Good afternoon. Welcome to the Community Redevelopment Agency meeting for Monday, 29th. Let's call the meeting to order and say 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. First item on the agenda, approval of the minutes. Anybody have a motion to approve the minutes? No, second it. Okay, all in favor? Anybody opposed? Okay, motion carries. We'll move on to any disclosure of conflicts of interest today? No? Okay, great. We have a public comment section now. If anyone and members of the public would like to say anything today, three minutes to speak. Just state your name and come to the podium. Nobody interested? We'll move on to our presentations. Here he comes. You can start, or we can wait for Rex to sit down and introduce the first item. I'm going to ask you to make one decision. Yes, ma'am. Susan Kores, Office of Community Development. Good afternoon, all. We just want to change the agenda to put the third quarter report first, and then the capital projects review after that, if that please the board. Need a motion? I do. I'll motion that. That's it. Any all in favor? Aye. Aye. All right, anybody opposed? Okay, switch up the agenda. Thank you. Rex is here. Rex, you'll take over the meeting. Okay, sorry about that. Trophicative excuses. The bridge, the train. Late client, difficult case. Okay. Okay, you can proceed. Okay. Good afternoon. Is this on? My name is Jana Cox. I'm Program Manager for Office of Community Development, and I'm here to present the third quarter report for FY24. As always, this report looks back at the previous quarter, and this one covers each of our six CRAs from April, May, and June. We do cover the CRAs alphabetically, so Golden Gate is up first. We're going to talk about septic to sewer, unpaved roads, and El Camino Trail. Septic to sewer to date, the project is moving right along with 65% connection rate. Out of the 775 properties, 502 have connected, and 58 are pending. That leaves 250 parcels, 215 parcels, yet to either commit or connect. In collaboration with Public Works, we are supporting the improvements to two unpaved roads noted in the map in the Golden Gate CRA. El Camino. Bit opening was June 12th of 24. On to the next alphabetically is Hope Sound. We're going to talk about Sound Brewing, train station relocation, and the Southeast Woyard Avenue planting project. The brewery is moving right along. The contractor had some delays due to weather and maneuvering around a light pole, but all is on schedule to finalize their CO by August, and I just talked to the owner this morning, and he said they're on track. Looks good. Talking about the Hope Sound historic train station relocation, all of the approvals from BOCC, LPA, went through smoothly. We also were able to secure the old shelter, which you'll see a picture of that, the very first picture on this slide, and they stated that it's in better shape than they anticipated, so that's going to be added to the train station. Southeast Woyard Avenue planting project. I think I mentioned this last time, but the project was smaller than anticipated because of some critical lines from SMRU that ran through the property that we weren't aware of, but it is completed. It should definitely grow in as time goes by, and our field ops department is going to maintain it. On to Jensen Beach. We have Jensen Beach Boulevard resurfacing and a CRA investment program that was completed. Jensen Beach resurfacing. The map shows the downtown area that is being resurfaced and restriped. It's located within the CRA, but also it starts at Savannah and ends at Indian River Drive. You can locate those maps on our website at martin.fl.us slash projects, and look for that project. You can find the entire site plan. And this is applicant number 10. They completed their project on June 20th, and if you hadn't had a chance to ride by, it's quite a difference with the older look and now the brand-new purple color. Fort Salerno. We're going to talk about new Monrovia neighborhood improvements. New Monrovia Park. Mooring Field Upland Facility and Signage. For New Monrovia neighborhood, these notes I got from Joy. Received engineers' proposal for the New Monrovia neighborhood project that includes sidewalks, traffic calming, and lighting. On to New Monrovia Park. Cap Tech Engineering is currently designing engineering plans to level the fields, extend the concrete from the pavilion, replace the basketball court, install a shade structure over the playground, and install accessible routes throughout the park. So that should make it quite a nice park with all of those improvements. The Mooring Field Upland Facility site plan for the Mooring Field Upland Facility has been designed along Park Drive. Park amenities impacted from the location will be relocated or replaced, for example, benches and picnic tables. The next slide is the design of the Mooring Field Upland Facility front elevation. If you have any questions throughout, just interrupt me and we'll get an answer. Another thing, if you haven't driven by the New Monrovia signage, three new signs were installed. Two along Cove Road, one at Railway Ave, and the other across near Flounder. It says the third was installed at the end of 47th Street. I highly recommend you drive by these because it's a thousand percent improvement over the old ones, which you couldn't really even see what it said. Old Palm City, Palm City Place and Ripple Stormwater Eco Art Project is what we're going to cover. We had the grand opening slash ribbon cutting on June 1st. And again, if you haven't been there, I highly recommend you drive by there. It's very nice. Rio, we're going to talk about Pocket Park, Enfield Sewer, Bio Rehab, Bio Swale Rehab, and Crosswalks. The Pocket Park is located southwest of the Martin Ave roundabout. The before and after pictures of the Bio Swale completion are on this slide, which is quite amazing. Crosswalk locations are located on the map above. Location number one is the one where we are working with the property owner for easements. Next up is CRA-wide. We're going to talk about public records, design standards, Martin Cares, and the FRA award applications. As you all know, we had a public records training at our last CRA board meeting. And that exact training is going to happen at all of the NACs. And hopefully you've been able to navigate your new email addresses. To be revisited. For design standards, we have ongoing meetings and revisions. And again, we are going to take that to each NAC to present as well. On to the permit numbers. Our permit overview always compares the third quarter of the previous year with the third quarter of the year we're talking about. So these are the numbers. Pretty much the same as third quarter of 23. These graphs show that the permit totals generally took the same, look the same, as far as distribution into the CRAs for residential permit numbers. The valuation is another story. It looks like the yellow piece of pie is much bigger than last year. And that's because Old Palm City built seven single-family homes on Southwest 35th Street. So that's the jump in the number there. Commercial-wise, it looks pretty much the same as far as permit numbers. And when you go to the valuation, Hope Sound was quite a jump in the third quarter of 24. And upon researching, the Hope Sound Library, which is in the Hope Sound CRA, had a remodel for $525,000. That's all for the third quarter report. If you have any questions, please let me know. Any questions? I'm good. Thank you. Everybody good? Mm-hmm. Thank you so much. Thanks, Jana. Now we're going to capital projects review. Is that up? Let's operate. It was just the agenda. It didn't seem to have anything. Oh, I can do that. Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, board members. We're going to do our capital projects review. And today will be a first because I'm going to talk about every single item for the first time ever. So we're going to start with El Camino. As Jana mentioned, our bids were opened on June 12th. I can give you a little bit more information. We are still in the cone of silence, so what I can tell you is what's also on our website. We had two proposals that came in, one from BDI Marine Contractors. And as you recall, we had split it into the main project and an alternative. So each responder gave us a price for the main and a price for the alternative. BDI Marine Contractors, Inc. came in, and I'll just give you the totals, $3,579,323. And Sunshine Land Design came in at $5,203,798. The contract will be awarded at the Board of County Commissioners' meeting on August 8th. So tune in. The great news is that we'll be able to do the whole project. We did receive some additional ARPA funding for that project as well. So there was some ARPA money that had been left on the table because the rule is any ARPA funds have to be encumbered by the end of this year. Some of those projects that the money was allocated to in the past, we're not able to meet that deadline. We are able to meet that deadline. So we got a piece of that reallocation pie, which is really great. And it's the reason why we can do the entire project. And so that'll be really exciting. We're hoping to have some construction underway by the end of the year. If all goes well, and we can get the contractor to get up to speed as quickly as possible. So that's all really great news. Hope Sound train station relocation. Jana did talk about that. It's part of a larger project, as you know, the Dixie Highway Stormwater and Streetscape Redesign. On July 9th, the Board of County Commissioners did approve the land use and the zoning change. And that will enable the train station, the old train station, to be placed on the property. The other thing that is really exciting is that they actually gave us a date when that's going to happen. So I'll see you all there. It's August 18th at 5 a.m. I'm glad to hear some laughter because I won't be there. Anyway, that's what we were told. So there you go. We'll see if that actually happens at that time. But even if it doesn't, it's imminent. Port Salerno Infrastructure Partnerships is our Park Drive Improvements project. I did talk with Public Works, and we are looking at 100% design by the end of August and construction to begin by the end of the year. Yeah, barely. You'll notice that there have been projects added this month. So Port Salerno Sidewalk Connections has been added. I'm sorry. That one has not been added. That was already here. But construction began on that project on July 8th, and that's moving along very nicely. New Monrovia Park Improvements was added. Yes. You can. I don't, unfortunately. Jamie and Joy is not here. Jordan knows. They're going to move it. They're going to move that box, Jamie. Sure. Quick interruption. Yeah. August 18th, you said, was the Hope Sound movie? I did. That's a Sunday. Okay. I have to close. Yeah, I would think. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Plus, they don't want it to get stolen. So I guess maybe they thought people wouldn't come out on Sunday. Always a great story. New Monrovia Park Improvements. So we did receive okays from Martin County School Board to move forward with all the improvements, and CAPTEC has been retained to perform the engineering design. They are currently doing that. So hopefully we'll have something to bring to you all shortly. New Monrovia Neighborhood Improvements has also been added. Jana did talk a little bit about that as well. We have moved ahead a little bit, and we're using WSP USA Environment and Infrastructure, Inc. They're going to do the design for that. And right now we're defining the scope and the activities that are going to happen so that they can get started. 707, Streetscape Enhancements in Rio. This is one that has been added as well. This is more Streetscape Enhancement on 707. It's going to complete the Dixie Highway from the S-curve to Langford Lane. And it will be a streetscape like the same as has been done on the more southern piece with street trees, sidewalks, maybe bike lanes if we can do it, curbs, medians, landscaping, whatever would be appropriate for the road. And that's why we have Marlin Engineering with Dover Coal and partners looking at that to give us a conceptual design because it is a challenging roadway. So we're looking for some good ideas from folks in the business. And they will also be defining a scope for the CRA property in the Civic Center, which is another large project for Rio. You know that we've acquired lots of key properties right off 707 in that center of town, right next to where the Civic Center sits today. So there's a lot of ways that you can go with this because of the amount of properties and where the Civic Center is and the Rio Town Center project all kind of in one. So there's a lot to look at. We thought it was a good idea to go with the same firm to do the conceptual for both because it's all intertwined. At some point, all roads meet. So it looked like a much better idea to have somebody looking at the whole thing in a holistic way than to have pieces and parts trying to fit them together. So we are working on scopes for both of those projects with that company. CRA Neighborhood Enhancements. It's been a while since we've had, or never, since we've had completes next to every project. And now with the completion of the signage in Port Salerno. And I did have a little couple of pictures to show as well for folks that didn't get a chance. And just to point out, as Janice said, you could barely see what those signs said. The actual design of the signs didn't change. So the part in the middle and how they are installed didn't change, except for the installation. Now they're higher. So it used to be this middle piece was practically on the ground. So we raised it up, and it has a different edge to it. Things are a little more 3D, so I think it kind of pops out a little more. I don't know, Jamie, I'm sure you've seen them. They look really nice. They're a little bit larger. Yeah, that could be. I know that, yeah, this part probably is, because it's framed out differently. So there's one on Railway, and then 47th Street, as Jana mentioned, and Cove Road. So, yeah, that's a good question. Joy is going to be looking into that when she comes back. So that would be sort of the next part. We'll look at a little landscaping. Yeah, yeah, she's following up with, yeah, good. Fantastic. We'll see if he comes through. What did I do with my little? And last but not least, the investment program. I'm not really going to say anything about that other than the next two items on our agenda are about that topic. So I'm going to leave that up to Jana to come back and for Elise to come back, and they can talk about that. So does anyone have any questions for me on capital projects or about anything else? Looks good. Fantastic. Okay, moving right along. Go business. CRA Investment Program Marketing Plan. We really don't have any slides for this presentation, but Jana Cox, I'm joined by Elise Rafa. Yes, Community Development Coordinator for the Office of Community Development. So we are going to talk about the CRA Investment Program Marketing Plan, and I have three items to talk about, and I'll talk about the first one, and I'll let Elise take the next two. But as you know, the CRA Investment Program has been operating for more than a year. We feel like it's very successful, but now we need a marketing plan. So as promised, we are bringing you that, and at your seats you'll find the brochure, and that's what I'm going to talk about. So our idea is to have this brochure available to place, like, in the Chamber of Commerce at the BOCC building. We'll have them at all the NAC meetings, the CRA board meetings, to let people know that this is what the program is all about. This is how you can become eligible. This is how you apply. And I think that this session is kind of roundtable. Let's get some ideas what you guys think. Do you like the brochure? We're also going to rotate the pictures, not have the same picture, you know, maybe next quarter we'll find a better, you know, not a better, but a different picture. Just kind of see how it goes over and make some changes and keep improving it. Is there any way to make the font a little bigger? Is it kind of small on the entire brochure? Well, like I said, I mean, because, you know, when you look at the inside here, it's really small print, especially like this one down here with the blue, with the white print. It's really hard to read that, at least for us old people. Keep in mind as well that this isn't actual proof, so because it's done, you know, on our office computer, there's a border, so perhaps we should get a proof-proof and have everyone look at that. But I know it does look quite small on that. Is there any possibility to go an 11 by 17 rather than 8 1⁄2 by 11? That's a possibility. Yeah, we could do that. Because we're not going to be mailing them, so that's very, very possible. We could just scale the whole thing up. Yeah, yeah. I thought we were going to mail them. Oh, well, we're mailing the letters. With that, too. With the brochure, yes, we are. Yeah, sorry. Oh, but that's, we can figure that out. But again. Fold it three, four times. Yeah. Make little footballs out of them and put them across to people. Right. While you're talking about mailing, and I'm sure you're getting to this, but how are you going to distribute them? Sounds like by mail. Yes. Well, and that meeting. Meetings and, you know, as program managers, we will go out and visit, you know, if we see, you know, we think somebody needs their fence replaced or they're dumped. So it won't be like a mass mailing? It would be a more targeted kind of? More targeted to the people that are eligible, not the entire CRA. So when we get to the letters, we'll talk more about the mailing. But we're also, I myself, want to become more diligent with before and after pictures, make sure that we get, you know, it looks the same, it's the same angle, all that kind of thing. Because that's what really shows off the improvement. Any other questions? That's fine. Either way, Jamie, but yeah, you can have them call or email. And then I'll turn it over to Elise to talk about the letter and our website. Yeah, so along with this brochure, there was the idea to create an invite letter to all of the targeted businesses and property owners that are eligible. Naomi has gathered a list for us. So we're going to, you know, go through that and work on getting this printed professionally and then mailed out with the letter. The idea was that Jana would have her business card and then each of the program managers for each of the CRAs would also throw in their card. And the follow-up from the letter would be then to go visit and be like, hey, let them digest all the information and hopefully they would call. But if not, pop your head in and hopefully they take advantage of it. And then the other big part is I've been working on updating the website. So hopefully with the next meeting, I can show it to you with really focusing on the completed projects that link to the project reports that show the before and afters. And it's just a lot more user-friendly and engaging. Eventually, I would also love to do video interviews with the folks that benefited from this program and get their testimonials. And I think it'd be really great, you know, because it's a fantastic project, especially with the before and afters. It's amazing. And that's all I got. So I didn't know if you guys had any other ideas. This all sounds great. Sounds good. I think it looks good. Okay, perfect. Good. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. So now we're going to talk about the completion, program completion. You coming back up? Okay. So I was hoping that the applicant would be here, but I'm going to present the applicant eight completion report. This one happened to be in Port Salerno at 4625 Southeast Dixie Highway. And it's where the roofing company is just north of the district table. This is just a little bit about the program, and we include this in every slide for hopefully people that are watching how to apply and about the program. The program types, there's property improvement and fence and landscape programs. This was a property improvement program, and they qualified with the following exterior signage and parking lot improvements. The target areas in each CRA are listed here. In Port Salerno, this particular business is in the core sub-district. This is just the process of filling out the application, coming in, meeting with the CRA representative, and then it gets presented to the board and approved. A little bit about the applicant. We presented to the CRA board in January of 24, and they were actually here. Their improvements were completed in March. The property owner is Caesars Holding Group, LLC. The location, I already told you the location. The building improvements were completed. Update, repair, replace three exterior signs, and you'll see pictures of that in the next slides. New asphalt and striping of the parking lot, and the total project cost was $18,175. They were reimbursed 80% of that, or $14,540, so their contribution was $3,635. Prior to applying, the applicant had already improved the building quite a bit. If you can see the picture on the top is the old stone, and then the bottom right-hand corner was the new look to the building. The before pictures, the signs, and the parking lot, I'm not sure how long that sign had been around. It's like log poles, and they actually have three signs on the property. So the second sign at the bottom, it needed new lighting, the one that says the roofing general. And the after pictures, it's different than the thing that I sent out for the agenda because they actually sent me some drone pictures. That's what the top one is, and then you can see how beautiful the sign is now. No more logs. The before and after comparison of the signs. If you drive by there at night, all the lights work. It's very nice. And then this is the after of the parking lot with the seal coating and the striping. And a couple more pictures that they sent me. The sign on the building, you can see at the bottom right-hand corner, is where they put their logo because they have tenants in there, and that's the name of their building. And that's all I have for this presentation. If you have any questions, please let me know. Any questions? No? Mm-hmm. Yes. They installed some landscaping, too. Yeah. I knew they were looking at landscaping last time I went over there, and it kind of just spurs on different things. Once they get one thing improved, they want to make it look better, and Nicole, who works there, said she actually enjoys coming to work now. So, oh, that's nice. It does seem like they get it done really quickly after they get it done. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's probably because they have to lay out the dollars. So, see, there's a reason. Do you have anything else, Susan, before we move? I do. I just have a quick couple of updates. Design standards, we start. You saw the schedule earlier. I'm happy to send out that schedule to you of all the public meetings via email if that's helpful. We will start with our NACs August 5th in Golden Gate. That'll be our little design standard kickoff for public meetings. And we will have a draft on the website probably by the end of this week, early next week, so that anybody can take a look at that. And I'm happy to send that draft to you if you like before you'll be reviewing it. I think your schedule is what? We can have our microphones on. I think your schedule for the CRA, for Dana and Jessica Treasure Coast to come to the CRA, I think is, I want to say, September or October. Probably October. So, a little while yet. And also, county-issued emails. How can we help? Because we're not supposed to be sending out anything to your old emails anymore. So, does anyone need IT to call them and work with them? Yes. One, two. Jamie? I'll let you know. I was down last week. Okay. All right. So, you will not be getting anything from us on your old email accounts. So, if you think we're ignoring you or we don't love you anymore, this is not true. I feel that. Sadia did feel it. And she had to call. So, I don't want anyone else to feel that. But I will talk to IT about both of you and see if we can get, who we can get to give you a call and set that up and make sure we get you on board. Is there someone we can call? Like, the only thing I find is just the login. Is there a way to speak to someone about a quicker login way? I don't know who that would be, Bert. It's certainly not me. Don't want me to tell you anything IT. But let me find out who would be. I mean, I can get it all going and get in and it's just fine. It's just a little cumbersome logging in, going to the website and then logging in. And maybe it's just a matter of me staying logged in because when it says log out, I'll log out. My problem was the password. So, are you trying to stay logged in? Well, I guess that's a question. Should I or I'd prefer not to? When you're logging in, are you using your phone to log in or are you using a public? No, computer. Computer? Office. My office. You should be able to just stay logged in so you don't have to log in. Even though I have another Outlook account? Yeah, you shouldn't. You can switch between? Yeah. Okay. I'll give it a shot. Okay. I'll find out who might be able to help you as well, Bert. Okay. Yeah. Thanks. And that's all for me. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Moving right along, we're going to go to comments. First up would be the public. If anyone from the public has any comments, questions, if you'll come to the podium and state your name, you'll have three minutes. Anyone from the public? No? Okay. Moving right along. Members? I just have a quick one. When we do reviews like this, it's a good reminder, Susan, of how much you and your staff get done every year. It's a lot. It's a lot. Very impressive. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate that. I have one. I was approached, and I was asked if the same investment program we have, because it's working beautifully, can you do that for the properties? There are a lot of people who could use it. Residential properties? Yes. So I have done those in the past in other CRA areas, not here in Martin County. I know they did it in Martin County years ago. There was a residential program. We did not put that forward immediately. We wanted to kind of test the waters a little bit, and I remember doing that as well in Palm Beach, in West Palm Beach, with Habitat. So Habitat does a brush for kindness, where property owners pay whatever they can or- Materials. Yeah. So what we were coming across in West Palm was that they couldn't pay for the materials that they needed, so the CRA would step in and pay everything but 10% or whatever it was. So we could certainly look at something like that. We would need to bring a program like that back to the Board of County Commissioners. Yes, because before we'd done, like, painting, and it was what the hub would keep Martin beautiful, and it stopped. Yeah. I'm not sure that we have the funding to do it, the whole thing, the way we do this investment program, but I don't know, Mike, if you're interested in collaborating, we could- No, I'm not collaborating with it. Of course. It's not going to happen. All I do is collaborate. In the middle name. Yeah, no. Maybe we can talk, you and I can talk about that offline a little bit and see how that might work. Yeah, because we were super active for a while in Golden Gate and East Stewart and Indian Town. So yeah, we're trying to get back into the, a little bit more active. So yeah, we can do that for sure. Okay, maybe the timing is right to try it. Because that time, the paint was donated. I mean- Well, that's, we used to get donated paint every year, and then that program ended. Yeah. So, but we have other ways to figure things somehow. I mean, it might not be on the scale of paint 60 homes in one day like we did 2010, but I mean, we can still do a pretty good amount of work. So yeah. Okay. And maybe it's not just painting. You know, maybe there's- Minor exterior repairs. Yeah. I have it all written up for you already. What was it? They brought us, you know, like they put a fire, what do you call them? Smoke detectors. Yeah, small detectors. It was the Red Cross. Yes, I remember when they did that. Yeah. And- Hmm? I think the fire department- Yeah, they do. Yeah, they were with them. They were with the Red Cross, and it was really, really nice. Yeah. Everybody kind of, and they have 10 years of lifespan, so. So when was that? When do we need to do it again, Steve? Probably like in five years. Probably five years ago. Yeah. And does that target owner-occupied? Yes. That's what we, our side is owner-occupied, for sure. Yeah. I mean, there'd have to be criteria just like there is with the property, you know, the commercial property owners. Yeah. I mean, because there's certainly commercial property owners that are multifamily housing that could benefit from- Yeah. We didn't do owner have to be in the house. We was, even the renters, we just went in and see who doesn't have the fire extinguisher. Oh, for that program. Oh, for that program. Yeah. You're talking about the other. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If we're going to expand the, you know. Yeah. We'll take a look at it and bring it back. I was thinking about the, we all have a budget of enhancement, you know, like we could use that. Depending on the CRA area, yeah, you could. And we can ask our commissioners to donate, too. I have nothing. I just have a quick, I know I had asked about this before, especially with hurricane season and everything. Is there a maintenance program that, or plan that is set up in the county to trim trees or prune them, whatever? Specifically for hurricanes or just in general? In general, but I know around hurricane season, we typically think about it a little more. So, in general, yes, we, the county does have contracts with contractors that do tree trimming and pruning and picking up all the stuff. I don't know what the contracts say, to tell you the truth, Jamie. It seems like it would be more than that. I would think so. But I don't know. Because I know I. Probably field operations would have that information. I'd be happy to contact them and see. I just know a lot of the trees just have not been trimmed through, through Port Salerno. So, email me specific. Yeah, I send it to Joy. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'll get with Joy about that. And we can look at the specifics of the places you're talking about and find out how often they get to those. Yeah. Yep, no problem. Anybody else? I have someone from the public. Fantastic. Good afternoon. Hey, Susan. Nancy Turrell, Executive Director of Martin Arts. And thank you, Chairman, for helping me collude on this special announcement. So, annually, we have an event at Martin Arts called the Martin Arts Awards. And we recognize artists in the visual, the literary, and performing arts. And then our board, and those are nominated from the community. And we have, you know, esteemed panel of judges who make all those decisions. But in addition to the nominated awards, we have honorary awards that our board and our event committee name annually. Lifetime achievement in the arts, arts leadership, and a couple of other categories, including special recognition, and our board and committee felt like the work that the Office of Community Development, and specifically Susan, has done on the Ripple Project in making eco-art come to life in the Palm City CRA, that we are recognizing you with a Martin Arts Awards this year. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Look at us, Jordan. That's for you, too. The event is held November 13th at the Lyric Theater. So, you'll be prepared to make comments on stage at the Lyric that night. And hopefully, you all can attend. Tickets aren't on sale yet, but... We'll be there. All right. So, congratulations. Can we get a quick photo with everybody? Sure. Is that okay? Yeah. Okay. Do we want to adjourn the meeting first, and then... Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Can we adjourn the meeting first? Oh, sure. Did the county have anybody, anything else to say? No? Okay. Meeting adjourned. Good work. Thank you, Nancy. First thing on the agenda is Pledge of Allegiance. Aye. Good public. Okay. Approval of last meeting's minutes. Motion to approve. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Asked. Any conflicts of interest? Okay. Does anyone from the public have any comments going on to old business? Program project updates? Good afternoon. Elise Raffa, Community Development Coordinator. In regards to the Raya Roundabout, we recently had a phone call with the developer, and his schedule is being pushed back, which, of course, is going to push our schedule. They're hoping to have approval in September from the board for the project. So, depending on that, we're looking to release this RFQ in January of 2025, and then that would give about a year with the expectation of install between January and May of 2026 is their timeline for now. So, we're just going to chill. And come January. Just to give you another detail, Susan Cora's Office of Community Development. When Elise says approval of the project, what's happening is that the Raya Town Center has the south portion, and then they have the roadway, because they're doing so much roadway work on 707. So, that's the piece they need to wait for approval, final approval from the board. And then we can move on. So, it wasn't approval for the art project. It was approval for the construction. Yeah. And that's why you're still sat here. Nobody is. Okay. And then moving on. What do I have next on here? Sorry. What's my second thing? The mooring field. The mooring field. Yes. So, push that up. So, attached is a draft of a request for proposals for the mooring field facility. As you all know, the community was interested in having a mosaic. So, in this, we have it all outlined. The community overview about art and public places. The project description. Building is scheduled to be open at the end of February 2025, according to Public Works. We have the related departments outlined. Budget. Eligibility. And so, I would just make a, ask for you all to make a motion to approve. And then, I'll work with Public Works to get a more concrete timeline. So, I can't remember how this comes into the budget. Is it $15,000 we're putting out? Yes. So, we, the Public Art Advisory Committee agreed to, not to exceed $15,000. We did, however, add a signage piece to it. Not sure how much difference that makes. It's a large mosaic. So, I don't, I don't really know the costs of that. Nancy, do you have any ideas about that? Because it's a pretty big mosaic. And we have added the signage to it. One of the reasons why we wanted to do that is that the community has been asking for quite a while. And Jamie can attest to this as well at NAC meetings that people don't know that there's a lovely boardwalk there or, you know, now they're not going to know what this facility is. So, it would be nice to have some signage there that directed folks out of the street and onto the boardwalk instead of, again, walking in the street. So, that's why we thought this might be a great opportunity to do that because the artist, whoever that may be, can design something for the facility and something complimentary for the signage so that it's not all ad hoc, that it's kind of, you know, yes. Thank you. So, that's why we put that piece in there. And I don't know if there's, is there a per foot cost for mosaic? Is there anything like that? We didn't find anything like that and I wasn't sure. Nancy Turrell, Executive Director of Martin Arts. I can't remember how much Brenda was paid for the beach mosaics, but that was a really long time ago. So, I'm thinking that the mosaic on the Memorial Park bathrooms was in this $15,000 to $20,000 range, but that's pretty extensive. It is, yes. So, I think your number's probably. Okay. Yeah. All right. I think so. Well, I guess we'll know once you put it out there. Right. Nobody responds, then we'll know. Has our maintenance experience with the mosaics we have pretty consistent with the other art that we have to maintain? Mosaics are fairly easy to maintain. Yeah. Because really all you have to do is clean them. And every few years we have to repair the one at the beach. Well, because that's a ceramic relief. That's a little bit different. Oh, okay. What happens to the one at the beach, unfortunately, is that kids climb on it and people touch it. And since it's very 3D, you know, stuff falls off or whatever. It's cracked. Yeah. Mosaics seem to be fairly low maintenance. Yeah. Any other discussion? Do we have any motions? I'll make a motion to approve the draft. I'll second it. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Approved. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any other? And that's all I have with that. If that's the case, moving on to public comments. Oh. Sorry. Sorry. No. I'm a first timer. I'm so sorry. Okay. So next we were going to talk about the updates that I have. So as we discussed last meeting, I've been doing some website updates for Art and Public Places that have included, you know, rearranging how we're looking at all of the art. So as you can see, everything is now separated by area within the county versus just having one long list. I think as a user, I think, as a user, I think, I think, as a user, that's easier. It was also noted by you all that it would be very cool to click on the piece and have it linked directly to where it's at. So we have that capability now. And just so that is what's going on here. I do want to do more of a comprehensive tour. So this is just more of an overview. But my ideas with the tour would be a narrated video, hopefully with the artist that made the piece, that talks about the idea of the work, their artist statement, you know, a little of their history to make it more engaging for everyone. My other updates include the Hope Sound Library. Susan and I recently met with them to discuss their upcoming project, which includes two book benches. It'll be facing more Dixie Highway than, I guess, what's the other road name that's there? Side road. U.S. 1? No. In next to our church. Anyway, it's facing more Dixie Highway. The doorway? Yeah. The doorway, is it? Oh, yes. Yes, that's it. So she gave clarification on that. And I have a note here. Their theme for the mural they want to do is wildlife reading or being read to. That was the winning choices of their staff. So we're going to work on creating a call to artists for your review for the next meeting. And so that should be a really great project. That mural has potential to be enormous. So we're really excited about that. And then the other update I had was, I know we were discussing nature signage at the patio, Palm City Place. So I had done a little digging on what we had spent for Ripple in the signage that's out there. So those 12 by 18 signs just for the sign itself were $800 apiece. That's just food for thought. The design part, if we wanted to move forward with this, I could do. And we know that Dr. Santel would be donating his photographs. So I'll leave it to you all to keep on. Rex, what do you have in your, you know, photographic satchel, if you will? What do you have that you think is, would, would work for it? Because what I was thinking is that it might be worthwhile for us to come up with a number of them. How many do we want to do? Well, when I donated them for the telephone or the light boxes, I gave Commissioner Campy around 200 of the birds. So do you have any specific ones that you think work best for the, for the Palm City Place? I think it's what we've seen over there. And I've seen several, which I could go over with you. I also have an alligator with his neck on the fountain. That actually is a really cool photo. I don't know if any of you guys have seen that. So I would suggest maybe if you all want to, are interested in, in taking this up as a project. I did bring budget sheets, but I don't know what I did with them. So we can always bring it up on the computer. But what I do recall is in our capital projects budget, at the end of this year, I believe we'll have something like $40,000. And that's with spending the $20,000 for Hope Sound, which we're not going to do probably in fiscal year 24. That won't happen until 25. Come October 1st, we get our next 50. So we certainly have it in the budget to do that if it is the will of the committee to have us move forward on doing that. Yeah. I'd like to see, you know, how many signs we're going to do and what it would cost. Yeah, so if you would like, we can, yeah, we can move ahead and go to capital. So, yeah, so $43,000, I was pretty close. And the expenditures for 2024, we will not be spending the Rio Roundabout money yet. So we have that in the kitty and the, again, the $20,000 for the library. The others are spent. We just invest the Rio Roundabout money into something. Like mutual funds? Like what are we talking about? Because that's where I'm going. If we'd started with Bitcoins when this started, we'd have like $500,000. We would have so much art. Have a Bitcoin in the roundabout? We had a discussion about transformers and other utilities being wrapped. I don't know if that's something that perhaps we could look into. Yeah, we did look at that. So there's two ways to look at that. You've got the entire county because Art in Public Places is a countywide project. So I had kind of looked at it as I was looking at doing that kind of thing per CRA because I just think it's more manageable because how would we, like, how would we decide Art in Public Places where you were going to put them? And then do we have to go out for RFP or do we, you know, when you do it in a smaller chunk might make more sense. And, again, that's up for discussion. You know, you all can. That makes sense. I will tell you that Commissioner Campy is the one that funded the ones in the city. And he used ambersand. And I've also used them once for the oceanographic that I did. And they're really good about what they do. Yeah. And they're local. They're right here. I don't know. Who did we use for, I don't know, who Lucy used for Ripple? Oh, Sinorama. Sinorama. Okay. I would just extend from the CRAs the neighborhood around all the schools that we have because that would seem like an ideal spot to have that, particularly the lower level schools where a lot of the kids are walking there and stuff. And we'd be getting a car line and everything else where people are going to see it. That would be manageable, yeah. Yeah. Right. If we just said, let's do it near elementary and middle schools. Right. You know? Mm-hmm. That's kind of cool. We could do that. I have a good idea. You know, we can certainly add that to our list. Right. And then on the signage for all the art, it makes me remember that we have those sculptures that we were thinking about whether to sell, loan out, or do something with. So, clearly spending money on signage for those wouldn't be worthwhile, but maybe getting an idea what the count would be of the appropriate signage for the art that we do want to put signs on, like that estimate from you guys would be helpful. I think we have. Don't we have signs on everything? We do. Yeah. Okay. New signs, the new logos and all that. Yeah. Oh, right. Okay. Perfect. I think we've got... The ones that don't have the new signs are the pieces at Stewart Beach. And then I think there was one more, but the Stewart Beach, I think, is the only one that doesn't have a ceramic relief. And we're working on that one now. Yeah. Okay. Great. You know, we can certainly add that, wrapping the boxes to this, but that does not answer my question about Palm City Place. And if you guys want to do that. So, if we're looking at 800 bucks per, and we are thinking about a finite number, how many animals would you say do we need to talk about? Five? Four? There's probably been about five or six bird species there, and then alligator, if you want to do that. Okay. I haven't seen any other wildlife that I've seen so far. Okay. We will, if you would all like, we will go back and get a specific price for that. That will include the installation and et cetera. Is this taking away from your ideas to concentrate it in the community redevelopment areas by going countywide with this? I liked Rich's idea of the countywide, you know, doing it near schools. No, that could be two separate. Yeah. No, we can still do that. Good. I think it's a good idea. I like the idea. I think. Okay. You know, they're always, they're just generic, the current condition of utility boxes. So, we can look at, you know, maybe doing a couple of schools per CRA. Let's see what school, we don't have elementary schools, I think, in each one. No schools in Golden Gate, though. No, but Hope Sound's got a couple. All right, we'll take a look at that. We don't have any in Jensen. Just the high school. Okay. Then maybe it doesn't have anything to do with the CRA. It's just wherever the schools are. Right. Okay. We'll take a look at what's there so we can look at how many that might be. Oh, we do have Jensen Beach Elementary. Yeah. I live three blocks away from it. Yeah. So, we'll just look at it countywide. I'm not sure time frame or anything, but Commissioner Smith came to me and asked if I would donate for some in Jensen Beach. I don't know if he's doing the whole thing or whatever. Hey. He just approached me one time, and I don't know if it's going to happen or not. I'm not going to remind him. As long as you guys leave something for my Camino. Was he? Oh, we've got plenty. Was he referring to wrapping the boxes? Yes. Oh, okay. All right. I like the idea around the schools, but I'm also thinking like the little downtown areas. Like every area has like a little downtown area. Also playgrounds for the kids. Which is usually near the downtown areas, you know? Yeah. A lot of them. All right. We'll discuss what looks like it might work, like being the most apparent, the most visible. Okay. We'll take a look at that and bring something back. Right. Are we doing a patio? Yeah. We're just going to get costs. Okay. Yep. Well, that's all I have now. Okay. Anything else, Susan? No. I'm just so excited about the Martys now. Wow. Okay. Let's go on. Comments? Public? Anyone from the public have any comments? No? Members? I do have one. Yes. Can you make a note for somebody to check out the mosaic at Indian Riverside Park? I was there a couple of weeks ago, and there are probably seven or eight pieces missing. At the mansion? At the mansion. Oh, missing? Yeah. That guy was just there. Yeah. Oh, well, this is a couple of weeks ago, so I don't know. Okay. This was a couple of months ago, at least, but that's weird. Yeah. Okay. I just happened to go up there for grins and giggles, and I was like, oh, it's missing pieces. That's so funny, the guy from that studio. Remember that day, Naomi? Naomi and I, we missed each other, and it was pouring rain, and my umbrella broke. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. But the good news was he told me that the mosaic looked fine. Anyone else? Staff? No, I'm good. Okay. I'd like to go ahead and adjourn the meeting, then. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you.