHERIFF, A GREAT SHERIFF, A GREAT LEADER AND HE INSPIRED ME A LOT AND 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:22.610 HE WAS A GOOD MENTOR TO ME. 00:11:22.610 --> 00:11:29.519 I WASN'T NEEDED, THERE'S A GUY BEHIND ME THAT REALLY DID IT ALL AND WANT TO THANK MY FAMILY 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:36.990 FOR COMING HERE IN I DIDN'T EXPECT THEM TO BE HERE AND THINK EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE, 00:11:36.990 --> 00:11:41.050 I APPRECIATE ALL THE PEOPLE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY AND I KNOW YOU ARE STILL GOING TO BE 00:11:41.050 --> 00:11:43.614 SAFE EVEN WITHOUT ME. 00:11:43.614 --> 00:11:45.000 THANK YOU. 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.494 [APPLAUSE] 00:12:13.437 --> 00:12:17.425 >> Michael Barnett: THE COUNTY GRANT CROSS 00:12:17.425 --> 00:12:22.047 DEPARTMENT TEAM PLEASE COME FORWARD? 00:13:23.410 --> 00:13:31.209 THIS PROCLAMATION DECLARING MARCH 8 2024 IS INTERNATIONAL GRANT PROFESSIONALS DAY. 00:13:31.209 --> 00:13:39.920 WHEREAS, GRANT PROFESSIONALS PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE IN SECURING AND PROTECTING FUNDING FOR 00:13:39.920 --> 00:13:47.610 VITAL PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF CHILDREN, YOUTH, THE ELDERLY, THE 00:13:47.610 --> 00:13:55.610 DISADVANTAGED, THE ENVIRONMENT, THE ARTS, EDUCATION, LIBRARIES, HOSPITALS AND MORE AND 00:13:55.610 --> 00:14:03.220 WHEREAS, THESE DEDICATED INDIVIDUALS WORK DILIGENTLY OFTEN BEHIND-THE-SCENES TO RESEARCH, 00:14:03.220 --> 00:14:09.820 IDENTIFY AND APPLY FOR GRANT OPPORTUNITIES ENSURING THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION 00:14:09.820 --> 00:14:13.779 OF INITIATIVES THAT ENRICH OUR COMMUNITIES. 00:14:13.779 --> 00:14:20.959 WHEREAS UPON SECURING FUNDING, GRANT PROFESSIONALS CONTINUE TO PROVIDE INVALUABLE SERVICES BY 00:14:20.959 --> 00:14:28.180 MANAGING GRANTS RESPONSIBLY, ENSURING COMPLIANCE WITH FUNDING REQUIREMENTS, REPORTING PROGRESS 00:14:28.180 --> 00:14:35.899 AND OVERSEEING THE FINANCIAL AND PROGRAMMATIC ASPECTS OF THE PROJECTS TO GUARANTEE SUCCESSFUL 00:14:35.899 --> 00:14:45.370 OUTCOMES, AND WHEREAS THE WORK GRANT PROFESSIONALS EXTEND BEYOND GAINS TO INCLUDE BUILDING CAPACITIES, 00:14:45.370 --> 00:14:51.959 OFFERING LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS TO COMMUNITY CHALLENGES, PROVIDING FUNDRAISING ASSISTANCE, 00:14:51.959 --> 00:14:59.630 MANAGING PROJECTS EXPERTLY AND FOREST SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMMING. 00:14:59.630 --> 00:15:05.930 WHEREAS RECOGNIZING THE HARD WORK AND DEDICATION AND SIGNIFICANT IMPACT GRANT PROFESSIONALS, 00:15:05.930 --> 00:15:13.180 INCLUDING THOSE INVOLVED IN POSTAWARD MANAGEMENT STRENGTHENS OUR COMMUNITY, ENCOURAGES CONTINUED 00:15:13.180 --> 00:15:18.649 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPORTANCE OF GRANTSMANSHIP IN ACHIEVING SOCIETAL 00:15:18.649 --> 00:15:31.279 GOALS AND WHEREAS, IN FISCAL YEAR 2023 PALM BEACH COUNTY REPORTED $169,127,060 IN GRANT 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:40.170 EXPENDITURES FOR 371 UNIQUE GRANTS FOR VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND WHEREAS, RECOGNIZING THE NEED 00:15:40.170 --> 00:15:46.120 TO BREAK DOWN SILOS AMONG COUNTY DEPARTMENTS IN THE GRANT WRITING PROCESS AND TO LEVERAGE 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:51.850 ALL THE RESOURCES IN OPPORTUNITIES TO STRATEGIC PLANNING AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT CREATED 00:15:51.850 --> 00:15:58.890 THE GRANTS CROSS DEPARTMENTAL TEAM TO ENSURE THAT ALL THAT THIS HAPPENED TO WHEREAS, TO 00:15:58.890 --> 00:16:04.060 ACKNOWLEDGE THE BOOK GRANT PROFESSIONALS, THE GRAHAM PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION IS DECLARED 00:16:04.060 --> 00:16:10.130 MARCH 8, 2024 IS INTERNATIONAL GRANT PROFESSIONALS DAY. 00:16:10.130 --> 00:16:14.800 THEREFORE BE PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA 00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:21.810 ASSEMBLED IN REGULAR SESSION ON THIS FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, 2024 TO MARCH 8, 2024 AND PALM 00:16:21.810 --> 00:16:31.690 BEACH COUNTY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED INTERNATIONAL GRANT PROFESSIONALS DAY. 00:16:31.690 --> 00:16:33.940 CONGRATULATIONS. 00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:36.550 ! I'M JULIE, FROM DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY SERVICES 00:16:36.550 --> 00:16:40.759 AND I AM HONORED TO BE HERE TODAY REPRESENTING THE GRANTS CROSS DEPARTMENTAL TEAM. 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:47.560 DOCTOR KEITH AND MARCELLA FROM STRATEGIC PLANNING DIVISION HAVE BEEN BREAKING DOWN SILOS ACROSS 00:16:47.560 --> 00:16:51.470 THE COUNTY BY CREATING THE CROSS DEPARTMENT ALL TEAMS APPEARED RECENTLY THEY CREATED THE 00:16:51.470 --> 00:16:56.899 GRANTS CROSS DEPARTMENT WILL TEAM AND THESE INDIVIDUALS BEHIND ME WERE COMMITTED TO INJURING 00:16:56.899 --> 00:17:03.870 PALM BEACH COUNTY RECEIVES THE MAXIMUM AVAILABLE FUNDING TO SUPPLEMENT COUNTY PROGRAMS AND 00:17:03.870 --> 00:17:08.799 MANAGE THOSE FUNDS EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY WITH THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DECLARING MARCH 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:13.459 8 INTERNATIONAL GRANTS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION DAY HE WOULD WE LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING TO 00:17:13.459 --> 00:17:16.470 YOU MORE IN THE FUTURE ABOUT GRANTS. 00:17:16.470 --> 00:17:27.700 >> Maria Marino: WHILE THEY ARE GETTING THEIR PICTURES TAKEN WITH JAMES, WILL YOU COME UP 00:17:27.700 --> 00:17:29.309 AND THE REST TO YOUR TEAM? 00:17:29.309 --> 00:17:36.100 TERESA WEST, SAM PAISLEY, ANGEL I DON'T SEE IN THE AUDIENCE, RONNIE, LLOYD, TANISHA AND 00:17:36.100 --> 00:17:39.211 RITA SHARON. 00:17:44.070 --> 00:17:50.750 AS YOU CAN TELL THIS IS THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION AND TODAY WE ARE COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY 00:17:50.750 --> 00:17:53.580 THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY. 00:17:53.580 --> 00:17:58.179 WHEREAS IN 1980 FOR THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY BEGAN HIS MISSION TO 00:17:58.179 --> 00:18:02.880 SUPPORT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, IDENTIFYING AND ADDRESSING THE EVOLVING 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:08.190 NEEDS OF STUDENTS, BRIDGING GAPS AND RESOURCES IN PROVIDING INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS OF FOSTER 00:18:08.190 --> 00:18:13.580 ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE, CREATIVITY AND PERSONAL GROWTH THAT I WHEREAS, THE FOUNDATION WAS 00:18:13.580 --> 00:18:17.730 FORMED THANKS TO THE VISIONARY LEADERS BUT DEDICATION THE LOCAL BUSINESS AND EDUCATIONAL 00:18:17.730 --> 00:18:25.370 LEADERS WHO RECOGNIZED THE NEED FOR AN ORGANIZATION THAT WOULD EMPOWER AND ENHANCE THE EXPERIENCES 00:18:25.370 --> 00:18:31.310 OF OUR STUDENTS AND WHEREAS, EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FOSTER PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN 00:18:31.310 --> 00:18:36.710 SCHOOLS, BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY DEMONSTRATING A COMMITMENT TO COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN 00:18:36.710 --> 00:18:41.420 OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM WHEREAS, THE FOUNDATION HAS BEEN AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR COMMUNITY 00:18:41.420 --> 00:18:46.559 FOR FOUR DECADES STEADFASTLY COMMITTED TO ENHANCING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FROM ENRICHING 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:51.840 THE LIVES OF STUDENTS, TEACHERS AND FAMILIES WITHIN PALM BEACH COUNTY AND WHEREAS WITH 00:18:51.840 --> 00:18:56.440 EDUCATION FOUNDATION PALM BEACH COUNTY CONTINUOUSLY ADAPTED TO THE CHANGING NEEDS AND CHALLENGES 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:02.100 FACING AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM DEMONSTRATING RESILIENCE, INNOVATION AND COMMITMENT TO THE 00:19:02.100 --> 00:19:07.440 BETTERMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY AND WHEREAS, THERE IS UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO EDUCATION FOUNDATION 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:13.590 PALM BEACH COUNTY PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN PROMOTING STUDENT SUCCESS PROVIDING PROGRAMS, SCHOLARSHIPS 00:19:13.590 --> 00:19:18.210 AND RESOURCES THAT EMPOWER STUDENTS TO ACHIEVE THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. 00:19:18.210 --> 00:19:22.640 NOW THEREFORE BE PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA 00:19:22.640 --> 00:19:28.809 ASSEMBLED A REGULAR SESSION THIS FIFTH DATE MARCH 24 THAT THE BOARD IS HEREBY COMMEMORATING 00:19:28.809 --> 00:19:34.460 THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY. 00:19:34.460 --> 00:19:39.450 JAMES, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING. 00:19:39.450 --> 00:19:44.490 >> COMMISSIONER MARINO AND ALL THE COMMISSIONERS, WE ARE THE MEETING POINT IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, 00:19:44.490 --> 00:19:48.670 THE GOVERNMENT ALL COMES TOGETHER TO SUPPORT A PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM AS EVIDENCED BY THE 00:19:48.670 --> 00:19:53.299 WI-FI EXTENDER PROGRAM WE'VE BEEN INTIMATELY INVOLVED WITH HER JUST THE RED APPLE SUPPLY 00:19:53.299 --> 00:19:58.070 WE DISTRIBUTED OVER $1 MILLION IN SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO OUR TITLE I SCHOOLS AND BROUGHT ALMOST 00:19:58.070 --> 00:20:00.750 $2 MILLION IN GRANTS TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAMS. 00:20:00.750 --> 00:20:05.690 IT IS A BEAUTIFUL COMMITMENT OF OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE CURRENT CHAIR 00:20:05.690 --> 00:20:10.590 LISA PARK FROM SEACOAST BANK, OUR IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR JIM MOORE FROM UNITED HEALTHCARE, 00:20:10.590 --> 00:20:13.700 THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY SOLIDLY SUPPORTS SUPERINTENDENT BURKE AS MS. 00:20:13.700 --> 00:20:18.010 BAKER IN THE COUNTY GOVERNMENT HAVE APPARENTLY THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ARE HONORED TO PLAY 00:20:18.010 --> 00:20:23.450 THE ROLE OF CONNECTIVE BUSINESS TO EDUCATION TO MAKE SURE EVERY STUDENT IS EQUITY OF ACCESS, 00:20:23.450 --> 00:20:27.330 EQUITY OF OPPORTUNITY TO FIRST CLASS WILL CLASS EDUCATION THROUGH THANK YOU GOVERNMENT 00:20:27.330 --> 00:20:33.899 LEADERS AND BUSINESS LEADERS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY. [APPLAUSE] 00:20:43.334 --> 00:20:47.200 >> Gregg Weiss: WHILE THEY ARE TAKING THE PICTURES COULD I ASK MR. 00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:56.427 WILL ROMULUS AND DEBORAH AND ANYBODY ELSE THAT IS HERE FROM DIGITAL VIBES TO JOIN ME. 00:21:14.015 --> 00:21:17.630 WHILE THEY ARE MAKING THEIR WAY OVER HERE, IT'S SORT OF IRONIC GOING TO BE THE ONE PRESENTING 00:21:17.630 --> 00:21:22.450 THIS PROCLAMATION ON LET'S MOVE PALM BEACH COUNTY MONTHLY WRITTEN I'M NOT MOVING TO WELL 00:21:22.450 --> 00:21:27.990 THESE DAYS BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO MOVING AGAIN. 00:21:27.990 --> 00:21:33.640 WE ARE DECLARING MARCH 2024 AS LET'S MOVE PALM BEACH COUNTY MONTH. 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:40.100 WHEREAS IN 2010 DIGITAL VIBES IN WAS FOUNDED TO REACH OUT TO UNDERSERVED YOUTH IN PALM 00:21:40.100 --> 00:21:48.230 BEACH COUNTY BY EMPOWERING THEM THROUGH DANCE FITNESS, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS AND WHEREAS, 00:21:48.230 --> 00:21:53.830 EACH YEAR DIGITAL VIBES AMONG PARTNERS WITH PALM BEACH HEALTH FOUNDATION TO HOST LET'S 00:21:53.830 --> 00:22:01.460 MOVE TO COMMIT TO FISCAL CHANGE ACTIVITY CHALLENGE, A COUNTYWIDE INITIATIVE THAT FOCUSES ON ACTIVITY, 00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:07.940 NUTRITION AND HEALTHY BEHAVIORS FOR THIS ANNUAL MONTH-LONG CHALLENGE ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUALS 00:22:07.940 --> 00:22:14.720 TO TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR HEALTH BY PARTICIPATING IN FUN, FITNESS EXERCISES FOR LET'S MOVE INITIATIVE 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:20.070 WAS ORIGINALLY INTRODUCED ON A NATIONAL LEVEL BY FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA AND 20 TWIN WITH 00:22:20.070 --> 00:22:26.220 THE GOAL OF DECREASING CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND ONE IN THREE CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES 00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:32.419 ARE OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE AND IF THE PROBLEM PERSISTS THESE CHILDREN MAY SUFFER FROM DIABETES 00:22:32.419 --> 00:22:37.490 AT SOME POINT IN THEIR LIVES OR FACE OTHER OBESITY -RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS SUCH AS HEART 00:22:37.490 --> 00:22:43.960 DISEASE, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, ASTHMA AND CANCER BRINGING IN 2012 THE FIRST YEAR THE CHALLENGE 00:22:43.960 --> 00:22:50.090 PALM BEACH COUNTY LOGGED APPROXIMATELY 100,000 MINUTES FOR THE POPULARITY OF THE EVENT HAS 00:22:50.090 --> 00:22:57.400 INCREASED OVER THE YEARS AND IN 2023 I CAN PROUDLY TELL YOU OVER 100 MILLION MINUTES 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:02.029 WERE LOGGED THREE DIGITAL VIBES IN AN PALM BEACH COUNTY HEALTH FOUNDATION AND INVITE 00:23:02.029 --> 00:23:07.760 ALL RESIDENTS TO TAKE A CHALLENGE TO MOVE BY FORMING TEAMS, REGISTERING ONLINE, COMMITTING 00:23:07.760 --> 00:23:13.220 TO EXERCISING 30 MINUTES A DAY THROUGHOUT MARCH AND LOGGING THEIR MINUTES ON LET'S MOVE 00:23:13.220 --> 00:23:17.520 WEBSITE TO BE THERE FOR BE REQUIRED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PALM BEACH 00:23:17.520 --> 00:23:24.130 COUNTY FLORIDA ASSEMBLED IN REGULAR SESSION ON THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 2024 MARCH 20, 2014 00:23:24.130 --> 00:23:29.809 IN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED LET'S MOVE PALM BEACH COUNTY MONTH. 00:23:29.809 --> 00:23:38.010 THANK YOU. 00:23:38.010 --> 00:23:44.020 >> THIS IS WHERE IT STARTS BUT IT STARTS WITH THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO CHAMPIONING THIS 00:23:44.020 --> 00:23:51.220 AND PASS IT ON TO THE RESIDENCE SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO OUR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR MAKING 00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:54.390 THIS LET'S MOVE MONTH. 00:23:54.390 --> 00:23:56.529 IT IS VERY EASY. 00:23:56.529 --> 00:24:02.190 ALL THE GUYS HAVE TO DO IS CREATE A TEAM AND INSPIRE THE TEAM TO DO ANY TYPE OF MOVEMENT 00:24:02.190 --> 00:24:07.110 DUE TO COULD BE WALKING RUNNING, DANCING. 00:24:07.110 --> 00:24:15.480 AND CREATED A WEBSITE TO READ TO GET ALONG IN THE MINUTES THAT YOU WORK OUT THAT DAY 00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:22.200 ON THE WEBSITE AND SEE WHO THE TEAMWORK AT THE MOST AND WHO HASN'T BEEN DOING MUCH AND 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:27.059 YOU MOTIVATE THAT PERSON. 00:24:27.059 --> 00:24:35.990 IT'S A FUN WAY TO GET RESIDENTS MOVING AND IT IS TRULY A CHAMPION, AS YOU HEARD BACK 00:24:35.990 --> 00:24:40.750 IN 2012 IT WAS 100,000 MINUTES. 00:24:40.750 --> 00:24:48.870 AND SOME PALM BEACH COUNTY REALLY CHAMPION THIS CHALLENGE AND WE ARE DOING A DUE DILIGENCE 00:24:48.870 --> 00:24:54.179 MAKE THE CHALLENGE YEAR-ROUND CHALLENGE AND SOMETHING PALM BEACH COUNTY CHAMPION NOT ONLY 00:24:54.179 --> 00:24:59.340 TO WORK OUT BUT TO BRING RESIDENTS TOGETHER, THAT IS TO BE DONE ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS AND 00:24:59.340 --> 00:25:03.230 THIS IS WHAT WE DO WITH THIS TO MAKE IT A LET'S MOVE 365. 00:25:03.230 --> 00:25:11.109 THANK YOU FOR CHAMPIONING THIS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY WE CHALLENGE YOU ONCE AGAIN TO MOVE. 00:25:11.109 --> 00:25:20.280 >> Maria Sachs: BEFORE WE GO TO THE NEXT SPEAKER WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE COMMISSIONER WOODWARD 00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:23.169 SPOKE THANK YOU. 00:25:23.169 --> 00:25:31.490 I JUST WANTED TO SAY THIS MAN WAS AT THE 5K RACE AT FAU OVER THE WEEKEND AND BREAKING 00:25:31.490 --> 00:25:35.591 PEOPLE, CHEERING THEM ON RUNNERS TO COMMIT FIRST BUT THEY CONTINUE TO DO THIS FOR EVERY 00:25:35.591 --> 00:25:40.090 SINGLE PERSON ACROSS THE FINISH LINE AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. 00:25:40.090 --> 00:25:42.279 JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU. 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:43.279 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:46.889 COMMISSIONER BERNARD? 00:25:46.889 --> 00:25:49.120 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH MADAME MAYOR. 00:25:49.120 --> 00:25:55.090 SINCE WE ARE DOING PRESENTATION WE HAVE SO MANY DIGNITARIES HERE SO WANTED TO RECOGNIZE 00:25:55.090 --> 00:26:03.840 THEM BEFORE THEY LEAVE THE RATE IF THE SHERIFF WAS HERE WE DO HAVE OUR INSPECTOR GENERAL 00:26:03.840 --> 00:26:15.190 JON CAREY AND A GENERAL COUNSEL WHO IS ALSO THE DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL WOULD BE OF COUNCILMEMBERS 00:26:15.190 --> 00:26:24.000 SUSIE DIAZ WHO IS HERE FROM GREENACRES, WE HAVE MAYOR JOE FLOREZ FROM GREENACRES ALSO 00:26:24.000 --> 00:26:32.010 PURELY OF SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ALEXANDRIA HEAR WHO'S GOING TO BE RECOGNIZED LATER WE OF CITY 00:26:32.010 --> 00:26:38.960 COMMISSIONER ROB LONG FROM THE CITY OF DELRAY BEACH YOU IS HERE TO BE A FORMER WEST PALM 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:44.860 BEACH CITY COMMISSIONER RICHARD ROWS WHO IS HERE AND FINALLY WE HAVE CARRIE HOWARD WAS 00:26:44.860 --> 00:26:49.330 GOING TO BE RECOGNIZED LATER ON AS A PUBLIC DEFENDER. 00:26:49.330 --> 00:26:56.740 >> BEFORE WE HAVE THE APPLAUSE WE HAVE FORMER COUNTY COMMISSIONER MELISSA McKINLEY. 00:26:56.740 --> 00:26:58.679 >> AND IT IS HER BIRTHDAY TODAY. 00:26:58.679 --> 00:27:00.179 >> IT IS. 00:27:00.179 --> 00:27:06.880 >> Maria Sachs: WE WON'T ASK ANY MORE QUESTIONS. 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:09.669 THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER BERNARD. 00:27:09.669 --> 00:27:11.379 OKAY. 00:27:11.379 --> 00:27:13.340 YOU MAY PROCEED VICE MAYOR. 00:27:13.340 --> 00:27:20.700 >> Maria Marino: WE ARE GOING TO BE DECLARING MARCH 18 THROUGH 2022 AS GOVERNMENT FINANCE 00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:22.120 PROFESSIONALS WEEK. 00:27:22.120 --> 00:27:26.030 SHERRY BROWN, ARE YOU HERE? 00:27:26.030 --> 00:27:28.970 ANYONE ELSE FROM YOUR OFFICE WANT TO COME UP? 00:27:28.970 --> 00:27:34.309 ANYONE FROM THE CLERKS OFFICE ALSO, YOU WILL DO SUCH HARD WORK WE ARE HERE TO RECOGNIZE 00:27:34.309 --> 00:27:40.390 YOU HERE THIS IS THE PROCLAMATION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DECLARING MARCH 18-20, 00:27:40.390 --> 00:27:43.550 2018 THROUGH 22ND, 2024. 00:27:43.550 --> 00:27:49.039 THAT IS A LOT OF NUMBERS IT IS GOVERNMENT FINANCE PROFESSIONALS WEEK BUT THAT IS YOUR 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:58.260 JOB BUT WHERE ASKING THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE, COULD THEY DO THIS ANY SMALLER. 00:27:58.260 --> 00:28:02.130 WHEREAS GOVERNMENT FINANCE PROFESSIONALS SERVE THEIR ORGANIZATIONS BY MANAGING DAY-TO-DAY 00:28:02.130 --> 00:28:07.500 ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS, ESTABLISHING FINANCIAL POLICIES AND PERFORMING OTHER IMPORTANT ROLES 00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:13.440 THAT APPROVE THE SAFETY, LIVABILITY AND VITALITY OF OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY WHEREAS THESE PROFESSIONALS 00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:18.330 ARE DEDICATED TO PROVIDING FISCAL STEWARDSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY TO TAXPAYERS AND ELECTED 00:28:18.330 --> 00:28:22.810 OFFICIALS BY SAFEKEEPING PUBLIC FUNDS AND WHEREAS, GOVERNMENT FINANCE PROFESSIONALS 00:28:22.810 --> 00:28:28.679 PROVIDE FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY THROUGH TIMELY BUDGET INFORMATION ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 00:28:28.679 --> 00:28:33.419 THAT MEET THE HIGH STANDARD A GOVERNMENT NOT ACCOUNTING AND STRIVE TO REMAIN TRUE TO THE 00:28:33.419 --> 00:28:37.899 VALUES THAT DRIVE THEIR WORK AS PUBLIC SERVANTS GOOD WHEREAS, THE FLORIDA GOVERNMENT FINANCE 00:28:37.899 --> 00:28:47.310 OFFICERS ASSOCIATION WAS FOUNDED IN 1937 AND SERVES 3300 PROFESSIONALS FROM STATE COUNTY 00:28:47.310 --> 00:28:51.890 GOVERNMENTS, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES, SPECIAL DISTRICTS AND PRIVATE 00:28:51.890 --> 00:28:58.320 FIRMS AND WHEREAS, THE PALM BEACH CHAPTERS SERVES MORE THAN THREE TO PROFESSIONALS FROM 00:28:58.320 --> 00:29:02.970 COUNTY AND CITY GOVERNMENTS, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, SPECIAL DISTRICTS AND PRIVATE FIRMS AWARENESS 00:29:02.970 --> 00:29:08.539 MEMBERS ADHERE TO LEGAL, MORAL AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF CONTRACT AND THE FULFILLMENT 00:29:08.539 --> 00:29:15.080 OF PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AS SET FORTH IN A GOOD ETHICS WHEREAS THE FG FOA AND ITS 00:29:15.080 --> 00:29:20.980 PALM BEACH CHAPTER PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION, NETWORKING, LEADERSHIP AND INFORMATION 00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:27.159 WHEREAS THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE PROFESSIONALS WEEK SPONSORED AND ALL OF ITS MEMBERS, ALL 00:29:27.159 --> 00:29:32.640 ITS MEMBER GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IS A WEEKLONG SERIES OF ACTIVITIES IN THE RECOGNIZING 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:37.590 GOVERNMENT FINANCE PROFESSIONALS AND VITAL SERVICES PROVIDE TO STATE, COUNTY AND LOCAL 00:29:37.590 --> 00:29:41.659 COMMUNITIES WERE THEREFORE BEING PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN PALM 00:29:41.659 --> 00:29:48.000 BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA ASSEMBLED IN REGULAR SESSION ON THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 2024 THAT 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:55.200 MARCH 18 THROUGH 22ND, 2024 IN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED GOVERNMENT FINANCE 00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:56.669 PROFESSIONALS WEEK. 00:29:56.669 --> 00:29:59.409 SHERRY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING? 00:29:59.409 --> 00:30:05.260 >> I WILL HAVE TO WORK ON THAT FOR NEXT YEAR WITH LARGER. 00:30:05.260 --> 00:30:06.700 WE DO LOVE ALL THE NUMBERS. 00:30:06.700 --> 00:30:13.690 GIVE US A SPREADSHEET AND WE ARE HAPPY AS CAN BE. 00:30:13.690 --> 00:30:18.640 WE HAVE FINANCE FOLKS WITHIN OUR COUNTY DEPARTMENTS IN THE CLERKS OFFICE. 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:26.419 WE WORK TOGETHER EVERY DAY TOGETHER AS A TEAM AND WE ARE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THE FINANCE 00:30:26.419 --> 00:30:38.350 FOLKS TO OUR CITIES AND ALL OVER THE PLACE SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE RECOGNITION. 00:30:38.350 --> 00:30:46.210 >> I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THE NUMBER PUNCTURES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AND ESPECIALLY OUR COMPTROLLERS 00:30:46.210 --> 00:30:47.210 OFFICE. 00:30:47.210 --> 00:30:51.980 THANK YOU. 00:30:51.980 --> 00:31:04.440 >> Gregg Weiss: WHILE THEY ARE GATHERING FOR THEIR PHOTOGRAPH TONIGHT 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:24.090 KRISTIN, MEGAN, CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON, FRANK AND ADELE DOWN TO THE LECTERN, PLEASE? 00:31:24.090 --> 00:31:32.900 SINCE AS I'M GETTING READY TO PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION I WANTED TAKE A MOMENT OF PERSONAL 00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:40.350 PRIVILEGE HERE THIS PROCLAMATION IS REGARDING LITERACY AND AMERICORPS WEEK IN PALM BEACH 00:31:40.350 --> 00:31:42.960 COUNTY. 00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:50.159 ONE OF THE THINGS MY WIFE AND I FIRST EVER VOLUNTEERED FOR WAS TO ASSIST IN LITERACY 00:31:50.159 --> 00:31:53.830 IN HELPING FOLKS LEARN HOW TO READ. 00:31:53.830 --> 00:31:58.840 SO THE WORK THAT YOU DO CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES. 00:31:58.840 --> 00:32:06.299 IF YOU CAN'T REDIRECT SUCH A DISADVANTAGE IN YOUR MAKING JUST A TREMENDOUS DIFFERENCE. 00:32:06.299 --> 00:32:14.101 ONLY SAY THANK YOU AND LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE PERSONALLY THE WORK YOU ARE DOING 00:32:14.101 --> 00:32:20.139 CAREER DECLARING MARCH 10-17, 2024 IS LITERACY AMERICORPS WEEK. 00:32:20.139 --> 00:32:26.100 WHEREAS 30 YEARS AGO THE FEDERAL AGENCY FOR NATIONAL SERVICE VOLUNTEERS AND BEGAN ITS 00:32:26.100 --> 00:32:31.559 MISSION TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICANS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS TO SERVE THEIR COUNTRY 00:32:31.559 --> 00:32:37.700 ADDRESS THE NATION'S MOST PRESSING CHALLENGES AND IT IMPROVE THE LIVES OF OUR COMMUNITIES 00:32:37.700 --> 00:32:44.149 LITERACY AMERICORPS IS A PROJECT THE LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY AREAS OF SERVICE 00:32:44.149 --> 00:32:51.980 INCLUDING TUTORING, MENTORING, LITTLE LITERACY, ASSISTANCE WHEREAS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY OVER 00:32:51.980 --> 00:33:00.380 HALF OUR THIRD GRADERS READ BELOW GRADE LEVEL AND WHERE WERE THE 22 PERCENT OF ADULTS AGES 00:33:00.380 --> 00:33:08.230 16 AND OLDER LACK BASIC LITERACY SKILLS 15 PERCENT OF THE BABIES BORN IN PALM BEACH COUNTY 00:33:08.230 --> 00:33:13.130 AND 2021 WERE THE MOTHERS WHO HAD NOT GRADUATED HIGH SCHOOL. 00:33:13.130 --> 00:33:19.860 29 PERCENT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY RESIDENTS AGES FIVE AND OLDER SPEAK A LANGUAGE OTHER 00:33:19.860 --> 00:33:25.590 THAN ENGLISH THE MISSION OF THE LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY IS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY 00:33:25.590 --> 00:33:29.710 OF LIFE BY PROMOTING AND ACHIEVING LITERACY. 00:33:29.710 --> 00:33:36.679 LITERACY AMERICORPS RECRUITS AND TRAINS 30 MEMBERS A YEAR TO SERVE AS TUTORS, COACHES 00:33:36.679 --> 00:33:41.039 AND TEACHERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, RECRUITS ARE ASSIGNED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS WHERE THEY 00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:46.280 TUTOR CHILDREN UNDERACHIEVING IN READING MY SCHOOLS TO SERVE AS GRADUATION COACHES FOR 00:33:46.280 --> 00:33:51.539 STUDENTS WHO ARE AT RISK OF DROPPING OUT FROM THE FAMILY LITERACY CENTERS WHERE THEY WORK 00:33:51.539 --> 00:33:57.139 WITH PARENTS AND CHILDREN DELIVERY PROGRAM SERVING ADULTS OR CHILDREN OR ADULT LITERACY 00:33:57.139 --> 00:34:01.789 PROGRAMS WHERE THEY TEACH GROUPS OF ADULTS WHO WANT TO LEARN ENGLISH OR GAIN EMPLOYMENT 00:34:01.789 --> 00:34:02.789 SKILLS. 00:34:02.789 --> 00:34:09.590 THIS YEAR SERVICE INCLUDES MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECTS IN RETURN FOR THE MORE THAN 00:34:09.590 --> 00:34:17.589 17 HUNDRED HOURS OF SERVICE THEY RECEIVE A STIPEND HEALTH INSURANCE AND EDUCATIONAL AWARD. 00:34:17.589 --> 00:34:23.109 MEMBERS PLEDGE TO GET THINGS DONE IN THEIR COMMITMENT TO SERVICE AND VOLUNTEERING EXEMPLIFIES 00:34:23.109 --> 00:34:28.740 A MISSION TO IMPROVE THE LIVES, STRENGTHEN THE COMMUNITIES AND FOSTER CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 00:34:28.740 --> 00:34:33.840 WOULD EVER BE PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:41.379 ASSEMBLED A REGULAR SESSION ON THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 2020 FOURTH THE MARCH 10-17, 2024 00:34:41.379 --> 00:34:47.710 IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED LITERACY AMERICORPS WEEK. 00:34:47.710 --> 00:34:51.330 CONGRATULATIONS! 00:34:51.330 --> 00:34:54.530 THANK YOU COMMISSIONER AND TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION, GOOD MORNING. 00:34:54.530 --> 00:34:57.040 SO NICE TO SEE ALL OF YOU. 00:34:57.040 --> 00:35:01.869 THE LITERACY AMERICORPS PROGRAM IS ONE OF THE NINE LITERACY COALITION OF PALM BEACH 00:35:01.869 --> 00:35:08.089 COUNTY PROGRAMS THAT WE OPERATE THE LAST YEAR WE SERVED MORE THAN 55,000 ADULTS, CHILDREN, 00:35:08.089 --> 00:35:09.800 TEENS AND FAMILIES. 00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:19.130 WE PROVIDED MORE THAN 170,000 BOOKS TO FAMILIES FROM JUPITER TO BOCA RATON OR TO BELLE GLADE. 00:35:19.130 --> 00:35:29.920 WE ARE IN WITH ONE PROGRAM, WITH MORE THAN 200 TRAINED VOLUNTEERS WORKING IN 35 SCHOOLS. 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:34.970 ONE-ON-ONE TUTORING STUDENTS TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE VERY NEEDS THAT WE IDENTIFIED. 00:35:34.970 --> 00:35:43.329 WE RECRUITING NEXT YEAR THAT STARTS IN AUGUST AND IS COMMISSIONER MENTIONED THE BENEFITS 00:35:43.329 --> 00:35:49.500 OF THE PROGRAM NORMALLY WHAT IT DOES TO ENHANCE AND SUPPORT PALM BEACH COUNTY FOR ALL RESIDENTS, 00:35:49.500 --> 00:35:54.500 BUT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR THE MEMBERS AND WE HAVE TWO MEMBERS HERE 00:35:54.500 --> 00:36:03.599 TODAY, ADELE AND FRANK, YOU ARE GIVEN A TREMENDOUS YEAR OF SERVICE PROVIDED AS A SACRIFICE FOR 00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:09.160 THEM APPEARED WITH DAVE GAINES, AND I KNOW FRANK IS IN HIS SECOND YEAR, THEY CAN STILL 00:36:09.160 --> 00:36:15.069 BE HAS BEEN A TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE NOT ONLY FOR THEM BUT THE STUDENTS THEY ARE SERVING 00:36:15.069 --> 00:36:20.700 SO THANK YOU FOR THIS RECOGNITION, IT MEANS SO MUCH TO US. 00:36:20.700 --> 00:36:32.609 >> Sara Baxter: WHILE THEY ARE TAKING PICTURES OF WOULD LIKE HIV AND AIDS AWARENESS DAY I 00:36:32.609 --> 00:36:38.440 WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP DOCTOR JAMES AGREED, [NAME] I'M NOT GOING TO TRY THAT LAST NAME. 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:47.200 DOCTOR CASSIE, BIANCA MURPHY, SEAN, DOCTOR DAISY, COMPASS COMMUNITY CENTER AND ANY OTHER 00:36:47.200 --> 00:36:54.521 REPRESENTATIVES FOR NATIONAL WOMEN AND GIRLS HIV AIDS AWARENESS DAY. 00:37:18.730 --> 00:37:21.130 THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME. 00:37:21.130 --> 00:37:27.800 WE ARE DECLARING MARCH 10 2024 AS NATIONAL WOMEN AND GIRLS HIV AIDS AWARENESS DAY WHEREAS 00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:33.991 IN PALM BEACH COUNTY 34 PERCENT OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV ARE WOMEN AND IN 2022 WOMEN 00:37:33.991 --> 00:37:41.069 MADE UP 27 PERCENT OF THE NEW HIV DIAGNOSES WHEREAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF NEW CASES IN 00:37:41.069 --> 00:37:46.490 THE COUNTY WERE AMONG BLACK PEOPLE AND BLACK WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR 24 PERCENT OF ALL NEW HIV 00:37:46.490 --> 00:37:52.420 INFECTIONS WHEREAS, IN PALM BEACH COUNTY 22 PERCENT OF MOMENTS WITH HIV ARE NOT RECEIVING 00:37:52.420 --> 00:37:58.450 HIV CARE AND TREATMENT IN WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR 40 PERCENT OF HIV RELATED DEATHS OF BLACK 00:37:58.450 --> 00:38:02.660 WOMEN ACCOUNTED FOR 35 PERCENT OF ALL HIV RELATED DEATHS. 00:38:02.660 --> 00:38:09.319 WHEREAS, IN THE COUNTY WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR 31 PERCENT OF ALL PERSONS AGE 13 TO 24 WHO ARE 00:38:09.319 --> 00:38:18.261 LIVING WITH HIV AND BLACK WOMEN ACCOUNT FOR 32 PERCENT OF ALL PERSONS AGES 13 TO 24 WHO 00:38:18.261 --> 00:38:23.080 ARE LIVING WITH HIV GOOD WHEREAS, THIS YEAR'S THEME FOR NATIONAL WOMEN AND GIRLS HIV AIDS 00:38:23.080 --> 00:38:29.320 AWARENESS DAY PREVENTION AND TESTING AT EVERY AGE, CARE AND TREATMENT IN EVERY STATE EMPHASIZES 00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:34.510 THE NEED AND ENSURE EQUITY AND HIV CARE AND TREATMENT. 00:38:34.510 --> 00:38:41.460 WHEREAS, IN PALM BEACH COUNTY 8700 PERSONS ARE LIVING WITH HIV IN PALM BEACH COUNTY HIV 00:38:41.460 --> 00:38:46.600 CARE COUNSEL IN PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMUNITY PREVENTION PARTNERSHIPS THROUGH THEIR PARTNERS 00:38:46.600 --> 00:38:51.700 ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO RENEW HIV AND AIDS AWARENESS AND EXPAND AND STRENGTHEN LOCAL 00:38:51.700 --> 00:38:57.380 EFFORTS HELPED THE SPREAD OF HIV PROGRESS, ALL RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO TAKE PART 00:38:57.380 --> 00:39:04.190 IN ACTIVITIES AND OBSERVANCE DESIGNED TO INCREASE AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF HIV AIDS IS 00:39:04.190 --> 00:39:08.990 A GLOBAL CHALLENGE AND JOIN THE EFFORTS TO PREVENT FURTHER SPREAD OF HIV. 00:39:08.990 --> 00:39:14.270 NOW THEREFORE BE PRESENT BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA 00:39:14.270 --> 00:39:21.819 ASSEMBLED A REGULAR SESSION THIS FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 2024 THEY FIT TO THE 11TH 2024 IN 00:39:21.819 --> 00:39:30.369 PALM BEACH COUNTY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED NATIONAL WOMEN AND GIRLS HIV AIDS AWARENESS DAY. 00:39:30.369 --> 00:39:36.650 [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER BAXTER AND 00:39:36.650 --> 00:39:39.619 THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS. 00:39:39.619 --> 00:39:46.089 IS A VICE CHAIR THAT PALM BEACH COUNTY HIV CARE COUNSEL, LIKE FOR ALL OF US TO REMEMBER 00:39:46.089 --> 00:39:52.530 WE LIVE IN A TIME WHERE WE COULD HAVE ZERO NEW INFECTIONS, THE SCIENCE SHOWS THIS. 00:39:52.530 --> 00:40:00.310 AS HE HEARD FROM THE STATISTICS WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE INCREASING IN NEW HIV INFECTIONS INCLUDING 00:40:00.310 --> 00:40:03.460 WOMEN OF COLOR AND TRANS WOMEN. 00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:10.260 IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING AWARENESS EVENTS THERE IS ONE FRIDAY NIGHT BY OUR FRIENDS 00:40:10.260 --> 00:40:11.260 AT FURTHER OUTREACH. 00:40:11.260 --> 00:40:16.670 FEEL FREE TO CHECK OUT THEIR WEBSITE AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN FIND IT ALSO, THERE WOULD BE 00:40:16.670 --> 00:40:21.869 AN EVENT THIS SATURDAY COMPASS COMMUNITY CENTER AND ALL THAT INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE 00:40:21.869 --> 00:40:22.869 WEBSITE. 00:40:22.869 --> 00:40:28.900 THANK YOU ALL AGAIN. 00:40:28.900 --> 00:40:30.160 >> GOOD MORNING. 00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:35.150 MY NAME IS JASMINE, I AM A NURSING QUALITY MANAGEMENT CLINICIAN FOR THE RYAN WHITE PROGRAM 00:40:35.150 --> 00:40:41.450 UNDER COMMUNITY SERVICES SO THIS PAST YEAR PART OUR PROGRAM IS TO PERFORM CLINICAL QUALITY 00:40:41.450 --> 00:40:46.599 MANAGEMENT AND SO THIS PAST YEAR WE HAD A PROJECT THAT FOCUSED ON ADDRESSING DISPARITIES 00:40:46.599 --> 00:40:52.250 FOR OUR NINE SUB RECIPIENTS TO RECEIVE FUNDING FOR US THEY MIGHT'VE NOTICED LEAH POSTERS 00:40:52.250 --> 00:40:57.369 PURITANS OUR COUNTY IS DIVERSITY TO THE SUB RECIPIENTS FOCUS ON TAILORING AN INTERVENTION 00:40:57.369 --> 00:41:01.359 TO ADDRESS THE DISPARITIES OF THE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS WE SERVE. 00:41:01.359 --> 00:41:05.290 WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD GO OUTSIDE AND TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE WORKER 00:41:05.290 --> 00:41:09.630 AGENCIES HAVE DONE GOOD THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO SHOWCASE THIS WORK AND WE LOOK FORWARD 00:41:09.630 --> 00:41:16.930 TO CONTINUE TO ADDRESS THESE DISPARITIES IN SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES AND ENDING THE HIV 00:41:16.930 --> 00:41:19.230 EPIDEMIC. 00:41:19.230 --> 00:41:23.840 THANK YOU. 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:35.360 >> Michael Barnett: GOOD MORNING AGAIN. 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:41.740 IN HONOR OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY AND WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, WANT TO RECOGNIZE TWO 00:41:41.740 --> 00:41:44.630 INCREDIBLE WOMEN IN MY DISTRICT. 00:41:44.630 --> 00:41:50.349 WE ARE BLESSED IN COUNTY COMMISSION DISTRICT RITA HAVE SO MANY AMAZING WOMEN LEADERS CHANGING 00:41:50.349 --> 00:41:56.310 THE COMMUNITIES WITH HARD WORK AND DEDICATION YOU WOULD LIFTING UP OUR STUDENTS, INVESTING 00:41:56.310 --> 00:42:01.790 IN FUTURE GENERATIONS OF LEADING BY EXAMPLE DORIAN THERE TRULY A REFLECTION OF THE COMMUNITIES 00:42:01.790 --> 00:42:08.420 THEY SERVE IN TODAY WILL RECOGNIZE SUSY DIAZ, COMMISSIONER GREENACRES AND ALEXANDRIA FOR 00:42:08.420 --> 00:42:12.770 THEIR LEADERSHIP AND PASSION FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR COUNTY. 00:42:12.770 --> 00:42:27.710 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE SUSY DIAZ, MICHAEL, CITY MANAGER ANDREA CAMUS MERIT GREENACRES 00:42:27.710 --> 00:42:36.930 JOELLE FLOREZ, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY RECREATION SERVICES, [NAME] DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 00:42:36.930 --> 00:42:45.240 QUINN CITY CLERK, TERRY, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE PYRIDYL DENISE MALONE, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT 00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:52.830 AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, SUZANNE SKIDMORE DIRECTOR OF HUMAN SERVICES AND MONICA, DIRECTOR OF PURCHASING. 00:42:59.880 --> 00:43:03.800 CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION PRESENTED TO COMMISSIONERS SUSY DIAZ. 00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:08.730 SUSY DIAZ IS A PALM BEACH COUNTY IN FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN, PROUD GRADUATE OF PALM 00:43:08.730 --> 00:43:13.349 BEACH STATE COLLEGE OF FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY WHO HAS BEEN SERVING OUR COMMUNITY FOR NEARLY 00:43:13.349 --> 00:43:14.849 3 DECADES. 00:43:14.849 --> 00:43:18.829 SHE WAS ELECTED TO THE GREENACRES CITY COUNCIL IN MARCH 2022. 00:43:18.829 --> 00:43:24.770 HER CAREER INCLUDES WORKING WITH THE CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH AND AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. 00:43:24.770 --> 00:43:32.300 SINCE 2013 SHE'S BEEN THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL ARTS FOUNDATION. 00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:39.069 COMMISSIONER IS ACTIVE IN LEADERSHIP PALM BEACH COUNTY, THE FORM 12 OF THE PALM BEACHES 00:43:39.069 --> 00:43:44.250 HAS BEEN A HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL AND HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF PALM BEACH COUNTY. 00:43:44.250 --> 00:43:50.460 IN HER WORDS IS A LONG LINE WILL MANIPULATIVES THE TRAIL THEY THE WAY SO LATINO AND HISPANIC 00:43:50.460 --> 00:43:55.470 WOMEN COULD SUCCEED IN TODAY'S CULTURE IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PAY THE SACRIFICES 00:43:55.470 --> 00:44:01.980 FORWARD BY MENTORING, CULTIVATING AND ENCOURAGING THE NEXT GENERATION TO STEP INTO THE POWER 00:44:01.980 --> 00:44:08.540 AS A WORK TOGETHER TOWARD GENDER AND ETHNIC EQUALITY PRESENTED ON THE FOR TODAY MARCH 00:44:08.540 --> 00:44:18.930 2024 ON WHICH COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THE RECOGNITION OF COMMISSIONER SUSY DIAZ. 00:44:18.930 --> 00:44:26.400 [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION 00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:32.200 BUT I'M HONORED TO BE RECEIVING THIS ALONGSIDE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER WHO IS A TRUE TRAILBLAZER 00:44:32.200 --> 00:44:38.500 DORIAN WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK MY HUSBAND, MY MOTHER, THE ENTIRE CITY OF GREENACRES HE 00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:40.050 HAS COME DOWN TODAY. 00:44:40.050 --> 00:44:46.470 OR BOARD CHAIR AT THE FOUNDATION CONFERENCE ARE BEING HERE AMERICAN ADVICE MIRACLE OF 00:44:46.470 --> 00:44:51.050 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND HONORED TO BE STANDING AS WE CELEBRATE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND 00:44:51.050 --> 00:44:54.350 PREPARE TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY THIS FRIDAY. 00:44:54.350 --> 00:45:00.510 THIS MONTHLY ON OF THE FEMALES WHOSE SHATTERED THE GLASS CEILING SO FOR US IT WE SUPPORT 00:45:00.510 --> 00:45:05.900 THE EMPOWERED WOMEN OF SEDATE YOU FROM BOARD ROOMS THE VOTING BOOTHS OR CHANGEMAKERS WE 00:45:05.900 --> 00:45:11.460 ENCOURAGE THE WOMEN OF TOMORROW FROM OUR YOUTH SO THEY KNOW THAT THEY BELONG IN ANY AND EVERY 00:45:11.460 --> 00:45:15.090 SPACE OVER THIS RECOGNITION DOESN'T BELONG TO ME. 00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:22.800 BELONGS TO THE MOMS, TO THE ANTS, THE TEACHERS, FRIENDS AND MENTORS WHO LINED EACH RUNG OF 00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:30.040 THE LADDER WITH HOPE, COURAGE, RESILIENCE SO MY GENERATION WOMEN WOULD HAVE AN EASIER 00:45:30.040 --> 00:45:36.130 CLAIM NOW THAT WE'VE CLIMBED MORE LIKE TO DO GRID INCLUSION AND REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN 00:45:36.130 --> 00:45:42.630 REGARDLESS OF THEIR AGE, RACE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, BODY IMAGE THE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IS A CONVERSATION 00:45:42.630 --> 00:45:47.859 THAT NEEDS TO CONTINUE IN OUR COMMUNITY AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE FUTURE INSTRUCTOR COLLECTIVE 00:45:47.859 --> 00:45:52.540 UNITY WHILE HONORING DIVERSITY PRIVATIVE LIKE TO THANK YOU TO YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP BY 00:45:52.540 --> 00:45:57.400 PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN FROM ALL FACETS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO SERVE ON MANY BOARDS 00:45:57.400 --> 00:46:02.710 OR COMMITTEES ENCOURAGING WOMEN-OWNED BUSINESSES TO TAKE PART IN YOUR SBE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM 00:46:02.710 --> 00:46:07.860 AND PROCUREMENT PROCESS INTERACTIONS SUCH AS RECOGNIZING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY. 00:46:07.860 --> 00:46:10.740 YOU ARE ALL HELPING WITH THAT NEEDLE. 00:46:10.740 --> 00:46:18.990 EVERYONE OF US AND BEGINS WITH EDUCATING THEM A MENTORING AND UPLIFTING YOUNG WOMEN OF OUR 00:46:18.990 --> 00:46:25.180 COMMUNITY SO THAT THEY KNOW FROM AN EARLY AGE THAT THEY CAN HEAR IN TOGETHER LET'S CONTINUE 00:46:25.180 --> 00:46:30.050 TO LIE IN THE WRONG SUM THAT LATTER ENVIRONMENT WITH OPPORTUNITIES TO ENSURE THE NEXT GENERATION 00:46:30.050 --> 00:46:32.109 OF WOMEN CAN CLIMB EVEN HIGHER. 00:46:32.109 --> 00:46:36.599 I WOULD LIKE TO THINK COMMISSIONER BARNETT FROM THIS HONOR AND WEEDY WITH THE GREAT REMINDER 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:41.102 FROM THE LATE SHIRLEY CHISHOLM DEAR LADIES, IF WE DON'T HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE BRING 00:46:41.102 --> 00:46:47.223 A FOLDING CHAIR. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] 00:48:25.460 --> 00:48:30.309 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH I WOULD LIKE TO CALL UP THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PALM BEACH COUNTY 00:48:30.309 --> 00:48:37.859 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA, THE YWCA AND ALL OTHERS FOR WOMEN'S 00:48:37.859 --> 00:48:40.579 HISTORY MONTH. 00:48:56.631 --> 00:49:01.430 ISN'T GREAT WHEN WE GET TO RECOGNIZE WOMEN SO FREQUENTLY? 00:49:01.430 --> 00:49:05.069 PROCLAMATION AFTER PROCLAMATION. 00:49:05.069 --> 00:49:10.630 WE ARE DECLARING MARCH 2024 AS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. 00:49:10.630 --> 00:49:15.430 WERE ASKING WOMEN FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND PROFESSIONS ADMINISTERED CONTRIBUTIONS 00:49:15.430 --> 00:49:21.089 TO THE GROWTH AND STRENGTH OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, THE STATE OF FLORIDA, OUR NATION A GLOBAL 00:49:21.089 --> 00:49:22.089 COMMUNITY. 00:49:22.089 --> 00:49:26.750 WHEREAS, THESE CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN CRITICAL TO THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF OUR ECONOMY, 00:49:26.750 --> 00:49:31.559 ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS, SOCIAL ADVANCEMENTS IN LABOR FORCE WORKING INSIDE 00:49:31.559 --> 00:49:38.839 AND OUTSIDE THE HOME WHEREAS, 2024 MARKS THE 176 ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT 00:49:38.839 --> 00:49:43.660 WHICH SERVED AS A DRIVING FORCE BEHIND SECURING MANY WOMEN'S RIGHTS INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO 00:49:43.660 --> 00:49:48.920 VOTE, THE RIGHT TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE AND IMPROVED EMPLOYMENT RATES, REPRESENTATION 00:49:48.920 --> 00:49:55.109 AND MORE PROGRESS, EACH YEAR SINCE 1987 MARCH HAS BEEN DESIGNATED WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH 00:49:55.109 --> 00:50:00.130 IN THE UNITED STATES OF THE PRESIDENT PROCLAIMING MARCH IS NATIONAL HISTORY MONTH. 00:50:00.130 --> 00:50:04.670 NOW THEREFORE BE PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY 00:50:04.670 --> 00:50:11.540 FLORIDA ASSEMBLED IN REGULAR SESSION IS FOR THE DAY OF MARCH 2024 THAT MARCH 2024 IN PALM 00:50:11.540 --> 00:50:15.809 BEACH COUNTY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. 00:50:15.809 --> 00:50:25.730 [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU COMMISSION FOR YOUR PROCLAMATION. 00:50:25.730 --> 00:50:30.319 DURING WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WE CELEBRATE THE COURAGEOUS WOMAN WHO HELPED OUR NATION 00:50:30.319 --> 00:50:32.880 WILL THE FAIR, MORE JUST SOCIETY. 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:36.930 WOMEN'S CHAMBER COMMERCE PALM BEACH COUNTY WORKFLOW YEAR TO FOLLOW THIS MISSION IT WE 00:50:36.930 --> 00:50:43.670 ARE PROUD TO SHARE TO HOLD OUR 20TH ANNUAL DRAFT BOARDS WE CELEBRATE 34 WOMEN WHO STUCK 00:50:43.670 --> 00:50:50.030 THEIR NECKS OUT FOR OTHERS IT WE ARE JOINED TODAY BY THE YWCA, THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION, 00:50:50.030 --> 00:50:54.569 THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AND EXECUTIVE WOMEN OF THE PALM BEACHES. 00:50:54.569 --> 00:50:57.849 THANK YOU. [APLASUE] 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:03.868 >> BRIEFLY I WOULD LIKE TO THANK COUNCILWOMAN [NAME] FOR BEING HERE. 00:51:03.868 --> 00:51:05.534 THANK YOU. 00:51:54.251 --> 00:51:59.160 >> Michael Barnett: GOOD MORNING AGAIN. 00:51:59.160 --> 00:52:07.750 IN A ROOM FULL OF WOMEN LEADERS AND RECOGNIZE MY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, ALEXANDRIA. 00:52:07.750 --> 00:52:14.920 I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME HER TO THE PODIUM ALONG WITH ROB LONGUM AND MABEL MELTON, JERRY, 00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:28.150 KATRINA ROBINSON, PAST COMMISSIONER MELISSA McKINLEY, ASHLEY, MARIANA BLANCO AND PAMELA. 00:52:28.150 --> 00:52:33.160 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ALEXANDRIA IS BREAKING GLASS CEILINGS AND BRINGING YOUR EXTENSIVE 00:52:33.160 --> 00:52:38.839 KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE TO THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD THAT I SUBMITTED THE NAME 00:52:38.839 --> 00:52:42.910 FOR A NOMINATION TO THE PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION ACTION ADVISORY BOARD. 00:52:42.910 --> 00:52:54.220 IS A PLEASURE AND HONOR TO RECOGNIZE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER ALEXANDRIA TODAY. 00:52:54.220 --> 00:52:59.260 CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION PRESENTED TO ALEXANDRIA FOR BEING THE FIRST LATINA ELECTED THAT THE 00:52:59.260 --> 00:53:04.799 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD AND 2020 SHE BEGAN HER TERM REPRESENTING 00:53:04.799 --> 00:53:11.800 DISTRICT TO THAT INCLUDES PARTS OF THE CITIES OF WEST PALM BEACH, GREENACRES AND LAKE WORTH. 00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:19.010 THE TOWNS OF LAKE CLARKE SHORES AND HAVE HER HELP IN THE VILLAGE OF PALM SPRINGS. 00:53:19.010 --> 00:53:24.160 SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS A DIRECTOR IN PUBLIC POLICY FOR THE EUCLID GROUP AND PREVIOUSLY 00:53:24.160 --> 00:53:29.000 SERVED AS A LEGISLATIVE AIDE FOR THE PALM BEACH COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:31.220 AND THE FLORIDA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 00:53:31.220 --> 00:53:36.130 BORN FEDERICO AND RAISED IN THE VILLAGE OF PALM SPRINGS EARLY EDUCATION WAS IN PALM BEACH 00:53:36.130 --> 00:53:40.380 COUNTY AND SHE RECEIVED A BACHELORS DEGREE IN POLITICAL SCIENCE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF 00:53:40.380 --> 00:53:45.960 CENTRAL FLORIDA RESIDENT LEVEL FOR TODAY MARCH 2024 BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 00:53:45.960 --> 00:53:50.180 FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY. 00:53:50.180 --> 00:53:54.000 CONGRATULATIONS. 00:53:54.000 --> 00:54:00.380 >> GOOD MORNING COMMISSIONERS, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND THE ENTIRE COMMISSION. 00:54:00.380 --> 00:54:03.900 THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR. 00:54:03.900 --> 00:54:15.920 I DON'T LIKE THE WORK TO BE ABOUT ME AND BEHIND ME ARE WOMEN IN A MAN OUR REFLECTIONS AND 00:54:15.920 --> 00:54:18.920 PILLARS OF WHY I AM ABLE TO BE WHERE I AM TODAY. 00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:23.450 UNFORTUNATELY MY MOM WHO IS THE PRIMARY PERSON AND THAT HAD TO WORK AND CANNOT BE WITH US 00:54:23.450 --> 00:54:31.470 TODAY, BUT GROWING UP IN PALM SPRINGS AND I MOVED HERE FROM PUERTO RICO I ATTENDED THREE 00:54:31.470 --> 00:54:36.170 SCHOOLS WHICH I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO REPRESENT ONE OF THOSE WAS PALM SPRINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL 00:54:36.170 --> 00:54:41.349 BOARD DOCTOR PAMELA McDONALD THE PRINCIPAL NOW GET TO WORK WITH AS A COLLEAGUE IS HERE 00:54:41.349 --> 00:54:46.980 TODAY YOUR FORMER COMMISSIONER McKINLEY WHO HAS BEEN A MENTOR TO ME THROUGH MY CAREER 00:54:46.980 --> 00:54:51.420 IN THE LEADER THAT I LOOK TO EXEMPLIFY. 00:54:51.420 --> 00:54:58.589 ASHLEY COMMIT MARIANA, [NAME], SUSIE DEAS ALL OF WHO WE WORKED TOGETHER TO ENGAGE OUR 00:54:58.589 --> 00:55:05.420 COMMUNITIES TO TURN OUT COMMIT TO VOTE INSTEAD OF HER ADVOCATING FOR OUR RIGHTS TO MAKE SURE 00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:11.490 WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN TO UNIFY NOT JUST WOMEN BUT WOMEN OF COLOR AND UNDERRECOGNIZED 00:55:11.490 --> 00:55:19.359 COMMUNITIES AND MABEL, A FRIEND WHO JOINED US FROM MIAMI NOT THAT LONG AGO AND IS A PALM 00:55:19.359 --> 00:55:26.420 BEACH RESIDENCE WHO HAS BECOME SOMEBODY A LOOK TO IS HOW I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE MY LIFE 00:55:26.420 --> 00:55:34.970 ONE DAY AND SHE IS WEARING HER PINK POWER SUIT BUT IS A COMBINATION OF PEOPLE I HAVE 00:55:34.970 --> 00:55:44.430 IN MY LIFE IN A VERY SPECIAL MAN HERE TODAY, ROB LONG MY FIANCÉ AND SOMEBODY WAS BEEN 00:55:44.430 --> 00:55:52.180 THERE TO SUPPORT ME AND IN DISTRICT 3 EMPTY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TO STEP INTO THIS ROLE 00:55:52.180 --> 00:55:59.039 FROM BEING APPOINTED YOU SHOW UP, YOU LISTEN, OUR DISTRICT HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND FOR MANY, 00:55:59.039 --> 00:56:04.910 MANY YEARS AND THE RELATED APPRECIATE THE PASSION WITH WHICH YOU INTEGRATE YOURSELF 00:56:04.910 --> 00:56:07.420 IN THE COMMUNITY SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 00:56:07.420 --> 00:56:12.010 FOR SHOWING UP AND LISTENING TO THE CONCERNS OF THE RESIDENTS FOR THE DISTRICT DESERVES 00:56:12.010 --> 00:56:17.730 NOTHING BUT THE BEST AND SO I WISH YOU THE BEST AS YOU CONTINUE REPRESENTING US AND IF 00:56:17.730 --> 00:56:25.410 I CAN EVER BE OF ASSISTANCE IN ORDER TO FIND ME FOR THIS HONOR IS FOR ALL OF US, FOR ALL 00:56:25.410 --> 00:56:30.734 THE PEOPLE HERE TODAY WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME WHO I AM SO 00:56:30.734 --> 00:56:34.984 THANK YOU SO MUCH, IT IS AN HONOR. [APPLAUSE] 00:58:29.486 --> 00:58:37.940 >> Maria Sachs: WE ARE GOING TO MOVE RIGHT ALONG AND I AM SURE IF CHRISTIE KELLY COULD 00:58:37.940 --> 00:58:44.630 TO COME FORWARD AND ANYBODY WHO IS IN HER STAFF IF THEY COULD COME FORWARD. 00:58:44.630 --> 00:58:55.410 THIS IS GOING TO BE AN AWARD DECLARING MARCH 2024 AS ETHICS AWARENESS MONTH. 00:58:55.410 --> 00:58:59.799 AND IF I COULD HAVE ALL OF THEM COME FORWARD. 00:58:59.799 --> 00:59:05.819 GOING TO GO AHEAD MISSION OF THE PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION 00:59:05.819 --> 00:59:14.079 ON ETHICS IS TO FOSTER INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC SERVICE, PROMOTE PUBLIC TRUST AND CONFIDENCE 00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:20.520 IN THESE SERVICES AND PREVENT CONFLICTS BETWEEN INTERESTS AND PUBLIC DUTY. 00:59:20.520 --> 00:59:28.480 WHEREAS, IN RECOGNITION OF THE UNIQUE ENCUMBRANCE OF ETHICS REFORM PROGRAM IMPLEMENTED BY DISCOUNTED, 00:59:28.480 --> 00:59:34.940 THE COMMISSION ACCOMPLISHES ITS MISSION THROUGH FOCUSING ON CONDUCTING ONGOING EDUCATIONAL 00:59:34.940 --> 00:59:38.400 PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH. 00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:44.819 WHEREAS, THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL IN PALM BEACH COUNTY WAS CREATED TO PROVIDE OVERSIGHT 00:59:44.819 --> 00:59:51.260 AND FORESIGHT IN PROMOTING EFFICIENCY AND INTEGRITY IN GOVERNMENT. 00:59:51.260 --> 00:59:56.960 WHEREAS THE OFFICE OF THE STATE ATTORNEY HAS CREATED A MULTIAGENCY TASK FORCE TO ASSIST 00:59:56.960 --> 01:00:02.060 IN THE OVERALL MISSION OF PROMOTING PUBLIC TRUST AND ETHICAL BEHAVIOR BY THOSE IN PUBLIC 01:00:02.060 --> 01:00:09.490 SERVICE THERE IS DEVOTED TO CRIMINALLY PROSECUTE PUBLIC CORRUPTION CASES UNDER STATE LAW AND 01:00:09.490 --> 01:00:15.980 WERE AS FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY PROMOTES THE ETHICAL STANDARDS IN PUBLIC SERVICE, STRIVES 01:00:15.980 --> 01:00:21.789 TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOW IT FUNCTIONS, PROVIDES INFORMATION 01:00:21.789 --> 01:00:28.990 AND RESEARCH TO STIMULATE MORE INFORMED POLICYMAKING WHEREAS THE PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION OF 01:00:28.990 --> 01:00:35.170 ETHICS OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL, OFFICE OF THE STATE ATTORNEY, FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY 01:00:35.170 --> 01:00:43.059 LEROY COLLINS PUBLIC ETHICS ACADEMY AND VARIOUS STAKEHOLDERS WILL PARTICIPATE IN ETHICS AWARENESS 01:00:43.059 --> 01:00:46.030 ACTIVITIES DURING MARCH. 01:00:46.030 --> 01:00:51.910 NOW THEREFORE BE IT PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE PALM BEACH 01:00:51.910 --> 01:01:00.369 COUNTY FLORIDA IS INVOLVED IN REGULAR SESSION LIST FOR THE DAY OF MARCH 2024 TO MARCH 2024 01:01:00.369 --> 01:01:07.640 IN PALM BEACH COUNTY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED ETHICS AWARENESS MONTH. 01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:09.990 CONGRATULATIONS. 01:01:09.990 --> 01:01:14.410 [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU MAYOR SACHS, AND CHRISTIE KELLY 01:01:14.410 --> 01:01:18.900 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION ON ETHICS BUT ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE INVOLVED 01:01:18.900 --> 01:01:23.220 IN THE ETHICS COMMISSION DATED TRYING TO MAKE PALM BEACH COUNTY A BETTER PLACE TO WORK AND 01:01:23.220 --> 01:01:30.190 LIVE, WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THIS PROCLAMATION. 14 YEARS AGO AT THE DIRECTION OF THE VOTERS 01:01:30.190 --> 01:01:36.030 IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, PALM BEACH COUNTY BEGINNINGS ETHICS MOVEMENT WITH THE CREATION OF TWO INDEPENDENT 01:01:36.030 --> 01:01:40.640 AGENCIES, OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL IN THE PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION ON ETHICS. 01:01:40.640 --> 01:01:45.869 SINCE THAT TIME THE HARD WORK OUR OFFICES HAVE PUT IN THE ALONG WITH THE STATE ATTORNEY'S 01:01:45.869 --> 01:01:52.099 OFFICE, THAT IS LED TO A RECOGNITION AS ONE OF THE PREMIER ETHICS MODELS TO FOLLOW LOCAL 01:01:52.099 --> 01:01:56.480 GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND PALM BEACH COUNTY COMMISSION ON ETHICS AIMS 01:01:56.480 --> 01:02:01.420 TO CREATE A CULTURE OF ETHICS IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO BE ARE ABOUT PREVENTION. 01:02:01.420 --> 01:02:07.619 WE WANT TO PREVENT UNETHICAL CONDUCT OF WHAT HAPPENS INSTEAD HAVING TO REACT AND WE DO 01:02:07.619 --> 01:02:12.490 THAT TO THE ONGOING TRAINING PROGRAMS AND OUR OUTREACH. 01:02:12.490 --> 01:02:21.190 IN ADDITION VOTERS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY IN 2010 AS WELL AS TODAY DO THEY WANT A CULTURE 01:02:21.190 --> 01:02:27.360 OF ETHICS WITHIN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THAT HELPS PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY 01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:33.010 AND FAIRNESS IN EVERY ACTION THE GOVERNMENT TAKES AND INCREASES THEIR TRUST IN GOVERNMENT 01:02:33.010 --> 01:02:40.039 ORDERED AS WELL-KNOWN GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS EARN RESPECT WHEN CITIZENS SEE 01:02:40.039 --> 01:02:45.240 THAT THEY ARE WORKING WITH INTEGRITY, CHARACTER AND FAIRNESS I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR 01:02:45.240 --> 01:02:52.499 YOUR SUPPORT AND FOR THIS PROCLAMATION, THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] 01:03:50.101 --> 01:04:00.529 >> Maria Sachs: IF I COULD HAVE TERRY COME FORWARD AND DAN, CHIEF ASSISTANT PUBLIC DEFENDER 01:04:00.529 --> 01:04:07.380 AND WHILE THEY ARE WALKING UP WE ARE GOING TO DECLARE TODAY AS CAREY HAIGHWOUT DAY BECAUSE 01:04:07.380 --> 01:04:15.890 CAREY HAIGHWOUT IS THE PUBLIC DEFENDER PALM BEACH COUNTY GRADUATING WITH HIGH HONORS FROM 01:04:15.890 --> 01:04:22.930 FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW, OR DOES IT DEFENDER IN LYONS AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES, 01:04:22.930 --> 01:04:29.329 PRACTICED LAW AS A PRIVATE DEFENSE ATTORNEY BECAME BOARD CERTIFIED IN CRIMINAL TRIALS, 01:04:29.329 --> 01:04:43.340 TOOK OFFICE AS OUR PALM BEACH COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER IN 2001 50 BECAME PRESIDENT OF THE 01:04:43.340 --> 01:04:48.400 PALM BEACH COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS, SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE 01:04:48.400 --> 01:04:57.210 FLORIDA ASSOCIATION FROM 1996 TO 1997 YOU CHAIRED PALM BEACH COUNTY ON JUSTICE REENTRY 01:04:57.210 --> 01:04:58.579 TASK FORCE. 01:04:58.579 --> 01:05:05.630 BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU DO AND I CAN SAY THIS IS A FORMER PROSECUTOR AND 01:05:05.630 --> 01:05:11.980 CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY IS YOU REPRESENT ANYONE IN OUR COUNTY WHO HAS BEEN CHARGED 01:05:11.980 --> 01:05:19.280 WITH A CRIME AND CANNOT AFFORD AN ATTORNEYS REPRESENTATION. 01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:27.119 YOU ARE SO IMPORTANT TO EVERY ONE OF US CAN YOU ENSURE QUALITY REPRESENTATION TO INDIVIDUALS 01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:34.750 CHARGED WITH CRIMES YOU SUPPORTED AND ALWAYS DO AND ALWAYS WILL THE PURSUIT OF EQUAL JUSTICE 01:05:34.750 --> 01:05:37.150 THROUGH EFFICIENT WORK. 01:05:37.150 --> 01:05:41.950 YOU WORK WITH POLICY LEADERS TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE SEEN YOU IN TALLAHASSEE MANY, 01:05:41.950 --> 01:05:48.140 MANY TIMES WORKING WITH POLICY LEADERS TO MAKE SURE THE SYSTEM IN PALM BEACH COUNTY 01:05:48.140 --> 01:05:56.529 IS EFFECTIVE IN ORDER TO REPRESENT THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO CANNOT AFFORD THE OFFICE OF A PRIVATE 01:05:56.529 --> 01:05:58.490 ATTORNEY. 01:05:58.490 --> 01:06:05.359 STELLAR PERFORMANCE IS PUBLIC IT DEFENDER HAS TRANSFORMED THE PUBLIC DEFENSE APPARATUS 01:06:05.359 --> 01:06:15.309 INTO A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED LEGAL INSTITUTION ENSHRINING A TOP-TIER FOR EXCELLENCE AND REPRESENTING 01:06:15.309 --> 01:06:22.859 IMPOVERISHED AND CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IT IS BECOME THE MOST 01:06:22.859 --> 01:06:30.640 FAIR AND JUST SYSTEM IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND I AM SAD TO SEE YOU LEAVE. 01:06:30.640 --> 01:06:35.000 I MAY NOT EVEN GIVE YOU THIS PROCLAMATION. 01:06:35.000 --> 01:06:40.690 BUT I KNOW IT WOULDN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO THE REST YOUR LIFE 01:06:40.690 --> 01:06:48.000 REDO BEEN SERVING FOR SO MANY YEARS AND IT IS TAKEN SO MANY HOURS OF YOUR LIFE SO IT'S 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:52.299 GOING TO BE PROCLAIMED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PALM BEACH COUNTY FLORIDA ASSEMBLED 01:06:52.299 --> 01:07:00.839 IN REGULAR SESSION THIS FIFTH DAY OF MARCH 2024 OF THIS DAY IS HEREBY PROCLAIMED CAREY 01:07:00.839 --> 01:07:01.859 HAYWARD DAY. 01:07:01.859 --> 01:07:04.579 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 01:07:04.579 --> 01:07:11.371 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE. 01:07:11.371 --> 01:07:18.930 >> AND GIVES SO MUCH MERIT MY COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR. 01:07:18.930 --> 01:07:27.710 WHEN I COMPLETE MY TERM IT WILL BE 24 YEARS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS BEEN WONDERFUL 01:07:27.710 --> 01:07:31.650 AS A WORKING RELATIONSHIP. 01:07:31.650 --> 01:07:37.900 YOU HAVE BESIDES OF COURSE HELPING US WITH FUNDING, YOU HAVE HELPED US WITH OUR INITIATIVES 01:07:37.900 --> 01:07:45.599 FOR OUR CLIENTS FOR REENTRY, FOR MENTAL HEALTH DIVERSION, TRYING TO ADDRESS THE REASONS PEOPLE 01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:51.549 COMMENTED THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. 01:07:51.549 --> 01:07:59.760 HAVING THIS JOB FOR 24 YEARS HAS BEEN THE MOST AMAZING HONOR I COULD HAVE. 01:07:59.760 --> 01:08:07.920 FOR ONE THING, WORKING WITH YOU AND PROFESSIONALS AND MANY OF THEM ARE HERE AND I WOULD LOVE 01:08:07.920 --> 01:08:09.690 FOR THEM TO STAND. 01:08:09.690 --> 01:08:23.650 THEY ARE TRULY THE ONES WHO DO THE WORK ON ORG IS COMMITTED TO PROTECTING AND ADVOCATING 01:08:23.650 --> 01:08:28.299 FOR THE FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES OF OUR CLIENTS. 01:08:28.299 --> 01:08:31.480 OUR CLIENTS ARE OFTEN THE MOST VULNERABLE. 01:08:31.480 --> 01:08:43.190 THEY ARE POOR, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES COMMIT TRAUMA VICTIMS, ALL OF THAT IN THE OTHER REAL 01:08:43.190 --> 01:08:51.000 PRIVILEGE I WOULD SAY IS WORKING WITH OUR CLIENTS THE FACT THEY LED US INTO OUR LIVES 01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:56.670 AND INTO THEIR STORIES AND ALLOW US TO ADVOCATE FOR THEM. 01:08:56.670 --> 01:09:06.410 DAN IS THE CHIEF ASSISTANT AND HOPEFULLY NICE OF DEPART ON DECEMBER 31 HE WILL STEP IN HERE 01:09:06.410 --> 01:09:16.670 WE WILL SEE WHAT AUGUST BRINGS SO WITH THAT I THINK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS RECOGNITION. 01:09:16.670 --> 01:09:20.864 THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] 01:09:41.342 --> 01:09:54.579 IF I COULD HAVE COMMISSIONERS BAXTER AND WOODWARD COME FORWARD WITH ME FOR THIS NEXT PROCLAMATION 01:09:54.579 --> 01:10:00.400 IS SPECIAL FOR SOME FOLKS WHO MAY HAVE CERTAIN DNA IN THEIR BLOOD AND WE OF CHIEF PATRICK 01:10:00.400 --> 01:10:04.880 KENNEDY IF YOU COULD COME UP AS WELL. 01:10:04.880 --> 01:10:08.210 VERY GOOD. 01:10:08.210 --> 01:10:11.600 IF I COULD HAVE RAY LYNCH. 01:10:11.600 --> 01:10:13.750 IS RAY LYNCH HERE? 01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:27.530 IS THERE ANYBODY FROM THE IRISH ORGANIZATION FOR IRISH HERITAGE MONTH HERE? 01:10:27.530 --> 01:10:36.080 WE MIGHT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SAINT PATTY'S DAY HERE WE ARE GOING TO WAIT ON THIS BECAUSE 01:10:36.080 --> 01:10:42.210 I THINK IT WOULD BE PROPER TO HAVE THEM HERE FOR THIS PROCLAMATION SO AT THIS TIME WE'RE 01:10:42.210 --> 01:10:47.900 GOING TO PUT IT OFF TO ANOTHER MEETING IN CHIEF, THANK YOU FOR COMING FOR IN YOU KNOW 01:10:47.900 --> 01:10:57.130 CHIEF PATRICK KENNEDY IS HERE FOR THE PROCLAMATION FOR AMERICAN IRISH HERITAGE MONTH. 01:10:57.130 --> 01:11:02.460 WE WILL DO THIS AT A TIME WHEN THEY ARE HERE TO ACCEPT IT. 01:11:02.460 --> 01:11:06.900 AT THIS TIME I WANT TO SET IT ASIDE. 01:11:06.900 --> 01:11:14.350 EVERYBODY IS IRISH SO I WISH EVERYBODY IN ANTICIPATION ABBY SAINT PATTY'S DAY WE GET 01:11:14.350 --> 01:11:16.960 THE IRISH YEAR. 01:11:16.960 --> 01:11:20.150 UNTIL THEN WE ARE GOING TO CONDUCT THE REGULAR AGENDA. 01:11:20.150 --> 01:11:24.362 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:11:45.360 --> 01:11:53.070 NOW WE ARE GOING TO CONDUCT AN ORDINARY MEETING WE ARE GOING TO GO ON TODAY REGULAR AGENDA 01:11:53.070 --> 01:11:59.440 WHICH IS 5A1 ON PAGE 58. 01:11:59.440 --> 01:12:01.750 WE HAVE STAFF HERE TODAY. 01:12:01.750 --> 01:12:04.786 TO GIVE US A PRESENTATION. 01:12:11.120 --> 01:12:23.110 YOU ARE RECOGNIZE. 01:12:23.110 --> 01:12:24.210 >> GOOD MORNING. 01:12:24.210 --> 01:12:33.670 WE ARE GOING TO RUN YOU THROUGH THE PRE-PRESENTATION BACKGROUND ON THE I DONE BEFORE YOU THIS MORNING 01:12:33.670 --> 01:12:37.510 AND THEN SEEK YOUR DIRECTION ON HOW TO PROCEED. 01:12:37.510 --> 01:12:46.230 REMEMBER WE HAD THIS ITEM CAME BEFORE BACK IN DECEMBER RELATED TO WELLINGTON AND ANNEXATION 01:12:46.230 --> 01:12:53.850 FOLLOWING UP WITH YOU BECAUSE THE VILLAGE ADOPTED THE PROVISIONS WILL BE PLACING THE 01:12:53.850 --> 01:13:03.570 PROPOSED ANNEXATION ON THE BALLOT GOING UP WITH YOU TO FIND IF IN WHAT FORM YOU WOULD 01:13:03.570 --> 01:13:10.370 LIKE US TO CONTINUE OPPOSING THE ANNEXATION ARE TAKING THE OTHER ACTION. 01:13:10.370 --> 01:13:16.130 I THINK I'VE STALLED LONG ENOUGH AS DARREN IS PULLING UP HIS POWERPOINT. 01:13:16.130 --> 01:13:19.989 >> WE HAD A NICE LITTLE POWERPOINT. 01:13:19.989 --> 01:13:25.400 >> Maria Sachs: WHY DO YOU IDENTIFY YOURSELF AND YOU CAN SPEAK US THROUGH. 01:13:25.400 --> 01:13:26.840 WITH THAT FOLLOWED THIS. 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:30.409 >> YES, IT'S GO INTO FOLLOW THAT ONE. 01:13:30.409 --> 01:13:35.510 I IN DARREN WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEYS OFFICE. 01:13:35.510 --> 01:13:42.540 THE FIRST SLIDE ON THE POWERPOINT AFTER THE INTRODUCTIONS SHOULD SHOW HIM UP AND WE ARE 01:13:42.540 --> 01:13:48.540 HERE SEEKING RESOLUTION TO BEGIN THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS TO CHALLENGE THE 01:13:48.540 --> 01:13:51.750 VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON ANNEXATION. 01:13:51.750 --> 01:13:59.290 THE SLIDE WOULD HAVE SHOWN IN PURPLE THE ANNEXATION AREA BUT ON DECEMBER 5 THE BOARD DIRECTED 01:13:59.290 --> 01:14:04.760 STAFF TO CHALLENGE WELLINGTON ANNEXATION DIRECTLY ATTENDED BOTH HEARINGS ON THE ORDINANCE AND 01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:06.980 PROVIDED ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMENTS. 01:14:06.980 --> 01:14:12.909 THE VILLAGE ADOPTED THE ORDINANCE ON FEBRUARY 13, THE ANNEXATION REFERENDUM WILL BE HELD 01:14:12.909 --> 01:14:18.639 MARCH 19 AND IF THE REFERENDUM PASSES THE ANNEXATION WILL BE EFFECTIVE ON DECEMBER 15. 01:14:18.639 --> 01:14:22.800 OF THE REFERENDUM FAILS THAN THE ANNEXATION FAILS. 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:30.150 THE STATUTE WE HAVE 30 DAYS TO INITIATE THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCESS 01:14:30.150 --> 01:14:36.150 FOR THIS PUTS OUR DEADLINE OF MARCH 15 BEFORE THE REFERENDUM OF MARCH 19. 01:14:36.150 --> 01:14:42.179 THEREFORE WE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE REFERENDUM TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT TO CHALLENGE YOU 01:14:42.179 --> 01:14:48.270 READ MY NEXT SLIDE WOULD'VE BEEN A COPY OF THE STATUTE. 01:14:48.270 --> 01:14:56.570 UNDER SECTION 171 THE MUNICIPALITY MAY IF IT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBSECTION 1 01:14:56.570 --> 01:15:00.710 AND THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBSECTION 2 OR SUBSECTION 3. 01:15:00.710 --> 01:15:06.570 FOR OUR PURPOSES SUBSECTION 1 REQUIRES ANNEXATION AREA TO BE CONTIGUOUS TO THE BOUNDARIES OF 01:15:06.570 --> 01:15:12.170 THE MUNICIPALITIES BOUNDARIES AT THE TIME OF ANNEXATION. 01:15:12.170 --> 01:15:17.340 SUBSECTION 2 REQUIRES THE ANNEXATION AREA TO BE DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES SUBSECTION 01:15:17.340 --> 01:15:23.480 3 REQUIRES UNDEVELOPED LAND TO SERVE AS A LAND BRIDGE TO LAND DEVELOPER URBAN PURPOSES 01:15:23.480 --> 01:15:30.580 IF LAND THAT IS NOT DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PERSON PROCESS IS BEING ANNEXED TO THE NEXT SLIDE 01:15:30.580 --> 01:15:37.400 IS TITLED LEMONS TURNS SINCE THE SUMMER IS WHAT I JUST SAID THE ANNEXATION AREA MUST 01:15:37.400 --> 01:15:44.300 BE CONTIGUOUS AND DEVELOPER URBAN PURPOSES AT THE TIME ANNEXATION OR SERVE AS A NECESSARY 01:15:44.300 --> 01:15:50.510 LAND BRIDGE THAT THE LAND DEVELOPED FROM URBAN PURPOSES AT THE TIME OF ANNEXATION. 01:15:50.510 --> 01:15:57.170 WE DO NOT THINK WELLINGTON SAID ANNEXATION AREA MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEXT SLIDE 01:15:57.170 --> 01:15:58.570 WOULD BE CONTINUITY. 01:15:58.570 --> 01:16:04.800 GRIST WE ARGUE IT IS NOT CONTIGUOUS BECAUSE IT ANNEXATION AREA SEPARATED BY THE VILLAGE 01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:11.110 BY SOUTHERN BOULEVARD AND IS ACROSS FROM STA 1E, WHICH WILL NEVER BE DEVELOPED. 01:16:11.110 --> 01:16:16.400 THIS PREVENTS THE INHABITANTS OF THE ANNEXATION AREA FROM FOLEY ASSOCIATED WITH THE OTHER 01:16:16.400 --> 01:16:19.090 VILLAGE RESIDENTS. 01:16:19.090 --> 01:16:25.710 SUBSECTION 171.031 PARENTHESES THREE DEFINES CONTIGUOUS IS A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF A BOUNDARY 01:16:25.710 --> 01:16:35.310 OF THE ANNEXATION AREA COTERMINOUS PERIODS IT IS OKAY OF A PUBLICLY OWNED ROAD SEPARATES 01:16:35.310 --> 01:16:44.020 FROM THE ANNEXATION AREA BUT ONLY IF THE SEPARATION DOES NOT PREVENT THE INHABITANTS FROM FOLEY 01:16:44.020 --> 01:16:49.580 ASSOCIATION AND TRADING WITH EACH OTHER SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY. 01:16:49.580 --> 01:16:54.980 HEAR THE ANNEXATION AREAS ARE SEPARATED BY SOUTHERN BOULEVARD AND PART OF THE VILLAGE 01:16:54.980 --> 01:17:00.980 ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SOUTHERN BOULEVARD IS UNDEVELOPED LAND THAT IS PART OF THE STORM 01:17:00.980 --> 01:17:05.670 TREATMENT AREA ONE E. AND THE LAND WILL NEVER BE DEVELOPED. 01:17:05.670 --> 01:17:09.960 IN ORDER FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE AREA TO ASSOCIATE WITH OTHERS IN THE VILLAGE THEY 01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:17.790 WILL HAVE TO DRIVE OVER A MILE TO BINKS FOREST ROAD HAVE HAVE ACCESS TO THE VILLAGE BEFORE 01:17:17.790 --> 01:17:24.580 IN ROAD IS 1/4 OF A MILE CLOSER BUT ONE WOULD HAVE TO DRIVE FURTHER SOUTH DOWN THE ROAD 01:17:24.580 --> 01:17:31.670 TO GET US CONTIGUOUS TO THE VILLAGE. 01:17:31.670 --> 01:17:42.280 THE NEXT SLIDE IS DEVELOPMENT FOR URBAN PURPOSES BUT UNDER SECTION 1 71.043 PRINTED 32, OTHER 01:17:42.280 --> 01:17:48.070 WISE KNOWN AS SUBSECTION 2, PART OR ALL OF THE AREA TO BE ANNEXED MUST BE DEVELOPER URBAN 01:17:48.070 --> 01:17:54.840 PURPOSES FOR THE VILLAGE ADMITTED BEFORE THE BOARD IN BOTH HIS SERIAL ORDINANCE ANNEXATION 01:17:54.840 --> 01:18:00.050 AREA IS NOT DEVELOPER URBAN PURPOSES, THEY ARE BOUND BY THE RECORD THEY CREATED AT THE 01:18:00.050 --> 01:18:05.860 HEARINGS BEFORE THE BOARD AS SUCH THE ANNEXATION AREA DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBSECTION 01:18:05.860 --> 01:18:12.320 2 HOWEVER, THE VILLAGE ARGUES IT MEETS THE REQUIREMENTS OF SUBSECTION 3. 01:18:12.320 --> 01:18:14.750 WOULD BE SUBSECTION 3. 01:18:14.750 --> 01:18:19.400 WE DO NOT THINK THE ANNEXATION AREA MEETS THESE REQUIREMENTS BECAUSE THE LAND IS NOT 01:18:19.400 --> 01:18:26.989 SERVING AS A LAND BRIDGE TO AREA DEVELOPER URBAN PURPOSES, THAT IS ALSO BEING ANNEXED 01:18:26.989 --> 01:18:32.660 SUBSECTION 3 STATES IN ADDITION TO THE AREA DEVELOPER URBAN PURPOSES MUNICIPAL GOVERNING 01:18:32.660 --> 01:18:37.770 BODY MAY INCLUDE IN THE AREA TO BE ANNEXED IN THE AREA WHICH IS NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENT 01:18:37.770 --> 01:18:44.570 OF SUBSECTION 2 OF THIS LANGUAGE INDICATES THIS SUBSECTION ONLY APPLIES IF THE ANNEXATION 01:18:44.570 --> 01:18:50.290 AREA ALSO INCLUDES LAND DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES BECAUSE THE VERY FIRST SENTENCE STATES 01:18:50.290 --> 01:18:55.381 IN ADDITION TO THE AREA TO BE DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODY 01:18:55.381 --> 01:19:01.659 MAY INCLUDE IN THE AREA TO BE ANNEXED GOOD OR INTERPRETATION IS SUPPORTED BY THE EXPLANATION 01:19:01.659 --> 01:19:09.969 PARAGRAPH THAT STATES THE PURPOSE OF THE SUBSECTION IS TO PERMIT MUNICIPAL GOVERNING BODIES TO 01:19:09.969 --> 01:19:16.860 EXTEND CORPORATE LIMITS INCLUDE ALL NEARBY AREAS DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES AND WERE 01:19:16.860 --> 01:19:22.900 NECESSARY TO INCLUDE AREAS WERE AT THE TIME ANNEXATION ARE NOT YET DEVELOPED FOR URBAN 01:19:22.900 --> 01:19:30.639 PURPOSES WHOSE FUTURE PROBABLE USES URBAN WHICH CONSTITUTE NECESSARY LAND CONNECTIONS 01:19:30.639 --> 01:19:35.870 BETWEEN THE MUNICIPALITY AND THERE IS DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES. 01:19:35.870 --> 01:19:43.469 IN A SENSE, SUBSECTION 3 ALLOWS THE MUNICIPALITY TO INCLUDE LAND NOT DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES 01:19:43.469 --> 01:19:50.810 WITH PLAN DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES IF THE UNDERDEVELOPED LAND A LOT IS BETWEEN THE 01:19:50.810 --> 01:19:56.429 BOUNDARY IN LAND DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES PRETTY THE ANNEXATION AREA DOES NOT HAVE ANY 01:19:56.429 --> 01:20:08.530 LAND DEVELOPER URBAN PURPOSES THEREFORE DOES NOT SERVE AS A BRIDGE OR NECESSARILY IN CONNECTION. 01:20:08.530 --> 01:20:14.830 IF YOU PASS A RESOLUTION WE WILL SEND A LETTER THE CERTIFIED COPY TO WELLINGTON AND WOULD 01:20:14.830 --> 01:20:22.830 BE VENTED TO THE CONFLICT ASSESSMENT PHASE WERE COUNTY VILLAGE STAFF WILL MEET TO ASSESS 01:20:22.830 --> 01:20:24.510 THE DISPUTE. 01:20:24.510 --> 01:20:28.900 IF WE CAN AGREE ON RESOLUTION AT THE TIME WE CAN BRING BACK TO THE BOARD TO OUR RESPECTIVE 01:20:28.900 --> 01:20:30.670 BOARDS FOR APPROVAL. 01:20:30.670 --> 01:20:35.371 IF WE CAN'T AGREE WITH THE SCHEDULE A JOINT PUBLIC MEETING OF THE BOARD SPIRIT IF AN AGREEMENT 01:20:35.371 --> 01:20:42.010 IS REACHED THE PROCESS CAN FINISH IT IF NOT WE WILL SCHEDULE AND ATTEND THE MEDIATION. 01:20:42.010 --> 01:20:47.250 OF THE MEDIATION SUCCEEDS THE BOARD TO ADOPT WHATEVER IT IS THEY NEED TO ADOPTED TO SOLVE 01:20:47.250 --> 01:20:48.670 THE DISPUTE. 01:20:48.670 --> 01:20:54.230 IF THE MEDIATION FAILS WITH 30 DAYS FOLLOWING THE CONCLUSION OF THE PROCESS TO FILE THE 01:20:54.230 --> 01:20:57.900 PETITION ON THE CIRCUIT COURT. 01:20:57.900 --> 01:21:03.699 IF WE DO NOT ADOPT A RESOLUTION IN THE REFERENDUM PASSES WITHOUT A CHALLENGE FROM SOMEONE ELSE 01:21:03.699 --> 01:21:08.861 THE ANNEXATION WOULD SUCCEED, HOWEVER, THE VILLAGE STILL HAS TO ADOPT PURPOSE AND PLAN 01:21:08.861 --> 01:21:14.360 AMENDMENTS AND ZONING LIMITS TO DESIGN FUTURE LAND USES AND ZONING USES TO THESE PROPERTIES 01:21:14.360 --> 01:21:19.469 WITH THIS WILL INVOLVE PUBLIC HEARINGS WITH THE ABILITY FOR SUBSTANTIALLY AFFECTED PARTIES 01:21:19.469 --> 01:21:25.340 TO CHALLENGE SUCH DECISIONS. 01:21:25.340 --> 01:21:27.570 THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 01:21:27.570 --> 01:21:40.219 >> Maria Sachs: WE HAVE SOME SPEAKERS ALMOST THERE IS SOMETHING PRESSING BY THE BOARD. 01:21:40.219 --> 01:21:41.219 COMMISSIONER WEISS. 01:21:41.219 --> 01:21:46.270 >> Gregg Weiss: THE GIVING A PRESENTATION. 01:21:46.270 --> 01:21:50.429 MY QUESTION IS I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER. 01:21:50.429 --> 01:21:57.460 WOULD LIKE TO GET IT FROM AN ATTORNEY PERIODS CAN YOU DESCRIBE WHAT IS MEANT BY AN URBAN 01:21:57.460 --> 01:21:59.260 AREA? 01:21:59.260 --> 01:22:12.130 DESPITE THE DEFINITION OF AN URBAN DEVELOPMENT. 01:22:12.130 --> 01:22:20.530 IT IS DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES MEANS LAND IS USED INTENSIVELY FOR RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL 01:22:20.530 --> 01:22:26.890 AND GOVERNMENTAL PURPOSES INCLUDING ANY PARCELS OF LAND RETAINED IN THE NATURAL STATES KEPT 01:22:26.890 --> 01:22:31.420 FREE OF DEVELOPMENT IS DEDICATED GREENBELT AREAS. 01:22:31.420 --> 01:22:46.420 AND THEN THE STATUTE LISTS 01:22:46.420 --> 01:22:57.960 TO DETERMINE THE AREA IS DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES AND THOSE ARE COMMIT EITHER YOU MEET 01:22:57.960 --> 01:23:03.540 ONE OF THEM YOU ARE GOOD. 01:23:03.540 --> 01:23:08.030 EQUAL TO ADD LEAST TWO PERSONS FOR EACH ACRE OF LAND INCLUDED WITHIN ITS BOUNDARIES. 01:23:08.030 --> 01:23:15.190 I HAVE A TOTAL RESIDENT EQUAL TO ONE PERSON FOR EACH ACRE OF LAND INCLUDED WITHIN ITS 01:23:15.190 --> 01:23:21.840 BOUNDARIES AND SUBDIVIDED INTO LOTS AND TRACK SO THAT AT LEAST 60 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL NUMBER 01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:28.940 LOTS OR ONE ACRE OR LESS IN SIZE OR IT IS SO DEVELOPED THAT 60 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL 01:23:28.940 --> 01:23:36.530 NUMBER LOTS AND TRACKS AT THE TIME ANNEXATION ARE USED FOR URBAN PURPOSES WHEN IT IS SUBDIVIDED 01:23:36.530 --> 01:23:44.170 INTO LOTS AND TRACKS SO 60 PERCENT OF THE TOTAL ACREAGE NOT COUNTING THE ACREAGE USED 01:23:44.170 --> 01:23:55.860 FOR URBAN PURPOSES CONSISTS OF LOT TRACKS FIVE ACRES OUR STAFF DID THE ANALYSIS AND 01:23:55.860 --> 01:24:06.300 GENERATORS WE SENT A LETTER SHOWING THEY DIDN'T MEET ANY OF THE CRITERIA IS IN THE ADMITTED 01:24:06.300 --> 01:24:11.250 IT AS SUCH. 01:24:11.250 --> 01:24:21.190 BUT THE MEETINGS ON THE ORDINANCE. 01:24:21.190 --> 01:24:22.270 >> THANK YOU. 01:24:22.270 --> 01:24:25.230 COMMISSIONER BERNARD? 01:24:25.230 --> 01:24:26.610 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:24:26.610 --> 01:24:30.610 SORRY I WASN'T HERE, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. 01:24:30.610 --> 01:24:38.030 I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE THE STATUTE IN YOU LAID OUT THE LEHMANS TERMS. 01:24:38.030 --> 01:24:45.989 IT IS TO BE CONTIGUOUS AND IT MEETS TWO OR THREE. 01:24:45.989 --> 01:24:55.170 CAN YOU GIVE US EXAMPLES IN REGARDS TO HAVE WE APPROVED. 01:24:55.170 --> 01:25:02.590 HOW DOES ITEM 2 AND THREE FIT IN TERMS OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ANNEXED! 01:25:02.590 --> 01:25:12.380 I AM RELATIVELY NEW SO I AM NOT AS VERSED IN THE HISTORY. 01:25:12.380 --> 01:25:14.860 >> Maria Sachs: YOU CAN RESPOND. 01:25:14.860 --> 01:25:20.030 >> WE HAVE NOT LEFT ONE UNCHALLENGED THAT VIOLATES 171. 01:25:20.030 --> 01:25:25.670 WOULD TELL WHEN THESE COME IN THE PLANNING DIVISION REVIEWS ALL OF THEM YOU MIGHT NEVER 01:25:25.670 --> 01:25:28.030 SEE IT BECAUSE WE WILL COMMUNICATE BACK TO THE CITY. 01:25:28.030 --> 01:25:31.400 WE DON'T THINK YOU ARE COMPATIBLE AT THAT POINT. 01:25:31.400 --> 01:25:37.150 THE ANNEXATION OR TO GO AWAY TO READ THIS BOARD WOULDN'T EVEN SEE A LOT OF THEM THAT 01:25:37.150 --> 01:25:41.750 INITIALLY CAME IN THAT WE DEEMED TO BE INCONSISTENT. 01:25:41.750 --> 01:25:45.880 >> THERE ANY AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN ANNEXED? 01:25:45.880 --> 01:25:51.040 I THINK THERE ARE SOME AREAS THAT A BEEN ANNEXED THAT ARE NOT CONTIGUOUS. 01:25:51.040 --> 01:25:53.880 DO WE HAVE ANY OF THAT OR NO. 01:25:53.880 --> 01:26:00.210 >> ANYONE AWARE IF THAT HAS BEEN ANNEXED HAS BEEN CONSISTENT WITH CHAPTER 171. 01:26:00.210 --> 01:26:02.480 >> THANK YOU. 01:26:02.480 --> 01:26:04.080 VICE MAYOR MARINO. 01:26:04.080 --> 01:26:08.280 >> JUST A QUICK QUESTION. 01:26:08.280 --> 01:26:10.460 IS IT VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON HERE! 01:26:10.460 --> 01:26:12.239 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF CARDS. 01:26:12.239 --> 01:26:20.940 >> Maria Marino: WHEN GARDENS ON ACROSS THE WAY FOR RUSTIC LAKES AND BAY HILL, HOW DID 01:26:20.940 --> 01:26:22.120 THAT QUALIFY? 01:26:22.120 --> 01:26:26.460 BECAUSE THEY WERE CROSSING A STREET, THEY WERE CROSSING NORTHLAKE BOULEVARD. 01:26:26.460 --> 01:26:30.160 HOW DID THAT QUALIFY? 01:26:30.160 --> 01:26:37.020 AND THEY DON'T, AT THAT POINT IN TIME DIDN'T GET ANY SERVICES FROM THE CITY EITHER SO I 01:26:37.020 --> 01:26:39.390 AM CURIOUS. 01:26:39.390 --> 01:26:42.010 >> I DON'T RECALL HONESTLY. 01:26:42.010 --> 01:26:48.420 >> A COUPLE OF POINTS WILL NOT BE READ AS DARREN INDICATED, BY VIRTUE OF THE SEPARATION 01:26:48.420 --> 01:26:50.300 OF A ROAD. 01:26:50.300 --> 01:26:52.000 THAT WAS PART ONE. 01:26:52.000 --> 01:26:57.130 PART TWO DARREN ALSO TOUCHED ON THE DEVELOPMENT NEEDS THERE. 01:26:57.130 --> 01:27:03.250 THEY WOULD HAVE MET SOME OF THE DENSITY STANDARDS IN PLACE BUT THE SAME REVIEW WAS FOUND AND 01:27:03.250 --> 01:27:05.910 FOUNDED TO BE CONSISTENT WITH 171. 01:27:05.910 --> 01:27:12.110 >> SINCE THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME BY THE BOARD WE ARE GOING TO PROCEED 01:27:12.110 --> 01:27:23.110 TO OUR SPEAKING CARDS AND I AM GOING TO DO A, I AM GOING TO ASK THAT THE FIRST CARD GO 01:27:23.110 --> 01:27:29.849 TO, I WILL HAVE YOU STATE HIS NAME. 01:27:29.849 --> 01:27:35.150 >> Gregg Weiss: WE HAVE 16 SPEAKING CARDS THIS MORNING AND WE WILL START WITH MR. 01:27:35.150 --> 01:27:42.670 MARTY PERRY FOLLOWED BY JEFF AT THE OTHER FOLLOWED BY MARY McNICHOLAS FOLLOWED BY TIM 01:27:42.670 --> 01:27:43.670 STILL WITH THINGS. 01:27:43.670 --> 01:27:46.050 >> Maria Sachs: IF WE COULD PROCEED. 01:27:46.050 --> 01:27:54.140 IN TAKE THIS PODIUM THE OTHER SPEAKERS CAN TAKE THE OTHER PODIUM. 01:27:54.140 --> 01:28:04.630 AS YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES IN YOUR RECOGNIZED. 01:28:04.630 --> 01:28:10.600 >> FOR THE BOARDS BENEFIT, THE VILLAGES TO SPEAKERS HERE AND THEY DID SUBMIT AS PRESENTATIONS 01:28:10.600 --> 01:28:15.360 WHICH THEY ARE PREPARED TO RUN WHEN THEY GET UP TO SPEAK SO IF THE BOARD WANTED TO TAKE 01:28:15.360 --> 01:28:17.269 THOSE IN SUCCESSION OR TAKE THEM NOW. 01:28:17.269 --> 01:28:19.370 >> Maria Sachs: WHY DON'T WE DO THIS. 01:28:19.370 --> 01:28:26.719 WHY DON'T WE PROCEED WITH THE THREE SPEAKERS WHOSE CARDS WE JUST MENTIONED AND THEN WE 01:28:26.719 --> 01:28:31.699 WILL PROCEED RIGHT ONTO THE VILLAGE FOR THANK YOU SO MUCH. 01:28:31.699 --> 01:28:36.329 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, SIR. 01:28:36.329 --> 01:28:42.000 [ INAUDIBLE ] >> Maria Sachs: THEN WE CAN PUT YOU A LITTLE 01:28:42.000 --> 01:28:43.000 LATER. 01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:44.980 >> THANK YOU. 01:28:44.980 --> 01:28:48.280 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU SO MUCH. 01:28:48.280 --> 01:28:58.410 WE WILL HEAR FROM THE NEXT TO SPEAKERS AND JUST FOR THE RECORD I WANT TO MAKE SURE, YOU 01:28:58.410 --> 01:29:00.360 LOOK BEFUDDLED HERE! 01:29:00.360 --> 01:29:02.380 I KNEW SORRY. 01:29:02.380 --> 01:29:03.380 JEFF. 01:29:03.380 --> 01:29:05.199 I WOULD LIKE TO REFLECT WHAT MR. 01:29:05.199 --> 01:29:10.230 PERRY JUST SAID BUT WE WERE HOPING TO SPEAK AND PRESENT AFTER THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON 01:29:10.230 --> 01:29:11.540 MADE THEIR PRESENTATION. 01:29:11.540 --> 01:29:15.940 >> Maria Sachs: IS SOUNDS FINE WITH ME SO WHY DON'T WE GO AHEAD AND PROCEED WITH THE 01:29:15.940 --> 01:29:17.389 VILLAGE FIRST. 01:29:17.389 --> 01:29:20.909 EVERYBODY IS GETTING ALONG. 01:29:20.909 --> 01:29:22.699 >> THE MEETING IS NOT OVER YET. 01:29:22.699 --> 01:29:23.949 I'M JUST KIDDING. 01:29:23.949 --> 01:29:26.340 >> Maria Sachs: WE MAY JUST END IT RIGHT HERE. 01:29:26.340 --> 01:29:33.369 WE ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE VILLAGE BUT I WANT TO HAVE THE NAMES STATED BY COMMISSIONER 01:29:33.369 --> 01:29:36.429 WEISS FOR THE RECORD AND THEN WE WILL PROCEED. 01:29:36.429 --> 01:29:40.929 >> Gregg Weiss: MANAMA RECOGNIZES LORI. 01:29:40.929 --> 01:29:50.360 >> YOU ARE SPEAKING A MAP OF THE VILLAGE. 01:29:50.360 --> 01:29:54.330 THERE WE GO. 01:29:54.330 --> 01:29:55.330 YOU HAVE THEM BOTH. 01:29:55.330 --> 01:30:00.440 >> GOOD MORNING MAYOR, VICE MAYOR, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND STAFF. 01:30:00.440 --> 01:30:05.920 THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD AND WE WANT TO THANK YOUR STAFF FOR 01:30:05.920 --> 01:30:09.500 THE TIME THEY EXPENDED IN THEIR ANALYSIS. 01:30:09.500 --> 01:30:17.020 ALTHOUGH WE DON'T AGREE WITH HER ANALYSIS WE APPRECIATE THE TIME THEY HAVE PUT INTO 01:30:17.020 --> 01:30:18.810 THIS. 01:30:18.810 --> 01:30:21.570 I WANTED TO BRIEFLY TAKE YOU THROUGH THE STATUTE. 01:30:21.570 --> 01:30:27.190 I KNOW HE IS DONE SOME OF THAT ALREADY, BUT WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE 01:30:27.190 --> 01:30:33.760 ON NOT SO WOULD LIKE TO GO THROUGH THAT WITH YOU TODAY GIVEN YOU A COPY IN CASE WE HAD 01:30:33.760 --> 01:30:36.719 TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. 01:30:36.719 --> 01:30:46.760 SECTION 171 FLORIDA STATUTES TALKS ABOUT THE CHARACTER OF THE AREA TO BE ANNEXED AND ASKED 01:30:46.760 --> 01:30:53.500 TO BE CONTIGUOUS, IT MUST BE REASONABLY COMPACT AND IT CAN'T BE WITHIN A MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY 01:30:53.500 --> 01:30:57.130 BILLION SO WHAT DOES CONTIGUOUS MEAN? 01:30:57.130 --> 01:31:04.360 THAT MEANS A SUBSTANTIAL PART SOUGHT TO BE ANNEXED BY A MUNICIPALITY IS COTERMINOUS WITH 01:31:04.360 --> 01:31:07.239 THE PART OF THE BOUNDARY THE MUNICIPALITY. 01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:17.210 AS WE MENTIONED STA ONE E. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY NOT DEVELOPED BUT CLEARLY CONTIGUOUS TO WELLINGTON 01:31:17.210 --> 01:31:25.159 THIS BOUNDARY BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT SLIDE YOU CAN SEE TO BE ANNEXED WITH THE RED 01:31:25.159 --> 01:31:29.090 DOTTED LINE. 01:31:29.090 --> 01:31:37.050 NORTH OF THE BORDER BUT YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE IT'S CONTIGUOUS WITH WELLINGTON THIS BOUNDARY 01:31:37.050 --> 01:31:43.430 AS HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, THE SEPARATION BY RHODA BIRKENAU BY SALOOM BOULEVARD AND 01:31:43.430 --> 01:31:52.190 THE SEA 51 CANAL WILL NOT DEFEAT ANNEXATION. 01:31:52.190 --> 01:31:53.190 MR. 01:31:53.190 --> 01:32:01.090 LEISTER MENTIONED HE DOESN'T BELIEVE THE RESIDENTS OF THE AREA WITH SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY 01:32:01.090 --> 01:32:04.350 CO-MINGLE WITH THE VILLAGE. 01:32:04.350 --> 01:32:08.400 WE DON'T BELIEVE THAT'S TRUE THE RESIDENCE THERE, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THEM, THEY 01:32:08.400 --> 01:32:15.800 SHOP IN WELLINGTON, THEY USE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN WELLINGTON AND THEIR CHILDREN 01:32:15.800 --> 01:32:18.730 ARE ZONED FOR WELLINGTON SCHOOLS. 01:32:18.730 --> 01:32:26.480 I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT AND I THINK THAT THIS GOES TO COMMISSIONER BERNARDS QUESTION, 01:32:26.480 --> 01:32:37.780 THERE ARE OTHER AREAS IN WELLINGTON THAT ARE NOT ACTUALLY ADJACENT PURITY OF BLACK DIAMOND 01:32:37.780 --> 01:32:39.360 ON STATE ROAD SEVEN. 01:32:39.360 --> 01:32:46.820 YOU HAVE TO GO ONE MILE SOUTH TO FOREST HILL BOULEVARD TO ACTUALLY ENTER THE VILLAGE. 01:32:46.820 --> 01:32:50.710 YOU A VALID VERITY WHICH IS A SHOPPING CENTER ON 441. 01:32:50.710 --> 01:32:52.150 IT IS THE SAME THING. 01:32:52.150 --> 01:32:58.590 HAVE TO GO ON TO STATE ROAD SEVEN IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE INTERIOR OF WELLINGTON FOR THE 01:32:58.590 --> 01:33:07.110 OF THE WELLINGTON RESERVE OFFICE PARK ..8 MILES TO FOREST HILL BOULEVARD. 01:33:07.110 --> 01:33:13.170 ALL OF THESE WERE ANNEXED INTO THE VILLAGE WITHOUT ANY OBJECTION BY THE COUNTY NEVER 01:33:13.170 --> 01:33:18.210 FULLY INCORPORATE IT INTO THE LIFE OF THE VILLAGE. 01:33:18.210 --> 01:33:23.030 THERE WAS AN ADO OPINION THEY RELIED UPON EARLIER, I DON'T THINK YOU MENTIONED IT HERE 01:33:23.030 --> 01:33:27.650 AND I'M NOT GOING TO SPEND TIME GOING OVER IT BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT IS DISTINGUISHABLE 01:33:27.650 --> 01:33:31.690 AS SET FORTH IN THE PRESENTATION. 01:33:31.690 --> 01:33:38.320 THE AREA IS NOT AN ENCLAVE, IT DOES NOT MEET THE STATUTORY DEFINITION OF AN ENCLAVE WHICH 01:33:38.320 --> 01:33:41.110 IS SENT OUT IN THE PRESENTATION. 01:33:41.110 --> 01:33:49.920 THAT DEFINITION WAS ADOPTED AFTER THE OPINION THAT HE HAD RAISED PREVIOUSLY TO THE VILLAGE. 01:33:49.920 --> 01:33:51.940 I DON'T THINK HE RAISED IT HERE. 01:33:51.940 --> 01:34:05.650 SO IN ADDITION TO, I'M GOING THE WRONG WAY. 01:34:05.650 --> 01:34:14.300 IN ADDITION TO SUBSECTION ONE OF THE STATUTE THE AREA TO 01:34:14.300 --> 01:34:21.179 BE ANNEXED HAS TO MEET EITHER SUBSECTION 2 OR THREE YOU DO THIS CLEARLY CONTIGUOUS AND 01:34:21.179 --> 01:34:29.370 HAS TO MEET SUBSECTION 2 OR THREE GOOD SUBSECTIONS WHO SAYS IT IS SO DEVELOPED AT LEAST 60 PERCENT 01:34:29.370 --> 01:34:34.840 OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF LOTS AND TRACKS IN THE AREA THAT I'M ANNEXATION USED FOR URBAN 01:34:34.840 --> 01:34:45.440 PURPOSES AND SUBDIVIDED INTO LOTS SO 60 PERCENT NOT COUNTING THE ACREAGE CONSISTS OF TRACKS 01:34:45.440 --> 01:34:49.110 OF FIVE ACRES OR LESS. 01:34:49.110 --> 01:34:55.180 SUBSECTION 3 PERMITS IN THE AREA TO BE ANNEXED EVEN IF IT DOESN'T MEET THEIR CRITERIA IF 01:34:55.180 --> 01:34:59.440 IT IS ADJACENT ON 60 PERCENT OF ITS BOUNDARY TO BUT A COMBINATION. 01:34:59.440 --> 01:35:07.050 ANY COMBINATION OF THE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY IN THE AREA DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES SO 01:35:07.050 --> 01:35:08.960 WHAT DOES URBAN PURPOSES MEANS? 01:35:08.960 --> 01:35:16.250 IT MEANS IT HAS TO BE USED FOR RESIDENTIAL COMMENCES INTENSIVELY FOR INSTITUTIONAL AND 01:35:16.250 --> 01:35:22.219 GOVERNMENTAL PURPOSES OF THE STATUTE DOESN'T DEFINE WHAT INTENSIVELY IS. 01:35:22.219 --> 01:35:32.199 BUT IF YOU LOOKED AT THE AREA THAT SURROUNDS THE ANNEXATION AREA, THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY 01:35:32.199 --> 01:35:42.540 IS CONTIGUOUS WITH THE VILLAGE TO THE NORTHEAST AND WEST BOUNDARY MEETS THE DEFINITION OF 01:35:42.540 --> 01:35:49.580 URBAN PURPOSES BECAUSE IT IS 22 LOTS 15 OF WHICH ARE 60 PERCENT OF WHICH ARE DEVELOPED 01:35:49.580 --> 01:35:51.750 FOR URBAN PURPOSES. 01:35:51.750 --> 01:36:01.860 BECAUSE WE MEET SECTION TO SEE THAT THE STATUE IS SATISFIED SUBSECTION 3B THAT IS 60 PERCENT 01:36:01.860 --> 01:36:10.600 OF THE EXTERNAL BOUNDARY IS ADJACENT TO ANY COMBINATION OF THE MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY IN THE 01:36:10.600 --> 01:36:13.500 AREAS DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES. 01:36:13.500 --> 01:36:20.949 AT THE END OF THE DAY THE STATUTE IS INTENDED TO ALLOW MUNICIPALITIES TO EXPAND THEIR BOUNDARIES 01:36:20.949 --> 01:36:31.960 IN A LOGICAL WAY AND ALSO, IT'S TO GIVE SELF-DETERMINATION TO THE RESIDENCE OF AN AREA INTENDED TO BE 01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:35.860 ANNEXED IT IN THE SITUATION THE RESIDENTS APPROACHED THE VILLAGE. 01:36:35.860 --> 01:36:41.570 THIS IS NOT A SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE GONE OUT AND IN SOME HOSTILE WAY TRIED TO BRING 01:36:41.570 --> 01:36:42.570 THE MEN. 01:36:42.570 --> 01:36:47.220 THEY WANT TO BE IN THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THEM BUT WE ARE 01:36:47.220 --> 01:36:52.260 URGING THE COUNTY COMMISSION ABOUT THE VOTERS DECIDE THIS ISSUE. 01:36:52.260 --> 01:37:01.239 HE IS CORRECT, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT, A 30 DAY REQUIREMENT TO INVOKE CHAPTER 164 PROCESS. 01:37:01.239 --> 01:37:06.980 WE DON'T THINK IT IS NECESSARY BECAUSE THE VOTERS ARE GOING TO DECIDE ON MARCH 19 WHETHER 01:37:06.980 --> 01:37:13.940 THEY WANT TO BE IN THE VILLAGE ARE NOT SO WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DENY THE RESOLUTION, 01:37:13.940 --> 01:37:24.020 TO NOT INVOKE BUT IN THE EVENT YOU DO, WE WOULD ASK YOUR MOTION INCLUDE A STATEMENT 01:37:24.020 --> 01:37:31.600 THAT IF THE VOTERS VOTE TO INCORPORATE INTO THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON THAT NO FURTHER 01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:35.380 LEGAL ACTION WOULD BE TAKEN BY THE COUNTY COMMISSION. 01:37:35.380 --> 01:37:37.000 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. 01:37:37.000 --> 01:37:42.900 >> Maria Sachs: THERE IS A QUESTION I BELIEVE BY COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 01:37:42.900 --> 01:37:47.790 >> Sara Baxter: DO YOU, I GUESS THIS COULD BE BOTH OF YOU. 01:37:47.790 --> 01:37:53.070 TO THE URBAN AREAS NEED TO BE CONTIGUOUS WITH ONE ANOTHER? 01:37:53.070 --> 01:38:00.530 >> NOT AND MIGHT OPINION BUT AT LEAST 60 PERCENT OF THE LOTS SURROUNDING THE BOUNDARY, YES. 01:38:00.530 --> 01:38:05.610 >> Sara Baxter: THERE IS A MAP ON A PRESENTATION. 01:38:05.610 --> 01:38:15.820 OURS IS ON PAGE 5 OR YOU SEE THEM OR ZOOMED IN AND IT LOOKS LIKE, CLEARLY ON THE OTHER 01:38:15.820 --> 01:38:18.460 SIDE IS AGRICULTURAL. 01:38:18.460 --> 01:38:27.900 I DON'T REALLY SEE 60 PERCENT BEING CONTIGUOUS WITH THE BOUNDARIES THAT IS PROPOSED TO BE 01:38:27.900 --> 01:38:31.250 ANNEXED. 01:38:31.250 --> 01:38:33.810 >> URBAN DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN COMMERCIAL. 01:38:33.810 --> 01:38:39.400 URBAN CAN MEAN RESIDENTIAL, IT CAN MEAN INDUSTRIAL, IT CAN MEAN ANY OF THOSE. 01:38:39.400 --> 01:38:44.830 AND SO WE LOOKED AT THE LOTS SURROUNDING THE ANNEXATION AREA. 01:38:44.830 --> 01:38:52.130 THERE ARE 22 LOTS INCLUDING THE AGRICULTURAL AREA THAT YOU ARE REFERRING TO. 01:38:52.130 --> 01:39:03.020 OF THE 22 LOTS 15 OF THOSE WERE DEVELOPED FOR URBAN PURPOSES AND SO WE BELIEVE WE MEET 01:39:03.020 --> 01:39:04.020 THAT REQUIREMENT. 01:39:04.020 --> 01:39:10.170 >> Sara Baxter: FORGET MAY COME IN THE AGRICULTURE AREA YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT 15 LOTS PROPOSING 01:39:10.170 --> 01:39:16.530 TO BE ANNEXED OR 15 LOTS THAT YOU ALREADY OWN 15 LOTS THAT SURROUND THE BOUNDARY THE 01:39:16.530 --> 01:39:18.410 PROPOSED ANNEXATION AREA. 01:39:18.410 --> 01:39:22.010 >> Sara Baxter: THAT YOU ARE SAYING WITHIN WELLINGTON. 01:39:22.010 --> 01:39:30.909 >> THEY ARE NOT CURRENTLY IN WELLINGTON, THEY ABOUT THE EXTERNAL BOUNDARY OF ANNEXATION 01:39:30.909 --> 01:39:31.909 AREA. 01:39:31.909 --> 01:39:34.960 >> Sara Baxter: DARREN, MAYBE YOU COULD CLEAR THIS UP FOR ME. 01:39:34.960 --> 01:39:43.850 I AM NOT SEEING ANY 15 HOMES THAT I AM ONLY SEEING AGRICULTURE. 01:39:43.850 --> 01:39:52.949 >> SUBSECTION 2 REQUIRES PART OF THE AREA TO BE ANNEXED. 01:39:52.949 --> 01:40:00.590 THE START COUNTING LOTS OUTSIDE YOUR BEST TO BE LOTS WITHIN THE ANNEXATION AREA AND 01:40:00.590 --> 01:40:06.380 THEY HAVE TO BE SO DEVELOPED THAT 60 PERCENT. 01:40:06.380 --> 01:40:14.560 THEY HAPPEN TO BE INTENSIVELY USED FOR URBAN PURPOSES. 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:20.540 ONE UNIT PER FIVE ACRES, THAT'S NOT INTENSIVE BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD SAY THAT IS 01:40:20.540 --> 01:40:25.600 INTENSIVE USE IT IF YOU LOOK AT THE AREA, YOU LOOK AT THE LOTS. 01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:29.630 IS NOT THAT THEY AREN'T BEING INTENSIVELY USED FOR ANYTHING. 01:40:29.630 --> 01:40:36.420 THAT IS THE COUNTY POSITION AND IT'S UNUSUAL THEY ARE BRINGING THIS UP NOW BECAUSE HE ADMITTED 01:40:36.420 --> 01:40:43.130 TO THIS BEFORE THE COMMISSION TWICE AND IF THIS GOES TO A POSITION THAT WOULD BE THE 01:40:43.130 --> 01:40:45.469 RECORD IN FRONT OF THE COURT. 01:40:45.469 --> 01:40:54.930 >> Sara Baxter: DO YOU CONSIDER IT INTENSIVELY URBAN? 01:40:54.930 --> 01:40:57.949 >> THE STATUTE DOESN'T DEFINE WHAT THAT IS. 01:40:57.949 --> 01:41:06.440 IT IS DEVELOPED FOR RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES AND THE DEFINITION INCLUDES RESIDENTIAL, INDUSTRIAL 01:41:06.440 --> 01:41:14.380 AND COMMERCIAL AND SO WE BELIEVE IT FAIRLY MEETS THE DEFINITION WE BELIEVE THE VOTERS 01:41:14.380 --> 01:41:19.130 SHOULD DECIDE THIS ISSUE AS OPPOSED TO THE COUNTY. 01:41:19.130 --> 01:41:22.219 WHAT IS THE DOWNSIDE? 01:41:22.219 --> 01:41:33.460 IF YOU DENY THEM THE ABILITY TO ANNEX INTO THE VILLAGE AND LOXAHATCHEE GROVES INITIATES 01:41:33.460 --> 01:41:42.050 A SIMILAR PROCESS, THEY MAY NOT MEET THE STRICT DEFINITION OF INTENSITY EITHER, AND YET IF 01:41:42.050 --> 01:41:47.810 IT GOES TO THE VOTERS IT WOULD BE LIKELY BE DENIED. 01:41:47.810 --> 01:41:49.960 THEY WANT TO COME INTO WELLINGTON. 01:41:49.960 --> 01:41:54.719 IT WOULD BE AN EXERCISE IN FUTILITY TO MY OPINION. 01:41:54.719 --> 01:42:03.170 EVEN THE CHAPTER 164 PROCESS IS NOT EVEN NECESSARY IN THIS INSTANCE BECAUSE ULTIMATELY THE VOTERS 01:42:03.170 --> 01:42:06.420 WILL DECIDE ON MARCH 19. 01:42:06.420 --> 01:42:15.670 >> Sara Baxter: I HAVE TWO CONCERNS BUT DID THE BUILDER EVER APPROACHED THE VILLAGE OF 01:42:15.670 --> 01:42:18.330 WELLINGTON IN REGARDS TO THE PROPERTY? 01:42:18.330 --> 01:42:21.610 >> NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE. 01:42:21.610 --> 01:42:28.980 NEVER SPOKEN WITH SOME OF THE RESIDENCE, BUT I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN ANY OF THE CONVERSATIONS 01:42:28.980 --> 01:42:33.940 AND I AM NOT AWARE OF THEM APPROACHING THE VILLAGE. 01:42:33.940 --> 01:42:39.840 THEY ASKED TO BE IN CARBURETED. 01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:46.840 >> THE CONCERN HAVE YOU HEARD OF HER THEY DIDN'T PRESENT A BUILDER WHO'D REACHED OUT 01:42:46.840 --> 01:42:48.090 TO THE RESIDENCE? 01:42:48.090 --> 01:42:50.160 >> I DON'T RECALL A BUILDER. 01:42:50.160 --> 01:42:57.330 >> A BROKER OR ANYBODY WAS FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY? 01:42:57.330 --> 01:43:15.300 >> I DON'T RECALL, I AM SORRY. 01:43:15.300 --> 01:43:26.440 >> GIVE ME A POSITION BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE WE SHOULD GIVE YOU THE THREE MINUTES OR MORE. 01:43:26.440 --> 01:43:28.820 I. >> I HOPEFULLY WON'T TAKE MORE. 01:43:28.820 --> 01:43:34.800 THE GIVER THE CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS OF THE ANNEXATION APPROVE OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL 01:43:34.800 --> 01:43:36.280 ON FEBRUARY 13. 01:43:36.280 --> 01:43:44.000 I'M GOING TO EXPAND ON THE PRESENTATION AND ADD A LITTLE BIT OF COLOR TO WHAT SHE PROVIDED 01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:49.199 RELATIVE TO THE CONTINUITY. 01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:54.300 WE DISAGREE WITH THE SUPPOSITION THAT I WILL SHARE WITH YOU A FEW ITEMS WITH RESPECT AS 01:43:54.300 --> 01:44:04.130 TO WHY WE BELIEVE THE AREAS ALREADY ACTIVELY ENGAGE WELLINGTON FOR WITHIN THE MUNICIPAL 01:44:04.130 --> 01:44:11.630 SERVICES TAXING UNIT OF WELLINGTON SERVED BY A FIRE STATION WITHIN UNINCORPORATED AREA 01:44:11.630 --> 01:44:16.630 SHOWN BY THIS IMAGE. 01:44:16.630 --> 01:44:19.960 SERVED BY ALL THREE LEVELS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN PALM BEACH COUNTY. 01:44:19.960 --> 01:44:24.550 BINKS ELEMENTARY, WELLINGTON LANDINGS MIDDLE SCHOOL IN WELLINGTON I SCHOOL. 01:44:24.550 --> 01:44:31.500 AND IF THESE FAMILIES ARE ANYTHING LIKE MINE THE KIDS ARE SO SOCIAL CALENDAR OF THE FAMILY 01:44:31.500 --> 01:44:39.000 AND THEY ARE ENGAGED WITH OTHER RESIDENTS IN THE COMMUNITY WELLINGTON. 01:44:39.000 --> 01:44:48.860 THIS GRAPHIC SHOWS YOU A HEAT MAP OF THE RESIDENCE AND THEIR ORIGIN ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN 01:44:48.860 --> 01:44:54.360 EVENTS AND SPORTS PROGRAMS AT THE VILLAGE PARK IN WELLINGTON WHICH IS MORE THAN SIX 01:44:54.360 --> 01:44:59.250 MILES AWAY AS A CROW FLIES FROM THE ANNEXATION AREA. 01:44:59.250 --> 01:45:05.280 TO GIVE YOU A BLOWUP YOU COULD SEE THAT THE RESIDENCE OUTSIDE WELLINGTON NORTH OF SOUTHERN 01:45:05.280 --> 01:45:12.730 BOULEVARD ARE ENGAGING WITH WELLINGTON AT A SIGNIFICANT LEVEL WE JUST BEGIN TO ATTRACT 01:45:12.730 --> 01:45:16.000 THIS USING CELL PHONE DATA. 01:45:16.000 --> 01:45:17.000 MS. 01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:21.570 COHEN TOUCHED ON THE OPINION I WON'T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON IT, BUT THIS WAS AN AVON 01:45:21.570 --> 01:45:28.670 PARK ANNEXATION PROPOSAL THAT WAS SEPARATED BY A LAKE AND A LARGE DISTANCE OF UNINCORPORATED 01:45:28.670 --> 01:45:35.230 PROPERTY THROUGH THIS WAS NOWHERE NEAR CONTIGUOUS SIMPLY ACROSS THE ROAD OR CANAL AS IN THIS 01:45:35.230 --> 01:45:37.170 CASE. 01:45:37.170 --> 01:45:43.420 AND THEN I HAVE A QUICK VIDEO TO SHOW YOU THE DEVELOPMENT PATTERN FROM HOMES WEST OF 01:45:43.420 --> 01:45:49.280 THE ANNEXATION AREA AND THEY WILL SEE IT IS CONTINUING TO TRANSITION TO URBAN. 01:45:49.280 --> 01:45:56.610 THE INTERSECTION OF STATE ROAD 80 IS APPROPRIATE FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND IT FITS IN WITH 01:45:56.610 --> 01:45:59.690 WHAT YOU ARE SEEING IN AS MS. 01:45:59.690 --> 01:46:06.070 COHEN SAID WE RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU ALLOW THE RESIDENT ELECTORS OF THE ANNEXATION AREA TO 01:46:06.070 --> 01:46:10.420 DECIDE THE UPCOMING REFERENDUM WHETHER THEY WANT TO BE IN WELLINGTON OR NOT. 01:46:10.420 --> 01:46:12.250 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU SO MUCH. 01:46:12.250 --> 01:46:13.949 ANY QUESTIONS. 01:46:13.949 --> 01:46:17.130 >> THIS HAS ABOUT ANOTHER MINUTE TO GO. 01:46:17.130 --> 01:46:21.070 >> Maria Sachs: GO RIGHT AHEAD. 01:46:21.070 --> 01:46:26.590 THOSE CARS SHOULD GO FAST UP THERE. 01:46:26.590 --> 01:46:33.530 >> IF YOU HAVE BEEN ON SOUTHERN YOU KNOW THEY ARE TRAVELING AT A HIGH RATE THESE DAYS. 01:46:33.530 --> 01:46:44.440 HERE YOU SEE THE PUBLIC SHOPPING CENTER WITH A NUMBER OF BUSINESSES IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT 01:46:44.440 --> 01:46:46.919 TO THE PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE 01:46:50.216 --> 01:46:55.187 EVERYTHING INTO THE CORRIDOR IS DEVELOPING AND TRANSITIONING INTO THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORRIDOR. 01:47:08.810 --> 01:47:12.000 I GUESS I SHOULD'VE PUT A SOUNDTRACK ON THIS. 01:47:12.000 --> 01:47:14.260 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 01:47:14.260 --> 01:47:15.530 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU. 01:47:15.530 --> 01:47:20.770 IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS WE WILL PROCEED TO THE NEXT CARDS. 01:47:20.770 --> 01:47:21.770 COMMISSIONER WEISS. 01:47:21.770 --> 01:47:23.860 >> Gregg Weiss: LET ME GET STARTED AGAIN. 01:47:23.860 --> 01:47:24.860 >> Maria Sachs: MR. 01:47:24.860 --> 01:47:27.050 PERRY, DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME. 01:47:27.050 --> 01:47:28.050 >> BRIEFLY. 01:47:28.050 --> 01:47:31.090 >> Maria Sachs: YOU HAVE SUBMITTED A CARD. 01:47:31.090 --> 01:47:39.139 >> I AM HERE REPRESENTING THE INGENUITY OF THE RESIDENT SEEKING ANNEXATION IN WELLINGTON. 01:47:39.139 --> 01:47:47.369 AND THE MAJORITY OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS, ACTUALLY, THE ENTIRE PARCEL ARE SEEKING ANNEXATION IN 01:47:47.369 --> 01:47:48.750 WELLINGTON. 01:47:48.750 --> 01:47:55.650 I SUGGEST TO YOU NOTWITHSTANDING THE DIFFERING LEGAL OPINIONS HERE TODAY ON WHETHER OR NOT 01:47:55.650 --> 01:48:01.920 THIS MEETS OR DOES NOT MEET IS NOT SURPRISING WE HAVE DIFFERING LEGAL OPINIONS. 01:48:01.920 --> 01:48:09.581 I SUSPECT THAT THEY ALL UNDERSTAND THE REALITY IS AS LAWYERS FREQUENTLY DISAGREE, I HAPPEN 01:48:09.581 --> 01:48:16.440 TO AGREE WITH THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON, RESEARCHED THE ISSUE, WATCH THE VIDEOS INCLUDING YOUR 01:48:16.440 --> 01:48:19.650 MEETING, THE TOWN OF LOXAHATCHEE, THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON. 01:48:19.650 --> 01:48:25.070 I READ EVERYTHING, ALL THE LEGAL OPINIONS WRITTEN ON THIS ISSUE. 01:48:25.070 --> 01:48:33.800 THE FACT REMAINS AT THE END OF THE DAY, NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO THE END RESULT IS IF ANNEXATION 01:48:33.800 --> 01:48:40.750 IS NOT PERMITTED TO PROCEED WE ARE GOING TO BE AT A STANDSTILL BECAUSE THESE RESIDENTS 01:48:40.750 --> 01:48:42.820 DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THE TOWN OF LOXAHATCHEE. 01:48:42.820 --> 01:48:51.920 AND FRANKLY, THE TOWN OF LOXAHATCHEE OFFERS NO SERVICES TO THESE PEOPLE OTHER THAN A RURAL 01:48:51.920 --> 01:48:57.260 NATURE AND THESE PEOPLE ALREADY DECIDED THEY DON'T WANT A RURAL NATURE AND SO THE QUESTION 01:48:57.260 --> 01:48:59.730 IS WHAT ARE THE RIGHT TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS HERE. 01:48:59.730 --> 01:49:04.280 THEY ARE THE ONES THAT INITIATED THESE PROCEEDINGS. 01:49:04.280 --> 01:49:10.960 COMMISSIONER BAXTER BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE OF IS A DEVELOPER INVOLVED BUT I DON'T KNOW BUT 01:49:10.960 --> 01:49:13.710 IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE WHETHER A DEVELOPER IS INVOLVED. 01:49:13.710 --> 01:49:18.090 WITH A GROUP OF RESIDENTS THAT HAVE RIGHTS TO SELF-DETERMINATION AND THEY ARE TRYING 01:49:18.090 --> 01:49:25.900 TO EXPRESS THOSE RIGHTS IN ERROR SEEKING ASSISTANCE SO THE REALITY IS IF YOU GO TO A VOTE OF IT 01:49:25.900 --> 01:49:29.500 WOULD BE FAVORABLE TOWARD ANNEXATION. 01:49:29.500 --> 01:49:35.280 IF THAT FAILS WE GO TO A VOTE ON WHETHER THE LOXAHATCHEE GROVES SHOULD ANNEX THAT'S GOING 01:49:35.280 --> 01:49:42.890 TO FAIL FOR THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON IN TERMS OF WHETHER OR NOT YOU PROCEED WITH MEDIATION 01:49:42.890 --> 01:49:48.640 IS GOING TO SAY WE DON'T WANT TO MEDIATE SO YOU WILL BE LITIGATION FOR THE END RESULT 01:49:48.640 --> 01:49:53.780 IS SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY OWNERS NEED TO BE DETERMINED PRETTY 01:49:53.780 --> 01:49:58.880 CAN DECIDE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND YEAR THE REALITY 01:49:58.880 --> 01:50:04.989 IS THE OTHER URBAN CORRIDOR WHICH IS A MEDIAN SIX LANE DIVIDED HIGHWAY. 01:50:04.989 --> 01:50:07.670 THERE IS POTENTIALLY GOING TO GET EIGHT LANES. 01:50:07.670 --> 01:50:15.270 GIVE ANOTHER WHICH IS A MENTAL PRATT & WHITNEY WHICH BASICALLY IS LEADING FROM SOUTHERN BOULEVARD 01:50:15.270 --> 01:50:20.050 TO THE TOWN OF WEST LAKE AND WHERE ARE WE GOING HERE? 01:50:20.050 --> 01:50:22.739 THAT WHOLE AREA OUT THERE IS URBANIZING. 01:50:22.739 --> 01:50:28.630 THIS BOARD APPROVED TO MILLON DEVELOPMENTS WEST OF THE PROJECT HERE. 01:50:28.630 --> 01:50:37.690 YOU ARE READY APPROVED 64 ACRES OF THE SITE FOR COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL GIVER THAT MEANS 01:50:37.690 --> 01:50:40.321 POTENTIALLY 300,000 SQUARE FEET RIGHT THERE. 01:50:40.321 --> 01:50:42.290 WHAT ARE WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT? 01:50:42.290 --> 01:50:50.380 I REPRESENTED SEVERAL GROUPS INCLUDING 100 ACRE SHOPPING CENTER JUST EAST OF HERE. 01:50:50.380 --> 01:50:55.280 THAT WORKS WHOLE CORRIDOR AS COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL. 01:50:55.280 --> 01:51:01.110 AND SO THIS IS URBAN IN NATURE AND IS GROWING FURTHER IN THAT REGARD IN URBAN DOESN'T MEAN 01:51:01.110 --> 01:51:09.630 JUST COMMERCIAL VARIANCE BUT THAT I SUGGEST THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION IS LET THE PEOPLE 01:51:09.630 --> 01:51:10.630 DECIDE. 01:51:10.630 --> 01:51:13.220 >> Maria Sachs: ALL RIGHT. 01:51:13.220 --> 01:51:14.660 COMMISSIONER WEISS. 01:51:14.660 --> 01:51:27.949 >> Gregg Weiss: WE HAVE JUST FOLLOWED BY MARY FOLLOWED BY REVEREND, IT LOOKS LIKE JASON. 01:51:27.949 --> 01:51:33.030 >> AS YOUR NAME IS CALLED TAKE ONE OF THE PODIUMS SO WE CAN MOVE QUICKLY, EFFICIENTLY. 01:51:33.030 --> 01:51:41.469 >> GOOD MORNING HUBERT I AM JEFF SLUG IT HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF MY FATHER RICHARD WHO OWNS 01:51:41.469 --> 01:51:46.460 THE PROPERTY AT 35 SEMINOLE PRATT & WHITNEY ROAD IN THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION AREA. 01:51:46.460 --> 01:51:51.929 THE ISSUE IS REALLY NOT ABOUT IF THE PROPERTY IS GOING TO BE ANNEXED, IT'S MORE WHERE IT'S 01:51:51.929 --> 01:51:57.719 GOING TO BE ANNEXED THROUGH THIS HAS NOW BECOME A TURF WAR BETWEEN LOXAHATCHEE GROWS IN WELLINGTON 01:51:57.719 --> 01:52:04.610 FOR LOXAHATCHEE WENT ON RECORD STATING THAT THEY HAD TO IMMEDIATELY START ANNEXATION PROCESS 01:52:04.610 --> 01:52:08.630 IN ORDER TO CATCH UP WITH WELLINGTON OR THEY WOULD LOSE OUT ON THE OPPORTUNITY TO ANNEX 01:52:08.630 --> 01:52:10.380 THE SAME AREA. 01:52:10.380 --> 01:52:16.650 THERE WERE MULTIPLE PREVIOUS EXAMPLES PRESENTED IN THE WELLINGTON AREA PRESENTED EARLIER DEALING 01:52:16.650 --> 01:52:22.821 WITH SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS TO THE PRESIDENT IS A READY BEEN SET FOR THIS IS THAT THE MORE 01:52:22.821 --> 01:52:28.469 THAN A SMOKESCREEN TO ALLOW LOXAHATCHEE GROVES TO START ANNEXATION PROCESS IN THE SAME EXACT 01:52:28.469 --> 01:52:29.690 AREA. 01:52:29.690 --> 01:52:34.360 THE ENTIRE SOUTHERN BOULEVARD WITHIN THE TOWN THE LOXAHATCHEE GROVES HAS BEEN DESIGNATED 01:52:34.360 --> 01:52:36.090 FOR COMMERCIAL USE. 01:52:36.090 --> 01:52:38.170 YOU SAW THAT ON THE VIDEO THEY PRESENTED. 01:52:38.170 --> 01:52:43.510 THEY KEEP SAYING THIS IS ABOUT KEEPING THE AERIAL WORLD, IT'S NOT TRUE, THIS IS AN URBAN 01:52:43.510 --> 01:52:44.820 AREA. 01:52:44.820 --> 01:52:49.300 WITHIN THE ANNEXATION AREAS THE SEMINOLE PRATT & WHITNEY ROAD ON SOUTHERN BOULEVARD. 01:52:49.300 --> 01:52:56.130 IF THIS WAS A RURAL INTERSECTION YOU WOULD HAVE TWO ROADS COMING TOGETHER. 01:52:56.130 --> 01:53:01.880 MULTI LANES, DOUBLE TURN LANES, TO DOUBLE TURN LANES AND A DOUBLE RIGHT TURN LANE THERE. 01:53:01.880 --> 01:53:03.780 IT IS AN URBAN INTERSECTION. 01:53:03.780 --> 01:53:09.440 GIVEN THE CHOICE MY FATHER WOULD RATHER GO INTO WELLINGTON RATHER THAN THE LOXAHATCHEE 01:53:09.440 --> 01:53:16.110 GROVES AREA SINCE THEY PROVIDE MORE SERVICES LIKE RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND MULTIPLE 01:53:16.110 --> 01:53:21.880 SHOPPING CHOICES, RESTAURANTS, ENTERTAINMENT CHOICES, COMMUNITY EVENTS. 01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:28.190 PREMARKET TOMORROW HERE IN THE ANNEXATION AREA IS A READY ZONE FOR WELLINGTON SCHOOLS 01:53:28.190 --> 01:53:34.330 ARE MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION AND ALSO PALM BEACH COUNTY FIRE RESCUE STATION SERVICES 01:53:34.330 --> 01:53:36.130 THE AREA FROM WELLINGTON. 01:53:36.130 --> 01:53:43.500 MY FATHER AND FAMILY BEEN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY INTERACTING FOR OVER 44 YEARS BUT IT IS COMMON 01:53:43.500 --> 01:53:50.800 KNOWLEDGE THEY WANTED TO BE FORMALLY INSIDE AND ATTACHED WELLINGTON. 01:53:50.800 --> 01:53:55.969 THE SOUTHERN BOULEVARD CONSIDER THE WESTERN GATEWAY TO WELLINGTON. 01:53:55.969 --> 01:54:02.340 THE TOPIC CAME UP SOMEBODY INDICATED TO ME THEY WERE COMING BACK FROM THE GLADES THEY 01:54:02.340 --> 01:54:09.860 WERE DRIVING FROM THE WEST AND WENT BY THE COMMUNITY OF ARDEN AND THE RESPONSE WAS THIS 01:54:09.860 --> 01:54:14.320 LOOKS LIKE WELLINGTON OUT HERE AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN INTERESTING COMMENT BECAUSE IF 01:54:14.320 --> 01:54:21.860 YOU LOOK, ARDEN DOES USE IN THE MARKETING MATERIALS WELLINGTON ADDRESS NOT FREE WELLINGTON 01:54:21.860 --> 01:54:26.340 LOCATION BUT FOR THE ADDRESS ON SOUTHERN BOULEVARD. 01:54:26.340 --> 01:54:30.500 THOSE OF US WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE BACKGROUND IN THE PAST IT'S A NO-BRAINER. 01:54:30.500 --> 01:54:35.560 WELLINGTON IS THE EQUESTRIAN CAPITAL OF THE WORLD DURING THE WINTERTIME. 01:54:35.560 --> 01:54:43.810 TO SUM UP VERY QUICKLY, THE REAL ISSUE AT HAND HERE IS ALLOWING THE VOTERS TO MAKE THE 01:54:43.810 --> 01:54:49.170 DECISION ABOUT PROPERTY RIGHTS THROUGH HERE'S A COPY THAT WILL BE PRESENTED WITHOUT WOULD 01:54:49.170 --> 01:54:55.320 BE VOTED ON IN TWO WEEKS THROUGH THE MAIL AND OUTLETS WENT OUT FEBRUARY 9. 01:54:55.320 --> 01:55:00.090 SEVERAL OF THE VOTERS ALREADY VOTED SAWYER TO LET THE VOTERS DECIDE. 01:55:00.090 --> 01:55:01.250 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 01:55:01.250 --> 01:55:05.330 >> Maria Sachs: GOOD MORNING STATE YOUR NAME. 01:55:05.330 --> 01:55:11.380 >> I AM MARY AND I AM REPRESENTING MY FATHER-IN-LAW RICHARD. 01:55:11.380 --> 01:55:20.070 I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO SAY HE IS LIVED THERE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, I HAVE LIVED THERE FOR 01:55:20.070 --> 01:55:29.400 OVER 10 YEARS BUT I NOW LIVE IN LOXAHATCHEE GROVES BUT HE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AN WELLINGTON 01:55:29.400 --> 01:55:39.960 GRIEVANCE HE HAS ALWAYS DINED FROM THE ORIGINAL STEAMERS, HE HAS ALWAYS DINED IN WELLINGTON. 01:55:39.960 --> 01:55:47.540 GOTTEN HIS FOOD, WRITTEN HIS HORSES, GOT IN HIS BOOTS AND LEATHER IS REPAIRED AT WOODY'S, 01:55:47.540 --> 01:55:52.350 SPECIFICALLY SHOP AT THE WELLINGTON MALL AS IT OPENED DID. 01:55:52.350 --> 01:55:57.179 GET OUR CLOTHES REPAIRED. 01:55:57.179 --> 01:56:05.670 THAT IS SOCIALLY INTERACTING ECONOMICALLY INTERACTING AND TRADING IF YOU WILL. 01:56:05.670 --> 01:56:08.910 WE DO TRADE WELLINGTON. 01:56:08.910 --> 01:56:15.560 IT WAS LOCATED WELLINGTON. 01:56:15.560 --> 01:56:22.849 WE HAVE ALWAYS DONE EVERYTHING IN WELLINGTON NOT TO PICK ON YOUR STAFF HERE BECAUSE WE 01:56:22.849 --> 01:56:28.790 PURPOSELY TRY NOT TO DO THAT BUT THE ROAD YOU BROUGHT UP EARLIER FLYING COW RANCH ROAD 01:56:28.790 --> 01:56:34.409 WHICH IS THE CLOSEST ROAD TO THE RANCH IF YOU WILL. 01:56:34.409 --> 01:56:41.090 AT SOUTHERN AND SEMINOLE PRATT WHITNEY ROAD WITHOUT FOR THE FAMILY RODE HORSES THROUGH 01:56:41.090 --> 01:56:48.929 PARTIES THERE, SOCIALIZED WITH OTHERS THERE IT CONSTANTLY WAS INVOLVED WITH THE EQUESTRIAN 01:56:48.929 --> 01:56:50.360 COMMUNITY. 01:56:50.360 --> 01:56:53.590 THAT'S FOR 30 TO 40 YEARS. 01:56:53.590 --> 01:56:58.699 EARLIER AND NOTED THERE WAS A LAW THAT I DON'T RECALL FROM SOME OF THE STAFF. 01:56:58.699 --> 01:57:02.910 NO OFFENSE, STAFF, YOU KNOW I'M DIRECTLY ON YOUR SIDE. 01:57:02.910 --> 01:57:10.880 BUT IN ESSENCE THERE WAS AN ANNEXATION I'M AWARE OF AND GARDENS AND I UNDERSTAND IT WAS 01:57:10.880 --> 01:57:12.900 NOT CONSISTENT. 01:57:12.900 --> 01:57:17.190 THE ANNEXED UNDEVELOPED PROPERTY WITH COMMERCIAL APPROVAL ONLY. 01:57:17.190 --> 01:57:21.560 I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO THE ATTORNEY, I'M NOT AN ATTORNEY THAT I KNOW THAT YOU COULD 01:57:21.560 --> 01:57:26.389 DEBATE DIFFERENT ANGLES OF THIS FROM A PERSONAL ASPECT. 01:57:26.389 --> 01:57:30.619 YOU'VE SPENT TOO MUCH TIME AND MONEY ON THIS. 01:57:30.619 --> 01:57:35.480 THESE RESIDENTS WANT TO BE IN WELLINGTON, THEY DO NOT WANT DEBATE IN LOXAHATCHEE GROVES 01:57:35.480 --> 01:57:46.030 WERE NEXT TO THE VERY RURAL PAINTBALL GO-KART RECREATIONAL AREA IN CODE ENFORCEMENT ON A 01:57:46.030 --> 01:57:51.860 CONSTANT BASIS, BUT THESE RESIDENTS NEED TO EXPRESS THEIR PROPERTY RIGHTS. 01:57:51.860 --> 01:57:56.060 PLEASE ALLOW THEM TO VOTE AND DECIDE ON THEIR DESTINY. 01:57:56.060 --> 01:57:57.060 THANK YOU. 01:57:57.060 --> 01:57:59.640 >> Maria Sachs: WE HAVE A QUESTION BY COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 01:57:59.640 --> 01:58:04.490 >> Sara Baxter: HI MARY, HOW ARE YOU? 01:58:04.490 --> 01:58:10.040 YOU SAID AS LONG AS YOU CAN REMEMBER YOUR FATHER-IN-LAW WANTED TO ANNEX INTO WELLINGTON, 01:58:10.040 --> 01:58:11.040 RIGHT? 01:58:11.040 --> 01:58:13.280 BUT HE HAS ALWAYS WANTED TO BE IN WELLINGTON. 01:58:13.280 --> 01:58:15.650 >> Sara Baxter: ANY PARTICULAR REASON. 01:58:15.650 --> 01:58:22.980 >> HE LOVES WELLINGTON PERIODICITY MOVED TO SIT THERE WITHOUT WAS THE CLOSEST OF EVERYTHING 01:58:22.980 --> 01:58:28.940 AVAILABLE TO HIM FROM DINING, FROM SHOPPING, FROM EVERYTHING I WENT THROUGH. 01:58:28.940 --> 01:58:35.820 >> Sara Baxter: IF THIS WERE TO GO THROUGH HOW LONG WOULD HE REMAIN THE OWNER OF THE 01:58:35.820 --> 01:58:36.820 PROPERTY. 01:58:36.820 --> 01:58:38.420 >> LET ME MENTION SOMETHING. 01:58:38.420 --> 01:58:42.250 FOR YEARS MAY BETTER CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS 01:58:42.250 --> 01:58:43.860 WITH MY FATHER-IN-LAW. 01:58:43.860 --> 01:58:49.420 I DID NOT MAKE DECISION FOR THE GENTLEMAN, HE MAKES DECISIONS ON HIS OWN AS A PROPERTY 01:58:49.420 --> 01:58:58.230 OWNER AND SPECIFICALLY LIMIT I LIVED THERE IN 1994. 01:58:58.230 --> 01:59:05.190 HE HAS BEEN OFFERED, GIVEN OFFERS ON THE PROPERTY SINCE THEN AND YOU NOTICE HE STILL RESIDES 01:59:05.190 --> 01:59:12.400 THERE SO I CAN'T ANSWER THAT BUT I KNOW HE LOVES THE AREA AND IT IS HIS PROPERTY. 01:59:12.400 --> 01:59:17.650 >> Sara Baxter: AS HE HAD ANY CONVERSATIONS RECENTLY ABOUT SELLING IT? 01:59:17.650 --> 01:59:23.380 >> EVERY WEEK SOMEBODY CALLS TO DO SOMETHING. 40 YEARS THAT I KNOW OF. 01:59:23.380 --> 01:59:25.469 I DON'T EVEN, I JUST. 01:59:25.469 --> 01:59:30.019 >> Sara Baxter: THANK YOU, MARY. 01:59:30.019 --> 01:59:34.570 >> Gregg Weiss: OKAY. 01:59:34.570 --> 01:59:48.310 AFTER RIVERINE JASON WE HAVE CHRISTINA, RONALD AND LINDA LOOKS LIKE A THERE CAN SHARON OR 01:59:48.310 --> 01:59:49.989 CAN TROY. 01:59:49.989 --> 01:59:53.130 >> Maria Sachs: TAKE THE PODIUMS. 01:59:53.130 --> 01:59:59.320 >> IT IS HUVDI WITH A V. THAT IS OKAY. 01:59:59.320 --> 02:00:04.250 I'M THE PASTOR OF THE GOOD PEOPLE OF OASIS CHURCH AND I AM A HOMEOWNER IN WELLINGTON 02:00:04.250 --> 02:00:05.610 FOR THE PAST YEARS. 02:00:05.610 --> 02:00:13.130 LIVES FAMILY AND I MOVED THERE FROM THE INDIAN RESERVATION IN SOUTH DAKOTA WHERE I WAS PASTORING 02:00:13.130 --> 02:00:19.460 AND YOU COULD HAVE A BIG DIFFERENCE IN QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE COMMUNITY WE ARE IN NOW PADILLA 02:00:19.460 --> 02:00:20.460 WELLINGTON. 02:00:20.460 --> 02:00:28.560 MY WIFE AND I SAY IT NEARLY EVERY DAY AS WE DRIVE DOWN FOREST HILL DEERWOOD WITH A BEAUTIFULLY 02:00:28.560 --> 02:00:35.159 MAINTAINED, SAFE COMMUNITY AND ON OUR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH SAID HE WOULDN'T WANT TO BE 02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:40.840 PART WELLINGTON ON THIS NUMBER IS ONE OF THOSE WHO SAID WHEN I SIGNED MY MORTGAGE PAPERWORK 02:00:40.840 --> 02:00:46.130 IT SAID WELLINGTON SO THEY ACTUALLY THINK THEY ARE PART WELLINGTON AND THAT IS A MILE 02:00:46.130 --> 02:00:47.340 OR TWO FURTHER. 02:00:47.340 --> 02:00:53.560 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF FAMILIES THAT ATTEND OUR CHURCH THAT COULD WELLINGTON THAT I LIVE IN 02:00:53.560 --> 02:01:00.250 WELLINGTON AND GO TO THE CHURCH EVERY DAY FOR THE WHOLE COMMERCE THING I STRONGLY DISAGREE. 02:01:00.250 --> 02:01:04.830 THINK IT IS EASILY POINT TO MAKE IT USING THE STATS UP THERE FROM THE CELL PHONE THAT 02:01:04.830 --> 02:01:08.210 IS INTERESTING. 02:01:08.210 --> 02:01:17.449 BUT THAT IS HOW IT IS TO READ I WANT TO SAY WHEN THE PROPERTY OWNERS, I WILL SAY THE HOMEOWNERS 02:01:17.449 --> 02:01:25.610 OF THE ANNEXATION AREA DECIDED THEY WANTED TO BE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY WELLINGTON THEY 02:01:25.610 --> 02:01:33.070 DID AN AMERICAN THING FOR THEY ORGANIZED, THEY CAME AND LOBBIED THE VILLAGE OF WELLINGTON 02:01:33.070 --> 02:01:40.590 AND THEY SAY WE WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS VILLAGE AND SO THEY WANT TO BE A PART OF IT 02:01:40.590 --> 02:01:45.570 IS GREAT WHEN YOU GET TO THE DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE LAWYERS I AGREE THAT THERE WILL 02:01:45.570 --> 02:01:54.030 BE DISAGREEMENTS, BUT IN THE END IT HAS TO BE THE PROPERTY RIGHTS THAT TRUMP ALL THAT. 02:01:54.030 --> 02:01:58.989 I LOVE LAWYERS, I THINK THEY ARE VERY SMART PEOPLE AND I WANT TO CLOSE BY SAYING I WAS 02:01:58.989 --> 02:02:04.699 DISAPPOINTED TO LEARN A COUNTY COMMISSIONER WENT TO THE LOXAHATCHEE GROVES MEETING IN 02:02:04.699 --> 02:02:12.179 DECEMBER AND IT'S MY COMMISSIONER WAS SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT ME AS WELL AND GOING AND COACHING 02:02:12.179 --> 02:02:21.290 THEM I WATCHED THE VIDEO THEY TRY TO DO THAT AND THEN TRY TO GET LOXAHATCHEE GROVES TO 02:02:21.290 --> 02:02:25.330 DO WHICH YOU ALREADY HEARD FROM OTHERS AND YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS 02:02:25.330 --> 02:02:29.869 IN THAT AREA THE DATA WILL LOXAHATCHEE GROVES. 02:02:29.869 --> 02:02:35.869 THE GAME TO US AND SAID WOULD YOU SEND A LETTER TO WELLINGTON ASK THE CHURCH TO SAY WE WOULD 02:02:35.869 --> 02:02:40.480 LIKE TO BE PART OF THIS I BROUGHT IT BEFORE THE GOVERNING BOARD AND THEY WERE UNANIMOUS 02:02:40.480 --> 02:02:46.739 AND EXCITED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING PART OF WELLINGTON SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO 02:02:46.739 --> 02:02:51.290 NOT STAND IN THE WAY THE PROPERTY OWNERS WHO SO MUCH WANT TO BE A PART OF THE VILLAGE. 02:02:51.290 --> 02:02:52.290 THANK YOU. 02:02:52.290 --> 02:02:53.620 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:02:53.620 --> 02:02:55.770 GO RIGHT AHEAD. 02:02:55.770 --> 02:02:57.199 HE RECOGNIZED. 02:02:57.199 --> 02:02:58.640 >> GOOD MORNING. 02:02:58.640 --> 02:03:05.530 I CHECKED THE WRONG BOX ON THE COMMENT CARD SO, MY NAME IS CHRISTINA AND MY ADDRESS IS 02:03:05.530 --> 02:03:12.800 16424 VAN GOGH BOULEVARD LOXAHATCHEE FLORIDA FOR THE ANNEXATION AND TO WELLINGTON FOR MY 02:03:12.800 --> 02:03:18.820 FAMILY OWNS 15 ACRES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE RUN THE WHOLESALE PLANT NURSERY AND RETAIL 02:03:18.820 --> 02:03:21.550 GARDENS AND ON THE PROPERTIES. 02:03:21.550 --> 02:03:27.690 WE CELEBRATED 43 YEARS IN BUSINESS THIS YEAR. 50 PERCENT OF OUR CUSTOMERS ARE FROM WELLINGTON 02:03:27.690 --> 02:03:32.900 LOOKING FOR THE PERFECT PLAN ARE LOOKING FOR TREES TO REPLACE THE PROPERTY TO COMPLY WITH 02:03:32.900 --> 02:03:34.510 WELLINGTON CODES. 02:03:34.510 --> 02:03:37.489 WE ARE HAPPY TO HELP ALL WELLINGTON RESIDENTS. 02:03:37.489 --> 02:03:43.460 I GREW UP ON THE STREET AND ATTENDED WELLINGTON MY SCHOOL HEAR THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS STILL ZONED 02:03:43.460 --> 02:03:50.369 FOR WELLINGTON SCHOOLS THAT ARE DRIVING THE WELLINGTON DAILY FOR SHOPPING AND BANKING. 02:03:50.369 --> 02:03:55.570 I FEEL WE HAVE BETTER UTILITIES AVAILABLE TO US IN THE FUTURE HE CURRENTLY WE HAVE NO 02:03:55.570 --> 02:04:03.370 DRAINAGE MEANING WE HAVE TO HOLD OUR OWN WATER ON OUR PROPERTY AND IT HAS NOWHERE TO GO. 02:04:03.370 --> 02:04:10.110 MY FATHER MADE THE FRONT PAGE OF THE PALM BEACH POST YEARS AGO FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS 02:04:10.110 --> 02:04:13.210 FOR THE NURSERY AND FLOODED. 02:04:13.210 --> 02:04:19.250 PALM BEACH COUNTY MENTIONED IN OUR OTHER MEETINGS THAT THEY OWN TWO PROPERTIES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD 02:04:19.250 --> 02:04:21.960 FOR DRAINING PONDS. 02:04:21.960 --> 02:04:27.369 THE DRAINAGE PONDS ARE FOR THE MAIN ROAD ON SUNIL PRATT WHITNEY ROAD THE RESIDENTS DID 02:04:27.369 --> 02:04:33.969 NOT DRAIN INTO THE PONDS AS WE HAVE NO ACCESS TO THEM SO THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM. 02:04:33.969 --> 02:04:40.520 THE DRAINS ARE 10 FEET OFF OUR PROPERTY WHERE NOT ALLOWED TO DRAIN IT WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY 02:04:40.520 --> 02:04:44.340 TO CALL DEL BUS WITH ANY KIND UTILITIES. 02:04:44.340 --> 02:04:50.860 AGAIN, THIS IS A PROBLEM IN THE PAST YEARS BEEN IMPOSSIBLE ACCESSIBLE THINGS LIKE CABLE, 02:04:50.860 --> 02:04:55.860 INTERNET UTILITIES GOOD WITH BECOMING PART OF WELLINGTON I FEEL THIS WILL SOLVE SOME 02:04:55.860 --> 02:05:01.550 OF THE ISSUES WE ARE HAVING AND SOMETIMES WE NEED HELP WITH THIS PURELY OF THE RESIDENTS 02:05:01.550 --> 02:05:05.239 WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE TO BE PART OF WELLINGTON. 02:05:05.239 --> 02:05:07.289 THANK YOU. 02:05:07.289 --> 02:05:11.550 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND STATE YOUR NAME, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED! 02:05:11.550 --> 02:05:20.090 MY NAME IS RONALD, AND NEAR TO REPRESENT MY FATHER MICHAEL, HE IS A RESIDENT IN THE PROPOSED 02:05:20.090 --> 02:05:25.860 AREA OF 1665 VAN GOGH BOULEVARD. 02:05:25.860 --> 02:05:34.440 KNOW HE WANTS THE SUPPORT, ANNEXATION TO WELLINGTON AND I WOULD ALSO BE READ AS A GROUP THERE 02:05:34.440 --> 02:05:39.150 FOR MANY YEARS I HAVE ALWAYS GONE TO WELLINGTON. 02:05:39.150 --> 02:05:46.090 MY FRIENDS, SCHOOLING, MY FIRST JOB WAS IN WELLINGTON, AND LIVED IN APARTMENTS IN HOUSING 02:05:46.090 --> 02:05:53.170 WELLINGTON MY DAUGHTERS ARE DOING THE SAME THING BUT THEY ARE PLAYING SOFTBALL WITH THE 02:05:53.170 --> 02:05:55.300 SCHOOLS AND SO FORTH. 02:05:55.300 --> 02:06:00.670 INDEFINITELY APPROVE IN SUPPORT. 02:06:00.670 --> 02:06:01.690 >> THANK YOU. 02:06:01.690 --> 02:06:06.239 COMMISSIONER WEISS A. >> Gregg Weiss: WE HAVE LINDA FOLLOWED BY 02:06:06.239 --> 02:06:15.750 LAUREN FOLLOWED BY GREG FOLLOWED BY CAITLIN, IT LOOKS LIKE WINDSOR? 02:06:15.750 --> 02:06:20.960 >> Maria Sachs: AS YOUR NAME IS CALLED COME FORWARD TO THE PODIUM. 02:06:20.960 --> 02:06:23.320 YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 02:06:23.320 --> 02:06:24.889 >> GOOD MORNING. 02:06:24.889 --> 02:06:34.020 I AM LINDA, I LIVE AT 1365 VAN GOGH BOULEVARD AND I HAVE BEEN THERE 44 YEARS. 02:06:34.020 --> 02:06:42.849 I RAISED MY CHILDREN, SEE MY GRANDCHILDREN EVERYTHING WE DID WE DID IN WELLINGTON. 02:06:42.849 --> 02:06:51.679 THEY WENT TO SCHOOL IN WELLINGTON, THEY GRADUATED IN WELLINGTON FOR BACK THEN MY SON DID THAT 02:06:51.679 --> 02:07:02.440 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO HIGH SCHOOL IN WELLINGTON AND SO AFTER HE WENT THERE WE HAD TO GO DOWNTOWN. 02:07:02.440 --> 02:07:14.059 I AM KIND OF NERVOUS, SORRY. 02:07:14.059 --> 02:07:24.840 I SUPPORT THE ANNEX TO WELLINGTON BUT I'VE BEEN THERE A LONG TIME. 02:07:24.840 --> 02:07:30.190 MY DAUGHTER CHRISTINA WHO WAS JUST HERE, SHE TOLD YOU ABOUT THE WATER. 02:07:30.190 --> 02:07:35.400 WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING. 02:07:35.400 --> 02:07:40.300 NO SEWER, NO WATER COMING IN BECAUSE THE WATER OUT THERE IS YELLOW. 02:07:40.300 --> 02:07:45.940 EVEN AFTER GOING THROUGH $2000 SYSTEM I WANT A TRINKET. 02:07:45.940 --> 02:07:51.250 IT TASTES TERRIBLE BUT I WOULDN'T EVEN LET MY DOG DRINK IT. 02:07:51.250 --> 02:07:54.730 EVERYTHING IS BOTTLED WATER. 02:07:54.730 --> 02:07:59.500 IT IS JUST TERRIBLE AND NO ONE WOULD ASSIST US. 02:07:59.500 --> 02:08:01.489 I WOULD CALL. 02:08:01.489 --> 02:08:05.570 AND WOULD CALL. 02:08:05.570 --> 02:08:07.710 CAN YOU JUST LEAVE US LIKE THIS? 02:08:07.710 --> 02:08:11.590 WE HAD NO WAY TO DO IT. 02:08:11.590 --> 02:08:22.000 FEEL ANYTIME WELLINGTON WOULD BE MORE BECAUSE WE HAVE NO SEWER, WE HAVE NO DRAINAGE. 02:08:22.000 --> 02:08:25.110 NO ONE CARES. 02:08:25.110 --> 02:08:30.380 THEY WANT US TO ANNEX WITH THEM THAT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING FOR US AND I FEEL 02:08:30.380 --> 02:08:34.940 WELLINGTON WOULD BE THE BEST CHOICE. 02:08:34.940 --> 02:08:45.940 I FEEL LIKE A WELL AND TONY AND BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE I HAVE GROWN UP. 02:08:45.940 --> 02:08:53.199 I HAVE GROWN IN THERE, MY CHILDREN HAVE GROWN IN THERE AND NOW IT'S THIS POSSIBILITY WE 02:08:53.199 --> 02:08:59.780 COULD BE WHAT WE HAVE LIVED THERE WE COULD BE THAT. 02:08:59.780 --> 02:09:08.380 I SUPPORT THIS VERY, VERY MUCH AND I THINK THIS WOULD BE THE BEST THING FOR US TO BE 02:09:08.380 --> 02:09:10.989 ABLE TO VOTE, WHICH I VOTED. 02:09:10.989 --> 02:09:20.530 VOTE ON THIS AND LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE ARE WANTING INSTEAD OF WHAT OTHER PEOPLE 02:09:20.530 --> 02:09:22.250 THINK WE SHOULD HAVE. 02:09:22.250 --> 02:09:24.949 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU SO MUCH. 02:09:24.949 --> 02:09:26.750 APPRECIATED. 02:09:26.750 --> 02:09:29.340 STATE YOUR NAME, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 02:09:29.340 --> 02:09:39.550 >> ANYMORE IN PRESCOTT, I AM ALSO A PROPERTY OWNER WITHIN THE AREA OF POTENTIAL ANNEXATION. 02:09:39.550 --> 02:09:43.650 I PERSONALLY DO SUPPORT THE ANNEXATION. 02:09:43.650 --> 02:09:49.150 I GREW UP IN LOXAHATCHEE, WENT TO SCHOOL IN WELLINGTON SCHOOLS, ALWAYS TRAVELED DAILY 02:09:49.150 --> 02:09:52.010 INTO WELLINGTON NOW. 02:09:52.010 --> 02:09:59.960 I PREVIOUSLY HAD PROPERTY IN LOXAHATCHEE GROVES THAT I HAD A BUSINESS ON FOR MORE THAN 20 02:09:59.960 --> 02:10:00.960 YEARS. 02:10:00.960 --> 02:10:07.800 WHEN MY BUSINESS PARTNER PASSED AWAY THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT I WOULD BE BUYING THE PROPERTY. 02:10:07.800 --> 02:10:11.730 DEALING WITH LOXAHATCHEE GROVES ESSENTIALLY THEY WERE GOING TO ALLOW ME EVEN THOUGH I'D 02:10:11.730 --> 02:10:16.139 BEEN THERE SO LONG, THEY WERE GOING TO ALLOW ME TO KEEP A BUSINESS LICENSE ON THAT LOCATION 02:10:16.139 --> 02:10:23.699 SO I SPECIFICALLY MOVED OUT LOXAHATCHEE GROVES TO CONTINUE RUNNING MY BUSINESS BUT I DON'T 02:10:23.699 --> 02:10:29.000 FIND LOXAHATCHEE GROVES EASY TO DEAL WITH, NOT THAT WE ARE SAYING. 02:10:29.000 --> 02:10:33.750 BETWEEN THE TWO VILLAGER WELLINGTON A LOXAHATCHEE GROVES VILLAGE WELLINGTON HAS A LOT MORE TO 02:10:33.750 --> 02:10:34.750 OFFER. 02:10:34.750 --> 02:10:39.880 THEY ARE A BIGGER CITY, OR FINANCES, EVERYTHING IN THERE IS NICE. 02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:46.210 IT MAKES SENSE RESIDENTS WOULD PREFER TO BE ANNEXED INTO THEIR THAT IS WHAT THE MAJORITY 02:10:46.210 --> 02:10:54.309 OF PEOPLE WANT AND THAT IS IT SPLENIC SPEAKER IDENTIFY YOURSELF AND YOUR RECOGNIZED. 02:10:54.309 --> 02:10:56.040 >> MY NAME IS GREG. 02:10:56.040 --> 02:11:01.000 I AM REPRESENTING MY WIFE WHO IS A PROPERTY OWNER IN THE NEXT AREA. 02:11:01.000 --> 02:11:11.270 A LITTLE ROUNDABOUT WAY, WHEN I MOVED HERE IN 2004 FROM ORLANDO AND NEED TO FIND A PLACE 02:11:11.270 --> 02:11:17.389 TO LIVE, TO WORK TOWARD AND EVERYBODY COME ALL THE FRIENDS CALL THE WORK PEOPLE YOU NEED 02:11:17.389 --> 02:11:19.840 TO BUY WELLINGTON SO I DID. 02:11:19.840 --> 02:11:26.710 ABOUT RANCHES AND HAD A NICE PLACE FOR THE SERVICES OF WELLINGTON WERE SUPERIOR BUT WE 02:11:26.710 --> 02:11:32.400 HAD NO PROBLEMS MAY WORKED WITH THE CITY, WE BENEFITED FROM ALL THE THINGS THERE. 02:11:32.400 --> 02:11:40.350 CONSEQUENTLY ANALYSIS OPPORTUNITY FOR MY WIFE'S PROPERTY TO BE A PART OF WELLINGTON WE FULLY 02:11:40.350 --> 02:11:41.360 SUPPORT THAT. 02:11:41.360 --> 02:11:48.530 WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE SAME SERVICES THAT WE ENJOYED. 02:11:48.530 --> 02:11:53.730 IN THE NEW AREA THAT WE NOW HAVE THE FIVE ACRES OF LAND SO THAT IS WHY WE ARE IN SUPPORT 02:11:53.730 --> 02:11:55.110 OF THIS. 02:11:55.110 --> 02:12:02.239 >> Maria Sachs: BEFORE WE BEGIN COMMISSIONER WEISS WANTS TO CALL SOME MORE NAMES. 02:12:02.239 --> 02:12:06.980 >> Gregg Weiss: AFTER CALEB WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ANDRE REYNOLDS. 02:12:06.980 --> 02:12:18.110 IT LOOKS LIKE GARRETT WARNER, KATHY WARNER AND THEN ALEX LARSON. 02:12:18.110 --> 02:12:25.150 >> Maria Sachs: AS YOUR NAME IS CALLED PROCEED TO THE PODIUM. 02:12:25.150 --> 02:12:29.949 >> I AM HERE TODAY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF FOR PROPERTY OWNERS WHO COULDN'T BE HERE SO THEY 02:12:29.949 --> 02:12:34.130 PROVIDED ME WITH LETTERS TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF. 02:12:34.130 --> 02:12:41.840 FIRST IS ALICE ON THE ALAMEDA TRUST WHICH IS A FIVE ACRE LOT IN THE NEXT AREA. 02:12:41.840 --> 02:12:49.950 ON BEHALF OF THE TRUST IN ALICE EXECUTOR, MY FAMILY PURCHASED THIS VACANT PIECE OF LAND 02:12:49.950 --> 02:12:55.340 NOT AS AN INVESTMENT BUT SIMPLY BECAUSE MY PARENTS HAD A DREAM TO BUILD A HOME IN ONE 02:12:55.340 --> 02:12:56.520 DAY RETIRE. 02:12:56.520 --> 02:13:01.429 THOSE DAYS ARE LONG GONE WITH THE PASSING OF MY MOTHER AND FATHER'S FAILING HEALTH THEY 02:13:01.429 --> 02:13:07.010 FEEL THE PROPERTY CAN BE ENHANCED WITH ANNEXATION AND WELLINGTON. 02:13:07.010 --> 02:13:11.960 WHEN I DRIVE DOWN THE BROKEN DIRT ROAD TO VISIT PROPERTY ON OCCASION I DON'T UNDERSTAND 02:13:11.960 --> 02:13:17.540 WHY WE DON'T OF SERVICES OUT HERE GOOD BASIC SERVICES THE ROAD, SEWER, ETC. 02:13:17.540 --> 02:13:18.849 WE ARE SIMPLE PEOPLE. 02:13:18.849 --> 02:13:26.270 MY MOTHER TAUGHT US IN THIS COUNTRY WE ARE GIVEN RIGHTS REVERING THE RIGHTS OF THE UTMOST 02:13:26.270 --> 02:13:29.460 IMPORTANCE, THE RIGHT TO VOTE. 02:13:29.460 --> 02:13:34.651 PLEASE DO NOT STRIP US OF THE RIGHTS WE HOLD HIM DEARLY BE RELEASABLE WELLINGTON IN THE 02:13:34.651 --> 02:13:38.309 ANNEXATION AND I KNOW MY MOM WOULD HAVE TO. 02:13:38.309 --> 02:13:45.980 SECOND IS RONALD FROM LOCATED AT 163 FIVE ACRE ROAD 5A BARKER LOT. 02:13:45.980 --> 02:13:54.239 IS THAT I'VE BEEN OPERATING IN AGRICULTURE BUSINESS FOR 20 YEARS, PRIMARILY RESIDENT 02:13:54.239 --> 02:13:58.929 TO REPLANT DELIVERIES CAN INSTALLATIONS MADE TO THEIR HOMES IN WELLINGTON GIVE THEM A BUSINESS 02:13:58.929 --> 02:14:02.219 STAKEHOLDER AND FIRMLY COMMITTED TO BEING AN EXTENDED WELLINGTON. 02:14:02.219 --> 02:14:08.980 IT IS SIMPLY THE RIGHT CHOICE THE PROPERTY SERVICES WILL EXPAND GREATLY AND IMPROVE THE 02:14:08.980 --> 02:14:13.630 AREA INCLUSIVE OF THE PAVED ROAD, HOPEFULLY. 02:14:13.630 --> 02:14:18.520 IS NO OTHER OPTION IN MY MIND, I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE COUNTY COMMISSION SPENDING THEIR TIME 02:14:18.520 --> 02:14:22.840 THEREFORE PLEASE ALLOW PROPERTY OWNERS TO VOTE WHERE THEY WISH TO BE NEXT. 02:14:22.840 --> 02:14:25.150 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION ON THE MATTER. 02:14:25.150 --> 02:14:34.280 THIRD IS DAISY LOCATED AT 16, VELASQUEZ ROAD IN THE ANNEXATION AREA. 02:14:34.280 --> 02:14:39.710 I OPERATED THE BUSINESS AND RAISE MY FAMILY AT THE HOUSE MY CHILDREN WHEN I GRADUATED 02:14:39.710 --> 02:14:45.340 FROM WELLINGTON SCHOOLS AND ALL MY GRANDCHILDREN GO TO THE SAME WELLINGTON SCHOOLS 02:14:45.340 --> 02:14:50.280 PICK UP DAILY AND WATCH OVER UNTIL THEIR PARENTS COME TO PICK THEM UP THERE IT BECAUSE A SUCCESS 02:14:50.280 --> 02:14:55.650 OF WELLINGTON I BEEN ABLE TO TRANSFER MY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS TO MY TWO SONS TO OPERATE THE PLANT 02:14:55.650 --> 02:14:58.239 NURSERY TO THIS DAY. 02:14:58.239 --> 02:15:01.960 CENTURY GARDEN IS LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN BOULEVARD. 02:15:01.960 --> 02:15:06.940 I CONTINUE TO SPEND MOST MY TIME IN WELLINGTON AND IN THE OTHER ELSE COULD PLAY DATES WITH 02:15:06.940 --> 02:15:11.829 THE GRANDKIDS, SCHOOL PLAY, SPORTING EVENTS, DINING, SHOPPING AND EVEN A MOVIE FROM TIME 02:15:11.829 --> 02:15:17.230 TO TIME RELAXING WELLINGTON FLOURISH OVER THE YEARS AND ALWAYS FELT WE WERE A PART OF 02:15:17.230 --> 02:15:23.210 THE VILLAGE SHOULD ABIDE A CHOICE TO STAY IN PALM BEACH COUNTY FOR AN EXTENDED WELLINGTON 02:15:23.210 --> 02:15:24.639 I CHOOSE WELLINGTON. 02:15:24.639 --> 02:15:29.909 AND ONE MORE AFTER THIS SUIT CAN I FINISH THIS. 02:15:29.909 --> 02:15:35.139 THEY RUN A GREAT CITY PROVIDED THE AMOUNT OF SERVICES AT A LOWER MILLAGE RATE IN LOXAHATCHEE 02:15:35.139 --> 02:15:37.969 GROVES ENHANCING PROPERTY NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY. 02:15:37.969 --> 02:15:41.739 I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT MY WISHES AND ALLOW ME TO VOTE FOR WELLINGTON. 02:15:41.739 --> 02:15:43.139 LASTLY. 02:15:43.139 --> 02:15:44.539 APOLOGIES? 02:15:44.539 --> 02:15:49.479 >> Maria Sachs: YOU RECOGNIZE, STATE YOUR NAME. 02:15:49.479 --> 02:15:57.690 >> MY NAME IS ANDRE REYNOLDS AT 16421 REMBRANDT ROAD AND I OBVIOUSLY SUPPORT THE ANNEXATION 02:15:57.690 --> 02:16:00.949 AS I WORE A SHIRT TO SUPPORT IT TODAY. 02:16:00.949 --> 02:16:05.340 BUT MY FAMILY IS ONE OF THE FEW HOSTED RESIDENTS. 02:16:05.340 --> 02:16:14.390 AND DID PURCHASE THE PROPERTY FOR MY IN-LAWS WHO LIVED ON THE PROPERTY SINCE THE LATE 80s 02:16:14.390 --> 02:16:16.590 SO I RAISED A FAMILY OF FOUR THERE. 02:16:16.590 --> 02:16:25.480 ALL OF MY KIDS GO TO BING'S FOREST AND MIDDLE SCHOOL LANDINGS AND MY SON DOES THE CUB SCOUTS, 02:16:25.480 --> 02:16:29.510 THAT IS THE WELLINGTON CUB SCOUTS THERE. 02:16:29.510 --> 02:16:37.620 I GREW UP IN WELLINGTON, I SPENT MOST OF MY YOUNG YEARS AND THE ENDINGS FOR INSTANCE IN 02:16:37.620 --> 02:16:40.040 SECOND GRADE I LOVE THE AREA. 02:16:40.040 --> 02:16:47.540 AND SINGLY OPPORTUNITY TO ANNEX AND AGAIN, WE WENT TO WELLINGTON THE REQUEST TO BE ANNEXED. 02:16:47.540 --> 02:16:54.540 WE HEARD THERE WAS GOING TO BE A POTENTIAL ANNEXATION FOR SOUTHERN FACING PROPERTIES. 02:16:54.540 --> 02:16:59.050 WE WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART OF THIS SO WE REQUESTED FOR THIS. 02:16:59.050 --> 02:17:05.400 AS I AM SURE EVERYBODY IN THE PANEL APPEAR WAS VOTED INTO THEIR POSITION AND SARAH BAXTER, 02:17:05.400 --> 02:17:11.120 I VOTED FOR YOU SO I WOULD REALLY HOPE THAT WE GET ALL THE VOTING RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO 02:17:11.120 --> 02:17:16.409 ANNEX WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO GO SO THANK YOU GUYS. 02:17:16.409 --> 02:17:19.300 >> Maria Sachs: STATE YOUR NAME, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 02:17:19.300 --> 02:17:27.620 >> MY NAME IS GARRETT WARNER AND LIVE AT 16501 VAN GOGH BOULEVARD ALONG WITH MY WIFE. 02:17:27.620 --> 02:17:32.530 WE BOTH SUPPORT THE ANNEXATION INTO WELLINGTON. 02:17:32.530 --> 02:17:35.610 WE LIVE ON A HORSE FARM. 02:17:35.610 --> 02:17:42.300 EVERYTHING ABOUT WHAT WE DO HAS TO DO WITH WELLINGTON, WE DRIVE THERE SEVERAL TIMES A 02:17:42.300 --> 02:17:43.990 DAY. 02:17:43.990 --> 02:17:50.510 WE SHOP THERE, WE DINED THERE, WE WORKED THERE, WE DO EVERYTHING IN WELLINGTON AND I THINK 02:17:50.510 --> 02:18:07.969 IT IS CLEAR THAT AREA IS VERY QUICKLY GOING TO BECOME VERY MUCH MORE URBAN IN THE PROGRESS 02:18:07.969 --> 02:18:14.069 IS GOING THAT DIRECTION AND I SEE THIS AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO DECIDE WHICH COMMUNITY 02:18:14.069 --> 02:18:21.130 WE WANT TO BECOME PART OF AND I THINK IT IS CLEAR THAT WELLINGTON HAS A TRACK RECORD OF 02:18:21.130 --> 02:18:27.870 BEING VERY CAREFUL ABOUT HOW THEY LET THINGS HAPPEN AND IF YOU DRIVE THROUGH THAT COMMUNITY 02:18:27.870 --> 02:18:36.490 I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS IT'S VERY CLEAN, VERY WELL ORGANIZED AND MAYBE LOXAHATCHEE GROVES 02:18:36.490 --> 02:18:39.059 IS SOMEDAY WILL BE LIKE THAT. 02:18:39.059 --> 02:18:40.059 I DON'T KNOW. 02:18:40.059 --> 02:18:46.189 BUT IF I AM A PROPERTY OWNER DECIDING ON MUCH MORE INTERESTED TO GO WITH A TOWN WITH A PROVEN 02:18:46.189 --> 02:18:51.540 RECORD LIKE THAT THAT WE IDENTIFY WITH ON SO MANY LEVELS. 02:18:51.540 --> 02:18:56.420 WHENEVER SOMEONE ASKED ME WHERE THEY LIVE IF THEY ARE NOT LITERALLY FROM WITHIN 20 MINUTES 02:18:56.420 --> 02:19:02.880 OF YOUR I SEE WELLINGTON BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WE ARE HORSE PEOPLE AND THAT IS 02:19:02.880 --> 02:19:03.880 WHERE WE LIVE IS WELLINGTON. 02:19:03.880 --> 02:19:06.889 AND JUST HAPPENS TO BE ON THE OTHER SIDE IS ON THEM BUT IT'S WELLINGTON. 02:19:06.889 --> 02:19:14.910 SO I HOPE TODAY YOU GUYS WILL ALLOW FOR THE RESIDENTS THERE TO DECIDE TO BECOME PART OF 02:19:14.910 --> 02:19:17.400 WELLINGTON >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR. 02:19:17.400 --> 02:19:20.639 MA'AM, STATE YOUR NAME, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 02:19:20.639 --> 02:19:21.729 >> GOOD MORNING. 02:19:21.729 --> 02:19:26.969 MY NAME IS [NAME] AND I AM SPEAKING FOR MY MOTHER ANNE HARRISON WHO OWNS THE PROPERTY 02:19:26.969 --> 02:19:33.250 NEXT TO MYSELF AND MY HUSBAND GARRETT AT 16425 VAN GOGH BOULEVARD. 02:19:33.250 --> 02:19:37.269 SHE COULD NOT BE HERE TO DATE AS SHE HAS AN IMPORTANT MEDICAL PROCEDURE BUT HER REMARKS 02:19:37.269 --> 02:19:38.760 ARE AS FOLLOWS. 02:19:38.760 --> 02:19:43.679 COMMISSIONERS, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE TOPIC OF ANNEXATION. 02:19:43.679 --> 02:19:48.910 WELLINGTON IS NOT JUST THE NAME OF VILLAGE, IT IS THE WAY LIFE SHOULD WELLINGTON IS THOUGHTFULLY 02:19:48.910 --> 02:19:53.090 PLANNED, SAFE, PROVIDES RESIDENT SERVICES AS WELL AS HAVING SHOPPING AND RESTAURANT 02:19:53.090 --> 02:19:54.351 CONVENIENTLY LOCATED. 02:19:54.351 --> 02:19:59.200 IT IS ALSO CONSIDERED BY MANY TO BE IN AFFLUENT COMMUNITY AND AM NOT EMBARRASSED TO SAY I 02:19:59.200 --> 02:20:00.930 WANT TO BE A PART OF THAT. 02:20:00.930 --> 02:20:06.109 WELLINGTON IS ANONYMOUS FOR HORSES PUT MY DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND GARRETT ARE PROFESSIONALS 02:20:06.109 --> 02:20:10.050 MAKE THEIR LIVELIHOOD IN WELLINGTON UNDER THE EQUESTRIAN CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, I'VE 02:20:10.050 --> 02:20:13.520 NEVER HEARD LOXAHATCHEE GROCER HER TO NOT WAIT. 02:20:13.520 --> 02:20:20.649 I USED TO LIVE IN BEDFORD DEVELOPMENT WELLINGTON SOME, FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAN JUST WISHFUL 02:20:20.649 --> 02:20:21.710 THINKING. 02:20:21.710 --> 02:20:25.870 HAVE HEARD MANY REASONS WHY THE ANNEXATION SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO IT AMONG THEM IT 02:20:25.870 --> 02:20:29.950 WOULD CREATE TOO MUCH TRAFFIC, THE AREA MUST BE PRESERVED AS RURAL, LOXAHATCHEE GROVES 02:20:29.950 --> 02:20:31.899 HAD THE IDEA FIRST. 02:20:31.899 --> 02:20:37.120 IS A BASIC AMERICAN TENANT FOR LANDOWNERS TO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT THEIR PROPERTY SPIRIT 02:20:37.120 --> 02:20:42.920 FLORIDA STATE LAW ALLOWS IMPACTED LANDOWNERS TO VOTE ON ANNEXATION FOR THIS LOSS NOT BEEN 02:20:42.920 --> 02:20:43.920 BROKEN. 02:20:43.920 --> 02:20:46.630 AT EXERCISING OUR RIGHTS TO SAY YES TO WELLINGTON. 02:20:46.630 --> 02:20:51.560 WE ARE WELL AWARE OF OPTIONS AND PUTTING IT BLUNTLY MY FAMILY IS NO DESIRE TO BE PART 02:20:51.560 --> 02:20:56.770 OF LOXAHATCHEE GROVES THROUGH THE MAJORITY OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WILL VOTE YES THE MARCH 02:20:56.770 --> 02:21:02.100 19 REFERENDUM GARRETT IT SEEMS PARTICULARLY UNDEMOCRATIC FOR THE COMMISSIONERS TO CONSIDER 02:21:02.100 --> 02:21:05.800 ACTIONS THAT WOULD INTERFERE WITH THE RESULT OF THE VOTE. 02:21:05.800 --> 02:21:10.569 COMMISSIONER BAXTER, WHEN THEY MET IN HER OFFICE FIGURE 20TH YOU ASKED ME THE SAME QUESTION 02:21:10.569 --> 02:21:14.930 WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF WELLINGTON THAT I GIVE YOU THE SAME TIME WHICH IS THE 02:21:14.930 --> 02:21:17.850 SAME AS I AM SAYING TODAY. 02:21:17.850 --> 02:21:24.280 WITH AND DISCUSS WHETHER YOU WOULD SUPPORT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IN LANDOWNERS IF THE 02:21:24.280 --> 02:21:28.649 MARCH REFERENDUM PASSED VERITY SAID HE WOULD CONSIDER IT AS LONG AS THE BALLOT BOX WAS 02:21:28.649 --> 02:21:33.979 NOT STEPPED BY LAND DEVELOPERS BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE KNOWING THE BASIS FOR THAT REMARK 02:21:33.979 --> 02:21:35.881 AS IT IS A SERIOUS ALLEGATION. 02:21:35.881 --> 02:21:40.229 DURING OUR MEETING YOU SHOW ME AERIAL PHOTOS OF THE LAST STRETCH OF SOUTHERN BOULEVARD 02:21:40.229 --> 02:21:46.479 HEADING WEST BEFORE TURNING ON AND AND DESCRIBE THE IMPORTANCE OF IT REMAINING ROLE. 02:21:46.479 --> 02:21:50.180 REQUEST THESE PHOTOS I TOOK ON SUNDAY BE RECEIVED AND FILED. 02:21:50.180 --> 02:22:03.330 I DON'T KNOW WHO I GIVE THEM TO. 02:22:03.330 --> 02:22:09.149 >> AS YOU CAN SEE THE FOR SALE SIGN IS ON THE SOUTHERN SEMINOLE BUT I ASKED HOW CAN 02:22:09.149 --> 02:22:15.939 IT REMAIN WHEN IT IS ZONED FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IT UP UNTIL THE INTERSECTION, 02:22:15.939 --> 02:22:16.939 AND MORE TRAFFIC. 02:22:16.939 --> 02:22:19.160 TO DRIVE TO THE WERE SHOW EVERY DAY. 02:22:19.160 --> 02:22:25.069 THERE ARE TWO TURNING LANES WELL-TIMED LIGHTS AND GOOD ROAD CONDITIONS. 02:22:25.069 --> 02:22:32.420 THE VOTE OF THE PROPERTY OWNER SHOULD BE EMBRACED NOT BY THREATS OF LITIGATION FROM MY FAMILY 02:22:32.420 --> 02:22:36.300 WANTS TO BE PART OF WELLINGTON, FOR US IT IS AN EASY CHOICE. 02:22:36.300 --> 02:22:38.439 I ASK YOU RESPECT THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTES. 02:22:38.439 --> 02:22:39.439 THANKS. 02:22:39.439 --> 02:22:43.460 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER BAXTER AND THEN WE HAVE ONE LAST CARD. 02:22:43.460 --> 02:22:57.790 I DO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS THE BREAD I SUPPORTED 02:22:57.790 --> 02:23:02.649 THE ABILITY TO VOTE FOR PROCESS. 02:23:02.649 --> 02:23:07.130 THERE IS MORE INFORMATION DURING OUR MEETING THAT I WANTED TO ACQUIRE WHAT I'D BE LOOKING 02:23:07.130 --> 02:23:08.479 INTO. 02:23:08.479 --> 02:23:13.170 WANTED TO KNOW HOW MANY PROPERTIES WERE HOMESTEADED AND HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE THERE, I WANTED TO 02:23:13.170 --> 02:23:22.070 KNOW IF THE BUILDER WAS COMING IN TRYING TO ENTICE PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING THEY WOULDN'T 02:23:22.070 --> 02:23:26.491 NORMALLY DO BUT WHEN YOU BITE A FIVE ACRE PIECE OF LAND YOU DON'T NORMALLY THINK I WANT 02:23:26.491 --> 02:23:32.359 TO BE URBANIZED GOOD WITH THAT BEING SAID I LOVE WELLINGTON, I SPENT A LOT OF TIME IN 02:23:32.359 --> 02:23:36.319 WELLINGTON, I DO A LOT OF THINGS TO GO TO DINNER IN WELLINGTON. 02:23:36.319 --> 02:23:43.071 I THINK IT IS AN AMAZING AREA AND THE IDEA I WOULD NOT WANT SOMEONE TO VOTE ON THIS IS 02:23:43.071 --> 02:23:44.149 NOT TRUE AT ALL. 02:23:44.149 --> 02:23:51.109 I WOULD LIKE PEOPLE TO HAVE A SAY THAT THE ISSUE IS I DON'T JUST REPRESENT THESE 30 OR 02:23:51.109 --> 02:23:56.900 SO PROPERTIES, I REPRESENT THE ENTIRE DISTRICT 6 WHICH INCLUDES ALL THE PROPERTIES THAT LIVE 02:23:56.900 --> 02:24:03.830 NORTH OF THE AREA AND INFRASTRUCTURE HAS BEEN INITIALLY BROUGHT UP TIME AND TIME AGAIN ON 02:24:03.830 --> 02:24:10.950 THIS DAIS SO I AM RIGHTFULLY CONCERNED IF A MILVIAN SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTY 02:24:10.950 --> 02:24:17.520 GOES AT THIS CORNER, THEY ARE ALREADY BACKLOGGED DURING PEAK TIMES. 02:24:17.520 --> 02:24:25.859 MORNING, EVENING, IT IS A VALID CONCERN ON WHAT WOULD GO IN THE CORNER AND IF THE INFRASTRUCTURE 02:24:25.859 --> 02:24:33.689 COULD SUPPORT WHAT WOULD BE GOING THERE AND I WANTED TO GET CLARITY ON THE POTENTIAL FOR 02:24:33.689 --> 02:24:41.530 THE PEOPLE DON'T GET A SAY IN THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE NORTH OF THESE PROPERTIES. 02:24:41.530 --> 02:24:49.210 THAT IS ALSO A CONCERN DERIDDER WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE EVERYONE WHO WOULD BE IMPACTED 02:24:49.210 --> 02:24:53.170 BY THIS, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE WOULDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM. 02:24:53.170 --> 02:24:59.779 CLEARLY THIS HAS BEEN ALL OVER THE NEWS BUT I DON'T SEE ANYONE IN HERE IN OPPOSITION TO 02:24:59.779 --> 02:25:07.279 IT AND SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM ALLOWING THIS TO GO ON TO THE BALLOT AS LONG AS WE ARE NOT 02:25:07.279 --> 02:25:12.609 SETTING A PRECEDENT IN PRESENTING THE SPORT IN THE FUTURE SO THE QUESTION WOULD BE IF 02:25:12.609 --> 02:25:20.370 WE VOTE TO ALLOW THIS TO GO FORWARD AND DON'T OPPOSE IT, IS IT SETTING IN ANY PRECEDENT 02:25:20.370 --> 02:25:30.290 THAT WOULD PREVENT US IF ANY DISTRICT OF A SIMILAR ISSUE FROM LEGALLY SAYING ANY OPPOSITION 02:25:30.290 --> 02:25:31.290 TO IT? 02:25:31.290 --> 02:25:40.280 >> IT IS SOMETHING THEY CAN BRING UP AT EACH SITUATION IS UNIQUE. 02:25:40.280 --> 02:25:45.890 WHATEVER DECISION YOU MAKE TODAY DOES NOT BIND US IN THE FUTURE IF A SITUATION COMES 02:25:45.890 --> 02:25:49.260 UP THAT WARRANTS AN OBJECTION. 02:25:49.260 --> 02:25:56.510 >> Sara Baxter: AGAIN, BECAUSE NONE OF THE OTHER RESIDENTS, IT HAS BEEN IN THE TOWN PRIOR 02:25:56.510 --> 02:26:05.040 FAIRLY PUBLICLY NOTICED IT NO ONE IS HERE SPEAKING AGAINST IT SO CLEARLY MY RESIDENTS 02:26:05.040 --> 02:26:11.010 WHO ARE HEAR WHO ARE FOR THIS, THEY WANT TO ALLOW IT TO GO FORWARD AND I'M GOING TO SUPPORT 02:26:11.010 --> 02:26:12.010 THAT. 02:26:12.010 --> 02:26:16.590 I'M NOT GOING TO GO AGAINST IT UNLESS WE ARE SETTING A NEW PRECEDENT THAT WOULD PREVENT 02:26:16.590 --> 02:26:20.060 ANY FUTURE ACTION SO THANK YOU. 02:26:20.060 --> 02:26:24.479 >> Maria Sachs: VICE MAYOR WEISS, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 02:26:24.479 --> 02:26:26.720 >> Maria Marino: IF WE HAVE ONE MORE CARD WILL 02:26:26.720 --> 02:26:28.580 >> Maria Sachs: VERY GOOD. 02:26:28.580 --> 02:26:33.680 WOULD YOU COME ON UP? 02:26:33.680 --> 02:26:39.279 >> COLLECTOR AND ARTERIAL AT SEMINOLE PRATT AND SOUTHERN. 02:26:39.279 --> 02:26:41.209 >> Maria Sachs: STATE YOUR NAME. 02:26:41.209 --> 02:26:42.209 >> ALEXANDRA LARSON. 02:26:42.209 --> 02:26:47.859 WHEN I SAY ALEX I THINK I AM A GUY THAT I KIND OF RESENT. 02:26:47.859 --> 02:26:54.520 BUT ANYWAY, COLLECTOR AND ARTERIAL ROADS WAS CREATED IN 2004 BECAUSE OF A NASTY EVIL THING 02:26:54.520 --> 02:27:01.229 UPON MECCA ON NORTHLAKE AND SEMINOLE PRATT. 02:27:01.229 --> 02:27:04.290 WE TOOK AT THE CLUB SAID, DIDN'T HAPPEN. 02:27:04.290 --> 02:27:12.229 THE OVERDEVELOPMENT I HAD THE PLEASURE OF LIVING ACROSS THE STREET FOR YEARS. 02:27:12.229 --> 02:27:17.029 I ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE, I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU HAVE THE STUFF THAT HAS BEEN IN THE PRESS 02:27:17.029 --> 02:27:24.580 BUT YOUR CONSTITUENTS AREN'T HAPPY ABOUT THIS BUT I CAN ASSURE YOU, I PROMISE. 02:27:24.580 --> 02:27:32.450 PEOPLE DO EXPECT ME TO COME DOWNTOWN AND SPEAK IN HERE I AM BECAUSE ALL OF IT IS ZONED AGRICULTURAL 02:27:32.450 --> 02:27:33.450 I DON'T MIND. 02:27:33.450 --> 02:27:34.569 BACON ZONE UNTIL WELLINGTON. 02:27:34.569 --> 02:27:39.192 I WANT MY MONEY BACK WHILE THEY WERE ZONED AGRICULTURAL THESE YEARS BECAUSE BECAUSE THEY 02:27:39.192 --> 02:27:46.210 GET A BREAK ON THEIR TAXES AND I DON'T THINK THE LANDSCAPERS REALIZED IT FOR JUST A LITTLE 02:27:46.210 --> 02:27:53.360 WHILE AGO THE PEOPLE VOTED TO DO AN OVERLAY AND GOT RID OF THE LANDSCAPERS. 02:27:53.360 --> 02:27:57.680 EVERYBODY IS ALWAYS SAID I WANT TO LIVE IN WELLINGTON TO GO AHEAD LIVE IN WELLINGTON, 02:27:57.680 --> 02:28:09.030 WE LIVE IN LOXAHATCHEE WITH 96 ACRES OR 90 ACRES WENT OUT OF THE EQUESTRIAN RESERVE BECAUSE 02:28:09.030 --> 02:28:14.250 WE ARE GOING TO BUILD SOMETHING IN THE WORLD-CLASS JUMPING AND RACING AND EVERYTHING THOSE HORSES 02:28:14.250 --> 02:28:20.891 DO, LOST 90 ACRES PER DWELLING TENDS BOARD SAYS WE ARE TELLING YOU WHAT WE KNOW IS BETTER 02:28:20.891 --> 02:28:26.859 FOR YOU BUT THAT'S WHAT THEY TOLD THE CONSTITUENTS AGAINST GIVING A 90 ACRES AWAY. 02:28:26.859 --> 02:28:36.830 I WISH MOTO WAS AT THE HISTORY NO MORE MINISTRY BECAUSE I AM SICK OF COMING DOWN HERE. 02:28:36.830 --> 02:28:39.210 MY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. 02:28:39.210 --> 02:28:42.689 GO DOWNTOWN, I WILL. 02:28:42.689 --> 02:28:46.700 THERE'S HISTORY AND THERE'S A LOT. 02:28:46.700 --> 02:28:53.859 I DON'T THINK WELLINGTON SHOULD JUMP SOUTHERN BOULEVARD GARDENS GET A BUILT IN WELLINGTON 02:28:53.859 --> 02:29:03.890 IMPORTANT I HOPE YOU REALIZE IT COMMISSIONERS BECAUSE I HEARD THEY ARE HERE. 02:29:03.890 --> 02:29:06.820 YOU WILL HEAR ABOUT IT TONIGHT BECAUSE I'M GOING TO MAKE IT RIGHT TO YOU. 02:29:06.820 --> 02:29:12.460 I WILL SAY JUST SEND THEM AN EMAIL BECAUSE MAYBE THAT IS WHAT YOU NEED TO HEAR BUT YOU 02:29:12.460 --> 02:29:17.950 NEED TO HEAR BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY BECAUSE IT'S A BAD SITUATION BUT WE ARE UNDER SIEGE. 02:29:17.950 --> 02:29:24.780 THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE UNDER SIEGE AND WE FELT THIS WAY BACK IN 04 AND WE ALL KNOW WHAT 02:29:24.780 --> 02:29:29.450 THE OUTCOME FROM THAT WAS, IT WASN'T GOOD, NOT FOR ANY OF US. 02:29:29.450 --> 02:29:34.220 PLEASE WEIGH THIS FOR YOU SET PRECEDENTS WHEN YOU ARE SITTING UP THERE. 02:29:34.220 --> 02:29:39.779 HE DIDN'T DO IT, YOU ARE A NEWER BOARD WITH OLDER BOARD DID A LOT OF DAMAGE IN DIFFERENT 02:29:39.779 --> 02:29:45.529 AREAS SO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. 02:29:45.529 --> 02:29:49.060 >> VICE LIERMAN RENO FERRI AND WAIT ONE SECOND. 02:29:49.060 --> 02:29:55.119 WE HAVE A COUPLE OF NONSPEAKING CARDS COMMISSIONER WEISS WILL READ INTO THE RECORD. 02:29:55.119 --> 02:30:00.359 >> Gregg Weiss: RECEIVED FIVE NON SPEAKING CARDS. 02:30:00.359 --> 02:30:08.930 THEY SUPPORT THE ANNEXATION, THE CARDS ARE MARKED THAT THEY OPPOSE. 02:30:08.930 --> 02:30:15.580 SOME OPPOSE, SOME SUPPORT FOR ALL OF THEM SUPPORT THE ANNEXATION SO WE HAVE MARJORIE, 02:30:15.580 --> 02:30:27.449 ARLENE, KATE LEONARD, LISA IT LOOKS LIKE BILL AND KEITH. 02:30:27.449 --> 02:30:28.540 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 02:30:28.540 --> 02:30:30.409 VICE MAYOR MARINO. 02:30:30.409 --> 02:30:41.149 >> Maria Marino: I THINK I AM ON RECORD SAYING I APPRECIATE WHEN THE VOTERS ARE THE ONES 02:30:41.149 --> 02:30:42.149 DECIDING THIS. 02:30:42.149 --> 02:30:48.979 I SAID THE SAME THINGS IN GARDENING QUESTION NUMBER ONE IN GARDNER WHICH WAS A LARGE ANNEXATION 02:30:48.979 --> 02:30:57.960 IS PROBABLY GOING TO NOT PASS BUT WE ARE LEAVING IT UP TO THE VOTERS TO DECIDE. 02:30:57.960 --> 02:31:00.689 BELIEVE IN THIS INSTANCE WE SHOULD DO THE SAME THING. 02:31:00.689 --> 02:31:03.850 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU. 02:31:03.850 --> 02:31:04.850 COMMISSIONER BERNARD? 02:31:04.850 --> 02:31:09.479 >> Mack Bernard: THANK YOU VERY MUCH MADAME MAYOR. 02:31:09.479 --> 02:31:16.939 I DON'T SUPPORT INITIATING THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCEDURES. 02:31:16.939 --> 02:31:29.020 THE RESIDENTS CAME HERE AND THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF WELLINGTON AND THE INTENT RESIDENTS 02:31:29.020 --> 02:31:37.560 AND VOTERS SHOULD SUPERSEDE WHATEVER WE DECIDE HERE WHEN WE RUN FOR OFFICE WE SUPPORT THE 02:31:37.560 --> 02:31:48.670 PROPERTY LOOK GREAT OVER RESIDENTS, OUR LANDOWNERS AND IF THEY SUPPORTED IF IT PASSES WE SHOULD 02:31:48.670 --> 02:31:58.510 ADHERE TO THEIR WISHES AND IN REGARD TO THE PRESIDENT ISSUE. 02:31:58.510 --> 02:32:05.680 IF THE NEXT TIME IT COMES UP WE ARE NOT BOUND BY WHATEVER WE DECIDE TODAY AND IF WE WANT 02:32:05.680 --> 02:32:08.580 TO CHALLENGE IT WE WILL CHALLENGE IT. 02:32:08.580 --> 02:32:14.010 I THINK THAT THIS ISSUE SHOULD LET THE VOTERS DECIDED NOT INITIATE THIS CONFLICT RESOLUTION. 02:32:14.010 --> 02:32:17.240 >> Maria Sachs: THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER BERNARD. 02:32:17.240 --> 02:32:22.739 ME OF COMMISSIONER BARNETT. 02:32:22.739 --> 02:32:23.739 >> THANK YOU. 02:32:23.739 --> 02:32:25.370 I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. 02:32:25.370 --> 02:32:29.880 I HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD FOR A LITTLE OVER A YEAR. 02:32:29.880 --> 02:32:31.920 STILL NEW. 02:32:31.920 --> 02:32:39.630 MAYBE NOT THAT NEW PEABODY DON'T UNDERSTAND EVERY SINGLE ASPECT. 02:32:39.630 --> 02:32:42.560 MAYBE YOU CAN HELPED ME. 02:32:42.560 --> 02:32:47.891 WE HEARD FOLKS COME HERE TALKING ABOUT PLEASE ALLOW US TO VOTE. 02:32:47.891 --> 02:32:52.670 LET SAR PEACE AND SPEAKER VOICE MARCH 19. 02:32:52.670 --> 02:33:01.420 IF THE BOARD PASSES THE RESOLUTION TO INITIATE THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCEDURES, THE WILL 02:33:01.420 --> 02:33:03.830 THAT AFFECT THE ELECTION? 02:33:03.830 --> 02:33:08.590 THE REFERENDUM IS STILL ON THE BALLOT. 02:33:08.590 --> 02:33:12.590 >> THE REFERENDUM WOULD GO FORWARD. 02:33:12.590 --> 02:33:23.330 >> ADVOCATES THE POINT THE COURTS DECISION WOULD CONTROL REGARDLESS OF THE VOTE. 02:33:23.330 --> 02:33:33.529 >> IF THE REFERENDUM DOES NOT PASS DOES THE ISSUE BECOME MOOT AS THEY SAY IN THE BOARD 02:33:33.529 --> 02:33:35.760 WOULDN'T NEED TO INITIATE. 02:33:35.760 --> 02:33:46.760 >> LET'S SAY THE BOARD INITIATES, THE VOTE FAILS IT IS MOOT FOR THERE'S NO CONFLICT SPOKE 02:33:46.760 --> 02:33:53.330 IF THE RESOLUTION DOES PASS, IF THE REFERENDUM PASSES THIS IS BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS 02:33:53.330 --> 02:34:00.560 TO LOVE THE ABILITY TO INITIATE CONFLICT RESOLUTION AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE RESULT OF THE VOTE! 02:34:00.560 --> 02:34:08.779 WE ARE LEGALLY BOUND TO INITIATE THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCESS WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE PASSAGE 02:34:08.779 --> 02:34:11.520 THE ANNEXATION ORDINANCE. 02:34:11.520 --> 02:34:19.260 THAT EXPIRES LETTUCE FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE VOTE. 02:34:19.260 --> 02:34:27.300 WE CANNOT WAIT TO INITIATE THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION PROCESS. 02:34:27.300 --> 02:34:36.210 WAS IN THE LETTER OFF TO THE VILLAGE IMMEDIATELY THEREAFTER. 02:34:36.210 --> 02:34:41.359 >> IF THE RESOLUTION PASSES WHAT HAPPENS? 02:34:41.359 --> 02:34:48.520 >> IT IS ANNEXED IN THE TOWN WOULD THEN GO AHEAD AND TAKE CARE OF IT LAND USE AND ZONING 02:34:48.520 --> 02:34:50.450 FOR THE PROPERTY. 02:34:50.450 --> 02:34:57.080 THE ANNEXATION WOULD BE EFFECTIVE IN DECEMBER AND THE PROPERTY WOULD EFFECTIVELY BE IN THE 02:34:57.080 --> 02:34:59.910 MUNICIPALITY AT THAT TIME. 02:34:59.910 --> 02:35:00.910 >> THANK YOU. 02:35:00.910 --> 02:35:06.479 THE LAST TIME THIS CAME TO US I WAS THE ONLY ONE VOTED NOT TO OPPOSE. 02:35:06.479 --> 02:35:10.149 I DON'T SEE ANY REASON TO CHANGE MY POSITION NOW. 02:35:10.149 --> 02:35:11.149 >> COMMISSIONER BARNETT. 02:35:11.149 --> 02:35:13.280 AND COMMISSIONER WEISS. 02:35:13.280 --> 02:35:19.050 >> APPRECIATE EVERYBODY COMING OUT AND SPEAKING. 02:35:19.050 --> 02:35:20.481 WANT TO THANK YOU DARREN AND STAFF. 02:35:20.481 --> 02:35:30.930 FIRST OFF I WANT TO PUT ON THE RECORD I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THIS. 02:35:30.930 --> 02:35:40.340 I SUPPORT STAFFS INTIMIDATION THAT THIS IS A NON-URBANIZED AREA. 02:35:40.340 --> 02:35:47.609 I ACTUALLY WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THE THAT IN THE CASE IT DOES NOT MEET THE STANDARD 02:35:47.609 --> 02:35:49.910 OUR ATTORNEY LAYS OUT FOR US. 02:35:49.910 --> 02:35:57.530 I APPRECIATE YOUR INTERPRETATION REPRESENTING THE VILLAGE, BUT I WHOLEHEARTEDLY DISAGREE 02:35:57.530 --> 02:36:03.720 THAT I MET THE STATUTE WOULD ON THE OTHER HAND LISTENING TO THE COLLEAGUES, ESPECIALLY 02:36:03.720 --> 02:36:09.520 TO THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER AND WHERE SHE HAS COME DOWN ON THIS. 02:36:09.520 --> 02:36:14.479 I BELIEVE I DEFER IN THIS CASE TO HER JUDGMENT. 02:36:14.479 --> 02:36:20.990 SHE'S CLOSEST TO THE RESIDENTS OUT THERE AND I HEARD FROM THE RESIDENTS TODAY THAT I WILL 02:36:20.990 --> 02:36:30.910 GO AHEAD AND SUPPORTER WISHES THAT THIS MOVE FORWARD TO THE VOTERS WITHOUT TAKING UP, IF 02:36:30.910 --> 02:36:38.570 I'M GOING TO GET THIS RIGHT THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION AT. 02:36:38.570 --> 02:36:41.060 >> IS THAT A MOTION? 02:36:41.060 --> 02:36:42.640 OKAY. 02:36:42.640 --> 02:36:46.800 WELL, COMMISSIONER BAXTER YOU ARE ON. 02:36:46.800 --> 02:36:56.460 >> I'M GOING TO MAKE THE MOTION TO DENY THAT WE INTEND TO INITIATE THE CONFLICT RESOLUTION. 02:36:56.460 --> 02:37:02.940 WE ARE NOT GOING TO INITIATE IT WILL LET THE VOTERS VOTE AND GO FROM THERE! 02:37:02.940 --> 02:37:08.830 THAT IS THE FIRST, WE HAVE A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BERNARD. 02:37:08.830 --> 02:37:10.880 ALL OF THOSE FOR IT? 02:37:10.880 --> 02:37:12.779 ANYBODY OPPOSED? 02:37:12.779 --> 02:37:14.460 SEE THAT IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 02:37:14.460 --> 02:37:19.899 THANK YOU VERY MUCH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN FOR COMING TODAY AND EXPRESSING YOUR OPINIONS 02:37:19.899 --> 02:37:27.330 TO READ WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD IF IT IS OKAY WITH MY COLLEAGUES ON THE LAST TWO? 02:37:27.330 --> 02:37:28.689 IT'S OKAY? 02:37:28.689 --> 02:37:29.920 VERY GOOD. 02:37:29.920 --> 02:37:36.920 FORGET RIGHT DOWN TO THE OTHER ONE RECOGNIZE WE HAVE AN UNEXPECTED GUEST JOINING US TODAY 02:37:36.920 --> 02:37:42.399 IN THESE PRESENTLY IN THE LAP OF COMMISSIONER WOODWARD. 02:37:42.399 --> 02:37:54.351 DO YOU WANT TO SHOW THE CAMERA WHAT YOU BROUGHT TODAY AND A LITTLE STORY OF THIS GUY. 02:37:54.351 --> 02:38:01.390 THIS IS A RESCUE FROM ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL AND HE WANTS TO JOIN THE COMMISSION AS SOON 02:38:01.390 --> 02:38:03.940 AS HE CAN VOTE. 02:38:03.940 --> 02:38:12.359 THANKS FOR COMMISSIONER WOODWARD FOR FOSTERING AND WE WILL TAKE BIDS LATER ANYONE WHO WANTS 02:38:12.359 --> 02:38:13.909 TO FIND THEM A FOREVER HOME. 02:38:13.909 --> 02:38:17.550 >> Mack Bernard: MADAM MAYOR, WE WILL LET THE PAWS DECIDE. 02:38:17.550 --> 02:38:22.020 >> Maria Sachs: THAT WAS GOOD. 02:38:22.020 --> 02:38:26.760 A LITTLE LEVITY BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT PROJECT. 02:38:26.760 --> 02:38:32.840 WERE GOING TO MOVE RATHER QUICKLY BECAUSE IT IS GETTING CLOSE TO LUNCHTIME. 02:38:32.840 --> 02:38:35.351 GOOD TO SEE YOU. 02:38:35.351 --> 02:38:44.510 FOR THE RECORD, WE ARE NOW ON 5B1 ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR 02:38:44.510 --> 02:38:46.329 FROM STEP. 02:38:46.329 --> 02:38:51.479 >> DEBORAH, DIRECTOR OF PALM BEACH COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT HERE TODAY 02:38:51.479 --> 02:39:00.000 WITH MIKE THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR WE ARE HERE TO TALK ABOUT 5B1 AND 5B2 ARE VERY SIMILAR. 02:39:00.000 --> 02:39:08.130 NEAR BOTH RATIFYING THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY RESTORATION SERVICES 02:39:08.130 --> 02:39:12.330 TO TWO LOCATIONS IN THE COUNTY PERTINENT WITH QUITE A SEASON THE BEACH EROSION. 02:39:12.330 --> 02:39:18.620 DO MY BEST TO KEEP YOU ALL INFORMED VIA EMAIL UPDATES ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR BEACHES, 02:39:18.620 --> 02:39:24.511 BUT WE WANTED TO COME AND GIVE YOU A MORE COMPREHENSIVE LOOK TODAY ON THE ISSUES AND 02:39:24.511 --> 02:39:31.520 WE ARE VERY LUCKY TO HAVE MIKE ON STAFF VISIT 20 VERY VETERAN AND A RESIDENT BEACH EXPERT. 02:39:31.520 --> 02:39:37.470 HE MANAGED THE PROGRAM FOR MANY YEARS LEADING UP TO HIS POSITION AS DEPUTY DIRECTOR SO HE 02:39:37.470 --> 02:39:43.350 IS GOING TO WALK US THROUGH THE SLIDES. 02:39:43.350 --> 02:39:48.189 >> YOUR RECOGNIZE WHAT GOOD AFTERNOON AMERICA BY SMEAR COMMENTS COMMISSION AS AN ADMINISTRATOR 02:39:48.189 --> 02:39:49.189 THEY COULD. 02:39:49.189 --> 02:39:53.480 THIS WILL BE A BRIEF PRESENTATION THAT GIVES YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THE COASTAL MANAGEMENT 02:39:53.480 --> 02:39:58.840 PROGRAM AND SPECIFICALLY SPEAKS TO THE TWO ITEMS THAT ARE UNDER YOUR CONSIDERATION THIS 02:39:58.840 --> 02:40:02.010 AFTERNOON. 02:40:02.010 --> 02:40:07.630 COASTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, THE QUESTION COMES UP WHAT DETERMINES A PUBLICLY FUNDED BEACH 02:40:07.630 --> 02:40:12.069 PROJECT AND THERE ARE 3K CRITERIA THAT WE USE. 02:40:12.069 --> 02:40:17.530 DATA TO BE DESIGNATED AS CRITICALLY ERODED BY THE STATE. 02:40:17.530 --> 02:40:28.479 BASICALLY WHAT THAT MEANS IS ESTATE DESIGNATION FOR BEACHES IN WHICH IS A THREAT OR LOST UPLAND 02:40:28.479 --> 02:40:31.670 DEVELOPMENT, MIGRATION, WILDLIFE HABITAT OR CULTURAL RESOURCES. 02:40:31.670 --> 02:40:36.120 YOU MAY HAVE THIS TOSSED AROUND. 02:40:36.120 --> 02:40:41.399 IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THERE IS A BEACH SPECIFICALLY ERODED AND THREATENING ANYTHING 02:40:41.399 --> 02:40:46.750 AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME THERE IT IS JUST A DESIGNATION THAT ALLOWS IT TO BE ELIGIBLE 02:40:46.750 --> 02:40:53.120 FOR STATE FUNDING BASED ON SOME OF THE VULNERABILITIES ENLISTED. 02:40:53.120 --> 02:41:00.290 IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR STATE OR COUNTY FUNDING THE PROPOSED PROJECT MUST HAVE PUBLIC ACCESS. 02:41:00.290 --> 02:41:08.000 IT IS ADEQUATE PARKING WITHIN A ONE QUARTER MILE WALKING DISTANCE OF A PUBLIC ACCESS ALLOWS 02:41:08.000 --> 02:41:15.681 FOR PUBLIC FUNDING TO BE SPENT HALF A MILE ALONG EITHER CITED THAT PARK. 02:41:15.681 --> 02:41:22.540 IN LOS CRITERIA CRITICAL RESOURCES READILY PROJECT BEING CONSIDERED AS STEPS AND PROVEN 02:41:22.540 --> 02:41:29.479 BENEFIT TO THE CRITICAL RESOURCES WE ARE ASSIGNED TO PROTECT WITH HER THAT A SEA TURTLE NESTING 02:41:29.479 --> 02:41:35.569 HABITAT, NEARSHORE HARDBOTTOM OF SURE CORAL REEFS. 02:41:35.569 --> 02:41:40.490 IS OUR PROGRAM HAS THREE MAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. 02:41:40.490 --> 02:41:49.990 SANTOS UNNATURAL MIGRATION FROM NORTH TO SOUTH THE INLETS ARE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO 02:41:49.990 --> 02:41:56.529 THE FIRST TOOL THAT WE USE AS INLET BY PASSING THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHERE THEY ARE OFFSETTING 02:41:56.529 --> 02:42:04.250 THE SAND THAT GETS HELD UP DUE TO OUR INLETS UNTIL ALL FOUR HAVE STATE APPROVED INLET MANAGEMENT 02:42:04.250 --> 02:42:11.080 PLANS AND THOSE PLANS STIPULATE THE AMOUNT OF SAND THAT HAS TO BE BYPASSED AROUND THE 02:42:11.080 --> 02:42:18.620 INLET AND THAT CAN BE DONE TO RAISE AND TRANSFER PLAN OR DREDGING OF AN INLET ST. 02:42:18.620 --> 02:42:24.351 TROPEZ JUPITER IN THE AS WELL AS BOCA INLET. 02:42:24.351 --> 02:42:31.040 THE NEXT TO BE OF A SPEECH NOURISHMENT, LARGER SASAN PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES BUT IT IS THE MOST 02:42:31.040 --> 02:42:33.240 EFFICIENT, MOST COST-EFFECTIVE. 02:42:33.240 --> 02:42:38.069 THESE ARE LARGE PROJECTS USUALLY ON THE ORDER 100 MILLION CUBIC YARDS PER THE SAND IS IDENTIFIED 02:42:38.069 --> 02:42:40.270 FROM AN OFFSHORE BORROW AREA. 02:42:40.270 --> 02:42:49.460 IT'S PUMPED UP ONTO THE BEACH FOR THE INTENT OF THE PROJECT IS TO WIDEN THE BEACH SO A 02:42:49.460 --> 02:42:56.770 LOT OF TIMES IT WILL HEAR TERMS LIKE A TOSSED AROUND THAT ARE INTERCHANGEABLE BUT THEY ARE 02:42:56.770 --> 02:43:01.680 VERY DIFFERENT BEACH NOURISHMENT AND RESTORATION ARE TWO TYPES OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS. 02:43:01.680 --> 02:43:06.350 BEACH NOURISHMENT IS ONE THAT WOULD WIDEN THE BEACH. 02:43:06.350 --> 02:43:14.359 WE CAN'T DO BEACH NOURISHMENT IT'S ONLY OF CRITICAL OFFSHORE RESOURCES THAT I DON'T KNOW 02:43:14.359 --> 02:43:20.370 IF YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE PICTURE THE BEACH NOURISHMENT, NOT ANOTHER ONE FURTHER IN THE 02:43:20.370 --> 02:43:21.820 SLIDES. 02:43:21.820 --> 02:43:27.149 THE NEARSHORE HARD BOTTOM IS A FEDERALLY PROTECTED HABITAT AND SO ANYTIME THERE IS IMPACT OR 02:43:27.149 --> 02:43:33.660 BURIAL OF THE HABITAT IT HAS TO BE AVOIDED, MINIMIZED OR MITIGATED TO FOUR. 02:43:33.660 --> 02:43:40.270 WHEN WE CAN'T MITIGATE THE NEARSHORE HARD BOTTOM THE NEXT OPTION WE HAVE A STUDENT RESTORATION 02:43:40.270 --> 02:43:45.370 AND THAT IS THE SAME PLACEMENT OCCURS IN MUCH SMALLER VOLUMES BUT NONE OF THE SAND IS PLACED 02:43:45.370 --> 02:43:51.740 BELOW THE MEAN WATERLINE PORTAL THAT IS PLACED IN A DUNE FUTURE. 02:43:51.740 --> 02:44:02.029 AND IT IS ESSENTIALLY ACTING AS A SACRIFICIAL SAM BERM PLANT OF A DUNE RESTORATION ON THE 02:44:02.029 --> 02:44:08.779 OPTION OF LAST RESORT IS ENGINEERING EROSION CONTROL STRUCTURES SPIRIT WHEN HE CAN'T DO 02:44:08.779 --> 02:44:17.050 BEACH NOURISHMENT WHEN DUNE RESTORATION IS NO LONGER EFFECTIVELY LOOK AT ENGINEERED ALTERNATIVES 02:44:17.050 --> 02:44:21.720 TO THE EXTENT THE LAST LONGER THAN ALL THE PROJECTS BUT THEY ARE ALSO VERY EXPENSIVE. 02:44:21.720 --> 02:44:30.330 THEY ARE HARD TO PERMIT THE REGULATORY AGENCIES THE, THAT POST CONSTRUCTION RESPONSIBILITIES 02:44:30.330 --> 02:44:39.580 AND OBLIGATIONS IN ORDER TO OFFSET OR MINIMIZE IMPACTS LIKE I WAS SAYING BEFORE, SEND MOVES 02:44:39.580 --> 02:44:44.550 FROM NORTH TO SOUTH SO IF YOU PUT ANY SORT OF STRUCTURE IT'S GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT 02:44:44.550 --> 02:44:49.730 ON THOSE BEACHES. 02:44:49.730 --> 02:44:56.939 COUNTYWIDE BEACHES FUNDING A SPLIT BETWEEN FOUR DIFFERENT ENTITIES OR CATEGORIES OF ENTITIES. 02:44:56.939 --> 02:45:03.450 AND FEDERAL PARTNERS IN THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND FEMA THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS OUR PROJECTS 02:45:03.450 --> 02:45:10.729 ARE WHAT THEY ARE CALLED STORM RISK MANAGEMENT PROJECTS AND THOSE ARE PRESENT 22 PERCENT 02:45:10.729 --> 02:45:18.650 OF THE COUNTY ANNUAL COSTS PROJECT SPEED THE STATUS OF FUNDING PARTNER 35 PERCENT AND THAT 02:45:18.650 --> 02:45:23.200 IS DONE TO THE STATE MANAGEMENT FUNDING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 02:45:23.200 --> 02:45:29.529 22 PERCENT OF A MUNICIPAL FUNDING THROUGH NUMEROUS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENTS COASTAL MUNICIPALITIES 02:45:29.529 --> 02:45:35.040 AND 20 PERCENT THAT IS PALM BEACH COUNTY FUNDING BUT THAT IS NOT AD VALOREM FUNDING FOR THE 02:45:35.040 --> 02:45:43.859 FUNDS COME THROUGH THAT BED TAXES, THE TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL. 02:45:43.859 --> 02:45:48.510 MOVING TO ITEM 5B1, THE CORAL COVE PROJECT. 02:45:48.510 --> 02:45:53.960 THIS IS A DUNE RESTORATION PROJECT THAT IS A HISTORY. 02:45:53.960 --> 02:46:00.939 YOU CAN SEE TODAY THERE BEEN SEVEN DUNE RESTORATION PROJECTS FOR A TOTAL OF 161,000 TOTAL SHIPYARDS 02:46:00.939 --> 02:46:05.680 THAT ARE IN PLACE ARE. 02:46:05.680 --> 02:46:13.130 IN 2023 THERE IS ANOTHER EMERGENCY DUNE RESTORATION THAT TOOK PLACE AND THE MOST RECENT SLIDESHOWS 02:46:13.130 --> 02:46:18.700 OF PHOTOS OF WHAT OCCURRED BEGINNING IN NOVEMBER OF 2023. 02:46:18.700 --> 02:46:26.750 WITH A MULTIPLE FRONTAL EVENTS THAT RESULTED IN HIGH SEAS THOSE IMPACTED OUR BEACHES. 02:46:26.750 --> 02:46:32.680 THE COMPARISON TO THE TOP PHOTOS AND BOTTOM PHOTOS. 02:46:32.680 --> 02:46:40.530 BOTH OF THEM ARE SIMILAR PERSPECTIVES. 02:46:40.530 --> 02:46:49.640 SAND FROM OUR DUNES CAN BE ERODED IT HELPS TO FACILITATE THE NATURAL RECOVERY OF THE 02:46:49.640 --> 02:46:50.640 BEACH. 02:46:50.640 --> 02:46:54.220 IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP PHOTO COULD SEE WERE THE BEACH WAS ERODED AND IT WAS IMPACTING 02:46:54.220 --> 02:47:01.840 THE DUNES BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM PHOTO YOU CAN SEE THE NATURAL RECOVERY IS 02:47:01.840 --> 02:47:06.200 OCCURRED. 02:47:06.200 --> 02:47:13.130 CAN ACTUALLY CONDUCT THE DUNE RESTORATION ON. 02:47:13.130 --> 02:47:16.760 . THE OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT PROJECT. 02:47:16.760 --> 02:47:25.560 IT STARTED ON FEBRUARY 27, 2024 44,200 TONS OF SAND. 02:47:25.560 --> 02:47:30.979 THE ANTICIPATED COMPLETION IS IN MID MARCH. 02:47:30.979 --> 02:47:39.270 THE IMPORTANCE BEING THIS DONE AT THIS STAGE IS ANY COASTAL PROJECTS HAVE A LIMITED CONSTRUCTION 02:47:39.270 --> 02:47:41.859 WINDOW BECAUSE A SEA TURTLE NESTING SEASON. 02:47:41.859 --> 02:47:49.510 WE HAD TO MOVE QUICKLY TO PROTECT THE PARK INFRASTRUCTURE AND ADDRESS HAZARDS TO THE 02:47:49.510 --> 02:47:58.710 PUBLIC BECAUSE OF THE HIGH AND STEEP SANK WITH SET UP AND LEFT. 02:47:58.710 --> 02:48:06.130 THIS IS A SET OF UPDATED PHOTOS. 02:48:06.130 --> 02:48:11.480 THE PHOTO ON THE RIGHT SHOWS WHAT THE RESTORED DUNE LOOKS LIKE. 02:48:11.480 --> 02:48:19.210 PLANTING THE DUNE WITH NATIVE VEGETATION. 02:48:19.210 --> 02:48:25.920 THEY ACTUALLY HELPED TO BIND THE SCIENCE AND THE DUNE AND HELP WITH FURTHER RESILIENCE 02:48:25.920 --> 02:48:31.050 AGAINST FUTURE STORM IMPACTS. 02:48:31.050 --> 02:48:35.210 MOVING ONTO 5B2 THIS IS A SINGER ISLAND PROJECT. 02:48:35.210 --> 02:48:39.140 THIS ONE HAS A BIT MORE COMPLICATED HISTORY. 02:48:39.140 --> 02:48:44.040 IS 15 DUNE RESTORATION PROJECTS THAT OCCURRED. 02:48:44.040 --> 02:48:50.200 TO PREVIOUS EMERGENCY RESTORATIONS, ONE IN 2007 AND 2003. 02:48:50.200 --> 02:48:57.180 SO FAR 1100 50,000 TONS OF SAND BEEN PLACED IN THE DUNES ALONG SINGER ISLAND. 02:48:57.180 --> 02:49:01.080 ACOSTA 19.$2 MILLION. 02:49:01.080 --> 02:49:08.770 BETWEEN 1993 IN 2011 FIRM EVALUATED AND PURSUED REGULATORY PERMITS FOR A MORE PERMANENT ENGINEERED 02:49:08.770 --> 02:49:12.680 EROSION CONTROL ALTERNATIVES. 02:49:12.680 --> 02:49:19.660 THIS IS A PHOTO I WAS REFERRING TO WERE TO SEE THE DARK PATCHES OF THE WATER ALONG THE 02:49:19.660 --> 02:49:22.520 SHORELINE THAT IS THE NEARSHORE HARDBOTTOM. 02:49:22.520 --> 02:49:27.939 THE FEDERALLY PROTECTED HABITAT WE CANNOT COVER WITH THE BEACH NOURISHMENT. 02:49:27.939 --> 02:49:36.250 LIPID MANAGEMENT DUNE RESTORATIONS FOR SO LONG. 02:49:36.250 --> 02:49:45.181 THE STATE AND THE FEDERAL REGULATORY AGENCIES CANNOT AGREE THAT WE FELT THAT THE PROJECT 02:49:45.181 --> 02:49:52.899 OBJECTIVES AND ULTIMATELY IN MAY 2011 THE BCC GIVE DIRECTION TO TERMINATE EFFORTS TO 02:49:52.899 --> 02:49:58.790 SEEK PERMITS FOR BREAKWATERS AND TO CONTINUE DUNE RESTORATION ON SINGER ISLAND. 02:49:58.790 --> 02:50:07.050 SHORTLY AFTER THAT WITH IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE SANDY MANY THE PRIVATE PROPERTIES 02:50:07.050 --> 02:50:13.040 OUT THERE MOVE FORWARD WITH CONSTRUCTING PRIVATE SEAWALLS. 02:50:13.040 --> 02:50:20.330 RIGHT NOW THE PROJECT AREA OF SINGER ISLAND, FOR THE 16 PROPERTIES IN THE MOST HEAVILY 02:50:20.330 --> 02:50:26.350 IMPACTED AREA DO NOT HAVE SEAWALLS BEEN FOR FIVE OF THEM MOVE FORWARD WITH CONSTRUCTION 02:50:26.350 --> 02:50:34.260 AFTER HURRICANE SANDY SO THAT LEAVES FOR THEM THAT ARE VULNERABLE. 02:50:34.260 --> 02:50:43.650 ARE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES IN REFERENCE MANY OF THESE BUT PERSISTENT EROSIONS, THE CHALLENGES, 02:50:43.650 --> 02:50:48.810 SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT ON TOP OF THE NATIVE DUNE SYSTEM AND AN INCREASING NUMBER SEAWALLS 02:50:48.810 --> 02:50:55.080 AND CONSTRUCTION THAT HAVE LIMITED CONSTRUCTION ACCESS BUT EXTENSIVE HIGH QUALITY NEARSHORE 02:50:55.080 --> 02:51:01.319 RESOURCES AND HIGH SEA TURTLE NESTING DENSITY IN THE AREA. 02:51:01.319 --> 02:51:07.979 ONE OF THE NOTES I WANT TO SHOW THEM IN THESE TWO PHOTOS YOU CAN SEE ALL CONSTRUCTION ACCESS 02:51:07.979 --> 02:51:15.720 CAN BE WHETHER IT IS A STAIRCASE COMING OFF PRIVATE PROPERTY OR WHETHER IT IS THE SEAWALLS 02:51:15.720 --> 02:51:20.140 BEEN CONSTRUCTED OUT THERE BUT WE AREN'T ABLE TO GET HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AROUND 02:51:20.140 --> 02:51:25.300 THE STRUCTURES. 02:51:25.300 --> 02:51:30.569 SO NOW TO THE MOST RECENT EROSION IMPACTS, THE SAME FRONTAL SYSTEMS THAT IMPACTED CORAL 02:51:30.569 --> 02:51:33.649 COVE IMPACTED SINGER ISLAND. 02:51:33.649 --> 02:51:40.729 THESE PHOTOS GIVE EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE IMPACTS LOOK LIKE FOR THE TOP LEFT PHOTO THERE IS 02:51:40.729 --> 02:51:48.170 A RED ARROW THE POINTS TO WHERE THE COUNTY CONSTRUCTION ACCESS EASEMENT IS TO FACILITATE 02:51:48.170 --> 02:51:54.250 THE DUNE RESTORATION PROJECTS IT WAS IMPERATIVE WE MOVE FORWARD AS QUICKLY AS WE COULD BECAUSE 02:51:54.250 --> 02:52:00.760 WE WERE IN THE POSITION WHERE WE WERE POTENTIALLY LOSING ACCESS TO THE BEACH AND ULTIMATELY 02:52:00.760 --> 02:52:06.540 THERE IS A SECTION THAT WE COULD NOT PLAY SEND MATERIAL BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE SAFE 02:52:06.540 --> 02:52:15.010 ACCESS AND THE CONTRACTOR CANNOT SAFELY OPERATE ON THE BEACH IN THE ZONE. 02:52:15.010 --> 02:52:21.950 AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE PROJECT LOOK LIKE THERE WAS A SAM PLACEMENT OF 47,000 TONS TOTAL 02:52:21.950 --> 02:52:28.310 CONSTRUCTION COST OF 2.5 $7 MILLION, CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN LATE NOVEMBER AS WE STARTED TO 02:52:28.310 --> 02:52:32.819 SEE THOSE IMPACTS AS AND WAS COMPLETED IN FEBRUARY. 02:52:32.819 --> 02:52:35.600 THEREFORE CONSTRUCTION ACCESS POINTS MOBILIZED. 02:52:35.600 --> 02:52:42.790 ONE WAS NOT UTILIZED DUE TO THE UNSAFE BEACH CONDITIONS FOR THE PROJECT AREA IS 1.2 TOTAL 02:52:42.790 --> 02:52:48.680 MILES IN LENGTH AND THE INITIAL COST IS 100 PERCENT ON THE COUNTY BUT WE WILL BE SEEKING 02:52:48.680 --> 02:52:52.170 50 PERCENT REIMBURSEMENT TO THE STATE PROGRAM. 02:52:52.170 --> 02:53:04.399 EVENT AN ACTIVE PLACEMENT WE ARE STILL DEALING WITH EROSION SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE UPPER 02:53:04.399 --> 02:53:12.110 LEFT PHOTO, A PERSPECTIVE FROM DECEMBER 1 AFTER WE COMPLETED THE DUNE RESTORATION IN 02:53:12.110 --> 02:53:17.479 ONE SECTION OF THE REGION A LITTLE OVER TWO WEEKS LATER YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE LOST THE 02:53:17.479 --> 02:53:22.940 MATERIAL AND LOST THE UPLAND RETAINING WALL. 02:53:22.940 --> 02:53:28.700 THIS WAS NOT A SEAWALL THAT STILL, THIS IS A RETAINING WALL THE PROPERTY HAD TO PROTECT 02:53:28.700 --> 02:53:36.940 SOME OF THE SWIMMING POOLS AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THEY HAD. 02:53:36.940 --> 02:53:42.859 AS A RESULT OF DEALING WITH THE CONDITIONS WE HAD TO TAKE A PAUSE, WAIT FOR THAT BEACH 02:53:42.859 --> 02:53:47.580 TO RECOVER AND REINITIATE THE SAME PLACEMENT ACTIVITIES. 02:53:47.580 --> 02:53:56.689 ULTIMATELY LEAVES THE COMPLETED PROJECT PUT UP NEXT LIKE OR ALL COVE WOULD REQUIRE THE 02:53:56.689 --> 02:54:03.110 PLANTING OF THE DUNE VEGETATION AND THEN ON THE LOWER RIGHT-HAND CORNER YOU CAN SEE THIS 02:54:03.110 --> 02:54:08.260 IS A PHOTO EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE THIS IS REPRESENTATIVE OF AN AREA WHERE WE 02:54:08.260 --> 02:54:11.821 COULD NOT PLAY SAND AS A RESULT OF THE SEAWALL AND STAIRS. 02:54:11.821 --> 02:54:23.140 IN CONCLUSION STAFF IS RECOMMENDED TO RATIFY BOTH OF THESE ITEMS, ONE FOR THE EMERGENCY 02:54:23.140 --> 02:54:28.080 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR CORAL COVE, THE OTHER IS FOR AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE OF THE EMERGENCY 02:54:28.080 --> 02:54:33.619 CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT YOU WILL BE SEEKING REIMBURSEMENT THROUGH THE STATES. 02:54:33.619 --> 02:54:37.209 >> Maria Sachs: VERY GOOD TO READ APPRECIATE THE STAFF REPORT. 02:54:37.209 --> 02:54:39.169 VICE MAYOR MARINO, YOU ARE RECOGNIZE. 02:54:39.169 --> 02:54:41.190 >> Maria Marino: THANK YOU. 02:54:41.190 --> 02:54:46.500 IS A COUNTY THAT HAS 47 MILES OF COASTLINE, THE NORTH END OF THE COUNTY IS WHERE WE UTMOST 02:54:46.500 --> 02:54:54.240 ASSESS TO BEACHES AND IT IS IMPERATIVE WE DO WHAT WE CAN TO SHORE UP THE BEACHES BUT 02:54:54.240 --> 02:55:01.930 NOT JUST FOR BEACH ACCESS BUT IT IS CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AS YOU SHOULD BUILDINGS THAT 02:55:01.930 --> 02:55:06.430 ARE ERODING AND YOU CAN SEE THE PARKING STRUCTURES, THE POLES AND WHATNOT. 02:55:06.430 --> 02:55:14.210 I HAD TO GO TO JUPITER INLET COLONY, MIKE, THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME UP THERE TO SEE A 02:55:14.210 --> 02:55:19.540 HOUSE THAT HAD NOT EVEN BEEN MOVED INTO YET THAT YOU CAN SEE THE SIX PILINGS UNDERNEATH 02:55:19.540 --> 02:55:26.530 THE HOUSE, THEY WERE EXPOSED DUE TO THE EROSION INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH THE HOUSE TO THE NORTH 02:55:26.530 --> 02:55:32.500 OF IT HAD GRANITE ROCKS AND THIS WAS A LONG TIME AGO THE GRANITE ROCKS WERE PUT IN PLACE 02:55:32.500 --> 02:55:37.370 NO ONE EVER KNEW THE ROCKS WERE THERE AS PART OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND RESILIENCE PROTECTION, 02:55:37.370 --> 02:55:48.010 BUT BECAUSE OF THE EROSION IN ALL THE DUNE IN THE SEAGRASS, USE ALL THESE GRANITE ROCKS. 02:55:48.010 --> 02:55:56.370 WHAT WE HAVE DONE PREVIOUSLY FOR A LONG TERM IS IMPORTANT AND I WOULD ASK EVERYONE HERE 02:55:56.370 --> 02:55:59.330 TO SUPPORT ITEMS 5B1, 5B2. 02:55:59.330 --> 02:56:05.689 OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO DO THEM SEPARATELY, BUT I WOULD MAKE THE MOTION WE DO THE EMERGENCY 02:56:05.689 --> 02:56:07.520 RATIFICATION PER 5B1. 02:56:07.520 --> 02:56:09.490 >> Maria Sachs: I AM JUST WONDERING. 02:56:09.490 --> 02:56:12.470 I'M ASKING OUR ATTORNEY CAN WE DO THEM TOGETHER? 02:56:12.470 --> 02:56:13.470 SEPARATE. 02:56:13.470 --> 02:56:14.470 OKAY. 02:56:14.470 --> 02:56:19.370 I WOULD TAKE THAT VICE MAYOR THAT YOU ARE MOVING TO. 02:56:19.370 --> 02:56:23.320 >> Maria Marino: MOTION TO RATIFY 5B1. 02:56:23.320 --> 02:56:30.649 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER WOODWARD, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED AS P6 I DO SUPPORT MOVING THIS 02:56:30.649 --> 02:56:38.069 FORWARD BREAK MY QUESTION WAS IN 2011 WHEN THE BOARD VOTED TO TERMINATE THE EFFORTS, 02:56:38.069 --> 02:56:45.160 IT HAS BEEN 13 YEARS BUT HAS THERE BEEN ANY CHANGE IN THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL TO HELP 02:56:45.160 --> 02:56:46.979 US WITH THIS PERMITTING? 02:56:46.979 --> 02:56:52.880 WE HAVE 13 YEARS EVIDENCE THAT SOMETHING MORE SUBSTANTIAL NEEDS TO BE DONE INSTEAD A CONTINUED 02:56:52.880 --> 02:56:53.880 RESTORATION. 02:56:53.880 --> 02:56:58.229 TO BE NO, HAVE ATTITUDES CHANGED AT ALL BUT THERE'S BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE FEDERAL REGULATORY 02:56:58.229 --> 02:57:07.620 ISSUES CREATING OBSTACLES TO WHAT WE DEALT WITH WAS THE FACT THE SEA TURTLE NESTING HABITAT 02:57:07.620 --> 02:57:14.080 ASSOCIATED WITH THE STRUCTURES AND THAT IS NOT CHANGE WHAT IS CHANGED OUT THERE IS A 02:57:14.080 --> 02:57:18.979 CONDITION SO WE AGREED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE CONDITIONS AND SEE IF THERE ARE ANY PREVENTABLE 02:57:18.979 --> 02:57:22.190 OPTIONS OUT THERE. 02:57:22.190 --> 02:57:29.700 WE'VE TAKEN MANY LOOKS AT IT, MANY DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF IT BUT WE'VE NOT SEEN THESE 02:57:29.700 --> 02:57:34.490 CONDITIONS AT THE NUMBER OF SEAWALLS OUT THERE NOW INCLUDE UNLIMITED TEXTING HABITAT THAT 02:57:34.490 --> 02:57:38.170 EXISTS CURRENTLY SALUTE DO WANT TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT. 02:57:38.170 --> 02:57:44.819 >> Maria Sachs: VERY GOOD WITH THANK YOU BUT I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU 02:57:44.819 --> 02:57:45.819 ARE DOING. 02:57:45.819 --> 02:57:46.939 THIS IS A BIG DEAL. 02:57:46.939 --> 02:57:51.140 THIS IS PART OF WHO WE ARE AS A COUNTY. 02:57:51.140 --> 02:57:57.670 THESE SHORES ARE SO IMPORTANT TO US. 02:57:57.670 --> 02:58:02.600 ABILITY APPRECIATE VERY MUCH WHAT YOU DO. 02:58:02.600 --> 02:58:06.229 KNOW I HAVE A SECOND. 02:58:06.229 --> 02:58:07.540 WE DO HAVE A CARD. 02:58:07.540 --> 02:58:09.479 TO BE HAVE A CARD. 02:58:09.479 --> 02:58:20.800 >> Gregg Weiss: ALEXANDRIA LARSON? 02:58:20.800 --> 02:58:26.790 >> I GREW UP HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I WASN'T AUDITOR AND I WAS HERE EVERY SUMMER MY WHOLE 02:58:26.790 --> 02:58:32.609 LIFE THE ONE THING I SAW WAS BEACH EROSION AND I HAPPENED TO BE BLESSED TO LIVE NEAR 02:58:32.609 --> 02:58:37.860 HOLLYWOOD FLORIDA AND THEY HAVE A BEACH THERE YOU KNOW WHY? 02:58:37.860 --> 02:58:42.570 THEY ALWAYS GRADE THEIR BEACHES AFTER THEY DO ANYTHING THEY GRADE THEM EVERY MORNING. 02:58:42.570 --> 02:58:47.149 THEY TAKE A BIG BAR AND GRADE THE BEACHES BUT IT'S ONE THING I NOTICED WHEN I MOVED 02:58:47.149 --> 02:58:52.899 TO PALM BEACH COUNTY THAT THEY DIDN'T DO IT THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL WHO FELL INTO A HOLE, 02:58:52.899 --> 02:58:59.290 THAT WAS A BEACH RESTORATION AREA. 02:58:59.290 --> 02:59:04.920 WE LOOK AT OUR BARRIER ISLANDS BECAUSE SINGER ISLAND IS A BARRIER ISLAND WITH THE CALL THAT 02:59:04.920 --> 02:59:13.189 A BARRIER ISLAND AND IT WAS MOM AND POP HOTELS AND MOTELS BUT NOT THE GIANT CONDOS THERE 02:59:13.189 --> 02:59:16.729 NOW. 02:59:16.729 --> 02:59:22.271 THEY WERE BUILT LATER ON IN THE ONE THING ABOUT BEACH FREE NOURISHMENT AND REJUVENATION 02:59:22.271 --> 02:59:28.120 AS THE WIND DOES IT BUT WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A 50 STORY BUILDING OUT THERE THE WIND WILL 02:59:28.120 --> 02:59:29.710 DO ITS JOB. 02:59:29.710 --> 02:59:35.649 THIS BLOCKED BY THE BUILDING SO THEY CAN DO THEIR JOB AND HERE YOU ARE SPENDING A LOT 02:59:35.649 --> 02:59:36.649 OF MONEY. 02:59:36.649 --> 02:59:43.430 I WAS HERE IN 2011 AND THE RULES DON'T CHANGE AND WE ARE NOT GETTING ANY BETTER, IT'S GETTING 02:59:43.430 --> 02:59:51.490 WORSE BECAUSE I EXPECT THAT THE SIX HURRICANE C1 A LIST. 02:59:51.490 --> 02:59:55.450 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU READ THAT IN THE NEWS, WANT TO UP THEM JUST A LITTLE. 02:59:55.450 --> 03:00:00.640 I EXPECT THE BUILDINGS TO BE IN MY FRONT YARD A 20 MILE BEND BECAUSE I LIVE 20 MILES FROM 03:00:00.640 --> 03:00:02.630 THE COAST. 03:00:02.630 --> 03:00:08.910 AND DID LIVE THROUGH ANDREW ALSO PERMITTED TO GO SAVE MY ASSISTANT AT THE TIME. 03:00:08.910 --> 03:00:14.810 BUT WE DO PUT A THINK WE OUGHT TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK AT THE RULES IT MAY BE DURING 03:00:14.810 --> 03:00:21.630 YOUR JOURNEY APPEAR WE WILL LOOK AT THE RULES FOR THE EPA AND EVERYBODY IN ALL OF THESE 03:00:21.630 --> 03:00:26.650 THINGS BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, THE HOUSE DID THEY EVEN GET MOVED AND. 03:00:26.650 --> 03:00:27.750 WHAT DOES THAT TELL ME? 03:00:27.750 --> 03:00:30.540 THE HOUSE SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BILLED. 03:00:30.540 --> 03:00:35.870 IT IS SIMPLE MATH COMMITS REAL LOGIC HERE BECAUSE I'M A LOGICAL PERSON AND I MIGHT BE 03:00:35.870 --> 03:00:41.590 A PAIN WHEN I COME UP HERE BUT IT REALLY STUDIED THIS STUFF BUT WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE 03:00:41.590 --> 03:00:47.510 BARRIER ISLANDS AND JUPITER AND EVERYBODY WANTING TO BUILD GIANT BUILDINGS ACROSS THE 03:00:47.510 --> 03:00:54.930 STREET, TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION BECAUSE THAT IS BLOCKING THE WIND THAT WILL KEEP YOUR 03:00:54.930 --> 03:01:02.660 BEACHES BETTER AND MAYBE WE CAN LOOK AT OUR MISTAKES, WHETHER WE DID THEM OR NOT AND FIX 03:01:02.660 --> 03:01:03.660 IT. 03:01:03.660 --> 03:01:04.660 THAT'S ALL. 03:01:04.660 --> 03:01:09.500 THIS BEACH WE NOURISHMENT THEM HOW MANY MILLIONS ARE GOING TO SPEND WHAT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO 03:01:09.500 --> 03:01:14.479 DO THE PYLONS OR THE DONUTS OR ANYTHING IN THE OCEAN BUT THEY DON'T EVEN WANT WINDMILLS 03:01:14.479 --> 03:01:21.360 IN THE OCEAN SO WE HAVE TO REALLY START THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX 30 OF TO GET YOUR CRAYONS 03:01:21.360 --> 03:01:24.610 TOGETHER AND REALLY THINK ABOUT IT SO THANK YOU. 03:01:24.610 --> 03:01:28.239 >> Maria Sachs: TO BE OF ANY OTHER CARDS? 03:01:28.239 --> 03:01:30.120 OKAY. 03:01:30.120 --> 03:01:36.280 WE HAVE A FIRST BY VICE MAYOR MARINO AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER TRAN TO PUT ALL THOSE 03:01:36.280 --> 03:01:37.280 FOR? 03:01:37.280 --> 03:01:40.070 ANYBODY OPPOSED? 03:01:40.070 --> 03:01:42.140 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION. 03:01:42.140 --> 03:01:47.550 >> Maria Marino: MAY I MOVED TO 5B2 TO MAKE A MOTION TO RATIFY THE AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE 03:01:47.550 --> 03:01:51.430 TO THE EMERGENCY DUNE RESTORATION CONTRACT. 03:01:51.430 --> 03:01:57.560 >> Maria Sachs: JUST ONE SECOND. 03:01:57.560 --> 03:02:01.930 WE HAVE A FIRST PARIS COMMISSIONER BERNARD, DID YOU WANT TO MAKE A SECOND OR SPEAK. 03:02:01.930 --> 03:02:03.229 >> Mack Bernard: I WILL SPEAK TOO. 03:02:03.229 --> 03:02:04.530 THINKING THAT A MAN. 03:02:04.530 --> 03:02:09.960 I WANT TO THANK THE DISTRICT COMMISSIONER. 03:02:09.960 --> 03:02:18.101 VICE MAYOR MARINO THIS IS IN HER DISTRICT BUT I DO REPRESENT RIVIERA BEACH AND I WANT 03:02:18.101 --> 03:02:23.859 TO THANK STAFF WERE DEBORAH, MICHAEL FOR EXCELLENT PRESENTATION WORKING ON THIS ISSUE BUT THIS 03:02:23.859 --> 03:02:27.000 IS IMPORTANT FOR RESIDENTS. 03:02:27.000 --> 03:02:31.700 >> WE HAVE A FIRST. 03:02:31.700 --> 03:02:37.740 SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BERNARD AND TO BE HAVE A CARD. 03:02:37.740 --> 03:02:38.740 >> ALEXANDRIA LARSON? 03:02:38.740 --> 03:02:43.279 >> Maria Sachs: YOU ALREADY SAID IT, HAVEN'T YOU MISSED LARSON? 03:02:43.279 --> 03:02:48.819 >> I HAVE BUT SINGER ISLAND IN PARTICULAR IS A BARRIER ISLAND SO I HOPE IN THE FUTURE 03:02:48.819 --> 03:02:51.120 WE START LOOK AT WHAT WE ARE DOING. 03:02:51.120 --> 03:02:56.510 I AM UP HERE WITH ONLY REASON I COME DOWN HERE IS TO BEG PEOPLE TO STOP AND THAT'S WHAT 03:02:56.510 --> 03:02:57.609 I'VE BEEN DOING. 03:02:57.609 --> 03:03:02.979 PORT VIRGINIA IS ONLY A WITNESS TO THAT AND SOME OF THE STAFF. 03:03:02.979 --> 03:03:08.830 THE ONE THING IS JUST STOP AND THAT HAS BEEN MY MANTRA FOR A LONG TIME MAYBE THAT IS KNOWN 03:03:08.830 --> 03:03:14.250 AS NOT BEING COOPERATIVE BUT THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE AND WE ARE PAYING THE CONSEQUENCES 03:03:14.250 --> 03:03:19.910 FOR WE ARE LOOKING AT THE CONSEQUENCES RIGHT NOW AND WHEN THEY PUT IN THE PRESS THE SIX, 03:03:19.910 --> 03:03:23.250 I WAS LIKE THAT'S GOING TO LIVE ON SINGER ISLAND. 03:03:23.250 --> 03:03:26.090 THAT'S WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT COMMISSIONERS. 03:03:26.090 --> 03:03:29.590 I DON'T WANT ANYONE FALLING INTO HOLES AND I DON'T WANT THE BEACH TO DISAPPEAR. 03:03:29.590 --> 03:03:35.311 WILL LIKE OUR GRANDCHILDREN TO SEE THE BEACH BUT I DON'T WANTED TO BE A 20 MILE BEND, WHICH 03:03:35.311 --> 03:03:42.330 WAS PREDICTED AT TREASURE COAST IN 2004 SO HOPE YOU WILL TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. 03:03:42.330 --> 03:03:49.279 >> Maria Sachs: VICE MAYOR, THIS IS YOUR DISTRICT. 03:03:49.279 --> 03:03:51.979 YOUR LIGHT WAS ON FIRST BUT YOU'RE GOING TO LET COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 03:03:51.979 --> 03:03:54.949 >> Gregg Weiss: GO RIGHT AHEAD, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 03:03:54.949 --> 03:03:58.521 >> Sara Baxter: TO BE GREAT OUR BEACHES? 03:03:58.521 --> 03:04:01.470 >> I BELIEVE WHAT MS. 03:04:01.470 --> 03:04:08.630 LARSON IS REFERRING TO IS BEACH RAKING AND WE DO NOT DO COUNTY BEACHES. 03:04:08.630 --> 03:04:17.700 THE PURPOSE OF BEACH RAKING IS TO REMOVE ANY DEBRIS THAT MAY OCCUR, BUT IN OUR OPINION 03:04:17.700 --> 03:04:25.220 A LOT OF THAT WHEN IT ACCUMULATES ON THE BEACH IT HELPS MITIGATE THE EROSION WE SEE. 03:04:25.220 --> 03:04:31.970 WE KNOW THAT DURING THE SUMMERTIME WE HAVE BUILDUPS OF LARGE AMOUNTS. 03:04:31.970 --> 03:04:36.750 WITH THE SEA TURTLE NESTING DENSITIES WE HAVE HEAR THEIR IS REGULATORY RESTRICTIONS ON WHAT 03:04:36.750 --> 03:04:41.750 WE CAN DO AND THERE ARE PRIVATE PROPERTIES THAT DO BEACH RAKING, THERE ARE VENDORS THAT 03:04:41.750 --> 03:04:43.499 DO IT BUT THE COUNTY DOES NOT. 03:04:43.499 --> 03:04:50.029 >> Sara Baxter: LOGICALLY FOLLOWING THIS THROUGH AND HONESTLY I DON'T HAVE ANY PART OF THE 03:04:50.029 --> 03:04:57.190 BEACH AND SO I AM MORE SO ASKING SOMEBODY WHO LOVES THE BEACH. 03:04:57.190 --> 03:04:59.220 WOULD IT PREVENT POLLUTION? 03:04:59.220 --> 03:05:04.030 CLEARLY FROM THE PICTURES WE HAVE A LOT OF THIS GOING INTO THE OCEAN. 03:05:04.030 --> 03:05:06.149 >> LOT OF THE SAND? 03:05:06.149 --> 03:05:12.279 >> Sara Baxter: INNING, AS MUCH AS I LOVE THE BEACH I KNOW THAT THERE ARE BAD ACTORS 03:05:12.279 --> 03:05:15.530 WHO LEAVE THINGS BEHIND. 03:05:15.530 --> 03:05:23.819 COULD IT HELP IN ANY WAY AND ARE THERE REGULATORY GUIDELINES WE COULD FALL WITHIN TO MAKE THIS 03:05:23.819 --> 03:05:26.609 SOMETHING THAT IS POSSIBLE? 03:05:26.609 --> 03:05:31.360 AGAIN, AS A MOM WHO LIKES TO TAKE HER KIDS DID THE BEACH YOU DON'T LIKE FINDING THE GROSS 03:05:31.360 --> 03:05:36.829 STUFF EITHER SO I AM JUST ASKING THESE QUESTIONS AS A NONEXPERT. 03:05:36.829 --> 03:05:44.420 >> IT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED MULTIPLE TIMES AND IN THE END IN COOPERATION WITH PARKS THE DECISION 03:05:44.420 --> 03:05:46.470 HAS BEEN MADE TO NOT RAKE THE BEACHES. 03:05:46.470 --> 03:05:54.529 THE BENEFITS ARE NOT SUPPORTED BY THE COSTS THAT COME WITH IT. 03:05:54.529 --> 03:05:56.630 WITH THE RAKING, CORRECT. 03:05:56.630 --> 03:06:02.580 ANYTIME WE ARE OUT THERE CONSTRUCTING BUDGET, IT'S A REQUIREMENT WE REMOVE ANY DEBRIS THAT 03:06:02.580 --> 03:06:04.270 IS SEEN. 03:06:04.270 --> 03:06:12.620 AFTER A MAJOR STORM EVENT LIKE THIS IF THERE IS A SET OF BEACH STAIRS IT IS A REGULATORY 03:06:12.620 --> 03:06:22.080 REQUIREMENT THAT IT GETS REMOVED OFF THE BEACHES, BUT AS FAR AS REGULAR BEACH RAKING IT ACTUALLY 03:06:22.080 --> 03:06:28.350 DOES MORE HARM THAN GOOD IN TERMS OF STABILITY OF THE BEACH IN THE RISK TO THE SEA TURTLE 03:06:28.350 --> 03:06:30.290 NESTS IN THIS SAND. 03:06:30.290 --> 03:06:36.800 >> WE ARE WITH YOU ON THE POLLUTION PART BUT WE DO A LOT OF VOLUNTEER GARBAGE PICKUP EVENTS 03:06:36.800 --> 03:06:40.900 AND PARKS IS VERY ACTIVE IN THAT. 03:06:40.900 --> 03:06:51.710 PARKS HAS ACTIVE PROGRAMS HAVE A BEND WHERE YOU COULD GO COLLECT PLASTIC OFF OF THE BEACH. 03:06:51.710 --> 03:06:53.440 THAT IS A SOURCE PROBLEM. 03:06:53.440 --> 03:07:00.560 WE NEED PEOPLE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR GARBAGE, BUT I AGREE WITH YOU WE LOOKED AT 03:07:00.560 --> 03:07:07.060 BEACH RAKING IN THE METHODS DO NOT OUTWEIGH THE RISKS OR COSTS! 03:07:07.060 --> 03:07:15.200 ONE LAST THING, WHAT WOULD THE COST OF HAVING A BUT WE OF PARKS AND ALL KINDS OF THINGS 03:07:15.200 --> 03:07:19.979 AND I WOULD SAY AS MUCH AS I WISH EVERYONE ASSOCIATE AGRICULTURE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY 03:07:19.979 --> 03:07:24.550 IS MUCH AS THEY DO BEACHES AND PALM TREES, IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY. 03:07:24.550 --> 03:07:29.960 THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE KNOWN FOR SO I AM CURIOUS HOW MY OTHER COMMISSIONERS FEEL 03:07:29.960 --> 03:07:36.830 ABOUT THEY BE LOOKING INTO SOME WAY THAT WE COULD HELP MORE WITH THE POLLUTION ON OUR 03:07:36.830 --> 03:07:42.710 BEACHES WHICH ARE SO IMPORTANT TO WHAT PALM BEACH COUNTY AND PALM BEACH IN GENERAL IS 03:07:42.710 --> 03:07:43.910 SO THANK YOU. 03:07:43.910 --> 03:07:47.439 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER WEISS, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 03:07:47.439 --> 03:07:54.250 >> Gregg Weiss: TO MY COLLEAGUE AT THE OTHER END OF THE DAIS, I INVITE YOU TO JOIN US. 03:07:54.250 --> 03:07:56.800 THERE'S AN ORGANIZATION CALLED PALM BEACH. 03:07:56.800 --> 03:08:00.750 WE GO OUT MONTHLY BUT ACTUALLY, THEY ARE OUT THERE DAILY. 03:08:00.750 --> 03:08:05.069 BUT THEY OF COMMUNITY CLEANUPS OUT THERE MONTHLY. 03:08:05.069 --> 03:08:07.319 COME OUT AND WE PICK UP THE TRASH. 03:08:07.319 --> 03:08:12.380 I WILL TELL YOU A LOT OF THAT TRASH DOES NOT COME FROM THE UNITED STATES, IT COMES FROM 03:08:12.380 --> 03:08:20.530 OVERSEAS PREDICAMENTS MOVED UP TO THE CURRENTS THAT RUN THROUGH OUR AREA AND GET THE PLASTICS 03:08:20.530 --> 03:08:26.779 AND THINGS DEPOSITED ON OUR BEACH RITA SOMEBODY WHO GOES OUT THERE AND HELPS PICK UP THE GARBAGE, 03:08:26.779 --> 03:08:30.340 MY WIFE HAS SERVED ON THEIR BOARD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AS WELL. 03:08:30.340 --> 03:08:36.290 I WILL TELL YOU THE ISSUE WITH RAKING IN THE DAMAGE IT WOULD DO DECEITFULNESS IS SOMETHING, 03:08:36.290 --> 03:08:43.180 THAT IS ALSO SOMETHING WE ARE KNOWN FOR IS HAVING OUR SEA TURTLES HERE AND WE WOULD STOP 03:08:43.180 --> 03:08:49.699 TO SEE THAT HAPPENING IF WE WERE TO RUN AUTOMATED EQUIPMENT ACROSS THE SAND. 03:08:49.699 --> 03:08:52.359 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER AND VICE MAYOR MARINO. 03:08:52.359 --> 03:08:59.689 >> Maria Marino: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND, BUT I DO WANT TO COMMENT ON A LARGE TALL CONDO 03:08:59.689 --> 03:09:01.470 REPORTS. 03:09:01.470 --> 03:09:09.779 WE TALKED ABOUT SURFSIDE AND PERMITTING AND CONDO REPORTS OF THE CONDITION OF THE CONDOS, 03:09:09.779 --> 03:09:13.210 WILL MAKE SURE WE ARE STAYING UP WITH THAT. 03:09:13.210 --> 03:09:19.830 HAD BEEN IN CONTACT WITH DOUG WEISS WHO HAS HAD A LOT OF LETTERS AND GOT LETTERS IN RESPONSE 03:09:19.830 --> 03:09:27.939 AND HAS HAD TO REJECT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF THE LETTERS BECAUSE THEY DID NOT COMMIT 03:09:27.939 --> 03:09:33.479 NOT QUALIFY BUT THEY WERE NOT UP TO SNUFF BUT WE ARE DOING OUR PART TRYING TO MAKE SURE 03:09:33.479 --> 03:09:42.850 THAT THE CONDOS ARE COMING UP TO PRESENT DAY CODE IN THIS IS IMPORTANT GOING FORWARD. 03:09:42.850 --> 03:09:50.200 WE DON'T HAVE CONTROLS ALONG SINGER ISLAND, LONG JUPITER BUT SOME OF THOSE ARE IN THE 03:09:50.200 --> 03:09:55.110 TOWN OF JUPITER, SOMEWHERE IN SINGER ISLAND WHICH IS IN RIVIERA BEACH SO WE DO NOT AT 03:09:55.110 --> 03:09:57.109 PERMITTING AND CODE ENFORCEMENT. 03:09:57.109 --> 03:10:03.439 I DO ENCOURAGE US TO GO FORWARD IN THE FUTURE WITH THAT I THINK THERE IS A MOTION AND A 03:10:03.439 --> 03:10:04.439 SECOND ON THE TABLE. 03:10:04.439 --> 03:10:05.439 >> Maria Sachs: IT'S TRUE. 03:10:05.439 --> 03:10:10.200 I JUST WANT TO SAY SOMETHING BEFORE WE CLOSE THIS ONE ITEM PRORATED REPRESENT BEACHES FOR 03:10:10.200 --> 03:10:20.939 MANY YEARS IN FLORIDA IS THE ONLY STATE IN THE COUNTRY THAT GIVES OWNERSHIP TO THE BEACHES 03:10:20.939 --> 03:10:26.330 OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA THAT IS A BEAUTIFUL THING. 03:10:26.330 --> 03:10:32.170 WE OWN OUR BEACHES AND WE ARE FREE PUBLIC ACCESS TO OUR BEACHES. 03:10:32.170 --> 03:10:39.090 AND I SAY THE ONLY STATE INCLUDING HAWAII, CALIFORNIA AND TEXAS SO I LOVE TO SEE THE 03:10:39.090 --> 03:10:47.020 SUPPORT WE ARE GETTING APPEAR ON THE BEACHES AND I AM VERY PROUD OF VICE MAYOR MARINO CONTINUING 03:10:47.020 --> 03:10:53.850 TO PROTECT THE BEACHES AS WELL AS COMMISSIONER BERNARD SO WITH THAT WE WILL CLOSE THIS WITH 03:10:53.850 --> 03:10:59.040 A FIRST VICE MAYOR MARINO, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BERNARD ALL OF THOSE FOR? 03:10:59.040 --> 03:11:01.600 ANYBODY OPPOSED? 03:11:01.600 --> 03:11:03.340 IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 03:11:03.340 --> 03:11:04.939 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 03:11:04.939 --> 03:11:10.880 GOING TO CLOSE OUT THE DAY WITH BOARD APPOINTMENTS. 03:11:10.880 --> 03:11:14.050 COMMISSION DISTRICT APPOINTMENTS. 03:11:14.050 --> 03:11:19.109 I THINK WE HAVE ONE. 03:11:19.109 --> 03:11:20.499 GO RIGHT AHEAD! 03:11:20.499 --> 03:11:27.400 I WOULD LIKE TO POINT JAMES WATT TO THE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AUTHORITY BOARD. 03:11:27.400 --> 03:11:28.400 >> ANYBODY OPPOSED TO THAT? 03:11:28.400 --> 03:11:31.130 IF NOT THAT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 03:11:31.130 --> 03:11:34.859 ANYBODY ELSE HAVE BOARD APPOINTMENTS AT THIS TIME? 03:11:34.859 --> 03:11:38.989 IF NOT WE ARE GOING TO GO TO ADMINISTRATION COMMENTS. 03:11:38.989 --> 03:11:49.450 >> I'M STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND LUNCH GOING TO BE QUICK. 03:11:49.450 --> 03:11:59.189 WE DID DELIVER AN UPDATED BOARD DIRECTIVES AND WE GOT OTHERS THAT WE WOULD BE CLOSING 03:11:59.189 --> 03:12:00.840 OUT. 03:12:00.840 --> 03:12:08.830 UNLESS THE BOARD IS SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THE ITEMS I WOULD ASK THE BOARD TO 03:12:08.830 --> 03:12:10.680 RECEIVE AND FILE THEM. 03:12:10.680 --> 03:12:12.420 SPOKE VERY GOOD. 03:12:12.420 --> 03:12:17.240 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 03:12:17.240 --> 03:12:22.060 RECEIVE AND FILE. 03:12:22.060 --> 03:12:26.540 NO ONE HAS RECEIVED AND FILED. 03:12:26.540 --> 03:12:28.689 WE HAVE A SECOND. 03:12:28.689 --> 03:12:30.710 >> COULD YOU RESTATE IT? 03:12:30.710 --> 03:12:34.620 BOOK 1ST BY COMMISSIONER BERNARD, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 03:12:34.620 --> 03:12:35.620 UNANIMOUS. 03:12:35.620 --> 03:12:37.630 THANK YOU. 03:12:37.630 --> 03:12:39.499 ARE COUNTY ATTORNEY. 03:12:39.499 --> 03:12:41.771 >> I HAVE NO COMMENTS TODAY. 03:12:41.771 --> 03:12:46.270 >> Maria Sachs: AREA COMMISSIONERS COMMENTS. 03:12:46.270 --> 03:12:54.979 I WILL PASS THE GAVEL TO VICE MAYOR MARINO BUT SHE'S GOING TO STATE SOMETHING FOR ME 03:12:54.979 --> 03:12:57.279 FOR A PROCLAMATION OFF-SITE. 03:12:57.279 --> 03:13:04.649 >> FOR COMMISSION DISTRICT 5 THE MAYOR WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST AN OFF-SITE PROCLAMATION DECLARING 03:13:04.649 --> 03:13:08.939 MARCH 23, 2024 AS VILLAGE OF VALOR DAY. 03:13:08.939 --> 03:13:13.760 >> YOU ARE RUNNING THE MEETING. 03:13:13.760 --> 03:13:16.239 SHE MADE THE MOTION. 03:13:16.239 --> 03:13:18.580 >> Maria Sachs: YES, MY IN RUNNING THE MEETING. 03:13:18.580 --> 03:13:20.739 POWER IS AMAZING. 03:13:20.739 --> 03:13:25.200 SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WEISS. 03:13:25.200 --> 03:13:28.410 SEE THAT IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 03:13:28.410 --> 03:13:35.880 PICKETED TO THE REST OF OUR COMMISSIONER COMMENTS AND WE BOTH START TO MY LEFT WITH COMMISSIONER 03:13:35.880 --> 03:13:36.880 BARNETT. 03:13:36.880 --> 03:13:45.100 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH MAYOR WHILE THE DIRECTOR OF URBAN IS HERE WANTED TO THANK YOU AND YOUR 03:13:45.100 --> 03:13:51.779 INCREDIBLE STAFF ALLOWING ME TO OBSERVE A PRESCRIBED BURN A FEW WEEKS AGO IN THE LOXAHATCHEE 03:13:51.779 --> 03:14:03.130 BUT KNOW THAT IT WAS A VERY LAST MINUTE APPOINTMENT WE WORK TO GET THAT DONE FOR IT JUST OUT IN 03:14:03.130 --> 03:14:04.520 TIME TO SEE THE FLYERS. 03:14:04.520 --> 03:14:10.899 APPRECIATE BEING ABLE TO WITNESS WHAT YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE DO TO PROTECT OUR NATURAL 03:14:10.899 --> 03:14:17.400 AREAS AND I ALSO HAD A CHANCE TO VISIT YOU AT THE FESTIVAL. 03:14:17.400 --> 03:14:20.040 AND THINK LATER THAT WEEK. 03:14:20.040 --> 03:14:23.149 IT WAS A LOT OF FUN. 03:14:23.149 --> 03:14:28.850 WE HAVE A BEAUTIFUL COUNTY AND GLAD SO MANY OF OUR CITIZENS OR RESIDENTS WERE ABLE TO 03:14:28.850 --> 03:14:34.851 PARTICIPATE IN THE FESTIVAL AND SEE WHAT YOU DO EVERYDAY WITH THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE 03:14:34.851 --> 03:14:38.201 CONTROLLED BURN THAT I GOT TO SEE LIVE FOR THE REAL THING. 03:14:38.201 --> 03:14:40.810 THANK YOU DEB. 03:14:40.810 --> 03:14:45.320 I ALSO WANTED TO RECOGNIZE, HE WAS HERE EARLIER. 03:14:45.320 --> 03:14:50.290 COLONEL STARLING OF THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE WHO RUNS THE JAIL. 03:14:50.290 --> 03:14:56.460 HE CONDUCTED A TOUR FOR MYSELF AND SOME OF OUR STAFFERS WOULD WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR 03:14:56.460 --> 03:15:00.771 OUTSTANDING JOB THAT YOU DO EAT EACH DAY TO KEEP US ALL SAFE. 03:15:00.771 --> 03:15:08.069 I ALSO WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS THAT WE HAVE BECOME BEGUN A 03:15:08.069 --> 03:15:16.149 DIALOGUE WITH MANY AGENCIES INCLUDING PALM TRAN, TRI-RAIL, MULTIPLE AGENCIES TO DISCUSS 03:15:16.149 --> 03:15:21.229 POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND TRAINING IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING PORTABLY WITH OPPORTUNITY 03:15:21.229 --> 03:15:27.540 TO ASSIST IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THIS HORRIBLE ISSUE THAT PLAGUES OUR COUNTY IN PARTICULAR 03:15:27.540 --> 03:15:28.819 OF ALL THE COUNTIES IN OUR STATE. 03:15:28.819 --> 03:15:34.520 I THINK WE ARE THIRD IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING FLORIDA IS THIRD IN THE NATION SO WE ARE RIGHT 03:15:34.520 --> 03:15:36.070 HERE IN THE EPICENTER. 03:15:36.070 --> 03:15:42.529 I WANT TO THANK COMMISSIONER BAXTER FOR ALLOWING ME TO PRESENT THE PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF 03:15:42.529 --> 03:15:49.180 THE BOARD AT THE GALLOP A FEW WEEKS AGO. 03:15:49.180 --> 03:15:50.180 THAT IS ALL I HAVE FOR NOW. 03:15:50.180 --> 03:15:51.180 THANK YOU. 03:15:51.180 --> 03:15:52.180 MAYOR? 03:15:52.180 --> 03:15:53.180 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER WOODWARD. 03:15:53.180 --> 03:15:55.070 >> Sara Baxter: THANK YOU. 03:15:55.070 --> 03:16:04.600 FIRST OF ALL THE LIKE TO SAY THE SPIRIT OF GIVING 5K RACE WAS THIS WEEKEND THEY HAD A 03:16:04.600 --> 03:16:08.720 RECORD NUMBER OF RUNNERS, OVER 1300. 03:16:08.720 --> 03:16:10.750 A VERY GOOD TURNOUT. 03:16:10.750 --> 03:16:16.420 THEY HAVE I THINK OVER 100 DIFFERENT NONPROFITS THAT PARTNERED TOGETHER THAT ARE NOT TO OVERLAP 03:16:16.420 --> 03:16:18.790 UNTIL ALL OF THE CAPSULE WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT. 03:16:18.790 --> 03:16:25.199 IT WAS A VERY NICE TURNOUT AND AFTERWARDS I GOT TO GO, NOT TO STEAL ANY THUNDER FROM 03:16:25.199 --> 03:16:26.199 YOU. 03:16:26.199 --> 03:16:29.580 I GET TO GO FIRST. 03:16:29.580 --> 03:16:35.110 WOULD LIKE TO SAY THEY HAD GREAT NEW SWAG I GOT TO PICK UP WITH THE NEW LOGO. 03:16:35.110 --> 03:16:37.739 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL AND VERY HAPPY ABOUT THAT. 03:16:37.739 --> 03:16:42.710 QUICK REMINDER DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME IS THIS WEEKEND WE LOSE AN HOUR, RIGHT? 03:16:42.710 --> 03:16:45.370 I DON'T LOOK FORWARD TO THAT. 03:16:45.370 --> 03:16:49.220 I HAVE TO INTRODUCE HIM ONE MORE TIME. 03:16:49.220 --> 03:16:55.130 OUR NEW LITTLE BUDDY HERE, FRITZ, THAT WE ARE FOSTERING TO ADOPT THE REASON HE IS NOT 03:16:55.130 --> 03:16:59.050 GOING TO GO TO ANYBODY ELSE, I WILL FIGHT YOU FOR THIS GUY. 03:16:59.050 --> 03:17:04.810 WE DID PUT THE WORD OUT SEVERAL MONTHS AGO TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER DOG WOULD BE LOST ON OUR 03:17:04.810 --> 03:17:12.920 PRECIOUS BABIES A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO WE ARE READY TO FILL HER BED WITH A NEW DOG AND 03:17:12.920 --> 03:17:16.760 ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL WAS GREAT WORKING WITH US IN SEVERAL ANIMAL RESCUES THAT WORK 03:17:16.760 --> 03:17:21.160 WITH ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL SO ONCE THE WORD WENT OUT THAT OUR DOG WAS LOOKING, OUR DOG 03:17:21.160 --> 03:17:26.609 ZOE IS A VERY GOOD GIRL BUT SHE THINK SHE IS THE SIZE SHE GETS INTIMIDATED SO WE DECIDED 03:17:26.609 --> 03:17:29.899 WE SHOULD GET A PUPPY SHE CAN TRAIN UP. 03:17:29.899 --> 03:17:36.859 THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED US FIND THE DOG BUT WE FOUND HIM, ALTHOUGH OUR HOUSE COULD 03:17:36.859 --> 03:17:41.729 HOLD MORE FRUIT IF MY HUSBAND IS LISTENING, I'M SORRY BUT LOVE THESE LITTLE GUYS AND THANK 03:17:41.729 --> 03:17:46.500 YOU FOR INDULGING HIM BEING WITH US BUT HE IS ONLY SEVEN WEEKS OLD SO IS NOT QUITE READY 03:17:46.500 --> 03:17:51.100 TO BE BY HIMSELF AT THE HOUSE BUT FOR NOW THANK YOU BUT HIS NAME IS FRITZ, MIDDLE NAME 03:17:51.100 --> 03:17:54.470 GERALD ZOE IS A BIG NAME. 03:17:54.470 --> 03:17:56.120 >> Maria Sachs: VERY NICE. 03:17:56.120 --> 03:17:57.830 >> Gregg Weiss: NO COMMENTS. 03:17:57.830 --> 03:18:02.340 >> Maria Sachs: I KNOW WHY THERE ARE NO COMMENTS. 03:18:02.340 --> 03:18:06.360 GO RIGHT AHEAD COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 03:18:06.360 --> 03:18:07.360 COMMISSIONER BERNARD? 03:18:07.360 --> 03:18:13.899 >> Mack Bernard: I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST AN OFF-SITE PROCLAMATION FOR THE 30TH PASTORAL 03:18:13.899 --> 03:18:17.040 ANNIVERSARY OF BISHOP GRANGER. 03:18:17.040 --> 03:18:21.000 >> Maria Sachs: ALL THOSE FOR? 03:18:21.000 --> 03:18:23.399 ANYBODY OPPOSED QUICK SEE IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 03:18:23.399 --> 03:18:25.939 >> Mack Bernard: AND LASTLY. 03:18:25.939 --> 03:18:28.770 >> WHO WAS THE SECOND? 03:18:28.770 --> 03:18:30.980 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER WEISS. 03:18:30.980 --> 03:18:31.980 >> THANK YOU. 03:18:31.980 --> 03:18:38.560 >> WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO STAND BUT HE INVITED ME TO DO THE BLACK HISTORY PROGRAM AT THE 03:18:38.560 --> 03:18:41.050 PALMER RANCH CENTER. 03:18:41.050 --> 03:18:50.530 IT WAS A PLEASURE TO VISIT THE PRISON TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE INMATES WERE IN THE LAST PHASES 03:18:50.530 --> 03:18:59.279 OF BEING ABLE TO BE RETURNED TO WHEREVER THEY WERE FROM, BUT IT WAS AN HONOR TO SPEAK TO 03:18:59.279 --> 03:19:02.869 SOME OF THOSE RETURNING CITIZENS EVERYTHING CUTE. 03:19:02.869 --> 03:19:05.320 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 03:19:05.320 --> 03:19:12.840 >> Sara Baxter: WOULD LIKE TO THANK DARREN FOR ALL HIS HARD WORK ON THE LEGAL DEFINITIONS 03:19:12.840 --> 03:19:19.439 REGARDING THE ANNEXATION EARLIER PURITY DID AN AMAZING JOB AND IF I DIDN'T SAY EARLIER, 03:19:19.439 --> 03:19:27.279 IT DID AGREE WITH THIS ANALYSIS BUT ULTIMATELY VOTERS GET TO VOTE AND I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT 03:19:27.279 --> 03:19:28.279 THAT WE SUPPORT THAT AS WELL. 03:19:28.279 --> 03:19:36.500 I HAD HAPPY THINGS FIRST PORTABLE LIKE TO WISH COMMISSIONER BARNETT COMMISSIONER BERNARD 03:19:36.500 --> 03:19:42.840 A HAPPY ONE DAY BELATED BIRTHDAY SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY. 03:19:42.840 --> 03:19:48.960 SIDE NOTE MY FATHER HAD TWO DAUGHTERS NINE YEARS APART AND THEIR BIRTHDAYS WOULD HAVE 03:19:48.960 --> 03:19:54.989 BEEN TODAY BUT ONE IS DECEASED ONE IS STILL WITH US SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ABBY. 03:19:54.989 --> 03:20:00.470 IT IS HER BIRTHDAY AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TIFFANY IN HAVE BEEN. 03:20:00.470 --> 03:20:04.340 ON SO THOSE ARE VERY IMPORTANT. 03:20:04.340 --> 03:20:11.390 I DON'T KNOW HOW HE TIMED THAT, BUT VERY INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH IT IS WHAT IT IS. 03:20:11.390 --> 03:20:22.689 I HAD A, AS MUCH AS I ENJOY STOP I HAD A DISTURBING MEETING THIS MORNING THAT I AM BRINGING TO 03:20:22.689 --> 03:20:26.239 MY FELLOW COMMISSIONERS ATTENTION. 03:20:26.239 --> 03:20:31.990 IN MY OFFICE BECAUSE WE ARE ALLOWED TO HAVE A TEMPORARY STAFF MEMBER THAT WE ARE ALLOWED 03:20:31.990 --> 03:20:39.700 TO PAY, AS MOST PEOPLE KNOW ELLEN SMITH HAS COME TO WORK FOR US AND HAS BEEN HIRED AS 03:20:39.700 --> 03:20:49.279 AN FRS CLERICAL POSITION BUT THEN UPON FURTHER REVIEW WHEN HR LOOKED INTO IT IT WAS SAID 03:20:49.279 --> 03:20:58.840 BECAUSE OUR CURRENT ORDINANCE DOES NOT ALLOW TEMPORARY POSITIONS TO CONVERT EVERETT AFTER 03:20:58.840 --> 03:21:08.319 SIX MONTHS TO AN FRS POSITION WE WOULD HAVE TO FIRE HER AFTER SIX MONTHS BUT EVERY OTHER 03:21:08.319 --> 03:21:13.090 DEPARTMENT EXCEPT FOR THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS HAS THAT OPTION. 03:21:13.090 --> 03:21:16.580 WE ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT DOES NOT. 03:21:16.580 --> 03:21:24.000 WOULD LIKE STAFF TO BRING BACK A LOOK AT THE ORDINANCE WITHOUT OBJECTION AND LET US DECIDE 03:21:24.000 --> 03:21:26.430 IF WE WOULD LIKE TO DO. 03:21:26.430 --> 03:21:29.570 THIS IS A MISTAKE. 03:21:29.570 --> 03:21:35.650 HIRING HER UNDER THE POSITION THAT NOW WE ARE GOING TO TELL HER SORRY ABOUT YOUR LUCK. 03:21:35.650 --> 03:21:43.510 I THINK THAT IS WRONG AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT THIS ORDINANCE BUT AGAIN, WITHOUT 03:21:43.510 --> 03:21:48.399 OBJECTION AND SEE WHAT MIGHT FELLOW COMMISSIONERS HAVE TO SAY. 03:21:48.399 --> 03:21:55.121 AND LASTLY WOULD LIKE THEM TO BRING BACK THE REVERED CONSISTENTLY EVERY MEETING EXCEPT 03:21:55.121 --> 03:22:01.060 FOR TODAY ABOUT PEOPLE SAYING THEY HAD BEEN UNAWARE OF MEETINGS BUT WHAT IS COMING UP 03:22:01.060 --> 03:22:06.319 ON AN AGENDA AND SO ON AND THEN I ALSO FOUND OUT BECAUSE SOCIAL MEDIA. 03:22:06.319 --> 03:22:12.949 I AM ALL FOR DIGITAL, EVERYONE KNOWS I LOVE DIGITAL OUTLETS BUT IN REALITY WE HAVE A LARGE 03:22:12.949 --> 03:22:20.580 AMOUNT OF CONSTITUENTS THAT UNLESS IT IS GETTING A LETTER OR SOMETHING PHYSICAL THEY CAN HOLD, 03:22:20.580 --> 03:22:26.729 THEY DON'T CONSIDER THEMSELVES MADE AWARE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO ASK AND SEE WHAT 03:22:26.729 --> 03:22:34.830 DO WE HAVE AS OUR CAPABILITIES AS A BOARD TO DECIDE OUTSIDE OF WHAT IS REGULATED WE 03:22:34.830 --> 03:22:38.760 CAN REACH OUT TO LET THEM KNOW ABOUT UPCOMING MATTERS. 03:22:38.760 --> 03:22:41.670 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE BUDGETARY. 03:22:41.670 --> 03:22:48.670 >> Maria Sachs: WHY DON'T WE DO THIS ONE AT A TIME BUT WITH YOUR FIRST ISSUE WITH REGARD 03:22:48.670 --> 03:22:53.050 TO THE BORY STAFF, COMMISSIONER WEISS, DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO THAT? 03:22:53.050 --> 03:22:55.640 GO RIGHT AHEAD, SIR. 03:22:55.640 --> 03:23:00.569 >> Gregg Weiss: I HAVE TO RESPECTFULLY NOT SUPPORT YOU ON THAT. 03:23:00.569 --> 03:23:07.790 WE JUST HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT ADDING MEMBER OF THE STAFF, THE BOARD TOOK ACTION ON THAT 03:23:07.790 --> 03:23:11.640 END WE AGREED THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING WE WANTED TO DO. 03:23:11.640 --> 03:23:18.800 ADDING BENEFITS TO A TEMPORARY POSITION MY UNDERSTANDING IS THESE ARE INTERNS WE ARE 03:23:18.800 --> 03:23:22.800 ABLE TO BRING INTO OUR OFFICES. 03:23:22.800 --> 03:23:31.440 ALL OF US HAD THE PLEASURE OF INTERNS IN OUR OFFICES AND IN FACT I HAVE A COLLEGE STUDENT 03:23:31.440 --> 03:23:35.270 RIGHT NOW THAT IS WORKING PART-TIME IN MY OFFICE. 03:23:35.270 --> 03:23:40.850 SO I HAVE NO OBJECTION DABBING INTERNS, BUT I DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS TURNING INTO A FOURTH 03:23:40.850 --> 03:23:42.260 PERSON. 03:23:42.260 --> 03:23:48.550 I THINK WE WERE CLEAR ON THAT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. 03:23:48.550 --> 03:23:54.229 I AM GOING TO ASK THAT WE NOT MOVE THIS FORWARD A NASTIER SECOND POINT I HAVE NO ISSUE AND 03:23:54.229 --> 03:23:55.860 HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT. 03:23:55.860 --> 03:23:59.770 >> Maria Sachs: WE ARE TAKING ONE ISSUE AT A TIME. 03:23:59.770 --> 03:24:02.989 COMMISSIONER BERNARD, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED. 03:24:02.989 --> 03:24:08.080 >> Mack Bernard: ON THE FIRST ISSUE I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH BRINGING IT UP SO WE CAN 03:24:08.080 --> 03:24:09.710 TAKE A LOOK AT IT. 03:24:09.710 --> 03:24:16.239 WOULD LIKE TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION AND MORE INFORMATION DOESN'T BOTHER ME. 03:24:16.239 --> 03:24:22.450 >> Maria Sachs: I WISH TO SPEAK ON THE FIRST ISSUE AND I THINK THAT INFORMATION IS VALUABLE. 03:24:22.450 --> 03:24:25.590 I HAVE BEEN IN TURN, I HAVE ALWAYS HAD INTERNS. 03:24:25.590 --> 03:24:34.930 I PAY FOR THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT I HAVE AVAILABLE TO ME AND, BUT IF THIS IS THE ONLY 03:24:34.930 --> 03:24:49.660 DEPARTMENT THAT CANNOT GIVE FRS TO TEMPORARY STAFF, THEN I THINK IT BEARS LOOKING INTO. 03:24:49.660 --> 03:24:54.960 INFORMATION IS VALUABLE AND SO I WOULD SUPPORT IT, BUT ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO SAY ANYTHING 03:24:54.960 --> 03:24:58.410 ABOUT IT OTHERWISE WE WILL TAKE IT TO A BOAT. 03:24:58.410 --> 03:24:59.410 VICE MAYOR? 03:24:59.410 --> 03:25:04.840 >> Maria Marino: I THINK GOING FORWARD ANYTIME WE GET BOARD DIRECTION WE NEED TO HAVE AN 03:25:04.840 --> 03:25:10.840 ECONOMIC IMPACT OF WHAT THE BOARD DIRECTION IS BECAUSE WE CAN'T JUST BE TELLING STAFF 03:25:10.840 --> 03:25:15.020 TO KEEP DOING THIS AND KEEP DOING THAT WITHOUT KNOWING HOW MUCH IT IS COSTING US. 03:25:15.020 --> 03:25:20.520 IF WE MOVE THIS FORWARD TODAY WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF IT IS AND I FOR 03:25:20.520 --> 03:25:25.560 ONE DON'T WANT TO INCREASE MY BUDGET FOR A FOURTH PERSON. 03:25:25.560 --> 03:25:30.770 AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN OUR BUDGETS ARE 03:25:30.770 --> 03:25:34.439 GETTING OUT OF WHACK AND THIS IS THE PLACE TO PUT DOLLARS. 03:25:34.439 --> 03:25:39.810 BUT THAT IS MY OPINION AND I DO NOT WANT TO SEE MY OFFICE BUDGET BE INCREASED. 03:25:39.810 --> 03:25:48.640 AND AGAIN, THIS IS A PREROGATIVE OF EACH COUNTY COMMISSIONER THEY WANT TO HAPPEN IN TURN, 03:25:48.640 --> 03:25:52.300 IF THEY WANT TO HAVE A PART-TIME PERSON. 03:25:52.300 --> 03:25:53.300 WE ALREADY HAVE. 03:25:53.300 --> 03:25:57.850 >> Gregg Weiss: STAFF MEMBERS THAT WE ARE PAYING INTO FRS FOR. 03:25:57.850 --> 03:26:08.470 WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT HAVING A FOURTH PERSON AND THAT HAS BEEN VOTED DOWN SO I DON'T SEE 03:26:08.470 --> 03:26:13.859 THIS IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD BE DOING BUT I DEFER TO THE REST OF MY COMMISSION IT AGAIN, 03:26:13.859 --> 03:26:17.470 ANYTIME WE GET BOARD DIRECTION WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE FINANCIAL AND IF ECONOMIC IMPACT 03:26:17.470 --> 03:26:19.939 OF IT IS IN THE FUTURE. 03:26:19.939 --> 03:26:24.149 JUST MY TWO CENTS. 03:26:24.149 --> 03:26:27.510 >> THIS WILL BE IMPORTANT. 03:26:27.510 --> 03:26:32.439 INFORMATION ABSOLUTELY CONCERNS FINANCE AS WELL. 03:26:32.439 --> 03:26:40.729 DOES ANYONE ELSE WISH TO SPEAK TO THIS ISSUE AND IF NOT, WOULD YOU BE STATE WHAT YOU WOULD 03:26:40.729 --> 03:26:44.110 LIKE THE BOARD TO VOTE ON? 03:26:44.110 --> 03:26:50.780 >> Sara Baxter: WOULD LIKE TO VOTE ON NOT INCREASING. 03:26:50.780 --> 03:26:55.010 WE ALREADY HAVE A SET BUDGET FOR THAT TEMPORARY STAFF PERSON. 03:26:55.010 --> 03:27:02.689 THE OPTION OF LETTING THEM STAY LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS BY ALLOWING IT TO CONVERT TO AN 03:27:02.689 --> 03:27:12.350 FRS OF A BULLY THREE PERCENT IS THE STATUTORY REQUIREMENT OF THE SO WE HAVE THAT THIRD OPTION 03:27:12.350 --> 03:27:16.580 FOR THIS IS IN A PART-TIME PERSON, THIS ISN'T A FULL-TIME PERSON. 03:27:16.580 --> 03:27:21.270 THIS IS JUST TO GIVING THE PERSON IF THEY WOULD LIKE THE ABILITY TO STAY LONGER THAN 03:27:21.270 --> 03:27:26.000 SIX MONTHS TO DO THAT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GET RID OF THEM BUT WITHOUT THAT BECAUSE WE 03:27:26.000 --> 03:27:33.630 ARE FLORIDA MANDATES ANYONE HERE LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS HAS TO BECOME AN FRS EMPLOYEE, 03:27:33.630 --> 03:27:39.500 I'M NOT ASK SUGGESTING EXPANDED BUDGETS BUT I'M SAYING THIS EXIST, OTHER DEPARTMENTS HABITABILITY 03:27:39.500 --> 03:27:45.270 DEPPE TEMPORARY STAFF AND AFTER SIX MONTHS THEY CAN CONVERT TO AN FRS BUT ALL THIS DOES 03:27:45.270 --> 03:27:48.890 IS ALLOW THEM TO STAY WITH THE COUNTY. 03:27:48.890 --> 03:27:52.980 I GUESS IT WOULD HAVE A THREE PERCENT IMPACT. 03:27:52.980 --> 03:27:56.910 PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG. 03:27:56.910 --> 03:27:58.980 >> Maria Sachs: VERY GOOD. 03:27:58.980 --> 03:28:01.030 ADMINISTRATOR BAKER AND COMMISSIONER WOODWARD? 03:28:01.030 --> 03:28:05.840 >> ACTUALLY, THE ADDITIONAL COST TO THE COUNTY. 03:28:05.840 --> 03:28:12.210 BECAUSE WE PAID THIS FOR EVERYBODY IS ROUGHLY 13.57 PERCENT OF THEIR SALARY. 03:28:12.210 --> 03:28:20.149 THAT THE COUNTY PAYS AND THEN THE EMPLOYEE PAYS AN ADDITIONAL THREE PERCENT. 03:28:20.149 --> 03:28:30.130 YES, THE COUNTY WOULD PAY 13.57 PERCENT OF WHAT EVER IT IS THE COMMISSIONER DETERMINES 03:28:30.130 --> 03:28:39.420 THE IN TURN IS PAID BECAUSE YOU ALL PAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT ON INTERNS AND THEN THE PERSON THEMSELVES. 03:28:39.420 --> 03:28:47.930 ILLNESSES ONLY IF THEY EXCEED THE THOUSAND HOURS OR THE SIX MONTHS THAT THEY TURN INTO 03:28:47.930 --> 03:28:53.990 AN FRS POSITION. 03:28:53.990 --> 03:28:58.370 AND THESE ARE NOT COUNTY RULES. 03:28:58.370 --> 03:29:03.110 THIS IS THE STATE RULE SO WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY THAT. 03:29:03.110 --> 03:29:08.890 WE DO GET AUDITED BY THE STATE LOOKING AT THE POSITIONS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT US TO 03:29:08.890 --> 03:29:17.390 ABUSE THE USE OF TEMPORARY AND AVOID PAYING FRS SO THEY COME IN AND REVIEW US. 03:29:17.390 --> 03:29:20.609 AND SO FAR, WHY ARE YOU GUYS SITTING HERE? 03:29:20.609 --> 03:29:26.120 SO FAR WE HAVE DONE WELL MAKING SURE WE CATEGORIZE. 03:29:26.120 --> 03:29:35.279 I AM ALSO LOOKING AT OUR SITE OF HOW WE HANDLE ON-CALL TYPE POSITIONS AND HOW THEY WILL BE 03:29:35.279 --> 03:29:43.430 CONVERTED BECAUSE IT SHOULD NOT BE AUTOMATIC ON OUR SIDE EITHER SO WE NEED TO MAKE THAT 03:29:43.430 --> 03:29:44.430 DECISION. 03:29:44.430 --> 03:29:49.129 >> Maria Sachs: COMMISSIONER WOODWARD AND THEN COMMISSIONER BEEN ORIENTED. 03:29:49.129 --> 03:29:58.180 >> Marci Woodward: QUICK CLARIFICATION, IS IT A THOUSAND HOURS OR SIX MONTHS? 03:29:58.180 --> 03:30:01.840 >> OKAY. 03:30:01.840 --> 03:30:09.570 SO THE 12TH FLOOR, YOUR POSITIONS ARE GOVERNED BY SPOKE RESOLUTION. 03:30:09.570 --> 03:30:14.270 >> Maria Sachs: STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. 03:30:14.270 --> 03:30:16.260 >> DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES. 03:30:16.260 --> 03:30:23.080 >> IT IS BASED ON THE RESOLUTION OF THIS BOARD, PRIOR BOARDS I SHOULD SAY HAVE ESTABLISHED 03:30:23.080 --> 03:30:25.970 ON THIS BOARD OF UPDATED. 03:30:25.970 --> 03:30:32.689 THE REST OF THE COUNTY WE ARE GOVERNED UNDER A DIFFERENT SET OF RULES IS A LOT IS WHAT 03:30:32.689 --> 03:30:35.050 WE ARE LOOKING AT AS WELL. 03:30:35.050 --> 03:30:45.600 >> Marci Woodward: THE SITE UNDERSTOOD IT, IT WAS A THOUSAND IN THE YEAR AND SO IF THAT 03:30:45.600 --> 03:30:52.311 PERSON WERE TO WORK 20 HOURS OR LESS A WEEK BUT WHATEVER THE MATH WAS. 03:30:52.311 --> 03:30:56.930 AND THEY WANTED TO KEEP THEM FOR THE WHOLE YEAR THEY JUST HAD TO STAY UNDER THE THOUSAND 03:30:56.930 --> 03:30:58.840 HOURS. 03:30:58.840 --> 03:31:03.890 >> FOR THE 12 MONTH PERIOD OF TIME, THAT IS CORRECT. 03:31:03.890 --> 03:31:07.900 >> Marci Woodward: IF THE PERSON EXCEEDS THOUSAND HOURS AND THEY WANT TO STAY WITH THE COUNTY 03:31:07.900 --> 03:31:13.149 THEY HAVE TO MOVE TO ANOTHER DEPARTMENT TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER DEPARTMENT. 03:31:13.149 --> 03:31:20.360 >> BREAK NOW THIS IS NOT A OVERWHELMING CHALLENGE FOR THE COUNTY BECAUSE OUT OF THE 6000+ EMPLOYEES 03:31:20.360 --> 03:31:27.660 YOU HAVE 300 PEOPLE TO ARE ACTUALLY CALLED SEASONAL FRS EMPLOYEES, THOSE ARE NOT PERMANENT 03:31:27.660 --> 03:31:30.819 STATUS PEOPLE WHO DO GET FRS BENEFITS. 03:31:30.819 --> 03:31:36.971 HOW THE SYSTEM WORKS REGULAR COUNTY STAFF IS WHEN THE EMPLOYEE GETS TO BE 800 HOURS 03:31:36.971 --> 03:31:42.430 OF WORK PURSUANT TO PAY RECORDS CALL FOR WE CONTACTED THE DEPARTMENT AND NOTIFIED THEM 03:31:42.430 --> 03:31:48.069 THAT THIS EMPLOYEE IS APPROACHING 8000 OUR CAP. 03:31:48.069 --> 03:31:57.010 YOU CAN DECIDE ONE OF TWO THINGS THAT THE EMPLOYEES HAVE TO BE SEPARATED OR IF THE WORK 03:31:57.010 --> 03:32:02.040 THE PERSON IS PERFORMING FOR YOU YOU BELIEVE NEEDS TO CONTINUE IN THE UP TO HAVE THE PERSON 03:32:02.040 --> 03:32:08.750 CONTINUE IT THAT PERSON CAN BE CONVERTED TO AN FRS SEASONAL POSITION, PROVIDED OF COURSE 03:32:08.750 --> 03:32:15.260 THE OF THE FUNDING IN THE BUDGET TO COVER THAT AND PROVIDED THE EMPLOYEE WANTS TO TAKE 03:32:15.260 --> 03:32:19.609 A THREE PERCENT PAY CUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO PAY INTO THE FRS. 03:32:19.609 --> 03:32:25.190 WE DON'T HAVE MANY OF THESE THAT DIDN'T OCCUR, BUT THE SITUATION WAS HANDLED THE SAME WAY 03:32:25.190 --> 03:32:31.100 WE HAD TO LIVE WITH THE EXCEPTION OF STAFF NOT RECOGNIZING UP THE TIMING THE RESOLUTION 03:32:31.100 --> 03:32:37.140 GOVERNING THE BOARD STAFF DOES NOT ALLOW TEMPORARY TO RECEIVE FRS OR ANY BENEFIT. 03:32:37.140 --> 03:32:42.620 >> IF THIS PERSON WANTED TO STAY WITH THE COUNTY, THEY LOOK FOR AN OPENING IN THE OTHER 03:32:42.620 --> 03:32:47.910 DEPARTMENTS AND WE HAVE OPENINGS AND THEN THEY COULD BE, WONDERED IF IT WOULD BE CONVERTED 03:32:47.910 --> 03:32:50.820 BUT THEY WOULD BECOME AN FRS EMPLOYEE? 03:32:50.820 --> 03:32:53.259 >> THAT IS CORRECT. 03:32:53.259 --> 03:32:54.439 >> THANK YOU COMMISSIONER. 03:32:54.439 --> 03:32:55.640 COMMISSIONER BERNARD. 03:32:55.640 --> 03:33:04.500 >> Mack Bernard: I STILL JUST NEED MORE INFORMATION. 03:33:04.500 --> 03:33:12.540 I THINK IT IS VERY HARD WHEN WE ARE MAKING THE COMMISSIONER COMMENTS TO DO THE FISCAL 03:33:12.540 --> 03:33:13.540 ANALYSIS. 03:33:13.540 --> 03:33:20.310 I AGREE WITH I THINK THEY NEED TO PROVIDE, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU THE FISCAL 03:33:20.310 --> 03:33:21.800 ANALYSIS. 03:33:21.800 --> 03:33:28.749 UNDO SUPPORT GIVING US THAT INFORMATION SO WE CAN WEIGH IN ON THAT ISSUE. 03:33:28.749 --> 03:33:34.479 >> Maria Sachs: MAY I SUGGEST COMMISSIONER BAXTER AND MS. 03:33:34.479 --> 03:33:35.630 BAKER. 03:33:35.630 --> 03:33:42.279 CAN YOU PROVIDE THIS TO US IN OUR EMAIL SEPARATELY AND IF WE HAVE 80 QUESTIONS WE COULD SPEAK 03:33:42.279 --> 03:33:45.750 WITH HR BECAUSE I LEARNED SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY. 03:33:45.750 --> 03:33:50.770 ADVENTURES ALL THE TIME AND ACCOUNTS MY OWN BUDGET. 03:33:50.770 --> 03:33:55.609 I CAN'T TAKE A TRIP, BUT I CAN PAY MY IN TURN. 03:33:55.609 --> 03:33:59.620 I DIDN'T KNOW THE THING ABOUT THE PAY CUT. 03:33:59.620 --> 03:34:04.640 I WOULD LOVE DOES THIS INFORMATION FROM HR AND THEN COMMISSIONER BAXTER AFTER WE READ 03:34:04.640 --> 03:34:12.140 IT WE ARE FREE TO DISCUSS IT WITH HR COULD IF YOU STILL NEED DIRECTION I HAVE NO PROBLEMS 03:34:12.140 --> 03:34:20.729 BRINGING IT BEFORE THE BOARD CLINIC AND OPENLY DISCUSS CHANGES IF WE WISH HER MODIFICATION 03:34:20.729 --> 03:34:26.130 OR TERMINATION OF SOME OF THESE ISSUES BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE WISE RATHER THAN SPEND 03:34:26.130 --> 03:34:34.770 PUBLIC TIME TO LOOK AT IT INDIVIDUALLY AND TO REALLY UNDERSTAND THE INDIVIDUALLY AND 03:34:34.770 --> 03:34:39.290 IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS WE CAN BRING IT BEFORE THE BOARD. 03:34:39.290 --> 03:34:41.080 HOW DOES THAT SOUND TO YOU, COMMISSIONER BAXTER. 03:34:41.080 --> 03:34:46.290 >> Sara Baxter: I DON'T DISAGREE BUT WOULD LIKE THEM TO CLARIFY SOMETHING BECAUSE HE 03:34:46.290 --> 03:34:51.430 JUST SET OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE TOLD ME IN MY OFFICE SO I WOULD LIKE SOME CLARIFICATION. 03:34:51.430 --> 03:34:55.630 >> Maria Sachs: ASKED HIM SPECIFICALLY. 03:34:55.630 --> 03:35:02.710 >> Sara Baxter: I WAS TOLD IT WAS SIX MONTHS OR THOUSAND HOURS BUT THEY COULD NOT STAY 03:35:02.710 --> 03:35:04.919 LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS. 03:35:04.919 --> 03:35:10.699 >> THEY COULD NOT STAY LONGER IF THEY ARE CHARACTERIZED AS A TEMP EMPLOYEE. 03:35:10.699 --> 03:35:17.760 IF THEY ARE CHARACTERIZED AS AN ON-CALL EMPLOYEE, AND I BELIEVE YOUR EMPLOYEE IS A TEMP EMPLOYEE. 03:35:17.760 --> 03:35:21.960 A TEMP EMPLOYEE CAN ONLY STAY ON BOARD FOR MAXIMUM WERE LESS THAN SIX MONTHS PROVIDE 03:35:21.960 --> 03:35:28.440 AN ON-CALL EMPLOYEE CAN WORK A THOUSAND HOURS PER THEY JUST CAN'T WORK MORE THAN A THOUSAND 03:35:28.440 --> 03:35:29.440 HOURS. 03:35:29.440 --> 03:35:34.550 YOUR EMPLOYEE IS A TEMP WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE TO BEFORE THEY GET TO THE SIX-MONTH PERIOD 03:35:34.550 --> 03:35:40.170 OF TIME THEY HAVE TO BE TERMINATED FOR BEING THE OTHER ISSUE THAT IS UNSPOKEN AND ALSO 03:35:40.170 --> 03:35:45.940 PART OF THE PROBLEM IS BECAUSE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT. 03:35:45.940 --> 03:35:51.980 LOOKING BACK IF THAT EMPLOYEE WORKED MORE THAN 30 HOURS A WEEK FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS, 03:35:51.980 --> 03:35:54.870 WE HAVE TO OFFER THEM HEALTH INSURANCE. 03:35:54.870 --> 03:36:02.430 THAT IS PART AND PARCEL OF WHAT TEMPORARY EMPLOYEES ARE. 03:36:02.430 --> 03:36:08.109 STUDENT EMPLOYEES CAN WORK SO LONG AS THEY ARE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL THEY CAN WORK YEAR 03:36:08.109 --> 03:36:12.590 ROUND IF THEY ARE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL DURING MOST OF THEM ARE INTERNS AND WHEN THEY COME 03:36:12.590 --> 03:36:19.120 IN THE THREE OR FOUR MONTHS BETWEEN SEMESTERS AND THEN THEY GO THROUGH BUT IF THEY WERE 03:36:19.120 --> 03:36:25.609 WORKING HERE THEY COULD WORK FOR YOU YEAR ROUND HERE THEY HAVE TO BE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL 03:36:25.609 --> 03:36:26.609 THOUGH. 03:36:26.609 --> 03:36:32.149 >> Sara Baxter: THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION SHOULD I WOULD LOVE TO GET EMAILED THE INFORMATION. 03:36:32.149 --> 03:36:39.899 I SPEND A LOT OF TIME ASKING QUESTIONS, BUT I WOULD LIKE THEM ALSO TO IT UNLESS YOU DISAGREE 03:36:39.899 --> 03:36:45.100 AND HAVE THEM SIT HERE AND TALK TO ALL OF US BECAUSE INDIVIDUALLY WE CAN TELL THEM WHAT 03:36:45.100 --> 03:36:46.399 WE ALL WANT OR NOT. 03:36:46.399 --> 03:36:53.000 >> Maria Sachs: OF COURSE WE WOULD INCLUDE THE FISCAL IMPACT AND THAT IS AN IMPORTANT 03:36:53.000 --> 03:36:54.000 ISSUE. 03:36:54.000 --> 03:36:58.750 THERE ARE SOME THINGS I AM LEARNING MYSELF FOR THE FIRST TIME HERE IT MAY BE BECAUSE 03:36:58.750 --> 03:37:06.279 I DIDN'T READ ALL THE HR RULES BEFORE I SIGNED UP FOR THE JOB, BUT I PERSONALLY WOULD PREFER 03:37:06.279 --> 03:37:13.130 TO HAVE IT EMAILED TO ME IN MY OFFICE SO I CAN REVIEW IT AND ASK THE CORRECT QUESTIONS 03:37:13.130 --> 03:37:14.130 WOULD YOU LIKE THAT. 03:37:14.130 --> 03:37:16.101 >> Sara Baxter: I WOULD LOVE THAT. 03:37:16.101 --> 03:37:22.120 >> Maria Sachs: COULD WE GET ALL THIS INFORMATION TO US? 03:37:22.120 --> 03:37:27.170 IF WE NEED TO CHANGE OR MODIFY IT AND DIDN'T KNOW IF THEY WERE ENROLLED IN SCHOOL WE COULD 03:37:27.170 --> 03:37:32.779 WORK ALL THE TIME, THAT SOUNDS GREAT TO ME ROOTLETS GO AHEAD AND DO THAT IF WE COULD 03:37:32.779 --> 03:37:36.140 AND WE WILL TAKE IT UP AT A LATER DATE TO MAKE CHANGES AS APPROPRIATE. 03:37:36.140 --> 03:37:41.160 DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? 03:37:41.160 --> 03:37:42.160 VERY GOOD. 03:37:42.160 --> 03:37:43.160 OKAY. 03:37:43.160 --> 03:37:46.899 WE ARE UP TO VICE MAYOR. 03:37:46.899 --> 03:37:53.279 >> I'M SORRY, IS IT POSSIBLE TO CLARIFY WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE MAIL SPECIFICALLY WHAT 03:37:53.279 --> 03:37:55.620 YOU WERE LOOKING FOR? 03:37:55.620 --> 03:38:02.920 WE PUT OUT OUR AGENDA ON OUR WEBSITE. 03:38:02.920 --> 03:38:04.529 WE ALSO HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA. 03:38:04.529 --> 03:38:08.080 >> Maria Sachs: THE SECOND ISSUE, I AM SORRY. 03:38:08.080 --> 03:38:13.229 TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR. 03:38:13.229 --> 03:38:21.670 >> TO THE POINT OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA ISSUE, TO THE POINT OF DIGITAL DOESN'T REACH EVERYONE 03:38:21.670 --> 03:38:27.870 IN OUR CURRENT ORDINANCES IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO GO THROUGH EVERYONE IS A WOOD AREA BECAUSE 03:38:27.870 --> 03:38:32.050 IT IS TOO SPECIFIC WE WOULD NEED TO SEND PEOPLE TO. 03:38:32.050 --> 03:38:36.080 FOR INSTANCE, TODAY'S ANNEXATION I HAVE A FEELING I'M GOING TO BE RECEIVING A LOT OF 03:38:36.080 --> 03:38:44.060 EMAILS REGARDING ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE NORTH OF THE AREA BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T NOTIFIED 03:38:44.060 --> 03:38:50.561 VIA MAIL A LETTER OF WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE WAY WE ARE PUTTING OUT INFORMATION IS 03:38:50.561 --> 03:38:58.180 NOT GETTING TO EVERYONE IMPACTED BY OUR DECISIONS HIT BY SAYING WE CAN ONLY REACH PEOPLE IN 03:38:58.180 --> 03:39:02.950 DIGITAL FORMAT, SOME OUR RESIDENTS ARE NOT ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS. 03:39:02.950 --> 03:39:09.530 THEY ARE NOT SIGNED UP FOR NEWSLETTERS, THEY ARE NOT SIGNED UP FOR THINGS. 03:39:09.530 --> 03:39:15.859 I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A WAY THAT ALLOWS US. 03:39:15.859 --> 03:39:20.120 I CAN THINK OF ANYTHING MORE IMPORTANT REACHING OUT TO CONSTITUENTS AND HAVING THE MADE AWARE 03:39:20.120 --> 03:39:28.540 DECISIONS THEY ARE MAKING GREEN I LEAVE THAT TO THE ADMINISTRATOR. 03:39:28.540 --> 03:39:36.330 OF HOW WE CAN PROPERLY DO THAT AND HOW WE REACH OUT TO THE CONSTITUENTS IN EMAIL FORM, 03:39:36.330 --> 03:39:39.420 COST-EFFECTIVE MAIL FORM. 03:39:39.420 --> 03:39:44.741 LEAVE THAT TO THE EXPERTS BUT I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE OPTIONS BROUGHT BACK TO THE BOARD 03:39:44.741 --> 03:39:46.359 ON HOW WE COULD DO THAT. 03:39:46.359 --> 03:39:49.170 >> WE WILL LOOK INTO IT. 03:39:49.170 --> 03:39:55.850 FOR OUR ZONING AND COMP PLAN WHEN THE BOARD IS PROPOSING CHANGES, THERE'S A RADIUS IN 03:39:55.850 --> 03:39:58.950 WHICH INDIVIDUALS ARE SENT SOMETHING. 03:39:58.950 --> 03:40:06.069 HARD COPY BUT IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY EVERYBODY IN THE NORTHERN QUADRANT OF A CERTAIN AREA. 03:40:06.069 --> 03:40:09.399 WE WILL LOOK INTO IT AND BRING BACK OPTIONS FOR THE BOARD TO CONSIDER. 03:40:09.399 --> 03:40:12.070 >> Sara Baxter: NOT JUST FOR ZONING, PLEASE. 03:40:12.070 --> 03:40:17.550 >> I AM CLEAR, WE WILL BRING THEM BACK. 03:40:17.550 --> 03:40:23.239 >> COMMISSIONER BAXTER, IN RELATION TO THAT WE HAD A BOARD MEETING, MAYBE SIX OR EIGHT 03:40:23.239 --> 03:40:31.960 MONTHS AGO AND WE HAD THE OPTION FIRM A STATE LAW THAT WOULD GIVE US THE OPTION IS A COUNTY 03:40:31.960 --> 03:40:37.859 COMMISSION TO NOT ADVERTISE OR TO GIVE NOTICES IN THE PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS BUT I'VE ALWAYS BEEN 03:40:37.859 --> 03:40:41.859 OPPOSED TO THAT FOR YEARS. 03:40:41.859 --> 03:40:45.439 WE MAY WANT TO REVIEW. 03:40:45.439 --> 03:40:49.779 YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A LOCAL NEWSPAPER. 03:40:49.779 --> 03:40:58.229 WE HAVE OTHER LOCAL NEWSPAPERS THAT RECORD HAPPENINGS GOING OUT AND WILL BRING THE DISCUSSION 03:40:58.229 --> 03:41:01.609 ABOUT WOULD LIKE TO REVIEW PUBLICATIONS AND NEWSPAPERS. 03:41:01.609 --> 03:41:07.760 I BELIEVE IN NEWSPAPERS, I BELIEVE IN JOURNALISM AND I BELIEVE IN NOTICE AND IT JUST DEPENDS 03:41:07.760 --> 03:41:09.279 PRETTY GOOD DUE TO LOCAL NEWSPAPERS. 03:41:09.279 --> 03:41:12.380 IT MIGHT BE CHEAPER. 03:41:12.380 --> 03:41:19.680 I THINK OUR POST, THERE'S ALSO A NEWSPAPER THAT TAKES CARE OF THE AREAS IN THE EAST SIDE 03:41:19.680 --> 03:41:27.359 ALONG THE COAST, BUT IS IMPORTANT TO BRING THAT UP BECAUSE A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T KNOW 03:41:27.359 --> 03:41:34.159 AND THEY DON'T DO SOCIAL MEDIA AND I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT THAT AS WELL IF WE COULD. 03:41:34.159 --> 03:41:35.930 ALL RIGHT. 03:41:35.930 --> 03:41:37.080 COMMISSIONER BAXTER? 03:41:37.080 --> 03:41:42.380 >> Sara Baxter: I'M GOOD WITH WHAT YOU ARE SAYING, JUST PLEASE INCLUDED ALL DURING. 03:41:42.380 --> 03:41:45.850 >> Maria Sachs: VICE MAYOR, YOU ARE ON. 03:41:45.850 --> 03:41:52.739 >> Maria Marino: MY COMMENTS ARE GOING TO BE A LITTLE LONG AND I APOLOGIZE. 03:41:52.739 --> 03:41:58.649 FIRST AND BELIEVE YOU ALL RECEIVED A MEMO YESTERDAY WHERE I WAS GOING ASK THE BOARD 03:41:58.649 --> 03:42:07.160 SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION TO RENAME THE MEDICAL CENTER TO THE THOMAS H CORY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM 03:42:07.160 --> 03:42:10.229 OF WEST PALM BEACH. 03:42:10.229 --> 03:42:11.229 . MR. 03:42:11.229 --> 03:42:20.100 COREY TO THE MAJOR SACRIFICE IS A WAR HERO PAST AWAY AND 2022. 03:42:20.100 --> 03:42:26.229 HAS DONE MORE FOR OUR COUNTRY THAN ALL OF US COMBINED APPEAR. 03:42:26.229 --> 03:42:36.730 IT'S SO THERE IS LEGISLATION RIGHT NOW, THEY PROPOSES LEGISLATION TO CHANGE THE VA HOSPITAL 03:42:36.730 --> 03:42:42.060 NAME AND I WOULD LIKE SUPPORT OF THE REST ARE COMMISSIONED TO DO THAT. 03:42:42.060 --> 03:42:43.319 >> ABSOLUTELY. 03:42:43.319 --> 03:42:45.670 NO OBJECTION. 03:42:45.670 --> 03:42:52.930 THIS IS JUST SO WONDERFUL AND THANK YOU VICE MAYOR FOR BRINGING THIS UP. 03:42:52.930 --> 03:42:54.170 WE HAVE A FIRST BY YOU. 03:42:54.170 --> 03:43:01.340 I HAVE READ EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GENTLEMAN THAT I HAPPEN TO BE THERE AND I KNOW WHAT 03:43:01.340 --> 03:43:02.840 HAPPENED. 03:43:02.840 --> 03:43:04.710 LET'S DO THIS. 03:43:04.710 --> 03:43:10.699 WE HAVE A FIRST BY THE VICE MAYOR IN A SECOND BITE EVERYBODY. 03:43:10.699 --> 03:43:14.870 EVERYBODY SECONDS THIS. 03:43:14.870 --> 03:43:16.560 SEE THAT IT PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. 03:43:16.560 --> 03:43:20.200 >> Maria Marino: I'M NOT DONE. 03:43:20.200 --> 03:43:21.200 SORRY. 03:43:21.200 --> 03:43:25.819 THAT'S WHY I ASKED YOU IF YOU WERE LEAVING. 03:43:25.819 --> 03:43:36.020 AT THE JANUARY 23 VCC MEETING I WAS TOLD ABOUT DOING, PUTTING TOGETHER INFORMATION ABOUT 03:43:36.020 --> 03:43:42.880 HIRING A CONSULTANT IN THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE COMPILED SO FAR. 03:43:42.880 --> 03:43:54.479 AND HERE IS THE BOOK THAT HAS BEEN COMPILED SO FAR AND A TON OF INFORMATION FOR EVERYBODY 03:43:54.479 --> 03:43:55.479 TO READ. 03:43:55.479 --> 03:44:05.640 I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START READING THIS IS ABOUT THE WHOLE REORGANIZATION HIRING A 03:44:05.640 --> 03:44:12.890 CONSULTANT TO LOOK AT OUR ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE WHAT YOU WILL FIND THE NEAREST THE HISTORY 03:44:12.890 --> 03:44:19.970 OF PALM BEACH COUNTY, OUR MISSION AND VISION AND VALUES LOCAL AUTHORITIES, WE ARE A CHARTER 03:44:19.970 --> 03:44:21.380 COUNTY. 03:44:21.380 --> 03:44:25.600 I SPOKE, A RESEARCH THE OTHER CHARTER COUNTIES. 03:44:25.600 --> 03:44:32.699 THERE ARE 20 OF US IN THE STATE DURING THE DAY HAVE A COUNTY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERNMENT 03:44:32.699 --> 03:44:39.930 OR EXECUTIVE FORM A GOVERNMENT, 17 OF THE 20 HAVE A FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHO DOESN'T HAVE 03:44:39.930 --> 03:44:43.850 A NOTEBOOK. 03:44:43.850 --> 03:44:50.310 IT IS A LOT OF RESEARCH SO BEFORE WE GO DOWN THE ROAD HIRING A CONSULTANT I WOULD ASK ALL 03:44:50.310 --> 03:44:52.970 OF YOU TO LOOK THROUGH THE INFORMATION. 03:44:52.970 --> 03:45:00.830 IT TALKS ABOUT THE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT, TALKS ABOUT WHAT OUR RESPONSIBILITIES ARE AS COMMISSIONERS 03:45:00.830 --> 03:45:07.160 YOU TO TALKS ABOUT ACTIONS WE TAKE THAT MIGHT AFFECT THE CHARTER AND NOW WE HAVE TO DO THAT. 03:45:07.160 --> 03:45:13.159 IS A NON INTERFERENCE CLAUSE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT OUR LEGAL PARAMETERS ARE ROOTED 03:45:13.159 --> 03:45:20.330 DESCRIBES A COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR, WHAT HER JOB IS, WHAT HER ROLE IS, THE DEPARTMENT THAT 03:45:20.330 --> 03:45:27.100 FALL UNDERNEATH ARE THE SAME AS A COUNTY ATTORNEY THE SAME AS THE COUNTY AUDITOR AND I LEARNED 03:45:27.100 --> 03:45:32.810 THAT THE AUDITOR GETS REVIEWED BY THE AUDIT COMMITTEE. 03:45:32.810 --> 03:45:41.920 THIS IS IN THEIR ORDINANCE AND THAT AUDIT COMMITTEE IS ALSO ABLE TO COME AND BRING THAT 03:45:41.920 --> 03:45:42.920 TO US. 03:45:42.920 --> 03:45:48.100 WE HAVEN'T HEARD THAT SO I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THAT IN THE FUTURE. 03:45:48.100 --> 03:45:55.120 TALKS ABOUT THE BUDGET, TALKS ABOUT STUDIES THAT HAVE BEEN DONE IN THE PAST, SOME DIFFERENT 03:45:55.120 --> 03:45:56.120 STUDIES. 03:45:56.120 --> 03:46:02.710 KNOW THAT YOU WILL WANT ME TO BRING YOU A REPORT IN MARCH SO HERE IS THE BEGINNING OF 03:46:02.710 --> 03:46:06.180 THE REPORT AND IT IS ABOUT ALL THESE PAGES HERE. 03:46:06.180 --> 03:46:14.359 BUT I WILL WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT AFTER A LOT OF MEETINGS THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR THE 03:46:14.359 --> 03:46:22.710 OF MY LETTER, MEMORANDUM HERE BILLION ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE ONLINE 03:46:22.710 --> 03:46:25.060 PRETTY WENT LIVE THIS MORNING. 03:46:25.060 --> 03:46:28.810 THE PALM BEACH COUNTY AT A GLANCE PAGE. 03:46:28.810 --> 03:46:34.740 THE ONE THING THAT ISN'T THERE THAT WE ARE STILL COMPILING AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE 03:46:34.740 --> 03:46:43.050 THAT THE COUNTY IS RECEIVED FROM TEENS AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS THERE THAT HAS NOT BEEN ADDED, 03:46:43.050 --> 03:46:47.100 THAT HASN'T BEEN COMPILED, I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW FAR BACK WE WANT TO GO. 03:46:47.100 --> 03:46:52.600 WE GIVE PROCLAMATION ALL THE TIMES ABOUT HIS BE ACHIEVED IN AWARDS WE RECEIVED SO IF WE 03:46:52.600 --> 03:46:57.380 WANT TO GIVE A TIMEFRAME OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE IN THE WAY OF REWARDS BILLION THE REASON ALL 03:46:57.380 --> 03:47:02.620 THIS IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE IF WE ARE GOING TO DO REVIEWS OF OUR COUNTY AND ADMINISTRATOR 03:47:02.620 --> 03:47:06.700 AND ATTORNEY, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE REVIEWING. 03:47:06.700 --> 03:47:13.300 WE NEED TO HAVE A GUIDELINE, A BASIS FOR THAT REVIEW, WE DON'T HAVE THAT RIGHT NOW. 03:47:13.300 --> 03:47:20.279 I WOULD APPRECIATE IF YOU WOULD ALL READ THIS INFORMATION. 03:47:20.279 --> 03:47:27.300 IT WAS A HEAVY LIFT ABOUT THIS ALL TOGETHER I HAVE TO THANK STAFF BECAUSE AT EVERY TWIST 03:47:27.300 --> 03:47:33.399 AND TURN I WAS SAYING WE NEED THIS, HOW DO WE DID THAT YOU'RE IN THEY HAVE BEEN IN MY 03:47:33.399 --> 03:47:38.260 OFFICE EVERY WEEK SINCE THE LAST MEETING, MORE THAN ONCE A WEEK. 03:47:38.260 --> 03:47:43.930 AND SO WITH THAT HERE IS THE START. 03:47:43.930 --> 03:47:46.460 WE CAN REVIEW THIS. 03:47:46.460 --> 03:47:50.790 TIME FRAMES OR SOMETHING WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TIME FRAMES ARE GOING TO BE. 03:47:50.790 --> 03:47:55.090 I KNOW COMMISSIONER BERNARD WANTED TO DO SOMETHING RELATIVELY QUICK. 03:47:55.090 --> 03:47:57.830 I DON'T THINK THIS IS A QUICK PROCESS. 03:47:57.830 --> 03:48:10.080 ALEX, I CAN HEAR YOU SO PIPE DOWN FOR IN ONE EVERYBODY TO TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS THROUGH. 03:48:10.080 --> 03:48:16.800 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN READ THIS IN TWO WEEKS OR IF THIS IS SOMETHING WE DO THIS AGAIN IN 03:48:16.800 --> 03:48:18.859 APRIL. 03:48:18.859 --> 03:48:24.000 I DON'T WANT YOU TO RUSH AND MAKE IT A POOR DECISION. 03:48:24.000 --> 03:48:31.390 WE ARE ALWAYS ASKING FOR INFORMATION, HERE IS A REALLY GOOD START BUT I WILL LEAVE IT 03:48:31.390 --> 03:48:37.910 OPEN ENDED ON WHEN WE COME BACK TO TALK ABOUT THIS, BUT THE MAYOR IS LOOKING AT MAYBE READING 03:48:37.910 --> 03:48:42.890 IT IS A LOT OF INFO AND WE ARE ALL HUNGRY. 03:48:42.890 --> 03:48:51.640 IT IS 1:20 SO I ASK YOU ALL TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS. 03:48:51.640 --> 03:48:57.760 >> Maria Sachs: I THINK THIS IS AN EXCELLENT JOB THAT YOU DID. 03:48:57.760 --> 03:49:02.990 I'M GOING TO DIFFER TO COMMISSIONER BERNARD. 03:49:02.990 --> 03:49:05.680 YOU ARE RIGHT ON POINT. 03:49:05.680 --> 03:49:10.390 THIS IS THE DATE HE SAID YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE US THE INFORMATION. 03:49:10.390 --> 03:49:15.110 >> Maria Marino: THE START OF THE INFORMATION. 03:49:15.110 --> 03:49:20.909 >> THIS IS EXCELLENT BECAUSE AS I WAS REVIEWING IT NOW QUICKLY YOU HAVE ALL THE FLORIDA STATUTES 03:49:20.909 --> 03:49:29.090 HERE IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN IT COMES TO THE DIFFERENT AREAS WE ARE LOOKING AT. 03:49:29.090 --> 03:49:33.750 COMMISSIONER BERNARD, THIS WAS PART OF YOUR PROPOSAL. 03:49:33.750 --> 03:49:43.050 IF YOU COULD TO GIVE US SOME PARAMETERS OR DATES TO COME BACK AND MAYBE WE CAN DISCUSS 03:49:43.050 --> 03:49:46.530 DIFFERENT SECTIONS DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE COMMISSIONER. 03:49:46.530 --> 03:49:54.319 >> Mack Bernard: MY THINKING IS THAT WE ARE ABOUT TO GO INTO PROBABLY SPRING BREAK COMING 03:49:54.319 --> 03:50:00.040 UP SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE COULD AT LEAST AGREE TO DO THIS IN THE FIRST WEEK OF APRIL 03:50:00.040 --> 03:50:02.950 OR END OF MARCH. 03:50:02.950 --> 03:50:06.060 I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM THE BOARD. 03:50:06.060 --> 03:50:12.609 NOW IT GIVES US ENOUGH TIME TO REVIEW THIS AND THAT WAY WE CAN THOROUGHLY LOOK AT HOW 03:50:12.609 --> 03:50:14.460 WE WANT TO PROCEED WITH THIS. 03:50:14.460 --> 03:50:18.810 >> Maria Sachs: DID YOU WANT TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT SECTIONS? 03:50:18.810 --> 03:50:27.149 I KNOW YOU ARE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND HOW THEY ARE ORGANIZED OR DID YOU WANT 03:50:27.149 --> 03:50:28.149 TO BRING THAT UP? 03:50:28.149 --> 03:50:29.149 DID YOU NOTE. 03:50:29.149 --> 03:50:34.180 >> Mack Bernard: THIS IS THE FIRST IN GETTING THIS DOCUMENT SO IT'S VERY HARD FOR ME. 03:50:34.180 --> 03:50:42.310 >> Maria Sachs: WOULD YOU RATHER DO THAT AT OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING TO REVIEW THIS AND 03:50:42.310 --> 03:50:46.010 AT OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING GIVE US THE PARAMETERS? 03:50:46.010 --> 03:50:51.550 I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE PRUDENT TO TAKE THE ENTIRE THING BUT IF WE CAN DO IT IN DIFFERENT 03:50:51.550 --> 03:51:01.130 SECTIONS AS YOU WOULD PREFER THEN WE CAN DO THAT AT THAN THAT BOARD MEETING. 03:51:01.130 --> 03:51:07.710 IF WE COULD PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA FOR THE NEXT BOARD MEETING THEM COMMISSIONER BERNARD 03:51:07.710 --> 03:51:15.550 GIVE US THE PERIMETER FOR -I KNOW IT IS NEXT WEEK. 03:51:15.550 --> 03:51:17.800 JUST TO GIVE US THE PARAMETERS. 03:51:17.800 --> 03:51:26.119 >> THE NEXT MEETING IS NEXT WEEK, IS THERE AN APRIL 2 MEETING. 03:51:26.119 --> 03:51:30.680 >> YES, I BELIEVE MEETING IN APRIL. 03:51:30.680 --> 03:51:37.229 GIVE ME JUST A SECOND. 03:51:37.229 --> 03:51:38.270 >> Maria Marino: APRIL 2. 03:51:38.270 --> 03:51:39.270 >> APRIL 2. 03:51:39.270 --> 03:51:44.609 AFTER NEXT WEEK WILL BE OUR NEXT REGULAR BOARD MEETING. 03:51:44.609 --> 03:51:54.360 >> Maria Sachs: THAT WOULD GIVE YOU SUFFICIENT TIME TO GET AN IDEA OF STEP-BY-STEP WHAT WE 03:51:54.360 --> 03:51:55.360 WANT TO LOOK AT. 03:51:55.360 --> 03:51:56.360 OKAY? 03:51:56.360 --> 03:52:04.390 VICE MAYOR, AND THAT YOU WERE THE KID IN THE CLASS THAT ALWAYS HAD THE RESEARCH DONE RIGHT-OF-WAY. 03:52:04.390 --> 03:52:13.850 >> Maria Marino: I DIDN'T GET ALL OF IT FOR THE REASON WHY YOU DIDN'T GET THIS BEFOREHAND 03:52:13.850 --> 03:52:19.500 IS IT WAS STILL GETTING COMPILED LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS STILL GETTING PRINTED THIS MORNING 03:52:19.500 --> 03:52:24.810 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO DISCUSSING IT FURTHER IN APRIL AND WITH THAT I HAVE NO MORE COMMENTS 03:52:24.810 --> 03:52:25.810 EXCEPT I'M STARVING. 03:52:25.810 --> 03:52:32.189 >> Maria Sachs: BUT I HAVE MY COMMENTS. 03:52:32.189 --> 03:52:33.189 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 03:52:33.189 --> 03:52:34.830 I LOVE TO HAVE THESE BOARD MEETINGS. 03:52:34.830 --> 03:52:41.359 BE OF DIFFERENT AREAS OF INTEREST WITH OUR CONSTITUENTS BUT AT THE END WE ALL COME TO 03:52:41.359 --> 03:52:45.149 SEEM TO COME TO A FAVORABLE AND FAIR CONCLUSION. 03:52:45.149 --> 03:52:48.760 I DID GO TO THE ASIAN FOOD FESTIVAL. 03:52:48.760 --> 03:52:52.800 I WAS JOINED BY COMMISSIONER BERNARD THINKING ABOUT THE ASIAN FOOD FESTIVAL. 03:52:52.800 --> 03:52:59.280 I AM ABOUT READY TO BREAK FOR LUNCH YOU WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THEY CAN GO TO THE ANIMAL 03:52:59.280 --> 03:53:01.449 CARE AND CONTROL. 03:53:01.449 --> 03:53:07.189 IF YOU MENTIONED MARCY'S NAME IN MY BE ABLE TO FIND REALLY CUTE PUPPIES OR IF YOU MENTION 03:53:07.189 --> 03:53:13.060 COMMISSIONER WEISS YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO GET SOME KITTENS SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYBODY. 03:53:13.060 --> 03:53:16.979 WE ARE ADJOURNED BUT NO, WE ARE NOT. 03:53:16.979 --> 03:53:22.470 WE ARE IN RECESS UNTIL 2:00. 03:53:22.470 --> 03:53:26.300 THANK YOU.