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Board of County commissioner meeting. Uh, we re going to begin with an invocation, uh, from Pastor Jim Harp of Stuart Alliance Church followed by a pledge of allegiance, uh, led by David Yanquit, a us Army veteran. Thank you. Please stand. Morning, uh, join with me in a posture of prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning and we thank you. I thank you once again for the privilege of being here today to be able to pray and uh. Lord, just to seek your will and your presence and knowing your presence is here, but to seek your will and direction in this meeting today and all the things on the agenda, Lord, we thank you that your word teaches us that you care about these things, uh, Jesus was often praying and his disciples saw that and they said, Lord, teach us to pray and. He began what we refer to today as the Lord s Prayer, uh, with these words, our Father who art in heaven, how would be your name, MAY your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And so GOD, we ask for your will to be done, uh, your word tells us that there s a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof is separation from your ways and your peace and your direction, so Father, we know that what best is your ways, and your ways are higher than ours and your thoughts are higher than ours. So Lord, we thank you for that. And as I always pray, Lord, I ask your blessing, uh, especially upon these that you have put in leadership over us in this county. Lord bless them, bless their families, bless them as they go about their lives and all the things that go on behind the scenes that we don t know about. Lord would you give them strength and courage and wisdom and direction and so GOD we thank you that you care about all these things because you love us and you care for us, and I pray it all in Jesus name. Man Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Ladies and gentlemen, Border County commissioners distinguished members, guests, fellow veterans. My name is David Yanquit, and I m a proud husband and father of 4 sons, David, who s 9, Dean who s 7, Dominic, who s 4, and Dwight, who s 2 months old, and I m honored to be here with you today. I joined the United States Army as an infantryman in AUGUST of 2007 and served until Christmas 2009. Back then, when the wars were in Iraq and Afghanistan, the army was handing out two year and 4. Contract for an infantryman and a $20,000 shipping bonus. So I took it and I felt like I was the richest 19 year old kid alive. I always knew I was going to join the army. It was definitely a calling, but it came very true on 9/11. I don t come from a military family, but once 9/11 happened, I knew one day I would wear the uniform of this great country. And like all who served, carried the torch of freedom and pass it to the next generation. I also knew the army was very excited for me to join as I would periodically receive responses to the thank you for your letter for your interest letters from the recruiting office and reminding me that I was way too young. Apparently there were requirements in being 14 wasn t one of them. When I was finally of age, I tried college for about a year to see if I wanted to become an officer and at that point where the wars were in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 and at its height, I thought I d better enlist now before the war ends. I went through basic and infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and upon completion, I received orders to Fort Hood, Texas, where they were standing up a brigade to deploy. I was assigned to the recom platoon of the First Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade combat team, First Infantry Division, the Blue Spaders, same unit as Captain America. Joining the army and going to a few states west didn t seem like seeing the world, but nonetheless, I was excited to get to my unit. See, upon graduation of infantry school, the time from graduation to deployment. It was about 2 weeks to 1 year. Either your unit was deployed or headed back home, but you could expect to be in country within that timeline. It would be about 7 to 8 months past graduation before we deployed. During the train up, I was fortunate enough to attend and graduate from Aerosolt School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where I learned about helicopters jumping out of them, equipment and sling load operations. About 2 weeks before we were scheduled to ship out to Sadr City, Iraq. Our orders changed to go to the Kunar province of Afghanistan. I didn t know much about Afghanistan as our focus was Iraq. But I will soon learn. Quickly about combat operations. When we deployed in JULY of 2008, it wasn t too long until we heard about the Battle of Wanat and how the sky soldiers of the 173rd Airborne. Got overrun and the loss of 9 American heroes and others were very wounded, knowing we were replacing that unit and the gravity of the tragic event. We will only come to understand the true meaning of loss when it becomes our turn in the fight. While in the recon unit, our battalion pulled pulled half of the platoon, 2 squads and created a personal security detail and the other half will remain in the mountains. I switched to the detail and became a machine gunner for the battalion Command Sergeant Major. And his vehicle attachment. Our task was to escort the leadership to several meetings with village elders, meetings with company commanders, observe the battle space, do air assault missions on the Afghan-Pakistan border and to figure out enemy movements in and out of the region. During the deployment, our security platoon had completed hundreds of combat patrols, numerous air assault missions and defeated countless enemy engagements. While all that is important, nothing will replace those who we lost or were wounded either in our element or in the Blue Spaters as a whole. Staff Sergeant Rogers, my squad leader, or one of my great friends, Sergeant Dawson will always be honored and remembered and serve as a reminder to live a life worthy of their sacrifice. We left Afghanistan in JUNE of 2009, and I will tell you it was an uneasy feeling. Readjusting from sustained combat, seeing family reuniting with guys who were wounded. And then the beginning of new chapters as people either re-enlisted and went to a new unit were discharged or stayed or stayed was a was a whirlwind of emotions. Excuse me. I decided not to re-enlist as I had enough of war. It was time to see what else life had for me. Little did I know I would meet my future wife within a few weeks of being home. I started at Indian River State College and graduated with my associate s degree and went on to fau for my bachelor s in political science. I have two master s degrees, one from George Washington University, and another from the University of Nebraska, both in the field of political science. I was a civics and us history teacher at Martin County School District at Murray Middle in South Fork High School for 8 years. And now I m in my 3rd year at irse teaching American government and international relations. My very first class teaching is in the first classroom I was as an irse student. Even though veterans like me are happy to stay in the shadows and out of the spotlight, we were, we are also happy to shine the light on others who do so much for our community. I would like to thank Martin County Veteran Services for the amazing and selfless work they do on behalf of our veteran community, the knowledge, expertise, compassion and dedication to the mission, which is the veteran and their success is second to none and to Brindelle and Jeff and team. Thank you. You make the difference in Martin County and its veterans are better because of you, and thank you for what you have done for me and my family. Recognizing that Veterans Day is a few weeks away. I appreciate the honor to share a little bit of my story, honor the lives of others. Appreciate the service, and remember the sacrifice. It was an honor to speak to you and be with you all today. Thank you and GOD bless. Mhm. That was awesome, by the way. It really was. We should, we should end on that note, yeah, ok, we re done. Let s go home. All right, um, today we have 905 public comment, which is 5 minutes ago, but we ll get to it eventually, um. We have at 12 P.M. A um. Private attorney client, uh, session. Uh, and at 5:05, we have public comment once again. Additional items Department 6 requests for private attorney session considering the case of being a man by land, uh, llc versus Southlo Water Management District. E t a l, whatever that means, case number, uh, 22. 2023-ca-000052 Uh, and then we have a, uh, a consent agenda poll pulled by me for the first time. Uh, yeah. Uh, consent number 8 request for approval of a deed of agricultural easement from Becker1 Gros Limited. As a condition of the approved discovery planned unit development, pud zoning agreement for the Discovery project. I felt that this was a uh Serious enough and um uh issue that we needed to have it out in the public, uh. Ok. And with that, can I get a Uh, I m sorry, Commissioner Smith. CHAIRMAN, good morning. Uh, move approval of, uh, the agenda with the additional item of department item number 6 for the lar private attorney client session. And with the addition of consent, uh, or. The consent poll of, uh, item 8. Ok, we have a motion by Commissioner Smith seconded by Commissioner Campi, all in favor. All right. All opposed. Uh, motion carries unanimously. Ok, we are going to skip down to proclamation number 2. MR. Gordon is going to Do a presentation for a retiring employee, present a plaque of recognition and appreciation to Norm Van der Heyn. Oops. Uh, upon the occasion of his retirement from service within Martin County Board of County commissioners. I ve had the pleasure of working with Norm, uh, and he s an amazing guy, um, the best quote ever we re meeting with a constituent, and he goes, Ma am, I can t make water go uphill. I will never forget that as long as I live, but anyway, he s a great guy. I m guessing that s why Channel 5 is here today. Yeah, that s it, yeah. Hm. Job, John. Jim Gordon, public works director, with me, I have Norm Vander Hayden. Norma s been with the public works department for nearly 31 years. He served as a heavy equipment operator, road maintenance supervisor, stormwater inspector, and engineering inspector. He fills in for us as a bridge stander when we re in a pinch at the Hopetown Bridge. He was a volunteer fighter, firefighter out of Station 33 and a Navy veteran. Norm has a knack for implementing new programs and performed critical roles in development of our vector trucks, sweeper, um, program and cctv stormwater inspection program. All of which are essential water quality improvement, um, programs that we have and they re born out of his input and constant refinement. His unique combination of technical skills, common sense, and will to succeed have served him well in his career. Customer service has been a consistent focus throughout Norm s career. And in his role as our lead stormwater inspector for the county. He meets with the public on a daily basis. To review their concerns and develop solutions. Since the advent of the online request for service system in 2006, norm has investigated, responded to, and closed out over 5000 requests for service. That s more than most departments during that time frame. One of the inspections. Um, In Palm Palm City during a flood event. Um, resulted in norm saving a child who was swept downstream in a flooded creek. That gained local and regional media attention while not one for notoriety he represented himself, public works in the county well that day. In closing, I wanted to highlight the critical role that Norm plays in the county. i was in the eoc during Hurricane Milton when we started receiving information about tornadoes touching down in the county. First out west in undeveloped areas and then in Hope Sound and Port Salerno where homes were impacted. Norm was the first person I called. Excuse me. From the eoc to inspect the damage, develop a response, and to lead a crew to remove the down poles and debris to clear the way for emergency services. He quickly coordinated a loader crew. And mobilized to the area to uh remove the debris. He and the crew were actively working on us 1 when the 2nd tornado went by about a quarter mile south of where they were working. They worked until dark that day, and every day that week to restore access and begin their recovery process for our residents. After working dusk till dawn multiple days. Helping our citizens recover, norm volunteered to go to a coworker s home to help him because he lost his roof during the 2nd tornado. This just speaks to Norm s character and willingness to help others, which has been a constant throughout his career. So please join me in congratulating Norm for a successful career and to wish him well in his future endeavors. No, you did. Well, I just have a few words before I read the plaque and that is a norms, uh, you can hear his service to our nation and our service to Martin County is one consistent thing about norm is, he has a big heart. Uh, he s a caring human being and he loves Martin County and all those that he works for and the citizen, and that s what I most proud of working with him. Now, Mark used to say, don t let norm get bored, you know, a board dorm is a dangerous norm, but anyway. And I know for, but, uh, uh, but in all the times, so you know, that s, uh, I think speaks to the character of your employees and norm is exemplary of that, and that is truly reflects the best of all of us and uh I m gonna MISS You, uh, greatly, uh, working in organization, uh, there s big shoes to fill you in, uh, a handful of others have really led the way in our public works and, uh, our service to our community and it s my pleasure to work with you for this many years and so in grateful recognition of 30 years of dedicated public service to Martin County Board of County commissioners and the citizens of Martin County. Presented this, uh, 22nd day of OCTOBER 24. Thank you, Norman. Thank you. Uh I sure can be. Norm, you look young and very fit, uh, motion to deny your retirement. Is it because they work you too hard? Because we could work out like a part-time thing for you. I mean, I think you re with all kidding aside, you are a classic example of what makes Martin County great. And the quiet, uh, steady professional leadership of our staff, and when I talk about, uh, you know, the 5 of us, we re the public faces or leadership. It s the men and women like you that are in the trenches that make Martin County so wonderful, make our residents so pleased and safe. So GOD bless you in your future, and we will MISS You very much. I m also friends with Norm s wife and I know for a fact that norm, she will keep Norm busy, trust me. So. Anyway, yeah. You ll be working harder at home, trust me. Ok. It s, now you 12. Is his wife here? Is that her in the back? Um But they re holding up the phone, yeah. Why didn t she come forward for a picture. Norm, why don t you bring your wife forward so we can congratulate her and thank her. Come on, so we know it s not one person that does all this work. It s here she is, everybody. Got a got a picture, get a picture. Yeah. Much better. All right. If you change your mind, doors always open. If you have the pleasure of following them on Facebook. They do more, uh, traveling in. Canoeing and you name it, activities than uh anybody i ve ever seen. Ok, so back to we re going to do our proclamations now, um, Laura is going to read them and I m going to. Stand down. Good morning, commissioners. Uh, first, we have a proclamation declaring paralegal Day in Martin County, Florida. Parallegals are known for their integrity and professionalism as they support essential services, legal research, real estate matters, and other factors facets of law practice. OCTOBER 23rd is recognized as Paralegal Day, and the board would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the men and women of this profession for their diligence in meeting the continuing needs of our communities. And here to accept we have Mandy Johns, who is a real property professional under the public works department. Come on up, Mandy. Me Good morning. OCTOBER 23rd is recognized as National Paralegal Day in the us and in Florida as well. Paralegal Day has provided an opportunity to recognize and appreciate the work of all paralegals in our state and the nation. A paralegal is an essential part of an attorney s administrative team and as the need for attorneys continues to grow, skilled paralegals are increasingly in demand. The Florida bar currently has around 47,700 registered paralegals who assist 107,000 Florida Bar authorized attorneys. Palegals and legal assistants are largely considered the backbone of every law firm and fulfill critical roles within the legal community from conducting research, drafting, pleadings, contracts, and more. These legal professionals are fundamental in supporting attorneys. Here at Martin County, we real property paralegals are responsible for recreating, implementing, and managing leases of county property, as well as county property leases of outside properties. We are responsible for obtaining easements and providing easement. For drainage utilities, access maintenance, and many other needs. We are also responsible for acquiring new property needed for county purchases as well as well as disposing of surplus property and maintaining the list of surplus properties. We are lucky enough to be able to work with most of the departments within the county on a regular basis to help them complete their plans when it comes to real property. As we celebrate National Paralegal Day this year, we are reminded that paralegals are a growing force within the legal field, and we hope that you ll take a moment to sincerely thank these hardworking individuals who are responsible gatekeepers for the legal profession. Car the Make you do buy something Hm Our second proclamation is a proclamation declaring National Disability Employment Awareness Month in Martin County, Florida. OCTOBER 2024 is the seventy-ninth anniversary of National Disability Awareness Month, and its purpose is to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America s workers with disabilities. The board urges all citizens to recognize this month by bringing together businesses and partners to break down the barriers faced by individuals with disabilities who are working or seeking employ. Helping improve the quality of life for all. And here to accept we have Glenna Paris, who is the gift planning officer of for helping people succeed. Of Paris Lenny, you look so different. I know. Ok It s It s unfortunately, Glenna was not able to make it today, but good morning. My name is Shannon Wilson, and I am the director of Successful Futures at helping people succeed. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Board of County commissioners for this proclamation, um, in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The purpose of this month is to celebrate the contributions of people with disabilities to the workplace and the economy. This year s theme is access to good jobs for all, good jobs change lives, and all workers, including disabled workers deserve the opportunity to prepare for, obtain, and succeed in them. Helping people succeed is proud to partner with businesses and organizations in Martin County to provide training and employment opportunities for our community members with disabilities. Our goal is to help the individuals we serve to find real jobs for competitive wages in an integrated environment. We strongly believe that everyone who wants to work should be able to, and with your support as well as the support of the residents of Martin County, we are able to continue working to make that a reality. Thank you again. Laurie, you re doing a very good job. In. And our final proclamation today is a proclamation declaring Bible reading marathon week in Martin County, Florida. The year 1990 was proclaimed by a joint congressional resolution and presidential proclamation as International Year of Bible Reading, and Bible Reading Week has been celebrated annually thereafter. In recognition of Bible Reading Week, the 24th annual Bible Reading marathon will be held NOVEMBER 4th through the 8th at the Ban Shell and Memorial Park and feature a ninety-hour continuous read-through of the entire Bible. And here to accept we have Pastors Eddie and Joanne Rodriguez, as well as uh Doctor Julie Bjornsen, uh, there with Stefan. Grace and New Life Ministries. Right, I don t know. Morning. Good morning. Good morning, um, commissioners, we just want to thank you first for um once again giving us this proclamation. It means so much to the people in the community each year as we gather and this is our 24th year and I do want to let you know that this is the longest running Bible reading marathon in our nation. And it brings so much hope and peace, um to the community as people come from all over the county and beyond to come out and they feel it s pretty miraculous. 365 15 minute time slots, um, to read through the Bible day and night, rain or shine, and so when we re out there, we get so many um just wonderful responses from families come out, business people come out, ministries, churches, people connect that normally wouldn t be able to connect and it just is a wonderful week as we proclaim GOD s word over our nation, and it began with Pastor Donna and Jean Hilton to um, to begin this read the Bible over our nation as protection over our nation. Um, so I just want to thank you for this weekend, and we invite everyone to come out and be a part of this week. You can give us a call at 5561-670-0469. We have flyers out and uh we just welcome everybody. Everyone is welcome and um we re out there with love and peace and um and just looking forward to this year and all the community that it touches in a special way. Thank you. You want to talk about that? I just like to say that I am completely 100% in agreement with my wife. Smart man. DR. Julie, please tell them we need night readers, ok. I m DR. Julie Bornsson from Port Salerno. I survived the tornado. Um, good morning, commissioners. This is my 24th time to thank you for Bible reading marathon proclamation. To me this is really important and I, I share this all across the county that our, our commissioners have given us such a wonderful proclamation. Um, the marathon began 24 years ago. 9/11, 2001, right after that, our church was directed to read the Bible to protect us from terrorist attack, and we ve been really well protected other than the tornado. Um, 9/11 was sudden and unexpected, bringing people back to churches and the Bible, the foundation of our nation s constitution, government, and education, and many presidents understood that without the morals and ethics taught in the Bible, our nation self-government would fail, but today Bible truths and GOD s authority are under. Extreme attack nationally lawlessness is replacing our constitutional authority and spiritually liberal rewrites and copyright limitations of the Bible undermine foundational doctrines throughout the Bible, GOD s love is freely available to all who will accept it. The entire Bible is a record of GOD s extremes. That he has gone to in order to avoid the destiny of our fallen identic state. Yet what is our response? No, GOD, I want to love you. I don t want to love you. I ll do it my way. But when humans fail to respond, GOD has 3 alternatives. He can indulge it, allowing our human rebellion, or he can force us to obey which removes our free will, but that leaves the only real choice. The only way is to withdraw himself whether we realize it or not, our existence of GOD is necessary for our continued existence just as an orchestra with many talented musicians requires a conductor. Our existence depends on GOD. The Bible says in Colossians 1:16, all things were created by him and for him all things are held together, but what would it be like if GOD left us alone. We know about physical death. The body dies, and we re separated from the soul, but there is a Virtual death when the soul by choice is separated from GOD. Ultimately it s our choice. It is up to us to choose everlasting life or everlasting death which is spiritual separation from GOD and it final. We have to choose or refuse. Do we have the ability to even imagine what everlasting death without GOD really involves. I don t think so. The real you is not a finite body. GOD wants you to know you are eternal, whether you re saved or not or you believe in Satan or Not the important question is, where are you going to spend the rest of your life? In the presence of GOD or force him to withdraw himself. We all physically die, but spiritual death is a conscious choice. Make sure of your destiny, Father GOD provided His Son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the darkness of this world. His gift is eternal life. It s free. Just believe and renew your citizenship in heaven to help choose life, GOD provided two gifts to resist evil his written word, the Bible, which we try to share every year and it s been preserved over 2000 years and through the death of many martyr. And the Holy Spirit who withholds evil on earth and leads us into all truth. Please consider signing up to read 15 minutes this year for GOD s protection over Martin County and our nation. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah I Thank you. Huh? Next up is, uh, Public comment, uh, please limit your comments to 3 minutes after 2 minutes 45 seconds, you ll hear a tone. That just simply says to, you have 15 seconds to wrap your comments up. And I believe MR. Donaldson has a a prepared statement. Yes, sir. Since we are in election season, uh, um, politicking is prohibited, which is defined as advocating election or defeat of a candidate for public office either partisan or nonpartisan. This includes the use of words, states, signs, props, and or wearing apparel that can convey a message of support for a person or group of persons. Thank you. Ok, our first public uh speaker for him is John Doyle, uh, forward, uh, followed by a Patel, last name. Anne Good Morning, commissioners. How are you? First, I want to thank the county on that response for the hurricane and the tornadoes. The guys that are cleaning up in the street like Norm. Those those guys in trenches are unbelievably good. Second thing is I ve been reading the newspaper and then started getting the, the treasure Coast paper again and a lot of the sentiments are concerned about making ras decisions on agenda items right now with a new commission coming in. I kind of support that. The last part of this is, I ve got good friends in yellow here and uh, they re pretty persuasive. I would like the commission to take a long, hard look on whether or not we re going to want a station in Stuart and every aspect of that and laid it out before the public. Let s don t rush into anything. I don t think we have to. If you re gonna take a station, you can take it today, you can take it tomorrow, you can take it next year. Uh, if they want to go to Fort Pierce and they talk about the distance between the cities that they want to run. All I m asking is just give that a, a, a good look and a public read on it and, and let s see what the financial responsibility is. Thank you for your time. Neil Patel. Maybe, maybe not. And maybe pronounce it correctly when you get up there. Thank you. My name is Anjuta. Good morning to all. Um, I m here to support the Brightland station. Um, I have been a resident of Martin County since over two decades, and my husband has been paying taxes diligently and this is a time when I want a station in my town in Stuart, and it makes sense. It s for my children, for the Future generations. And just the fact that there are stations in Miami. Fort Lauderdale, Aventura, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Orlando, and now Stuart. Stuart will be in on the road map, just by the fact that we have a train station. And people will be connected to big towns and also to the world. And um just the way the other towns, these important towns that I just mentioned that has the stations will also be connected to Stuart. It is important for the citizens of Stuart. And the businesses. And I strongly support the station, and I know I will get the station. Thank you. All right, we re Richard Olson followed by Steve. I top my tale, tally. Morning. Good morning. I don t have much to say because I think you ve heard everything. Um, you know about the city steward and their shoes, you know, about the bright line, you know, the good, the bad, the good is. It s easy, it s a, it s a simple station where it s supposed to be. Um, all I want to show, I m not sure what the protocol is, but here s the plaque. That basically says, you know. Bright line the Stuart City Hall, City commissioners didn t do it right and hopefully two weeks from now you will vote bright line in and this plaque will be on the wall of the new what I call The Martin County Brightline Station. It s no longer the the uh Stuart Bright Line station. It should be the Martin County, and it s basically showing. That You 5 are the ones that brought it to us. So I m not sure if I give this to you, give it to you. Thank you. Thank you. And again, if you could. Pronounce your name correctly and then you re followed by a. Sure, when Thompson, maybe. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Steven Vitale. I live at, uh, Knows Road in Sells Point. I own the old Colorado Inn in downtown Stuart. I ve been fighting for tourism for a large portion of my life. I m a former member of the. Tourism board for this county and. It s no secret that tourism is the lifeblood of the Florida economy. What happened at the city of Stuart meeting um last. Tuesday. Was a disgrace in my opinion, the way that the gentleman from Brightline, the vice PRESIDENT, was treated, he was, uh, rudely approached from the dias while he was sitting in the audience and basically told to go to Fort Pierce. Um, This bright line station has been in the works for 40 years people have been working on it. You have all spent countless, probably thousands of hours working on this and. We re going to allow a few rookies to come in at the last minute and take this away from. From our town, from our county we need this station not only for our tourism based economy but for the lifestyle of its residents. I have to go pick my daughter up tonight who s traveling from Saint Louis to come visit us and I would love to just go drive down to the station at. Downtown Stuart and pick her up and instead of wasting my entire evening late at night going down to pick her up at the airport. It s not rocket science. Um, we, we always knew on the tourism board that most of the people came from. Millions of people are visiting us from um from the Miami area and the Orlando area if we don t have the station we re gonna lose a lot. People will not be able to come here. This is the new artery that s being developed through this train station in South Florida and it s eventually going to go over to Tampa as we all know, when you sometimes when you have a a younger sibling that s misbehaving, you need to reprimand them and you need to correct the situation, and it s time for you all to Decisive action. This is the time for action. I disagree with the the first gentleman who spoke that you don t need, you need to take your time and this has been analyzed for 40 years. This is the time to exercise leadership, ok, and, and take the bull by the horn and and do what needs to be done. We have to, we have to seize the moment all the stars are lined up. There is a grant with $50 million that s available if you make the application in DECEMBER. Why would we, why would anybody pass that up and allow that to go. To another town we ve all paid our federal taxes on that that would be insane. The time is now, please exercise leadership that I know you will and. Do the right thing. Thank you for your time. Cheryl Thompson, followed by Raj Patel. Hi everybody, my name is Sherry Lee. Somebody else filled out my card. Sorry about that. This might not be you, then it s, it s Cheryl Ann Thompson. It s me. That s very different than I have a stage name. Also known as Terry Lee, I m Sherry Lee. I struggle enough without anybody know I m sorry, my friend is very sorry, um, whoever you are, go ahead. I am. Thanks for everything you have done in the past to get Brightline to come to Martin County, what you did in 2018, I think it was with that that lawsuit and the settlement, you had the foresight to make sure we had a station. Um, the city is a bit of an embarrassment to all of us right now. We just want our station. I feel like we ve worked on this for a long, long time. We know the deal. We know what s involved, uh, we, we have the federal money. If you guys could just. Assure the residents and the businesses that we re going to get the station ashore bright line that you re going to do the deal, get it under contract, and then put a back door in for Stuart to come in and join us and 6 months when they get their heads out of their butts. If they do, we don t know what they re, what they re thinking. We thought we had some people convinced that it was a good idea and they made a good deal, and that s, that s gone off the rails, pardon the pun. So see if you can get this. Done for us, we support it. I think you can see that and we appreciate your, your efforts. Thank you. MR. Patel is followed by Sam Hay. Um, good morning, County commissioners. My name is Raj Patelle. Filled out her form. Oh, it s all your fault. Um, I m 2 decades plus Martin County resident and taxpayer for both Martin County and for the city of Stuart, same amount of years. It s been 6 weeks and the bright line has weighed on my mind daily. Sometimes more than once in an hour. And, and the minds of all my friends and family. I m sure on your minds as well. And I m pretty sure of that, um, it s taking a toll, please put this to rest. The City commission, as you all know, has failed the people, we all showed up en masse. 10 times more people than They are here because they re tired. So you want to say that we should look at it and take our time and look at it more carefully makes no sense. We re going to lose it. Um, Obviously, you ve seen that the city didn t uh didn t address it. It s a monumentous juncture in all our lives to have a station here. They stalled the intentions are only known to themselves. Nobody else knows their true intentions. All we know is they ve made us a laughing stock of the entire Florida State. We ve read it in the newspapers. We ve seen it on tv. It s very, very embarrassing. Um, so please put this to rest. Get us the train stop, so we can all reap the benefits. We all know what the economic benefits are, the safety benefits of not having to drive on I-95 and get rear-ended. Or sideswiped, you all know it. Um, the train will help intermodal transport, which is The benefit of each resident, each business owner, that s the backbone of this economy. Um, so please for the generations to come, when you guys as City commissioners plan and planners plan. You don t plan for today, you plan for 2030, 50 years down the line. So the time has come. Make it happen. Thank you. Yeah. MR. Hay is followed by Angela. Rattanella Which is probably wrong, but m, I m, I m Sam Hay I live in Port Salerno. Uh, I see on your agenda for today meeting, there are several proposals for substantial changes to our comprehensive plan. And considering the history of the current County commission, the prospect for any further changes to the comp Plan is unavoidably suspect. The recent election results for both Martin County and the city of Stuart commissions indicate the majority of us feel we ve had more than enough of excessive development. I urge you now to reject any changes which would continue this trend of overdevelopment. Given the unambiguous results of last month s elections, it would be inappropriate for this lame duck commission to make any questionable changes to our comprehensive plan. Because these proposed changes are apparently quite complicated. I don t understand them all. I believe that at the very least they should be properly presented to the public and that sufficient time be given for full public scrutiny. Any effort to rush through these changes would look a lot like our governor s ham-handed plan to bulldoze a major portion of Jonathan Dickinson State Park to build golf courses. And we know how well that sneaky attempt was received by the people of Martin County. The obvious question here is who stands to benefit from these changes. In the case of Martin County, it s not citizens who wish for the opportunity to live in a location unspoiled by nerve-racking traffic. Increased levels of crime and rampant development. We are again faced with the inevitable question of Follow the money. Who typically benefits from weakening the comp Plan? As developers who seek to maximize their profits at the expense of our environment and our quality of life. Let s put a halt to this disastrous trend now. You commissioners were elected to represent the will of the county s citizens. If you vote to approve developer friendly changes to weaken our comp Plan, you are certainly not representing the will of the people. The people of Martin County have spoken. Please respect our voice. What s the rush to make changes in the comp Plan anyway? Is it just as satisfied the wishes of often unscrupulous developers before a new commission can be seated? Angela Retelli, please. It s followed by Terry Kogle. Hi, good morning. I m Angela Antonella. Very nicely done. Standing here feels awkward, but I can get over that. What MAY happen to Martin County if you pass these amendments to change the comprehensive plan. I cannot and will not get over that. All of these people come before you. They send you emails and all of them are asking the same thing to please wait to vote on these changes until the new board of commissioners are seated. Yet there s a big push forward to get this done fast. There s no new laws that are commanding this to be done, and there are many other items on the agenda as well. It makes me wonder why couldn t it wait? Why not wait? I really don t have the answer. All I know is that, is these people count on you to hear their concerns and act accordingly. And why so many changes. We believe this plan is designed to protect us from overdevelopment and should not be changed at all. I don t know anyone who s asking for the contrary, no one. We all like the special nature of Martin, want to keep it that way. So why wouldn t you? Please wait to vote on these. Thank you. Terry Cole. Uh, followed by Dottie Lancy. Good morning, commissioners. Uh, I ve been to it, the disaster area 3 times delivering supplies and emptying out two houses of debris. I would like to thank Commissioners Harrington, Hetherington, excuse me, Campy and our newly elected cap for your concern and reaching out to help our residents who have lost so much. The commissioner, however, the commissioner from the district that was severely affected by the tornadoes has never appeared and shows her true colors and all of them are dark. If there is a recall petition going around and I would like to be the first one to sign. This, uh, Dottie Lancy. Followed by Walter. Lawyer maybe. Morning, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to talk to you again. Um, I wanted to do this without notes because I wanted to speak to you on a personal level, but since I m not as eloquent as I wish I were. I do have a couple notes here. But um, I m here because I think it s very, very important, and I m going to ask you for a special favor. Um, please find it in your hearts and in your consciences to table the vote on changes to the Clan. Until the new board is seated next month. I know you all love this Coy as well as I do. We all love it and we re very grateful to be living in a in a. Excuse me, a beautiful, beautiful part of Florida, and the reason that we do live in this beautiful part of Florida and it s different from most of the areas here in the state. Is because the former commissioners had the foresight. And they had the selflessness selflessness. To preserve our natural resources. Recent elections have shown what the people want. They aren t happy with the direction in which the, um, present government has taken And so, um, I m asking you today to do the right thing. To represent the wishes of the voters. Please do the right thing today and table any vote on the comp Plan. For some of you, it s your last chance to do and show the people that you really, really care about our beautiful Martin County. Thank you. Walter Oh Followed by Bonnie Moser. Morning commissioners. My name is Walter Lloyd, um, Honey. So our new commissioners over at the city referred to as rookies. They were voted in by the taxpayers and should be regarded as such. Voters spoke in the last election. They spoke loudly, wasn t even close. It was a landslide. So when it comes to the comprehensive growth management plan. The ear doesn t force changes as we heard before, was so eloquently put. Um, The number one thing from the workshop that was held for this subject. The number one thing that your constituents ask for the priority was that we protect and preserve our comprehensive plan with no changes. Voters have spoken loud, resulting in a lame duck commission, some of you. And it appears that Part of this constituent is pushing an unwanted agenda. At least 3 of you can still make a difference to hold off and let the new commission have input on these issues. In a fashion that represents the taxpayers. And that would be before any transmittal to the state. So in my opinion, that also goes for bright line. I don t think you should be making any decisions on Brightline before your new commissioners have an opportunity to weigh in on it simply because they were voted in. With such emphasis. Thank you. Bonnie is followed by MR. Tom Pyne. Good morning, commissioners. My name is Bonnie Moser. I live on Southeast 10th Street in Stuart, Florida. I m here today to talk to you about the bright line. Um, I emailed you all yesterday. Um, and what I have gathered from the last few meetings that I have sacrificed time to attend at the Stuart City Commission as, is that, um, I, I m not confident that they are going to make this decision. It seems like they re just going to keep kicking the can down the road, um, and using excuses to do so. I want to talk to you about a few things. Um, in terms of the bright line. I m a mother of two. Um, our family s traveled in Europe and Africa extensively and, and, uh, we love rail travel. It s easy for families. I don t have to worry about potty breaks or um, you know, when we re going to stop to feed the kids, we get to be together as a family. Um, but it s not also convenient as a mother it s safe. Um, I work as an urban designer in the transportation field, and I want to talk to you about some statistics from 2018 to 2023 in Florida, there were 20,346 roadway fatalities in our state. There were only 297 railway fatalities. Um, we have a study that says from 2001 to 2009 for every 1 billion passenger miles traveled in the United States. There were 7.28 car deaths. There were only 0.43 um train deaths. Rail travel is safe and, um, in South Florida where we all, I m sure know somebody who has died in a traffic accident, having another alternative of transportation is important. Um, the bright line is also an economical decision for the county, um, you all, I m sure know our county capital improvement Plan. We spend $39 million annually, um, to maintain and improve our roadways. But uh you drive on our roads just like I do. You know that not only are our streets not safe, but they re congested. Um, and the conventional measures that we are taking. With the Florida dot and transportation, they re not solving either of those problems, providing an alternative transportation mode like rail travel, that can help. Um, I also want to talk about Brightline being a one-time cost. So we ve had lots of numbers thrown around. We know that there are grants in the mix, but a lot of things, some people aren t talking about is that, um, We re on the hook to build the station. We are not on the hook to maintain or operate the station. And that is a big deal. Um, the sun rail has 16 stations up in Orlando. It costs about $3.8 million annually per station to operate and maintain. Uh, the tri rail, I m not sure how many stops it has, but I did the math and it, it averages out to about $7.2 million per station. If you, um, you know, do the math on that over the, over the long term of the lease, us just paying For the station, that s a good deal. We don t have to worry about maintaining, um, and operating. And last, I just want to talk to you about folks are saying don t rush, don t rush. In the design and planning field, we have something called analysis paralysis, and it s when local governments mull over things and do new studies and have new meetings over and over and over again. Somebody mentioned before, um, we ve been talking about this for 40 years. We ve always wanted to restore rail to Stuart, Florida, and I m asking you to please Do that for us. Thank you. MR. Tom Pyne is followed by Steve Adams. Morning, Commissioners. My name s Tom Pine. I d like to first thank the board for having the. Sneakers on in the rear of the chamber this morning. Shock, surprise, and thank you, Ar in order after the paving of Jensen Beach Boulevard for leaving the old fashioned center turn lane. Instead of the death trap that was used to replace the center turn lane on Dixie Highway in the Port Salerno area. I feel it s a rare event in Martin County when safety comes before beautification. As in the Port Salano area. I can t believe what I m hearing that Three Lakes Golf Club, one of the largest projects that was approved by violating the Martin County growth Planger plan are now coming back to the table and have the gall to ask us to pay for a bridge to go over Canner Highway connect their two properties. Where does the greed end? Now on the destruction of Martin County Growth Management Plan. Didn t we just pay the treasure Coast Regional Planning Council. $100,000 to survey Martin County residents on their priorities for growth management policies. And if I recall correctly, the number one answer was to protect and preserve our Martin County growth management plan. So once again we will watch our elected officials do exactly the opposite of what the people said during the $100,000 survey. I can only go, guess it was some kind of thank you. To your friends it s a treasure c Coach Regional Planning Council, because you sure don t seem to care about any of the work they do. Add to this the questionable use of the consent agenda. And this is a result of the voter turnout range. Of Of 30% of 30% range. For local elections. Democrats, Democrats. Democracy is dying in Martin County to have a healthy democracy is essential that The electric shows up to vote on a regular basis. Or we end up right where we are today watching the death of the Martin County difference. Voting voting couldn t be any easier than it is today, so why is turnout of 30% the norm. Is it that 70% of the voters have no faith in our local government? That s scary This is the month that our governor said that counties throughout the state would have places for homeless people to pitch their tents, have toilets and and water available. Can somebody please post the location of these facilities on the county s website or in our county or is our county government just waiting for the service department to lock up anybody that s homeless to show our real Christian values. What you permit, you promote what you allow, you encourage, what you condone you own. Thank you. Steve Adams, followed by Charles. Scary e Gerry. Good morning, Steve Adams, Palm City. So, um, I ll let go of some of the previous speakers about the proposed changes to the comprehensive plan, uh, please push that back, um, and allow the new commission to look at that and I, I d say deny it because what s made Martin County great and attractive is less development and it s quiet, so there s a lot of people in Martin County who want to keep it that way. Uh, which leads me to last night I went to visit a friend in Port Saint Lucie. I turned on the Martin Highway to head to I-95 and it was completely stopped, um, west of citrus, uh, completely stopped, impassable, um, there was some sort of an accident, who knows what, but the tow truck couldn t even get the tow truck flatbed, couldn t even get to the scene. Because everybody was sacked and we we all eventually turned around, which allowed the tow truck to eventually get there, but there s not even a shoulder. This commission jokingly referred to the project between the turnpike. And citrus that it it s taken the state so many years to complete that and they you in your own words said it would take 25 years for them to build something. More lanes in the highway from citrus out to I-95, 25 years. This commission has put the cart before the horse many times in approving developments and either bending, breaking. Or literally rewriting laws or rules to promote this development. It s out of control, um, there s a lot of people in Martin County who are telling you this, and I please urge you to. Take a step back and look at it. That also includes Brightline. Take a step back, fiscal responsibility. No, none of the people who are supporting Brightlines say that we re throwing good money into a bad company that s hemorrhaging hundreds of millions of dollars. Let s take a step back. The grants are not granted. They re there, but they re not granted. If, if they re granted, that s a different story, but they re not. So please, I urge you to take a step back. Look at everything Fiscal responsibility is very important, and let s get our infrastructure. Built to support what s going on as far as Ashley Capital going out there by I-95, they re coming onto a two-lane highway that has no other emergency access. How, how do, how do you do that? I, I don t know. Thank you. Charles War commission, followed by Christopher Vita. My name is Chuck Garry. I m a, a local 4th generation grew up riding my bicycle in downtown Stuart. I can remember when I could ride right down Flagler Avenue and, uh, no, no, uh, no cars, or very few cars. I could ride my bicycle into the post office arcade and it was full of uh cobwebs, you know, we ve come a long way and the, the merchants. And the commission worked together, the city commission worked together, passed laws and zoning ordinances, and they had a nice revitalization. Uh, and like a lot of these guys, I was shocked to see what has happened over there at the city in the last couple of weeks. Um, they ve abandoned the merchants. They ve abandoned the revitalization plans, and, uh, they ve abandoned the train station that we ve all worked so hard for, um, it is now, uh, on your plate. Uh, I agree with MR. Vitale and some of these other people that say it s not going to happen. Uh, we need adults to get in. Involved this is like, uh, Thanksgiving dinner where you ve got the kids table and the adult table. This issue is now on the adult table and we re looking for leadership here. Uh, the Stuart Martin County Chambers composed of, uh, many people and merchants and voters, many of them are downtown. Uh, we got together, we passed a resolution, we formed a subcommittee. Uh, we want to see this thing happen. Um, we re here to help, uh, our goal is We passed an unanimous resolution in favor of this bright line station. Our goal is to support, encourage and facilitate this station, uh, and we re asking you to consider us a resource, call us to help you, and let s just get this job done. Thank you. S Christopher Vitale. Followed by Nancy Turrell, which is my last form. Good morning, commissioners. Um, my name s Christopher Vitale. I live on Alamanda Way in Stuart, um, I work with my family business at the old Colorado Inn doing management. Um, so I just want to speak kind of echoing what a lot of people have said today supporting um the, the, the proposed bright line station, um, and I agree that the time to act is now, this has been, you know, being pushed off by the city, and I think um that would be a huge mistake to continue pushing this off, um. The people have worked really hard to um secure the station here in Stuart. It was already. You know, it was already secured and now it s kind of being taken away, so, uh, most of us, I think in the, um, in Martin County want the station at the end of the day, regardless of, you know, the, the little numbers that we can nitpick at the end of the day, people want the station. The train runs through 32 times a day. That s not gonna stop. It would be crazy for us to let the train go through 32 times a day through Martin County and not take advantage of. The benefit of a station, um. Stuart in this county as a whole were built on train service, um, that s our heritage, I think it would be um. Uh, a great way to honor the heritage of this area by bringing back train service, which the um the community has really worked hard to fight for over the past few decades. Um, I also think that um there s a lot of talk about um. Um, wanting to limit, um, you know, overdevelopment, overgrowth of this area. I m not against that, but I don t think that bright line is. Um, I don t think that having a train station in Martin County or in Stuart is. Pushing us towards You know, this crazy overdevelopment turning into Miami. It s an asset to help um our downtown Stuart to to flourish and to continue bringing in the um visitors that the businesses depend on without without business in downtown Stuart, it s gonna go back to what it was a few decades ago when there was, there was no business, there was nothing. Uh, that s one of the treasures of Martin County is Downtown Stuar. That s why many people love to live here as having this really quaint walkable downtown with beautiful restaurants and shops and all these things and having The train will help to to aid that, um, especially in a time when our economy is is is really you know, making it difficult for these businesses to survive. Um, but also, you know, not only that, but also the um the benefit that residents and visitors will have to just be able to use the train whether or not it, you know, regardless of the businesses, it would be great for families and um residents here to be able to utilize other um travel. You know, avenues rather than just the, the highways which are really dangerous. So, um, yeah, I just hope that the the commission will be able to um make a decision on um. Moving this along as soon as possible. Thank you. Nancy, take us home. I will try, Nancy Turrell, uh, resident of Cia Stuart 229 Southeast Coconut, and also the long serving, long-standing executive director of Martin Arts, which is Martin County s local arts agency. I m here today to express my support of the updates to Chapter 16 of the county s comprehensive Plan, which is the history, arts and cultural element of the plan, historic preservation element of Plan. I appreciate and wanted to say today that I appreciate the county s ongoing. for arts and culture in this community, both the commissioners, the staff, and your partners at the regional Planning Council who have worked on these updates for you. Um, you have been a continued partner in helping us make sure that Martin County is a vibrant community that people love to live in, work and play, uh, being a vibrant community has allowed us as we ve been working all of the years that I ve been doing this on measuring the economic impact of arts and culture in the community. We ve continued to expand that impact. The most recent study said that nonprofit arts community has a 31. $1 million annual economic impact and that s really the tip of the iceberg because that is just the nonprofit arts and cultural community. It s not counting the frame shops and the videographers and all the small businesses and entrepreneurs that are part of that creative sector economy. So I appreciate your support. I look forward to continuing to work with everyone here to continue to achieve these goals, both through the comprehensive plan and all the other efforts, and I did just want to take a moment to say thank you to Commissioner Jenks. And Smith for your long standing service to this community. Thank you. All right, that is my last uh public speaker form and I m going to go a little bit off script here and I m gonna go to uh we did not have, um, a bright line discussion on our agenda. Um, nor were we planning to talk about it, but at the same time I would like to ask our county administrator to give us a I don t know if update is the right word, but uh let s call it an update. An update is what it is, yes, sure, Commissioner, um, at your last meeting here, the board authorized staff to continue negotiations with our, our partners, which was bright line in the city of Stuart, uh, and also provided the alternatives of staff to uh. Negotiate independently if necessary with bright line we continue to, uh, work with Brightline on a potential station, um, the city of Stuart, as you know, had a discussion and it certainly appears that they are not a partner at this time, um, and so moving forward in discussions with our county attorney, uh, there would be one action that we would need today that would help us continue those negotiations. And that is our original concept included the um the city of Stuart being the, um, the property manager or property leaseholder, um, if we are to, uh have a uh uh uh. Negotiation continue on with the county and I, we are also, um, keeping the door open for the city of Stuart. I think we re still desiring to have a three-party agreement, but in conversations with Brightline, it is also unfortunately that we do have a competitor to our north, and they are still seriously considering that and, um, in that, that particular option. So, um, in order for the county to be the a landlord and Dependent of the city of Stuart. Uh, we would need to issue an rfp to allow for um uh a transportation lease for high speed rail, um, and we would like to in according to a state statutes, the county has different rules than the than the city. It would be fairly simple for us to, we ve had some discussions with Bright Lane about this, um, and, uh, and it would be my recommendation that we would authorize the rfp to include not only the location that was uh The original, uh, rfp which would be downtown, but also the property that the county owns across from the airport. So that would give us two sites to work with, um, including that. So that, that, that is really the simple I take. Certainly there s been discussions about what brightline was willing to uh amend with the city stewart that we would look to include there also is the issue of the grant, um, so we would be, um, um, uh, should we be successful. Uh, ultimately we would request the board authorization to submit, um, um, uh, grant application to the Federal Rail Administration for um station improvements, um, at this point in time, our original proposal that the county has, the staff has not been, do
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FINAL MINUTES 10/22/2024 9:00 AM MINUTES COMMISSION CHAMBERS 2401 SE MONTEREY ROAD, STUART, FLORIDA 34996 Don G. Donaldson, P.E., County Administrator Sarah W. Woods, County Attorney Carolyn Timmann, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Sarah Heard, Chair Edward V. Ciampi, Vice Chairman Eileen Vargas, District 1 Stacey Hetherington, District 2 J. Blake Capps, District 3 CALL TO ORDER 5 - Vice Chair Stacey Hetherington Commissioner Doug Smith Chairman J. Blake Capps Commissioner Sarah Heard Commissioner Edward V. Ciampi Present: 1. INVOCATION ~ Pastor Jim Harp, Stuart Alliance Church 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ~ David M. Yankwitt, United States Army Veteran 3. ADDITIONAL ITEMS 4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Ciampi, to approve the agenda with the consent agenda, additional item DEPT-6, and consent pull CNST-8. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 5. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA Page 1 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS PROC-1 PRESENT PROCLAMATIONS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED VIA THE CONSENT AGENDA Agenda Item: 25-0034 Communications Manager Laura Beaupre presented the proclamations to the Board. Public Works Paralegal Mandee Johns accepted the Paralegal Day proclamation. Helping People Succeed Director of Successful Futures Shannon Wilson accepted the National Disability Employment Awareness Month proclamation. Step Into Grace and New Life Ministries Pastors Eddie and Joanne Rodrigues and Dr. Julie Bjornson accepted the proclamation for the 24th Annual Bible Reading Marathon. PROC-2 PRESENT A PLAQUE OF RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION TO NORMAN VAN DER HEYDEN UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM SERVICE WITH THE MARTIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Agenda Item: 25-0216 Public Works Director Jim Gorton and County Administrator Don Donaldson presented a plaque of recognition and appreciation to Norman Van Der Heyden on the occasion of his retirement. COMMENTS 1. PUBLIC - PLEASE LIMIT COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES. John Dial urged the County to carefully consider all options for a Brightline Station. The following members of the public addressed the Board in support of Brightline: Anju Patel, Richard Olsen, Steve Vitale, Sheryl Thompson, Raj Patel, Bonnie Moser, Charles Geary, and Christopher Vitale. Sam Hay spoke regarding the proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments. He requested the Board cease "over-development". Angela Rantinella addressed the Board regarding "rushed" Comprehensive Plan Amendments. She asked the Board to wait before voting on these amendments. Terry Kogl spoke about the recent tornados from Hurricane Milton. Dottie Lanci urged the Board to table proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments until the new Commissioners are seated. Walter Loyd requested that the Board hold off on decision making regarding the proposed EAR amendments and Brightline until the new Commissioners are in office. Page 2 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
Tom Pine thanked the Board for turning on the rear speakers. He also spoke on Three Lakes, traffic safety, and the proposed 'destruction' of the Comprehensive Plan. Steven Adams echoed sentiments of previous public speakers regarding the proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments. Mr. Adams highlighted traffic on Martin Highway and Citrus Blvd, growth in the County and Brightline. He urged the Board to take a step back, practice fiscal responsibility, and support infrastructure. Nancy Turrell spoke in support of Chapter 16 of the Comprehensive Plan. She thanked Commissioner Smith and Commissioner Jenkins for their service. 2. COMMISSIONERS AM Chair Jenkins requested an update on Brightline. County Administrator Don Donaldson provided an update and options to move forward with lease agreement negotiations. The Commissioners discussed their options as presented by the County Administrator. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Ciampi, to authorize the County Administrator and County Attorney to finalize negotiations with Brightline; and issue an RFP for the downtown and fairgrounds site as a service provider for highspeed rail; and work with Brightline to apply for federal grants. The motion passed unanimously. Commissioner Heard spoke on the localized impacts and recovery efforts following the aftermath of Hurricane Milton. She thanked all first responders. PM Chair Jenkins highlighted CNST-7. He thanked Commissioner Fields for his assistance. Chair Jenkins advised the project will be completed in December. Commissioner Heard announced there will be a meeting at the Port Salerno Civic Center tomorrow for disaster recovery efforts. County Administrator Don Donaldson advised county, state and federal representatives will be in attendance at the meeting; and FEMA has a disaster recovery center at the fairgrounds. Commissioner Ciampi inquired about debris removal on private property. County Administrator Don Donaldson confirmed debris will need to be placed outside of private property in order for the County to receive federal funding. Public Works Director Jim Gorton provided clarification on the debris removal process. 3. COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Page 3 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
AM County Administrator Don Donldson added to Commissioner Heard's comments regarding recovery efforts. He advised Congressman Brian Mast and Representative Toby Oberdorf are assisting with state efforts. Commissioner Smith requested an update relative to the storm as a whole at the November meeting, to discuss sheltering cost to School Board. County Administrator Don Donaldson thanked School Board Superintendent Michael Maine for opening shelters. He stated an agenda item will be brought before the Board with financials. Mr. Donaldson read a statement on transparency into the record, following comments made by City of Stuart Commissioner Sean Reeds, concerning "violations" of Sunshine Laws with behind closed door conversations regarding Brightline. PM County Administrator Don Donaldson requested a schedule review. He advised the first meeting in December coincides with training. The Board cancelled the December 3, 2024 BOCC meeting. CONSENT ADMINISTRATION CNST-1 CONTRACTS THAT MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR BOARD APPROVAL Agenda Item: 25-0004 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. CNST-2 APPROVE A CONTRACT, FEE SCHEDULE, AND RESOLUTION REGARDING THE MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 Agenda Item: 25-0002 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. CNST-3 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS’ APPROVAL OF WARRANT LIST FOR DISBURSEMENT VIA CHECKS AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS Agenda Item: 25-0010 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. CNST-4 NOTED ITEMS Agenda Item: 25-0016 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. CNST-5 ADOPT A PROCLAMATION DECLARING NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP WEEK IN MARTIN COUNTY, FLORIDA Page 4 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
Agenda Item: 25-0202 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. GENERAL SERVICES CNST-6 NAMING THE NEWLY RENOVATED BOOTCAMP GYM AFTER SHERIFF WILLIAM D. SNYDER AND AMENDMENT OF THE BOARD’S FACILITY NAMING POLICY Agenda Item: 25-0062 RESOLUTION NO. 24-10.16 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. PUBLIC WORKS CNST-7 INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF GOMEZ/PETTWAY POTABLE WATER MAINS INSTALLATION PROJECT Agenda Item: 25-0164 This item was approved by the first motion of the meeting. CNST-8 REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF A DEED OF AGRICULTURAL EASEMENT FROM BECKER B-14 GROVE, LTD., AS A CONDITION OF THE APPROVED DISCOVERY PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) ZONING AGREEMENT FOR THE DISCOVERY PROJECT Agenda Item: 25-0142 At the request of Chair Jenkins, Growth Management Deputy Director Peter Walden provided the item to the Board. Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Rick Melchiori addressed the Board on behalf of the applicant to provide updates regarding the property and public benefits. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Heard, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation to approve the deed of agricultural easement for Becker B-14 to Conservation Florida and Martin County; and eliminate language on improvements to exclude pools and tennis courts. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PUBLIC HEARINGS Page 5 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
PH-1 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-04, CHAPTER 4, FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0100 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator presented the item to the Board. Growth Management Director Paul Schilling and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. (Additional notices were provided after the fact and filed for the record.) The following member of the public addressed the Board regarding this item: Geraldine "G.G." Dube (Florida Treasured Land). MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: PH-2 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-02, OVERALL GOALS AND DEFINITIONS, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0089 Growth Management Senior Planner Jenna Knobbe presented the item to the Board. Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Vice Chair Hetherington, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation to transmit. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-3 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-01, PREAMBLE, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0088 Growth Management Senior Planner Jenna Knobbe presented the item to the Board. Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Page 6 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-4 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-05, TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0139 Growth Management Principal Planner Samanatha Lovelady and County Engineer Mike Grezlka presented the item to the Board. Public Works Director Jim Gorton, County Administrator Don Donaldson, and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation, with amended language [the County shall maintain the channel in Manatee Pocket to enable deeper draft vessels to access local marinas and services]. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: PH-5 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-14, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0104 Growth Management Senior Planner Jenna Knobbe presented the item to the Board. Environmental Resource Engineer Amy Eason, Martin County Fire Rescue Chief Chad Cianciulli and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. The following member of the public addressed the Board regarding this item: Geraldine "G.G." Dube. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried Page 7 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: PH-6 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-03, INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0105 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator presented the item to the Board. Stephanie Heidt (Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council) and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-7 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-06, HOUSING ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0106 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator presented the item to the Board. Stephanie Heidt (Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council) and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Ciampi, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: Page 8 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
PH-8 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-07, RECREATION ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0107 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator presented the item to the Board. Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. The following member of the public addressed the Board regarding this item: Geraldine "G.G." Dube. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: PH-9 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-08, COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0101 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin presented the item to the Board. Environmental Resource Engineer Amy Eason and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staffs recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-10 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-09, CONSERVATION AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0102 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin presented the item to the Board. Senior Planner Shawn Mccarty and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Page 9 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Ciampi, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: PH-11 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-10, CHAPTER 10, SANITARY SEWER SERVICES ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0130 Growth Management Principal Planner Samantha Lovelady presented the item to the Board. Hydrogeologist Anne Murray, County Administrator Don Donaldson, and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. The following member of the public addressed the Board regarding this item: Geraldine "G.G." Dube on behalf of The Guardians. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Heard, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-12 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-11, CHAPTER 11, POTABLE WATER SERVICES ELEMENT/10 YEAR WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES WORK PLAN, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0131 Growth Management Principal Planner Samantha Lovelady presented the item to the Board. Utilities Technical Services Administrator Leo Repetti and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation with the additional change to South Fork High School boundary. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: Page 10 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
PH-13 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-12, CHAPTER 12, SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0132 Growth Management Principal Planner Samantha Lovelady presented the item to the Board. Utilities Director Sam Amerson and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Heard, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-14 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-13, CHAPTER 13, DRAINAGE AND NATURAL GROUNDWATER AQUIFER RECHARGE ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0098 Growth Management Principal Planner Samantha Lovelady presented the item to the Board. Environmental Resource Engineer Amy Eason and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. The following member of the public addressed the Board regarding this item: Geraldine "G.G." Dube on behalf of Treasured Lands and The Guardians of Martin County. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Heard, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to table Chapter 13. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: Agenda Item: 25-0098 Principal Planner Samantha Lovelady and Environmental Resource Engineer Amy Eason presented new options for 13.1D.2. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner Ciampi, to add goal 13.1 and policy 13.1A. The motion carried by the following vote: Page 11 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: Agenda Item: 25-0098 MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Commissioner Heard, to accept staff's recommendation, with initial language previously included by Commissioner Heard [sub element 13.6]. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-15 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-16, ARTS, CULTURE AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0108 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin presented the item to the Board. Stephanie Heidt (Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council) and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PH-16 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-17, PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACILITIES ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0109 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin presented the item to the Board. Stephanie Heidt (Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council) and Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Vice Chair Hetherington, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: Page 12 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
PH-17 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE FOR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT (CPA) 24-23 THREE LAKES GOLF CLUB, A TEXT AMENDMENT Agenda Item: 25-0152 ORDINANCE NO. 1232 Growth Management Comprehensive Planning Administrator Clyde Dulin presented the item to the Board. Deputy County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: DEPARTMENTAL QUASI-JUDICIAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT DPQJ-1 REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE THREE LAKES GOLF CLUB PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) ZONING AGREEMENT (B115-008), INCLUDING A REVISED MASTER AND PHASING PLAN AND PHASE 3 FINAL SITE PLAN Agenda Item: 25-0038 RESOLUTION NO. 24-10.17 Ex parte communication disclosures were provided by the Commissioners. There were no interveners. The participants were sworn in by the deputy clerk. COUNTY: Growth Management Principal Planner Brian Elam presented the item to the Board. Growth Management Deputy Director Peter Walden and County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. The following County exhibits were filed for the record: (1) agenda item/staff report and (2) Brian Elam's resume. APPLICANT: Gunster Law Firm Attorney Bob Raynes addressed the Board on behalf of the applicant. Lucido & Associates Senior Partner Morris Crady provided the applicant's presentation to the Board. The following Applicant's exhibits were filed for the record: (1) Morris Crady's resume and (2) Randy Cropp's resume. Commissioner Hetherington voiced her concerns with the aesthetics of an Page 13 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
overpass/bridge on Kanner Highway. The following member of the public addressed the Board on this item: Geraldine "G.G." Dube (Loxalucie Steering Committee). MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 3 - Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner CiampiAye: 2 - Vice Chair Hetherington, and Commissioner HeardNay: DPQJ-2 REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE RANCH PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) ZONING AGREEMENT (S239-005), INCLUDING A REVISED MASTER SITE PLAN AND REVISED PHASING PLAN Agenda Item: 25-0169 Ex parte communication disclosures were provided by the Commissioners. There were no interveners. The participants were sworn in by the deputy clerk. COUNTY: Growth Management Principal Planner John Sinnott presented the item to the Board. Growth Management Deputy Director Peter Walden and County Attorney Elysse Elder assisted with Board questions. The following County exhibits were filed for the record: (1) agenda item/staff report and (2) John Sinnott's resume. APPLICANT: Fox McCluskey Attorney Tyson Waters addressed the Board on behalf of the applicant in support of staff's recommendation; no presentation was given. Tom McNicholas addressed the Board on behalf of the applicant to speak about the public benefits. Chair Jenkins solicited public comment; none was heard. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Ciampi, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner HeardNay: DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION DEPT-1 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ITEMS WHICH REQUIRE BOARD APPROVAL Page 14 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
Agenda Item: 25-0021 RESOLUTION NOs. 24-10.18 and 24-10.19 OMB Director Stephanie Merle presented the items to the Board. The following items were approved: (1) Emergency Management Performance Grant, (2) FDLE Drone Replacement Program Grant, and (3) Florida Department of State Library and Information Services Annual State Aid to Libraries Grant for 2025. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: DEPT-2 CONTRACTS THAT MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR BOARD APPROVAL $1 MILLION OR GREATER Agenda Item: 25-0027 There were no items. GENERAL SERVICES DEPT-3 PERMISSION TO USE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK (CMAR) DELIVERY METHOD FOR THE LARRY MASSING BUILDING FUTURE EXPANSION Agenda Item: 25-0154 General Services Director Sean Donahue presented the item to the Board. Building Official Jeff Dougherty assisted with Board questions. MOTION: A motion was made by Vice Chair Hetherington, seconded by Commissioner Ciampi, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: PUBLIC WORKS DEPT-4 PERMISSION TO USE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK (CMAR) DELIVERY METHOD FOR THE SAND DUNE CAFÉ BUILDING PROJECT Agenda Item: 25-0165 Public Works Deputy Director George Dzama provided the item to the Board. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Heard, seconded by Commissioner Smith, to approve staff recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: Page 15 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
5 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Commissioner Smith, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: DEPT-5 WATER QUALITY CONDITIONS AND PROJECT UPDATE Agenda Item: 25-0148 Environmental Resources Administrator John Maehl provided the presentation to the Board. County Administrator Don Donaldson assisted with Board questions. COUNTY ATTORNEY DEPT-6 REQUEST FOR PRIVATE ATTORNEY-CLIENT SESSION CONCERNING THE CASE OF BE A MAN BUY LAND, LLC V. SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, ET AL.; CASE NO. 2023-CA-000052 Agenda Item: 25-0227 County Attorney Sarah Woods introduced the item and requested a motion to approve the session. Ms. Woods announced the beginning of the session at 12:23 p.m. Ms. Woods announced the conclusion of the session at 1:04 p.m. MOTION: A motion was made by Commissioner Heard, seconded by Vice Chair Hetherington, to approve staff's recommendation. The motion carried by the following vote: 4 - Vice Chair Hetherington, Chairman Capps, Commissioner Heard, and Commissioner Ciampi Aye: 1 - Commissioner SmithAbsent: PUBLIC - PLEASE LIMIT COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES. Joe Cosgrove spoke about the use of motorized vehicles on the sidewalk. He also brought attention to improperly filled manholes at construction sites. Commissioner Ciampi suggested sending a letter to the Sheriff's Office from the Commission regarding the use of motorized vehicles on the sidewalks. He commented on the manhole issue, stating most of the manholes are located in the City of Stuart. Gary Ehrler expressed concern with the design standards language presented at the NAC meeting. He also spoke about the cost of the Brightline Station. ADJOURN The Board of County Commissioners October 22, 2024 meeting adjourned at 5:56 p.m. Page 16 of 1710/22/24 FINAL MINUTES
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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FINAL AGENDA 10/22/24 9:00 AM BOCC MEETING AGENDA COMMISSION CHAMBERS 2401 SE MONTEREY ROAD, STUART, FLORIDA 34996 Don G. Donaldson, P.E., County Administrator Sarah W. Woods, County Attorney Carolyn Timmann, Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Harold E. Jenkins II, Chairman Stacey Hetherington, Vice Chair Doug Smith Sarah Heard Edward V. Ciampi PRESETS 9:05 AM - Public Comment 12:00 PM - Private Attorney-Client Session (DEPT-6) 5:05 PM - Public Comment CALL TO ORDER 1. INVOCATION ~ Pastor Jim Harp, Stuart Alliance Church 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ~ David M. Yankwitt, United States Army Veteran 3. ADDITIONAL ITEMS 4. APPROVAL OF AGENDA 5. APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA Consent Agenda items are considered routine and are enacted by one motion and will have no action noted, but the "Recommendation" as it appears on the Board item is the approved action. PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS PROC-1 PRESENT PROCLAMATIONS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED VIA THE CONSENT AGENDA The Chairman will present proclamations declaring Paralegal Day, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and recognizing the 24th Annual Bible Reading Marathon in Martin County, Florida. Agenda Item: 25-0034 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 1 of 15
PROC-2 PRESENT A PLAQUE OF RECOGNITION AND APPRECIATION TO NORMAN VAN DER HEYDEN UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RETIREMENT FROM SERVICE WITH THE MARTIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Norman van der Heyden has been a Martin County employee for nearly 31 years, all with the Field Operations Division of the Public Works Department. Norm has held many roles with the division and has been pivotal in development of our stormwater program. Mr. van der Heyden is a dedicated employee and his exemplary customer service and institutional knowledge regarding our stormwater system and infrastructure will be deeply missed. Agenda Item: 25-0216 COMMENTS 1. PUBLIC - PLEASE LIMIT COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES. 2. COMMISSIONERS 3. COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR CONSENT ADMINISTRATION CNST-1 CONTRACTS THAT MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR BOARD APPROVAL This item is a placeholder on all Board meeting agendas to streamline the process for items that meet the Board approval threshold. Specific items requiring approval, if any, will be provided by Supplemental Memorandum. If there are no items, a Supplemental Memorandum will not be attached. Agenda Item: 25-0004 No items CNST-2 APPROVE A CONTRACT, FEE SCHEDULE, AND RESOLUTION REGARDING THE MARTIN COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 Each year the Board is requested to approve a contract and fee schedule for the Martin County Health Department via resolution. Agenda Item: 25-0002 2425 Core Contract.pdf 2024-25 DOH Resolution.pdf 24-25 EH Fees current year.pdf 24-25 FP Fees.pdf 24-25 NON FP Fees.pdf Attachments: CNST-3 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS’ APPROVAL OF WARRANT LIST FOR DISBURSEMENT VIA CHECKS AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS TO COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS Pursuant to Chapter 136.06, Florida Statutes, checks and electronic payments issued by the Board of County Commissioners are to be recorded in the Board meeting minutes. In compliance with statutory requirements, the Warrant List is added to the Consent Agenda for approval by the Board of County Commissioners. This Warrant List is for disbursements made between September 23, 2024 and October 6, 2024. Additional Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 2 of 15
details related to these disbursements may be viewed in the office of the Martin County Clerk of Court and Comptroller or on the Clerk’s website. Agenda Item: 25-0010 Warrant ListAttachments: CNST-4 NOTED ITEMS Noted items are documents for the Board’s information that must be a part of the record but do not require any action. Agenda Item: 25-0016 CNST-5 ADOPT A PROCLAMATION DECLARING NATIONAL APPRENTICESHIP WEEK IN MARTIN COUNTY, FLORIDA The Board is asked to adopt a proclamation declaring National Apprenticeship Week in Martin County, Florida. Agenda Item: 25-0202 Apprenticeship WeekAttachments: GENERAL SERVICES CNST-6 NAMING THE NEWLY RENOVATED BOOTCAMP GYM AFTER SHERIFF WILLIAM D. SNYDER AND AMENDMENT OF THE BOARD’S FACILITY NAMING POLICY The Martin County Sheriff’s Office requested to name the newly renovated Bootcamp Gym after Sheriff William D. Snyder. Proposed changes to the Board Directed Policy entitled “Establish Naming of County Sites and Facilities” are provided to allow the naming. Agenda Item: 25-0062 20240801 DRAFT Resolution.rtf 20240906 Naming County Sites.Facilities POLICY REV GSD.docx Attachments: PUBLIC WORKS CNST-7 INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF GOMEZ/PETTWAY POTABLE WATER MAINS INSTALLATION PROJECT Board approval is requested for an Interlocal Agreement between the Martin County Board of County Commissioners (County) and the Town of Jupiter Island (Town). This Agreement will allow the Martin County Public Works Department to participate in a joint construction project performing potable water construction within the Gomez/Pettway community. Agenda Item: 25-0164 Interlocal - Relating to Gomez-Pettway Potable Water Mains 9.10.2024 (partially excecuted).pdf Attachments: CNST-8 REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF A DEED OF AGRICULTURAL EASEMENT FROM BECKER B-14 GROVE, LTD., AS A CONDITION OF THE APPROVED DISCOVERY PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) ZONING AGREEMENT FOR THE DISCOVERY PROJECT This is a request for the approval of a Deed of Agricultural Easement for 846.41 acres from Becker B-14 Grove, Ltd., a Florida limited partnership (Becker), to Conservation Florida, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation and Martin County (County), as provided in special condition number 16.C of the approved PUD Zoning Agreement for Discovery Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 3 of 15
PUD. Agenda Item: 25-0142 Location Map.pdf Deed of Agricultural Easement.pdf SUPP MEMO Revised Exhibit D.pdf Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum PUBLIC HEARINGS PH-1 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-04, CHAPTER 4, FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-04, a text amendment to Chapter 4, Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0100 Staff Report_.docx Draft_Chapter 4 FUTURE LAND USE ELEMENT_Supp 58.docx Ch 4_Matrix EAR.pdf Stricken Figure 4-1.pdf Figure_4-1_2024_draft.pdf Martin County Residential Capacity Analysis 12-8-23.pdf Draft ResCapAnalysis09-26-24.pdf BEBR projections_2023_asrh.pdf BEBR projections_2024.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment.pdf SUPP MEMO MC EAR Public Input Summary_Addendum_Additional Survey Input101424.pdf Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum PH-2 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-02, OVERALL GOALS AND DEFINITIONS, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-02, a text amendment to Chapter 2, Overall Goals and Definitions, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0089 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 4 of 15
Ch. 2 EAR_Staff Report_10-22-24.pdf Chapter_2_OVERALL_GOALS_AND_DEFINITIONS_10-3 -24.pdf Ch. 2 Matrix EAR.pdf 2024_0815_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Ch. 2 Public Comment.pdf Attachments: PH-3 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-01, PREAMBLE, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-01, a text amendment to Chapter 1, Preamble, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0088 Staff Report_Ch 1_Preamble.pdf Chapter_1_EAR_Text.pdf FL Statute Matrix_Ch 1.pdf 2024_0801_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_ALL EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch. 1.pdf Attachments: PH-4 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-05, TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-05, a text amendment to Chapter 5, Transportation Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. The proposed revisions reflect the updated Transportation Map Series. Other changes are listed in the staff report. No goals, objectives or policies are being proposed for removal. Agenda Item: 25-0139 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 5 of 15
Staff Report_Transportation.docx Chapter 5 TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT.docx Figures_existing.pdf Figures_proposed.pdf 2023 FDOT_Multimodal QLOS_Handbook.pdf Proposed Amendments Overview.pptx 2024_0924 BCC Dais Public Comment re CPAs.pdf 2024_0801_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf SUPP MEMO Staff Report_Transportation.docx Chapter 5 TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT.docx Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum PH-5 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-14, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-14, a text amendment to Chapter 14, Capital Improvements Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0104 Staff Report_24-14 CIE.pdf Chapter_14_CAPITAL_IMPROVEMENTS_EAR.pdf 62-6.008.doc Ch 14_Matrix EAR.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch. 14.pdf Attachments: PH-6 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-03, INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-03, a text amendment to Chapter 3, Intergovernmental Coordination Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR). Agenda Item: 25-0105 Staff Report_Intergovernmental.docx Chapter 3 INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION - strikeout and underline052324.docx 2024_0620_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch 3.pdf Attachments: Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 6 of 15
PH-7 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-06, HOUSING ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-06, a text amendment to Chapter 6, Housing Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0106 2024_0823Staff Report_Housing.docx 2024_0823Chapter 6 HOUSING - strikeout and underline.docx 2024_0627 Matrix.docx Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Data-and-analysis.pdf Public Comment Ch 6.pdf Attachments: PH-8 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-07, RECREATION ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-07, a text amendment to Chapter 7, Recreation Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0107 Staff Report_Recreation.docx DraftChapter 7 RECREATION ELEMENT_EAR_LPA.docx 2024_0620_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch 7.pdf Attachments: PH-9 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-08, COASTAL MANAGEMENT ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-08, a text amendment to Chapter 8, Coastal Management Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0101 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 7 of 15
Staff Report_24-08 Coastal.pdf Chapter_8_COASTAL_08162024.pdf Ch8 Figs_Existing_Proposed.pdf Reso_21-3.32.pdf SLR Report Agenda Item 03_23_2021.pdf Excerpt Florida Statutes.pdf Ch. 8 EAR Matrix.pdf 2024_0815_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Ch 8 Public Comment.pdf Attachments: PH-10 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-09, CONSERVATION AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-09, a text amendment to Chapter 9, Conservation and Open Space Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0102 Chapter 9 EAR Staff Report.pdf Chapter 9 CONSERVATION AND OPEN SPACE ELEMENT.pdf Figure 9-1 CGMP(r).pdf 2024 Florida Statutes_581.091_InvasivePlants.pdf FNAI Rank_and_Status_Explanation.pdf FNAI_Short_Descriptions_Final_2010.pdf Florida Land Cover Classification System.pdf 2013 Corresp FDAC Local Ord for Prohibited Plant Species 2024_0815_LPA Approved Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Ch 9 Public Comment.pdf Attachments: PH-11 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-10, CHAPTER 10, SANITARY SEWER SERVICES ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-10, a text amendment to Chapter 10, Sanitary Sewer Services Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0130 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 8 of 15
Staff Report_24-10 Sanitary Sewer.docx 012_Chapter 10 SANITARY SEWER SERVICES ELEMENT.docx Pages from 2024-02-05 Matrix EAR.pdf BCCPublic Comment re CPAs.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Attachments: PH-12 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-11, CHAPTER 11, POTABLE WATER SERVICES ELEMENT/10 YEAR WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES WORK PLAN, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-11, a text amendment to Chapter 11 Potable Water Services Element/10 Year Water Supply Facilities Work Plan, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0131 Staff Report_24-11 Potable Water.docx Chapter 11 POTABLE WATER SERVICES ELEMENT_10 YEAR WATER SUPPLY FACILITIES WORK PLAN.docx Scriv_Error.docx Figures 11-1 and 11-2.pdf Matrix Chapter 11.pdf 2024-02-05 Matrix EAR.pdf BCC Public Comment re CPAs.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Attachments: PH-13 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-12, CHAPTER 12, SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-12, a text amendment to Chapter 12, Solid and Hazardous Waste, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0132 Staff Report_24-12 Solid Waste.docx Chapter 12 SOLID AND HAZARDOUS WASTE.docx BCCPublic Comment re CPAs.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Attachments: PH-14 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-13, CHAPTER 13, DRAINAGE AND NATURAL GROUNDWATER AQUIFER RECHARGE ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 9 of 15
A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-13, a text amendment to Chapter 13, Drainage and Natural Groundwater Aquifer Recharge Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0098 Staff Report_24-13 Drainage.pdf Chapter 13 DRAINAGE AND NATURAL GROUNDWATER AQUIFER RECHARGE ELEMENT.pdf Chapter 13 Figures.pdf 2021_UEC_Plan_Appendices-final.pdf DEP_2024_Final.pdf Lake Okeechobee BMAP_01-31-20.pdf Loxahatchee River 4e Plan_Final.pdf UPDATED BMAP St_Lucie_BMAP_01-31-20.pdf Ch 13_Matrix EAR.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch. 13.pdf Attachments: PH-15 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-16, ARTS, CULTURE AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-16, a text amendment to Chapter 16, Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0108 Staff Report_Arts-Culture-Historic.docx Chapter 16 Arts Culture and Historic Preservation.docx Data-and-analysis.pdf Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch 16.pdf Attachments: PH-16 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER TRANSMITTAL OF EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) BASED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT 24-17, PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACILITIES ELEMENT, A TEXT AMENDMENT A request to consider transmittal of Comprehensive Plan Amendment 24-17, a text amendment to Chapter 17, Public Schools Facilities Element, of the Comprehensive Growth Management Plan based upon the 2024 EAR. Agenda Item: 25-0109 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 10 of 15
Staff Report_Public Schools.docx DraftChapter 17 PUBLIC SCHOOLS FACILITIES ELEMENT-MCSD REVIEWED__2024-05-24.docx Matrix Public Schools Facilities.docx Minutes.pdf 2024_0823_All EAR Amendments_ LAD Tearsheet.pdf Public Comment Ch 17.pdf Attachments: PH-17 LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE FOR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT (CPA) 24-23 THREE LAKES GOLF CLUB, A TEXT AMENDMENT This is a request for an amendment to Chapter 4, Future Land use Element, Comprehensive Growth Management Plan, amending the text of the Rural Lifestyle future land use designation to change the number of bedrooms permitted in a golf cottage. Agenda Item: 25-0152 Staff report.docx Application.pdf Draft_Ord_Text Amendment.docx 2024_0924 Public Comment re CPAs.pdf 2024_1007_CPA 24-23_LAD_BCC_TS.pdf MARTIN CO. 24-01ESR (P).pdf Supplemental_Memo.docx TCRPC_24-01ESR.pdf Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum DEPARTMENTAL QUASI-JUDICIAL GROWTH MANAGEMENT DPQJ-1 REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE THREE LAKES GOLF CLUB PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) ZONING AGREEMENT (B115-008), INCLUDING A REVISED MASTER AND PHASING PLAN AND PHASE 3 FINAL SITE PLAN This is an application by Lucido & Associates., on behalf of Three Lakes Golf Club, LLC., for approval of the First Amendment to the Three Lakes Golf Club PUD Zoning Agreement including Revised Master and Phasing Plans and Phase 3 Final Site Plan. The proposed development includes revisions to golf club amenities and infrastructure. The property is located west and east of Kanner Highway approximately 2.4 miles southwest of Interstate 95 at 3100 SW Delivery Street in Stuart. Included with this application is a request for a Certificate of Public Facilities Reservation. Agenda Item: 25-0038 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 11 of 15
First Amendment of Three Lakes PUD Agreement(24012796.4).doc 2024_1002_B115-008 EXHIBIT D RMSP.pdf 2024_1002_B115-008 EXHIBIT E-1 PHASING PLAN.pdf 2024_1003_B115-008 RESO APPROVE.docx 2024_1024_B115-008 EXHIBIT A LEGAL DESCRIPTION.docx 2024_1002_B115-008 EXHIBIT B PHASE 3 FSP.pdf 2024_0906_B115-008 APPLICATION MATERIALS.pdf 2024_1002_B115-008 LANDSCAPING PLANS.pdf 2024_0906_B115-008 DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST AFFIDAVIT.pdf 2024_0906_B115-008 SIGN POSTING AFFIDAVIT.pdf 2024_0524_B115-008 DRAFT RESO DENY.doc Staff Presentation SUPP MEMO 2024_1014_B115-008_DRT_STAFF_FINAL.docx Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum DPQJ-2 REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE RANCH PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD) ZONING AGREEMENT (S239-005), INCLUDING A REVISED MASTER SITE PLAN AND REVISED PHASING PLAN This is a request by Urban Design Studio and Tyson J. Waters, Esq., on behalf of JWA Ranch, LLC, for approval of the First Amendment to The Ranch PUD Zoning Agreement including a revised master site plan and revised phasing plan. The proposed amendment includes minor changes to the site configuration, a provision clarifying tree protection standards outside of designated preserve areas, and a provision regulating lake depth. The Ranch PUD consists of approximately 3,902.6 acres to be developed consistent with the Rural Lifestyle Future Land Use. Included is a request for Deferral of Public Facilities Reservation. Agenda Item: 25-0169 Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 12 of 15
Amendment to PUD (October 2024).docx 2024_1009_S239-005_Exhibit D Revised Master Site Plan.pdf 2024_1009_S239-005_Exhibit E-1 Revised Phasing Plan.pdf 2024_1008_S239-005_Application Materials.pdf 2024_1007_S239-005_Disclosure of Interest.pdf 2024_1007_S239-005_Sign Posting Affidavit.pdf 2024_1022_S239-005_Draft Reso to Deny.docx SUPP MEMO 2024_1015_S239-005_Staff_Report_Final.docx Staff Presentation Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION DEPT-1 OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET ITEMS WHICH REQUIRE BOARD APPROVAL This is a placeholder on all Board meeting agendas to streamline the process for grant applications, awards, budget resolutions, budget transfers from reserves, and CIP amendments. Specific items requiring approval, if any, will be provided by Supplemental Memorandum. Agenda Item: 25-0021 SUPP MEMO (3 items) 1_Item #1 Cover Sheet.docx 1A_FY 2024 EMPG - #G0554 Martin County1 (002).pdf 1B_Budget_Resolution_EMPG FY25.xlsx 2_Item #2 Cover Sheet.docx 2A_FY2024-25-Drone-Program-Agreement-Revised-7-8-2 4 (1).pdf 2B_137119_Budget_Resolution.xlsx 3_Item #3 Cover Sheet.docx 3A_2025 State Aid Agreement.pdf Attachments: Supplemental Memorandum (3 items) DEPT-2 CONTRACTS THAT MEET THE THRESHOLD FOR BOARD APPROVAL $1 MILLION OR GREATER This item is a placeholder on all Board meeting agendas to streamline the process for items that meet the Board approval threshold. Specific items requiring approval, if any, will be provided by Supplemental Memorandum. If there are no items, a Supplemental Memorandum will not be attached. Agenda Item: 25-0027 No items Printed on 10/17/202410/22/24 BOCC FINAL AGENDA Page 13 of 15
GENERAL SERVICES DEPT-3 PERMISSION TO USE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK (CMAR) DELIVERY METHOD FOR THE LARRY MASSING BUILDING FUTURE EXPANSION The General Services Department is requesting permission to use the Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) delivery method for the Larry Massing Building Future Expansion. Agenda Item: 25-0154 2023-12-12 Larry Massing Building Expansion CIP.pdfAttachments: PUBLIC WORKS DEPT-4 PERMISSION TO USE CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK (CMAR) DELIVERY METHOD FOR THE SAND DUNE CAFÉ BUILDING PROJECT Pursuant the Martin County Purchasing Manual Section 17.5, the Public Works Department is requesting permission to utilize the Construction Management at Risk (CMAR) delivery method for the Sand Dune Café building replacement project. Agenda Item: 25-0165 FY25 PRD CIP_Sand Dune Cafe.pdfAttachments: DEPT-5 WATER QUALITY CONDITIONS AND PROJECT UPDATE This presentation will provide an update to the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) about recent and planned water quality accomplishments. The projects include opportunities identified in a 2022 Water Quality Needs Assessment that will be necessary to meet the mandated St. Lucie Basin Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) as well as estuary ecological restoration projects that will contribute to a sustainable restoration condition. The presentation wi
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Board of County commissioner meeting. Uh, we re going to begin with an invocation, uh, from Pastor Jim Harp of Stuart Alliance Church followed by a pledge of allegiance, uh, led by David Yanquit, a us Army veteran. Thank you. Please stand. Morning, uh, join with me in a posture of prayer. Heavenly Father, we come before you this morning and we thank you. I thank you once again for the privilege of being here today to be able to pray and uh. Lord, just to seek your will and your presence and knowing your presence is here, but to seek your will and direction in this meeting today and all the things on the agenda, Lord, we thank you that your word teaches us that you care about these things, uh, Jesus was often praying and his disciples saw that and they said, Lord, teach us to pray and. He began what we refer to today as the Lord s Prayer, uh, with these words, our Father who art in heaven, how would be your name, MAY your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And so GOD, we ask for your will to be done, uh, your word tells us that there s a way which seems right to a man, but the end thereof is separation from your ways and your peace and your direction, so Father, we know that what best is your ways, and your ways are higher than ours and your thoughts are higher than ours. So Lord, we thank you for that. And as I always pray, Lord, I ask your blessing, uh, especially upon these that you have put in leadership over us in this county. Lord bless them, bless their families, bless them as they go about their lives and all the things that go on behind the scenes that we don t know about. Lord would you give them strength and courage and wisdom and direction and so GOD we thank you that you care about all these things because you love us and you care for us, and I pray it all in Jesus name. Man Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under GOD, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Ladies and gentlemen, Border County commissioners distinguished members, guests, fellow veterans. My name is David Yanquit, and I m a proud husband and father of 4 sons, David, who s 9, Dean who s 7, Dominic, who s 4, and Dwight, who s 2 months old, and I m honored to be here with you today. I joined the United States Army as an infantryman in AUGUST of 2007 and served until Christmas 2009. Back then, when the wars were in Iraq and Afghanistan, the army was handing out two year and 4. Contract for an infantryman and a $20,000 shipping bonus. So I took it and I felt like I was the richest 19 year old kid alive. I always knew I was going to join the army. It was definitely a calling, but it came very true on 9/11. I don t come from a military family, but once 9/11 happened, I knew one day I would wear the uniform of this great country. And like all who served, carried the torch of freedom and pass it to the next generation. I also knew the army was very excited for me to join as I would periodically receive responses to the thank you for your letter for your interest letters from the recruiting office and reminding me that I was way too young. Apparently there were requirements in being 14 wasn t one of them. When I was finally of age, I tried college for about a year to see if I wanted to become an officer and at that point where the wars were in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2007 and at its height, I thought I d better enlist now before the war ends. I went through basic and infantry training at Fort Benning, Georgia, and upon completion, I received orders to Fort Hood, Texas, where they were standing up a brigade to deploy. I was assigned to the recom platoon of the First Battalion of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade combat team, First Infantry Division, the Blue Spaders, same unit as Captain America. Joining the army and going to a few states west didn t seem like seeing the world, but nonetheless, I was excited to get to my unit. See, upon graduation of infantry school, the time from graduation to deployment. It was about 2 weeks to 1 year. Either your unit was deployed or headed back home, but you could expect to be in country within that timeline. It would be about 7 to 8 months past graduation before we deployed. During the train up, I was fortunate enough to attend and graduate from Aerosolt School at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where I learned about helicopters jumping out of them, equipment and sling load operations. About 2 weeks before we were scheduled to ship out to Sadr City, Iraq. Our orders changed to go to the Kunar province of Afghanistan. I didn t know much about Afghanistan as our focus was Iraq. But I will soon learn. Quickly about combat operations. When we deployed in JULY of 2008, it wasn t too long until we heard about the Battle of Wanat and how the sky soldiers of the 173rd Airborne. Got overrun and the loss of 9 American heroes and others were very wounded, knowing we were replacing that unit and the gravity of the tragic event. We will only come to understand the true meaning of loss when it becomes our turn in the fight. While in the recon unit, our battalion pulled pulled half of the platoon, 2 squads and created a personal security detail and the other half will remain in the mountains. I switched to the detail and became a machine gunner for the battalion Command Sergeant Major. And his vehicle attachment. Our task was to escort the leadership to several meetings with village elders, meetings with company commanders, observe the battle space, do air assault missions on the Afghan-Pakistan border and to figure out enemy movements in and out of the region. During the deployment, our security platoon had completed hundreds of combat patrols, numerous air assault missions and defeated countless enemy engagements. While all that is important, nothing will replace those who we lost or were wounded either in our element or in the Blue Spaters as a whole. Staff Sergeant Rogers, my squad leader, or one of my great friends, Sergeant Dawson will always be honored and remembered and serve as a reminder to live a life worthy of their sacrifice. We left Afghanistan in JUNE of 2009, and I will tell you it was an uneasy feeling. Readjusting from sustained combat, seeing family reuniting with guys who were wounded. And then the beginning of new chapters as people either re-enlisted and went to a new unit were discharged or stayed or stayed was a was a whirlwind of emotions. Excuse me. I decided not to re-enlist as I had enough of war. It was time to see what else life had for me. Little did I know I would meet my future wife within a few weeks of being home. I started at Indian River State College and graduated with my associate s degree and went on to fau for my bachelor s in political science. I have two master s degrees, one from George Washington University, and another from the University of Nebraska, both in the field of political science. I was a civics and us history teacher at Martin County School District at Murray Middle in South Fork High School for 8 years. And now I m in my 3rd year at irse teaching American government and international relations. My very first class teaching is in the first classroom I was as an irse student. Even though veterans like me are happy to stay in the shadows and out of the spotlight, we were, we are also happy to shine the light on others who do so much for our community. I would like to thank Martin County Veteran Services for the amazing and selfless work they do on behalf of our veteran community, the knowledge, expertise, compassion and dedication to the mission, which is the veteran and their success is second to none and to Brindelle and Jeff and team. Thank you. You make the difference in Martin County and its veterans are better because of you, and thank you for what you have done for me and my family. Recognizing that Veterans Day is a few weeks away. I appreciate the honor to share a little bit of my story, honor the lives of others. Appreciate the service, and remember the sacrifice. It was an honor to speak to you and be with you all today. Thank you and GOD bless. Mhm. That was awesome, by the way. It really was. We should, we should end on that note, yeah, ok, we re done. Let s go home. All right, um, today we have 905 public comment, which is 5 minutes ago, but we ll get to it eventually, um. We have at 12 P.M. A um. Private attorney client, uh, session. Uh, and at 5:05, we have public comment once again. Additional items Department 6 requests for private attorney session considering the case of being a man by land, uh, llc versus Southlo Water Management District. E t a l, whatever that means, case number, uh, 22. 2023-ca-000052 Uh, and then we have a, uh, a consent agenda poll pulled by me for the first time. Uh, yeah. Uh, consent number 8 request for approval of a deed of agricultural easement from Becker1 Gros Limited. As a condition of the approved discovery planned unit development, pud zoning agreement for the Discovery project. I felt that this was a uh Serious enough and um uh issue that we needed to have it out in the public, uh. Ok. And with that, can I get a Uh, I m sorry, Commissioner Smith. CHAIRMAN, good morning. Uh, move approval of, uh, the agenda with the additional item of department item number 6 for the lar private attorney client session. And with the addition of consent, uh, or. The consent poll of, uh, item 8. Ok, we have a motion by Commissioner Smith seconded by Commissioner Campi, all in favor. All right. All opposed. Uh, motion carries unanimously. Ok, we are going to skip down to proclamation number 2. MR. Gordon is going to Do a presentation for a retiring employee, present a plaque of recognition and appreciation to Norm Van der Heyn. Oops. Uh, upon the occasion of his retirement from service within Martin County Board of County commissioners. I ve had the pleasure of working with Norm, uh, and he s an amazing guy, um, the best quote ever we re meeting with a constituent, and he goes, Ma am, I can t make water go uphill. I will never forget that as long as I live, but anyway, he s a great guy. I m guessing that s why Channel 5 is here today. Yeah, that s it, yeah. Hm. Job, John. Jim Gordon, public works director, with me, I have Norm Vander Hayden. Norma s been with the public works department for nearly 31 years. He served as a heavy equipment operator, road maintenance supervisor, stormwater inspector, and engineering inspector. He fills in for us as a bridge stander when we re in a pinch at the Hopetown Bridge. He was a volunteer fighter, firefighter out of Station 33 and a Navy veteran. Norm has a knack for implementing new programs and performed critical roles in development of our vector trucks, sweeper, um, program and cctv stormwater inspection program. All of which are essential water quality improvement, um, programs that we have and they re born out of his input and constant refinement. His unique combination of technical skills, common sense, and will to succeed have served him well in his career. Customer service has been a consistent focus throughout Norm s career. And in his role as our lead stormwater inspector for the county. He meets with the public on a daily basis. To review their concerns and develop solutions. Since the advent of the online request for service system in 2006, norm has investigated, responded to, and closed out over 5000 requests for service. That s more than most departments during that time frame. One of the inspections. Um, In Palm Palm City during a flood event. Um, resulted in norm saving a child who was swept downstream in a flooded creek. That gained local and regional media attention while not one for notoriety he represented himself, public works in the county well that day. In closing, I wanted to highlight the critical role that Norm plays in the county. i was in the eoc during Hurricane Milton when we started receiving information about tornadoes touching down in the county. First out west in undeveloped areas and then in Hope Sound and Port Salerno where homes were impacted. Norm was the first person I called. Excuse me. From the eoc to inspect the damage, develop a response, and to lead a crew to remove the down poles and debris to clear the way for emergency services. He quickly coordinated a loader crew. And mobilized to the area to uh remove the debris. He and the crew were actively working on us 1 when the 2nd tornado went by about a quarter mile south of where they were working. They worked until dark that day, and every day that week to restore access and begin their recovery process for our residents. After working dusk till dawn multiple days. Helping our citizens recover, norm volunteered to go to a coworker s home to help him because he lost his roof during the 2nd tornado. This just speaks to Norm s character and willingness to help others, which has been a constant throughout his career. So please join me in congratulating Norm for a successful career and to wish him well in his future endeavors. No, you did. Well, I just have a few words before I read the plaque and that is a norms, uh, you can hear his service to our nation and our service to Martin County is one consistent thing about norm is, he has a big heart. Uh, he s a caring human being and he loves Martin County and all those that he works for and the citizen, and that s what I most proud of working with him. Now, Mark used to say, don t let norm get bored, you know, a board dorm is a dangerous norm, but anyway. And I know for, but, uh, uh, but in all the times, so you know, that s, uh, I think speaks to the character of your employees and norm is exemplary of that, and that is truly reflects the best of all of us and uh I m gonna MISS You, uh, greatly, uh, working in organization, uh, there s big shoes to fill you in, uh, a handful of others have really led the way in our public works and, uh, our service to our community and it s my pleasure to work with you for this many years and so in grateful recognition of 30 years of dedicated public service to Martin County Board of County commissioners and the citizens of Martin County. Presented this, uh, 22nd day of OCTOBER 24. Thank you, Norman. Thank you. Uh I sure can be. Norm, you look young and very fit, uh, motion to deny your retirement. Is it because they work you too hard? Because we could work out like a part-time thing for you. I mean, I think you re with all kidding aside, you are a classic example of what makes Martin County great. And the quiet, uh, steady professional leadership of our staff, and when I talk about, uh, you know, the 5 of us, we re the public faces or leadership. It s the men and women like you that are in the trenches that make Martin County so wonderful, make our residents so pleased and safe. So GOD bless you in your future, and we will MISS You very much. I m also friends with Norm s wife and I know for a fact that norm, she will keep Norm busy, trust me. So. Anyway, yeah. You ll be working harder at home, trust me. Ok. It s, now you 12. Is his wife here? Is that her in the back? Um But they re holding up the phone, yeah. Why didn t she come forward for a picture. Norm, why don t you bring your wife forward so we can congratulate her and thank her. Come on, so we know it s not one person that does all this work. It s here she is, everybody. Got a got a picture, get a picture. Yeah. Much better. All right. If you change your mind, doors always open. If you have the pleasure of following them on Facebook. They do more, uh, traveling in. Canoeing and you name it, activities than uh anybody i ve ever seen. Ok, so back to we re going to do our proclamations now, um, Laura is going to read them and I m going to. Stand down. Good morning, commissioners. Uh, first, we have a proclamation declaring paralegal Day in Martin County, Florida. Parallegals are known for their integrity and professionalism as they support essential services, legal research, real estate matters, and other factors facets of law practice. OCTOBER 23rd is recognized as Paralegal Day, and the board would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the men and women of this profession for their diligence in meeting the continuing needs of our communities. And here to accept we have Mandy Johns, who is a real property professional under the public works department. Come on up, Mandy. Me Good morning. OCTOBER 23rd is recognized as National Paralegal Day in the us and in Florida as well. Paralegal Day has provided an opportunity to recognize and appreciate the work of all paralegals in our state and the nation. A paralegal is an essential part of an attorney s administrative team and as the need for attorneys continues to grow, skilled paralegals are increasingly in demand. The Florida bar currently has around 47,700 registered paralegals who assist 107,000 Florida Bar authorized attorneys. Palegals and legal assistants are largely considered the backbone of every law firm and fulfill critical roles within the legal community from conducting research, drafting, pleadings, contracts, and more. These legal professionals are fundamental in supporting attorneys. Here at Martin County, we real property paralegals are responsible for recreating, implementing, and managing leases of county property, as well as county property leases of outside properties. We are responsible for obtaining easements and providing easement. For drainage utilities, access maintenance, and many other needs. We are also responsible for acquiring new property needed for county purchases as well as well as disposing of surplus property and maintaining the list of surplus properties. We are lucky enough to be able to work with most of the departments within the county on a regular basis to help them complete their plans when it comes to real property. As we celebrate National Paralegal Day this year, we are reminded that paralegals are a growing force within the legal field, and we hope that you ll take a moment to sincerely thank these hardworking individuals who are responsible gatekeepers for the legal profession. Car the Make you do buy something Hm Our second proclamation is a proclamation declaring National Disability Employment Awareness Month in Martin County, Florida. OCTOBER 2024 is the seventy-ninth anniversary of National Disability Awareness Month, and its purpose is to educate about disability employment issues and celebrate the many and varied contributions of America s workers with disabilities. The board urges all citizens to recognize this month by bringing together businesses and partners to break down the barriers faced by individuals with disabilities who are working or seeking employ. Helping improve the quality of life for all. And here to accept we have Glenna Paris, who is the gift planning officer of for helping people succeed. Of Paris Lenny, you look so different. I know. Ok It s It s unfortunately, Glenna was not able to make it today, but good morning. My name is Shannon Wilson, and I am the director of Successful Futures at helping people succeed. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the Board of County commissioners for this proclamation, um, in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month. The purpose of this month is to celebrate the contributions of people with disabilities to the workplace and the economy. This year s theme is access to good jobs for all, good jobs change lives, and all workers, including disabled workers deserve the opportunity to prepare for, obtain, and succeed in them. Helping people succeed is proud to partner with businesses and organizations in Martin County to provide training and employment opportunities for our community members with disabilities. Our goal is to help the individuals we serve to find real jobs for competitive wages in an integrated environment. We strongly believe that everyone who wants to work should be able to, and with your support as well as the support of the residents of Martin County, we are able to continue working to make that a reality. Thank you again. Laurie, you re doing a very good job. In. And our final proclamation today is a proclamation declaring Bible reading marathon week in Martin County, Florida. The year 1990 was proclaimed by a joint congressional resolution and presidential proclamation as International Year of Bible Reading, and Bible Reading Week has been celebrated annually thereafter. In recognition of Bible Reading Week, the 24th annual Bible Reading marathon will be held NOVEMBER 4th through the 8th at the Ban Shell and Memorial Park and feature a ninety-hour continuous read-through of the entire Bible. And here to accept we have Pastors Eddie and Joanne Rodriguez, as well as uh Doctor Julie Bjornsen, uh, there with Stefan. Grace and New Life Ministries. Right, I don t know. Morning. Good morning. Good morning, um, commissioners, we just want to thank you first for um once again giving us this proclamation. It means so much to the people in the community each year as we gather and this is our 24th year and I do want to let you know that this is the longest running Bible reading marathon in our nation. And it brings so much hope and peace, um to the community as people come from all over the county and beyond to come out and they feel it s pretty miraculous. 365 15 minute time slots, um, to read through the Bible day and night, rain or shine, and so when we re out there, we get so many um just wonderful responses from families come out, business people come out, ministries, churches, people connect that normally wouldn t be able to connect and it just is a wonderful week as we proclaim GOD s word over our nation, and it began with Pastor Donna and Jean Hilton to um, to begin this read the Bible over our nation as protection over our nation. Um, so I just want to thank you for this weekend, and we invite everyone to come out and be a part of this week. You can give us a call at 5561-670-0469. We have flyers out and uh we just welcome everybody. Everyone is welcome and um we re out there with love and peace and um and just looking forward to this year and all the community that it touches in a special way. Thank you. You want to talk about that? I just like to say that I am completely 100% in agreement with my wife. Smart man. DR. Julie, please tell them we need night readers, ok. I m DR. Julie Bornsson from Port Salerno. I survived the tornado. Um, good morning, commissioners. This is my 24th time to thank you for Bible reading marathon proclamation. To me this is really important and I, I share this all across the county that our, our commissioners have given us such a wonderful proclamation. Um, the marathon began 24 years ago. 9/11, 2001, right after that, our church was directed to read the Bible to protect us from terrorist attack, and we ve been really well protected other than the tornado. Um, 9/11 was sudden and unexpected, bringing people back to churches and the Bible, the foundation of our nation s constitution, government, and education, and many presidents understood that without the morals and ethics taught in the Bible, our nation self-government would fail, but today Bible truths and GOD s authority are under. Extreme attack nationally lawlessness is replacing our constitutional authority and spiritually liberal rewrites and copyright limitations of the Bible undermine foundational doctrines throughout the Bible, GOD s love is freely available to all who will accept it. The entire Bible is a record of GOD s extremes. That he has gone to in order to avoid the destiny of our fallen identic state. Yet what is our response? No, GOD, I want to love you. I don t want to love you. I ll do it my way. But when humans fail to respond, GOD has 3 alternatives. He can indulge it, allowing our human rebellion, or he can force us to obey
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