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PEOPLE, MAN. ALRIGHT MADAM MAYOR LOVETT. HERE. $100 HERE. HERE DEANNA HERE. LEISURELY. HEAVENLY
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FATHER, WE COME BEFORE YOU AGAIN. KEEP US HUMBLE. KEEP US AWARE OF OUR TASK. PROTECT US FROM. FROM OUTSIDE FORCES THAT THAT TEND TO WANT TO DISRUPT US. MAKE US ALL AWARE THAT WE ARE ONE PEOPLE. WE ARE ONE TOWN. AND WE NEED YOUR GUIDANCE IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THAT. FOR OUR FAMILIES AND OUR CHILDREN. AND EVERYONE AND WE ASKED THIS IN YOUR NAME. AMEN. AMEN. AMEN. MY PLEASURE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IS STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.[ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, PULLED ITEMS OR OTHER MODIFICATIONS]
SORRY ABOUT THAT, DARREN. DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONS, DELETIONS POURED ITEMS ARE MODIFICATIONS AT THIS TIME STAFF DOES NOT HAVE ANY MADAM MAYOR. PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL AWARDS, RETAIL[1.
Retail Attraction and Recruitment Update - Mr. Charles Parker, Manager with Retail Coach.
]ATTRACTION AND RECRUITMENT UPDATE. MR CHARLES PARKER. BROWN YES, HE'LL BE MR PARKER WILL BE APPEARING BY ZOOM. MR. PARKER, ARE YOU THERE? YES CAN YOU HEAR ME LOUD AND CLEAR AND CLEAR. GO RIGHT AHEAD, SIR. PERFECT I'M GONNA SHARE MY SCREEN AND SKIP A LITTLE BIT OF LIKE HERE. UH FOR THOSE WHO MAY NOT KNOW ME IN THEIR MONEY AND DESTROYS PARKER ON THE PROJECT DIRECTOR FOR THE RETAIL COACH AND WE HAVE BEEN UNDER CONTRACT WITH VILLAGE SINCE MARCH OF LAST YEAR TO ASSIST WITH RETAIL RECRUITMENT AND ABOUT MINT. UH SINCE MARCH OF LAST YEAR, WE REACHED OUT TO OVER 40 NATIONAL AND REGIONAL, EVEN IF YOU LOCAL, REGIONAL AND RESTAURANTS TO PITCH THE MARKET TO INDIVIDUALS. AH THE MEGAPHONE FOR THE VILLAGE AND SAY, HEY, WE'VE GOT THESE GREAT SIZES.JUST LIKE YOUR SIDE OF THE ROAD YOU NEED YOU NEED TO ULTIMATELY OPEN UP BUSINESS IN TOWN.
THROUGHOUT THAT TIME, WE'VE BEEN TO EIGHT CONFERENCES REPRESENTING THE VILLAGE. UM AND IT'S BEEN A BIT OF A TOUCH THAT WE SEE IN MORE RURAL AREAS THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT BEFORE THE MAJOR GROWTH HITS. YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT OF GROWTH CUBAN UP IN TERMS OF ROOFTOPS.
BUT WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF PROGRESS. A LOT OF OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH THESE PROSPECTS OVER THE LAST 60 DAYS. AND I WILL ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT ON THAT, UH FIRST OF ALL I DO IS HIGHLIGHT JUST KIND OF THE ASPECT OF WHAT WE'RE PROMOTING THE CITY THROUGH OUR ANALYSIS.
WE DETERMINE OUR RETAIL TRADING. SO WHO ARE THE FOLKS THAT WE ARE MARKETING ON A DAILY BASIS, UM, THAT ARE GOING TO BUY, YOU KNOW , GROCERIES. GET SOMETHING TO EAT, UM, THEIR FIRST OPTION TO SHOP WOULD BE AN INDIAN TOWN AND THAT'S ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE IN THERE. UM BUT THE KEY PIECE HERE IS WE'RE ON THE VERGE OF EXTREME GROWTH. THOSE BRO CREATES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE UH, THE SPRING THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW MUCH IT EXPANDED WITH, YOU KNOW, THE THOUSANDS OF ROOFTOPS. UM AND NEW DEVELOPMENT WE'VE GOT YOU KNOW, SENIOR CARE COMING. WE HAVE A MIXTURE OF USES ON THE WAY WHERE OUR DENSITY IS ON THE VERGE OF EXTREME GROWTH, WHICH HAS BEEN A LOT OF OUR PICKS. A LOT OF OUR CONVERSATIONS. UM IT'S JUST KIND OF BUYING THAT SWEET SPOT WITH THEM. LOCATING IN ADDITION TO YOU KNOW, NEW BRAND LIKE THE TRACTOR SUPPLY, WHICH I GOT SOME DATA ON UM, WHERE THE OTHER BRANDS THAT NEED TO BE IN THE MARKET OF JOINTS. WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE TOWN TO GO AND BUY EVERYTHING FROM NECESSITIES TO THINGS YOU WANT TO BUY PLACES TO EAT AND THINGS TO DO. NO I APOLOGIZE. A FEW OF THESE GRAPHICS THOSE QUICKLY LINES AT THE BOTTOM. UM THAT IS OUR FOOT TRAFFIC TO REALLY THE TOP THREE FT TRAFFIC BUSINESSES IN TOWN.
THE MCDONALD'S IS THE BLUE. THE BURGER KING IS THE RED AND A DOLLAR GENERAL IS DEGREE. AND THAT IS A MAP FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF SPRING TO JANUARY. 2020 NO PRE COVID AS WE'RE TALKING NOW.
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UP TO JUST A FEW WEEKS AGO TUESDAY, THERE WAS A WHY AND THE BIG TAKEAWAY. THERE'S THAT WE REALLY AREN'T QUITE EVEN BACK TO PRE COVID LEVELS IN TERMS OF FOOT TRAFFIC TO SOME OF OUR PHYSICIANS, SINCE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL LAGGING BEHIND THAT WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF RURAL COMMUNITIES THAT HAVEN'T HAD THE GROWTH BECAUSE WE HAD NO ONE FULL QUARTER OF, YOU KNOW, FULL LOCKDOWN. BUT THEN JUST THE UNCERTAINTY OF KNOWING WHERE GROWTH WAS FOR ABOUT 6 TO 8 MONTHS THERE AND 2020 BEFORE BRANDS ARE NOW BACK IN FULL EXPANSION. IN MODE. DESPITE THE HIGH RISING COSTS AND CONSTRUCTION. WE KNOW THEY'RE STILL DROPPING STORES AND WE'RE SEEING INTEREST FROM THAT. SO THAT WAS ONE THING HOLDING US BACK JUST A LITTLE BIT. I'VE GOT JUST SOME SOME FEEDBACK JUST TO SHARE KIND OF WHAT OUR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE VILLAGE HAVE BEEN. WE ARE FACING SOME HURDLES THAT YOU WILL SEE IN ANY RULE MARKET AND THEN BE YOU KNOW , YOUNG MARKET SINCE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE VILLAGES IS STILL VERY YOUNG COMMUNITY BY BEING IS AN EMERGING MARKET. UM THERE'S STILL A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY THERE FOR IT TO DROP A NEW STORE AND THEN ALSO BEING BIT RURAL. RURAL WE'VE HAD SOME SOME BRANDS SAY, HEY, THAT MIGHT BE A MARKET WOULD GO INTO IT'S JUST WE DON'T HAVE A FRANCHISEE THAT HAS CLAIMED THAT TERRITORY. WE'RE NOT ASSIGNED IT TO IT AND OBVIOUSLY BEING FRANCHISE DRIVEN . UM IT HOLDS A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS. I WILL SAY THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH GROWTH THAT IS ON THE DOCKET. THAT IS TO COME. WE'RE IN THAT SWEET SPOT THAT YOU KNOW IT HURTS A SHORT TERM THAT THESE RETAILERS ARE WAITING FOR SOME OF THAT GROWTH TO REALLY POP BEFORE THEY HIT SO THEY'RE STILL IN A HOLDING PATTERN SAYING, YEAH, WE LIKE THAT MARKET, BUT WE'RE GOING TO WAIT UNTIL WE GET A LITTLE MORE VERTICAL. FEW OF THOSE HOUSING PROJECTS OR WAIT UNTIL TWO OR MORE THINGS STARTING TO COME IN AND OBVIOUSLY, THE TRACTOR SUPPLY IS A BIG PART OF THAT, WHICH TRACKED ITS GROWTH THE LAST FOUR SINCE IT'S BEEN OPEN. I THINK WHAT AROUND APRIL WHEN IT OPENED UP THIS YEAR, I BELIEVE, UM IN THE LAST THREE OR FOUR MONTHS, IT'S RANKED AND THE 55 PERCENTILE OF SWORDS ACROSS THE COUNTRY IN TERMS OF FOOT TRAFFIC, SO IT IS SLIGHTLY ABOVE AVERAGE, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS FOR US, BUT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY BLOWING OFF THE DOORS YET, BUT THE FACT THAT IT IS COMPETING RELATIVELY WELL TO ITS FEARS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. WHEREAS IT'S KIND OF THE FIRST CANOE, RETAIL AND SIGNIFICANT RETAIL AND THE MARKET IS OBVIOUSLY GOOD NEWS. A FEW THINGS THAT OTHER QSR THAT WE'VE TALKED TO HAVE GIVEN US. FEEDBACK ON IS THAT THE MCDONALD'S BURGER KING, THEIR AVERAGE UNIT SALES FOR THOSE TWO SIDES ARE STILL A LITTLE BIT LOW FOR WORLD MARKETS. UM JUST FOR THE FACT THAT YOU DROP IN, UM YOU KNOW AN ADDITIONAL QSR. I DON'T WANT TO NAME NAMES PUBLICLY THAT HAVE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE LIKE TO SEE THEM HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE. HIGHER SCALES KNOWING THAT WE COME IN THAT IS THERE ENOUGH FOR THREE OF US TO OPERATE, SO THEY'RE WAITING FOR MORE DENSITY TO POP IN ON THAT AND ALSO THE TRAFFIC COUNTER THE TRAFFIC COUNT FROM FLORIDA D O T DOWN THE MAIN DRAG THERE, AND THE LATEST ONE IS ABOUT JUST UNDER 14,000. IT HASN'T GROWN VERY MUCH AT ALL SINCE THE 2020 18, WHICH WAS 13,600 AVERAGE CARS PER DAY. UH SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF SHOWS THAT OF THE DENSITY THAT'S COMING AND HASN'T QUITE AFFECTED THE NUMBER. IS YET TO WEAR. IT WORKS WITH THE MODELS MOVING IN AND OBVIOUSLY JUST LACK OF CURRENT DENSITY. BUT AS EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM, I'M SURE KNOWS THAT THAT CERTAINLY EXCHANGED RELATIVELY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, AND THAT IS HOW WE ARE TRYING TO SHAPE OUR CONVERSATIONS WORKING WITH SOME OF THESE RETAILERS, I WILL SAY ON THE PROGRESS SIDE OF IT, UH, OUR LAST CONFERENCE WAS THE ICSC LAS VEGAS SHOW. IT'S THE BIGGEST RETAIL REAL ESTATE CONFERENCE IN THE COUNTRY, AND THIS WAS THE FIRST ONE TIME IT WAS BACK SINCE THREE. COUNTRY AND WE HAD SIGNIFICANT INTEREST , ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF WHERE WE WERE PRIOR TO UM, THE LAST YOU KNOW, 68 MONTHS. WORKING ON THAT WE'VE GOTTA QSR THAT'S INTERESTED IN COMING TO TOWN.FINALLY WE HAVE TO NATIONAL PIZZA CONCEPTS THAT HAVE ASKED FOR INFORMATION ON SITE AND WASTING INFORMATION. ONE IS FRANCHISE DRIVEN. THEY DON'T HAVE A FRANCHISE YET, BUT WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM TO MAYBE FIND AN ADJACENT FRANCHISEE OR ELSEWHERE IN MARTIN COUNTY. YOU MIGHT WANT TO TAKE OVER OUR MARKET, BUT ALSO ONE THAT IS JUST CORPORATE LOCATIONS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON FINDING A SPACE, YOU KNOW, EVEN WORKING WITH LOCAL DEVELOPERS. NO YOU'VE GOT THREE OR FOUR GROUPS. THEY'RE IN TOWN THAT ARE BUILDING A LOT OF THE SPACE ON HOW WE FIND SPOT FOR THEM. AND THEN A HIGH END. UH CONVENIENCE STORES ALSO WHICH DIDN'T FINDING SPACE, SO WE'VE IT FEELS LIKE THINGS ARE LOOSENING UP. MORE NAME RECOGNITION IS IMPROVING FOR THE VILLAGE OF INDIAN TOWN. I KNOW. OBVIOUSLY MARTIN COUNTY IS A BIG NAME. BUT KNOWING THAT THINGS ARE MOVING OUT TOWARDS THE LAKE THAT YOU'VE GOT THE FACTORS SUPPLY THAT OPENED UP.
YOU KNOW ALL THE NEW HOUSING THAT PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO HEAR ABOUT BECAUSE YOU GOT SOME
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NATIONAL HOME, UH, NATIONAL HOMEBUILDERS IN THE MIX EVEN THINGS LIKE THE PUBLIC THAT WAS ANNOUNCED WITH YOU. YES, A FEW YEARS AGO AT THIS POINT, RIGHT THERE KIND OF WEST WESTERN.STILL WESTERN MARTIN COUNTY WAS STILL EAST OF INDIAN TOWN. PEOPLE REALIZE THAT THERE IS GROWTH MOVING THAT WAY IS JUST CATCHING UP TO IT FOR THAT COMPONENT TO IT, SO I WILL SAY OUR CONTRACT IS GENERALLY AN ANNUAL CONTRACT, MEANING THAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN UP IN MARCH.
BUT WE HAVE EXTENDED IT TO THIS POINT AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT INTERNALLY WE'RE GONNA EXTEND IT THROUGH THE END OF ■THE YEAR. IE FEEL LIKE WE CAN STILL BE SUCCESSFUL HERE WITHIN THE OUR FIRST CONTRACT. WE FEEL LIKE THINGS ARE LOOSENING UP IT BECAUSE WE'VE HAD SOME RENEWED INTEREST IN A FEW. THESE PIECES. WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THIS THROUGH IT AND HOPEFULLY GET, UH EITHER AN L O I OR REALLY STRONG PROGRESS BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR IS UP, KNOWING THAT IT'S STILL LIKE I GOT THIS PALETTE E AND THAT WITH BUDGET EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, WE WANT TO BE EXTREMELY FAIR. AND I SAY WE BELIEVE WE CAN SEE THIS THING THROUGH AND HOPEFULLY HAVE AH! AN ANNOUNCEMENT ARE CLOSE TO ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE END OF THE YEAR FOR AT LEAST ONE NEW CONCEPT COMING TO THE TO THE TOWER. THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT THERE ARE QUESTIONS ABOUT KIND OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE. ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON? I'D LOVE TO OPEN IT UP FOR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. AWESOME SAUCE. ALRIGHT COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ AND THEN THOMAS? YES UM, FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THE RETAIL. UM REPORT THAT YOU GAVE US OUR RESIDENTS REALLY HAVING ASKING US FROM DAY ONE THAT THEY WANT THIS BECAUSE TRAFFIC AND STEWART IS GETTING REALLY BAD. IT TAKES AN HOUR TO GET THERE, AND NOW WE'RE BACK. SO UM, RIGHT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DO, UM I WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HIGH END C STORE.
WHAT IS THE C STORE? ARMENIAN STORE GAS STATION FOR LACK OF BETTER TERM GENERALLY, WHEN YOU SEE EMERGING MARKETS LIKE THIS, THERE IS A PATTERN TO RETAIL GROWTH. SO YOU KNOW, THE FIRST THING YOU GET IS, UH, FAST FOOD , RESTAURANTS AND GAS STATIONS AS PROOF CONCEPT. DRAW THEM FOOT TRAFFIC. THEN AFTER THAT, YOU GET YOUR FAST CASUAL. TYPES OF, UH BUT EVERYTHING LIKE IT'S PROBABLY OUT OF THE WORLD. COFFEE SHOPS GO IN ORDER, YOU KNOW, PIECE OF PLACE LIKE THAT, AND THEN ULTIMATELY GET SIT DOWN RESTAURANTS OR KIND OF HOW THINGS TEAR UP IN TERMS OF OVERALL QUALITY. UM AND BRANDT. SO, UM IN TERMS OF RETAIL HAVING A HIGH END C STORE THERE, TWO OR THREE ME IN EVERYTHING FROM I CONSIDER THOSE THE WALL A RACETRACK CUTIES OF THE WORLD SHEETS, YOU KNOW, FURTHER NORTH OF YOU GUYS, BUT THE ONES THAT YOU DON'T FEEL BAD GOING IN AND USING THE RESTROOM OR GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF EITHER COFFEE THERE. UM IT'S KIND OF A STAMP OF APPROVAL. THAT ALRIGHT, THIS THIS COMMUNITY IS READY FOR GROWTH, OR IT'S THE FIRST THING.
THE ELDER ENOUGH CARS COMING THROUGH THERE. THERE PROBABLY SOMETHING TO EAT TWO OR SOMEWHERE ELSE TO SHOP. SO IT'S AH, A BIT OF AN INDICATOR TYPE CONCEPT OF ONCE YOU LAND A HIGH END C STORES KIND OF NEWS THAT SOMETHING ELSE IS BOUND TO COME VERY QUICKLY. I DO ALSO SEE THAT YOU SAID THE TRAFFIC COUNT HASN'T GROWN, BUT WE'VE SEEN THAT TRAFFIC. TRAFFIC HAS GROWN SIGNIFICANTLY. YOUR FIRST SOMEONE THAT HAS LIVED HERE SINCE 1991 THAT TRAFFIC HAS GROWN, SO I'M NOT SURE ARE THEY NOT STOPPING CAN BE BACK FROM FLORIDA, D O T. AND MAYBE SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO INDEPENDENT STUDY FROM BUT JUST THE THERE TRAFFIC ON COUNT THE AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC COUNT THROUGH THE MODELS THAT FOR D O. T HAS PUBLISHED THROUGH THEIR DATA SETS AND LIKE, SAY, IN 2018 , AND WAS 13,620 21, IT WAS 13,900 SO WE HAVEN'T QUITE SEEN THE PROFILE ON THAT. THROUGHOUT THE MAIN STRETCH THERE FROM REALLY FROM THE MCDONALD'S BURGER CAME UP TO THE TRACTOR SUPPLY. SOME OF THE OTHER ARTERIES HAVE GROWN A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, BUT NOT TO THE POINT OF WHERE THEY ULTIMATELY WILL BE . ONCE THE PLANNED NUMBER OF ROOFTOPS SENATE THAT ARE ON THE DOCK AND ULTIMATELY OPEN UP IT AND WE GET TOO MUCH HIGHER THAN TREE WHICH, YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS FROM NOW, I WOULD RATHER THAT PRODUCT TRAFFIC COUNT LIKELY DOUBLE OKAY? AND THEN LACK OF FRENCH IS FRANCHISEE. THAT'S SOMEONE THAT WANTS TO FRANCHISE THE STORE CORRECT. RIGHT SO A LOT OF YOUR FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS. UH A LOT OF YOUR RESTAURANTS HAVE MINERAL THEY ARE DRIVEN BY FRANCHISEES. SO YOU HAVE A BUSINESS OWNER DOT BASICALLY BUYS THE NAME AND OPENS UP MULTIPLE STORES. THAT'S EVERYTHING FROM YOU KNOW MCDONALD'S AXES OF THE WORLD THAT THEY DON'T OPEN. IT DON'T OPEN CORPORATE STORES, SO IT'S NOT THE COMPANY OPENING OF ITS AN INDIVIDUAL BORROWING THE NAME SO A LOT OF CASES LIKE THIS,
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THEY EITHER BY COUNTY OR BY COMMUNITY OR SOMETHING. PARENT IT'S YOU KNOW, JUST SMALL SECTIONS, AND THAT MY CERTAIN FRANCHISEES HAVE RIGHTS TO BUILD STORES AND CERTAIN AREAS SO THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE PROPER CHANNELS. SO IN CASE LIKE THIS, IT PROBABLY MAKES THE MOST SENSE THAT A FRANCHISEE ELSEWHERE IN MARTIN COUNTY, UM OR SOMEWHERE ELSE, SOUTH FLORIDA LIKELY COME NORTH OR OUT OF ORLANDO BECOMES SOUTH, UH, RATHER THAN A BRAND NEW FRANCHISEE, BUT IN SOME CASES IN EMERGING MARKETS, YOU CAN GET A LOCAL PERSON TO GO AND TALK TO HIM BECOMING FRANCHISING AS WELL. WELL THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE EXTRA MONTHS. FOR FREE. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT. SO YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. THERE'S MY CONTACT INFORMATION. I KNOW IT'S HARD SOMETIMES TO COMMUNICATE VIRTUALLY A COUNCIL MEETINGS. THAT'D BE HAPPY TO SPEAK WITH ANYONE ON THE COUNCIL OR ANYONE IN THE ROOM AS WELL. ONE ON ONE AND TALK ABOUT WHAT WE'RE SEEING, OR IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY OR HAVE A PROJECT THAT WE CAN ASSIST WITH PROVIDED DATA HELPED GET A PRODUCT ACROSS THE LAND. BE HAPPY TO HELP ON ONE ON ONE SETTING AS WELL. COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMAS THANK YOU, UM YEAH. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I UNDERSTOOD THAT CORRECTLY. OUR CONTRACT ENDED AT IN MARCH OF 2022. YEAH, WE WERE SET TO EXPIRE AT MARCH OF 2022. WE HAD ABOUT A QUARTER THAT WE HAVE CONTINUED ON BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SEE THIS THROUGH IT, AND WE DECIDED TO SEND THAT FURTHER THROUGH THE END OF THIS YEAR, SO ESSENTIALLY EIGHT MONTHS FOR THE QUERY, UM, THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO DO RIGHT BY THE VILLAGE, AND THEY SAY, GET GET ONE OF THESE WINDS ACROSS THE GOAL, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN CLOSE AND FEEL LIKE YOU'VE HAD SOME STRONG PROGRESS TO OUR COMMUNICATION WITH THE PROSPECTS THAT WE HAVE, ESPECIALLY IN THE LAST 60 YEARS. FANTASTIC ALSO, UM, AND THAT WAS WAS THAT A YEAR CONTRACT TO YOUR CONTRACT WHEN YOU WORK ON ANNUAL CONTRACT PUBLIC MEETING, BUT DON'T GO SPOUTING IT OUT TOO MUCH SO OTHER CLIENTS MAY NOT ENJOY SOME OF THOSE BEHAVIORS. BUT LIKE I SAID, BECAUSE YOU ARE YOUNG VILLAGE AND WE KNOW THEY'RE CLOSE, UM YEAH, YOU KNOW, JUST OUTSIDE POWERS FROM THE CODE, EVERYTHING ELSE I WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA. MAKE SURE WE CAN DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO ULTIMATELY GET A NEW FLAG IN TOWN. A NEW A NEW WIN SOMETHING TO AMENITY WISE FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS DO ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. WE APPRECIATE YOUR PERSISTENCE. UM AND I GUESS I CAN GET WITH STAFF ON WHAT THAT YEARLY CONTACT TRACKED WAS A PRICE. I DON'T THINK WE CAN FOLLOW. TALK ABOUT THAT. I HAVE TO SAY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT ARE, UH OUR 100 FIXATIONS ARE, UM I HESITATED TO SAY ANY NAMES IN A PUBLIC SETTING. BUT IN THE EXPLOSION EXACTLY SESSION WE CAN SHARE WHO THOSE PROSPECTS ACTUALLY ARE TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT RATHER THAN JUST QUICK SERVE RESTAURANT OR PIZZA CONTACTS THAT WE CAN. WE CAN SHARE THOSE IN A PRIVATE SETTING. OKAY THANK YOU SO MUCH APPRECIATE. THAT WAS A INFORMATION PACKED PRESENTATION. APPRECIATE IT. VICE MAYOR WAS QUITE THANKS FOR BEARING WITH ME. THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR PARKER FOR SHARING THE INFORMATION. UM UH, UH, A LOT OF US HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT UM, ONE OF THE WAYS OF HOW WE'RE MOVING. INDIAN TOWN FORWARD. UM I WANTED TO ASK, SO I KNOW THAT SOME OF THIS INFORMATION KIND OF STARTED, UM, PRE PANDEMIC. AND THEN KIND OF LEAD UP TO TODAY.UM AH, I DON'T KNOW HOW HARD IT WOULD BE TELL. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT WOULD BE TO SEE THE IMPACT OF THIS, BUT I WANTED TO ASK, ANYWAY, UM ONE. HOW HOW DID THE PANDEMIC KINDA, UH DUE TO OUR NUMBERS AS IT RELATES TO RETAIL AND GETTING, YOU KNOW CARS THROUGH. I THINK HERNANDEZ WAS SHARING ABOUT, UMR TRAFFIC THROUGH THE VILLAGE SO THAT THAT WOULD KIND OF BE MY FIRST QUESTION. WHAT WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? UM YOU KNOW HOW DID THAT AFFECT US? AND THEN, UM , THE SECOND QUESTION TO THAT IS ARE WE LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD? UM WITH THIS, THIS MONKEY POX AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. UM AND THEN MY THIRD QUESTION IS UM, UM , I NOTICED THAT THERE IS A RETAIL DASHBOARD. UM SO IT'S A RETAIL. 3 60 DOT US, UH, SLASH INDIAN TOWN HYPHEN FL WHEN I WENT TO THAT IT DOES, SAY THE RETAIL COACH. UH BUT, UM IS WOULD THIS BE WHERE THE PRESENTATION WOULD BE. IF ANY OF THAT MAKES SENSE. WELL I WAS ON YOU. YES DASHBOARD. I WILL CHECK
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TO MAKE SURE IT MAYBE REFRESH OR SOMETIMES I'LL CHECK. THERE SHOULD BE LIVE. BUT ALL OF OUR REPORTS WE HAVE ABOUT A DOZEN RECORDS THAT WE HAD EXECUTED EVERYTHING FROM LEAKAGE STUDIES TO CELL PHONE STUDIES OF WHERE PEOPLE COMING FROM DEMOGRAPHIC PSYCHOGRAPHIC. UM WHOLE LOT MORE DATA THAT ONE BUT THE ROOM DEMON MORRIS, UH, ASLEEP. IT'S ALL GOOD. I WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT IS REFRESHING AT THAT KIND OF ISSUES WITHOUT CHECK ON OUR I T. FOR OUR END, FOR THAT IS A SITE THAT IS UP AND RUNNING THAT POST ALL OF THOSE. PDF REPORTS FOR DOWNLOAD. BACKING UP TO THE IMPACT OF COVID 19. I KNOW IT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT SMALLER SCREEN THERE, BUT LOOKING BACK YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT 1ST 3RD OF THE THREE SQUIGGLY LINES FROM ABOUT MARCH 20 22ND TAKE MORE THROUGH, YOU KNOW THE NEXT THREE REPORT TEX. ESPECIALLY IN THE GREEN LINE, THE RED LINE. THE GREEN LINE IS THE DOLLAR GENERAL , WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO DRIVE THROUGH A DOLLAR GENERAL, WHEREAS MCDONALD'S BURGER KING AND GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A SAFER EXPERIENCE FUND TO ATTRACT THROUGH BEING A PANDEMIC. UH BUT YOU DON'T SEE MCDONALD'S AND DOLLAR GENERAL SPECIALLY HAVE THAT DOWNTICK FOR THOSE THREE OR FOUR MONTHS WHERE WE HAD OUR HARSHEST OF LUCK, BUT IT DEFINITELY DID AFFECT WITH THE TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY BASED OF DALLAS, TEXAS, AND FLORIDA. UH FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, WE'RE NOT HIT AS HARD IN TERMS OF FOOT TRAFFIC AS PEOPLE STILL REMAIN A LITTLE BIT MORE ACTIVE SHOPPING, THEN MAYBE SOME OTHER STATES. UH, BUT.CERTAIN AREAS. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, IT IS EXTREME DRAMATIC DROP THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT IT LIKE, OH, THAT'S WHEN THE PANDEMIC STARTED, AND THAT'S WHEN LOCKDOWNS ENDED. SO THE FACT THAT YOU DON'T SEE THIS STARKEST OF DROPS AND INCREASES ON THIS MAP SHOWS THAT INDIAN TOWN IN A SENSE WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE RESILIENT HEARING CODE. WE SAW THAT A LOT MORE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES THAT YOU KNOW YOU FEEL LIKE YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY FEEL A LITTLE BIT SAFER THAN YOU WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, GOING AND OF COURSE, ST LUCIE. YOU'RE GOING INTO ORLANDO, WHERE YOU KNOW THEY PROBABLY FELT A LITTLE SCARIER DURING A PANDEMIC. UH BUT THE FACT THAT THERE'S NOT A BIG DROP. IT FEELS LIKE IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE RESILIENT, WHICH IS A GOOD THING FOR THE RECRUITMENT SIDE OF THINGS. UH AND THEN, LOOKING AHEAD TO MONKEY POX. WE HAVEN'T SEEN A WHOLE LOT OF IMPACT ON THAT YET, AND IT'S STILL KINDA ABOUT SEEING WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE.
I THOUGHT THE WEATHER I THINK CASES CAST 6600, WHICH MAKES US THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS NEVER A GOOD THING TO BE FIRST. BUT IN TERMS OF ACCOUNTANTS AFFECTED SHOPPING AND RETAIL, YET WE CAN NOT SEEN ANYTHING STILL VERY EARLY AND UNKNOWN, BUT YOU KNOW, CONSISTENCY IS IT'S NOT GOING TO BE THE SAME IN ATTACKS AS COVID ONCE, BUT THAT CAN THAT CAN CHANGE IN A HEARTBEAT AS WELL. RIGHT? AND I, AND I WANTED TO MENTION THAT BECAUSE I THINK YOU KNOW, UH, MY JUST THOUGHTS THAT WE COULD PUT COULD BE POSSIBLY HEADING TOWARDS SOME TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, HALF LOCKDOWN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM BECAUSE OF HOW CONTAGIOUS UH, IT IS AND HOW EFFECTIVE IT HAS BEEN AT TWO SPREADING. UM SO ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. I APPRECIATE IT, MR PARKER. ABSOLUTELY THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY, MR PARKER TO EXTEND YOUR SERVICE TO US, SO I AM CONFIDENT THAT SOMETHING WILL BREAK. AND, UH, PROJECT WOULD BE SOLIDIFIED. AT THE END OF THIS YEAR. SO MY QUESTION IS, UM THOSE ARE NUMBERS. YOU GOTTA BURN MCDONALD'S AT 342,000 IS THAT IN SIX MONTHS INCREMENTS OR THOSE YEARLY NUMBERS OVER 2.5 YEARS, USUALLY ANNUALIZED THAT, BUT THAT IS JUST OVER A LARGER SCALES. I WANTED TO SHOW THE IMPACT OF COVID I KNOW ANNUALLY. UM, IT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT A THIRD OF THAT OVERALL NUMBER IN TERMS OF VISITORS AND OVERALL VISITS. AH! FOR I GUESS REFERENCE OVER THE LAST FOUR MONTHS, TRACTOR SUPPLY HAD SAID OVER 20,000 UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS AND ABOUT 50,000 VISITS PRINCESS GRAND OPENING. THAT'S PROBABLY A BIT MORE ON PAR WITH, UM KIND OF SHORTER TERM ASPECT OF HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE COMING THROUGH THE MARKET AND SHOPPING. OKAY? THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, UM. MADAM CLERK. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I JUST HAVE ONE ANSWER FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS. MUSIC GIVES THOMAS CONTRACT AMOUNT FOR THIS PARTICULAR CONTRACT WAS $33,000. WITH UP TO $3000 FOR REIMBURSEMENTS. YOU'RE WELCOME. OH AND MR PARKER. IF YOU SHARE ANY INFORMATION, PLEASE MAKE SURE ALL THE COUNCIL GET IT. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE HAVE A STRATEGIC
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UPDATE, UH, PLAYING PROGRESS REPORT, MR BROWN. TAKE CARE OF MR PARKER. THANKS. THANK YOU. MR PARKER. APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION, AND, UM THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. UH, OUR LAST STRATEGIC PLANNING, RETREAT OR MEETING WAS ON APRIL 2ND. AH DURING THAT TIME WE CAME UP WITH YOU KNOW SEVERAL STRATEGIES AND OBJECTIVES TO GET TO CARRY OUT.TWO GOALS THAT WE HAD AND YEAH. YEAH. SO WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR. NOT ONLY DO WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR, WE HAVE UPDATES, YOU KNOW, REGULAR UPDATES TO THE COUNCIL ON PROGRESS BEING MADE. AND SO OUR STRATEGY THIS YEAR WAS TO HAVE THE DEPARTMENT'S KIND OF GREAT US TO SEE WHERE WE'RE AT ON. ALL THE STRATEGIES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, BUT PRIMARILY OUR TWO MAIN GOALS, 11 ACTION STRATEGIES AND. IF YOU'RE CALLING APRIL 2ND MEETING, WE REALLY KIND OF COLD OUT OR NARROWED DOWN OUR WHOLE PROCESS TO TRY TO REALLY FOCUS ON GETTING THINGS DONE QUICKLY.
WITH RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE SO THIS REPORT SHOWS, UH, A LETTER GRADE JUST LIKE YOU WOULD GET IN SCHOOL A B C D. AND THOSE ARE THOSE WERE DONE BY OUR DEPARTMENT. AND THIS IS A LEGEND. SO WHEN YOU SEE IF YOU GO TO THE ACTUAL PLANETS ONLINE UNDER THE VILLAGES WEBSITE, UH, THE ACTUAL PLAN IS THERE AND THIS IS A LEGEND OF WHAT THINGS STAND FOR, SO WE DON'T SOMETIMES WE DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF SPELLING OUT THE ENTIRE NAME LIKE THE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT BOARD OR DEVELOPMENT BLOG. GRANT SO WELL NEAR WILL HAVE ABBREVIATIONS. AND SO THAT'S JUST A LEGEND SHOWING YOU WHAT THE ABBREVIATIONS ARE. SO THE WAY THIS THIS IS GOAL, A GOAL A WAS TO STRENGTHEN OUR LOCAL COUNTY BY ACCOMMODATING, GROWING AND ATTRACTING BUSINESS, COMMERCE, INDUSTRY AND JOBS, THEREBY ATTRACTING NEW AND IMPROVED HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND INCREASED PROPERTY VALUES AND TAX BASE. AND SO THAT WAS THE GOAL. THAT GOAL SLIGHTLY CHANGED FROM THE GOAL WE HAD BACK IN 2019, WHICH WAS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME THING, BUT IT WAS REALLY A FOCUS ON, UH , HOUSING GETTING THE HOUSING STARTED. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT WE'LL JUST GO CATEGORY BY CATEGORY, SO ONE OF OUR ACTIONS WAS TO PARTNER WITH THE BDB AND MARTIN COUNTY AND REALLY USE THEM AS A WAY TO HELP US WITH INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE THOSE WOULD BE THAT WOULD BE WHERE THE JOBS COULD COME FROM. WHERE THEY'RE BIG WERE JOB CENTERS COULD BE, UM, REALLY EMBELLISHED THEIR WITH WORKING WITH THE BDB BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FOR MADE BIG INDUSTRIES AND WITH THOSE BIG INDUSTRIES AND HIGH TECH INDUSTRIES COMES JOBS, AND SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE BDB IN THAT REGARD. YOU DO RECALL WE GAVE THEM ABOUT THINK IT WAS $10,000 TO HELP US WITH SOME PART BUSINESS INCUBATOR ISSUES AS WELL. AND SO WE THINK THAT WE'RE AT A B PLUS WITH THEM RIGHT NOW, UH, ON THE WATER AND WASTEWATER PLANT TRANSITION. WE'RE GIVING OURSELVES A MINUS BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING. WE JUST COMPLETED THE WATER, THE DRINKING WATER AND WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN. WE HAVE, UH, COMPLETED DESIGN ON THE WATER IMPROVEMENTS. UM I'M SORRY. WE'RE WORKING ON THE START DESIGN ON THE WARD IMPROVEMENTS , BUT WE COMPLETED DESIGN ON US AND TERRY SORE IMPROVEMENTS. AND SO WE'RE DOING REALLY WELL, THEY'RE NOT ONLY HAVE WE DONE WELL IN THAT AREA, BUT WE ARE ON SCHEDULE. UM THEN THE OTHER OTHER MAIN ONE WAS CONDUCTING AN IMPACT ANALYSIS ON PARKS AND STORM WATER. SO AS YOU KNOW, THE VILLAGE IS BRAND NEW, SO THERE ARE NO NONE OF THESE STUDIES EXIST RIGHT NOW AND SO FORTH IN ORDER FOR US TO CHARGE IMPACT FEES. WE HAVE TO DO A STUDY AND SO THAT IS ONGOING RIGHT NOW WILL BE DOING A PARKS OF IMPACT THE IN A STORM WATER MASTER STORMWATER IMPACT FEE AND SO THOSE THINGS ARE FORTHCOMING. SO WE GAVE OURSELVES A C THERE THE AND WE NEED THESE IN PLACE BEFORE THE DEVELOPMENT COMES BECAUSE IF WE DON'T DEVELOPERS WILL NOT HAVE TO PAY ANY OF THESE FEES. UM AT ALL, AND SO THEY'LL PAY MARTIN COUNTY THEIR FEES BUT WILL BE IMPACTED MOST MOSTLY WITHOUT HAVING TO BE WITHOUT. WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO COLLECT THIS MONEY TO PAY FOR THESE IMPACTS. AND, UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE'RE WORKING ON THE MOBILITY FEE. THIS IS ALMOST LIKE A ROAD IMPACT FEE. AND SO THIS MOBILITY FEE IS SOMETHING THAT RIGHT NOW WE'RE ON SCHEDULE . WELL WE'RE NOT REALLY ON SCHEDULE. WE WERE DOING THE WORK
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THAT'S NECESSARY IN ORDER FOR US TO HAVE THIS MOBILITY FEE ANALYSIS AND STUDY PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL IN A FORMAT. THAT YOU CAN APPROVE, AND SO THAT'S BEING WORKED ON RIGHT NOW. WE DID HAVE A MEETING WITH MARTIN COUNTY. MAYBE A FEW WEEKS AGO TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT POSSIBLY AN INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT OR SOME SORT OF CALL. SHARING UM, UM, AGREEMENT. AND THEN THE STATE OF THE VILLAGE MESSAGE THAT YOU KNOW. LAST YEAR WE WORKED WITH SOUTHFORK HIGH SCHOOL, AND, UH, WE WERE HAVING SOME COMMUNICATION ISSUES, SO WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T COMPLETE THAT PROJECT TO THE TO THE LEVEL I THOUGHT WE SHOULD HAVE, BUT WE PUT SOME MONEY IN THE BUDGET. SO IF THE COUNCIL CHOOSES WE COULD DO A REAL REALLY GOOD STATE OF THE VILLAGE. UH PRESENTATION SOMETHING, MAYBE A VIDEO THAT WE WOULD RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC THAT COULD SHOW EXACTLY THE PROJECTS THAT WERE BEING DONE IN LIKE A VIDEOGRAPHY OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND OUT THERE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SEE THESE WORDS, BUT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE VISUAL ALSO, AND SO, YOU KNOW, SHOWING PEOPLE WHAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY DOING SHOWING THE ACTUAL PROJECTS IS A BETTER WAY TO COMMUNICATE THAT. AND THEN GO BE. SO GO BE, UH, IS TO BUILD AND REBUILD AND REBUILD A MORE ATTRACTIVE AND DYNAMIC VILLAGE, GUIDED BY AN APPEALING MASTURBATION PLAN APPROVED DIFFERENT STRUCTURE AND STREETSCAPING RECREATIONAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER FACILITIES AND HOMETOWN FIELD. SO YOU KNOW AGAIN, THIS THIS GOAL CHANGE AS WELL BECAUSE I THINK THIS GOAL USED TO BE IMPROVING. AH! MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO. SO ADVANCED VILLAGE HALL, PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING AND SO OBVIOUSLY WE'VE BEEN DOING THAT.SO WE SO WE HAVE COMPLETED THE PROGRAMMING OF THE BUILDING. SO WE KNOW IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS, WE KNOW EXACTLY HOW MANY EMPLOYEES WE THINK WE'LL HAVE IN 10 YEARS AND WE KNOW EXACTLY THE SPACE THAT WILL BE NEEDED IN A IN 10 YEARS. SO WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THE PROGRAMMING PLANNING VILLA CHARLES. IT TELLS US THAT TOLD US HOW MANY EMPLOYEES THAT WE NEED MANY EMPLOYEES WE'RE GONNA HAVE IN 10 YEARS AND IT JUST GIVES US A GREAT PLANNING TOOLS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE WENT AND IF WE DO BUILD A VILLAGE HALL THAT WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE NEED TO, BUT WE THIS IS NOT DESIGNED . WE DIDN'T DESIGN BILLITON ANYTHING. WE'VE JUST BEEN DOING WHAT WE CALL PROGRAM AND PLANNING. AND WE GAVE OURSELVES A B PLUS THERE. AH AND THEN THE BOOKER PARK REDEVELOPMENT PLAN TO CATCH YOU. CAN YOU JUST SAY THAT PROGRAMMING? CAN YOU DEFINE PROGRAMMING SO PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING SO IN 2019. WHEN I CAME HERE, WE HAD A STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING AS YOU RECALL AND WE SAID, AND WE SAID, OK, WE'RE GOING TO EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF BUILDING A MUNICIPAL COMPLEX, WHICH CONCLUDED COMMUNITY CENTER. AND AT THAT TIME WE WERE RENTING. UM WHERE WE WERE. I'M SORRY WE WERE LIVING WE WERE RENTING. ZERO WELL, WE WEREN'T RENTING. WE WERE JUST MUTUAL. I'M SORRY. YEAH WELL, WE HAD WE HAD A MUTUAL GROUP. WE HAD A MEMORANDUM AGREEMENT WITH MARTIN COUNTY TO BE HOUSED IN THE FACILITY ON WAR FIELD BOULEVARD AND SO NEAR THIS YEAR STATION SO ALL THAT ENDED AND SO WE HAD DURING THAT TIME WE EVALUATE THE FEASIBILITY OF, YOU KNOW. DO WE BUY A MINUTE? YOU KNOW THAT WE BUY A PIECE OF PROPERTY BUILDING THIS BIG COMPLEX. DO WE? DO WE LEASE PORTABLES AND THAT KIND OF THING? THAT'S AND SO WE'RE HERE NOW TO DO THAT, BUT BUT DURING THAT TIME YOU WERE DIRECTED BY THE COUNCIL TO EVALUATE ALL OF THIS, AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE CALLED. WE STARTED HAVING WE HAD MEETINGS AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. WE HAD MEETINGS AT BOOKER PARK AT, UM AT MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH. WE HAD, UM WE HAD A MEETING HERE AND WE HAD WE STARTED OUT WITH, LIKE DOING VISUAL PREFERENCES. UH, WE DID A VISUAL PREFERENCE SURVEY. SO WE HAD RESIDENTS COME IN, AND WE JUST KIND OF SAID, WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IF WE WERE BUILDING A COMMUNITY CENTER? YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE? AND SO WHEN THESE PLANS AND PROGRAMS THE PROGRAM OF THIS BUILDING INCLUDED WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE RESIDENTS, THUS WOMEN WHO WHAT WE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAME UP WITH. THIS CAME FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. UH THE YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY CENTER THAT CAME FROM RESIDENTS. PEOPLE WHO LIVED HERE IN THE COMMUNITY. THEY ARE THE ONES THAT PUSHED WHAT THE PROGRAMMING OF THE BUILDING WOULD BE. OKAY AND SO WE DID THE PLANNING. OKAY IN 2019. WE STARTED THE PROGRAMMING WHEN WE HIRED RMG ARCHITECTS. WHICH IS A PRETTY GOOD ARCHITECTURAL FIRM.
YOU GUYS SELECTED THEIR YOU KNOW, THEY'VE BEEN VERY GOOD TO WORK WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF INFLATION, AND THESE OTHER ECONOMIC FACTORS, UM YOU KNOW, THE PRICE OR THE ESTIMATE THAT, UH, THAT WE WERE GIVEN FROM THE ARCHITECT IS HIGH. I MEAN, IN MY OPINION, IT'S HIGH. AND SO WE'RE HAVING TO RE EVALUATE ALL OF THAT NOW, BUT THEY'RE FINISHED
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WITH THEIR TASK OF PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING, SO THAT CONTRACT'S COMPLETE THINK WE'VE EVEN PAID THEM AND THAT'S IT SO AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING THROUGH BUDGET RIGHT NOW, AND THERE'S NOTHING IN OUR BUDGET TO PAY FOR DESIGN AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT AT THIS POINT. UM, BUT I'M SORRY. GO AHEAD. I WAS GONNA LET YOU FINISH YOUR THOUGHT. SO THERE'S NOTHING RIGHT NOW, IN OUR IN OUR PLANS TO DO DESIGN BECAUSE IT'S NOT BUDGETED FOR IT THIS YEAR. AND SO MAYBE NEXT YEAR WE CAN BUDGET FOR DESIGN AND THEN WE DESIGNED THE BUILDING OR WE GO BACK AND SAY, OKAY, WE WOULD LIKE IT TO BE AS YOU KNOW. WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE FINISHED WITH THE PROGRAM. WE KNOW THAT WE'LL HAVE PROBABLY PROBABLY AROUND 50 EMPLOYEES OVER THE NEXT DECADE. AND SO ALL THESE ARE THINGS THAT THIS EXERCISE WAS VERY HELPFUL TO US AS A MUNICIPALITY BECAUSE NOW WE KNOW WHAT OUR STAFFING PLAN LOOKS LIKE IN THE NEXT DECADE. 10 YEARS FROM NOW. REMEMBER WE RIGHT NOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT SINCE 2019 SO 3.5 YEARS LATER. WE ARE WE ARE. WE ARE STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS. AND SO WE'VE DONE A I THINK WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB AT PLANNING AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE WANT, WHERE WE WANT TO BE AT A DECADE FROM NOW. AND THEN, UM, SO THE BOOKER PART REDEVELOPMENT PLAN WE GAVE OURSELVES TO BE MINE IS AS YOU RECALL AT OUR LAST MEETING. UH, WE HAVE A WE HAVE A WAY TO PAY FOR THIS NOW.AND SO THE TREASURE COAST REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL THEY WERE AWARDED. I THINK, $500,000.
NOW WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED A GRANT AGREEMENT FROM THEM NOW, BUT FROM FROM THEM YET, BUT WE KNOW WE'RE GOING TO GET IT AND SO THAT MONEY COULD BE USED TO DO THE BOOK OR PART REDEVELOPMENT PLAN. NOW, WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? BECAUSE BEFORE YOU CAN GET ANY MONEY FROM THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE. SO WHEN YOU HEAR PEOPLE SAY, WHY ARE YOU DOING THESE STUDIES WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE BASED INFORMATION ORDER FOR YOU TO MOVE FORWARD. YOU CAN'T JUST SAY I WON'T YOU KNOW, $18 MILLION AND THEY JUST GAVE IT TO YOU. YOU GOTTA HAVE STUFF IN PLACE. AND SO THESE STUDIES ARE A CENTURY AND ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT IN ORDER TO GET THINGS MOVING. AND SO, UM, THE BOOK APART. REDEVELOPMENT PLAN IS FOCUSED ON TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN PLAY IN THAT COMMUNITY WELL AND THAT WE CAN DESIGN IT IN A WAY WHERE WE CAN HAVE THINGS. PAID FOR BY THESE GRAIN OPPORTUNITY THAT WE'RE GETTING, AND WE'RE GETTING. WE'RE HITTING HOME RUNS AND GRANT DEPARTMENT. I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT. YOU KNOW THIS AND ALL WE NEED TO DO IS, UH WELL, WE NEED TO HIRE SO WHEN SOMEONE IN MIKE'S OFFICE, SO TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SOMEBODY IN THE PROCUREMENT PART TO REALLY MAKE SURE THAT THESE THINGS ARE ARE HAPPENING, AND THEY'RE THEY'RE GOING FORWARD. BUT THIS IS A THIS IS A BIGGIE FOR US BECAUSE THERE WAS A PLAN THAT WAS DONE BACK IN 2012. OK SO THERE WAS A PLAN THAT WAS DONE IN BOOKER PARK IN 2012, AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND THIS PLAN. WE EVEN CONTACT THE TREASURE REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL AND MARTIN COUNTY, AND NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW WHERE THERE'S PLAYING IS THAT BECAUSE WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS BUILD ON EXISTING PLAN IF THERE IS SOMETHING TO BUILD UPON, BUT LET ME JUST SAY THIS ABOUT PLANTS OKAY, HAVING SPENT TIME AS A AS A MUNICIPAL PLANNER. THOSE PLANS ARE ONLY AS GOOD AS YOU MAKE THEM AND YOU KNOW WHEN A PLAN GETS ME ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD SOMETIMES IT MIGHT NOT BE SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD YOU COULD REALLY USE BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO LOOK AT IT AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM IT, YOU KNOW? SO, UM SO WE'RE GONNA DO ANOTHER PLAN AND WE'RE GONNA THIS PLANE IS GOING TO INCLUDE, LIKE AN IMPROVEMENT STUDY COMPONENT. WHAT DO I MEAN BY THAT? WHAT WILL BE ABLE TO DO ? WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO THIS STUDY AND TAKE THAT INFORMATION TO. TO THE STATE OR TO U S. D A OR TWO AGENCY AND SAY, LOOK, WE WERE READY. HERE'S OUR PLAN.
HERE'S OUR STUDY AND WHILE AH, IF WE IF THINGS LINE UP LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN LINING UP WILL BE FUNDED. AND SO THAT'S THE GOAL FOR THAT. SO WE'RE GETTING OURSELVES TO BE MINERS THERE AND THEN WE ARE ON THE DIRECT DESIRED GROWTH BY ANNEXING LAND WERE INCOMPLETE. RIGHT NOW, THIS IS A MAJOR IMPORTANT POINT. LET ME MAKE THIS POINT. IF I CAN'T HEAR WE, UM WE NEED TO COME UP WITH A PLAN ON HOW WE ARE GOING TO NX PROPERTIES IN THE FUTURE. OKAY THAT DOES NOT EXIST RIGHT NOW. THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE HAVE A UTILITY AND OUR UTILITY SERVICE AREAS ABOUT FIVE MILES OUTSIDE OF OUR MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY. OKAY SO OUR WATER SOURCE DISTRICT IS FIVE MILES OUTSIDE OF OUR MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY. SO WE SIMPLY HAVE TO LOOK AT ANNEXATIONS BECAUSE WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO IS PROVIDE WATER AND SEWER TO AREAS THAT ARE NOT INSIDE ARMAN. IT'LL BOUNDARIES WITHOUT A PLAN ON HOW WE'RE GOING TO ADDRESS THAT. AND SO, UH, STAFF HAS BEEN LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE GO ABOUT DOING THIS? I MEAN, THEY'RE PLAYING EXAMPLES OUT THERE TO DO
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THIS, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON BECAUSE AS WE GROW, I THINK WE WILL GROW THERE WILL BE REQUESTED AN X INSIDE THE VILLAGE LIMITS. UM AND THEN, UM THE SEMINAL UPTOWN ROAD RAGE RANGE REPAIR. WE GAVE OURSELVES ON A BECAUSE WE ARE ON SCHEDULE, OKAY? NOT ONLY ARE WE ON SCHEDULE, WE'RE NEAR COMPLETING THE DESIGN PHASE OF THIS PROJECT THAT'S BEING DONE RIGHT NOW BY CAP TECH ENGINEERING, AND AFTER THAT DESIGN CAN OF THOSE IMPROVED, YOUR COMPLETE WILL ROLL WILL GO RIGHT INTO THE CONSTRUCTION OF IT. OBVIOUSLY WE'LL HAVE TO BID IT OUT AND COME BACK, BUT BUT IF THAT SHOULDN'T TAKE LONG, AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO FINISH THIS PROJECT ON TIME, SO WHAT THAT WILL DO IS SEMINOLE. ROAD FROM WAR FIELD. I THINK THE YELLOW YELLOW HA HA HA! AH WELL, WE'LL BE DOING THAT SO AND IF THIS ALSO INCLUDES THERE'S ALSO INCLUDES, UM, REPLACING A AN EMERGENCY STANDBY GENERATOR FOR A LIFT STATION IN BOOKER PARK. IT'S IN MAGNOLIA STREET. AND THIS MONEY IT'S YOU KNOW, COMES FROM OUR STATE APPROPRIATION FROM WHERE YOU GUYS WENT UP TO TALLAHASSEE AND YOU WERE ABLE TO GET MONEY TO DO THESE THINGS. SO IF NOT, IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT WE WOULDN'T BE DOING THIS PROJECT. OKAY ALL RIGHT. UM AND THEN, UM, UH, CAPRI CONCEPTUAL, VISUAL, CONCEPTUAL VILLAGE MASTER VISION PLAN TO THE COM PLAN. SO WHEN WE WERE GOING THROUGH OUR PROCESS, THIS IS SOMETHING ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT. YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE PUT THE HOW DO WE PLAN AHEAD AND DO THINGS THAT WILL BEAUTIFY DIFFERENT CORRIDORS? SO THAT'S ONE OF THEM. OKAY SO WE TALKED ABOUT CONNECTING A, UM, A GREENWAY TRAIL THAT CONNECTS TO THE PARKS. AND SO THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS IN THE 2022 2012 BOOK APART REDEVELOPMENT PLAN, AND SO RIGHT NOW, WE JUST GOT FUNDED, BUT WE'LL BE GETTING FUNDED TO DO A MASTER PEDESTRIAN SIDEWALK PLAN THAT THAT WILL INCLUDE THIS. GREENWAY. TRAIL AROUND THE VILLAGE. AND SO ALL THAT WILL BE PART OF THAT THE MONEY THAT WILL RECEIVE THEIR NOW NOW THAT'S JUST PLANNING IT SO BUT REMEMBER WHAT I SAID.ONCE YOU PLANT, IT WILL HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION. TO GET FUNDED. OKAY AND SO THERE'S MONEY OUT THERE FOR THAT. AND SO WE'RE WORKING AS FAST AS WE CAN. COUNCIL WAS WISE WHEN THEY WHEN THEY RETAIN THE SERVICES OF A GRANTS MANAGER. WE HAVE A GRANTS MANAGER ON THERE. WE'RE DEALING WITH ABOUT $56 MILLION WORTH OF GRANTS RIGHT NOW, WHERE WE APPLY FOR 56 MILLION OR SO AND I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN LIKE 30 MILLION OR SO AND THAT'S BEEN IN THE LAST THREE YEARS. YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN IN OFFICE. ALRIGHT AND THEN BEAUTIFYING WAR FIELD AND THE 17 CORRIDOR. THIS IS A CHALLENGE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE. YOU KNOW VERY RELATIONSHIPS WITH F DOT MARTIN COUNTY AND WITH THE SO THERE'S DIFFERENT AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY, IT'S LIKE A NO MAN'S LAND. ALMOST AND BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, WHEN RESIDENTS CALL ABOUT HIGH GRASS ON BIG JOHN MONAGHAN BRIDGE, WE HAVE TO CONTACT F DOT AND ACTUALLY, WE'RE CONTACTING F DOTS CONTRACTOR AND IT GETS TO BE REAL COMPLICATED BECAUSE EVEN AFTER SENDING LETTERS EVEN AFTER MEETING UM THEIR CONTRACTOR ON SITE PERSONALLY AND GOING UP THE ROAD AND SHOWING THEM GRASS GROWING THROUGH THE SIDEWALKS AND THESE KINDS OF THINGS, YOU KNOW, THEY JUMP ON IT, AND THEN THEY HAVE A NEW CONTRACTOR. SO THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THEIR OWN CHALLENGES OF RETAINING CONTRACTS BECAUSE THEIR LAST CONTRACTOR JUST WALKED OFF THE JOB. AND SO THE ONLY THING THAT THEY TOLD US THAT THEY WOULD BE REPAIRING OR MAINTAINING HIS LIFE SAFETY ISSUES, THINGS THAT WERE LIFE SAFETY MATTERS. SO THAT'S WHY YOU PROBABLY SAW WAR FIELD KIND OF GOING DOWN THE GOING DOWNHILL, BUT YOU KNOW, WE GOT TO KEEP ON THEM. BUT THEN MARTIN COUNTY THEIR RESPONSE FOR ALL THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS ON WAR FIELD BOULEVARD. I KNOW YOU'RE SAYING, WELL, WAIT A MINUTE. WHY IS MARTIN COUNTY RESPONSIBLE FOR? WELL, THAT'S JUST THE RELATIONSHIP. THAT WAS IN PLACE BEFORE WE INCORPORATED AND THAT'S HOW IT'S BEEN DONE. SO THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS THAT HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES ON MORE FIELD BOULEVARD. IT'S NOT JUST THE VILLAGE ITS ITS F DOT IT'S MARTIN COUNTY AND US AND SO LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, WE'RE RESPONSE FOR TREE TRIMMING ON THE BOULEVARD. SO WE HIRED NOONI ESQUE. UM UM, LANDSCAPE AND IN PALMYRA LANDSCAPE TO DO ALL THE TREE TRIMMING ON WAR FIELD BOULEVARD AND THROUGHOUT THROUGHOUT THE AREA, SO IT WE EVERY, THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF WHAT WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR. IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE WERE IN CHARGE OF ALL OF IT. AT LEAST THAT WAY. WE CAN BRING FOCUS AND ALL THAT, TOO, AND RESOURCES TO IT SO AND THAT LED ME TO MY QUESTION. I WAS THINKING, UM, BECAUSE I THINK WE MAY BE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT BEFORE. WHY DON'T WE SEE IF WE CAN DO THAT TO WHERE THE VILLAGES MANAGING EVERYTHING. BUT WE SEND A YOU KNOW WE HAVE A MOU WITH F DOT UM
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OR AND YOU KNOW, UM IF THEY ALLOW US TO, OF COURSE. YOU KNOW, EVERY QUARTERLY OR YEARLY . WE SEND THEM A CHECK FOR ALL THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT AND I THINK MISS NIKON BROUGHT IT UP AT OUR LAST MEETING. UM, UM, THEY I'LL SEE THEM OUT HERE AND THEN WE WON'T SEE HIM FOR A VERY LONG TIME. UM AND SO IF WE HAVE SOMEBODY CONTINUING TO DO THIS, MAYBE ON THE MONTHLY BASE, SO YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE FREQUENCY WOULD BE. I THINK IT, UH, KEEP THE CONSISTENCY WITH OUR COMMUNITY LOOKING GOOD, BECAUSE F DOT NOT HERE. YOU KNOW THAT THEY DON'T SEE THE GRASS AND THE DIRT IN THE SIDES OF THE ROAD. SO CAN WE LOOK AT THAT? AS A COUNCIL? I DON'T KNOW IF THERE NEEDS TO BE A VOTE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT WASHING YEAH.AVERAGE HMM. RIGHT SO I THINK THAT WILL HELP. YOU KNOW WHAT? KEEPING OUR MAIN CORRIDOR BEAUTIFUL. SO ALL THESE ISSUES THAT YOU'RE CONVENIENT TO ME. I MEAN, HOW FAR I SPOKE WITH THE COUNCILWOMAN ABOUT THE BRIDGE, YOU KNOW, THE BRIDGE ITSELF IS F DOT RESPONSIBILITY AND SO AND SO WE ARE, BUT BUT WE WRITE LETTERS . I WRITE LETTERS TO TWO F DOT WRITE LETTERS TO THEIR CONTRACTORS. I PERSONALLY MET WITH THEM OUT THEIR OWN SIDE. I'VE SAID OUR DISPLEASURE FORWARD. UM YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THE COUNCIL WOMAN SAID SHE WAS GOING TO CONTACT UH, STATE SENATOR HERALD'S OFFICE. YEAH UM AND SO WE'RE DOING ALL WEEKEND, BUT WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS A COMMAND AND CONTROL ISSUE AS I SEE IT, OKAY, AND IT REALLY IS AND F DOT SOMETIMES ENTER AGREEMENTS WITH MUNICIPALITIES LIKE US. BUT THEY DON'T GIVE THEY DON'T FUND YOU FOR ALL OF IT. THEY JUST THEY GIVE YOU SOME MONEY AND SAY OKAY, GO AWAY. IS YOUR BABY NOW? AND SO YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU TAKE IT ON YOUR TAKING IT ON. SO WE HAD TO BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT YOU KNOW WHAT AGREEMENT WE GET IN TWO WITH THE F DOT BUT I'M CERTAIN THERE WILL BE AMENABLE TO IT, BUT NOT AT THE TOMB THAT IT MIGHT COST US TO DO IT SO IT MIGHT COST US SOME MONEY. AND THEY AND THE MONEY THEY GIVE US MIGHT NOT COVER OUR COST. SO THAT'S WHAT I'M CERTAIN OF BECAUSE I'VE DEALT WITH F DOT AND OTHER COMMUNITIES HERE IN FLORIDA, SO I KNOW HOW THEY OPERATE THERE, SO THEY'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TURN IT OVER TO YOU. BUT ONCE YOU ONCE YOU BUY IT, IT'S ON YOU. BUT BUT BUT BUT IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU WANT , RIGHT? IT REALLY DEPENDS ON HOW IMPORTANT IT IS. AND I THINK THAT WAR FIELD IS THE BEDROOM. IT'S THE IT'S THE LIVING ROOM.
TO THE TO THE VILLAGE. AND SO YOU KNOW, IF WE WANTED TO LOOK BETTER, IT'S GOING TO COST US MONEY TO DO IT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE DOING THIS SAYING, HEY, MR F DOT CAN YOU HELP US HERE, BUT WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT. AND IF IT'S IMPORTANT TO COUNSEL, WE CAN DO THAT. SO I JUST WANT YOU TO CLARIFY. SO ALL THIS TIME WE WERE IN THE PROGRAM PLANNING STAGE, RIGHT? THE VILLAGE HALL.
YEAH AND COMMUNITY CENTER AND THE COMMUNITY CENTER. SO IF WE FAIL TO PLAN PLAN TO FAIL SO YOU GOT A PLAN? SOMETHING IN ORDER TO KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING. YEAH WE HAVEN'T EVEN WE DON'T NEVER PLANNED AND WE WON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING. YEAH YOU HAVE TO PLAN I MEAN, YOU HAVE TO PLAN YOU CAN'T YOU KNOW? RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE A LEASE HERE. WE HAVE AT LEAST THAT EXPIRES NEXT YEAR.
OKAY AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'M HOPING THAT I CAN SPEAK WITH THE LANDLORD ABOUT RENEGOTIATING THIS LEASE. I'VE SET UP A MEETING WITH HIM UP. WELL THAT'S THAT'S EVERYTHING GOES UP. I'M JUST SAYING, BUT BUT YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T PLAN EVERYBODY ELSE COMPLAIN, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE VILLAGE I MEAN, A MAN WITH IF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, YOU'RE GONNA PERISH.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR. YEAH, THE PLAN AND DIDN'T TAKE ACTION. YEAH, WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M HOPE. I'M HOPEFUL THAT THE LANDLORD WILL RENEGOTIATE. AT LEAST WITH THIS. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DID AS A AS A GROUP. AND SO WE'LL DEFINITELY, UM NO, I JUST NEEDED TO, YOU KNOW FOR YOU TO CLARIFY THAT WE WERE PLANNING SO EVERYBODY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING OUT TO BORROW MONEY TO SPEND THE TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO BUILD THE TAJ MAHAL AS A STREETS. TAJ MAHAL RIGHT HERE. HE WON'T JUST I'M JUST SAYING, THAT'S WHAT I SAID. BUT I STILL GOT MISQUOTED, BUT I'M JUST SAYING AND THE RESIDENTS WERE THERE. I BELIEVE SOME OF THEM SITTING IN THIS ROOM WITH THE EVERY LAST ONE OF, BUT WE WERE PLANNING POCKETBOOK, THOUGH. WELL I WOULD HATE TO SEE SOMEBODY GO. UH YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL MY DESIGNER WHAT I WANT IN MY HOUSE. BUT IF I CAN'T AFFORD IT AFTER HE TELLS ME WHAT IT'S GONNA COST, UH, REALLY BE NUTS IF I'M GONNA GO YOU KNOW AND GET
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IT AND CAN'T AFFORD IT. AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK JUST TO KIND OF, UM UH, PIGGYBACK ON WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I THINK THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE SHARE THIS INFORMATION OR SHARE AS MUCH AS WE CAN, BECAUSE WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. A LOT OF FOLKS DON'T UNDERSTAND. YOU KNOW, UM, I'M HEARING EVEN WITH THIS ELECTION . PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN VOTE FOR THREE PEOPLE IN THIS ELECTION, SO, BUT I THINK IT'S A IT IS FOR US AS THE COUNCIL. I THINK I MAY HAVE HINTED THAT THIS LAST WEEK, UH, TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT THERE TO SHARE WHAT'S HAPPENING SO OKAY. OTHER PEOPLE TOO. YOU GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE. LISTEN YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD SAY PEOPLE HAVE SELECTIVE HEARING SELECTIVE SEEING, BUT IT'S I MEAN, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY CAN STRETCH WHATEVER TO THE IMAGINATION BUT PULLED THE TAPES. PEOPLE COME BACK AND LISTEN TO IT. AND THEN YOU WILL GET WHAT IS SAID IN THESE MEETING. THEN WHATEVER IS ON THE STREETS BECAUSE SOMETHING GO ALWAYS BE ON THE STREETS. WHATEVER THAT IS ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR OBSERVATIONS? PLEASE LET ME KNOW. COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMAS. UM TALKING ABOUT THE LEASE AND RENEWING IT NEXT YEAR.DID WE RENEW IT THIS YEAR? WELL WE HAVE TO ONE YEAR RENEWALS, SO WE'VE ALREADY RENEWED IT. FOR WHAT THE FIRST YEAR ONE OR TWO SO NEXT YEAR WAS DONE, AND WE HAD TO NOTIFY THEM BY I BELIEVE IT WAS MAY YEAH. WAS THERE ANY CONVERSATION AT THAT TIME ABOUT RENEWING OR NEGOTIATING? CONTACTED THE LANDLORD AND REQUESTED A MEETING WITH HIM AND WE WERE SUPPOSED TO MEET ON LIKE JUNE 1ST. AND HE DIDN'T MAKE THE HIT. SOMETHING CAME UP. HE COULDN'T MEET WITH ME SO. ANY, UH, MORE QUESTIONS FROM THE COUNCIL. THANK YOU FOR THAT COUNCIL WOMAN. HER NAME IS I'M SORRY. THANK YOU, MR BROWN. I APPRECIATE WHAT THE STAFF DOES STRATEGIC PLANNING HAS BEEN IN OUR SINCE THE GET GO AND I ALWAYS TELL EVERYONE TO LOOK AT OUR STRATEGIC GOALS BECAUSE THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT WE'RE PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR VILLAGE, OUR VILLAGE AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING CLARIFICATION ON THE PLANNING OF THE VILLAGE HALL, BECAUSE, UM THAT'S WHY WE HAVE OUR FINANCE GUY. HE WILL TELL US IF WE HAVE THE MONEY TO SPEND IF WE DON'T SO I WANT TO
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THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS. UH, MADAM CLERK. NOT ON THIS ITEM, BUT I HAVE A COUPLE FOR REGULAR PUBLIC COMMENT IF YOU ALREADY MADAM MAYOR. YES I AM. OK. THANK YOU, MR BROWN. FIRST ONE IS A LETTER FROM JP JUMP, JP CUT! PASCUAL! EXCUSE ME. DEAR VILLAGE COUNCIL , HOWARD BROWN AND HEALTHY A JEFFERSON. I DO RESPECT AND APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD THINGS YOU HAVE DONE IN THIS TOWN. HOWEVER YOU HAVE NOT YET UNDONE. THE CONTROVERSIAL AND DRASTIC ZONING, LAND USE AND NUMBER OF HOUSES PER ACRE. THAT YOU PUT THROUGH AT THE HEIGHT OF COVID AND DURING THE DISPUTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, MAKING THOSE CHANGES AND INFORMING CITIZENS, FRIENDS AND FAMILIES OF THIS VILLAGE IN THAT TINY NEWSPAPER SECTION MAY HAVE BEEN LEGAL, BUT IT WAS IMMORAL AND UNETHICAL. IT NEEDS TO BE UNDONE, ASAP. I URGE YOU TO RADICALLY AND DRASTICALLY PROTECT OUR CULTURE. THE CURRENT RESIDENTS WHO LIVE HERE IN OUR LAND, FARM WOODS AND WILDLIFE BEFORE TERRA LAGO IS BUILT AND WE WERE ALL OUTNUMBERED BY THE NEWCOMERS WHO WILL NOT HOLD THE SAME VALUES AS WE DO HERE. AND THEN THE NEXT SPEAKER IS LINDEN ICOM. WHERE THE RECORD LYNDON LIKE. UM UM A QUESTION AND COMMENT ON ON THE F DOT REPAIRS OF WAR FIELD. UM I'VE NOTED THAT WE HAVE SEVERAL DIPS. IN WAR FIELD IN THERE, ALWAYS BY STORM SEWERS. I'VE NOTED THAT THERE WAS BEEN ASPHALT PUT IN SOME OF THESE TO TRY AND LEVEL IT OUT, WHICH HASN'T BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. UM, I KNOW THERE'S ONE RIGHT AT THE AT THE LIBRARY OF THERE'S ANOTHER ONE DOWN TOWARDS CRACKERS AND THERE IS A BIG HUNK OF CURB AND A WHOLE I THINK IN FRONT OF THE BURGER KING ENTRANCE, GOING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. MY CONCERN IS THAT. IF THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE STORM SEWER GOING UNDER THE ROAD. WHERE WHO? WHERE DOES THE JURISDICTION LIE? IS IT OUR STORM SEWER AND THEIR ROAD DO[00:55:01]
THEY HAVE TO REPAIR? DO WE HAVE TO REPAIR AND POTENTIALLY IF THERE IS A LEAK OR WHATEVER, UNDER THAT IN THE STORM SEWER ARE WE LOOKING AT THE POTENTIAL OF HAVING SOMETHING? DRASTIC HAPPEN IN THE EVENT OF A STORM WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE EXTRA EXCESS WATER TRYING TO RUN THROUGH THAT. IS THERE SOME WAY OF FINDING OUT WHERE THE RESPONSIBILITY LIES AND IN WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. FOR THAT CONTINUING. PROBLEM THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COMMENTS UH, BY.VILLAGE COUNCIL MEMBERS, COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. AND THAT'S IT. THANK YOU FOR COMING AND JOINING US VIRTUALLY AND PHYSICALLY. COUNCILWOMAN GIBBS,
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THOMAS. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. UM THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, THE ONES THAT ARE HERE AND ONLINE.JUST A REMINDER SCHOOL STARTS NEXT WEEK. WEDNESDAY AUGUST THE 10TH BE MINDFUL OF THE BUSSES AND THE CHILDREN THAT ARE OUT. UM, UTILIZING OUR SIDEWALKS AND HAVING TO WALK TO SCHOOL. VICE MAYOR. THANK YOU GUYS. SO MUCH FOR JOINING US. GOOD TO SEE OUR REGULARS HERE. UM REMINDER.
ELECTION DAY, AUGUST 23RD. UM PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE VOTE. YOUR VOTE. IS YOUR VOICE, UM, WANTED TO ALSO REITERATE THE RETAIL STUDY PRESENTATION. VERY, VERY INFORMATIVE. AH! THE LAST THING. IS UM CAN WE START? UM. PLANNING UM, FOR MONKEY POX. I MEAN, AND AGAIN. I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU KNOW IT'S STILL GROWING AND BUT I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO KIND OF MAYBE GET AHEAD OF IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE PANDEMIC KIND OF CAUGHT US. UH HUH. QUITE OFF GUARD SO, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME JUST FROM HOW I'M SEEING WHERE MOVING THROUGH THIS NOW, UM, I THINK WE MAY BE HEADING TO SOME TYPE OF SOMETHING IN A VERY SIMILAR TO COVID 19 AND I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO ADJUST AND HAVE MEETINGS AT YOU KNOW, AT OUR HOMES AND ALL OF THAT, SO UM I DON'T KNOW MUCH WE CAN DO NOW, BUT JUST IT BEING ON OUR RADIO RADAR SO THAT WE'RE NOT CAUGHT. WE KNOW WE'RE ABLE TO AT LEAST HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR SOME TYPE OF, UM, LOOKING FORWARD DOWN THE ROAD SO THAT WE ARE ABLE TO STILL BE EFFECTIVE, UM, WITH OUR OPERATIONS, SO THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS TO LOOK FORWARD TO A GREAT MEETING. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. THANK YOU ALL FOR WHO ARE HERE IN PERSON AND THOSE BY, UH, THE PHONE WAYS. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A APPROVAL. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR THE AGENDA, PLEASE? SO MOVE FOR APPROVAL. FORGET MR OH, I'M SICK TO GET UP OUT OF HERE. I'M SORRY, MR BROWN. REPORTS TO COMMITTEE REPORTS REPORTS
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COMMITTED REPORTS. COUNCILMAN GIVES THOMAS YOU GOT ONE. NO. ALRIGHT, MR BROWN. YES THANK[COMMENTS BY VILLAGE MANAGER]
YOU, MADAM MAYOR. MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL JUST IN RESPONSE TO, UH UM, IT'S NOT LIKE, UM THE STORM WATER CATCH BASINS ON WAR FIELD BOULEVARD. THEY ARE DOTS RESPONSIBILITY. AND SO WHAT YOU JUST SAID COULD HAPPEN. UM IT'S A POSSIBILITY. AND WE HAVE ASKED . WE'VE I'VE MADE REQUESTS THAT THEY HAVE A STREET SUITE BRINK AND PLANT THOSE CATCH BASINS. BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I WAS INFORMED THAT BECAUSE THEY WERE IN TRANSITION WITH THEIR CONTRACTOR. THAT THEY WOULD ONLY DEAL WITH LIFE SAFETY ISSUES. NOW THIS COULD BE A LIFE SAFETY ISSUE. IF THAT HAPPENS, BECAUSE IF THE STORM DRAINS ARE CALLED, YOU KNOW, IT COULD CREATE PUDDLING AND IN A COLLAPSE, SO I WILL. I WILL CONVEY THAT AGAIN. I HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT, AND I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO CIRC CIRCLE OF MR ACKERMAN THAT CORRESPONDENCE. THE UH, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE VICE MAYOR TALKED ABOUT. I CAN REACH OUT TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ASKED THEM IF THEY COULD COME GIVE US AN UPDATE ON MONKEY POX AND I THINK WILL BE HELPFUL. I KNOW THAT THE VILLAGE HAS SENT OUT. UM AH! LIKE PART OF THE YOU KNOW, THE MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT INFORMATION, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS GOOD, BECAUSE WE NEED ALL YOU KNOW ALL THE INFORMATION WE CAN GET. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. WELL THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MADAM. HERE RIGHT NOW. CAN I GET A MOTION FOR THE APPROVAL[APPROVAL OF AGENDA ]
OF THE AGENDA? PLEASE MOVE FOR APPROVAL. SECOND. UH, MOTION MADE BY ADVICE MIRROR. SECOND[01:00:02]
BACK COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ ALL IN FAVOR. I CARRY IT OVER NOW GET APPROVAL FOR AN EMOTION FOR[CONSENT AGENDA]
THE CONSENT AGENDA. SO MOVED SECOND. UM MADE BY VICE SAMIR SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ ALL IN FAVOR. I CARROT, MR BROWN. OR THAT WAY, IT'S GONNA BE WAIT, WAIT. BUT MHM EVENING,[4.
RESOLUTION NO. XXX-2022 A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF INDIANTOWN, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE VILLAGE OF INDIANTOWN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SURPLUS FUNDS TRUST FUND (FLORIDA PRIME); AND PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS, CONFLICTS, SEVERABILITY, AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
]EVERYONE. SORRY I'M NOT THERE TONIGHT BUT WOKE UP WITH A THROAT THIS MORNING AND DIDN'T WANT TO SPREAD ANYTHING AROUND. SO THIS IS ITEM. FOUR A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL VILLAGE OF INDIAN TOWN, FLORIDA AUTHORIZING THE VILLAGE OF IT AND THE INTENT PARTICIPATE IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT SURPLUS FUNDS TRUST FUND. FLORIDA PRIME AND PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS.CONFLICTS SEVERABILITY, INEFFECTIVE DAY. OKAY? GOOD EVENING, MADAM MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS. UM MR MIKE, WE HAVE AGAIN TWO RESOLUTIONS HERE ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT ONE FOR THE FLORIDA PRIME SURPLUS TRUST FUND AND THE FLORIDA MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT TRUST FUND. BOTH OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT POOLS HAS DEFINED BY FLORIDA STATUTES. UM JUST AS A BACKDROP, I GUESS FROM, YOU KNOW, THE PAST 6 TO 9 MONTHS. UM YOU KNOW, WE ARE. WE HAVE BEEN IN A HIGH INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT. UH PARDON ME INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENT. UM THERE'S BEEN FOUR INCREASES IN THE FEDERAL FUNDS RATE THIS YEAR ALONE TOTAL OF TWO AND A QUARTER PERCENT INCREASE IN TOTAL INTEREST. UM YOU KNOW, AS THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, I'M SEEING ALL THE PAYMENTS AND EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING IN AND YOU KNOW THE COSTS ARE GOING UP. IT'S GETTING MORE EXPENSIVE TO DO BUSINESS OUT THERE. PUTTING A LOT OF STRAIN ON OUR ONGOING BUSINESS OPERATIONS. I JUST REALLY AT A POINT WHERE THE VILLAGE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT WITH ITS CASH. UM YOU KNOW, WE HAVE HAD OUR MONEY IN THE LOCAL PUBLIC DEPOSITORY AND THOSE RATES WERE JUST NOT REALLY, UH, SATISFACTORY IN THE CURRENT INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT. UM SO YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT WE LOOK AT THESE TWO INVESTMENT POOLS, WHICH ARE SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY OUR INVESTMENT POLICY. I DO WANT TO SAY THAT THEY ARE BY FITCH AND BY STANDARD AND POOR'S HIGHLY RATED FUNDS, LOWEST RISK OF ANY DEFAULT. THEY ARE BASICALLY SIMILAR IN TERMS OF THEIR OBJECTIVE. THEIR OBJECTIVE IS TO MAINTAIN SAFETY, LIQUIDITY AND YIELD. THEY DO HAVE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT INVESTMENT TIME HORIZON. THE FLORIDA PRIME S B. A STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION MAINTAINS A DURATION OR INVESTMENT, MATURITY OF 60 DAYS OR LESS. UM THE FLORIDA LEGAL CITIES POOL. THE FLORIDA MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT TRUST IS APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR UM, SO THEY ACTED AND OPERATES.
SIMILARLY IN A MORE OF A STATIC , FLAT INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT WITH THEIR LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT WHEN WE'RE IN AN INCLINING MARKET AGAIN, THEY'RE BOTH EXCELLENT POOLS, BUT WE DO NEED THEM AS AVAILABLE OPTIONS FOR US. I DO WANT TO ALSO MAKE IT KNOWN AND CLEAR THAT YOU KNOW ANY FUNDS THAT WE WILL PUT IN THIS POOL. WE WOULD HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAINTAIN SUB ACCOUNTS WITHIN IT. MEANING YOU KNOW THE GENERAL FUND WOULD BE IN YOU KNOW, SET UP FOR THE GENERAL FUND INTEREST EARNINGS WOULD BE RESTRICTED TO GENERAL FUND USE AND SAME THING WITH UTILITY FUND. ALL THE INTEREST EARNINGS WOULD BE SPECIFIC TO UTILITIES THAT HAVE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MANAGE THAT. UM AND I GUESS I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE JUST NEED TO DO AND TO HELP MITIGATE THE COST OF BUSINESS AND THE HIGH INFLATION MARKET THAT WE'RE IN, AND I DO REQUEST AND RECOMMEND THAT YOU PASSED A MOTION TO APPROVE BOTH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR FOUR AND FIVE GO TOGETHER WAY, BUT WE JUST VOTING ON THEM SEPARATE THE TITLE. YEAH THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT . OKAY SO WE, UM CAN I GET A MOTION MOVED SECOND OKAY, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY ADVICE, MAYOR UH, SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ . UH COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMAS OPEN FOR DISCUSSION. THANK YOU.
SO. ALL OF THIS. THE SUB ACCOUNTS SO ALL OF WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANYTHING LOCAL EVERYTHING WOULD BE IN THESE TWO WOULDN'T AGAIN I NEED TO COME UP WITH LITTLE BIT OF A STRATEGY AND SPEAK WITH MR BROWN ABOUT IT. I THINK YOU KNOW, UM, THERE'S CONCERT. WHAT THEY CALL CONCENTRATION RISK. YOU DON'T WANT TO PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET, OKAY, RIGHT. AND I DIDN'T MENTION BUT PROBABLY AT SOME POINT. I MAY WANT TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD HERE AND ASK YOU ALL UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WOULD CONSIDER SOME OTHER POOLS OR SOME OTHER INVESTMENT OPTIONS BECAUSE OF YOU KNOW, THE CASH FLOWS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CASH ON HAND. WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO STAY VERY SHORT TERM. SOME OF THESE OTHER POOLS THAT ARE WITH FLORIDA INVESTMENT CHILD, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU CAN GO OUT AS FAR AS FIVE YEARS. THAT'S TOO LONG FOR US. WE DON'T HAVE THE
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ABILITY TO HOLD ON TO THINGS THAT LONG. SO YOU KNOW, I THINK THE FLOOR MUSICAL INVESTMENT TRUST IS 0 TO 2 YEAR HIGH YIELD BOND FUND HIGH QUALITY BOND FUND PER SE AND AGAINST STATE BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION. FLORIDA PRIME IS 60 DAYS THEY'RE INVESTING IN FEDERAL AGENCIES AND TREASURIES AND OTHER HIGH QUALITY CORPORATE BONDS AND DEBENTURES THAT ARE HIGHER YIELDING LOW RISK. GREAT GREAT CREDIT QUALITY. THEY HAVE EXCELLENT INVESTMENT MANAGERS AND OVERSIGHT WITH BOTH OF THEM . THE POLLS ARE WELL DIVERSIFIED . UM, BUT I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND AT ALL THAT WE PUT EVERYTHING INTO THE STATE BOARD ADMINISTRATION, UM REALISTICALLY WILL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT SHOULD BE RIGHT NOW. AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A MILLION DOLLAR, NON EXPENDABLE TRUST FROM FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT. THAT WE WILL BE RETURNING TO F P L. I THINK IN JULY OF 2025. THAT'S A PERFECT INVESTMENT THAT WE COULD PUT OVER THERE AND LEAVE THAT OVER THERE AND LET THAT YOU KNOW , SPIN OFF SOME INTEREST EARNINGS. YOU KNOW, OVER THE NEXT 2 TO 2.5 YEARS HERE, BUT UM, THE REST OF IT. I THINK YOU KNOW AGAIN. WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT WE DO. WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME INTEREST RETURN, BUT I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THAT WE PUT ALL OF IT OVER THERE. IT MIGHT BE TEMPTING, BUT THAT WOULD NOT BE PRUDENT INVESTMENT PRACTICE, SO YOU'LL HAVE LOCAL OPERATING AND THEN YOU HAVE A SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH, OKAY. YES, AND THANK YOU. MR MIKE. I'VE SINCE BEFORE YOU'VE BEEN HERE. I'VE BEEN ASKING MR BROWN ABOUT THIS BECAUSE DIVERSIFYING UM, OUR REVENUE IS A MUST, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE'RE SEEING EVERYTHING GOING UP, UM HAVING OUR MONEY OR THE VILLAGE MONEY SITTING IN ACCOUNT GAINING, LIKE ZERO TO NOTHING IS NOT, YOU KNOW SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING SO I THINK THAT THIS IS THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. IN REGARDS OF, UM DIVERSIFYING AND MAKING SOME MONEY ON A SHORT TERM. UM AND NOT ON ALL OF IT. YOU KNOW A PORTION OF IT ONCE. YOU KNOW, YOU AND MR VILLAGE MANAGER DOWN AND DETERMINED THE AMOUNT BUT THANK YOU. BECAUSE THIS IS THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MAKE TO THE DIVERSIFY YOUR REVENUE. THANK YOU, MR SMART. THANK YOU. MADAM MAYOR IF I CAN JUST CLARIFY THE MOTION BECAUSE WE DID CONSIDER BOTH RESOLUTIONS AT THE SAME TIME WITHOUT READING THE TITLE FOR THE SECOND ONE TITLE FOR THE MOTION FOR BOTH RESOLUTIONS WILL DO HIM SEPARATE SINCE WE GOT THEMSELVES, BUT I JUST ASKED HIM THAT THEY'RE BOTH PERTAINING TO THE SAME STATEMENT THAT MR MIKE MIKE, YOU OKAY? SO WE GOT A MOTION FOR THE FIRST DRESS BETTER. THE MOTION BEFORE HE WAS JUST TO ADOPT THE FIRST ONE THAT I READ THE SECOND. CORRECT PERFECT. THANK YOU.COUNCIL MEMBER GIVES THOMAS I COUNCIL MEMBER HERNANDEZ? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER STONE IS NOT PRESENT. VICE MAYOR DOWLING MAYOR CLARK YES. YOU KNOW, FINAL THE NEXT ONE, MAYOR, UH,
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RESOLUTION NO. XXX-2022 A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF INDIANTOWN, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE VILLAGE OF INDIANTOWN TO JOIN WITH OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL UNITS AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE FLORIDA MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT TRUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE TRUST; AND PROVIDING FOR FINDINGS, CONFLICTS, SEVERABILITY, AND EFFECTIVE DATE.
]RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL, THE VILLAGE OF INDIAN TOWN, FLORIDA AUTHORIZING VILLAGE OF INDIAN TOWN TO JOIN WITH OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS AS A PARTICIPANT IN THE FLORIDA MUNICIPAL INVESTMENT TRUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING SHARES OF BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN THE QUEST IN PROVIDING BINDINGS, CONFLICTS, SEVERABILITY AND INEFFECTIVE DEBT. CAN I GET A MOTION? SO MOVED SECOND. MOVED BY VICE MARRY SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN LEARNED THIS ANY DISCUSSION BY THE COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR. AYE AYES HAD NO NAYS. I'M SORRY.[6.
Booker Park Rodway and Drainage Project - Request for Approval to Create a Program to Install Thirty-One (31) Asphalt Driveways at Vacant Lots in the Project Area Before Project Closure
]NUMBER SIX. MR BROWN, NUMBER SIX MADAM MAYOR IS THE BOOK OF PARK ROW AWAY AND DRAINAGE PROJECT UPDATE IN OUR LAST COUNCIL MEETING. I THINK IT WAS COUNCILWOMAN GIBBS THOMAS THAT REQUESTED THIS ITEM COME BEFORE YOU AND WHAT THIS ITEM SPECIFICALLY DOES. IT ALLOWS ME TO BE AUTHORIZED TO, UM UH, COORDINATE, DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM TO INSTALL APPROXIMATELY 31 ASPHALT DRIVEWAYS AT VACANT LOTS IN THE BOOK OF PARK DRAINAGE PROJECT AREA IN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $69,000. A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE VILLAGE ATTORNEY. THERE'S A CHANGE ORDER THAT'S ATTACHED TO THE AGENDA ITEM. JUST REFORMATION. BECAUSE WE KNOW ABOUT HOW MUCH WE THINK 31 DRIVERS WILL CAUSE. I THINK IT'S LIKE $62,000 IF THE COUNCIL SO CHOOSES OR AUTHORIZES JUST TO HAPPEN, THIS MONEY WILL COME FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FUNDS. SO UM CAN I GET A MOTION? THEN WE'LL GO INTO DISCUSSION. SO MOVED. AH! HOLD ON. WAIT FOR ME. IT WAS MOVED. MOTION MADE BY VICE MIRROR SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMA NOW OPEN FOR DISCUSSION. COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ. WAIT. WHAT WAS. WELL WHAT WAS THE[01:10:04]
MOTION TO DO THAT? AND WHAT MR BROWN TO PROVE? WHERE WE DISCUSSING THE WAYS SHE HASN'T CALLED THE VOTE YET. IT'S JUST YOU GOT TO MAKE THE MOTION THEN YOU CAN DISCUSS IT ALREADY DID.YEAH THAN YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT YOUR MORNING. OKAY I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY BEFORE I CONTINUE.
OKAY SO I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD, UM APPROVE THIS RIGHT NOW, THE ONLY THING I WOULD BE, UM WILLING TO DO IS OK. OKAY THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO GO OUT AND SEND LETTERS. I WANT TO SEE HOW MANY, UM, OF THESE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE INTERESTED BEFORE I DO A DETERMINATION. AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE KYLE ENGINEER HERE TO PRESENT TO US. UH HUH. WE AMENDING. YEAH I WOULD SAY I WILL AMEND MY MOTION. UM TO INCLUDE THIS, SO I'M ASSUMING THAT WE'RE WE JUST WANT TO SLOW THIS PROCESS DOWN. IS THAT WHAT I'M GET IN. I NEED MORE CLARIFICATION BECAUSE, REMEMBER THIS IS MONEY. THAT HORSE SPENDING, OKAY. MAKES SENSE. UM SO WITH THAT, I CAN, UM GO AHEAD. UM, GIVES THOMAS BEFORE I AM IN THE MOTION. DIDN'T WE HAVE THE SAME DISCUSSION? WHENEVER WE ASKED IT TO BRING IT FORWARD? THE SAME THING WAS ASKED THAT IT HAS TO BE MORE DEFINED AND NO SO WE DIDN'T DO THAT BEFORE WE BROUGHT IT FORWARD AGAIN HERE. WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT SAME THING AGAIN. THAT WAS $100,000 THAT WAS ON THE HOUSING PROJECT BECAUSE THIS BECAUSE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE LAST MEETING WE DISCUSSED, OKAY, THERE WILL BE A PROCESS AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN , UM, VICE MAYOR, DARLING SAID HE THAT IS WHAT HE WANTED TO SEE WAS THE PROCESS EXACTLY WHAT THAT PROCESS WOULD BE. AND THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT WAS BE BRINGING BACK BECAUSE WE WERE RUNNING UP AGAINST A DEADLINE HERE THAT THAT PROJECT IS GOING TO COME TO AN END WHERE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THE. PRP WHO'S OVER THERE ACTUALLY DOING THAT, AND WE'RE GOING TO MISS THAT WINDOW. AND SO THEN THE PEOPLE WILL B. UM OUT OF THE ABILITY TO ACCESS THEIR LOT UNLESS THEY SPEND TWO OR $3000 IN ORDER TO DO IT. I THOUGHT THAT THAT'S WHAT WE WERE GETTING BACK THIS EVENING WAS THAT WHOLE PROCESS OF BECAUSE IT WAS WE STATED THE SAME THING LAST MEETING. YOU KNOW THAT I WILL CONTACT THEM SEE WHO WANTS TO TWO AND WE CAN GO BACK AND REVIEW THAT IF WE NEED TO SEE SEE WHERE THE IT'S GOING TO GO HAVE HIM SIGN OFF. YOU KNOW? YES OR NO? SO WE'RE I THINK WE'RE JUST REHASHING THE SAME THING ALL OVER AGAIN. I THINK WE HAVE A COST CONCEPT OF WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. IT'S ATTACHED TO THE ATTACHED IT TO THE ITEMS ATTACHED, OKAY? SO. WHAT WAS YOUR STATEMENT? COUNCILWOMAN EARNING MY STATEMENT IS I WANT TO AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO SEND THOSE STATEMENTS OUT OR AK LETTERS TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS. AND THEN ONCE WE GET THEIR RESPONSES, WE CAN DETERMINE IF WE ARE OKAY OR NOT.
I WANT TO KNOW HOW MANY PROPERTY OWNERS ARE INTERESTED IN GETTING THAT. YEAH I'LL AMEND MY MOTION TO, UH. AUTHORIZED THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO MOVE FORWARD FORWARD WITH SENDING SENDING LETTERS. UM DOES ANYBODY HAVE BEEN THE PARTICULAR TIME FRAME THAT WE WANT TO RESPOND FROM THE RESIDENTS? HERNANDEZ. ANYBODY. I THINK, 60 DAYS NO. UH FIVE DAYS , 30 DAYS A MONTH. WHEN IS OUR NEXT MEETING 25TH? 25TH OF THIS MONTH. THAT'S LIKE WHAT? 15 2015 DAYS. 21 YEARS. SO, MR VILLAGE GRANITE VILLAGE ATTORNEY CAN WE DO A LETTER? THAT WOULD SAY, CAN YOU RESPOND IN 20 DAYS BEFORE OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING? HMM. WE CAN. I MEAN, YOU'RE NEXT COUNCIL MEETINGS LITERALLY, 21 DAYS FROM 2 TO 3 WEEKS? YEAH PUT TOGETHER IN TIME. THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. I THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED 60 DAYS. UM OR AT LEAST 45 DAYS TO DO THIS. IF WE WANT TO DO IT EITHER WAY IS GOING TO GET DONE. BUT I THINK YOU KNOW, HAVING UH, UM, RESIDENTS BECAUSE , UM, YOU ALL KNOW, UM IT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. WE GET STUFF IN THE MIDDLE, AND IT GETS LOST. MISSED SO I THINK YOU KNOW
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THAT MAYBE 45 DAYS TO 60 DAYS WILL GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY. UM AND IF WE NEED TO KNOCK ON DOORS YOU KNOW? HEY, WE CAN DO THAT, TOO. SO BUT I JUST WANT TO, UM AND I AGREE WITH YOU. UM UM HERNANDEZ, I DO WANT THE PUBLIC TO BE INFORMED. UM AND SO YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE COUNCIL DECIDES. I'M I'M DOWN FORWARD. COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMAS THANK YOU. UM. WHAT IS ATTACHED IS, UM , INFORMATION. IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO ABOUT THE PROCESS. THAT WE. TALKED ABOUT PREVIOUSLY AS FAR AS UM, CONTACTING THE. CONTACTING THE LANDOWNERS AND GETTING HAVING THEM, YOU KNOW, INDICATE YES OR NO AND THEN AND IF THEY INDICATE YES, EXACTLY WHERE THEY WANT THE DRIVEWAY AT UM AND I THINK WE ARE CREATING A LOT MORE WORK FOR STAFF AND NEEDS TO BE BECAUSE WE KNOW IF ABSOLUTELY EVERYBODY. UM DECIDE. YES I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE ACCESS TO MY LAND. IT'S GOING TO COST US $62,000. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE THING. THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING TO COST US. WHETHER WE KNOW HOW MANY YOU KNOW. OKAY, SO SAY, ONLY 15 DECIDE THEY WANT IT, SO THAT'S GOING TO BE LESS MONEY. IF WE'RE TRYING TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, MONEYWISE, WE ALREADY KNOW MAXIMUM 31. IT'S GOING TO BE 62,000 AND SOME CHANGE. WE ALREADY KNOW THAT. I THINK ASKING FOR THAT AGAIN. WELL OKAY, WELL, WE ONLY WANT 15. WHAT DOES THAT MATTER IF WE HAVE APPROVED FOR 62 IT'S COVERED. IF YOU ONLY HAVE 15, THEN THAT'S THE LAST MONEY. YEAH I THINK WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED. PUBLIC ANYTHING OKAY, VICE MARY, YOU THROUGH? I'M SORRY. YES, MA'AM. COMMENTS. YES, MADAM MAYOR DOUG CALDWELL. YEAH. YEAH. NOT CALDWELL JUST GOT A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. NO, YOU'RE PUTTING PUBLIC MONEY INTO PRIVATE.PROPERTY. I KIND OF DON'T MAKE SENSE TO ME. BUT THAT'S THAT'S YOUR CALL. IF THAT BE THE CASE IN I GOT SOME STUFF OVER IN ANY WOOD. I'M I MIGHT NEED FIXED. UH SOME DRIVEWAYS, SOME DRAINAGE ISSUES. UH, SO I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU WOULD ENHANCE THE VALUE OF SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY. BY PUTTING AN ACCESS ROADWAY TO THERE. I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT BRINGING THIS ISSUE UP ANOTHER TIME OR DISCUSSION EARLY ON, BUT I JUST I JUST DON'T THINK THAT PROBABLY MONEY SHOULD GO. FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY. NOW, IF IT'S IN THE RIGHT AWAY OF YOUR PROJECT, THAT'S ANOTHER ISSUE. EXISTING HOME THERE. YEAH YOU GOT TO MAKE ACCESS FOR THEM IN YOUR PROJECT. SO THAT'S THAT'S MY I THOUGHT. I NEVER HEARD OF. PUTTING PUBLIC MONEY INTO PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY SOMETHING. OKAY MR CALDWELL. UH WE'RE NOT. THIS IS THE DRIVEWAY APRON OR DRIVEWAY PAN. THIS IS NOT THE ENTIRE, YOU KNOW, LENGTH . IT'S JUST JUST IT'S JUST SO THE PROPERTY OWNER CAN ACCESS YOU KNOW A LOT LOT, SO IT'S THE DRIVEWAY PAN. IT'S CLEARLY THE RIGHT AWAY. IT IS NOT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. THIS IS OUR PROPERTY. THIS IS THE RIGHT AWAY. THIS IS NOT THE DRIVER. THIS IS NOT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY. THIS IMPROVEMENT WILL NOT BE. WE WOULDN'T DO THAT WE WOULDN'T SPEND SPEND MONEY TAXPAYERS BUT ON SOMETHING LIKE THIS. WHAT'S SOMETHING LIKE THIS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY? THANKS FOR THAT CLARITY. ATTENTION I'LL I'LL CHIME IN TOO REAL QUICK, JUST AS HOWARD SAID, AND MR CALDWELL MAKES A VERY GOOD POINT. WE? WE GENERALLY LOOK FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE WHEN WE'RE SPENDING ANY MONEY, BUT YOU'RE WE'RE SPENDING IT IN OUR RIGHT OF WAY AND IT IS ULTIMATELY AS A RESULT OF AN ACTION WE DID AND DOING THESE IMPROVEMENTS HERE. THERE ARE PARCELS THAT THAT DON'T CURRENTLY HAVE PRACTICAL ACCESS TO THAT PERSON. SO I'D SAY IT BE LEGAL AS A PUBLIC PURPOSE TO USE. FOR ALL EMPTY LIES. SO WE'RE GONNA YOU'RE GONNA GET US TO YOU'RE GONNA IT'S ALREADY APPROVED. COUNCILWOMAN GIBBS. HE JUST WE WANT TO KNOW THE RETURN. SO THE MONEY AND EVERYTHING JUST APPROVED. WE JUST WANT TO KNOW THE NUMBER OF INTEREST BEFORE WE PROCEED. IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING FROM? COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ? EVERYTHING EVERYTHING IS APPROVED. WHY YOU LOOKING LIKE THAT? SUSAN, DID I YOU'RE KIND OF SCARING ME, GIRL. I'M CONFUSED IF IT'S IF IT'S APPROVED FOR 62,000. WHY ARE WE NOT MOVING AHEAD? WHY DO WE HAVE TO KNOW THAT THERE'S ONLY GONNA BE 20 PEOPLE, I THINK THAT I WOULD REALLY LIKE MR KYLE TO INCOME HERE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT THE ENGINEER. I'M NOT AN
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EXPERT IN REGARDS OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE DO THIS, UM IN REGARDS OF. CRUMBLING WE MIGHT HAVE A CAUSE AND EFFECT. IN REGARD TO THAT. PATRICK NOLAN. FOR THE RECORD. IT'S NOT A REALLY IT'S NOT AN ENGINEERING. IT IS AN ENGINEERING AND THE FACT THAT IF YOU DON'T DO THE DRIVEWAYS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO COMPLETE YOUR DRAINAGE PROJECT. BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE HOLES IN YOUR DRAINAGE. SO BUT COUNCIL COUNCILWOMAN GIBBS SAID YOU HAVE A CEILING PRICE. IF IT TURNS OUT THAT WE ONLY DO 40 DRIVEWAYS, IT'S GONNA COST YOU LESS THAN THE $62,000. BUT AS FAR AS THE PROJECT IS CONCERNED, THERE WILL BE HOLES IN THE PROJECT AND IT WILL BE PARTS OF THE DRAINAGE THAT WON'T WORK PROPERLY. IF WE DON'T FINISH IT PROPERLY, SO THAT'S WHERE IT REALLY COMES TOGETHER IS DO YOU WANT TO FINISH THE DREAMS PROJECT COMPLETELY? OR DO YOU WANT TO HAVE SOME HOLES IN IT? AND THEN WE MAY HAVE SOME DRAINAGE ISSUES THAT THOSE DRIVEWAYS AND ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS IN THE RIGHT WAY. THERE'S NO PRIVATE PROPERTY AFFECTED AS FAR AS WHERE THE WORK WILL BE DONE. IT WILL BE DONE IN THE RIGHT WAY. GOTCHA AND ONE LAST THING IS TIMING. THE CONTRACTOR IS WORKING DILIGENTLY. BUT IF WE WAIT TILL THE END OF THE PROJECT AND THEN THROW THIS AT THEM, THERE IS A GOOD CHANCE THAT IT WON'T GET DONE ON TIME, WHICH COULD COST US MORE MONEY IN THE END, BECAUSE IF THEY HAVE TO REMOBILIZE AND COME BACK IT COULD AFFECT THE COST OF IT AS WELL. SO WHAT'S GOING TO BE THAT WE NEED TO DECIDE ON THE TIME FRAME WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THESE PEOPLE. BUT THAT HASN'T BEEN ESTABLISHED. MR BROWN. LISTEN I KNOW THAT WE'RE IN A HURRY. OKAY MY GOAL IS TO YOU KNOW THEIR LETTER. GET IT OUT TO THE 31 AFFECTED PROPERTY OWNERS WITH WITH WITH A FIRM DATE, AND MAYBE I CAN COME BACK BY SEPTEMBER, 8TH. AND LET YOU GUYS KNOW, UM YOU KNOW WHAT RESPONSE WE GOT, BUT WE JUST COULDN'T SEND A LETTER OUT AND JUST GIVE HIM 60 DAYS OR 90 DAYS. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T DO THAT. NOW YOU KNOW EVERYBODY'S NOT GOING TO RESPOND TO US. OKAY? WE CAN SIT OUT LETTERS CERTIFIED MAIL, REGULAR MAIL, AND YOU WON'T GET A RESPONSE. OKAY? AND SO, UM, BUT THESE WOULD BE PEOPLE THAT WOULD JUST RESPOND, AND SO AND ONCE WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND THEY CAN TELL US WHERE THIS DRIVEWAY CAN GO. THEN WE'LL WORK. TO GET THAT MAKE THAT HAPPEN. SO THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I'M DOING. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING FOR THE AUTHORITY TO DO IT ALL NOW SO GOTTA HAVE A TIMEFRAME FOR I'M IN. SO YOU'RE SAYING IT'S NOT A TIME FRAME FOR US TO GET THE LETTER OUT OR THE TIME FRAME FOR THAT? WE'VE GOT TO HAVE A TIMEFRAME. NO I'M JUST TRYING TO GET THE AUTHORITY TO MANAGE ALL OF THIS. OKAY YOU KNOW IF I HAVE TO GO BACK AND SIT DOWN WITH STAFF AND SAY, OKAY, WHAT GIVE PROVIDED PROGRAM TO YOU. THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN BY SEPTEMBER 8TH. RIGHT OKAY, SO I'M TRYING TO DO IT ALL AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, GIVE ME THE AUTHORITY TO GO OUT THERE AND DO IT. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH COMING BACK TO YOU GUYS. AND INFORMING YOU OF WHAT? WHAT WHAT? WHAT YOU WANT ME TO DO PEOPLE? WHO HAVE YOU BEEN ON? SO NOW WE'RE PROVING SOMETHING. SO IF YOU SEND A LETTER OUT AND GET IT BACK TO SOMEBODY, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND START WORKING ON THE PROPERTY. IN ESSENCE, THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING. EVEN IN THE MIDST OF YOU DOING ALL THIS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR. OKAY SO I'M NOT TRYING TO CONFUSE ANYONE HERE. OKAY THERE ARE SOME. THERE ARE MANY MOVING PIECES RELATED THIS OKAY? ALSO INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS. OKAY OKAY, PATS INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS. I HAVE NOT SAT DOWN WITH THEM, BUT I KNOW ON TUESDAY WE WILL OKAY AND WE'LL WORK OUT.WHATEVER YOU GUYS COME UP WITH, AND TRY TO GET IT DONE. CAN I SUGGEST ONE THING? UM IF WE'RE GOING TO SEND THAT LETTER, AND, UM AND ASKED FOR THEIR INTEREST IN WHETHER THEY'D LIKE US TO BUILD IT. UH HUH. TELL YOU AS A PRACTICAL MATTER. ANYONE WHO RECEIVES THAT LETTER AND THEN RESPOND. PA RESPONSE POSITIVELY ? YES, I WOULD LIKE ONE THAT LIKE IT. BUT HERE THOSE FOLKS ARE GOING TO EXPECT IT TO BE DONE. OKAY? I'M ALWAYS GONNA TELL YOU THAT REALITY RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM. IF WE'RE IF THERE'S A THOUGHT THAT WE DO IT BY PIECES AND CUT BAIT IF WE DON'T LIKE WHAT WE SEE BACK IN LETTERS F A LEAD US DOWN THE ROAD. I JUST WANT TO TRY TO ANTICIPATE PROBLEMS BEFORE WE RUN INTO THEM. COOL CORRECT. I'M ASSUMING THAT THOSE WHO RESPOND BACK AT
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THE TIME TO FASHION HOPEFULLY THE LETTER WILL GO OUT. DO YOU AGREE TO HAVE THIS DONE? AND WHEN YOU GET THEM BACK, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DECIPHER WHO WANTS IT? AND WHO NOT? MY QUESTION WAS ONCE YOU DRAFT A LETTER. LET'S GO OUT, AND THEN HE GETS A RESPONSE AS THEY COME IN. I MEAN, WE ALREADY APPROVED FOR YOU TO WORK ON THIS WHAT I'M SAYING. EVEN THOUGH WE AMENDED THIS AIN'T LIKE WE GOT TO COME BACK AND APPROVED FOR YOU TO START WORKING A LESSON. IT'S MORE TO THIS THAN WHAT I'M SAYING. OKAY LET ME TAKE SOME QUESTIONS. GO AHEAD, VICE MAYOR , I WAS JUST GOING GOING TO JUST READ REITERATE THE MOTION SO WE CAN VOTE ON IT BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT, UM THE STAFF HAVE EVERYTHING THEY NEED. THEY JUST NEED US TO SAY OKAY. YES SO, UM , SO WHATEVER THEY DECIDE, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE HERE EVERYDAY. WORKING OUT THE LOGISTICS. I'M OKAY WITH THAT, AS LONG AS THEY ARE, THE RESIDENTS ARE INFORMED. UM UM I'M COOL, SO THAT THAT'S MY MOTION. SO WHATEVER THE UM, YOU KNOW, AUTHORIZED THE VILLAGE MANAGER AND STAFF TO SEND LETTERS AND THEN ALSO GET OUR ENGINEER TO COME AND SPEAK TO US. NO ISSUES HERE. SO THAT'S MY MOTION. COUNCILWOMAN HERNANDEZ IS THAT VIOLENT MOTION, MR. ATTORNEY. WELL, THAT THAT'S THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR ASKING BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE REALLY CLEAR HERE BECAUSE THE COUNCIL MEMBER HERNANDEZ YOU HAD IT SOUNDED AS IF YOU HAD A THOUGHT WE'D SEND OUT LETTERS AND THEN, UM WE SEE WHAT WE DO AFTER WE GET BACK RESPONSES UH UM. AND THAT THAT'S NOT CONSISTENT. WHAT STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION HAD BEEN. STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION HAD BEEN, YOU KNOW, PUT THEM LOOSE TO GO SEND THE LETTERS AND PROCEED FORWARD AND SO ON. AND I WOULD IMAGINE HOWARD KEEPING YOU ALL UPDATED ON A VERY REGULAR BASIS. THAT COUNCIL MEETINGS ON IT. UM SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE REALLY CLEAR. WHETHER WHETHER THE MOTION IS.AT LEAST STAFF TO GO DO IT WITH UPDATES TO THE COUNCIL, OR YES, SIMPLY SEND LETTERS. AND THEN THE COUNCIL WILL FIND WHAT TO DO BASED ON THE RESPONSES TO THE LETTERS. SO FOR ME, UM, THIS IS VICE MAYOR FOR ME. I THINK IT IS, UM. UM HOWEVER THIS, HOWEVER , IT IS EASIEST FOR THE STAFF.
I'M THAT'S THE DIRECTION IN WHICH WE SHOULD GO. WELL WELL, I THINK, UM, THEY'VE ALREADY SHARED THAT THEY JUST NEED US TO SAY YES. SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD . SO I'M GOOD, SO I JUST NEED SOMEBODY TO HELP ME WITH THIS MOTION STANDS. BUT WITH THAT MOTION TO LETTER IS ALREADY IN MOTION AWAIT HAS TO PAIR THE LETTER TO GO OUT SO A LETTER WAS GONNA GO OUT EVEN WITH THIS HERE MOTION. I'M JUST SAYING. YES, OKAY. SO WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE THE LETTERS PART OF HOW POWER IS GOING TO IMPLEMENT. THE PLAN. OKAY ORIGINAL MOTION STANDS. STILL THAT'S THAT'S WHAT THE STAFF HAS RECOMMENDED. CORRECT. AM I UNDERSTANDING THIS ? YES LETTERS GOING WITH OKAY AND JUST TO CLARIFY NO CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IS GOING TO OCCUR INTO ALL THE LETTERS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. THAT WAS MY CONFUSION. NO NO, WE JUST SAY THAT LATER. IF YOU'RE GONNA DO THIS, I JUST WANT YOU TO SAY HERE, HOWARD HANDLE THIS. NO DON'T SPEND MORE $1000. THAT'S ALL I NEED. YOU KNOW, YOU TELL ME THAT AND I CAN WORK OUT TO TELL US EXACTLY THE MOTIONS OF MR TAO LINCOLN OR VICE MAYOR. DARLENE. SORRY. CAN STATE IT? IT'S GOING TO BE ALL DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMENDATION WITH YOU GUYS ORIGINALLY RECOMMENDED, SO IT IS AGAIN. UH I'M RECOMMENDING WHAT STAFF HAS SAID. WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT THIS 10 MINUTES AGO. SO NOW I JUST NEED THE MAYOR TO GO ALONG WITH THE VOTE SO WE CAN GET THIS ACCOMPLISHED TONIGHT. IT WAS MOTION MADE BY VICE MAYOR. SECOND BY COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMAS. YES IT WAS YOU. DID. YOU MADE IT? YOU MADE THE MOST. YOU MAY FOR THE ORIGINAL AND THE ORIGINAL WAS AMENDED. NOTHING GIVES. OKAY I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE ORIGINAL IS TAKE CARE OF IT. NOT TAKE CARE OF IT, MEANING HE GOT THE LETTERS WILL ALREADY BE INCLUDED IN IT. OKAY YEAH. LEAVE THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS WITH THEM. GOING AROUND ITS BACK TO APPROVE THE STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION. HMM. GO AHEAD MATTER WHAT? THAT'S WHAT? WE ALL HERE FOR IT BUT OTHER PEOPLE GET
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HISTORIES. LET ME MAKE, UH, HAS BEEN MOVED. BY VICE MAYOR SECOND BY A COUNCILWOMAN GIVES THOMAS ALL IN FAVOR. AYE. ALRIGHT. YES. YES. LINDA AND I COME. HEARD THAT GROWN? GOODNIGHT COME FOR THE RECORD ALREADY VOTED ON IT. SO YOU KNOW, I'LL GIVE YOU MY TWO CENTS WORTH BRIEFLY. YOU'VE STATED THAT THIS IS RIGHT OF WAY. PROPERTY BELONGS TO THE VILLAGE. NO, YOU'VE GOT WELL.WHAT WE HAVE CONTROL OVER IT. IT CANNOT. OUR DRAINAGE CANNOT BE COMPLETED UNLESS ALL OF THESE DRIVEWAYS ARE APRONS ARE PUT IN. YOU'VE GOT 3100 YOU YOU MISQUOTED NOW THAT'S NOT THE CASE. WOULD YOU LET HER FINISH? SORRY I WAS GONNA GO AHEAD AND FINISH IT. INSTEAD OF ASKING FOR THEIR PERMISSION, BECAUSE IF YOU PUT IN HALF OF THE DRIVEWAY APRONS AND ONLY HALF OF THE DRAINAGE IS CAN YOU KNOW COMPLETED? WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN DOWN THE ROAD WHEN THE NEXT NEIGHBOR SAYS, OH, I THINK I WANT MINE DONE, TOO. WHAT IF THE LETTER WAS SENT OUT TO ALL 31 SAYING WE WILL BE PUTTING IN THESE APRONS? ON THESE LOTS. IF YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE IS TO WEAR ON YOUR LOT. THAT APRON SHOULD GO. YOU NEED TO CONTACT US BACK WITHIN THE NEXT 15 20 DAYS SO WE CAN PROCEED. UM. GIVING HIM THE OPTION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT THAT APRON THERE. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE I MEAN, WE'RE WE'RE UP AGAINST THE TIMETABLE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE. WE WANT THEM TO BE ABLE TO FINISH YOUR PROJECT. THANK YOU MISUNDERSTOOD. YOU NEED TO CLARIFY BECAUSE SHE'S GO AHEAD. THAT'S ALL CAME HERE, MAYOR. UM ARE YOU FINISHED? MISS MICHAEL.
OKAY YEAH. SO SHE MAKES A GOOD POINT. SHE MAKES A GOOD POINT. THIS IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS JUST GET THE AUTHORITY AND I'LL WORK IT OUT. AND, UM THAT'S THAT'S ALL I NEED. SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIVE ON THE PROPERTY. IT'S NOT ABOUT DRAINAGE PROJECT GETTING FIXED IS ABOUT I LIVED IN MY HOUSE, AND I USE MY EXTRA LOT FROM SOMETHING THAT NEXT TO ME. I NEED TO GET OVER THERE.
BUT IF SOMEBODY LIVE IN TEXAS, AND ON THE LOT, WHY SHOULD WE SPEND MONEY AND THEY'RE NOT HERE. SO THAT'S WHY YOU GIVE THEM THE OPTION TO SEE IF THEY WANT IT OR NOT. I DON'T THINK THIS AFFECTING THE DRAINAGE BECAUSE THEY GOT TO PUT THE DRAINAGE DOWN THERE ANYWAY. IT'S JUST THAT THEM HAVING ACCESS TO THEIR VACANT LOT. CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ABOUT ACCESS, OKAY.
JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE GOT THIS CLEAR. I'M JUST SAYING YOU LIVE IN TEXAS OR YOU LIVE IF YOU AIN'T IF YOU, UH, IF THEY OH, HERE, BUT WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT WHO ALL WANTED OR NOT. THAT'S WHY WE DID IT. REST ASSURED GIVES THE MOTION BEING MADE IS CARRIE. LISTEN LET'S NOT GET UPSET WHEN WE ALL DON'T AGREE IT IS WHAT IT IS. WE'RE GONNA THEY'RE GONNA GET IT DONE. ALL RIGHT. NEXT. WE JUST NEED ALL IN FAVOR. YES IT IS ALL IN FAVOR. I YES. OKAY? ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS
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JUST TO REMEMBER TO VOTE. THIS WEEK IS THE BACK TO SCHOOL BASH AT THE POST FAMILY PARK FROM 10 TO 12, PLEASE. ANYBODY GOT SMALL CHILDREN COME OUT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF VENDORS. A POLICE STATION IS GOING TO BE THERE. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO SCHOOL IMMUNIZATIONS WITH THOSE WHO NEED IT, AND FREE FOOD AND MUSIC AND FUN AND ROCK PAINTINGS FOR THE KIDS AND FAMILY. THANK YOU. ONE QUESTION, MADAM MAYOR BEFORE YOU DISMISS OR CONCLUDE THE MEETING. DO YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A FLYER FOR THE BACK TO SCHOOL? YES, IT'S ON FACEBOOK. OKAY, UM BECAUSE, UH, IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN PROMOTE THIS? BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO HELP ALL OF OUR KIDS AND INDIAN TOWER? SENATOR SUSAN MIGHT HAVE MY HEAD AND SEND IT OUT. IF YOU IF YOU SAID TO ME IF THERE'S NO OBJECTION TO THE COUNCIL, I'LL PUT IT ON THE OKAY, BECAUSE I DEFINITELY THINK WE SHOULD. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO GET THE SHOTS AND ALL THAT KIND OF[NEXT REGULAR MEETING (ANNOUNCE TIME, DATE AND LOCATION)]
GOOD STUFF. SO NEXT MEETING IS AUGUST 25TH MEETING IS* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.