Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Thank you. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic of which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. I think we'll start with introductions. Introduce yourself. We'll start with the county and work our way around the room. Chief Elder, Acting County Attorney. Good morning. Stacey Hetherington, District 2 County Commissioner. Sarah Hurd, County Commissioner. Blake Capps, County Commissioner, District 3. Don Donaldson, County Administrator. Good morning. Michael Main, Superintendent of Schools. Herschelie Roberts, School Board. Marsha Powers, School Board. Amy Pritchett, School Board. Jen Russell, School Board. Dr. Brian Moriarty, Martin County School Board, District 5. Tony George, School Board Attorney. Darren Krista, Village Manager for Indiantown. Carmine DiFalo, Village Mayor for Indiantown. Angelina Perez, Council Member. Taylor Simons, Assistant Village Attorney for Indiantown. Mike Mortel, Stewart, City Manager. Eula Clark, City of Stewart, Commissioner. Campbell Rich, Mayor, City of Stewart. Good morning, everyone. Laura Giobbe, Commissioner, City of Stewart. Lee Baggett, City Attorney. Okay. Thank you. Do we have any opening comments for anybody? No. Any public comments? No. Okay. Agenda items. Public Works Project for Keith Baker. Hello. Good morning, everyone. I'm Keith Baker, the Capital Project Administrator for Martin County. Typically, we run through pretty much all of our projects this morning. I'm going to change the format a little bit since we had a meeting just a couple months ago and just highlight a few projects. So recently, we started construction of the Charlie Layton Park improvements. The park and boat ramps will be closed until summer of 2026. At the bottom of the slide here, you can see some alternative ramps that could be used. We just have some photos of the construction. There's some floating turbidity barrier and staged equipment at the park. Here's an overall site plan of the improvements just to point out some key features. We're going to increase the number of boat parking spaces and regular passenger car parking spaces. And then we're replacing the boat ramps themselves. And there'll be a pergola area along the water side. Next project to highlight is the Port Salerno Peninsula improvements. This consists of a lot of drainage improvements. Sidewalk replacement, as mentioned, for if there's broken sidewalk or sidewalk that doesn't meet ADA requirements, we replace that. This is coordinated with the utility department. As part of the project, we installed low-pressure force main throughout parts of the neighborhood. Here's some photos of the active construction, increasing the size of some of the retention areas to maximize the storage volume to help improve water quality in the area. Next up is one of our resurfacing projects in Jensen Beach is Leilani Heights improvements. We have some nice before and afters. J.W. Cheatham was our contractor, and they did a very nice job with the resurfacing project. Here's a couple more photos of the job. Those were in construction, so to highlight one that's currently under design in the Hope Sound area. The Sun Trail project is a really cool project, a joint effort with FDOT to construct a 12-foot multi-use trail to connect Jonathan Dickinson Park to Sea Branch Preserve State Park. Here's a couple renderings. This is the last project to highlight today. Just some photos of the recent intersection improvements at Sunset Trail and High Meadow. They converted it from a regular three-legged intersection to a roundabout. With that, does anyone have any questions? All right, I'll turn it over to John. Good morning. John Mayall, your Martin County Environmental Resource Administrator. Taking a little bit different approach for this joint meeting, we used to kind of go through a list of all of our active projects. We're going to abbreviate it to just a few areas where you're likely to see some kind of impact or activity on the project. So the first one, thanks to a Florida Inland Navigation District grant that was recently awarded, this paddling access project is going to move forward. This is right across from the Jensen Beach Beach. This is an addition to our Blue Ways paddling network, and so folks will be able to paddle up to a landing there and a boardwalk that will take them to the beach or to hundreds of shores to eat or what have you. Or it could work the other way, too, where folks could launch there and access the lagoon. It's paddling only. There'll be a little cheeky hut about halfway through that boardwalk system. It's an area that was kind of low-hanging fruit for this because it was historically dredged out as a mosquito impoundment channel. It doesn't show up very well on that slide because of the elver story. There's a fairly established channel there, and there were some exotics that really had impacted the area. So as we cleaned up the exotics, we saw that there was an opportunity there, and now it's funded. So you'll start to see some construction activity on that in the next few months. Next slide. Yeah, we've had a couple of exciting developments on Martin County Forever. Does anybody not know what that is or need an explanation? It seems like it's gotten a fair amount of attention. In the last couple weeks, we've had a couple of landmark steps in the Martin County Forever program. The first would be the Environmental Lands Oversight Committee, which is your Citizens Oversight Committee for Martin County Forever, approved 16 properties to move forward as Martin County Forever projects. In total, those are about 10,000 acres. Our next step will be to take those properties to the Martin County Board for final approval to have them be active Martin County Forever projects. Then your staff will go to work on due diligence, negotiating agreements, and establishing partnerships to acquire those properties. A couple months ago, the board approved the first two Martin County Forever projects, and one of those, I believe, we're closing out shortly, and it's an additional 1,000 acres, more or less, in Palmar. And the other one, we had kind of a notable event on Tuesday morning. The governor and cabinet approved a conservation easement for Barbie Ranch, which is 1,600 acres of pristine, stunning natural area out by the C-44 Stormwater Treatment Area. It plays a critical role in our natural lands component of Everglades restoration. Chair Hurd was able to be there for that with the governor and cabinet. And it's something we've been working on for years. It's a partnership with Florida Forever, where they are going to do the closing on a $17 million easement on this property. And the county is going to commit $5 million from the Martin County Forever sales tax. So super exciting, and lots more exciting things to come with this, where we kind of permanently move the needle for ecosystems. Next slide. So this is an ongoing project, but it's going to go through a notable change. In Indian Riverside Park, we've been doing a resilience project where we're hardening the shoreline and putting in some living shoreline components to that. We're moving offshore now as we've kind of finished the shoreline work, and you'll start to see some activity in the lagoon as we build a series of offset breakwaters that will help to preserve that shoreline, and it'll also encourage... We'll get that taken here. It's more interesting, I'm sure, more productive anyway. So those breakwaters will help to encourage oyster growth and accreepment of sand behind them, and so it'll make the habitat more suitable for seagrass restoration. We'll follow that up with some seagrass plantings to make sure that that fills in well. And I think that was all I was going to mention today. So if there are any questions, happy to take them. Questions? Go ahead. So to date, how much money has been raised from Martin County Forever? We've collected about $12 million in receipts. It's about a three-month lag between when they're collected and when the state sends them over. So as of yesterday, it was about $11.7 million. And how much has been committed by the commission so far? You mentioned the $5 million. About $12 million, but we won't close on Barbie Ranch until probably January or February. And then what is the total cost estimated for the 16 properties? That's a challenging question to answer because we haven't really started due diligence on those properties. We've just got them qualified to participate in the program. So now we'll start doing appraisals, conversations with the owners and our partners. So it's pretty tough for us to put a number on it. Okay. Thank you. It would be many times our collection, ultimately. So it requires partnerships to get a dent in that entire list. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next up is City Utilities and Engineering Projects. Good morning, everyone. My name is Peter Kunin, Director of Utilities and Engineering for the City of Stewart. I hope you're all doing well this morning. I have a few updates for you on some of the ongoing projects at the City of Stewart. First will be our transportation projects. We have pavement maintenance for the area that's designated as Zone 3 that is currently in design. The pavement maintenance includes a variety of millings and surface treatments, asphalt renovations for some of the streets within the City of Stewart. And we're looking at having some of the streets done starting next summer. That's typically when we do the type of work during the summer months. The next project is also an ongoing project. It's at the City of Stewart Fire Station No. 3. It's a signalization project for the new fire station. And that is under construction. And the anticipated time for the completion of the project is this November. On to our utility projects. We have a lift station project. It's our Conquistador lift station. It's a rehabilitation project that is also under construction. And it's going to be a rehabilitation of an existing lift station with upgrades to the electrical control panel. The wet well is going to be rehabilitated. Piping is going to be changed out. And odor control will be installed. The anticipated time frame for the completion of this project is March of 2026. Also in construction is the installation of fire hydrants along St. Lucie Boulevard. We have a total of six fire hydrants that are going to be installed. And it's underway right now. We're looking at the completion of this project in December of this year. And then to our facility projects. We have also under construction at our water reclamation facility. It's the rehabilitation of our existing headwork structure at the wastewater plant. And that is just doing some upgrades to the headwork structure itself. Redoing some of the equipment inside the headworks. Adding coatings inside the headwork structure as well. Also odor control. Just doing a change out of the existing odor control system that's in place. The anticipated time frame for the completion of this project is this coming January of 2026. And then the Veterans Memorial Park project. The amphitheater project is also currently under construction. With the construction of the amphitheater in Veterans Memorial Park. There's also landscaping upgrades, putting in pavers. It's going quite well. It's under construction. We're looking at the completion of this project in March of 2026. And so with that, it's kind of a brief update of where we're at with some of our projects at the City of Stewart. And are there any questions that you may have at this time? Well, thank you very much. Very good seeing all of you. Thank you. Okay, next we'll have the Village Utilities of Indiantown. Good morning. I'm Pat Nolan. I'm the Director of Utilities and Public Works for the Village of Indiantown. First up, I've got some street projects. First one is the Uptown Roadway and Drainage Repair Project. That's basically design. And you'll see that most of our projects are grant funded. So the Uptown Roadway Drainage Repair Project has been designed. So now we're looking for funding to actually do the work. Southwest Lincoln Street Roadway and Drainage Project. That is a project that we have received funding from the Florida Department of Transportation. But we're working on possibly doing something different there because of challenges with the funding. Seminole Drive Project. That is a project we're going to drainage repair the road. Also a grant funded project. We are just finalizing the paperwork and hopefully we'll be starting that project soon. Roadway Repair and Maintenance. Basically, this is an overall roadway repair project that we started last year. We basically went and milled the worst of the streets in the Village of Indiantown. We're going to do that again this year. So we'll be doing year two. Year three, hoping to have the funding in place to actually do a comprehensive repair on one of our streets in the Village, which would encompass the infrastructure and the road. Water projects. Excuse me. First one is the existing water plant. We've received SRF funding to work on that, and we are in the design phase for that project. We're going to be updating pretty much the whole water plant, the wells, the pumps, adding a ground storage tank, and I'm happy to say that we are in design with that. We should be going out to bid very soon on the well project. Railroad Avenue Water Main. This has been on my presentation since I've been with the Village of Indiantown. This is a 100-year-old main that runs parallel to the CSX Railroad, which is the backbone of the system of the Village of Indiantown. We're trying to find funding for that, but it is designed, and as soon as we get funding, we're going to get going on that thing. 12-inch water main looping project. That was a project that was funded from ARPA Funding and Martin County Fire Department. That project is pretty much complete. We're just waiting for some final approvals from the FDEP, and that's going to be online. 151st and Osceola Street, also another project that we're looking for funding. You know, you're hearing a recurring theme here. We're looking for funding. We have a lot of projects that we'd like to do in the Village. It's just a matter of getting the funding and then getting to work. Special water projects. We've talked about this one also in previous presentations. This is a deep injection well. This is located at the wastewater treatment plant, and we're going to be using this to dispose of our concentrate from the new RO plant that we plan on constructing in the near future, as soon as we get the money. As Taryn always says, if you've got an extra $50 million in your pocket, we will take it, because we're going to build this plant. It's just a matter of funding. Wastewater. Excuse me. Some of you were in the Village a couple of months ago to see the progress of the wastewater plant. We broke ground, I believe it was July. As you can see in the picture on the left, one tank is almost complete. Another one is in the works. The two biggest tanks of the project are actually much further along than these pictures. We anticipate completing the wastewater plant in June of 26, as well as a deep injection well. There's also a slide that's not on there. We have recently signed a contract to drill three Floridan wells for the new RO plant. That started this week. So, on the next presentation, you'll probably see a picture of a Floridan well, if you've never seen one before. So, as you can see, our little village has got a lot going on. We're looking for funding every day. I have to thank the village board for all of their work, supporting us in finding that funding, and also supporting us in the projects as we encounter them. Questions? Also, if I can add, Pat, we have our village engineer, Tom Jensen, with us. Tom actually works for Kim Lee Horn, but he's a really important part of all these projects in putting together our capital project program, so I just wanted to recognize him. Absolutely. In the previous presentation, you know, they have a capital improvement project administrator, and I leaned over to Tom, and I said, oh, yeah, that's you. So, it goes without saying, everything that you see in these slides, it's not just me. There's a team, and Tom's fingerprints are on everything that we do in the village of Indiantown. Any questions? Commissioner, go ahead. As I had a question about deep injection wells, can you explain a little bit about what they're for and what goes in those? The deep injection well that we're drilling specifically is for the concentrate for the new RO plant that we will be building. You have to have some place, and what we're disposing of is just the natural constituents of the water that we pulled out of the ground from the Floridan wells. The Floridan wells are comprised of brackish water, and there's a lot of minerals in that water, and when you do the RO process, you pretty much remove everything from the water. There's nothing left in water that comes out of an RO plant, so you have to dispose of that, and you have to dispose of it safely. You also don't want to do anything to the aquifer, you know, the aquifer. So the deep injection well is down about 3,300 feet, and we will be naturally putting the concentrate from the RO process back into the ground. But you want to make sure that you encapsulate it, so there's a lot of geology involved. But we're basically putting what we took out of the ground back into the ground, but we don't want to affect the aquifer, which is the Floridan aquifer. I talked about Floridan wells. We're looking at drilling those wells about 800 feet, getting into the—we don't want to get into the really deep brackish water because then that will change how we treat the water. So, you know, this presentation is kind of, you know, I'm not getting into the weeds, but when we drilled the deep injection well, we did extra testing to see what the aquifer looked like as we were going down. Our initial plan was to go about 1,100 feet because there's other wells throughout the county that are about that deep. But once we did the testing with the deep injection well, we realized that the best water is about 800 feet. So we're going to save a little bit of money by not drilling that 1,100 feet, but we hopefully will get better water with a better quantity, and then it will be easier to treat in a nutshell. Thank you. Sure. Any other questions? Mr. Carmine? Thank you. Yes. You probably said it, but I didn't remember hearing it. But the total cost of that whole, I guess, four tanks or whatever you're putting in, and then the entire time frame, because I know that Indiantown has a lot of residential development coming along, and I was just trying to see how they were fitting. The wastewater plant specifically, we presently have a wastewater plant that will handle 750,000 gallons a day. The new plant will handle 1.2 million gallons a day with the ability to expand it another 600,000 pretty quickly. Everything we do, we're thinking about expandability as we build it, because we don't know where the expansion is going to go, but you also need to have reserves regardless of what the expansion is. And also, whether we expand or not, we need to improve the capability, the redundancy, and the resiliency of all of the infrastructure in the village. So that wastewater plant, the original estimate was $14 million. We're at about $26 million to build that. Fortunately, we've received appropriations from the governor's office. In totality, we've received $76 million from the governor's office. We're going to spend all $76 million on infrastructure. The wastewater plant, like I said, is about $26 million. We put a brand-new lift station in. My last presentation, I dropped it because we finished it. That was $1 million, $2 million. We've got infrastructure improvements. The Florida and Wells that I was talking about, they're $2.2 million each. We're doing three of those. We're going to need another three probably eventually if we do grow, but we've already planned for that. The RO plant, I say every time I speak to anybody, we're talking about $50 million to build that. The existing water plant, we have SRF funding for $12.3 million. We're going to use every penny of that. And again, if we don't grow, we still need to rebuild that existing water plant. We have days in the village of Indiantown where bad things could happen. We've been lucky. We've spent a lot of money improving the water plant that we have. But it's going to take all that $12 million to get us to where we should be. When I first met Taryn, we talked about that water plant. When Mr. Leslie sold it to the village, Martin County was looking at it. I don't know how many years ago that was, maybe $10 or $12, but they were talking about $60 million investment 10 or 12 years ago to bring it up to Martin County standards. So we're not going to get it to Martin County standards with that $12 million, but we're going to get it to where it's more reliable and more resilient. So the wastewater plant, I talked about infrastructure, deep injection well, that's $15 million. And these wells, this is just the drilling. You still have to outfit them. I believe the estimates to outfit each Florida well is $1 to $2 million each. That deep injection well is probably going to be $5 million. And I haven't talked about a reuse plant either. There's a reuse plant on site at the wastewater plant that we're rehabbing as well. Well, the previous operators built a reuse facility, but then shut it down about 10 years ago. So we've been rehabbing that. That's another $1 million, $2 million. So as you can see, $76 million sounds like a lot of money, but it's not. It doesn't go very far. The cost of doing business is so much more now than it was five years ago for a lot of reasons. So everything that we do, we try to, I didn't mention the deep injection well. We co-located it at the wastewater plant. That was actually a recommendation from South Florida Water Management District so that when we seek funding, it's more attractive to the funding agencies because we're using a dual purpose. If we have some kind of upset at the wastewater plant, we have an insurance policy with that deep injection well. We'll be able to put whatever upset we have as opposed to putting it into the environment, which is what you do with your effluent from a wastewater plant, is put it into that deep injection well. So we're funding it for the water treatment plant, but our thought process in the village, Tom, myself, Taryn, the board, is how do we maximize everything that we do? What can we get out of this project that we're doing? We don't just do a project to do a project. There's a lot of, and all the municipalities are thinking that way because I've spoken to, you know, the other directors. We're all thinking that way because we have to maximize what we do. So every project that we do, we try to get the most that we can out of it, but can we also affect another project in a positive way like the deep injection well? Thank you for your definitive answer. Sure. As you can tell, I'm kind of into what I do. I'm a wastewater geek. That's really what I am. I'm a wastewater guy. I enjoy going to work every single day because of what we're doing in the village of Indiantown. We have a very good team, very strong leadership, and like I said, I enjoy going to work every single day. Thank you. Commissioner Capps, did you have a follow-up? No, I'm good. I'm good? Okay. Anybody else? No? All right. Moving on. Growth and development updates, county, city, and village. Good morning. I'm Samantha Lovelady with the growth management department. I was not expecting. Okay. This is the annual growth and development trends report. Do not know what's happening here. Okay. We've finally got the 2024 estimates from Bieber. Got those in August. I'm trying to show them to you. And they were late this year coming out with them, the numbers, but we finally got them. Are those numbers? If they'll stay there. Nope. Do what? Does anybody need more time on that? Cancel? I apologize. Go to there. Click on the. It's work. Yep. I apologize, everyone. Oh. Go to the Bahamian Festival and tell them when he has to be there. Okay, now. There's a parade in the morning. Okay. Here are the new population figures that came out this August. This is the historic growth for Martin County, and we grew 1.23% over 2023. And so far this year, we've approved 90 dwelling units and 221,750 square feet of non-residential and 1,842 acres, and that is the Ranch PUD final site plan, phase one site plan. Here are projects that we have in review for residential. Let me know if you have any questions, please. And these are non-residential that are in review. And so far this year, we've issued 470 residential permits. And that's. Good morning. My name is Jody Kugler. I'm the development director for the city of Stewart. So some of these projects you've already seen, we've already reported on. We have under construction the Barron Business Parkway, which is off of Willoughby. That is flex office space and industrial. We are proud to announce that Project Lyft is finally under construction. So this was a grant program through our CRA. We actually purchased a project, the property, and is now under construction. Zenotto is a property that's located at 924 Southeast Dixie Highway. This is just a small 6,000 square foot commercial building that's under construction. And it does say that Popeyes is under construction. However, that is a, it is still in review. This is next to the Windermere by the LA Fitness. We don't have any residential right now to report, but we do have non-residential that are under review. We have a Bayview Southern construction. And this site you're probably familiar with is located at the corner of Southeast Indian Street and Southeast Commerce Avenue. This is a vacant property that consists of about 9.43 acres. And the application is to amend the existing site plan, the plan development, and plat the property. We have two coffee rush sites. One is located at Walmart off of Federal Highway that's being proposed. And the other one is located at Baker Road Publix. We also have the Barn Theater. They're looking to do some expansions to the site. Those are currently under review. I am happy to announce that our City Commission did approve the Seacoast Bank headquarters at their meeting last week. It's a very exciting project and we look forward to working with them further. Have any questions? Thank you. Good morning, everybody. Dina Freeman with the Village of Indiantown. Happy to be here to present the latest information from the village. What we'd like to start with is, as we've got the opportunity to provide information on our website, we're in the process of improving the GIS mapping system. Information is so powerful and helpful to the community within Indiantown and beyond Indiantown. So we thought, let's start with some fun information. So we've been working with our GIS expert, Michelle Jett, and Lucia Mendoza have both been working really hard. And so this is just showing you the website and access to village maps. I'm going to go live to the website in a moment, but I just wanted to let you know, people are asking what's happening in Indiantown. We actually have that information available on the web and you can put a layer on, just like Martin County does with the proposals map, we've got a development map, information map as well. So this, when you click on the maps, it comes to the municipal boundary of Indiantown with the boundary depicted in red. And we've got some other developments in mapping that also shows in relation to Martin County's land use and zoning coming up. This is an improvement to the website. It's not gone live yet, but we've got a lot more layers that we're providing. We're aiming to be as good as Martin County when it comes to your GIS mapping. So we're using a lot of the information from the property appraisers and you can see on the side here, and I'll show you in a moment, but we've now got active businesses. We have development projects, PUDs, the zoning and land use, but we also now have Martin County's land use and zoning as well, which is really helpful when you're looking at. So this is what it looks like right now in terms of addressing. Even this has revolutionized what we do in Indiantown, just being able to click on and know. You can click on any address within the village that's addressed and get that information. And this is the improvements. It's going to look a little bit different, but it's going to have a lot more different active access for the layers that are going to help people navigate through Indiantown. And this is the existing development projects with in review in red, and this will link to our update on our projects. And then in green is what's been approved. The big green area here is depicted as the, this is the Indiantown Terralago master site plan that's been approved for that property. So this is the proposed new GIS development. It's going to be in orange instead of red for in review and approved in green. And that's something that when you click on that information, you'll be able to actually know what the project is and the number of units or number of square footage of a non-residential development. And this is the existing, what we've done here, it's been really helpful. Oops, let's go back. It shows the existing zoning in relation to the boundary and also all of Martin County, which is really good when you're doing analysis and looking at what we got adjacent to when you've got any proposed annexations or any, any land use changes coming in. And this is just showing you again with the zoning and then with the PUD hatched in. This is really cool in that we've now got the Marti bus route information or route information. And you can actually live click on that and see where the bus is in Indiantown. Access to public transport is so important to Indiantown. So access to information. We're going to roll this out on our website and, and, and help people to navigate so they can get, this will be able to be accessed on their phones as well. And this is the active business information that's going to be improved on the website. We're about to launch this in the next few weeks and change the website dramatically. And this is, so you can click on one of the active businesses and this is WW and Lumber. And you can, you know, basically identify what's happening in Indiantown and some of those businesses that, or have been there forever, but now we actually have them on a map. So it's really helpful. And this is, again, looking at Martin County and the historic layer. You can go through timelines. This is imagery that's called Way Back and you can slide across. And this one is River Oak, which is 131 unit development that's been approved for single family and this is it if you, you go back in time, just not that, not that long ago. And that's really helpful for seeing the changes, especially with some of these big developments that are coming in. And it makes us feel proud that you can see what's actually happening on the ground. So again, very, there's a lot more information out there on our website for people to look at. So the reason we're here today is, well, obviously I was going to go to the website, which is down here really quick. And just to show you, so village maps, and then you basically have the information that comes up. And then right now for proposed developments, we've got this development projects layer that comes on and then you can click on, that's Terra Lago. And you basically, any that's in review, like this is the Indian Town Technology and Commerce Park. And we've got basically lots of different projects that are in review or have been approved. You can zoom in and basically click on any of the parcels and it'll come up with P3 technologies. So this is our Venture Park industrial site. So people are quite amazed that this is already there and they didn't know about it. So we thought this is a really good opportunity while we're here to kind of put the word out. And right now you can, instead of development, you can click on the Marti Bus Routes and it'll come up with that. Oops, take the addresses off as well. And you zoom out and basically it comes up with the information and the Marti Bus Route 2, they're over here. So, and you can click on those at any point and it'll tell you where the bus is at. So it's really helpful. So I just wanted to go through that and then back to the presentation. Got to find it again. I've got to just click back through. So we've got a summary of the developments that are happening. I've just highlighted the ones that have changed. All the others that are still there are under construction, approved for building permits or in the building permit, you know, navigating through the pass and fails of reviews of building permits as they're building out there. The Dollar Tree is actually, we've actually, we're very close to CO and they've just handed over the keys to Dollar Tree, the property owners, just in the last day. So they'll be taking over and completing the build out off of Warfield Boulevard. So that one is very close to CO. The rest of the projects are underway right now in terms of build. TA Estates is 22,600 square feet. Right now if you went out, they're actively in construction. And Grind Hard is about to do a job fair for their opening of their manufacturing building in Indiantown. So that's something that people should look out for on websites because there's some really good job opportunities. And then Indiantown Upcycling Facility. This is the former juice plant. And just to let everybody know that Cedron Technologies have just, they've submitted and they're about to resubmit 62,990 square feet. It's a really good effective reuse of an old juice plant, defunct property that is being spearheaded by the Indiantown company with Gary Hendry's team. I think we're up to at least 17 companies right now on that property. It's unbelievable how many different businesses are actually there and successfully operating every day. And then we've got Yellow Pine Trusses is just under construction right now for manufacturing roof trusses. And Cedron's a really good synergy. It's a really good location because it's heavy industrial. So we're very happy with that proposed new location. We're pending a resubmission and they're very close to approval. We've got a non-residential including, this includes Silver Fox. We've got 2,262,749 square feet. Non-residential that's under site plan approved or under construction built is 193,973 square feet. And we do have a lot of other active inquiries regarding a multitude of industrial and residential development within the village. Residential development, all of these, Terra Lago, the changes are that they're in the active building permit stage. I believe there's over 70 building permits being processed to date in our building department. And I need to say a very good thank you to the Martin County Building Department and Josh Ney in particular who reviews a multitude of our permits and comes in every day. Either him or another one of his colleagues and is helping out Indiantown with the building permit reviews. It's working really well. It works incredibly hard, even on weekends. So we're very happy with that. And then a new project, all the others that are in, they've been in review. They're under construction. Heritage Park is the former FEMA site. And the change with that is they've come in with a couple of additional units. It's been to development review colleagues, which is like the Growth Management Development Review, recently. And they're very close to approval on that. They are utilizing a previous site. So in terms of water and sewer, the analysis and the capacity was completed by Tom and Pat in the back there on behalf of the village. And the capacity is, you know, they determined that it was available based on what was already there and approved previously. We've also got the plat that's come in on the back of the site plan. We have a project called JPI Indiantown. We've had a DRC meeting. This is where we're getting into that capacity challenge. And we're working, Tom and Pat are working actively with their engineer and the property owner to try and identify solutions. They may be looking to do individual wells as a temporary fix subject to approval by DP in South Florida and by the village. They may be doing that with a view to then having to hook up to the available water when we get the capacity fixed with all of these improvements in our utilities. So we're working actively with them right now. But that's where we're getting into challenges with our reservation of capacity and not being able to issue site plans without the water being addressed. We've also got another project that's going to be at the Development Review Colleagues next Wednesday for a pre-app. It's called Hendry Ridge off of Southwest Farms Road. It's a pre-application to propose 443 units, including single-family townhome and apartments. They're going to be told that they're going to need a land use amendment in order to be able to accommodate apartments in that area of Indiantown. So we're preparing the staff report for that right now. And then Citrus Grove, applicants preparing to come in with a land use and a zoning and a PUD. I believe, again, they're going to be solving the water issue with the well as a solution or their own water facility. We've got other people that are coming in looking at developments, and they're actively looking at contributing towards the improvements for water, knowing that we can't move them forward without that being addressed. So the total in the master site planning, including Terra Lago, pre-applications recently added is 4,562 units. But what's actually been approved and under construction or in the building permit stage is 1,528 units, including the Terra Lago. You know, Phase 1A and 1B is 808. So we've also got, we've continued to have one annexation application in with a comp plan amendment and a concurrent zoning change from Martin County agricultural to light industrial. That's still under review with staff. And that's the end of, that's the location of property that's requesting for annexation. And that's the end of our presentation. So I'm happy to answer any questions. Hi, Dina. I'm sorry, Ms. Freeman. Good morning. Good morning. I have three questions. On your land use designation, when you put up, I think, with one of the Ridge and something else, you had one for TH and then one for TWH. Is there any difference or is it all just still townhomes? It could be a typo, yeah. It should be townhomes and single family and townhomes, multifamily, yeah. And what's a TWH, still townhomes? Oh, it should be townhomes. It's just a typo. Okay. That's fine. I created a new acronym. I don't know what it means. Okay, that's fine. Okay. And then on, I haven't been out there lately. Did the Publix ever get built out there? No, but they're actively trying to help with that. And Taryn? They're currently asking us for information that we're providing relative to growth. Okay, fine. Third, what is the relationship with the Marty bus and go from Indiantown to Stewart and is there a potential for Indiantown to Palm City? I don't know the answer to that. I'm sorry. I know, but I know that it's a county issue. But because I've seen people trying to raise funds or do something or trying to improve the relationship with the trip to Stewart. So I was just wondering, maybe it's a county issue, but... Yeah, open to any discussions and any opportunity to improve public transportation for Indiantown. A lot of people walk and they bike and they share cars. They're carpooling for school and the buses, the school buses, and then they rely very heavily on public transport as well. So whatever improvements can be provided, it'd be great. Okay, no problem. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Commissioner, Caps? Yeah, I wondered if you could comment a little bit more about the proposed data center and whatever you're comfortable sharing about that at this point. Well, we have the one that's been for a pre-application for Silver Fox. We're pending them, I believe that they're in the FPL study stage, and then preparing for application for, you know, coming in with a development application. So we've had a pre-app several months ago. It's on the books. It's so important to Indiantown if we do get that opportunity. So, yeah, it would be a good development proposal. But I don't have the slide from the couple of presentations ago with the data center because it was a pre-app, but we're not there yet. We're waiting for the applicant to submit. And when they do, it will go through completeness review, and then it will be transmitted to our development review colleagues. There will be a staff report, and it will be that back and forth until the point where, you know, they identify that they're ready for approval. And, again, they'll have to address capacity, and they're aware of that, and that was very clearly stated in the pre-app. Yeah, and the property that the application is in on is up in the left-hand side, that light orange. And across from there, that kind of a not, yeah. Sorry, I'm trying to zoom in. You're fine. Yeah, that's the property where they've come in with their applications, about 600 acres. And across from there, that looped area is the old co-gen plant site. And FP&L has been talking to us about putting a battery pack operation on that site, repurposing that site, which would be great, because with all the solar fields, they want to be able to store that power in those battery packs for a constant source of energy. So their synergy in that site is pretty significant in our opinion. They're in for their permits right now. Yeah, it's really exciting, and additional revenue for the village as well, which is well received. I understand that the Indian town is a good site for data centers because of the power lines that are there and the big... And they have to spend quite a bit of money to determine that the power source is there and going to do what it needs to do with the tremendous amount of power that they need. So, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, anybody else? Okay, thank you. Thank you. School district update. Good morning, everyone. My name is Derek Lowe. I serve as the public information coordinator for the Martin County School District. I'm here before you today just to start off with some exciting news that each one of our three Martin County School District high schools has been named a best high school by U.S. News and World Report. We achieved this last year as well. In order to be named a best high school, each high school must be in the top 40% in the nation. However, as you can see on the screen, our high schools have gone above and beyond as usual, each ranking in the top 25%. There are 18,000 high schools roughly that are graded and evaluated each year. And these rankings are based on academic performance, graduation rates, and college readiness scores. So here you can see the rankings for each of our three respective high schools. Jensen Beach, 133rd in the state, up from 144 in 2024. Each of our high schools did progress year over year, as you can see. Martin County, up to 230 from 233 in 2024. And South Fork High School also making a small jump as well. Again, all in the top 25%, but some of our high schools even ranking as high as the top 16% or the top 11% in the case of Jensen Beach High School. So I just wanted to share that, start off with some good news, and, you know, make sure that everyone's aware that we're going to continue building on our successes. Thanks. Can I ask a question? Absolutely. What is the census at each of those high schools now? In terms of the population at each? One moment. So Martin County High School is 1,898. South Fork is 1642. And Jensen Beach is 1587. You're welcome. If nobody else has any questions, I'll pass it along to our CFO, Mr. Carter Morrison. Yeah. Thank you very much, and good morning, everyone. I just wanted to give everyone an update regarding the school board's 25-26 adopted millage rates. As you can see from the slide, in 24-25, the school district adopted a millage rate of 5.75 mils, which is broken down between the required local effort, discretionary operating, additional voltage millage, which are classified as operating millages. And we also have a capital millage of 1.5 last year. As you'll see on the slide, the adopted millage for 25-26 is 5.177 mils, which is roughly about a half a mil, a little over a half a mil in comparison to the prior year. What we wanted to do was to show you, in comparison also to the rollback rate, what we did this year was we were able to reprioritize our budget without affecting any named projects in the capital budget. We were able to reduce our capital budget to the extent you will see that the capital budget at .95 is less than the rollback rate of 1.371. So, overall, we were lower than the rollback rate by about 1.47%. We feel that we're very thankful, actually. Just like to take this opportunity to thank the voters of Martin County for approving the sales tax millage, which has had a significant impact on our capital projects. As everyone is well aware that we have completed the Jensen Beach Elementary as well as the Palm City Elementary projects. Here I have a pie chart that shows the prior year. If you look at the school capital in the top left-hand quadrant, you will see that's about $57.4 million. Through the reprioritization and lowering of the millage this year, we were able to bring that down to about $40.4 million. In essence, when you look at the total proceeds for 2024-25, we remain essentially level-funded at $220.2 million. And then the pie chart on the right shows roughly the same number at $220.2 million. I just want to make a note for those who might be watching and are not really familiar with this, is that the school capital outlay does not pay for your operating expenses. Only the additional voted millage, school discretionary, and the school general fund, that pays for the salaries and benefits of our teachers and our operating expenses. So from a taxpayer perspective, the adopted millage this year, taxpayers should see, depending upon their situation, either the same amount of taxes or maybe even a slight decrease in the millage going forward. If you look at the bottom section of the chart, you can see, again, the capital operating, capital, excuse me, millage going from $57.4 million down to about $40.4 million, and operating actually went up a little bit. Again, the tax roll did increase, which is offset by the required local effort. With that, I'll take any questions. If not, I'll turn it over to Mark. Thank you. So good morning, everyone. Mark Seacrest, Director of Facilities and Planning at the Martin County School District. I'm here to present you with three of our major capital projects. We do have a lot of projects behind the scenes, but I'm going to present on these three. So this will probably be the last time you see Stewart Middle School. We are great to announce that all phases, phase one, two, and three, are now complete. Students are now occupying the renovated gym, and it will be open for use of facilities next Monday for the public, so that the gym renovation has just been completed. I'm showing you the aerial photograph, because now you can actually see the final layout of the campus. You can see the cafeteria building, which is located here where my cursor is. That's the new Building 10. We now have a new play field for the students. We have a new play field back here for the students. We actually have a new play court here, which is right off of the gym complex that we just renovated, and we do actually offer access from the boys and girls to our play courts through this walkway here. With this project, we have a new building number one, which is the admin on the first floor and media center on the second floor. But in building this building between the old building, which was located here, and the two-story classroom building, we were actually able to extend the car line double and the parking double for that area on Georgia Avenue. But as I stated, this is probably the last time we'll be presenting this project. The projects are now going through a closeout process. The buildings are fully occupied now. And I will say we're at the beginning steps of a cultural change at this school. The kids are now excited about going to these buildings. We actually repainted the whole campus, so the campus is cohesive as a campus now in building colors and aesthetics. So from what I've gathered, staff is excited. Students are excited. So I think it's changing the educational environment at this school. Next up is Murray Middle School. I'm excited to announce that we approved the AIA contract for the architect in August. And the contractor, or the CM at risk, was approved in September. So now that project design schedule has started as of August. So we are going to go through the steps of designing this. So it will go through schematic design development and then construction documents. And then at some point in time in the future, we will present the GMP for this project to the school board for approval. And then we will break ground at that point. But that's several months in advance, probably somewhere around nine months to ten months ahead of where we are now. But that project is currently on schedule. And like I said, we're excited that everything has started now. We are working on the design schedule. We will actually keep the principal informed and we will keep the SAC committee informed as we progress through the design. And I will perform monthly updates to the board with this design as we move forward. The last project is Warfield. This project is now, now that I have Murray Middle approved, we will start the same process with Warfield. I'm in the process of creating the documents where we send it out to the contractors at risk and the architects. And we start the same process of getting those RFQs approved by the board. And then we get the contracts approved. And then once all that information is approved by the board, we will start that design schedule. So at this point, I can take any questions on any of the three projects. No, I just wanted to mention I was contacted by one of the council members. And I know a big priority for Indiantown and the village is youth sports. And Mark Seacrest will be your contact person. All of our facilities are available. And so please reach out to Mark. I did share the gymnasium at Indiantown Middle, the fields, the coverage space at Warfield. All of those facilities are available to organizations for use outside of the typical school day. So please reach out to Mark. Mark Seacrest will be the point person on that. Thank you. Anybody else? Yes. I'm glad you mentioned youth sports. And this is not necessarily a school curriculum or anything. It may even be for the private sector. But it has also been brought up that for young people, especially middle schools, middle schoolers, something like availability of another big skating rink or something in Martin County, because apparently these young people don't have some place to go or whatever. I've seen just comments around and people asking. And this might be for the private sector, of course. But anything that can be done, and I'm glad that organized youth sports is going on, but we just need to make sure that these middle schoolers always have an outlet in our community. So I just wanted to bring that up. Thank you. Anybody else have any comments? No? Okay. Well, I guess this is the end, so I will call this meeting adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'm delighted to come and invite me to...