##VIDEO ID:bULzMZa8IFg## our County Administrator Don Donaldson we have Elise Elder our assistant County um attorney thank you that reminds me that we have our city manager Mr mortell and our City attorney Mr baggot thank you um the village of Indian Town no is it the school the school board Miss Russell next uh we have our board lawyer Tony George we have our board member Marcia Powers Vice chair Amy pritchet board member Lee Roberts and then board member Mike D Turley and then myself General and I don't know when we're going to say this and we'll say it again but can we say something about Mr deer Ley yes and I also want to introduce our superintendent Michael main but this is the last meeting that Mr dley is going to be at we're going to miss him greatly he's been a trooper for 24 years in public service and we're so proud of him and so proud to have been able to serve with him and we thank you so much as I said last night I didn't accept the results of the election although I didn't run either thank you thank you for your service thank you all thank you from the village of indent toown Mr um the Apollo Mr Carmine yes with us today we have Village manager Taran krisda council member phis water Brown I'm sorry vice mayor Perez and council member Susan Gibbs Thomas and myself Carmine depalo thank you so much our next item on the agenda is have public comment I have Sharon M mcginness who has a public comment yes please go to the microphone up front towards the south side of the room or Southeast I don't know and Miss Clark will have a are we having a three minute time limit yes thank you clerk thank you I just want to take a few moments to say thank you for hearing my comment and the comment that I have is a very simple one is a address to the city of Stewart in Martin County you know Martin County has a premier uh Recycling and trash program with waste management and I've seen the steart trucks they limp along spewing all this dirt and I just thought would it be easy to say that you could go through a collaborative effort since so many of our streets are interconnected you stop Waste Management you start Steward to look at retiring those old trucks and just saying to waste management have at it and just collect because steuart has Incorporated farther into Port solo and areas uh in my area and it would be nice to just see the nice clean Waste Management trucks collecting all the trash and being uh efficient and uh getting rid of those trucks I I assume they need a lot of Maintenance because they look awfully old to me and that's my only comment is to try to work together to collect the trash with uh a much more efficient operation thank you thank you Miss Maguire I have no other White cards from anyone from any members of the public um at this time thank you our first agenda item is to have the County Public Works project Mr Keith Bader and Mr John mail to present to us with regard to Martin County hi good morning everyone I'm Keith Baker the capital projects administrator for Martin County we're going to go through our neighborhood restoration project updates these are done in three phases in coordination with our utility department uh typically the resurfacing phase happens first and then utilities will come in and install water or sewer or both and then we will Mill and resurface the neighborhood so going over the uh the drainage improvements first uh bo revage drainage improvements is complete Coral Gardens is at approximately 85% poro peninsul is currently it says out to bid it's about to be out to bid this week uh Rocky Point the design is at 60% the utility plans are at 50% uh Port SL and a new Monrovia project will be out to bid this uh late fall early winter um Dixie Park that design will begin in Winter of this year and um city of Stewart Riverside Park our construction is 10% complete that's a joint project between Martin County and the City of Stewart in Old Palm City North uh the drainage study is at 50% complete that's a resiliency project where we will be elevating the roadways in that neighborhood uh the re and then this is for the phase' be like call it phase two the resurfacing uh Gomez neighborhood resurfacing has been completed uh Golden Gate is approximately 50% complete Leilani Heights and um this has schedule for early 2025 and immediately thereafter we will be resurfacing the hob Hills neighborhood this is our roadway and sidewalk construction projects uh Dixie Highway resurfacing from montere to 5th has been completed uh Cove Road resurfacing which added shoulders uh to Cove Road has been completed Saro Road sidewalk is done uh 714 which was from Fox Brown Road to 710 is finished um Indian Street is underway it says approximately 30% uh Jensen Beach Boulevard is being resurfaced um currently I I expect it it won't be completed this week hopefully it'll be finished next week uh MacArthur Boulevard um says 50% complete that's another resiliency project where we're elevating the roadway um Fox BR Road uh resurfacing uh the Design's at 90% um Dixie Highway multimodal also designed at 90% And then the SunRail the survey is just underway that's an a cool project the suntrail it'll provide a multi-use path connecting Jonathan Dickinson State Park to seab Branch State Park current Bridge projects um 6 Highway East Fort Creek Bridge is uh 50% complete with the construction hobtown bascal Bridge uh this is a scour protection project that will be lining the channel uh the design is 30% complete and then the replacement of the Island Way West Bridge the design will start winter 25 County Line Road on the bottom lockah hatchee River Bridge is expected to bid early 25 uh this will be a full closure and there'll be a detour via Country Club Road moving on to traffic project updates uh we have Indian Street and will it be this is for the uh Mass arm replacement so it's signalization Improvement it's it's underway right now um it'll be completed with the whole intersection Improvement Saro Road at caner Highway this is a capacity Improvement project um construction is expected to begin fall of 24 Constitution Boulevard at US1 as another signalization Improvement um improving the um upgrading the Mast arms and High Meadow at uh Sunset Trail will be constructing a new roundabout and that one also expected to begin very soon good morning uh my name is John M I'm the environmental resource administrator for Martin County I'm just going to highlight some of the projects that the public is likely to see some progress on um in in construction phase um you can see you know the rest of those on the slide that are in some level of design permitting or we're always seeking funding East Fort Creek phase to I'll point out because that's going to construction next month and so we're likely to see um some truck traffic um leaving that project sight onto US1 just north of seab Branch Boulevard that's a 700 acre or 700t linear Lake um with a um man-made Wetland um treatment area on the East End that'll just help provide some additional polishing to to storm water that eventually makes its way to Manatee pocket um I'd also point out um some of my staff had the pleasure of spending a little more time in the water this summer overseeing and monitoring about 20 acres of seagrass plantings in the Estuary that that also included a whole Suite of different um I'll call them studies or experiments as we try to equip ourselves to be efficient and effective at at restoration efforts with seagrass you may have also noticed a large Derek and and um barges out in the inlet there um this has been part of a Inlet maintenance Dr in project um that we do in partnership with corv Engineers uh that project is was scheduled to remove about 300,000 cubic yards um as of printing this presentation U we were at about 235,000 yards it should be done by the end of October um Twin Rivers uh Shoreline restoration project will start imminently um we had to kind of address a few details on making sure we were protecting the gopher tortoises appropriately before that project started you won't see a lot of construction traffic for that because it's not a lot of material but um there'd be some some uh impacts to the I guess the southeast corner of that Park that um you know it'll be for a few months um and then I guess just as a note um octob or August 12th the cor of engineer signed into a record uh the lake okobi system operating manual which should substantially reduce discharges to the St louisy River and uh my last comment as a public service announcement is that uh keep Martin beautiful will be doing a beach cleanup um a volunteer Beach cleanup effort to address some of the storm debris that was left on the beaches um that'll be Saturday morning starting at 8:00 they're going to base themselves out of um Jensen Beach and they'll be sending groups of volunteers um to all the beaches in that area to try and get those things back the way we like them that's all I have thank you um did do we have any questions on anything from the county right now all right I just had one question on SunRail that's a natural surface that you can both bike and walk yes it'll be a like a b path oh not mulch it'll be like a concrete or as conrete okay good thank you Ula yes will Twin Rivers be closed close during the construction no the park will be open I don't think you'll really notice much impacts to to the users it's it's kind of confined to the southern boundary and the southeast corner and the access to the construction will be following a an old utility easement on the South Side okay thank you thank you any other question thank you County um now we have Mr Miss Peter thank thank you Mr tun in from our city of Stewart utilities department good morning everyone morning good seeing all of you and and uh definitely glad to be here with you this morning have several projects to go over with you this morning I have the wrong glasses with me so please please forgive me there we go all right so uh starting with our uh roadway projects we have uh in a continuation of our milling and resurfacing projects throughout the city uh pavement maintenance uh project uh this one is in our zone two and it involves uh pavement uh restoration milling and resurfacing some point repairs and uh the project is currently in design and we're looking at uh the anticipated start of the construction of the project early next year it says January of 2025 most likely it will be uh in in March or April of 2025 and typically these projects last uh uh it's about a 4-we duration uh they're they're pretty quick projects on to a couple storm water projects that the city has going on uh the first one is that Southwest dire drive and uh the project uh it's the drainage improvements uh which would include uh exfiltration uh uh drainage storm water improvements uh for water quality purposes and uh the uh connection of this dire Drive uh uh project is at Southwest Palm City Road the project is uh scheduled to start construction in uh January of 2025 and uh the anticipated completion of construction will be around the end of April of 2025 the second project is the Southeast lenita Street storm water Improvement project and that too involves drainage inlets uh exfiltration uh trench for water quality purposes and um a baffle box uh this particular water is uh discharges into the poppleton creek and uh it's also uh connected to uh the southeast Trester Drive drainage system that's already there the project is also anticipated to be under construction early next year probably around February of next year as well February March and uh to be completed in early summer June of 2025 we have a a couple utility projects that involve sanitary sewer uh sewer pump stations or or lift stations uh the first one is the north Stewart lift station um that uh is a rehabilitation of an existing sewer pump station that would involve uh just uh recoding the the the wet well uh replacement of existing piping uh including a u the installation of a standby pump for emergency purposes second project is at our conistor location within the uh within the development um the conis door lift station is also in design same thing it's a rehabilitation project involving recating the the wet well replacement of piping pumps electrical panels and that too will have a a bypass pump cited for emergency purposes both projects are currently in design and we're looking to have those projects out for bids uh for construction by the end of this year anticipated construction start is actually going to be around March April of next year and the duration of the two projects will be for approximately one year on to uh some facility projects that we have over at our Water Reclamation facility we have a project involving the re Rehabilitation of the headwork structure and uh that project is a complete uh rehab of the existing structure including the internal workings of the structure Gates and channels and and some some piping as as well and uh the project is uh currently in construction uh the project is all sighted within our wastewater treatment facility so there's no anticipated impacts to any of the local traffic and uh the anticipated completion of the construction of this project is next April April 2025 and uh as I as I mentioned um uh all the work will be confined within the the wastewater treatment facility itself and then finally on our water facilities project we are very pleased to announce that uh our R reverse osmosis water treatment project is completed that project involved uh the construction of a new reverse osmosis water treatment facility over at our existing water treatment site it also had uh the construction of a the reverse osmosis concentrate pipeline project that piped the concentrate over to our Water Reclamation facility and uh also uh modifications to the deep well at our wastewater treatment facility to receive the the concentrate a big very big project for the city of Stewart and we're very pleased that it is completed and with that um open for any questions that any of you may have for me this morning Mr commissioner Smith thank you it's just a a curiosity question so I think last our last joint meeting um I commented on what a beautiful job they did on right Boulevard when they resurfaced it I mean it really was like a fantastic resurfacing job yes sir a couple weeks ago they came back and put that yellow God awful sealer stuff on top of it I I and then it rained and washed most of it back into the drainage system and all the new striping kind of was yellow Amber do you have to do that well as far as the the seal coat on on New on new asphalt it's it's something that the city of Stewart has done because it does it does make the new pavement or any type of pavement last longer protecting it from UV rays but I've heard that before I just wonder if the Environmental of it and the mess that makes to everybody's car and that beautiful new asphalt and striping I just wonder if it's really worth it I mean we don't do it the county doesn't do it State doesn't do it well I will look into it I I wasn't aware that of of the the situation is it still is it still a mess mess out there oh no it all washed off it's all washed off okay no looks kind of good again okay just I just it just and and some of the some of the Interior streets downtown Stewart that got resurfaced got it too um that's correct yes I just just wonder that's all just thank you you're welcome I'd save you some money it well it would and to be honest with you I haven't seen that type of uh sealer application used in other municipalities that I've worked for over the years so we'll we'll definitely take a look into it thank you thank you any other questions for Mr could oh m board M my my same question I ask every meeting are there any updates on improvements to Palm City Road well uh the update I have for you it's still is still in the design phase uh we had several months ago a meeting on site with fdot who have the design plans that they are they have reviewed and uh they came back with some comments markups if you will on the design plans which are back at uh at the consult reviewing the comments to to address thank you you're welcome thank you anybody have anything all remember just put your thing up then I'll I'll notice uh it seems like thank you is in order thank you thank you very much everyone thank you all right the village of Indian Town Capital Improvement project update Mr Patrick Nolan good morning I'm Pat Nolan as she stated I'm the director of Public Works and utilities for the village of Indiantown on uh the Public Works projects that we've got going on uh the first one is our Uptown roadway and drainage repair that is in design we're about 60% on a design phase for that project that is uh all Grant funded we've got the seminal drive and Magnolia generator project we actually did put that out to bid uh but we had some problems with our funding so we're trying to negotiate with the contractor and figure out what we can do to reduce the cost of that project and uh get it finished the Southwest Lincoln Street roadway and drainage project that is also a grandf funded project uh we're working with the fdot to get our specs correct so that we can put that out to bid on our water projects we've got two water plant projects actually that we're working on one is a brand new water plant we've been seeking funding for that we just actually got notification that we received uh a little over $10 million towards that project so that'll allow us to drill a test well so then we can go into design for the actual plant which we are planning on building an RO plant uh the other part of that is a deep injection well we are still looking for funding to be able to pull that part of the project off but that is A6 to18 million uh lift so we're hoping that we get funding for that project Railroad Avenue water main uh this one I have talked about since I've been coming to these joint meetings this is a 100-year old 8in water M that we need to replace it is designed but we don't have funding for it so we are seeking funding from whatever source that we can get it from we've got our 12-in water made looping project uh what that is is a project to loop our 12-in water made from Farm Road over to 710 and then down so that we can uh reinforce our system we have awarded a contract and uh gave the contractor notice to proceed so we should be starting soon 151st an naola Street water main project that is a project where we're planning on moving a moving and removing a 2-in galvanized water M from the back of the homes and put it out on the street on aola uh we have worked with US Representative Mass's office to secure funding for that project special projects I've got this one under land clearing which is for the Wastewater Plant we have uh completed the land clearing and we are on the verge of beginning construction on that property for our lift station we also have two other lift station projects that we are going out to bid very shortly and uh these Wastewater projects are being funded by Appropriations that we received from the governor's office for a total of $38 million on the automatic meter reading project that is a project again uh we use some of the funding from that same $38 million to install uh a new water meter reading system throughout the village we went from reading the meters physically to uh an AMR system which is automatic meter reading we installed antennas on some of the one of the properties was a county-owned property so we we were able to share that Tower with the county which enabled us to improve our system any questions or comments um M commissioner Smith I'm sorry um I had the privilege about a month ago or so uh I was invited by Kevin Powers to take a tour of Indiantown and see what's going on um I would encourage all of you to get his phone number and call him and take a tour it is absolutely amazing what's going on out there you guys have done a remarkable job thus far and um it's it's it's exciting to see happen it's fantastic to see all the transformation um great stuff really cool uh it is exciting to see and if anybody would like to see any of our infrastructure I'm more than happy to give you a tour at any time so that you can see uh what we're dealing with part of what we don't put in the presentation is how bad the infrastructure is in the village of Indian Town that's why we're doing so much work which means we need to find funding this little village has a an interesting uh tax base which makes it difficult to raise the money within the village because we are a small village and we're talking about probably $100 million in need or more than that so that's why with every slide that we put up it's grant funding but we're at actually at a point now where we need to find money for our share of the grant funding so it's a challenge but as Mr Smith said it is very exciting can you can you also give us just a little update on sedron where are you with them sure I think Dina will be talking about sedron on the on the development process but sedron Industries is a biosolids umy that takes biosolids treats that in a simple form they're going to take the biosolids which every wastewater treatment plant in the entire State entire country has you're going to take that waste and turn it into ammonia clean water and then a byproduct that they're going to turn into pellets they haven't exactly figured out whether they're going to whatever they do is going to be better than what we're doing now because presently most of the waste products from the Wastewater plants in in Florida are lands spread or put in a landfill there are two of the worst options possible to do you know when you when you take care of your uh your sludge but unfortunately that's the way it's been my whole career and longer than that I've been doing this for 25 plus years we've been sending Sledge of landfills all over the country for the last 25 plus years or land spreading it and what's happening is a lot of the sludge that gets land spread whatever constituents are in there it uh pollutes the environment and in some cases it causes cancer so the Advent of sedron coming to the village is not only big for the village not only big for the county but it's going to be huge for the State of Florida and eventually the country because it's going to change the way that we get rid of our biosolids and it's going to make it much more safer than the way we were doing it now thank you Mr Nolan can I ask you a question uh just a general thing with regard to if there was any excessive flooding or any big issues impact from the recent storm actually we were very lucky we didn't have a lot of rain we did have flooding in the Uptown neighborhood uh when I first got to the Village we we were just embarking on a drainage project in Booker Park and uh that is working Uptown drainage is part of my uh presentation that's in design that's a bigger area than the booker Park area and it actually has has quite a bit of drainage issues we're trying to do what we can inhouse because if you look at the history of the village there wasn't really much work done on Public Works since we became a village and if you ride around the village you will also see that there probably wasn't work done the 10 years prior that to it being a village or if it was it was minimal so we're trying to do what we can inhouse and then we're chasing grants as I stated before to try to do these projects now this Uptown drainage project the design alone at $700,000 we're looking at probably $7 to $9 million to actually do the project once we get the the design done we'll be able to go and try to seek funding do the project and we did design it so that we could do it in sections so that if we can't get the whole $9 million we can break this design up and do a section at a time to achieve our goal which will take longer but you know the end goal will be met it just take a little longer to do it thank you any other questions for Indian town oh M uh Gibbs Thomas Susan thank you I would just like to comment on out in Indian town we are the recipient of work and the groundwork that was laid years ago with sedron and the interest in it and we have to and the county the State of Florida everybody um owes a debt of gratitude to commissioner Smith because it was his interest and his um concern and looking into it that I think uh is the Catalyst that has made sadron available out in Indian town so commissioner Smith thank you for everything that you have done Smith thank you any other questions for the village of Indiantown Amy did you have a question soorry commiss council member preet board member board member board member um thank you now we're going to turn to the development Departments of the Martin County Board of County Commissioners city of Stewart and the village of Indian toown so miss love lady good morning everyone Samantha love lady with the Martin County growth management department and I have Jody here from the city of Stewart good morning my name is Jody cougler I'm with the city of Stewart development director Waiting In the Wings is Dena Freeman but she'll be up she'll be up separately develop so um we have the county population projections the estimate for 2023 for a total of 16 Miss love lady we're not hearing you at all okay can you hear me now yes ma'am okay so the population for Martin County the estimate for 20 23 is 162 847 of that 133 133 487 is unincorporated the village of Indian town is estimated at 600 6,664 with the city of Stewart at 19,26 and I just want to remind everybody that there is a link in this report that may or may not work yet there we go and this takes you to the um development interactive development map just wanted to remind everybody that that is out there and that includes the projects for the city and the village and um all the other municipalities so through the year um January through October um I believe it was October 3rd um we've approved 398 units for residential and for non-residential there's been 638 532 Square ft of non-residential projects approved we have approximately 16 project residential projects in review and 31 projects that are um non-residential in review so with that I'll hand it over to Jody thank you are there any questions any questions for Miss Lov lady with regard to County um development numbers thank you Miss love lady city of Stewart jod cougler good morning again uh the city of Stewart does not have any updates since the last time we met uh we are currently under a zoning in progress we are actually going to be we scheduled our first Workshop meeting which is going to be next Thursday at City Hall and it's from 1 to approximately 5 o'clock so anybody's welcome to attend but this is the first workshop for our zoning in progress thank you um Miss Freeman good morning everybody Dina Freeman with the village of Indian town uh Community economic development director um one of the planners that works with luciao Mendoza is here as well who is the heart of the planning department I want to recognize her and she's helped to put together some slides it's a team effort in the village so we're going to start with some pictures um in response to commissioner yulu Clark from the last meeting you asked for a few more graphics and information so we're going to go straight into the the reverse of it and give you some pictures and Maps first and then some lists of some development information so we have the grind grindhard ammo um this is an approved site plan um it's actually gone through review approval and building permit approval and it's in construction right now this is on 19.7 acre um Parcels off South Farm Southwest Farm Road 26916 square foot facility and actually already in conversation with them um to be expanding that facility beyond that site for a phase two um we have a picture there of it under construction um they're moving at a rapid rate um and and basically outg growing their demand um within that facility which is why they're looking at expand to an adjacent site um they're progressing towards completion um and the yeah the business demand is already out growing appr site plan it's very exciting and that's on an industrial site and then the next slide um we show the area depicted in blue is the Venture Park PUD plan unit development this is a industrial subdivision which was annexed in from U Martin County into indent town it's on 138 Acres um it's light industrial and it has multiple lots that are are actually the next slide shows majority of which have been um approved for site plan or under construction um green carbon solution I'm going to show you a slide in a moment um we've got RCC Construction um these are all industrial manufacturing related or processing we've got um a preapplication in for Sky leasing a second preapp that's to do with the storage of vehicles and US Advance um transportation is a similar um project that's uh waiting pending for submittal but we've been in um quite a few meetings with them ahead of them preparing for submission we've got the um performance powerboats um which is been approved development order issued in the last couple of months um and they're ready for submitting for the building permits um East Coast Metals um we're going to see some pictures of that in a moment but that's another quite extensive uh Metal Manufacturing um um business that's relocated into Indian toown and then Kendall Industrial with the ornate um um concrete manufacturing um has got that they are in the building permit process and then RCC Construction has recently amended their site plan to remove parcel 9 um they determined that they didn't need it and they could accommodate the development and meet the thresholds within the other lots and so that has actually become available recently and we've got an exciting project that may be coming there that we're we're really um anticipating as a game Cher another game Cher for Indian Town this is the Kendall industrial site um Kendall Industries within the Venture Park um they they've really constructed at quite an alarming rate um and they're very keen to not only uh be bringing that business from further south but they've also purchased multiple lots that are vacant uh that are zoned correctly for residential um land use and Zoning for residential development and are working with local construction Builder to be able to provide housing for their future Workforce this is the East Coast Metals um approved site plan just to give you some overall site plan scale of the operation and this is the one in Venture Park and and this is under construction um and and again um being constructed it feels like it's overnight it's Venture park has changed so much that we're incredibly proud like proud parents of that Industrial Development green carbon Solutions is an incredibly exciting project it was one of the first project site plans to be approved in the Village of Indian Town we've Taran and and Lucia myself and the team have been we've actually been um invited to go and have attended a tour of the facility it's due to open the first phase um and it's basically um going to be opening under operation in November December for the first phase and we're meeting with them on the second phase yeah Dina that company green carbon takes currently eucalyptus uh trees and processes them and turns it into a high-end and charcoal um so it and they have one and they're expecting to have six by the time they're done with their of their K or whatever their processing yes plants are thank you Taran um they're on I've missed my notes on that they're on Lots 2021 22 and 23 on 17.67% on our tour so they'll be extending that operation to be able to produce more of it's B and effectively it's charcoal and it's something that you use um in a multitude of products and I listed some of that um so it's a climate tech company transforming uh Nature's carbon capture through photosynthesis into biochar bioenergy bio oil and carbon storage and the biochar is used in industrial uses as a soil amendment for water and the environmental remediation as animal feed and supplements in carbon um SE equestrian I have to pronounce that correctly yeah and they also indicated to us they're looking currently to revise their processing so that they can accept railroad ties and they're able to incinerate it at a high enough temperature that the the tar whatever that priot um that they can they can handle that so it's kind of exciting if they can do that cuz those railroad ties are everywhere and they've got um sister companies in Poland and um they basically um they're just hitting the go button right now on the first phase and that's going to generate the demand for the expansion and we're looking to hopefully have that in for review and approval within the next hopefully by April May of next year they'll have site plan and building permit approval for that Mr Freeman yes did they indicate in their planning efforts what the employment rate would be for something like that would they did say I can't remember number employees creation uhhuh they it was like 25 initially yeah uh grindhard has will have a 100 um East Coast Metals was moving their whole operation from the south I think they were what were they losing around 50 I think and Kendall industrial as well around 50 employees at the starting point and we're working with other companies that are also looking to come in so this idea about broadening our tax base is actually starting to happen which is why we're so excited because we can then help to support the infrastructure improvements as a village so we're we're really actively pursuing accommodating the Industrial Development in the appropriate industrial designated lands you know before you go yes and and another cool feature um for those who've been around long enough there was a project many years ago called ecogen uh that was going to be a power uh facility out west of town west of Indian toown and the eucalyptus uh trees that are planted down on I95 that were going to be the Prototype power source for that plant um also are being used as the biochar source or a source of biochar for this plant and if it works they will grow thousands of more Acres of that um product to become part of the component feed stock and another cool thing is you can also make Plastics out of um the material so a lot of European dashboards and cars are made from this company's um uh process facility MH they explained like the seats you sit on the phone covers things and it's going on in Indian town it's really cool we're very proud when we got the tour they've done a good job so terago Indian toown drri development Regional impact um this is the area depicted in blue that shows the extent of the project um any that's driven out to Indiantown recently will see that this is actually happening and we're in Phase 1 a and Phase 1 B um there's a zoomed in um with the blue showing the extent of the entire property um it's it's approved for um a ped Master for 2488 units and 888 88 units have been approved at the site plan for Phase 1 A and B there's the actual overall Master site plan with all the different phases um so 1 a and 1 B are approv approved it as a final site plan is that all single family or some multif family no there's multif family sorry I'm looking the wrong way multif family tow houses single family there's also some commercial development and assisted living facility so it's quite um and quite an expansive small Parks pocket Parks Community areas obviously preservation of wetlands and and buffers around that as well so it's it's is that Central Water and Sewer will they have um package for they've reserved capacity of 1 a and 1B and um they'll be working with the village obviously as we improve our provision of water to be able to hook up for the subsequent phases yeah we currently uh commissioner for your information uh the Tera logo re instituted the Community Development District that was out there and the village has been working with them to help us fund the infrastructure as far as they're taking the lead on it so it's a three-way agreement between the state and the CDD and the village and they primarily are working on the W Wastewater side now but as Dena said they've got approval for Phase 1 a and 1B we're hoping that these next improvements that we do to the water plant we just are trying to get another 12 a half million for will help us get a little more capacity for that next phase 1C and then we will continue to incrementally work with them to get them you know as they proceed but the CDD has been instrumental in helping the village move forward on our projects good I didn't know you had done that CD thank you and here's just an aerial for those that have not been out to Indian toown and just wanted to see the extent of work that's underway and there's another one as well that just gives you an ex an idea of the overall size and scale of of the property and the project and there should be a video if it plays oh no it might not play there this is where I need Lucy no it's not playing Lucy I don't know how to do that one it's not doing it I'm sorry guys that would have been fun for the next one we'll show you that Lucy if you want to come over I'll keep talking while you rescue me so this is just some of the other development activity that's underway in the village of Indian toown um the dollar Tre has been approved recently is just submitted for building permits River Oak is in for plat approval and it's had a recent um revision to modify a few of the Lots let me see if we can get this video it's that important is it that one okay do you want to do that really quickies you canulation we're providing the we're providing the entertainment for today there we go here we go just a quick video that shows you the extent of the development and it's it's quite helpful I can't do anything without Lucy she's wonderful and so it shows you the Town Square the town homes all of the wetlands the community center single family um there's multiple pocket Parks um seven throughout the community and it just gives you the overall scale and layout of the project thanks to Tera Lago we didn't do this and if I can add all the all that water that you see all those wonderful Lakes they said that that people it's open to the public and we'd be able to fish them right shut it down okay so that was uh tarago and the phase 1 a and 1B multitude of projects that we've been approving or um are under review um Indiantown go-kart is kind of stuck in review at the moment we're encouraging them to resubmit CU that's a a valuable piece of industrial site and if not resubmit let somebody else have a go and get some more Industrial Development on there um we've also got ta estate um that's uh an improvement uh for manufacturing de marceles is an extension uh addition to store away and I talked about River Oak um this this is a summary of the total number of residential units that are approved including the master plan for the um terago um with a total of residential of 3516 approved and in review 215 and this is the River Oak project that I was just speaking about this is single family homes um I just remember the number indan number I think it's 131 yeah it was reduced number so 55.9 Acre Site 131 unit single family subdivision they've been in for some minor revisions to reconfigure some of the lots to work with some of the um the residential builders and um they're also in for plat and that hopefully we should be having that all approved by before the end of the year with the plat going to Village Council hopefully in December um so there's the river rope subdivision this is a non-residential summary of um development that's been approved or is in review um so the total being 43,7 120 and growing and then this is the Indian Town the sedron facility that we talked about earlier this shows the location utilizing some of the water wastewater treatment um plan um so effective reuse of some of the land that we're not using as a village to actually generate income as a lease with the village and also provide such a game Cher for not only Indian town but the entire really we think the entire State the way that they're going to do business and cleaning up and and accommodating multitude of local governments throughout the area throughout the region at least so there's a site plan where we're at status wise with review um there's a few minor tweaks that need to happen um communication between our village engineer and our um Pat Nolan as our um Public Works utilities director um and then we should be getting that approved uh before the end of the year as well as site plan and they're looking to start clearing and and and start construction and get that done within the first quarter like you know into the middle of the year um and and do that really quickly and this is comprehensive plan amend amendments that were approved um the the similar slide to what was shown before the new um addition is a 0.19 acres for the Walsh property when it was um reviewed and approved as a large large scale comprehensive plan Amendment and also a l use so aan use uh zoning um there was a small scriveners era in the legal description um that wasn't caught until after the project was approved so we have to go through unfortunately for a very small scale scriveners error fix but that's going to be um presented before the V uh planning zone in appeals board and the Village Council and and meet the state statutes in terms of noticing and requirements um but there they're very excited and starting to look at um clearing land and and accommodating um and getting and site plan approval um for accommodating the that that expansion of the existing facility and that's the end of our um presentation what I would also like to add is um a thank you to the Martin County building department because they're continuing to support us now building permit reviews um we're such a small entity and and um we we really appreciate um that we've had that it's been working really well with staff and um we we're very happy with that and we we're very grateful I also wanted to just say that through funding through the US doot thriving communities Main Street America we're improving our GIS system um with a consultant that's been funded uh in part to provide some of the layers that we aspire to be Martin County and have all of those different layers um we we also have Placer funding for a company called Placer where we're going to get training and access to phone data we've received that funding we've paid them and now we're going to get trained up and that's going to help us give a true picture of what the population numbers are in Indian toown rather than what we see with the the census information um and also how people travel um in and out of Indian town and where are the hot spots and that's going to help with um also with any future accommodation of any maybe some other retail stores may come to Indian Town based on that so we're excited about that we also have some Treasure Coast Regional planning um some funding to have them help with facilitate facilitating Outreach to our communities um so that we can look at identifying some smaller projects that we can hopefully then receive some additional funding from um Washington DC um Lucia and Londa will be going um representing Indian Town um where we there's a lot of networking and there's a lot of o unity and they love Indian town we take all the boxes so we just need to ask for some more money to get some more of these projects done so that's the end of my presentation on behalf of the village and we thank you thank you any questions for Miss Freeman no questions I'd like to recall Samantha love lady please sorry I'm not in court sorry sorry Samantha could you Samantha Could you um can I ask you a question [Laughter] oh God it's that interactive map I wanted to look at the large purple area in the center there by Bridge Road and caner Highway wrong one okay yeah just tell us what's going on in that area if you have just a general information or we can get it the next time yes are you talking this area yes yes okay we have several comp PL amendments in this area um this one's been app this one's under review this is the water side this is under review these have been approved and um is there anything in particular no is that where that story and all that this is story just tell us a little bit just a some okay this is a proposal for 4,000 residential units um 825,000 Square ft of nonresidential uses excuse me with a density of approximately 1.47 units per acre on 2716 Acres anything else and that's on the N map so the current plan that's there for caner highway is still um two lanes with any divided in there down this roadway yes yeah the I don't the red marks here show the no approved projects so I don't see any right now along this but there have been improvements in that area I believe yes there access points all right I just wanted to to look at it it's a it's a large area in there and Bridge Road is still two L the same project yes yes so they're just kind of grouped in the same area so it looks like Sam it would be helpful if you pointed to what's what because it's kind of very generic so what's that this is the ranch okay and that is one of the rural lifestyle projects that's a um golf course and that is a golf course and north of that north of this is what is Three Lakes Golf Club so you can see what's highlighted both on right on each side of can of and then story is what and this is story okay that's all of this it's not approved yet that one's under review Thanks cuz it's a little misleading when you look at all the purple it looks like it's all perhaps story or it's not no that this is story this is the golf course this is a golf course conru thank you commissioner Smith and thank you Miss love lady thank you so much and just this is always available for for everybody's use I wanted to remind just click onto it and get the information thank you thank you so much thank you City County and um uh Indian Town development staff our school [Music] district question is is this the development that they're talking about putting Mr Maine and Miss Tracy Miller Dr Miller milons millions of dollar Madam chair good morning thank you on behalf of the school district uh Tracy Miller deputy superintendent and joined by Mark CR Chris the director of facilities and we have some great information to share with you and some thanks to send your way as well so good morning everyone Mark secis director of facilities I have an update for muray middle school I want to provide you because it's not on one of our slides since everything just occurred in the last five days um so Thursday all day staff reviewed maray middle school did an assessment from Friday Friday to Sun Sunday evening we worked with a um disaster Restoration company to basically restore M middle school so that we could open it back up on Monday morning so if you were a student Monday morning and came to Murray mid you would not be able to see exactly what happened during the storm event everything was cleaned um and then by Monday afternoon all the fencing was already well it's temporary fencing because we still had a lot of damage to the fencing but it was put back up in place so the site was secured so and we also so that students and staff couldn't access the two buildings that took excessive damage they were fenced off so you really couldn't as a parent or a student see those buildings as you were walking through the campus Monday morning but our main goal was to open the school Monday morning we were able to do that and the site was cleaned of debris the buildings were cleaned thoroughly the two buildings that were damaged the debris was removed from those buildings um currently that company is assessing all the contents and we are actually working with our insurance company to get an evaluation from them um so that we know what the next steps will be for the two buildings that took excessive damage um we are also going to be contacting doe and working with them based on the knowledge we get from the insurance company and based on what doe will tell us our next steps could be so right now our next steps are we're assessing the project um to evaluate what our steps are going to be and then we'll address that with the school board because it's going to take some Schoolboard approvals on our next steps but currently the camp the campus is active the students lost three classrooms they were relocated on campus we had space available and we also had existing Portables that were Avail available that weren't damaged so right now the campus is functioning just as is before the storm and the principal's been working with us daily and staff's been working with the site so um but we did bring in a major Restoration company to get to that level in a matter of from Friday to Sunday so that's the update on Murray middle school thank you for your heroic efforts I was down there and saw the damages and I'm sure the students are comforted coming back in to at least know that they're going to have a safe school well just so the general public knows building nine we'd had minor damage to it but we did put a temporary roof on that structure so that that structure could be used moving forward um what the next steps are on that building I'm not sure yet until we get through the insurance company and doe but um the major damage was done on buildings 10 and 18 thank you and for anyone who's been in the Sero area and are familiar with it if you've been through there in the last few days you've seen the devastation in the destruction we're really grateful to all the partners we have at the Emergency Operations Center FP the sheriff's department we really had a team effort coming together to help put our school back together 97% of the students who attend Murray middle attended on Monday they were greeted with free breakfast a big smile from the principal and teachers who were in classrooms that they had prepared over the weekend for them so it was business as usual the the school day after we were able to open after this this storm and the destruction that happened in CNO so we're very grateful for the Partnerships that we share with all of all of you and your teams and just really appreciate being able to welcome our students back day one thank you Dr Miller when I was down there I also met it was during the weekend actually two members of the school board who were there interviewing and trying to find students and making sure that they were uh just reaching out in the community and and that was so commendable thank you so as before in previous meetings I'm going to give you an update on some of our um capital projects the ones that I'm presenting are actually the ones that are under current construction or or nearing completion um so we are currently trying to finish phase one on Stuart Middle School um it's it's very close as you can see on the lower right photograph we increased the car Loop and parking by more than half or double I should say um and then that whole area has been re asphalted um you can see the new building one that's next to the um twostory classroom building and then um phase two which is under construction now um is the cafeteria building it is fully dried in right now so probably in the next 3 to four weeks they'll be doing finishes inside um they actually have the windows barded up and so that building has a full roof right now um but yeah it's moving right along so phase three we're actually going to do a ren ation to the gym and the and the buildings that connect because the locker rooms actually connect to the gym um we're going to do some re renovation work to that gym and um upgrade the mechanical systems to that project so that's going to be coming online um we're getting proposals now those will be brought to the board and once the proposals are approved then we'll move forward with that phase we are actually um as part of the phase two we are actually tying the gym Chiller system into the chiller plant so we'll no longer have an individual Chiller it'll be tied into the major chiller plant that we just designed in Phase One some exciting news of South Fork we just opened their brand new gym these are some pictures of the weight room and then the interior gym space um that project is nearing completion that project included um the gym itself the major chiller plant for the site and renovation of the ball fields um so the gym itself was the last phase of that project and it's it's stating 94% but it's being occupied right now and used by the students daily with PE and then it's being used by all the sports activities volleyball and um basketball and everything like that so that project is nearing completion can I just say one thing real quick about your wait room sure when I was a kid our weight room was like on the second floor of our gymnasium and it was about the size of a closet that's really impressive this is college level weight room yeah it is it's really nice and everything just happens to be red and black just happens just just happens and San Francisco who could have who could have it was great working with that vendor because um they do a lot of universities and colleges and high schools and they allow since you purchase the equipment they allow you to do your logos and your school colors so it really coordinates with the space when you're trying to do that and it works well with the actual gym colors so one of the projects that just came online even though it's a very shortterm project um is our purchasing maintenance and transportation site we are actually refining the whole site um we're providing some gate access which is controlled it's not a matter of just unlocking and going in it's actually electrically controlled so for the entrance into the bus lot and then the exiting that's all controlled by access control and then actually Access Control to the warehouse itself will be done electronically so we're trying to basically secure that site um so that it's it's more secure than it is now but that project is 68% complete um we've had a little bit of delay now with two hurricanes but um it's supposed to finish this fall and this slide actually shows an updated slide of our we usually have anywhere from 12 to 24 we call them major projects it's not because they're large it's because of their priority or what their relationship is to the school sites so um right now we have 24 projects and this will occur over the next 5 years um But it includes sites I can give you a list of sites um it's Murray middle school because we actually had a project scheduled for there they were supposed to um receive a admin Media Center similar to Stuart Middle so that project was in the works um now with the current storm event that project may get bigger as we but we just don't know the next steps right now but we have a South Fork High School on there we have a school district office project Hidden Oaks Stuart Middle School Martin County High School we have a kitchen hbac project that has seven schools on it Bessie Creek Crystal Lake Felix A Williams Pinewood sewi willby Learning Center in Hidden Oaks and then we have projects at Jensen Beach High School Felix A Williams a separate project sea WI a separate project Hidden Oaks a security project Anderson middle and then um we're in the process of completing the um purchasing and maintenance and transportation project so that's going to be it for the capital projects Warfield and then Tracy Miller is going to proceed with some student information I'm sorry real quick uh on that list did I see Warfield at the top there out in Indian town okay what what's that going to be so Murray and Warfield originally we going to receive well they still are it's still it's still in the planning phases it's a admin media Center similar to Stewart Middle so those two schools were going to have those projects the only thing that's changed now is depending on where we end up with muray middle it may get larger thank you before I share some student number information some enrollment information I'd like to turn it over to our board chair Jennifer Russell to share a little bit of information about the upcoming um millage reauthorization thank you Dr Miller on November 5th voters will be asked to remove the existing millage referendum this allows for local control over our spending there are five categories that this money is used for School Safety and Security mental health recruiting and retaining teachers and support staff professional development and academic initiatives there have been three changes made to the referendum language since the initial approval by voters in 2018 up two was added to allow for less than full half M to be collected based on needs identified each spring as the district's operating budget is approved support staff was added to the recruit and retain category to include valued employees who assist with providing quality educational experience to our students Charter Schools were also added to fully uh inform voters that funding generated is shared with Martin County Charter Schools as required by law it is important to note that the positions funded by the millage help us to remain competitive with salaries of our neighboring District districts the millage also funds additional Martin County Sheriff's Office school resource officers and enhanced mental Wellness programs to ensure a safe learning envir environment for all of our students millage funding is continuously monitored by an oversight committee comprised of Martin County Citizens to ensure transparency and accountability Martin County School District students receive 100% of the referendum money collected which currently amounts to $900 per student this makes such a difference in helping us to maintain the quality of of our education and services offered to our students I wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and thank several organizations that have taken the time to write letters of support for the millage referendum the Jensen Beach Chamber the Palm City Chamber the Martin County Education Association Stuart Martin chamber asme Florida local chapter number 597 TC palm and The Economic Council of Martin County we really appreciate their support the board is humbly asking for the community's support by voting yes on November 5th to continue the millage thank you Dr Miller I'll pass that back to you thank you Dr Miller anything else yes I think we oh no commiss commissioner Smith sorry um Madam chair on so on the referendum um what else what else can happen what else will happen how much does it generate a year and maybe a little bit of the success of the past referendums that we've had for the last couple years well we were finally able to get it on in 2018 um and then it's also been approved in 2022 and what we're asking for right now is actually going to carry us from 26 to 30 um and with our successes we've been able to add more resource officers to our schools which is very important um we've been able to increase our um just our mental uh health and wellness for for our kids um we've we offer several things there with guidance counselors that we've added um see since do you have anything you want to add or some of the things that you well and and I think also something I would highlight too on the resource officer issue when that all kind of came about seven eight years ago I guess post um just still down south um there was a huge financial um on on everybody I think burden that got instantly elevated to both sides of who was going to fund and how things were going to happen and so maybe you can talk a little bit about how this helped fund that and deal with that because the the first blush that we dealt with it wasn't really quite clear how we were going to fund it all sure so um since she was here prior I'll let her give some of the history so that was back yes it was the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas piece that happened the tragedy that happened down there with the children were murdered um and there's two sides to that piece one is the Personnel piece to keep people to keep our children safe and the other side of it was the capital piece and I I don't want to go without mentioning that approving that sales tax additional sales tax piece was a was put us in a position as a school district where we could prioritize and get a lot of that safety hardening done right away and immediately without having to phase that piece in and that sales tax the board this board has voted will sunset after the seven years that we promised it would and will sunset on December 31st of 2025 and it will that half cent will be no more but the other side the operational side was to add additional security officers Martin County schools use um sheriff's deputies for all of our school resource officers for all of our schools and there was a struggle when that first was coming about as to how that was going to be funded how that was going to there were discussions that included the Sheriff's Office and what that whole program would look like and um so we were able to put a sheriff's deputy in each of the schools and be sure that we had that requirement there but this additional millage put us in a position where we could add an additional sheriff's deputy to each of the high schools so we could heighten the security at the high schools and it also gave us some so for our early Early Learning Centers we were able to be able to put some um some support in there also and have some sheriff's deputies there so and so this if if this passes right this will continue the funding strategy of what's in place today yes this yeah that's the plan so what happens is and one of the reasons in um 2022 that the language was changed so two years ago the language was changed and one of the pieces of language that was changed was the up to half a Mill and I I don't know if you remember but back in 2018 when we first had this approved it was approved at an August ballot and the timeline was really tight we approved it in August and we started collecting on that same year's tax bill in November so the 28 tax bill had the additional millage on it and it was a full half Mill that we collected then it put us in a position where in that year for the 201819 school year we actually approached that year with two budgets we had a bud with the millage and a budget without the millage so we would know exactly where that money was going um since then the legislature has changed the rule and said that you need to have this election during a general election so when we approved when the voters generously approved the a continuation of the millage in 2022 it was to collect in 22 23 24 and 25 the problem becomes if we do not approve it on this election it means it has to be on the November election in 26 which puts us in a position where we cannot collect on the 26 tax bill and we will be skipping a year we're fortunate because since we have that extra year next year we have a year so we will have some clarity so that if it under the unfortunate situation where it doesn't pass we will have a year where we'll be able to look at and adjust and figure out what what we're going to do so that's one aspect aspect the other aspect is that by saying that we would be able to collect less than half a Mill by say changing our language to up two when we create our budget like we just did in the budget that we we just passed for next year we can actually look at what our expenses are what things that we're doing um whether it's the mental health pieces whether it's the stiens for the teachers how whatever those pieces look like what our actual cost is for the sheriff's additional sheriff's deputies and be able to work that whole piece into the budget and collect less than we would collect only what we need so for this year example instead of collecting the port5 we're collecting 425 and we've reduced that and I'm sure you said it in all of that but if you didn't I'll ask it again um if it doesn't pass what doesn't get funded if it doesn't pass the board will have to go back and look at several things so the largest chunk of the millage piece is for the teacher St ipen piece so those stiens go for between I think it's um is it 1,800 Mara to 10, 18 to 10,000 and something so what that does is um back when we first put this in what we did was we did a um salary study for our adjoining counties to figure out if you were a teacher who had 10 years of experience and you left us how much you're making now and then if you left left us how much you would be making somewhere else and we took all those numbers and figured out exactly what that number was to make ourselves competitive and worked that into the equation and that's the largest piece so that's the piece that um if the millage does not pass the largest piece of it that would be lost is those stiens that go to our teaching staff and would make us uncompetitive in the labor market we redid that study again two years ago and looked at it to see what that looked like to make sure sure that we were still on board with that um and then we also that needs to be negotiated with the teachers union as to exactly how that's being distributed but we know what the dollar amount is of that piece so that would be the largest piece that would go away um based on our budget I don't know if you've done a deep dive into our budget but that piece of it would be very very difficult to fund with our general revenues I mean we just wouldn't be able to do that piece the other pieces that we would miss would be the sheriff's deputy piece for the additional sheriff's deputies that the sro's that are in our high schools and in our early learning that's a separate contract so it's not rolled into we have the two contracts we have our regular ones and then we have our millage funded ones on purpose so that if there is ever an eventuality or a point in time where that that isn't collected we would know that that was the piece that was dropping off and we would have to either figure out how to refinance those or those would be gone also and then obviously some of the mental health support pieces which is the additional foots on the ground and Personnel that's in the schools programming that supports mental health for our children um is another big chunk that would come out of there yes on that note oh commissioner Smith is not here um on that I was going to ask about the there's so much problem with with mental health and what happens when a student does something whether they bring a gun or they start a fight or whatever occurs uh some some type of altercation how is that mental health administered is it just the counseling in the schools or do we have individual School psychologists um do how just just give us a very just what's happening with that you know you said that I know we have the school resources officers and other things but just give us a general idea about the the the art of mental health in schools these days well I do think you have the right for it is an art and kind of all of the above is true so depending on the case depending on the situation whatever the student presents whatever the needs are that's how we respond we respond very individually and very tailored to the needs of whatever the case is is presented and as you've all seen as we've all heard the need for mental health supports certainly isn't going away they are drastically increasing in fact so the mental health supports that we're able to provide if we weren't able to provide the level that that we provide now could be very detrimental to our students to our community so what our student services department through mental health and mental Wellness is able to provide is critically important to the success of our students and I just personally I would hate to see any of that lost it's a great benefit to students and again tailored to the needs that students present if I can add on to that for you YULA um so we are grateful the governor and this um State's Administration has seen value to mental health and has a mental health allocation that comes to each School District which um most school districts the majority of school districts across the State of Florida you have to that all gets reported back to the state as to what you're using that money for and most other school districts that's the extent that you would even be able to do a deep dive to figure out where the mental health supports are in the Martin County School District we have also Through The Years even before that was money that was coming earmarked from the governor at this higher rate we also ran a second um document that was a a comprehensive document for mental health for what was provided for our students there was an interest in the community as to what that looked like what those tiers looked like what the programming was who the programming was offered to who the programming was provided by what the cost of that programming was um I would expect that that document we're going to be seeing on next month's agenda so in the November meeting that the school board has in November that will be a document that you know a publication that you'll be able to look to and actually do a deeper dive and figure out exactly what those pieces are and it will actually show exactly what the total cost of mental of a mental health program in the Martin County School District a robust program looks like so it's in addition to because we really do need to thank our other Community Partners and other people that help provide services to us um at their cost that they're helping us with or at the cost of children's services Council or somebody else but that document will be available in November we can be sure to get a copy to you and all of you if you'd be interested in it we'd be uh even I don't know what if one of these days maybe we can get our city manager to to just get a little presentation from the school as to what's what's happening just a little thing Mr Maine I mean I'm not the mayor or anything you I think it's just important to to know thank you thank you thank you for that discussion and we appreciate your support of hearing more about the millage reauthorization that we have coming up and just a few more numbers for you we'll go quickly through them these are active enrollments students who are in attendance in grades prek through five in our elementary schools and we did a comparison on the actual date so as of 92524 this year we compared to the same date last year in looking at enrollment and you can see the difference either a positive increase at some of our schools in elementary or a decrease in enrollment year-over-year and in Middle School the same data is provided you can see in elementary we are up a little bit in the elementary schools in overall enrollment however in Middle Schools we are down in enrollment compared to last year and the same is true for high school we currently have three schools that are overc capacity Martin County High School Jensen Beach High School and Bessie Creek Elementary and that just means that they have exceeded the department of education's definition of capacity and there are some Portables on campus to be able to safely and appropriately accommodate students at those schools and of course again you don't have the number for the charter school high school which is uh Indian Town you have it on that list I can't see that list we don't have the charter schools on here these are our special centers such as Riverbend Academy we have our Hospital Homebound Program Spectrum Academy and some of our ESC programs project search Martin sales we have a teen parent program of course Willoughby Learning Center located next to Pinewood Elementary and those are the total year-over-year for our special centers that we operate as the Martin County School District thank you okay so our total traditional schools meaning our our K12 schools including our ESC prek and then the special centers that we mentioned you can see that year-over-year we have a a decrease in enrollment by about 30 students from one day in time looking past a year looking back a year to that same day thank you Dr Miller and Mrs secis mark thank you Mr main do you have anything no I just uh wanted to thank Mr don Donaldson um it it was a pleasure and nobody wants to go to the EOC when it's activated many of you have been there um but when Dr Miller says it was a true partnership uh it really was very nice to come together as all of all of our uh entities and municipalities and really work uh towards making sure that everybody was taken care of in the community and so uh appreciate your leadership sir and everything that everybody provided and by way of support so thank you thank you Michael and your participation and on our uh uh with the AOC and our incident command structure which makes decisions on behalf of schools and so many other things your leadership was critical to that as well thank you sir thank you um commissioner heatherington from our district one two District Two two but I while Don was giving that update on the um Emergency Management I had a couple questions on debris removal from some of our residents and our the procedure that that will be undergoing for pickup so I thought you could update on that thank you and I'm going to have uh uh James Gorton our Public Works director come and give you a brief update but I will say that uh um our crews have been working uh um immediately after the storm clearing the roads too assisting with u emergency uh management uh and they've been picking up uh uh prior to our other contractors arriving so Jim if you can give us an update sure uh Jim dorton Public Works director for Martin County so um our crews were out working Thursday the day of the storm uh started collecting debris that day we did uh we self-performed the cut and toss which is essentially you push the trees out of the road so that we have access for residents to get back to their homes and for emergency services to get through there so that occurred on Thursday and uh we started picking up debris then we've uh worked every day since then and have picked up well over 100 loads of debris uh centered on the neighborhoods that were most impacted so we started in new Monrovia and manatee Creek we went to Rocky Point and um you know Mariner Sands Mariner Village those neighborhoods that were most impacted that's where we're focusing our efforts uh we are now able to start expanding out to other neighborhoods and start picking up debris uh in those areas and the next step will be to bring in our uh debris contractor our emergency debris contractor which is going to happen next week and they'll be picking up largely CN debris is what we're seeing there is some vegetation of course um but the CN debris is is what we're expecting to see quite a bit of once people get their homes uh inspected by their insurance agent so it's important that the property owners take the time to contact the insurance company and get a clearance to clear that debris out before they do it otherwise they run the risk of not getting reimbursed for that damage so we're trying to pass the word to those residents as we see them just so that they're prepared for that um so so that's kind of our process it's it's Unique that with a tornado we're used to seeing hurricane damage which is countywide and with the tornadoes it's really isolated to certain areas and um the devastation in those areas was pretty pretty intense however we will be looking countywide at any storm debris that's put out at the curb as we traditionally have done which include vegetation which we prefer to be separated um any white goods also that make their way to the street um will also be picked up and then any construction demolition debris as well so they all they all get separated into their different functions um one of the challenges we had right now is given the breadth of the storms throughout the state and the southeast um is that the number of contractors available to assist has been diminished in terms of our pickup so our staff will supplement it the other thing is the governor issued an executive order um providing some guidance on on picking up debris and they also issued an order uh or an amendment to the contracts that increase the cost uh that uh local providers could um could receive for picking up debris so we're working through that with the state since we already had a pre-event contract which was for less than what the governor has stated that people can receive so uh that's part of our issue working with our present contractor uh and of course we're we're doing this all in a way so that we maximize our ability to receive the funds from FEMA uh and uh our our FEMA director uh secretary actually was here Friday secretary Chiswell um and we met with her and Brian Mast and debris management was certainly part of it along with um restoration of those communities that were devastated and and that's going to be an ongoing effort I'll be having some more conversations with many of you all on how how we can get those communities rebuilt um affordably because we know we have some residents that were not insured and many that were uh underinsured um and so um uh it would be um um a loss for us to have those residents to have to move away due to this tragedy so that's some of the things I think will be discussed discussing in the future thank you thank you Donson are the oh uh uh board member pritet I just want to thank the county for helping us in Rocky Point and new Monrovia and Port solo we didn't expect the trucks to be coming on Monday to pick up debris there were just piles and piles and piles of it and they're not there anymore so we really appreciate it thank you thank you um Mr Cy commissioner thank you are we at the end of the meeting or you we're almost there I have final comments so when you're ready Madam chair you're up to it and and just to be prepared I'm going to ask um city manager krisda to fully introduce her new members to us when after M commissioner campi I just want to take a moment of personal privilege to uh one of our board members has had to leave but want to thank uh Mike D trzy he was eight years a county commissioner my predecessor uh and then went on to the school board nearly 25 years of uh public service to our community I wanted to thank you very much uh I also wanted to thank commissioner Smith who also nearly served a quarter Century um majority of his adult life for our community now I know whenever you're in politics there are people who like your decisions and won't but commissioner Smith had been a strong advocate for us in terms of water quality issues coral reef issues he was a strong he was the president of the Florida Association of counties which gave us a lot of credibility here for a relatively small County he's also been very involved in no at the federal level uh he is um sort of a policy wonk if you will and his uh experience and Leadership uh and his look I get it a lot of people liked them a lot of people didn't but for him to dedicate a tremendous portion of his adult life to our community we are a better Community for that and my colleague who has not been on the board as long as commissioner Smith but losing commissioner Jenkins um who in his term has been a true Statesman from the day he sat up there he has been a true Statesman he is serving for the right reasons he always did he was very fair and and modest he would hear people's opinions and would not be afraid to change his opinion if it was uh if he was convinced that there was a better path and for that I thank you very much and I have only gotten to know her for a short amount of time but she will always be uh Indian Town's first mayor Susan Gibbs Thomas uh in her short political career has made a tremendous impact and has been a steady calming Voice through the ups and downs of their Administration uh they finally uh locked in with Miss krisda but Susan Gibbs Thomas thank you very much thank you thank you and then we have two cards up but you just want to go through thank yes we have with us today who's actually president is Phyllis Waters Brown uh newly elected and we have Ernestine Williams palmer but she's not here today but I you know commissioner campy stole my a little bit of my thunder because I wanted to recognize um Susan Gibbs Thomas for her service to the village and knowing that she was against incorporation really against it but then she said if we're going to be incorporated by gal I'm going to be a part of it and she was elected the first mayor so that was significant for for the Village Council so I appreciate that and um as you saw the village of Indian Town's on the verge I think the next meeting that we have here we're going to steal the show happily happily thank you congratulations Mr campy oh did you say something okay okay all right thank you thought he was saying something thank you so um Commission uh board member Powers so I Echo everything that has been said about um Schoolboard member dley uh councilwoman uh Susan Gibbs Thomas commissioner Doug Smith and commissioner Harold Jenkins and as I was sitting in this meeting thinking about what to say and commissioner campy kind of did a really great overview but the one thing that these four people have in common has been their staunch support for Western Martin County um pre counil and and currently so for that I'm so thankful it has been an honor and privilege to work alongside you all to do some really great things um for Martin County in general but specifically out in Western Martin County supporting education and other initiatives that have been important to my hometown so thank you all very much it's been an honor thank you and now roll thank you very much uh commissioner campy thank you I appreciate you always have such kind words and I appreciate that and um I just you know we talked a little about a lot of things here today and um I remember back in early 2000s Taran may remember I think Russ was still a administrator but um we actually put this whole program together the interlocal agreement and it was after a very rough time when the city of Stewart and the county were fighting and they were suing each other and everybody was getting sued annexations were flying left and right and it was such a terrible time in Martin County and commissioner Smith uh weberman and I got elected to the um to the County Commission at the same time and uh I'm sorry Doug had to leave because um I'm I'm going to miss Doug on the County Commission he was um truly one of the hardest working County Commissioners I've ever seen he uh he loves Martin County he delves into absolutely everything um with the same um Vigor that um that he would with something that was extremely important to him and I really appreciate that and Harold we didn't work together but thank you for your service also I appreciate that and Susan um thank you for your service Indian town I used to be a property owner in Indian town and business owner in Indian town and um it it always held a special place in my heart and I always said someday Indian Town's going to hit it's going to it's going to happen and unfortunately I sold my business before that happened um but I'm thankful and I said finally I was just mentioned over to Mike I said it's going it's finally happening and I really appreciate that and thankful to you all for what you do in the city of steuart um thank you very much for 24 years of serving you all I appreciate that honor and serving with this board and our staff has just been tremendous also and it's time for me to uh drive off into the sunset thank you very much than you thank you you when we started um oh Susan okay go on just very quickly I would like to also thank everybody for their service um it's not always an easy thing to do also thank you for the kind words it's um it's been a privilege truly a privilege to repres in Indian town and to serve the people of Indian town and as you guys can tell we're up and coming so just uh hold on thank you i' I'd like to say something if I can you know two years ago we decided I was going to run for for office out in Indian town that things needed to change and I got to know Susan I got to snow Susan very well she'd become a really really good friend and tell you as a team as a council I think the last two years have been the best two years in Indian Town bringing Taran into the village and the council that we have today we can't lose it's a winner with the people that we have and you know Harold I I I will always appreciate everything you've done for Indian Town you know I've only been there sitting in a seat for 2 years but I've been in Indian town for over 33 years and I know a lot of faces around the table I've I've known for a long time Michael you know I thank you for your service I thank everybody for their service you guys do a great job the school board is listen Martin County we've got the best of everything we've got the best schools and we can attribute that to the people that work there to the teachers to the staff to the school board people that make the decision so I just wanted to say thank you cuz I live in this community too I'm not only a well I guess I'm the mayor now but but um don't sound so happy but I'm Al I'm also a citizen and as a citizen I just want to say thank you to everybody and to Susan I'm going to miss her I'll be around you know so that's Steady Hand you know but thank you thank you for your service and we love you thank you anyone else anyone else from Indian town anyone else no except I just wanted to clarify so uh councilwoman Gibbs Thomas is retiring and so the next meeting that we have they're going to have a conversation about how they're going to fill her seat so we have two new council members and we'll have another one at the next meeting and then you have another new one miss is Palmer right mhm okay that's so we'll have three we have three total wonderful thank you so um when we started the meeting I said that we had two new Commissioners just to hear their voices I'd like them to just say a few words at least say their Nam so we can make sure we have commissioner Reed uh I want to thank everybody that I've met throughout this process on every board from the school board to the board of County Commission I've talked with some of the Indian Town members as well I just want to say thank you it was a long process that was started last year thank you hi my name is Laura Joby I'm also new to the Commission in the city of Stewart um I haven't met everyone yet I'm a new face in politics but I look forward to meeting the rest of you and getting involved in all of that is important to to um the city of Stewart growing forward and being a member of the county also thank you thank you thank you clerk is there we have nothing else no one has anything else uh commissioner herd I haven't heard from you at least say hello to us you're there nice [Laughter] song okay okay good good good good so we stand adjourned thank you a recall stop stop