Welcome to the workshop meeting of the Delray Beach City Commission this Tuesday, August the 18th. If the clerk would please call the roll. Deputy Vice Mayor Marker. Here. Commissioner Mullica. Here. Commissioner Cassell. Here. Vice Mayor Burns. Here. Mayor Carney. Here. We have a quorum. Great. Thank you. First item on the agenda is public comments. If there are any members of the public wishing to address the commission on our workshop meeting agenda, please come to the lectern, give your name, zip code for the record, and you will have three minutes. Michael Banta, 333444. I come before you today on behalf of the Delray Beach Public Library with a capital request. Our beautiful library building is 20 years old and showing some wear and tear. The library is the focal point for community pride and a public asset and utilized by over 93,000 people a year. We all love our library and want it to remain a beautiful gateway to our beautiful picturesque downtown. We are advocating for the city to include our capital request for exterior painting, repair, and replacement of exterior lighting, and replacement of the landscaping and irrigation system of the foundation plantings around the building. The estimated cost for the request is $547,000, which includes a 10% contingency. Painting of the building will be in updated colors that match the surrounding buildings and will present a clean, brighter exterior. Almost 50% of the library exterior lighting is not working anymore. All lighting will be replaced with energy-efficient LED lighting that will create a much brighter and safer exterior area, and it will discourage improper behavior formerly hidden by darkness. Foundation planting landscaping will be replaced where existing landscaping is non-existent or beyond salvage. Existing trees and foliage will remain, but will be trimmed or removed as some are growing out of the library's gutters. Irrigation will be replaced. In short, the library is hit an age when she needs a little TLC. I have copies of the plan prepared by our board member, architect Jess Sowards, that was submitted to Missy Barletto in April. We hope that you will give consideration to include this plan in your budget for the coming year. Thank you very much. May I hand these out? Yes, please, if you'd like to. Make sure you have everyone for the whole class. Yes, you may ask us. Is this included in what you asked for during your presentation? This is an additional request. In that case. I do. We have an extra. Sam might like to add one. Seeing no more public comment, public comment is closed. Item 2 will be capital improvement program consideration for fiscal years 2027 to 2031. Miss Barletta. Good evening, Mayor and Commissioners, Missy Barletto, Public Works Director. I have with me Hassan Hajimiri, who is the Utilities Director, and Sam Mitot, who is the Director of Parks and Recreation. And tonight what we're going to present to you is a draft, an initial draft of the capital improvement budget. You will be getting the full budget after your comments on what's being presented this evening. We'll put together your full book that includes all of the project descriptions in the full budget, which will be voted on in September. Okay, so just to get started, the CIP budget by fund for this coming year, the total CIP request is $343,143,389. So the lion's share of that is from the Utilities Department for the Water Treatment Plant, and followed up very closely by the General Construction Fund, which includes a lot of projects in the General Construction Fund and the Stormwater Fund. I'm just waiting to see, because normally we get it on our screen here, so there we go. That makes it easier. Thank you. Sorry. Everybody good to go? I'm happy with you stopping and asking questions along the way if you wish, or you can wait all the way until we get to the end. So, by department, we also like to show you which departments are going to be spending the funds that are in the Capital Improvement Program. The Utilities Department has $162,351,000 of this Capital Improvement Program in the coming year. As you just saw, a good deal of that is for the Water Treatment Plant. Public Works has $156,000,000 that is divided up among a number of other projects, and the other ones are somewhat smaller. Police is at $11,000,000. Could I ask, you asked us to ask as we go, can you go back the slide, the 610 for Lakeview, does that say it's for a roof for the carts? For the Lakeview golf course, there was structural issues with the golf cart barn, and we have been working on restoring that and extending it to be able to accommodate. So, you're making the building bigger? It's not just the roof? That seemed like a – if you don't mind. Yes. Okay. Just to clarify, though, that's not the building that you walk into. That's the separate building. That's the cart barn. Right. Yeah, yeah. Okay. And then on the next slide where you are laying out the numbers, what of that is money already committed from past years or present considerations, and what is new money that we're putting into our CIP in the current year? There is very little new money coming into the CIP in the current year. Most of what is here is representing existing projects. There are an extraordinarily limited number of new projects that are being brought forward so far this year. Right. And so, in addition to that, have we taken anything away that we had locked money in for last year? Or specifically – and I'm just throwing this out – is something the Historical Society, we had allocated that money and then kind of carried it over. We keep moving this along as we're trying to get to different phases. But what I would like when we – I know you're working on the book and we're just doing this consideration today, but I kind of need to know – now we know there's nothing new, so probably nothing major as a consideration. But I would also like to know what, if anything, came out of past considerations that we thought we were committed to. The short answer is nothing. Perfect. Thank you. So all of the projects that are currently underway continue to be underway. Great. Including the parking facilities at the Historical Society, which we expect to begin construction on in the very, very near future. Thank you. Yeah, it's in your book. I know. I saw that. Thank you. Thank you, Missy. Any other questions before we move on? No. Okay. So this budget does highlight the things that are on this slide, including tree plantings. The Parks and Recreation Department will continue to work on updating playgrounds, which I know you've seen some of the ones they've done. They're doing a marvelous job of that. We're looking at, there were changes to the statutes this year for how you can spend building funds that come in as a, so one change from last year to this year is that in order to address issues with being able to comfortably seat employees in the building department, and in that, in the north end of City Hall, we had looked into building an annex to City Hall between this building and the community center. Senate Bill 180 was passed and signed into law by the governor, which precludes us from being able to use building funds to do any kind of infrastructure like that. So we are back to looking at doing a reconfigure of City Hall. Thank you. CRA-funded projects are Pompeii Park construction, Northwest Neighborhood improvements, Southwest Neighborhood improvements, the Old School Square Master Plan, some very limited implementation of that, where we're looking at improving lighting across the Swinton Avenue side of the Old School Square complex and taking the roll-up shutters that are in the arcade away and replacing those with wrought iron opening gates that will be much more period-appropriate and much more attractive to look at in addition to not being a continuous maintenance nightmare. Additionally, we're looking at improving the courtyard and West Atlantic-facing area of Fire Station 111, the fire headquarters. Some of the projects that are ongoing for the Metropolitan Planning Organization, formerly the Transportation Planning Agency, include the Brant Bridge Connector. If you recall, we replaced Brant Bridge a few years ago, and we have been working on the Lindell Boulevard project through the center of Tropic Palm Neighborhood. This project will connect those two projects, so there will be continuous sidewalk along that entire area and bicycle lane for improved pedestrian and bicycle mobility, as well as improved roadway conditions. We're getting ready to have a new round of public meetings for Barwick Road Phase 2. As the last time that I spoke with the commission about that, we had undertaken three additional studies. One of them looked at the guardrails that are out there when this project initially was initiated. The community had asked us to remove all the guardrails, and we designed the project that way. One of the things with these projects that are federally and state-funded is that we initiate them and don't actually begin construction for five years. So during that five years since we initially started this project, the community has changed its mind, and now they're very, very adamantly in favor of keeping the guardrails. We have done an additional study, and I do believe that we're going to be able to bring news to the community that they will be pleased with. The other NPO project that's coming up that we'll be working on design for in the coming year is along Northeast 4th Street between Swinton and Federal Highway to make some safety improvements in that area. Do you want to talk about your stadium and turf? Sure. The next two items kind of go hand-in-hand, and it's simply the artificial turf fields. Those are projects that are already approved and set to break ground just in the new coming fiscal year. First and foremost will be Merritt Park, which will begin construction in the November time frame. Once Merritt Park is complete, the next two will be up at both Seacrest and Hilltopper, one in the stadium field and one on the north end of the Seacrest soccer side. And then last but not least is the fourth field, and there will be the Catherine Strong Park renovation. It will be the first phase of Catherine Strong's renovation. We'll be putting in a small practice artificial field over there as well at Catherine Strong. So we put all four together within the bid so that we got the best pricing we could with the artificial turf vendor. But they're two separate projects in our mind. It's the sports turf and then renovating Catherine Strong Park. So those are the next two items. The next item on the list up here are improvements from the public safety government obligation bond for we'll be completing design of the new police department headquarters in the very near future and looking at improvements to some of our fire stations with exterior paint jobs, roofs, and looking at restroom facilities to make them more equitable between male and female firefighters. Good afternoon. So this new water treatment plan, as we all know, we've been working on it aggressively for the past three years. The construction started early on January 29th. It was groundbreaking. I'm asking you if you can, hopefully when it gets cooler, stop by and take a look at the construction activity at that site. It doesn't look nothing like what it used to be. We have two deep injection ball going on at the same time. And the contractor started basically laying out the building on the site as we speak. We have pre-purchased some of the long-lead items for the water plant in order to meet the long delivery time. So as of now, our expected completion date is early 2028, calendar year 2028. You can do the rest of them if you want. Okay. So the next project is the Marine Ways Seawall Roadway and Drainage Improvements. This is the project that was the first project when I came to work here 10 years ago. So when I get done constructing this, I can retire. And we expect to, we're in the process of establishing the guaranteed maximum price for this project. So we'll be bringing that to commission, hopefully November, and begin construction on this project very soon thereafter. Thomas Street pump station rebuild is well underway, and we expect to get that completed. It's a little bit over budget because of unseen environmental conditions in the water table that we've had to deal with. And then we're also working on beginning the guaranteed maximum price negotiations to redo all of the Tropic Isle neighborhood from some limited sidewalk, roadway reconstruction, and water sewer and stormwater improvements in that neighborhood. The last item on the budget highlight list up here is vehicle and equipment replacements, which we'll get to that. When you see that city garage slide come up, I'm done, so you can all celebrate. But we have about $4 million of vehicles that we need to include in the capital improvement budget for the coming year to continue to continue to keep our fleet current and up-to-date, which minimizes our maintenance costs and actually in the long run saves the city money. So one of the things that I neglected to point out initially is that we made this same presentation last night at the Planning and Zoning Board, and they approved moving forward with this unanimously to bring this to commission. So now we can go through the individual project funds. We'll run through this pretty quickly. For the special projects fund, this is where when people make permit applications and they pay in lieu fees, they go into this special projects fund in a number of different ways, one of those being the tree fund, which is represented, the only project that's represented in this category this year is $65,000 to finish out the current contract on the tree planting program. All right. Here you have the Parks and Recreation impact fee. As many of you know, the Parks and Recreation is one of the few impact fees we've had in place, and what it does is help us replace and keep up with the new demand on the parks from the bigger user groups year over year. So this year looking at about $200,000 coming in, and what we earmarked it for is a continued park pavilion replacement. As you know, we've done that for a number of years, and we continue to replace a lot of pavilions, and the number of pavilions throughout the park, there's almost about 30 of them throughout the park system. Many of them were years and years old, but we've made very good progress, and we're going to continue to do so. They're expensive to replace in today's world, which is why that number is a little higher than most people even realize for playground or pavilions. And then we do this almost every year. It's $50,000 for playground updates, and that's mostly to replace wear and tear on the playground parks. So while we're on this slide, just to give you a little background, the Capital Improvement Program only budgets for one year. So we're looking only at the coming fiscal year, but we provide you with projections out for the next four years. So in those next four years after the coming year, all of the funding sources, the revenues for that are shown as to be determined because we will determine them each year as we move forward with the Capital Improvement Program budget. So the City of Delray Beach enjoys income from two different gas taxes, a $0.05 gas tax and a $0.06 gas tax. Those funds are dedicated to transportation issues, to sidewalks, mobility issues, and roadway reconstruction. In the coming year, we'll be spending about $100,000 on ADA improvements out of this initial fund. And then in the next fund, we move $300,000 into this fund, and we're looking at having $300,000 into this fund for beginning a pot of money for roadway reconstruction, and then we've moved $1,000,000 out of this fund into the general construction fund to be used as matching funds for some of the NPO grants that we discussed about earlier. So it will be used for roadway reconstruction and sidewalks and that sort of thing. So it is being used in an appropriate way. Can I ask a question? Yeah. That $500,000 that we talked about for the paving fund, for the paving upkeep, that's coming out of the general fund, correct? Or is that? Yeah. It is coming out of the general fund, and that's actually being reflected in the streets maintenance division's operating fund. Thank you. So the building fund, we hit on this a little bit earlier when we were talking about budget highlights. The $5 million that shows in this year is to look at developing better working conditions for people in the building department, and then there's a second $5 million that's being reflected in the following year. This is our annual beach restoration fund. This is funded by a number of different sources. So we get state and federal funds. We also get funds through the county that are through an interlocal agreement with Palm Beach County through their Department of Environmental Resource Management, which they receive their funds for beach programs through the bed tax. So this is the way that the bed taxes that are paid in Delray Beach actually circle back around to us is through the county derm in a kind of circuitous rate. But we do get some of them back. We also have state appropriations. We very recently brought you our annual local government referendum request to go to DEP in Tallahassee to support this program. And we have a little bit of surplus from last year. All of the things that you see in the expense column for the beach fund, most of those are required as follow-up activities out of the beach restoration. There are activities in this item here, which is going to complete the investment that the city made in growing baby corals with the Reef Institute. We will actually be planting some of those baby corals on our reef in the coming year. And this $110,000 covers both that reef planting and all of the monitoring that the Reef Institute will do to make sure that the little babies survive. I want to say thank you for that, Missy. You're welcome. And is that for just one year or just for whatever the program is? This is for the first year. And if we're able to, we'll continue to fund this as long as we're able and as long as they have baby corals available to plant on our reef, which I think they will, too. I'm glad that we're able to support the $40,000 or initial $40,000 that we gave today. Okay, thank you. Mm-hmm. And thanks to the judge, Robert, too. Yes. So this is the general construction fund revenue. There is not a lot of revenue coming into this fund from the general construction fund. There are a number of projects that we're going to be undertaking in the coming year that are funded by the Community Redevelopment Agency, others that are funded by the Metropolitan Planning Organization. We have a state appropriation for the Swetman Atlantic intersection improvements. We have had in place an interlocal agreement with the city of Boynton Beach to redo Gulfstream Boulevard, which we share. They have the westbound lane in their city, and we have the eastbound lane in ours. So we entered into an interlocal agreement to make sure that we redid both sides of the street at the same time. And our part of it is a little bit less expensive than theirs in that they have a lot of water and sewer improvements that need to be made on their side of the street. We don't have any of those. We're just doing roadway and sidewalk improvements on our side of the street. And we did last year receive a million-dollar state appropriation to pay most of our $1.6 million share of this interlocal agreement. The other $600,000 is carried forward from funds that were already budgeted for that in prior year. Are there any questions? No, thank you. Not yet. Okay. I'll bring them all down to the end. I've been going. Doing as I can. Sorry. Okay. So, and then these are the expenses for the general construction fund. They're all projects that you have seen and been presented before. They're mostly ongoing projects. The one new thing that you will see on here is replacement of police department laptops for a million dollars. This is an ask that has been coming every year for several years in a row. And we have been putting off, putting in, and this year it became critical that we fund the replacement of those laptops that go in police units and that sort of thing. Crest Theater Auditorium Renovation. You'll see that we don't have money budgeted in this year's budget, this coming year's budget for construction. We'll be completing the design of the improvements for that, and then construction for that will begin in fiscal year 28 and be completed in fiscal year 29. Missy, why would laptop replacements be in general construction expenses? General construction expenses is our catch, that's our catch-all kind of, I think the word construction is, it's misleading. But this is like our general fund expenditures. Missy, quick question about the Crest Theater. So, I know we don't have any money in this year's coming budget for it. We have money left over from last year's allocation. Is the theater able to be open now? Yes. And if you don't know the answer now, you don't have to. It's a ticklish answer because, yes, it could be open now. The facilities, they're not up to par to actually, that anybody would actually want to put on a performance in there now. There are still shortcomings in the sound system. There are shortcomings in the lighting system. There's roof repair that we need to do in there so the dressing rooms that are in the back are not lovely. Right. So, there's quite a bit of renovation that needs to be done. But if somebody just wanted to bring in their own sound system and do a TED Talk or something like that, there's nothing structurally preventing the area from being used. It's not currently ADA up to code. It's not? It is not. And is it structurally sound? It is. Okay. So, potentially, there are some uses we could get. It sounds like they might be extremely limited, but we could do some things if we wanted to. It's just a little disappointing for me that we got nothing in the budget this year. It seems. Well, we have design dollars in the budget this year. And when we brought the design architect before commission, commission did vote to move forward with the full design. So, that actually takes time. Yeah. Yeah. No, it takes, it does. So, basically, as goes to the Crest Theater, 26-27 is going to be the design year. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. They were actually in there surveying the interior spaces last week. Oh, good. Okay. I'm sorry. Surveying. Surveying the interior spaces. Okay. Thank you. Mm-hmm. This is the Sam slide. All right. We kind of already hit on it before. This is the recreation geobond. And it's the turf installations that we mentioned, both at the other parks and as well as Catherine Strong. And then the only other item is $500,000 earmarked for additional public restroom renovation. We have, I think it's 13 or 14 restrooms that are slated to begin within the next couple weeks. And then it's going to be one right after the other going around the city for renovations through our public restroom renovation project as part of this bond. Can I ask you a quick question on that? I've had a lot of feedback on the visitor's restroom downtown. Is that one on the list? It absolutely is on the list. Okay. I was pushing initially very heavily for that to be the first one to get renovated. The hard part about that, though, is it's the one that requires the most work. And it's the most planning, permitting, you know, layout. There's some underground utility work that has to take place with that one. So it's not going to be the first one because I ended up saying, like, let's not delay all the rest for that. Whereas most of the other are more interior cosmetic improvements to the bathrooms. That one's going to be a lot more structural and underground work. But that is in the works. We've been working right away, and that's part of the project. And when we close that one, do we have to provide temporary restrooms down there, or how does that work? We plan to. We plan to. But we're going to try to be as strategic as possible about the timing of that as well. Yeah, a lot of feedback on that one. Yeah, without a doubt. And trust me, we want to get it improved as well. Good. Thank you. So the public safety government obligation bond, we've already discussed under the building highlights, police department headquarters. We are doing some major renovations at the Ocean Rescue headquarters at Anchor Park. We're taking the upstairs locker rooms and showers, and we're moving them downstairs into the garage area and making that entire garage area be bathroom facilities, locker rooms, showers for the lifeguard staff. The upstairs will be more conference room and office space to make a more comfortable environment. They outgrew this building a while back, and we're catching up to them now. There will also be some exterior storage units that will be put out there to store their equipment that is displaced from the garages. Fire station 111. I'm sorry, when do you think the rescue will be finished, the ocean rescue? We're still in design on that. We're about finished with it and ready to move forward with permitting. We have a couple of layouts for the interior spaces that we'll be bringing to the fire chief and his staff for them to choose from in the very near future. For a year, two years? The design will definitely be finished this year, and we probably will be able to start on the renovations. So I'm thinking maybe a year and a half, two years before that's complete, and they're all moved into their new space. Thank you. Thank you. This slide actually has to be revised. We didn't get to revise the slide timely to Missy. However, as it was presented back in May 19th, our revenue for 2026 is projected to be at the $55.4 million, and for 2027, which is next year, $62.4 million, and that's due to the rate increases that we have initiated with our customers, and also the efficiency measures that we have placed at the utilities. It's bringing us that noticeable increase in the revenue, considering that in two years we have to start making a payment on our revenue bond to pay for the water plant. So even though it seems like on a higher end, but the main purpose is for that to put us in a situation that we can pay those monthly payments. There are lists of CIP here that are stated, and again, I went through the great detail in the last workshop, but except the water treatment plant and lift station 50, basically the majority of these are all underground, so nobody gets to see it when it's done, unlike the buildings and parks and all these beautiful things that we get to see. These are all underground. I'll be more than happy to go to the room one by one if you want me to do so, but if not, this was already presented to you in that meeting. Not necessary for me. Okay. Thank you. And next one also, as far as the water treatment plant itself, the number for fiscal year 2027-2028 will be adjusted to 108 million compared to the 8 million. The number for the current year, 2026-2027, is correct. But as we all know, the cost for the water plant is about 280 million, and we have spent close to 30 million so far. So majority of the money is going to be withdrawn probably starting January of this year when we start receiving the equipment and the building itself. So we will see that that money will be pretty much spent very quickly. At the same time, my projection is toward the end of this year, we will go for the second revenue bond for the financing, the remaining part of the water plant. Was that $140 million? What's the second part? Is that? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. All right. As you can see, we don't anticipate any major capital expenses coming out for the Delray Beach Golf Course. Most of the construction and all that's going on with the revenue bond taking care of the vast majority of that. Other than we're very, very excited about that course right now. We can't wait to open up. The next one is Lakeview. We've already kind of mentioned it with answering some questions, and that is the cart bar roof for the carts over at Lakeview. Stormwater utility revenues, we are looking at about around $40 million in state resiliency bonds. We have the utility assessment, which we'll be bringing to you at the end of tonight's commission meeting for approval so that that can make it on to the trim notices. And we also have been working toward issuing a revenue bond to pay for some of the very large expense projects that are coming up in the stormwater arena. So the ones in stormwater, the projects are the historic Marine Way seawall, Thomas Street Pump Station, Tropic Isle Neighborhood. We will be updating the stormwater master plan in the coming year through a grant with the Florida Department of Emergency Management. Also, we're working on replacement of the remainder of the city's seawalls. The city owns about two miles of seawall. About one mile of it is in big stretches. But the rest of it are on tiny end caps at the end of roads. All of those are too low. Many of those are not in good condition. And we'll be moving forward with getting all of those repaired in the coming year. There are some drainage improvements for George Bush Boulevard. You know, there's one spot very near Andrews Avenue where there's always ponding water. We'll be repairing the drainage system through that area to make sure that that stops happening. Stormwater pump station repairs are ongoing maintenance issues. Some of the others are just establishment of the stormwater maintenance program, the purchase of a new CCTV truck where we'll be able to see inside pipes and televise those and know when there are routes and things that are impeding the stormwater from moving on. And we are finally going to reduce our dependence on the utilities department. Up until now, they have generously allowed us to be a part of their telemetry system so that when something happens at a stormwater pumping station, we get radio signals that let us know that there's an issue out there. And up until now, that's all gone back to the utilities department, and we're finally going to separate from them and get our own telemetry system, which I know that will make us unhappy. Why do we need two different systems? Well, it's two different sets of staff that respond when there's an issue. The system that governs the lift stations, that's utilities department staff. The stormwater pumping stations are public works staff. So it's two different, they're two different systems. They're not connected to each other. So to keep them all on one telemetry system is not as efficient as it could be. Staff-wise? Staff-wise. Or equipment-wise also? Staff-wise, monitoring-wise, and maintenance-wise. Likewise, equipment functionality-wise. So as we continue to put new stormwater pumping stations onto the system, which there's, the Thomas Street is being upgraded, as we continue to upgrade those water treatment plants systems, then they need to have their own circuit for, do you want to say something? No, no, no, no, you did a great job. So currently, if we get a signal from this remote terminal unit, RTUs, they all work with the radio frequency. So it's a data flow system that we use. So the signal goes to utility guys, typically. And the utility guys look at them and find out what it is, they tend to look at the screen. Then they got a call, Stonewater, to say, well, you got flooding there. Yeah, so there is some time being lost right there. Okay. So when they have it, their superintendent or supervisor can immediately be notified. So we're talking about one hour or half an hour or whatever works that. And it's good to have their own system because once, let's say, the data flow system for utility goes down, that means we cannot monitor there is stormwater. We cannot monitor. We separated the lift station from the water plant. When I came here, they were all one system. So if the lightning hitting one of the lift station, we had a problem at the water plant. I mean, it was a big fiasco. So we separated those two. So they each run independently. The cost is very minimal, but the efficiency, the monitoring is extremely much higher when each system, which each controls, you know, system has its own remote monitoring. Yes, ma'am. So, and just to add to that, in a storm situation, if there are lift stations that are being inundated and failing, utility staff is not available to run out and take a look at a stormwater pumping station. And if that fails, we may be flooding people's homes. So the redundancy in the system is a good thing. The response time. Okay. Thank you. So this is the slide where you guys start to cheer because this is the last one. The city garage. The city garage. We're looking at $4 million in new equipment purchases in the coming year. For city vehicles, we have, um, the past two years, we have utilized a, a, um, lease to own program that has brought our fleet up to a more, um, a more modern standard, which minimizes the amount of maintenance that we have ongoing for, for, um, for vehicles. As you're aware, after, after the COVID period, the automobile market had very limited availability. The city was able to buy some very, very nice vehicles at, at, uh, lower costs because that was all that was available on the market at that time. Now that the market has recovered, we will be going back to buying just only as much vehicle as the individuals need in order to do their jobs. So there will not be as many, um, fancy city vehicles on the road as there have been. You'll see more pickup trucks. You'll see more, um, more Ford Explorers, fewer Chevrolet Tahoes, that sort of thing. Um, and with that, we're open to taking questions, directions, um, requested changes. Great. Thank you very much. I know some of you asked questions while we were going along, but do you have any additional questions? Commissioner Mollick. I have no additional questions. Is this the time that we should be considering the library's ask? The library what? The library's request. Wow. Do we speak to you about that later? Well, I mean, that's going to be in the, that's going to be something we're going to have to, we'll discuss this as it relates to the budgetary item because it's a maintenance. Are we not contemplating there's something with their contract coming up? Isn't there something with their contract where we potentially could lateral that to them? Are we at the end of that lease period? I think we need to talk about the library later. It's actually a very complicated question. Right, exactly. So, if I'm, Mr. Mayor, may I please? Let's. The city attorney and I spent a lot of hours on that contract together with the city manager. Mr. Mayor, if I may please. I'd like to address the context of the Capital Improvement Program considerations. So, the significant investment being sought by leadership of the Delray Beach Public Library is not yet being contemplated. However, Ms. Barletto and I are working collaboratively to do what we can to offer maintenance considerations that will lead towards some improvements to that effect as part of our annual maintenance budget, which is being considered in that regard. So, as we evaluate opportunities for the upcoming first public hearing regarding the budget, we'll be able to talk a little bit more about that explicitly. So, as far as the size of the requests having been made and retained and considering last week's consensus to maintain the existing levels of operational support, that's where we are. That has, in fact, been included as part of the fiscal year 2026-2027 consideration. However, from a capital improvement or maintenance standpoint, we will be offering some specific considerations that we'll be able to highlight during the September 8th engagement. So, I would like to, therefore, ask that we be given an opportunity to strike balances aside and apart from the observations Mayor Kearney just shared generally. Part of the question will be the contract itself and certain aspects of the contract. And I've actually had some conversations with Council on the other side as well that have reached out to me on some of the interpretations, which you and I discussed at length. I'd say ad nauseum. Yes, your word was ad nauseum. So, it will be taken up. Today's not the day. Okay. Good enough for me. Here we go. Commissioner Marker. No further questions. Commissioner Burns. No questions. Thank you for the presentation. Commissioner Persaud. Sure. I did ask a lot during the presentation. Thank you. And just, you know, for taxpayers' benefit, this is a large capital improvement budget, $343 million, 162 to utilities, 156 to public works, 11 million to the police, 5 million to development services, and 2 million to fire. But concerns me that this is all projects that are ongoing, and we have nothing new. And I just want to make sure we aren't, this isn't restrictive, and these aren't specific oversights. And if you and I can meet alone, maybe, to just talk about if there's anything missing in there. I want to thank you for that reef money. I really appreciate that. I'm very excited. It's taken years to get these bathrooms going, but now that we'll be updating all the bathrooms in the city. Does that include the tennis center? It is not. Okay, thank you. Understood. I thought so. I just want to – well, we did some slight modifications, and that was the gentleman's locker room in the community center. We're talking about the bathrooms in the tennis center itself, but we can catch up on that later. And I also just want to ask quickly, the revenue bonds always worry me because we do these studies. We base the potential needs out so many years. We acquire revenue studies of what we might need. But what we saw with Pompeii Park was a project that went from $54 million to potentially $68 million literally overnight. And how does – what happens with these revenue bonds if somehow the revenue does not actually cover the payout needs? What do – how – what do we do? Do we amend the costs, or are we reaching into other areas to gather those funds? Well, we don't usually go out for the revenue bond until we're ready to start construction. Right. Once the revenue bond is in-house, we have three years to spend that money. Okay. So – So you don't anticipate that being any kind of an issue? Before we – yeah. We know what it's going to cost before we go for the bond. Okay. And last thing I would like to say, the Crest Theater, I know we're in the design phase, but it does feel like it's a long time. And if we can speed that up, I would be completely amenable to moving some money into that to do the construction more quickly. Because I think we all would like to see that done much more quickly, if there's any way we can get that done. Thank you. I would second that. I agree with that. If there's a way we can move that up, that would be – that would be in the best interest of the community, if we could. I just have a couple of – you know, mechanical-type questions. You and I spoke about this again last week. Related to the Marine Way contract, you said to me that you thought it would be in today, the 18th, which I wrote down dutifully and said, oh, good, we're meeting that day. Did it, in fact – I mean, I know we thought it was going to be last week. Now it's this week. I mean, are we closer to at least seeing what the proposal is going to be? We are not, I'm sorry to say. I mean, not that I'm trying to rush your retirement, because I know you've been working on this for 10 years, but I'm just – you know. But it's time. Yeah. I know that the – I'd like to see it before my retirement. That's the hope. Yeah. I know that the contractor's attorney is looking at it. He is not the fastest attorney in the world. He's a lovely individual, but he's not real quick. Okay. That's fine. So that's what we're waiting on. But it should be within a week or – I'm just interested, because I'm getting asked all the time. Second question, which I'm getting asked – I mean, the second question is more my question. I know we get a – do you know what percentage of the bed tax we get back in terms of revenue sharing, in terms of – I mean, I know – are we a donor or a donor? My guess is we're a donor. We're a donor. In other words, we're giving – That's correct. We pay more in bed tax. We are definitely a donor. Can you find that out, maybe, just what we get back as opposed to what we pay out? Is that something we can find out? I can try. I will tell you that the county is very possessive of those numbers. I'm sure they are. And it's been very difficult for me to move forward with them. We have been working with the county to update our interlocal agreement for this, and they have looked at reducing the amount of money that they pay to Delray Beach to try to match what they do with some of the other communities. But as a compensation, they're agreeing to expand the number of things that they're willing to cost share with us. So the way that that ILA is written right now, they only cost share with us when we do a construction project. But hopefully in the future, we'll be able to get some of these annual expenses shared with the county as well. I just would like – because I saw that they're trying to cut us back, and where they're reallocating some of this money. And we are a real nice economic driver for the county in a lot of levels and are having events here which drive a lot of the bed taxes. And so I'd like to see – I just don't want a better idea of what we're getting back, but we pay out. That's all. So if you can help me with that, that would be great. If you need me to write a letter to somebody, tell me who to write it to, I'll write it. We'll do our best to try to get that nailed down for you. Thank you. And the last question, because I get this – I got it twice today. When do you anticipate the golf course being complete? Early 27. Yeah. Because it was going to be – I've told everybody it was going to be November, December 26, and then they're coming back saying, you know, they wanted to get tee time. So I'm just – what – We're anticipating early 2027. We are targeting January at this juncture, potentially the first part of February. Okay. Thank you very much. I have no more questions. Are there any other questions? I have one point, Mr. Mayor, two, actually. I would like to request that we take a few-minute break while we transition to the regular meeting. However, I would also like to remind the commission in relationship to the Crest Theater Building, the consultancy work that was recently initiated past several months, there will be a presentation. I've provided an update to this effect recently. So that will take place during your September 22nd regular city commission meeting. The consultants will be here to offer their update and guidance, and we'll be able to offer a path forward at that point. I appreciate it. Okay. We are going to adjourn this workshop meeting. We're going to recommence at – would you say 5.15? Would that be a sufficient time for you to do it? That would be very sufficient. Thank you. Okay, so we're adjourned. See you all at 5.15. Those of you who want to stay in.