Board of County Commissioners on 2025-07-31 9:00 AM - Joint Meeting with the City of Stuart Commissioners, School Board & Village of Indiantown

last day of JULY in 2025, we re delighted that you ve joined us, uh, please stand and Join us for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America into the republic for which it stands one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Mm We ll start off with introductions. Shall we start with the City of Stuart and we ll roll around the room. Uh, Lee Baggott, City attorney. Christopher Collins, vice mayor. Mike Mortel city manager. Wadeo Village attorney. Carmine Apollo Village Indiantown mayor. Angelina Perez, vice mayor. Bells Waters Brown Council, Village of Indiantown. Karen Krista in Newtown Village manager. John Donaldson, Martin County, County administrator. Eileen Vargas, District one. County commissioner Blake Capps, Martin County commissioner District 3. And I m Sarah Hurd, Martin County commissioner. Ed can t be, Martin County commissioner. Stacy Hetherington, Martin Cunning commissioned District 2. Elie Selder, acting County attorney. Michael Maine, Superintendent of schools. Marsha Powers, Martin County School Board. Amy Pritchard, District 4 Martin County School Board. Lee Roberts School Board. Tony George School Board attorney. Welcome all. Would anyone from the public like to address us this morning. I don t have any requests to speak forums, so we will proceed with our agenda. The first agenda item is 4a County Public works projects, MR. Baker. And MR. MAY. Good morning, everyone. I m Keith Baker, the Capitol Project Administrator. Hm Uh, we ll start by giving an update on our neighborhood restoration projects, um, we usually do these projects in 3 phases. We ll do the drainage improvements and then the um utility improvements if we are gonna do them in the neighborhood, then we ll come back and pave the streets. Um, so right now in Port Salerno Peninsula. This is a joint project with Martin County Utilities we re installing sewer in the neighborhood, the construction is approximately 30% complete. Rocky Point, um, it says out to bid in the fall. I expect this to be around in SEPTEMBER out to bid, um. City of Stuart Riverside Park. This is a fdot grant funded project, um, with the city of Stewart construction is approximately 70% complete. Old Palm City North has a a resiliency component to it where in flood prone areas will be elevating the roadways and improving the drainage, the designs that 90% um sps Manatee Business Park. We re finalizing the drainage study. To give you an idea of where the sps Manatee Business Park is at is kind of south of Stewart Walmart to Port Salerno Elementary School, and then it s kind of bound by us one and commerce Avenue. Um, and then South County neighborhood, the surveys at approximately 90 80% complete. Uh, for the roadway resurfacing, um, projects currently Leylani Heights. This says AUGUST 2025, but the construction has begun. Um, for the milling and resurfacing of the roadways, the progress is approximately 25% and in Hobe Hills, I expect to have that bid package completed next week, and it says construction and fall. Um, moving on to roadway and sidewalk drainage, um, Southeast Avalon Drive sidewalk. This one, the, the, uh, drainage inlets are currently being made and working on relocating the last few fpl polls, um finishing the utility coordination. And then we really pending construction any day or not any day, but I would say in the next couple of weeks. McArthur Boulevard construction is complete. Um, Fox Brown Road resurfacing. This will be between 7:14 and 7:10, as expected to begin in SEPTEMBER. Dixie Highway Multimodal, um, the design is at 100% and then Waterside Way says 90%, but we re actually substantially complete with that project. Um, Sun trail is in is a multi-use path that will connect Jonathan Dickinson Park to c Branch State Park. That design is at approximately 60% and then Washington Street sidewalk Project, which is in the Coral Gardens neighborhood is that approximately 60% design also. Uh, for bridge project updates, the Dixie East Fork Creek Bridge is complete, um, Hogue Sound Bast Bridge is, is a scour uh excuse me, scour prevention project, um. The design is at 100% and then County Li Road Bridge, this one has been in the last few presentations. There s been a um uh fpl and at&t are working on their finalizing their Army Corps of Engineer permits. So Martin County, we re working with them to do that as quickly as possible. Our originally anticipated bid was this summer and um. We re working through the utility coordination as fast as possible. Some traffic project updates. Um, Dixie Highway at Cross Rip, a new traffic signal is under design. Salerno Road at Canner Highway, um, intersection improvement, um, the bid package is being prepared, um, Constitution Boulevard, uh, signal at us One is under construction and the roundabout on High Meadows at Sunset Trail, um, also recently began construction. Um, before I turn it over to John, does anyone have any questions? I don t see any. Please proceed. Thank you, Chris. Uh, John MAY, Environmental Resource Administrator for Martin County. Thank you for the opportunity to give some updates on things that are happening in the environmental resource division. Um, we added a, a, a new bullet, um, this cycle for Martin County forever. Uh, this, it s a little bit different kind of project that we normally talk about at the joint meeting, but it s generated a lot of interest and of course a lot of excitement in the community, so Um, you re not seeing a lot of like Martin County forever signs for new acquisitions on the landscape yet, but there has been a mountain of work that, um, your, your county staff have been doing to prepare for some exciting, uh, upcoming acquisitions. Starting in JANUARY, collections of the sales tax started rolling in, I believe we re in the ballpark of $7 million. There s about a 3 month lag from when those get turned over to the state, um, processed and then sent back to the county, um, and in the meantime, the county has set up an environmental lands oversight committee for the uh uh the referendum and that is made up of 9 citizens that will review and rank acquisitions as they come forward from willing. Sellers and they, they also qualify whether or not they fit into the um the, the referendum language and the restrictions that that provided, uh, staff then send those properties for, um, review by Florida Natural Ares Inventory to, to kind of qualify the ecological value of those properties and then we bring those to the board for kind of the final approval to use Martin County forever sales tax funds on those properties. Today we ve Take two properties that were kind of already in some stage of acquisition, uh, to the ellac and those have been scored, reviewed, and we re queuing them up for board approval. And then we can start, um, to do due diligence and negotiations on on getting to closing on those properties. The two that have been brought up, um, one was a project that we started years ago with Florida Forever and weren t able to, to, to totally seal the deal from a funding standpoint. Um, it was reinvigorated by the sales tax and the county s ability to participate in it. And so Florida forever is um taking the lead on a 2000 acre acquisition. That s, um, out by the c44 reservoir. It s, it really a, a, a beautiful working ranch, um, that s got some native pine flatwoods and uh some really good opportunity for some wetland restoration, um, that, that will be a conservation easement and we have committed. Um, well, what we re proposing to commit is $5 million from the sales tax to match, uh, maybe 12 to 13 million in state funds to, to get that acquired. So we re getting off to a good start with the partnerships on, on that one. We have SEPTEMBER 5th is our next environmental lands oversight committee. So if you re interested in this and, and kind of want to have a better idea of what um what s in the works that meeting will have 16 different acquisition opportunities presented. Uh before the environmentallands Oversight Committee to be at the Blake or not here, it ll be at the commission chambers on Friday, SEPTEMBER 5th, starting at 10 A.M. It s gonna be a long day, but if you re interested in conservation land acquisition, you ll get a, a really holistic view of the different efforts that are in place and what, what we ll be working on for the next few years to get some deals done. Uh, been some exciting conversations with potential partners. That s been one of the other big efforts this year is, is developing those relationships with uh Florida forever with dp South Florida Water Management District who has a role to play in acquisition of some of these lands and, uh, particularly a new partners, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that has a program the legislature created a couple of years ago called Rural and Family Lands. It s a very well funded program. Now and it s, it, it pursues agricultural easements where they buy the development rights off of a property and, and put some environmental service protections on onto that land and then the, the land owner continues to operate it as a working ranch in most cases. Uh, there s a great example of that that, um, was a huge win for Martin County back in DECEMBER, right after our um, our, our referendum passed by the voters in NOVEMBER, in DECEMBER, the state closed. On a, uh,, 6000 acre agricultural easement on the Bullhammock Ranch, which is out in western Martin County on the grade and it was one of our high priority areas. It was $52 million easement and the state just did it. 100%. So that one came off the list as a huge win and that s the kind of thing that we want to partner with them and encourage, and so there s 3 more of those in the works, um, where the state would really take the lead and, and we would be a funding partner and, and you would have a, a really good manager on the land for free in the in the landowner, um, going forward. So that s a, a, a brief update on Martin County forever. It s been a ton of work and I, I can tell you your staff are having lots of fun, uh, working on it. Um, I m not gonna talk about all of these, um, if you have questions on, i m happy to answer them. I, I do want to bring up, can we move forward one side, um. Our Indian River Lagoon restoration efforts. Last year we started planting sea grasses and doing some other experiments to try to determine what works well and uh what are some of the, the, the conditions that need to be addressed, um, that s all progressing very well. We had a really incredible dry season for sea grass growth. And so the, the plantings that went in and the natural recruitment that just happens, uh, year after year, uh, had a very, very good growing dry season. And continues to look really good out there. It hasn t looked this good and probably since 2010 and uh hopefully Mother Nature continues to cooperate with us, and we were getting good flushing, uh, you know, though we re getting a lot of releases from the c-23 and c-24 that are, you know, driving down salinities in the North and South Fork, um, the estuary itself is getting good tidal flushing and so those grasses are continuing to do very well, and we ve started our next round of planting already. We re going to do it, I think. 40 more acres this year. Um, and then preparing some grants to, to, to keep that going next year. So that s been exciting to see that s, that s a really important function for the, for the health of the entire ecology, the estuary and, and the near shore reef, um. That s, that probably all I was gonna highlight if there s questions, happy to, to talk about any of those projects. That s extremely encouraging. Thank you. Questions for MR. Mille. I don t see any, so we will continue on with city utilities and engineering projects. Yeah Oh Good morning, everyone. Is it Memorial Park. I m Peter Kunnen, director of utilities and engineering for the city of Stewart. It s great to be here with you this morning. No, that s not Memorial Park you, uh, a few projects to give you an update on, if I could find the right, there it is. Ok. All right. So, uh, First project uh has to do with a um Continuing type of work that we re doing at the city of Stuart and involves the resurfacing of the existing streets and roads. Milling and resurfacing and, and microsurf surfacing as well. Uh We re working on completing, uh, on, on completing the, uh, their, their 5s,,,,,,, 1235 streets and uh so the streets that uh we ve, we ve done work on and we re about finished uh with, with all, all 5 High School Avenue, Detroit Avenue. Uh, Cortez Avenue, Denver Avenue, and, and Weir Street. So where we re at right now is, uh, we re, we have uh we have about 2 more streets to go. With uh milling and resurfacing. And uh we re looking at completing the work by SEPTEMBER. So during the month of AUGUST, we re, we planning on finishing that, that work, that work prior to Um, SEPTEMBER. Uh Next project is a utility project that has, uh, that involves the rehabilitation of one of our uh sewer lift stations. That what uh our uh Conquistor lift station. And uh it s gonna involve uh uh doing a a replacement of um electrical control panels. Pumps, piping. Coating the wet well. That project went out for bids, and uh we ve actually uh are in the process of awarding or, or completing the contract, uh, awarding the contract. I m sorry, with the contractor that s gonna be performing the construction. And uh anticipated startup construction of this project is, is also in SEPTEMBER and, uh, that work uh will run through MARCH of 2026. And that s a pretty good size uh lift station that uh is uh in, in need of just some, some repairs and, and uh renovations to it, uh, rehabilitations to that station. We also have work at our water reclamation facility in that, uh, it s uh doing some uh rehab work to our existing headwork structure at our, our water reclamation facility. And uh that too is uh it s, it under currently under construction. And we re looking at uh putting that uh uh the head works on, on a bypass system so that uh work inside the structure itself could take place. Uh, anticipated the completion of construction is JANUARY of 2026. Went the wrong way. And uh we also uh have currently under, under construction work at Veterans Memorial Park. And uh that, uh, that work is going, uh, it s, it s going well. Um there s a lot of work that s been done to the stage structure already. And uh there s uh there s work uh with site work that involves putting in new, new pavers, uh, that s currently underway as well. Uh, irrigation work, lighting work is all part of the project. Uh, currently, uh, the project itself is on schedule and the anticipated uh completion of construction that is still on for MARCH of 2026. And with that, uh, this concludes my presentation this morning. Uh, Do any of you have any questions for me? Any questions for MR. Coonan. Ok Thank you. Thank you very much, everyone. Next is a village utilities and public works update. From MISTER Nolan Yeah Open to Pat. Mhm No There we go. Good morning. I m Pat Noland. I m the director of utilities and public works for the Village of Indiantown. Start with our public works projects. Uh, Uptown roadway and drainage repair, that s been in the design phase funded by the dot. We actually just finished the design. We do not have money to put the project out to bid, so we re probably gonna sit on it for a while unless we can find some funding. Southwest Lincoln Street Roadway and drain drainage project also an fdo fdot project, uh, we re working with the dot on the design to get that out on the street and uh hopefully start that work in the next year. Seminal Drive project that is a department of uh Economic Opportunity Community development block grant. That project, we re just waiting for the uh state to approve the project. It s been through design. We ve figured out the funding and we re just waiting on the state so that we can implement that project. And then we have the roadway repair and maintenance project that is. Inhouse project we Start repairing the multiple potholes throughout the village. Um, and also started striping for safety, uh, the striping throughout the village had not been done in a very long time, so we re starting a multi-year project to repair the pavement and also re-stripe as much of the village as we can. On the water project side, we ve got the existing water plant project. We are also funding that with grant funding, uh, it s a partial, it s a state revolving fund project. So it s grant funding and then we also have a loan. We just signed a contract with the engineer. Last week to start design for that project so that we can start rehabbing the existing water plant. Railroad Avenue Water Main, that is the oldest Maine in the village. It s a 100 year old water main, but it is the backbone of, of the village system. So we are seeking funding to try to get that. Project off the ground. Our 12-inch water made looping project. That is a combination of aarpa funding and funding that we received from the county, um, that project is almost done. I think we ll have that completed in a couple of weeks. We ve basically put a brand new 12-inch water main along Farm Road to Silver. Fox and then down 710 so that we have accomplished uh a loop that was not there to provide fire protection up in that part of the village. 151st San Osceola Street. That is a project that has been funded through Congressman Mast s office, but we haven t figured out all the funding yet, so we re kind of in a holding pattern until we get that worked out. Special water projects. I m sure, uh, everybody in the county s heard that we are looking to build a water treatment plant. So the beginning of that, the first part of that project is a deep injection well. We received funding from the governor s office last year. To initiate the dp projects well. The deep injection well we re using for a dual purpose. It s gonna be there for the concentrate for the new water plant, but also. For waste from the wastewater plan if we have any upsets. So we were fortunate enough to get the funding from the governor s office and initiate this project in anticipation of building a water plant. Um, wastewater projects. This is a new lift station that is part of the new wastewater plant. On the left-hand side of it, you ll see the existing list station that has was passed its useful life when I got here almost 4 years ago. The lift station on the right is a new lift station that s replacing that. That is also part of the governor s appropriation, but we actually put it online last week. So we are gaining slow but sure in uh uh in our little village. It ll Last but not least, uh, a couple of weeks ago, the governor came to our little village and presented us with a check for $22.5 million. We will be putting that check towards Florian Wells. Again, we re using these Florian wells as a dual purpose. They will be the water source for the new ro plant in the future, but we re also using them to test that deep injection well because we need a large amount of water to be able to test that well when we put it online. So we re, we re taking this appropriation money that we re getting and we re trying to use it at the best of our ability. So every, this is again another project that we re using it for both the water and the wastewater programs. So, uh, as, as it says in my slide here, we d like to stay, like, we d like to thank our state legislative delegates, Senator Gail Harrell, Representative Odorf, Representative John Snyder, our village council members, our mayor. Our village administrator Tarida. And uh also Kevin Powers and Josh Kellum because without them, we would not be realizing this funding that we ve uh been able to garner. So And also The Village staff because. As I sit here and give you a presentation. I ve got 10 employees that work for me directly that do all the heavy lifting. So it s a, it s a team effort in the village of Intown. Questions? Questions Thank you. We will now move on to the, uh, growth and development updates. First is, uh, Martin County, Samantha Lovelady. He Good morning, Samantha Lovelady with Martin County Growth Management, and this is our, um, semiannual. Uh, growth and development report. And um you re, I m showing this population figures, but I want to point out that um Bieber has had a delay in releasing their next update on population projections. So these are, you ve seen this before and we re just waiting on them to release new information before we can update. Population So far to share between JANUARY and JUNE, the end of JUNE, we ve approved 33 residential units. And 183,961 square feet of non-residential approvals. This is a list of projects under review. For residential. 4000. And this is a list under review for non-residential. And I can go back to any of these if you have questions. And building permits so far between JANUARY and JUNE, the end of JUNE. So far we ve approved 327 permits. And that s the end of my report. Does anybody have any questions? Any questions? We ll move on to the city. Thank you. Mhm Good morning. My name is Jody Kugler. I m with the development director for the City of Stuart, uh, we don t have a whole lot to, um, report, um. So I see. So we recently did approve a business baron Business Park, h is right off of Willoughby across from the Martin County High School and it s about 235,0205 square feet of office and flex space. They re also in for site permitting, uh, right now. And then we also have uh Seacoast utilities. I mean, sorry, Seac Coast headquarters, uh, they are looking to, uh, demo the building in the front off of us one in in uh Colorado and rebuild and then put a parking garage. And that precludes my presentation. Any questions? Any questions? Thank you MISS Krista 14 pages. Oh Thank you very much. Um, our community development, uh, director, Deanna Freeman is not Uh, with us today. Where am I? It s No. Nope. I can t Oh, wait a minute, let me look here. Instead of up there. 61 in his city grows. Samantha Lovelady. There we are, ok. So if the Village of Indiantown, as you heard Pat say, um, we are so blessed, uh, for the last 3, legislative sessions to have received $76.1 million.43 million goes toward our wastewater plant and then another 33.1 million going toward our water plant. We re still about 30 million short, um, I think maybe and then more. Uh, but we need that water plant we re at capacity in the village and we can t move forward with any more, uh, Approvals of any more development and you ll see that in these in these slides. So this you ve seen before, this is nonresidential, I think the one thing I would like to highlight, actually there s two things, green carbon, the next to the last on the bottom. They re looking to start phase 2. For those of you who don t know what that is, that s a, a facility that processes, uh, eucalyptus. Trees and turns it into a biochar, which is a high-end charcoal that is uh able to. To be utilized by uh concrete companies and various other uh and they go into plastics, so every black plastic has that biochar in it, so they re looking to expand. They want to be able to create a facility that will take railroad ties and that would be huge because as you know, um, we ve got railroad ties all over the place, and they have a they have something that they think can address the Crea seat that goes into that. Ties. So we re excited for them to come and expand. Um, the next one down, East Coast Metal. We re excited about what they ve brought to the village, uh, we introduced him to the high school, uh, the Indiantown High School and they got involved with the welding program, and they have vowed to take every single student that graduates from that welding program to be an employee of East Coast Metals, and so, um, we were really excited for that. The next one, the new one on here is the Sedon Technologies. We re excited for them. That s a biosolid processing plant, um, they are going on where the, uh, old juice plant is currently located and for those of you that aren t familiar with Indiantown. The juice plant that is out there, uh, employed over 400 employees and during uh the greening of citrus it went defunct and closed. Uh, an individual has bought that facility and has repurposed that facility, which is a tremendous use of that site. There s uh over 16 different businesses on there. They have Bitcoin, they have, uh, boat manufacturing they have uh power coding they have uh pet crematorium they have and they re they re, they ve sold recently sold some property to a trust building company, um, he s got 5 acres and now. Which is a biosolid processing facility is going to locate their new plant on the corner of that site, uh, so if you re familiar with Indiantown, the juice plant is right next to where the, uh, Cogen plant was before it was decommissioned. So it s right there off of Warfield. The other one that s new, um, well, p3 technologies on here. That s a very interesting company. This, this gentleman, his main company is in Jupiter, but he manufactures pumps and not one jet engine takes off that doesn t have his pump on it. Uh, and so he s creating a testing facility, uh, in Venture Park, and then the uh Indiantown go-cart facility, that s, that has come and gone and come and gone, but I think finally they re going to be coming forward. There s a private go-kart, uh, facility where, uh, individuals that are part of that group I guess are able to utilize that site. And then, um, the new ones on here is sky leasing, uh, that s a truck and manufacturing facility to kind of uh having uh your semis there and then us advanced transportation is similar to that. And then the next one is silver fox. Now this property is located Uh, adjacent to the Cogen plant, um, off of, uh, uh Silver Fox Lane and, uh, it is a data processing center and they re proposing, um. Various stages of build out, but at the end of the build out will be a 2 million square foot, uh, data processing center, so they have come in with a pre-op meeting we had back in MAY and so we re just uh waiting on major site plan application and their submission as they move forward. So you can see the total square footage of projects that we ve had come forward is about 3.8 million square feet and then if you look at uh the the Indiantown technology. Commerce Park, their permit ready, but we haven t seen uh activity on there yet, but with the possibilities we would have 467 million square feet, um. Venture Park. This is just a map showing you where Venture Park is across the street from there where you see that us advance is the juice plant that i was talking about, um, and so you can see the the adventure parks and industrial park, uh, they re the smaller lots, but you have individuals like East Coast Metals buying, you know, 4 lots and putting their 100,000 square foot facility on that, on that lot. This is another map of the silver fox pre-a. This is what they re proposing as far as that data center goes, um, that we re looking at, they do have a few wetlands on the site, but they re able, they believe they re able to, uh, work around that and the top right of the screen, that was the Indiantown Cogen Plan uh site that uh they decommissioned. Now they have come in, we ve been having dialogue with them. Is looking to possibly put a battery pack project on that site, uh, with all the solar, uh, they have a desire and a need to keep that energy that they re developing through that solar into these battery packs so that they have a constant source of power. And so we re excited for that, that property has sat vacant since they decommissioned that plant and so the battery pack project is will be really great for us. Oops, sorry. This thing s really touchy. Um, for residential development, Terra Lago, they came in with their master site plan, the 22,488, uh, residential units. They have single family, multifamily, and they have some town homes they ve been approved for phase 1a and 1b, we have rooftops in Indiantown. We have about 40 homes in Terra Lago that have rooftops and then we have another 40 in. River Oak, which is off of, uh, Fennel, and so, uh, marriage has 32 rooftops right now, um, their sales approach is, is kind of like a a a car lot. Here s the car, you like it, buy it, and that s it. Uh, whereas Ryan has, you pick your lot, you pick your, uh, design and you pick your facade and then they build the home. So they re both just completely different, uh. Sales approach. And so they re, those are all Terra Lago s phases. They cannot move forward because we don t have water capacity to, to, to prove any more residential units, so these other phases are um. We re, we re working with them, uh, and MR. Boss s in his office is working on something where we can have individuals come on in and upon uh site plan approval, they get, uh, capacity they can get that capacity approval and then they get first in line, if you will, for when our water plant comes, comes online, so. We re working to move Terra Lago further along in their phases. River Oak, that s 131 single family homes. They ve got about 40 rooftops now currently done, uh, we re expecting, they re all rentals, so it ll be interesting to see what kind of um. Of uh sales they re able to do with those rentals and then Seminole Crossing, that s been approved, they re under construction and then Osceola pines, uh, they came forward with 158 single-family homes, but we were only able to approve them for 40 because of our capacity situation. Um And then we have Heritage Park, for those of you that have been along here long enough to remember the old fema site, uh, where we brought the trailers in after Francis and Jeane and housed individuals, uh. Dr Horton has come in and wants to put in 71 single-family homes on that site. They re able to move forward because we had uh capacity previously. That that Uh, also looking at citrus grove, they ve come in. This site is near the airport. Uh, it was Citrus Landing at one time, and, um, they have come in and we have expressed to them the our ability, we don have the water capacity, so they re looking at options to see what they can do to uh to move forward. So essentially we ve got about 1800 homes or single family residential homes that we cannot move forward. With until we get that, uh, water availability. So that s where uh citrus pines is, is the red. Um No, that I m sorry, Osceola pines, that s back, uh, off of Osceola back over by, uh, Terra Lago and that development in the middle there with all the that s uh Indian wood just to give you some, uh, bearings there. And then this is uh Terra Lago phase 1a and 1b. They have cleared that now there s homes there now, so you can drive back in there and look at the sales models, that s their layout of, uh, that 1a and 1b. As you can see, all the property in the back has been cleared. They re actually working with us to, and I m working with the county on possibility of providing some real estate for a fire station, uh, so they could locate, I know, um, I d like to have hazmat out there and uh we need, we have, we re we gonna have a need to redo the fire station for the village. River Oak that s under construction that s their layout. Seminole crossing, that s the layout for the 40 that, or no, I m sorry, he s got the Homes 25 homes back in the back off in Booker Park. Mm Oops. And then Heritage Park, that s the old fema site next to our park in Booker Park. That little And then we ve had uh a request for annexation. And I Yes sir. What part are you wanting to give up? No more. Um, this is, this is within the, uh, is this office 7:10 and it, uh, it s, it s by the area of Venture Park and, and, and another area that s within the village limits. They, uh, wanted. Proposed light industrial. They have submitted an application and, and we have it we ve been going back and forth and they did resubmit, so it s under review. Um, and that s where the property is located, as you can see they ve got access off of alapada as well as 7:10 and the hatch marks on there is the village boundaries. That s the area again from an aerial and across the street as you can see from there is the site that we were looking at with the juice plant and the uh cogen. Little That s it. I ll answer any questions. Come see us. Anybody who wants to tour, I m happy to do that. Yes, sir. I was just gonna say thank you for that presentation. That was fantastic. The clarity and how comprehensive you were, if anybody had any questions about what s going on in Indiantown. They understand, so thank you. Yeah, no problem. I didn t put the presentation together. I have like Pat said, we re fortunate to have a great team in Indiantown. We re, we re small, but we re mighty. Any further questions? Thank you. School district. I All right, good morning, Michael Mayne, Superintendent of schools. Uh, I wanted to introduce you to MR. Dan Moore. He s our new executive director of Curriculum and instruction, uh, has been with us for a couple of years now, and we have a lot to celebrate, uh, your school district is now an a-rated school district by the Florida Department of Education, so I do believe that that deserves a round of applause, very excited. Last year, 2 years ago, we set out on this journey to uh make sure that that is, was the number one goal to do is uh we have not been in a rated school district since 2018-219. Uh, and so it is a great honor to be able to get that back. It s wonderful for the community. It s great for business, uh, and extremely excited that we were able to move in that direction. We were one of only 6 school districts in the state of Florida to move to an a and of those 6, we had the highest number of points, uh, earned by the Florida Department of Education. You can see here on the slides, uh, we lead the treasure Coast in algebra geometry and writing currently right now we were able to move Warfield Elementary from a d to a c, so we do not have any drf schools in the Martin County School District. Uh, we were able to outperform Saint Lucie in English language arts, math, algebra, geometry, science, civics, us history, and writing, so Saint Lucie has some work to do, uh, and we were also able to outperform Indian River County and algebra geometry and writing. One of the things, uh, that we re going to be focusing on very heavily is reading. We have been doing very well in math. We ve been doing very well in civics. We always have done well in those areas. Reading is Something that together as a community, we need to rally around to continue pushing forward those scores. We are very marginal growth when we talk about our reading scores, particularly at the elementary level, so we re going to be putting some uh things into place to work on that. And that is reflected here. Uh, you ll notice that we do have 6c schools here in the Martin County School District. It s unacceptable. So my goal next year, this year coming up is no Se Schools in Martin. County. Um, we are making a bold plan to make sure that we re working exclusively with all of the c schools that are on this list, uh, so that next year I m able to sit here with staff and tell you that not only are we maintaining our a as a school district, but all of our schools are rated either an a or a b. Yeah This is a highlight, however, because we put a lot of effort to the last school year into our middle schools and our high schools, and I am proud to say that you have no cd or f middle schools or high schools, uh, in Martin County. Anderson Middle School went from a c to a b, hidden oaks maintained their a. Indiantown Middle School went from a c to a b. Murray Middle School also from a c to a b in the first year that uh Principal Roth was, was there. Stuart Middle School missed the a by. 1 point, Jensen Beach High School received their a again from a b to an a. Martin County High School missed the a by 0.5 point and South Fork High School missed the a by 1 point. We have appealed all three of those schools, Stuart Middle School, Martin County, and South Fork, uh, to the Florida Department of Education because our data shows that uh they should have been a schools. It is extremely difficult to win an appeal. Um, however, we re going to give it a shot because uh that half a point particularly at Martin County High School, we re hoping, um, the doe will see our data our way, it is possible we could have 3 more a schools on this list. So very, very excited about our secondary schools. I also would be remissed, uh, Indiantown, we represent the public schools, however, we are extremely proud of Indiantown High School that went from a d to an a. They are also an a rated high school. Uh, and so a lot of work went in with Principal Davenport, uh, and their team to make sure that that happened for their students, so congratulations, uh, all the way around and more good news for for Indiantown. And from an academic standpoint, there were no questions, so I m expecting no questions or anything, I will turn it over to our facilities department. Thank you. We just say congratulations. So good morning everyone. Mark Crest, director of facilities and Planning at the Martin County School District. We have some exciting news, um, we do keep this map on every presentation so that you realize where all of our school sites are and where our district buildings are, and we actually have the charter schools listed on there as well so if you get lost in the county we, we have everything numbered and you can follow this if you pull up the presentation. So it s some exciting news at a high level, um, just so everybody knows we re getting ready to open up Stuart Middle School cafeteria, so we ve gone through all the inspections, um, and that will open in AUGUST. The only reason I bring that up is because once we start Murray Middle School, that admin Media Center building that you currently see at Stewart will be replicated at Marie Middle. The only thing that would be different is the aesthetics, the functions will probably be pretty much similar to to the same building and we actually have that same prototype at. Indiantown Middle School, so we re trying to keep that same prototype going through our middle schools as we develop new buildings, um, re Middle School has been a challenge, as you know, um, the project basically doubled in size after Hurricane Milton. So now that current project does include buildings 9, 10, and 18 that had storm damage from Milton and originally we were doing the admin media center, so now it includes admin Media Center and a new Building 9 which will include all the functions that were in 9, 10, and 18. We currently are in the um we call it the psac committee process, um, this is a process where we go through an rfq, which is a request for qualifications, um, the architects submitted first. We scored them the recommendation was brought forward in JUNE. The board approved that recommendation in AUGUST, uh, AUGUST 19th, we will bring forward the contract for the architect once that is officially approved by the board then the timeline starts for that project, um, and then following that. We just went through the score cards for this the construction manager at risk. We re gonna bring forward that recommendation for approval at the AUGUST board meeting and then in SEPTEMBER their contract will bring forward to for the board approval. So those projects are moving on top of this project, um. Like I said, it ll start the timeline, um, I don t want everybody to be surprised, but that s anywhere from when we actually turned the project over at 100% completion that s a 24 month to 36 month process. Um, the design process alone is somewhere around 9 to 12 months, so somewhere about a year from now we ll be bringing forward the the um guaranteed maximum price for Murray Middle School and then start the groundbreaking on that project. So right on the heels of Murray Middle is the Warfield Elementary School project and it s very similar where we re gonna be doing an admin media, um, but this project is a little unique where the existing admin actually has crassrooms inside that building. So once we tear that building down, we actually have to provide more or replace or adding classrooms, replacing existing classrooms to that campus, so this project will go through the same process, but I have to stagger them a little bit because it s a lot of heavy lifting bringing two large projects at the same time. So once we get through the um approvals. In AUGUST and SEPTEMBER then more will go through the same pecac process and we would do score cards and bring forward an architect and a contractor for board approval. So on Moorfield, if I MAY, um, how many additional classrooms are being added. I see 12 new classrooms, but those aren t existing classrooms. Are they adding any additional capacity? We re not adding capacity because right now we re we not. Full capacity I guess that s the way I should say that. But in just so everybody understands these projects because I ve done these in other school districts, you start out with portables, and once you can maintain that capacity, then doe allows you to replace those temporary student stations with permanent stations, but that gives you a 2 to 3 year window to plan for that permanent building if you can maintain that capacity. Ok. MR. Capps, you mentioned that We re not at full capacity right now in the district, like how many spaces do you currently have? To, to, to bring you up to full capacity. Like what, what is the shortfall? I can get you numbers, but essentially we have we have large capacities in our middle schools. Our high school Martin County High School is over capacity. Janson Beach is right on the hills of being over capacity or at capacity and in Southport usually ranges in that same range where we have capacity where we re right at capacity, but those high schools fluctuate because you have dual enrollment and you have students that move in and out sort of like a college campus, so they re not there 8 hours a day. Um And then with the anticipated growth in Indiantown long term. What are you thinking down the road a few years from now, 5 years from now, will there be a need for a new school out there eventually. Well, we would first start looking adding to either Warfield or Indiantown Mid. Um, and that would be based on the number of students we re actually seeing coming, um, but just so everybody realizes which has been occurring in the last 3 years with all the development happening, the numbers aren t matching, so we re getting an increase in population in the county, but we re not getting an increase in students. So we re actually Falling under the under the mark instead of what s projected. Ok. And I had one other question about uh the criteria for improving school grades. I know that s probably a rather complicated. Uh, like moving a school from a c to a b or something like that. Can you just touch on a few of the highlights of what might be involved in moving a grade. Yes, and I actually, um, would encourage everybody to tune in to the next workshop, next month s workshop, because our director of assessment and accountability, Doctor Greg Laws will be doing a fully comprehensive presentation to the board on exactly and the community on exactly how school grades are calculated as well as our district grade, so you ll get a lot more detail. Information there, but I will tell you that every school has a report card with grading categories and components, each one of those components is worth a certain number of points, and then at the end, they tally up the the number of points at the elementary level, they have to hit at least 62% of those points to be an a, uh, 64 at the middle school, 64 at the high school, although now that is being moved up to 65% by the state and if you hit those thresholds, then you move. In those grading categories, there s a lot more involved. You get points for cte, the number of, uh, college and career courses, acceleration, grad rate at the elementary level, they are calculated by science, math, their bottom core tile and how we re moving our bottom quartile students up and the number of students that are growing, all of that is factored into those school grade components and then tallied by the Department of Education. The district grade is then all of the schools combined into one based on those. Those scores. Great, thank you. And that the plans for Warfield Elementary. They include accommodation for the 1180 units in the Indian town that have already been approved and the 4,000587 units that are under review. So there s capacity for 6000 new units. Just to clarify, it takes almost 4 units to make 1. One student Based on the county calculation we have. Ok. Any further questions? Reached the end of our agenda, uh, City of Stuart, any comments, any questions? Village of Indiantown, any comments or questions? MR. Camp. I don t know if anybody else had heard, but I had, uh, conversation with folks from Sewell s Point and Uh, Jupiter Island wondering why they were not included in these meetings. I said I would bring it up at the meeting and I just did. The commissioner, this has come up before, though the resolution or whatever was adopted to create this, uh, requires that they have a school. Within their jurisdiction and that s why Sewes Point in Jupiter Island are not included. They do not in Ocean Breeze, they do not have a school within their jurisdiction. I appreciate that, but um Unofficially on their behalf, I would say that. That is a, that was the policy. But if you have two municipalities or potentially 3. That should somehow participate in Everybody else getting to Here what the value is, I get it would be a much larger meeting, but Sewell s Point, Jupiter Island, Ocean Breeze, our communities within our county, so I think it at least would require a conversation of the administrations of the groups that are all represented here today to reach out to those two and not just say, you re not included because you don t have a school. Commissioner Cas. I m, I m sorry. MS. Roberts. Um, yeah, so one of the things that I wanted to bring up today was about the Um Playground at Jensen Beach Elementary School. I don t know whether you all are aware as a board, but we ve become aware as a board that there s um discussion between our two staffs regarding the um. Memorandum of understanding that has to do with those extra the playground itself, you know, the community built playground, you know, there s two community built playgrounds in Martin County, one s in Palm City and the other one s in Jensen Beach both at elementary schools, and they both happened to be at elementary schools that were recently rebuilt. Um But I, I don t know, I think Doctor Miller s here. Who maybe she can give some light to it, but I didn t know whether you all were aware of those discussions or whether you had any interest in those discussions. The issue. I m aware of the discussions. Curly You want me to. Lie Saar Acton County attorney, there have been discussions between county staff and the school board. I believe that I was told all of those discussions have come to a resolution. There was an interlocal agreement between, um, the school board and the county that was negotiated with their attorney and it was brought to our board and approved by our board, so the county s understanding is that we re just waiting for your board to approve the interlocal and all the issues have been resolved at Jensen Beach. The plan is moving forward that we re gonna tackle each school to make sure each school is properly accounted for for maintenance and things like that. Um, so we re just doing one school at a time, but our board has already approved that agreement and we re just waiting for school board approval. That what I ve been told. Ok. Any further questions or comments? Um, no, I ll look forward to seeing what that agreement looks like. It Habitat. Thank you. Would anyone from the public like to address this? Anyone else? We are adjourned. Mm That s the real reason I don t have school. I was